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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1868)
£Ju:<micle & Sentinel.] •.VKPXKSMY JtORNIKfI. OC7OBKB 21. A FMllical Retrospect—Tbe Future. Now that the conflict has ceased, and the clouds* of smoke which hovered over the battle-field have lilted, we are enabled to get a clear view of the relative positions of tho two parties, and determine with some degree of accuracy the condition of the combatants. The recent elections in the - great central States, were the first great efforts made by the hostile parties to de velopo their antagonist’s strength, and ex pose the weak points in their respective linos. It was nothing more than a skir mish—a pretty heavy one, it is true —to get position for thy general conflict which will take place in November. That this skirmish has resulted in some decided benefits to the Radical party we admit. It has developed a strength of their party in Ohio and Pennsylvania which, while it ha: not caused us much surprise, we con fess wc were not prepared to find. It has shown that the bond interest in these Htatee is stronger than the virtue and intelligence of the people. It has prove;* that the influence of the bankers and bondholders, and merchant princes of the East has been extended into the great mining and agricultural States, which lie in close proximity to New England, and that we must look to the people—the strong fisted yeomanry—of the West, for deliverance from the oppressions and mis rule of the great moneyed interest of the East. Ti.at the success of the Radicals in Ohio and Pennsylvania is mainly attributable to I the pi . r and influence of the boud inter est wiil hardly be questioned. Ohio is j connected with Wall street by close and : intimate ties. The Shoddy Lords of New , York have their iron grasp upon the ! fine - rial and commercial interest" of Ohio, and through this mighty agency dictate: ! not only the cent for cent dealings of the j people, but boldly assumes to control their politics and shape their political views. The Radicals have spent millions of money . to corrupt the people and carry those two j States for their party. That they have succeeded is not to be wondered at. It ' should be rather a matter of con ralulation that their majority is no larger. But it was not alone by money that those three States were carried. The people were influenced against the South by re peated misrepresentations of our conduct and temper, and the Democratic party was hold rcsponiblc for our alleged treasonable utterances and revolutionary proceedings. An infamous and mendacious press, led by such malignant and unscrupulous falsifiers as Forney and Greeley, and Smith and Raymond, daily circulated details of out rages and etimos of the deepest dye com mitted by the white people of the South upon negroes and loyal whites, and which they knew were not only untrue but mali ciously false and slanderous. On the one hand the people were cajoled and seduced by the pernicious influences of a flood of greenbacks, while on the other the rawhcad-and bloody-bones of Southern barbarities upon unoffending loyal men were constantly paraded before them. Panting for peace, they were told that the rebels were preparing for another war, and that Grant was a candidate of the Peace party and could alono preserve order and quiet in the South. They were warned against the Democratic) party, who were falsely represented as in league with prominent rebels in the South, to pluck from their grasp the hard won fruits of the war. But those were not all the means resort ed to by the Radicals to secure success. In Philadelphia they refused the votes of several thousand legal votors upon the pretext that there were some illegal cer tificates of citizenship issued from two of the courts of that city. It was not pretended that the votors whom t hey rejected really hail illegal certificates, but merely that they might, be illegal. The number of votes rejected in this way, in the most reliable returns we have up to the time of writing, be uffieient to carry the State for the Democrats, or make the issue extremely close. In Indiana, whore the Radicals carried the State at the last Governor’s election by over twenty thousand majority, the r> - turns indicate that the i.-.me is still m doubt. Both sides claim the majority, Indiana is a Strictly agricultural State. She is far removed, from the great central uionycd despotism of Wall street. Tho honest farmers of that State arc tired of paying the present heavy rate of taxation for the benefit of shoddy princes and bond-holding aristocrats. Even tho terrible buga boo of Southern rebellion aifd Ku-klux outrages could not shake the sturdy sons of the field from their determination to drivo out the money changers from the temple of Liber ty and overturn the bloated tyranny of the heartless Shylocksof Wall street, and the purse proud magnates of Boston and Lowell. I’lie result in Indiana teaches us that wo must look to tho West for our delivery. They, like our own South, lire purely an agricultural people. In all stages of the world’s history—in every country and under every government of which wo have a record—agricultural peo ple have invariably been found the most honest, and faithful and patriotic of their citizens. The cultivation of tho soil en nobles man’s nature, while the constan contact with hank chocks, money bags, gold rooms, and bond exchanges, dwarfs his humanity and extinguishes patriotism. The West and the South —the tillers of the soil and tho- owners of our vast and fertile fields and prairies— must aud will come together and strike hands in the patriotic attempt to restore to this dis tracted country an honest and economical and constitutional administration of our common Government, aud to our people, iu every section, equal rights, equal laws, equal privileges and equal protection. And wo shall not have to wait until 1872 for the accomplishment of these results. The West has the power, and the result in Indiana shows that she will exercise it. If the people of the South will be true to themselves, aud true to their brethren in the We t,Seymour can and wiU'be elected, although the Radicals carry Pennsylvania and Ohio against him. But this eau only 1 e accomplished by constant, zealous and vigorous action. We say, and we intend to prove the as sertion by reference to figures, that a change of less than seven thousand votes in five States where the aggregate popular vote is Sl'.'.lsl, will secure the election of Sey mour without Pennsylvania or Ohio. But to accomplish this the entire vote of the South—except Florida which cannot vote— must be east for him. We know that the sixty-seven electoral votes of the South can bo carried for tho Democracy if our triends will make the proper efforts. Oeorgia can and must give our noble stand ard bearers fifty thousand imincity. South Carolina, the most doubtful of her South ern sisters on account of tho relative strength of the two races, we are very con fident will respond nobly to tho demand upon her. Her people are thoroughly arous ed in the middle and upper portions of the State, and the seaboard is about to awake from their slumber and join with zeal and enthusiasm in the great Novem ber contest. The following table show- the States which have Democratic majorities and the j number of electoral votes which each is entitled to: Electoral Vote. ! California fi Connecticut 6 Kentucky 11 Maryland 7 New .Jersey 7 Now York 33 j Oregon 3 Total... 72 Southern States less Florida 67 I3y Here w have 130 votes which ought to ! - atain for Seymour, and which only lacks- twenty of a majority. Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Hampshire, tv n.sa. Nevada east twenty-two votes ' ‘ College. Ihe aggregate 1 popular vote in these is 319,481. The ag- | gregatc majority for the Radical party at | the last election in the same States was j only 13,989. A change of 6,994 votes wiil give these twenty-two electoral votes to Seymour. This would be less than 2A per cent, of the entire vote, and surely our friends can do this much. But if we carry Indiana for Seymour, and we believe we shall, w« will only want seven votes from those doubtful States. Wisconsin alone would give us eight. The Radical majority there in lift", in a popular vote of 142,510. was only 4,764. A change in this State of 2,383 votes would give its electoral vote to Seymour and Blair. We have seeu that it is in the West our ! friends are strongest—that the great | change of popular sentiment in taking | place. We believe that the same influence | which has wiped out the fifteen or twenty I thousand Radical majority in Indiana can | and will pervade not only Wisconsin, but ! Illinois and Missouri and other Western ! States and drive the Radicals from power . there. At all event- it becomes the imperative j duty of the Southern people to see to it ' that the South, in no part of her line, , wavers or halts. We have too much at j stake to permit us to hesitate or become ! lukewarm now. Correction. In our table, in yesterday morning’s article upon the Presidential prospects, the State cf Nevada was inadvertently placed among, t those having Democratic major ities, aad Delaware left out. Both States cast the same cumber of Electoral votes and hence the mistake in the name does not alter the result. The Macon Telegraph. In the Macon Telegraph, of the 15th inst.. in an editorial, headed “Tiie Elec tion.' there is a reference to this paper, in which the Chronicle & Sentinel is styled “the echo of the New York Tribune," and a paragraph inserted which it pretends to have copied from our columns. No such statement was ever made by us, and, as far as the charge about our being “ the Tribune» echo'’ is concerned, the Tele graph will have to bring stronger evidence to convict us than its own assertion- W lien wc first read the Telegraph,'s ar ticle we concluded that the use of the Chronicle's name in connection with its excoriation of the Tribune , was a mere t ipnuspenna and that it would make the proper correction in its next issue. We hav • before us a copy of the Telegraph of ye: icr.lay, and as it fai's to make any cor rection ofits statement, we are forced to call on it for a retraction of its injurious and unfounded charge. A New Practice. Wc learn that the Radical lawbreakers of this city claim the right, when legally ar rested for their crimes, to be examined be fore a scalawag committing officer. This claim of right, if admitted, would, in nine ca * at often, secure the discharge of the accused. We beg to remind the ministerial officers of the iaw in this city that no man accused of, and arrested for, the commission of crim ; ’ has the right to select the officers bolero whom his examination shall be made. The arresting ofliecr, under the warrant to him dircctod, is bound to take the aroused before some officer who, by law, is authorized to examine and commit. This selection made by the arresting officer is conclusive upon the accused. Wc are led to these remarks by heaving that one of Blodgett’s detectives, Dan Far row, when arrested for a felony, a few days since, demanded that his examination should bo heard by Esquire Reynolds. This demand was complied with, and the result was that Farrow was admitted to bail in tho sum of five hundred dollars, with Foster Blodgett as his bondsman. Comment upon this is entirely unneces sary. A Dishonorable Proposition. Iho Now York World in a double load- Washxnglcnt Telegram. The New York World has boon for more | than .