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THE SOUTHERN OPINION. For the Southern Opinion.l THE CONFESSIONAL. Mrs. New Era—Joseph Brown—The Quack Doctor and Radicalism—Bard Relates His Experience. This is Sam Bard—a name not wholly unknown, though I regret to say without any special honor. They sometimes call me Doctor Bard. I have often been in doubt whether this appellation originated in irony. I am still at some loss to deter mine iiow or when I got this title. I never taught school nor practiced medicine, for the reason that to do either, required more evidence of scholastic attainments than I could ever hope to produce. I did try to preach once, but got turned out of the Church, and 1 abandoned my pretensions in rather bad odor. I then tried plugging teeth, but I really knew as little of Dental Surgery as a hog does of Sunday, and always succeeded in making an ass of my self when I attempted to impose upon the ignorance of my patients, as I have fre quently done since, though in a different profession. And now I am in Atlanta, at the head of a Radical newspaper. People believe me to boa professional journalst of some twenty years experience. I have told them this, and they believe every word I tell them! I run no risks in making such statements, because no one will trouble himself to examine my past history; and if he did, it would be difficult to determine, from my record, what I have been or have not been! 1 started out' to run the Johnson-Pro ltebel-Democratic machine, and I did run it—into the ground. The capital upon which I tints floated to the surface, was borrowed, and is, I regret to say, still bor rowed. I certainly expected to get patronage from the Administration; but I didn't. I stood by the President like a brother, but Andy didn’t seem to take a liking to me. I fact, he seemed not to notice me; or if lie did, had no confidence in me. I cursed Forney, him of the “two newspapers, both daily.” One of my stereotype phrases, then in use was, that “if hell should take an emetic it could not spew up a more corrupt villain than John W. Forney.” I denounced Judge Kelley as a black leg politician who had been kick ed out of the Democratic ranks. I called Sumner an ass. Stevens I likened to a demon incarnate. I characterized Judge Bin glia m as an upstart, Jno. Wentworth as a thief, Butler as a spoon broker, and Logan as a fool. I likened Stanton unto Benedict Arnold; I called Greeley a superanuated jackass; and Colfax I could compare to nothing but poor Poll, who repeated everything he heard, but who never assayed an original thought. The Thirty-ninth Congress I denounced as a den of thieves whom Johnson ought to disperse in thirty days. I was terribly in earnest. I prated of my connexion with the Rebel army. I ‘■‘■blowed my own horn’' lustily; but like the lost young man in the Black Crook, my piping and horn blowing was of no avail. Andy and his friends wouldn’t listen; or if they heard my noise, wouldn’t heed it. 1 was in despair. Then came the bill to organize Hell in the Southern States. I opened my “rear,” and proclaimed the fact of its having been opened to the Great Public. The Great Public gave no visable token of recogni tion. I began to think that I had not been appreciated, and that Atlanta had had quite enough of me. However, l kept “an open rear.” The bill became a law; Joe Brown hadiJfccn taken on the mountain, and had been made familiar with the “Elephant.” Here was an opening. My fortunes were desperate. My efforts at blackmail had failed. The Bank men were too shrewd and experienced to be caught by such a crab as I. So I cultivated Brown —him of Port Pulaski. He wanted an organ; I wanted a keeper—a keeper able and wil ling to feed me. My -rear” soon thereaf ter closed! If there were astringents used, Brown knows the ingredients. He is a skillful apothecary. In lieu of money, he gave pie letters of credit. He made fair weather with Pope; Pope introduced me to Grant, and the Grant Club came to my rescue. Order “49” was Brown’s handi work. It was promulgated to quiet my importunity. Brown wrote letters to the sheriffs and ordinaries in the adjoining counties in my behalf. I got three or four out of some sixty-three. To atone for this disappointment, Pope, under Brown’s di rection, had McPherson to designate me as Government Printer. In this business I had to call in John W. Forney—him of the “two newspapers, both daily.” Forney and McPherson feared to disobey Grant; Grant had promised Pope, and Pope had promised Brown. So I got the appoint ment; and in virtue whereof I now get these Bankruptcy notices, and these same Bankruptcy notices and the Grant Club have kept me out of the ditch ; thanks to Brown for both. Brown knows me, and I know Brown, but our interests lie in