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pay off tho debt thus contracted, or inter I
cst thereon, out of tho first funds coming
into his hands.” In compliance with said I
act, the Governor, in connection with the i
Treasurer, borrowed on notes of the State
of Georgia a sufficient amount of money !
to pay off the members and officers, and
other expenses of this General Assembly,”
(Assembly of 1808) which notes have been
paid, taken up and are now and have been
for over two months in thepossession of the
Treasurer, the Governor’s Secretary during
the Governor’s absence having refused to
give an Executive warrant for the same,
and His Excellency also, after his return,
after an absence of two month*, refused to
give a warrant for the same, in violation of
law. On the 29fA October, 1868, the
Governor gave his note as Governor of
Georgia, to the Fourth National Bank of
New York, for $300,000, and on the 3 d
December, 1868, one for $279,000. Does
tho Governor pretend to say that the
money advanced on these notes was “to
pay off the members and officers, and other
expenses of the General Assembly” of
1868? We beg to remind His Excellency
that the General Assembly adjourned on
the Mh October, 1868, the “members,
officers and other expenses” being paid.
Does the Governor pretend to say that
the $55,000, drawn by him, paid to the
Messrs. Kimball, and spent by him, at
tended by his private Secretary and others,
hovering around Washington and New
York cities, in his fruitless efforts to in
duce Congress to place in his hands the
supreme control ot affairs in Georgia, was
done “in pursuance of law?” We quote
from Paragraph 1, Section 6, Article 3, of
the new Constitution of Georgia as follows:
“No money shall be drawn from the Treas-
ury except l/ifflpjirojrriation made by law,”
&c. Will the Governor say there was any
appropriation for the expenditure of the
$55,000 drawn by him ? We further quote
from the report of the House Committee
adopted by almost a unanimous vote,
which says: “It is evident to us, that this
Legislature, at its last session, distinctly
refused to authorize the Governor to pur
chase a heating and lighting apparatus for
the temporary Capitol, and that His
Excellent?<f acted in direct violation to the
known will of the Legislature.” From
the same report, “That the course pur
sued by His Excellency is, in our opinion,
not only without authority, but is also
without precedent, so far as we are ad
vised.” Again from the same, “No emer
gency existed which demanded of Gover
nor Bullock this extraordinary dejtarture
from lavr, and the usual custom of the
Executive Department.” Again froth the
suine report, “That Treasurer Angier did
nothing more than his duty, when the
aforesaid irregularities were brought to his
knowledge, in investigating fully the man
ner in wliich the money had been drawn,
and in ascertaining, if possible, what dis
position had been made of it; and in
ascertaining precisely to what extent the
unauthorized proceeding had gone, with a
view to his own protection as a bonded
officer, and the protection of his securities,
and the preservation of the funds of the
State. His course was commendable, and
for it he is entitled to our thanks. 1 ’
$20,000 of the $55,000 before mention
ed was drawn by His Excellency after the
•above legislative action, and never report
ed to, nor received into the Treasury, but
disbursed by him.
With the above evidence staring him in
the face, it is very had manners for His
Excellency to charge tho Treasurer with
repudiating any act which maybe done by
His Excellency, the more especially when
he assumes to exercise judicial functions
by enjoining the Fourth National Bank
and the Treasurer of the State by an Ex
ecutive order, from the legitimate applica
tion of the money of the people, to the
purposes contemplated by the laws of the
State, to be regularly disbursed through
tiie Treasury department of the State
government.
This conduct, however, is in keeping
with most of his acts, exhibitinga great
degree of hardihood in the Executive as
suming judicial functions in his efforts to
restrain the Treasurer in a faithful per
formance of his duties as the receiver and
disburserof public funds, so constituted
by law. The Treasurer has uniformly
labored to prevent the Treasury from being
plundered, and to sustain the credit of tho
State, and hewill not cease these efforts
regardless of tho illegal injunction of Ilis
Excellency. lie fully understands the
object of the Governor, which is to draw
upon the Fourth National Bank for more
funds without authority, to be spent by
him in violation of law, greatly to the det
riment of tho public good.
1 regret being again forced before the
public ; the lolly of others and the vindica
tion of truth is my only apology.
N. L. Angier, Treasurer.
Atlanta, Ga., June Ith, 1869.
A HAD HIBTOKY.
A Hereditary Kleptomaniac.
Tho history of Miss Augusta Oolbarn,
the supposed kleptomaniac, now in jail at
Concord, N. H., and charged with stealing
an immense amount of clothing, bedding,
and lancy articles, and jewelry from many
prominent families in the abovecity, where
she is employed as a sewing woman, is a
verv sad but romantic one. Sho was born
in Wentworth, N. H., and is now a little
over thirty years of age. Her homo is one
of the most rospectable in the county whero
she lived, and her parents and connections
are esteemed for their many good qualities.
Miss Colburn had the misfortune to have
been born while her mother was in a state
of insanity, and the mental infirmities of
the mother were transmitted to the child.
The not unusual result of such a ciroum
stancc was an ineradicable antipathy be
tween tho mother and daughter. Subse
quently the frequently recurring attacks of
insanity on the former led to the placing
of the child with her grandmother, where
she was tenderly cared for and kindly
brought up. She developed into a pleas
ant aud sweet tempered child, and was
beloved by all who knew her.
When about 18 years of ago she becamo
engaged to a most estimable young man
with whom she had beeu acquainted from
childhood. He was rich only in good
habits and enterprise; aud ambitious to
do well, he left the granite hills of his na
tivo State, and in the far West he sought
to make a home for his affianced bride.
Fortune favored him, and in a few years
he was nearly ready to return to New
Hampshire to claim her who had so long
been the oentre of his affections and his
hopes.
i'ho preparations for the marriage and
the departure of the two for the West
were nearly completed, when Miss Col
burn received the sad and entirely unox
pectd intelligence of the sudden sickness
and death other lover. This terriblo blow
cast a blight over her prospects for life,
and gloom and melancholy settled upon
her. The infirmity which she inherited
from her mother showed itself at various
times, and sad results were feared.
Suddenly Miss Colburn disappeared,
and it was soon found that she had gone
to work iu one of the factories at Nashua,
whore she hoped to forget her trouble.
Soon her health commenoed to fail, and
she went to Concord as a seamstress where
she was trusted and esteemed by many.
About the timoof the breaking out of the
late war Miss Colburn was again engaged
to be married, the gentleman knowing all
the circumstances of her previous life.
With her blessing he enlisted in the
Second New Hampshire volunteers, and
never returned. His captain said he was
one of the bravest of his command, and
that he was last seen doing his whole duty
in the thickest of the first Bull Run fight.
It is seldom that a young woman of Miss
Colburn's age is called upon to experience
so many trials and disappointments, and
it is not strange that at Concord, where
she is best knowD, she has the sympathy
of all who are acquainted with her, or who
know the lads ot her checkered life.
With the exception of the one charge
now laid to her, her life is supposed to be
a blameless one. An interest in her sad
case has been awakened among those who
are now preparing to do for her all in
their power with the hope that the cloud
may yet be removed from her mind, and
that the world may yet have some happi
ness in store for her.
Supreme Court-Evening Session.
reported expressly for the constitu
tion.
Wednesday, June 9, 1869. — Argument
was concluded in The State of Georgia ex
relatione Jas. J. Waring ts. the Georgia
Medical Society.
Ilartridge & Chisolm for plaintiff in error.
Thomas E. Loyd, Jackson Lawton and
Bassinger for defendant in error.
•J. — Richard W. White, plaintiff in er
ror, vi. The State of Georgia,* ex relatione
Win. J. Clements was called. A. W.
Stone and James F. Johnson representing
plaintiff in error; Thomas E. Loyd and Ju
lian Ilartridge representing defendant in
error.
Col. Akerman stated that he was em
ployed by persons interested, to assist in
arguing this cause for plaintiff iu error,
and had the consent of said plaintiff in er
ror and his counsel so to do, and requested
the Court to relax the rule and allow three
arguments made. Under the circumstances
the Court consented to hear him, upon
condition that he occupy not over two
hours, and that any third attorney wishing
it, should have an equal time to make an
argument on the other side. The case is
brought up to test whether a negro can
hold office in this State.
A. W. Stone opened the cause for plain
tiff in error. Pending his opening, the
Court adjourned till to-morrow at 10 A. m.
Extensive Art-Gallery.— Next to
the Bible, uo book is more useful than
Webster’s dictionary. The Unabridged
is un extensive containing over
three thousand engravings, representing
almost every animal, insect, reptde, imple
ment, plants, etc., which we know any
thing about. It is a vast library, giving
information on almost every mentionabie
subject. It indeed has been well remarked
that it is the most remarkable compen
dium of human knowledge in our language.
—Household Advocate.
(M vuuuU tV J'entiuel.
.1 KD.IEBBAY MOKSIX6, JIUKK I*.
Tbi' Warreßton Affair—Colonel route's
Letter.
The letter of Colonel E. H. Pottle, in
another column of this issue, gives a full
and accurate account of the whole difficulty
atWarrenton. We ask that our exchanges
print Colonel P.’s letter that the people of
Warren may have full justice done them.
The Murder of Col. Flournoy.
