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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.