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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1869)
OLD SERIES, YOL. LXXYI. (Chronirte & icnhucl. A pOPgTA . <» A : w KJJXKsHAI MOK MN 6.8 K FTK M ifL KZ 2. Death of a Press Agent.— Mr. John Bohanna, for maDy years Agent of the New Vurk Associated Press at Mobile, died Sunday morning from lung disease. The deceased had many warm friends in the telegraph fraternity, of which he was an efficient and honored m ember, who will regret to hear of B j’s shuffling off this mortal coil. Peace to his ashes ! Tub Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Cos lumbuh Railroad. —The Bainbridge Ar i/us says the corps of Kogineers of this road returned 1 1 Bainbridge on Sunday, August 29th, hiving completed the survey and the location of the line on the larger portion of the route between that city and Columbus. It says the engineer corps commenced on Tuesday morning last to run the line from Bainbridge to Tallahas see, Florida. The same paper says : We aro informed by the President of this road that a sufficiency of stock has boen subscribed to complete the road bed to Cuthbert; and that so soon as the line is run to Tahuhassee, and specifications can be made out, he intends letting out to con tractors forty miles of the road toward Cuthbert and twenty miles toward Talla hassee, or to the Florida line.” A South Carolina Legislator JJn dkhthk New Dispensation.—A friend handed us yesterday a Magistrate’s sum mons in the handwriting of a Magistrate in Hamburg, Edgefield District, 8. C., the same functionary being a member of the “ ring-streaked and-striped ” Scalawag Legislature which meets at Columbia to oppress and rob the galiant but unfor tunate people of South Carolina. The individual inquestion signs himself 11.I 1 . It. Rivers, and is described as being so black that charcoal would make a white nark on his august “phiz.” 'to this as it may, however, Sambo Rivers, or Dad ly Hirers, as he was formerly called, occupies an im portant official position in the town of Hamburg, where ho feels his importance and grins and guffaws like a Brazilian ape. while dispensing the law to “de poor white trash” and aristocratic “colored people” who come before him. To give our read ers at a distance an idea of his fitness to make and expound the laws, we publish the following, verbatim, el literatim, which affords a striking commentary ou the in famy of Radical Reconstruction: MAGISTRATE SUM MANS. South Carolina, { Edgefield County, j By P. R. Rivers magistrate, in and for tho said State County afursaid. To any Lawful Constable Complaint having been made unto me By Larat Hines that J. J. Kennedy and Washington Lee and London Boddy in the County of Edge field did on or about the 9th & 10th, ou his plantation Busing and Damage 2 of her Black Hogs and on the 14th did the same or without A Lawful sense. t hose ar therefore to Command you toSum mans the said .1. J. Kennedy k Washing ton Lee and Landdo Boddy appear before mo in my office in Hamburg S C on the 520th day ofaugust AD. 1809 at 10 o’clock, A. in. to answer to the said Complaints as •fudgmont Will be given against them By default Given under my hand and Seal at Hamburg s c the 20th day of august A D I SCO. P. R. Rivers L. 8. m. E. C. On the back is tho followiug : Houtli Carolina Edgefield County Larat liincs V S. .1 J. Konnody | offense Washington Lee j Dumugs London Bodily j Hogs P. ft. Rivers m E C Trial day august 20 1800 deputy Constable John Gardner Did Any op Them get Away?—A I good story is told of a late well-known New York politician and railroad manager; During his absence from homo his wife gavo birth to twins. He was telegraphed of her confinement, no particulars being given, and immediately hastened home. Knowing when he might be expeoted, tho nurse borrowed a third boy of about tho same age, and placed it in the crib with tho twins. Immediately on reaching homo our friend hastened to his wife’s chamber, and after his congratulations to her, asked to be shown the baby. The nurse, who had assisted at similar occa sions in the family, raised the covering and exhibited to him the three babies. Open ing his eyes with surprise, and thoroughly taken buck by the view, he turned to his wife and exclaimed : “Good Lord, mother, did any of the n getaway?” Mississippi.—The National Udiou Re publican Convention of Mississippi met at t .Jackson on Wednesday, and unanimously nominated Judgo Lewis Dent for Govern- j or, Judge F. L Jeffords for Lieutenant Governor, and J. L Woodford and Judges William Kellogg and Joseph W. Field for Congress for the First, Third and Fourth Districts. The Growing Cotton Crop of Egypt. --Advicts from Alexandria to tho 14th of August state about the growing of cotton : “It is as yet too early in the season to - form an opiuion of any value ; but it may be mentioned that the risiug of the Nile is i satisfactory, aud (hat the cotton plants ! thus far look stroug and healthy.” The American Agriculturist, for September, is promptly at hand, and is well filled with matter of much intere-t to the farmer and gardener, while the house hold department is as attractive as ever. The present number also contains several tine engravings, some of them humorous and suggestive. The American Agricul turist ranks deservedly among the first of its kind, and the low price at which it is published places it in the reach of all. The publishers very generously offer to send it free the remainder of this year (three months) to all who subscribe for the next year (1870). Orange Judd & Cos., publishers, 245 Broadway,New Yors. Terms : $1 50 a year, in advance. The South Carolina University.