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VOLUME XXI.
From Uie Hnral Carolinian.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY/NOVEMBER 3,1869.
WARHUBTOS.
NUMBER 45.
Tiunil Carolinian hcabled “ Mr. Dickson’s system
Ol Plantiog,” is well worth the perusal of our
1 arming friends. We commend it to them.
An M AmocIsIc*’ Announced.
In the Home Southerner db Commercial, we see
it announced that Mr. IL D. Smith, known to
the readers of that paper as the President of the
Cherokee Female Institute of that city, has be*
come its “ Associate Editor.” Mr. Smith is a
fine scholar and writer, and in future having
control, as is announced, “of the political and
news department of the paper," he will doubt
less add to the interest which its columns have
hitherto imparted to the readers thereof. We
cordially welcome him into the 44 fraternity.”
Nnk-Trenenrer Butterfield** Connection
with the 44 Cold Klnsc.’*
It seems from all accounts, Republican and
Democratic, at Washington and in New York,
that belief exists in sub-Trcasurer Butterfield’s
connection with the “ Gold King” in New York
aud in its late disgraceful transactions. The
Tribune's Washington dispatch ol the 23d goes
so Iar as to say, that ii Butterfield’s resignation
was not received that day, he would be removed
by Secretary Boutwell, but when, it docs not
state. Another Washington dispatch of the
same date, says that the Secretary of the Treas
ury will soon order an inveatigation into the
charges against Gen. Butterfield in connection
with the gold panic, in such a manner, “as will
thoroughly test their truth." This will probably
be the course of Secretary Boutwell, and it is
doubtless the proper one. While we do not
hsve much confidence in the New York sub-
Tre-usurer, we hsve seen so much of hard and
contradictory sweating concerning the recent
gold swindles, that we commend the policy of
not condemning unheard any of the parties im
plicated in timse transactions. We would,
therefore, give to Butterfield the opportunity, at
least, of vindicating himself from the aspersions
cast upon him, and if he cannot clear himself,
then dismiss him and look to his bond, should
he prove to have been guilty of malpractice in
office, or have used the Government funds for
private purposes.
In connection with the foregoing, we see it
staled at Washington that Gen. B. F. Butler is
now there collecting all necessary material to
enable him immediately alter the opening of
Congress to move for a committee of investiga
tion, with power to send for persons and papers;
and that all the papers now, without distinction
of parly, call for Butterfield’s removal—that the
great scandal eclipses, for the time being, all
other matters.
And yet again it is stated that a New York
grand Jury have caused subpesnas to lie issued
tor Corbin, Butterfield, Fisk, Gould, and numer
ous other*; to appear next week and testify re
lative to the late gold panic, it is reported that
Butterfield had telegraphed his resignation to
Secretary Boutwell, which was immediately ac
cepted. Another rumor says a dispatch from
Boutwell, tendering the position to a well-
known merchant, has been answered by a de
clination. Since the foregoing was written a
telegraphic Hem from Washington has been re
ceived, which states that Butterfield has re
signed.
44 Lmi nil Ctsn Karthquakea.”
The Boston Jtotl, of the 23d instant, says—
“ last ol all an earthquake came also, its arri
val yesterday morning, at the early hour of
half-past five, was aanounced by billowy mo
tions of the earth all along the coast from Bos
ton to the extremity ol Maine, by gaping streets
and roads, toppling crockery, and the fright of
everybody who was unhappily conscious at that
enterprising hour. Far up into New Hampshire
the oscillation lound its way, as if resolved on
tumbling together the solid mountains. Laco
nia leil it as much as distant Waldoboro’. It
cannot be said ot this surprise that it is no
great shakes, lor it is a very serious matter.
When the door-bells are simultaneously rung in
cities and towns hundreds of miles apart, and
Concord crockery chimes with the monogram
service of Boston, it is about time to consider ol
our footing in life, and suggests the propriety ot
sitting up altogether to meet so unwelcome a
visitor with our eyes open and our minds pre
pared."
Calllorala Bold Becelpu.
The marked contrast there is between the in
significant amounts of specie now brought by
the California steamers to New York, and the
big piles of loriuer days—millions given way to
paluy thousands—is accounted lor in the tact
that gold is now conveyed by the iron horse and
no longer by the steamships.
Elder Phatt, of the Mormons, has been
preaching in lavor aud support ol practical
polygamy. He charged that Moaea was a practi
cal polygamist, and likewise all the prophets
and kings of Israel; declared polygamy to be a
law ot God, aud that “we (the Mormons) intend
to live according to the law of God n we have
received it, Congress or no Congress.” There
will he serious trouble with these people, before
we get through with them.
Wtwaa.
A n imaginative writer says ol “ Heaven’s last,
best gill to man ” that she is compounded of
three articles, sugar, tincture ot arnica, and soft
soap. Sugar, because of the sweetness which is
apparent in moot women—alas I that in some it
should have acidulated into strong domestic
vinegar; arnica, because in woman is to be
found that quality of healing snd soothing after
tbo bruises and wounds which afflict us men in
the great battle ot life; and sob soap, tor rea
sons too obvious to need specification.
Peanuts.—The Norfolk Journal states that
receipts ot peanuts in that city Irons the 1st ot
September, 1868, to 1st September, 1869, were
423.3S3 bushels, which at $2 75 per bushel,
would yield iu money $1,264 348 35 The pro
duction of this article has greatly increased
since the war. and is capable of a still greater
increase. All the light lands of the tide-water
district are admirably adapted to it, and if the
whole region was devoted to its culture there
would be no glut in the market As the peanut
makes a good oil, the demand lor it will contin
ue notwithstanding the increase in the produc
tion.
We have it upon the authority of the Ro
chester Chronicle that Gen. Banks learned the
printing trade, when a young man, in the office
ol the B-wton Traveler. Mrs. Banks, when a
girl, also worked iu the same offica They leh
the TYaoiicr office to start a wecklv ps|ier iu
Waltham, Maas., which was carried on success
fully tor some time with the aid ol one ’ jour"
priuter. This is strange; and yet a tew brains
and a good deal of impudence have carried men
a good deal higher up Red river than General
Banks ever week
James Fi«x, Jr., bas served in quite a number
ot capacities—tor eight years an employee of
Van Amburgb’s menagerie; for some time as a
pedlar in Vermont; tor two yean as a mer
chant in Boston, and for some years as a gold
and stock speculator in New York. How long
he is lo serve in Sing Sing depends a good deal
upon the caprice ol the Judge and jury.—Lorn
« ille-Courier-Journal.