In another column we give full and re- j
iable particulars of the killing of this most
estimable gentleman. The facts elicited
clearly warrant the conclusion reached by
the Coroner’s Jury of inquest, that he was
xurdertd.
* Affairs In Georgia.
The Commercial Advertiser, Thurlow
Weed’s paper, in commenting upon South
ern affairs, says :
A correspondent of the New Y ork Times,
writing from Georgia, and strongly vouch
ed for by that paper as reliable, says that
the reports of bad temper upon the part
of the ex-rebel element in that State, and
of outrages committed upon loyal people,
are very much exaggerated, and that very
many of them are highly colored for po
litical effect, ne states positively, as the
result of close personal observation and
knowledge of men and things in Georgia,
that the stories of a rebellion or lawless
feeling among the people are wholly un
true, and that ninety-nine hundredths of the
population are as peaceable, law rcspect
ingand well disposed as that of any State
in the Union. The people, he says, deeply
regret the violations of law which take
place here and there, and which a few
political adventurers magnify into crimes
in which the whole people are represented
as accessories before or after the fact.
These crimes are committed by the few
violent vagabonds who are to be found in
every community, whose violence and
vagabondism have been stimulated and
cherished by four years of war, who be
long to no party and to no society, and who
obey no law, human or divine, recognizing
no statute-book and fearing nor man nor
devil. To make the people of Georgia
accountable for the crimes of these outlaws
is quite as unreasonable and as unjust as
it would be to make the inhabitants of
Fifth avenue responsible for Real’s murder
or fur the assassination of Mr. Rogers.
He says further :
“Politics have no more to do with the
murders which have taken place in G:or
gia than the religion, dress, height or per
sonal appearance of the victims. Ash
burn was killed by the company which
usually frequents negro houses of ill-fame,
of one of which he was an inmate. Ayer
was killed by a negro who had refused to
allow him to become a boarder in a negro
lodging-house. Both Ashburu and Ayer
were men of abandoned character and
most profligate habits ; and, however, for
greater political emphasis, their names
may be paraded as the ‘Honorable’ Mr.
Ashburn and the ‘Honorable’ Mr. Ayer,
those who know their history, if they tell
the truth, must admit that long before
either had any political aspirations, no de
cent negro would have permitted them to
associate with him. Adkins, who is rep
resented by the writers of sensation
romances for political effect, as a venerable
and exemplary preacher of the Gospel,
was also a notorious debauchcr. His
negro amours are more numerous than the
number of his years. He was at one
time a Baptist exhorter, but for many
years, since i,is example was found to
square so ill with his precepts, he has been
regarded as a very disreputable hypocrite,
with whom nobody but the lowest and
most abandoned had any associations.
These are the facts, which can be cor
roborated by the testimony of thousands,
whose word nobody who knows them
would hesitate to believe. I would not
depart from the rule to say nothing but
good of the dead, if it were not necessary to
protect the living against cruel misrepre
sentations and wrongs.”
We have kuown Dr. Ayer for nearly
thirty years. He came to this State from
Maine in 1839 and settled, we think, in the
upper part of Columbia county, where he
remained but a short time and removed to
Louisville in Jefferson county. For a few
years he got along pretty well, the chief
objection to him being his excessive cruelty
to two old negroes, a man and a woman,
who he purchased soon after settling in
Louisville. From the latter place he
moved to the lower part of Burke,
but his'habits and associations were so
bad that he was soon driven from
society there and again moved, going
to ornearScarboro.in Scriven county. His
old habits of hard drinking and debauchery
continuing, he was again compelled to
move and then sought a home in Emanuel
county, where he remained up to the com
mencement of the war. For several years
he had lost all sense of shame or decency,
and was, consequently, not tolerated in
decent society.
When Sherman’s army passed through
the State Ayer followed it to Savannah,
where, we have heard, he obtained the
position of hospital steward. At the close
of the war he returned to Louisville as a
Bureau Agent, and lived and associated
entirely with negroes.
Adkins, we know little about. He has
never, we learn, been regarded by his
neighbors either as an hqnest or a very
pure man. He has been somewhat
notorious for his connection with nearly all
the protestant churches of his county,
from all of which he has been at some time
or other expelled. While at Columbia
Court last March we had exhibited to us
the letter which he wrote to Miss Adams
from Atlanta. It was of such a character
that no decent man would have written.
It contained not only a libel upon the
young lady, but was, in itself, wicked and
sensual to a degree that could hardly have
been expected from so old a man. This letter
was well calculated, not only to arouse the
indignation of the young lady’s friends,
but must have excited the enmity of his
own immediate family. The real cause of
his sudden taking off, when ascertained,
will, we are quite sure, be found entirely
disconnected with his official or political
conduct. “Murder will out,” and, when
the truth is known, those who are or have
b en suspected of the crime will be shown
to be clearly innocent.
The Negro Eligibility Question Before
the Supreme Court
This important question has been before
the Supreme Court for the last two days.
White, a negro, was elected Clerk of the
Superior Court of Chatham county, over
Ciements, a white man. Clements sued out
a quo warranto in Chatham Superior
Court, returnable before Judge Schley,
calling on White to show by what au
thority he assumed to exercise the func
tions of Clerk, and suggesting that White
was a negro.
Upon the hearing Judge Schley hold
that negroes are not eligible to office in this
State, and to this decision White except
ed and sued out a writ of error to the
Supreme Court.
From our Atlanta exchanges we learn
that the defendant in error (Clements),
through his counsel, T. E. Floyd and
Julian Hartridge, insist that
The fact that White is a citizen of the
United States does not necessarily confer
on him the right to hold office. 19 How
ard. 432 4 Dev- and Batt. 26. 4 Wash
C. 0. it 481.
Nor does the fact that the Constitution
makes him a citizen confer the right, for
the same Constitution makes women and
children citizens.
Nor does the fact that the Constitution
of Georgia makes him an elector confer
that right to hold office.
Nor does the clause of the Code which
declares the right of all citizens, and
among them mentions the right, to hold
office, for another clause specifies the
rights of persons of color, and does not
mention the right to hold office. This lat
ter clause circumscribes the first by the
rule of interpretation of the Statutes.
Code. 1468, 1862. I Bishop onCrim. Law
78. D. Warns on Statues 658. 692, 699,
70S, 707, 713.
Mr. Akerman's principal points are that
the disabilities of colored men under our
old government are not retained, that this
government is anew one, not a continua
tion of the old ; that the Government
of the United States and the people of
Georgia have declared the old Govern
ment destroyed:that in the present Consti
tution, there is no express disqualification of
colored men: that all voters are eligible to
office unless expressly made ineligible; that
colored men; having participated in fram
ing the Constitution, are to be presumed
legally qualified to participate in ail priv
ileges under it; that when slavery fell
wuh it the disabilities of free colored per
son-, and the presumptions against them
under the old government grew out of
slavery; that the adoption of the old law
in the Constitution, Article X, Section
111., does-not revive any local common
law, that the Constitutition was under
stood by the large majority of ttie Conven
tion which framed it, ot the people who
framed it, aud by Congress, to leave office
! open to men of both raees ; that the right
' of eligibility exists by statute if not by the
, Constitution.
A decision in the cas'e will probably be
announced on Monday next. Chief J ustice
Brown has frequently announced bis opposi
: tion to the right claimed by the negro and
| it is thought that Judge Warner will take
j the same view, while it is conceded that
-radge McCay is in favor of the privileges
i claimed.
The Political Schedule Tor 1869.
We extract from the New York World, ■
the following list of State elections which
are to be held during the remainder of the
year 1g69, beginning with the election in
Washington Territory for delegate, which
took place last Monday, 7th inst.:
Date of Offices tobe
Election. State. filled.
June 7. Washington Ter. Delegate to
Con cress.
July C. Virginia. State officers
and Con
gressmen.
Aug. 2. Kentucky. State Treas
urer and
Legislate.
Aug. 2. Alabama. Members of
Congress.
Aug. 5. Tennessee. State officers
and Legis
lature.
Aug. 10. Montana Ter. Delegates to
Congress.
Sept. 7. Vermont. State officers
and Legis
lature.
Sept. 13. Maine. State officers
and Legis
lature.
Oct. 5. Colorado. ' Delegates to
Congress,
Oct. 12. Pennsylvania. State officers
and Legis
lature.
Oc-t. 12. Ohio. State officers
aud Legis
lature.
Oct. 12. lowa. State officers
and Legis-
lature.
Oct. 20. California Judges of
Supre m e
Court.
Nuv. 2. New York. Secretary of
State, Legis
lature, &c.
Nov. 2. New Jersey. Legislature.
Nov. 2. Massachusetts. State officers
and Legis
lature.
Nov. 2. Minnesota. State officers
and Legis
lature.
Nov. 2. Wisconsin. State officers
and Legis
lature.
Iu the above list, Mississippi and Texas
are not included, as the President has not
yet fixed the time for their elections, under
the authority conferred upon him by the
Reconstruction law. Ho has indicated,
however, that the elections will be called
for the latter part of August, or beginning
of September next.
The Commercial Outlook.
The value in Gold of the imports of
loreign merchandize, at the port of New
York, from January lit to June sth, of
ihc current year, is $140,394,004; the
ralue for the same period last year having
'neon $100,004,135. and for 1867, $113,-
511,587. Taking the commercial me
tiopolis. New l*ork, as a fair exponent of
the business of the whole country, we have
bought (principally from Europe) about
one-third more goods than list year and
about one-fourth more than the year pre
vious.
