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CONSTITUTIONALIST. attgkjsta, Q-a. SUNDAY MORNING. SEPT. 29, 18 i? 11. It is the duty of the military author it s in this District to secure to the -people the ut most freedom of speech and of the press const 4- ant with law ; not to restrict either. No sal ?- f ictory execution of the late acts of Congress •'•> practicable unless this freedom is secured a u its exercise protected by the usual legal means. 111. No officer or soldier in this command will hereafter interfere with newspapers or speakers on any pretense whatever. [Gen. Pope's Order, June 3d. “ Fr eedom, of speech and of the press, tion, equality before the law, and in politic d rights and privileges, are the essentials of any satisfactory reconstruction in the South.” [Gen. Hope’s Letter to Gen. Grant. The Federal Debt. The New York Mercantile Journal thus speaks of the Federal debt, and the dang er menacing it from unfriendly legislation: Bank presidents, and financial people in to n eral, when the federal debt is mentioned, have a clear, distinct entity before their mind’s eve ; a something tangible and ascertained in the shape oi certain sums of money due, and paya ble in a variety of ways at a variety of times, with such and such machinery at work to provide for the payment. But the great mass es of the nation have no other specific idea lie fore them than that our direct indebteduc .s, dating from Washington, amounts to neu. ly $2,500,000,000, that our receipts are growing 1 ss than our expenditures, and that we are tii't mousiy taxed oa nearly every article of con sumption, and every act of citizenship. The dissection of the debt is something that only a minority have undertaken, and consequently only the most contused and incomplete con ception of its workings prevails. The debt consists of, or may be subdivided into the four following series : 1. Obligations payable in gold. 2. Obligations and promises to pay bear! ig interest in paper. 3. Obligations no longer bearing interest, or such as having arrived at maturity, have not been presented for payment. 4. Promises to pay cot bearing interest. The first category was the old and usual na tional debt and had its origin long before cur civil war, when it amounted to the *46,000,( 00 of our consolidated debt. In 1861, 1862 and 1864, bonds were issued at 5 and 6 per cent, to meet the growing exigencies of the war, and among them, our famous 5-20’s, so well known both home and abroad. These sums gradually Increased until the close of the struggle found us with *1,100,000,000 of obligations bearing interest in specie,—an amount which has bten greatly swollen by the conversion of diffen nt values of the second class above mentioned ii.to bonds at long maturity. The *198,431,350 of bonds at 5 per cent, and the *1,517,256,391 at 6 per cent bear about $100,000,000 interest, annually, and the amount is raised on the returns of our customs dn.-s. The second category of division of the debt is the one that puzzles our financiers the most, because, while the bonds of the consolidated portion are payable only in 1880 and 1904, the floating debt must be liquidated in 1867 and 1868. In the beginning of 1866 there were in Certificates of temporary loans bearing interest from 4 to 6 per cent, in paper, and payable at 10 days’ sight *118,577,930 Certificates of Debt, with interest in paper, and pnyaMc iu one year 62,274,000 Treasury Notes, 5 per cent 8,530,900 Compound Interest Notes, paya ble principal and interest at 3 years date 174,102,141 Treasury Notes bearing 7 3-10 in terest in paper aud payable in 3 years 818,044,000 Total. *1,251,434,980 All this falling due within the next two years amounts to something- that may well pre occupy the minds of our best financiers, and the ques tion arises, how is it to be met ? In view of declining revenue siul incessant political trou ble, the impending agitations of Congress and the Presidential election, this inquiry becomes most gravely and pressiugly serious for all classes. The Message)- Franco-Aniericain , which uses the above figures tor n purpose similar to our own, sees everything fair >->head and finds no serious difficulty in the way Os this heavy liquidation. It takes occasion to justly compli ment Mr. McCulloch upon what he has already achieved in paying $250,000,000 since 1865, and thereby diminishing the total debt by nearly one-tenth, and lor his conversion of $450,000,000 more into consolidated bonds, but we think that it goes too fast when it predicts, as cer tain, the disappearance of the additional $390,- 000,000 of 7-30’s and $85,000,000 compound in terest notes before the close of 1808. The com plications which increased expenditure, di minished revenue and the disconcertment of business by iueessaut political alarms are pro ducing, are hourly rendering this result pro blematical. The Measager, in its earnest desire to see so bright a summer dawn on the winter of our financial troubles, should unite its voice to oar appeal for a return to political tranquili ty. Otherwise we fear that it, with all the rest, must feel the pinch long before the close of the next Presidential election. The fourth subdivision of the debt embraces the United States notes or “greenbacks.” fractional currency and certificates of gold de posits which do not bear interest. This is the common legal tender of the people, and the whole community is too well iu6tructed in this country by sad experience, on the dangers of any inflation or paper currency, to desire its extension beyond the time and limits absolute ly necessary lor the public purpose under such circumstances as snow weigh upon us. If we can keep our revenue up to the pay ing standard without fresh taxation of the toil ing masses and operate the conversion that Mr. McCulloch favors, iu the lace of the con fusion with which we are threatened, on ab stract and irrelevant questions, matters of pride and pre-eminence and squabbles of au thority, all would be fair, as the above analysis 6eems to make it; but if with the soil bringing forth abundance, European capital waiting and craving to pour iu hither lor investment, and our own people held back by uncertainty from a thousand new enterprises, we are to give everything t,o party aud nothing to coun try, and humanity in the total, pay day may come upon us in 1868 like the crack of doom '. Let There Be Light.—The Albauy Argus says : “ The day i 6 coming when the secrets which now seem 60 mysterious 6hall be unfolded to the public gaze, aud the people be astounded at the impositions which have been practiced on their patriotism. In the meantime, we con cede that it is well for Republican journals to keep up the rub-a-dub and invective which has proved so beneficial to their party in the past Uis the best they can do—but the light is com ing ; it is surely coming 1” Os Course. —General Pope protests against the re-opening of the case of Gen. Porter. If the decision be reversed, the relative positions of the two commanders will change It will then lie bottled Pope Instead of bottled Porter. Bearded in His Den. — Mr. Schuyler Colfax is not a prophet in his own home. Last year, it was Radical; this year, Dem ocratic. The Germans. —The Germans at the North are wavering in their fealty to Messrs. Sumner, Stevens & Co. Tie Abend Zeilung, of New York, says “ the Republican party, having accomplish d everything it was organized for, is u< w pining away for want of new issues.” It likewise charges Congress with “ robbi tg the people of their liberties and enlarge tg theiralmost unendurable financial burden; .” When the Germans desert the Radi< .il party, its days will be numbered. Sherman. —General Sherman gave his opinion of negro suffrage in an address to the returned soldiers at Chicago on the 9th of July, 1865. lie then said: “ I want those who have been in the South to bear testimony »o the condition of these freed uegroes. Mv own opinion is that they are not fitted for the exercise of the franchise. |Lottd applause. | I want them to get a fair price lor their labor, but 1 do not think they are fitted to take part iu the legislation of the country.” [Renewed cheering.] S. P. Q. R.