the same direction, lie’s a pretty hard master, but lie feeds well, and pap is what my soul needs. Should I at some future day be called to the confessional, I may relate my experi ence with the Convention and certain Rad ical politicians, black and white, connect ed therewith. I will, however, reserve my proposition to go for Irwin in considera tion of my receiving a Democratic nomi nation to Congress, until some still further distant period. Citors. —The prospect of the wheat crop seems to be good with the exception of rust appearing on the blades in some lo calities, which is not supposed to result in much injury if it does not extend to the stem. The “stand” of cotton is unprece dented. The young coru looks flourish ing.—Elberton Gazette . Correspondence. Augusta, May 20,1808. Ilon'l. Zed. Tomson, Atlanta, Ga.: Dkar Uncle— Rumors say that you haveiturned to be a Radical. Is this so? If it be true please assign, for my benefit, rea sons which would justify a Georgia Demo crat in turning a Radical and oblige, Your affectionate nephew, Mike Tomson. Atlanty, May 27, ear of the Lord OS. Dear Mike —Yours of the 20tli inst., just received and contents noted. I hasten to reply. It is true, I have become a Radical. You ask for reasons of justification. I answer—first: It is wise always to be on the strong side and pat the bully on the back who wins tiie fight. Second. Gen. Grant is the Radical candidate for the Presidency. Now, Mike, a soldier who, using the Soup Tureen of his mess for other purpose and afterwards rises in the world as Gen. Grant has done, and can ride a trick pony around the Circus ring, with a monkey on his shoulder, without being thrown, shows talents and is a strong proof that he will do to tie to. Again Gen. Grant has, at different times, held the confidence of the Conservatives, the Demo crats, the Republicans and the extreme Radicals, and has deceived them all. Now, any man, Mike, who is smart enough to do this can’t be beat for President and ought not to be. Therefore I think it wise to shout, Huzza for Grant. Next, Gen. Grant is Military Dictator in tiie South, and to the bayonet, and offi cial patronage, he will secure the votes of all the Southern States, which will secure his election. Then with Gen. Grant for President, Bullock for Governor, Joe Brown and Blodgett for Senators, Far row and Alperoria Bradley for Represen tatives, all Radicals will be pardoued, and in bestowing offices, Bullock,' Brown & Cos., will select men who have given proof in the past that they can swallow an oath as easily as Blodgett, for there will be much dirty work to do, and they will have no use for an honest man; ergo, it is wise to become a Radical at once. Again, Ilulbert will be Superintendent of the State Road and he will have many offices to bestow on his friends, besides the vacancies, which promotions will cause in the Express office. Mike, do you take? Then act promptly. Again, when doe Brown and Blodgett get in power, won’t they settle with their old Democratic friends? They certainly will, and when they do, my word for it, they will clear off all old scores. Again, you need not fear that should you join the Rauicals, tjiat your conscience will afterwards reprove you. Look at Joe Brown, since he has joined tiie Radicals and associated with the Puritans and Ne groes, he can now look any one boldly in tiie face and make statements with as much ease and grace as il he was telling the truth, lie says that his conscience never reproves him. How can it when it is dead? But I must close, although I could as sign many more reasons, but as Parson Gaskill says to Ilulbert, “if you wont be lieve these, you would not believe though one rose from tiie dead.” Act like a sensi ble man, Mike, give up all claims to re spectability and join Brown. Ilulbert & Cos., while you can. Make hay while the sun shines, is tiie adv ice of your old uncle, Zed. Tomson. Stanton Vacates. — Between three and four o’clock Tuesday, Stanton sent the following letter to tiie President, inform ing him that lie had vacated the War Shop: War Department, ) Washington, May 26. 