We have sent abroad from the same
port, during the same period for each of
these respective years, products valued in
Currency as follows: In 1869, $71,594,-
177; 1808, $74,998,590, and in 1867,
$83,391,741. It thus appears that the ex
ports from New York are less, by about
six per cent., this year than last, and
about seventeen per cent, less than the
year previous. It is probable that the ex
ports from the South have increased and
that quite a large an amount of Southern
products which, in 1867, went through the
port of New York, have gone directly this
year from Southern ports. But we do not
think this increase has been sufficient to
affect seriously general results. Taking,
therefore, the business of the port of New
York as a fair exponent of the business of
the country, it appears that, with less
ability to pay, our annual export of pro
ducts having steadily decreased, our pur
chases and importations have increased
steadily and rapidly during the past three
vears.
The exports cf specie to pay the bal
ances against us during the speci
fied period have been as follows :
irom January Ist to June sth, 1869, $13,-
043,625; 1868 $40,689,260 ; 1867 $20,088,-
211.
It appears, then, that our exports of pro
duce have decreased, our qxports of specie
largely diminished, and imports of foreign
goods largely increased. Beyond doubt the
difference has been paid by merchants and
bankers, exporting United States bonds
and selling them in the European markets
to meet their drafts. This being so, the
amount of United States bands exported
from the port of New York to meet for
eign purchases between January Ist and
June sth, 1869, cannot fall short of one
hundred million of dollars. In the mean
while, the Hon. Secretary of tbo Treasury
“bears” the gold market by his weekly
sales of two millions of gold from the
Treasury, and gold goes down and govern
ment bonds go up; and of course this encour
ages the export ofbonds and the importation
of goods. We are likely, therefore, to have
plenty of foreign goods until the Bank of
England raises the rate of interest-high
enough to tempt foreign bondholders to
realize upon their U. S. bonds to invest in
their home securities, which are safe be
yond political cavil, at remunerative rates.
Turning to our domestic concerns, the
Western tiade during the past five months
has been greatly depressed. Large amounts
of Western produce, in consequence of a
decline in market price, have been held
over. The holders have incurred the loss
of charges for storage, interest and a de
terioration: and now have the prospect of
suffering still further heavy loss by a still
further decline in market price. Wheat
and corn in all sections of the Union
promise an abundant yield. The Western
trade to New York, although light during
the Winter and Spring, does not promise
to be increased in the Summer and Fall,
notwithstanding the increased imports.
The Southern wheat and corn crops
were never more promising. Cotton is
backward, but vigorous. Our farmers
owe but litt’e. The deficiency of cotton
supply cannot be made' up to bridge pres
ent embarrassments except from the grow
ing Southern crop of the South.
If our people will only follow the advice
given lately by a correspondent of the
Chronicle & Sentinel, “let their hair
grow,” keep out of debt and not force
their coming cotton crop upon the market,
the prospect is fair for the recovery of the
losses which they have incurred during th
past few years.
Stand from Under- Kimball's
Opera House Falling Down.— We
received a ietter last night in which it is
stated, “yesterday morning the plastering
began falling all around and it was danger
ous to st3y in it. Near the Governor’s
office the foundation of the second story
gave way. Workmen are now trying to
repair it, but the great defect is in "the
foundation and it cannot be repaired so as
to make itsafe.”— Federal Union.
Enormous Coal Deposit.— General J.
T. Wilder, of Roekwood Iron Works, was
in the city yesterday for a shorr time. He
informs us that the miners in his coal mine
are now at work upon a deposit of eoal
which exceeds in thickness anything ever
known in the world. An air course driven
across the bed shows it to be over one hun
dred feet thick. This is more than twice
the thickness of the largest beds of anthra
cite coal in Pennsylvania. —Knoxville Press.
Sprague on the South.— Senator
Sprague, who has just returned home
from the South, estimates the next cotton
crop at two millions or two millions and a
quarter bales. Owing to the uncertainty
of Degro labor, it has become unprofitable
to cany on latge plantations, and most of
the crop is now furnished by farms that
yield from one to five and so on up to fifty
bales. He recommends a reduction of the
tariff on imports, and that the Government
take the business of banking into its own
hands, and lend out money accumulated in
the Treasury in such manner as to afford
capital for new enterprises and settle peo
ple everywhere to work.
- What Does it Mean?
“It is acoevtaincd from tho White
House that a case coming up from Geor
gia, which wus referred to the Attorney
General, has been reported back by that
officer. He came to sueh conclusion on
some of the points involved that it was
not necessary to consider the status of
Georgia under the Reconstruction acts.”—
Wash. Telegram, Chicago Tribune (Rad.)
JuneSth.
Why the learned Attorney General
should come to the conclusion that it was
not necessary to consider the status of
Georgia under the Reconstruction acts we
are at a loss to discover. He must hold
one of two opinions; either that the State
}s fully reconstructed, and in that sense a
State of the Union with equal rights and
privileges with all the other States, or that
we are, ashelately held Texas tobe, still in
a state of war, and subject to the mere
will of the Conqueror. In either case
the consideration of our status as affected
by the Reconstruction acts would be wholly
out of place.
We don’t like this man Hoar. He
belongs to the o'.d blue light Federalist
stock, and seems to be fully impregnated
with the ideas of h;s ancestry. His recent
opinion in the Texas case has shocked the
entire legal mind of the whole country.
We do not believe that there is a respecta
ble iawyer, jurist or statesman in the
United States whose mind is free from
fanatical bigotry who agrees with the
Attorney Genera! in regard to the status
of Texas.
Hoar, in the Texas matter, is said to
have submitted to the impertinent dicta
tor of Butler, and that his own mind,
Federalist as he has been, was not free
from great doubt on the question. In the
case of Georgia he may be influenced in
the same way, for it is well known that
Butler is vindicatively bitter toward this
State, and extremely anxious to place us
again under military rule. We should be
agreeably surprised if ho is not now at
work upon the Attorney General in far
therance of his views, i nd quite as much
surprised if he fails to control him.
Textile Manufactures or Great Britain.
A recent parliamentary return gives in
teresting statistics of the British manu
factures. The table first given contains a
summary of all the cotton, woolen, shoddy,
worsted, flax, hemp, jute, rope, horse
hair, elastic, hosiery, lace and silk facto
ries in the United Kingdom of Great
Britain:
1868.
Number of factories 6,403
Number of spindles 45,117,431
Number of power-looms 546,619
Amount of 1 moving power
(steam).. 336,730
Amount of moving power (wa
ter) 29,320
Number of children employed
under thirteen years of age.... 85,463
Total number of persons em
ployed ... 854,243
Number of power-loom weavers. 247,206
Tho following table shows the returns
relating to the cotton manufacture :
1868.
Number of factories 2,549
Number of combing machines.. 8,541
Number of spinning 5pind1e5.....32,000,004
Number oi doubling spindles.... 2,215,231
Number of power-looms 379,329
Number of power-loom weavers. 151,783
Amount of moving power
(steam) 191,033
Amount of moving power (wa
ter) .. 10,029
Number of children under thir
teen years of age 41,674
Total number of persons employ
ed 401,064
The tables below give summaries of the
various other manufactures enumerated
above :
WOOLEN FACTORIES.
1868.
Number of factories 1,658
Number of coming machines 1,109
Number ot spinning spindles 4,189,560
Number of doubling spindles 167,038
Number of power-looms 46,204
Number of power-loom weavers... 32,270
Number of billy spindles 1,076,173
Number of condensers 1,365
Number of gigs 2,669
Number of lulling stocks 3,879
Amount of moving power (steam) 42,633 I
Amount of moving power (water) 11,228
Number of children employed 6,767
Total number of persons employ’d 127,181
WORSTED FACTORIES.
Number of factories 703
Number of combing machines 1,038
Number of spinning spindles 2,193,210
Number of doubling spindles 348,363
Number of power looms 71,666
Number of power-loom weavers... 31,548
Number of billy spindles 15,617
Number of condensers 4
Number of gigs 36
Number ot fulling stocks 23
Amount of moving power (steam) 44,571
“ “ “ “ (water) 2,006
Number of children employed 26,062
Total number of persons employ
ed 131,896
FLAX, HEMP, AND JUTE FACTORIES.
Number of factories 472
Number of combing machines... 374
Number of spinning spindles 1,679,357
Number of doubling spindles 58,059
Number of power-looms 35,047
Number of power-loom weavers.. 23,523
Amount cf moving power (steam) 49,389
Amount of moving power (wat’r) 5,583
Number of children employed.... 5,325
Total number of persons employ
ed 130,423
SILK FACTORIES.
Number of factories 591
Number of spipning or throwing
spindles 975,168
Number of doubling spindles 181,538
Number of power-looms 14,625
Number of power-loom weavers 6,329
Amount of moving power (steam) 5,897
Amount of moving power (water) 649
Number of children under 11 704
Number of children between 11
and 13 4,122
Total number of persons employ
ed 41,017
Negroes in Theatres.