Sir. Dickson’s System of rissllsc.
We can tell our readers, in briet, how Mr.
Dickson farms, but we can not en ure every man
who may etaay to follow his example, the tame
success. Few possess his intellectual capacity,
his sound judgment or his executive abilities;
but all may improve and approach, if they can
not reach Mr. Dickson’s high position among
the great agriculturists ol the present day.
The principal points in Hr. Dickson’s system,
as they struck us in our examination of his op
erations, are:
1. A deep and thorough preparation of the
soil.
2. The liberal nse of manures.
3. Level and shallow cultivation.
4. Rotation of crops.
5. Economy ot labor.
Do you say that there is nothing new in all
this? Perhaps not. In theory, the principles
which underlie the system have, in the main,
been long since accepted by the best informed
agriculturists of Europe and America; but our
practice, with lew exceptions, has been diamet
rically opposed to them, as will more strikingly
appear when wc took at the mailer somewhat
in detail.
First, then, in regard to the preparation of the
soil. Mr. Dickson’s maxim is, " plow deep as
you can," or say from eight lo filleen inches,
and subsoil every fourth year, accumulating all
the vegetable matter y <u can on the surface to
be turned in. Land thus prepared admits the
air, holds moisture, and allows the roots of the
plants to penetrate deeply, and thus ensure
themselves against drought Do our farmers
generally prepare their soil in this way, or make
any approximation to it ?
In the se >nd place, everybody knows that
manure is a very good thing lor growing crops,
but we go on year alter year planting without
manure, or with very little of it. Mr. Dickson,
knowing that manure judiciously applied will
pay, uaea it Ireely. But what kind ot manure,
and how much ? In the tint place, he returns
everything to the land patter being eaten or
used,) which he has taken from it, except the
lint of the cotton, and, in addition, gathers
leaves, pine straw, and the scrapings ot swamps,
and digs muck to spread in his stock yards and
to scatter broadcast on his fields. Then be
makee up the required amount of the fertilizing
elements by the application of a concentrated
compound composed ot Peruvian guano, dis
solved bones, common salt and land plaster, in
equal proportions by weight, mixing the ingre
dients himself. Ot this compound be has used
this season, if we mistake not, about 800 pounds
lo the acre, (except on rented land) at a cost pro
bably ot not tar from $25 per acre. Is such ma
nuring an old thing—in practice, we mean—
among our planters and tanners ?
How he plants cotton and corn—shallow—
the last plowing not more than a ball an inch
deep, and the plowing and hoeing is repeated as
necessary to keep the ground perfectly clean,
but the soil is not heaped up about the ootton,
nor the roots cut by either plow or hoe. When
tbe crop is “laid by,” the ground is nearly level
and smooth.
2. Corn.—Tbe land being broken up at least
eight or nine inches deep, and sub soiled, if
practicable, be lays ofl furrows with a long
shovel plow, seven feet apart; then, commenc
ing at tbe opiweiie end, be opens out tbe fur
row with a longer shovel plow, leaving the fur
row op«n seven or eight inches deep. What
ever manure he uses is deposited in this furrow
three feet apart, and the com dropped three or
tour inches from the manure. He covers with
a light harrow oue aud a halt inches beep. Ob
serve that we have here deep planting, but not
deep covering.
He gives his corn three thorough workings,
keeping the field clean and tree from grass, ana
planting a row oi peas between each two rows
of corn. The details ot his cultivation we in
tend to give at a future time. It is sufficient to
say here that (he same principle of shallow
plowing is applied to corn as to cotton. There
is no hilling up, but a smooth, level surface.
Does not the reader now see why Mr. Dick
son’s com never suffers seriously from any ordi
nary drought ? Having for several years planted
corn on a similar plan, though not quite so deep,
we can add our own testimony, were any fur
ther evidence needed, in favor of deep planting
aud shallow cultivation.
Mr. Dickson’s rotation in cropping his land is:
First year, cotton.
Second year, com.
Third year, small grain.
Fourth year, the laud lies fallow.
The resting oi the laud allows it to accumu
late humus or vegetable matter, which may be
increased by plauting peas, (or clover, where it
will succeed,) to be turned in at the proper
time.
It would not seem very difficult to follow Mr.
Dickson thus far, so as to keep within sight of
him at least, but when we come to what we
have called economy and labor, there are brought
into play certain gilts with which lew are so
largely endowed as he.
The farmer rnekes every stroke tell,” Mr.
Dickson says, and he does make every stroke
tell. Not satisfied with increasing the produc
tive capacity of the soil, he developes also, and
still more womjeriully, the productive capacity
of the laborer. This he accomplishes by using
improved implements; by time and labor saving
modes of working, and, more than all, we think,
by his peculiar talent lor training and managing
the laborer himself This peculiar trait is most
strikingly illustrated by tbe tact that under tbe
old system, when labor was perfectly under con
trol, lie was accustomed to cultivate thirty-three
acres to the hand, while other planters, as a
tule, cultivated only fit teen; and to accomplish
this, be employed no oveiaeer or driver.
Such is Mr. Dickson’s farming. A general
adoption ot his methods, with only an approxi
mation to his executive efficiency, would at once
more than double the products of the South,
and at the same rime increase, year by year, in
stead oi diminishing of the soil.
Progressive.—Some of the ideas advanced
at the recent Workingmen’s Labor Reform Con
vention are decidedly progressive, ss, for exam
ple, (he following:
Mr. Orvls said:
"Profit is unjust, and trade, carried on tor
profit, is piracy and robbery; interest is profit
on trade in money; wages is slavery; every
man who uses capital lor usury is a robber; the
Bible says so; be wbo pays wages is an enemy
to his race; we must abolish Ibis wicked
system.”
Mr. Heywood said :
“ Interest is extortion; wages is crime ; rent
is robbery, and property is plunder.”
Resolution adopted:
“ Unless he holds a deed from the Greater that
is a labor title, one bas no more right to own
land than to own slaves.*’
Mr. Trevcllick
“ Hated tbe Republican party wilh a hate
only exceeded by his hale of Uie Democratic
party. He hated them wilh the bitterest inten
sity of his soul, and prayed morning, noon and
night, that his voice might yet give out a psalm
when tbe last vestiges of these parties shall be
burned, to raise up from the furnace a new par
ty purified and refined as pure as gold.”