1568. j Sir— Tiie resolution of Congress ot the 21st of February declaring that tiie President has no power to remove the Secretary of AVar and designate any other officer to perform the duties of that office ad interim, having this day sassed to be supported by two-thirds of tiie articles ol impeachment preferred against you by tiie House of Representatives, 1 have relin gnished charge of the War Department, and have left the same, and the books, archives, papers and property in my cus tody as Secretary of War, in care of Brevet General Townsend, the senior Adjutant General, subject to your direction. (Signed) E. M. Stanton, Secretary oi War. Death of General John AAT. Gordon. Gen. John W. Gordon, an old and univer sally known citizen, died in this city yes terday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. He was born on the 13th day of June. 1776, and hence only lacked eighteen days of being seventy-two years of age. lie had come down to us from tiie eigh teenth century, and had seen tiie American Republic when its now fertile lands were a viigin wilderness. No man now living in Middle Georgia was better known. He was for a long time a citizen of Jones county, which he often represented in the Legislature. For several months his health has been very poor, and although his im mediate friends and kindred expected his early demise, tiie news of his death will sadden many hearts. After a long and an eventful life he lias at last been gathered to bis children and friends gone before. May his soul rest in peace!— Macon Messenger, May 26. An Original Secessionist.— One of the worthies who flourished in tiie Radical Convention at Chicago was a personage named Brown, of whom it was proclaimed with a great deal of satisfaction that lie was “an original secessionist.” Inasmuch as the Radicals denounce Southern seees sionists.it is presumed that die great merit of Brown, which gives so much pleasure to tiis friends, is that he is an apostate from the secession cause, and a convert to Radicalism. About this time, secession does not pay. and it is probable that Brown is smart enough to see that some of the renegades from that faitli have found Rad icalism to pay handsomely, and he hopes to make a good thing of it. Those who are now the chief leaders of the Jacobin /ac tion. are deserters from the party which most bitterly opposed Black Republican ism a few years ago.— Philadrlphia Mews (Hepublican.) French papers print paragraphs about “General Stanton, Minister of \Var.” WEEKLY SOUTHERN OTINION. “TREASON MADE ODIOUS.” The Chicago Convention Clasps Fa mous Joe Brown, ot Georgia, to its Bosom. From the New York World. 1 It is a little remarkable that the Chicago Convention should have called for its set speecii alter organization upon ex-Gover lior Brown, of Georgia, the only undeni able traitor in tlint State. For file-others there is at least the plea of secession, but this man seized, vi et amis, upon Fort Pu laski even before his State -‘went out.’ Yet the convention, this “loil” Convention, invited him to open its deliberations, and by this superior compliment put itself on record as preferring a renegade secessionist to ant' of its five hundred loyalists tried in the lire. Being invited, the ex-Governor of course spoke, and in his remarks it is impossible not to see that, lie more than doubts the ultimate triumph of Radicalism. After declaring himself to have been a Democrat, he is very careful to add, “Tiie sword has established a different doctrine, and hence it is that 1 am no longer bound by allegiance to the Democratic party,” leaving It to bo inferred that if by the sword or by the ballot, or in any other wav that party is hereafter to triumph, he is to be at liberty to renew his ancient allegiance to it. Having thus secured ids retreat, (lie cx- Governor, by way of make-weight we sup pose, goes on to retail the slander that the South rejected the proposed fourteenth amendment, because of its suffrage section, when no one should know better than himself that that section was not tiie one specially obnoxious to the South, and that the amendment would have been ratified but for the concurrent requisition that the South should herself affix tiie stigma of disfranchisement on her leaders. This dis graceful condition, and not the suffrage clause, which was very generally conceded to be fair, occasioned the rejection, and Governor B. migiit have redeemed some of the obloquy justly attached to him had he, whatever were his statements, conformed to truth in tliis. The third point made by the captor of Pulaski is, that whereas in- was once popu lar in Georgia lie is now scorned, and that, unless the Pump gives him, and those with whom lie is now ..politically associated, “ the control of the State government and its patronage, which we fought for and won,” Georgia cannot be carried for Grant. The shameless statement litre that the con test in Georgia was for pap is only paral lelled by the equally brazen admission that reconstruction lias only been a part of the plot to foist a candidate into the Presidency by the aid of negro votes. But what an opening for all the loyalty —a speecii from the only man upon whom tiie North and Sontli. Secessionist and Union man, Judge and politician,can alike unite in calling a traitor. A Despicable Wretch* Old Jo. Brown, of Georgia, seems to have been the lion of the black-:uiJ-tan Coiiven tion at Chicago. He was feted and ap