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oM) SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
‘hvauicle & Sentinel
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Negro Route Auent. — Postmaster
i in rai (.’resswcll has appointed Louts
,-ant. a bright mulatto, Route Agent
on ihe Atlantic k Oulf Railroad. The
r. .j i t. s accepted the position and made
hh first trip on last Monday. “Let us
have Peace.” _
Nobt.ii Carolina Scupernono Wine.
Mine ho t Schneider offers North Caro
lina Kcuppornong Wine for sale by the bar
n-l, gallon or bottle. ,
Wc have tried it and found it delicious,
it ha u light body with a fine flavor, just
111.; very thing on ice, for those piping hot
day:, when the thermometer runs up to 98
i . 100 degrees in the shade.
Lar'ieO'.nurmation in the Catholic
Church. —On Tast Sunday morning there
v. . utirmation service in St. Patrick’s
< ith'.dr il, in this city, and an unusually
■ number of persons confirmed.* The
i! confirmation were administered by
Right Reverend Augustine Verot, of Sa
vnnnah, Bishop of the Ifiocese, to two
huiclrc I and fifty persons, fifty of whom
»in nverts from other churches.
S'llllli K BV Liohtnino.—The Middle
(iergian rcpoits that on Monday ivetiing,
near the Indian Spring, two colored wo
men, mother and ilat Ster, formerly the
proper y of J. W. Thurman, were struck
by lightning and killed. The mother,
named Nancy, was killed outright; her
daught. r was ret on tire aud burned to
death.
The Blue Ridge Railroad.—The Co
lumbia Pha nix s-ayn t hat it has reliable in
formation that a preliminary contract was
executed, a day or two since, between the
lix i utive (' 'iiiuiittce of the Blue Ridge
Kailr i 1 Company and Messrs. .J. V.
f.'risvill, John.). Patterson and James M.
.Sellers, of Pennsylvania, for the construc
tion el the road, including tunniling and
upor-tructure. kc. —the entire road to
Kxmixv.lL: to be completed in two years
from tin: Ist of August next.
Maoin k Ainu sta Railroad.—-The
Federal Union of Tuesday says that Mr.
Thomas Alexander commenced work on
this end of the road yesterday morni: g,
with the convicts now remaining in the
Peuitei.tiary, about SO in number. Some
200 nen convicts now at Rome, will be
added to his force during the week. We
under.stand that other contractors will
shortly commence work, and we can trow
confidently look forward to the early com
pletion of this road to Macon.
.Mittiir.it at Asiikpoo.— From the
Cl»arlc*t hi < 'mirier wo learn that on Tues
day last, a m >st diabolical* murder was
corn mil tod near Ashopoo ferry, on the
Savannah and Charleston Railroad. Four
negro moii wore in a liold together when
an altercation ensued, brought on by
jealousy, which resulted iu the shooting of
one of the men by another. After tho
murdered man was shot, the two otnet
negroes beat in hit skull, and hacked off
his arms and legs with boos, and having
buried him fled. Wc loam that the two
men who bout and buried the body have
hoi ii uiriot 'd, anil that the man who shot
hint has Grouped.
Faroe Nugget op Gold. —Tho Moun
tain (Dahloncga) Signal lms been shown
a letter limn Col. K. P. Williams, ol'Nor
eooelu: Valley, in which he says: ‘'Re
turning from my wheat field, which you
remember is just across the road from uty
house, mi Tuesday morning, I discovered
somethin.: bright and shining before me
about live stops from the fence aud road,
which, to, my astonishment and delight,
proved to he a nugget of gold weighing 135
dwts ” Though strange that a nugget of
that :izti could have been there so long
undiscovered, on so public a place, it is
not at till strange that it should have been
there, as the deep water, worn beds of
gravel just at that point, bear inoontostiblo
proof that the original bed of the Chesta
tee was there, and Duke’s Creek, a fribu
tary of the Chattahoochee, enters just
above, always celebrated for both the
quality and size of the nuggets found.
The Charleston and Savannah
Railroad will be opened to Grahutns
ville by the 15th of this motith, und it is
thought will Iu opeued to Savannah by
the Ist of December.
A Western Prodioy —From Nevada
we receive news of another prodigy. Her
name is Emma Farrestall, aud her pursuit
is gymnastic. A local editor says: “A
gent'eman assured us that he saw her put
into a segar box, and then a gimlet hole
was bored into the box aud she crawled
out at the hole. One thing is certain, she
can be folded up like a table-cloth and
stowed away iu a small box. She bas an
anvil placed on her breast and a horse-shoe
is made on the anvil while she holds it up.”
One Thousand Dolla*s for two |
Hai.ks of Cotton.—The merchants of St. [
Louis propose offering the largest prem- .
itiuis on cotton, at the next October Fair,
v or given in the world—namely, five Lun
-Ir< 1 1 dollars each for two bales of cotton to
vi igh four hundred and fifty pounds, one
of shot t staple and the other of long.
Commencement of Franklin Uni*
vf.aotv. The opening exercises of the
I’lii ,v: *ity of Georgia will take place on
the Ut of August.
i'ii • approaching exercises promise to
be unusually iutaresting. The merits of
the entire gra lulling class are highly
spoken of by distinguished members of
the Heard of Visitors who recently have
aiteudej the final i\ imitations.
The “first honor’ has been awarded to
Messrs William S. Bean, of Augusta ;
\V. 11. Hammond, "of Atlanta, and
M >.* «Guyton, of Lawrence county. It is
the law of this institution, we believe, to
award “'first honor" to ail gentlemen who,
in standing and scholarship, have attained
a grade above U 9 — IOO being the maxi
mum. Messrs, llauimond and Guyton,
who share the first honor this year, are
■ and 1 to be young men remarkable for their
t.i■ m 1 scholarly attainments. Batin
U v irdu them due mo'd, it gives us the
highest i a; ire to claim for our young
townsman. William S. Bean, the pre
, l ieen -- having taken the highest
stand e. :..k aby any student of Frank
lin C • surpassing the grade assigned
to the lati ti-n >ral Thomas R. H. Cobb
as a gra u »t.\ which, up to this time, has
fivn til' bgh • l o-i t’u r d! s . We take
prid' i ' ,r bng tVu n Augusta boy
now stsv it i- o il o il the grad
uates ol this o i risheii l-uivorsity upon
l o-iag its classic halls.
The Second Honor lias been awarded to
Mr. H I>. VanKpps; and the Third to 1
.'lr. .lames L. White, of Forsyth.
\\ e notice also that ah* Speakers chosen
Lr Soli ’arship are K. M. Allen. Rich .
m.ird 'Unty; C. A. Collier, Atlanta;
Sanuei Birtu-tt, Washington. Ih'inosiho
niAi Speakers—B Harrow, Athens; H.
II- ibiness, Forsyth. Phi Kippa Speak -
ers--H. B. Booneil, Macon ; W. H. Kin
ley, Montgomery, Ala.
'IT? following young gentlemen have
beetabosen by the Faculty ot the Univer
sity 4 Jutiior Speakers, vix:
Aft*. Campbell, Augusta; N. K. Har
ris. Jtesboro. Tenn. ; W. ldessau, Macon;
J. B. \. Smith, Macon.
The foerary address before the Phi
Kappa nd Demosthenian Societies will be
delivers by Colonel K. M. Johnston, of
BahiuiOi.
lee.
The New Orleans people revel in ice,
both natural aud artificial, home-made ami
imported, at ouecent per pound retail. Prior
to their introduction of the French patent
for making ice, the ruling ptieecf ice with
them was three cents jier pound. Theice
manufacturers have reduced the price to
one cent. Ilappy Orleanists in heated
terms of 95 an 1 98° Farenheit! Never
theless the Creoles are not satisfied. The
priee is not yet low enough, it now lakes
one ton ol coal to make twelve tons of ice.
Ibis is ton costly. Accordingly a citizen
of New Orleans has invented a machine,
and has it now in actual operation, which
proddees clear, crystal, delicious icc at a
cost of one dollar per ton. Thrice happy
New Orleanists I .Just think jf it, Au
gustan* ! the New Orleanigt luxuriates in
heated terms with ice in abundance now
at twenty dollars per lon, with the bright
prospect of a successful experiment of
baviug it at two dollars per ton next year.
Who would not live iu New Orleans ?
The Democracy of California.
At the recent State Convention of Cali
fornia the Democracy of that State adopt
ed tile following platform :
Re*olved, That the Democracy of Cali
fornia now and always confide in the intel
ligence, patriotism, and discriminating
justice of' the t chile people of the country
to administer and control their govern
ment, without the aid of either negroes or
Chinese.
