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GEORGIA WE E K L Y OPINION THE WEEKLY OPINION, BY W. I. SCRUGGS AND J. B. BUMBLE. FRIDAY MORNINGjjSEPTEMBER 27. Election Tickets.—Our mend* residing at a distance will bear In mind that the Opinion offico la prepared to print elec tion tickets, nnd will do it on as reasonable terms as they can have it done elsewhere. Therefore, wo suggest that they send in their orders in ample time, that we may fill them and forward the same. Cot. Hulbert and the Great De- farted.—Tho antl-Rccoustructlon, Demo cratic, Rule or Ruin press, are abusing Col, E. Hulbert, Chief Registrar cf Georgia, because ho dares to have an opinion, and to publish the same over hla proper signature, on the question of Relief. They carry their crusade farther; and, in their blind fury, denounce the Express Company be cause Col. Hulbert has for a number of years been one of its chief ofiicers. Such attacks are puerile. They are lit tle. They are mean. They arc contempti ble. If; in selecting a Chief Registrar foj Georgia, Gen. J?opb recognized in Col. Hulbert that executive ability and busi ness talent so essential to the position, tho fact of Col.HuxiwT's connection with the Express Company, could not be made an objection. Col. Hulbert, we happen to know, did not seek tho olfleo. no was se lected because he was deemed competent to discharge tho duties of the position, and not because of Ids connection with the Southern Express Company, as 1ms been meanly insinuated. An Insinuated Lie.—The Macon Tele graph, a paper which enjoys more charac ter for unfairness than ability, after charg ing the whole catalogue of political crime upon Col. Hulbuut, of the Southern Ex press Company,«says: It is rumored that tbo Express, agent**, at Atlanta, furnish material aid to keep one, if not both, of the two Radical papers there going. As there are but two papers in Atlanta that advocate Reconstruction upon the basis of .the Congressional enactments, and as tho Opinion is one of these, the inference is plain that it is one of the journals allu ded to as receiving “material aid” from the Express Company. Tho insinuated charge, so far as it may relate to the Opinion, is without the slight est foundation in truth, ns every man of sense in Atlanta well knows. As between the Opinion and tho Southern Express Company, honors are easy; the Opinion is wholly self-sustaining, and we presume the Express Company is too. These mean and contemptible Bings fccem to be the favorite weapons of a large portion of.tho Democratic press; but wc had given the conductors of the Telegraph credit for more brains ami better raising. We, therefore, respectfully ask them to make the charge good by the proof, or else make the amende, Gen. Pope and toe Obstructionists.— Some of our Democratic antl-Rcconstruc- tion friends arc working, with a very short leverage power, for the removal of Gen. Pope. One of the Mncon papers, which is operating on this line, says: “All General .-Pope's instincts teach and will prompt him to thwart and bailie tho President’s plans, Instead of aiding and promulgating them.” That depends entirely upon the nature of the 4 * President’s plans.” If thoso “plans” be to defeat the Reconstruction Law, by evading its plainest provisions, then we think it very prohahlo that Gen. Pope’s administration will *• battle and .thwart“ those plans. But If those “plans” be to faithfully carry out tho provisions of the Law, then Gen. Pope Is doing all lu his power to aid and promote them. THE ALTERNATITE. Tho present status of Southern Society, and tho disorganized condition of the whole country growing out of the,h»u$sof tho war, is a matter of deep solicitude to every patriot If Reconstruction upon an equitable and enduring basis bo not speedi ly accomplished, it may be the work of a decade, during which tho material interests of the whole country must suffer. The country needs relief from apprehension and anxiety, and until this shall have been accomplished, it is idle to cherish hopes of futuro prosperity. Tho Reconstruction scheme of Congress promises tho only immediate relief. It contains some objectionable features. And yet, under the circumstances, it is the part of wisdom to carry out this plan. What better can be done ? Suppose wo reject it; that docs not take the ballot from the hand of the illiterate and place it in possession of the disabled class. The franchise is alrendy a vested right in the hand of the African; no act of ours, so long as we re main out of tho Union, and at tho morey of the conqueror, can change tills state of things. To obtain Constitutional guaran tees wo must place