plauded as lie had never been before. The patriots pressed him to their bosoms and anointed him as one of r lie “ truly loil ” in whose hands the interests of •• the best gov ernment the world ever saw ” would be entirely secure. This, according to Radical ethics, was eminently proper. Jo. Brown is the same individual who, as Governor of Georgia, was the tirst man in the South to lay vio lent hands upon the United States ship ping. When the Government caused the seizure of arms and other munitions of war in the city of New York, designed for rebel service, Brown valiantly ordered the seizure of all the shipping in Savannah harbor, belonging to the Government or citizens of tiie North, by way of retalia tion—and this was done, too, before Geor gia had seceded. There was no measure too fierce for him. lie hated and de nounced and cursed the Government and everybody and everything Northern. He was a constant source ol terror to every Northern born citizen of Georgia, and to escape iiis vengeance, hundreds,at the sac rifice of business and property, hastened from his realm in quest of security. Tiie intensity ot his hale, and the reckless vio lence of his proscriptive measures, were subjects of complaint even among original secessionists. A man of Northern birth was unworthy ot employment even on the State lioad. The forbearance of Jeff D.rvis was his plague by day and his torture by night. lie was a miserable man because he had not a fricasseed Yankee for each meal. The black flag was entirely too pale for him—he wanted a more suggestive one— a deep blood-red out! The black is now his favorite—lie proposes to raise it against the white people of his own State! Oh ! tor a lash ot scorpions!— Knoxville (Jenn.) Press and Herald. Consistency. —The following we clip from one of our exchanges a little over a year since. It will be borne in mind that the New Era now favors the impeachment of President Johnson, "the most exalted living statesman,” favors the election of Grant, who is no statesman in the estima tion of any sensible man. By his own ad mission, the editor ot the Era “deserves bondage for all time to come.” The New Era Closes U r its Rear.— The Atlanta New Bra lias kept its rear open for the last three weeks, but we are pleased to see from the issue of the Rich, that the ed itor has closed it up. and that he is now determined to present a bold front, and rather than retreat to die in tiie last ditch. The conclusion, doubtless, has been brought about through the advice of Bill Arp, who advised the editor to take an astringent. The New Era says: WE STAND BY THE CONSTITUTION AND TIIE PRESIDENT AS THE LAST AND ONLY 1101’E— WE DO. INDEED ! A subscriber wishes to know if we still intend to adhere to tiie reconstruction pol icy ot President Johnson. We answer yes, and that, too, till the last plank sinks' to rise no more. The President has been right from first to last, and we of the South cannot and must not forsake him. IIE HAS WON IMMORTALITY ! President Johnson’s veto of the Sherman Reconstruction bill has rendered his name immortal among the nations of tiie earth, and he ranks among tiie most exalted of living statesmen, lie is by far too great est living defender of the Constitution as it was, and if the American people fail to sus tain him ii- this hour of national gioom, they will deserve bondage for all time to come. — Home Courier. S3F"The Albany Argus states, and no doubt by authority, that Mr. A. Belmont, the Chairman of tiie Democratic National Committee, “believes that the principal of the national debt is payable in the ordinary legal-tender currency of the country, though be probably doubts if tiie Radicals will leave greenbacks enough in the Treasury to pay a single bond.” If this be correct, there is no difference of principle between Mr. Belmont and Mr. Pendleton,and those j Democrats who have been denouncing the i former gentleman as a representative of j the bonu-holders and hostile to the inter ests of the plough-holders are entirely mistaken. From the Macon Journal and Messenger.] THE RICHEST KIND OF A CASE. A Yankee School Marin Writes Love Letters to her “Dear Arthur," (a Duck Nigger ) — Forges an Order for Groceries, and',Gets in Jail, Tiie Grand Jury of Bibb county were yesterday called upon to investigate a rich case, the facts of which we propose to give in detail: Several months ago, a white woman by the name of Amanda Fawler, thorouhly imbued with love for tiie “poor down-trod den African,” came here from the North, and entered upon duty' as a teacher of col ored children. She had no connection with tiie Lewis High School, but was running upon an independent scale. In the course of time she met Arthur Edmonds, a black negro fellow, who acts in the capacity of porter at tiie