— The Columbia Phoenix learus that Rev. l'r. Garnett, of New York, has been ten dered a professorship in this institution. l)r. A. G. Mackey, it is stated, will be elected Professor of Belle Lettres, and Mr. O’Connell, of York, will most probably be elected professor of languages. Cotton prop in West Alabama.— The Greensboro (Ala.) Beacon, of Sep tember 4th, says: We saw a gentlemen a tew days ago who has traveled recently over quite a scope of country, and who is an old practical farm er. His opinion is that Hale county has & better prospect lor cotton than any through which he has bo n, and that no estimate can as yet be made, lie reported rust in nearly all the crop in the Newbern neigh borhood, and also in other portions of this county Another gentleman, who plants four and a half miles south of this, exhibited u> us two stalks of cotton from his field, literally covered with the caterpillar, and said that in a few days they would destroy at least one-third ot his crop. 7_ Taking all things in consideration, we are of the opinion tha- the cotton crop of this section will not be as large as last year’s crop. • The Mule and Hog Market.—A lot pf yearling mules were sold in Macon «ounty, Kentucky, last week at $125, an other lot at $155, and a lot of two year olio at $lB3 33 per head. Men experienced in the hog trade think that hogs to Northwest Missouri will range from kve and a half to seven cents, live weight, this fkU. ___ Paris, Sept. 10. —Lambert’s Polar Ex pedition is unable to start for want of fond*. John Belt, John Bell is dead. Another of the bright links which bound us to the past is broken. Wfensucha man .'alls and is gathered to the fathers, society looks with straining eyes to discover the coming man upon whom his bright mantle may appro priately fall. And doubly blessed is that age whensueb a mantle can be cast upon a deserving successor. When we look around and calmly survey the field of American politics and Ameri can statesmanship—when we cuter the halls of the National and State Legislatures —when we examine the Judiciary—the Cabinet—our representatives in foreign lands, a&d, tired and sick of heart from this survey, wc turn to the Executive head of he Government, our minds become painfully impressed with the great, start ling fact, that so far as exalted patiiotism, broad and expansive intellectual acquire ments, cultivated Catholic statesmanship, familiarity with the principles of civilized government, practical knowledge of the workings of our own system, honesty and purity of intention with candor and sinceri ty in execution—that so far a3 these grand virtues may be considered as the brightest gems which adorn the coronet of true American statesmanship, the present is emphatically the age of failure. In the far off future when the youth of the land shall be called upon to point out those stars which cast most light and re flected most grandeur upon the first half of the nineteenth century, the names which shall first rise to their lips will be Jackson and Webster and Clay and Jal houn and Adams. Randolph, McDuffie, Benton, Wright, (. ass, Taylor, Scott, De catur, Perry, Bainbridge, Forsyth, Mar shall, Pinckney, Story, Taney, Crawford and John Bell, and their colleagues, who in the halls of Congress, on the hustings, in the field, on the sea, at foreign Courts, on the Bench and in the Executive Chair of the Nation, gavo character to the Ameri can Go vernmen t and spread our great name throughout the uttermost parts of the earth. But alas, these are no more. A new class of men occupy their places with out filling their positions. How strange the contrast—Jackson and Grant, Taylor and Butler, Webster and Sumner, Clay and Wilson, Calhoun and Boutwell, Story and Hoar, Marshall and Swayne, Crawford and Robeson. John Bell, one of the last linger ing survivors of this bright galaxy of American statesmen and patriots, was born near Nashville, Tennessee, on the 18th of February 1797. His father was a farmer in moderate circum stances, who gave his son a liberal education at Cumberland College, now the University of Nashville. Mr. Bell wasad mitted to the bar in 1816, and was elected to the State Senate from Williamson coun ty, where he had settled, in 1817, before he was 21 years old. Having served out his term he declined a re-election, and de voted himself for the next nine years to his profession. In 1826 ho ran for Congress against Fe lix Grundy, who had the powerful support of Andrew Jackson, himself then a candi date for the Presidency