ourselves under that Constitution which we disregarded in or der to divide and destroy the Government. This can be done only by accepting and acting upon the terms Imposed. Those terms arc embodied in the Military Re construction Acts of Congress. Shall we comply ? or shall we continue in obstinacy and thus bring ourselves and children to want? CHOICE OF NAMES. They have a *• Conservative Reconstruc tion party ” In Alabama. It endorses all the Principles of the Republican party, and stands pledged to the policy of Re construction on the basis of the Congres sional enactments. But, inasmuch as some of its leading members are afraid of being called “Radicals,” they tack the newly- iledged name for tho Democracy to the Principles of tho Republican party! In 1860, the Democracy accepted the term ‘•Conservative,” as applied to political parties, as a synonym, for Federal supre macy, and denounced it accordingly. In tho earlier history of the Republic the Democrats called themselves “Republi cans.” Who knows but tiiat before the ex piration of the next four years they will assume the name of “ Radicals ” ? We take it that the Union Republican party is not choice about names. Let all vote for Its principles who may. Every “Conservative” vorc for a Republican measure, will count one. GTMr.Oim, of South Carolina, in ad vocating Reconstruction upon tho basis of tho Congressional enactments, has pro voked some of the Democratic editors in Georgia who accompanied him to Mr. Johnson’s Philadelphia Convention in 1806. One of tho Macon papers exclaims: To think that almost under the sacred shadow of Fort IIlll, the home of Calhoun, such an Ingratc and rcnegutlo should have l>cen »»orn and reared, to deliio tho memo ry, spit upon the teachings and degrade the Mate that patriot loved and served so well. The Scribes and Pharisees of Jltdea one asserted that nothing good could come out of Nazorcth. The Purislans once thought Corsica Incapable of producing anything but vagrants nnd outlaws. Even South Carolina may do much to atone for tho fol ly and wickedness of tho past. Who knows? The land of Nullification may yet become renowned for Law and Order. The Epidemic in New Orleans.—In 1853, Now Orleans had a population of 130,000, nnd 27,143 eases of yellow fever, of which about one-third terminated fatally. Tho present epidemic Is very much milder, and the mortality, proportionately, only onc-tentli as heavy. The death-rate now, however, among children between the ages of ten and fifteen is remarkably large. The foreign population, too, suffers severely. Official Vote ok Tennessee.—Tho Nashville Press and Times says the offi cial returns for Governor are now In the hands of the Secretary of State, and show tho following result: For Wra. G. Brown- low, 73,060; for Emerson Etheridge,22,547. Total vote In the State, 00,213. Majority i*or Brownlow, 51,118; Health ok Charleston.—The Charles ton Mercury of the 25th denies the truth 'of the rumor that yellow fever lias ap peared in that city. ^ ' CSTCorn sells in Oskalooska, Iowa, at eight cents a bushel. Miscegenation.—We learn that not fifty miles outsido of the corporate limits of Eufauhi, there aro some cases of this de scription. Several of what tho negroes themselves call “white trash” have taken unto themselves, American lords of Afri can scent;—Eufaula yews. To our mind, miscegenation is one of the most revolting spectacles that human eyes can he called upon to witness. And yet if it must be. let the sires of mulatto children be forced to support their offspring. Bet ter to marry a negresa or a negro, than to keep her or him in open violation of the laws of God nnd man. Better bo guilty of miscegenation without adultery, than with It. One crime Is less objectionable than tieo. Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company.—At the mectlngof the Directors of this Company, held in Selma on the 20th I nst. F. II. Delano, of New York, was elected President in place of Gen. J.R. Johnston, resigned. The Rome Courier learns that the entire action of the Committee that recently vis ited New York, for the purpose of secur ing incans for the early completion of the road, was unanimously confirmed. It now sceius certain that the work will commenco in a short time. It is the intention of the Company to lay the track as soon as pos sible from Blue Mountain to six miles East, of Jacksonville—which distance is now ready for the superstructure—and then commence work at Rome also, nnd work on tit both ends at a rapid rate. Tiik Macon and Western Railroad.