— Donn Platt, editor of the Ma-a-cheek Press (Rad.), favors the tax on bonds, in spite of Wade. He says: “Our friends need not trouble themselves The day is coming when the bondholders will march down t.> the Treasury in solemn proces sion t > ask for greenbacks, and at their herd they will carry a banner with the old Korean inscription : “ s. r. Q R., “ which reads— Specie Payments Quite Rare.” The Freaks of Time. — Six years ago, Hodden, of North Carolina, was a rampant Secessionist; now, lie is a confiscating Radi cal. .Six years ago, Goodloe, of the same Stale, by adoption, was a ranting John Brown Republican ; now, he is a Conser vative. Holden calls him a “ copperhead and rebel,” though he did not, like Hol den. write odes to Calhoun and prose piiiilipics against the Yankees. An Unhappy Poet. —The Red Republi can papers are very sarcastic in their com ments upon the prize poem delivered at An tietam. The Times says it is “ fearfully and wonderfully made,” that the author is a “ poick ” aud hopes Mr. Parton will not fail to give him a prominent place in a future edition of his “ Humorous Poetry of the English Language.” The Future Ticket. —The Chicago Times has been speculating upon the candidates of the future and suggests the following ticket: For President —Escobedo. For V ice-President —Tchee-Fung. For Senator—Cuffee Black. For Dispenser of Pap—Rev. SUck Sneez er, formerly of Massachusetts. Gov. Orr. —The Charleston Courier dis poses of Gov. Orr’b letter to Sickles in a neat fashion, thus: “That Gov. Orr expresses his owu sentiments we cannot doubt. But when he undertakes to speak in the name of-and on behalf of the State in this respect, he L without authority as their representative.” Grant Pere. —If Grant, the son, is a Radical, as Forney claims, Grant, the father, does not endorse his offspring. On tlie.2oth of September the old gentleman is reported as speaking at a Democratic meet ing in Cincinnati. The Tickling Process. Escobedo swears that he loves Americans amazingly. Juarez & Co. are equally as complimenta ry. They want to borrow fifty millions; lienee this soft sawder. [Correspondence of the Independent. How Women “ Lobby" at Washington. Leaning back in a deep chair, on one near her, you see a fair woman, whose , beautiful presence seems at variance with *the many anxious and angular and the few coarse women around her. The calmnessof assur ed position, the serene satisfaction of con scious beauty envelop her and float from her like an atmosphere. We feel it even here. Pale plumes droop above the lovely forehead, velvet draperies fall about her graceful form. We catch a glimpse of alluring laces, the gleam of jewels glitter ing on dimpled, ungloved hands. Look long into this face; its splendor of tint and perfection of outline can bear the closest scrutiny. Look long, and then say if a soul saintly as well as serene looks out from under those penciled arches, through the dilating irises of those beguiling eyes.— Look, and the unveiled gaze which meets you will tell you, as plainly as gaze can tell, that adulation is the life of Its - life, and se duction the secret of its spell. The beauty would not blanch before the profanest sight; it is the beauty of one who times her tongue to honeyed accent, aud lifts up her eyelids to lead men astray. She comes and goes in a showy carriage. She glides through the corridors, haunts the galleries and the ante rooms of the capltol—everywhere conspi cuous in her beauty. All who behold her inquire, Who is that beautiful woman ? No body seems quite sure. Doubt aud mystery envelop liei like a cloud. “ She is a rich aiid beautiful widow.” “ She is unmarried.” “ She is visiting the city with her husband.” Every gaze has a different answer. There are a few deep in the secrets of di plomacy, of legislative venality, govern mental prostitution, who can tell you that she is one of the most subtle and most dan gerous of lobyists. She is but one of a class always beautiful and always successful. She plays for large stakes, but she always wins. The man says to her, “ Secure my appointment, make sure my promotion, and I will pay so many thousand,” usually gets his appointment, aud she her thousands. Does she wait like a suppliant ? Not at all. She sits like an empress waiting an audience. Will she receive her subjects in promis cuous assemblage ? No, if you wait long enough you will see her glide over these tes selated floors, but not alone. Far from the ears of the crowd, in some ante-room, sump tuous enough for the Sybarites, this woman, as beautiful as nature and art can make her, will dazzle the sight of a half-demented and wholly bewildered magnate, and then tell him what she wauts; with alluring eyes and beguiling voice, she will besiege his will through the outworks of his senses, and so charms him on to do her pleasure, lie promises her his Influence, he promises her his power, her favorite shall have the boon he demands. Thus some of the holi est prizes in the Government are won. Un scrupulous men pay wily, unprincipled wo men to touch the surest springs of influ ence, ana thus open a secret way to their public success. Gov. Orr. —Of the too many South Caro linians who are ambitious to make them selves detestable iu the eyes of honest meu of their own generation and of all posterity, Governor Orr has taken a step which gives him the foremost position. He glories in his own shame and the oppression of his people. There was no species of humilia tion and petty tyranny that the inflated satrap, Sickles, did not resort to, to over throw the rights and crush out the manly spirit of South Carolinians. He insulted and degraded them in every nja nner possible, aud to this end, the military bills being in sufficient for his diabolical purposes, he re sorted to unblushing usurpation, that cost him his position. The Government was shocked by his outrages aud dangerous as sumptions, yet this man Orr, instead of mingling his congratulations with those of his people upon the removal of the heartless tyrant, absolutely runs after him as he dis appears, throws himself at his fleet, thanks him for his outrages and wrongs, and sheds tears of “ regret” that an end has been put to the sufferings of his own people. Where must such men stand in history ? How deep and damning the_ execration and con tempt that roust come up to the measure of their deserts! No roan in future will envy the names of Orr and Magratb. We blush for our race that it should have produced such traitors to itselt— Macon Telegraph. (From the New York World. Lightening the Republicans are acting like mariugralß a heavy tap pest, who pitch ovorboaid.A great part or their cargo to savadhe Blifp / 4Mgicrew. The first bale of fteightSumbred into-tlie sea was the liquor law in Massachusetts. All the pro hibitory laws in, that State have been Re publican measures* 4fd*dc»ted by Republi can papers and stump-speakers, passed by Republican Legislatures, executed by Re publican constables, and opposed by Demo cratic speeches, votes, lawsuits, invective and ridicule. But the Republican State convention, warned by-the sudden fell of the barometer, have, declared tha* the Re publican party must hot be considered re sponsible for tfie.liqupr law ; trying to save their ship by lieavittg: .feover, with some dim hope that it will float of itself. The next valuable piece of freight that is to be flung into the devouring waves, is the constitutional convention of this State. The calling of the convention was a Repub lican movement. No Democrat desired or favored it. But since Maine and California elections, the convention is seen to lie too heavy for the Republican ship, and although it has been decided by a caucus not to sacri lice it, it is nevertheless certain to go. The vessel careens so dangerously when this heavy incumbrance is carried to the edge of the deck, that there is nearly as much peril in casting it over as in keeping it on board ; but over it will go, even if at the stern. It is a load the Republican party cannot carry in the present emergency. Even that precious part of the cargo, negro suffrage in this Stive, must go where Jonah went in the voyage to Nineveh ; but it is doubtful if any compassionate monster will give it a subaqueous passage and vomit it up on dry land. It may be said