family gro cery store of Grier & Lake, and fell violent ly in love with him. They carried on a correspondence of the most affectionate, loving and endearing kind, as will be seen by tiie specimen letters published below, and often met and billed and cooed together. .Things might have thus gone on lndefl nit- iy -jml resulted in a permanent union between Miss Amanda Fawler and her dear Arthur Edmonds, if the aforesaid Amanda had not been guilty of a little piece of moral insanity. On’ Wednesday last, Messrs. Grier & Lake received an or der purporting to have been signed by the lady of a prominent Minister. The order was sent by a servant who had been in her employment, and requested tiie sending of a ham, a jar of brandy peaches, some cof fee and sugar, and several other article? amounting to eight or ten dollars worth! The clerk gave tiie note a cursory glance, and, not suspicionlng anything, sent the goods as requested. But when he came to copy' tiie order into his blotter, it occurred to him that some tiling was not light about it, and that it was in the same handwriting of Arthur’s love letters which he had been in the habit of reading for that gay Lothario. Calling upon Arthur for a specimen letter, (of which lie had a pocket full; and comparing the writing with the order, his suspicions were more fully confirmed. It only took a few moments to fully confirm them by a conference with the lady from whom it purported to have come, and finally when Miss Amanda was called upon for an ex planation, she acknowledged having writ ten it, but claimed to have some sort of au thority' for doing so. This was all stuff. She was at once arrested and sent to jail, and at tiie hour of writing, the Grand Jury is considering a true bill against her which will be returned and the-case tried before Judge Cole at tiie present term of the Su perior Court. Miss AmandaFawler is about twenty-six years of age, is not killed w ith good looks, but appears to be a woman of some intelli gence. She lias been teaciiing a colored school near the Vineville branch, and says she had eighteen day scholars, and more than that number of night scholars. Arthur has a wife and several children, who will, no doubt, read Miss Amanda’s loving letters to him with no small in terest. We copy two of her letters to “Dear Ar thur,” as follows; Macon, Ga., May 29, 1868. Dear Arthur: As a ray of sunshine across the frozen earth, came your most welcome missive to my poor heart. It was opened and read, and its contents gave me much pleasure to think you had not for gotten me. I hope y'ou never will, for I never will forget you while I live. How can I forget any' one that I love so dearly as ido you ? I had written to you, and when 1 sent it to the office I received yours, and l hasten to respond to it. Tiie one I sent y r ou last week was not directed in care of any one. It was directed only to y'ou. So I think you had best inquire in your own name. The sentiments of my heart are in it, and I want you to get it. I hope you will.answer this soon, for I shall look for an answer every day until 1 get one. i want to see you very much. I looked for you at the time you promised to come, hut in vain, for I have not seen iny dear Ar thur. Oh! do come soon. I wish to sec you, to talk with you. Write to me, anil give me the sentiments of your dear heart. If I had the chance, I would tell you more than I expect you wish to hear. Go to the ottice soon, and get that letter, for I do not want my letters to stay there long enough to be advertised. So do attend the office very punctual, and 1 will do the same. Do come soon, if you please. My dear, don’t fail to write to me soon and often. As I am in a hurry, I will have to close for the time. 1 will do better next time. I am, as ever, yours most devotedly, Amanda Fawler. P. S.—Write soon. Let me hear from you to-morrow sure, if you please. .Mr. Edmunds—Dear Sir: —l promised you B c rue you know when I succeeded in obtaining a room, where it was. It is in the building belonging to Mr. Hollings worth. the. lower room on the street to wards the magazine. Ido sincerely hope you will come to see me soon, for I wish to see y'ou on some very important business. Please come up here Saturday night, if not before, for i shall look for you until I see you. lam staying by myself, so you must come, for 1 have a heap to ted you when I see you. You must take care of yourself for me. and don’t let any other girl steal you. for I want you myself. I think you might give me that much, for you know I love you too good for to let any one steal you from me. so you must let me see you soon if you please. I shan’t sign no name to this tor you know who you saw on last Saturday evening, and was talking with concerning ft room. I close for this time. I