The Washington correspondent of the
Pittsburg Gazette (Republican) says:
Our City Council lias just passed an act
“regulating admission to places of public
amusement and entertainment,” and it has
already, orcertainly will,receive the Mayor’s
approval, and become a law. The act
ma'-es it unlawful fur any person who has
obtained license for the purpose of giving
a lecture, concert, exhibition, having a
circus performance, keeping a theatre, or
any other place of amusement, from mak
ing any distinction on account of race or
color, or in regard to admission to any
portion where the audience is admitted,
and imposes a penalty of not less than ten
nor more than twenty dol'ars for every
violation of the act. This will, of course,
ruin the business of our principal theatre,
because the class of people who attend
theatrical performances and operas will
refuse to occupy an orchestra seat by the
side of any negro who may insist upon
touching elbows with them. For that
matter, it will have the same effect upon
all public exhibitions. There is a consid
erable portion of the old and permanent
population of Washington still here, and
even the more recent and transient class
will not consent to this liberal provision
for the blacks by our city authorities.
None of the neople of Washington, how
ever Radical, however partial to negro
suffrage and other civil rights, are pre
pared for such close contact with a pro
miscuous assembly of blacks as this enact
ment provides for. There is uo doubt that
the negroes will promptly and readily avail
themselves of this provision for obtaining
mixed audiences, and then the legality ot
the question will very soon be pronounced
upon by the courts. It is questionable
whether municipal authorities have the
power to regulate the details of private
business. It is affirmed by legal men that
it is optional with a person who has an
exhibition to seat the men and women to
gether or apart, to place the blacks in one
part of the room and the whites in another,
and that this view has been sustained
when tested in the courts.
Our colored brethren have been too
suddenly elevated to the enjoyment of cer
tain privileges to admit of their unrestrict
ed participation in the higher class of
intellectual entertainments in common
with the whites, and their_ anxiety for
advancement in this respect is not insti
gated by capacity for appreciating what
they covet, but rather by a spirit of an
tagonism toward the whites, and a desire
to Hnnoy them by public contact.
What Next ?
A BLAST FROM BEECHER.
We cull the following theological curiosi
ties from a sermon on “The Beauties of
Moral Qualities” preached by Mr.
Beecher on Sunday, May 16, 1869, and
published in the last number of the Ply
mouth Pulpit:
I have no overweening attachment to
the church as a physical organization. I
am rather under than over the line on that
subject. I believe that the church is use
ful ; but 1 do not believe tbat any panicu
lar church on tbe face of the globe is or
dained of God. I do not oelieve one
church is any better than another so far as
ordinance is concerned. I do not believe
there is any pattern whatsoever laid down
in the New Testament according to which
churches should be organized. I believe
that churches stand on the same ground
that common schools and literary institu
tions do. They are found to be useful,
and to promote man’s growth, and so they
are right.
I believe that ordinance, external forms,
are matters of utter indifference. Bap
tism is baptism, whether it be affusion, or
sprinkling, or immersion. The Lord’s
Supper, if it ba administered by a pope,
is good enough; if it be administered by a
cardinal, it is good enough; if it be ad
ministered by a priest or a minister, it is
good enough; if it be administered by the
father in the. family, it is good enough;
and if there is no one else to administer it,
and you administer it yourself, it is just as
good. The Lord’s Supper belongs to every
man that belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ;
and he has just as much right to adminis
ter it to himself as to have it administered
to him by a priest.
In regard to churches, ordinances, and
governments, I take the broadest ground,
and say that they are useful, but that
there is not one of them that is obligatory,
as having warrant in Scripture ; and no
man can come to ue saying, “Thus saith
the Lord,” in respect to them.
Do you suppose that is the wedding,
when the young man and his blushing
bride stand up and exchange vows? The
wedding took place when their two hearts
rushed together as one, and when they
clasped each other, and said, “Thine for
lile ; mine for life.”
The Warrentou Arrests.
Warrenton, June 9, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
Many reports of occurrences in this town
will find their way to the press, and for the
purpose of giving you, and through you
the people at large, a correct account of
them, I write this letter. In March last
the office of Sheriff was made vacant in
this county by the absence of John C.
Norris from the county; he had no deputy,
though he has filled the office ever since
his election, about a year ago. The Or
dinary of this county, in view of the ap
proaching term of the Superior Court and
other emergencies, after taking legal ad
vice, both hero and elsewhere, passed an
order appointing Mr. John Raley, an«old
and experienced officer, to fill tte vacancy,
“adinterim.” This order was entered on
his minutes, reciting that he had evidence
that the former Sheriff bad left with no
intention of returning. On the first Mon
day in April following the presiding Judg“
(Judge Andrews), at the opening of the
Court, put an order on his minutes reciting
the absence of the Sheriff, and that there
was no deputy, and appointed Mr. Raley
Sheriff to serve as sueh during the term
and for ten days afterward, as provided
by the Code of the State. The Code fur
ther provides (see sections 251 and 252 of
Irwin’s revised Code) that if, after
the expiration of ten days,- the.
officer vacating his office does not
appear, the appointee may continue as
such until there is an appointment or elec
tion. The 251st section, under which the
Judge made his appointment iu April,
provides “if there is a vacancy in the
Clerk” (Sheriff, for the same provision ap
plies to both) “and his deputy for any
reason do .not act as clerk” (Sheriff) “at
the time provided by law holding any of
said courts, the presiding Judge shall ap
point a clerk” (Sheriff) “who holds his
office during the time and for ten days
thereafter.” Mr. Norris did not return
to the county until the fourth dty of June,
and then with a military escort command
ed by Col. Hughes, of the U. S. A.; he
came with a paper signed by Goveroor
Bullock deciding the question of his right
to the office of Sheriff iu his .favor. Dur
ing Norris’ absence it is known that he was
iu Atlanta, and in constant consultation
with the Governor. With this paper
signed by Gov. Bullock, which Norris
brought to this place, came orders from
Gen. Terry to the commandant at this
post, instructing him to recognize Norris
as Sherri', and to furnish him men when
demanded. Ot course I cannot say what
these orders were precisely, but the sequel
will show that Norris had full powers to
use the entire command tor his
purposes when necessity required it,
and that he was to be the judge of that
necessity. There can be no question but
that Governor Bullock and General Terry
both know that there was a Sheriff in
office in Warren acting under authority
when the decision and orders were made.
On the sth day of June Judge Andrews
passed the depot at this place, and was
called upon by officers of this command to
enlighten them upon the vexed question ;
but he very properly declined to express
an opinion, and said that the identical
question was then pending before him, and
in a few days he vxould decide it.
Colonel Hughes, Judge Andrews and
Mr. Norris went on the train together,,
and Colonel Hughes had full knowledge of
Judge Andrews' view-* and intentions;
he went to Atlanta with Norris, and it is
highly probable—almost certain —that he
communicated to his chief and Governor
Bullock the conversation with the Judge
on the 7th of June. Norris returned with
an additional force of about one hundred
and thirty men, and went with them into
camp; additional orders came to the com
mand, it is stpposed, for in about three
hours after his arrival he ordered a de
tachment of soldiers to arrest the acting
Sheriff, Raley, refused to show his authori
ty when demanded by Raley, refused
to give time :br suing out habeas
corpus, and in than one hour, at the
head of a detachment of thirty or forty sol
diers with a commissioned officer, marched
him to jail and put him in the dungeon.
Tbe best that I could do was to get the
writ returnable tn Tuesday morning, the
Bth, and had copies of it served on Norris,
Major Van Wart, the commander, and the
Lieutenant of theguard. On the night of
the Bth Norris, with his squad, arrested
Messrs. E. E. Cody, E. S. Cody, James
M. Cody, H. Martin and A. J. Hartley,
refusing to show or state aDy authority
when demanded. One was taken from his
bed at a late hour of the night in the
presence of his fsmily: two others taken
from their beds, and after the arrest of
one, his gun and pistol taken from the
house and carried tway by Norris; all were
lodged in jail immediately on thtir arrest
On the morning or the Bth Raley was pro
duced under the writ of Norris. Major
Van Wart (I am dad to say) respected the
process, and answered denying custody,
but that his comnand was only acting as
“posse-comitatus” under orders from his
superior officer at,Atlanta. Norris, with
great reluctance, made his return and with
it affidavits and warrants under the hand
of a Notary Publice* officio J. P. of Fulton
county. The affidavits were made by Norris
himself and put io;o his hands for execution,
with orders to take the parties before the
Notary in Atlanta or some judicial officer.
Home charging an assault with intern to
murder him (Norris), some an assault
•with intent to rob jail keys, some Tor free
ing a party from jail. It is net known
whether tire genius ot the Attorney Gen
eral of the State was employed in these
specimens of criminal pleading, bu; Mr.
Norris statel in open court that he was
bis counsel and had been telegraphed for
to prosecute ,he cases. No one will deny
bat these arrtsts and imprisonments were
illegal, contra:y to, and in defianceof, law.
But the parties, all being anxious to meet
the charges, waved all objections ind pro
posed to give these recognizances with
any amount of hpnd for their appearance
at any court in the county in vhich the
crimes were chafed to have beei commit
ted. This Norrisrcsisted, and, with a force
ot fifty men or mire at commjnd, urged
the confinement oiall in jail. The Judge
(Dr. R. W. Hubet), Ordinary,[decided in
favor of the petitioi for hail and released
them on strong bonis at taeirown request.