— Wc arc informed that the same arrange ments for transportation of Memphis cot ton linvc been effected via Macon iiud Sa vannah to New York, sis by Charleston. This makes Atlanta the intermediate ship ping point between Memphis and Charles ton, and also between Macon and Savan nah and the same point. Tho advantages to shippers of this placo is, economy of both time and money. Cotton by these routes may reach its destination in New Yo r k from Memphis in six days, and at low rates. Business men and shippers would do well to nolo tills fact, ajul govern them selves accordingly. The Election in Viruinia.—Gen. Scho field has issued an order that the ballots of white and colored voters, at the coniiug election, shall bo taken separately. In every district of five hundred voters, three per sons shall assist the registering ofiicers In receiving tho votes; and where there are more than five hundred, six persons shall assist, all being previously sworn to im partially discharge their duties, and select ed from among the registered voters of the district. Crutchfield House to be Rebuilt.— Tho Chattanooga Union of yesterday un derstands that Mr. Spencer, proprietor of the Crutchfield House, was In the city yes terday, and expressed his Intention of re building tho hotel shortly, in much bettor stj lc than before. lie proposes to build it with rooms for stores upon the lower floor, and fronting on Nintli street. Hon* II. V. Johnson. Perhaps no man living has suffered so much from the effects of foolish letters, as ho whoso ipunq heads tills paragraph. Since ho declared in opposition to Reconstruc tion, he has taken special pains to so revise his ante-bellum record AS to make It ap pear that ho opposed the war for Southern Independence. Like lien nil!, he claims to have been one Of those who opposed section nlisih. Hero is an extract from a published document, issued by Mr. Johnson In 1860: “The contest in which the people yt Georgia, in common with her r.ister slave- holding States are engaged, is onp of vital importance. It involves the destiny of the South, and the federative character of our system of Government. It is waged upon the'right of a State peaceably to secede from the Union. The gubernatorial candi date of the Southern Rights party main tain, the affirmative and the candidate of the submission party the negative of this great question, the one, that the right necessarily results from the reserved sov ereignty of the State and the nature of the Confederacy, and the other, that it exist* only as a right of revolution. The former Insists that the generql government hqs no right to coerce a sovereign State, and thefat- ter that such seceding State insist depend for the maintenance of its posit to* upon the stout hearts and strong arms or -a/*'««* W ple. ‘ The great Issue, I repeat is. the right of a State to secede from the Union, and the ce- relativo ahsei.ee of any right on the part of tho Federal Government to force such a State hack into the Union. It cannot be evaded by the senseless clamor of Union, this glorious UnionJ The integrity of tfre Union is not assailed by the, Southern Rights par ty In Georgia. Its real enemies are tnope who level their destructive artillery against its strongest outposts by counselling submission to aggression, injustice and rob bery. <C*c, Whoever observes the signs of the times cannot fail to sue that the right of secession will probably at no distent day. assume the rows AND MAGNITTDK OF MUCTICALJMl'OR- taxck. The South is in a permanent mi nority in our Federal Legislature. The tone of Northern fanaticism abates not its phrenzy and violence. It presses on rapidly to the consummation of its diabolical designs. The right of sea ess ion must be maintain ed. It is the last, the only hope of the South. The Cotton Crop in* Eastern and Mid dle Georgia—llusiness Prospects.—A. cor respondent of tho New York Times, wri ting from Augusta, Sept. 20th. gays: Tlic injury to the crops hy the recent rain lias been much greater and more wide spread than was supposed. In the‘south western portion of the State, which is the principal cotton region, tho damage lias Iieftn very extensive. I have received ac counts from several counties, upon which perfect reliance may be placed, which rep resent the loss at from a fourth to a third of the crop. Where the land was richest and the plant most luxuriant, tho boll-rot nnd tho ravages of the liolt-worm have been most disastrous. On some plantations where a bale of cotton to the aero was con fidently nnd reasonably expected, a quar ter-bale will not bo gathered. 