am yours till death, (No signature). There were three or four more of these “Dear Arthur” letters, but the Grand Jury called for them before we could get them copied. The Wheat Crop. —Much complaint comes to us in regard to the wheat crop. In some sections it was frozen out. in oth ers it is threatened by the rust, and again, in some of our valleys and along the Coosa river, the wheat looks finely. While we will not make as much wheat as the crop promised in March, still we think there will he a surplus equal at least to the crop of last year. Up to this time, the rust Is confined to the blade, and if it does not at tack the stalk, we apprehend very little danger to tiie grain. The corn and cotton crop never looked better at ttiis season of tiie year, cotton in particular.— Home Commercial. Conflagration at Newnan. —On the 21sr. inst. there was an extensive fire in Newnan, consuming all the buildings on tiie west side of Bay street, and several on the north side of Mineral Spring street.— Entire loss about slf.offi! —only about $3,000 of which was covered by insurance. Mr. Dan Swift lost 81.000 with no insu rance. his policy having expired on the Stli.— Home Courier, ESPThe Elberton Academy was burned on the night of the 21st by an incendiary. | TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. From Washington. Washington, May 29.—1n tiie Senate tiie citizens of Georgia presented a memo rial against a removal of the State capitol. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The President of the South Carolina Convention presented a petition asking for authority to call tiie Legislature of that State together, which was referred to tiie Judiciary Committee. The admission of Arkansas was resumed' Edmunds moved to recommit tiie bill, with instructions to the Judiciary Committee to report a bill placing the State under the newly elected officers and continuing the military authority, with a provision for admission when the 14th article becomes part of the Constitution. Edmunds said that so soon as the State was admitted, Congressional power would cease. The State governments have nothing to lean upon except the shoulder of the President. Conkling spoke against the conditions. The Senate then went into executive session and adjourned. House. —The resolution adding three Democrats to the Committee was lost by 63 to 65. Tiie resolution committing Woolley to solitary confinement was discussed very bitterly, and the resolution to reconsider, under which tiie discussion was allowed, was tabled. Tiie House resumed the Indian appro priation and adjourned. Late yesterday the House passed a reso lution establishing a prison in the Capitol and placing Woolley therein, excluding him from written or verbal communica tion, except by order of tiie House. Schofield is confirmed Secretary of W T ar. His confirmation is probable with a re affirmation of the unconstitutionality of Stanton's removal. The probabilities of a reduction of the Whisky Tax increase. Many Republi cans say that whisky is rising too strong for the Government and must be crippled by reducing the tax. Kevenue to-day over a million. A committee from the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention notified Grant of his nomination. Grant made a brief speecii. Divergent views on the admission of Arkansas are becoming more marked. The probabilities of her admission over the veto are decreasing. No Republicans ob ject to tiie Constitution itself. Tiie points of difficulty apply to all Southern States. From Virginia. Richmond, May 29. —A duel was fought s'esterday evening, near tiie city, between Col. H. B. Pied and Maj. P. H. Porter, both army officers. At the first fire Pied fired in the air and the matter was adjusted. The Confederate graves in Hollywood Cemetery were decorated to-day. about ten thousand persons were present. The principal stores were closed. From Illississl ppi • Jackson, May 29.—Hons. T. Wyaston and Fulton Anderson leave for Richmond to-ni'.ht, to appear as counsel for Mr. Da vis in the approaching trial. The Democrats have entered the canvass with more enthusiasm than was ever be fore witnessed in Mississippi. The Execu tive Committee have announced mass meetings throughout the State, embracing every -day to the election. Front Augusta.. Augusta, May 29.—Six citizens of Ham burg, S. C., were arrested yesterday for refusing to allow the freedmen to hold a political meeting in the Union Church, in that town. They are to lie tried before a military commission at Aiken to-day, by order of General Canby. The grain crops north of Atlanta are very fine, but in Middle and Southwest Georgia rust has made its appearance. Front IHury lund. Baltimore, May 29. —The Presbyterian Assembly named July' 30th as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, and ad journed to meet in Mobile the third Mon day in May next. markets. Savannah, May 29.