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Ifluonuk i Sentinel.
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Bacon A Brunswick Kail road.
Wo arc pleased to learn, on wliat we
consider good authority, that the Presi
dent of this road. (Jen. 11. Hazlehurst,
K.«i| . lias MKtx'cded in making arrange
ments with parties at the North, which
will secure the completion of'the road in a
v vry short time. The road is already
finished and the cars running over it daily
from Macon to llawkinsville, some fifty
three miles. The grading is also finished
on the lower end of the line from Bruns
wick to the “ Initial Joint" on the Sa
vannah it Gulf lload, gome forty seven
miles from Brunkswick. The intermediate
portion of the line has been located and
some progress made in the work of grad
ing and grubbing.
This is an important line, and forms a
valuable link in the great system of rail
road communication in our State. The j
Central Railroad has had a monopoly of
the passenger and carrying trade from
Macon to the seaboard for many years, j
and baa used its power with no “appren
tice" hand. The people of Macon and j
Western and Southwestern Georgia have ]
been made to feel the j.ower of this huge I
monopoly in a variety of ways, and they :
will hail the day of their delivery from its j
clutches as anew era in their trade and |
prosperity. j
Not only will the completion of the
Macon A Brunswick Road give those par
ties now paying tribute to the central
monopoly anew and distinct market on
the seaboard, but it will do more. By
this line and its connection with the Savan
nah <t Gulf* Road, the distance from
Macon, Columbus, Atlanta, Albany and
Kufaula to Savannah, will be sh orter by
several miles than that over the Central
Road.
The immense amount of business which,
in past > :ir- accumulated at Macon, re
qnirine transit to Savannah, made
(he managers of the Central Road
careless and indifferent as to the con.
venii-nce and accommodation of shippers.
Like all other great monopolies it took
special pains to impress upon the business
public that it was conducted solely in the
interest and for the benefit of the corpora
tors. We have always thought that rail
road companies were under many and
weighty obligations to the public in con
sideration of the privileges and franchises
which their charters give them. We
know that the intention of the Legislature,
in granting their charters, containing as
they do many provisions in derogation of
the rights of citizens, was that there was
an implied obligation on the part of these
companies that they would so use these
privileges and franchises as to aid and pro
mote the interest of the public.
“Competition is the life of trade,” is an
old but truthful adage, and is as applicable
to railroad* corporations as other people.
We know and admit that the tendency to
stretch power ill the absence of com petition
is as great, perhaps, in individuals as in
corpora! tons. The difference is this, and
it is marked. Individuals have no extra
powers or franchises which enables them to
use the property of the people, either for
or without price. Associated wealth is
more powerful than individual means,
because it has more influence in the State
through its several members, and hence
the necessity of guarding well the rights
of the. citizens in all acts incorporating
railroad companies.
We are not the enemy of railroads.
Oil the contrary, we are friendly to them.
We wish that they could be multiplied in
Georgia until every section of the State is
provided with this cheap, convenient and
speedy means of communication wiih the
different markets. At the same time we
never wish to see any great interest iri the
State subject to the control of one com
pany, no matter how honorable and gen
erous the individuals of the corporation
may be. It is also best for these corpora
tions, themselves, that they should have
competition. It stimulates them to re
newed activity and energy, and compels
them to offer such inducements for the
development of the country as to force in
creased production, and open up new and
valuable sources of trade.
It is in this view that we hail with
pleasure the almost certain and speedy
completion of the Macon and Brunswick
Road. It will benefit Augusta and Eastern
Georgia. By drawing off from the Cen
tral Road a large share of its trade from
Macon, it will compel the latter to rely
more upon its Augusta connection, and
consequently wo shall have cheaper rates
of freights and passage to Savannah. This
will, in time, have its effect upon the
South Carolina Road, which, to secure a
portion of the Augusta trade, will be com
pelled to lower its rates.
We might go on mid elaborate this idea
still further and show how, this check
placed upon the great sea-coast monopoly,
like the pebble dropped in the middle of a
lake, will extend its beneficial effects
throughout our whole system of inland
communication, but we have written more
already than we intended when we com
ineuced this article. We may return to
the subject in a few days.
Emancipation In Brazil.
The telegraphic, dispatches of the Asso
ciated Press gave us the startling news, a
few days since, that the Emperor of
Brazil had issued a decree or proclamation
abolishing slavery in his dominions. We
thought at the time that it was not true.
A lew days later we had another dis
patch modifying the former one in this :
all negroes hereafter to lx* horn in Brazil
were to be free, and twenty years was
given for the final alxilishmont of all
slavery within the Empire.
Now we have the matter corrected
again, and it appears that a petition
has been drawn up and presented to
the Emperor asking for the abolishment
of slavery. No action, it seems, has been
taken upon this application, if one has
been made, which we incline to doubt.
The whole matter was doubtless trump
ed up by some enterprising Yankee to
cheek the rapid emigration from this coun
try tn Brazil. These emigrants art' not, it
seems, alone from the South. Quite a
large number has already left the Northern
and Western States, stimulated, no doubt,
by the idea that slavey being dead in this
country, cotton cannot he raised as cheaply
as it was heretofore. Now they rush to
Brazil to engage in cotton-raising, with
slavery to compete with the cotton plant
ers oft he South, who must rely solely upon
free negroes for labor.
A New Trade. —We observed Friday a
large lot ot’ upper leather, consigned to
Boston, having been purchased by a dealer
from Toronto, Canada.
The purchaser took the lot, pronouncing
it as fine as he ever saw at hut a very small
margin under the retail price of upper
leather in this market. This is anew
trade for Augusta. The leather was from
the tannery of Wm. C. Jessup, & Cos.,
located about a mile from the city. Query ?
Will it come hack English leather ? It j
would not surprise us if it did.
Scott s Monthly. —We learn that an j
Agent of this excellent monthly will visit j
the upper Districts of South Carolina dur- '
ing the present month. Our friends who
desire a good Magazine should subscribe I
to Scott's Southern Monthly.
MA brother of Gov. Orr, of South Caro- :
hna, t ;1. John Auiaiia Orr. of Columbus,
Miss., IS one ot the leaders of the Radicals
h ‘ s . J'tate. and w,U possibly lie their i
candidate ior Governor.— Brchan nr
Gov. James L. Orr, of South Carolina, '
a brother of Col. John Amazia Orr, of i
Mississippi, the Radical candidate for
Governor, is running on a like schedule.
The time may not be quite so fast, but
both are after the same object. Gov. Orr.
ofS. C., is on the line of Joseph Rex. the '
Radical candidate for Vice President of the !
United States at the next election.
The Templeton Troop.—This com
pany is doing a good business at Savannah.
Crowded housesattend their performances.
We are glad to hear of their success, for
the company is really one of the best that
has been in Georgia for years.
Crop Prospects.
CkoJ's, Ac. — The Macon Journal if - .
Messenger learns that the crops are in a
fine condition in Baker and Randolph
counties. There is one erftu evil- that the
farmers complain of. The freedmen neg- >
loot their work to attend political meet- 1
ings. In one instance two-thirds of the
negroes on a plantation left their work to ■
attend a meeting at Albany, giving the
overseer no notice, and returning at their
pleasure. A- a remedy for this, the Jour
nal k Messenger recommends the “charac
ter system," and to make it a rule to em
ploy no hire without recommendations.
This would work well for the negro and
the planter, and would stop the difficulty
and inconveniences complained of. In
Putnam and Jasper counties the negroes
I work well. The “character” system is in
! that locality carried out to a certain extent.
Wheat.—The accounts from the wheat
| crowing region around and above this
place continue to be. upon the whole,
quite encouraging. Within the past few •
| days we have heard of “rust" in several
localities, but not on the stalk or stem. So
I long as it is confined to the blade we do not
Ijeiieve the crop will be seriously damaged.
The prospect never was finer than just
1 now, and yet the crop may be entirely
cut off. A few days will settle the matter,
j —•Southern Watchman.
Cotton Prospects in Tennessee. —We
clip the following paragraph from the
Merchant x Exchange P,rices Current ,
Memphis, Tenn., 2.lth inst. :
What with the inclement weather for
the season of the past week or two, the
had condition of much of the bottom lands,
owing to the spring overflows so greatly
prolonged, the loss of much of the working
>tock, the absolute shortness of means of
many planters, and the crippled condition
of factors, operating to prevent as great a
breadth of cotton from being put in as
would otherwise be, and the pressure of
real necessity to provide within the country
itself for provisions that our people have
no means to obtain otherwise, coupled
with the uncertainty of labor at the right
time, the prospect for a crop of cotton
equal to that |if last year is now, in this
section, generally abandoned. The stands
of cotton so far, as a general thing, are
represented ns very discouraging, and the
ground no doubt, in many cases, will be
ploughed up and corn put in instead.
Crops in Middle Florida. —A <;or
| respondent of the Savannah News, writ
j ing from Monticello, Florida, under date
j of May 20. says :
Nearly all the last crop of cotton has
gone forward ; there arc some scattering
hales, and there is some not yet ginned.
