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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXV. Cljronirlf 'c fpiitinpl. HENRY MOORE, A. R. WRIGHT, Cowardly Utterances Tne Cincinnati Gaz-tte (do not forget the natn ; of the paper) inform? its readers In a recent issue that “thocalamities of the South, furoi-b cau?., for uumixed joy and unbounded entbiniaHfn.’' Os similar, it not altogether so diabolical import, are sundry other effu sions of radical wrath which we have from time to time observed in their appointed organs. A few days ago we took occasion to com mend the pn seat attitude towards the South ern people of several prominent gentlemen who had been cornspicuoue for their anti slavery records but who Could exhibit Home IWSwJiSJ* fee. We tear that such instance* are far from being, at the present timoat least, fair exposi tions of the popular rnlnd at tho North to wards uv There is reason to apprehend that, if the masses there do not cordially endorse smh sentiments us those which we have quoted from the Cincinnati Gazette, their sympathies liu in that direction. Wo have pronounced the utterances cor ward ly ; for whilst true courage is always generous to an overpowered adversary, the craven and the 4>ase are tyrannical and ctuel. We can Marceiy conceive of a more malignant temper than is evinced toward us in the fore going extract. Look at the facts. We have been conquered ; our territory has been scourged in every part; the graves of our be loved ones are strewed all over the land-; the living have been coVored with sackcloth and mourning ; our property has been wrested from us by tho iron gloved baud of war, aud mul titude? to day are suffering for the very neces sities of life, in the midst of all this suffering we are not defiant. Wo have complied with every demand which was made upon us. Wo have taken oaths, all that we could. Wo have surrendered our army, have disbanded our ar mies, have passed all the law? and “constitu tional amendments’’ which have been required at our hands ; have invested our late slaves wiili as many privileges as they enjoy in Ohio; have knocked at the door of Congress for re-ad misHion to the seals which were voluntarily vacated ; have Bent our merchants by hundreds aud thousands to purchase goods in Northern markets ; have paid millions of dollars (poor as we are) to the f ederal tax collectors ; have doue, in short, all that mortal man could do to demonstrate his willingness to return to the Union ; hut notwithstanding all, our calamities —our mourning women and children, uur im poverished orphans, our desolated couutry— are viewed by a man iu Cincinnati with "un mixed joy ami unbounded enthusiasm !”—tho wretch -the monster! There is no word in (lie vocabulary which can adequately charac terize such a creature. There are probably two rjiotives prompting these fiendish exultations. One is the gratifi cation which is afforded to that vindictive temper, which Is excessive in all oowardly natures. This, however, is not, we conceive, the chief source whence such utterances draw their inspiration. These radicals are not fa natical enough to indulge their temper with out un ulterior object. By a cruel mocking of our calamities, they seek to inllame our pas sioos und to elicit from us such words and deeds as may luruish materials for strengthen ing their party with the Northern' masses.— 'they know that it is “not iu nature’’ to bear such monstrous outrages upon our sensibilities, as these expressions are titted to inflict; and when our exasperated pebple return fury for lury,. und malice tor malice, this is just the reply which they covet. 11l their own distor ted versions they hasten to proclaim it as evi dence thu< the frouth only seeks restoration to political privileges,in order to make new com binations for the destruction of the Govern ment, The pec. pie believe, and the party thrives. Under these ciioumsiuuces our wisdom con* slsta iu disappointing such expectations. Lot us pteserve our temper. Let us be cool. Let us show that we occupy an elevation too high to he reachedjhy the assaults of these groveN lug cowards. Let these curs bark ou, aud let us pursue our way heedless of their noise. We kn6w that it is easier to give than to follow such advice. It is hard to repress what we feel to he the only appropriate retaliations for such heartless jeers. But let our philosophy and our religion be invoked to utdiu the work. Let the one retain a temper which we cannot indulge without persoual damage, and let the other refer the rase to Hint who has said— “ Vengeance is mine, 1 will repay.” In the mean time we would refer (he editor of the Cincinnati paper to tiie words of a certain wise man, which may be found in the booa of l’roverbs, 17th chapter and sth verse. Loyalty. A distinguished stat< sman and native Geor gian said a short time since “ that he regretted very much that our people were so much pre judiced a raiust the word Loyal ; that it was a good and noble word ; meaning, Fidelity, true to the laws, allegiance founded upon law.” This is unquestionably a signification of the term, but it is the secondary meaning, aud in this Sense the word has all the merits which the distinguished Georgian claims for it. Webster defines the primary meaning of the word to lie " Faithful to i'rinoe or Superior " and a i.qYalct to be a persou who "adheres to his sovereign.” Popular prejudice is unquestionably against the word aud its derivatives. It conveys to the popular mind the impression which arises in attachment and fealty to a person, without regard to questions of right, rather than a faith rut di i h uge of duty, based upon a conviction of the high obligations of law. Historical associations and traditions strength en this impression, aud tend to increase rather than diminish the aversion which prevails. This word comes to us from the polities of monarchical Europe, and indicates the political tea s which Emperors, Kings and Princes ap ply to their subjects. "Is he foyui to the crown '" was the test of British Premiers. — “lhe King expects yon to trust only those . to his interest?,” was the instruction by the Secretary of the Preteuder. Nor do the traditions which cluster around the memories of goad aud great men, and brave deeds whicU gave birth to the Ro puotie. increase its favor. The loyalist ot the Revolution— sustained George the Third ami Lord North against George Washington and the Continental Congress. The Generals who commanded the British forces in the revo lution. ttyled their colonial adherents whomjthe Americans denounced as lories and royalists loyalists. It was fiom these loyalists they detived their spies, guides, and allies in treachery and violence—making common cause with tyranny and the merciless savage for Burgoyne withiiis “Indians” and ‘•Loyalists’’ and Tarietcn and his bloody dragoons. We can see no good reason to regret this popular prejudice. Is there a special need for the popular use of the word ? Is there any special necessity to recall an obnexiou? term which will shift its meaning wbb the political tests of party power—which ‘ does keep alive sectional feuds and heart burning animosities —which does perpetuate recollections which should be buried—which will engender bit terness and strife, when peace and tran quility are so greatly to bedesired and so es sential to the public weal ? • Is not the repub lican simplicity of Union men greatly to be preferred, suggesting and perpetuating as it does the recollections of tha noblegt events of American history; asking only an allegiance firm, true, and unconditional in maintaining the Union a*it wis and ths conSiitn.io-i as it is; I illustrating the past by the unswerving j tion of Andrew Jackson, and the matchless m the present, the noble efforts of Andrew Johnson to preserve constitutional liberty to our country. 