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WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAT 19.
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Executive Agency.
It seems that Bullock, the so-called
Governor of Georgia, who resides in the
State of New York,, has opened an agency
or branch of the Executive business in At
lanta. The Atlanta agency is now con
trolled by one B. B. DeGraffenreid and one
Eugene Davis.
Parties having business with the Execu
tive can do so through the branch office at
Atlanta. The agents at the latter place
seem to have full power to act and drive
the machine in any direction and at any
speed required—for a consideration.
Parties interested will please make a
note of this.
The Murder of Dr. Ayer.
The grand jury of Jefferson county
found a trjie bill for murder on Tuesday
last against Wilson Flournoy, a freedmau,
for the killing of Dr. Ayer, Radical mem
ber of the Legislature from that county.
The case was called for trial on Tuesday
evening, and a motion was made by Wil
son's counsel for a continuance on the
ground that the bill had just been return
ed against him, and that he had had no
time for preparation for his trial,* and be
cause of the great excitement inthecounty
growing out of the recent homicide. The
eourt granted the continuance and ordered
the prisoner to be taken from the Louis
ville jail and brought to the jail in this
city, which was done on Thursday evening.
There was much feeling among the ne
groes in Jefferson against the accused, and
the jail had been guarded by the whites to
prevent a threatened lynching of Wilson
by the colored people.
Wilson denies the homicide, but the evi
dence, we learn, is of the most convincing
character as to his guilt.
brant and the Tambourine Player.
Sims, the colored candidate of the Iloy
al Radical Republicans for the Postmas
tership of Savannah, seems to have been
too much for the President. Notwith
standing Postmaster General Cresswell,
like Barkis, in Dickens’ novel, is willing,
and eagerly embraces the opportunity to
show his willingness to run the President’s
schedule ot repealing an obnoxious law
by rigidly enforcing it, the President is not
only not willing to sanction this illustration
of his policy, but absolutely and perempto
rily refuses. Sims is a good tambourine
player, as every one who knows his history
will testify. We suppose that there is
hardly a disinterested voter in Savannah,
or who lias ever visited Savannah, but
what would vote him chief in an orches
tra of tambourinists, That he is right
loyally colored, Mr. Postmaster Cresswell
admits and avows, and also that his skillas
tambourinist is prima facie evidence
his knowledge and efficiency as an
official lor the disbursement of the
public mails of a distributing office
and a largo seaport like Savannah- Gen
eral Grant does not appear to bo able to
see it in the same light as the Postmaster
General and vetos the nomination. The
President is the first person to ignore his
own rule. We do not find fault with him
for this. The rule was a wrong one in the
beginning. But if the repeal of obnoxious
laws can only be attained by their rigid en
forcement, unquestionably the best way is
to enforce them rigidly and to the full
letter of the law in every department of
government. There bhould be no dis
tinction, no halting, no variation. A loyal
proficient, as a tambourinist, is as well
qualified to carry out the principle as any
other loyal puppet —white, black or mulatto.
We are surprised that Goneral Grant
should revolt at making the tambourinist
postmaster, not that there is any possible
reason fur considering an expert in jingling
the bells and rubbing the sheep skin of a
tambourine and thedutieiof a postmaster;
but simply because General Grant fails to
carry out the accepted principle which pro
pitatod the Radicals.
Wo have never objected to Gen. Grant’s
enforcing rigidly, the doctrine, provided
only, the enforcement be impartial. We
don't object to Belcher’s being the repre
sentative ot the Government in the Reve
nue Department in this District. We
know very well that tax payers are ever
ready to avad lUemse.vcs of any pre
text to escape the burthens of tax
ation, and particularly active to take
advantage of the inefficiency of an official,
and that tho Government may suffer; aud
every one knows that the masses al
ways estimate the character of a govern
ment by the character of the government's
Representative Rut we ba\ eno recognized
share in the responsibilities of government,
while all the burthens wear the form of
tribute. It rnukos, therefore, little differ
ence as to who may be the Representative
of the United States Government, whether
it is colored Sims, the tambourine player,
or classically colored Sumner, who likes
tambourine players as Postmasters, or
loyal Belcher, or loyal Butler. But we
we do object to any half-way measure in
application of principles. . If Belcher
is to run the Government machine
as Treasury Agent and Representative of
the Government on account of his color,
then ail of his subordinates should boos
ideloher's color, because color is the test of
loy.alty and capacity. If Sims is rejected
because ho is tambourine player and noth
ing else, we cannot see the propriety of
retaining in office banjo players, and bone
rattlers, uud catgut scrapers.
Let Us Have Peace.
Wo learn that DeGraffenreid and Davis,
who run tho so-called Executive machine
at Atlanta in the absence of the Express
Agent, have procured the sending of a
garrison of one hundred aud fifty federal
soldiers to Warrenton to preserve the
peace in that peaceful and quiet little
village.
We doubt not that Warrenton is as
peaceful and quiet and her people as
decorous and law abiding as any com
munity of a like size in tho Empire. There
can bo no reasonable excuse for the quarter
ing of troops upon an inoffensive aud law
abidiug community. Independent of the
fact that there is no legal warrant or au
thority for this interference .by the military
with the civil government ofthe State aud
county, the facts in regard to that com
munity do not justify such arbitrary and
tyrannical conduct.
Wo hope that our information is incor
rect, but we get it from a source entitled
to full belief.
Grant Deserted bv his Friends.—
The Chicago Tribune say s:
"There never was an administration with
better intentions or less aptitude for car
rying them out. ’"
And the New York Tribune says :
“ Two months have passed away, and it
cannot be affirmed thar we have a strong
administration Its moral power has been
frittered away by small absurdities.”
Ofthe Cabinet, it says:
“Secretary Fish has come down tons
from a former generation, but he is not
the man to conduct our diplomacy.’ The
Secretary of the Treasure has ability ‘not
above mediocrity, and if he should remain
at the head of the Treasury Department
during his natural life, he could do no mo: e
than drift with the tide and avoid th->
breakers from hour t o hour, as best he
might Secretary Rawlins is ‘an invalid
in health and unqualified by training and
experience to take the leading position
which circumstances have forced upon him
in the national administration.’ Secretary
Boric ‘is, by common consent, unfitted
either for admim-tr tion or council.' The
balance of tht Cabinet are set down as
probably competent to discharge the cleri
cal duties of their offiees.' ”
After this is tbe summing up and raking
down, not of the New York Express, but
ofthe New York Tribune, which adds:
“ ilis first mistake was in ‘not perceiv
ing that Stai.foien are required to fill the
places ot Statesmen.’ Ttie second was,
his eagerness to appoint persoual friends
and relatives to office.’ "
The Athens Banner says that C. J.
Clinch, who has been spending the Winter
with his wife’s relatives in that town, a
few days ago received information of his
appointment by Grant as Consul to Bor
deaux, France. The Banner learns that
he will accept the position. Mr. Clinch is
a nephew of A. T. Stewart, and is said to
be a gentleman of ability and culture.
It is said to cost the Methodist ministers
of this country a million dollars a year to
remove from parish to parish.
In nth and English Spanish Alliance.
Tne reported negotiations for an alliance,
offensive and defensive, between Spain and
the great powers of Western Europe,
France and EngUnd, to secure the former
in her West Indian posses.-ions, may or
may not be absolutely true, yet we incline
to the opinion that something has beer
done between these powers in this direc
tion. France and England have uniform
ly opposed all movements looking to the j
acquisition of Cuba by the United States. 1
The same reasons which have influenced ,
their opposition-in the past, apply with
equal force to the contemplated action of ’
thisGovernmont toward securing t hat island
now. Whether their opposition wiH lead j
them to the extent of armed intervention:
to prevent it remains to be developed. W e !
believe that if the Governments of Nape
leon and Victoria shall be able to form a
league, which would inspire each with i
entire confidence in the good faith of the |
other, that such an alliance will be con
summated as will induce both Governments
to tike up arms in behalf of the Spanish
title to that island, although such action
may involve them in a war with this coun
try.
England will not be likely to move alone
in the matter. For many weighty reasons
the British Government would avoid the
possibility of a war with the United States
unless she is thoroughly backed b j Na
poleon. France is not in a condition her
self to throw down the gauntlet to this
Government, unless she can be convinced
| that her German relations will not be dis
turbed by such action. The cordial con
currence of these two powerful Govern
ments will secure to each protection at
home while it will at the same time give
them strength in the alliance which nu-:t
be fatal to the pretensions of our own
Government.
We believe that General Grant's ad
ministration has already determined to
give whatever aid may be necessary to in
sure success to the revolutionary party in
Cuba. That aid has already been given in
the moral force which the known and
avowed sympathy of tho Government with
the rebellion must necessarily carry with
it, is too notorious for discussion-
Gen. Grant is already committed, so far
as active sympathy is concerned, to the
cause of the Cuban Patriots. That the
position ol his administration on this ques
lion has caused great concern, and given
some alarm to England and France is quite
apparent. If those Governments have
not already taken cotinsel together to
thwart the views of the Unit ,and States
Government, it is quite eertaiu that they
will very soon do so.
The people of this country should weigh
well the possible consequences of an active
interference by our Government in this
Cuban squabble. A war with Spain alone
j might be a small and inconsiderable affair,
I but a collision with that Government,
backed by France and England, would be
a very different affair.