-,ix months past opposed to the Na j tional Di cio! retie Party. Indeed it is by i no mean., certain that its managers and proprietors have been cordial in their sup port of Democratic principles for several year:. It is true that it has apparently advocated Democracy, but, while doing so, has unmistakably shown its settled hostili ty to tho leading ideas and tenets of the party. We believe that it was originally started as a politico religious frcc-soil pap r, red that it has gone through a series of somewhat remarkable changes' until it passed, a few years since, under the ownership and control of a few bond holding aristocrats of Wall street. It is known that its opposition to the Radical party was excited by alleged per sonal wrongs inflioted upon its principal editor by the military authorities during the war. Having been incarcerated in prison by order of the military power for alleged treasonable utterances, its editor conceived an inveterate and malignant per sonal hostility to all forms of military gov ernment or control. Hence it. very naturally, while smarting under the effects of its own injuries, attacked the Recon struction measures of Congress, because those measures were entrusted solely with tho administration of the military power of the Federal Government. The leading ini quity of those bills—the authority assumed ; by Congress to fix, regulate aud establish the qualifications of the elective franchise in the Southern States, and their illegal 1 bestowal of that privilege upon the hordes of ignorant blacks in the South, ir it did not meet the cordial approval of the World, certainly drew from it the dishonoring advice to tho Southern people that they should accept the terms offered aud con cede to tho unjust and illegal demands of Congress. The World oven went further. It at tempted to convince and persuade the people of the Southern States that uni versal negro suffrage was proper and right in itself, aud being so, the mere fact that i it was forced upon us by an unauthorized 1 and unlawful power, should not. be con- j sidered by us as a just and proper reason j for rejecting it. In the opinion of the R >rlil, universal negro suffrage was in it- j self so good a tiling, that the South should I accept it with pleasure, although accom panied with the disfranchisement and dis- ' hen >r of a large number of our host eiti zens, and thrust upon us in violation of tlv. Constitution of the United States, by ; a body of men who had no legal right in I the premises. 1 he Hor/<i, alter taking open ground for universal negro suffrage, hastily retraeted I when it found the entire press of the party, in the North and West, with a single exception, was not willing to follow its lead. This failure to influence any re spectable number of its party to accept its vagaries begotten of its old Freesoil pro ; o.ivitics, was a matter of severe mor fixation to its managers. The It , had assumed the position of leading organ ot ’lie National Democracy. Lis pretensions had met a severe rebuke. It withdrew ir m its objectionable posi tion under the false plea that it had not been serious in its advocacy of universal negro suffrage—that it was merely in jest that its carefully prepared leaders on that subject were merely rhetorical flourishes of severe irony upon the Radical party, i Beneath tb.- and: -laimer, made in apparent candor and fra; .r •. we thought we saw lurking a dec rmination to be avenged upon it.- party for the merciless snubbing j of its pompous pretensions. We saw that j it had only bent, and, with much reluc tance, to the force of the storm, and that it would bide its time and secure its re- i venge. M e were not disappointed. Soon after the nomination of General Grant at Chkag'. World and its proprietors originated and headed the movement to bring forward Mr. Chase as a candidate of the Democratic party for President. In proposing and urgiffg M r . Chase upon the party, the World sought to he avenged upon the Democracy for snubbing its universal suffrage proposition, but above and beyond that, it sought to pledge the party to the support of the financia 1 view;; which the World and its proprietors ' entertained in common with Mr. Chase j and the great ma-.- of the Radical party. Here then was its revenge. It would, 1 through the influence of countless millions j of money of the Wall street stock jobbers, force upon its party the great central head 1 and most brilliant luminary of the uoiver- j sal negro suffrage advoeate-s.and the father ! and ueiender of the bondholding interest, i If the Chase movement could be made to i succeed the World secured a double re- ! veage. That it would succeed, tbo World j never permitted itself or its proprietors to j doubt. They knew better, perhaps, than j any one else the power of ready cash. ; They had often tried its persuasive I eloquence and witnessed its unvaried sue- ; | cesses. The South was poor. Her peo- j j pie were bankrupt, and many of her best ; citizens really in want of the commonest necessaries of life. Here, then, was an * ; inviting field for the exercise of the money j I power. Here, they determined to play ! their best trump. Letters and circulars flooded the South. The praises of Chase i and greenbacks wore sung in every variety : metre and of tone. Special agents, with -. well filled purses, were sent throughout ■ the South to urge Southern delegates to attend the New York Convention. It ; was delicately hinted to these that their I Democratic friends in New York, in S view of their pecuniary embarrassments, : had generously provided funds to defray i their expenses. The whole power of the I World, end Wall street was brought to I bear upon the Convention in every con ceivable manner. They packed the galle ries and lobbies of Tammany Hall with Chase adherents. They besieged delegates in their rooms—run them down on the streets —followed them in the hotels and cluorooffii- -watched them bv day and by night—cajoled.and treated, and wheedled, and persuaded,and threatened and bribed, to secure the nomination of Mr. Chase and failed,. This failure was a stunning blow to the would-be ortran of tho great National Democratic party. It was a crushing ex tinguisher of the pretensions of Wall street. It was a defiant announcement of open hostility to the “unconstitutional, revolutionary and void” action of the Radical Congress and the Chase-Wall street policy, in regard to the finances oi the country. Ever since the adjournment of .the New York Convention the World and its Wall street backers have been industriously la boring for the defeat of Seymour and Blair. While pretending to advocate their claims, it has day after day presented straw editorials that Greeley and Ray mond might demolish them the day after. It has inaugurated and followed up a sys tematic personal abuse of Gen. Grant which was intended to and has shocked the decent and respectable people of both parties, North and South, and caused thousands of honest men to support him who otherwise would not have done so. It has attacked his character as a man, as sailed him as a gentleman and impotently sought to tarnish his reputation as a sol dier and great military chieftain. The World has added ten-fold more to the strength of Grant than the Tribune and Times combined. While the World was thus openly at work for the Radical party, its chief owner, who is a leading member and, we believe, Chairman of the National Central Execu tive Democratic Committee, has failed to take such action for the success of the party as the condition of the canvass re quired, and Las heretofore been usual. Indeed, we have the very best authority for saying that he suffered more than thir ty days to elapse after Mr. Seymour’s nomination, before he advised or consulted with that gentleman, although living in \ the same State, and but a few hours’ ride i from him. We have been reliably inforrn j ed, further, that when he did open commu- I nication with our candidate, that it was done with a demand that Mr, Seymour j should promise re permit Wall street to | name the Secretary of the Treasury in case ’ graceful demand was promptly and forcibly , repelled by Air. Seymour, and hence tho i World and Wall street have been since that ime continually plotting for his defeat. We have not seen the World's article to , which pur telegram from Washington al ludes. It is said to bo “double leaded,” that is printers’ parlance for doubly em phatic, Wc suppose that the small majority of the Radicals in Pennsylvania and their heavy losses in Indiana has caused the World to fear that Seymour may be elected. This tho World will, If it can, prevent at all hazards. The World is also doubtless, very much troubled about Now York. Hoffman and Sweeney, and other leading Demo crats there, are determined to carry the State for the Democracy. The World dare not fight Tammany