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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXV.-
Cljronirlp ?: ieutiuel.
• HE WRY MOORE,
A. R. WRIGHT,
TERMS:
l>*'cr, 1 Month . j. (o
8 moT-thu - 800
' “ * UiOQtiiH - 500
1 ytar - - 10 00
I*j-W£iklt, 8 motithi - • 200
6 month and . 8 .%0
1 year . . 7 oo
Wniittv, at the rate of «3 00 per anaum.
Aoct-KfA, April IT, \m,
The Colton Crop of IfcGC.
We notice that m trty of our exchanges are
pub i hing opinlont of various parties as to the
probabl s number of bales which are likely to
be marie the present year. In many instances
no reas >’s are given for the opinions express
crl. and we notice several whose views are
found'd upon the statements of correspondents
from particular localities, as tj the prospect in
their immediate vicinity. Opinions vary as
to the amount of tbe crop from one to
three million bales. This is a wide margin,
and can only bo accounted for from the fact,
that estimates for the entire crop of the cotton
proaucine region are founded in most in
stances, upon the crop prospect in the particu
lar section famdiar to the writer. It will be
scon at once that this is not a fair or reliable
way to arrive at a truthful conclusion. In
some localities, a breadth of land is being
planted equal or nmtriy so, to that cultivated in
lHtlO ; while in others not far distant, the crop
now being planted is not equal to more than
oue half or one third of the usual crop. In the
one instance it would not be fair to infer that
because in one county a large crop is being
put, in, Vierefore, the crop planted in the cotton
growing region in a large one ; nor on the other
baud because in some sections a very small
crop is being put in, that, therefore, a i mall
crop will lots the result.
• hese individual and particular statements
coining Iroin the different sections of the entire
cotton producing region, must bo collected
and carefully compared, 'iheir reasuuablo
ners examined—the facts upon which they are
based carefully ecrulunized, the motives and
opportunities ol the party for forming a correct
estimate understood ; if we undertake to give
ao opinion which would entitle us to claim a
near approximation to the truth. We know
how diflieu.lt it ever has been, to arrive at a
proper estimate of a crop covering so largt an
area of territory, and liable to be influenced
by so many untoward circumstances, which can
never be accurately anticipated or accounted
for. Heretofore, in making such estimates,
the greatest embarrassments uroee Irom the
nature of the plant its great snsceptability to
extremes of season—its liability to the ravages
of worms, and the climatic influences which
promoted or injured ltd productiveness. To
those we now have added, the question of
labor; i's supply and effectiveness ; the sup
ply of stock, provisions and agricultural im
plements. The quantity ot feitiiizers likely to
he used, and the high prices which have been
obtained for cotton during the fall und winter.
The first great amt leading question to be
solved is the amount of labor applied to the
production of the present crop. In 18(10 there
were something over lour millions ol negro
slaves in the Southern States. According to
the census tables about one half of that num
ber weru between the ages of ten and sixty
years This would give two millions aide to
do work. Os the four millions of slaves in the
Southern Slutes iu 1860, two millions and
forty thousand (2,010,000) were iu the States
of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Missouri, and Maryland, aud conse
quently were not to any considerable extent
employed iu the production of cotton. It is
true, a few thousand bales were raised ia some
of these States, but the tabor of those States was
principally applied to the production of pro
visions, tobacco, graiu, hemp, turpentine, and
stock. This would leave iu the cotton growing
Stater about two millions of slaves, one half of
whom were working bauds, from this num
ber we must deduct those employed as domes
tics, and in the trades ; also, some deduction
should be made for those engaged iu the cities
and towns as laborois. draymen, stevedores,
porters, &c.
We (to not believe Hut more than eight or
nine hundred thousand hands were -mployed
in the production of cotton previous ..'the war.
To there must be added the number of white
laborers who were engaged in its cultivation.
There were, tu 18ti0, about three millions of
white people in the* seven cotton States. Os
these one half, o* - oue million live hundred
thousand, were between the ages of 10 ana f>o
years. About one half of these wore males. This
would give us in the cotton States seven hun
dred and fifty thousand male white persons
between the ages of 10 and 00 years. Os these
about one third, or two hundred and fifty
thousand, were owners of lands and staves, who
did not labor in the fields. Os the remaining
five hundred thousand, it is supposed that two
fifths were employed in the mechanic arts,
trades and the piofessioas. This would leave
three hundred thousand field laborers. To
tin se add th« numb)r of slaves employed in
agriculture, and we have the following total
field laborns :
Slaves .900 000
Whites 300 000
Total 1,200,000
We are satified that this is rather over than
under the number actually employed as agri
cultural laborers previous to the war.
L»t us now examine for a moment the present
supply of labor, both black and white, and
see bow it compares with that of 18t>0. Un
fortunately, we have no reliable data to aid
us in this investigation ; we have, however, a
few facts, from which we may be able to ap
proximate a fair estimate of out present labor
supply, lu the first place, we know from the ’
official reports tha. two hundred uud fifty 1
thousand black men have been enlisted in the j
army of tbo United States as soldiers, team
sters. pioneers, &c. Os this number it wi.i be |
safe to calculate not more than fifty thousand
will hoe cotton this year. Then there is quite
a large number who have flocked to the cities
and towns to avoid field labor. We estimate
these at oue hundred thousand. There is a.so
a considerable number of women and girls
from 12 to lt>, who weie field hands, but now
are lying up on the plantations in idleness
their husbands and fathers supporting them.
A great many field women have also songh.
and obtained employment as house women
cooks, chambermaids, washer-women, XC.
These must be all deducted from tho number
formerly employed in the cotton fields. Thus
we nave:
Enlisted soldiers. &e 200.000
Engaged in cities and towns 100.000
Women and girls not working 100.000
Women and girls doing house work 25.000
Total 425,000
Making a total of four hundred and twentv
i five thousand bands withdrawn from the pro
! Auction of cotton. To these must be added the
Dumber who have died during the war. These
have been estimated as high as one-fourth of
the entire black population. Without stopping
to inquire whether this is a fair estimate of
the entire mortality of the black race, we think
that we may safely estimate the mortal
ity among those between 15 and 00 to be at
least one hundred thousand. Then we have
the following figures :
Slaves in the cotton states employed in
1800 as field laborers 900,000
From which deduct enlisted
soldiers 200.000
Engaged in cities and towns.. 75 000
Women and girls not working. 100,000
Women and girls doing bouse
work 25,000
Died since the war 100,000-500,000
Which ieaveß 400,000
as the entire available black labor now en
gaged in raising cotton. To this we must add
the amount of white labor thus employed. We
have seen that, about three hundred thousand
whiten were engaged as farm laborers before
the war. At least one-fourth ot them were
killed or maimed during the conflict. This
would leave two hundred and twenty-five
thousand now at work in the production of
cotton. Then we have as the entire available
plantation labor in the seven States of Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,. Arkansas,
Texas, Florida and South Carolina—
Blacks 400,000
Whites 225,000
Total. .* 025,000
Against
Backs 000,000
Whites 300,000
Total 1,200,000
in 1800, Thus we have for the production of
the present crop but a little over one-half the
labor employed in ]BGO.
