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BDA I MORNING, JVHI ».
Cotton.
s in cotton (sayß the Mem
_ mi) are already busy predicting
- extent of the next crop, and, like all
of their kindred, are “going it blind’ ’ with
a perfect looseness. In the face of facts
that arc every day coming to light, prov
ing that there is not so great a breadth of !
land under cultivation this as last year, and ,
that not more than one-foarth the number j
of.hands employed in 1868 are now engaged
in agricultural labor of any kind, these
fellows continue to write foolish and ridicu
lous letters about a 3,000,000 bale crop,
some more of this unreliable carrying their
figures as high as 3,500,000. It is nothing
to these wiseacres that the bottom lands
have been inundated and the hill sides
been washed by heavy rains, compelling,
in most instances, replowing and re
planting. If the ground is not ready and
fertile, their imaginations are, and to
prove it, they make figures to order and
beyond the hopes, anticipations, or con
ceptions of the poor planters who
have digged and delved at cotton plant
ing all their lives. These persons are
also oblivious to the existence of press and
telegraph, fney anticipate the one, and
possess more information than the other.
In a word, they arc equal to any emergency
of the season or their calling, and will
manufacture a crop as readily as their
compeers of the gold board would a bogus
dispatch to sustain a combination against
“government” or gold. But we can as
sure them their efforts will prove abortive.
The multiplicity of agricultural publica
tions at the South, and the means adopted
by the daily press of these States, to keep
the world posted as to the cotton prospects,
supersedes the necessity or tne oia-rasnion
ed circular which it has long since been
found was too often the media of erroneous
views and ignorant speculations, such as
are now gaining currency in regard to the
crop of’ this year. The planter and the
merchant arc thoroughly posted, and will
continue to depend upon the only reliable
avenues of public intelligence for inform
ation as to the future of cotton, which,
from all quarters, we learn is anything but
as promising as at this time last year.
Arlington Outrage.
The telegraph has informed our readers
of' the infamous conduct of the guard
placed over that part of the National
Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, where
the remains of some of our soldiers were
Imricd. The New York Herald corre
spondent says :
The action of a lieutenant and a small
guard of marines at Arlington on Saturday
in preventing people from throwing flow
ers over the graves of the Confederate
dead, is the subject of much talk here to
day, and the general sentiment is condem
natory. It turns out that the officers of
the Grand Army of the Republic were not
altogether responsible for what occurred.
They merely arranged to have the marines
there so as to prevent people from making
mistakes, but mistakes were made on the
wrong side. The marines misunderstood
what they were placed there for, and
thought it was part of thoir duty to insult
people who happened to throw flowers on
the graves of the Confederate doad. The
lieutenant in command whose name is
given as Shirley, but of which I am not
certain, was particularly offensive in his
manner. Seeing a lady throw a small
bouquet on one of these graves, this lieu
tenant rushed to the spot, picked up the
flowers, and throwing them on the ground
at his feet, commenced stamping on them
in such a manner as to attraot about him
a crowd of wondering spectators in a very
few minutes. Some of the lookers-on,
learning the cause of the lieutenant’s rage,
commenced to murmur disapprobation,
when the lieutenant shouted out, “D—n
you, cot away from here, every one of you
or I'll make you. Guards, oome up here
and disperso the crowd.” The lieutenant
accompanied these words with angry
gestures, and swinging his arms about
as if he intended to pitch generally into
the crowd. His guards answered his call,
but the crowd dispersed without waiting
to ho bayoneted.
The Times correspondent says :
The only events of any importance which
occurred here to-day (Sunday) were tho
decoration ceremonies of tho Boldiers’
graves at three or four of tho smaller Na
tional cemeteries, and the religious observ
ances in most of the churches. The ser
mons had more or less reference to the
same subject. Considerable bitter feeling
and animosity appears to have been arous
ed by the distinction made between the
Union and the rebel dead in the solemni
ties of yesterday and to-day. The unkind
ness, to give it a gentle term, finds vent in
newspaper communications, churches, ser
mons and general conversation. The mem
bers of tho Grand Army of the Republic,
in maintaining their side of the case, and
one or two of tho city clergymen have ex
pressed themselves in strong terms in
reference to it. Rev. Mr. Newman, Chap
lain of the Senate, in his oration yesterday,
held that tho representatives of this nation
could never sanction the decoration of the
Confederate soldiers’ graves until it had
been first decided by the Christian Church
to pay houors to Judas Iscariot, and until
wo had ourselves agreed to oommemoratc
Benedict Arnold. In Alexandria no dis
tinction was made in the matters of decora
tion ; flowers were strewn on Union and
Confederate alike; and at Arlington yester
day a few flowers wero thrown on rebel
graves. In more than ono instance the
military interfered and ordered them to
be removed. The Grand Army of the
Republic intend to issue an order on the
subject in a day or two, defending their
action and replying tojthe criticisms which
have been made thereon.
And all this committed in sight of the
dome of the Capitol of the United States.
A little flower —a tribute of affeotion from
the hand of some sympathizing friend,
perhaps a sister or perchance a mother—
snatched from the grave of a poor Confed
erate soldier, and trampled in the dust by
an officer of the United Statos army! And
yet wo are eallod upon to forget the war,
to bridge over the past, and love the Gov
ernment which permits a crime against the
laws of God and humanity !
The honorable and brave men in the ar
my—the men who met our soldiers face to
face on the battle-field would never be
guilty of such an infamous act; nor do we
believe that the people of the North sanc
tion it; but then it is idle to talk of frater
nal union, and lasting peace, and love, as
long as such outrages are committed upon
our dead.
Mar With England.
A ■war with England in the present con
dition of this country, would prove disas
trous not only to the North but especially
to the agricultural interests of the South.
Butler the Beast, it appears, is in favor of
a war. He wants to steal the spoons and
jewelry of the Canadians, having disposed
of all the valuables which he robbed from
the people of the South. We cannot im
agine any other object he could have in
view in advocating a war with England.
He is a notorious knave and thief, as the
people of New Orleans know to their cost,
and perhaps he is merely cloaking his
spoon robbing enterprise under the Ala
batna claims. Be that as it may, how
ever, Butler lavors war with John Bull
The New York Times discourses on this
subject as follows:
General Butler, though no fool himself,
evidently thinks the bulk of his country
men to be such; and this would be a very
moderate and charitable judgment on his
port, did they for a moment listen to his
now Alabama claims policy. ‘‘The United
States,” he is inclined to think, ‘ would
have more to gain than to lose by a war
with England.'' We cannot say what and
how much they would lose, but we can
easily sec what they would gain —namely,
financial ruin. Bnt perhaps Gen. Butler,
being a teacher of "repudiation,” would
reckon any sort ot repudiation of Govern
mental money obligations to be a "gain.”
"Dissatisfaction and dissension,” thinks
the General, “exist in every part of the
British dominions, which need only a little
fanning to make a devouring flame.” But
have tee no ' ‘dissatisfaction and dissension’ ’
in our dominions, no smothered embers
which adroit fanning may cause to burst
into flame ? Gen Butler’s opinions re
garding the present condition of the South,
as one requiring the interposition of "mar
tial law”—a policy he is said to be at this
moment urging on the President—would
seem to show that our people are not so
harmonious as they might be. We shall
be answered that “foreign war would unite
us again.” Why, then, should not a for
eign war unite England also, and stop her
complaints? What is there in this sover
eign panacea of war that we alone can get
halm from it for national wounds? The
truth is, that all this kind of reasoning is
ot the sort which North and South used
in 1801, when each was going to give all
tba bruises and get all the profits of war
It is in this spirit, also, that, while Mr.
Chandler tells us "the Michigan veterans
alone oould take Canada, Gen. Butler
boasts that ‘ the Irish of New England I
alouc" B u.d perform the same operation j
just as we were told in 1861 that the “fire
men of New York” would “put out the
rebellion,” not even consenting to let their
Drethre • of Philadelphia or Chicago help
them. Is it possible that, after so recent
and bitter an experience of what bragging
comes to, we shall now begin it all over
again? . !
But the most astounding argument in
favor of war, attributed to General Butler, i
; is thai it will “stop importations, and do ;
more for the encouragement of our home
| manufactures than all the legislation that j
! could be framed iu a quartcrof a century.”
j This is truiy a persuasive argument, and j
j must make the “free trade” part of Ameri
!ca enthusiastic for war. Such an argu
j rnent may give fresh vigor to the Tribune 1
! in supporting its proposition to “take
Canada in payment;” but “protection”
would be considered a pretty costly luxury,
we fancy, should it also mean military
protection by monitors and a million men.
“I,” says Geoeral Butler, in coming
out with hi* plan—for the General is noth
ing if not tactical —“I would make them
1 settle this question in a short time.” And
how ? “In six months orso” he woul 1, in
default of settlement, “issue a proclamation
' of non-intercourse.” What would follow?
“Then, deprived of a market for her
manufactures, her artisans and shopkeep
j ers, thrown out of employment and out of
j business, would institute bread riots, and
; rise in insurrection all over the Kingdom.