Ilal! and Hoffman. If Hoffman is elected Seymour will carry the State. If Seymour is de feated Hoffman is defeated also. Here is the World’s dilemma. It is obliged to “toto fair” in New York, and by so doing will be compelled to permit the State to go for the nominees of the National Demo cratic party. Hence it calls now for a change of candidates. It knows that a change now is equivalent, to a defeat. That any attempt to take down Mr. Seymour would insure Grant’s election. It may be silly enough to suppose that even at this stage of the canvass, Chase could be elected. At any rate wc warn the Democracy of the country that this j proposition of the World is made for the purpose of securing Grant’s election, and advise them to, repudiate it with'seorn and \ contempt. j Funeral Obsequies of Gen. Cobh In Athens. Wo learn that the funeral of Gon. Cobb j in Athens on Thursday last, was the j largest aud most imposing ceremony of the kind ever witnessed in that place. The special train from Savannah which conveyed his remains, reached Athens early Thursday morning, in charge of an escort, composed of delegations from Sa vannah, Macon, Atlanta and Augusta and a large number of the special friends of the deceased, who joined them at the dif ferent points on the road. All the business houses, offices, and 1 stores in Athens were closed during the ’ day, and the country people for miles j around the town came in to ray this last ! sad tribute to their departed friend, The procession to the cemetery was ! composed of the special escort before al luded to, tho members of the Masonic I Lodge, the Odd Fellows’ Lodge, the two i Societies of the State University, the members of the Bar, the President and | Professors of the University, the Clergy | and citizens generally of Athens and the ! adjoining counties. Religious exercises were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Flinn, for a long time Chap lain oFGen. Cobb's commandin Virginia, the Rev. Mr. Warren, the pastor of the Baptist Church in Macon.and the Rev. Mr. Key, of the Methodist Church. The ser mon of Mr. Flinn was an eloquent and feeling tribute to the virtues and excellencies of Gen. Cobb s character, and its kind and touching sentiments met a hearty response from the grief-stricken community which crowded around the bier of their esteemed and venerated friend. Although Gen. Cobb had not made an out ward profession of religion, it is known ibat for months past he has been anxious ly seeking that consolation which alone is found in the service of the Lord and the practice of His precepts. While at the North he had announced to the members of his family, who were then with him, his determinetion, as soon as he returned home, to put on the habiliments of Christ by uniting hitnself to the Baptist Church, ! of which his wife was a member. Few men have ever lived in Athens who so endeared themselves to the whole peo ple as G enerai Cobb. And the deep and pervading grief, of the entire, population of the city showed how much and how woU they loved him. Each person, male and female, in that long procession wept over his bier as though it contained the remains ol a dear relative. Even the innocent prattle of the little children was hushed in the presence of that grief stricker community and the streets and thoroughfare.- of the city were as stiil and silent as the grave. a Talk on lotion. We turn aside from the turmoil and strife, and the vexation of spirit in the political arena to take a look at our materi al prospects. The following talk on cotton, from one who is evidently good authority and knows what he is talking about, wiil be read with interest by all classes of our people. /According to hi facts and figures the price of cotton is not likely to go down. On the contrary, the indications are that it will go up, and we believe it will: COTTON. To the Editor of the Liverpool Mercury : Gentlemen—Judging from the un settled and fitful state of the cotton mar ket, it might naturally be supposed that the supply available for this next year was likely to prove greatly in the excess of the necessities of consumers. I think that an examination of the position of matters will entirely dispel any such ideas. At this period last vear the favorite crop ! figures varied from 2,600,000 to 3,000.000 j bales, and yet every advantage, both as I regard? weather and labor, the actual yield j (excluding old cotton.', did not prove much, if any, over 2,400,000 bales. There is out the slightest ground for as suming that- a larger quantity can be gathered this year ; while, on the other hand, there is the positive certainty that, with an C-ariy frost. •he yield must prove considerably les.;. The “bear?” will doubt less make the most of the fact that the receipts at the American ports during the first three month- of .his season are likely to prove largely in excess of last year, and they will try to induce people to believe that this fact indicates that the crop will | be a much larger one than the last, but a i moment’s reflection must at once dispel any j such theory ; for, independent of the tact ; that the receipts are no indication of the ! actual yield (as a reference to the cotton ■ tables, showing the weekly receipts before' \ the war, will clearly show) shore are many i reasons why the receipts during the early j part of last year were unusually high ; 1 amongst others, I may mention the prev | aienee of the yellow fever at New Orleans i and Texas, and the operations of the Cot tax-tax Collectors. Turning to India, the future does not look promising. All the authorities are unanimous in stating that a smaller are of ground is under cultivation, while it is notorious that the weather during the sowing season was most unpropitious, es pecially in the Northwest provinces, where it is questionable if the damage done can be partially repaired ; so that there is clearly nothing in the position of the grow ing crops to cause the slightest alarm to holders of cotton. Let us look to our available supplies. On the 18th of September the stocks of cotton in all Europe were as follows: 1868. 1867. 1866. Liverpool 452,350 836,650 928,250 London 65,650 108,650 106,900 Glasgow 500 3,C00 1,700 Havre 50,150 104,600 176,950 Rest of Europe... 37,750 30,200 30,500 _ 596,400 1,083,100 1,244,300 showing a deficiency of stocks on hand of 486,700 bales as compared with 1867, and of 647,900 bales, as compared with 1866, when cotton ruled at 15d. per lb., and the estimates of crop were 3,500,000 bales. Last year the failure of the Royal, and the questionable solvency of several other of our local banks, created a pressure which caused prices to decline to a point which the subsequent rise to 13jd., in April, proved to be wholly unwarranted. From this time foward, the position of our visi ble supplies will show a much larger deficit as compared even with 1867, consequent upon tho shipments from India after June being on a much smaller scale this year than last. Now let us look at tho probable import of cotton into Liverpool : PROBABLE IMPORT TO 31 ST DECEMBER. America estimated same as last year 140,000 Brazil, say 150,000 in excess of all last year 90,000 Egyptian, same as last year 49,000 West India, same as last year... 19,000 East India, everything at sea to date 530,000 Stock 452,000 1.280,000 This would give us a supply of 67,000 bales per wcok, same as last year, and leave us with a stock of 275,000 bales on the 31st of December next, against 447,000 j bales same time last year. It is quite im material whether we receive a smaller or I larger supply from America this year, as I any surplus received must necessarily be at the expense of our supply for next year. | I would also call your attention to the ! fact that, in estimating the exports, I | have allowed the deficit in export to date, ! and assume that the total consumption of .fhecSßlifiSUkale as it was last year, with war in apprehension nearly the whole summer. A reference to the ex port table will show that the deficit of the takings from this port so far are as nearly as possible compensated for by the excess I of shipments direct from America, India, &c., this year; so that if the consumption j of the continent is the same, they would require to lake from this market the same | quantity as they did last year. Although, looking at t the smell f’urat supply likely to be available after December, and recalling to mind the pi ::h experienced in the spring of this year, it iscarcely probable that they will close the year with the famine stocks which they held on the 31st December last. The above figures are certainly very strong in themselves, es pecially when we remember that there are only fifteen weeks remaining in the year, and that last year we closed with a stock of only 447,000 bales, which was reduced in February last to 266,000 bales. The fact is that for the last three years we have been consuming more cotton than the world has produced. During the last two years alone we have entrenched upon the surplus stocks of the world to the enor mous extent of 830,000 bales, while the consumption in Europe during that period exceeded tho import of 650,000 bales, and I can see no prospect of a stop being put to this exhaustive process during 1869. It is universally admitted that the posi tion of cotton is overwhelmingly strong. Why, then, should our market be in tho unhealthy position in which it is? A fall is now certain to produce a reaction, and by luring spinners into a belief of security and low prices, consumption will be fostered to an extent that will inevitably produce a repetition of the excitement of April last. Surely such fluctuations can benefit no one but speculators; they suck up the life-blood of legitimate traders by rendering their operations hazardous and uncertain. Os course I am alive to the fact that the lower level prices settle down to the better for every one concerned in the trade; but any deeline to be permanent and beneficial must be legitimate, which certainly would not be the case were priees forced down at the present time. Yours, &c., Facts. Liverpool, September 21, 1868. ; The State Elections—Comments of the Press. | W e give here the comments of the pTess, j