As far as the South is concerned, she
will almost unanimously oppose any inter
ference by our Government; We have
nothing to make by such a movement, but
a great deal to lose. We are in no condi
tion for a war. War would close our
ports, destroy the markets for our great
products—cotton, tobacco,rice and sugar—
and would eutuil evil and nothing but
evil upon our entire industrial pursuits.
The ‘ Man and Brother” Ui the South
ern Baptist Convention.
We take from the Macon Journal &
Messenger the following report of an inter
esting debate upon the religious education
of the negro, which occurred in the South
ern Baptist Convention, on Saturday last:
Rev. Dr. Fuller, of Baltimore, from the
Spoeial Committee on Missions, to whom
was re-referred the report of said commit
tee so far as it relates to the colored peo
ple, submitted his report upon the report,
whuff: was received and taken up.
i ne report is embodied in the following
resolutions:
Resolved, 1. That God has directly com
miited to the Baptisas at the South the
high and sacred duty of giving a pure
Gospel aud an enlightened colored ministry
t > our brethren and fellow citizens of Afri
can descent now liviug amoDg us.
Resolved , 2. That anew department of
the Mission Board be created which shall
be styled the “Freeduien’s Board Depart
ment,” which shall adopt such measures
for the religious education of the colored
people in our midst as the exigencies of
the case may require.
Rev. Dr. Fuller, on submitting the re
port, remarked that the South had yet a
power by which she cou and rise to a posi'
tion of higher importance than any she
had ever occupied ; that power was her
spindles. Napoleon once said that it was
not the armies of England that had con
quered him, but her spindles. So might
the South by her spindles rise to great im
portance aud power. lie referred to the
very profitable investments in factories
made in Augusta', Ga., and in Mississippi.
Some of those factories were paying
twenty-five per cent, on the capital invest
ed. The Doctor said he intended to clear
his conscience. The sable prejudice in the
South had not been extinguished. It had
been overcome, he thought, to a greater
extout, in Georgia and South Carolina than
in some of ihe border States. Before the
colored man could occupy the place for
which the Saviour designed him, he must
be made to feel that in Christ Jesus there
is neither male nor female, Jew nor Gen
tile, African nor American. The colored
churches must be admitted to representa
tion in Baptist Associations In Maryland
this was already the case, though not the
ease in Virginia ; and in the Associations
of'Maryluud some of the very best speeches
were sometimes made by colored preach
ers. These colored brethren had a sense of
what is proper, and when they entered the
Association would take their places to
i get her, aud not attempt social equality,
which he said was a thing impossible.
Would not the Burman, if he were here,
be admitted into the Associations ? Why
then should the African, who is scarcely a
hue darker, be excluded ? Not long since,
iu Baltimore, he admitted a Burman into
| his pulpit, aud some thought it was a
i colored man with a turban on his head.
L’he carpet-bagger Baal having got what
lie eauie for, was asleep, or on uis journey
i to Congress, and now was the time for
I Southern Christians to work for the spirit
! ual welfare of the colored people.
Rev. Dr. Poindexter, of Virginia, re
plied to the remarks of Dr. Fuller. He
might be in error, and if he were, he
should be glad to get out of it, but as social
[ equality was a thing impossible, it would
; operate as a bar to the admission of colored
ministers into the associations. The idea
of admitting them into associations as
delegates involved the idea of social equal
ity. The Bible never intended, when it
said that we are all one in Christ, to abol
ish social distinctions. Dr. F. did not re
gret that the discu.-sion had arisen, as it
i would give an OT'portunity tor a full dis
cussion of the subject. He thought that
there was nothing that so protected the
colored man, and gave him such great op
portunity for elevation, as the bars exist
ing to their social equality with ih,e white
mau. If you would admit tliern as repre
sentatives in associations, you would have
also to admit them to your houses, to your
tables, and lay them upon your beds,
Rev. Jesse H. Campbell, Georgia, very
heartily endorsed the sentiments of the
brother who had just spoken. \\ hen were
we ever to bo dope with diseussions about
the colored mau f The report recommend
ed that a department be opened iu f.he Do
mestic Mission Board for the theologies!
Jueation of colored ministers; the Domes
tic Mission Board was in debt already, and
it that was attempted the Board would, in
a year, be more in debt than it now is. He
had been a preacher for forty-six yeurs. and
during that time had preached much to
the colored people, and baptized, perhaps,
; eousands of them, but he was not dispos
>\l, aud never expected to be disposed, to
b >n terms of social equality with them.
5 no of his own color might have such a
lisp -it or. and it might be well enough
for them that they had i‘; it a matter
of taste, but he did cot believe that any of
his posterity would ever have it. He did
not believe that God ever intended such
equality. He was against the recommend
ation of the report.
Mr. Browne, of Louisiana, rose to ad
dress the Convention.
Judge Lewis hoped that as the question
ot social equality was not referred to in the
resolution, no allusion to it would be made
and eailed tor the reading of the resolu
tions, which was accordingly read.
The President decided the point of or
der well taken.
Mr. Browne preceded. It was not
uecessary to raise the point of order on
account ot anything he intended to say. He i
thanked God for the resolutions contained ’
in the report, but did not believe that t-iey j
went far enough to meet the exigencies of
the case. It was impossible for our Board j
if all the sands in its Treasury were direct'
ed to that end to supply the wants of the j
colored people in Louisiana, He favored ,
the plan ol taking aid from the Northern j
Missionary Board, on condition that the j
ministers preaching to the colored people j
should be appointed by the Southern j
Domestic Board, and report to that body.
Rev. Dr. Williams, ot Maryland,thought ,
that there had already been debate enough, l
and opposed the report on the ground that I
it involved too much machinery, having j
learned that the more machinery the
greater the loss of power. He therefore i
would offer the iollowing resolution sis a
substitute to the report :
Resolved, That we recommend to the
District and State Associations to pay
special attention to the religious " instruc
tion and spiritual interest of the coloreu
people in their midst.
A call was made for the previous ques- 1
tion, which cal! was sustained, but the
main question was net ordered.
The original report was then taken up
by paragraphs. More discussion arose
upon amendments proposed. The word
> “freedmen’ ’ was on motion of Dr. Broadus,
of Virginia, stricken from the report, and
the words ‘ colored people” inserted.
Rev. Dr. Burrows, of Virginia, moved
to strike from the report the sentence
which declares that “designing men have
crept in among the colored people who
preach Christ not of sincerity, but for
i filthy lucre, and for their own political
i ambition.”
Dr. Broadus offered to amend so that
the paragraph shall read as follows:
“Preachers they will have ; and we who
know these people can better supply the
teaching they need than those who have
never lived among them.”
The amendment was lost, and the motion
to strike out was also lost.
The report made on the recommittal was
then read, as follows ;
Resolved , That God has directly com
mitted to the Baptists at the North the
i high and sacred duty of giving a pure
gospel and an enlightened colored ministry
to our brethren and fellow-citizens of
African descent, now living among us.
Rev. Dr. Jones moved to amend the
above resolution by striking from it the
words “our brethren and fellow-citizens of
African descant,” and substituting the
i words “the colored population.” The
! amendment was adopted.
Rev. —. Shackelford moved to lay the
whole subject on the table. Lost.
Rev. Dr. Reynolds, of South Carolina,
moved to further amend by altering the
resolution so as to read as follows:
’'Revived, That we recognize it as our
! high and sacred duty,” etc Adopted.
Rev. Dr. Poindexter, of Virginia, moved
to strike out the word “colored” before
“ministry ” Carried.
Pending the consideration of the report,
the Convention adjourned, by a vote of 109
to 54, after prayer by Rev. J. Kirtley, of
Kentucky.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention met at 3} o’clock, pur
suant to adjournment and was opened
with prayer by Rev. Dr. Armitage, pastor
of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York.
The convention then took up the un
finished business ol the morring—the same
being the consideration of the report on the
religious instruction of the colored people.
The resolution of Dr. Williams, of Balti
more, was adopted in heu of the second
resolution, and whole report as amended
was adopted.
The Fruit Crop.
All our accounts from the surrounding
country concur in the statement that the
fruit crop has been very seriously injured,
and in many localities entirely destroyed
by the continued cold weather of the past
three weeks, and the sharp frosts which
occured the fir ot week in this month.
Peaches have nearly allfallen from the
trees, and apples and plums arc dropping
rapidly. This is a serious loss to our sec
tion, and one which no human ingenuity
can replace or provide for.
The Excitement in Wall Street.
The New York journals of Saturday
contain lengthy accounts of the excited
condition of Wall street on the previous
day. Somewhat different views of the
causes and extent of the financial entan
glement are taken by different papers.
The following is taken from the finan
cial and commercial arti.le of the Herald ,
dated Friday, 8 P. M :
The day in Wall street has been one of
the most excited for many months, per
haps several years. The transactions in
all the markets were on an enormous
scale, and characterized by the greatest
animation. The chief feature was the
sudden rise of over three percent, in gold,
the dealings in which were not less than
one hundred and fifty millions of dollars.