1 learn also that the cotton which has already been picked is of a very inferior quality. Tills and the great decline iti price, nnd tho an ticipation of a still greater decline, make planters very despondent, and create con siderable consternation among all classes who looked to tho cotton crop as the means of storing material prosperity, enabling debtors to pay their debts, nnd merchants to ply an active trade during the fall and winter. Believing that It would be abun- dant and was secure, the merchants in the principal towns went North some weeks ago, and ordered large stocks of merchan dise of all sorts, which are just beginning to arrive. They are not now nearly as tSfThe Americans in Honduras have started a newspaper. hopeful as they were, and would very glad ly recall many of their purchases or-fancy goods,” if it were still in their power. Those Who profess to bo most knowing Judges of the market, express the belief that cotton will fnll to 13 cents per pound, w hich will be 12)£cents to theplantcrafter deducting tho tax. from which are still to* be deducted freights, storage iind brokers’ commission. Planters who have been buy ing corn all the spring and summer at 82 to 82.50 per bushel, nnd have paid from *20 cents to 25 cents per pound for bacon, to gether with usurious interest for money borrowed to buy provisions nt these prices, snv that they cannot make both ends meet with cotton at 15 cents, without allowances for tax and expenses of transportation und sale. ' Cotton.—Austell 1 & Inman, cotton and commission merchants of 02 Wall street, New York, have Issued a circular showing a carefully compiled statement of tho cot ton crop of the United States for the year ending September 1, 1867. From that statement we copy the following remarks: We are not ablo to glvcour figures show ing the total crop nnd movement of cotton in the United Spates for the year ending September 1,1807. Tho receipts, as will he seen, very nearly approximate those of last year, the total reaching 2,010,271 bales, against 2,103,087 bales for tiie previous twelve months, indicatingu decrease in tho receipts this year of only 174,710 bales. It would be Impossible to state with accuracy What proportion of this aggregate was the product of the last year, estimates (litter ing so widely with regard to the amount of the old crop not brought forward at the close of 1865-0. We think, however, wfi may safely take this old surplus at 300.000 hales, and shall then have left about 1,700,- 000 bales ns tho total products of the past season. The new year begins with unusu ally small stock In the interior, and wc must, therefore, look almost entirely to the new crop for our receipts during the com ing twelve months. North Georgia^-TIic editor of the Chattanooga Union, who has recently vis ited Atlanta, says: , < A trip over tho Western and Atlantic Railroad to Atlanta, has convinced us that the people In that section of country, how ever great thler political troubles may be. will no longer Buffer for want of food. The corn fields were extensive and the yield appeared to bo excellent. Here and there the white cotton bolls were unfolding themselves, and in ono instance wo saw the negroes gathering the dethroned king as in olden times; but corn seemed the prin cipal crop, and largo fields of it were stand ing on every side. Tho pcoplo of Georgia are doing wisely, in making themselves Dickens as a Reader.—Mr. Dickens’ de but as a reader is given by a correspondent of the Round Table: It was rome fourteen years ago, for the benefit cf tho Mechanic's Institute, in the English town of Peterborough. The In stitute was embarrassed by debt, and Mr. Dickens was prevailed upon by the bor ough member to give a reading. Mr* Dickens at that time had made no public appearand® as a reader. lie had oc casionally been heard of us giving selec tions from his works to small coteries of friends, or In the private saloon of some distinguished patvon of art. But he had nervously shrunk from any piudie debut, uiuvilltng, so it seemed, to weaken his rep utation as a writer by any possible failure as a reader. fj his diffidence had taken so strong a hold of him that it might never have been overcome blit for, the inshiuous IHU'Sufistons of - our member.” - Here was hit opportunity,” he argued, “for testing the matter without risk; an antediluvian country town; an audience of farmers’ sons and daughters, rural shop-keepers, and a few country parsons—If interest could be excited in tho stolhl minds of such a Ba»o- tian assemblage, the success of the reader would be assured wherever tho English tongue was spoken. On the other hand, if failure resulted, none would be the wiser outside of this Sleepy Hollow circle." The bait took, and Mr. Dickens con sented to deliver a public reading In aid of the