Resolved , That the subjection of the
white population of the Southern States to
the rule of a mass of igDorant negroes,
their disfranchisement, aud the denial to
them of all those sacred rights guaranteed
to every freeman , is an outrage and a
wrong for which the history of free gov
ernments in modern times may he searched
iu vain to find a parallel.
Resolred, I (rat all voters iu the State of
California who arc opposed to the Radical
measures of Conyress, including the pro
posed Fifteenth Amendment to the Con
stitotion of the United States, and who
are opposed to the appointment of negroes
to office, be invited to unite with the De
mocracy in the coming contest.
Resolved , That we are opposed to the I
adoption of the proposed Fifteenth Amend
ment of the United States Constitution,
believing the same to be designed, and, it
adopted, certain to degrade the right of j
suffrage; to ruin the laboring white man, j
by bringing untold hordes of Ragan slaves ;
(in all hut name) into direct competition
with his efforts to earn a livelihood; to
build up an aristocratic class of oligarchs in j
our midst, created and maintained by i
Chi wise votes; to give the negro and China- ’
man t}ie right to vote aud hold, office; and
that its passage would be inimical to the
best interests of our country ; iri direct op- ;
position to the teachings of Washington,
Adams, Jefferson, and the ether founders
of the Republic; iu flagrant violation of
the plainest principles upon which the
superstructure of our liberties was raised;
subversive of the dearest rights of the dif
ferent States and adireot step toward anar
chy and its natural sequence, the erection
of an empire upon the ruins, of constitu
tional liberty.
Resolved, That the Democracy of Califor
nia believe that, the labor of our white peo
ple. should not he brought into competition
with the labor of a class of inferior people,
whose living costs comparatively nothing,
and who add nothing to the wealth of our
State, and who care and who know nothing
tbout our churches, schools, societies, and
social and political institutions.
There is no mistake about this language 1
no doubt as to the meaning of the authors
of the platform. The issue is distinctly
made which the Republicans of California
will have to meet against giving negroes
and Chinamen the right to vote and hold
office; and tho indications are that the De
mocracy will carry that State. Now what
will be done with California in such event?
Will she be Reconstructed? The Fifteenth
Constitutional Amendment will, without
doubt, he declared adopted during the
next session of Congress. It is true that
the new treaty with China expressly
stipulates that immigration from either
country shall not be entitled by it to nat
uralization in the other. Bu* this treaty
does not debar Congress from making the
naturalization laws conform to Radical
policy. The Radical party will want votes
and in no manner can they obtain them so
cheaply and so numerously as by naturali
zing tho Chinese. The California Democ
racy do not appear to have learned that
this is not a white man’s government, but
is anybody’s government possessing num
bers sufficient to take and control it iu
whatsoever way they please, inside or
Outside of the Constitution, be they
Africans or Chinese.
The labor question contained in these
resolutions is an interesting one to the
Northern Radicals, mechanics and artizans
who arc being constantly tickled by “the
elegances of polite literature” in charming
essays about the dignity of labor, event
ually to end in pigtail oomoetiuon with
little dignity and less pay.
Circulating Medium Per Capita.
The subjoined interesting statement ex
hibits the gross amount of circulating me
dium in the United States, and the circu
lation per capita, for each year, from 1830
to 1809. This statement has been, evi
dently, compiled with great oare and labor;
coming from the Ni w York Economist, we
have full faith iti its accuracy. It will be
observed that “currency,” as designated
in this statement, includes both “paper”
and “metalic” currency:
l'*« ~ PKK
Year. Cu uht.no y. Capita ; i Ykab. ( pekenoy. Capita.
% «*OOO.OOO * 7 20! 185*. |3 O.(M)X( t Oi #l4 50
IM3 700.0QU 8 5. ills#<, 58U,000,000 14 Ml
Ik3\ l&i ( Ono,UOO rM°|>tS 4. 4 s.fiOO.OO i 15 80
ls:«fi. '.lift 000,000 18 .TO! I|Bs\ 444 606,0 U 18 40
IK;;:,* 2G O mio 14 0 ,1860* 446.3C0.U00 16 10
IRIS. iDIOCOOOO Vi 5“ 1'57, 4 4T4.800 (XV) I*7o
IS V 9. 222Q00.00u 13 40,1858, *06,600 COJ 14 00
1840, IyOOOO.ffO 11201 1851) 458.800.000 15 40
1841, .87 ,■ 00,(t' i 10 TO 1 , 1860. ■T.u'iU 00 14 50
1842, mTkOOtO 8 00.1861,* 148,400 000 13 70
1843, I*4 500.060 69Y 11*3. 1*.’.500 00) 2« OO
18 44 76 000 000 9 lOj B*3. 072.000.00) 27 40
1846 18S 0170 00» “JO 18f4F 74H.C00 onO 28 50
1.4414, ‘-O'; 00.0 0 900 1866+ 854 tOO.OOO 2» I*o
1847, 226 5 0 000 10 7u, Imk». SSOoOOOuO 23 6.)
1848 niOiliFo.. 344000003 2-> so
IS'9 JSIT'-'.pOO lt» 50 ;I‘6B. F&HNP.Oho 22 00!
18M, #BS 000 000 12 20, 1860, 812 OOO.UOU 2120
ISM. MIOOO.OtO I4 2v||
•So»pots : * n tUi.heat ii.Avion duii .g f-uapouslon. I
ric. |
In 1837 and 1857, it will be seen, were j
years of suspension of specie payments.and j
the circulating medium (including both
gold and paper currency) was respectively
in 1837, sl4 per head, and ju 1857 $lO 70. j
The suspension of 1861 grew out of. politi- j
cal causes in anticipation of war. The :
rate per capita at that time was less than :
either of two previous years,being sl3 70,
but expansion of paper currency followed
rapidly upon suspension, and the currency
rose to the highest point of S2B 50 in 1864,
gradually falling baek to s3l -0 per capita
ht 1869. Since 1864 this paper currency
has been contracted steadily. The table 1
would indicate that a per capita circula- j
ti *n of about sl6 00 to be the proper
standard for healthful commerce. There
is no probability, however, that this will 1
be reached, as the Secretary* of the Treas
ury is now bout upon solving that and
other more difficult problems—timeout:*,
tion of the bonde<i debt, and doe- not seem
desirous to reduce farther the currency
debt.
Brick Ponte a on Forney.—The
"red hoi" man oi the New York Demo
crat semis the following shot after Dead
Hook Forney, ou the decision of the Su
i promo Court of Georgia, oa the illegality
nf marriage between the white and black
1 races:
I Old "Adultery,’' of the Philadelphia
1 Press sends up a wail trout the basement
1 story of |,i« ueedjai-sui.*-:ng soul as fol
j lows :
Democacy will stand terrified at the
announcement that the Supreme Court of
Georgia basso interpreted a clause of the
new code as to make it prohibit marriages
between whites and btacks.
Quite right. We stand terrified at the
idea that the above derision will prevent
the Republicans improving their blood by
legitimate connection wfih.tneir betters —
the negroes of Georgia I But the people
cf Georgia know what they want: they
know their duty to the blacks, and wouid
rotect them from the insidious wiles of
i Northern picture-peddlers aud ogling
schoolmarms, who go South to better their
condition, to be frustrated by the Su-
I preme Court. "Brethren, let us pray.’’
State and National Debts.
The New York Independent, leaving for
the nonce, morals and political theology,
bas gone to figuring in political finance,
and presents in the following table a sy nop
sis of the debts of the several States of
the American Union, as they stood at or
near the close of 180$, and at the
: commencimcn,. of 1869, together with the
population of these respective States :
NEW ENGLAND STATES.
Population. Debt.
1. Maine 665,00d $5,053,5(10 00
2. New Hampshire. 340,0U0 3,456,300 O.J
< 3. Vermont 320,000 1,227,000 00
• 4 Massachusetts....!,3so,ooo 20,835,490 00
i 0. Klioile Island 200,00 ) 3,088,500 00
0. Connecticut 525,000 6,074,992 (.0
3,400,000 $46,336,282 00
MIDDLE STATES.
Population. Debt
1. New York 4,400,000 $11,958,780 40
8. New Jersey 900,000 3,198,100 00
9. i*eunsylvauia... .3,500,000 33,300,035 63
10. Delaware 125,000
11. Maryland 800,001) 8,654,802 00
12. Went Virginia 4)0,000
10,135,008 |9O i 19,721 71
W ESTEK.N STATES.
Population. Debt.