At one time a panic seemed imminent in
the stock exchange, and there was a sud
den and large “drop” in prices, bnt a re
action ensued at a late hour in the after
noon aud the business closed with a better
but not an entirely satisfied feeling. This
sudden disturbance is to be traced remote
ly to ihe increase of the Bani of England
rate of discount to four and a half per cent,
on Thursday last. The great financial
centre of the world is ever jealous of its
monetary supremacy. With the threatened
drain of money arising out ofthe numerous
European loans negotiating in the London
market, not to speak of the brisk specula
tion which has sprung up in the United
States securit.es, some prompt step was
necessary to make money dearer in the
English metropolis. Hence the advance
in ih(s rate of discount, which, according
to other indices, is really below the open
market rate of iuterest. Stocks were slow
to feel this alteration. The decline yester
day was comparatively light. To-day, how
ever, the trutn of the situation seemed to
break upon the minds of London financiers
and consols fell to 92} so: cash, aud five
twenties to a figure variously reported from
78 down to 76J. The regular commercial
report by cable was perfectly valueless in
the crisis, and the only persons who were
not working iu the dark were those who
had private telegrams direct from their
foreign correspondents. It was this de
cline in bonds which first started the re
markable changes of to-day, and the effect
is directly traceable throughout the several
branches of Wall-street business.
Government bonds at the opening were
heavy and lower in response to tho first re
ports of a decline of one percent. in five
twenties at London. Gold under this in
fluence took an upward start immediate
ly after the opening of the Gold Room.
The rise iu gold going to the other side of
the Adantic caused a further decline there
in bonds, and the report which came back
was giv.'n to the street with all sorts of
amendments and additions, announcing
among other things that there was a panic
in London; that the Bank of England had
advanced its discount rate still farther; that
immense foreign orders had been received
to buy gold, and that the great powers of
| Europe had united in the offensive toward
i the United States in the matter of recog
nizing Cuban independence and suffering
i Cuban filibusters to leave our ports. That
there has been considerable commotion in
the London money market there is no
doubt. But the cable informs us of a re
newal of the Fenian outbreak in Ireland,
and which is probably a prominent cause
of the uneasiness happening as it does at
i a moment when the foreign leans and ihe
I speculations to our securities have rendered
the market quite active. Under the eom
j bination of these influences, as well as in con
sequence of the semi-offie.al announcement
1 from Washington that Secretary Bout
: well, consistent in his policy of irresolution,
was unwilling to exercise the privileges of
the Sinking Fund act before the close of
! the fiscal year, governments sank rapidly
until the 62 s touched 117 and the 67’s
114 j —a decline of one and three-quarters
percent. From this point, however, there
was a reaction, in consequence of the high
er price of gold and a recovery to much
better figures at the close of business,
when the following quotations prevailed:
United States sixes, 1881 registered, 1181
@llß} ; do., eoupoD, five
twenties. registered, 113(<i>114} ; do. do.,
coupon. 1862, 117}@117}; do. do.,
i coupon, 1864,113@113}; do. do., coupon,
j 1665;'114}0J 1144 ; do. Uo., coupon, 1565,
new. 115}(«Ui5}; do. do., coupon, 1867,
115}@U5} ; do. do., coupon, 1868,
115}d)115} : do. ten-forties, registered,
lu7}<q. 107}; do. do., coupon, 107}(ail07|;
: currency bonds, 106}@1O6}.
In gold the effects were perhaps mere
j directly visible. Early in the forenoon
1 sales were made as low as 136 J, the closing
! price ot the previous day. By noon the
price had ' sen to 1371. This rise was
followed by the sudden decline iu bonds at
London, about .which the reports were so
contradictory, all uniting that it was quite
large, but none agreeing as to the exact
extent. In the interval to the return dis
patch gold was steady (!) at 1374(3,137}.
Soon utter three o’clock the earliest re- 1
cipieots ol the news began their purchases, ;
and the price went rapidly up to 139}, :
yielding later t ? 138}. Tta range of prices
was as follows;
10 00 A. M 136f !2 00 P. M 137}
10 10 A. M 136} 2 05 P. M 137*
10 12 A. M 136}ji3 00 P. M 137}
10 21 A. M 136*113 30 P. M 137}
10 22 A. M 137 ij3 55 P. M 138}
10 25 A. M 137 ]4OO P. M 13S}
10 35 A. M 137} 4 15 P. M 138}
11 00 A. M 137 i 4 30 P. M 139
12 00 M „137}|‘4 40 P. M 139}
12 30 P. M 137} 4 45 P. M 139
100 p. y 137} >5 00 P. M......138}
130 P. -M 13711.6 00 P.Ml3B}a}3B|
Such was the excitement that the Gold
Room was occupied until after 6 o clock.
Cash gold coatipued in good supply.
Loans were made at ? and 8 per cent, and
1 32. before Clearing House, aacj at 4, 6
and 7 per cent, afterward for carrying.
One transaction was recorded at fiat. Tbe
report of the Gold Exchange Bank shows
the heavy business of yesterday. The fol
lowing arc the figures:
Goid cleared $124,829,000 1
Gold ba1ance5......... 3,063,696
Currency balances 4,623,998
Sudden Death.—On the morning of
Wednesday last, the I2tb inst., Rev Levi
Staosell, an esteemed minister of the
Meth- dist Church, died at his residence,
near Oxford, Ga., aged about 76 years.
OIR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
GEORGIA NATIONAL BANKS.
Washington, May 11,1569.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The following is an abstract of the con
dition of the National Banks in tht State
of Georgia at the close of business on the
7th of April, as made to the Comptroller of
the Currency. This is the first report
from the banks made under the new law:
RESOURCES. AMOUNTS.
Loans and discounts $2,327,968 33
Overdrafts...... 15,202 73
U. S. bonds to secure circula
tion 1,383,500 00
U.S. bonds to secure deposits 100,000 00
U. S. bonds and securities on
hand none.
Other stocks, bonds and
mortgages 22,732 50
Due from Redeeming and
Reserve Agents 274,130 88
Due from National Banks.... 215,651 56
Due from other Backs and
Bankers 239,862 94
j Real estate, furniture, and
| fixture? 100,925 03
i Current expense? 39,322 64
Premiums 1,626 02
| Checks and other cash items 26,570 57
Bills of National Bank? 174,483 00
Bills of other banks none.
Fractional Currency 30,042 45
Specie 50,835 41
Legal-tender note? 762,862 00
Compound interest notes 110 00
3 percent, certificates 26,000 00
$5,790,52ff 06
LIABILITIES. AMOUNTS.
Capital stock $1,600,000 00
Surplus fund 168,000 00
Undivided profits 232,920 41
i National Bank notes out- •
standing 1,230,695 00
State Bank notes outstand
ing none.
Individual deposits 2,111,744 84
U. S. deposits 22,568 16
Deposits of U. S. Disbursing
Officers 90,047 56
Due to National Banks 252,294 89
Due to other Banks and
Bankers 82,555 20
$5,790,826 06
J. C.
OIR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New York, May 11, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
It will interest your readers to know
that one of the mos patriotic Cubans in
these parts is that Reverend Mr. French,
who is so widely and unfavorably known
abou' Georgia aud Carolina. The fellow’s
advent, as you may remember, wasjust at
the close ofthe war, when he visited Au
gusta as a sort of Government Missionary,
to tell the “rebel” heathen of-those parts
that the wise and good government which
had just murdered Mrs. Surratt (lid not
actually mean to behead them all for the
atrocious crime of having wished to be in
dependent. After this little performance
—aud at the mention thereof there comes
up to the mind’s eye the weazened viznomy
of this pure patriot—the Reverend French
went into de Buro and did so well in that
part of the vineyard that there are rumors
of his having bought a fine house at
Skowhegan or Pumpkinville, or some
other loil habitat, and of his having
money in the bank. After the collapse of
the Bureau, he faded away like a fragile
rose, and I had almost forgotten the crea
ture, till I heard much mention of a
French, who was a Cuban of Cubans in
the patriotic band. Sure enough, it was
this rabid old wolf in anew role, and I
hear he does it well, his cue being to en
large an angelic nature ofthe Cuban “reb
el,” even as he once inveighed against the
satanic malice of the Southern ditto, and
his business consisting in prowling about
in the North and organizing branch junta.?,
as they call them, something for which his
groatjexperUnce in hatching Loyal Leagues,
no doubt, stands him in good stead. But
enough of French. I thought you might
like to hear about him, that your souls
yearned indeed to know what had become
of the old rat, and so what is written
is written. The fact that such a
debauched old humbug is a great
light among tho Cuban patriots may
serve to give some idea of what a huge
swindle this whole revolutionary business
is. For my own poor rart laqi not over
much disposed to belii ve, from all 1 hear
an and see, that there is any insurrection in
the ever Faithful Isle at a) ! , or in fact any
disturbance save such as a few crack
brained Creoles, egged on by the loil med
dlers of this city and Washington, are able
to produce. One lliing, at least, is cer
tain : that we hear of no bat ties in the isl
and, and another thing quite as evident is
that the current "Cuban news ’ of the pa
pers bears the very ear-marks of having
been made up in the newspaper and tele
graph offices by the a ; d ol' a lively imagi
nation and India-rubber conscience.