I Thai would soon settle the Alabama diffi
j culty.”
i Such is said by our Washington cirre
; spondcnttobeGen. Butler’s plan. The war
I is “not to cost much”—the chief weapon
being “bread riots.” And what propor
tion would “bread riots” bear to the rest
of an international war b tween England
and the United States ? Abont as much
j as did the “slave insurrections,” on which
we used to figure in 1861, to the whole
milita r y power called out to maintain or
suppress the rebellion.
The C ottons of the World—Their C har
acteristics and Classification as com,-
pared with our ow n Product and the
l current relative supply.
< i.- williom
F. Herring, Esq., of the established house
of Clegliorn, Herring & Cos., have obtained
from Liverpool, the great centre of the
cotton trade, a collection of cotton samples
of tho cotton producing area of the world,
tributary to European wants, arranged
and classified according to Liverpool
standards by Liverpool exports. This
collection the owner designs to present to
the Board of Trade of Augusta to be held
as the standard for reference in the adjust
ment of classifications in the Augusta
market. It has been acquired through
the well-known Liverpool house of
Messrs. Robert Lockhart, Dempster & Cos.
Neither pains nor expense has been with
held to make the collection accurate
in classification, and to re present
faithfully Liverpool values. Several
mouths of time has been taken to make the
collection, and six of the leading Liver
pool cotton brokers have each severally
furnished the sample’s, determining each
.upon his own judgment the respective
classifications.
This collection comprises specimens of
cotton grown in the United States, South
Atm tici, Africa (or Algeria), Egypt, Asia
Minor, (Turkey Smryna, &c.), the West
Indies; from the val eys of the Mississippi,
the Nile and the Ganges; all parts of the
world furnishing cotton as a surplus for
export. Accompanying the collection is a
tabulated statement made by Messrs.
Robert Lockhart, Dempster & Cos., from
which we collate some items of general in
terest. Cotton grown in the South is de
nominated American cottons, and de
scribed in the Liverpool market as Sea
Island, Uplands, and New Orleans, and
the standard grade which regulates their
relative values, above and below it, in
market is Good Middling for Uplands and
New Orleans. Cotton grown in South
America receive the denomination of
Brazils.
These cottons comprise Pernams (or cot
ton from Pernambuco) Maranham and
Macao*; and tho tandard grade is Good
Fair.
Cotton grown in Egypt is described and
denominated Egyptian; the standard
grade for which is Good Fair.
Cotton grown in Asia Minor is denomi
nated as Smyrna, (Turkey Cottons, etc. —)
and is described as Smyrna Cotton—the
standard grade for which is Fair.
Cotton grown on the West India Islands
is denominated and described as “West
Indias,” and tho standard grade is Fair;
also Tahiti, ranking with our Sea Islands.
Cotton grown in British India is denom
inated Surat, and described as Dhollerab,
saw-ginned Dhawar and Broach; also,
West Madras and Bengal, known and de
scribed by these respective names. The
standard grade for India Cottons is Fair.
IMPORTS OF 1868.
Denomination- Hales. Averago
woiglit
of bales.
American 1,207,060 443
Brazil 036,897 155
Egyptian 188,689 000
Smyrna 12.758 380
West India 100,651 180
Surats 1,038,925 380
Madras 243,949 800
Bangui 169,198 .100
Total 3,660,127 354
Os Brazilian cottons, Pernams and Ma
ranhams are noted in the Liverpool mar
ket for good color and staple, but is a
coarser cotton than Egyptian. The staple
of Maccios is generally good, but the cot
ton is seedy and color dull; the supply of
this cotton is increasing. Smyrna cottons
are of fair color, and staple “pretty strong
but short.”
Os the various descriptions of East In
dian and Surat cottons, Dhollerah is gen
erally received as the groat standard in
the Liverpool market; but the Saw-ginned
Dhawar, grown from American seed , is
fair in oolor and staple, and the better
grades come into competition with Ameri
can cottons “andare much liked; "while
the“McArthur-ginned Broach” is put down
as giving less waste in manufacture than
any other East India cotton ; and Bengal
i is the “poorest cotton on the Liverpool
| market, a good deal of which is exported
j to the continent of Europe.”
j Our readers will not fail to observe that
while the average weight per bale of
American cotton is 143 pounds, Surat*
' average 3SO pounds ; the average weight
of all bales received at Liverpool in ISOS
being 354 pounds.
Our fleotton merchants are examining
this collection of samples with great in
terest- It would be of advantage if our
farmers should examine them also, Dot,
perhaps, with the same view as that which
tfovorao tl»o
rect idea of the kinds of cottons whieh is to
compete with their labors. Wc submit a re.
sunie of the opinions expressed by some of
our experts in the cotton line at such an
examination made yesterday.
AMERICAN COTTONS.
The samples, six each of grade, of
American cottons comprise, Orleans and
Texas and L plands, valued and classed on
the 24th of April, 1569, tc-wii:
Orleans—Good Middling 12}
Middling joj
Low Middling uj
Georgia—Uplands-Good Middling 12J
Middlings jo
Low Middling i]j
It was agreed that the classification of
l ,• lands was not fatly up to the standard
of the Augusta market. The sample of Or
leans Good Middling exhibited a finer staple
but no stronger fibre, and was not supe
rior to Augusta classification of the same
grade ot l plands in color and cleanliness.
The same judgment was pronounced on
the sample of Middlings while general con
currence made the Low Middling of the
Uplands superior to the same grade of
Orleans.
SOUTH AMERICAN COTTONS.
The samples of these cottons comprised:
Pernams—Good Fair ]2|
Fair joj
Maocio—Good Fair i2f
Fair.....
valuations as with the American cottons
being made on the 24th of April, and this
holds true of the valuations of all the sam
ples. The Pernams posses; a longer staple
than either Orleans or Texas cotton, bnt is
similar in other qualities. The appearance
of Good Fair Pernams is similar to Augus
ta Good Middlings ; in cleanliness, gin
ning, etc., no better than Georgia Uplands
of the grade indicated above, color hardly
so bright; would be classed here Middling
Orleans. The grade Fair is similar in ap- ]
pearance to Georgia Low Middlings, but
the staple is better. The other samples o ‘
South’American cottons are Maranbams. I
Grade-Fair; value 12L These cottons
assimilate to Georgia Middlings in ginning,
color, etc., with no perceptible difference,
except as to staple, which is net so good.
WEST INDIA COTTONS.
West India Grade, Good fair value 12j.
This cotton h%s a superior staple. Color
is not good, having a yellowish tinge ;
looks very rnucu 1 ke our commonest Sea
Island. The staple na= a fin" silky feeling,
and the samples were deemeu equal, bat
not superior, to Georgia Zipporah.
'1 he Tahiti, the samples of which were
i classed as fair and valued at 30c, ranks with
our best Sea Islands.
ASIA MINOR COTTONS.
The standard grade of these cottons is
fair, and they are denominated Smyrnas.
1 The sample of this collection is classed and
j vilued at 10|. The staple is short and
1 brittle, and such cotton would be classed
. as t) appearance in the Augusta market as
Ordinary, but as having an inferior staple
and body. Good Fair of this cotton valued
in Liverpool at 1011 per pound, was
classed as to appearance witlg Low Mid
dling Georgia Uplands of Inferior staple
and body.
EGYPTIAN COTTON.
The samples of these were :
Good Fair, valued at 13§d.
Fair, “ “ 13d.
GoodMiddiing “ “ 12d.
The sample of Good Fair is not so band
j some in appearance, but equal in staple to
our Moina and Zipporah, and is deficient
in color, cleanliness and ginning. The
Good Middling has the appearance of our
Low Ordinary, but possesses a better sta
ple.
AFRICAN COTTON.
This Cotton is from Algeria—sample
classed as Fair, and valued at 10Id. This
cotton is coarse in staple and brown in
color, having somewhat the appearance of
Augusta Low Middling, but is shorter than
this grade of Uplands in staple.
INDIA COTTONS.
The highest priced sample of the India
Cotton is Broach, whieh is grown from
American seed. The sample of this collec
tion is classed “ Good to Fine,"
and valued at 112d. This cotton
would be classed in this market Ordinary
uplands, which it resembles very much in
appearance. But the standard cotton of
India is Dhollerah. The samples of this
collection is as follows :
Good Fair —valued at 10Jd.
Fair “ 10id.
Middling Fair “ 9Jd.
The samples of Good Fair Dhollerah’s
are shoit and brittle in staple, full of trash,
deficient in color and badly ginned. It
has the appe. auee of some of our damaged
repacked cottons and might be classed Low
Ordinary Upland.
The “Fair,” alter the foregoing de
scription, could only bo classed as Very
Low Ordinary. While tho “Middling
Fair is “lumpy, stringy and trashy, look
ing more like inferior warehouse sweep
ings than anything else that can be found
in the United States.