On the a'ternoon o' the Earne day an in
junction was served on Nirris, issuing from
Judge Andrews, coamarding him to per
form no official act uatil tbe further order
of Court. Here the matter now rests, and
but for this, in twelve aours the county
prison would have lees made a bastile for
Norris and Governor lallock. It remains
to be seen whether irders from Atlanta
will direct him to respet this process of
the court or not, anl whether General
Terry will sustain himin defiance .of the
law.
As bad as Norris’ eaduct has been, all
these wanton and W'.eled violations of law,
and tbe liberties of tht citizen are plainly
referable to a faithless Executive, whose
motive, I fear, is to i/ztate our people to
antagonism with the nilitary, and use this
for purposes foreign 3 the con titutional
duties of his office, ad it doubtless will 1
excite wonder that thiCommander of this
military Department should suffer his i
power to be used for sch illegal purposes.
Are we living under a'Jonstitution which |
protects life, liberty ad property? In- !
stead of having an Excutive to maintain |
the honor and defend is State, we have j
one who plots and contives to oppress the
citizens, aod trample qon their liberties.
If crime has been comutted iD this com
munity, it ought to bend can be investi
gated. The acting heriff, Raley, is
able and willing ’o execute any ;
process, and can coimand a "‘posse
comitatus" from the bdy of the citizens,
if necessary, without he aid of the mili- j
tary. But this is Dot 4at they want. A
peaceful the law would
not suit their purposes. Strifes and com.,- j
ions are quite necessy to inflame and
keep open wounds whia are fast healing.
I am happy to say thathis plot has thus
far miscarried ; thoug the provocation
has been great, our peple have borne it
with manhood and puence. The first
known act of Governs Bullock in this
matter was to decide wo was the lawful
Sheriff of Warren com®. Whence comes
this right of the Exscive department to
assume a function belongs to an
other co-ordinate branch)!’the sovernmeDt,
to decide all judicial q u»tions ? The usur- 1
pation appears the morfflagrant when his
decision was put in fori by him, with the ;
military to back it, a fit he knew that the j
exact question was penjng in the Superior j
Court, and that, too, efore a J udge of
his own selection. For all the illegal ar
rests and restraints upon liberty which
followed, Governor Bollock must be held
responsible before the tribunals of public
opinion.
It affords me pleasure to add. that, in
the performance of their delicate duties,
the commander of the troops, with officers
and men under him, without an exception,
conducted themselves with eminent pro
priety ani a just regard for the sensioili
ties of our people. No good citizen de
sires to assail or evade the requirements of
law. To its supremacy in all things let us
all bow.
I am, your obedient svt.,
E. H. Pottle.
Full Particulars of the Killing of Colonel
Flournoy.
POMPEY, A NEGRO, COMMITTED FOR THE
UNIVERSAL REGRET FOR niS
LOSS —CLOSING OF STORES.
Sandersville, Ga., June 10, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
At the inquest held by Coroner Brantly,
over the remains of the lamented Colonel
Flournoy, the following facts were elicited :
While he was sitting in his room read
ing to his wife on Tuesday last, he noticed,
from the window overlooking a field to the
right of the house, that the negro Pompey
was plowing his (F.’s) buggy horse un
usually hard, when he remarked to his
wife, “I must go out and talk to Pompey
about the horse. I had to scold him odcb
before, and he is mad with me.” He arose
and went to the field, but had not been
gone more than five minutes when Mrs.
F. heard the report of a pistol. She called
Esther (Pompey’s wife, who was about
the house) to ruu and see what the diffi
culty was, and, as she started, a second re
port was heard by Mrs. P., who im
mediately ran out of the house, when she
heard Pompey call from the field: “Miss
Phelia, come here, Mass Bob has shot
hisself.” She ran down the lane, follow
ing Esther, who got over the fence first,
and to where Mr. F. was lying on the
ground, about ten steps from the fence.
On getting to the fence, Mrs. F. said,
“Pompey, you have killed him,” and, io
trying to get over the fence, she failed
from weakness or excitement, and called
Pompey (who was standing about lour
rows from where Mr. F. was lying, hold
ing the horse) to assist her in getting over,
which he did. When she got to Mr. F.
he was lying on the ground, unconscious,
with a hole on the top of the
right side of his head, lrorn which
blood and brains were oozing out,
his right hand lacerated, and signs of
having been bitten .on two of his fingers;
his hat, with a hole in it, was lying under
his head, and a Colt’s revolver about four
feet from him. Mrs. F., with the assist
ance of Pompey and Esther, carried him
to the house. She then ordered Pompey
to go to town (about one mile) after a physi
cian, which he did, alter delays of one sort
and another. Riding up to Dr. Mathis’
office, about a quarter past ten o’clock, he
called out, in the hearing of several citi
zens: “Doctor Mathis, Miss Phelia says
come to sec Mars Bob—he has shot
hisseif!” Dr. M. and several citizens at
once started for Mr. F.’s house, where
they found him in the condition above de
scribed, in which he lingered until four
p. m., when he died.
Pompey denies having had any difficul
ty. But nis testimony is so contradictory
to that of his own wife and of Mrs. K.,
that the Jury had no hesitation in coming
to the conclusion that “Robert W. Flour
noy came to his death by a pistol shot
wound, inflicted upon him by Pompey,
and that we find him guilty of murder.”
The ball entered the upper part of the
right parietal bone, going in a diagonal di
rection through the braiu, and lodged a
little under the left ear, where it was found
by the physicians who made the post
mortem examination. .
No event has ever caused such excite
ment throughout the county as this has.
Everybody views Col. Flournoy’s death as
a personal loss. He was the pride of the
county, and it will be a long time ere we
will look upon his like again. He was
buried by Hamilton Lodge No. 58, F. A.
M., in the presence of a large concourse of
citizens, at 9 a. m. to-day, at his planta
tion. All places of business in town were
closed until noon. N.
The Indlaas—Letter ol' the President to
the Commissioners.
The President has addressed the follow
ing letter to the Indian commission, which
was recently in session in this city, for
their guidance in the discharge of their
duties:
Executive Mansion, ]
Washington, June 3, 1869. j
A commission ot citizens having been
appointed under authority ot law to op
erate with the Administrative Department
in the management of Indian affairs, con
sisting of Wm. Welch, of Philadelphia;
John 0. Farwell, of Chicago ; Geo: H.
Stuart, of Philadelphia ; Robt. Campbell,
of St. Louis ; W. E Dodge, of New Yark;
Felix R. Brunot, of Pittsburg; Nathan
Bishop, of New York, and Henry S.
Lane, of Indiana, the following regula
tions will, till further directions, control
the action of the commission and the Bu
reau of ludiao Affairs in matters coming
under their joint supervision :
1. The commission will make its own
organization and employ its own clerical
assistants, keeping its “necessary expenses
of transportation, subsistence, and clerk
hire when actually engaged in said service,”
within the amount appropriated therefor
by Congress.
2. The commission shall be furnished
with full opportunity to inspect the records
of the Indian Oflice, and to obtain full in
formation as to the conduct of ail parts of
the affairs thereof.
3. They shall have full power to inspect
in person or by sub-committee the various
Indian superitvtendeneies and agencies of
the Indian country, to be present at pay
ment of annuities, at consult Rons or
councils with the Indians, and when on
the ground to advise superintendents and
agents in the performance of their duties.
4. They are authorized to be present in
person or by sub-committee at' purchase of
goods for Indian purposes,and inspect said
purchases, advising with the Commission
er of Indian Affairs with respect thereto,
5". \V henever they shall deem it neces
sary or advisable that instructions of
superintendents or agents be changed or
modified, they will communicato such ad
vice through the office of'Commissioner of
Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the In
terior, and in like manner their advice as
to changes in modes of purchasing goods
or conducting, the affairs of the Indian
Bureau proper. Complaints against su
perintendents or agents, or other officers,
will in the same manner be forwarded to
the Indian Bureau or Department of In
terior for action.
b The commission wi!!, at their board
meetings, determine upon the recom
mendations to be ma te es to the plans of
civilizing or deaiiug with the Indians, and
submit the same fur action in tho manner
above indicated, and ail plans involving
the expenditure of public money, will be
acted upon by the Executive ur the Secre
tary of the Interior before expenditure is
made under the same.
7. The usual mode of accounting with
the Treasury cannot be changed, and all
expenditures, therefore, must be subject to
the approval now required by law and by
the regulations of the Treasury Depart
ment, and all vouchers must conform to
the same laws and requirements, and pass
through the ordinary channels.
8. All the officers of the Government
connected with the Indian service are en
joined to afford every facility and opportu
nity to said commission and their sub-com
mittees in the performance of tbeir duties,
and to give the most respectful heed to
tnrir advice within the limit of such
officers' positive instructions from their
superiors, to allow such commissions full
acccis to their accounts, and to co-operate
with them in the most earnest manner to
the extent of their proper power in the
general work of civilizing the Indians,
protecting them in their rights, and stimu
lating them to become industrious citizens
in permanent homes, instead of following a
roving and savage life.
9. The commission will keep such record
or minutes of their proceedings as may be
neeessary to afford evidence of their ac
tion, and will provide for the manner in
which their communication with and ad
vice to the Government shall be .made and
authenticated. U. S. Grant.