In properly estimating the extent of the
growing crop, we should also bear in mind
tho infirm character of the labor now em
ployed as compared to that of 1800, The ex
periment of freo negro labor is yet to be worked
out. We believe that they are so tar doing
much better than the most hopeful had antici
pated- No one with whom we have communi
cated, however, rates them as full and efficient
labor as under the old system. Something
must bo allowed for this deficiency iu the
character of our present labor. This, as a
matter of course, is a mere matter of conjec
ture. Some say they are only half as efficieut
as formerly—some think they do about two
thirds the labor they accomplished before the
war, aud some put it a little higher still. But
estimating eachhand employed, as good as in
1800, and wo cannot under the most favorable
seasons expect more than a half crop, or 2,000,-
000 bales.
There cannot be more than one hall tbe land
planted, which was cultivated in 1800. For
want ol effective stock, and tho compelled use
of inferior implements, the preparation for the
crop has been very imperfect. The scarcity
and consequent high prico of seed has com
pelled our planters'to put too little seed in the
earth—their planting will be the cause of bad
atauds. The condition of the plough animals
is very poor, on account of the great scarcity
of corn, resulting from the failure of the ne
gro’s to work and house tbe last crop.
Taking all theso things into consideration
we do not believe that a crop of more than
eighteen hundred thousand bales can be pos
sibly raised this year, if there should be an
early frost, or any very great exlremes of wet
or dry weather, it will fall short of that amount.
Indeed, there are so many accidents likely to
affect the growth of tbe plant, that it would
be extremely hazardous to make an estimate
of the crop, save upon tho grounds which we
have taken.
It will be seen that in all our estimates and
figures we have confined ourselves to the seven
great cotton States. The high price of botton
will no doubt stimulate its production in North
Carolina, the Southern portiou of Virginia and
iu Middle and West Tennessee. Allowing a
fair crop, in proportion to the land planted, to
be made iu those States, we still think our
estimates will iall rather under than ever tbe
true amount. We must not ovorlook the very
important fact that 1 tile or no manures will
be applied to the cotton crop this year. H.-re
tofore, all the stable and barn-yard manures,
the scrapings from the cattle aud sheep pens,
and a considerable portion of cotton seed, have
been applied to cotton. The amount of cotton
seed raised was generally sufficient to supply
the corn crops, leaviug all the other available
fertilizers for cotton. There being no cotton
seed this year to be used as manure, tbe corn
crop has absorbed all the stimulauts usually
applied to cotton, leaving the latter to struggle
unassisted against the po.erty of the soil.—
Guano, too, had been, previous to the war,
pretty extensively used on cotton lands. This
year, the high price, scarcity ot money and
imperfect means of transportation, have pre
vented tbe usual amount being used. All these
things must be carefully considered iu arriving
at a conclusion as to the extent of the crop;
and they all tend to confirm us in the belie!
that the present, in the very nature of things,
must be a short crop.
A Mississippi River correspondent of the
Memphis Bulletin thinks that not more than
one-fifth of the cotton and corn will be pro
duced on the river plantations, as compared
with 1800. the year before the war. He says .
“An immense change is apparent along the
river shores to Vicksburg. Innumerable ruins
attest the destruction of the last few years
she sites of once flourishing villages are waste
places. mighty chimneys litt their silent mon
umental bodies, the only thing left to m irk
the places where elegant mansions and splen
did residences once stood. The Vandalism aad
ruthless hand of unbridled license have strip
ped them of all the attractions and beauties
that sanctified them as homes. Destruction
and desolation appear everywhere.’’
A Radical Csowd. —A Republican in Maine,
who had recently served out his time of
thirty days in the Augusta jail, was asked when
he came out how he liked it. ‘T had a bully
time," said he. ‘There were seventy-six in
mates of the jail, and not a d—d Democrat
amongst the lot.”
j Chn P.tk, President of the See Ynp Company
| of.San Fiaucisco. died in *hat city a few days
ago at the ege of 89.
The initial meeting of the First American
Society, for the prevention of crnelty to ani
mals was held in New York, a lew evenings
since-
The Mobile Turner Association celebrated
their eleventh anniversary on the Ist.
The general land office has just received
several boxes of valuable specimens of ores
from Colorado.
The payment of the May interest on the
gold-bearing coupons known as five-twenties
will not be anticipated, but will be paid the
perioa at which it tails due. $20,300,000 is
about the amount to be paid.
THE TRIE HSlip.
The following extract from a private letter
written by a gentleman of mature intellect,
and one of the most conservative and well
informed citizens of South-western Georgia,
we commeDd to the careful perusal of our peo
ple. Though not intended for publication, we
have taken the liberty of presenting it to our
readers.
While we do not entirely agree with our
correspondent in his gloomy forebodings for
the future, of what was once a great and pros
perous country, we can very readily perceive
why bis mind is anxious and almost despairing
of Constitutional Government. He is right
in our opinion in the view which he takes as
to tbe character of the conflict now being
waged by the Radicals, (or as they should be
more properly styled) the Centralists against
the reconstruction policy of President Johnson.
The great question which underlies all their
plans, is that of bo shaping their conduct as
ultimately to enable them to sap the founda
tions of representative Government. The in
cessant twaddle about the rights of negroes is
the chaff with which they Beek to blind the
eyes of the Northern masses, to their uitimate
object of destroying Constitutional Govern
ment in this country. It is true that they ex
pect through the vote of the negroes, to be
enabled to carry out their general plans for
the ultimate overthrow of Republican Gov
ernment. And it iB for this very reason that
they seek to clothe tbe black people with
tqual political rights with the white race. If
they imagined for one moment that they would
be able with the ballots of white men alone,
to carry out their object, the questions of
negro citizenship and negro suffrage would be
immediately abandoned.