'the Eight Hour Movement. . Tne impracticable scheme—inaugurated by lazy humanitarians and Qulfcotic theorists— that the day shall be divided into three equal parte—one to be devoted to labor, one to rest und a third to recreation and improvement—is now before Congress. Having failed before all ciiciea of practical men who control and ought to control tire working interests of the country, and before all the State Legislatures, it i.s now presented to the dreamers and schemers of Congress, as a measure likely to meet their ap proval. And we shall not be surprised at such a result. The savans of that remarkable body seem to imagine that the industrial as well as political interests of the country are no more than a rusty old clock to be wound up and, regulated at their pleasure, and any measure that promises to enlist the approval of one class, without driving off a still larger c'.assj no matter how injurious it may be to the whole, is pretty certain to find favor in our present Na- t.onal Legis atnre. Their strength is made up of the shreds and patches of popular passion and prejudice, of wrongs and injuries, of in sult Hand outrages, perpetrated by tho many against the few, tho strong against the weak, and their policy is simply a drag net, cast into the cesspool of the body politic, from which they hope to fish up new elemonts of support They have gathered in largely of the sword iisb, and the black fish, the Cuttle with a goodly number of eels, and now they are fix ing their bait for the innocent and respectable gudgeons—tho working classes. We are de ceived in the intelligence of tho working men of this couutry if they accept the boon of these vote-fishers, even if it is offered them in State or Congressional euactments. The price of labor must be regulated by what it will pro duct). Most mechanical labor is regulated by the piece, or by the price earned by what are termed piece -hands, and it is easy to demon strate the injury the eight hour system will work to tho mechanic who is dependent on the results of his daily labor. Supposes tabio is worth $8 to the cabinet maker, aud he pays his workman $0 to make it. The labor required is sixteen hours, and the price paid the work man is $4 per day. It the eight hour rule is adopted, it will cost the employer $8 to get the table made. Does any workman suppose that the price of tho table will be increased to meet the reduced hours of labor? Will not rather the measure be the market value of the article produced ? Congress may declare that the Government employees shall only work eight hours per day, but the business of the navy aud army, and all the departments, will require an in crease of laborers corresponding to the loss of labor in the reduction of time. Does any man i appose that such increase will be made in the numbers, without a decrease iu the wages ? Else all the working expenses of the Govern ment would bo increased by about one fifth, and the mechanics and other dear people be required to pay additional taxation for this boon of two hours' idleness per day to the Government operatives—already the oest paid aud least worked employees on earth. The same rule applies to all private business. It ihe price of the article produced is advanced to meet the proposed advance in labor, the inevitable tendency is to diminish the. demand. Au exchange gives us a good illustration ou this point : ‘‘The builders wish employment. Few houses are now built, because of the high prices of material and labor. Evtry man who proposes to build a house counts the cost. His master onilder gives hint au estimate of the amount of days’ labor necessary, aud it forms the large item iu the expeuse. Do the laborers suppose that a man will build as readil_y when be finds that it will take four thousand five hundred days’ labor at two dollars a day as when it would take three thousaud six hun dred days’ labor at the same price ? Or do they imagine that they will iucrease the price ot buiidiug without affecting the amount of work whioh will be otfered them? The natu ral aud inevitable effect can only be to stop work. The adoption of the eight hour sys tem. therefore, would iu the eud, amount ouly to this, that laborers must either lose work, or else must work eight hours for four-fifths of the pay they would get for ten hours. This is a necessary result of the truth that labor is worth what it produces.” If contractors were to attempt to raise the price ot manufactured goods to meet this eight hour movement, the pioductions of tlie cheap labor of Europe would run them out of the market, and thus would the laborer loosq the goose that lays the golden egg. Tiukeriug with the aws of trade and labot is fraught only with folly and mischief ; it is unworthy even a place among the visionary hobbies and corrupt schemes of Congress, who, with all their mischief making have shown commendable skill in all matters of finance. The truth is the whole "eight hour move ment." is advocated more to furnisb food for political agitators, than from any regard for the amelioration of American labor. The linss Forgeries. Tiie New York papers contain detailed ac counts of the successful forgeries of John Ross, a late broker of that city. He managed to victimize various bauking firms to the extent of about a half million, and make his escape. His operations showed a good deal of adroit- : ness, and caused a considerable sensation in business circles. The following are all the losses that have been discovered, though a great m toy checks were out en other parties, aud other losses may come to light : Crontse A Cos $50,000 gold. Black A Spaulding 50.000 gold. David Groveebeck A Cos ...19,000 gold. Union Bank 130,000 gold. Continental Batik 100,000 gold. Total 349,000 # The Interior Court of Dooly couuty has posi tively relused to grant any licensee tor the re tail oi spirituous liquors in that county, though powerful appeals were made to them for the privilege. Jleeltag of the stockholder? of (be Jlllledge. vilie Railroad. The Stockholders of the Milledgeville Rail road held an adjourned meeting at the City Hall, yesterday morning. The hour appointed for the assembling of the Convention having arrived, the President, Hon. John P. King, took his seat, and directed the Secretary, Judge Olin, to read the minutes of the former meeting, which were confirmed. After the rending of th 9 minutes the Presi dent, in stating the object lor which the stock holders hari been convened, said that, for him self, he had not felt disposed to incur the ex penses incidental to the completion of the road, because of the high price of iron, and the lim ited resources of the Company; besides, the amount necessary to the accomplishment of the object ($250,0001 was not in the hands or at the command of the Company. The importance of the load to the public, however, and the fact of a decline in the price MJmtsammk & 4&l credit or the company, demanded that advan tage should be taken of these, and measures adopted looking to the speedy construction of the read. The call of stockholders was then ordered. Mr. Turner, of Hancock, moved to dispense with the call of the roll, ior the reason that much time would be consumed thereby. Mr. Phinizy, Jr., who with Messfs. Bothwell aud Gargan, represented the city of Augusta, opposed the motion. Hu wished to know the amount of Btock represented, by whom, and by what authority. After some discussion the views of these gen tlemen were