When the rapid decline in pricescontinued,
some shut their gin houses and went to
work preparing for another crop. Os this
class there are hut few. The crops,
though, are generally small —look remarka
bly well. Corn is now receiving its last
working. Cotton is good, taking into
consideration the wet and cool spring.
Stands are good, and no “lice” have yet
i made their appearance. Both corn and
| cotton is very clean and free from grass.
Their seasons are good ; wc could ask for
] no bet ter.
I The freedmen, so far, are working much
j better than they did a year ago. The great
difficulty is, however, to get provisions to
carry us through. This is the all-absorb
j ing question. Some few in an adjoining
; county have had to turn out their mules
j and discharge their hands, because they
could not feed them. This is bad, after
I having a crop planted and worked over.
: Some arc feeding their mules on moss,
i hoping to weather the storm through, hut
! to this class the thing looks gloomy!
gloomy ! ! gloomy ! !!
j There is as much or more ground planted
in corn than in cotton, and had this been
done last year the county would have been
in a much better condition. I have not
seen or heard of a planter who says, “sorry
crop,” hut, on the contrary, the universal
report is, “good crop”--never had a finer
prospect. ’ ’
CROPS IN BAKER.
Baker Cos., Ga., May 27.
Editors Macon Telegraph: —The crops
in this and surrounding counties arc very
backward on account of the lateness of the
spting. The corn is small and of a pale
and yellow color, but it is thought that the
warm weather and gentle showers of last
week will change its color and cause it to
grow oil rapidly. Our cotton is also small,
and those who planted early failed to se
cure good stands and have had to re-plant
largely, while the late cotton has come up
well, has a fresh color and is growing freely.
The planters are expecting a full average
crop. The crops are generally clean, and
the farmers are using every effort to keep
them so. Surely if energy and persever
ance can accomplish anything, our peop’e
hero will he blessed with good crops.
The freedmen have worked well up to
this time, and would continue to do so if
let alone, but ‘the big speaking in Albany,’
which came off on last Saturday, and is to
come off again, according to report, on
next Saturday, we greatly fear will do us
a great deal of harm. We do not know
the object of these meetings, or who the
speakers are, hut we are satisfied that they
do the freedmen no good, and may do a
great injury. If they will come hero
among us, take schools and try to educate
these people, we will extend to them the
hand of friendship and do aii we can to
aid them in this necessary work. Both
races see the importance of education,
and are doing all they can to aid the cause.
There are now two large schools here,
taught by white persons, and the prospect
for several more in a short time is flattering.
The Weather and the Crops.— For
several days past we have been favored in
this section with light rains and cloudy,
warm weather, which have been of great
advantage to the growing crops. The
gardens have sensibly improved, and the
crops of corn and cotton are very promi s
ing. The oats and wheat crop will soon
be ready for the reaper, and the prospects
ahead are reasonably good. —Lam Dec,.
—Americus vitr.cn , With.
Petroled*! Nasby on Mr. Davis’
Trial.— Wo have never heretofore ad
mitted in our columns any of Petroleum
Nasby’s smart sayings. But as he is a
representative man of the malignant Radi
cal clique, we give below a few lines from
his last letter, showing his feelings to
ward .Mr. Davis and all who befriended
him :
The “Spottswoods,” Richmond. Va., \
May 13, 1807. j
* * * * *
The President wuz taken to the Court.
Ex he entered the room and glanced
proudly over the awjence, it would hev
bin very difficult to hev decided whether
lie wuz goin to try the Court or the Court
him.
There wuz some triflin legal formalities
gone through with, and the President s
counsel made a motion that he be admitted
to bail. There wuz a stir in the court.
“Make it a million !” sed one, “so that
the craven North shel see how we kin take
keor nv them we love!” hut Underwood,
with the meanness characteristic uv the
man. fixed it at slin),Qoo, and brisk ez
bees, Schell, a Noo York Diwoerat. sev
eral Richmond Dinioerats, and Morris
Greeley, stept ibrrerd and signed it. Ez
Dorris did it 1 eoodent restrano myself no
more. Bustin-into teerx, 1 (ell onto Gree
ley's buzzuni, and we embraced. Hz h<j
hedn’t his speetieles on. he sposed it wuz
Davis hisself, and he bustid into teers also,
and there wuz wun of the most striking
tabloo-i ever exhibited. 1 got away afor he
diskivered his mistake.
Here wuz the endiu uv our troubles —
the cotisumashen of our hopes. Davis is
free ! The pent-up emotions uv the peo
ple found vent. Es lie stept into the street
the people crowded to the carriage wieh
contained u<, and rent the air with cheers.
lam not permitted ;i give more uv the
President's plans-than this: He will re-j
main in sei-!oos>ion, and will take no part
watover in polities until after his fine! ae
quital in November, lie dout feel at
liberty to take hold uv the Government so
long ez there is even a teeknikle charge
agin him. Our friends in the Northern
States who expected him to take the
stump in their behalf this fall will be dis
appointed.
No Entangling Alliances. The
Meridian (Miss.) Gazette says:
“We fully agree with Gen. Alcorn that j
it is ‘impolitic to unite ourselves at pres
ent with any party at the North, only so
far as it is a party of restoration.’ The
great living question before the country is
that of the reorganization of our State
Government, and the restoration of the
State to the Union. It is very apparent
that a large majority of the Southern
whites honestly accept the terms of Con
gress, and desire to accomplish this result.
We think this should be done by the
Southern people as a Southern measure,
and separate from any alliance with the
Northern Republican and Democratic par
ties. With restoration and full assurance
of civil and political rights to the blacks,
to be established incur State constitutions,
the issues of the past would be settled,
i and new political organizations would
arise, lhe questions ot reducing the taxes
! on cotton and tobacco, the lowest prac
ticable tariff, and a general reduction of
the expenses of the Government, would lie
i 'he policy to commend a party to the
! Southern people.”
The extent of the iron trade of the city
iof Boston is truly astounding. The Com
mtrcuil Bulletin says that in one of the
ten districts of that city the amount of
iron annually weighed reaches 1<X),000,-
'" " J pounds. Most of the iron brought there
■ 0011165 from Kngland aud Sweden
Departure or Roman Catholic Eeclesl- |
astics lor Rome.
The New York Herald notices the dc-j
partuic from New Y'ork on Thursday of a
steamship for Europe, and gives the fol
lowing? paragraphs in relation to theCatho- i
lie ecclesiastics now on their w-y to Rome: j
Upon their deck stood a party of more
than usual dignity of appearance, and
jvhich seemed to attract the attention of a
Targe number of persons who were evident- |
ly not blood relations of any in the party,!
and who appeared to be imbued with min
gled feelings of reverence, respect, happi
ness and sadness. It can scarcely be won
dered that such opposing feeling should
be engenden 1 when it is known that the
party alluded to comprised several of the
most distinguished prelates, together with
several divines and a large number of
ecclesiastical students, of the Catholic
Church in this country ; and the persons
around endeavored in many ways to show
their reverence for the calling of the
priests and bishops, their respect for them
individually as men and teachers, their
-orrow at parting from those from whom
they had heard words of wisdom and divine
’ consolation on so many occasions, who had
ministered to their spiritual wants and
had held out to them so often the healing
balm of Christianity; and yet the
knowledge of the mission on which the
divines were about to embark gave rise to
] feelings of happiness, which for the time
: overcame all feelings of sorrow or regret,
and rendered the pain of parting less
severe.
the eccleslastics
alluded to are the most Reverend Arch
bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati; Bishop
Quinlan, of Mobile: Bishop Juncker, of
Alton, 111.; Bishop Rosecrans, of Cincin
nati, Ohio ; Bishop Domonic, of Pitts
burg, Pa.; Bishop Coughlin, of Brooklyn;
very Reverend \Y. Starrs, Vicar-General
of the Diocese of New York ; Rev. Father
T. Mooney, St. Bridget’s Church, New
York, and a number of other clergymen
and students of divinity, on their way to
Rome to attend the Assembly of the Pre
lates of the Church, called by the Pope to
celebrate the eighteen hundredth anni
versary of the martyrdom of St. Peter,
and to assist at the canonization of several
saints. The Holy Father deemed the
coming festival of St. Peter and St. Paul,
June 29, a fitting time for a convocation of
the Bishops and Archbishops, and issued
a request for a general attendance at that
time. In response to this request the
Bishops and Archbishops of the United
States, almost without exception, have
| decided to be present, and those who
| sailed yesterday were only a few of the
many intending to take part. Not the
least pleasing portion of their mission is
that of being the bearers of
PRESENTS TO THE POPE
from the congregations or districts which j
they represent, and in which collections
and enterprises of various kinds have lately
been held for the purpose of obtaining
funds to assist the Holy Fatherin his pres
ent difficulties. Although the donations
generally arc handsome and munificent,
yet none exceed in design and detail the
gift from the citizens of Cincinnati, which
Archbishop Purcell carries with him. The
gift is a beautiful silver model of the yacht
Henrietta, with a cargo of s’>o,ooo in gold
pieces. The model is to serve as a re
minder of the enterprise of our nation,
while the cargo will serve as a specimen of
our liberality.