Democratic and Radical, on the State eleo | tions, which took place Tuesday, last. Our i views in the premises have already been given at length in these columns : From the N. Y Fxfre-n ( Democratic ). The Republican journals write like men, or boys, who are crazy with delight in not getting what they deserved —a sound thrashing—in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere. The Tribune double leads an exultant column, and speaks of the five State elections as the “ Five Forks of 1868,” and tells its readers that it makes Grant President in November,,.etc., etc. From the Neva York Times (.Radical), Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana yester day virtually ended the Presidential con test. The Republicans swept all three States, and by no equivocal majorities. This opiendid civil triumph of Gen. Grant is only surpassed. by his brilliant military achievements. The overthrow of the 1 Democracy is as disastrous to their hopes | as the Surrender of Lee to the “iost cause” of the Confederacy. It is fortunate j for the quiet of the country that these October results are so conclusive as to re lieve the final trial in November of the painful anxict’es and maddening excite ments which would have followed a less decided verdict from the important and commanding States which declared for Gen. Grant and the Republican party. From the New York Herald. The results of the State elections yester | day clearly indicate the election of General i Grant as our next President by an over ; whelming majority of the popular and | electoral vote of the Union. | The returns of these elections of yester j day will admit of no doctoring to show a , possibility for Seymour and Blair in November, The Presidential result is as | certain as any human event in November can be, and the public mind throughout ! the country will from this day settle down upon this conclusion. Onr scanty returns | as we write will not admit of any specific comparisons of lenera: results; but the figures we have arc -efficient to show that as the battle of 18 . gas been made the battle ofIS6S the result will be substan tially the same. From the 2>al£iiHart Gat' d*, Democratic. The election returns from that wide belt of country comprising the States of Penn sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska, although imperfect and impartial, indicate that the people of the North continue to support the course of the Radical party. It is impossible that local causes have con tributed to the triumph of that party in the recent elections, which may be impera- ’ tive at the Presidential election, ana that ! the result of the contest in November may be very different from the issue of the struggle on Tuesday. It is not probable, however, that any such sanguine antieipa tions wiil be realized. We arc bound to deal frankly with this matter, and to say that, in our judgment, -the States which ; have just endorsed the policy of the Radi- ; cal.party will in November give heavy ma- | jorities for General Grant. ******* I Nevertheless, let all honest men adhere I to duty. . There may yet be opportunities, which, rightly used, mey be turned to 1 goo:: account. Maryland and Kentucky, ' mindful of their olden renown for patriot ism and !oye_ of country, wiil rtand firmly in the front in resistance to the ruinous radicalism of the age. Let us still hope that many of their sister States will be found hand in hand with them in Novem ber. From {\c JWv York Tribune (Radical). It was universally felt, and virtually con fessed, that the partisan-- of .Seymour cud Blair must triumph in the State e'ections held yesterday or abandon all hepes of suc cess. Every table they have vet made of the probable vote for cyst President by States claimed Peapt-yivania, Indiana and i Nebraska as certainly and Ohio as proba : ble, for Seymour. The most ingenious i among, them could cot make up a list of j States expected to vote for Seymour suf ficient to elect him without including all or most of those above-named.' They had thus advertised their followers that they must carry those Statcsin October or con fess themselves already beaten in the November struggle. I'rom the X-'tn York World ( Democratic ). It seems clear that the Democrats have gaioed a Congressman in nearly every one of the sharply contested districts where victory was thought by our friends to be possible. As to the general result in the States named, we cannot indulge the hope, it would appear, of such a sweeping and thorough triumph as would have made the result of the election in November a foregone conclusion. t lt is certain that the Democracy of the North, if they would redeem the Republic, must keep their armor on, and know no rest or weariness in their labors tili the night of November 3. Victory hovers still above the contend ing hosts, uncertain upon which banner to alight. The Democraey have done nobly. Never were their ranks so full; never was their battle fought more gallantly. But the fee is stubborn, determined, desperate. Not an hour is to be lost-; not a man can be spared. j Stand in your great array, Then onward drive, and smite Invincibly. Alleged Plot to Assassinate se President.—Tho Washington of yesterday says : We have been in possession of all the facts for a day past in reference to a dis covered plot to assassinate President John son. We understand these facts have been sent North. We, therefore, feel free to say that Mr. Frank liraas, an employee of the Treasury Department, has exposed a plot, arranged since the impeachment trial, - to assassinate President Johnson. A man named Ileimgerbor is accused by Evant as being at the head of the plot. The negroos were all sworn to kill the President. They meet nightly and take oaths, and have painted mottoes, itc. We will publish facts in the next edition. Bullock Organ.—The Augusta lie. publican, the organ of Bullock and Radi calism, is to bo moved to Atlanta. The grinder of the concern, old Cotting, Secre tary of State, lives in Atlanta, and, be sides, Bard, of the Era , has not sense or common honesty sufficient to grind an organ, even for a nigger party. —Columbus Sun. Wheat Crops.—The Knoxville Press and Herald states that the very favorable weather for seeding has enabled tho farm ers to get- in a much greater area in wheat than usual. It is also glad to learn that much of the corn thought to be seri ously injured by the recent rains will be saved in good condition. ■ [communicated.] The late Elections—No Caase for De spondency. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : I am sorry to see, here andjelsewhere, persons calling themselves Democrats, getting scared and weak in the knees on account of the recent elections North. I confess I can see no cause for this. On the other hand the Democracy have _ cause to be proud of the result. What if tho_ Radicals lave elected their State tickets in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana 1 Ilavo wo not gained eight Congressmen, in the three States? What would it benefit us of the ite&t jfr tßose StatA v n %ers bed . been What we want, is Uoi,pZiß ut h l Congress. There’s where our interests lie. There’s where tho real battle will be fought. Suppose, in all the'elections, we could make an average gain of eight in three States, this would make an aggre gate gain of over eighty Congressmen, equivalent to one hundred and sixty votes, reducing the Radical representation in Congress to a mere nominal figure. Who’s afraid? Wake up Democrats and buckle on your armor for anew fight. Democrat. Important Notice. Rooms Democratic Central ) Executive Committee, [ Atlanta,_Ga., October 8, 1868. ) To the Democratic Party of Georgia ; It is important in the approaching elec tion for Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, to exclude illegal votes from the ballot-box. For tho purpose of guarding as effectually as pos sible against such votes, the Democratic Clubs in the several counties of this State are requested to appoint two or more challengers for each precinct and place of voting. It is desired that challengers bo ap pointed who know personally the voters residing in the vicinity of the precincts to which they may bo assigned for duty, and that all strangers and porsons not known to be entitled to vote, be challenged upon offering to vote, and required to tako the oaths prescribed by the Constitution and election laws. It is not intended or ex pected that captious challenges should be made —challenges should be made only in eases of doubt, or when it is well known that the persons offering to vote are not entitled. It is earnestly requested that no freed man who is entitled.to the right of suf frage he obstructed in the exercise of that right. According to the election laws of this State the managers must be justices of the I peace and freeholders. From the necessity of the ease the management of the election will be iti the hands of vhito men. But one day is allowed tor the election, and in many of the counties the number of voters will be largely increased over previous elections, so much so as to give room for doubts whether all. will have an opportu nity to vote, and this may cause the polls to be crowded to the exclusion of some of the voters. Under .such circumstances there may he daLxei of conflicts between the two races, and riot may be the conse quence. To avoid collisions and riots, aud in order that the election may be con ducted fairly, the managers are especially requested to make arrangments, so that all who are entitled to vote shall have an op portunity of voting without being jostled from the polls. This wiil be necessary in order to preserve the public peace. Let all have an opportunity to vote without hindrance or obstruction, who possess the requisite qualifications. In giving these instructions, the Central Executive Com mittee do not assume to dictate to the managers of the election, but make these suggestions, that the public peace may be preserved and riots avoided. E. G. CabSniss, Chairman Cen. Ex. Committee. Soeth Carolina Rice.