that negro ouffrage will be necessarily lost with the failure of the convention. But this is not so. The article containing it was long ago completed, and the Democrats will generously propose to submit it at once, as a separate amendment. In the stress of political weather, the Republicans will not dare to do this ; so urgent is their necessity of lightening the ship. They wiil, of course, contrive all sorts of plausible excuses ; but whatever may be their excuse for not submitting it, the real reason will be that they are sacred by the certainty ot its defeat. The impeachment of President Johnson is another part of the Republican cargo that is destined to go overboard. Although the President has more boldly confronted and defied them since Congress adjourned than ever before, we shall hear little more about his impeachment, and that little will be fainter and fainter. The party is getting seriously alarmed, and the more discreet of its journals are warning and exhorting it against raising or reviving any issues on which the party is not a unit.' All such warnings are, of course, signal guns of dis tress. The President’s Charge Against Mr. Stanton. — A dispatch to the New York World says: Congress reconvenes in little more than seven weeks; but long before that time the President will have the charge and reasons for suspending Secretary Stan ton from the War Department ready for submission to the Senate, as required by the civil tenure-of-oftiee law. The case made out by the President is an exceed ingly strong one, and the Senate will find itself enlightened in matters it little dreams of when it receives the documents in the premises. Radical Responsibility. —Among the items to be charged to Radical manage ment, says the Chicago Times, are the deaths of military men from yellow fever in the Southern States. All these men were sent there solely and purely to register negroes for the coming Presidential election. Over the graves of such men as Grillin should be inscribed, “ Fell a victim to the Radical de sire to elect a President in 18G8.” A Radical Split in Kansas. —lt is claimed that the Republican party in Kan sas is much split on the questions of fe male suffrage, temperance and the Sunday laws. The Germans will have a conven tion at Topeka on the 28th, to consider the letter question, and the State Temperance Society will meet in Leavenworth this week, for the alleged purpose of looking after the Germans. The Democrats of Kansas have held a State convention and unanimously passed conservative resolutions, and organized a State Central Committee, Negroes Going to Ohio to Vote.—' The Memphis Avalanche has information from several responsible gentlemen who happen ed to be at the State line upon different days that they found there from thirteen to fif teen cars filled with blacks who hail been brought from Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Southern Tennessee, and were going northward. A majority of them did not know where they were going to, but said the “ Board was sending them some whar to vote.” Some of the more intelli gent ones said they were going to Ohio for that purpose. They were to go through Louisville without stopping, and all their expenses were to lie paid by the Freedmen’s Bureau. They were to vote as they wero told, and were assured that the Bureau would take care of them and see to their getting farms for doing as they were direct ed. This is a fair specimen of the manner in which the people’s money is squandered by the reckless Radical politicians, who swarm in the South under the guise of Freedmen’s Bureau agents. The California Legislature. —Several Radical journals have given currency to an erroneous report that their party will have two majority, on joint ballot, in the Califor nia Legislature. The actual situation is as follows: Tweutv Senators (fourteen Repub licans and six Democrats) hold over, and twenty (seven Republicans and thirteen Democrats) have been elected, making the Senate stand, twenty-one Republicans, nine teen Democrats. To the House, the Repub licans elect thirty members, and the Demo crats fifty. The total on joint ballot, there fore, is, Republicans, fifty-one ; Democrats, sixty-nine. Mr. Seward’s Little Bill. —The little bill fills eight columns of the New York papers, and - is one of the most formidable documents yet spun by the interminable Secretary. It recapitulates, with fearful precision, the various losses to commerce, reduces national insult to dollars and cents, and puts our international relations on a money basis. It appears that the Alabama ravaged the high seas to the amount of $3,790,000; the Shenandoah disposed of $4,112,000 ; the Florida is credited with $1,985,000; and the Georgia, whose bump of destructiveness, is nos so largely devel oped, only preyed to the extent of $318,000. In all we are debited with $9,505,000, for payment of which we are pressed. The ingenious manner in which this ac count is made up would thrill with profes sional joy our young friend Ketchum, or any experienced forger. Man is a cooking animal* and this account is cooked in its highest perfection. Great Britain lias every thing possible put down to her debit, like a tavern bill charged to a candidate. We are first charged for the ships and contents, then for the personal property, then for the whole value by the owners, then for the amount of insurance lost by the underwri ters, then for the profits which the owners would have liked to have received; in fine, every item is crowded in which will swell the total. Some men nobly scorn to sully their fingers with a smaller sum than a round thousand, others swindle systemati cally, and down to fractions and cents, each figure perking itself defiantly before the ter rified British Lion. We should say the whale fishery is a profitable employment, as oue patriot, with an invested capital of $35,000, claims a loss of profits for the voy age of $218,125. He would perhaps be gen erous and throw off the odd $125. If he has been long in the business he must have acquired considerable wealth. [Montreal Telegraph. A special dispatch to the Indiauapolis Jour nal 6ays that Wilbur F. Storey, the proprietor of the Chicago Times , has bought out the New York Express, anti that the Times establishment is accordingly for sale. He has been offered $150,000 for It by prominent Democrats of Illi nois, but asks $160,000. The dispatch further states that Storey was offered a third interest In the World previous to purchasing the Express but refused to take it because it would not e-ive him the controlling interest. B By an act of the Nebraska Legislature, passed .June 24,1867, women of lawful age are allow ed to vote at the district school meeting. The first elections under the law will be held in Oc tober. The Omaha Republican suspects “ the entering wedge is thus driven for universal suf frage ip Nebraska.” [From the JouiukLn'?Commerce. The* Cotton Drop. For a long series of years tlje editors of the Journal of Commerce have been in the habit of presenting annually, to their read ers, at about this season of the year, such information as*they have deemed reliable in regard to the ■ maturing crop of cotton. It is a Source of ho little satisfaction to us, that for twenty years past the correctness of this estimate has not been successfully impeached. A very late frost and an open winter have sometimes conspired to pro duce a return considerabljr'beyond. the, figures we regarded as the probable total ; ! and on the other hand a disastrous storm, or an early frost suddenly checking all fur ther development, have occasionally cut off a portion of the expected receipts, and brought the result as much wijhin our esti mate ; but in no instance hEje we failed, after the year has expired, »obtain the general assent to this fact; that our state ment was a fair and reasonable estimate of the prospect at the date on \#tich it was published. ' The last year was a very trying one to those who sought only the truth. There were large numbers of persons who per sistently misrepresented facts v ‘ and multi tudes besides who were themselves misled, but who cherished their convictions witli great pertinacity, and were .very severe upon all who refused a reliance upon