The whole aim, policy and conduct of tho
Centralists is to subvert our present system of
Representative Government, and raise up in
its place a great Central Directory, with un
limited power over all tbo States. They are
of the earne opinion with President Lincoln,
who compared the condition and rights of the
several Stateß ofthe Union to the different coun
ties composing the States. This is their grand
idea—a total obliteration of State rights and
State inws. This would enable them to build
up a Central Government at Washington, to
tally independent of the several States, and of
the people thereof.
But before this can be done radical changes
in the organic law are to be effected. The posi
tion of the States lately forming the Southern
Confederacy is such as to afford them the power
to control the legislation of the country. By
keeping the Representatives of tbe Southern
States out of their seats in Congress, they are
enabled to override the plainest provisions of
the Constitution and fasten upon the people of
tbe South a system of laws which places, the
ignorant aud debauched black race upon an
equal footing with the white people. One
mere step is needed to insure the power which
is requisite in the establishment of their system,
and that is negro suffrage. W ith the negro
vote of tbe South added to that of the Radical
vote North they may be able to destroy tbe
Government and rear upon its ruins a consoli
dated Directory with unlimited Power. They
have well chosen the time for this attempt.
The bad feelings engendered by the war be
tween the North and South, are kept alive at
the North by repeated and highly exaggerated
accounts of Southern sentiment, and Southern
hatred to the Government of the United States.
Legions of lying newspaper correspondents are
swarming over the rich valleys of the South,
manufacturing for Northern consumption, the
most highly colored statements of disloyalty
to the Government of the United States, and
cruel treatment to the black people in onr
midst. These reports are relied on to keep
tho Northern mind inflamed, and resentful
towards the South, while the leaders in Con
gress and out of it, are concocting their plans
tor the destruction of the Government.
That the Radicals are receiving the support
and countenance of foreign monarchists, we
have every reason to believe. The recent bill
ing and cooing between tbe Secretary of State,
and tbe French and English Ministers of
Foreign Affairs, is indicative of the interest
felt by the monarchists of Europe in the suc
cess of their Radical friends on this continent.
Foreign powers very well understand the
value to be placed upou tbe Radical dogma of
uaversal suffrage, They know that it is only
resorted to for tbo pm pose of establishing tbe
party in power, aud that once accomplished,
and the administration of the Government
fully Uudcr their control, the true objects and
aims will be asserted and established.
But we are delaying our readers from the
perusal of our friend’s letter :
Starksville, April 20th, 1866.
o a « • e ss o
What do you think of tha luture ? Is the
darksome sky clearing or coloring with blood?
Observe the political antagonism existing in
this country between the new and old ideas of
Government—the Conservatives controling the
Executive Department, advocating the restora
tion of the Government organized by the Con
stitution, and the Radicals controling the
Legislatute and Judicial Departments, advo
cating a strong Central Government, each
party bent on crushing the other, and say if
you can look hopefully into the future ? These
antagonisms must cease before confidence can
be had in the stability of our form of Govern
ment. The intense hatred existing between
these paities evidences too clearly that neither
will yield. The Conservatives ought not—the
Radicals, confident of their strength, will not.
The resu'.t is blood ? To that arbitrament
these embittered antagonisms will appeal.
Each party, conscious of its strength, will enter
hopelullv into the contest, hut which will
triumph in the end ? It is doubtful which is
the stronger party in this country. The Con
servatives have through the Executive, the
Attny and Navy, as long as they recognizs his
authority over them—the Conservative ele
ment of the North and the sympathy of the
South. The Radicals have the Feuians armed
and ready to meet the army—a large majority
at the North to sustain them and a certain race
in the South. I place the Feuians with the
Radicals because 1 believe the.-were intended
to operate on this side ot the water as the
military arm of the Radicals, because the
ostensible purpose of the Fenian organization
i- too chimerical for sensible men to have un
dertaken. Hence the conflict will be a donbt
lul OBe even if European Governments should
| regard it with as much apathy as they did the
, gigantic and heroic -struggle through which
j the stricken South has recently passed. But
! will they so regard it ? Our fathers inangu
; rated a system of Government wholly new and
unknown, but based on doctrines antagonistic
; to the European system. The spirit of the
j new system asserted itsdf in Europe--crowns
j tremoled bat finally crushed it there. They
desire# to crush it everywhere. They
I ignored the rights of the Confederate States
I by the laws of nations and particularly a3 de
fined by the Articles of the Convention
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAf.MORNING, MAY 9, 1866,
of Paris to which they permitt-d •;s. to become
a party because- their sympathies were against
us. Why ? We wer-j asserting in arms the
great right of self-government in accordance
with the doctrines of the Revolution of IT i 6
‘that government derives is just powers from
he consent of the governed,” and giving to the
world an illustration of its powers and energy.
Their sympathies w.re with the Federal Gov
ernment. Why? When it made war upon us it
of necessity abandoned the doctrine of self
government for it intended to impose its gov
ernment upon us not only without, but against
onr consent, thus assuming for the purpose in
hand the ideas upon which the" old system of
government is based.
Now the Conservatives desire to restore and
perpetuate the government of bur father's—
the Radicals to overthrow it and establish
another in it 6 stead. The struggle between the
old system and the new one inaugurated by
the Federal Constitution is about to commence,
not upon soil governed under the old system,
by the sp rit of Repul isiertTng itself
there, but upon soil dedicated by our fathers
to Democratic representative government, con
troled by the limitations of a written Coneti
tution, by the spirit of tbe old system assorting
tsalf here. The crowns of Europe wish the
pirit of Republicanism crushed—the Radicals
are seeking to crush it. Tlffnk you that they
will remain neutral pending such a conflict ?
Would it not be unreasonable to suppose that
they would ? True to themselves as they
always are, they will send armed sympathy to
tho Radicals, and thus find a realization of
their hopes ia the destruction of republican
ism. It this struggle come.-, may the South
not be called upon to aid conservatism ? The
future is gloomy, but some good may coma to
the South out of the conflict. Even amid the
smouldering ruins, Hope may rekindle its fires.
But I have said much more than I intended at
the outset, perhaps have said too much, if I
have, however, I know that I Lave said it to
one who feels as I feel upon those subjects—
one who cannot, if he wouid, feel otherwise.
General Grant.