—The Rice crop of South Carolina is, by this time, har vested, and, ascompared with the crops of 1866 and 1867, the quality of the grain is known to ,be decidedly better. Messrs. Courtenay & Trenholm, agents of the Bal timore steamships, at Charleston, South Carolina, send us a few plants with the grain in the ear, cut at the plantation of Mr. Bisseil, on the Combahee River, South Carolina, which show a fine growth, being fully five feet high;, and, as some of our readers may be curious to see what we suppose, is the first Carolina Rice plant ever received' in Cincinnati, we have placed them in our office tor exhibition. We mention the matter, however, with the view of referring to. the rapid and cheap transportation available between our city and that distant South Atlantic port, j These plants left Charleston on October 5, by the Steamship Falcon, and arrived here j on the loth, via the Baltimore and Ohio ! Railroad, while the cost of freight on Rice I from South Carolina to Ohio is only fifty- I five cents per hundred pounds. Cincinnati Commercial, 11 th. i A busy man is a locomotive, and life a track. Evriy night he drives into “the house,” and stops. Every morning he is Sred up'anew, and away he goes switching off in one direction and then in another. In this routine of business he forgets that the physical organization is of the most delicate kind. If a hard iron locomotive needs constant care, and to he well oiled up and rubbed off every day, how much more necessary is it that all men and wo men should use Plantation Bitters, which are the ne plus ultra of everything which is necessary to keep the system in a perfect tone of health. Magnolia Water.—Superior to the Lest imported German Cologne and sold at half the price. suwfiS&wl Fenian prisoners at Dartmoor are to be j released. bcriu-n Superior Court. On account of the Presidential election j taking place on Tuesday of the Coart j week, wo learn that Court will not sit until i Wednesday of she regular Court week — the day after the election. The Clerk has been instructed to ad journ the Court from day to day, until Wednesday, when Judge Gibbon will be present and proceed with the business. The postponement of the Court for two days will be a groat convenience to the bar, jurors, parties and witnesses, as it will allow every one to devote election day entirely to that duty. OFR RABl'5 SAP CORRESPONDENCE. Rabun Gap, October 5, IS6S. Dear Chronicle : The preference of the inhabitants of this region for Augusta as a market, is invariably, clearly and emphati- j cally expressed; but their confidence that j they are to have speedily a railway com- j munication with your city, is by no means strong. They are prompt to tell of the efforts that they have made in this direc tion formerly, and readily recall the history of those efforts. They are under the im pression that it ha3 been the influence of the Georgia Railroad Company that has excludes! them from Railroad benefits, and often recur to the influence of sundry Legislators from Athens and Augusta, that for a long time prevented them from obtaining even the privileges of a charter. Very frequently, however, reference is made in kindly and affectionate terms to the late lamented Andrew J. Miller, as one who displayed friendly regards for their interests. Ilis Excellency Charles J. Jenkins, also,is highly esteemed, not more on account of his political course than for friendly expressions touching these inter ests. lie is quoted as having said that he should oppose State aid to Rail | roads, except for the development of Northeast Georgia. It is quite evident, however, that their present sympathies and their chief expectations turn toward the efforts of Charleston: and the State of South Carolina, and that they look for ward to an early completion of the Blue Ridge Road. Twenty-two thousand acres of land bavo been subscribed in Rabun county alone, for the completion of the Blue llidge Road. It is assarted, as part of the plau of f hose now in control, that they will be able to people the county, and at (he samo time complete the road, by selling to German emigrants lots of land, payable in work. Mr. Wagner, of the firm of John Fraser & Cos., is reported to have made the arrangements for emigrants, and with these views will co-operate with General Harrison, the President of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company. The re cent act of the Legislature of South Caro lina, appropriating four millions of State Bonds in aid of this enterprise, has great ly excited their hopes. The present dc facto Governor, Scott, has undoubtedly seized upon the completion of this road as a means of ingratiating himself with the people of his newly adopted State, and of establishing his influence and reputation. I have no hesitation in saying, from what I have seen and heard, that he is bending his energies to this end. Several letters irom prominent Western Republicans have been shown me, promising tneir aid in getting an appropriation from Congress to aid in completing this road as a military necessity. It will be seen, therefore, that unless Au gusta and Augusta interests arc spurred up to exertion, that the whole of the trade of this region, which will bo greatly in creased in the future, will be directed, by a circuitous route in a Northern direction. If onco established, alliances and connec tions formed, it will be difficult if not impossible to recover it. The valleys which lie between the Blue Ridge and the Alleghanies are, by Nature, the farming country to which Augusta should look for a large part of those supplies which are now gathered up elsewhere—beef, pork, mutton, butter, lard, tallow, cheese, apples, beans, dried fruit, cabbage and Irish po tatoes —will be furnished in great abun dance, in addition to the present cheap articles of corn whiskey, apple brandy and ginseng. The mountains abound in the finest timber, consisting of ash, white and curled hickory, and white oak, black walnut, white pine, and curled maple. There is an abundance of water power to convert this forest material into furniture, buckets, tubs, spokes, fellows, he,. I have no statistics to guide mo, but 1 learn that there are four extensive flour ing mills in Macon county, North Carolina, and that this county alone produced last year thirty-seven thousand bushels of wheat. In a sojourn of two weeks I have I counted an average of fifteen loaded wagons per day and over four hundred head of bee!'cattle during that time going to Walhalla, in South Carolina". In passing through Habersham'and con struck with tlie tendency of this trade to Atlanta—-as the distance to Atlanta was ninety .miles, while the digtanco to Athens was sixty miles. To sundry inquiries as to the cause for this diversion, I was shown that the difference in freights on through goods and of prices in local pur chases was an inducement sufficient to | warrant tho Joss of three days in time, and the payment of fifty cents per hundred ad ditional in wagon transportation. On this side ol the T allulah Mountiaus, railroad factories can be reached in a day’s travel of thirty miles, and this creates the eastern diversion and completes the girdle. Mr. Farrow, called by these moun taineers “Potash Pharaoh, the Red- String,.” has recently enlightened the Rabunites on the doctrines of loyalty ac cording to his lights and revelations. But he tact with anything but a favorable re ception. . Upon reaching Clayton, be halted his carriage at the hotel, and he and his companion (who, subsequently, was characterized as a Lumpkin bully, who lay out during the war until his back begame covered with “green moss”) were blandly invited to alight and walk in. His name being announced, tho polite landlord, in the same bland tones, said : “Ah, excuse me, sirs 1 drive on 1 Wedon’t entertain niggers ; drive on if you please.” Mr. “Pharaoh’s” audience numbered about sixty, two-thirds of which wore sterling Democrats—the balance, in moun tain parlance, “Red Strings.” Thanks to the influence of Major. Horace Cannon, George M. Netherlands, Esq., Mr. Bleckly and other influential gentlemen, he received a courteous hearing—not, however, without some very palpable demonstrations that bis doetrinc-s were exceedingly obnoxioud. At the outset he assumed the role of the prophet, predicting war, announcing that the small speck which his vision dis cerned on the horizon would loom up into a war of gigantic proportions unless Grant ! was elected. The mountain boys suggest j ed that would suit him exactly, as, in that i event, he would resume his potash opera j tions. He abused Cobb, gave Joe Brown ajoab stab, by saying that Joe had com mitted some great crimes—was repentant —and, therefore, the people ought to for give him. He charged that Bob Toombs burned his house, and not the Federal army ; drew Radicalism very mildly, as being opposed to negro oquality and op posed to negroes holding office—denied that he had'ever said, or written, that, if Bullock and the Augusta ring ever got into power, that they would ruin the State. 