The samples of Fair Madras, valued at
9a and per pound, are not so good as those of
Middling Fair Dhollerah’s, looking like
very badly damaged cotton of the most in
ferior grade repacked. The staple is weak
and brittle. The waste from this
cotton must he enormous. Fair
Bengal is represented as the poorest cotton
shipped to the port of Liverpool. After
what we have said of some preceding
samples, we can find no language to indi
cate how so poor an article is received and
classed and said in the market of Liver
pool. We can conceive of no profitable
use it can b; put to by the Liverpool trade,
except in these days of cotton scarcity,
to be held as bales in the account
of stock, to swell the aggregate for the
benefit of purchasers and speculations
abroad.
This collection will be especially inter
esting to our cotton growers and farmers-
It is well worthy of their examination, and
as’the Richmond County Agricultural Club
is abont to hold its monthly meeting, we
suggest to the Executive Committee to
secure it for exhibition, and thereby afford
our planting friends the opportunity of
seeing the results of more than a decade of
strenuous efforts of competitors, fostered
by high prices and the aid of powerful
governments.
Official Proceedings of tlic Macon A
Augusta Railroad.
Augusta, June 4th, 1869.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Macon & Augusta Railroad Com
pany, held at their office this day, the fol
lowing report of the Executive Committee
was presented, read and adopted :
To the Beard of Directors of the Macon &
Augusta Railroad Company:
Gentlemen : We, the Committee to
whom was assigned by your Board the
duty of devising some plan and of carrying
out any measures which might complete
tho Road to Macon, would most respect
fully report:
An examination into the pecuniary af
fairs of tho Company developed difficulties
in tbe way whieh had to be overcome ere
auy successful negotiation could be opened
for the extension of tho Road.
There was found a floating debt of over
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, a
bonded debt of four hundred thousand dol
lars and a private stock list almost unre
liable. In addition the section of Road in
operation between Camak aud Milledge
viile, though managed economically by the
Georgia Railroad, was shown not to be
meeting expenses.
Under these discouragements an ap
peal was first made to the Legislature of
| the istate of Georgia, which authorized an
endorsement of our bonds to tbe extent of
I ten thousand dollars per mile, but exact
! ing a first lien on the entire Road. This
was impracticable by reason of the first
mortgage of $400,000 already on the Road.
We then made an application to the Geor
gia Railroad fov a like endorsement often
thousand dollars per mile. Under au
thority granted by the Legislature this
proposition was generously granted by its
Board of Directors, contingent, however,
on a ratification by their stockholders at
the annual meeting in May.
It affords us great pleasure to state that
this was unanimously granted by the Con
vention, and there exists no longer any
difficulty iu raising money, by means of
this endorsement, and of putting the road
j immediately under contract. Propositions
have already been made by most responsi
; ble parties to complete the entire fine,
| furnishing the iron, chairs and spikes,
finishing the masonary, bridging, grading.
I Ac., making the road first-class in all
respects —paying, moreover, all the out
standing deb»s of the Company, receiving,
as full payment therefor, these Georgia
i naiiroau enUurseU buuila wtiu lire oilier i
assets of the Company.
This arrangement, by which the Com
pany can be relieved from all further lia
bility, by which it cm secure the building
of the road beyond doubt, and place its
securities at the highest market prices,
seemed so favorable that your Committee
had fully intended to consummate the con- ;
tract, but learning that some disaffection
existed amongst some of the stockholders,
we have considered it but proper not to
incur the responsibility of acting before
referring the matter to your consideration.
Your Committee would respeotfully state
that we have endeavored to fulfill the du
ties assumed by us. We have not been
idle, but have been met by the difficulties
shown, which required time to consum
mate. The recent act by the Stockholders
of the Georgia Railroad in endorsement of
the bonds wiil enable us, as before remark
ed, to put the entire line under contract.
Our action in advance of their ratification
would have been futile—this being now
obtained we see nofurther diffieulu-s in the
way.
Respectfully submitted,
{Signed] Jno. P. King,
W. J. Magrath,
Geo. H. Hazlshurst,
Benj. Conley, President.
Mr. Obear offered the following resolu
tion. which, haying been seconded by Mr.
DeGraffenreid, was adopted:
Resolved, That this Board, ap
proving the action of the Executive Com
mittee, appointed to arrange for complet
ing the Road to Macon, and believing the
contract proposed is one very favorable to
the interests of the Road, yet learning that
a convention of stockholders has been call
ed for the purpose of examining into the
affairs of the Company, and with the earn- ;
est desire to preserve the utmost harmony
in the counsels of the Road, as well as in
deference to that body, we recommend an
adjournment of this Board to a time sub
sequent to the meeting of the Convention.
* * * * *
The above is a true extract from the
meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Macon & Augusta Railroad Company held,
this day. J. A. S. Milligan,
Secretary.
David S. Jackson, son of James S.
Jackson, who was killed at Perryville, has
been appointed Deputy United States
Marshal at Louisville.
101. Lfster’s Address to tho People of
Georgia.
Want of space prevented us from com
menting upon Col. Lester’s address to the
people of Georgia, which appeared in our
yesterday’s paper. We are not willing that
that address and accompanying endorse
ment shall go to the people without our
protest against the implied admission
which it contains, that lawlessness and
crime exist to an alarming extent in this
State.
It is quite true that Col. Lestersays that
“there is no just cause'whatever for the im
pression upon the Northern mind” “that a
general spirit of lawlessness and mobocracy
prevails” here, yet by the very fact of his
preparing and publishing an address to
the people, in which he urges Coun f y
meetings to be held for the purpose of
declaring that these things do not exist,
will be seized upon as proof of the exist
ence amongEt us of a state of feeling and of
action confirmatory of the charges which
] are daily made through the columns of the
1 Press and of the Tribune.
The indorsement of the ineendiary Bul
lock, which Col. Letter attaches to his ad
dress, conveys an unmistakable charge that
the peopleof the State are not secure in their
persons, their property or their civil and
political rights. Bullock says that“itisinthe
power of the good people of the State to
take such steps as will make every citizen,
be ho rich or poor, black or white, secure
in his person, his property, and in the en
joyment of his evil and political rights.”
We say, and Col. Lester and li. B.
Bullock knows it to be true, that “life,
property, and civil and political rights”
are as secure here for all people as in any
portion of the Federal Government. It is
known to all men, who are not either
hopelessly ignorant or willfully blind, that
there is less of crime,of disorder,of lawless
i ness and of mobocracy iu the State to-day,
! than in either of the himto4 P nr;tan States
I kiv .-i,tin the comparison with
the Western States places us immeasura
bly in advance of them iu all the elements
of a peaceful, quiet, order loving aud law
obeying community.
The population of this State is a little
greater than that of the city of New York,
and yet we venture to asssert, that the
acts of violence, and bloodshed, and crime,
committed in that city weekly, are greater
i in number and more heinous in thoir char
acter than are committed in the entire
State of Georgia I'or a period embracing
the whole year.
Do these daily and hourly occurrences of
crime in New York tend to drive emigra
tion from that State ? Have the Com
missioners of emigration there fel f it ne
cessary to warn the people that the daily
reports of crime committed there were
driving back the great tide from emigration
to that city ? Have the Press referred to
it as a serious cause of alarm for the future
growth of the city ?
Suppose we take a glance further West
—the Eldorado of the German emigrant—
and what is the condition of affairs there.
In Indiana, a Radical ridden State, having
a population little, if any, greater than our
own, the proportion of crime and lawless
ness is more than ten-fold what it is here,
aud yet we hear of no warnings from their
commissioners of emigration that the al
leged condition of society there is having
a bad effect upon immigration. On the
other hand, a constant stream of emigrants
is pouring daily and weekly into their
borders.
Even admitting all the aceounts of crime
and violence sent to the North by Bullock
and his friends, from this State, to be
true —and not one in twenty has even the
semblance of truth—crime is less frequent
here than in any of the Northern States.
But when the facts are made known it is
shown that in nearly every instance of re
j ported crime, the case has been made up
of whole-cloth by Bullock’s sedition agency
in Atlanta.
Ammg the latest of these outrages and
bloody murders, were tbe rep orted killing of
the scalawag Radford Rhodes iu Warren
county, tho assassination of Alexander
Stone, negro, rx member ot tbe Legisla
ture from Jefferson county; the murder of
the carriage driver of Adkins in Columbia
county, and the mobbing of Parson Spil
man in Burke. Hero are four distinct
and particular cases of outrage, sent by
Bullock’s agency to the North,iD not onejof
which was there the least particle of truth.
How can county meetings denounce such
acts as those? The acts were never com
mitted. Would Colonel Lester have us
denounce deeds which have never been
committed? Would he have the good
people of Jefferson solemnly assemble in
county meeti g and denounce the brutal
assassiuation of Alexander Stone by un
known and lawless Ku-klux, when they
know that Alec is at home on his old mis
tresses’ plantation behaving himself like a
good and faithful servant?
Should there be an immense gathering
of the people of old Warren to publish their
indignant protest and unmeasured con
demnation of the brutal taking off of good
Radford Rhodes when they all know that
Radical Radford it in the peaceful enjoy
ment, in this laud of Radical rule, of all
the rights of person and property and of
civil and political rights?