13. Ohio 2,660,000 $10,532,675 43
14 Michigan 1,000,000 5,615,519 12
15. Indiana .1,700,000 7,195,085 94
16. Illinois 3,450.000 5.975,103 30
17. Wisconsin 1,100,000 2,252,157 00
is. Minnesota 400,000 3(3,003 00
19. lowa 1,050,000 300,000 00
20. Nebraska 150,000 72,771 00
<2l. Kansas 300.000 1,095,175 00
22. Missouri 1,400,000 10,082,000 00
12,350,000 $19,452,3-6 31
SOUTHERN STATES.
Population. Debt.
23. Virginia < 1,300,000 $12,215,013 03
24. N Carolina 1,050.000 19,219,945 00
25. SS Carolina 700,000 6,407.306 27
26. Georgia 1,100,000 5,872,000 00 ,
27. Florida 150,000 !
28. Alabama...'. 280,000 4,375,000 00
29. Mississippi 800,000 7,000.000 00 ;
30. Liouisiana 730,000 13,080,748 00 1
31. Texas 750,000 I
32. Kentucky 1,250,000 3,619,191 40 j
33. Tennessee 1,050,000 34,54",807 00 j
34. Arkansas 500,000 3,483,179 10 :
10,300,000 $138,803,899 Oo j
I’ACTEIO STATES.
Population. Debt. :
35. California • 600,000 $1,690,500 CO
36. Nevada 100,000 i
37. Oregon 80,000 576,1E6 50 I
780,000 $4,872,656 50
AGGREGATE.
Population. Debt. \
1. N Bug. Slates... 3.400,000 $46,336,882 00 j
2. Middle States... 10,125,000 90,119,721 71 i
3. Western Statts. 12,350,000 48,452,386 82
4. Sou them Slates. J0,36",000 138,803,399 Oo j
6. Pacific States..-. 780,000 4,872,056 50 ’■
35,015,000 $329,584,440 03
The debt oftbc New England States is
$43 G 2 and a fraction per capita ; of the
Middle State;, $8 90 and a fraction ; if the
Western States, |4 and a fraction; of the
Southern States, sl3 39 and a fraction ;
and of the Pacific States, $6 24 and a
fraction. The New England States owe
the largest amount in proportion to the
population, and the Western States the
smallest. The large Statu debts are those
of New York, Pennsy'lvania, Virginia,
Massaehu cit-', Nj. th Carolina, Missouri,
Tennessee, Louisiana, and Ohio—making
an aggregate of $240,507,499 as the debt
of these nine States. The average of the
total debt of all the States is $8 90 aud a
fraction per capita.
The national debt on the Ist of June,
1809, was $2,505,412,013; which is at the
rate of SO7 08 per capita for the whole
United States. Add this to the debt of
the States, and we have a debt of $76 58
per capita for the entire people.
The county debts of the State of New
York amount to $83,003,018 90. If to
this we add city debts in the same State,
we should have an aggregate of more than
$100,000,000. Add to this the county and
city debts of’ all the other States, and the
total result of National, State, county, and
eity indebtedness would not be less than
sß6 per capita for the whole county. This,
iu round numbers, is a debt of $3,200,000,-
000 as a taxable lien upon ail the industry
and property of the nation. A* the rate
of six per oent. per annum, it requires
$192,000,000 to pay the annual interest
on this debt; $224,000,000 at the rate of
seven per cent. Who shall say that the
rate of interest to he paid for the use of
money is not a vital question to tho whole
people? High rates of interest make large
public debts a very heavy burden to be
borne.
Premium for Colton.
A number of the wide-awake, enterpris
ing merchants of St. Louis have raised a
purse of one thousand dollars which they
propose to distribute iu premiums for cot
ton at the coming fair at St Louis. The
St. Louis Republican says: “We under
stand that these premiums will be award
ed as follows: For the best bale of upland or
short staple cotton $509. For the best bale
of New Orleans, or long staple cotton
SSOO. The St. Louis Fair Association have
added to this a third premium of $250 for
the best bale of cotton raised in Missouri.
The cotton entered must be of the growth
of 1809, an 1 the bales must not weigh less
than 450 pounds each. Sea Islaud and
Feeler cotton are excluded from competi
tion. These premiums are, we believe, by
far the largest ever offered anywhere for
the great staple, being not less than SI.OO
per pound. It is confidently expected that
our Southern triends especially will so in
terest themselves in the matter as to de
velop a lively contest among the cotton
growers of that section.”
Agricultural Prospecss iu England.
It seems, says the Charleston Courier,
from the latest mail advices that England
is now in imminent danger of being sub
jected to one of the greatest disasters that
can possibly befall a country with a dense
population, a limited extent of cultivable
laud, and a large proportion of the labor
ing classes constantly living from hand to
mouth on the very verge of pauperism—a
bad harvest. The average temperature in
England for the past few weeks has cer
taiuly been lower than it was at Christmas.
Rain has been constantly falling through
out tha Spring and early Summer, and in
some of the districts in which the crops are
usually most forward, not a wheat ear had
been seen a fortnight ago. It is calculated
that the harvest will .bo at. least three
weeks later than last year, and that nothing
but continued hot and sunny weather
throughout the present month can bring
the t ield up to an average, while a fort
night or even a week more of cold and rain
must infaliably produce most disastrous
consequences. The price of wheat had
already began to rise, and the greatest ap
prehensions were entertained for the future
unless the weather speedily moderated.
Even should the yield u’tfinitely attain an
average, the lateness ot the harvest must
necessarily have an important eftect on the
market, in a country where a single day’s
coosumptioh of cereals bears so large a
relative proportion to the home produce
and the stock in hand at this period of the
year. Fortunately for England, telegraph
cables and steamboats place unlimited sup
pligs of food within her reach at moder
ately enhanced prices, bat iu the
prevent condition ot the country, the
pauperism and discontent through-out the
agricultural districts which would result
I from the failure of the harvest would prove
a terrible calamity.
Another Arrival of Swiss Emi
grants.—Some sixty Swiss emigr&ats
brought over through the agency of the
Eastern North Carolina Immigration As
sociation, arrived a. Goldsboro’, on Friday,
the 2d inst, and were distributed princi
pally to the counties of Wilson, Edge
combe and Pitt —Wilson receiving about
half the lot- Those for Edgecombe coun
ty arrived on Saturday at Wilson. The
Wilson Plaiudealer says :
Soon after their arrival here on Satur
day.the ritesof matrimony were solemnized
between three couples, by * Justice of ihe
Peace, and as the parties were unable to
speak English, it was only by the inter
cession of an interpreter that they were
declared "man add wife." The oeremony
was performed at Lutt’s Hotel, near the
depot, in the presence of quite a large
crowd.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, iB6O
The Confederacy a De Facto tiovern
ment.
Judge Theard, of the Fourth District
Court, Louisiana, has recently readered a
decision in which he still adhere) to the
opinions enunciated by him in 1805, that
the Confederacy was a de facto govern
ment. The particulars may be briefly
l stated :In January, 1863,in the parish of
De Soto, Louisiana, the administrators of
the succession of Hamilton Sloan sold to
J. J. Green forty-three bales of cotton on
private sale. This cotton was subsequent
ly purchased by John A. Stevenson, for
account of the Louisiana State Bank, and
in July. 1805, the sale was approved by
Major General Herron, U. S. array, who
1 ordered the delivery of. the cotton to
Stevenson. The administrators in this
| suit allege that Stevenson has no legal
right to said cotton, because the sale to
Green was without any judicial authority,
and because the prie; was paid in Confed-
I erate money, and they pray that the cot
ton, or value tliereo', be returned to them.
The judge decided that this suit is unten- j
j able, for the following reasons :
1. Administrators cannot take ad- ;
vantage of their own wrongs.. They can- ,
not allege their own turpitude. A sub- |
sequent, administrator might complain of [
the wrongful acts of his predecessor, .but
not the guiily party himself.
2. The sile is otherwise valid, because
it was made under a de facto government.
3. The Confederate notes given in pay
ment were the only currency at the time,
recognized by the de facto government and
by the people. The plaintiffs, besides, in
failing to return the identical notes, show
that they have been benefited to that ex
tern.
4. The delivery of the cotton took place
by virtue of an order from Major. General
Herron, the military commander, acting
iu the name of the government, '.'hat or
der is a full and complete ratification of the
sale.
And for these reasons plaintiff’* olairn is
rejected, with costs.
Cotton Blooms and First Frosts.—
The following table, taken from an old
New Y’ork Cotton Circular, shows the
dates of bloom and frost, the length of
season be.ween bloom and frost, and the
crop each year from 1837 to 1860 The
average length of seasons was four months
and twenty-dne days, and it will be seen
that the amount of the crop was greatly
dependent on the length of the season, the
only exception being in 1855, when al
though the season was eleven days longer
than the average, the crop was reduced by
heavy storms in September:
\ Am tint
Year. \ Bloom. Front. | Length of Season, I Crop.