1 Charged that Charles J. Jenkins had put | his hand into the treasury and taken out, j unrighteously, twenty thousand dollars for political purposes; ami finally dosed by claiming that, the -peo ple of Rabun ought to vote for Grant be cause it was the Republican party that had voted millions to build the Air Line Railroad, and this would force: the Geor gia Railroad from Athens to Clayton, which they always refused to do. George M.. Netherlands, Esq., the lead ing lawyer of Rabun, replied to Farrow read Farrow’s letter upon the Augusta ring—arraigned the Republican parry for legi-lating outside the Constitution of the United States—outside of the Constitution of the State of Georgia—creating military Governments—bringing the country to the verge of anarchy, and have gulled and cheated the people of the mountains into voting for a Constitution which took from them power and gave it to the negroes of \ Southwestern Georgia—had put negroes ! in a Convention to make a Constitution ' for the State—put negroes in the Legis- ! lature to make laws for the people—while j they disfranchised our best citizens, took ; up a convict from Sing Sing, and an Alabama chicken tbief, snd gave them I privileges which they denied to many of our best citizens. Mr. Netherlands answered Mr, “P. Pharaoh” statements and deductions ; seriatim. Mr. Farrow concluded in a short speech—avowing that he was op posed to negroes holding office, because the j Constitution forbid it aD<J because of their ! ignorance—and plead that his only desire | wa3 to keep Georgia out of the war which ! he saw was impending. I I have given the outline of this debate as I have gathered them from others. Mr. j Netherlands, Hearn, has the satisfaction of ! knowing that, the result was, that the largest “league” in the county, on the night after the debate, broke up their “lodge,” burned their papers and commis sions and disbanded. There are thirty less “Red Strings” in Rabun since this Republican missionary encountered “a mountain boy” in debate. . The day after Farrow left, an envelope was picked up stamped “Attorney Gen- | eral’s office. State of Georgia,” and tear ing tire coat of arms of the State. This was brought to your correspondent as i something to be explained The Rabun ! boys had not learned that the °}>eeia! of- ' flee of Attorney General had been created j by our new government, and that Mr. Farrow, the Republican apostle, was then in discharge of its duties and receiving a j good lat salary. *M. j Minister Hale has recognized the new J government at Madrid. WOMAN. MARK TWAIN’S EULOGY OP THE FAIR SEX. The Washington Correspondents’ Club held its anniversary on Saturday night. Mr. Clemens,better known as Mark Twain, responded to the toast. ‘ Woman, the bride of the professions, and the jewel of ours.” He said: Mr. President :—l do not know why I should have been singled out to receive the greatest distinction of the eveuing—for so the office of replying to the toast of woman lias been regarded in every age. [Ap plause.] . I do not know why I have re ceived this distinction, unless it be that I am a trifle less homely than the other members of the Cluffi But, be this as it may, Mr. President, i am proud of the position, and you could not have chosen any one who would have accepted it more gladly, or labored with a heartier good will to do the subject justiee, than I. Be i cause, sir, I love the sex. [Laughter.] I j love all the women, sir, irrespective of j age or color. | Human intelligence cannot estimate what we owe to woman, sir. She sews on our buttons [laughter], she mends our clothes [laughter], she ropes us iu at the church fairs—she confides in us ; she tells us whatever she can find out about the little private affairs of the neighbors—she gives us good advice, and plenty of it—she gives us a piece of her mind, sometimes —aud sometimes ail of it—>hc soothes our aching brows —she bears our children. In al! relations of life, sir, it is but just and a grateful tribute to woman to say of her that she is a brick. [Greatlaughter.] Wheresoever you place woman, sir —in whatsoever position or estate —she is an ornament to that place she occupies, and a treasure to the world- [Here Mr. Twain paused, looked inquiringly at his hearers and remarked that the applause should come in at this point. It came in. Mr. Twain resumed his eulogy.] Look at Cleopatra! look at Desdemoua ! look at Florence Nightingale! look at Joan of Arc ! look at Lucretia Borgia ! [Disap probation expressed. “Well,” said Mr. Twain, scratching his head doubtfully, ‘‘suppose we let Lucretia slide.] Look at Joyce Heth ! look at Mother Ere ! I re peat, sir, look at illustrious names of history ! Look at the Widow Machree 1 Look at Lucy rftonc! Look at Elizabeth Cady Stanton ! Look at George Francis Train! [Great laughter. | And, sir, I say with bowed head and deepest venera tion, look at the mother of Washington ! She raised a boy that could not lie— could not lie. [Applause. | But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to a newspaper correspond ent’s club. [Laughter, groans, hisses, cries of ‘‘put him out.” Mark looked around placidly npou his excited audience, and resumed.] I repeat, air, that in whatsoever posi tion you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart she has few equals and no superiors—(laughter]; as a cousin she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother,with an incurable distemper, she is precious ; as a wet nurse she has no equal among men 1 [Laughter.] What, air, would tho people of this earth be, without women ? They would be scarce, sir. Then let us cherish her— let us protect her—let us gWe her our sup port, our encouragement, our sympathy— ourselves, if we gut a olunee. [Laughter.] But, jesting aside. Mr. President, woman is lovable, gracious, kind of heart, beautiful—worthy of all respect, of all es teem, of all deference. Not any here will refuse to drink her health right cordially, for each and event one of ua has person ally known, and loved, and honored, the very best one of them all—his own mother! [Applause.] Prospects of the Grain Trade. There appears to be a very general feel ing of hesitation in a'l the great grain mar kets of the world. This is certainly the case with our own merchants, and for ob vious reasons. The condition of the sup ply has been materially changed by the harvest, while the stocks left over at the close of the crop year are generally larger than a year ago ; hence there is naturally a disposition to postpone extensive trans actions until the probabilities of the new supply from the principal sources are more definitely understood. Dealers are grad ually becoming settled in their estimates of the prospect, and we may, consequent ly, anticipate increased activity at an early day. The Western merchants have shown confidence in thoir purchases and the ac cumulation of grain at the trade centres of that section is, therefore, unusually largo. Thus far, then, we have every indica tion of an abundant surplus for export. How far the forwarding of supplies to the seaboard may be delayed by a disagree ment between New York and Chicago, is a matter to bo determined by tho event, and yet one which may have a certain in fluence upon the course of prices. The ‘‘““’“1“ -a fio shipped will be very largely.in excess or last year. During tho year ending August 31, 1868, the total'oxport of wheat and flour from the country was equivalent to about twenty-three million bushels, while this yoar the exportable surplus is estimated at about forty million bushels. As to corn, our exportable surplus must, also bo unusually large, as we have a very consid erable stock of last year’s growth left over, and the crop now being harvested will, we believo, be largely in excess of any previous year. What prices may realize for our surplus 0!' grain depends principally upon tho course of the foreign markets and supply, conditions upon which it is very difficult to form a definite opinion. Upon the whole, then, it would appear likely the world’s supply of wheat, from the past harvest, will be fnlly adequate to its consumption and may leave a lair sur plus for addition to stocks, which, in tho event of abundant harvests in 18G9, would lay the basis for a return next year to about average prices; that the corn market is likely to experience an earlier approach to the old level, unless the wants of Groat Britain prove more pressing than now ap pears probable. —Financial Chronicle. From the S-Aittern Recorder , 2-th ult. What Is an Acre Worth 1 When the Southern farmer, be he a large or small one, will rightly compute the value of an acre, and set the proper worth by it, we may then expect that matorial and real wealth to the State that is only now imaginative. We call ourselves an agricultural people, arid admit that the wealth of our State lies in its productions. To a great extont, we may say altogether, that as a people we are dependent upon our cotton, rice and tobacco crops for what money we make. As to our corn crop we hardly feel like counting it in, if we judge from thousands of bushels that are bought West to supply the demands of our people, and the thousands upon thousands of dol lars we send out of the State sot that article alone ; not counting the millions of pounds of bacon that we buy also from the West. Every one that cultivates a few acres of land, imagines that he murt put haifor two-thirds in cotton ; that cotton is the only :thiog that will bring money. We would not have a word to say about plant ing cotton if each acre planted brought a bag ; but when we know that it takes from ' throe to four acres of our worn lands to make a bag, we feel that it is labor and , money thrown away, and that the farmer j has never for a moment sat down and ' calculated the worth of an acre well manured and well worked. An acre of land well manured, well tak en care of, is worth from SSO to SIOO. An acre that will bring twenty-two bush els of wheat and thirty bushels of corn the same year, is worth SIOO per acre; and any painstaking farmer can make an acre produce that. The manure dropped in stables or yards by horses, cows, hogs, sheop, &c., will manure one acre well. We speak of the small farmer, the man with but little stock. Care and economy is all that is needed to save ma nure ; but so long as we drive along in our slip-shod way of making and saving ma nure, we may expect but poor returns from the soil. If the small farmer could be induced to take half the pains the New England farmer does on his place, there would not be a ibrm in Baldwin county that would not be worth at least S2O to the acre. But what we desire to call the especial attention of our farmers to, is the import ance of manuring at least one acre well and planting in it something that will bring him SIOO clear. It can be done,and done easily, but there must be a system about it. Let the small farmer, who reads this, look at the nearest city or town to wli ich he trades, and see what article of provisions sells readily. Take Hr instance, sweet potatoes : everybody eats them, and they find a ready sale ; they keep well and can be sold by the wagon load, or bushel at from fifty cents to $1 00. A farmer knows how many bushels an acre will bring, and he knows that he can get SIOO to an acre even at 50 cents per bushel. Take the ground pea; it well seil readily and bring a good price. Take onions, take Irish potatoes, take peas. Put the acre in anything but cotton, and it will bring more money than cotton would. Much manure is sometimes saved and wasted by trying to manure 10 or 20 acres, when, in fact, it should have been put on one or five. Secret Sales of Gold Abandoned. —Mr. Van Dyck, Assistant Treasurer of the. United States, advertises in this even ing’s paper for proposals to purchase every day for ten days, from the Government, $300,000 of gold coin. This is far better than the secret sales, of which so much ju-t complaint has been made. It is to be hoped, indeed, that the Government, if it must continue to sell gold, will soon adver tise the sale by public auction of fixed amounts at fixed times to the highest bidder; but the mode now adopted, if continued regularly, wii! at Last relievo j the officers in charge of the sales from sus i pieion and reproach.