Peterborough Mechanics’ Institute. He only stipulated that the prices of ad mission should be such that every mechan ic, if he chose, might come to hear him, and named two shillings, a shilling, and six pence, ns the limit of charge. Vain limi tation! A fortnight before the reading every place was taken, and half a guinea and a guinea were the current rates for front seat tickets. ' Dickens Idinself came down and super* intended the arrangements, so anxious was he as to the result. At one end of the large Torn Exchange before spoken of he had caused to he erected a tail pulpit of red baize, as much like a Punch and Judy show witli the top taken off a anything. Tills was to be the reuder’s rostrum. Bir, us the tall red pulpit looked lanky and very comical stuck up there alone, two dtimiuy pulpitsof similar construction were placed one on each side to bear it company. When the reader muiinted into the miudie box, nothing was visible of him but his head and shoulders. Ho if ii he really true, as was stated afterwards by an indiscreet su pernumerary, that Mr- Dickens’ leg shook under him from first to last, the audience knew nothing of It. 'The whole character of the stage nrramrements suggested that Mr. Dlekens wa* Mire of his head, but was not quite so sure of his legs. It was the Christmas Carol that Mr. Diekens Tend; the night was Christmas Eve. As the clock struck the appointed hour, a red, jovial face, unrelieved by the heavy moustache which the novelist has.since assumed, a broad, high forehead, and u perfectly Macawber-1 ike expanse of shirt collar und front appeared above the red balzo box, and a full, sonorious voice rang out the words, - Murley-was-dcad-to-be- gln-with.” then paused to take in the char acter of tho audience No need of further hesitation. The voice held all spell-bound. Its depths of quiet feeling when tho ghost of past Chrfstmasses led the dreumer through the long forgotten scenes of his boyhood—its embodyment of burly good nature when old Fczgiwig's calves were twinkling in the dance—its tearful sugges tiveness when the spirit of Christ masses to come pointed to the nettle-grown, neg lected grave of the unloved man, Its ex quisite pathos by the death-bed of Tinv Tim, dwell yet in memory, like a long- known tuuu. That one night’? reading in tho quaint little city, so curiously bfouglit about, so ludicrous almost in its surround ings, committed Mr. Dickens to the career of a public reader; and lie lias slnco de rived nearly as large an Income from his readings as frqni the copy right of his nov els. Only he signally, failed to carryout his wish of nndcing ids first bow before an uneducated audience. The vote of thanks which closed the proceedings was moved by the Settlor Marquis of Scotland, ainlsee- onded by tiie lieu- «>l the wealthiest peer in England. , Tin: Cask ok Fitz .John Poiitkr.—Fre quent mention has recently been mado in our telegraphic dispatches of the applica tion made to the President by Fltz John Porter for a reconsideration of the court martial which sentenced him to be -cash iered ami forever Incapable of holding of fice under the Government of tho United States.” This sentence was passed in Jan uary, 1803. and was approved hy President Lincoln. Porter claims that the trial took place in n time of unnatural excitement; that evidence then inaccessible can now be produced, and that he considers it his duty to appeal for a revision of his case, and therefore requests the appointment of a new court martial. This appeal Is backed by Senators Wil son, Sherman, Harris and Foster, General Banks, Ex-Governor Curtain and Horace Greeley. The court martial for tho trial of Gen. Fitz John Porter met in Washington Nov. 1. 1802. It consisted of Gens. Hunter, Hitchcock, Rufus King, Prentiss, Ricketts, Unsoy, Garfield, Buford nnd Morris, with Joseph Ilolt ns Judge Advocate General. The charges were made by Brigadier Gen eral B. L. Roberts, formerly Inspector General of Pope’s avmv in Virginia. Tho specifications wen* to the effect that on the 28th day ot August, 1802, Porter disobeyed a positive nnd urgent order of Gen. Pope to bring his corps up to the help of Hooker and McDowell at the second battle of Bull Run; that on the 20th day of August he again disobeyed the order of Gen. Pope; that on the same day lie failed to attack the enemy, though positively onlcrod to do so; that on the evening of August 20, he again disolM*ycd an order to march his command to the field of battle and rei>ort in person to Gen. Pope for orders, but permitted ono of his brigades to march to Centreville, and remain there during the severe battlo of August 30; that ho retreated from the enemy without any attempt to engage them or to aid our troops, who were relying upon tho Bank attack he was ordered to make. Porter was convicted on the evidence of Generals Poi>e, McDowell and Roberts, Lieut. Col. Thomas Smith, Capt. Drake DeKoy, and others. Tho unanimous testi mony of these ofllecrs was to tho effect that Porter could have brought his troops Into action, hut did not, nud that, if he had done his duty, the Confederate army must have been beaten, nnd part of it de stroyed. > , The finding of the Court was. that Por ter was -guilty on every one of tho charges preferred,” and the sentence, which was ap proved by President Lincoln on the 21st of January. 