Tne completion of the .Pacific railroad
was duly hailed here yesterday with
speechifying, canDon-liring, and much
drinking of iiquor. That there is a line
ot rail now connecting the At
lantic and Pacific seems evident,
but what thou? The work is so flimsy,
that good judges declare the Road will
have to be almustcmirely rebuilt, and even
if rebuilt, where is the great utility in the
enterprise? Tbe line will be snowed up
half the year; the freights are so necessari
ly enormous that it would hardly “pay” to
bring' a ton of gold from San Francisco to
New York overlaud ; amd if ever a band of
Indians swoop down once upon the
track and wreck a train the travel will not
amount to much thereafter save the con
ductor, engineer and hands. Another
point that attracts attention is the immense
outlay that will be necessary to keep up
the Road. It is said that it will be almost
impossible to establish enough machine
stations for all the repair?, and that for a
great portion of the way the desert will be
strewn with injured machinery, that on an
ordinary road could be refitted or at
least made-use of to recast. What, then,
one may say, is the use of this much
vaunted enterprise? Almost nothing at
all, so far as the public good goes, since
there was not a real demand for this road
—that time will coma in the history of the
continent but not now—but the interest
subserved is that of a number of huge
“rings” thatpreyupoa the people’s money
like so many vampyres. The entire iengto
from Omaha to Pan Francisco is 1,845
miles, ’'subsidized at an average rate of
$30,000 per mile. In addition to this,
twenty alternate sections of the public
lands per mile arc given or 2,361,500 acres
on the line of the road, and lastly all the
coal, iron, and timber thereon. These are
the ostensible aids given, but the indirect
subsidies of this great swindle who can
count. But the road is complete. Now
let us hope it does not lacerate the country
| by a “champion” accident at the first at
j tempt to use it.
I In a prior letter it was stated that it
1 might boas well in auy political calculations
looking for any distacce'into the future to
j estimate what effect would be produced on
; the situation of affairs by having Colfax in
the Presidential chair, and I take occasion
;to renew the hint. Grant, like a buffalo
bull, is horribly worried by prairie dogs in
the shape of office-seekers, and then there
are grave intimations of the havoc too
much drink and tobacco are working on
his frame. It is noticeable that Harrison
and Taylor wore both soldier Presidents,
elected to the Presidency by military ex
ploits, and the Presidency killed them
both. Is the present incumbent to go the
same way, suoeumbing to those assaults a
trained politician may easily despise?
The late action oi the Virginia “Con
servatives,” is of sosingulara nature that
I cannot forbear a word or so on the very
remarkable Convention lately held in Rich
mond. as the infirmation is given me by j
one who heard the debates in that body. I
The facts, then, appear to be that the Rich- I
mond Conservative Convention, so-called,
was not a Conservative Convention at all, |
but a species of caucus held by such former i
Conservatives as have now gone over to ;
the side of the flesh pots of Egypt. Out i
of this censure must be excepted Ex Gov- !
ernor Smith, “Old extra Billy,” and Mr. !
Goode, bath of whom made powerful
speeehes ag just any affiliation with Radi- j
calism and for a jtraightout fight on the |
white men’s resolution of Virginia in 1867,
the sapae it has frequently been my j
fortune to present to your readers j
as the only common-sense solution of the j
suffrage problem, and that is full legal se- j
curity to the negro, but the white man j
alone to vote. Owing, however, to the j
dexterous manner in which the Conven- j
tion had been packed, »nd the powerful I
assistance that had bod a lent the mongrel
view of the case by the Richmond papers,
which took that course for reagons best j
known to themselves. Extra Billy and his !
gallant co-adjutors were voted down, and j
the trick went through by 54 to 23. As my j
informant says, the minority in the Con- j
vention represented the majority outside, j
and the minority outside were represented j
by th@ majority within. The whole thing :
was cut aud dried under Washington aus
pices. and has accoaiplisbsd the dividing of ;
the Conservatives as well as a Radical could j
desire. When the people of Virginia j
find '<ut how the case stands ‘
it is not uaiikalp tfcev will formally ex-com
municate the whilom Conservatives, who j
have sought to trap them into mongreiism.
and stand fair aca square on the only safe, i
sensible sod peaceful solution this matter
can ever have, ami ’hat is protection by
law for the negro, but suffrage fop the
white man alone. Tyrone Power*.
The 114th anniversary pf the birth of
Habnemaon, the homoeopathist, was cele
brated in Paris by a grand banquet.
OIK TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENCE. 1
On the Wing, May 8,1869. I
Editors Chronicle <f- Sentinel:
My observation iu many places, dis
closes an augury of fearful magnitude to
our social and political future. While we
approve the cultivation and improvement
of the soil, the projecting of enterprises
that inure to the interests of manufactures
and commerce;,we would, above all, insist
on the moral and intellectual development
of our people.
There are too many little boys and girls
in our country growing up in ignorance,
for whom no provision has or is likely to
be made for their education. They do not
possess the means to defray the expenses
of their own instruction; if this is ever
provided, it must come through other
sources. Their fathers sleep the sleep
of the soldier’s grave, and, though
the victims of tbe “Loft Cause,” there is
no .-tain on their manhood, for whatever
enemies may say, the world will ever ad
mire their patriotic and heroic, deeds, and
award them the honors due noble dead.
Let tbe annual commemoration of their vir
tues continue, wreathes crown their monu
ments, flowers bedeck their graves, and the
tongue of eloquence speak their praises.
But if'we would honor their memory by
acts of noble benevolence, we should edu
cate their children—their neglect is our
shame. While agriculture is the basis of
cotntuerfe, and the source of life and
prosperity in all the business enterprises of
the world, the virtue and intelligence of
the people is the foundation of our civil
and social institutions. If the exorbitant
taxes levied and extorted from us by every
thing inthe shapeofgovernment could take
this direction we should not complain. But
when we consider the objects the people’s
money arc made to subserve, and the man
ner in which it is squandered, to the
neglect of this cause of charity, humanity,
gratitude, the weal of society and the great
est degree of the public good, we can but
feel grieved. While my sympathies are
aroused in behalf of the helpless orphans
among us, my indignation and contempt is
still more soat the recital of such treachery
.and corruption upon the paitof members
of the last Legislature as I heard from the
citizens of Atlanta a few days ago. The
resolution that was offered to take one
dollar of each man’s per diem , and apply
it to the educaiion of the indigent referred
to was voted down almost unanimously.
And what became of the nine dollars per
diem? It is not in the pockets of the
honest working men of Atlanta. But
where is it?
Well, in view of the high position we an
ticipate, when the honest and patriotic
people of our beloved old State arc fairly
on their feet again, and the belief tbit the
abominations now so palpable will prove
fatal to their perpetrators, aud do more
than all our arguments to revolutionize our
civil affairs, toe shall forbear to disclose
what we have seen and heard.
The educational interests of the indigeat
among us devolve upon a class of repre
sentatives who are identified with the peo
ple, devoted to the weal and honor of the
country, and capable of noble and generous
deeds. Until this law be secured, let the
praiseworthy charity and kindness of some
of;tbe literary institutions of our country
continue as long as they can without ruin
to themselves, appealing to the people to
sustain them in this noble cause.
A maimed soldier, engaged in teaching,
informs me that he has never turned off
an indigent orphan yit, and is teaching
several for which he never expects a cent.
One ofthe Professors of Emory College
informed me a few days ago that they had
not turned off a single maimed soldier from
that institution and, perhaps, would not,
confident that there is too much of human
ity, patriotism and Christian philanthropy
in the people of Georgia to let such claims
upon our people go unsettled. I have no
doubt that all engaged in this good work
will be abundantly rewarded. Yes. just so
certain as the sun shines and the earth
moves, and a just God presides over tho
uuiverse and the destinies of man, wiil
these matters be most righteously adjusted.
1 give these scattering reflections from
what I have seen, heard and felt, and to
direct attention to a great work that com
mands the sympathy and support of all
the people ofthe State.
Traveller.
[communicated.]
Thomson, Ga., May 12, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Your piece in regard to the shooting of
Mr. Atkins, makes it appear that a Mr.
Adams passed Atkins on the road, which
is not correct. The Messrs. Adams can
establish, beyond a doubt, that they were
over four miles from the place where the
shooting occurred, at the time it must have
taken place.
’ihe Southern Railroad.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
A railroad that shall be controlled in the
interests of Cincinnati, connecting this city
with the South, is an admitted necessity.
This point, therefore, we neen not discuss.
Nobody denies it For more than a third
of a century the subject has been befbre
our people, and in that time over a score
of plan? have been proposed, talked about,
many of'tbem attempted, and all of them
finally abandoned. In the meantime our
necessities increased, and at last the plan
embodied in what is known as the Fereu
sou bill was proposed, discussed, generally
approved, and at last, through the efforts
of tho City Council, the Board of Trade,
the Chamber of Commerce', and citizens
generally, it became a law. This may not
be the best plan for building a railroad;
but it is the only available plan. We can
not, under our Constitution, subscribe or
donate money to a railroad; but leading
lawyers have decided that it is constitution
al to build a road. Therefore, it is now
concluded that the city of Cincinnati shall
build the proposed road, using the credit of
the corporation to tbe amount of $10,000,-
000 for that purpose.