We regret that Colonel Lester should
have thought it necessary for him to issue
this card. We cheerfully accord to him
the purest and most patriotic motives, y<n
we humbly dissent from the view that
such a card was either expedient or ne
cessary.
We believe that it will be used to our
disadvantage. That it will be seized upon
at the North as an evidence oi the truth of
Forney’s and Greeley’s lying reports.
It n utters not that Colonel L. states ex
plicitly that these reports are, for the most
part, false. This disclaimer will go for
no hing, while the fact that he felt it ne
cessary to prepare and publish such a
paper will be accepted as an evidence that
lawlessnes, to a tearful extent, does exist
within our borders.
Diabolical.
! The Tribune gives the following a lvice
jto its Radical friends in this State. If
! they attempt to carry it out, a condition
of things will be inaugurated here compar
ed to which the condition of Arkansas un
der Clayton's negro militia rule would be
clysium.
Does the Tribune not know that those
who it persists in calling rebels, held in
ckook fKo vast armios of tho Federal Gov
ernment for more than four years, and
proved to the world that at the game of
“shooting” they were equal, if not supe
rior, to any troops the world ever saw ?
Does the Saintly Horace pretend to be
lieve that these same rebels can be indis
criminately shot down in cold blood by a
few cowardly white miscreant s, backed by
a horde of semi-barbarous negroes, with
out bringing on.a collision in which its
friends will speedily go to the wall ? Is
not this advice given with the view to bring
about the speedy and certain destruction
of the negro race, whose peculiar friend he
proposes to be ?
We tell the Tribune that when it begins
“to shoot down every rebel who opposes
its party,” that it will have begun a work
which will make all the devils in Panae
monia rejoice as they have not rejoiced
since the days of Murat and Rob-spierre.
See what the Tribune teaches :
"Let the whole State organize into socie
ties —secret societies ; and when rebels
commit their diabolical horrors upon them
because of their opinions, retaliate at a
tenfold ratio. For every life that is taken
lay every house in ashes within five miles
ot the spot where such blood is spilled;
shoot down every rebel who opposes yon,
and turn the horrors back upon thote who
a * e - r^ ea *' them upon loyal peo
ple. Do it ! and God will be your shield!”
We say do it, and a just God will inter
pose a shield and buckler for the deeply
wronged white men of the South, and un
der His good Providence we have no fear
for the result.
Tennessee Wheat.—The Nashville
Union of the 3d inst. says: “Tsto crops
of wheat, containing about one thousand
four hundred bushels, for early delivery,
were sold at one dollar per bushel. This is
regarded as cheap, and new flour will open
at low figures.”
General Reynolds has directed that one
hundred and fifty dollars be expended in
repairing the Alamo monument, where
Crockett was slain.
The Supreme Court
We received a letter last night from the
Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court, in
which he says:
“Since the publi ration of the Supreme
Court Docket, several letters have been
received from the Lawyers if the South
western and the Pataula Circuits, object
ing to the transfer of their Circuits to the
heel of the Docket.
“It now appears that only the Lawyers
of Albany desire such a transler, and
hence it is not now so probable that it will
be made.”
We print these extracts that our legal
friends who have business in the Court
may be able to make their arrangements
to meet the probable change iu prder of
the Docket.
Chinese Immigration.
The tide of Chinese emmigration which
we may rightfully expect so soon as the
lines of communication have been opened
and established, appears to have already
set toward the Great Republic. A corre
spondent of tbe New York Journal of
Commerce thus indicates the present
volume deriving his data from San Fran
cisco papers :
“The immigration from China to Cali
fornia during the next few months promises
to be large. Yesterday’s steamer brought
over thirteen hundred passengers, of
which twelve hundred and fifty were
Chinese. The ship Shirley arrived from
Hong Kong yesterday with three hundred
and fifty-three Chinese. The Windward
and F. A. Palmer, now on their way here,
have, together, eight hundred and fifty
passengers. The National Eagle, which
sailed from Hong Kong for San Francisco
the day bofore the steamer left, is 3up os
ed to have all she coul 1 accommodate. It
is also understood that the three sail ves
sels loading for this port upon the depart
ure of the steamer ware likely to have all
they could carry. During the year 1808
Untna ana Japan sent us over ton thou
sand people, against three thousand three
hundred in 1867, and two thousand three
hundred in 1860. During the first four
months of the current year we received
from that country two thousand eight
hundred peoole. The arrivals this year
from Asia will probably exceed those of
any previous year.
We have heard that a house iu Chicago
has sent out an agent to China to contract
for fifty thousand Chinese, to be sent East
by the railroad. They are needed to work
the Southern plantations. It is quite
probable that, for the next three years,
the increase of Chinese population will be
limited only by the means of transporta
tion. The Lower California Company, of
which we have heretofore made mention,
the agent of which in China is A. D. Pos
ton, is simply an association of leading
politicians in the East—such as Bntlerand
Logan— to encourage Chinese emigration
to the United States.”
This Chinese immigration covers the great
problem of tho future of the American
republic, involving oar political, religious
and social destiny. We are to have a
new race of people introduced into our
midst, ( —) a people with entirely different
manners, customs and habits, imbued with
different political principles, and profess
ing a religion whieh claims to be as moral
as Christianity in its influences, and of
greater antiquity. These peop’e will
come among us as our political equals, and
give direction to the policy of government
in proportion to their number, which will
not be much inferior to the ruling race in
certain sections of the country.
There is but little doubt but this immi
gration is to receive for some time to come
all possible encouragement. The causes
which proved so effectual in promoting
European immigration will operate, and the
same influences will be brought to bear. The
commercial people of the North are al
ready reaching out for the commerce of
the Orient as the fountain of wealth. The
wealthy manufacturing East, not unmind
ful of past difficulties and chicks
to their prosperity, demand a labor
which can be made to compete suc
cessfully with the cheap labor of rival
European industries. John Chinaman will
furnish it. Mr. Burlingame, the Chinese
Plenipotentiary ar?J Ambassador Extra
ordinary, from Massachusetts, catches the
spirit which prevails and paves the way
for meeting such demands. There is also
a demand for steady agricultural laborers
in the West, and a similar demand in the
South under the stimulus of remunerative
crops, with an abundance of fertile but
unu ed lands. Besides this there will be
the incentive to the yellow-faced celestial
of an abundance of cheap wild land for
homesteads, and a rate of daily wages un
heard of in Celestial economy. Os coarse
the newly-created steamship lines from
California to China will lend every encour
agement to the ino.-t profitable of ail trans
portation traffic, tho passenger traffic, and
San Francisco will be, on the Pacific coast,
what New York is on the Atlantic—the
entrepot for emigration—drawing from a
source more than double in capacity.
Interesting Letter from Major Lacb.
Mclntosh.
We take pleasure in presenting to our
readers the following extracts from a letter
written by Major Lachlan Mclntosh to a
friend in this city. The Major is now en
gaged in a real estate and emigration
business in Philadelphia, and we are much
pleased to learn that there is such a strong
interest being manifested in Pennsylvania
in regard te Southern lands:
Philadelphia, May 29th, 1869.
My Dear John * * * *: I have been
hoping all Spring to get down your way
and have the pleasure of taking you by
your starboard flipper, but have been so
run down with work in organiamg my new
enterprise that I have not been able to get
away. The excitement as to Southern
lands continues, and l have no doubt will
increase greatly by the Fall. The result
of the war with these people is becoming
apparent more and more each day, and
they are looking in the direction of the
South that they nay live. I firmly believe
that our dear eld South is destined to be at
no distant time the strongest portion of
these new Uuited States, and the retri
butive justice of the thing lies in the fact
that these very people who conquered us
by numbers, will by numbers build up our
waste places and renew our strength as a
people. When a Pennsylvania farmer,
who, from his ttayat home-habits has
hitherto seemed almost indigenous to the
soil, becomes restless and sighs for a
change, aye, and makes it too, you may
rest assured matters are not prosperous
with him. There i3 a restlessness and dissat
isfaction pervading all classes except the very
rich in this Northern clime that bides well for
us. Business is dead, manufacturers are
groaning, and every interest is in a
state of suffering. The war, so hard upon
us injits early results,is now being felt here
in a way these good Christian brothers of
ours dreamed not of. They begin to“seeit,”
and so full is my sympathy with them that
I trust they will see it fully. I am run
down with applications for ca'a’ogues of
lands in my hands for sale, and personal
applications for letters of introduction and
information in regard to Southern proper
ty. If our people will only keep cool and
let their hair grow, the inevitable flow of
capital and western industry is w.th and to |
us. What do you think of Sprague, the
“little llhody” ? My own opinion of him
is, that he never would have lashed out
with his heels as he has, but for the fact
that his harness hurt him somewhere.
His little Northern enterprise don’t pay
John, and he is hedging, you may bet j
your life. They are a sharp concern are i
these Spragues, and have heads quite loDg
enough to look well ahead.
Very truly yours.
Lachlan A. Mclntosh.
Ileayy on me Kpiscopalalns.