—Cotton in fair in quiry. but holding too limb: middlings held at 30%a31c; sales, mostly low grades. 270; receipts 111. Mobile, May 29.—Nothing doing in cot ton ; receipts 24; sales for the week 760; receipts for the same time 220; exports coastwise 908; stock on hand 12,912. Wilmington, May 29.—Spirits turpen tine declined and firm at 41. Rosin firm; strained 2 12)4; No. 2.2 15; extra No. 2, 2 25. Cotton dull. Tar advanced to 3 15. Charleston. May 29.— More doing in cotton ; sales 157 bales; middlings 29:129)4; receipts 207 bales. Augusta. May 29. Market dull but firm; sales 50 bales; receipts 25; middlings ‘29c. Baltimore, May 29.—Virginia Sixes of January and July 51%a51%. Ex-Coupons 59a60. Cattle dull ami declining; first quality' §8 a 9. Liverpool, May 29—Noon.—Cotton firm er; sales 8,000; for the week 37,000; ex ports 6.0C0; speculation 4,000; stock on hand 26,000, of which American 363. P. M.—Cotton firm and steady' at 11)4 for uplands atloat; stock of uplands alloat 512.000. of which American 90.000; Bombay shipments to the 23rd, 50,000. Breadstuff.? all declined. Red wheat 12s 6d. • Flour 33s Gd. Lard and pork quiet. Loodon, May 29.—Consols 92)4. ■ New York, May 29.—Cotton less active; sales 950 bales at 31. Flour—State 8.10; Southern 9.65a14.75. Wheat quiet. Corn Irregular. Ness pork 28.50. Lard steady. Turpentine 47. Freights quiet. Gold 139%. Sterling unchanged. ’62 coupons 11)4. Tennessees, new, 70. Virginia!’s9. Registered 51. North Carolinas 69. New Orleans, May 29.—Cotton quiet and firm; middlings 28%; sales 600 bales; receipts 195 bales, sales for the week 5,850; receipts 1,251; exports to Liverpool 8,853; to the continent 2.076: coastwise 133; stock on hand 13,398. Sterling 53a54%. New York sight % prom. Gold i39%. Sugar and Molasses quiet and unchanged. Flour j dull —superfine 5.20a8.75; choice un- j changed. Corn easy at L07%a1.10. Oats firmer at 85. Hay 18.00;i21. Pork dull at 29.25. Bacon quiet at 19% in tierce; 20' a in keg. I Tiie Crops. From all parts of tiie coun try we hear of heavy rains, which have had a disastrous effect on tiie •/rowing crop—wheat particularly, which, Tn some places, throughout this immediate section, lias taken the rust, though it is thought by many that should the rains cease fora few weeks, the injury from it will not be very serious. The ground, owing to the inces sant rains, is not in a condition to he worked, and the result is, that the grass is working fearful headway among the growing corn. It will be very difficult for the farmers to arrest the inroads of this active enemy, if the weather does not re main dry. Fruit prospects good. Vegeta bles plentiful, but few in market.— (dZrijia Citizen. Mass Meeting of the Radicals.—ln pursuance of a call for a mass-meeting of the Radicals, about three hundred negro men, women and children, and about ten white individuals around a stand, over which lloated the “old flag,” erected just beyond tiie park. A number of negroes and some scalawags addressed the meeting, reviewing with their usual intelligence, the ••political situation.” Hopkins was there, of course.— Savannah Advertiser. COMMERCIAL. Atlanta Wholesale Markets HEI’OHTKU IIY ULUN'N, WHIG 11T A. CAUIt. BACON—Clear sides 49; clear ribbed sides canvassed hams 20®22, sugar-cured harus 21® 22shoulders 15. LAKO— I 9> 3 ®2t»c 9 tb. BUTTER—2S®4Sc 9 ib. EGGS--21®22e 9 doz. CHICKENS- 25®85c each ; scarce. BAGGING AND ROPES—None in m arket. BEESW AX—Common 27®28c hi, yellow 33®340 9 ib. BROOMS— $ doz., $3 25®$1 50. BROOM COHN—In demand at sloo®s2 9 ton, according to quality. BUCK ETS— Pain ted, $3 00® 350 doz.: ■ s bourn 1 sl2 50® sls 00. CASTINGS—Sc 9 Ib tor country hollow ware. CORN MEAL—Unbolted 9 bushel $1 10. FLuUR—S n peril lie $0 9 sack ol 98 lbs.; Extra sf> 50 9 sack; Extra Family $7 9 sack; raiicy $7 50 p sack. GRAIN—Corn white $1 05@1 10 9 bushel; mixed and yellow sl®l 05 Barley $2 50; Bariev Malt #315. Rye $1 50. Oats $1 10. Wheat $2 00® $2 15. HAY $1 25®2 hundred. SALT—Virginia, 9 sack $275. IRON—Bar from ourcity mills sc: hank, sl2® 12.50; nail rod 14c; Pittsburg bar, 6*4u.; Pittsburg band, BaS>£c; common sheet iron, be; charcoal. 10X ; Russia. 25 COTTON GOODS—Osnaburgs IS cents P ymd, shirtings 7-8,15 c 9 yard; shirtings 4-4, 18c f> yard. COTTON YARNS— 9 hunch of 5 lb- s.'