It is amusing to witness tbe attempts of the
Radicals to draw General Graut into an appro
val of their policy, and an endorsement ol their
principles. For the last six weeks they have
been laboring to impress upon the Northern
mind the belief that the General is fully iden
tified with their schemes to deprive the South
ern Staffs of rightful representation in the
National Legislature. They have evtn gone
so far as to hoist his name at the head of the
Radical Press as their candidate for the next
Presidency. To give this bare-faced effrontery
a semblance of tiuihfuinees, the movement is
started in a paper published in Gaiena, 111.,
the place of General Grant’s residence. Ail
sorts of toadyism have been resorted to with a
view of winning the General’s countenance
and support. The country is flooded every
morning with silly telegrams from Radical
Headquarters at Washington, detailing tbe
most minute and uuimrortant acts of his every
day life. He takes a drive (he is known to be
fond of horses) and at once the wires tremble
with the important news. He calls into requi
sition the services of a barber to cut and trim
his bairish appendage, and the lighining flies
North, East and West, bearing on its wings
the gratifying intelligence. He dines at Wil
lard’s (he likes a good dinner aud does not
particularly object to a good glaes of wine)
and the country next morning is flooded with
the startling information. He touches his hat
to a maimed soldier (he is a polite gentleman)
and the whole Radical camp is in a biaze of
excitement over this wonderful display of kind
ness and gentility. These and a hundred other
incidents of like character and importance are
daily hashed up to tickle the palates and arouse
the enthusiasm of the Northein’masses.
Gen. Grant, in common with aii decent well
tninking men, must loathe this fulsome hdula
tion. He is too intelligent a man not to see
through this thin veil of hypocracy and cunn ng,
and must despise in his heart, the abject roois
and flatterers who think that he can be taught
or won by such shallow aud contemptible de
vices. The whole history of the man both
public and private, shows that he is the last
man in the country who could be influenced by
such trickery.
A brave soldier himself, he would scorn any
thing mean or cowardly ; a skillful and accom
plished General, ha can a pr elate and admire
courage and skill, genius and prowess in an
honorable adversary. Like all gentlemen,
educated to the profession of arms, ha is
sensitive to insult, and jealous of his honor.
Having been raised and educated in the Henry
Clay school of polities, his whole sympathies
are enlisted on the side of Constitutional Gov
eminent. We have no fear that he can even
so far forget bis early training or falsify his
public record, asj to Send his mighty name
and influence to carry out the mad schemes of
the destructionisfs. His whole course towards
the South since the surrender of the Confede
rate army, has been characterized by candor,
frankness, generosity and hindness towards
his conquered foes. To him mainly is the
country indebted tor the release of Gen. Bold
ly Johnson, Admiral Semmes, Hon. G. C.
Clay, and last though not least, Georgia’s
most esteemed and respected son, Hon. A. 11.
Stephens. We have reason to believe that
when the order was issued bo Stanton, last
May, for the arrest of Gen. Lee, that it was
through Gen Grant that it was revoked, who
stated that Gen. Lee hid surrendered to him
as the military head of tha United States forces,
and that he had given his word a3 a gentle
men and officer, that Lee should not be mo
lested, and that it the order for hia arrest was
not revoked iie coula nc longer retain his com
mission. Stanton dared not make this issue,
and the disgraceful order was revoked.
But above all, we believe that General
Grant isatiue trend to republican institu
tions, and is anxious to have this Govern
ment perpetuated, as it came from the hands
of our fathers. He cannot, therefore, approve
the course of those who are seeking to destroy
its greit Federative ft a! are. and establish upon
its ruins a great Central Directory with un
limited power. He is ta friend of represen
tative government, and wo do not believe sym
pathises with those who would deprive the
people of eleven States of this Union of a lair
and proper representation in the common
Government. We have seen nothing in the
conduct of General Grant, either before, or
during, or since the war which shows that he
in the slightest decree approves of the con
duct of Chase, Stevens, and Sumner. On the
contrary, his whole course has been marked
by kindness, moderation and justice towaids
the Southern States and the men lately in arms
against him.
A full length portrait o M. Porsird. toe
French dramut.H, i.- to te p.a;-j one of t -•
Departments of the Hotel de V: 1 . 0 1* he
town of Vienna, at the expense of the munici
pality.
I The Proposed Tax oa Colton.
: - consumption of cotton in any
on yj*r was in 1860; when the whole amount
>•* United Slates was about 400,000,-
000 pounds ; and ot all Europe 1,844,710,000 ;
: ‘k !i f ln 2.244,700,000 pounds equal to
about®,ooo.ooo baies of American cotton, of
45i> pda mis each.
it re® th; o consumption of cotton an ex
cessive supply of cotton fabrics was made,
and the over supply wouid probably have
cause# serious cheek to this branch of indus
try naif it not baea for the war. We may as
sume, then, that whenever, in the next six or
seven Jjears. the total supply of cotton shall
be- qtili to 5.000 000 American bales, there
wil bp cotton enough.
\\ there is cotton enough, the price
wdl bwregulated in Liverpool by the price at
which »the countries where cotton is most
cheaply produced can afford to continue and
iacfeafi its cultivation, even though such
c nutrias may each produce a comparatively
small of the total supply. If we impose
a tax upon American cottoD, the countries
thus regulate the price will be In
dia. jjMid B.azil. Europe consumed in
1865. |J89;600,000 pounds of cotton, equal to
' jwSSfMmfcvea.n bales of <155 puunds -tsaetL.
U? Ibis. ter 2,200.000 bales were from India,'
Egypt, Brazil, and other countries outside of
the United States. *
Iu this year, 1866, it is not likely that there
will be any increase, but the crop planted for
delivery next year will have been planted un
der the stimulus ot a price of from 35 to 50
cents per pound in gold iu Liverpool. It may,
therefore, ba said that the crop of countries
other than (lie United States planted this
soring for delivery in twelve months trom No
vember 1 1866, to November 1, 1867, will be
fully equal to 2,500,000 baies of American cot
ton.
If the United States should this year pro
duce 2,600,000 bales of cotton, there will be a
full supply in 1867. But while many believe
even a larger quantity, it can hardly be ex
pected that so much will be raised, and it
might therefore be said that cotton would for
one year bear a tax as high as that recom
mend'd by' the Revenue Commission, viz, 5
cents per pound. But is it not almost certain
that the total crop delivered in 1868 will be in
excess of the demand ? Is it not tolerably
cure that onr crop next year will be 3,000,000?
Moreover, if the price brought by the crop
now planted is so high as to warrant a tax of
5 cents per pound, will it not estimate a larger
product in other countries as well as here ?
We do net think our necessities warrant even
a temporary departure from a souud principle
of political economy, by taxing a raw material,
one of the chief produeis of our agriculture,
ia such manner as to give a dangerous stimu
lus to the production of other countries. If
our revenue were insufficient there might be an
excuse, but with an ample revenue there can
be none. But, if we must tax cotton at all, 5
cents per pound is too high, for the reason that
it will soon represent more than the difference
iu value between the American and East India
cotton. The cotton of Egypt and Brazil is
better than our own, and will therefore always
take precedence in the English market. The
largest supply of foreign,cotton Is the East In
dian or Surat. This formerly sold at about
two-th'irds the price of American, but the im
provements in machinery for the manufacture
of short staple cottou have caused Surats to
average nearly three-ifourths of the value of
American cotton.