—J/. Y. Rust, Oct. 12. I English Vittv of the future ol Cotton. At a recent meeting of the English Cot ton Supply Association, held at Manches ter, some very important facts were elicit ed respecting the supply and consumption of cotton in England. The report states that the Association had proceeded upon the assumption that the United States would not be able to produce as much cot ton as before the war, and it had, therefore, been unremitting in its efforts to promote the cultivation in ether countries. The exertions of the Association had been ex tended to all countries capable of produc ing cotton, and no slight portion of success had crowned their efforts. In some places, as in Turkey and Egypt, the supply had fallen through temporary causes,. and in India production had been partially ar rested by the fear of a falling off in the demand. An important feature of the re port is the recommendation that English capita! should be employed in the produc tion as well as in the consumption of cotton. Great stress was laid by the meeting on the importance of a sufficient supply of cotton. For want of this the manufac turers had suffered an immense loss. Tho spinning trade to be profitable required six days full work, and this had not been known in England since 1860. During the current year the average was estimated at 6] days. Tho consequence of this reduc tion of production entailed losses upon the manufacturers amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, besides causing great distress to the operatives. With respect to the supply and con sumption somo important statistics wero present. During the last ten years the consumption of cotton had increased 30 per cent, in England, while the increase of consumption upon the continent was upon a much larger ratio. Ten years ago the continent only took 250,000 bales a year from England. In 1867 it took 1,000,000 bales, besides importing 500,000 bales direct. In IS6B tho United States produced 4,500,000 bales, while the average production during the last three years was ■ only 2,000,000 bales. During the cotton year ending on tho Ist of September, JS6S, a supply of 2,250,000 bales could be proba bly calculated upon from the United States. There was a filling off of nearly 1 2,500,000 bales in production. The defi- : cicncy could only be «tipp!!o.l !>•■ ■ ; and upon this subje: .ausuos wero encouraging, although not altogether free from anxiety. The cotton statistics of luff ore of great importance. Before 1861 India only sent 178,000 bales a year to England. In the next three years, under the stimulus of high prices by our civil war, she sent 1,000,000 bales. During the next three years she sent 1,500,000 bales a year. Previous to 1860 the consumption of American cotton in England was 80 per cent, of the whole, and last year the con sumption of American cotton was reduced to 46 percent. The growth of India cotton had been stimulated by paying to that country during the last five years a total of $625,000,000 for tho staple. Previously India had not received over $3,000,1X10, or $3,500,000 for cotton. It was held that not more than 2,200,000 bales could be expected from the United States next year, with an annual iucreaso of 10 per cent. This amount was below the wants ot the manutacturers, aud the great ques tion remained as to the sources whence tho deficiency in the American supply could bo obtained. The genoral opinion was expressed that tho increased supply of cotton could only bo obtained irom India, and that private capital and government influence should co-operate to stimulate production. In creased railroad facilities and irrigation were relied upon as means to this end. Although much had been accomplished in this direction, yet the work was only in its first stages of development. America and India must remain tho great sources of cotton supply, and it was to the especial interest of England to stimulate produc tion in India. The views entertained at thismeeting are of great importance,and all the more so in view of the likelihood of their being followed nn by prompt action on the part of English capitalits and the English Government. — N. 0. BuUctin. The October Elections. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. From the Montgomery Mail. The Northern elections show gains of a half dozen Congressmen for the Do nocrats. It now remains to bo seen whether the small gains made by our friends will be increased by the 3d day of November. No far as we may judge by a calm review of the figures, we have no reason to believe that these October elections are conclusive. In the yoar of Presidential elections hereto fore, we have often found that tho October elections have gone ono way and the No vember elections another. The October elections being based upon local issues are not as independent and unbiased as the elections for President. In 1856 there was a change in Pennsylvania of 78,(XX) votes in favor of the Democracy botweeu Octo ber and November. Within the three weeks left for work, and with tho assistance of the startling, letter of Mr. Robert J. Walker, which in just published, we be- : lievo that there is yet hope for carrying Pennsylvania and Indiana, the only two i States necessary to ensure the election of Seymour and Blair. Os course it is useless to deny that the result of the November olection is uncer tain. That is a fact that every intelligent man understands and has understood for two years. Grant may bo elocted, but still it is our duly ns a State to form our lines and tee that Alabama goes Democratic. From the Ooltonbus Enquirer, We must confess to much disappoint ment at the results of the State elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The Democracy have made an energetic and gallant fight ; bnt have not been success ful in either of those important States. But they will not despair—neither should we. They will go into the contest for the November election with the same high resolution to do thoir duty, and there are good reasons to hope with better results, it is a fact well known that the Democrats throughout the Nortl wen rat! r !j spondent three week.j ego, and that they have quite recently been re-invigorated and aroused. Had those ek tior.s come off in September the majorities against the Democrats would have been much larger than they are now. The party has eviuently been gaining in strength and resolution within the last few weeks ; and it is not unreasonable to hope that tho people of the North, contemplating the dangers of continued Radical rule, may pause on tho very verge of the precipice and refuse to take the final plunge. Let j us, at all'events, relying upon the justice ! of our cause, and trusting in the God of [ the injured and oppressed, do our whola duty and calmly await the result. From Europe. BY STEAMER. The steamship City of London, from Liverpool September 30, via Queenstown 31st, arrived here yesterday. The Paris Pa trie, France and Etendard of the 29th give denials to some rumors which have been current on the Bourse to the effoct that the Government was about to take some important political measures concerning home affairs. Among other things it was said that the Senate would be convoked for the 4th of October. Trade at Manchester.—A dispatch to the London Times, dated Manchester, September 29th, says : ; The firmer tone of the Liverpool cotton j 1 market has checkod the prices j j which was the feature of the! yarn and j cloth market all last week. There has ! been very little business to-day, or dispo- j j sition for business and places are uachang- j ; ed since Friday; but we have found rather j more doing in shipping yarns. There has j been a fair amount of inquiry ia yarns suited for the markets of China, and they j have led to some business at full prices, j Buyers of yarns for Germany have also I operated to a small extent, and there have | been some purchases on Glasgow account. ! Altogether this branch of the market has ' been more cheerful than of late, and it closes with a better tone of feeling. Incloths the bulk of the production haH met with an exceedingly slow sale. There was a good demand ail last week for thebetterqualities of shirtings, and more especially of T cloth suitable to the markets of China, causing these goods to command relatively better prices than almost any other fabrics. To day, yarns being quoted dearer in conse quence of the firmer tone of the Liverpool cotton market, manufacturers are some what loss easy to deal with, and although there has boen a fair inquiry, with the ex ception of some further business in goods for China, but little business has resulted. Mulls and the lower makes of shirtings are still neglected, and the inquiry for them has been small. Sellers of printing cloths and the heavier fabrics for the home trade report a quiet and dull market. Messrs. John Slagg & Cos. report of this day’s cloth market as follows: “During the past week a considerable business has been done in shirtings and T cloths suitable for the China market, but in other qualities the demand has contin ued languid. To day the firmness in Liver' pool has somewhat strengthened >he tone of this market, and the low offers made fait to induce much business.” The Fearful Boiler Explosion in South. Staffordshire.