harmonized, and the calling of the roll was omitted, aud a Committee on Proxies appointed. Messrs. John Phinizy, Jr., -of Augusta, Tur ner, of Hancock, and Wellborn, of Warren, constituted that committee. Having conferred and examined the author ity ior proxies, the committee reported the to tal number of shares represented by proxy to be seven thousand and thirty-five. The Committee’s report was adopted. Stockholders present were then directed to report to the Secretary the number of shares they represented. Compliance with the order revealed a representation, of two thousand four huudied and forty-nine shares. On motion, it was ordered that the Com pany issue bouds to tne amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of pushing forward the work on the road. After some discussion on a question of fi nance, the. Convention proceeded to the elec tion of a President and Board of ’ twelve Di rectors, with the following result : PRESIDENT. Hon. John P. King. DIRECTORS. B. B DaGraffenried, T. M. Turner, M. H: Wellborn, J. T. Gartrell, John Phinizy, Jr„ W. A. Ramßey, James T. Bothwell, Jostah Sibley, J. E. Marley, S. D. Heard, B. H. Warren, James Gargan, Their toiTu of office expires in October. The Secretary, by order of the chair, read a resolution, which wag adopted by the Board several months ago, providing for the appoint ment of a Finance Committee. The President deemed it advisable to renew that resolution, and suggested its amendment hj that the chair be empowered to appoint anew Committee. The amendment was offered and adopted. Messrs. Heard, Phinizy, J r., and Sibiey were appointed in accordance therewith. Mr. DcGraffenried desired to say to the Con vention that the citizens of Milledgeville were anxious that the road should be speedily fin ished. To that end they were willing to lend any assistance iu their power. He spoke, moreover, of the advantages offered by Mil ledgevilie as a place .where the Company’s machine shops could be erected. Said, wood was very plenty and cheap there, and that the water power was sufficient for any purposes whatever. He was confident that the sites for such buildings would be cheerfully given to the Company. The President assured the speaker that, at the proper time, due attention would be ac corded the proposition he made on the part of his constituency. There being no further business before it, the Convention adjourned. (Sen. J. B. Gordon. A call from this distinguished Georgian, who has so signally illustrated the prowess of our people, affords a striking illustration of the spirit with which leaders and soldiers “accept the situation,” by actively engaging in civil pursuits. The General is now residing at Brunswick, Georgia—is fully impressed with its rising importance, and is working energet ically to promote the growth of the city of his adoption. Ha avers that the people of Georgia are less alive to its importance as a seaport and point for building ships, than people abroad; aud that it will take but a few years to make it the lumber market on the Atlantic coast, from the Capes ot Florida to Heart’s Content. The General is also Vice President of an “Ac cidental Life Insurance Company,” He states that this enterprise is purely Southern and Georgian, and that while he has nothing to say against his friend Longstreet, he sees no reason why, having shared the extraordinary accidents of the field with him, lie should not enter vigorously into a competition in estimating and providing against the ordinary accidents ot life. Peat at ibe Fair. By no means the least interesting of the numerous attractive objects at the Ladies' Fair, now iu session at Masonic Hall, is an orig inal and native specimen of the above name. It is not Peter Fnnk, Pete the barber, nor Pet roleum, though possessing enough of the in flammable characteristics of the latter to be a near relative. Our Peat is of dark brown col or, and of very ancient lineage, being a legiti mate scion of the bogs ot Erin, and of a stock which constitutes the very substratum of that historic isle. To be more definite, it is a com | position of the branches, twigs, leaves and roots of trees, with grass, straw, plants and . weeds, which, having lain long in water, is i ioirned into a mass soft enough to be cut I through with a spade, and when makes ; a very excellent fuel. Horses' heads, the bones of various kinds of deer, the horns of the ante lope, the beads and tusks of wild hogs, the heads of beavers, are found incorporated iu it. Di:~Uiniug these perishable substances we find it, iu other formations, made up of clay mixed with calcareous earth, pyrites, and a little common salt. Both qualities are so valuable ..s to render the sp cimen to which we refer— which belongs to the first species—an object ot i interest. —— ; The question of selling the Court House square iu Americas. Sumter county, was de * cided in the negative at the election on Mon i day. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESD AYjMORNING, MAY 16, 1860. The S«ws of the Day. | The Stockholders of the Wills Valley Rail \ road will meet at Trenton, Ga., on ths 6th to i elect a President and Board of Directors. Forty half acre town lots were sold in Chat tanooga on the sth. That city is rapidly march ing forward. W. T. Coggeshali, Gov. Cox’s private secre tary, has been confirmed Minister to Ecquador, and will leave for South America at once. The imperial Austrian troops in Mexico are dissatisfied on account of their small pay. Forced loans are driving the merchants away. It is thought that either Senator Sherman or Senator Pomeroy will be elected President pro tem. of the Senate before its present adjouru? ment. D. W. VOorhees publishes a card - in the Terre Haute (lad.) papers positively declining a reDOtninaticu to Congress. He consents, however, to canvass the district for the nomi nee of democracy. GeagfpifeSt.Btadr, know engaged, ering a series of speeches throughout the State of Missouri on the political issues of the day, under the auspices of the State Central Committee of the conservative Union party. Intelligence from Texas states that the regu lar troops recently arrived in Texas under Heintzleman, are acting very badly. George C Baum, a prominent Philadelphia war correspondent, died in that-city, of tho heart disease, contracted from exposure in the service. Gov. Pierpout, of Virginia, says he can see nothing in the character of Stonewall Jackson to admire. Until Gov. Pierpont procures a character of his own, he oughtn’t to speak lightly of other people’s. A convention of Superintendents of lunatic asylums way heid the other day in Washington. The vital question of distributing the Radical majority in Congress among the various asy lums ’of the country was somehow or other overlooked. « In the House the resolution congratulating the Emperor of Russia on his recent escape from assassination, was passed by a unanimous vote. The spotted fever is prevailing in Hardins burg, Breckinridge county, Ky., and six deaths have occurred from it. The Troy firemen are getting icsthetic. One of their engine houses has been furnished with a fine piano. “The Christian Repository and Family Visi tor,” is the titlo of „ new magazine just pub lished in Memphis. Governor Patton has issued a proclamation co-operating with tho President in appointing Thursday, May 17, as a day of fasting, hu miliation and prayer; in view of the probable approach of the Asiatic cholera. ' There was a iaige fire in St. Louis a day or two since. The stable and car house of the Fifth street raiiruad were destroyed, with 150 head of mules and horses and sixteen cars. The total loss will exceed $50,000, A New Orleans dispatch of the 4th inst. says; The safe of the Southern Express Company, which was stolen with seventy-five thousand dollars recently, has been found near Browns ville. There are'fifteen thousand dollars be longing to the Express Company in it. Cloth ing and an ax were found near it. The clerk of the company is in jail. The cost of living in San Francisco has di minished one half during the past year. Is is said that Mr. Sumner is opposed to the report of the Reconstruction Committee, j and will propose a plan of his own, based on negro suffrage. A Virginia justice was recently brought before the Mayor of Richmond for abusing a negroi fined twenty dollars and costs, aud bound over in five hundred dollars to keep the peace. The schooner Clara Coward, Captain George White, of Tyaskin, Somerset county, encoun tered a" whale off Barren Island, in the Chesa peake Bay, on Monday. A premium of £ls J to £3OO ha3 been offered to any German mariner who, within the year, will explore the current of the sea between Spitzembergen and Nova Zambia. A brilliant genius is writing for the Koscius - ko Stara nOvletto entitled “The Georgia Gal ; or Who Stole my Goobers ?” The organ of the Fenians in San Francisco is printed entirely in green ink. Charles W, Schnapps, the 1 young man who shot himself in Indianapolis, died on the 4th, having lived five days .with a builet in his brain. Wm. B Shoemaker, sheriff of Gentry county, Misissippni, committed suicide recently, be cause be could not get his tax accouuts to come out square. Two passengers were murdered near Shoals, Indiana, on the night of the stb, Two brake men on the train are supposed to be the mur derers . It appears (hat the person who atttempted to assassinate the Czar of Russia on the 16th escaped. Many of the farmers in Franklin county Ind., are plow'/ig up their wheat fields and sowing oats and flax in them. Capt. Thomas Joyes, of Louisville, died on the 4th, in the 78th year of his age. He was the first white male infant born in that city. Mr. Jefferson Stevens, 55 years old, was in stantly killed by a circular saw, in Maysville, Ky., last week. There were two hundred and nineteen deaths in Louisville, during the month of April. Os the forty-six Republican papers in Cali fornia, 24 are with Congress and 22 with the President on the issne. The publication of the New Orleans Com mercial, a paper devoted to the commercial and mechanical interests of the South and West, was commenced la3t Sabbath«by an association of practical printers. The Fort Smith Herald says the Arkansas river his risen monthly for the last sixteen months. One hundred emigrants, of all classes and ages, from North Carolina, passed Fortress Monroe on the sth, going Westward. Red river cotton planters say ths.t the cotton seed is universally rotted. Great devastation is feared from the overflow. Red river is higher than ever was known before. Newspapers say that Cholera is o n the Rhine, in Spain and France, but in neit aer country does it prevail to an alarming exte at. The statistics of the railroad companies show that no less than 1,049,000 bushels of corn were sent from Bloomington, Hi., last, year. The skeleton of a monster animal was dis covered in a mine about seven milesirom Du buque. lowa, on the 27th ultimo. Gov. P.erpoint has appointed Hon. Alex. Rives Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy caused oy the death of Judge Thompson. The first train with p >3= angers direct for Sa. vannah left Macon Sacurd iv morning. The cars connect with es at No. 14. aud passengers reach aav- UttSdr at 6:35 next morning. Souiii America, . ITS SOIL, CLIMATE, A>» RESOURCES, difficulties in Transportation. SOCIAL AKD POLITICAL ASPECTS, &C. At the instance of the Southern Colonization Society, Robert Meriwether and H. A. Shaw of Edgefield District S. C., have recently made a tour through a portion of Brazil for the purpose otderiving reliable information in ref erence to its adaptation to Southerners who de sire to emigrate. Their report is published in the last Edgefield Advertiser, and is very lengthy, filling four columus of that paper ‘The following extracts embrace the material points of the report. It will be seen that the portions of country deemed most desirable to Southern settlers, are at present so deficient in good roads as to make it quits difficult to reach them, and to deprive setters of any con i' ..uL f outlet to market, iime and enter ghoma be dluy considered by those"who con-*" template emigration. We left Augusta, Georgia, about the 18th of October, 1885, on the E. R. via Washington Off) , where we procured passpotts, aud pro ceed-:! to New York. Securing passage on the North America, one of the Brazil and United States line of Steamers to Rio DeJanei ro, we left Ncv York on the 30th of October and arrived at Rio on the 2Gth of November. At Ric we met several gentlemen from the South, who had been in Brazil several months, on the wme mission that carried us thither. Amongst them we formed the acquaintance of Dr. Gaston, of Columbia, S. 0., wlio had made rather an extensive tour in the interior of the provino of St. Paulo. He introduced us to his Excellency, Paulo Susa, Minister of Agri culture, to whom we explained the objects of our visit, and presented our credentials. The Minister offered us every facility desired in the prosecution of our investigations, furnishing transportation, a guide, an interpreter, and in most cases, food and lodging. On our voyage out, we stopped at Pernam buco, where we satisfied ourselves that the climate would not suit the people of our State. Everlasting heat must enervate the system and break the constitution of man. In this pro vince, however, is grown the best quality of upland cotton. Extracts from an English paper now at hand, quote Pernambuco cotton at from 1 to l£d higher than aDy other in the great cotton mart of the world. Sugar and tobacco are also gro+n here in great perfec tion. Wo stopped also at Bahia, two or three hundred miits south of Pernambuco, where also cotton, sugar, tobacco and all the Tropical fruits are grown iu great perfection. Still the climate, as in Pernambuco, is Equatorial, and liable to the same objections After full and comuiete Inquiry and investi gation. the Province of St. Paulo, lying be tween 22 aud 26 degrees South Latitude, ap peared to us, the most suitable for our'people, on account of health, climate aud productions, being by its whole length and breadth, just within the frost lias, except its higher table lands, which aie free from frost the year round. With tho purpose us exploring this Province tnoroughly, we left Rio aud went by steamer to tiautos, its seaport town. The country, lying between the mountains and seacoast, bad no large bodies of farming lands, aud we directed our attention to the interior, beyond the mountains which, bound the coast. Therefore, we took the cars over the St. Paulo and Santos Railroad. This rail road is not yet campleied, but the cars pass over it to about twenty mileH beyond the city of St. Paulo, the capital of the province of the same name, and it is graded to Juudiee, forty miles from the capital. ■ Its whole completed length is eighty or ninety miles, connecting the interior <SI the province With the sea board, at Santos. This port, we omitted to mention, has a very capacious harbor, an out let for ships of thu largt-sc class, and by the first of June, it is thought, its railroad will be finished, A survey has been made to con tinue it about one hundred miles farther to Rio Ciara. At St Paulo we were provided with ani mals to prosecute our journey over a country almost without roads, for the entire transpor tation iu the interior is done on packs, except that now and then a tutlock carts is seen hauling at short, distances, over roads which our wagonj certainly could not pass. These carts are ot the most primitive character, the wheels and axles are fastened together, and all turn together in moving. We commenced our tour on the 18th of De cember. 