their judgment. Our means of information are very extensive, as our correspondence em braces the entire cotton district, and we have always endeavored to collect and pre sent the facts thus acquired with discre tion, and without prejudice or partiality. Last year we fixed our estimate at two million bales. We were immediately as sailed with the grossest abuse from all quarters. Newspaper critics and anony mous scribblers we could afford to disre gard ; but when gentlemen Os standing and influence appealed to us to alter our opinion, pleading the cruel wrong we were doing those who were relying on our testi mony and selling off their cotton to their own great loss, in case the expected ad vance was realized, we were a little stag gered. We made further investigations, and reiterated our first impressions. This led to an extended correspondence with prominent men in every section, many of whom still refused to admit the fairness of our representations. As late as December one of them addressed us as follows: To the Editors of the Journal of Commerce : I had purposed sooner answering your very complimentary notice of my last com munication. Delay, however, has lost me nothing, a6 it has verified my statements. — Some of them, even by yourselves, in an article on the poverty of the South, and even the Messrs. Neil, whom you essayed to indorse, have crawled down as gracefully as they could from their high and false estimates. This false basis of the estimate of the cotton crop has lost to the South at least fifty millions of dollars, which would have enabled them to pay their recently contracted debts and left the means to. raise a crop next year. As it is, they will not have the means to do either, and conse quently the crop of 1867-68 will be a short one, and the debt, owing mainly to your own city, will be procrastinated so much longer, if not totally lost. Had cotton at tained 40 cents per lb., which it ought and w’ould have, but for such false estimators as yourselves and the Messrs. Neil, it would have returned the South SSO a bale more, and on a crop of one million bales fifty million dollars, The planter has lost it, even if it should hereafter advance, as his necessities have compelled him to realize, and any further advance will go into the pockets ol speculators and rich manufac turers ; but the trade and commerce of New York suffers the loss to the planter, as he cannot pay and cannot buy. I hope yon are prepared to come down at least as grace fully as the Messrs. Neil from your bold as sertion of a crop of two million of bales, as there is now nothing left for you to stand upon ; come down to a million or one and a quarter million, and you will be safe. My communications are not intended for publi cation, but to encourage an honest investi gation. If you had done so on my last you would not have tumbled into the ridiculous assertion of two millions. If there is any truth in the representation here made that large numbers sold their cotton in consequence of our publication, at what we can see was a very high price, \ye ought to have the benefit of the statement, now that our figures are verified.' The year closed with the first of September. Tiie re ceipts are given by those who are regarded as authority, at different totals, ranging from 1,950,000 to 3,020,000 bales. We have taken the compilation of the New York Shipping and Commercial List, because this has been for a quarter of a century the most generally accepted authority in this city on this subject. Their total is 1,951,988 bales. Our estimate of two million bales is, there fore, fully vindicated. Our corrcspodent, in assuming that we were forty per cent, in error, reckoned the loss to the South through our influence at fifty million dol lars. As it is now proved that we wqre right, we should like to ask how much we saved to the cqtton growers by our honest faithfulness in clinging to the truth even against a torrent of reproaches ? The fol lowing statements of the movements are compiled from the Shipping List : COMPARATIVE PRODUCT OF COTTON. 1861. 1866. 1867. Louisiana 1,781.599 711,629 702,131 Alabama 546,794 430,102 239,516 Texas 144,747 174,985 185,919 Florida 121,172 149,139 57,349 Georgia 477,584 263,373 255,965 South Carolina... 336,339 112,273 162,247 North Carolina... 56,295 64,559 38,522 Virginia 78,1:52 37,531 123,627 Tennessee, Jfcc,.. 143,424 211,58$ 185,712 Total ba1e5....3,656,086 2,15-4,476 1,951,988 The exports of cotton from the United States in each of the last two years (ending Septem ber Ist) were as follows : 1865-6. 1866-7. To Great Britaiu ,1,262,271 1,216,262 To France 229,650 198,147 To Northern Europe 48,647 95,342 To other foreign ports 23,096 47,303 Total bales 1,554,604 1,557,054 The amount consumed in the United States is given by the same authority as 854,039 bales for the year ending September Ist, 1867. In, this connection we bring for ward our statement of the total crop for the last forty-five years, adding the esti mates by the Shipping List for tlw period of the war. The figures for each year are given, as shown by the receipts at the ports, according to our usual custom. The ac tual growth in 1855-6 was generally esti mated at less than a quarter of the supplies which reached the ports then newly open ed : COMPARATIVE CROP STATEMENT. Year. Bales. 1844- 2,394,503 1845- 2,100,537 1846- 1.778,651 1847- 2,347,634 1848- 2,728,596 1849- 2,096,706 1850- .......2,355,257 1851- 3,015,029 1852- ... ...3,263,882 1853- 2,930,027 1854- .2,847,339 1855- .3,527,845 1856- 3,939,519 1857- 3,113,962 1858- 3,851,481 1859- 4,669,770 1860- ~3,656,086 1801-3.. (est). 4,800,000 1862- (ee1).1.500, 000 1863- (esi). 500,000 1864- (w). 300,000 1865 6 2,154,476 1866-7 .1,951,988 Y ear. Bale 6. 1820- 431),000 1821- 455,000 1522-3 495,000 1823- 509,158 1824- 569,249 1825- 720,027 1826- 957,281 1827- 727,593 1828- 870.415 1829- 976,645 1630-1 1,038,648 1831- 967,477 1832- 1,070,438 1833- 1,205,324 1834- 1,254,328 1835- 1,360,725 1836- 1,422,930 1837- 1,801,497 1838- 1,360,532 1839- 2,177.835 1840- 1,634,945 1841- 1,683,574 1842- 2,378,875 1843- 2,030,409 Jn turning to the new crop we find the accounts very conflicting, but not more so perhaps than usual. The plaiting was late, and the whole crop will average at least three weeks behind the usuil date of growth. But for this aud the ravages of the worm the yield might be safely given at three million bales. The loss by the worms may now be reckoned, as their work has ceased. The loss from late plaating will depeni} largely upon the date cf the first frost. The.2oth of- October Isa medium period for this event. After that has occur red the matured cgtton may be pcked, but no more will ripen. After a snney of the whole evidence within our reach we have come to the conclusion that with a good picking season the receipts for J 867-8 will reaclj two and a half million bale*- A very early frost will cut this down ne*rlv to the product of the present year, ' / •' •• •> Belles ” call a great many people to church. So they are told by the Macon Takgraph. A Burnt Oork “ Claude Melnotte "at Sara toga. A story is totd of a lion who roared here for a few days, to the admiration of the feminine guests, and was then suddenly shorn of his name and king-of-the-flelds dignity.