Bishop Lynch, of this diocese, lias again
left this city, and will sail from New York
in a few days for Rome, to attend the as
sembly of the prelates of the Church, to
! celebrate the eighteen hundredth anniver
sary ot the martyrdom of St. Peter on .the
29th of June. A. large number of Anier
can Bishops will bo present on the occa
sion. Archbishop Spalding, of Baltimore,
who has already gone, it is said will receive
; one of the Cardinal hats, of which four
i teen are to be disposed of by the Pope on
: the anniversary of St. Peter’s martyrdom.
! CL Cour. 29i/t.
—a-ra .
Collision inthe Atlantic—The Ship
Berkshire Sunk by the Steamer
Scotia. —News was received in Liverpool
on the first of May, of a terrible collision
in the Atlantic, between the Cunard mail
steamer Scotia and the sliip Berkshire of
Boston. The disaster occurred on the
night of the 11th ultimo, in lat. 49 11,
long. 29 13, and of course hundreds of
miles away from land. One account ol the
■ disaster says ;
“The steamer’s officers saw the ship for
fifteen minutes before the catastrophe oc
curred, although the night was thick and
the ship appeared to have no lights. The
course of the Berkshire, was directly across
the bows of the Scotia , under full canvass,
and the wheels of the steamer were not
only reversed, but her headway was en
tirely checked, and she was steadily back
ing from the path of the Berkshire when
the collision took place. Had the latter
vessel kept headway, and borne on her
course with a stiff rudder, she would have
! escaped unharmed. Probably it will never
i bo satisfactorily decided whether the man
| at the wheel was asleep and the deck officer
: unaware of the danger, but it seems to be
j almost a necessary conclusion from the re
ported result.
“The steamer seems not to have been
j seen so soon as the ship, and while the
! fortnef'cautiously gave way for the vessel
to pass in safety, instead of pressing on the
Berkshire apparently altered her course,
lost headway, and, in spite of the efforts
on the part of the steamer to keep clear of
her, the sailing ship struck squarely on
the bows on the steamer, and was crushed
like a shell. The masts and rigging of the
two vessels became entangled, the Scotia's
paddles were badly torn away, and for ten
or fifteen minutes the scene as described
was truly terrific. At length the vessels
were parted, boats were lowered, and the
crew taken from the sinking wreck, and
the Captain’s wife oven saved her trunk of
| clothing. The sailors, however, lost nearly
everything, as the consternation at .the
moment prevented every thought but that
of saving their lives. It is possible that
some vessel passing near within a day or
two of the casuaiity may pick up a good
part of the cargo of cotton, but the ship
lias doubtless gone to the bottom.”
A Phenomenon. —The sliad caught in
the Delaware at Gloucester on Saturday,
and brought to this city for sale, says the
Philadelphia Ma th American, were an en
tire loss. The case in these parts, what
ever it may be elsewhere, is somewhat odd.
Everybody knows that a freshet in the
Schuylkill of unusual height has just sub
sided. The water, rising above the docks,
washed oft' the oil that had long dropped
upon them. This oil covered the surface
of the water, moved down to where the
Schuylkill debouched into the Delaware,
and by the flood tide was driven up to
water where the nets are cast. So im
pregnated with this petroleum were the
captured fish that those purchased were
found utterly inedible, and the greater
portion, which remained unsold, were
yesterday disposed of ns valueless. A
disconsolate Irishman at Dock street
wharf, who has come up with a boat load
of Saturday’s catch, informed us that such
circumstances are of frequent occurrence in
Pittsburg, but the present was the first
ease of the kind he had here witnessed.
The First Bell Run. —Sometime
since we published General Johnston’s re- j
ply to certain passages in Dr. Dabney’s
Life of Stonewall Jackson. Dr. Dabney,
it will be remembered, asserted that Gen
eral Jackson was of opinion that the Con
federates, after the first Bull Run, ought
to have pursued the retreating forces and j
occupies Washington. Gen. Johnston re
plied at length with statistics and state
ments, to show that it would have been
impossible tor him to do so, and further
more maintained that General Jackson
could Dot have expressed the sentiments
to which he was credited. J)r. Dabney
now retorts to the extent of seven newspa
per columns, and after quoting the testi
mony of several subordinate officers to
prove that General Jackson was right in
his conclusion, adds: “All 1 can say is.
that I heard him say what I have stated.”
A History of the War in Georgia.
—The Rev. C. W. Howard, of Kingston,
has been in the city the past few days
hunting up and arranging material for a
forthcoming work upon the conduct of the
war in Georgia. He desires to have full
lists of the killed, wounded and other
casualties in the Georgia troops who served
in the campaigns in this State.
Commanding officers. of regiments,
bataliions and companies serving in the
State are requested to send him full lists,
directed to him at Kingston, Ga.
He also requests that gentlemen who
served iu the Georgia campaign will fur
nish him with such facts, statistics and
other information as they may be iu pos
session of, and which may aid him in the
preparation of his work.
Editors in the State friendly to the
enterprise will confer a great favor upon
Captain Howard by calling attention to
this matter through their columns.
“I have the best wife in the world,
saida long-suffering husband; “she al
ways strikes me with the soft end of the
broom.”
Meeting of the Bar.
The Bar of Richmond county assembled 1
iu the Court Room on Wednesday, theXOih
of May. ISJ7, to pay a tribute of respect to j
the memory of their late brother, John !
Harvey Hull, K-sq. Wm. T. Gould was !
called to the Chair, and Charles Holt re
quested to act as Secretary. On motion off
George T. Barnes, the Chair appointed a
c minittee of five, consisting of George T. :
Barnes, John Jlilkdge, James S. Hook, j
Win. A. Walton, and Joseph Ganabl, to
draft resolutions appropriate to the occa
sion. The meeting then adjourned until i
Thursday morning at 9 o'clock.
Thursday morning, it o'clock, the Bar
met, pursuant to adjournment, when the
following resolutions were reported by the
committee, through their Chairman, and
unanimously adopted:
The members of the Richmond Bar
have been repeatedly summoned within
the last few years to mourn the loss of j
many of the most loved of their brethren.
Death, with an impartial hand, has scat
tered his shafts in our ranks. His victims
have been found alike with those venera
ble for their years and skilled in the
science of our profession, and, again, with
those who, having rejoiced in early :
triumphs, looked eagerly forward to a sue- ;
cessfui crowning of muturer labors, lie
now calls us to pay the last tribute of re
spect to a young and gifted brother. He
whose loss we tiiis day mourn, came
1 among ns after the termination of bis
I collegiate career, terminated with the
! highest honors, and entered upon the
• practice of his profession with Bright pros
pects of success. In obedience to the call
i of his country he abandoned the law for
the pursuit of arms. He served that
j country long and well. The wounds,
w hich in her defence lie received, afflicted
him while living, and their scars he
carries with him to his grave. At the
termination of our late - disastrous civil
war he again sought a home among the
people he loved so well and whom he had
so faithfully served in the Held. About to
renew the Chosen pursuits of his early
manhood with those among whom he had
; tirst settled, death suddenly calis him
away, and we are here to give public ex
j pression to the feelings of our hearts at the
sad dispensation which afflicts us. There
! fore be it
Resolved, That we have learned with ;
feelings of poignant sorrow and hear felt
regret of the death of our youngand talent- :
ed brother, John H. Hull, Esq.
Resolved, That in respect to his memory
we wear the usual badge of mourning tin
thirty days.
Resolved, That these proceedings be
presented to the Superior Court at its next
session, with a request that they be enter
ed on (lie minutes, and that a copy of the
same be furnished by the Secretary to the
family of our deceased brother, with the
assurance of our heartfelt condolence in
the sad affliction which has visited them.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That copies of the above pro
ceedings be furnished to the city papers
ffir publication.
The meeting then adjourned.
Wm. T. Gould, Chnrn.
Charles Holt, See’jr.
Northern Capitalists.— We learn some
additional particulars about the Northern
capitalists who are to visit this State. The
party will Consist of about forty and will
visit Savannah in the early part of Sep
tember. It is stated that they represent
$20,000,000 worth of capital, a consider
able amount of which will be invested in
improved and unimproved lands on and
near the route of the Atlantic and Gulf
Road, if they can be purchased on reason
able terms. The ulterior object contem
plated by these capitalists is the settle
ment of a colony of Northern farmers, who
are to cultivate the land as tenants for a
specified term of years, when they will be
come proprietors.