Now, wi:h only a full supply of all descrip
tions cf coitoi l —without a surplus—the aver
age price cannot be expected to rule above 16
cents ia gold, free horn taxes. But suppose
tho average to be 20 cents, free from taxes ;
the Surat would bring 17J cents and tho Amer
ican about 22 cents. It we then add the tax
of 6 cents, we put American at 27 cents. Tbe
margin between it and Suratg would be far
greater than the difference in value, and either
our taxed cotton would be piled up, and ‘the
product decreased-, or the attempt to collect
the tax trom foreign countries would fail, and
our own producers of cotton would pay it,—
The Georgia Dead at Gettysburg.
The Columbus Enquirer says : Dr. Camak,
of Athens, Ga., who has lately visited the lo
cality, gives the following interesting informa
tion in reference to the battle field of Get
tysburg and the Georgia soldiers who fell
and are buried there :
Our army passed over a space seven miles
long by three, wide, and our dead are buried
within these twenty-one square miles. The
following list of graves of Georgia soldiers that
can easily be identified was furnished Dr. Camak
by Mr. H. Warren, who lives fin the vicinity.
Mr. Warren says that he feels sure of the iden
tification of these, and that there may b 8 more
whose graves can be distinguished:
Joseph Powell, 38th Ga; J Branch, 61st Ga;
Lieut Wood, 38th Ga; Frank Botts, 61st Ga;
Giint Buchuler, 61st Ga; J N Harboro, 61st Ga;
flaps C M Ballard, Bth Ga; Wm Young, Cos A,
6lst Ga; Maj P Brensn, 61st Ga; CewJ Wasden,
22 1 Ga; Capt J W Lander. 22d Ga; Capt Wm
Lee; Capt S W Glass, Cos E, 63d Ga; Capt At
kin-, Cos A, 53d Ga; P Lynch, Cos F. 13th Ga; Lt
W Alichum, Cos B, 13th Ga; W B Butler, Go H,
4th Ga; T Howell, CoE, 3d Ga; James Conner,
Cos H, Bth Ga ;J T Bladen, Cos E, 13th Ga ;
Richard Janlt, Cos F, 51st Ga ; W Brueeweil,
Cos G. 49ih Ga ; Llsut C L Walker Cos F, 26th
Ga, E F Johnson, Cos I, Bth Ga ; E A Ward ,Cos
C, 50th Ga ; J R Ciosby, Cos B 16th Ga ; J L
Reed, CoC, 16th Ga ; J It B Nicholas, Cobb’s
Legion, W B Elrod, 16th Ga ; J C Odom or
Adam 18'h Ga ;J A Unis. Cos E. Cobb’s Leg
gion ;W P Hubbard, Cos H, 18th Ga ; J E
Davis, Cos I, 11th Ga ; G W Gilbert Cos I 11th
Ga ; Corp or C■ pt Win, Cos H, 11th Ga ; W H
Watson, Cos K, 11th Ga ;L J W Bunn, Cos K,
11th Ga ; Capt J M D Bond, 53d Ga ; Sergt
Allred Burch, 50oh Ga ; Lieut Col Hearse, 50th
Ga ; Capt Buckhalter, 50th Ga ; E Newton, Cos
A, 50th Ga ; Capt E M D, Cos A, 50th Ga ; J F
Weekly, Cos I, 50th Ga ; T H Lawrence, Cos G,
24th Ga ; W F Brown, Cos B, 15th Ga ; W F
Noah. Cos G,- 9th Ga ; Sergt W L Brenner, Cos
K, 51st Ga ; G A Bagly, Cos A, 10th Ga ; J B
ionseler, 24th Ga ; J B Willonghby, Cos G,
38th Ga ; N S Puah, Cobb’s Legion ; Lieut J
W Cheeeooro ; C C Brook, Georgia Legion ;
Noah C Strickland, Jackson Cos. Ga ; T R Bar
rett. Cos 11, Georgia LegioD ; Lieut E F Smith,
Cos E. Georgia Legion ; Lieut T Howza, Cos C,
Georgia Legion ; W T Morgan, 35th Ga ; T
Herris, 35,!i Ga ; Lieut J f Key, Cos E, 10th
Ga ; H A Morrow, Cos E, 10th Ga.
la reference to the present condition of the
field cf battle, Dr. Camak says : “In gome
casts tho graves have been ploughed over,
but in very few instances ; but by another
year many wiil be.’’
Dr. C. proposes the purchase of a spot on the
battle field as a burial ground for all our dead
and we commend this suggestion to the con
siderate of the peoole o£ tho State. He says :
‘At the School House Hospital three hundred
of our men are buried. This place can be pur
chased, say six acres, at SSO per acre. Can we
not have all our burled soldiers removed to
this spot?” The purchase of the place is of
course aa easy matter, so far as raising of the
sma-l sum required is concerned, but it is
proper that the question should be canvassed
and public sentiment in reference to it mani
fested, as all part3 of the State are interested
in anything that concerns the honored Southern
dead at Gettysburg. If the proposition re
ceives favo-able consideration —as we doubt
not it will—the means of raising the sum ne
cessary to improve the grounds, collect the re
mains of the dead, and put up suitable tomb
stone, can next be considered.
Those who de ire further cr more particular
information concerning the Confederate dead
at Gettysburg can address Mr. H. Warren,
Gettysburg, Pa. Dr. Camak says his statements
may be relied on.
MM. Do Henri Fabre aad Franz have placed
before the P-»ria Academy of Science their dis
covery of ti: means for transmuting silver,
copper and quicksilver into gold.
i he hero of Tennyson's forthcoming poem is
;'• i'U.dy Dans Lucretius Caras, the Roman
didactic pr.)-!. wl.c fell by his own hand at the
age of forty three, having been driven mad by
a love phiiter administered to him.
OIR WASHiIVdTiM LETTER.
POLITICAL NEWS AND OOSJIP IS THK FEDERAL
CAPITAL
(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Washington, Thursday, -April 26.