If it be possible, the citizens of Cincin
nati might prefer a donation of one million
dollars to undertaking the proposed job;
but this can be done, and we are reduced
to the alternative of accepting and carrying
out the Ferguson plan, or doing without
the road, or trusting to chance or outside
interests for its construction. There is a
natural reluctance to have an enterprise of
this magnitude undertaken by the city,
because of the extravagance, and oftimes
corruption, of men frequently elected to
the City Council; but it is to be said that,
this work is not to be under the control of
the City Council. In this respect the law
is well guarded, except in the last clause,
which provides that the Trustees, having
completed the read, shall lease or sell it
upon such terms as the City Council may
determine. This, however, is in the fu
ture, and the defect may be remedied by
the Legislature at its next session. This is
the only defect in the bill; it is the only
door open to corruption, provided the right
sort of men are chosen as Trustees. And |
upon this point, happily, there need be no
uneasiness. The appointments will be in the i
hands of the Judges of the Superior Court, j
and that five men will be selected who will !
command the confidence ofthe public, and
prove themselves worthy of such confidence,
is not to be doubted. Already several per
sons have been named in this connection,
which shows the general direction df the
public mind. Among these are the follow
ing: W. W. Scarborough, William Hoop
er, Briggs Swift, R R. Springer, Miles
Greenwood, Lewis Worthington, W. H
Harrison, Win. S. Groesbeck, Charles
Reemelin, L. B. Harrison, N. G. Nettle
ton, Larz Anderson, Robert Mitchell, It.
M. Bishop, Hugh Mcßirney, Wm. Glenn,
A. D. Bullock, C. W. West,. James F.
Torrence, Pollock Wilson, and so on. Any
five of these men would build the road
honestly, economically and well. Such a J
board would do better than any board of ;
directors that could be elected by a vote of |
stockholders. Not a dollar of the money
would stick to their finger?, and these men
have, {tecuniarily, a greater interest in the
city of Cincinnati than the average of di
rectors who represent railroad corporations.
The Freight on Small Bills.—Mr.
James K. Redd assured us yesterday that
he had just paid $92,95 freight on two
small invoices amounting to only $368.90.
The articles on whioh this freight charge
was made, were syrup and coffee, shipped
from New York by Savannah Central Rail
road, &c ,to this place. We thought, and
so told Mr. Redd, that there must be some
error in this bid, but if there is non?, the
freight is a fraction over 25 per cent, on
the cost of goods, which is certainly pretty
steep. We do not think merchants can
make money on goods when freight charges
are so high. Nor can any community af
ford to pay to freight lines so large a per
cent, on articles of such general consump
tion as syrup and coffee. The Railroad of
ficers should and doubtless will take the
case in hand and correct whatever may be
wrong about it. This freight question has
exercised our merchants and shippers a
great deal this season, and many com
plaints have been made against the Cen
tral Road aod its management, but no com
plaint has been so specific and well defined
or that has struck us as so reasonably
founded as this of Mr. Redd’s. — Columbus
Enquirer.
The Alabama river was still rising at last
accounts. A deluge in that river, at this
season of the year, putstbe swamp planters
well nigh out ofthe ring for this year. At
the best, if they have seed to replant, they
caanot expeer to get them in before the last
week in May,
South Carolina is soon to hoji an agricul
tural convention, at wuftn endeavor
will be made to form county 'societies to
imports white labor.
Philadelphia enacts'that the slopping of
sidewalks by cleanly servant girlsmust stop
at eeyen in the morning,
FROM WASIIIXGTOX.
Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette.
Washington, May 11, ISG9.—Fred.
Douglas, the negro spouter and politician,
has two sobs (at least) in Government em
ploy here. One is in the Treasury, quietly
at work at his desk as a clerk; the other
has been assigned to “a case,” at the
National Printing Office. There may be
some trouble in respect to the last named
“case. ” I understand the printers out
side of the Government Office are in a
majority in this city. Among the rules of
their “Association” is iu one prohibiting
aDy others than members from employ
ment in any recognized office. Another
prohibits a negro from membership. It
remains to be seen whether the Govern
ment is prepared to run a tilt against the
mechanical associations of the country to
the extent of ignoring them altogether.
Two white Radicals were removed to make
room for these two negroes. I learn that
every compositor in the Government
Office suspected of Democratic proclivities
has (like the employees at the Njavy Yard)
been already summarily dismissed.
Iu connection with this matter I may be
allowed to quote from fe Chronicle a very
important announcement. That paper of
this mornieg says:
‘‘lt is rumored that the President has
determined upon thi nomination of suit
able colored men to responsible positions
in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chi
cago and other Northern cities, in order to
offset the appointment of negroes in the
South, prevent the appearance of harsh
and invidious treatmentof Southern whites
and also as proper concession to and en
couragement of intelligent Northern colored
men ”
It has transpired this morning-that the
visit of the President to the State Depart
ment yesterday had no relation whatever
to the instructions of Mr. Motley, but was
induced solely by a desire to modify the
objections of Secretary Fish to divers foiv
eign appointments, in respect to which
serious difficulties have been thrown in the
way by the latter. What renders the posi
tion of the President more embarrassing in
this regard is the fact that Mr. Sumner is
said to back the refractory Secretary,
whose opposition to commissioning the
batch _ of appointments relerred to it is
therefore supposed will be sustained by
the Senate.
The hatred of the Government to the
bona fide citizens of Washington is of the
most virulent type, and every opportunity
is seized upon to show it. The Collector
and Assessor of internal Revenue here,
were known of all men as dyed-in-the-wool
Abolitionists originally, had never wavered
in their allegiance to the “Government”
and “loyalty” to the worst stripe of Radi
calism. They had, morever, spent their
money liberally to effect the election of
General Grant; yet, they were, without a
moment’s warning, thrust out of office to
make room for a couple of carpet baggers.
The Marshal of the District, a near rela
tive ot “the family,” aud a citizen of
Illinois, was transferred from Richmond to
this city, where he has never resided a
single day, even up to this moment. Oar
Courts are made up of interloping judges,
and I now hear that our Radical Post
master, who was so true aud “loil” a man
as to be able to procure a confirmation by
the Swiate, no longer ago than last Sum
mer, is to give way for another stranger to
our people. In short, there is not a single
Federal officer in the District who can be
properly called a Washingtonian. It
would seem that citizenship is per se suffi
cient ground for political ostracism, and
this principle permeates every “hole and
corner under Government control. The
organ of this morning announces that “in
consequence of the unprecedented pres
sure, t here is every indication to believe
that all the master workmen in the navy
yard will be removed at an early day.”
These “removals,” it is known, are made
to create vacancies for scalawags from
Eastern cities—principally from Massa
chusetts. The incumbents are all Radi
cals, but labor under the unpardonable
misfortune ofbeing “to the manor born,-”
or of ha ring resided here long enough to
become bona fide citizens.
It is presumed that Secretary Borie will
not be affected by the contemplated changes
in the Cabinet. Some time ago he sur
rendered all authority over vessels afloat
to Admiral Porter. It is now authorative
ly announced as follows:
“It is understood that the Secretary of
the Navy has issued au order to the effect
that the commandants of navy yards shall
respect all orders issued by Admiral Por
ter the same as if issued by the Secretary
himself. These orders are to be signed ‘A.
E. Borie, Secretary of the Navy, perD.
D- Porter, Admiral.’ ”
This document completes the full and
entire assignment cf the duties of Secreta
ry Borie to Admiral Porter. The next tug
will be between General Sherman and the
Secretary of War. The public need feel
very little interest in this fight.
The farce of registration is progressing
here. It will have been observed that the
“Commissioners” skip about from ward to
ward on different days, or parts of days.
By this means “strings” of idle negroes
from all sections <>f the city are enabled to
monopolize the place of registration, and
thus prevent the legal white voters from
any chance of recording their names. A
significant exception to “taking turns” in
this way is made in favor of Government
and city officers, who are all Radicals, and
who are permitted to enter the sanctum at
once by a private door. Our citizens are
of course disheartened, and do uot, as a
general thing attempt to register. Be
sides, it is well enough known that if the
while ticket were to prevail, enough votes
to change the result would be thrown out
upon some mere pretence. And etfen if
this could not possibly be done, Congress
stands ready at any moment to repeal the
charter, and to turn over the City Govern
ment t) Commissioners to be appointed by
this rotten Administration.
I have trustworthy intelligent authority
for saying that.the Cabinet of President
Grant is not a unit upon any question of
statesmanship or administration, and that
a thorough reorganization may be expect
ed shortly. The reasons are obvious.
The President’s advisers were selected
upon grounds unknown to the genius of
our institutions and even inconsistent wit!)
the practice heretofore prevailing—that of
recognizing party interests and control.
He appointed one Minister (Boric) avow
edly tor the reason that he had head
ed a subscription list to furnish the
General with a palace in Philadelphia.
Ou similar pecuniary grounds he exhaust
ed his power to install Btewart, of New
York, as Secretary of the Treasury. The
Attorney General is known to have been
appointed because of his relationship to
the “Dent larnily," and the Secretary of
War, a personal friend, was relied upon to
furnish brains for the misshappen body of
the Administration. Mr. Bowlins', -by the
way, is the oniv man in the Government
that has any pretensions to statesmanship,
and his availability is seriously damaged
by the influence of the Lieutenant General,
Sherman
Mr. Boutwell, a weak and vacillating
politician, was forced upon the President
by Sumner and Wilson alter the defeat of
Mr. Stewart, by the blundering of the
President and the machinations of the
Senate Fish was thought to be the only
man of the slightest note who would carry
out Washburuo’s programme offoreign ap
pointments. lie now refuses to do it!
’Admiral Porter will not submit to the
dictation of the Secretary of the Navy.