1865, going to Itapetaningna, the nearest pass over the mountains to our destina tion, but on arriving there, learned the utter impracticability of crossing, it was therefore plain, that we either had to abandon this part of the trip or the other, and here w 6 agreed with Dr. Gastou, that he should go over the mountains and examine the lands in that di rection, whilst we turned in the other. His report is appended to this. We turned our course in the direction of Bolucstu and Lencoes. Here we found the lands were owned by private parties. From St. Paulo to this place, by the direct route, is abort one hundred and City miles. The pres ent tenniuus of the railro id is fifteen or twenty milts nearer. The road, if road it may be called, leading to it, passes over a tract of country, except for some twenty or forty miles, called here “cainpi>,’ ; without trees or other grqwth upon it. than grass and a few small biieaes, The people here contend that if ploughed, they would produce well, but no one has tried it. As intimated above, there are some superior tanning lands on this route, and we saw cotton that would make one thou sand pounds per acre, or more, and corn that would yield twenty five or more bushels per acre, all cultivated with the hoe. We saw cotton in all stages of growth ; some just planted, and some up five or six inches—some in full bloom, and some planted the year pre vious, with bolls open. We also saw cotton gins iat work, driven by steam, by water and by hand. All the cotton here is of good quali ty. Bit in the midst of this extensive campo or piait, or if yon please—barren waste, suddenly rioesup a mountain or succession of mountains, about fifty or sixty mites long, by ten or twelve miles wide, evidently ot a peculiar vol canic formation. As this mountain district was the most interesting visited, we examined it with the greatest care, and satisfied ourselves that it contained the richest lands we had ever seen. This immense and inconceivably fertile tract is owned, and, to some extent, cultivated by small farmers. Ask a man “now much land do you ovn ?” and his usual reply is "I do not kuow exactly, but it is four, six, or ten miles long, and from four to six miles broad. ’ Ihe lands of Brazil, except in rare instances, have not been surveyed, and no one with whom we have conversed ou this subject, knows how much lind he owns. All guess. _ We saw | corn growing on these lands, which would yield more than fifty bushels per acre. Ihe timber is cut dowr, allowed to lie and dry for two moults, commonly, and then set on fire. Al* the timber not consumed by the fire remains just as the fire left it, till it rots. Then usually with aitick, sharpened at the end--sometimes with a hoe-a hole is made in the gtound, the seed ft ctn five to ten grains, put into this hole and covered with the foot, and this is all the iuitiva ion the crops receive. Cora cotton rice, sugar cane, tc.ua xo, and all the tropica, fruits grow here in great profusion. We saw peacues and grapes also of good aua'itv The most of these lands are exempt trom host —the health of this region is said to be unexceptionable—the water of the purest freestoie, and the water-power equal to any in the world. Stock of all hogs and cattle especially, are superior. The usual depth of soil is supposed to be thirteen feet fcu° it :s known to be twenty or more in some places. It this tract of country,,£ ad conv^n lent and eaey commnnioiiioa wua j ot the Torld, if there might be any to cqurif : there could certainly be none to .^P^ 5 ! Its present ontlei is by me Rail hundred and twenty five miles to iU terminus, ; and from eighty to one hundred by lt lo biQ ' Itos. Another outlet may be <?Peued for R j across the Big Serra alluded to above. In that ! direction, it is from eighty to one hundred miles to steamboat navigation. ! These lands cau be purchased at from one to i two dollars per acre, and some traCU or parcels I with considerable improvements. j If a large number ol families from the states should settle there, we have been assured offi cially, that good roads will be opened up ini-, mediately ; aud it is practicable to connect this District by R. R- with the Sc. Paulo B. R.. or by R. R., over the Big Sierra to the head of navigation. Running parallel with this mountain range is the river Tiete, and fer about twenty miles distant, on either side ot which, aie lands of the best quality, producius every description of crops, except coftee. in the greatest perfec tion and abundance. There were some fields of as srood, if not better cotton than we ever saw before, and w thout doubt the best “culti vated grass,’’ whole beds of which were from five to seven ieet high, and ea’eu by the ani mals with the greatest avidity. There too, we found corn good enough for any country. Fifty bushels per acre is a small estimatefor it. Our intormuion is, that for more than one hundred miles down this valley, the same quality of land continues. It belongs to pri vate individuals, and can be bought at from fifty to seventy-five eta per acre. It is proper, to mention here, that the Territory forty or fifty miles south of the mountain range above referred to is in the hand? of the Indians. The lands in this valley we believe to be as good forfiottonjfcijMiy iu Jhe.Jttnited- States, The Wf two vsr three thousand lbs, with but little cultivation.' The character of the soil is what is usually cal led with us “Mulatto,” and its depth from eight inches to live feet. But a great objec tion to this exceedingly fertile valley is, its liability to chills, which are sometimes malig. nant. The mountains, though raising to a consil erable height, have usuady several tong slopes almost level in ascending them, and the lar ger portion of them is level enough for culti vation. This land is nearly all “teira rocch i,’’ oi the first quality. The woods are apparently one immense cauebrake, though the caue is much larger than that grown iu the States, and called here “bamboo.’’ Timber is abhn dant ; including furniture wood of the finest grain, and that most suitable and required for ohip-buildiug. We have- been particular in the description of these lands, for if a number of our people go to Brazil, the Districts of Botucatu and Lencoes and the adjoining lands of the Tiete river, con stitute the sectiou we advise them to examine. In our opinion, a splendid future awaits this portion of the province. We saw other good lands, but they could not be purchased for lesß than twenty-five, fifty and a hundred dollars par acre, since they were planted in coffee. At Arraquarra, about two hundred miles from St Paulo, a tract of country—a Facieada as it is called there,. —iR offered for sale, by Dr. Gavias, of St. Paulo, containing from one hundred und forty to two hundred and eighty thousand acres of land for one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, on a credit of ten or fifteen years if desired. We examined this, and suppose that from fifteen to twenty-five thousand acres of it are of good quality, including some coffee lands, and would produce corn, sugar, &c., to perfection. A iaige portion of it is campo, but the best quality ot campo wo have seen in the province. The other is woodland, aud wiil produce corn and cotton, very