Co-operation. —Wc see it stated “one
of the most effective modes of bettering
their condition that is resorted to by work
men is the formation of co-operative so
cieties, and those in which capitalists take
shares are considered the soundest. It is
reported that there are now in England
between two and three thousand share
holders in companies founded upon the
principle of uniting the interest of the
capitalists with the interest of the work
ers, and at least eight to ten thousand
work people are employed by these com
panies. These numbers are daily in
creasing. A large number of English com
mercial men, friends of social progress,
investers and others, though not. yet
actual participators in the work, are
watching the co-operation movement with
great interest. ”
The Summit (Miss.) Commercial men
tions as evidence of the good feeling exist
ing between the whites and blacks in that
county, the existence of a fire company
where whites and blacks pull on the same
ropes. - -Exchange.
This paragraph has been floating around
as if it contained something new. From
“time immemorial,” the whites and blacks
have pulled on the same ropes and worked
the brakes together at every fire in this
city. In almost every mechanical and in
dustrial pursuit, the whites and blacks of
the South have labored side by side. It is
only in the North where the white man
refuses-to labor in company with the black.
There the prejudice is so great against
him, that the workmen will strike rather
than v, ork with the negro. In the South
this prejudice does not exist; and if there
be bad feeling between the races here, it is
attributable solely to the evil teachings
and influence of Radical emissaries. This
organized hostility at the North against
negro labor is the best evidence that the
people of the South are truly the friends
of the negro race. The Radicals have en
franchised the negro not for his own good,
but for the purpose of using him as an in
strument to accomplish their wicked ends.
Having subserved their purposes, the
Rads will let the poor negro slide.
wam<
Burglary. —The store of L. J. Miller
was burglariously entered on Wednesday
night, through the opening over the front
door. The opening was too small to ad
mit of the entrance of a grown person, and
it is supposed the burglars first put in a
small boy, who went to the back part of
tfie store, opened the windows and admit*
ted the rest of the party. The desk was
then taken from the front part of the store
into the yard and broken open with an axo,
from which they took about forty-six dol
lars and forty cents in greenbacks and six
dollars in silver; after which they de
camped,.leaving their axe in the store,
where it was found Thursday morning.
Mr. Miller’s store being on Broad street,
the most public thoroughfare in the
city, the question naturally occurs “Where
were the vigilant guardians of the city?”
Such a deed could not have been done in
a moment, for it seems to have been one
of great deliberation. These robberies are
getting to lie of too common occurrence,
and some determinate action should be ar
rived at in regard to them.
Mischievous. —The Radical papers of
the Brown stripe are laboring hard to
create the impression abroad that our
people generally are opposed to recon
struction on the terms of the Military Bill*,
and will not do so no matter what the
consequences may be. This is not true., If
left free todeeide for themselves, the people
would certainly reject the proposed terms;
but the fact is, there is no other alternative,
and organize they must. But in doing so
it should he understood that they have no
confidence in these men and papers who
ran ahead of the demands of their task
masters, and urged a voluntary accept
ance of the Radical programme. It should
also be understood that these time-servers
and place-hunters had no. influence what
ever in directing public opinion. Our peo
ple must organize, There is no other
alternative. There is no opposition. Then,
why does Joseph Rex continue to appear
in public on the st3ge, and his satellites of
the press urge the acceptance of the Mili
tary Reconstruction Bill ? It is mis
chievous agitation; but these office-hunters
are after feathering their own nests. They
are trying to get the credit of having car
ried the State for the Radicals. And then
—why, the loaves and fishes will lie divided
between Joseph and his friends.
Served Him Right. —Quite an inter
esting little affair took plaee at Savannah
Tuesday, which caused a sensation among
the citizens, and gave gossippers a tit-hit
for tea talk. It appears that a certain gay
and festive married n>an. who runs a mil
linery store on Barnard Street, made some
indelicate overtures to a young girl in his
employ, who immediately reported the
insult to her brother. The latter, armed
with a cow-hide, repaired to the store of
the gay lathario, called him out in the
street, and then and there administered
unto him some fifty lashes well laid on,
cutting his clothe.s and face in the most
approved style. The young man served
the insultor of his sister right, and that is
just the way in which all (such characters
should be dealt with. .
A Summer .Session of Congress. ;
A Washington letter-writer having re- |
cendy stated that the Radical manager iu
that city had become alarmed at the great
falling off in the revenue, had been urg
ing the necessity of the July session of
Congress to take sonic seti -n which may
improve the financial condition of the
country. The Northern and Western
press has seized the opportunity to venti- ,
!a?'e their views upon the question.
W e arc surprised to see the unanimity
which prevails at the North on this sub
ject. The whole, body of the Democratic j
and Conservative press, and a largo ilia- ;
jority of the Radical papers, oppose the .
■ contemplated session, and, strange to saw,
j upon the same grounds —the fear that the
, Radicalism cf the present Congress is so
malignant and ignorant upon the great
questions of finance that any action
which they would be likely to take would,
iu all probability, produce greater troubles
in the financial aflairs of the country
than at present exists, jhe reckless legis
lation of the last session, and the iatish
appropriations which were made by the
Thirty-ninth Congress to strengthen and
build up the great Radical party, hare
alarmed the niOK prudent and moderate .
(God save the mark) of the rank and file
of their party. They fear that another
session within a few mouths wou,J gite
the ultra leaders of this party opportunity
to launch out in still further cxtraragance
and recklessness which would react against
them in the next elections.
A leading Western paper, commenting
upou the propriety of a Summer Ses.sjon,
say s : “ When we consider that the Radical,
managers, in spite of the confidence which
they deem to affect, seriously dis
trust tfieir success at the next Presidential
i election, it is safe to assume that they will
leave no means untried to raise the money
i for paying the additional bounties intended
to secure the vote. We need,
therefore, not even to go baek to the Radi
cal legislation of the last two sessions for a
justification of our fear that a summer ses
sion, held for this purpose, is more likely
to injure than to benefit the finances and
industry of the country. The Rump will,
without the least doubt, authorize the
Secretary of the Treasury to increase the
j public debt for the purpose of supplying
the Radical necessities, and thus plunge
l the nation still deeper into trouble and
| embarrassment. New appropriations and
new expenditures, wholesale and retail,
; and for all imaginable objects, are sure to
be made —wore it only to prove the stale
I Radical boast about our boundless resources
by an extravagance equally boundless.
Is it not time for all thinking men who
have’any stake in the welfare and future
prosperity of these States, to seriously
consider where such suicidal financial the
ories must inevitably lead any people, no
matter how favored by Providence? The
national debt, instead of being still further
reduced, is once more reaching proportions
which would have been thought alarming
even during the war; indeed, the sum total
of the still unliquidated claims cannot even
he guessed by many millions, because they
go on constantly accumulating. Our taxes
are not only already as heavy as we can
well bear them, hut so unequally and inju
diciously arranged as to be almost intolera
ble. The revenue system invented by the
Radical politicians, for we cannot call them
statesmen, hardly deserves that name.
From one end to the other it is full
of absurd anomalies —a piece of incon
gruous patchwork, made up at different
times, in Congress, without the light of ex
perience, and for the most part by mere
tyros, and rendered all the worse by the
multifarious and oftentimes fantastic decis
ions of the various Commissioners of
Revenue. In -short, it is the old story of
Jic sheep and the crow. ‘Away with
you! You hurt mo,’ said the former to
the latter, who was pulling flecks of wool
to line his nest. ‘What affectation !’
answered the crow. ‘You let the shepherd
shear you bare without saying a word ;
and you make a great fuss, when I only
pluck a handful.’ ‘Granted,’ rejoined
the sheep. ‘lt is true I hardly feel the
shepherd’s fingers when he eases me of
my hot and heavy coat. He does so at
the proper time and in the proper manner;
while you pluck it out of the roots and
without regard to season or injury.’
“Nations may be likened to flocks of
sheep, and rulers should be shepherds not
crows; for the taxation to which a people
consents voluntarily is that judiciously
imposed. But this is a knowledge which
the Radical leaders, though they boast to
have carried the science of government al
most to perfection, never yet have learned.
There is not one of them equal to answer
ing the most ordinary question in political
economy or. finance. They obstinately
cling to antiquated notions and party tra
ditions, and are in this respect immeasur
ably behind the English Radicals, who
have, especially of late, devoted undivided
attention to those studies. Scientific in
vestigation and practical experiment have
there gone hand-in-hand, and the result
is that the world is indebted for two of the
most valuable contributions to the history
of British finance to Sir Stafford H.
Northcote and Sir Morton Peto, both
members of Parliament. llow long will it
be before, wo shall see any Radical in the
Congressional ranks rising above the mere
political demagogue?”
[communicated.]
Messrs. Editors: I read the following
in the Loyal Georgian :
“Three parties are forming in tiiis State.
The Union Republican party, the Rebel
Copperhead party, and the Bread and But
ter party, sometimes called the Union Re
construction party.”
Now, Messrs. Editors, please tell us
something about these parties. Who are
the leaders ? Who leads the Union Re
publican party, the Bread and Rutter par
ty, and who the Rebel Copperhead? I
suppose the Loyal Georgian, the Savan
nah Republican, and the Atlanta Daily
Opinion are the organs of the Union Re
publican party, and the Augusta Press and
the Atlanta New Era are the organs of the
Bread and Butter party. Where does the
Chronicle stand? Observer.