1863, cashiered him from service, Cincinnati Gazette.' independent of "the world lor a subsis- lance. • Garibaldi was arrested at Sienna early • this morning, and brought In tills city mi ll?*'A man was fined $1 for working in der guard in a special train, lie was ta- hls garden on Suudny in Hudson, N. J., a ken prisoner while crowing the Roman short time since. Moral N, J. j frontier. . ? ... -* ■ ¥*[ Tradedr in Virginia—The Elopement of Walker with Mrs. Solomon.—W. J. Walker, formerly of Norfolk, was more recently a clerk in Mr. Solomon’s office, in Halifax. North Carolina. Mr. W. J. Solomon is Commonwealth’s Attorney in Halifax county, is a gentleman of wealth, learning, and high standing, and his wife, to whom ho has been married, without Issue, for ten years, was one of the most beautiful, ac complished, and wealthy ladles of that county. She lias latterly been in delicate health, and several weeks ago went to the Buffalo Springs, Mecklenburg county, in tills State, to recuperate her system. While there Walker went to see her. lie crossed the country from the Junction in a close carriage, and remained some time, and the two foft the Springs on Monday of last Mr* Walker, on the day before leaving, sent Mrs. Solomon’* servant girl to the train, and thence to the Bollingbrook Hotel in this city, with a note requesting the proprietors to care of her until her mis tress should come down, which, the girl alleged, would he on the day after her arri val. But several days passed, and neither the lady nor gentleman appearing at the hotel, the girl manifested such uneasiness ns to induce Mr. Kennedy to make inqui ries concerning Mr. Solomon. Word was communicated to the latter concerning the situation of the case, nnd he at once came on to learn the sad truth of the dark sus picions that had been set afioat. It was ascertained that Walker and Mrs. Solomon came across to the Junction, but instead of taking the Southsidc curs for PetersbUfg, they took the Danville train and went to Greensboro’, and thence disappeared through the country. As far as we can learn, no Intel.igenee has, been received of them since they left Greensboro*. Mr. Solomon was in this city on Monday. He is naturally deeply troubled and dejec ted in consequence of a misfortune so un- ejpecNjd and overwhelming. Yet. like all husbands, he believes his wife to be the innocent dupe of a base man. While expressing himself willing to receive again to Ids heart the ono to whom ho had dedicated his every af fection, but who in an evil moment was decoyed from his side, lie Ims consent ed. tttrough the advice of friends, to aban don all pursuit, all effort to bring the de stroyer of Ids happiness to justice, and go home, like a wise man, dml attend to Ids business. Ills despair, however, is inde- scribable.—Petersburg Index, 'lllh. A Hint to the Ladies.—Women who wear short dresses should read nud heed t)ds bit of advice from the New York Times: There is one little fact that our ladies seem to overlook in the effect of the re cent fashions. In other days, when trail ing skirts were the inode, the habits of twenty years led the whole generation of women, whether they had experienced the whole twenty years or accepted their re sults from elders, to use their feet in a very careless manner. Walking, standing or sitting, the. awkwardness of feme nine feet must have, developed to an extent un- thought of. because unseen. But since tho short walking dress has come into style, these infelicities of movement and of |»ose are revealed, ami many a lady, under the secure consciousness of the former habit, will wulk the street or sit in tho cabin of the ferry-boat witli her feet in such posi- tiofis as would, in her own eves, Instantly stamp any man indulging in them us a candidate .for the ‘awkward squad.’ We know it is supposed to be highly improper to observe a lady's feet; but when, by rai son or clumsiness, they attract attention, thoy will be observed, and the present wafkiugrdress affords ample opportunity for the display of either ot those qualities. Tiie Public Debt.