1817 tJuoe 4 Oct 14*4 monl&a i« days L 419000
lb3B. I May 7 Uc: 27|5 months 20 dayr 1,847 000
is' ‘i. I June It Oct 7 3 mouths 23 days 1.36> ouo
H4O I May 24 Nov 7 5 months 13 Hays 2,179 000
I U. .’June 6 Uc. l 1 4 monthill clays 1.020,0*0.
1812. .. iJune 10.Oct lr, 4 taouthA 5 days U-83JOO
184. Ivlay 17|N‘ v Ift rnvtha 14 days 2 379.000
1844. Jane IHOct 15 4 months 8 days 2 029,000
1845. M*y 310 - 3> t mmlhs 2,391.000
I*4o May 30 Nov 3 5 months 3 and ys 2 100,000
1847. Jim jio Nov 14 months2l days 1,778000
IMS | May 29 inov.27 5 months 24 da s- 2.*47,000
1849. .. I June l Vov2»s months 19 days 2,728 000
I*so. j.rnne If, N v 3 5 months 18days 2,096.000
IKSI |June 27 Oct 2 > i months 2 3.500'
1852 Lone 15 Oee 10 5 mouths ?b <l*~B 3,0 5 0 0
l.s.w jjun •. X 4 j I‘e; 5-5 mouths H daye|3 262 OCO
18M June I) oc. Vfi'3 montas 20 day 8,2,930 000
1855... June li Nov 13‘5 in o.ths 2 days 12,847 OOn
1856 ‘June 14 00. 25 4 uioxi’tkS 11 nays 3,527 OtO
1557 I June 1910 c, I[j months 12 davt 2 939 000
18*8 June 23 j Nov 20 4 in on* hs 27 d.ys 3.H3000
1859 June 2 Ncv- 8 5 months 6 dayskßsl,ooo
1860 |May 20|0ct 3)|5 m niha 4 day.s|4 675,000
Life Insurance.--
Dr. John L. Hardman, Agent St.
Louis Mutual Life Insurance Cos. :
Dear Sir : L write to acknowledge the
receipt by check for $5,000, sent me by
the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Cos.,
through you, for the policy on the life of
my husband, which was promptly cashed
by the Banking House of Branch, Sons k
Cos., of this city You will please accept
my thanks for your courtesy and prompt
ness in settling the same.
Respectfully, yours,
A. F. Lallerstedt, Ex’trx,
The above speaks for itself, and shows
with what promptness the St. Louis Mu
tual Insurance Company pays the losses
which it incurs. We understand that
Col. Lallerstedt only had his life insured
in this Company last October, and at the
time of his death had'paid but two quar
terly premiums of thirty-six dollars and
ten cents, while the Company declared a
dividend ol’ thirty-seven dollars and fifty
cents in favor of his policy for the year
1869. From this it will be seen that while
Mrs. Lallerstedt received the full amount
—five thousand dollars —on her husband's
policy, the latter bad only paid to the
Company a !raction above thirty-four dol
lars.
The St. Louis Mutual ranks as one of
the most reliable companies in the country
and furnishes policies on the most popular
plan, aud with all the advantages in terms
that can he expected from a first class
company. It certainly deserves commen
dation for the prompt and liberal manner
with which it has settled this heavy policy
of Col. Lallerstedt’s, and parties desirous
of insuring in a good and reliable company
—one which will pay the losses it sustains
—are recommended to try the St. Louis
Mutual.
Cincinnati Southern Railway.—
From the Cincinnati Gazette wo learn that
at a recent meeting of the Council of that
eity, Mr. Kahn presented a communica
tion from the Board of Trustees -of the
Southern Railway, stating that this board
did not deem it advisable to issue the bonds
as provided by the aet of Legislature un
til they have obtained the consent of Ken
tucky and Tennessee to the exercise 6f
their powers. Bat that no time might be
lost, the Board asks for an appropriation
from the eity in their favor that the’J; • may
make the present season the necessary
preliminary surveys, the appropriation to
be repaid by the first moneys received from
the sale of bonds. An ordinance accom
panied the communication appropriating
SIO,OOO for this purpose. It was read
onee, and then went to the table under the
rules.
(COMMUNICATED. ]
Mcßean, Ga. , July 4th, 1864).
Messrs. Editors .—About the 25th ult.,
there appeared in your paper a statement
to the eftect that a Mr. jomebody "has dis
played a half-grown boll of cotton, of
which there were a great number in the
’ field from which this boll was taken, and
that this field would average waist high,
and all this on the farm of a Mr. Blanch
ard in the vicinity of Alexander, Burke
county, Georgia. It was patent to every
i planter that this statement was a false
i hood, and to make sure, 1 wrote to a lead
ing and reliable citizen of Alexander, en-
I closing the extract. I copy a portion of
his answer:
“Mr. H.—-The man , who carried the
! cotton boll to the C. & S. office says he
never told them he had a field of cc-ttOD,
where half grown bolls were oommon, nor
did he tell them he had a field of cotton
that would average waist high. The
simple truth is, he had a few stalks grow
ing iu or where a hog pen had been, and I
know that only a portion of thesefew were
waist high, aud I Icel sure that even in
those hall-grown bolls were not common.”
It will be seen that in that brief state
ment wore lour distinct falsehoods. Ist, that
• that it was a field of cotton ; 2d, that this
fi-.d 1 would average waist high ; 3d, that
i half grown bolls were common in that
field ; and 4th, that the field was not
manured. I fee! confident that these
statements were made ti the editors or re
porters. It is inevitable with these "first
boll” fellows to exaggerate. They must
tell a tale of such magnitude as to insure
the insertion ol their nathes in a news
paper, the sole object of their ambition,
and as I have once before stated in your
paper. I think the editors are greatly to
blame in giving aircula'ion to their Mun
i chausen tales. A "first boll man is al
ways a poor farmer, and generally what he
calls his plantation is a small and his
object cither to see his name in a news
paper or to increase his credit with his
factor. The damage such people do our
honest and industrious farmers is untold,
aud they feel for these "first bell” men a
deserved contempt.
The cotton is from ten days to two weeks
late compared with average seasons, but
where the land is good and it has been well
cultivated is doing well; blooms, however,
are just beginning to be “common.”
We give an insertion to the above,
merely remarking that it is unjust and un
reasonable to bold newspapers responsible
for errors which may occur in statements
i furnished them for publication.
House Servants a Want In tbe Republi
can Party.
At the close of the war and upon the
1 inauguration of the Freedmen's Bureau;
there was a wonderful degree of affection
and solicitude displayed by parties ‘‘in
position” for the house servants of the
late “Southern slaveholders.” Thousands
of this class of the colored race went
Northward upon ‘'inducements,” and
colored servants for livery were quite the
ton autODg our Northern Republican
' brethren. The body servants and waiting
maids, the elite of this class of the “wards
| of the nation,” were made to play con
spicuous, and, in soma instances distin
guished, parts in public. The confidential
disclosures of Jeff. Davis’ body servant
and the statements ot suffering martyrs
formed the texts of the correspondents *f
the Radical press, and in several instances
moved the generous impulses'or Christian
congregations to generous deeds of most
noble charity. There was a general
exodus of* Southern house servants
to the North, but this was the only
class of the race that called forth sympathy.
There was no call for carpenters, nor black- ;
smiths, nor field hands by those who avow
ed patriotism and pronounced upon loyalty
whilst riotiog in the glorious sentiment that 1
“all men were born free and equal." Butfor j
some came this favored class did not
remain as “equal citizens ” ■’Whether it
was because of unfriendly climate, or dis
tasteful customs—“did’nt like the ways
and means” —it is so they did not stick,but
returned, keeping their faces toward the
tropics and bringing with them hundreds
who from birth had enjoyed all the excel
lencies of tbe “free institutions" of the
great North.
Os course all this outburst of sympathy
for the newly enfranchised came from the
noble impulse and the most'exalted mo
tives. But it seems a little strange that
the “trooly loil African” has not met the
expectations of “proscriptive loyal” for
some ca,use and in some particulars, and
that now have such a sentiment as this from
that “trooly loil” sheet, Forney’s Press.
'"lf the Chinese aie better workers than
the negroes, then let the latter go down."
“The want of the hour is labor—plenty,
cheap and easily directed.” No matter as
to color, let it be black or yellow, so that it
is plenty, cheap and easily directed. Free
trade in labor hut protection as man
ufactured goods. Labor must be cheap,
but manufactures must bring high prices.
Labor must be plenty and easily directed.