And soi they go upon mere routine points
of routine administration.
With such an administration what could
be expected of comprehensive views of our
domestic or foreigu relations ? The Ad
ministration, if, is seen, has no policy in
respect to our finances, deplorable as they
are, with gold at 138. I was informed to
day by a gentleman (closely connected with
existing banking institutions, that Bout
well’s views were not only destructive to
them, but opposed by a majority of the
Cabinet, and could not prevail. Yet
Grant, as things now stand, is wholly
powerless to prevent their consummation.
In other words, he cannot comprehend
“the situation.”
The same line of remark will' apply to
other and, perhaps, more important mat
ters. I have very good authority for say
ing that the Secretary of State stands
singly, but manfully, up to a show of
neutral conduct in respect to Cuba. I
understand his views are. these: That the
“national debt of the ■ Cuban Republic”
cannot, at this moment, be less than two
or three hundred millions ( —her stock is
quoted in most of the gold markets of the
world at about 5 cents on the dollar). By
the time we shall “recognize,” and “an
nex” her, through the “secession” pro
cess, the debt (which must be saddled upon
us) will reach, by a very, slight inflation, to
an unknown quantity. He thinks, there
fore, that a more economical means of ac
quiring Cuba would be by purchase from
the original holders.
And so in regard to the British posses
siens in North America. I verily believe
that there is not a single man in the Cabi
net, except Grant andßorie, who is willing
to go to war for these frozen regions. But
such perplexing questions may bring us
into trouble, for this reason alone, if none
other, that the President is as stubborn as
a bull, and at the same time as oblivious of
consequences as an ox. With a Cabinet
pulling to the four points of the compass,
what may not be apprehended ?
More op tiie “Steep Freight.”— The
following has been handed to us by one of
our merchants. Comment is unnecessary:
Editor Sun ; I noticed in the Issue of
the Sun of this morning (Saturday) a card
in reference to the enormous freight charg
ed by the Central Railroad and paid by
Messrs. J. K. Redd & Cos. I think that
pretty severe, but I can cite a still severer
one, I received a small lot of pickles from
Philadelphia via Central Railroad, valued
at thirty-nine dollars ($39), and the freight
bill presented to and paid by me was
sl2 40. “Save us from our friends, ”
T. C. Pridgen.
May 9th, 1869. Columbus Sun.
AGRICULTURAL.
Contributions on practical farming arc
solicited from our friends throughout the
country.
The Labor Question.
Editors Chronicle tfc Sentinel:
An intimate knowledge of (he working
of emancipation in the East—lsle of
trance, &c , has led me for some time past
to think that the only salvation for this
Southern country is to employ the same
labor those people have. A bright future
with such labor is before us, which will
always continue, if we cau only hold our
lands. But to enable us to do this we
must have the labor. The North obtaining
the results of such labor and such results
are essential to it, will throw no obstacles
m the way. The poor negro has been ren
dered worse than worthless. He cannot
change the law of his nature, and will not
labor to attain anew position, nor in fact
even to retain his old oue, as an efficient
laborer, so we must look for anew supply.
Population and races move on the same
parallels of_ latitude. This is the estab
lished lav of migration and this is the law
which admits of no modification.
If we divide up our lands straugers
will soon be masters in the South and will
soon discover that success comes only with
the observance of this law. If we retain
our lands we retain our characteristics
which have growo out of the demands of
this law. Retaioing’our lands, if we can
get reliable labor, we build u t our shatter
ed fortunes and thereby restore the South
to it; former commanding position as the
great fountain ot the world’s commerce.
Does not the completion of the Pacific
Railroad afford us the solution to this labor
question ?
This great Continental link has been
completed. It wdl throw into the country
against our wishes (it is true) a large popu
lation from the overcrowded East.
Can it not be utilized l do net propose
to discuss this question—but as throwing
light upon the question, 1 ask that you
publish the subjoined tstruct from the
New Y ork Mercantile Journal.
Richmond.
thechine.se IN AMER'CA.
irom 10,000 to 50,030 “children of the
Sun, ’ natives of the Flowery land, follow
ers of Confuoius aud worshippers of Bud
dha, are already living in the United
States, engaging in regular commerce, fol
lowing all sorts of labor and handicraft,
aud leaving us only when their bodies,
after death, are sent back embalmed tor
burial, in the beloved soil of the “Middle
Kingdom.”
Some writers estimate the numbers of
those strangers at higher figures, but we
have given, the fair average. However,
the estimate is constantly increasing, since
not a ship comes in from beyond the
Pacific, without bringing in its quota of
immigrants. In San Francisco they form
an important element of the population,
and, throughout all the Pacific States and
Territories, their intelligence and industry,
sustained in many cases by considerable
wealth, are earning them a respectable
place among the strange composite popu
lations that are peopling those countries.
Those facts have become the subject of
concern to thinkers who look forward out
of the crudities and confusion of the pres
ent United States to the harmony, wealth,
and power of this nation, in the time to
come. Contemplating the exhaustless
human swarms that people the Orient, and
the strong tendency of Chinamen to mi
grate, some alarmists already picture to
.themselves the far Western States over
run with these almond-eyed, swarthy little
men, who boast that theirs is the oldest
and wisest civilization in the world. A
few are in consternation at the prospect of
Buddhism beiug added to the long iist of
religious denominations already existing
within our borders, and arc horrified at
the thought of our having to tolerate
idolatry, or infringe both the spirit and the
letter of the Constitution.
For our part, we are more amused than
conoerned at the idea of the “Three Pre
cious Ones” being set u ' for worship iu
San Francisco, Washington and New York.
Toe grand question for Americans is the
supply of intelligent labor that they may
count upon immediately for the completion
of their lines of inferior communication,and
the filling up of their vast central wastes
with life and culture. The mere oddities
and quaintnesses hf races that may come
among us, and the vagaries of dogmas that
arc incompatible with the spirit of the age,
in the better sense, will all pass quickly
and easily away like snow melting in the
Summer sunshine.
Are the Chinese immigrants serviceable,
reliable and skillful workmen? Such is
the really important point to be settled.
The Overland Monthly , the most spark
ling and pleasantly written periodical in
the Union, but devoted almost exclusively
to California interests, gives the elements
of a reply to this inquiry in its March num
ber'. From its article, “How are our Chi
namen Employed?” and from other
sources, that, irrespective of partisan feel
ing, furnish similar information, we deduce
the most favorable conclusions possible.
The first regular employment that the
Orientals lound on the eastern slope was in
the woolen factories. The unanimous re
port ofthe former was that “with no other
operatives had they ever been so well
I leased.” They are promptly at. their
stations at the proper time; they have no
gossip which iuvolves the breaking of the
threads, and they work without lagging.
Next came the Pacific Railroad, which
made the next great bill for Chinese labor,
aud employed nearly 10,000 of the strang
ers. The latter are reported by the com
pany as “promptly on the ground ready to
begin work the moment they hear the sig
nal, and laboring steadily and honestly on,
till admonished that the Working hours are
ended. Overseers declare that they can
drill more rock, and move more dirt with
Chinamen, than witii an equal number of
the men who claim this kind of occupation
as their specialty.
Chinamen bave helped to make nearly
all the roads, and like improvements, near
San Francisco; they gather in the harvest;
they tend on the grazing farms; they
cook in the kitchens, and make house
keeping easy ; paper mills, powder milis,
rope walks, aud tanneries could not get
along without them ; hop plantations,
vineyards, orchards, and berrygrounds are
tended by them ; silk manul'acture, cut
ting cord-wood, salt and borax works,
segar-making, and a hundred similar oc
cupations draw great help from the
Chinese. They have at last taken to the
smelting and manufacture of metals, and
to navigation, and civil engineering, iD
their higher branches In fine, turn
whither we may, we see the Chinamen up
early, and staying late; sober, industrious,
intelligent, devoted, and •apable for all
things. Such is the universal testimony
of all but those who, dealing themselves in
things which are the curse of humanity, |
meet with fallen and degraded men only,
and judge of races by their own lives.
The verdict in favor of the uncorrupted \
Chinese work man is favorable in the high- i
est degree, and one of the most striking ;
proofs recently given is the voluntary j
establishment, by the Chinese i'i New ;
York, of an evening school for mutual in- 1
struetion in the English language, aud im- i
provement in science and art. The most ;
gratri'ying resuhsare already recorded.
What the country wants now, and quick
ly, is a sufficient mass of willing, able,
steady and sober hands to open our vast
interior, and we can find such only where
rum and party politics are discarded. Says
the California writer most justly :
“In a countrv where there are millions
of acres of arable land yet unimproved, the
desideratum is of hands to till the
soil, and thus put this land under
contribution to furnish food and clothing
for those who need it, and, as far as possi
ble, to make every acre do its part toward
supporting the Government and building
up public institutions. Where there are
facilities for erecting mills, with material
to be manufactured, and capital waiting
to be employed, the next necessity is the
operatives ', and, just so long as the oper
atives are warning, so long will the man
ufacturing facilities rornain unimproved,
the material will be left to waste, the cap
ital wili be idle, and the talent and skill
which was waiting for employment "in con
ducting and overseeing such enterprises is
deprived of the opportunity to exert .itself
for the benefit of the world.”