S. S. Foster said:
" He would allow all lo own $5,000 worth of
land without a tax ; all ow ners of $10,000 worth
be would tax 2 per cent; $20,000, 4 per cent;
$30,000, 8 per cent; $40,000, 16 per cent, and
continue on in that ratio.”
That will do for one day. It "wages is slave
ry,” then we are ali slaves, and if property is
robber?, then every man is, or would be, a rob
ber.—New York Express.
Does it Pat to Advertise f—Tbe Boston
Journal says that a leading book firm in that
city answers the question as follows: They pub
lished an edition ot a book ot five hundred
copies, and did not advertise it. In about a year
nearly the whole edition remained on their
hands, aa the author, who was largely interested,
did not think it would pay to advertise. Find
ing hie book did not sell, he followed the advice
of hit publishers and advertised freely. His
book haa now gore through seven editions ot
five hundred copies each, and tbe eighth is or
dered. The author now believes in advertising.
foreign.
bnslIiib.
FENIAN AMNESTY ASSOCIATION.
London, October 23.—The recent reply ot
Mr. Gladstone to the President of the limerick
Amnesty Association on the subject of tbe course
of the Government toward imprisoned Fenians,
causes considerable discuauoa, and the London
Amnesty Association baa protested against tbe
sentiment oi tbe Premier. A committee ap
pointed by this body had arranged for a mon
ster open-air demonatation on Sunday, but tbe
meeting is likely to be indefinitely postponed,
as the Government would suppress it.
not heterodox.
London, Octolier 23. -The Morning Standard,
in an editorial to day, protests against the elec
tion ot Rev. Frederick Temple as Bishop of
Exeter on account of his suspicious heterodoxy.
THE WEST INDIA CABLE.
One length of the new submarine cable, de
signed to connect Havana wilh Jamaica, has
been completed.
DEATH OP LORD DERBY.
Earl Derby died this morning, seventy years
of age.
FRANCK.
REUNION OF MARSHALS.
Paris, October 23 —Yesterday, the Marshals
who were present in Paris had a reunion.
THE STRIKE MANIA.
The strike which originated with the mer
chants’ clerks is rapidly spreading among all
dames ot workmen.
OPPOSITION DEPUTIES.
It is now certain that none of the deputies will
go to the Chamber on the 26th, as was com lent
plated by the opposition.
The military are collecting in Paris iu view
of the threatened irregular meeting ot the Corps
Legislstif on the 26th. An Imperial manifesto
is expected, The Orleauists are active.
■FAIN.
INSURRECTIONARY LEADER CAPTURED.
Madrid, October 22.—Albfdia, suspected of
implication iu tbe recent insurrection, has been
arrested by tbe authorities and taken to Valentis
tor trial.
TUB THRONE
The Spanish Cabinet is divided on the sub
ject of a candidate for the throne.
TRASqUILITY—ARRESTS.
The country is tranquiL The Bishop of Ola-
hama and several Protestants have been arrest
ed at Granada.
KftYFT.
THE SUEZ CANAL PROGRAMME
Alexandria, October 23.—The ceremonies
on the occasion ot the successful completion ot
the Suez Canal will be interesting. The follow
ing is the programme: Tbe fetes will begin at
Port Said ou tbe 16lh of November; vessels
forming the fleet will proceed to Ismalia tbe
next day and remain there until 18th and go
through tbe Suez the 19th when the proceedings
will be ended the following day.
RUGRNIE
Paris, October 23.—Tbe Empress Eugenie
has arrived at Cairo.
Special Telegraphic Correspondence of the Courier-
Journal.
From Wuhlaxtea.
CUBAN MATTERS.
Washington, October 23. -It has transpired
through a prominent Republican officer who
had an interview with the President to-day, that
it was declared at the Cabinet meeting on Fri
day to take no further action on the part of the
administration in Coban matters until tbe meet
ing ot Congress. The main question will there
fore be postponed until that time, though ot
couree such incidental matters as the Spanish
gunboats and the Caban privateer will be con
sidered, but the question of recompense is trans
ferred substantially to Congress.
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND.
A delegation will interview the President on
Monday to visit tbe Maryland State Fair and
race ootuse, bat it is understood that he will de
cline, as be intends to make tbe last of his tall
visits to Louisville, on November 18th, to attend
tbe meeting of the association ot the Army of
the Cumberland.
GENERAL MCMAHON,
the long missing Minister to Paraguay, arrived
from Brazil last evening and prodeeded to New
York. The administration awaits with inter
est his official dispatches regarding Lopes, to
submit to the Congressional Committee, wbo
are investigating tbe outrages committed by the
latter on American citizens.
REPORT OH PACIFIC RAILROADS.
The board of eminent dtiaaoa, consisting of
Messrs. Boyd. Comstock, Felton, Walbridge and
Window, appointed by the President under tbe
joint resolution of Congram, approved April
10th, 1860. to examine and report on the roads
of the Union and Central Pacific Railroad
Companies, having made their examination.
A rashful young man eaoorted n eqnal’y
luiitlilut y.mug lady. As they apt ro trhed the
dwelling of the d unset, she e:iuv*_iiigly said:
“ Jekirl, dou l tell anybody you kcau’d me
home." “Sary," said he, empbal : ca"y “don’t
you mind, lor I’m as much ashamed of it as
yon are.”
Morality in Portsmouth.—The Norfolk
Virg.Htm in its Portsmouth eolama compliments
that city on the morality of the people as shown
iu the lew arrests for crimen It ays that “crimes
are extremely rare in our midst, «ml we can’t
remember when there was a burglary or robbery
committed.”
The Count de Bean moat, who ha
Paris so lively with duels lately, ia simply taking
his revenge upon certain gallants whose billet-
doux heio^cd ini o’ boudoir.
met at the Interior Department to-day to com
piete their report.
the right hour law.
The various trade societies and mechanics*
associations have called a great convention here
to fix upon eight hours as a day's labor in all
brandies of mechanical service.
I . CREASED COMPENSATION.
The Third Auditor ot tbe Treasury will re
commend in his annual report an increase of
compensation for his clerks and other beads of
bureaus, and intends to indorse the equal service
bill pending in Congress
The Calf Stream aa4 (he Fele.