against John Q. Adams, and, after a most exciting canvass, Mr. 801 l was elected by a majority of one thous ina votes. He was subsequently re elected, and served in Congress fourteeu consecutive years. During his service'in Congress he was esteemed one of its most able, efficient and industrious members, lie was in early life a warm admit er ot Mr. Calhoun, and strongly opposed to what was then called the protective sys tem. Upon this question he subsequently changed his views, and adopted Mr. Clay’s great American system. Opposed to an indiscriminate system of internal improve ments by the General Government, be lent his powerful aid to such particular works as, from their character and position, gave promise of general benefit to the whole oountry. Ho was in favor of a United States Bank, but voted against its recharter in 1832, because he believed the subject was then brought up, four years before the expiration of the charter, for political pur poses, and merely to defeat the election of General Jackson in the ensuing Presidential election. Mr. Bell broke with the administration of General Jackson on the question of the removal of the deposits, and ceased to act with that party afterward. In 1834 he was elected Speaker of the House of Represent' atives over James K. Polk, afterward President. In 1835 he declared in favor of Hugh L. White for the Presidency, and in the subsequent canvass in Tennessee lent the whole power of his influence and talents in favor of that gentlemen. Ten nessee cast her vote for Judge White and Mr. Bell was re-elected to Congress from the Hermitage district by as large a vote as ever In 1838 Mr. Bell voted against tho celebrated Atherton resolutions, which caused his conduct to be sorely criticised by tho extreme pro-slavery sentiment in the Southern States. In 1841 when President Taylor was in augurated, he invited Mr. Bell to accept the War departmen*, which he did, and with the rest of the Cabinet, Mr. Webster only excepted, he resigned office on the j separation of the Tyler administration from | the Whig party in the Autumn of that year. The Tennessee Legislature, largely Whig, at its next session tendered Mr. Bell a seat in the U. S. Senate, which he declined in favor of Ephraim H. Foster, who Mr. Bell thought entitled to tho posi tion. He was elected to the State Senate in 1847, and during his term was elected to fill a vacancy in the U. S. Senate. In 1853, he was again elected to the Senate, his term of office expiring March 4th, 1859. In 1860 he was nominated for the PresL dency by the American party, and while the popular vote which he received was very large, owing to the peculiarity of our System his vote in the electoral college was sicall. Well would it have been for the -vuntry could the result have been otherwise. During the war, although op posed to secession, he remained true to the South, and suffered the loss of his en tire property on account of his Southern sentiments. At the close of the war, broken down in health and advanced in years, ho found himself deprived of a large property and thrown back upon his own labor for support, while men who had been active and clamorous in bringing about the war, like Joe Brown and others of that stripe, had amassed large fortunes, and are now ro ling in luxuries. The character of Mr. Bell’s mind was rather solid than brilliant, though some of his speeches delivered in the Senate will long be remembered as moddies of forensic debate. He was a statesman of large and liberal views, and great independence of character. Asa man, he was generous in his nature and warm in his sympathies and friendships, and consequently loved by those who knew him well. ;in Tennessee he was always popular, 3nd his death will be keenly felt by those in his native State, who acquired the privilege of his associa tion and friendship. Peace to 'his ashes! The American Odd Fellow for Sep tember is received. Contents: An excel lent original story, entitled Winning and Losing; a valuable and instructive paper on the French Working Classes; China and its Capital; History of Odd Fellow ship; Letter from Europe; Scientific and Curious Facts; The Present and Future of the White Pine Mining Region; Our Duty; The Patriarchs: An Odd Fellow Abroad; Ladies’ Department; Odd Fan | eies; News of the Order, Ac., Ac. Pub t liehed by John W. Orr, No. 96 Nassau street, New York. Two dollars per year. The Telegraph—A Mistake. In the Macon Telegraph of the 12th we find the following: “There seems to be somewhat of a com motion among a portion of the Democratic Press upon the matter #f the called meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Democratic party of Georgia. Both of the Augusta papers pronounce the Committee /undue officio, and challenge their right to meet, and question the oc casion. The Chronicle & Sentinel con tends that their term of office expired last July, which is a mistake, and no term of service was mentioned.” The readers of tho Chronicle & Senti nel need not to be informed that the alle gation in the above extract in retard to the Chronicle & Sentinel is untrue. This paper distinctly stated that the term of the old committee expired in July, 1868, and that the President of the State Con vention which met in Atlanta o n that day was ‘authorized to appoint, at his conve r.ience, a Centwal Executive Committee, clothed with the power of oalliag conven tions of the party, etc. The Chronicle & Sentinel, in the same article, called upon the Democratic paper in Atlanta, the Constitution, to pub lish a correct list of the new committee in order that the people might know who were on it. This is not the first time, recently, that the Telegraph has misrepresented our position. Indeed, its obliquity of vision upon some subjects, is only equalled by its deficient memory in regard to the Rome speech, and we trust, for the credit of that journal, that both are due to like causes. Will the Telegraph do us the fa/or to publish the article from the Chronicle & Sentinel from which it derived its state ment that we “pronounce the committee fundus officio , and ehallesge their right to meet, and question the occasion.” We Ask for Information. The Macon Telegraph for the last few days has had a good deal to say about the principles of Democracy, and we s. e that *t clings in its definitions to the old theory of a “strict construction of the Constitution,” and that "the Federal Government is one of delegated, and not original powers”—that “the States are the depositories of sovereignty,” etc. These are all very well. They constitute the time-honored creed of Democracy in the past. But at present there are other issues of quite as much importance upon which we would like to have the views of tho 1 degraph. It has been frequently asserted of late, in our hearing, that the editor of the Tele graph favored the acceptance of the original Reconstruction Act of Congress, and that he advised the adoption of that policy by the people of the State. We respectfully ask whether this bo true, and if so whether the 7 elegraph thinks the re jection of that policy by the Democratic party was w ise and proper ? Unlike the Telegraph, the Chronicle & Sentinel has “invested something in personal hatred” toward those who have labored for the destruction of the State government and the degradation of our people, and we shall never see tho day in which we can forgive and fraternize with those who sought to betray and ruin us. Let us Have Peace. The Chicago Post, a leading Western Radical journal, in a reoent issue contain ed the following editorial item : is I ‘lt is again reported that Alexander H. “ Stephens is better. We arc really alraid “ there isn’t enough of Stephens left to “ die.” We reproduce this* malignant and really infamous paragraph to show the spirit which still pervades the Radical mind in regard to the Southern people. These men, like the editor of tho Post, wo are daily called upon to open our hearts to and recognize as our friends and brethren. With the shallow cry of “Let us Have Peace,” constantly falling from their lips, they are at heart our bitterest enemies and most malignant persecutors. Toward those generous, rightminded men of the North, who now, that the war is over, are striving to obliterate its sad heart-piercings and soften its sorrows, we extend our earnest and faithful recognition of brotherhood, but for the political harpies ar.d moral hyenas like the Post and its crew we entertain the profoundest con tempt. Kebccca of Ivanhoc. No one who has read Ivanhoe—and who has not read that master-piece of the great Scotch poet and historian-can fail to be deeply interested in anything which will throw light upon that most masterly of Soott’s productions, the delineation of the character and impulses of the sweet and gentle Rebecca. Like most of the heroines of all the great writers of modern fiction, the char acter of Rebecca was drawn from that of a real and in this instance of an American girl. The .real Rebecca died a few days since at tho advanced age of eighty-eight in Philadelphia, where she was born and where she lived during her long life. Rebecca Gratz was a lady of marked ac complishments, and widely known virtues. She was a firm and conscientious adherent of the Jewish faith, and this devotion to her creed was the cause of her subsequent fame as the heroine of Scott’s novel. An exchange gives the following account of her early life, and the manner in which she became known to Sir Walter Scott: “She was addressed by a gentleman of wealth, position and character, whose pas sion was returned, but the difference in their religious faith—the one being a con scientious Christian, and the other a de votee to tho ancient creed of Israel— proved an insuperable barrier to their union. Neither of them manied, although each lived to a good old age. Washington Irving was the intimate friend of Miss Gratz, and knew well the history of her struggle between affection and religion. He related the story to Sir Walter Scott, who made it the ground work of the novel of Ivanhoe, and has im mortalized Miss Rebecca Gratz as the Re becca of that imcomparable romance. The fact is perfectly