— Another of those accidents which at one time were some what frequent at the iron works in South Staffordshire, but which recenlty, through the operation of the Boiler Inspection and Assurance Company, formed by the ironmasters themselves, have, happily, become somewhat more rare, occurred on Monday night, near to Bilston. We briefly announced the calamity in the telegram from our WolverhamptOD correspondent yesterday. It was there stated that fiye persons were killed. Since that time six more work people have expired Tncy died during the nigh! and yesterday in the South Staffordshire Hospital, Wclverhamp ton, where three other sufferers lie he i, of whom are expected to long rV! Tne accident will, therefor j B »’| bdity, load to the death of at least‘fiftet workpeople, and will thus have been or HrWE dleaStroas accidents of th, Mass that has occurred in South Stafford shire for many years past. It can only b~ Him 1 7 lth ODe , ” hich occurred™ the Minefields Ironworks, not far from the same place, some years ago, whi-h ocU andwhfk dcat i“°r - fourtec n workpeople, J -W the formation of the !- , lon Association.'— Lwulo » i imes, September 30. THE SPANISH REVOLUTION. The following proclamation, signed by leaders of the insurrection collectively, has been issued ; Spaniards ! The town of Cadiz, under arms with the whole province, with the navy anchored in this port and tho enure mari - time department of the Caracca, solemuly declares that it refuses obedience to the government established at Madrid. A sured.that it is the faithful interpreter of all citizens who have not Ibst every senti ment of dignity, it is resolved not to lay down its arms until the nation, having re covered the sovereignty, has manifested its will and carried it into effect. Is there any Spaniard so indifferent to the misery ot his country as to demand the causes for this great event ? If we were to make a thorough examination of our sufferings, it would bo more difficult to justify, to the eyes of the world and of history, the calm noes with which wc have endured them than our firm determination at last to escape from them. Let each reflect, and you will all take up arms. The fundamen tal law trodden under foot, used rather tor espionage than the defence of the country; the suffrage corrupted by menace and subornation , individual right depending no longer, on common law, but on the ir responsible will of any authority; the municipalities dissolved ; tho administra tion and the finances gorged with immor ality and jobbery ; public education marked by tyranny; the press dumb,and the universal silence interrupted only by lre qaent intelligence of new fortunes acquir ed, of new scandals, of new jobs, of new royal orders which defraud the public treasury; the titles of Castile so foolishly lavished, ar.d the high price, moreover, at whi o they are obtained; the rule of die ore ; and of vice—such is Spain at tl. ■ present time. Spaniards’ who shall dare to say that that mast always be the ease 1 No ; it shall not be. There are enough scandals! From these walls, always faith ful to our liberty and our iodependeo o setting aside every j srty interest, and de voting ourselves solely to the public wel fare, we call upon all of you to share in the glory of realization. Our heroic navy, which has always remained r. stranger to our intiWiial dissensions, by first raking th. cry of alarm, proves very clearly that it i not a party that complains, but that th - u murmurs proceed from the very heart of the country. Wc do not wish merely to confine ourselves to the political field; our enterprise is grander and more s’ anle, we fight for existence and honor. IV e wish that a common legality created for all may secure the respect of all; we wish that he who is charged to maintain and to defend the constitution may not be itsirreeonuil able enemy. W e wish the causes which operate in the most important revolutions to be such as may be repeated aloud be fore our mothers, our wives, aud our daughters. We wish to live a life of honor and liberty. Wc desire that a pro visional government which will rt present all portions of the country may secure order, and that universal suffrage may lay the foundations of our social and political regeneration. We reckon, for the realiz i tion of onr immovable resolution on the concurrence of all the liberals, uuaniuious and compact in the presence of dang r and on the support ol the middle olas-o who do not wisn the fruit of their labors to enrich the interminable series of job!, rs and of favorites ; on tho friends of' order, if they wish to see it establi«bod on the bases of morality and of right; on tb ardent partisans of individual liberties, which we shall place under the protection of the law ; on the support of the mini - tors of the altar, interested above a!! in drying up at their fountain the sources of vice and of bad example ; on the people as a whole, and on the approbation of entire Europe ; for it is impossible that in the council of nations it can be decreed that Spain must live degraded. We east back the names that our enemies already give us. Rebels arc they who, in who ever position they are placed, violate all the laws, and faithful .servants [of the country are they who, iu spite of all possible inconveniences, ren der to her the respect which has been lost. Spaniards! all rush to arms —the only means of avoiding tho shedding of blood, and do not forget that in the circum stances in which population.; can goveru themselves they loavc in their instinct': and all their qualities written in indelible characters in history. Be, as you have always been, brave and generous. The only hope of our enemies lies in thcoxcc-..us in which they would dcrirc to .sec us plunged. Lot us disappoint them forth' first by manifesting in our conduct that we shall always be worthy of tho liberty ■of which we have been so iniquitom ly and prived. Kuril to arms, not under the im pulse of hatred— always wicked ; not with passion, always feeble, but indeed with the solemn serenity with which justice re lies on its sword, ljong live Spain 1 Cadiz. September 19, iß6ts. Duo oe la Torre, Juan Prim, Domingo Dulce, Francisco Serrano Bedoya. Ramon Nou vilas, Rafakl Pri.hu Rivera, Antonio Cabal lero dc Rodas, Juan Topete. i The Georgia Air Line Railroad.— The importance of this great improve ment, says the Richmond Enyuirer & Examiner , is attracting great attention among the people of Virginia, and they are leginning to regard it as th- most promising or all the internal improvement proposed for the development of the couth. It will be interesting to give eome of tho statistics of the work. The length of tho entire line from Atlanta to Char lotte is about two hundred and twenty miles. Os this, about ono hundred anil five miles, are in Georgia, about ninety five miles in South Carolina, and the re mainder in North Carolina. The grading was commenced at Atlanta before tn.c war, and some twenty or thirty miles have been graded from that point eastward. The I present organization, to which the frau j chises, rights and property belong, consists jof two companies—tho one chartered by j the Legislature of Georgia, and the other ; by the Legislatures of North and South i Carolina. A. S. Buford, E-q , is the i President of both companies, ar:u .be ! directors are composed of some of the j most sagacious and public spirited men in the whole country. Virginia is represent- I ed in the directory by Major W. T. Suth ! erlin, of Danville, whose name is y.-ionym of sagacity and success. It is proposed to consolidate the two companies at present existing, sad a gen eral meeting of the stockholders is to 1 > held at Atlanta on the 4th of November for that purpose, and to complete ar rangements for putting the whole line ii ; mediately under contract to bo com pi clod at the earliest day possible. Commerce and Prospeiutv of 8/ vannah—The rapid strides of our city | to commercial greatness is most gratifying to all who feel an interest in her well lire. The indications of last season have been ! followed up by the highly auspicious com j mencement of another, as a comparat v. | statement of receipts of cotton will show. | They amount up to this date to 34,709 bales, while New Orleans has received 69,437, Mobile 19,949, and Charleston 11,100. Before January we will have •• - proached New Orleans much nearer, . as but little Georgia and South Carolina ! cotton ha° yet been received, the planters | preferring to hold for better prices. A : very large proportion of our receipts up to j this time are from Alabama and Missis- I sippi, a fact which unerringly indicate ■ the course of Bade in the South. The shipping of Savannah is increasing pari passu with the receipts of produce from the interior. Besides coasters, there are now loading in this port .for Liverpool direct, ten vessels, with an aggregate burthen of 9,209 tons.— Savannah R publican, ICtA. The United States Courts in Sa* an nail —The Washington Express says there seems to be some doubt whether a term the U. S. Circuit Four; will be held in Georgia this fail. As the law now atari i , the Supreme Court can assign a judge to a Circuit in case of a vacanoy, or in the recess of the Court the assignment can be made by the Chief Justice. Tho vacancy in the Georgia Circuit occurred during a session of the Court, but there was no as signment The question now is, can the Chief Justice supply the omission in the recess ? If, upon consultation with the other judges, the Chief Justice conclude, that he has the power to assign a judge, he will himself proceed to Savannah and hold the Court on the first Monday in November. Several very important eases aro pending, and the people of Georgia are understood to be anxious for Judge Chate to be in attendance. From Savan nah he will return to Raleigh and hold a Court, unless it should be decided to try Mr. Davis on the fourth Monday in No vember, when the Chief Justice will at once return to Richmond. Sav. New- A sporting gentleman of Paris, having lost his last shilling at a club where play is carried on, went to the country, where his sister sent him 3,000 francs. Tie won all back again, and got a considerable sum of money in hand. lie then went to his hotel, to his boot-maker, and tailor, paid them, and made arrangements to bo lid, clothed, and shod for ten years.