This is the great want. That which is at
command is not cheap nor easily directed.
The Republican party desires to elevate
labor, by making it cheap—cheap as the
labor of Great Britain or of Germany—
nay even as cheap as in China, where the
laborer rejoices when his daily wages puts
so great a treat as rats and puppies in pies
at the command of his purse.
In this same article in the Press, of the
lOtb inst., Forney, referring to the Con
vention now in sessw i at Memphis for
the purpose of divising methods for the
encouragement of Chinese immigration,
says :
“We trust Philadelphia will be repre
sented there. Let some enterprising agent
be on the spot to contract for a few hun
dred good house servants, and he will open
one of the largest businesses in the city,
besides making his name a household
blessing. The man who does this will
sweep out of existence in thirty days every
intelligence office in Philadelphia and have
a clear field to himself.
The Chinese, by the unvarying evidence
of all persons who know anything of them,
make the best house servants in the world.
We have the worst. The man who creates
for this eity and State good domestic ser
vice is a public benefactor.
Able-bodied' Chinamen work in China
for about two dollars a month, and are glad
to get that. It is but fair to suppose that
home labor is cheaper. Under the con
tracts by which they are brought from
China they are to work out their passage
money at four dollars a month. Allowing
the contractor fifty per cent, more from the
employer, he can afford to supplyjus with
the best of first-class labor at six dollars a
month. This labor, it must be remember
ed, is trained, docile, respectful, and in
abundant supply. At present wo must
pay two and a half to three dollars a week
for an impudent and ignorant girl, repul
sive perhaps in appearance and manners,
who eats and wastes an amount equal to
her wages.
To this matter we earnestly call the at
tention ol the intelligence offices and labor
agencies of the city. They have it in their
power to revolutionize their own business
and the social life of the place, and the
first man who breaks the ground will reap
the harvest.
There are in the city of Brotherly Love
some twenty thousand colored Americans
of African descent, who are generally en
gaged “as helps” in the domestic business.
These friends of Forney are ignored, per
haps being neither “trained, docile, nor
respectful, nor in abundant supply.” Let
them “go down.” The demand of the
hour “is labor cheap, plenty cheap, and
easily directed.” And the Republican
party, “a party of progress,” has the mis
sion to provide ‘'Republicans” with
house servants and factory bands;
in all the trades of the artizan
and the handicrafts of the mechanics.
Labor at two dollars a week is wanted by
the Republican party, of which Forney is
the oracle. What say the working men of
the North to the cheap labor which the
Republican party is introducing—two dol
lars a week? What say the “loyal wards,”
the colored man and brother, about “goipg
down” beneathllepublicanism ?
The War not Ended Tet.
General George Meade, the distinguish*
ed Commander -jjf the Army of the Poto
mac, at the late ceremonies at Gettys
burg, as the orator of the occasion, made a
bold, noble appeal for a decent burial of
the Confederate dead, as a just and manly
tribute to gallant foes, and to invoke a
spirit of harmony and fraternal feeling
between the late contending sections. It
gives us pleasure to say that General
Meade’s speech was received in the same
spirit with which it was uttered by a gal
lant soldier. At the late re union at Long
Branch of the army and navy of the Gull
at Long Branch, New Jersey, General
Frank P. Blair essayed a similar purpose,
a kind word for gallant but unsuccessful!
foes. Not, however, with the same
success. We forbear comment as
best fitting our position, and in kindly
deference to the feelings of the gallant sol
dier who, unsolicited, undertook the noble
task. But, as faithful chroniclers of cur
rent events, we invite the attention of our
readers tu the foi!c.»iug account of the
proceedings, taken fr-*a the New Yurie
World:
The following is General Blair’s speech
which he delivered at the banquet at Long
Branch on Tuesday evening:
I feel greatly compiimecued by this call.
It hardly becomes n e to speak, but inas
much as we are having a general jollifica
tion in which the smail ones can enjoy
themselves as much as those of larger mer
it, I will say a few words of the struggle
which has just ended, and 1 will speak one
word of those who have bad no voice here
to night; I will speak for a people who
weer once our enemies, and I know that
when I speak for them before soldiers, I
speak before those who will heartily re
spond. Those against whom we contend
ed, whom we aspersed as rebels, and whom
I think we triumphed over as well lor
them as for ourselves. They were a great
and generous people, they were'worthy ot
the steel of our best. We hear of Sheri
dan and Farragut here to-night, but we
shall yet hear of Lee and “Stonewall
Jackson.” (Hisses, cries of “Order!”
and great confusion.) Who dissents?
(Many voices, "We dissent!’ “We all
dissent!” “Think of Andersonville an3
| Libby Prison !”J It would be little merit
] for us to have triumphed over a mean
i enemy. “Loud cries of “Order!” “Sit
down!” “Dry up!”) I admit that they
were misguided; I speak of them as our
I adversaries. (Cries of “Traitors!”) Gen.
Blair paused for a moment, then looking
all over the room, said. Are there no voices
1 to be raised for them? (Cries of" “Yes,
yes!” “No, no!” aDd “They were trai
! tors! ”)
| At this juncture Admiral Farrngut said
he thouebt the speaker should be afllowed
the right to go on. . r
General Blair—-I do not clajjf the right
| to speak; I am here by eoitre^sy.
A voice—l call the genrlcmau to order.
Admiral F’arragut—l think the point
well taken, inasmuch as we meet here for
social enjoyment; anything whieh is clearly
against the wishes of the majority, and
tends to disturb the general harmony is
decidedly out of order.
| General Blair bowed respectfully and
I good humoredly, and sat down-
Sen. Meade ai Gettysburg.
Tin following extract, the close of
General Meade’s address at tho late cele
bration of-Gettysburg, is full of the mag
nanimity of the true soldier:
There is one subject, my friends, whieh
1 will mention now, and on this spot where
my attention has been called to it, aud in
which I trust my feeble voice will have
some influence. When I contemplate this
field I see here and there masked with
hastily dug trenches, the graves in whieh
the dead with whom we fought are gather
ed. They are the work of my brothers in
arms the day after the battle. Above them
a bit of plank indicates simply that these
remains of the fallen foe were hurriedly
laid there by the soldiers who met them in
battle. Why should we not collect them
in some suitable place 1 Ido not ask that
a monument be erected over them ; I do
not ask that we should in any way indorse
their cause or their conduct, or entertain
other than feelings of condemnation for
their course. But they are dead, they
have gone before their Maker to be
judged. In all civilized countries it is
customary to bury the dead with decency
aud respect, and even to fallen enemies re
spectful burial is accorded in death. [Ap
plause.] I earnestly hope this suggestion
may have some influence throughout this
broad land, for tlfis is only one among a
hundred crowded battle-fields. Some per
sons may be designated by the Govern
ment, if necessary, to collect these neglect
ed bones, and bury them without com
memorating monuments; but simply in
dicate that below sleep the misguided men
who fell iri battle for a cause over which
wo triumphed.
The National Association of Cotton
Manufacturers and Planters.
The annual report of the “National
Association of Cotton Manufacturers and
Planters’’ is before us, and a very uernark
able report , of a very remarkable associa
tion, is it. By its title, it purports to be
an association of manufacturers and plant
ers. What iulerest these two distinct
classes have in common we are at a loss to
perceive. The planter desires the highest
price for his cotton. The manufacturer
thrives upon low price cotton. The plant
er uants low priced goods and free trade.
The manufacturer wants the highest pro
tection that can be obtained from the. Go
vernment, and the highest possible price for
the manufactured articles, .to afford
the greatest possible returns for the capital !
that he has invested. The conditions of
thrift and prosperity of manufacturing
princes, are low wages, cheap oread and
low prices for raw material, and high
prices, with quick demandfor manufactured
goods, that the market will afford. If our
planters—or, rather, we should - say, farm
ers now—were as interested in the manu
factured article as in the raw material,
their own productions, we might see some
common ground of union. Such a union,
if the manufacturing establishments were
located at home, would be reciprocally bene
ficial, and beyond doubt exceedingly remu
nerative. It would, necessarily, diversify
the productions, and greatly increase our
population, whose wants would be sup
plied by the products of the farm. But
none of these benefits can possibly accrue
now to the planter. The profits of manu
facturing arc with the manufacturer.
It is these profits that has made the man
ufacturers ot Old England and New Eng
land princes of the earth—the capitalists of
the world—who thrive most when the
farmer thrives least. The Cotton Lords of
England ha7e acquired their wealth and
power by manipulating the cotton farmers’
produce.