- Some weeks since a young fellow, who was quite good lookiug, auii had coolness and impudence which passed for style, ar rived from New York, drank high priced wines, drove a fine team, wore the latest modes and large diamonds and created a sensation. He was a well known Ethio pian minstrel, whose troupe was enjoying a vacation in town. Several young men, salesmen in the city, who had been snub bed by a certain feminine set because they were not wealthy, conceived the idea of in troducing the burnt cork musician to those ladies as a gentleman of position and for tune, anxious to find a wife. They impart ed their intention to him, (he was staying at the Clarendon,) and asking him to as sume the name of J. Roland Mortimer, car ried him off to the Union aud had him in troduced as a fresh arrival from Paris. The fellow, who enjoyed adventure, enter ed into the spirit of the thing at once, and in a few days the “ exclusive young ladies” declared him “perfectly splendid.” He drove them out, promenaded with them, flirted and played billiards with them, until they became furiously jealous of each other, and indulged in every possible maneuvre to capture him, having no doubt he was all that had been claimed for him. They more than ever slighted the poor salesmen, and gave the latter to understand they knew who was worthy of their attention and de serving of their fascinations. The deception went on for more than a fortnight. The minstrel became the estab lished beau and gallant of the hotel. The women evhausted eulogy upon him, aud considered him the most accomplished gen tleman they had ever met. They were very imprudent with him, indeed compromised themselves, and it was supposed that he was the accepted lover of a half dozen of the most famous belles. No doubt he could have married any one of them, liad he been so minded. But lie was not. He had his pleasure; aud the time having arrived for his appearance in New York, he left a note, poorly written aud worse spelled, I understand, informing them who he was and what his vocation. He had engagements with all of them ; but the next evening he left on the early train, and che young women, as you may conceive, were thunderstruck with the” unexpected revelation. The salesmen per mitted the ladies to understand that they knew the whole affair, aud indulged in in timations that confused and mortified the damsels beyond expression. The indignant creatures vowed then brothers and fathers, and all their mascu line relatives, should follow the scoundrel, horsewhip and shoot him, and do every thing tragical and terrible. But nothing of the kind was resorted to ; for prudence and policy demanded siience. The minstrel is singing now at one of the Broadway halls, and tells his adventure over his morning, noon aud evening cocktail with great gusto.— Saratoga Corrspondencee of the Cincinnati Commercial J Enameling Ladies’ Faces. —This is the way it is done; You first apply to the female face divine a wash of elder water, which removes every impurity. This done, you lave the face anew with tepid water, then dry the skin with fine linen till it is p >-fectly smooth and velvety. You then apply to this sur face a perfectly white, a pink white, or a cream white enamel. The real Paris enam el or, email de Paris, is slightly tinted. It is a paste, and covers the surface smoothly, making it marble-like. This artificial cov ering, being thick, lasts a long time, but the face must not be washed. In order to re move any impurity from the skin, or rather from the enamel, a small sponge dipped in rose water is used and the enamel careful ly restored. Ristori’s face is enameled nightly. The followers of this fashion are, in En gland, Miss Burdett Coutts, and the fair lady whose husband refused to pay several thousand pounds for numberless enamel ings. The price of a “permanent enameling" is fifty dollars. If skilfully done, and the nljeeks touched with rouge, with a little “ fixing up ” of eyebrows, you cannot, at night, and a foot or two off, tell an old woman from a young one. In America the fair Mrs. R. follows this fashion so thoroughly that she coats face, arms and neck with the pearly prepara tion. She is kept in countenance by the wealthy Mrs. B. and sundry others. The ladies of the demi-monde, however, are the most fervent of the believers in en amel.—La Mode. Facetious Bismarck. —A German paper tells a story of Bismarck, which illustrates his fondness of a practical joke. The auec dote is as follows: One day while he was dining at Frank fort, at the table d'hote, he observed two young ladies sitting opposite to him, who were talking and laughing in a tone. He soon perceived that they were making fun of the company, and that their remarks were especially directed against himself, but he cquld pot understand a word they were saying, as they spoke in the Let tish language, evidently making sure that no one at the table was acquainted with it. Although the Count was iunorant of the language, he had learned two or three Let tish words during a recent tour in Cort land, and he determined to use his know edge so as to disconcert his fair assailants. Turning to a friend who sat near him, he whispered: “ When you hear me speak in a foreign language give me your watch key.” Meanwhile the ladies went on talking more loudly than ever, and by the time the desert was put on the table their hilarity had reached its climax- At length, during a pause after a somewhat heartier burst of laughter than usual, Count Bismarck said quietly to his friend, “ Dohd man to azleck,” (give me the key). The effect was instanta neous ; the ladies started as if they were shot, and with their faces covered with blushes, rushed out of the room. What we have Gained. —The Chicago Tiroes, in noticing a late speech of Mr. Richard Smith in his canvass for Congress, in Cincinnati, says: “ If the Democratic party get into power, we shall lose in peace what we gained in war.” So says Smith. If this be true, it i 6 proper to count up our gains by the war. We have gained an enormously high tariff, which taxes the nation for the benefit oi New England manufacturers. We have gained an internal revenue system which taxes sixteen thousand different articles, and requires an army of office holders for its enforcement. We have gained a Na tional banking system, capable of controll ing the capital of the country, to which the people yearly pay $18,000,000 in interest, which might be saved by the substitution of National currency for bank notes. We have gained a debt of several thousands of millions of dollars, which is a mortgage upon the property and labor of every man in the country. We have gained a Con gress and State Legislatures so corrupt that the press of the same party with them is compelled, from very shame, to denounce their accessibility to bribery. Smith says these gains will be lost if the Democratic party gets into power. Smith intended to lie, but he stumbled on the truth. The California Wine Interest. —The wine interest of this great State is destined to reach gigantic proportions. We have, from time to time, noticed its growing importance, and given statistics from the census in refer ence to its value. We have now before us further interesting facts which we reproduce. We learn that on an acre of land a thousand vines are planted, which yield five hundred gal lons to the acre, at the expiration of four years; or, as is stated, half a gallon to the vine. It seems that there is considerable dis crepancy between the estimates of the county assessors and those engaged in the trade, the latter being largely in excess of the former.— According to the San Francisco Market Re view, the crop for the year 1866 yielded 8,369,- 768 gallons, exclusive of ihe yield of 3,000,000 vines in counties wbereiu the assessor gave no returns. The aggregate value of the wine man ufactured in the same year was $5,880,000 Such is the result of last year’s operations in the grape culture, which is destined to assume still vaster importance in that great State of the Pacific coast. Beecher is going to have bis prayers bound in book form, and inscribed a “ few suggestions to the Almighty.” “Blaok Loyalty.” LIT THE TRUTH OF HISTORT BE PBEBIRVBD. Nigh a million of live* we have spent, And three billions of dollars or more, That each fetter in twain should be rent, And the slave-born be heard never more ; Full six years we have given to the Black, And the thing was undoubtedly right— Now suppose, just to alter the tack. We devote half an hour to the White. When the Honth in its hour of mad pride At Fort Humter let drive the first shot, Neck and heels our poor Bambo was tied, And the North held one end of the knot; But our hold we let go at the sound, For both hands we required in the fight— And tho war for the Black was then found Quite a tough job of work for the White. Well, we fought—aye, for four years wo fought, Pouring out lavish treasure and life ; Did the bLACK then aiise as he ought. Cleaving Northward with torch and with knife! All his masters were far from liis track, Under Johnston and Leo in the fight; There was nothing to hold the Black back From assisting his champion, the White. Did he aid us when bleeding