The Golf Steam enters the space around the
Pole at a temperature above the freezing point
(28°), when we find warmer water (at 36”) al
most at tbe Pole, and outride the heat bearing
currant.
The Arctic current that offsets the Gulf Stream
and flows south, reaching it at 35° temperature,
could not have left the Pole odder than 28°;
for then it would have been /rosea qp. In iu
transit to tbe Sooth it only loses 6° or 7° of iu
temperature. Is it then a thing incredible, that
tbe Gulf Stream, this mighty'Mver in the ocean"
whose caloric, “if utilised, could hup m Mori a
cyclopean furnace, capable of tending forth attream
of molten iron at large at the noiume discharged
by the Mississippi riser”—ia it incredible that
this current may reach the Polar region at 86° ?
Remember it begins iu raes aft Florida at fit 9 .
There certainly iaeuea from the space around
the Pole a ceaseless and mighty flow of waters
to the tropics. In its course icebergs of huge
proportions are carried ofl from the main land.
So vast are these icy masses, and often so nu
merous in floating dust its aa to defy computa
tion. Captain Beecby saw a small one tail from
a glacier In Spitsbergen, over four hundred thou
sand tone in weight The Ghent Western, ia
1841, in her trans-Atlantic trip, mot three hun
dred icebergs. Sir John Rose saw several
aground, in Baffin’s Bay, in water two hundred
and sixty fathoms deep; one he computed to
weigh 1,299,397,673 tone. A Danish voyager
saw one ot 900,000,000 cubic teat Sir J. C.
Roes mat with some ot these floating mountaina
twice aa large as this. And in Davis’ Straits,
where there n deep water, "icebergs have been
met having an ires of six square miles and rix
hundred leet high."
Tbe hyperborean current, which bears theae
monsters on its bosom, has formed by the de
posit from their dissolution, the Grand Ranks of
Newfoundland, which, were the waken el the
Atlantic dried up, would probably be roan to
tise up from the sra-bottom in the in gj retie pro
portions of Ml Brown and Mont Blanc,
The ringia drift of foe, which bore on tie Al
ison shoulders tbe Eogtiah ship “Resolute,”
abandoned fay Captain Arifott, and east it twelve
hundred miles to tbe south, wro coroputad to he
at least three hundred thousand square miles in
area and seven feet m thickness. 8och a field
of foe would weigh over lSfiOhJOOOflOh tons.
We my this was a sitsyls drill through Davis’
Straits, only ear of the avenues of tnfo current
from the Pole, and only a fractional part of the
drift in the year.
What a mighty flow ot water, from the south,
most that be which, weogiag fterif tnfo the spnet
around the Pate, ejecta each maroee out at this
space m quietly and earilj aa the efeem-driven
piston of (he fire engine throw* oat he Jet
Jemal
We dwell open the might end megeHni* of
this foe hearing river from the Pole, became ft*
throe we gangs the energise of there-
L e., the Gulf Stream.
The theory ot Columbus for finding a way to
the East, had far less to support it, n seems to
us, than this theory ot a way to tbe Pole.—From
Fulnam’s Magazine for November.
44 The Bmae Dally.”
The first number ot this paper has reached this
office. It ia well “ gotten up,” typographically
and otherwise. It is conservative in tone, el
evated in sentiment, and democratic in its ten
dencies. It supplies what Rome, in its progress,
needed, a daily paper. Its editor is J. F. Bhank-
lin.who wields a graceful pen. With pleasure
we add it to our exchange list.
The Vacant Jadceshi* on the kssrene
Bench.
As the time is fort approaching when the
vacant Judgeship on the Supreme Bench will
have to be filled by Presidential appointment,
a number of distinguished gentlemen have been
named as bring prominent tor the porition.
Among them we notice ex-Senator Frriingfiuy-
een, of New Jersey; Attorney General Hoar, of
Massachusetts; the late Secretary of War, E.
M. Stanton, and others. Commenting upon this
matter, the Augusta Chronicle db Sentinel, in an
article of recent date, says:
Besides, there can be no necessity lor going
out oi the District to obtain a competent and
thoroughly loyal man. In this State alone we
have the present incumbent of the district bench.
Judge Enkine, who would be immeasurably
more acceptable to the people than Stanton.
Judge Enkine, we better^ has given very-gen
eral satisfaction to tbe people and the bar daring
tbe term be has presided in this district: He is
able, affable and courteous to all who have bosi-
nesa in his Court, and, so far as we know, hie
decisions have generally met tbe approval of
tbe profession.”
We take great pleasure in endorsing the fore
going suggestion of our Augusta cotemporary.
Eminent in his profession, versed in the civil as
well u the common law, and a just Judge, not
withstanding bis decided leanings to modem “na
tionalism,” we do not think the President could
make a better appointment, should his name
be presented lor the position, nor no Republican
who would be more acceptable to the South
and to the country.
*-
The Verger Case.
It is mid that the following was telegraphed
from Washington, North, from an unusually
well informed source, on the 22d instant. It
does certainly throw light on the Yerger case,
and, if the statements embraced* in it he true,
then it is more than probable the case will be
turned over to the civil authorities for trial:
" It is stated upon good authority that the
special Cabinet meeting was called yesterday
to consider the Yerger esse. According to tbe
same authority, which is one not likely to be
mistaken, the Attorney General laid before the
Cabinet his views upon the case, stating that a
flaw had been discovered in the acts of Con
gress by which the exclusive jurisdiction of the
military commission over the case had been sap-
posed to be assured, and that U would In conse
quence be found impossible to bold Yerger- My
informant goes ou to oay that UMOabim cam
to the conclusion that Yerger had been unlaw
fully held, and determined that he should be re
leased on the issue of the writ oi habeas corpus.
Yerger 1 s guilt or innocence is not the question
now, but all parties admit that be ought to be
tried by competent constitutional authority, and
consequently the .expected decision fif the Su
preme Court will be receiyed with satisfaction
byeveiyone. In this connection it is proper
to add that the rumors and printed statements
regarding President Grant’s intention to disre
gard the mandates of the coart are proved to be
false by the fact that it has been in his power to
execute YergeFs sentence at any time since it
was forwarded to him for approval Instead ot
doing so, however, he has anxiously courted the
intervention ot tbe judiciary for tbe purpose of
bring governed in bis actions by the highest au
thority which could possibly be interested in tbe
It is therefore probable that in due course
of time Yerger will be turned over to tbe civil
authorities for trial.”