well. The sis teen to twenty thousand acres of good land alluded to above is "terra roccha’’ as the Bra zilians term it, which means land of inexpressr ble richness and fertility. Upwards of two hundred of very line cattle are included in this great bargain ; and a dwelling house, some outbuildings and one hundred acres of culti vated land comprise the improvements on the place. Each ot us has a map of this great domain and will furnish it to any one who desires it, with all the information we have in regard to its advantages. Lands which lie too tow for coffee, are very little estimated by the Brazilians, and in tho District, of Campons, within twenty or thirty miles of the R. K., are some very floe farms, of this description, with good improvements, which can be purchased lor trom two to five dollars per acre. Mach of these laudh are “terra rocha,” and ad of them will produce corn, sugar cane, and cotton, admirably. Two gentlemen from the States, one trom Alabama and the other from Louisiana, have already pur chased and settled there. Dr. Gastou reports that after overcoming the difficulty of passing the mountains, and the dangers and fatigues incident thereto, he purshed his investigations in the direction of iguape and Cannanea, and found largo bodies of public lands, which although not so rich as the “terra rocha’’ of the interior, yet produ cing large crops of corn, sugar cane, rice, tobacco, and, in some instances, coffee. Tha few days he remained there, tho weather was pleasant, and the transportation easy anil cheap, costing less than one half of the price from the interior. He thinks it healthy, except on the water courses, and the price of the lauds is only twenty-two cents per acre, on a credit of five years without interest. Several families from Alabama and Texas have already settled there. We h r> pe this section may be as desirable as the Doctor imagines, for it is immediately on one of the routes to a seaport, from the exceed ingly fertile Distriots described above, aud the improvements of its territory, will assist in the settlement of the other. The river Iguape is navigable for steamboats as far up as Xirerica, distant from the District we have chosen, about one hundred miles, but unlike the Tiete, its navigation is uninterrupted by falls aud shoais. We deem it our duty to state, that the price of negroes has decreased one halt during our stay in the Empire. It is said that the outside sentiment is the cause At any rate all classes agree, that the day is not distant when eman cipation must come. We have heard of some gangs of negroes, iucluclit'g men, women and children, being offered by the year for fifty dollars eacn, though the usual price is lrom sixty to a hundred and twenty. For planta tion hands, the hirer pays ali expenses. The law requires the purchasers of lands to pay six per cent, cash, one time, on their prime cost, as a tax to the Government. With this exception, the farmer, we believe, never pays any tax daring life. We will also mention, that it is thought by well informed persons, that this small burden will soon be removed from ail immigrants. The health of the table lands of the Province is represented by the native and foreigner as very good, with the exception of the flats and low grounds near the larger rivers, which are subject to drills and intermittent fevers. A few specific diseases, as Goitre and Leprosy, are seen. Cases of the latter appear but sel dom, though a considerable number of the former are observed among the poorer classes. It is tbotght generally to bo produced by poor diet, damp houses, &c . The temperature also throughout the table lands, notwithstanding we were there during the summer months, varies from 56 to 8b deg. in the shade. During winter, it varies generally, we understand, from 40 to 65 deg., though sometimes it comes down to the freezing point, producing ice. In Santos, the seaport of this Province, about forty-five miles from the table lands, and about three thousand feet lower, the mercury varied during the years 1803 and ’64, from 67.1 to 83 2 viz : January 83 3, February 82, March 79, April 77.3, May 69 8, Jane 69, July 67,1, August 67.5, September 70 3, October 71.6, November 74.6, December 78.2. the principle objections to the country are, the language, Portugese, the mixed c.ass of its population, and the want of proper facilities tor education and transportation, though it ap pears from all the fuct3 we could gather, that, there is a steady impiovement iu the two lat ter objections. , , , The cost of clearing forest lands according to the custom of the country, is from $1.50 to $2 00 per acre. Horses, domesticated, can be bought for from S2O to S4O ; unbroken, from sls to S3O ; mares, from $5 to $lO ; Jacks, from SSO to SIOO ; pack mules, from $25 to S3O • riding mules, from S4O to SBO ; unbiokeD in lots,from sl2 to sls ; fat hogs Weighing two hundred pounds each, from $5 to $8 ; breeders and pigs, in proportion ; sheep, from $1.50 to $3.00, inferior and scarce ; goats, Item $1 to $2 ; milk cows, in lots, from $8 to SlO ; single sl2 to sls ; oxen, !at, from sl2 to S2O; work oxsn, from S3O to S4O : corn usually from 50 to 75 cents, though during this sum mer, there has been a great scarcity, caused by a drouth, during last season, said to be the first for nearly twenty years. We paid from 75 cents to $3 per bushel; rice fom $2 to $3; coffee, from 7 to 10 cent3 per pound ; leather, from $3 to $5 per side ; sugar, from 6 to 8 j cents ; rum, from 25 to 30 cents per gallon; | banannas. limes and lemons trom to £ cent each ; oranges from to 1 ceut each, and pine i apples abundant, and in season from 1 to 2 1 cents each. NEW .SERIES, VOL. XXY NO. 21. In the larger towns most of these products, particularly fruit, are much higher. The religion of the State is Catholic, though all oth.rs are tolerated, stiil no Prostestant i 8 allowed to build a steeple or placa a Cross on his Church. Should ever the people be dis posed to immigrate to Brazil, it is of the ut most importance th.tt there should ne a con’ cert ot action am mg them. If they contem plate going in auy considerable numbers, pre liminary arrangements should be made for shelter and subsistence, and all of them should settle within a reasonable distance of one an other. A few families, or a fevr dozen famil ies can find ample subsistence and shelte r in mo6t of the settlements visited by us, but if more than these propose to settle far in the interior, at the same time, we would advise them, in or der to avoid disappointment and distress, to make ample preparation before doing so. Notwithstanding we utter these words of cau - tion, the citizens assure us that they will have plenty to subsist a very large cumber of im migrant?. and in some cases have offered, with that generosity peculiar to'the first class offßra ziliaus; to divide half their subsistence with us, without compensation. This offer includes corn, sugar, lice &c. Flour canuot be had in the interior, as there is no (wheat grown in St. undetatand,' that at one time wheat was one of the principal articles of export from this Province. We believe from the character of tho best lands, that it could be grown with perfect success. The government allows all immigrants to introduce, for their own use. free of duty, all articles of prime necessity, such as tools of all kinds, wagons, gear, machinery, furniture, Tnis should not be forgotten by the emigrant, for in the interior, you will fiad omly the hoe, axe, bill-hook and bullock cart, and they, except the hoe, of the rudest manufacture.