we stood To chase from him slavery’s dreams, Or to Lee sent he clothing and food, Harness, powder, equipments and teams 1 We qll know that in one i ingle State A revolt would have ended the fight— So no more of th ir “ loyalty ’’ prate, For the Black rebs were worse than tho Whitb. The White rebels came with a cheer, Their bayonets aslant and aglow ; While the Black rebels slunk in the rear, Assisting (and freely) our foe ; Phillips, Sumner, and men of that school, May click-clatter from morning till night— But if Black or White Rebels must rule, Then, by Heaven! count me in for the White 1 It would sicken a dog, this vile cant That wo hear of “ black loyalty ” now— And I notice the twaddlers who rant On ’he subject were far from the row; But since cold has latest gun, And since Johnston stacked arms attcr fight, We are told “ by Black valor we won ” ’Tis all humbug to laurel the White I To the Black rebel glory and power, To the White rebel chains and disgrace I Oh madness, and worse, rules the hour, We are false to faith, wisdo n, and racel To my heart with you, Longstroct and mil, Johnston, Lee—every man in the tight— You were rebels, and bad ones, but still You share my misfortune—you’re Whit* I Miles O’Kkillt, Late Private 47th Regiment, N. Y. Vol. Infantry. Shop Lifting.— On Thursday evening, about 7 o’clock, while the clerks in the store of V. Richards & Brother, were engaged in the back pan of the building, a couple of treedmen walk ed into the front door and helped themselves to three or four hundred dollars worth of flue goods. Yesterday the police ferreted out the matter and arrested tho parties. One of them is the notorious R >fe Knight, who has been off the chain gang just four days. Rafe is a hard case. The Grand Lodge of Georgia.— The an nua! communication of the Grand Lodge of F. <fc A. M., of Georgia, will eonveue at the Ma sonic Hall iu Macon on Wednesday, the 80ih day of October. All Lodges and Brothers will take due notice of the same. Such Lodges as cannot be represented are requested to send their return- and dues at the lime, or as early as practicable thercalter. Secretaries of Lodges, needing blanks for re turns will make application to Simri Rose, of Macou, immediately. Conscience Case. —We have been put in possession of the following case of conscience. Like nearly.every case recorded in Washington the amount is small: Friday some persou returned to a certain book store (Bleakley’s) in this city an arithme tic, which was well worn, and on the fly leaf of which appeared this writing : “ i stoaled this book about it months ago, i am sorry for it, and brought it back.” Theft of Jewelry.— Thursday night last while the family of Edward Thomas, Esq., was at supper, a thief eutered the house through the front door, which was not locked, and pro ceeded to the second story of the building. One of the young ladies, having occasion to go up stairs, was surprised to see the thief, a tall man, make a hasty exit byway of tbe door which leads to thefront verandah; finding him self some fifteen feet from the pavement lie made the leap and succeeded in escaping. Yes terday morning it was discovered that he had abstracted a ease of valuable jewelry. The empty case was subsequently found in a vacant lot on Greenb street. A Remarkable Invention—Justifying Typery Machinery.—Mr. Charles W. Felt, of Salem, Massachusetts, lias perfected a ma chine for justifying type. Several inventions have been made lor setting type, but the great drawback has been the time expended iu justi fying the lines by hand. After each line of type |s set a space is always left at the end of the last word, which has to be filled up by placing thin spaces between the different words forming the line. Heretofore this work has been done by hand, and has proved very expen sive. After many years of labor Mr. Felt has suc ceeded in obviatiug this difficulty. This is something which has never before been accom jdished, indeed never attempted, lor it seems like endowing a machine with human intelli gence. It has been tbe great difficulty hereto fore in introducing composing machines, just as the want of the method of applyingiuk with tbe composition roller was the great thing that prevented the usefulness of the powor press. When that was at last supplied, power presses were introduced with the most astonishing rapidity and success. And now we may hope that the opportunity is afforded for an equally rapid and extensive introduction of composing machines, of which many have been invented and none have been put into operation. Mr. Fell’s machine has receutly been shown to a number of experts in this city, who say it is a decided success, and that it will do the work claimed for it.—A r . Y. Post. Pedestrianism Extra—A One Legged Rebel Walks from Vera Cruz to Mem phis.—Mr. Henry DcMather, formerly a cap tain in the Confederate army, under General Sterling Price, went to Mexico after the sur render of the Southern army, aud being of French descent, as his name indicates, took up arms with Maximilian. While in the Confede rate States nrrny he received four gun-shot wouuds, but they did not injure him to auy great extent. After jotniug the Imperial army be received two more, one of which was in the ankle joint, disabling him for life and forging him to use a crutch. Mr. DcMather, at the time of the greatest trouble in and about Vera Cruz, decided to return to Memphis, but being without means it would have been utterly im possible for a less courageous man to have suc ceeded. To will and to do were the same thing with him. Taking his crutch he started on loot, aud in just 145 days this energetic man, with his rnauy battle scars, arrived in the Bluff City, having made in that time 3,190 miles, being a little over an average of 33 miles per day; seventy-four hours of this time he was ou one of those extensive plains so nu merous in Texas, without either food or water. Mr. DeMather is certainly eutitled to wjar the belt.— Memphis Ledger, Ytth. The Democracy of Vanderburg county, Indiana, put the case very pointedly on the legal tender greenback question. They resolved: That it should be the policy of Congress to pay the interest-bearing bonds of the Federal Government as they become due, at its pleasure, in legal tender notes, and stop interest, an eating moth, destructive alike to the public credit and to individual prosperity. 11 Resolved, That if greenbacks were good I enough pay for the meu who risked their blood in behalf of the country, they should be good enough pay for those who only risked their money.” The Cotton Crop. —The past ten days have wrought a considerable change in the cotton rather, the army worm has. The opinions of farmers are at variance as to what is the extent of the damage done. Some say the crop is cut short one-third, while others, and a majority, say one-fourth will cover the loss. We give the opinions of our planting friends from the fact we deem them more ac curate and reliable than ours, if we had nny. We have visited several cotton fields in which there was not a leaf left ou a stalk or a shuck arouud a boll. The bolls, with the exception of the top oues—probably a fourth of the en tire number—are too well developed to be in jured to any extent by the worm. We hope to bo able to give a more accurate and favorable account soon.