Trie Steamer LUUaa.
The New York World, ot toe 24lh instant,
publishes an account ot the landing of a Cuban
expedition on the coast ot Cuba by the steamer
Lillian, on board of which were a number of
young gentlemen from Atlanta who have volun
teered to aid the Cabana. It is stated that the
expedition sailed some time since, in two divi
sions, on the above steamer and the Teaz-T, com
prising one thousand men. After several hair
breadth escapes from capture by American and
Spanish cruisers, due to her superior sailing
qualities, the fourth attempt of the Lillian to
laud her passengers is said to have been success
ful, but before all the arms aud ammunition
could be landed a Span ish gunboat hove in sight
and the Lillian immediately started for Vera
Cruz, eluding her pursuer. She was finally cap
tured by the British man-of-war Lapwing and
taken into Naasau, and it is reported subsequent
ly released. It is reported that the Teazer was
captured by the Spanish war steamer L’Africa,
but this ia discredited by Cubans here.
Fall og mm jBreUte.
Tbe Cutbbert Appeal gave an account ot an
serotite which fell in the yard of Mr. J. M. Latti-
mer, of Stewart county, on the 6th instant, ac
companied by a terrific explosion, which took
place in mid air and was beard for a distance of
thirty miW Fragments ot tbe him fell in dif
ferent parts ot tbe surrounding country, some ot
which have been dug up, having embedded
themselves nearly two feet below the surface.
Hpaahim of this extnordiosiy phenomenon the
Columbus Enquirer says:
We alluded yesterday, to one theory of tbe
origin ot these meteoric stones. Another is that
first advanced by Prof Olmstead some thirty
years ago, and which has been received with
favor by many Bcfootific men, viz: that there is
circling round the sun, in an orbit that at tong
intervals intersects (hat ot the earth, a zone of
•roUtea; that this zone at times (as about the
middle ot November each thirty-third year) ap
proaches so near the earth that many ot them
are attracted by it into our atmosphere, which
ignites them, producing the phenomenon com-
manly called "falling stars/' Tbe probability
ia that ■»"■( of throe are entirely consumed be
fore reaching tbe earth. All other times a tew
of them are drawn singly, by tbe earth’s attrac
tion, Into our atmosphere, and instances are by
mo means rare in which large stones have been
known to fall to tbe ground. Tbe Stewart
ooonty srolite bring one of these, and the pub
lished tacts in retereoce to it being so well au
thenticated, will no doubt be hereafter referred
to as one ot the moot inti ratting occurrences of
this kind on reoord.
Me Mabsrave, a citizen of Jefferson county,
Tennessee, is in his 79th year, and has not
tatted annimal food for 50 years, and, as be be
lieves, haa not eaten ae much aa one pound in
hie life. He a temperate in hie hsbi*«, using no
spirits ot any hind, and roes tooaoco moderate
ly. He is a bachelor.
One Mr. Patton, Lord Justice Clerk of Scot-
ad, recently sat aa Judge la a bribery case.—
Not long afterward it was discovered that Pat-
owed his own seat to bribery, and
the unhappy roan wro so overcome by the dia
gram that he committed soiekto. An American
woaid never have been guilty of sack a piece of
folly.
When Rev. Henry Ward Beecher steps aside
from the cramped and belittling atmosphere of
Republican politics, and rises to the lull level
of his own intellect, he gives utterance to
thonghts and feelings for which all men will feel
like applauding him. We have an instance of
this in the noble appeal he has just made ou be
half of decent sepulture for the neglected re
mains of the Confederate dead, which, to our
shame be it spokeu, still wbren the battle field
of Gettysburg:
M When we went over that field last summer
[says Mr. Beecher] we were shocked at the neg
lect which on every side forced itself upon the
sight. Six years bad gone by, and little or
nothing had been done to save the dead from
desecration and outrage. The shallow graves
have been laid bare by the elements—the bones
have been torn out by rooting swine. Some
bleached skeletons are pointed out by the guides
tar down in crevices of rocks and in the ravines
of the Devil’s Den. Many bones have been
carried away as memorials. Some officer-* tie
buried on tbe edge ot fields along tbe roadside,
perishing headhunt ds marking tlie spot. We
found pits and graves in twos and threes around
the points of sharpest conflict. We walked
about the fields at the toot of Little Round Top
and at every step, in nooks, and under the edges
of rocks, the driver pointed out superficial
graves. He also said that in multitudes of cases
examination would show that the skulls had
been carried ofl.
Can any one suppose that the spirit of patriot
ism is enriched by a contempt for the dead l—
Shall we sutler a neglect, inspired by animosity,
to prolong in times of peace the savage severity
that can scarcely be justified in the sternest ex
igencies ot the war?
All the men who fell in the great civil war
with arms aimed at their government, were, nev
ertheless, men and citizens. Mistaken, deluded,
grievously wrong, they have paid the pepealty.
They now lie scattered along thousands ol miles
in unknown graves. It is some consolation too
widowed mother whose only son is slain, if she
may mourn over bis grave. There are thousands
in the land who have lost all, and have not roved
even a grave. Mourning, they know not wheth
er to turn their feces eastward or westward when
by imagination, they seek the place where their
beloved Ue.
General Meade told ns, in a conversation on
this matter, that when he was in command in
Georgia, a poor and leeble widow came to him,
having travelled some 600 miles I rum Texas,
"* hl “C help to get on some 600 more, to tbe
field of Gettysburg, where an only son had been
slain, that Bhe might carry hack his bone*. Had
she reached the spot, and had some angel guided
her steps to the place where he fell, she might
have found that what tbe swine had not broken
up, the rains had washed away, or thoughtless
strangers bad pocketed. HappUy Gen. Meade
turned back her steps homeward.