Orange Peel—What Five Cents
WORTH of it Did.—A man from the coun
try invested five cents in the purchase of
an orange, and preparatory to getting
himself outside of it, threw the peel on the
sidewalk. .Soon after a young woman came
along, slipped upon the peel and fell, break
ing her leg. The woman was to have been
married the next day, but wasn’t. The
man who was to marry her had come from
St. Paul, Minnesota, and was obiiged to
return, on account of business, to await
the recovery of the girl. On his way back
he unfortunately took a train on the Erie
Railroad, which ran off the track, and his
shoulder-blade was broken, forcing him to
stop at Dunkirk for repairs. On getting
back to St. Paul he found that his forced
absence bad upset a business arrangement
which he had expected to complete, at a
pecuniary loss to him of $5,000. Mean
time the injured girl suffered a relapse,
whieh so enfeebled her health that her
marrage was delayed, which had a bad
effect upon the’young man, and he finally
broke the engagement and married a widow
in Minnesota with four small children.
This so worked upon the mind of the girl
that she is now in the insane hospital in
Middletown. Her father, outraged “By the
conduct of the young man. brought suit
for breach of promise, and has just recover
ed SIO,OOO. The anxiety andexpense of the
whole affair thus far has been enormous,
anybody can see. Similar eases are
likely to occur so long as people will persist
in throwing orange peel around loose. —
Hartford Courant.
AGRICULTURAL.
Contributions on practical farming are
solicited from our friends throughout the
tountry.
The East Alabama Agricultural Society.
We clip from the Columbus Sun the fol
lowing acccount of the meeting of this
Soeiety, held on the farm of C. A. Pea
body, Esq., on Tuesday last.
The running conversational debate upon
the question before the society on that day
will prove interesting to our agricultural
friends.
The Sun says :
At twelve o’clock, the number of visit
ors was greatly augmented by the arrival
of a large number ot the members of the
Society, by the Opelika train. So soon as
as the dust of travel was brushed away,
and the inner man refreshed, the Society
was called to order by the President. Mr.
Peabody then proceeded to read a papei
upon the Cotton Louse, its birth, habits,
&e , &c.
We expect to lay this paper before our
readers in full and only quote at present
from the brief notes takeu ou spot.
Mr. P. claimed that of the insect which
produced the Louse, the male impregnated
the female for five generations, aud that
the female would lay six thousand millions
,of eggs, that Lady bugs and Ants preyed
upon the eggs and the young ones when
hatched, and did no injury to the Cotton
Plant. That a hard thunder shower after
a dry sped was death to the Louse, as was
also hot days after a cool, wet spell. Salt,
salt-water, ashes, tobacco smoko, drc., had
been used in the destruction of the Louse,
but that he had found powdered Gyp
sum, sprinkled on the jdints before the dew
had dried, a sovereign remedy.
Mr. Lilly thought the Lady lug pro
duced tne Louse, had found large numbers
of them on his vrues previous to the ap
pearance of the Idee.
Mr. Peabody contended that the Lady
bug destroyed the lice, and proposed to
satisfy all who doubted it.
On motion, a committee consisting of
Messrs. Harrison, Gray and Woodruff,
were appointed to examine into the matter
and report to the Society. We hope to
lay the report of the committee before our
readers in a day or so.
In company with the committee, we
looked at the Cabbage and Cotton Louse
through a microscope. They were found
to be no kin. The Cabbage Louse is fat
and white, and looks and walks like a
gray-back in Confederate days, and is a
near connection of the animal that preys
on grape viues. Ou the other hand the
Cotton Louse is small, dark-colored, heavy
built, aud is as mischievous, though not
quite so lively, as the flea.
Mr. Grant stated that uoleached ashes
would cause the Cabbage Louse to fall back
immediately.
Mr. Lilly had found that sulphur was as
odious to the insect as to sit)ners generally.
Mr. Tootner inquired if any experiments
had beeu made upon insects with Carbolic
Acid. Said to be destructive of them.
Mr. Peabody replied that he had had no
opportunity to test its merits.
After this the discussion took a wide
and general range upon topics of interest
to planters.
A. L. Harrison said his work on the
farm had been impeded by the measles
among his hands. He had used commer
cial manures, and his cotton geaerally was
about 12 inches high. From experience of
this year is satisfied that our farmers plant
cotton too early'. Did not approve of
planting cotton in checks. Thought it
best to sow thick in the drills in order to
get good stands.
THE SULKEY CULTIVATOR.
Mr. Hop Smith, who owns and uses a
Sulkey Cultivator, gave his experience
with it. Said that he used two mules to
it and could jslow around corn seven to
eight acres per day. His was ol the Buck
Eye patent, and was good lor sidiug cot
ton. Hoe hands following this plow could
hoe i aero more per day. The plowman
could ride, and it would go around big
stumps and straddle the little ones. It
had to be lifted over strong roots. It does
not do well on rocky land. With this ma
chine, four plow shares, two mules and one
hand would do the work of four mules and
four hands. It would work well after a
cotton planter. His machine cost him
seventy dollars, and could be used over
corn four feet high. Advised the use of it
on level lands and lauds free from trees
and stumps. L saved him the labor of
three hands aud two mules every day it
was in use.
cotton planters.
Mr. Tootner spoke of the advantages
of Brown’s Cotton Planter. The best
machine of the kind he has seen.
Mr. Bullard thought the Brown
Planter the best he had ever seen. The
one he was usiQg did not drop seed regu
larly.
Mr. Turner had a Cotton Planter made
by Ticknor & Gar! \nd. Liked it much.
It made a noise when in motion and could
be heard } of a mile, and he could tell
when the “colored brother” was in motion.
Mr. Gray mentioned au improvement in
this planter. The use of cogs in place of
chains.
Mr. Otis Smith mentioned a cheap and
efficient stump puller. A cant-hook fast
ened to a strong pule fifteen feet long
and hitched to a mule.
Mr. Gray spoke favorably of a similar
instrument.
Mr. Harrison thought the Ticknor &
Garland Cotton Planter too expensive. It
cost S4O. But would plant anything from
a mustard seed to an Irish potato.
FEEDING OF STOCK.
Captain Hill presented some views on the
cure and feeding of stock. Said it was im
portant to get the largest amount of labor
out of the smallest amount of stock.
The common practice of feeding stock in
a common trough was a very bad one.
Neither cheap or healthy. The strongest
mule would drive away the weaker ones,
and then over-eat arid drink himself, take
the colic and die. Each mule and horse
should be fed separately in a stall. It the
animal refuses lood it is a sign that h ; is
out of order. Food should be changed as
often as possible. Had seen eight bushels
of meal go farther than ton bushels of corn.
Chopped and round food should be fed al
ternately. The chopped food should be
spriukled with salt water and meal. He
spoke very highly of
dennison’s condition powders.
Said he had used them fir teu years,
and had never lost a horse. The .powders
keep the stomach, kidneys and skins of
horses and mules in excellent condition.
The powders had been found to be very
efficacious to Hog Cholera. Recommend
ed their use. A member of the Society,
whose name has escaped us, testified as to
the fine qualities of these powders. Had
never lost a horse or mule since he had
been using them.
Mr. Swearingen moved that a commit
tee be appointed to investigate the Buck
Eye Cultivator, and report to the Society.
Messrs. Peabody, Mullins, McLean and
Smith were appointed.
Mr. Jeter moved that the committee al
so-investigate Reapers and Mowers.
Mr. Otis Smith mentioned the tact that
hts father had made very strong and sub
stantial fences from stumps that had been
pulled up.
Mr. Lilly presented specimens of very
fine Red Onions, raised by a Mr. Murphy.
They were manured with salt and lime,
and cultivated alter the manner laid down
in White’s Book on Southern Gardening.
The society then adjourned until evening.
From the WaehingU/n Express.
The Cotton Interest.
At the late meeting of the Southern
Commercial Convention, at Memphis,
Tennessee, Gen. J. L. Alcorn, United
States Senator elect from Mississippi, ad
dressed a committee of cotton growers in a
speech of considerable leDgth and of great
interest to all who are directly or indirectly
interested in the culture or manufacture of
cotton. He took the ground that there
has long existed a powerful conspiracy
among European powers to cripple and
prostrate the cotton supremacy of the
United States, the influences of whieh
combination can only be met and thwarted
by the fostering care of the Government
over the cotton interests and especially by
government aid in rebuilding the Missis
sippi levees, which he regards as truly a
national work.
He stated that for haif a century befiire
the war England strove in vain with her
Indian possessions to break down the
American monopoly of cotton, which
then brofigbt into the country
the equivalent of upward of $250,-
000,000 annually in gold. The war,
however, destroyed this invincible monopo
ly, and enabled the thirty-five European
countries —which were in 1802 organized
into this anti-Amer.can cotton conspiracy
under the leadership of the Manchester
Cotton Supply Association—to render the
United States a “tributary source of sup
ply,’’ and to seriously threaten the ulti
mate driving of this country out of the
market In three or four years this eom
binat on haß opened up thirteen sources of
supply to the extern of nearly 400,000
bales, and increased the contribution of old
sources to tbe extent of about 800,000
bales. He refers at length to the efforts
made by England to stimulate the culture
of cotton in her colonies of the East, and
by France in her West Indian and Al
gerian possessions. The Pasha of Egypt
has increased his railroad facilities and
doubled his production of cotton. Portu
gal has struck off the cotton import duty,
offered a premium for cotton production,
and makes free gifts of seeds and imple
ments to planters. Italy, too, has gone to
work deliberately to accomplish the same
end. Os the increased foreign production
he says :
Hayti had between 1860 and 1861, in
creased her exports of cotton three-fold.