If our own unemployed laborers and ar
tisans will persist in dragging out a wretch
ed eipstenoe in the midst of crowded com
petition, instead of carrying their energy
and skill to the points that crave it, where
anew and comparatively independent life
is offered to them, they must be prepared
to see the pig-tails of Chung Know'll
wriggle in triumph over the metal grained
hills and blossoming valleys of the Far
West.
Crops in Burke.
Herndon, Bdrke Cos., Ga., 1
May 14tb, 1869. /
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Noticing your soliciting paragraph for
contributions to your “Agricultural De
partment,” I thought I would write you
and let you hear something from our coun
ty, and especially this particular section,
in my situation, I have but little opportu
nity of being acquainted with the opera
tions of the farmers out of my immediate
neighborhood; but so far as my knowledge
extends, the prospect is quite promising.
Corn generally is looking finely. The
stand is very good, and the farmers ar
pushing forward with plow and hoe in the
work of destruction on the forces of Geo.
Green. In most places he seems to stand
but a medium chance, except in the crops
of a freedman nowand then who is “farm
ing to himself.” Cotton is dying some
tittle, but nothing very serious. The
hirmers are “choppiug out” now. The
htu system is somewhat prevalent here,
tut merely as an experiment. There are
some advocates for and some against, as
you will find the ease on almost any ques
tion which may arise. For my pait, I
prefer the old system cl bedding, though
some argue the economy of fertilizers;
(a by no means disreputr.bie consideration)
and the easier task of bringing out the
plants. There is very little wheat planted
in this immediate vicinity; what there is
looks very well indeed. The fruit crop
promises to be abundant. The freedmen
are working tolerably well, with the ex
ception of now and then a refractory char
acter or a professional loafer. There are
some hands from your tity, here in this
vicinity, who are very well satisfied and
doing good service. More anon
Yours, &c. Plowboy.
From the Columb us Sun.
Cotton Stalks for Taper.
Some days since we p; lblished a letter
from G. W. Clark, Esq., President of the
Chiekasabogue Paper Mill Company, upon
the advantages of the okra plant as a ma
terial in the manufacture of paper. Since
then we have seen samplos of paper made
from the plant, which giv ; promise of good
results in behalf of this enterprise. We
had previously seen samj les of paper made
from the common reed or cane, which
grows in such profusion it l some sections of
the South,'which were very strong, smooth
and harfSsome. Only a i lay or two since
were informed that a n> ill erected near
Wilmington, N. C , for the preparation of
cane for this purpose, had. been destroyed
by fire.
The eane, which is a fibrous plant of
great length and strength, made, as we
have said, afine specimei tof paper. An
old friend of war days, wb.o was interested
in the invention,informed me that the pro
cess of manufacture was comparatively
cheap. Bur there was this strong objection
to the cane. It only grows in certain local
ities, and is of limited sup ply. These ob
jections, it would seem, must seriously
militate against its general and continued
success. The okra plant is not liable to
any of these objections. J t will grow up
on any soil where the sun shines warmly
for some months, and can be raised with a
little care and labor. Yet it does require
land, cultivates and perso. tal attention, all
of which must enter into >;he cost of pro
duction, The great esseni ial in the manu
facture of paper is to find it chca-> material
—one always accessible and easily transport
ed. A friend droppiug into our office a
few days since suggested t hat perhaps our
cotton stalks would til! this bill in all its
requirements, and we hasten to make pub
lie the suggestion. The cotton plant is
■ very similar to that of the okra. It has a
very long and tough fibre, and except in
color would seem to be the equal of okra in
every respect. After the lint has been
gathered from it, it is the merest waste
stuff imaginable, being of no service what
ever to the farmer, but requiring consider
able labor to destroy it when preparing the
ground for another crop. It is wonderful
ly tough and durable, lying in the fields
during the entire IV inter without decay.
If these stalks could be made available as
a material for the manufacture of paper,
our manufacturers of the Bouth might gain
a monopoly of the business.
We throw out these suggestions in the
hope that Mr.' Clarke or some other enter
prising gentleman will give the cotton
stalk a fair test and report the result.
The Cotton Caterpillar.—The Char
es ton Courier says: The following communi
cation from Professor Holmes will be read
with interest by those who are interested
in the growth of the cotton crop. The
specimens alluded to can be seen at this
office :
As the cry of “caterpillar” has already
commenced almost before the cotton plant
is above ground, I beg to present to your
readers a simple description of this destruc
tive little animal, by which any person
may easily distinguish them from the
“grass-caterpillar” or army worm, which
seldom disturbs the cotton plant, but feeds
upon grass. The fly which lays the eggs
from which the cotton-caterpillar springs,
differs from all others, therefore a descrip
tion of this species will enable one easily
to recognize it._ Like all of the butterflies
or lepido|)teia,it has four wings, two above
and two below, the lower oues are th
smallest and are of a deeper or darker gra
color, the shape of the fly is almost a per
fect change. In the centre of the upper
wings there is a little black spot with a
white speck in the middle; the color ofthe
wing is a dark redish grey, aud the little
spot on i*.(which isgenerally triangular also)
is tinged with a delicate golden color, giv
ing the butterfly a brilliant appearance.
The caterpillar is of a mixed color, green
and black predominating, and greatly re
sembles the gras? worm or grass caterpillar,
but the form and color of its head will
readily distinguish it.
The head of the cotton caterpillar is of a
redish color, and has from nine to eleven
black spots dotted over it. On touching the
living animal it leaps away.
The grass caterpillar, on the contrary,
has a dark green head without spots upon
it, and when disturbed does not leap, but
throws hse/j into coil. Specimens of the
two species taken in 1852 and 1868, are
contained in phials herewith sent for exhi
bition.
Respecfully, your ob’t serv’t,
Francis S. Holmes.
Charleston, May 1 1th, 1869.
The Cotton Caterpillar In Florida.
Additional to the dispatch in relation to
the alleged appearance of the cotton cater
pillar iu East Florida, the Charleston
Courier publishes the following letter :
Ocala, Fla , May 4, 1869.
Messrs. Geo H. Ingraham & S.n, Charles
ton :
Gentlemen: We telegraphed you this
morning that we had just seen some
genuine, live caterpillars, and to hold our
cotton.
The worms we saw were from the field
of Mr. A. o****, ten miles West of this
place. Mr. C. is an old planter and a re
liable man, and he states that these were
the genuine caterpillar which has been
playing havoc with us for the past few
years. He says that they have already
begun their work on the young cotton, and
he can distinguish tiie stalks which have
them at some distance.
We are also in receipt of a note from one
Mr. S. A **** (who is to-day at his planta
tion), stating that the caterpillar have
made their appearance on his place. We
hear of others where they are just appear
ing. These are no bogus worms but the
genuine cotton worm, according to the
opinion of our oldest planters. N..w their
appearauce this early is unprecedented.
We thought them very early when they
appeared iu the latter part of June of la-t
year, and see what they did for us. Should
the woror become general, we cannot
reckon upon the consequences. Instead
of making half a crop, we will make none
at ail. We writ: this thinking you should
know the lac's, and you may rely u on
what wo say, for we have seen it with our
own eyes.
From the Planter <k Funner.
Distemper in Cattle— Preventative.
Messrs. Editors .-—Having seen it stated
the past year that the di-teoiner prevailed
amongst the cattle around Richmond, as
also in some other places, I feel disposed to
re-publish the substance of a communica
tion of mine in the Southern Planter for
1854, which, as a preventative, I have never
yet known to fail.
About the first week in May procure a
trough to coirespond in size with the num
ber of cattle; place it where they are
penned, and bore a hole through the bot
tom to let off the surplus water alter a
rain. Fill it nearly full of red clay, then
put on a liberal quantity of salt, and when
the cattle are penned at night, they will
invariably go to the trough and lick to their
satisfaction. The first rain that falls the
salt will saturate the clay, and the cattle
will saturate the whole of it. This remedy
must be continued until the first hard frost.
My father was the first that I know of
who adopted this treatment, he having
heard that cattle afflicted with distemper
had been known to resort to red clay aud
get well. He, I suppose, reooliecting that
nature often performed a cure beyond the
powers of art, salted his cattle some two
or ttfree times a week on a red galled spot,
and although his neighbors’ cattle were
dying rapidly around him, and that for
several years, yet he never had a solitary
ease amongst his stock. For some two or
three years he kept them in his enc!o-ur s,
but after this, in consequence of an imper
fect fence, his cattle would go on an adjoin
ing common, and roam with his neighbors’
distempered cattle from week to week, yet
they entirely escaped this infectious disease.
These facts speak for themselves, ana go
to prove that my lather’s remedy is a specif
ic to stay this fatal malady.
An uncle of mine told me years ago,that
the distemper being amongst hiscattie,one
of his milch cows wts taken with the dis
ease, went off. and when found, was in a
gufly eating red clay, and got well.
One of my sons at one time lost all his
cattle except a milch cow, and when taken
with the disease, she went off, was gone
several days, and when found was in a gul
ly eating red clay, and she got well.
Here we have the instincts of Dature
beautifully exemplified, and we may add
the dog, when sick, seeks relief from herbs!
and the guayakd, when bitten by a serpent,
finds an antidote in a certain plant.
In the Southern Planter fur '45, Mime
water is recommended as a sovereign cure
for distemper even in the last stages of this
disease, and by the ’way, this is said tb be
the best known remedy for distemper in
horses.