— Panola (Miss.) Star, Sept. 21. There is a church in Madison, Maine, which it is said once caught fire high up on the wood en spire by a spark from another building. A bystander threw a snow-ball aud hit the exact spot, thereby extinguishing the flames. A Vienna actress, deciding to break a mar riage engagement at the very last moment, sent the professional excuse, “ Franlien Gallmeyer is unfortunately hoarse, and cannot attend the ceremony.” The Retort Courteous— “ You’re a dull looking set," as Sozodbnt said to the neglected teeth. “We shall soon improve, under your j auspices,” as the neglected teeth said to Bozo- j dont. sepl»eod-3 i Is Dr. Livingstone Dead? Who Knows? We have alluded to the efforts going on in England, Bombay, and elsewhere, to keep Dr. Livingstone alive. The Dundee correspondent of the Loudon Star , September 6, gives the fol lowing details, which are of interest as describ ing the efforts which are making to ascertain his futc, whether his fate is proved to have been death or otherwise. The writer says : In to-day’s session of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Sir Roderick Murchison made a statement on this subject. In order to reach the south end of Tangnnyka Livingstone took carpenters to prepare boats, and was prepared to sail to the north end of that lake to determine if there was an opening there either to the Albert Nyan/.a or to the Vic toria Nyanza, discovered by Burton and Speke. If he was alive he must have passed to Albert Nyanza, from which he was to descend the Nile. Should he accomplish that object he would then certainly be the most glorious of all explorers in African geography. | Applause.J Having traversed and retraversed Africa several times with black men only, and once before not having been heard of for a year, there was no occasion for anxiety, although he had not been heard of. If he had escaped, they might de pend upon it he would go on fearlessly, and on getting to the centre of Africa a long time must elapse before he could be heard of. As to Mousa’s testimony of his death, it stood alone; for none of the other Johanna men were present at the alleged murder, and Mousa was not only a liar but a thief, and had, when examined by the Bombay Sepoy who had accompanied Livingstone on a 'part of his journey, given a totally different version from what he had given to Dr. Kirk, having staled to the latter that he was murdered I y a blow of a hatchet, and having stated to the Sepoy that he was shot to death by arrows. As to Mousa’s story that the Johanna men had recovered the body of their leader and buried it, he did not believe that so great a coward as Mousa, who stated that he had concealed him self when his leader was attacked, would have had the heroism to go and make a search for the body. But whatever should be the (act, he felt, as President of the Royal Geographical Soei tv, that it was their botindeu duty to make a search for Livingstone, and he had ac cordingly urged on the Government to send out an expedition to determine the truth in toe matter. To the great honor of her Majesty’s Government, this proposal Iras been most cor dially responded to, particularly by Mr. Con v and tbe authorities of the Admirality, and the details ol the expedition had been most zeal ously worked out by the hydrograpber of tbe, Admirality, Capt. Richard. As leader of the expedition, they had chosen Mr. Young, a war rant officer, who had spent two years on the Zambesi with Livingstone, who knew tbe ui tives well, and was perfectly competent to manage them ; and who further entertained the hope that he and other did that Livingstone might be alive. The object of this expedition, which reached the cape on the 15th of July last, was to reach the north end of Lake Nyasea, about thirty miles from which was the spot ol the alleged murder. If Liviugstone was dead, the expedition party was 6ure to fail in with memorials of him—his clothes, his apparatus, or, above nil, his notes, for to written docu ments the natives attached immense impoit ance, and all these would be sure to iind thi ir way down the lake in the course of native trading. Every article belonging to the Ger man traveler Roeher, who was killed in a quar rel with the natives, had been recovered. The journey in Africa would take till the end ol November, and it was hoped that by Christmas the result would be knowu iu England. [Paris Correspondence New York Times. A Great Secret Divulged. THE NEW PROCESS OP PETRIFYING HUMAN FLESH. Not long ago I spoke of the lost secret for petrifying human flesh, of the persevering at tempts made in Italy to rediscover It, and of the discovery, while making these researches, of another method of preserving flesh, perhaps quite as valuable as the lost one. At the Great Exposition, Dr. Burnetti, ol l’adua, the finder of the new method, was honored with a gold medal, and with the true spirit of a man of science, he came forward tbe other evening at one of the meetings of the International Medi cal Congress, now in session at the School of Medicine of Paris, and divulged his secret.— The great amphitheatre of the school was crowded with distinguished medical men from all parts of the world, and when the Italian savant had concluded his speech he was re warded with an ovation .which musthnve been a full compensation for any losses he may suf fer from having his secret passed into the pub lic domain. The following details are sufficient to enable any anatomist to avail himself of this important discovery : The process of Dr. Burnetti, which he ex plained iu French with method, and in a pure and elegant diction, comprises several oper i tions, viz: 1. The washing of the piece to be preserved. 2. The degraissage , or eating away of the fatty matter. 3. The tanning. 4. The desiccation. 1. To wash the piece M. Burnetti passes a current of pure water throughout the blood vessels and various excretory canals, and then ho washes the water out by a current of alcohol. 2. For destroying the fat he follows the alcohol with ether, which he pushes, of course, through the same blood vessels and excretory ducts ; this part of the operation lasts some hours. Tbe ether penetrates the interstices of the flesh, and dissolves all the fat. The piece, at this point of the process, may be preserved any length of time desired, plunged in ether, before proceeding to the final operations. 3. For the tanning process M. Burnetti dis solves tannin in boiling distilled water, and then, after washing the ether out of the ves sels with distilled water, he throws this solution in. s . 4. For the drying process Dr. Burnetti places the pieces in a vase with a double bottom, filled with boiling water, and he fills the plnci s of the preceding liquids with warn, dry air. By the aid of a reservoir, in which air is com pressed to about two atmospheres, and which communicates by a stop-eock and a system of tubes, first, to a vase containing chloride of calcium, then with another heated, then with the vessels and exoretory duets of the anatomi cal piece iu course of preparation, he establishes a gaseouß current which expels in a very little time all the fluids. The operation is now finished. The piece remains supple, light, preserves its size, its normal relations, its solid histological elements, lor there are no longer any fluids in it. It may lie handled without fear, and will last indefinitely. Tbe discovery is a raagnifieeut one, and the sooner medical schools are pro vided with full cabinets of natural and patho logical pieces the better. Milk Diet in Diseases op the Heart.— Under the head of “ milk cure,” we some time ago brought to the notice of our readers a full account of the curative effects of the continued use of the milk regimen in the treatment of many diseases—dyspepsia, dropsy and affec tions of the breast, <fec., as described by Dr. Karell. There is now additional testimony on this subject, especially as relates to morbid en largement of the muscular structure of the heart, scientifically called hypertrophy, as pre sented by a French physician, Dr. Pechalier, of Montpelier. This gentleman tells us that in the embarrassment of the circulation arising from this state of the heart, associated with obstructions of the valves, the milk diet, to gether with the use of digitali, and sometimes without it, will relieve the distressing symp toms. Eventually there will ensue an absorp tion of the enlarged muscular structure, ending in a cure. But to insure success the patient must follow strictly the injunction laid on him. Under the influence of this diet it is found that the impulse of the heart diminishes together with the palpitations and the congestion or im perfect circulation of the blood in the face, brain and lungs. Even where a enre cannot be hoped for, there will still be a palliation of the symptoms.— Phil. Ledger. Female Waiters.