A reliable gentleman from Southwest
Georgia reports the following; An eminent
Episcopal clergyman made an appoint
ment to preach at Albany not long since.
Everybody was invited to be present; and
there being no Episcopal Church in Al
bany, the largest church was secured for
the occasion. This church had a very
large gallery, which was appropriated for
the use of the colored people. The ap
pointed Sabbath came, and the building
was crowded up stairs with blacks ; down
stairs with whites. There being no retir
ing room, the minister had to enter the
Church clothed in his clerical robes.
\\ hile all were impatien ly waiting his
arrival, there suddenly appeared a
ghostly figure clothed in a long white
robe, walking up the aisle. This,
of course, was the expected divine,
but Cuffie in the gallery had never seeu
the like before. All of a sudden a sho it
of Ku-klux I burst from the gallery, '.nd
Africa broke in indiscriminate pell moil for
the open air. Heels over head they fell,
relied and tumbled, and rolled out of doors.
The whites, viewing the uproar, also be
came alarmed, and someone shouted fire.
1 anic seized the white audience, and out
t “ e y rushed, but the doorways being
crowded, they speedily made doors of the
windows. Glass and splinters flew in
every direction. The Church was soon
emptied, and presented the appearance of
haviDg been riddled with grape shot.
Quiet was finally restored ; the cause of
the disturbance discovered—the white au
dience returned, but no earthly inducement
could ever induce the negroes to go back.
1 here were no converts to the ‘‘true
church ’ among the blacks in Albany on
the occasion.
The Fashions—New York.
From the Cou.-ier .
Grenadioe is among tbc favorite mate
rials for bummer dresses. A black grena
dine is very stylish with one or mere nlait
trimm'mg the skirt. These
ruffles are bound top and bottom with
greeo, blue or gold-colored silk or satin.
The tunic and wide sashes are trimmed
to match. This material is also very
pretty trimmed with bias pieces of the
grenadine, edged with a narrow quilling of
satin.
The Japanese silks are not expensive,and
are becoming quite popular for suits.
They are in ebeno mixtures, in stripes and
in little cheeks. M uslin, where the figures
are small, are extremely pretty. The
striped catnbries are also popular, they are
prettier when the underskirt is striped,
and the tunic is in plain colors to match
the striped; chambrey can be used lor this
purpose, if cambric cannot be procured.
i buits made of mosembique are fashiona
ble, as well as serviceable, and they are by
no means expensive. Those displayed at
our fashionable establishments generally
consist of a single skirt and ca.-aque.
These are usually trimmed with platted
flounces, headed by bias bands of silk or
satin. The casque is looped, giving the
apnearanceoi a second skirt.
Besides these we have the ebambreys,
organdies, Summer silks, poplins, mohairs
and serges, and the different materials in
white. It is said by the modistes that
white is to be the fashionable dress for the
country and for the city—for old ladies and
for young ladies.
HATS AND BONNETS.
Both for bonnets and round rats, black
lacc seems to be the favorite material.
Delicate little black lace I’anchons are
composed of two or three puffs, ornament
ed with bright flowers. The prettiest are
the long sprays, which trim the front and
one side of the bonnet.
Round hats of black lace arc composed
of thread or blond edging, fulled overillu
sion frames. Veils of illusion or dotted
lace, trimmed with the same kind of edg
ing, falls over the chignon a little to the
right or to the left. Flowers mingled
with black lace complete the trimming of
a very stylish hat. Care is taken that the
lacc which covers the frame is not full, the
beauty cf the hat depending upon its light
and airy appearance. Avery stylish hat
of black Neapolitan, has the outer edge of
the wide rim which turn back toward the
crown ornamented with a yellow straw
cord and tassels. A narrow trimming of
the same straw decorates the other edge of
the rim. Quite pretty and very servicea
b!e hats of different kinds of straw can be
bought for the country. These arc large
and l;ght, and very appropriate for the
seaside.
Laces. —All women are snpposed to have
a penchant for lace. Those who have the
means to gratify it, must be pleased with
the variety of costly and elegant laces
which are in favor for shawls, capes,
basques and trimmings of various kinds.
For trimming white dresses, Valenciennes
is about the only kind of lace that is used.
Round capes made of the finest white mus
lin, or organdy, are edged with a fall of
wide Valenciennes, headed by a narrow row
of insertion Two rows of the same kind
of trimming are set at equal distances
above. The capo is cut out over the
bosom, and may be worn with satin loops
and ends or with a muslin bow, with long
wide ends, trimmed like the capo. The
pompadour collars are making their ap
pearance on the street. These collars,
which give the appearance of a pompa
dour waist, are conspicuous, and must be
made of fine lace. They are finished with
a fall of lacc, which lies over the dress.
Waists ot puffed illusion will bo in vogue
for the Summer, as well as lace barthes and
square necks filled in with lace. Tunics of
lace which can be worn with ar dress are
caught up with bows of ribbon at the
sides or back. Notwithstanding the pop
ularity of suits, lace shawls continue to be
worn. A favorite style of wearing is to
catch them up at the back—laying them in
plaits—fastening the whole at the waist.
The fronts are looped in the middle and
fastened upon the shoulders, allowing the
lower portion to fall over the arms; the re
maining portion is laid in folds, crossed
and fastened. When the shawls are val
uable, care must be taken in arranging
them, as they are easily torn.
JLontloa and Pari4.
From LeFollet.
The newest and mo-t. elegant Spring
dresses are trimmed with several narrow
flounces, pinked. This style is much the
best for short skirts, which require to be
made scanty, and are groatly improved by
having mauy narrow, instead oi one broad
flounce.. The ‘ Sultan Anglaise,” striped
aod cldme , or the same material shot in
two colors—gray and ripe corn, violet and
green, green and maize, rose color and
gray, being some of the favorite mixtures
—is much used, trimmed with flounces of
pinked silk of one of the shades. The new
japonaue and the cehste empire are also
very fashionable, the former having all the
richness in appearance of gros-grain poult
lie soie, with the durability of a faille, and
the great advantage of not crumpling.
Paniers are still very much worn, but
the upper skirt, cut rather long at the
back, caught up slightly at each side, and
made either round, and now drawn in at
the lower edge, or open and pointed, is
daily gaining favor, and is certainly much
more elegant and becoming than the volu
minous paniers adopted by some.
Fancy and plain straws are coming into
favor. Sometimes it is a diadem straw,
trimmed with ribbons and lace ; but the
style most in favor is a very small fanchon
of straw, bound at each edge with velvet or
satin, and almost covered with a large
bouquet of flowers. Thus a chapeau
“Florian” of rice straw bound wilji black
velvet trimmed with a large bouquet on
the top of field flowers, mixed with fine
grass. Brides of black lace fastened by a
small bouquet.
A diadem “Mary Stuart” of lace straw,
surmounted by wreath of blue ribbon bows.
Across the diadem is a coquille of black
lace mixed with corn-flowers and wheat
eays. Across the top of the chignon is a
frill of the straw mixed ends of ribbbon,
rather long. Brule v of black or white
blonde fastened by a bouquet of corn-flow
crs.
Chapeau “Imper .trice.” A diadem of
rice sttaw, b>und with green velvet, trim
med with branches of white lilac falling on
each side, and one very long, like a flat
leather across the chignon. A scarf of
Ma'ines lace forms the strings, which are
fastened at the side by a bouquet of lilac.
A bandeau of rice straw, entirely cover
ed with rose-leaves and small green buds.
At the side is placed a rose, and two long
wreaths nf b i Is and loaves are carried down
the scarf of black tulle.
| Captured and Abandoned Property.
From the .V. Y. Tribune May 28.
In Juoc, 1865, there were received at
j the Treasury Department three large
wooden boxes, said to contain valuable",
j turned over by the War Department for
safe keeping. These boxes have been lying
| ever since in the vaults of the Treasury,
! but were to-day opened through the efforts
j of a United States Senator, some of whose
i constituents were supposed to be interest
ed A committee, composed of officers of
the War and Treasury Departments, wit
nessed the carrying out of the joint order
of the two departments. The boxes were
found to contain exceedingly valuable in
voices cf diamonds, pearls, necklaces,
watches, ear-rings, brouches, rings, chains,
seals, and all manner of rare and expensive
jewelry, to i he value of many thousands of
dollars. The most valuable property, how
ever, which the boxes contained was a very
large amount of gold and silver plate, con
sisting of pitchers, salvers, spoons, knives,
urns, &c., some of which was thought to
have been more than a hundred years old
One of the boxes contained some very rich
wearing apparel for ladies—silks, velvets,
laces, &c., besides an incredible amount of
Confederate notes and bonds, and notes of
State banks. There was also a small amount
of specie, both gold and silver. The boxes
were about the size of ordinary dry goods
boxes; and the value of their con
tents is variously estimated at from $20,000
to SIOO,OOO. Many of the articles were
stamped with the family crests, initials, or
monograms of the owners, and all were of
the finest and most costly description. The
boxes were sent by the Provost Marshal
General of the Army of the Tennessee to
the War Department in this city, and Sec
retary Staunton turned them over to
Treasurer Spinner, subject to future ac
tion. The valuables are supposed to have
been taken possession of by Sherman's
men in Georgia and other States, where
they had been abandoned by the fleeing
inhabitants. In some cases they were
taken from banks, which had aeased to do
business upon the approach of the Federal
army. The officers of both departments
are uncertain of their duty in the matter
of the disposition of this property. Some
hold that it should be returned, under
proper restrictions and proof, to the
owners, if they can be found. Others
believe the articles belong to the Govern
ment, under the laws of Congress, and that
they should be sold, and the proceeds
placed in the Treasury, while still others
affirm that neither the War nor the Treas
ury Department has any authority in the
premises, and that a special act of Con
gress should be called for. Nothing has
yet been done, and the valuables have
been returned to the vaults of the Treasury.