Malta bad produced in 1862 four times as
much as Bhehad in 1861. Smyrna, which
had reappeared in tbe ootton market in
1861 to tbe extent ol 10,000 bales, con
tnbuted to it iu 1862 as many as 60,000
• u S ’j r^WCI ? t J'-i’ix sources of supply fur
nished contributions of raw material to the
mills of Manchester in 1860, but in 1864
tho number has increased to thirty-nine,
and the thirteen new sources are not all
unworthy of the serious attention. Among
them we find Japan to the extent of 21,000
bales;Turkey to the number 0f38,000 bales;
Hong Kong to the extent of 77.000 bales ;
China to the number of 140,000 bales—a
startling result of the labors of this con
spiracy but for three short years. Nor is
this all; many of these sources of supply
in 1860 had contributed to the English
demand of 1864 in volumes enormously
increased. The Egyptian contribution to
the British markets had expanded front
98,000 in 1860 to as mueh, in 1864, as
280,000 bales The Brazilian importa
tions of cotton into England had increased
between 1860 and 1864 from 38,000 bales
to 85,000 bales. The Indian fibres enter
ed at British ports in 1860 reached 455,-
000 bales; but in 1564 they had gone up
to 970,000 bales.
Mr. Alcorn then explodes the old theory
of a fibre monopoly, by which is meant the
ability, through climate, of producing a
superior fibre to that of other countries.
He shows that Hayti, Morocco and Algeria
produce quite as good a staple, and that in
other countries the development of greater
skill and the application of' manures are
steadily producing better staples. Added
to this is the fact that foreign manufac
turers changed the character of their ma
chinery at the time of the interruption of
the American supply, so as to work the
Indian and other cottons.
In Brazil the quantity of land available
for cotton production is set down as prac
tically unlimited; in Egypt 3,000,000 acres;
in Hayti 3,000,000 acres; and in Italy
3,000,000 acres. Egypt and Italy alone
are stated to be able to occupy fully our
former place in the market of the world,
without including India. Turkey, Hayti,
Brazil and the W'est Indies, and that now
foreign cotton which can be procured in
unlimited quantities, is well suited to from
fifty to seventy-five per cent, of the pur
poses of the mill owners.
He then touche) upon the question of
prices, and shows therein another danger.
America is not now in condition to produce
cotton at anything like the prices prevail
ing prior to the war; whilst, on the other
hand, foreign countries, by means of a
cheap labor system, are producing at
prices not much above the lowest that ever
prevailed in this country. It is a delusion
to suppose that the price here can conti ue
inflated as it is. Hence, he concludes t nat
to make the production profitable against
the various accidents which cause a short
yield, the cotton interest must be suprema
ble to control the market, so as to mako
good the shortcomings by increase of i-rice.
Without a monopoly this cannot be done.
To do this, therefore, and to counteract so
far as possible the effect of the toreign
conspiracy, will require vigorous efforts on
the part of the American producers, and
extensive aid from the Government iu re
constructing the Mississippi levees.
It will not do to strive in the battle of
prices with uplands, averaging from two
to five hundred pounds per acre, for defeat
is certain. We must fall back upon the
rich prairies and valleys of the interior.
The prolific flats of the Mississippi, which
yield from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds to the
acre, will enable us to break down prices
and distance foreign rivalry. There are
10,000,000 acres of suel* lands along the
Mississppi River, which, properly develop
ed and rendered useful by the construction
of levees, would again give to our country
the cotton monopoly of the world. It is,
therefore, urged that the construction of
those levees is a national interest, and that
Congress should be respectfully asked to
enter upon the important work of drainage,
which will enable us to flood the cotton
market at prices to crush all rivalry, by
the unapproachable productiveness of the
alluvial fields of the Mississippi.
The Japanese Immigrants.
What They Propose to Do to California. —
Thar Character as Compared With
Chinese.
* From the Alta Calif urnia, May 27.
Herr Schnell, a Prussian gentleman, for
ten years past a resident in the Northern
Principalities of Japan, has arrived in San
Francisco with three Japanese families.
These families are the precursors of forty
Japanese families now on their way for our
port, and of a fuither accession of eighty
families, making in all one hundred and
twenty families, or say, four hundred per
sons are coming tere for permanent settle
ment. They are mostly silk cultivators
and manufacturers ; some are tea cultur
es. They bring with them 50,000 trees of
the Norm alba, three years old. This is
the most tender leaf of all the mulberries,
and it makes the best silk in that country.
They bring a great number of bamboo
plants of the large variety, useful for a
t bousand purposes. They are twelve feet
high. Also, 500 vegetable wax trees, four
feet high, and three years old. They bring,
also, 6,000,000 of tea nuts. The seed of
the tea plant is a small nut.
Herr Schnell was Interpreting Secretary
to the Prussian Legation, and latterly
Minister of Finance to the Northern Prin
cipalities at war with the Mikado. He is
complete master of the Japanese language,
and was attached to Prince Idsu, under
whom he held an important command-
The defeat of the North has obliged him
to seek elsewhere for peace and occupation.
It is not improbable that three Primes
will follow him and share his fortunes.
Herr Schnell possessed 120 retainers and
their families. They look to him for
means of living, and he charges himself
with their care, support and guidance in a
way to couform to the law and .usages of
our country. They are not serfs, but free.
If the Princes come they may bring many)
more industrial families. They are highly'
educated and polished gentlemen, with
families brought up in the highest refine
ment. They fully comprehend our laws
and usages, and will conform to them.
it should be understood that the Jap
anese conduct themselves with dignity ;
but they are prompt to repel insult and
imposition. They cannot safely be treated
as Chinamen oltsn are. They come with
their families; they bring skill and industry
to develop our resources. Herr Schnell
means to bqj' Government land, notin the
valleys, winch are unsuited, but in the
cheaper hill or mountain lands Tnese
gravelly loams are best adapted to the
healthiest growth of silkworms and to the
finer qualities of silk ; and especially is it
an axiom, “Hills for the fine teas, dales
for the coarse.” He knew that wo were
overstocked with common mulberry trees in
nursery, with very few set out for per
manent plantation ; so he has brought his
own trees. He does not intend to feed
worms till his trees, now three years old,
have another full year’s growth. The
Japanese do not esteem eggs or cocoons :
fed, like ours, on cuttings scarce rooted in
the nursery. Three feet is the standard I
height of plantation mulberries in Japan.
They never bear the stem, hut the ha rich
es are allowed to grow clear to the ground, j
thus giving the bark protection from sun
scald Their mode of feeding is to cutoff j
the entire branch instead of plucking the
leaves ; and thus the worm has always a
cleanly feeding place. We are doing the j
same, and we give it approval. Herr j
Schnell would reel our Calif >rnia cocoons i
this year if he ciu'd find them of tuer- !
charitable quility. But such as are at j
Neumann’s exhibition would not answer [
at all. They are tit only for shoddy.
Farm Work for June.—Cr pH of all
kinds are growing rapidly now, and the
surface of the ground should he stirred as
often as possible, to make the growth con
tinuous and uniform. No weed or spear of
grass should be allowed a foothold in the
field, where it may contend successfully
with the corn, cotton, etc., for the nutri
tious elements of the soil. The crab grass
that comes up in May beiDg the most
troublesome, especial care should be taken
to get rid of any which may have escaped
•up to this time. The constant pulverizing
of the surface acts very much iike mulch
ing, preventing the evaporation of moist
ure and keeping the sun’s heat from pene
trating to the roots of the plants. Where
anything like a full crop is planted, fre
quent stirring of the surface can only be
accomplished by using plows like Dixon’s
sweep, or a harrow, or a cultivator, which
cut so wide a furrow, that a plowman may
passover ground very rapidly.
Where a mixed crop of cotton and small
grain is cultivated (which is the prevailing
custom at tne South), very nice judgment
and management are required to keep the
hoed crops from suffering, from the inter
ruption of regular work attendant upon
the harvest. The use of the reaping ma
chines will lessen much the difficulty allud
ed to; and we trust that the time is not far
distant when .these time and labor-saving
implements will be universally used at the
South.
Field peas should be planted now, as
soon as practicable. If this is delayed till
next month, they may not ripen before
frost Where the object is to make hay,
or to enrich the land by turning the vines
under, peas may be sown as late as the
middle of next month, but as the dry
weather may interfere with their corning
up, or w th their growth, it is not advisa
ble to defer planting too late. —Southern
Cultivator.
The Wheat Crop in Cherokee and
North Georgia.—From a very intelli
gent and observing gentleman, a resident
of Cherokee, Georgia, we learn that the
wheat is now being harvested throughout
the upper portions of the State, and that
the general yield will surpass for quantity
and quality any previous crop grown there
for many years past. The crop, he states,
will turn out to be a must bountiful one,
richly rewarding the farmers of that sec
tion of Georgia, who had sown an area
mueh larger than in previous years. A
few days now of fair weather, and more
wheat of first rate quality will be harvest
ed than was even hot ed for by the farmers
in that wheat growing seotion. This is
good news —glad tidings—for which let us
not forget to give thanks to a bountilul
Providence.—Atlanta Intelligencer.