Convicts and criminals ot every hue, if they
die ia prison, are decently buried. We disbw-
den the gibbet tenderly, and give sepulture to
murderers. Cau it be possible that a ureal anil
generous nation will much longer s ifler the
Confederate dead to lie dishevilico an t neglect
ed in an utter and contemptuous ncgl cl ”
We remember reading a bonk that was pub-
fished not long ago, under the title ol “ Tbe
Glory and shame of England,” arraigning tbe
British Government for its iubumuniiy and dis
regard I* many things oi the duties devolving
ugon a people professedly Christian. Unless
this “great and generous” nation of ours act
upon the hint thrown out by the imsior of
Plymouth Church, another volume will have to
be written on Gettysburg, entitled the “ Glory
and Shame of America.” The great victoiy
won there by Northern arms, was glory ” in
deed—but the glory would be none the less re
splendent it the shame ot perslsieut disrespect
for the inanimate remains of the vanquished
were, as it ought to have been long ere this,
wiped out.—N. Y. Express
From the Nashville Union and Amerii-an.
ANOTHER VEAKFUL TKASEBT.
A Han Attempts the Alla vf Hla Wire,
and Makee Demonstrations Axslasl
Hla On.
It would appear that a species ot unmanly
mania, to nse the mildest terms, bad seized
upon a certain class ot our population to per
petrate tbe most atrocious outrages upon their
wives and families. It was only last week when
our city was shocked with the intelligence that
Charles Stewart, under the influence of liquor,
had shot and killed his wife, near the corner of
Spruce and Cedar streets. We had hoped that
it would be long before we would have to chron
icle another similar deed so repugnant to public
morals and revolting to human nature, la this,
however, we were mistaken.
It will be remembered that on last Friday we
mentioned tbe tact that Michael Dyer had been
arraigned before the Police Court for beating
his wile, and on Saturday tbe fact was ebroni-'
cied, that upon allegations of Iti treatment she
had filed a bill in chancery f >r a divorce. Ex
asperated, and as we learn, under tLe influence
ot drink. Dyer went to his premises near the
hour of 4 o’clock yesterday morning, and com
menced a fierce assault upon his wile. The premi
ses are near tbe " Dew Drop ” Saloon, No. 167
South Market street Tbe shrieks and cries ot
murder startled the citizeus in that locality, who
came to the rescue. The instrument used was
a species of punch somewhat resembling a gim
let, but of longer dimensions A number ot state
were inflicted with the instrument, when the in
furiated man tamed upon himself and inflicted
ihrue strokes, none of which were severe. Alter
this, be made his way into a room of the house
and was arrested by some policemen on duty
in the vicinity, and promptly lodged in tbe
work-house. The wounds inflicted upon Mrs.
Dyer are about the breast, face and shoulders,
aud areot a serious character. She is in a suffer
ing, nut to wy dangerous condition. After be
ing taken to the station house a number of wit
nesses were summoned, with the view lo an im
mediate trial; hut, owing to tbe precarious con
dition of the unfortunate woman, the trial was
postponed till a later hour and the prisoner se
curely confined in the work-house. If she re
covers from her wounds she will doubtless be
an important witness in the investigation of tbe
case; but, from the condition in which she is at
the present time, it will, we inter, be some days
before she will be able to make her appearance,
it she really be at all. The affair is a most un
fortunate one, and we hope we may never have
to reoord the recurrence of one similar to it.
Decapitation of Texaa Ofllce-Holdera—Ssrntary Boot
wellaod bis Gold Zalaa--Battnrdttd’i Case—Concaves
to mvaatfgata iha Wall street Gambling Transactions
—Modifications in the Whisky Tariff-Important De
rision in the Target Case.
Washington, October 21.—Although the
election in Texas is tx* far distant, the adminis
tration intends to be in time with its removals
of every office-holder who .supports Hamilt on
for Governor. Additional orders were given
yesterday lor the decapitation of postal and rev
enue officers. The collector of tbe port of
Brownsville, and tbe internal revenue officers in
the Austin district are on the list
There is considerable anxiety felt in the New
York market to know if the Secretary ot the
Treasury intends tc continue his bond purcha
ses and gold sales through November. The
condition of coin in the Treasury warrants the
Secretary in selling gold through November, but
it is questionable now if he does not decide to
allow the heavy payments of (he November in
terest to take the puce of the weekly gold sales.
The Secretary declines to answer tbe numerous
inquiries made of him in this particular.
General Butterfield, the Assistant Treasurer
at New YoTk, makes the singular request, in
his letter to the President, that the charges
made against him of speculation and complicity
in the recent gold ring, be investigated by
court of inquriry. Although he is a Oolonei iu
the regular army, the authorities do not see how
he can be granted a court on charges made
against him in a civil office, and the request was,
therefore, refused.
The President mid yesterday to a member oi
ingress that he did not believe the charges
ade against Butterfield, but at the same time
he did not look upon him now aa a man of ca
pacity enough to hold tbe place:
In this connection it may be stated that almost
the first action of Congress, after it assembles
here, in December, will oe an effort for tbs ap-
xrintment of a special committe of both Houses
t o investigate the causes and results of the late
Wall street trouble, with power to send for
lenons and papeia, and to suggest. In the opin
on of the committee, what legislative action is
necessary to provide againts a recurrence ot
ouch infamous proceedings.
A silly report is in circulation that Secretary
Stanton is a candidate tor the vacancy on the
Supreme Court bench, and that the President is
rerr friendly to his appointment. It bas been
time and again published, by authority, that
Mr. Stanton is not a candidate for, and would
not accept any office, and it seems scarcely ne
cessary to repeat iL Such, however, is the fact.
He has never wanted the position, and does not
now want it His extremely feeble condition
would alone prevent his acceptance of any offi
cial porition.
Vice Admiral Porter retires from the Naval
Academy at Annapolis next Friday, and will be
succeeded by Commander Worden, ol Monitor
larthysalu la Mew EasUaA
It will be seen from tbe following which we
clip from tlie New York Herald, that all New
England has been shaken by earthquakes. No
portion of that puritan laud, however, has been
swallowed up, as far &s heard from. Its time,
ia the mercy of Providence, it secm3 has not
yet come:
The Earthquake la Helwe.
Shocks tqariactt at Portland, Aligns) m. East port
and other Points.
Portland, October 22, I860:—Tbe earth
quake this morning was felt here. Reports re
Drived show it was felt as far east as St John,
as far north as Kendall’s Mills, and south as far
as Paris.
Augusta, October 22.—This morning at half-
post five o'clock a shock of earthquake lasting
more than a minute was felt in this vicinity.
Nearly every one was awakened, uoor bells
were rung and beddings shaken. It extended
all along the river.