Madison, May 30, ISG7.
We regret that we are uriable to give
“Observer” the information lie desires.
We have never heard of'the existence of
any party in the State except “Union
Leaguers.” Gov. Brown appears to be a
leader of some party—hut whether he is
the leader of the Union Republican, or the
Bread and Butter, or any other party, we
cannot say. It is very evident ho is trying
to lead somebody somewhere. Whither
his road leads who can tell ?
The Chronicle, so soon as the present
Editors took control, announced that it
would co-operate with any party or per
sons. with regard to past political differ
ences for the re-cstablisliment of the Con
stitution and the laws, and the restoration
of confidence and good order. It has not
changed position. There is no freedom al
lowed under the present Military Bill be
yond voting Convention or no Convention.
This Military Bill is law until reversed or
repealed. Not to vote at all is to throw
the control of the State into the hands of
the Radicals. We believe it to be the
duty of every man to vote, and to vote for
such men as will make such alterations in
our Constitution as will plaee the powers
for the future in the hands of those inter
ested in the true welfare of the State, as
far as possible, from the bad influences of
what is called the “floating vote.” Even in
the ease of those who vote no Convention,
we would urge them to vote for the best
man for the Convention, so as to avoid
such evils as might follow upon their de
feat.
Bennett and Greeley.— lt is well
known that the New York Herald repeat
edly urged either the speedy trial of Presi
dent Davis or his immediate release from
imprisonment. Bennett, denounced the
continued confinement of Mr. Davis as the
worst sort of tyranny. But now that this
great and good man has been released from
I prison, this same man Bennett opens a
perfect volley of abuse on honest Horace
Greeley for becoming one of Mr. Davis'
securities, and for being mainly instru
mental in his release. However, this will
not surprise any one who has Been familiar
with Bennett’s antecedents He is every-.
turns and nothing long. As
Horace has backed down the Radical blood
hounds who barked at his noble action,
Mr Bennett’s snarls are as harmless as
those of an over-grown cu..
The Democratic majority in Kentucky
official—is ascertained to be 4b,042 oyer
the Radicals, and 41,303 over both the
others combined.
Results of Radical Missions.
When AVilsoncame South he was treated i
witli courtesy and listened to respectfully. !
Discreet men distrusted his views, nor did ]
his arguments carry conviction. Never- i
theless. those who heard him were dis- !
posed to consider and discuss the views he
presented. The Southern people were. I
then much alarmed about confiscation |
and other threatened evils. But he dis- j
avowed confiscation. Thad. Stevens af- j
firmed that Wilson had no right to speak j
for the Republican party, and re-affirmed j
his confiscation policy. Joe. Brown said j
confiscation was sure to be enforced by the*
present Congress, because Thad. Stevens
and others said so. Kelly followed and
accomplished the Mobile massacre of
white men. Not a single one of either
the black or colored men who form
ed a great majority of the meeting
was killed, or wounded, or bruised.
This event has destroyed confidence # t'iat
had begun to revive. Every planter
hoards ail the money that comes into
his possession. They say openly that we
must save something. If our lands go we
will at least have money enough left to get
out of' the country. Emigrant societies
revive. Emigration to Brazil and Vene
zuela increases. A larger emigration to
New York and Baltimore, and St. Louis
sets in rapidly. Bonds and stocks’and
real estate go down. Trade becomes
stagnant, money scarce and high. North
ern credits are cut off, and Southern mer
chants fail to meet their obligations. The
distrust is greater at the North than at the
South. It is within our knowledge that a
Northren Insurance Company refused to
insure the life of a child of one of our most
respectable and influential citizens. Such
are some of the effects. The end is net
yet. We are advised that in Atlanta,
Joe. Brown’s capital (rents for stores) have
fallen more than one-half; stores that
rented last year for three thousand dollars
have fallen to twelve hundred. Itl our
own city, Boston and New York capitalists
(with perhaps a single exception from New
York),'have declined making investments
“until we see how this thing works.”—
Where is the end to be ?
[communicated. ]
Mr. Editor'. —On returning from my
former mistress’ Burke place a few days
since, near Briar Creek Bridge, I was ac
costed by a man hailing front the North,
who represented himself as an agent of
some groat society which has for its object
the laying off in. forty acre lots the land
now owned by our former masters and
giving it to us colored people. lie stated
that on the payment of five dollars I would
he presented with a scrip entitling me to
that much land of my own selection. I
learn similar men are traversing our whole
country with just such misrepresentations,
and I would be glad you would give this
publicity, so that our colored people will
be fully advised and know how to act in
the premises. By so doing you will confer
a great favor on many who arc liable to be
led astray and lose their money; and also
on yours, most truly,
Harry Jones (Colored).
Our colored people cannot be too careful
in withholding their confidence and their
money from the peripatetic Northern ad
venturers and incendiaries who arc now
swarming over the land like the locusts of
Egypt. They assume all character and
guises of friendship for the negroes, while
their objects are to make money out of
the credulity of their victims. Wo do not
pretend to say that all Northern men who
conic South arc of tho class wc have just
alluded to, but wc do say that all who
prowl through tho country teaching the
negroes that they are ill-used by the South
ern people—that the lands are to ho given
to the colored people upon any terms
whatever —that they have the power to
grant land scrip to negroes —that they can
redress the supposed wrongs of the blacks,
and the like pretences of special friendship
and regard, are of the vilest and meanest
sect that ever disgraced the annals of
civilization, and we warn tho colored peo
ple against them.
Bishop Beckwith Declines. — The
members of his church in Georgia will be
pained to learn that the lately elected
Bishop for this State has been compelled
by a sense of duty to his charge in New
Orleans, to decline the proffered honor
and promotion.
While we, in common with a large num
ber of our readers, regret that he cannot
accept, we confess that the reasons which
he gives for declining are such as enhance
tlie high estimate which we had placed
upon his character and virtues.
We clip from the New Orleans Times,
of the 28th May, the following announce
ment upon this subject:
“The Rev. John W. Beckwith, Rector
of Trinity Church, has declined the See of
Georgia, to which he had been elected.—
His reasons -for declining so high an office
in the Church is, that his work in this
Diocese had hut begun. He remains in
accordance with the wishes of the largest
congregation in the city. When the an
nouncement was made from the pulpit
that he would not leave his flock, it was
received with profound and deep feeling.”
Honest Old Horace.— The Richmond
Times of Monday, reviewing Mr. Greeley’s
recent action, and his bold and defiant
course with his Radical opponents, says:
“Henry Ward Beecher tried the experi
ment of being humane, magnanimous and
generous last summer; but alarmed by the
clamors of the malignant insects who tried
to scare Horace, he retreated into tho filthy
kennels of the blood-hounds of Zion, and
united witli them in abusing the Southern
people. His cowardice stripped him of all
claims to respect, and he was beaten out of
his boots for the Convention the other
day, and is now playing second fiddle to
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., as a writer of tenth
rate novels for the New York Ledger. Mr.
Henry J. Raymond, a joui nali.st of great
talents, and a man of ability and eloquence,
had a splendid chance to achieve great
ness, but be was frightened out of bis wits
by the little scamps who tried to bully
Greeley, and has become a nonentity. We
congratulate Mr. Greeley upon hissplondid
victory, and rejoice that he has utterly
overwhelmed his adversaries with ridicule
and made them the laughing stock of all
parties.”
Breckinridge Invited to Return to
tiie United States by Horace Gree
t.ey.—The Washington correspondent of
the New.York Herald says . “It is said
here that Horace Greeley has written a
letter to ex-rebel John C. Breckinridge,
inviting him to return to this country,
and telling him not to mind what may be
said by fools. This letter Mr. Greeley
sends through the medium of a rebel lady,
formerly wealthy, but now in reduced cir
cumstances in consequence of the war.
It is said that this lady, not being able to
decipher readily the chirography of Gree
ley, showed the letter to a lady friend
stopping at the same hotel in this city,
and thus this interesting item ha= leaked
out.
Tiie Mississippi Levees.— General T.
C. Hindman, in a letter to the Helena
(Ark.) Clarion, makes unimportant sug
gestion in regard to the protection of the
lands along the Mississippi River from
overflow. He says that the levees have
proved unreliable, and his plan is to create
side drains, east and west of the Missis
sippi, carrying directly to the Gulf so much
of its surplus waters that its natural banks
will be a sufficient barrier for the rest.
For example, a drain across the Cumber
land. with a steamboat canal turning its
excess into the Tennessee, and another
drain and canal diverting the excessive
Tennessee waters into the Tombigbee or
Chattahoochee, would afford.the drain on
the east side, and that of the west would
be provided by similar dams and canals,
turning the surplus waters of the Platte
through Grand River into the Arkansas;
those of the latter into the Bayou Bartholo
mew (their ancient channel), and those of
Red River and its tributaries into the'
Atchafalaya. Whether the plan is practi
cable or not must be tested by actual sur
veys.