The events cf the last week, in disclosing
dissensions that prevail in the Radical camp,
have done much to strengthen the position of
the President. There is a terrible flare up in
Reconstruction Committee, and that junto of
legislative wiseacres are at loggerheads, once
more, on the subject of their report. The news
papers are blamed for this. The report was
fully agreed upon on Saturday last, and it was
intended that its official promulgation should
have startled the country on Monday ; but the
pryiDg propensities of the Washington news
paper correspondents prevailed against all the
precautions of Coagressioual secrecy ; and what
the framers of the report term its “premature”
publication was the result. The substance of
the recommendations agreed upou by the
Committee was very’gener! ITTy known" £o?b 'on
Sunday, and was that night telegraphed to the
press in all directions, North and South. The
consequence was that
a hornet's nest
was raised about the ears of the Committee by
those of their own party whose views the report
happened not exactly to suit, Under the sud
den pressure of opposition, several of the more
weak kneed amongst the committee-men gave
way ; a meeting of the Committee was hastily
summoned, and. amidst much angry wrangling,
the report which had cost so much time and
labor was reconsidered and rejected. The
general impression now is that the Committee
will not be able to agree on any recommenda
tions whatever ; and it is known that five ouc
of its fifteen members are in favor of adjourn
ing sine die, without action. All this, as 1 have
said, goes far towards helping the President and
the Conservatives, in proving to the country
that the Radicals have, in reality, no settled
policy, aud that their course leads directly to
political misrule and anarchy. But the lack
of unity in their party counsels seems to im
pose no check upon the introduction of
VIOLENT MEA-_UH.ES
into Congiess by the leading Radical agitators.
Two of the latest and most notable of these
measures are: First, the project now boldly
avowed, of filling the Post Offices and other
Federal appointments in the South with negro
appointees, in default ot whites sufficiently
“loyal” to take the iron-clad oath ; and,
Secondly, the proposition urged by Senator
Henderson to stop the pay of all civil officers
appointed by the President, in cases where such
appointments have not been confirmed .by the
Senate. On the pleasant results to follow the
first mentioned scheme, if put in practice, I need
not dwell; the other would be a gross assault
upon the Executive privilege, in violation of
all precedent, courtesy and reason, and would,
in fact, render the President a mere puppet in
the hands of Congress. Yet both these plans
to thwart the President’s policy have been for
mally broached and are every day openly can
vassed on the floors of Congress.
THE NEW TAX BILL
reported yesterday by the Committee of Ways
and Means of the House of Representatives,
just now divides, with political topics, the talk
of the town. As it is not likely that the bill
will receive any material modifications at tbe
hands of Congress, its provisions are regarded
with great interest. For the benefit of your
business readers you will doubtless reproduce
in the Chronicle & Sentinel the abstract of the
bill, which appears in the papers this morning.
The features ot the measure most interesting to
the general leader are these : It reduces the
total burden of taxation by about fifty mil
lions of dollars; It taxes the amount of per
sona) income exempt from taxation at SI,OOO,
instead of S6OO, as under the present law ; it
reduces the present tax of 35 cents per pound
on smoking tobacco to 10 cents per pound; and
lastly, it increases the tax on cotton from two
cents to fivecentsperlb. The last item (which
I thought worth telegraphing specially to you
yesterday) will cause a very unpleasant sensa
tion amongst the large cotton holders through
out the South, and, taken in connection with
the heavy decline of the staple at Liverpool,
will be apt to produce a panic in the American
cotton market. The great Express Companies
of the country made a desperate effort to have
tax on their business reduced, and even em
ployed counsel (Mr. Seward, nephew of the
Secretary of State) to plead their cause before
the Committee; but instead of yielding to their
solicitations, the Committee recommend the
increase of the tax upon the gross receipts of
Express from three to five per
cent.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
Congress is just now in a ferment over the
Northern Pacific Railroad bill. This is a cu
rious measure, and, inasmuch as it involves
some sixty or seventy millions of the public
money, there is a tremendous lobby interest
working to get the bill through. Tho provi
sions of the bill may be given in a nut-shell.
Some years ago Congress granted a charter to
tho Northern Pacific Railroad, conveying to the
Company a part of a strip of land forty miles
wide—twenty miles on either side of the road—
to assist in the completion of the great work.
The Company, disappointed in finding capital
ists ready to advance funds for the construction
of the road upon iho security of these lauds in
the wilderness, come back to Congress and as-k
the Government to guarantee the payment of
the interest on its stock for twenty years,
taking as security for the interest thus guaran
tied, ome half of the land already granted by Con.
gras in aid of the scheme. The strongest men
of all po itical hues, in Congress denounce the
bill as nothing more than a huge swindle upon
the treasury; but, in these days of venal poli
ticians and legislators, it is impossible to pre
dict the nitimate fate of the measure.
STATUS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Rumor has it that the President will soon
issue another proclamation in regard to the
status of the Southern States, including Texas,
stating explicitly that martial law ia at an end,
and the writ of habeas corpus restored. It v.ill
be a happy day for the Sonth when civil law
is once more supreme throughout her terri
tory.
THE P4BDON BUSINESS
at the White House has almost ceased. The
President, however, pardoned a batch of fifty
South CaroliEians under the tw -nty thousand
dollar clause a day or two ago. Mayor Mon
roe and Alderman Nixon, of New Orlenns, are
here, seeking “Executive clemency.” But
they are by no means sanguine of success.
OEOP.GIA POSTAL MATTERS.
The following extract from this week’s official
bulletin of po3ta! changes will be of interest to
your country readers :
Gkoroia— Contract with Samuel A.-ked, ser
vice from Athens to Hartwell, 46 miles, aud
back, tnree times a week’, from Ist July.
With John C. Addison, service from Clarks
ville to Carnesviile, 30 milts, and back, once a
week, from Ist July.
Also, for services from Athens, by Harmony
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXV NO. 20.
Grove, etc., to Clarksville, 62 1-2. miles, and
back, twine a week
With Samuel E. Peacock, of Cuthbert, Geor
gia, service from Columbus to Cuthbert, 62
miles, and hack, three times a week.
Route 6074, Ga., Roms to Dirttowu, is ex
tended to Summerville, and contract ordered
with James Brownlow, of Rome, l'or'ouce a
week service.
Butternut.
INTERESTING NOTES OF EVENTS AND POLITICS IN THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Washington, Friday, April 27.