—The statement of public debt for the month of September will not' show much, if any, increase in Government obligations. There are good reasons for believing that there will he slight reduction in the month of Qetober. But the payment of twenty-five millions of coin interest on tlicfivc-twciitles dueon tho 1st of Novemlicr must, of course, pro duce a different showing of the lace of ac counts in the statement of the public debt for that month. Upon the whole, it Is found, by actual facts thus far transpired, nnd by fair and safer estimates for the com ing two months and eight days, that the prognostications ot Secretary McCulloch about the financial results of the summer nnd fall months, us set forth in Ids letter to the Boston merchants, are likely to be sub stantially verified, witli a reasonable pros pect that the actual showing by the first of December may be very much more favora ble than Mr. McCulloch predicted. Suit to Recover Confiscated Prop erty.—It will be remembered that in 1804. a large amount of property, owned by residents of tiie city who went South at the commencement of the war. was confis cated by tiie government and sold, they (the Government; giving a title to the aforesaid property, to hold good during the lifetime of the person in whose name it was sold. A large number of these per sons have returned to the city, nnd ar rangements are now being made to com mence suits for the recovery of such prop erty. Eminent counsel lias been engaged, whose business it will lie to test the consti tutionality of tho Confiscation acts of Con gress. It is stated that General Caleb Cushing has been retained by Dr. A. Y. P. Garnett, whoso property was confiscated TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. From tho New York Prest Auoeirttjow. Wi.niNGTON, gept. 20.—Advices from Nuhvlilc represent things more quiet, In consequence of Federal provisions to sup press disorder. Both parties will probably hold elections, ami take tho question to the courts. Gen. Hancock will not go to New Or leans until tiie yellow lever subsides; In the meantime General Mower is responsi ble. New York, Sept. 20.—The Constitution al Convention has adjourned until after tiie elec turn. New Orleans, Sept. 20.—The interment* from >el!o\v fever t*»-day since .-fix o’clock this morning were fifty-seven. Two hundred and fitty privates and seven ollluo;., are now under treatment for yellow fever at Jackson Barracks. In tiie First United States Infantry, which has lieen stationed at the Barracks und tiie Military Hospital, upwards of one hundred deaths ims occurred from yellow fever. Charleston, Sept. 20.—Tiie caterpillar has appeared upon the farms and are seri ously injuring the crops. Augusta, Sept. 20.—.fudges Warner. Walker and Harris, are out in letters fa- vorlug Reconstruction under the Military Bills, on the ground of necessity and ex’- ped fancy. Hon. B. II. Hill left this morning for New York. Washington, Sept. 2G.—Gen. Mower tel egraphs encouragingly regarding the health of the military in tiie Fifth Dis trict. Generals Hancock and Sickles left to day. Revenue receipts to-day four hundred and six thousand dollars. The light will he exhibited on the first of October. Havana, Sept. 25. -Balnmzona lias been sworn in as Provisional Captain General. Mazona died of typhhid fever. Cincinnati, Sept. 25.—The Queen City Distillery burned. Loss sixty thousand dollars. The citizens have subscribed six thou sand dollars to aid the yellow fever suffer ers in New Orleans. Topeka. Sept. 20.—The German Conven tion resolved to support none unless they pledge themselves to oppose the temper- um e .Sunday law. Richmond. Sept. 26.—Gen. Brown has Issued ail order directing the officer of the Freedmen’s Bureau of this District to turn over to tiie civil authorities all negro pau pers, and none others, who 1 have i>oen re siding here sine® the 1st of January, 1801. In. the habeas corpus case of Kebbler, the soldier, before the State Court, it was held that as he was a minor he could not be le gally claimed as a soldier. Tho military authorities refused to recognize the decis ion. Tlte soldier had been before the court once, but before the trial of the case was ended the military declined to submit to the arbitration of the State Court. Tho State to-day. In, its gradual sale of railroud interest, disposed of its. stock in the Loudon and New Hampshire Railroad for $50,000. Gen. Beauregard arrived here tills even ing- Mb. Greeley’s Advice to Young Men.