The Election Disorders In Paris. I
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times gives the following account of the |
recent t lection disorders in Palis :
The disorders which followed the elector
al meet.L g of the Chatalet, noticed in my
last letter, have since been repeated in
other parts of! Paris. Bands of men in
blouses and youths have traversed divers
quarters, and in the neighborhood of the
v ieux Chene, where Socialist meetings
used to bo held, numerous groups collect
ed, shouting, " Vive la Lanterne !" “ Vive
Rochefort!” and singing the “Marseil
laise." In the llue de Lyon on Friday
eveuiog a crowd blocked up the passages to
the house where M. Jules Simon, one of
the candidates, was haranguing a meeting
of the electors, and when compelled to
move oa by the sergents de viUe, marched
iu a body toward the Bastille, repeating
the same cries. F’rorn the meeting in the
Alcazar other bands marched in the direc
tion of the Madeleine singing the ‘‘Marseil
laise.’’ About ten o’clock there was great
agitation in the Quartier Litm, where the i
Schools of Liw and Medicine are situated, ,
and on the new boulevard St. Michel; and I
a body of from COO to 800 proceeded in the
direction of the deny Theatre to the cry
of “ Vive la Lantern ” and “ Vive la Repub
lique!” A commissary of police, accom
panied by four.'or five sergens de-ville, con
fronted the mob and arrested two or three
youths who appeared to be ringleaders.
The peace officers were assailed with a vol
ley of stones, and an attempt was made to
rescue the prisoners. An additional force
of set gens de-ville came up, and with their
help the young men were carried to prison.
A detachment of police stationed at the
bridge of St. Michel succeeded iu driving
back and partly dispersing the bands who
attempted to cross the river t> the shout
of “Fine It Republique.” In the llue
Mouffetard, where the house called the
Yieux Chene is, a band of 500 young men
marched along tearing the “Marseillaise,’’
and trying to rouse the inhabitants of that
populous quarter to join the demonstra
tion, but unsuccessfu ly. In the neigh
borhood of the Salle Molierc, where there
was also an electoral meeting held, the
passages were blocked up. The crowd
that filled the streets in this quiiter could
not be less than from 10,000 to 12,000.
Tho inhabitants were evidently much
alarmed ; the shops were all closed, and
the appearance of the mob was menacing.
The police were hooted and insulted iu the
grossest manner, and though they num
bered several hundred they were powerless
to keep the passage clear. They were re
inforced by 300 sergens de ville , who
marched along the llue Rambuteau, and
the bootings, and the shouts, and the
“.Marseillaise,” and the insults wore loud
er than ever. The mob when dispersed
in one place quickly formed in another, and
tho police were repeatedly assailed with
stones. It was past 11 o’clock before the
streets were cleared. The mass, broken
up for a while, formed themselves into
separate bands ol from 300 to 500, who
passed to the St. Martin, the Rue dellivoli,
and the Bastille; but as they went on they
were scattered by squads cf s. rgens-de-vi lie
they encouutered on their way. In the
Place Itoyale, in the M trais, a body of
two hundred persons a-tempted to bieak
down, out of pure love of mischief, the
railings of the garden, but before they
could effect their object they were set upon
and scattered by the municipal police. It.
appears that a great number of the per
sons arrested in the vicinity of the Salle
Moliere, where tho disturbances were most
serious, were found Wjph stones in their
pockets. Oo the Boulevard St. Michel
young men were seen giving money to boys
to sing the “Marseillaise.” At this place
several sergens de-ville were more or less
severely wounded by the stone-throwing.
There wore about sixty arrested. On the
previous evening disorders had occurred on
the Boulevard des Jfilles du (Jaivaire, at
the Cirque Napoleon, where an electoral
meeting was held. In the evening all cir
culation for carriages became impossible,
and the omnibuses and other vehicles that
ply from the Madeleine to the Bastille had
to make a dotour to reach their destination.
Most of the shops near the Cirque were
chut ui), and large bands moved toward
the building singiog, like the others, the
“Marseillaise,” and crying out for Roche
fort, Raspail and Barbes. When all
whom the building could contain were ad
mitted the confusion outside was iutense ;
and the sergens-de-ville though numer
ous, were unable to clear tho approaches
and keep back those who wore pressing on
ward. A detachment of tho mounted
guards of Paris had to be brought on tho
spot to charge and disperse the mob, aided
by the police. Several persons were knock
ed down and tramil id upon in endeavoring
to avoid the horses. An Inspector of
Police, while persuading the people to dis
perse, was struck on the head with a load
ed-stick ; he fill senseless to the ground,
and was carried to the nearest case. Two
other officers of police were similarly treat
ed. Meanwhile llaspail and Bauden, the
Socialist candidates, were making speeches
in the theatre against the government, and
the language became at last so outrageous
that the Commissary of Police dissolved
the meeting. A& the crowds continued
outside, at 11 o’clock a fresh detachment
of mounted guards charged the ground,
which, after some delay, they effected.
Some forty or fifty of the most violent were
taken off to the Prefecture.
OUR TRAVELLING CORRKSPOXDKNiK.
On the Wing, Juno, 1869.
Editors Chronicle d* Sentinel :
On my arrival at Atlanta I found, as
usual, all in stir and bustle, with little
decorum on the sidewalks or in the streets,
but everything giving in to a random rush
ing to and fro, unsui passed by any city in
the Southern States A little more law
and order, not to say courtesy in the
streets, would be more agreeable to visiters
if not to the inhabitants. Perhaps when
the restless and progressive genius of the
city roaches tho eliminative tuo-te things
will work in as legitimate results.
I went with the crowd to the
United States Hotel, which is, in
every respect, l. harmony with the
taste aud principles of Southern
people. There is no discount on the
accommodations of this hotel, and the
distinguished Georgians that I meet here,
from time to time, show their ap
preciation of the li lclity and merit of its
proprietors.
The next morning I left on the Atlanta
and West Point train for LaGrange. Two
or three coaches that came through on the
Georgia Hoad were put on this, and con
tinued to West Point. There i» more
travel on these two roads perhaps than
any other in the Southern country, and
certaiuly there are none that offer greater
facilities t) the public. Tuey run through
the most hveiy, active aud progres
sive sections of our State, where the
traveller msy form a correct idea
of Georgia arol her people. I have rarely
ever heard of an accident or detention from
any cause whatever from Augusta to
West Point, and am diffident this is the
best route ti Montvo aery. New Orleans
and all points in the Southwest. The
offi ers of these roads are gentlemen of the
highest type, and are noted lor their
superior management, and have given to
this route advances which will defy suc
cessful competition. I should advise all
who desire a safe, speedy, and pleasant
trip to the points above mentioned,to take
the night train on the Georgia
Grand Trunk Hoad at Augusta to
L&Grange, famous in days of yore for its
! superior educational advantages, and West
Point. LaGrange has suffered much in
the last few years from successive confla
grations. The Baptist and Methodist (Jol-
I leges were both destroyed by fire during
| the war and have not been rebuilt. A
large portion of the business squares were
I destroyed in like manner. But neat and
i substantial brick stores have gone up, giv
ing to the industry an air of taste and
beauty it never possessed before. The
place is said to be improving generally,
and the hope is entertained that her insti
j tutions of learning will be restored so soon
as circumstances will admit.
Reports from the farming prospects of
the county wore quite flattering. The
stands of corn and cotton were said to be
very good, and the negroes were all work
ing well.
Here I met my old friends Dr. Ridley
and the Hon. R. 11. Bigham. I found
these gentlemen busy in their professions,
and was pleased to learn that they were
doing well. They have retired from pub
lic life for pursuits more remunerative, and i
in these days of fallen patriotism far more j
honorable.
I left the next day for West Point, about
twenty-three miles distant. The LaGrange
District meeting of the M. E. Church
South, was in session at this place and I
turned in for a while to witness its proceed
ings. Avery respectable delegation were
present, the number increasing up to the
time of my departure. Various questions
looking to the greater success of'the Meth
odist Church were under consideration,
them the abolition of the Presiding
Elder s office. Inasmuch as this subject
was being agitated in high circles, it
claimed their attention, and some expres
sion of opinion, at least, was necessary.