®2 20, LK ATIIE U— VVhile Oak 9 lb 46®50; I teniioc-x stt>2B@33; Calf (French) 9 doz $-15®00; Ameri can 9 doz. $30@50; Harness 9lb 45®50; I’ppei 9 doz. #24 00®45 00. MO LASS ES—oo® 05; Sy ru p 90. SUGAR—Crushed and granulated 10Codec ugar-. A, B C, 18>£, 18, 17>,c; New Orleans 15® 10c; Demararu 14®lfi^c. COFFEE—Ria2O®29c; Laguyra2Sc; Java 40c. SYRUPS—OSc® 1 10 9 gal bin. "CANDLES—Star candles Hard press ed tallow $5 9 box. CANDY—2Sc 9 lb. CHEESE—State 15; English dairy 20c. SHEDS—Clover $8 50 9 bushel: Timothy $325; Blue grass $3; Orchard $2 25; Red ton $.2 25; Mill I $2 75®3 00; Hungarian $3 00. HI i)ES- Green 8c; dry salted 14c; Hint 15c. HOJJS—German 55; Wisconsin 05. ORANGES—Per box #H 50®7 00. LEMONS—Per box #SIX). FEATHERS—New live geeseos®ooc 9 lb. COPPER—Sheet 43c 9 lb. GUN POWDER—Dupont’s Sporting $8 50 P keg ; blasting $0 50. GLASS—American, 9 box, Bxlo, $0 00; 10x12, $5 50; 12x18 $0 00 GINSENG—7S®76c 9 1b- POTATOES—oId $0 9 bbl. OlL—Coal oil 50c. 9 gallon: Tanners sl®l 25. RlCE—Rangoon 12>*® 13c; Carolina lie. 9 lb. RAGS—In good demand at 5®5j 4 c. SOAP Bar 8® 10c. 9 lb. N AI LS—IP keg, 10s to 60s $5 25; other numbers 25c additional. GUNNY - BAGS—Heavy resowed 24>*c. SODA—English 9c; American B>£e 9 lb. MACKEREL—I? bbl., No. 1 $22; No. 2 S2O; No. 3 sls; hall bbl., No. 1 sl2; No. 2 $lO 50; No. 3 $8 50, Kits, $2 70, $2 00; and $2 50. STARCH—IOJ*c. WHITE LEAD—SIO 50®17 9 100 lb. TIN PLATE—I C steady at sl4 50. CARPUS—(Reported by S. S. Kendrick,' Brussels $1 75®2 25 ; 3-ply Imperial, $2 25; 3-|dy #1 90®2 00; 2-ply, best, #1 40® 1 75; 2-ply medium 90®$1 25; Hemp 35®75c. M A TTIN GS -45® 75c OIL CLOTHS-75®$1 50. Full stocks. PRINTS—IO® 15c 9 yard. CORSET JEANS—IS®IBVc 9 yard. BROWN DRILLS—IB®2Oc 9 vard. SPOOL THREAD—Btfc®sl 10 BROWN SHEETJ.NGS—3-4 Graniteville, 13c, 7 8 Graniteville 15c; 4-4 Grauitevillc 18c; 7 > Trion 15c ;4 4 Trion 18; 3-4 Augusta 18c; 7-8 \ u gusta 15; 4-4 Augusta 18c; 3 4 Sea Island BU.®J2 •; 7-SSea Island 12>£® 15c; 4 4 Sea Island !s®ls v BLEACHED DOMESTICS-4 4 Bleaching l.;>* ®3oc; 7-8 Bleaching 13®72; 3-4 Bleaching 10®13c. CA M B KlCKS—Glazed 12>, ®l3 Cc; Paper 15c. ST R 1 PE D SI 11 KT IN GS—l2 ® 18c. BED TICK 12> a ®35c. C RACKERS—Butter 12®15c; Soda 12@12>»; Pic nic 13®14C; Ginger Schnapps 18®19c. FERTILIZERS —No. 1 Peruvian Guano si $ roi\; Phosphate Guano SBO P ton; Soluble Pa i!ic Guano $75 9 ton; Zell’s Super Phosphate #75 9 ton; Zell’s Raw Bone #7O 9 ton; Oakb j Miil Flour Raw Bone $75 9 ton; Gypsuui 9 ton. LlME—Georgia $2 50 9 cask ol 5 bush; Ala bama $3 9 cask ol 5 bush. ROOFlNG—Georgia slate sll 50 9 square of 100 feet. CEM ENT—H yd ran lic #0 TOBACCO—We have from Meador & Bros, the following quotations; Low Grades 30®45c p lb; Low Grades, new, 00®05c 9 fl>; Medium 70® 75c 9 0.; Good Medium 75®85c p !b ; Fine 00®$1 IP lb; Extra Finesl 10®l 35 9 lb. TO PRINTERS. THE subscribers manufacture Type Revolving Double and Single Cylinder Printing Ma chines. Bed- and Platon Power Prrss, for Newspaper, Kook, Job aaU Card Printing. They would call attention of Publishers of Newspape rs to their New Hallway Newspaper Press, which is especially designed to supply Newspa pers of moderate circulation with a plain but >« 1- viceable Printing Machine, and on*, capable of doing, also, Job Work of every descriorion. It can be run easily by one man at a speed ot n<) impressions per hour, and by steam will give 1,000 or 1,200 per hour, without noise or jar. The press occupies a space feet, and can be worked in a room 7 feet high. Weight, boxed, 5,000 lbs. Their Single Large Cylinder Hand-Print ing Ulacliine, or Country Press, is also a convenient and durable Printing Ma chine, capable of doing the entire work ol an out of-town office. It is designed to run by hand at a speed of nh) per hour. Each Machine is warranted, and will not fail to give entire satis 1 action. We manufacture almost every article required for Letterpress, Lithographic or Copper-plate Printing, Book Binding. Electrotyping, and Stereotyping, and furnish outfits complete for each We would call attention to our Patent Sec tional Stereotype Blocks? Mechani cal Citioliis. Patent Lined Galleys, New Compositors’ Stands, Cabinets of new desig .sand all sizes. Standing Galleys, Patent Pocket Bodkins, Printers’ Knives, Ac: Blanketing and Type of our own importation and made expressly for our Newspaper and Cylinder Printing Machines. Estimates in Detail FurnUlicd. Anew CATALOGUE, containing cuts andtie scriptions of many new Machines, not oolbre shown m their book, with directions lor putting i.p. working, Ac., and other useful information, is just completed, and can he had on apnlication. K. HOE A CO., New York, and Boston, Ma*s. Publishers of Newspapers arc at liberty to in sert this advertisement, displayed as above, three : time' in their weekly paper, with this note, I>ut j not without, any time previous to January, 18»»9, (but not later, provided they purchase type or ! material of our manufocturc for four times the ! amount of their hill, which will be allowed in set ; tleiuent of ours, on receipt of a copy of their pa i per containing the advertisement. ‘ may3o-Nv3t