Things begin to look brighter. The vigor
which the President is displaying in the remo
val of the more noisy radical office-holders in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey causes much
trepidation amongst the rank aud file ot the
opponents of Restoration, and proportionately
encourages the moderate and conservative
Republicans, who were growing nervous and
restive under the appellations of “traitors”
and “copperheads.’’ so constantly and bitterly
applied' tb’ ttfeTn'^'^ u Thstt Wing of their pfcrty
which follows the lead of Thad. Stevens. The
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE
of a public and private character, which reach
es os from various parts of the country, and
especially from the West, also indicates a sal
utary revolution of public sentiment. The
people of the West, whose interests are largely
involved in the prosperity of the South, are
getting impatient at the manifest indifference
of Congress to the rights and representation of
the Southern States. This is more particularly
the case in the Southern parts ot Oh o, Indiana
and Illinois. Mis<ouri is now known to be
almost a unit against the Radicals ; and Ma
ryland, in spite of tbe odious registry law
which disfranchises four-fifths of her citizens,
will, at the next election, utterly repudiate the
bitter and uncompromising Radicals who, hav
ing been elected by force and fraud, now form
the majority of her delegation in Congress.—
And oven in New England, we have the evi
dence of the late Connecticut election, in
which the large Republican majority of last
year was reduced to a merely nominal figure,
—that the leaven of conservatism and the
sober second thought is working amongst the
masses.
CABINET MAKING.
A plan is at last suggested by which the
President will be able, if he chooses, to check
mate the threat of the majority of the Senate
that they will not allow any change in the ex
isting Cabinet. He can certainly dismiss any
member of the Cabinet at will ; and, if the
Senate should refuse to confirm the successors
whom he may appoint, he can very well afford
to leave the positions vacant. The business of
tho various F.xecutive Departments would
scarcely be embarrassed by the absence of their
nominal Heads ; for the real Hoads—the Chief
Clerks—would be at their posts, and would
rank as Secretaries ad interim, and under their
management the whole machinery of the Gov
ernment would run as smoothly as ever. It
may be said that it would be a novelty for a
President to attempt to administer the Gov
ernment without Cabinet Counsellors, but it
may well be doubted whether it would not be
better for Mr. Johnson to do without such
counsellors altogether, rather than to have
them as bitterly hostile as some of those who
now surround him.
THE TAX BILL AND THE TARIFF.
The House of Repiesentatives will not take
up the new Tax or the Internal Revenue Bill
until next Monday week, but it is generally
admitted that they will then pass it without
much opposition. The Committee of Ways
and Means having got this measnro off their
hands, are now busy perfecting an ameaded
tariff. I fear that there is a clear majority of
the Committee iu favor of an increase of du
ties ; so that the financial legislation of this
Congress is likely to be doubly protective to
the manufacturing interest—first by reducing
the tax on home manufactures, and secondly,
by increasing the duties on imported goods.—
In neither of these measures has any regard
been paid to the interests of consumers.
THE PAYMENT OF THE WAR TAX IN THE SOUTH.
One of the measures on which the Recon'
struction Committee are agreed to report
favorably, is to allow the Southern States ten
years to pay their portion of the direct war
tax, levied by Congress in 1862. This they
consider a special favor anl concession. It is
intended as a sugar-coating for tho pill of
negro suffrage within fen years, which they
hope to force down the Southern throat. They
will also recommend that all persons who held
office of any kind under the Confederate Gov'
erument shall be forever disqualified from
holding office under the Government of the
United States.
MERE MENTION.
Amongst other items of current news and gossip
the following will interest your readers: Gen.
Sickles, Commanding at Charleston, has been
relieved, and is appointed United States Minis
ter to the Hague. This ia a sore blow to
James Watson Webb, who was anxious to ex
change his present mission to Brazil for that to
Holland. The bill for the admission of Color
ado, which has passed the Senate, will be
rushed through tho House in a hurry. The
negro criminals who were pardoned on con
dition of goiog-to Louisiana, have managed to
escaped from those who had them in charge and
are now again at large in the midst of our
community. They have no idea of going to
work, Speaker Colfax says that Congress will
not adjourn until July. The President has
pardoned Mayor Monroe and Alderman Nixon,
of New Orleans ; and they have started back
to that city to enter upon their official duties.
Attorney General Speed has engaged Messrs.
Evarts, Clifford and Rousseau to assist him in
the prosecution of the trial of Jefferson Davis.
The President lately remarked to a friend that
he considered Thad. Stevens a much worse
traitor than C. C. Clay. Butternut.
Prof Sybel, the Prussian historian, is in
Paris, searching the imperial archives for ma
teriais for a work on the French revolution.
By the raising of the sunken ships in the
harbor of Sebastapol, Russia, thirty-six tone of
iron, tweive hundred cannon, four thousand
balls, *welv3 thousand cast iron ballast pigs,
one hundred chain cables, and a iarge quantity
of miscellaneous stores were recovered.
The London and Northwestern Railway Com
pany intends putting a train on the road to
run express between London and Liverpool
without stopping at any of the intermediate
stations. Water wiil be taken up from a trench
at Rugby, while the train is in motion, without
any perceptible Peking of the speed. Smo
king and refreshment rooms will be attached
to the traiD. which will accomplish the distance
of two hundred and seven miles in four hours.
Mr. Boxall of the Royal Academy, has been
appointed Director of the National Gallery of
Art, Loudon, in the room of the late Sir Chas
Eastiake. Sir Ch irles himself appointed Mr.
Boxall to act for him during his illness, The
new director has spent his Lfe in the study of
the works of the old painters, and enjoys the
highest reputation as a judici us art critic As
a painter he has been represented, but not fre
quently, on the walls of the Academy, and is
deeply versed in the literature ol art.
The Ladies of Baltimore—Baltimore Charily.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, )
Milledgkviue, Ga„ 23d April, 1860. j
Information has reached this Department
that the Managers of the Ladies Southern Re
lief Society, of Baltimore, in the exercise of an
abounding and elevated charity, had caused to
be shipped to Savannah, subject to my order,
five hundred barrels, containing flour, meal
and bacon, “for distribution among our truly
poor suffering white people," and that they “de
sire that the appropriation shoxdd be dUrib'ded
as to afford the greateit relief to the greatest nunv
her of the really deserving poor and suffering
women and children; 1 ’ to effect which distribu
tion, they have also appropriated the sum of
two thousand dollars : And the consignees,
as well as the Presidents of the Central and At
lantic and Gulf Railroads, having generously
offered to aid the enterprise by personal ser
vice, and by transportation free of charge, (as
other persons and Presidents of Railroads
doubtless will do);for the purpose, therefore,
of distributing in Congressional Districts, as
the most eligible primaiy divisions of the
State, they being organized with a view to the
nearest attainable equality in population, I
make and publish the following order and re
quests :
~'l.' Ifi'ttieTMfnrand behalf of-the whole
people of Georgia, and especially of the des
titute and suffering, I tender most hearty
thanks to the dispensers of th>s munificent
boon, whom 1 would designate, by a borrow
ed appellation, which blends in touching asso
ciation the ideas of a tender womanly relation
and of a Divine attribute, “Sisters of Mercy.”