The Scriven House. —Those of our
readers who visit Savannah will find the
Scriven House a good place “ to tie to”
during their sojourn at the Forest City.
George McGinley, the accommodating host,
a whole team by himself, and, as a con
sequence, he runs his machine with a full
head of steam in splendid style.
The Crops-The Freedmen--Thc Prospect.
LETTER FROM WILKES COUNTY.
Wilkes County, May 25, 1867. *
Messrs. Editors —While a most glorious
rain is falling I will give you a few news
items from ‘ old Wilkes. I am always
pleased to hear, through your columns, the
news from ether sections o*’ Georgia, and
suppose the news from this once, the best
portion of the country, will not be uninter
esting to your readers. I am pleased to
state there is already a great reaction in
the feelings of tho people, since we find
that the wheat crop will save us front fam- j
ine. We have truly passed through a !
, gloomy time, and still there is great cause
iof dread for the future. I hear, daily, the
j cry ot want, especially among the old
ireedmen and those who undertook
to live on their on:it hook , as they
call it. The black folks took a very
erroneous idea last Christmas in regard to
their interest for this year : they all wanted
to go to themselves, thinking that one ;
little porker and a few bushels of corn j
would last nearly always. I took every
occasion to warn them of the difficulties
which they would meet with, telling them
the year was very lone, that it took a good
deal of corn to feed a horse, but in spite of
all the white people could say, agreatmany
of them have leased and rented land, and
have got through with their provisions,
and arc on actual starvation ; their horses
are tBo poor to make a crop, and I fear
there will be another scarce year. I had
no idea flf the stupendous ignorance of
the negro*raee until thrown on their ow n re
sources. They have no idea how long the
i year i* and having always been fed they
can't their provisions to the time,
j Again, it is passing strange that after
working in the farm to old age, they don’t
i know any more about pitching a crop or
1 planting it aright than a Chinaman. I
j asked an old man the other day who
I wanted some seed corn, how he would plant
Ia crop. He said he had worked enough
to know. I readily granted that, and then
1 urged him to tell me how he would plant
his corn. “Oh,” he replied, “according to
the land.” “Well said ; now how willyou
plant such ground as yours? ” “ Accord
ing to the laud,” he said. I then asked
him what distance he would give his corn ?
“Well,” rolling his eyes back like a dying
calf, “I ’spose in rale good land I’d put it
five or six feet in the row, and in the drill
three or tour feet, and in rale poor land
three or four feet in the row, and a foot,
foot and a half in the drill.” Now that is
their idea of planting corn for them
selves, and you won't find one in a
hundred that knows any better. I had
an old negro working for me last year,
who is the only one I could ever
get to cut out low ground corn to suit me ,
they will all have it too thick. This old
fellow had a field of his own just above
mine, and I happened up thereoneday when
ho was at work, and told him his corn
was too thick ; I said you cut out my corn
aright and you spoil your own. “Oh,” lie
says, “nigger want heap stalk to make Leap
of corn.” i begged him to cut it out, but he
would not, and when the drought came on
it dried up, and lie went and cut it out
after it commenced silking. This year his
corn took good distance in the row, for
my father gave him a five foot measure,
but in the drill it is too thick. And right
hero 1 wish all the white men had a small
still voice continually haunting them, give
your corn good distance. There is a good
deal of corn planted in this country, but I
notice most every one lias more corn on
the land than it can bear. The great
secret in making corn is giving it distance.
Our lands are gettingold, and the mould is
all gone, and it can’t support thick corn
when the hot weather conies on. The
farmers are working against wind, rain,
cold, bud-worm unu a host of difficulties
to make corn. The bud-worm is very
bad ; I know of some pieces of low lands
where not a stalk is left standing. The
most .of the early covn looks well, but 'tis
small—only about knee high. The cold
weather has kept the cotton back, and on
unmanured lands the cotton looks hadlv. I
have some manured with guano and some
with stable manure ; the latter is fine in
size, but don’t have that pretty green cast
that tho other lias. I have some cotton
planted in March, which lias come through
blight and frost, and is the best cotton in
the neighborhood. Some T planted, what is
considered to be the right time, 15th of
April, did’nt come up, and I had to plant
it over. The replanting is looking well,
but I fear ’twill never be as good
as it would have been, so wo see
that a great deal depends on the
season in regard to planting cotton. If
there is a warm spell about a week after
plantingyou will be apt to have a good stand;
and if you once get a gmxl stand there is
not much danger unless a very severe
frost comes.
The wheat crop is better than it has
been for years, without cotton seed for
manure; it is getting ripe. I hoar of
some getting ready to cut theirs as soon as
the weather becomes suitable.
There is a great deal of talk about the
depression of the country. Mr. Editor, my
opinion is that laziness is the foundation
of all this depression, and I cannot close
this article without a word to the young
men of our country. The best panacea
for all our griefs is labor—honest labor.
Not sd much the labor of the counting
room as labor in tho great work-shop of
nature. The field where the groat moral
lesson, “despise not the day of small
things,” is verily taught where you can
observe tho development frpm the tiny
sprout to tho full grown year. I felt
greatly depressed the first year after the
war, but I went to work in the field, and
I have been taught some good lessons, and
I often feel that the freeing of the slaves
is a Providential good. 1 don’t know but
that the bad crops of last year will turn
out a blessing, for it lias shown the freed
men that they must labor or perish. If
we had made good crops last year, these
emissaries of the North would have
taken all our laborers from the fields ere
this, for there wduld have been something
to steal on their way to and from these
public meetings, hat they arc now com
pelled to work for bread. Young men, if
you wish to get rid of that peculiar dread
of future I hear so much of—and wish to
be happy again—go to work; don’t sit
down and brood over your cares—saying
the freedmen won’t work. I don’t know
that I am the first to discover that they
will work if you will work with them,
but I know it to be a fact. Get up
early, get on your horse bare-back, with
gear buckling in unison to the song of the
first lark that soars to greet the sun, and,
I’ll assure you, tho freedmen will follow,
and it will not bo long till you hear them
saying a white man can’t out work me. I
will give you an incident, to show that a
want of labor, and not so much the rain,
caused such destitution in the land.
T know a boy, twelve years of age, who,
with a piece of a horse, for the horse died
in the first of June, made five hundred
pounds of gin eotton and corn enough for
himself and horse to make another crop.
He did that last year, as bad a year as it
was ; ho made fifty bushels of sweet pota
toes, a good stack of fodder ; he rented the
land from nte, and ma le me fifty dollars
rent. What do you think of that young
man, who sat at some cross-road store
last year, whittled on white pine and made
nothing ? Do you think that boy is friend
less this year ? No 1 an old man took
notice of him last year, and this year he
has a good horse, and I gave him the use
of the fifty* dollars, and he has, in connec
tion with two other hands, a good prospect
for a crop.
Young men with the same spirit, for the
good of our common country, that I urged
you to fight during the war. let me now
conjure you to work. Let Shellabargcr,
Stevens, Joe Brown, Hunnecutt andG. W.
Ashbnrnc (the last of the latter) go to —,
for while they are paving the way for our
destruction, they may take heed they do
not slip themselves; and I believe they
will, God knows, I believe it. Let us say,
as the Romans did, when their country
had been despoiled ; “ We will now build
artificial beauties to adorn our country to
compensate, in some degree, for our former
dignity.’’ Yes, my countrymen, the land
of our birth is doubly consecrated ; first,
because ’twas bequeathed to us by the
best men who have ever lived ; secondly,
the bones of our brethren lie beneath its
sod. Oh, how can wc run away from it?
Brazil, nor any other country, would never
be a home for me. I love adventure, but
I love my country better, and, as long as I
see a ray of hope, I’ll stick to it. Mother
Earth is as willing now as ever to yield up
her rich treasures to her sons, if they will
only cut down the thistles and the bram
bles. Hopeful.
[communicated, ]
episcopal Bishop ot Georgia.
JUessr*. Editors : —As the Ilev. John
H. Beckwith, of New Orleans, has de
clined the position of Bishop of the Dio
cese of Georgia, to which he was recently
elected, I beg leave, through your columns,
to suggest the name of the Rev. C. P.
Gadsden, of St. Luke’s Church, Charles
ton, as a suitable person to fill the vacancy.
Mr. Gadsden is in the prime of life, of
great learning, thorough Biblical research,
and, as a pulpit orator, has few superiors.
As for his piety and devotion to *he
Church, we do not believe it will be
questioned. His reputation is widespread,
and the Diocese of Georgia in honoring
this eloquent clergyman would honor itself.
Episcopal.
Some of the New York papers are re
joicing over the fact that on the 4th of
July the boys will be forbid by enactment
from firing fire-crackers.
A splendid line of steamers has been es
tablished between Philadelphia and South
ern ports, with a view to regain for Phila
delphia the trade of the South.
A New York correspondent states that a
number of friends are endeavoring to es
tablish the entente cor diale between Mr.