The late Dr. Wm. S. Morton, ip a com
munication to the Southern Planter in ’54,
on distemper in cattle, said: “1 strongly
suspect that what we call distemper, is the
moody Murrain of Scoria nu and other parts
o! Great Britain, and that it was tarried
aro ‘‘ n a by Scottish immigrants.”
4be above suggestion I have reason to
relieve is correct, as I once lived in North
Larolina, and from authentic information,
n ,..?,? rDC^l li4t , l be first case of distemper
whic'h'w 10 l fi a j St ? tc uear Fayetteville,
IW i SCttled biiucipallv by the Scotch,
uenco the new naine_“Carolina distem-
Va„ April,' mo**™ I™' 1 ™'
1 e ti[ 'the* 3 wat er' ear' 'then
qua r t° Uvioe “
sum”ent Three ° r ‘° Ur dOS63 arß generally
Georgia Items.
We learn froni the Herald that the cot
ton and corn in Greene county are looking
well, notwithstanding the late unfavorable
weather. The peach crop,:hough iujured
to some exteut, promises a lair yield.
Mr. J. F. Thornton, of Union Point has
been appointed Postmaster Greensboro.
Ihe young ladies of the G 'nsboro Fe
male College held u May Fes.ival 1-st
Saturday. There was a large number "in
CWieHerH' Mi ' SS Mollie Gary Miss
Larne Hendie represented the Queen and
riora.
1 hei steamship Gen. Barnes has made
the trip from New York to Savannah in
o 9 hours, i his, says the Advertiser, is
the quickest rime ever made between the
two porti, except the trip made by the
Knoxville before the war.
The Rome Courier states that the rains
have materially injured both the wheat
and cotton crops throughout that section.
Ihe lndicatuJns arc that there will not bo
over halt a crop of wheat. The cotton, to
a large extent, is utterly ruined and many
are it up and planting corn.
Col Edward Connor, au old citizen and
lawyer of fayette county, d ; ed at his resi
dence on the 10th inst.
The Athens Watchman states that Col.
E. M. Johnson, one ofthe Direct irs of the
Air-Line Railroad, addressed the citizus
of White county l ist week, and succeeded
iu securing additional subscriptions of
stock. The road will soon be under con
tractfrom Atlanta to Gainesvirie-a dis
tance of about sixty miles.
The prospect lor a fine wheat crop in
Northeast Georgia, if no disaster overtakes
it, says the Watchman of the ] 2tb, is very
promising.
Mining operations are not as general as
might be desired in the up country. There
are some companies, however, opera mg
on a large scale in Lumpkin, but we are
informed by the Watchman that the
most successful mining is now going on
in White county. Large nuggets of pure
gold arc frequently Grand an! the prospect
of future operations is e mudercd quite en
couragirg.
The Athens Watchman says : A negro
man by the name of Tims. Celt, living on
a rented plantation below Poullaiu’s
Factory, one day last week killed a negro
boy that he had employed, and then cut
him up in pork style ! The bedy tor rather
■ pieces of it) was found buried near by.
The murderer was suspected, and suffi
cient evidence was elicited to convict.
The p-ach crop in Northeastern Geor
gia has been pretty generally killed by the
late heavy frosts i Q that section.'
We learn from the Monroe Advertiser
that the crop prospects in Monroe were
never more promising. More corn has
been planted than was at first predicted,
and the stand is unusually good. The
plant is growing off rapidly, and, on an
average, is from six to eight inches high.
A good stand of cotton has been obtained,
and planters are "chopping it out.”
The Americas Courier hears complaints
from many farmers in Sumter county.
Some bave been compelled to plow up and
re plant more than half their cotton. The
weather has been unfavorable for a week
past, and the plant has an unhealthy ap
pearance in most 1 eahii s heard from.
Sale in Forsyth — Tne Advertiser says
last Tuesday beiug sale day, several valu
able pieces of property were disposed of
by the Sheriff. Ihe bouse and lot occu
pied by Mrs. Jordan, was sold to Mr. Thos.
E. Cha 11 bless, and brought $1,700. A lot
ot land containing about two hundred
acres—owned by D. F. Walker—was pur
chased by Geo. W. Adams for $025.
The British bark Quern of Scots, Cap
tain Lo'khnrt. was cleared at the Custom
House yesterday by Messrs. Wilder & Ful
larton for Greenock, Scotland, with a cargo
consisting of 437,996 feet of timber, 18,783
feet beam (tilings and 12,742 feet, planks,
valued at $7,075 —Sav. Advertiser.
The State Ro ad' —Colonel Hulbert is
reporting tw uty-jive thousand dollars a
month, paid into the State Treasuty from
the earnings of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad. Why don’t he report forty
thousand? The road is doing a larger
business than it ever did before. There
may be a screw loose somewhere of which
the Colonel has no knowledge. As his
friend, we would advise him to see to it,
as backward working screws are dangerous.
Atlanta Era .
From the Athens Banner we learn that
Col William Carr, of Athens, has sub
scribed 15.000 acres of land to the stock of
the Blue Ridge Railroad.
Another Mail Robber Caged.—Wo
learn from the Rome Courier that Charles
Mills, Route Mail Agent on the Selma,
Rome and Dalton Railroad, was arrested a
few days ago, charged with robbing the
mail in his care. It appears that the
Postmaster at Selma, a short lime ago,
gave Mills a registered left'rand took his
receipt for it. The letter having failed to
reach its destination, he called on Mills for
his receipt, showing that ir had properly
passed out of his hands. Mill ) could not
make the proper showing and hence bis
arrest. Binoche was cat rid to Atlanta,
where he is still in curt dy. Mr. Ray,
Brakesman on the sum > u in. lias been
arrested and carried ti ere, probably at the
instance of Mills. Columbus Sun, 11 th.
A fire broke out in the Eagle and
Phoenix ickery, Columbus, Wednesday,
but the fire was speedily extinguished
with but trifling damage. The water ar
rangements are so perfect in and around
the mills, that fire can make but little
progress.
We learn from the North Georgia (Dal
ton) Citizen of the fifth inst., that the
prospect of an abundant wheat harv st in
all that section was never more promising at
this season of the year. The number of
acres sown is greater than lor years past.
The rust is reported in some few fields, but
to no great extent.
Every honest man in the State favors
the impeachment and kicking out of booby
Bullock.
The Atlanta Constitution says that not
withstanding Foy, the suicide and wjnld
be homicide, was a bright and shining
light of the Radical party, ye‘, when he
was buried on Sunday •.veiling, not a soul
of them attended his r mains to the grave !
Not a single person fi 1 owed the hearse.
What heartless wretches, to de-i-rt a com
panion when ho has reaped the inevitable
sequence of association with tl ’em.
The Macon Telegraph announces the
death of Elder Washingt >u (J ill aveland,
who died in Crawford county last week.
Wheat, rye and i ars lock finely in
Mitchell county. Corn has Leu planted
a second tim i, from knee to waist high.
Cotton has o .en woitud firtt time and
so i e second tim , and .<••.( :■ v. .1 for this
season, so says a ceir •< ucut of the
Telegraph.
The Columbus Enquirer «*; Planters
report dead and rusty < non. Corn is
said to J>e doing well, and wheat and oats
also.
The Rome Commercial says that there
was a s iglit fail of hail in (hat vicinity on
Wednesday, but notin sufficient quanti
ties to injure vegetation.
The Bullock who signs himself Govern t of
Georgia, has at last turned up at the Rail
road Convention in Cincinnati. We hope
tha' he may never turn up again in Geor
gia.
The Fetleral Union suggests the erection
of a monument in Milledgeville to the
memory of General George Doles.
The Marietta Journal says wheat con
tinues Xo tl mridi with no threat of disas
ter, promising an unusual yield Fields of
wheat on some of the poorest ridge lands
will compare favorably with the lands of
other sections.
The Rome Courier contains the conclu
sion of Dr. S. A Hamilton’s letter from
Texas. He says Texas must be made
either an agricultural or grazing country;
that sickness prevails there much; that he
don’t advise people to go there; that if
they will go, 11 go : i e immunities, and by
private eonvcv> i", n- dtW politics is
dark there. Hu says they have so many
North Georgians it is called G ;orgia often.
He mentions W. A. Mercer, S. C. Dyer,
W. N. Johnson, B. Sledge, Barringer,
Drake Hill. Daniel and Col. Barrett,
brothers of Jos. Barrett, of Calhoun, Ga.
The Columbus Enquirer states that a
man whs ou the street yesterday, offering
buffaloes for sale. He stated that he had
caught eight hundred and forty at two
hauls, just at the mouth of the ereek that
runs through Girard. They were not very
large, but would average (he said) 14
pounds each—making 1,230 pounds offish
at two hauls. Fishers aud hunters never
exaggerate; so we must know that the
above statement is true.
Confederate Cemetery.— We daily
observe, in passing, the improvements
taking place under the judicious manage
ment ot Mr. W. IT Tucker. Tiie grounds
are divided into sections alior.tod to the
several States, whose dead now repose
here, with an additional section to the
large Dumber of “unknown dead. The
walks and sections are being tastefully
worked aud bordered, aud we trust that
the funds will continue ample, not only to
complete the work but to remove to the
Cemo'ery from the surrounding country,
the many Confederates buried where they
fell. — Marietta Journul.