We greatly desire that there should be
an association of cotton farmers and cotton
manufacturers in our own State, and are
confident ia t' e belief that the day is not
far distant when such associations will
spring up and flourish iu our midst, utiliz
ing the manufacturing water power of our
streams, and increasing an hundred fold
the wca’th, and strength, and power of
our noble old commonwealth. Nor s our
belief the offspring of blind hope. The
experience of the past has taught our peo
ple that in directing ail of their energy to
increasing the production of cotton, is sui
cidal to their interest, while adding to the
foreigners’ wealth. The great blessing for
the future, which grows out of the fraud
and violence of the past, is that the great
temptation occasioned by the permanent
nature of labor then, has been removed—
no longer exists, and that the accu
mulations of farmers, must seek new
channels for investment. This being true,
what is more inviting than manufacturing
cotton ? m
Those factories ih operation in our
State,'have, during" the past year, de
clared dividends of ten and twenty per
cent, from actual earttngs, while Northern
and foreign factories are drooping and
languid in operation, and fill the world
with loudmouth complaints as to their
losses and threats abrut new substitutes
1 for cotton. For all these wails of man
i ufacturiog princes our people are deaf,
i The farmers are now out of debt. Threat
-1 ened interference and loss of slave proper
| ty no longer excites them.. There is noth
! ing of generous sympathy at the close of
! the war, or of liberal aid, xecordcdby ex
i perience that call for sympathy. The farm
| er that struggled through these disastrous
times paid from twenty-five to fifty dollars
on every hundred dollar-: that he begged
and borrowed to save life, and, after all
this, saw his struggling necessities made
the very his oppression, and
the patient toil of a year sacrificed in low
prices for cotton for the foreign manufac
turer’s profit and enjoyment.
Nor do threatened substitutes of foreign
surplus and new staples avail much. The
thunders of the war have not yet died out.
All the cotton that could be obtained else
where than in the South was reached after
during the blockade, with all tho power
of steam and with untiring enter
prise. All the development that
could be attained by capital duly
expended, was skillfully and unceasingly
encouraged. Bat prices then were much
higher than now ; and tho w old consum
ed aii the cotton that could be obtained.
There is no fear, then, of loss to the
South'-it planter from such threats. The
only harm tha: can befall him will be that
which will come from his own want of
sagacity in unwisely extending the area of
cultivation upon borrowed capital, and in
looking beyond the limits cf the farm
for bread aud meat. Tfie farmer,
tree from debt and raising his provisions,
will have a yearly surplus for years to
come to buiid. up manufactures at his
doors, which wiil give him a home market
for his productions, and a share of the
profits which have made manufacturers
in Old England Lords and in New England
Princes.
There are salient points in this report
which should not be permitted to pass un
noticed. The headquarters of this associa
tion is Boston, and its annual meetings axe
held in New York. How many cotton
planters are there who are rneipV
C. . , . • ... attend its meet- i
National Associate
i y vvuQont knowledge we venture to '
i assett not one. The report itself shews
that no planter ever had a hand in its com
position. It is clearly and wholly in the
interest of the manufacturer. Planters'
interests are no where to be seen- It is
made to appear that there is a sufficiency
of cotton visible and on hand to supply the
wants of manufacturers until October Ist,
or, in other words, until the new crop
comes in ; at the same time it reccom
mends “as well for manufacturers” "if a
large portion of tire manufacturing power
should be stopped in the hot months of
July and August.” This is anew
feature in New England economy. Fac
tory hands are allowed vacation for two
months to go to Saratoga and Niagara
Falls and to view the thousand isles in a
tiipddwn the magnificent St.. Lawrence,
and that, too,with a supply "visible and on
! hand” of cot ton to keep mills running to
tho Ist of October.
There is a single feature well worthy of
the closest observation of the planter. The
j visible supply is the eotton growiog in the
fields. It is this visible supply whieh is
based artfully to keep down prices. Uot
: ton rushed to market will make this visible
supply tangible.
Ut*l>i>rC of the Notional AN*ot inti<*;< of i ol(<»**
iUanaLcttiiei'H nn.i Plnniepw.
We published on Saturday a brief sy
nopsis of lire report of the National Asso
ciation of Cotton Manufacturers and Plant
ers of the United States. Deeming the
report of general importance, we now lay
the report in fuil before our readers :
National Association of ) j
Cotton Manufacturers & Planter?, v
No. 75, Summer Street. ]
The annual meeting of the Association
was held in New York on the 50:h. of
June.
A summary of the proceedings is now in
preparation for the press. The following
extract from the Report of the Statistical j
Committee is, however, issued in advance J
of therest of the proceedings, as it contains
information relatirg to the supply and con
sumption of cotton, which is believed to be
of immediate interest and value to the
members of the Association:
“Wo arc thus limited to the present
year--the facts of that portion past, and
tho apparent facts for the remainder,'
.reaching to first September as the end of
the regular cotton year, but to the Ist
October as the period up to which our
mills must be supplied without help from
the new crop. Accepting as correct the
figures found ia the weekly circular of the
New York Board of Cotton Brokers, from
whieh to state the crop movements since
September 1, 1868, we find—
Bales.
Stock in poits, Sep
tember 1, 1869 38,000
Receipts at the ports
to last mail dates
(June 18).,., v 2,062,000
Tototal supply, at
ports, to June 18 2,100,000
Deduct ' foreign ex
ports, to June .18 1,402,000
Stocks in port, June
18 95,000
Taken from the ports
by Northern spin
ners 603,000
And receipts over
land to mills, to
Apsil 24 241,000
Add receiptsoverl'd
to mills, April 24
to Ju.je 18 (esti
mated) 1 6,000
Total taken from this
crop by Northern
spinners,sineeSep
ternber 1, 1808— 850,000
According to the returns made from the
mills for 1807-'B, the Northern consump
tion, that year, did not exceed about 900,-
000 bales. It is supposed, as before stated,
that the consumption this year is less,
owing to the reduced production of heavy
goods. We do not vcoture to accept as
fact, however,tho inference from the above
figures, that the Northern mills require to
buy less than 50,000 bales to run up tc
15th October, 1809, whieh would complete
the year for whieh supplies began to be re
ceived at mills, about October 15th, 1808,
because it does not satisfactorily appear
that the supply in band, supplemented by
the 50,000 bales, will extend so far. The
common impression is that the supply held
by the mills on the 18th June, will extend
(at present rate of use) only to about Au
gust 20 or 25, and that a further supply- of
130,000 to 140,000 bales.is required to run
up to “new cotton,” tay 15th October.
Bales-
Assume the want for home use up
to 15th October to be the maxi
mum, say.... 140,000
And that t here shall be a further
export of. 25,000
T0ti1...:.. .....165,000
Whence is it to come ? Can it be sup
plied ?
The stock in all the ports, June 18,
was :. 90,000
To come in before Ist
including inland stocks (estima
ted) .’ 30,000
In transitu, from South, June 18... 21,000
141,000
Portion of receipts at ports to Ist
October (estimated at 50,000
bales) available for mills before
October 15 ~ 37,000
Supply 1?8,000
If the stock irt the ports Ist September,
and in the mills 15th October, be assumed
to be the tame as la-tyear, wu find there is
an apparent supply for the maximuni
Want, and a surplus over, in pro , forma
statement, which bespeaks of the future
only an ordinary maximum of supply of
want. . - -
While this indicates a full supply, it ex
hibits surplus too small to afford that
choice of qualities essentia! to the profit
able working of a‘Colton Mill. This small
unappropriated supply could be easily con
trolled by speculation but for the hard fact
that at the present pr ; ce (325a33 cents for
Middling Cotton), there is an actual loss
in producing nearly all the common
and standard varieties of cotton goods.
This will ctfjicc further -topping of ma
chinery. It wouid he wo!I for manufac
turers generally, if a large portion of the
manufacturing power shall be stopped
through most’of the hot months of July
and August.
The spindles and 1 joins of Europe arc
(utther from the cotton fit Ids, and a longer
time is required for the transportation of
their supplies. Looking to October 1, the
period of the annual making up of the cot
ton statement for all Europe, the chief
elements which enter into the supply for
that period are now visible, and calcula
tions can be made which will he approxi
mately safe.
Let us consider Great Britain alone.
From January 1 to June 10. 23 weeks :
Deliveries f»*r home u*.e were 1 178.000, or 51.200 per wk.
The deliveries icr export were— 172 00 1, or 7,501 per wk.
From L‘.verp<*ol 1 155,000
From London, &c ly-5 000
T-ta! 1.35000) 6*700
The total deliveries from Liverpool
alone were 50,000 bales per week.