G reeley and the Union League.
Judge Shellabarger, of Ohio, is about
to start on a stumping tour through the
South.
Cotton in India.
Ihr Hombay Crop oj f 866-7.— lts Money
Value Nineteen Millions of Founds
Storting—(J rent Progress in the Cultiva
tion, Cleaning and /’aching—Excellence
of the Native Seeds, et c.
[From !/„■ Tima, of India, Apri tt.l
The report of Mr. W. Walton, the act
ing Cotton Commissioner on the cotton
crop of the Northern Division, completes
the statiscal account of the present posi
tion of cotton cultivation throughout this
presidency. This portion of the report is
even more encouraging than that on the
Southern Division, where the increase in
area under cotton in 1866-7 is, in exotic
cotton 17 per cent., and 7 in native. In
the Northern Division the increase in area
for' 1866-7 is, for exotic cotton 981 per
cent., subject to a decrease in native
growth of S per cent Then as to out
turn ; the increase in the Southern Divis
ion was, for iudigenous cotton 211 per
cent., and for exotic 27J ; but in the
Northern portion of the presidency the
j increased yield this year in 1565-6 is, in
exotic cotton 370 per cent., subject to a
decrease in the native variety of 12 per
cent. This enormous increase in the bet
ter variety is due nearly as much to im
proved yield as to increased breadth under
cultivation.
Mr. \\ alton tells us that the exotic cotton
this year has produced 70 pounds clean
cotton per acre, as compared with 30
pounds in the previous season. These
statements need some explanation, and
care is required lest the public at home
should be misled on the important ques
tion of exotic versus indigenous cotton
cultivation. In writing on Mr. Walton’s
report on the Southeni Division we re
marked that it seemed to furnish a de
monstration in favor of cultivating exotic
cotton in preference to any native variety,
but we ventured to anticipate that evi
dence tending to qualify such conclusion
would be gathered by the Commissioner
when in the Northern Division. In face
of the great increase in the turn out, and
the enormous improvements in the yield of
“exotic” cotton as returned in the report
now before us, our surmise would appear
to be a very mistaken one. And yet when
the matter is looked at more closely, it
will be seen that there is no mistake, un
less it be is the misuse in the report of
that very excellent and distinct term —
exotic. The report says, by far the greater
part of the exotic cultivation was carried
on in Khandeish. It will, however, be
seen that the said “exotic” cotton is not
foreign cotton at all, nor is it even so de
rived. The report goes on to say that “the
Collector, Mr. Ashburner, introduced a
superior cotton fromßerar,” and it is this
transplanted variety which has shown such
splendid results. AVe are not referring to
this fact with any wish to discourage the
cultivation of New Orleans and Egyptian,
wherever the soil and climate are suitable
for those exotics.
Those interested in. the stability of our
cotton trades will look forward with great'
interest to the result of the large and care
fully conducted experiments in the Ah
medaba zillah, with New Orleans and
Egyptian seeds, as mentioned by Mr.
Walton. Yet he spoakswith some caution
as to the prospects of exotic cotton in
Gnzerat; and probably as well as in Khan
deish, some carefully selected indigenous
seed might even succeed better than the
foreign varieties. In Khandeish, taking
the simplest, test of yield to Peruvian, Sea
Island, and even the New Orleans accli
matized, have all failed, as compared with
the native Hingunghat and Berar seed,
which lias produced some seventy pounds
of clean cotton to the acre. So successful
has been this introduction of the new plant,
that the yield of the old Khandeish variety,
once so convenient for “mixing purposes,”
has dwindled literally to a handful of
“eight pounds.” Khandeish is the only
ootton producing zillah in the Northern
Division besides Guzerat; and Mr. AVaf
ton, with all before him that has been done
in that ancient home of “Surats,” thinks
tiiat the new field of Khandeish may be
come “tho most important ootton district
of this presidency.”
No doubt the very full report on the
Khandeish colleotorate has been duly
perused by our readers, so that wo nood
not dwell on the specially interesting facts
recorded in it; but we are desirous to
keep in view that this great agricultural
triumph has not been accomplished by
means of “exotic” seed—as for want of a
more correctly descriptive term it is writ
ten by Air. Walton—but by “tho improved
Oomrawuttee seod that lias been intro
duced into Khandeish by Mr. Ashburner,”
and the cultivation of which lias been so
assiduously promoted, not. only by the col
lector himself, but by Mr. Hewitt, the
cotton inspector, and others who could not
be named. Thy Collector of Khandeish
states in his return that there are in the
district, 1,407,08.8 acres capable of produc
ing cotton, of which only 435,336 are un
der cotton in this abundant year; and we
observe that front these figures in the
report the inference is that “cotton plant
ing is not yet one-third of what it can
reasonably be increased to” in Khandeish.
It is not clear whether the Collector or
Air. AA r alton is responsible for this infer
ence, but there must he some fallacy in it.
AVhen the Commissoncr, in his former
report., stated the total extent of land capa
ble of producing cotton in tho Dharwar
district, lie reminded his readers that
the necessary rotation of crops forbids
more than one-third of tho whole area of
such land being occupied witli ootton in
any one year. If that rule be applied to
Khandeish, it would seem that the 436,-
336 acres now under cotton nearly approach
tho proportion that the cultivation “can
be reasonably increased to.”
It will he serviceable if we here bring
together the chief statistics of Mr. AVal
ton’s report on tho Northern in the same
way as we did for the Southern division.
The comparison between the present year
and tlie last may be stated as follows:
Acres under cultivation:—
Exotic. Native. Total.
1865-6 *2l-9.615 533,1*0 756.7*5
18t»6-7...„ .437,367 . 494,39? 908.755
—Showing an increase in 1806-7 of 98J
per cent, in exotic cotton and a decrease of
8 per cent, in native.
Out-turn in candies of “84 lbs. cleaned
cotton: —
Exotic. Native. Total.
Candies. lbs. Candles, lbs. Candfrs. lbs.
1865-6,,..8 326 766 42,510 7u6 •V',867 f.33
IhGC-7.,.33 919 286 37.432 IS7 76,331 473
—Showing for 1866-7 an increase of 370
per cent, of exotic cotton and a decrease of
12 per cent, of native cotton.
Having nowgiven the particulars for the
two divisions, it will suffice if we merely
give the totals for the whole presidency,
as the aggregate shows an increase in every
item. There are now under cotton in the
whole presidency, 1,978,182 acres of land,
of which 751,814 are planted with “exotic”
cotton —subject to the important qualifica
tion required in the case of the Berar-
Khandeish. These figures show 54 per
cent,, more land than last year (1865-6),
cultivated for superior varieties, and some
thing less than one tier cent, increase for
the native plant. The total out-turn of
1860-7 of cleaned cotton is estimated—by
the cotton Commissioners, aided by the
opinion of the various collectors--at .148,-
448 candies (of 784 lbs), being equal to
nearly 300,000 bales. Os that total num
ber of candies 65,389 consist of the exotic
or superior acclimatized varieties, the re
maining 83,059 being the unimproved—-
though a large portion of it, the better
class of indigenous cotton. Those figures
show for 1866-7 an increase of 125 per
cent, in out-turn of the superior varieties
of'the staple, and a little over 3 per cent
increase in the quantity of native cotton.
We need scarcely remark that this estimate
of three lakhs of bales of new cotton refers
strictly to what is grown within this presi
dency, and takes no account of the increas
ing quantity that rnay be expected from
the central provinces anil Berar. The great
value to our commercial classes of these
agricultural statistics must be apparent to
every one who has gone through these full
ami clear reports furnished by the cotton
Commissioner. There is yet some little un
certainty as to the actual yield of the Ameri
can crop, but wc know certainly that a large
crop may he reckoned for from our own
fields and the scope for speculative risk is
so far narrowed. VVe must not omit to
mention that Air. Rogers estimates the
total money value of the crop for 1866-7 in
the Northern division at nineteen millions
sterling.
One of the most interesting portions in
Mr. Walton’s report is his description of
the projects that. are in such efficient
operation in G uzerat fpr the cleaning and
packing of cotton, and wo are glad to see
justice done to these well planned and
energetically-worked undertakings.