The conclusion was to pause and reflect
before making any more changes in
Methodist Church economy. Some
thought there had been too many changes
made already, and were in favor of going
back to the old lankmarks. The opposi
tion to change in the office was unanimous.
The Chairman of the meeting, Rev. L. J.
Daviss, stated that throughout his dis
trict there was a general disposition among
the colored people to return
ta the Southern Church, and he thought ;
all that was necessary for a general and j
speedy return, was efficient Preachers to
labor among them. The colored people
were conducting themselves in a highly
creditable mariner, growing in the confi
dence of the whites and devotion to their
duties. No disposition on the part of the
preachers was manifested to unite with the
Church, ncr to receive back
those who had gone out from them.
The general neglect of the literature of
the Church was to be deplored. It is to be
hoped great improvements will be made
in this important matter, and that plans
may be developed for tho more general
circulation of religious literature through
out the Churches. Traveller.
AGRICULTURAL.
Contributions on practical farming are
solicited from our friends throughout the
wintry.
ADDRESS TO TIIE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA.
BY COL. GEO. N. LESTER, HOME COMMIS
SIGNER OF IMMIGRATION.
Valuable Suggestions.
Atlanta. Ga , June 1,1809.
To the People of (Georgia'. I am prompt
ed by a sense ot official duty, as well as by
; a sincere desire to benefit the State
and people, to address you in this form. In
the month of March last, I had the honor
of being elected Domestic Commissioner,
under an act of the General Assembly, en
titled, “An Act to encourage Immigra
tion into the State ot Georgia, and the in
vestment of capital iu lands.”
By the second section of the Act, it is
made my duty to faithfully devote myself
to tho ‘ 'encouragement of the immigration
of good citizens, laborers, artizans, mc
chanias, etc , and to the investment of
i capital iu lands.”
My position has thrown me into an ex
tensive correspondence with persons resid
ing in different sections of the United
States, upon the subject of immigration to
Georgia, and the investment of capital in
her lands. This correspondence, together
with what I continually see in the news
papers, discloses the fact that the North
ern people have a settled impression upon
their minds that a general spirit of law
lessness and mobocracy prevails in Goor
gia—that lynching is either approved of
j or winked at by our people—that the civil
administration does not afford adequate
protection to life and property —that the
lives of men are destroyed on account of
their political opinions—that it is not safe
for Northern men to reside in Georgia—
and that officers, courts and juries, either
from harmony ot feeling with offenders, or
from indifference of crime, will not bring to
punishment those who violate laws.
There is no just cause whatever for this
impression upon the Northern mind. I
well know that the great holy of tho peo
ple of Georgia are opposed to violence,
lawlessness, lynching and mobocracy, in
any shape, and iu every form.
1 know that they love law, and order,
and social quiet, and moral progress. Yet a
wide spread impression to tho contrary
exists, and is doingus incalculable damage.
It is injurious to our reputation as a State,
and to our character as a people. It is an
unjust iuipeachmeDt of the integrity of our
Judges, the fidelity of our officers, and the
virtue of our juries. It very greatly en
dangers our political rights, aud if not re
moved or counteracted, will constitute an
effectual bar to immigration, and hinder
all investments of mouey from abroad. No
man will seek a home where ho thinks it
unsafe to dwell. It is bootless to discuss
the question, as to how, or by whatagency,
these improper aid unjust impressions
found a lodgment in the Northern mind,
buffice it to say, that they are entertained,
and are doing us injury, aud greatly retard
the prosperity of ibo Commonwealth. As
a citizen of Georgia, jealous of her reputa
tion, and sincerely desiring the prosperity
and happiness of her people, I want the
Northern people to look at Georgia in her
true light and <lo her people justice.
I hat acts ol violence Rave been perpe
trated here, I will not deny; but I do
most roundly deny, that the great mass of
our citizens have auy sympathy with
crime, or give any approbation to lawless
ness. I freely admit that we have in Geor
gia, just as they have everywhere else,
i rough, reckless, hot-headed, indiscreet,
j violent men, who sometimes commit acts
ot violence and perpetrate outrageous
■ crimes ; but these men are comparatively
: few in number, and are no correct type of
Southern character in general. The large
majority of our people are good, true and
law-abiding. They deeply deplore every
act of crime and lawlessness that badmeD
commit- aud will, I feol confident, exercise
their power to bring to punishment those
who violate the law, and to prevent the
occurrence of crime. Now the question
arises, what can we do more than we have
| already done to remove the hurtful preju
i dices that are entertained or fostered
against us ?
Many of the public journals, and the
judges iu their charges tothc grand juries,
and the grand juries in their presentments
and others in circular letters, itave endea
vored to counteract these prejudices. The
railroad men of the South (at the call of
Col. E. llulbert, tho energetic Superin
tendent of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, which belongs to the State),have met
iu Convention and invited the people of
the North to visit and examine our coun
try, and invest their capital in the rich
fields of speculation which our State so
invitingly presents, and to this end they
have reduced railroad fare to almost nom
inal rates. Hie hotel keepers of Georgia,
and elsewhere in the South, have also
pledged a reduction of hotel fare. The
planters, farmers and manufacturers,of the
State, represented by their best men, have
also met in convention, and extended a
cordial iovitatiou to the people of the North
and of Europe, to seek homes and invest
their money in our genial clime, pledging
to all who may come a courteous and hos
pitable welcome. The Legislature of
Georgia, conforming to and carrying out
the popular will, has passed an Act, elect
ed officers, and appropriated money for the
express purpose of encouraging the immi
gration of good citizens, laborers, artizans
and mechanics, and the investment of
capital in lands. Can it be said with any
semblance of truth or justice that we have
done all this, to got Noithern men to set
tle here, simply that wo may have aobance
to insult them and take their lives? Will
any one pretend that all this trouble and
expense have been encouutered simply
to induce Northern men to invest their
capital in Georgia, that we may rob them
of it ? The idea is absurd. Men and
property are as safe in Georgia as any
where on the globe. We may do one
other thing that has not been done, and I
sincerely hope that our people will make
baste and delay not to do it. Let public
meetings be held ail over the State, and
especially in those counties in which law
i lessness has been most frequently perpe
tratid. Let these meetings be attend
ed and conducted by our be t and
most influential citizens, aud let a
solemn declaration be put forth that
we have no sympathy whatever with
lawlessness, crime, violence or lynch
ing in any form; that we will not
tolerate them in our midst, nor will we
give support or countenance to those who
perpetrate them ; that the few instances of
lynching and other acts of lawlessness that
have occurred in Georgia shall be the last,
so far as we arc able to prevent their re
currence ; that no citizen of any color shall
he molested, or treated with violence on
account of his political opinions; that hw,
arid the administration of law, shall be up
held arid maintained; and that full and
complete protection to life, liberty and
property shall be guaranteed and given to
all who now reside, or who may hcreaft r
seek homes in our midst, or invest their
capital in our State. Let all Grand Juries,
composed as they generally are of our
best and most intelligent citizens, also
speak out on this subject in their general
presentments, and when we shall have done
this, and shall have faithfully endeavored
to carry out the resolves, all cause for pre
judice against us will be removed, and, in
my judgment, our troubles will cease, and
peace, pirosperity aud happiness will smile
on ns again.
With the earnest hope that our good
old commonwealth may speedily enjoy her
former—aye, more than her former pros
perity.
I am your obedient servant aud fellow
citizen, Geo. N. Lester,
Commissioner of Land aud Immigration.
I fully and cordially concur with the Do
mestic Commissioner in the foregoing com
munication. Samuel Weil,
Foreign Commissioner.
I most fully and heartily concur in the
recommendations made by the Honor
able Commissioner, and do most confi
dently believe that the good people of our
State do deprecate the acts of violence
which have occurred, and that it is in their
power to take such steps as will make
every citizen, bo he rich or poor, native or
foreign, black or white, secure in his per
son, his property, and in the enjoyment of
his civil and political rights ; and I do
earnestly recommend that the good people
of our State give expression to such a de
termination, and that they exercise their
moral and physical power to the end that
absolute security and peace may prevail,
bringing with them inevitable prosperity.
Rufus B. Bullock.
Toads, &c., in Gardens.—ld a recent
lecture on Insect Enemies, before the Vine
land Agricultural and Horticultural Society,
N. J., by Mr.Treat, he thus alludes to the
usefulness of the toad.-;
“Carry all the toads you may find to
your gardens. They will devour immense
numbers of bugs. A toad will swallow the
largest specimen of the tomato worn),
though sometimes he will have a hard time
of it. Snakes, hens, wasps, spiders, are
all devourers of your enemies. A common
duck will go up and down rows of tomato
and potato vines, and pick off the large
worms usually found on snch vines, as fast
as it can see them; and they will see a haJ
dozen when a man would not see one.
Young turkeys will do the same service,
they are not soeasily controlled and guided, j
All fallen fruit should be picked up twice 1
a, day— at aDy rate one time-.-boiled,
then given to your cattle to be dtv u
fsy doing this it will pay ton times over,
and the result of it will be that next year
you will not have insects.”