The following prospective statement for
Liverpool is composed principally of ascer
tained or stated facts, such as “Stock on
hand,” “Cotton at Sea,” with the excep
tion of some minor quantities set down as
probable, such as the imports from Brazil,
Egypt, West Indie3. &c., which, taken as
last year for icme time, are all understated,
if we may credit the recent advices us
probable imports in excess ot last year.
Stock of Cotton in Liverpool.
June 10 435,400 bales.
Estimated imports:
From the U. States
at sea 80,000
Cleared since
June 5 20,<)U0
To clear before
Sept. 1......25,000 45,000
From East In
dias, at sea,
May 15.... .456,000
Cleared before
June 1 44,000
Bnzil same as last
year 195,000
Egypt, same as last
year 90,000
West Indies and
others, same as
iast year 37,600 866,600 bales.
Total supply 1,302,000 bales.
The deliveries from Liverpool dur
ing the first twenty-three weeks
of 1869, were 50,000 per week.
Thai included a large
mandforsome ul f»^^u, h ie&j .
i, - Vim re are indications of a
large export demand in future.
Assume, theo, an increase of de
liveries to 52,000 bales per week
for the next sixteen weeks 832,000 i
NEW SERIES, YOL. XXVIII. NO. 29
It would leave on hand, in Liverpool,
October 1, 1869, 470,000 bales, against
424,000 October 1, 1868, whereas on the
10th June the stock was 217,000 less than
at the same date in 1868. This shows a
large falling oft' in the deliveries for con
sumption and export. It ia further ahown
in the trade statement* of exports of plain
and colored cotton goods from London,
Livorpcol and the Clyde, to the East In
dies and China.
Yards.
The quanU'y fir the wine year 1866, was 325,431,905
Th” quanti>y F ihe wh *l® year 1867, was 1,066.814,613
The quantity for the wh ie'y.ar 18c8, was 1,207,528,238
an increase from 1866 to IS6S of nearly 50
percent. Whereas, the exports of those
goods from the same ports to the same
countries were for the first five months ol
1868, 497,955,000 yards, and for the first
live months of 1869 only 387,233,000
yards; a falling off equal to 22$ per cent.,
and we are assured both by trade circulars
and by a comparison of the prices of raw
cotton with the pr ce of cotton fabrics, that
the business has left an average loss to
spinners, manufacturers, and exporters dur
ing the last five or six months.
Ti.e consumption ol eotton on the Con
tinent of Europe has not vaiied materially
from that of the previous year. Their di
rect importations have been larger, and
they have taken less from England.
Up to October the manufacturing world
has a visible and probable existing supply
of eotton, larger than last year, with which
to meet a smaller consumption. The re
sult promised is a larger aggregate stock
on the Ist of October next.”
*George Fraser, Sou & Cos., of Man
chester.
Letter from Hart County.
- ‘ IMMIGRATION —THE FENCE QUESTION.
Hart co., July 9,1869.
Editors Chronicle <f - Sentinel:
Immigration is as much discussed here
jas elsewhere. The subject of immigration
.and “fence or no fence’’ are universal
topics of conversation. You can hardly
meet a group or pass a day with a neigh
bor, or have a ebatat a “cue 1 ' without be
ing asked your opinion or have a liberal
allowance of “views” from thoso “who
'have thought much about it and have
been eonsiderih’ the subjects a long time”
and “turned them over in their minds.” So
you see tho people areuot behind the press
iu these matters, but are now actively en
gaged iu “weighing and considering” these
subjects as matters of public policy, and I
think I am able to give the Chronicle &
Sentinel a pretty fair representation of
public opinion in this section.
The universal desire of the people in
this section is tor the acquisition of rail
road facilities. Quickened communication
and cheapened transportation for produce
and merchandize have become indispen
sable to progress and healthful prosperity.
Our people can, as iu times past, live
without railroad facilities ; but they can
not prosper, as in times past, for
want of the control that has been
lost. A month on the chain-gang
does n)t pay for “lost” cotton or wheat, or
stolen merchandize. Justice may be
avenged and the majesty of the law vindi
cated, until Bullock sees fit to make new
laws in the exercise of the discretio i o!
Executive clemency, and pardons the ill el
or rogue. But this does uot mend u*ai
ters to the individual. His losses arc the
same; or, rather, they are increased by law
yers’ fees and court expenses and taxes in
curred, with the hope that they may benefit
society by preventing by punishment the
repetition of such crimes. But alas ! it is
forlorn hope, I fear, so long as your
Augusta Express, man continues to be
Governor —or so called —and grants par
dons to make voters. However, to return
to my subject: Immigration has become
somewhat mixed up with Railroad enter
prises. The people are told that to have
Railroads they must first have immigra
tion, and so far they have been inclined to.
lend a favorable ear to immigration schemes.
But this sort of argument, as my neighbor,
says, “won’tstand the test.” They begiu to
see, in the first place, that Railroads must
come first, because these “foreigners”
have no horses, no mules, no beasts of
burthen, and therefore can’t go, except
where Railroads run; and this whole
immigration business by being put first,
looks very much like a political swindle,
or; at best, a speculation. Our people now
think that the Legislature has done wrong
to spend the people’s time and money in
legislating upon this subject, and creating
new fat offices and grcatState corporations
with State powers to increaso taxation.
We are taxed enough God knows!
and just as we are about to get out of the
depths of poverty, we are to be taxed
more to benefit somebody else, not us nor
our children. This is the sentiment here
of practical, sensible farmers. Thoy want
and are going to have Railroad facilities.
This we want and must have. If people
want to come and settle among us, buy
farms and put up factories and all that,
Why let them come Nobody objects,
Everybody says come on ail that want to,
bus you must do ns we had to do, bear
your own expenses. Nobody helped us or
our fathers. We had to “get out of the
wilderness” the best way we could. The
■new comer enjoys far more advantages
than we ever did. Why should we now
tax gurselves to death, especially, when we
are *so poor that it is only now four years
after a cruel and devastating war we are
just beginning to get our heads above
water? Wo are willing to be neighborly
and hospitable to all new seltiers—lending
a helping hand at the beginning or in time
of difficulty. But wc are not willing to
give away half our land to people that we
never heard of, or to support a Legislature
that imposes heavy taxes on us to bring
strangers from other countries and make'
them comfortable aud well to do out of the
little property'we have saved. Now, be
sides all this, whero is the thing to stop?
The Radicals of Congress have said as a
law for us that there shall be “nc distinc
tion as to easte or color.” This they have
j dictated and we are now acting under it.
| How long will it he before some steamship
companies and railroad companies, finding
it very profitable to transport Chinese or
Simon-pure Africans direct from Africa,
as citizens under the new constitutional
amendment and ask this immigration to
be encouraged?
Now if there are any of our people that
want immigrants let them import them on
! their owtf account, paying their own ex
! penses. ' r hey. get the benefit from the
i emigrant and they should pay his way.
My own opinion is that wo shall want.aH
the land we have got for our cwn chil
dren. Land is all we have got for
| them. I think our natural increase is
| about onc-third in every ter. years.—
! At this rate, together with the immi
gration th-t will come to us with
-1 nut being paid to atnrie, won’t be too much
tor them. If, und r our constitution, I
am permitted, I will “reckon;” if not, I
will guess,- that they will not think they
wiil have too much —should not b) sur
prised if they would be forced to drain the
Okefer.okee, as wed as people the mountains
if we provide for them now Railroad facil
ities. If there people that now are trying
to live on others by their wits—both upon
! the foreign emigrant and our own people—
would only go to work all would be better
I off. Let us build factories and spin our
own cotton, build workshops, and make
our own farm implements, and teach our
own children to do so, and wc shall be far
i more happy and prosperous, than we shall
;be by sending for persons from abroad to
jdo this work for us, or sending for the
i goods and utensils themselves.
I We are unanimous here upon the fence
I question. Our Slate has an area of 58,- j
i 000,000 square miles, and we have only
[ some eight or nine millions under
I cultivation, and about as much more '
i in old fi fids partially under fence, for
-took grazing. Now surely it is far better
to fence the smaller part under cultivation
! and let the cattle have “range” provided
! by. nature, wh eh costs ns nothing, and
I yields them good food. 1 differ from your
■ Mcßeao correspondent, E. If, ami others,
as to believing that ik;o opposition t > the
“no fence ’ party comes from “laziness.”
i 1 think it is just the other way. It is
the “no fence” party that is the lazy
party. lam .-ixty years old and have cut
and split many a rail to fence my land for
cultivation, and expect to split many more.
Neither will it do to have special acts fori
certain localities, for these will bring noth
ing but trouble and confusion. One man :
will want hogs to run at large and another j
that they should be penned, aud there will |
lie different opinions about cat tie and sheep, I
according to interests. If the matter ia
let alone, people will accommodate, them
selves under the present J»”'> a . D u if they
find it most profited- I '*9 P en their bogs
cattle and “L"*!■ d° 80 -
, w, sare looking well.