Rockland, October 22.—A slight shock of
earthquake was felt here at halipai n.coViock
this morning. There was a very sensible trem
bling motion of the eaith, and in many eases
dwellings were shaken so as to rattle the doors,
windows and furniture.
Eamfod, Ocl 22.—A shock of earthquake
was felt here at half-past five o’clock this moat
ing. It was the most severe ever felt in tbfe vi
cinity.
Tbe ShMk In Mew Hanpahlre,
Concord, Ocl 22,1869.—There was a distant
shock of earthquake ielt here at half-past five
o'clock this morning. It was also felt at White
River, Littleton, and heavily at Wells River.
Various other places report having experienced
a shock.
Tbe Shack in Cenesetleat.
Hartford, October 22, 1869.—A shock of
earthquake was distinctly frit in this city snoot
five o’clock this morning. It was also frit at
Windsor and other puts ot the State,
In consideration of representations of the in
applicability of regular dues for grain distilla
tion, made to the Commissioner of Internal Rev-
.ue, Mr. Delano has made important modifica
tions, which be is authorized to do under the
law. Tne kind of material need is to be con
sidered in estimating the capacity of the stills,
and the hours only actually occupied in distilla
tion are to be considered in estimating the
amount to be returned. This will relieve the
distilling interest from tbe destructive deficiency
tax. A liberal trratmeut is to be applied in
cases where tbe deficiency tax has been already
eed. It is further directed that dealers sell
ing wine of their own mauulaeture are not lia
ble to dealers’ license.
The forthcoming report of Treasurer Spinner
will show that the increase of collections and
decrease of expenditures for rix months, ending
August 31, 1809, amounts to $56,000,000, as
comp»ml wA u the corresponding period of 1868.
WashinuT 'N, October 25: - Hon. 8. M. Fel
ton, ami At .j*r Henry McAllister, ot Phlladel-
pln i, tUcrt-ury of the American Iron and Steel
Association, had an interview with Secretary
Boutwell, this morning, in relation lo tbe under
valuation of Ion ign steel and tbe partial evasion
at the duty on iron and steel rails. Mr. Boutwell
stated that be was engaged ia an investigation
of the subject to which his attention had been
called, and it was his intention to carry out its
feller and spiriL
Chief Justice Chase read an elaborate opinion
to-day, in the Yerger. case, to the effect that the
Supreme Court of the United States had juris
diction under Constitution and Judiciary act ol
1789, and that the act of 1867 repealed by that
of 1868 does not ofierate to take away tbe juris
diction of this Court in matters of habeas corpus,
which is among our moat valuable rights, and is
guarded both by tbe Constitution and Statute.
The merits of the case were not involved in the
opinion. Mr. Philley, counsel for Yerger, re
marked he had invited a conference to morrow
morning, with tlie Attorney General before fur
ther action in the case. A motion oi habeas
corpus is pending.
The follow ing officers assigned to duly in con
nection with the registration and election in
Mississippi, CapL Francis W. Weir, first Lieu-
teuant, John Pultord, John 1\ Walker, E. Wil
liams and A E. Miles:
The committee from Baltimore representing
the Maryland Agricultural Society and the com
mittee representing Maryland Institute for the
promotion of Agricaltural art, called on the
President to-day, and tendered to him an invita
tion to the inaugural exercises oi the revival ol
Jhe State Agricaltural Society on Tuesday snd
Wednesday next. Tbe President thanked the
committee for their courtesy, but stated he would
be unable to avail himself of the invitation.
Ex-Senator Wade ot Ohio, was among the
visitors to the President to-day.
The Secretary of the Treasury has authorized
the payment at once and without rebates the in
terest doe November 1, both on registered and
coupon bonds.
The opinion delivered by Chief Justice Chase
to day does not involve the merits ot the Yerger
case or constitutionality ot tlie reconstruction
acts, but merely the question of the authority
ol the court to issue the writ of habeas corpus
under tbe appellate jurisdiction of the court ou
the merits of the case, and shall issue tbe writ
and proceed to the bearing thereon, which will
present the question only as to which power in
the State ot Mississippi in its present condition
ot reconstruction, the military or civil, a person
charged with crime is amenable.
The Isaw Stereo.
Cold Weather *n Wiseseria tarsi Throughout the
North.
Chicago, October 24.—Advices from Central
Wisconsin state that the thermometer has stood
at 32 degrees ail day—the coolest day tor the
season in 15 years.
Snow fell at Fort Wayne last night and this
morning to tbe depth ol ten inches. It is freezing
to-night.
The storm has been quite genera! at the North
Fobt Waynk, Ind, October 24 —From about
midnight last night nntil 6 o’clock this morofog,
about 12 inches of snow fell in Northeastern In
diana. The oldest inhabitant cannot remembei
a snow of such depth in this section. Com id
erabte damage to telegraph lines and fruit trees
was done by tt. To-night the snow is nearly all
gone. The weather is cold.
Thb New York Journal of Commerce highly
approves the action oi the Louisville Com-ner-
cfel Convention in selecting Commodore Marny
for the Dost of general agent ot immigrarioc.—
Of that eminent citizen tbe Journal says : “ The
choice is a good one. No man in this county
better understands the climate, soil and diverse
advantages of the different Southern States for
various cleans of settlers than Commodore
Maury.” ^
Tn Gold Ring Rascality.—We give, on
the first page ot this paper, the statements of
Jay Gould, President of the Erie Railroad,
Vouching General Grant’s alleged connection
with the recent grid speculations in New York,
for what they are worth. If true, they are moat
damaging, but we take anything from that "ring”
with many grains oi allowance. It will be seen
that the New York Tames flatly pronounces the
fetter alleged to have been written by Mr
Grant It most have had Mr Grant’s authority
for the declaration, and we are Lee to my that
a party capable of purloining a lady’s private
fetter would not hesitate to publish a falsehood.
The matter is very for from being ended, snd
we shall probably arrive at tbe troth after
awhile. The Grand Jury, who have summoned
the principal acton before ft, ought to rffek
something definite.—EavamwA BepubUjan.