Ploiwnq up Raw Soil --We some
times hear farmers remark that, plowing
deep, they get less grain ; that bringing up
l “ e ?? u mellow soil - their crops suffer, dt
would be very strange if this was not 'the
case, tor this soil, even if ever eo mellow,
is raw just .ike manure when it is ‘green’
or long. It is not yet converted or chang
ed lu.o plant food. It needs just what the
long manure needs-to b; changed by the
heat and the air that is, decomposed or
rotted.
When the top soil is less fertile than it
used to be when the land was first tilled,
you may rest assured iliat this undersoil is
always better than the upper soil, because
the upper has deteriorated, while the un
der has not, but rather improved.
It is, therefore, inadvisable, nay,suicidal
in some soils, to run up deeply the under
ground in the Spring or in the F fil a * sow
ing time. The cold, cheerless ground will
not help the grain, and were it n a f. r the
other mixed with it, an almost total ailure
would be the result.
But turn it up in the Fall and ht the
frost and the elements take hold of h, and
you have another soil ; it is turned into
manure, a good part of it. A hula lime
mixed with it, scattered and harrowed in,
or manure, or both, would facilitate the
process, in the Spring sow, either with
or without another plowing, and you will
find no more occasion to complain. We
have great fertility to draw upou from b -
low, but it requires managing.
Apple Worms. —We cull the following
concerning these intolerable pests from the
American Entomologist: It has long been
know nthat, by i lacing an old cloth, or
anything of that nature, in the crotch ol an
apple tree, the apple worm may be decoyed
into buildiug their cocoons underneath it
and thus be destroyed by the wholesale.
Dr. Trimble’s method which amounts to
the same thing, and is found to be praet cal
ly very beneficial is to fasten two or three
turns of a hay band around the trunk of
the tree, aud every few days from the mid
dle of June to the middle of iseptemb ir, to
slip the hay band up and destroy tho
cocoons that have from tim 1 1 time been
formed on the bark undornon.. it
All authors are agreed as to the practi
cal importance of picking up and dc inly
ing the wormy apples as fist I hey fall,
either by hog power, or when that, is
inconvenient or impracticable, by man
power. The pract cal utility of allowing a
gang of hogs the range otdheapplc orchard
throughout tho Summer is undoubted.
When wo consider that every female modi
that hatches out in July or August, from
tho first brood of apple warm . will proba
bly deposit an egg in some two or three
hundred nearly matured /iMtsrlos, thereby
rendering them more or its- unsalable, the
importance of destroying the wormy wind
falls, in the forepart of the season, at all
events, becomes at once apparent,
WASimiGTOS (ORRESTOYDKM’K.
The personnel of the Grant Cabinet is
thus described by one of the Washington
writers :
Mr. Fish is the only gentleman of culti
vated social habits in ilie Cabinet. The
social side* of t e other gentlemen can be
briefly sketched as follows; Mr. Bout
well, an angular, nervous man, has few
friends, makes less, and inclines much
more to work than to association. Mr.
Uoar is almost a recluse. His temper is
for solitary office work ; he is very irrita
ble at interruption, anil liko the lato Con
federacy all he asks is to be let alone.
General Rawlins suffers from id health,
and is accustomed to oloso clerical work, is
very much at home among fellow officers,
but relucts to show bimselt in society.
Mr. Creswcll, once a jovial, deservedly
popular man, since lie changed his poli
tics, not from principle hut for profit, has
lost social caste in his native Slate, and
even by his new political connection has
been classed am ng (hat hybrid set, a
"Southern Radical,” t e., scalawag. Mr.
Cox is a broadly Western, communicative
man, big-hearted son of nature, yet he
probably never will take that reserved,
self-possessed, cultivated, though cordial
tone, which Washington does not forgive
tho lack of, and which his predecessor had
in large degree. Secretary Boric does not
take kindly to Washington, lie has not
seen fit to make liis home there yet- Ho
is a nice, batty little F’renehiuan, with a
soul not above sugars, in which ho has
made his money, and in toe Navy Depart
ment finds no congeniality.
THE JOHNSON CABINET.
Os all tho Presidents, none received
with more simple dignity and genuine
urbanity than Mr. Johnson. Mr. iseward
lobbied the passage of tho Alaska pur
chase money through the House by merfe
dint ofdining power, and charmed to the
last the men who had been hot to iuipmch
the President. Mr. Evans’ house here
was and is the centre of all the members of
Congress whose feet have the light to
cross a gentleman’s threshold. Mr. and
Mrs. McCulloch led the ton and dominated
the destiny of fashion in this city. The
Brownings transplanted iu our soil a
Kentucky hospitality and refinement of
which all but the graceful memory depart
ed with them. All of Mr. Jtbnson’s
Cabinet were entertained by someone cf
their number every week in succession the
whole season through, and by tho Presi
dent were these meetings honored, who
himself received the Cabinet every foit
nigbt socially.
Surgical Examination of the
Siamese Twins.—Sir James Simpson, the
Professor of Medicine and Midwifery in
the University of Edinburgh, has examin' and
very minutely and from every point <.f
scientific interest these tsvi , and lias de
livered a lecture to the students of the Uni
vesity class on these ami oilier recorded
cases of united twins, of win mi they are in
many respects the rnott remaikable on rec
ord. In this lecture, which he t.uLlishcs in
the British Medical Journal, he gives first
their history and description. (Jiiar.g and
Eng, or as they'now sign themselves,
Chang and Eng Bunker, are now 58 years
of age. They were two of several children,
the rest being naturally formed. When in
fants they were attached lace to face, hut
instinctive efforts from the earliest age have
so far elongated the band as to enable them
to adopt an imperfect lateral rtlition to
each other. They arc short, but wiry-look
ing men, Eng’, the tailor <;i the two, being
ODly five feet two and a-half inches—Chang
an inch shorter. They use tho outer legs
more than the inner, l,y standing, and
there are the larger in circumference.
There is no inversion of po-ition of the
heart; and other organs, a- Prole-sor Allen
Thompson, of Glasgow, his shown to be
the geuoral law in relation to united twins.
Neither of th : re-piratio: s nor c iculations
of the two brothers are synchro,-io us. Ex
amined in Edinburgh by Dr. Ait km, when
they were suffering from influenza, the
pulse of one was twenty-'.mi beats to the
minute quicker than the other. Examined
this week in London by -ir Henry Thomp
sonand Mr. Earnest Heart, there was less
difference—four puhatioi sinth ■ minute.
In their chemical as well as their organic
functions, they a-e shown by Sir James
bilhpson to be two separate and di-tinct
individual). They can walk, swim and run;
they are keen snorts men and g > 4 -hots;
intelligent, we i tformed and goad men of
business. They are natu tally mo a accus
tomed to join in the muu n er-utioo, hut
can each easily carry o.i a conversation
with two different individudi They some
times read separately, each to himself,
more often one aloud to tii; other. Their
minds, indeed, are more dual than their
bodies; the latter are united together, hut
the former are not. The ban i of unio t is
formed partly by the extension of the
cartilages of the breast boa ; it is four
inches and a half long and eight inches and
a half in circumference. When the twins
have suffered from blood diseases, as small
pox, measles, ague, they have been affe ;t
--ed simultaneously. Nevertheless from
experiments which Sir James Simpson
has made with drugs, he concludes that the
vascular connection between the two
brothers is comparatively very small. On
the question of the surgical separation of
the Siamese Twins, “Cheng and Eng,”
says Sir James Simpson, “have themselves
no desire to be -urgicaliy divided troin
each other. But -ome of their relatives
and families have become anxious that
they should he -operated, if it were pos
sible to do so. The operation is certainly
possible, and would he attended witn little,
or indeed, no difficulty, but it would be so
perilous inits character that the twins could
not, in my opinion, be justified in submit
ting to it, or any -urgeon be ju-tifiej in
performing it.’ He 'hen enters ii tidetails
to justify this op i" n U'Uaiig a..i Eng are
married to two si-1 rs, the daughters of an
American clergyman. Each brother has
nine children. The family of Eng consists
of six sons and three daughters; the fami
ly of Chang consist of three sons and six
daughters. Tneir first children were born
within three or four days of each other;
the others at irregular intervals. Cnarig s
ninth child was borne ttiree months ago.
Sir W. Fergu-on has carefully examined
the twins, and, wc understood, concurs in
the general opinion of surgeons that any
surgical separation wou.d o« most likely
attended with fatal consequences, not so
much on account of any obstac e presented
by the structure of the uniting band of
flesh as the moral effect of the disunion on
the two
Rudolphs, tho French billiardist, in
Chicigo, waDts consolation for his recent
defeat at the New York tournament, and
has challenged Uarme for two games—the
three hall French carom, 500 points, on a
carom table, and the American tour-half
carom game, push barrel, 1 200 or LoOO
points on a four-pocket table, or a stake of
SSOO a side each game; or for one game
either French or American, as he shall de
cide, for a stake of SI,OOO a side.
Garibaldi’s physicians believe that he
willnever again be able to leave his bed.