Such, indeed, are these noble women of Balti
more. Heaven’s blessings wait upon them.
2. Messrs Crane AJGraybilt, of Savannah,
the consignees, are requested to divide the
consignment into seven parts, as nearly equal
as possible, reference being had to the kinds
and quantities of tho articles composing it.
And delivering one portion in Savannah as
hereinafter provided, will ship ono of ihe six
remaining to each of the lollowing points,
viz : To Oglethrope, consigned to the Hon.
Phillip Cook—to Newnan, consigned to the
Hon. Hugh Buchanan—to Macon, consigned to
the Hon. Thos. Hardeman, Jr.—to Augusta,
consigned to Porter Fleming, Esq.—to Athens,
consigned to the Hon. J. H. Christy—to At
lanta, consigned to A. K. Seago, Esq. ’
3. The lollowing gentlemen (the first
named in each oaso acting as chairman) are
requested to take charge of the several con
signments for their respective Congressional
Districts, and act as committees of distribu
tion, viz : For the Ist District, Messrs. Solo
mon Cohen, John Scriveu and James L.
Seward—tor the 2nd, Messrs. Phillip Cook,
A. S. Cults and David A, Vason—for the 3rd,
Messrs. Hugh Buchanan, R. A. T. Ridley and
J. F. J.ihnson—for the 4lh, Messrs. E G.
Oabanisß, Thos. Hardeman, Jr., and Jeremiah
Beal—for the sth, Messrs. J. D. Matthews,
Samuel Barnett and Porter Fleming—for the
6th, Messrs. J H. Christy, J. S. Gholstcu and
Thomas Morris—for the 7th, Messrs. Wm. T.
Wofford, J. A. W, Johnson and A. K. Seago.
The consignee in each District will notify the
other members of his committee, so soon as
he may receive the consignment, and appoint
a day for their meeting at the place of deliv
ery. Each committee is authorized to appoint
necessary assistants, and sub-agents, and will
act with special reference to the declared
wishes of the donors. Bills of expenses una
voidably incurred, will be presented at this
office for payment.
4. Editors, throughout the State, willing to
connect themselves 'with this laudable charity,
are requested to give this order a few inser
tions.
5. Let a copy of this order be forwarded to
Wm. Urichton, Esq , Baltimore, who is request
ed to present it to the Managers ot the Ladies
So. Belief Fair, as a truthful, though imperfect,
expression of Georgia’s gratitude. Let copies
be forwarded also to Messrs. Crane & Gravbill,
Savannah, to each member of the several
committees appointed, and to each President
oi a Railroad in Georgia.
Charles J. Jenkins,
Governor.
Autograph Letter ot the Queen to Hr.
Peabody.
The following graceful letter has been written
by the Queen to Mr. Peabody.
Windsor Castle, March 28, 186 G.
The Queen hears that Mr. Peabody intends
shortly to return to America, and she would be
sorry that he should leave England without
being assured by herself how deeply she appre
ciates the noble act of more than princely mu
nificence by which he has sought to relieve the
the wants of the poorer classes of her subjects
residing in London. It is an act, as the Queen
believes, wholly without parallel, and which will
carry its best reward in the consciousness of
having contributed so largely to the assistance
of those who can little help themselves. The
Queen would not, however, have been satisfied
without giving Mr. Peabody some public mark
of her sense of his munificenc, and she would
gladly have conferred upon him either a Baro.i
etcy or the Grand Cross of the Order of the
Bath, that she nnderstands Mr. Peabody to feel
himself debarred from accepting such distinc
tions. It only remains, therefore, for the Queen
to give Mr. Peabody this assurance of her per
sonal feelings, which she would further wish to
mark by asking him to accept a miniature por
trait of herself, which she will; desire to have
painted for him, and which when finished, can
either be sent to him to America, or given to
him on tile return which she rejoices to hear,
he meditates to the country that owes him so
much.’’
The London Times says ; “It is to an Amer
can that we owe far the greatest boon ever
given to the poor of London, and it is to a citi
zen of the United States the Queen has
thought it right to address this personal ex
pression of gratitude. We cannot but believe
that such an occurrence will have no little in
fluence in augmenting the good feeling which
should prevail between these two countries. Mr.
Mr. Peabody has done more to foster among
us a kindly feeling for hts countrymen than
couid have been effected by a generation
of statesmen, and the Queen’s letter will, we
hope, be received by the Americans as a con
spicuous evidence of the friendly regard toward
them which such acts have called forth on our
part. Between no two countries are friendly
relations mpre natural than between England
and America, and we trust that this story of
munificence and of gratitude may be long re
membered in both nations as a pledge of peace
and friendship.”
Mr. Peabody’s Reply to the Queen.
Mr. Peabody has sent the following reply to
the Queen s letter, through Earl Russell, dated
Aprif 3d :
“Madam—l feel sensibly my inability to ex
press in adequate terms the gratification with
which I have read the letter which your Maj
esty done me the high honor of transmit
ting By the hands of Earl Russel on the occa
sion. which has attracted your Majesty’s at
tention, of setting apart a portjon of my prop*
erty to ameliorate the condition and augment
the comforts of the poor of London.
“I have been actuated by a deep sense of
gratitude to God, who has blessed me with
prosperity, and of attachment to this great
country, where, under your Majesty’s benign
rule, I have received so mnch personal kindness
and enjoyed so many years of happiness.
“Next to the approval of my conscience, I
shall always prize the assurance which your
letter conveys to me of the approbation of the
Queen of England, whose wbole life has attest
ed that tier exalted station has in no degree
distinguishad her sympathy with the humblest
of her subjects.
“The portrait which your Majesty is gra
ciously plersjcjto bfs:ow oa racjl shall regarded
at the rnost|preciouP| l ieiiloo:n thit lean leavej n
the land of my birtu, where, together with
the letter which vour Majesty has addressed to
me, it will ever be’regarded as evidence of the
kindly feeling of the Queen of the United
Kingdom towards a c:t:z.-n of the United
States.
The Bankrupt Bill.—me Washington cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun, writes as
follow.,:
“The Bankrupt Bill is not only to be again
brought forward, but is likely to be enacted.—
Its friends claim for it a majority of twenty in
the House. It has been defeated on two occa
sions. at this session, by absenteeism and by
di puted detaiis. But it is now thought, that,
with some slight modifications, it will pais
both Houses.”