We notice the following beautiful and feeling
tribute to the memory of our late fellow- citizeu
and friend, Col. Jambs F. Coopbb, in the Mont
gomery Advertiser of the 21st instanL It is, we
learn, from Uie pen of his accomplished sister,
Mrs. Robert Tylrk, now of Montgomery, but
who will long be remembered ior her graces of
manner and accomplishments as the presiding
lady at the “ White House,” in Washington,
during the widowhood of President Tyler,
and who made that abode as Lttractive to socie
ty, as it ever has been during iu occupancy by
any of our Presidents. There is, we learn, from
one of the family of the deceased, in this city,
but oue slight error in the tribute paid to tlie
memory ot Col. Cooper. He did not graduute
at West Point, in tbe same class with General
Meade, but a year alter. In all other respects it
is a briet history of the life of one, recently de
parted from our midst, than whom none are
left behind with fewer enemies, and more nu
merous friends:
Obltwary.
Died at his residence in Atlanta, Georgia, on
the 14th of October, 1869, Jambs Fairlie
Cooper, aged 55.
Colonel Cooper died after a lingering illness,
ot several months which he bore nnder tbe suf
ferings of a hopeless disease, with patient and
manly submission. Ue was endowed with an
intellect ot unusual power, aud his professional
acquirements were ot tbe highest order. In
disposition no one coaid have been more amia
ble and humane, while his convictions and prin
ciples did not admit of the least vacillation.
The attachment of bis immediate circle of
friends, knew no bounds, and his judgment on
any subject that had engaged his reflection was
always recieved with the greatest confidence by
those with whom he maintained personal or
business relations. Colonel Cooper was the son
of Thomas A. Cooper, the celebrated Tragedian,
the grandson of Mqjor James Fairlie, a disting
uished Revolutionary officer, aud the great-
grandson of Chief Justice Ysatcs, of the State
of New York. He inherited the intellectual
vigor of his family. The weak print in his
character, was a natural diffidence he could
never overcome, and too muca indifference to
public consideration.
With bis unquestioned talents, snd with a
sterner temper in waging the battle of life, he
might easily have attained the highest profes
sional honors and position, either civil or mili
tary, but he preferred to pass his hours in do
mestic enjoyment, or in social intercourse with
a large body ot admiring Iriendi, rather than
engage in competition lor the highest prizes of
feme and ambition. At sixteen years of age he
was appointed by Andrew Jackson, then Presi
dent of the United States, at the Instance of Mr.
Clay and other friends of bis grandfather, a ca
det of the Wert Point Military Institute, where,
after four yean of application and study, Le
graduated with distinction in the same dais
with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Gen. George G.
Meade, and other since famous soldiers. Alter
graduating he was at once commissioned in the
Topographical Engineer Corps of the United
States Army, and ordered to report to Major
Bache, at headquarters in Philadelphia. Here,
he was especially noted lor his talents as an
Engineer, and his exemplary conduct.—
But at this period the pay ot subordinate
Army officers was hardly adequate to their sup
port, aud Army promotions were slow, and Co J
Long having resigned lromthe Army, and ta
ken charge of the survey and construction of
the Georgia State Road, Col. Cooper also re
signed shortly afterwards, and joined him as an
assistant in this important work. After tbe
completion oi this road, Co). Cooper being tem
porarily unemployed, at the solicitation oi the
Georgia delegation in Coagrees, headed by the
Hon. Howell Cobb, was appointed by the Presi
dent of the United States, President of the Uni
ted States Mint at Dahlonega, which office be
filled with entire satisfaction during two Ad
ministrations. In 1853, Gov. Herachel V. John- ^
son tendered him the appointment of Superin
tendent of the Georgia State Road, he had so
ably assisted in constructing, which he resigned
alter three years ot official service to the State.
It is admitted that Georgia never possessed a
more skillful civil engineer, and that a more effi
cient Superintendent never managed the affairs
of the State Road. Ue then retired to private
life, lrom which he did not emerge until the oc
currence of the late war. A citizen more en
tirely patriotic in his every thought, and a man
more thoroughly Southern in sentiment snd
sympathy, never lived. He at once volunteered,
was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the Seventh
Georgia Regiment, and bore a gallant part at
his appropriate poet in this regiment, at the first
battle ol Manassas. At tbe expiration of the
term of service of his regiment, he accepted a
position in a different branch of the service,
where be remained during the war. The down
fall of the Confederacy left him suffering in
health, and shattered in his fortunes, which he
has since assiduously labored to repair. This
he did with moderate success nntil prostrated
by disease.
Aa a Husband, lie was always loving, kind,
and considerate—as a Father, devoted to bis
children—as a Friend, earnest, trustworthy, and
affectionate. In losing him, his bereaved wile
and children have suffered a loss that cannot
be compensated, his friends, a shining light lrom
their social circle, and the State, an honorable,
intelligent and worthy citizen.
Death of Mbs. J. B. Underwood.—The
above named lady, tor a long time a resident of
ibis city and greatly beloved fay all who knew
her, after a very long and painful illness, serene
ly passed over "death’s cold flood,” on the night
ot the 24th inst Her funeral will take place
from tbe Methodist Church at 10 o’clock this
(Tuesday) morning. Tbe friends and acquaint
ances are respectfully invited to attend.—Jloiiw.
Courier.
An Infernal Machine in a Letter.—As
Mr. E. P. Cutting, a mailing clerk in the port
office, was engaged in stamping fetters at seven
o'clock last evening, something contained in one
ot tbe letters exploded with a loud report, the
powder or other matter horning his right hand
and wrist so badly u to require dressing by a
physician. The envelope was also badly torn
by the explosion, so much so that the name of
the party to whom it was addressed was de
stroyed. Enough was left, however, to show
that ft was directed to Mrs. S, Box No. 381,
Woonsocket, R. L The superscription appear* d
to be in a lady’s handwriting, and ft is conjec
tured that some jealous or revengeful wom$u
bad taken this method to mutilate, if not kill,
the object of her hatred. Tbe murderous mil •
sire was dropped : uto one of the boxes at U e
port office between six and seven o’clock, and
hopes are entertained that the guilty party wifi
be discovered.—Boston Herald, 20th instant.
“ A Rumor has gained ground,” says the
Baltimore Gazette, “ that undismayed by the re
cent gold panic, in which so many ‘rings’
went to* tarnal smash,’ a 4 cotton ring’ is being
formed in New York to bear the staple down to
eighteen or twenty cent*, when large purchases
will be made, with the anticipation of realizing
thirty cento per pound in Jana next There
may be no truth in the report, though ft is cir
cumstantially stated; hot to ha forewarned is
forearmed, and the initiatory movements of the
proposed cotton ring may he readily detected.’