— Mr. Greeley’s autobiography has been writ ten down to his apprenticeship. He says of the four years pf his life, during which ho was learning to be a printer: •I have never since found at once hooks nnd opportunity to enjoy them so ample as while there; Ido not think I ever before or since read to so much Profit. They say that apprenticeship is distasteful to, anil out of fashion with the boys of our day; if so, I regret it for their sakes. To tin* youth who asks, ‘How shall I obtain an ed ucation ?’ I would answer, ‘Learn a trade of a good master.’ I hold firmly that most hoys may thin better acquire the knowl edge thoy need than by spending four year s in college.” —p-***-...~, General Lee. — Tho White Sulphur Springs correspondent of tho Southern Opinion nays: General Lee reached these Springs about August 1st nnd occupied a cottage in “Baltimore Row,” with his family, who subsequently'dispersed to other springs. General Lee came In search of health, re tirement and recreation, but he found no toriety Instead. Gentlemen, otherwise well behaved, thronged his cottage, nnd in sisted upon shaking Leo by the hand. At Dry Creek, within musket shot of the Springs, the circus pitched its capacious tent, and a throne, similar to that accorded to Roman Generals when they hud achieved a great national triumph, was erected for him, and dressed with lings. General Lee. after great reluctance and hesitation, ac cepted the high place, nnd was the greatest •‘lion” of the circus. and sold, and was purchased by Mr. Alexan der It. Shepherd for the sum of three thou sand three hundred dollars.— Washington Intelligencer. Shuck hy Lightning.—On last Saturday morning, about 4 o’clock, during a thun der shower, tho Court House in this city was struck by lightning, damaging the roof and plastering. The fluid entered tiie roof at the North end of the building, passing down tho rafters to the corner, setting tho roof on fire between the Joists, thence into the Court-room. Tho Injury ,o the building Is slight. Fortunately the fire was discovered before it had got fully under way and extinguished.—Covington Enterprise. Lost Children.—The statistics of lost children in Now York afford a curious sub ject for study. For the veer ending Sep tember 1, the number or lost children ta ken to police headquarters and there re claimed by parents were 3,M0—nearly ten per day. During tho same period tho num ber of lost children found and not applied for was fifty-five. The number of found lings purposely abandoned was one hun dred and forty-four. Kivu times as many children are lost in May ns in December. Work People Thrown Out of Employ ment.—The number of jx*oplc thrown out of employment in New* Orleans by the yel low fever tliis season is greater than has been hitherto known since tho commercial embarrassment of 1857. What tho num; her is may be judged from tho fact that there are said to bo 6,000 applications for places on the police nnd for similar ap pointments. Cotton Items.—The Albany News of tiie 27th says: The market continues dull. Good mid dlings will bring 10 cents—extremes 13alG cents. The Columbus Enquirer of the 20th says: Ttie dullness in our market continued yesterday, without quotable change in prices. Northern middling may still be quoted at 18>». Tiie reelf.ts by wagon were pretty large for this season. A New Use for Old Ball Dressrs.— The Gazette Rose, a French fashion Jour nal, says: Among the beautiful broderies made up in tiie country, the most benutifUl we have seen was on a chasuble or worn vestment by the priests, embroidered hy Mile. , the material used having first served os a ball dress during tho winter. These dress es, being made Into chasubles. and offered to the Church through the priests, aro only purified by the holy sacrifice of tho mass. An appeal is now offered to tho ladies of the world, who throw their old silk dresses into a corner, or give them to their maids, to make better use of them by donating them to the Church. When hall dresses grow old and have to bo cast off' they now become priestly vestments. So goes tho world In Paris. A Jew as Statesman.—Slmson, tho President of the new North-German Par liament, Is a baptized Jew. Ills parlia mentary experience is very great. He was the second President or tho German Par liament in 1818. President of the Erfurth Parliament in 1840, (on which occasion Bismark served as youngest Secretary un- der him,) President of the second Prussian Chamber, and President of the first North- German Parliament. Tiie Sickles Court of Inquiry.—Gen- eral Grants recommendation that General blcklos bo granted a court of inquiry reached tiie President to-day, but no action lias been taken in the premises.