W. T. O. G.
The Caterpillar in Georgia.—The
Covington (Ga.) Enterprite regrets to
learn that the boll-worin has appeared in
force on several cotton plantations in New
ton county. It is apprehended from their
arly appearance that they will be very
destructive to the corn this year.
'ihe Commerce of Savannah for the
Year Kittling June, 1860.
From the Savannah Xewt. •
The annexed statement of the commerce
of Savannah, furnished by Mr. M. J.
O’Donoghue, of the Custom House, will
be read with interest by our citizens. It
will he seen that the lumber and timber
• hipments exceed that of tho previous
y ar 8,000,090 feet, and that the imports
and duties received are double the amount
of that year, although the number of bales
of cotton shipped is not as large as that of
the previous year, yet the tounage was
larger. For instance, we had in port one
day last season one hundred and two ves
sels of alt classes, viz ; seven steamships,
eight steamers, twenty-seven ships, four
teen barks, eight brigs, twenty-nine
schooners and nine sloops of over five
tons. Our commerce, by all accounts, far
exceeds that of any port south of Balti
more, excepting New Orleans.
With the present indications of good
crops throughout this and the adjoining
States, of which Savannah is the main
port of entry, with increased railroad facili
ties, opening to us a largo portion of
hitherto almost inaccessible sections of
Georgia, by moans of the South Georgia
and Florida, the Macon and Brunswick,
and the extension of the Southwestern
Railroad to Albany, giving us several
direct lines of communication with the
richest cotton growing sections, we may
reasonably hope for a larger business
during the next year. Let our merchants
and business men do everything in their
power to increase their business. Savan
nah now has an opportunity, such as no
other city has, to control the greater por
tion of the commorce of Georgia and the
adjoining States. Her railroad facilities
are unequalled, and if capital is judicious
ly invested in establishing wholesale houses
in the different branches of trade, her
boundaries in a few years will stretch miles
beyond their present limits.
The following are the tables of exports.:
Exports Foreign — Foreign Vessels.
Value.
Upl'd Cotton..bales 113,354 $13,866,999
S. I. Cotton...bales 2,371 593,649
B B Timber feet 16,893,151 307,527
Lumber feet 4,063,769 89.213
Rice ..tierces 300 17,773
Cotton Seed tons 1971 5,690
Miscellaneous...*.... - 7.000
Total value in For’gn Vessels..# 14,888.85 L
' Exports Foreign—American Vessels.
Value
Upl’d Cotton..bales 65,900 $6,746,736
S. I. Cotton...bales 2,371 203 496
L J .P. Timber... feet 576,614 12,651
Lumber feet 7,400,161 164.222
Rice tierces 60 3,302
Miscellaneous 12,240
Total value in Amer’an Vessels $7,142,047
Total Value Exports F0reign..522,031,598
Exports Coastwise.
Value
Upland cotton..bales 189,416 $23,273,955
S. Isl’d cotton..bales 4,298 949,975
Domestics bales 9,260 926,300
Wool bales 1,214 87,490
Lumber feet 15,763,301 311,270
Hides..... 78,125 180,350
Rice tierces 6,697 353,650
Flour bbls 12,963 116,667
Naval stores bbls 7,077 39,197
Wheat bags 5,053 18,346
Cottonseed bags 2,036 5,396
Miscellaneous 34,300
Total value exports coastwises26 304,996
Foreign 22,031.498
Coastwise 26,304,996
Total shipments for the year 548,336,494
Value of imports 816,145 00
Duties on imports .(goldi... 413,713 47
Tonnagefor the year ending June 30,1869.
No. Men.
Foreign vessels 142,321 31 3 307
American vessels 987;513 53 18,994
1,129,834 84 22,101
New York Dry Goods Market.
From the Independent, July 8.
General dullness is the usual complaint
among all classes of business men in the
first week of J uly. But the past week
has been exceptionally active, particularly
in dry goods, and the market is very firm.
The activity, however, is not exhtbted so
much iu the large transactions that have
t:iken place as in tho disposition shown by
purchasers, who are watching their oppor
tunity to buy without affecting the market.
Prices continue firm,and thegeneral convic
tion prevails that at the re-opening of the
season next month higher rates will be
readied on the whole lino of domestic
fabrics, woolen as well as cotton. The
manufacturers’ agents are disinclined to
take orders at the going rates, and any
thing like an attempt a speculative pur
chases on a large scale would immediately
cause an advance in prices.
In brown sheetings and shirtings the
transactions have been on a limited scale
for the week, but prices for all descriptions
of unbleached goods in light and heavy
weights continue very firm.
Bleached shirtings and sheetings are in
good demand for the better qualities, and
prices of all kinds are firmly maintained.
’l'he stock of popular makes in first hands
is very small for the season.
Printing cloths are firm in price, but tho
business in them for the week has been
small. Sixty-four, square standard quali
ty, command nine cents a yard.
Prints are riot active, and the saies are
confined mostly to light effects, the dark
patterns for the cany Fall trade not hav
ing been put on the market. But prices
continue firm, and an advance will doubt
less be established when the new styles are
brought out. Sprague’s fancies sell at 12$,
less one per cent., 13$ for blue, 11$@12
for mourning. Merrimackssell for 13f lor
D fancy, 15 for W fancy.
Ginghams are dull for the low grades,
but for the popular makes there is a better
demand. The general trade is dull, but
prices are firm.
Printed lawns and percales continue in
good request for the better qualities which
are mostly absorbed for the city retail
trade.
All other descriptions of cotton goods
St-e dull, the seasonable being unfavorable
to active sales, but there is no tendency to
an abatement of prices, the present and
prospective prices of the raw material
keeping the market steady.
There is a very marked improvement in
woolen generally. Cloths are much firmer
to price, although there is not much activi
ty in the market. The clothing houses are
buying rather freely of cloths and over
coatings. There ia a better look for wool
ens than we have noticed before in some
years.
The trade iu foreign goods is just now
aluiost suspended. The importations arc
light, comparatively, though a considera
ble number of heavy invoices of dress
poods have been received and put into
bunded warehouse to wait for the com*-
meacement of the fall tiade. The cotal
amount of imports for the past week are
hut little over a million of dollars. The
following figures show tiie business ia for
etprt dry goods for the present yeat .
imports on foreion dry goods at new
YORK.
F.n the week: 1867. 1906. 1S0&.
K t red a', port $1,146,464 $ 90,861 $1,162,777
Thr wn rn market 915,128 763,964 1,028.1/6
H'nre January 1. 1807. 1&-.8 1-69.
jV. *-.t- d at port $46,399,235 $37,839,824 $49,483,8.92
| Tut U'aoa market 59,715,199 40,226,254 48,472,861
BAINBRIDGE, CtJTHBERT AND CoLUM
bus Railroad—Further Particulars
of the Survey.—From a conversation
with Col. Harkie, Chief .Engineer, we glean
the following :
Beginning at Bainbridge the first 30
miles of the route is as the crow flies, per
| fectly straight. Then a deflection of 10
; degrees Westward is made to avoid the
I go eat Collyer pond, a formidable obstacle
j in the way. From thence comes another
retch of 15 miles to the vicinity of' the
P. rndolph line, where a similar slight bend
•vas made to sccuro what was supposed to
be the most eligible crossing of the Pachil
ia, arid the remainder of the route pro
ceeds ia a. Tight line to Cuthbert, distant
la mile^
.Hq little was the variation from an air
■ line, that the estimated increase of dis
j tance from Bainbridge to Cuthbert will
I amount to but one-half mile.
The topography of the country is repre-
I sented to he most favorable for the eun
| struction of an economical road, and all
! along the line to the borders of Randolph,
! the farmers, without a single exception,
j t xpressed their willingness to donate the
1 right of way to the Board of Director* ft
| is to hoped the people of our ow« county
; will be equally liberal.
| Eight nuodred feet of jostle work only
| will be needed from -Cambridge to this
| poiDt, amt of lat*”-* 5 bridging none, after
' leaving Flip' * ilver ’ where the survey
began., •subsequent observation-induces
tb- t-isles also, that the last curve can be
very nearly made straight, as another cros
sing equal if not better than the first, over
the Pachiila, has been discovered.
Everywhere the party in the field were
enthusiastically welcomed by the inhabit
ants, who seem ready to make heavy sacri
fices if needful to assure the completion of
this important enterprise.
Refreshed by a day or two of rest in this
city, on Monday the surveying corps left in
fine health and spirits ea route io* Lump
kin, — Cuthbert Appeal .