— Ploughs cau be had only in the latger towns, and none have been seen by us that are suita ble for the ordinary cultivation of the products of the country. Seed ot every variety, especially for the gar den, should be carried in bottles, securely corked. Clothing, shoes, hats, dry goods, A; ~ can be bought cheaper in Brazil than in the United States. • Heavy shoes for plantation use, however, are scarce in this market. They should be . taken from the States, and also piough-gear of alt descriptions, as well as cooking utensils. Perhaps it would be advisa ble lor each family to provide themselves with a suitable cooking-stove, as they will find no chimneys in the interior, brick scarce and ex pensive, and stone not very abundant in the vicinity of the best lands. Transportation from New York to Rio De Ja neiro by the mail steamer has been reduced to S2OO iu gold, second class SIOO, children at the breast without cost; from twelve to four teen, half price; under twelve, one-third. All emigrants to Brazil are allowed a discount on this line of 30 per cent.; the first class paying $l4O, aud the,second class S7O. But we can not tell if a similar deduction is allowed the children. The steamers on this line make the trip in twenty six days, having to touch at several places in the discharge of their duties. Passage can be had on a good sail vessel at most of the ports of the United States at from $75 to $l6O for the first class, and for the second class at much iess, perhaps ono half, the time being from forty to sixty days. From Rio to Santos, the pt foeipal seaport of St. Paulo, it would cost about S2O, though we see that the Government has generously assumed that burthen itself, and from thence to the interior, you can pass ever a railroad for about ninety miles. The vast domain of Brazil contains the most fertile soil in tho universe, and more cheap lands to allure the emigrant than any other nation under the sun. For the supply of the millions that will soon be flocking to her shores, she abounds in the precious rnetalsand costly gems, and in the mo3tvaluable products known to commerce. “Tee cattle upon a thousand hiils” are hers, and may be yours, aud such cattle as man never beheld in any other clime. The earth yields almost sponta neously the grain, fruit and vegetables that most delight the palate and satisfy the wants of men. To gratify the sportsman, the woods are full of game, of deor, of wild hogs, and par tridges and quails, and of the most delicate birds of every hue and of every description, whilst her innumerable river and water courses teem with fish of the greatest variety and finest flavor. Her water power is sufficient to drive all the machinery in the world, and her natural and material resources are equal to the support of the population of China. Below Rio, the seasons are piecisely opposed to ours, their spring or planting season, be ginning with the beginning of our Fall, and their summer beginning with our first, and ending with our last winter month. But that nothing may be wanting for the encourage ment of the agriculturist, iu this happy region, unlike most of the other portions of the habita ble Globe, the summer is its wet, and the win ter is its dry season, and its good lauds never wash away. We traversed one Province for over a thou sand miles, taking six months from our de parture hence, to make our explorations, and during the whole oi that period, wo discover ed no ravenous beasts worth naming and only three or lour serpents of diminutive size, and no more to be feared than those seen every day in your fields and forests. Tbe insects that prey upon the crops, including the red aut, are not so destructive as those which infest our lichest lands, and there is no rust or sufficient frost to check or obstruct the growth ot their beautitul cotton. Moreover, since the memo ry of man, there has been no earthquake there, no Bubterraean lire, no volcanic eruptions to appal the hearts or to disturb the serenity of its inhabitants, and its man and women live to a riper old age than even in this once favored country. Though there are a few legal .and religious or canonical impediments to the foreigner or emigrant, such as that he may not reach one or two of the highest offices in the State, and may not, if a Protestant, erect.a Cross upon his Church, yet the whole spirit of Brazil is opposed to such hindrances, and a mighty and united effort >s now being made, with the most certain prospects of success, to place the nat uralized ciiizen and the native'Brazilian on an exact equality, in all rights, in all privi leges, and m all honors that the Government can bestow. The constitution of the Empire is modelled after the British, abating some of the most ob jectionable features, such a3 the rights of primogeniture, and a hereditary nobility, and tbe working of the Government is harmonious steady, just and powerful. The Emperor is a wise and magnanimous Uuler,{sprungffrom an intellectual add illustrious race, and ready at all times to condescend to any man or thing, compatible with the dignity of his crown, for the advancement of the interests and the glory of his country, The foreigner on en tering his dominions finds no prejudices to combat, no antipathies to avoid, but a liberal Minister reaay to welcome, and a population to greet him. and a Sovereign to offer him the powerful protection of his government. A large society for the promotion of emigration has been organized, and some of the ablest and most honored personages in the country appointed its directors. Its special objects are to aid and take care of the foreign er on his landing, to protect him from want as well as from the frauds Os the designing, and to vindicate his rights ana privileges before the Government nDd tire councils of the nation. The Government has also established a Hotel lor the shelter and accommodation of the same clas3 of individuals. Corps of engineers and surveyors have been appointed to open roads and survey ianls, and thAre is a spontaneous movement of the whole Empire to open wide its arms for the men of enterprise and labor of ail nations who have a mind to seek the grand est theatre for the exercise of their energies and the display of their genius ever presented on the face of tbe green earth. Your obedient servants, * Robt. MfcJUWETHER, H. A. Buaw. Inaugural c k Gov. Hawllv, ci Connecticut. —Governor Hawley and the State officers were installed in their offices on the 2d. His mes sage suggests that the recent constitutional amendment requires the State to , reß *° r f e „ t ® right of suffrage to persons of color dieiria.n chised since 1«18. He claims ‘bat the nation should demand the acknowledgement that the war had destroyed the doctrine ; and should secure immunity trom any texatio^ ! lor the payment of rebel debts, .. ? er!!oUg 0 f i full protection everywhere for p | whatever race or color. - Foreign kftUnate of Southern Failh. While we are mi-judged by those vs ho control the legislation of cur own country, it is grati fying that our past motives and our present good faith are appreciated by intelligent Euro pean observers. The following article, from the London Times, conveys in a nut-shell a true and philosophical review of the temper of the Southern people, and the true policy so the promotion of reconciliation: The utmost that can reasonably be expected trom the people situated like the Virginians, is such political conformity as Gen. Lee declared to exist. It is barely twelve months since these mon were engaged in one of the most desperate wars of inadern times—a war fought out to ■ the bitter end,” with every circum stance of passion and fury. To expect that they should now look with positive