. Mr. Rogers endeavors to say the best he
can for Khandeish in this respect; but
there is yet very much to be done, not only
in regard to cotton gins and presses, but
agricultural plants generally, before that
collectorate receives from our Bombay capi
talists the attention and outlay for which
its soil and industrious population will
yield an ample return. We trust these
reports may have their influence on the
public mind in this direction, and that
when next the wealth of Bombay is seek
ing investment a considerable portion of
it majt be turned like a fertilizing stream
into the thirsty and neglected but richly
productive fields of the Mofussil. The
proposed cotton exhibition at Broach may
easily be contrived so as to conduce to this
important end, As to cotton production
itself, we quite believe with Mr. Walton
that it has already gained such a position
in India as will enable it to “bear the full
force of commercial depression” and the
lower prices that must come. And yet
there is as much occasion as ever far the
following reminder given by the Commis
sioner : “It cannot be too strongly borne
in mind by all who take an interest in tins
important branch of trade that many years
and a vast wealth of money were expended
before the Southern States of America
became —as they were anterior to the war <
—the principal cotton producing country ,
of the world, and there is no doubt ou c
that well-directed means and energy 'J' 1 . 11 )
prove as successful, in the long run, m this 1
as they have done in that country. i
ofK-- Poindexter, an old eitiiaa
of ibehmond, died on Thur.Mav
residence in Y. ‘ “ ' plSe>,, n
mission ‘in' ?he < p\ Wlu - > ru ' si « n «<l his com-
Soils.
is about 1 to\wahLi r T' !(l slr * I)avis
Montreal, with Owi * uat nea !'
hm. by S yuipSlS reoentl y pr< * ented
New York advices of Mav t«n
cetved tn San Francisco'L ' A wcrc re ’
route in advancer of tho 0 tllc f °Y crlan<l
steamer on the same day ' s ° nt jy tlie
City Ida, '°
the main street' was fcned
ted suicide on Saturday
S h lf,?Z b! hi! ’» '»»
Internal Revenue officers, on the 1 |
t»t the fhikd to LYi .V j
BSK.« -was*
A correspondent states that Air. Peahodv
wf: J he the United
’ - at cs that what he has done for London
will be surpassed by two of his opulent
friends for the city of New Fork.
B. AI. Brown, the venerable gentleman
whose reported abstinence from food for
over two months has supplied the startle
local news of the Daytoti, Ohio, pajS
throughout that period, died ou Thursday
morning. He was 84 years old. 1
The New Orleans Times of the 22d savs .
U is reported on reliable authority ‘that
notes of the iexas National Bank at Gal
veston have been protested, and trouble is
anticipated there.”
1 lie young poaches in Delaware along
the Bay shore, where some of the best
orchards are situated, have suffered severe
ly*™™. recent frosts, and, it is said, will
not yield more tiiQn ;i Quarter crop
Rev. Joseph Lindsley, the pjous cler<*v
man who whipped his little boy to death
because tlie child would not say his prayers
and who was in consequence sentenced to
the estate prison of New York, ‘has been
released on bail for anew trial.
. Some sacrilegious thief recently broke
into the Catholic Church at Marlboro’,
Aid., and stole a chalice, a communion
pitcher and plate, and several other arti
cles of value, from the altar. Other articles
ot equal value were undisturbed.
A Frenchman has invented anew paper
instantly stopping the hemorrhage caused
by wounds. Marshal Neil has passed a
contract with him for tho immediate sup
ply of three hundred thousand large quires
of tho said paper.'
Over .fifty plans and drawings for the
new building for tlie War Department
have been received. Alany of them are
very elaborate, and nearly all are entirely
different from the present style of public
buildings, and vary in cost from $2,000,(MX)
to $6,000,001). No plan will bo adopted
until next winter.
\A r e learn from our exchanges that the
farmers in the (Vmnoctirui A alley will not
probably go so largely into the cultivation
of tobacco this year as they did last, but
will make their principal crops corn and
potatoes. Alo.it. ot last year s tobacco crop
has been sold, but at very low prices.
Governor Patton has made arrange
ments for the payment, in New York and
London, of the total interest on the State
debt of Alabama up to July 1. The May
interest amounting to $64,731, is already
paid the interest tieeruiinr in June and
July has been forwarded. The aggregate
in coin is $158,008.
A prize-fight, took place on Saturday
abouft four miles from St. Louis, on the
Illinois river, between I’atsey Shepherd
and Con. Reardon, for S2OO a side. The
fight lasted one hour and forty minutes,
and was won by Shepherd. ’Onlv three
rounds were fought, the first being forty
eight minutes, the toughest on record.
Reardon was badly bruised.
A correspondent of the New A r ork
Herald writes; “Information just received
from Bristol, on the line of Virginia and
Tennessee, states that a perfect reign of
terror exists there in consequence of the
depredation of a company of Brownlow’s
militia who invaded the town. This com
pany numbers about one hundred, two
thirds of whom are negroes. They are
represented as brutal and lawless, and
have created the greatest consternation
among tho inhabitants.
It is said to be not certain, says the
Richmond Whig, that Rev. Air. AVhittlo,
lately elected assistant Bishop of the Dio
cese of Virginia by the Protestant Epis
copal Council, will accept the position, his
health, it is said, being an obstacle, His
election has given general satisfaction in
the ohuroh throughout the State.
A STRAW.—The New A'ork Freeman's
Journal, of last week, says: “Let us
prepare to repudiate the Lincoln war
debt! AA r hen we do that, labor will once
more make a good living for tho la
borers. ’ ’
The Prairie. Fanned lias not a shadow of
a doubt, of the ultimate success of the beet
sugar enterprise in Illinois and other
Western States.
The British gunboat Prince Alfred,
which was recently introduced on the lakes,
has been ordered out of commission, and
her crew is to be sent back to Quebec.
A self-propelling steam-fire engine has
been completed in Alanchester, N. 11.,
and made a successful trial trip through
the streets. •
Gen. Butler recently addressed a note to
Aliss Surratt, daughter of Mrs. Surratt, that
was hung, asking for an interview in an
important matter. After consulting with
her friends she returned for answer that
she would grant the interview in the
presence of her counsel, Alv. Bradley, of
Washington. This the General did not
accept.
Says an English paper: “It is a curious
fact that tnere are an unusual number of
French families in London. Their houses
hate been let at a substantial profit, and
they wish to escape (here Paris for a time.
Not a few New Yorkers are in Paris
living ou the proiits of renting their
houses. ’ ’
Judge Lumpkin.—We were informed
yesterday that Judge Lumpkin has not
spoken for several days. One half his
body is entirely paralyzed. The Judge is
suffering with the second attack of para
lysis. Judge Lumpkin is well and favor
ably known throughout this State, and his
many friends will regret to learn tins sad
visitation. — At. Opinion, May 30 th.
The New Oilcans Crescent of the 16th
says : Probably the closest run ever made
upon a bank in tlie United States, was made
during the last two days upon the hank of
which Mr. G. W. Cochran is President.
Os $675,000 upon deposit, $610,000 were
drawn out up to noon yesterday, when
confidence was again restored, and before
3 o’clock SIIO,OOO had again been placed
upon deposit.
Tiie Fenians.—lt is now stated that
preparations are being made by the Fenians
for an invasion of Canada, that arms and
munition are being transported across the
border, and that, this time, the United
States will not interfere. This is not all;
Anew advance is imminent, the circles
are rallying, great activity is apparent, the
commissariat is being organized, and Spear
has been appointed commander of tlie
invading army. For further particulars,
see New York Herald, whose Troy corre
spondent is responsible for tlie preceding
batch of news.
The Recent Kentucky Election.—
The whole number of votes cast for Con
gressmen iri Kentucky on the 4th instant
was about 110,000 —Democrats, 76,000;
Radical, 27,000 ; Third 7,000. Democratic
plurality*, 49,000; majority 42,000. In
1866, the whole vote was 154,014 —Demo-
cratic majority, 37*944. Duvalls rote,
95,979: Ilobson’s, 58,055. In 1864, whole
vote, 92,087 —McClellan, 64,501, Lincoln,
27,786.
Four of the fiye candidates of the
“Thirds”* were third in the race. The
fifth district gave Grover 7,122; Jacob,
2,814 ; Bullitt (Radical), 720. In 1805 it
gave Rosseau 5,751 ; Mallory, 4,704.
General Pope and the Confederate
Grey.—The Commander-in-chief of Dis
trict No. 3 has issued an order through
General Swayne forbidding the pulioo
force of Mobile wearing a uniform in imi
tation of that worn “by the late rebel
army.” On Friday last the City Council
passed the following resolution on the su >-
jeet: “That a committee of two mem
bers from each Board, to winch his Honor
the Mayor shall be added; be appointed to
represent that the uniform in question is
not patterned after a rebel uniform but ns
a copy of the uniform of the Central Dar«
police of the city of-New York-
Interest ox ot k Debt.-The
Montgomery Advertiser announces the de
parture of John V, luting, the State sfinan
cial agent for New 1 ork, to arrange for the
payment of the interest on our bonded
debt, due annually, on the hist ot June on
the London bonds, and, another portion,
semi-annually, January 1 and July 1. Gov.
Patton has provided the lunds, the aggre
gate ainonntof which in currency, including
premium on exchange, is $<23,280. The
sterling exchange for the June interest has
bee,, forwarded to London through the
Bank of Mobile. Mr. M inting will remit
from x ork the Juiy interest. The
interest on the New York bonds is due
May 1 and November 1. The first $04,7.31
has been paid.
Gov. Patton . merits encomium for his
energy and ability in maintaining the
State s credit unimpaired, the declaration*
of a speaker at the late Radical meeting,
in Huntsville that our State government
is bankrupt, to the contrary notwithstand
ing-—Huntsville Democrat.