ATrii>Among the Far
occasion since our last issue to v • -he
town ot Madison Fla., a distance of abot t
4o miles from Thomasville. Trave ling bv
private conveyance, we had a fairoppor
turiity ot noticing the crops along the
road, and although the weather was dry
aud warm, taking all the difficulties of the
season into consideration, we thought the
corn and cotton very well advanced The
owners, when asked, reported their crops
backward, but all seemed cheered bv the
prospects of a very fair crop, provided the
caterpillar does not appear. We were
gratified to notice immense fields of corn
and oats, all along the road, the latter now
ripening for the sickle ; and while cotton
has by no means been neglected, the farm
ers have acted wisely and planted for an
abundant provision crop. The dry weather
afforded opportunity to destroy the gras*
and it was pleasing to notice that nearlv
all the industrious farmers could boast of
clean crops. Their stock, like their field
were in good condition, and should the
season continue favorable, formers aloDg
hat whole route will he bless,J with plem
titul crops .-Thomasville Enterprise •>,/
instant. ’
Advice to Cotton Planters. -A cor
respondent of the New Orleans Picayune,
who says that he has been for thirty-eigh
years a trader of cotton in New Orleans ”
condenses into one sentence the true and
only wise policy of the Southern planters
under the circumstances at present sur
rounding them. lie says; “We have but
two modes to sePot from; the one to labor
to increase the product at large, reduc'
prices and fall back to servitude; the other
to plant a few acres and increase product to
five-fold, make all supplies, for land, man
and beast, sell for gold, build up horn ■
mechanics, manufactories, schools an 1
churches, neat and tasty ’work
up the cotton crop into yarns or cloth for
export,,and be independent of ‘profitable.'
Profitable trade! with a Our
part being bread and meat, a rm; cabin and
common clothing, and theirs palaces and
champaigue.”
AFFAIRS IS SOUTH CAROLINA.
Chesterfield.-The Chetaw Democrat
says: “Though backward, we beli ve the
crops of all kinds are doing very well for
this season. A week of very warm weatln r
has made a great improvement in their
condition. Wheat is about ready to cut.
Corn grows rapidly, and co’ton is beginning
to take a stand.”
Lancaster.—The Ledger says: “During
the past week the weather has been more
favorable to the planting interests. Some
planters report tolerable fair stands of cot
toft, others only a half stand, Oar own
impression is that there is more scare than
hurt. AVe hear some com plaint ot the hud
worm in some localities. Nary caterpillar
yeti Farmers who planted the ‘Dickson
cotton seed,” in this ccun'y, say that the
t lant has suffered more lrom the cel l
weather than other kinds. The same com
plaints reach us from Chester and York.”
Laurens.---A few days ago a little son
of Mr. William Young, deceased, while
drawing water from a well, accidentally fell
iu and was instantly killed.
The Laurensville Iltrahl says: “For
the last week the sun has shown down
generously, dispensing life and growth to
the sickly cotton plant. Cotton begins to
grow off, and the stand will be better than
anticipated two weeks ago. The spirits ol
the planters are revived at the reviving
prospect. Wheat is still reported in prom
ising kelter. a id in some cases is already in
the shock.”
Abbeville.—The Press says: “Our
farmers have commenced the labors of the
wheat harvest. There was a large crop
sowed, and the yield promises to be abund
ant. During the past week we have been
favored with genial rains aud sunny days
and warm nights, and the growing crops
are all experiencing their quickening influ
ences. ’ ’
Georgetown.—A jury of inquest was
held at Waverly Mill Plantation, on the
27th ult., Thomas McFeely acting Coroner,
over the dead body of George Washington,
colored, and a verdict returned of death by
accidental drowning.
The Georgetown Times, of Thursday,
says: “The past wok has beeu remarka
bly dry and hot, and the crops are suffer
ing for the want of rain. Yesterday morn
ing was as sultry as an August morning,
and the thermometer has stood as high as
eighty-five degrees. Tnis Spring is the
dryest since 1855.”
An Agricultural and Mechanical Club
has been formed at Georgetown with the
following officers: President, Dr. A. M.
Forster; Vice President, Win. C John
stone; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. J. It.
Sparkman; Recording Secretary aud Treas
urer, S. W. llouquie. Among the resolu
tions adopted was one that a committee bo
appointed to report at the next meeting
the difference in charges on rice shipped to
Charleston or other ports. D. Lynch
Pringle, T. P. Bailey and B. 11. Wilson
were appointed such a committee.
Anderson.— The Intelligencer says:
“Tuesday n'ght i here was a general ram
in this section, and much good will likely
result, as it had been excessively ary an and
hot for some days previous. The wheat,
crop is still promising and cotton and corn
will grow apace under the beneficial effect)
of rain and sunshiue.”
The same paper chronicles the following
homicides: “On Friday night last, in the
neighborhood of Stevenson’s Ferry, on
Savannah River, a party of armed persons
assailed the house where some colored
people lived, and fired into them, resulting
in Lhe killing of a negro woman and severe
ly wounding another. The women were
quiet and peaceable negroes, and there is
no apparent cause to which the murder cau
be traced. It is rumored that the attack
ing party wei« negroes. On the same
night, near Salubrity, in Pickens County, a
white man by the name of Willard was
killed. The s'abl’ on the promises was found
to be in flames when the deoea 1 and his
father, with other persons, ru-im l out, of
the dwelling, and a volley was fired into
them, with the result a ove s.atcd. From
all we can learn, the attack in this instance
was expected, and the combat between the
parties was desperate, a number of shots
being exchanged.”
Barnwell.—Tiic physicians of Barnwell
Countv intend boiling a meeting at Barn
well Village early m July for the purpose
of organizing a medical society, to be aux
iliary to the State Medical Association.
The Journal says: “The warm weather,
since our la-t issue, has pla: :d the formers
all in good spirits again and as there has
been rain the crops generally are doing as
well as could be expe ited.”
The citizens of Barnwell village are
agitating the question of erecting a cotton
factory on Turkey Creek This is a move
in the right direction. Ii is estimated that
a capital of sixty thousand dollars will bo
Bumcieut to put theenterpn-i;; under way.
The Sentinel say?: “A Urge tig;r made
its appearance near the junction I Toby's
Creek, above Col mi l Bro w 7 s ur t pond,
on Monuay l ist. Ths tiger was ol immense
size, and some young men w to w -.e fishing
in the pond became -o ton b alarmed as to
leave the place. Our ini irraan states
that the tiger made hideous yebs.”
The fire engine company of B'ackville
has resolved to purchase au engine, ami
has elected the following officers to serve
for the ensuing year: R. Oakman, Presi
dent; G. E. Steadman. Vice-President;
C. E. Lartigue, Secretary and Treasurer;
W. T. Band, First Director; A. Kahn,
Second Direetot; W. II Novels, Third
Director; P. W. Fnrwell Fourth Director,
U. M. Eaves Julius S robe Axut in.
Mr. F. A. Calhoun, a w known citizen
of Abbeville, and a nephew of Carolina’s
illustrious statesman, died !o-t week. lie
had scarcely passed .no mtriugin of life,
and was still in the prime of manly vigor. A
man of high integrity, of atIMo manners
and companionable qualities, he was
universally esteemed and respected.
Failure or Insurance Companies In
Philadelphia.
Some days ago the Protection Insurance
Company, No. 237 South Third street,
suddenly suspended operations, and on in
quiry its creditors and the holders of poli
cies found that its assets amounted to hut
little more than the office furniture. Their
i assets had been represented for along time
as valued at $200,000, and their business
cards issued to the miblic bore this state
ment at the ton. Their total liabilities arc.
estimated at about $40,000, but it is im
j possible to tell from the books the real
j amount. Os course this is all a dead loss
to those to whom i; isowing; The Com
pany’s office was luxuriously fitted up,
and looked as if the affairs of the Company
were in a most prosperous condition. The
creditors immediately put the furniture
into the hands of the Sheriff, and it was
sold a few days ago. The Company
had long been c >n.-i a nemg
those whose business was i, >ww,
as one to be avoided, and the number of
losers is not so great, which, however,
makes the individual loss heavier. They'
paid SI,OOO per year for th.-ir office, and
the agent for the propeity obtained his
i rent a rhort time before the suspension.
| The matter his boon kept quiet, although
j the losers are bitter in their complaints,
alleging that the Company s affairs were
misrepresented to them. lu the latter
part of last week the Kensington Insur
ance Company, located at the northwest
corner of Fourth and \\ alnut streets, also
closed their doors, and their affairs were
put into the hands of a receiver. Their
liabilities are said to be quite heavy, though
the actual amount is not known. The
holders ol poticies in this (Jompany arc
much more numerous than those in the
Protection, and quite a number of them
are anxikusly inquiring as to the condition
of the concern. The amount of assets is
also unknown. The true condition of af
fairs will, no doubt, be soon made public
Ipe Company have taken down their sign
and of course no business ol any kind is
being transacted - Philadelphia Inquirer.
Kayton’s Oil of Uife cures
pains and aches, and is the great rh«t,
matte remedy. luayW-^u