— The Round Table , in an article on female waiters, makes the following candid confession of its own experience with this class : “ There are not many restaurants iu the city where female attendance is the arrangement, but wherever we have met with such a plan, it seems to work very well. Many of the girls employed in these places arc Irish, but we have noticed that a great number of them are from the New England States. They must not be confounded with the *' pretty waiter girls ” of the concert saloons, being lor the most part re spectable and industrious girls. Among those who come from the New England States, how ever, there is often to be observed a kind of prudery that approaehness rudeness, and this is suggestive of a healthy education and sweetly innocent mind. Because a customer applies the epithet of* dear one ’to one of these Phil llsses, it Is by no means necessary that she should curl up her nose and toss her chignon, as though some improper overture were meant, and yet we have often observed such an action on the part of these down-east damsels when thus carelessly addressed.” How Executors are Fleeced bv the Radical Organs. —General Pope has made a good thing ior his Radical organs in compel!- ; ing public officers to advertise in them, and prescribing no limitation as to price. ’They have taken advantage of this omission, and piled on from 50 to 63 2-3 per cent, on the cus tomary rates of the country. An ordinary writes ns that for citations dismissory he is , charged $lO, while he has been accustomed to pay heretofore only $6. We suppose there is no remedy for this imposition. It is necessary in order to support Radical newspapers in the South, and the public interest is not to be con sidered.— Macon Telegi aph. 1 BY TELEGRAPH. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. from "Washington. Washington, September 27. .i j raß s?j Trenholm <Sc Co.’s case has been set , e terms “re unknown. Gen. Crawford’s command has left Louisville for Wash! igton. • Tl, c special says the Union Leagues in Virginia are being abandoned. for week ending yesterday, *4,108,- Revcnne to-day, *441,000. Professor Ferguson, of the United States Naval Observatory, is dead. The Consul at Palermo reports the continu ance of cholera, but of a milder type. There was a Cabinet session of two hours • all present. ’ Secretary McCulloch has issued a circular forbiddiug subordinates from communicating Treasury news to correspondents. from Richmond. Richmond, September 26. Judge Parker, of the Circuit Court of this State, has rendered a decision that the old banks, making assignment under act of Febru ary, 1806, cannot give preference to any class of creditors; that note holders have no preference over depositors, and that deposits in Confeder ate money are to be treated as debts of the bank to the extent of their value at the time of deposit. A considerable majority of the journals of Virginia oppose calling a convention. "Mi ■ —i From New Orleans. New Orleanl, September 27. Interments from yellow fever, to six o’clock this morning, seventy-seven. The Republican has a full return of votes to day in the Ist, 2d and 3d municipal districts in this city. First district, 2,540; 2d, 2,253; 3d 2,297; total, 7,090. Nearly all the votes cast were for convention ; the number of registered voters in these districts is 24,235. The Repxib. lican expresses the apprehensiou unless the vote is heavier to-morrow, iu proportion, for convention it will fail. The law requiring a majority of registered voters to vote or the election fails. From M^obile. Mobile, September 27. Nine cases of yellow fever are reported for 1 twenty four hours ending six o’clock vesterdav ' evening. Five the day before. | Three negroes who committed the outrage at Dog River, were hung to-day. Immense crowd j but no disturbance. ; From Philadelphia. Philadelphia, September 27. Political excitement is increasing. ! Hancock, Sheridan and Sickles are in the city, j j“j,® *' lt - v Council extended hospitalities to all 1 Dr. M. V. Gorman, Nat Revelry and Caroline v Herron have been arrested with a large amount of counterfeiting apparatus. Prom. IST ashville. Nashville, September 27. Thomas holds a conference with the authori ties to-day. It is stated Gen. Cooper, in a se . cret meeting, said there were three ways to . meet the emergency—bullets, bayonets and [ matches. Prom New Y”ork. New York, September 27. t The Evening Express says the feeling in cot ! lon is very gloomy. Private telegrams from f Liverpool report a further decline—some quo . tatiouß as low as 8% to 8%. There are fears of more failures. j No cable news to-day received. Laud wires , not working. All such dispatches must have been of yesterday’s date. —i I Marine News. Wilmington, September 27. Sailed—Pioneer, Philadelphia ; W. P. Clyde, New York. Savannah, September 27. Arrived—Steamer Virgo, New York; schoon er Las Veldren, Boston ; schooner R. Caldwell. New York. Sailed—Brig Resolute, Baltimore. Markets. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. London, September 26. Bullion has decreased £50,000. Liverpool, September 26—Evening. Cotton heavy and drooping throughout day ; declined % ; middling uplands, 8% ; Orleans, 9 ; sales, 10,000 bales. New York, September 27—Noon. Stocks feverish. Money, 7. Gold, 143%. — Sterling unchanged. ’b2 coupons, 13%. Vir i ginia sixes, 50. New York, September 27 — Noon. Flour quiet. Wheat lc. better. Corn 2@3 lower. Rye steady. Oats lc. better. Pork quiet at. $33 95@24. Lard quiet at 13%@14%. Whisky quiet. Cotton drooping at 22%@23. : Turpentine drooping at 58. Rosin easier; strained common, $3 75. New York, September 27—P. M. Money, 7. Gold, 143%. Stocks active. ’62 ! coupons, 13%. New York, September 27—P. M. Cotton lower ; sales, 1,022. Flour unchanged; amber State, 87 55@10 75. Western mixed Corn, $1 27@1 30; Western, 81 76. Mess Pork heavy at 823 37%. Lard active at 13%@14%. Whisky steady at 38. Sugar active ; Musco vado, 11%@12%. Other groceries dull. Naval Stores dull. Turpentine, 55@58%. Rosin, 83 75@8. Freights active. Grain, by steam, 6%. Baltimore, September 27. Flour unchanged and prices well maintained. Cotton dull and nominally lower, especially for lower grades; low middling, 22; middling, 23. Coflee remains quiet. Wheat steady. Corn— stock light; white, 81 27@1 28; yellow, 81 30 @1 45. Oats range from 58 to 73. Rye, 81 45. Provisions entirely unchanged. Sugar firmer. Cincinnati, September 27. Flour unchanged. Corn dull at 81. Whisky irregular. Provisions nominally unchanged; holders refuse offered rates. Lard, 13%. Wilmington, September 27. Spirits Turpentine quiet at 53%. Rosin dull at 83 25@6 50. Mobile, September 27. Cotton—Sales, 450 bales and closed quiet; middling, 19 ; receipts, 1,085 bales; sales for the week, 2,000 bales; receipts, 4,613 bales; exports, 1,152 bales ; stock, 9,158 bales. New Orleans, September 27. Cotton—Sales 300 bales ; prices %c. lower ; low middlinsr, 19; receipts, 422. Flour firm; superfine, 810@10 12%; double extra, fll. White corn, 81 40. Oats, 80. Pork quiet and firm at 827. Bacon—shoulders, 15; clear sides, 19 ; sugar cured hams, 24%@25. Lard—prime tierces, 14%. Gold, 144%, Sterling, nominal, 56@59. New York sight, %<§)% premium. Charleston, September 27. Cotton declined %c.; sales 172 bales; mid dlings, 19 ; receipts. 852 bales. Savannah, September 27. Cotton flat; middling, 20 ; receipts,”s67 bales. Augusta Market. OrriCK Daily Cokstitiitionalist, f Friday, September 27—P. M. \ FINANCIAL GOLD —Brokers buying at 142 and selling at 144. SlLVEß—Buying at 132 and selling at 135. COTTON.—Private telegrams from Now York, backed up by %&. decline from London, has so un settled us that we can hardly bo said to have any reg ular market. Sales of the early part of the day reach ed 107 bales, on a basis of 18c. for New York mid dling ; since noon, however, we have heard of no transactions, and in the present unsettled condition omit quotations. The following arc the sales: 99 at 18 and Bat 1814. Receipts, 308 bales. Cobrkotion.— There were two errors In our report yesterday. We incorrectly reported 275 bales at 19c.; it should have road 75 bales. Wo also gavo the total of the day’s sales 490 bales, when it should have been 190 bales. WHEAT—Red, $2 20®2 40; white, $2 25(5)2 76. CORN— White, |1 00@1 05; yellow and mixed, |1 45(5)1 50. BACON—Shoulders, 16X@17; R. sides, 19; C. R. sides, 19)4 @2O; C. sides, 20@20)4 ; hams, 22@26. Rivs* N*ws.—The Swan arrived and the Julia St, Clair left for Savannah. River, 4 feet at the bridge,