affection ■ on their conquerors, condemu their most emi nent country men as traitors, and repudiate as abominable the principles for which th?y sacri ficed their fortunes and staked their lives is beyond all reason. It is enough if they know themselves beateD, if they accept ihe results without teserve, it ..theyjbgrisfe nqjdea of deferred rebellion. and if th?y are prepared to return to their Wfonw position with a resolution to perform all their duties as citizens, aud with a readiness to re ceive the wanner impressions which time and intercourse may bring. These ace actually the feelings with which Gen. Lee describes them as now animated. More, it must he evi dent, could not be expected, but il more is desired it is manifest that the result can only te secured by that very policy which the Pre sident has avowed, and which the Radicals are so trantically opposing. If something is still to be done—as nobody need deny—before a Virginian can look upon the Union as lie looked ten years ago, it can only be accomplished, as Gen. Lee affirmed, by liberal and conciliatory conduct on the part of the Government. If passive acquiescence is lo b>* converted into cordial sympathy, it must be by kind and generous treatment. The policy of the Radi cals is stultiliel by their own professions,— The? pretend to desire a mote sympathizing South than they have already got, aud then, to improve Southern feeling, they propose to inflict political disgrace ana humiliation on the Southern people. They pronounce them to be still disaffected, or not sufficiently well affected, and, by way of conciliating them, would condemn them to alienation and out lawry. Such a policy stands self-convicted, for its only result must bo to make bad worse. It is not probable that a Virginian looks upon the Government of the Union exactly like a New Englander; no reasonable person would expect that ho should do so. Lis enough for the purposes of prudent reconstruc tion it the States lately in secession have aban doned all ideas oi independence, and are pre pared to make the best of their-position as members ot the Union once mere. The rest must necessarily be a work of time, but it will be accomplished most speedily, as well as most surely, through such a policy as the President now advocaleo He does not desire to swamp the south with a swarm of black voters, nor to place the negro in a position of invidious and perilous antagonism toward the white man. He asks only for simple professions of political honesty. He stipulates that the Southern States shall forego their views of seces sion, acknowledge and conffrm the aboli tion of Slavery now and forever, deal fairly with tho enfranchised slaves and repudiate the debt contracted for the purpose of tho rebel lion. To these conditions they were willing to assent, and the President would open the doors of Congress to them and so restore the Union. What his opponents desire, or profess to desire, we may collect from the examination to which Gen. Lee was subjected. They de mand impossibilities; for it is simply absurd to require that the South should, humbly and thankfully kiss the rod after the’ fashion they •prescribe. The policy of the President on the other hand, is a policy not only of moderation, but cf promise. It bids fair to bring back the South to those sentiments of perfect concord which the radicals pretend to demaud. It is Gen. Lee’s opinion that such a policy, aided by the indispensable co operation of time, will really produce this effect, hut it needs no argu ment tu show that a policy of provocation and oppression continued after victory must inten sify and perpetuate that very hostility which it is intended to extinguish. Visit to Santa anna— A Sandusky Boy Break fast With Him. The Sandusky (Ohio) Register publishes an interesting letter from a Sandusky boy, a gradu ate of the United States Naval Academy, and now a midshipman in the navy, whoso vessel the Swatara, recently touched at St. Thomas.— We copy the following : On the 11th, five ot us midshipmen went up by Santa Anna’s residence, hoping to get ' a sight of the noted General. As good luck would have it, one of the sudden rain-storms peculiar to the tropics came up just as we were opposite his house, and observing our condition an American, who appears to be the General's Major Dorno, came out and invited us to v enter, a proposition which we gladly accepted. We were shown into a kind sf parlor, most beauti fully furnished with Brussels carpets, six large sized mirrors, splendid furniture, in the way of chairs, tables, sofas, &c., and marble statuary in abundance. While we were looking at every thing with true Yankee inquisitiveness, the Gens eral sent in his Major Domo to invite two of us to take breakfast with him, but as there were five off us the Major decided that we should draw lots for the honor. He accordingly pro duced two handkerchiefs, and tying a knot in the corner of one, placed all four corners of one and one corner of the other together and invited us to draw, after the manner of drawing straws. I was unlucky enough not to draw either the knot or the single handkerchief, and therefore couldn’t go in, but I didn’t regret it, as he short ly after requested the remainder of us to wait and take cofTee with him, which proposition we were nothing loth ta accept, as we cannot drink coffee with Santa Anna every day. As soon as breakfast was over (it ought to have been called dinner, for it was twelve o’clock M., and they had everything that we would have at that meal though cooked in Mexican style), we went in, and, after being separately introduced to the General, took our seats at the table. We at tempted a conversation with him, but found he could speak nothing but Spanish, There were several at the table besides ourselves, viz: An American, a Dane, a Mexican or two, and a Carthagenian. There was also a Spaniard from Peru, Senor Lozano, a dark-looking man, who is a poet. He was the only celebrity besides the General and ourselves (!). The coffee was served up in the finest Severes china, on a silver salver, the largest that I ever saw. After coffee came wine and cigars, The American acted as interpreter, and we managed to get aiong very well. The General looks like a very fine old man; is 68 years old, with hair of a dark brown, and appears to be in perfect health. He does not wear spectacles, and seems likely to retain his sight for many years yet. After cigars we made a graceful adieu, which was rendered by the interpreter as only an expression of that sort can be rendered, in the most flowing of Spanish sentences. It made me stare to hear our short speech translated into words as long as the moral law, arid as only a Spanish-born could express it, for the poet acted as our inrerpreter, and he did get it off well, too. I wanted to pat him on the back. It pleased the General amaz ingly, too, and be returned it in true Hidalgo style, saying that everything he possessed was ours, and we could make ourselves at home, &c. I forgot to mention that he proposed a toast to us during the meal, viz : that we might all become Admirals. After everything was said arid done, and we could find no excuse for stay ing any longer, we look our departure, well pleased with our day’s adventures. In fact, 1 think I never passed a more singularly agreeable day in my life. The election in Elbert countv resulted in the choice of James Lofton, Erq., Judge, and M. A. McKnight as Solicitor. Corn is selling in Elbert at $2 00 per bushel; hotter 25c. and eggs 20. Tbe ladies of Atlanta met on Tuesday to or. ganize a permaueut society, tbe object being the care of the graves of our dead.