well attested, and is an inter es.ing item of literary history.” The Tobacco Interest. We copy the following matter of inter est to tobacco dealers from the Washing ton Republican : IMPORTANT TO DEALERS IN LEAF TOBACCO. A short time since the Collector at Lynch burg seized some thirty cases of leaf tobac co ready for shipment, and consigned to a firm at Atlanta. Upon investigation it was found that the tobaceo was intended for the retail trade, and was sold without reference to the internal revenue tax. The question whether tobacco so dis posed of is subject to a tax, was yesterday decided by Commissioner Delano in the affirmative; he holding that whenever to baceo is in a condition to be consumed, and is put up with refetence to its sale for consumption, it comes within the provis ions of the act of July 20,1868, section 61, paragraph 3, which provides for a tax of thirty-two cents per pound “on all tobacco twisted by hand, or reduced from leaf into a condition to be consumed, or otherwise prepared without the use of any machine or instrument, and without being pressed or sweetened.” The owner of the tobacco, Mr. Wm. D. Miller, of Lynchburg, admitted that the leat was selected for retail trade, and that he was aiming to build up a business of that kind. •The Commissioner has directed Collector Wiloox to present the case to the United States District Attorney for court, and the issue will be made thereon. Should the District Attorney decide adversely, an ap peal will be taken to the Supreme Court. COUNTERFEIT TOBACCO STAMPS. Information has been received at the Internal Revenue Bureau of an organized "tobacco ring.” coextensive with the “whiskey ring,” by which systematic AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY JORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1869 frauds have been committed and counter feit stamps circulated in great numbers. The efforts of the agents to dispose of these stamps have become public, and in several instances the anxiety of thj seller has led to his arrest. A few days since we pub lished an account of the re-seizure of Rab | bin’s tobacco factory, in Cincinnati, for using counterfeit stamps. The specimen sent here, it will be remembered, was found on tobacco seized at Davenport, ( lowa, and was pronounced genuine ; but upon further investigation, it appears that the counterfeit stamp on the box sent was removed while in transit to Washington and a genuine stamp put in its stead. The seizure or the tobacco in Daven port was made by an assistant assessor, who was positive that the stamps Here photographed, and sent another specimen from the lot seized, which was pronounced a counterfeit. It has now been ascertain ed that in the first instance an agent of the “tobacco ring” did make the change alluded to, and that the Cincinnati firm gave him $450 to attempt the same game with the stamps on the remaining pack ages at Davenport. The agent handed the “oney to a third party, who agreed to do the but instead of fulfilling the con tract left iLo job undone, which resulted in the reseizure of the factory from whence they were put upon G, e market. Detectives are at work, and will doubt less succeed in arresting tne ringleaders and capturing the headquarters of the conspirators. Augusta—the Past, the Present and Her Future. To those whose business or inclination have led them to reflect upon the present condition of our commercial inter ests as compared with ou trade before the war, there is no need of extended argu ment to show that, while all around us trade, commerce and wealth have rapidly recuperated and greatly increased within the last two years, that, so far as Augusta is concerned, our commercial prosperity has not shown anything like the flattering results which, from our location, our capi tal and the business character of our mer chants, we might reasonably have expected. The trade of Augusta has always in the past, and must, for some time to come, depend mainly upon our cotton receipts. Before the war we received over two hun dred thousand bales; since the war our re ceipts have fallen a fraction under one hun dred thousand. This falling off in receipts is not due entirely to the general decline in production, although that has diminish ed fully one-half. If our small receipts weredue alone to this cause, the same effects would be noticed and felt in all the other leading cotton markets of the State and of the South. But despite the falling off here ot over or quite fifty per cent, of our former receipts, we find that the re ceipts at Savannah have largely increased. There must be, then, some other cause for the great falling off here aside from that of diminished production. We have no hesitation in declaring our belief that this retrograde in our receipts is due not to diminished production alone,but to two other prominent and important caus es. The first of these is, the scarcity of bank ing capital wherewith to move the cotton from interior markets. Before the war Augusta had a large banking capital, which was used with great wisdom and sagacity. We venture to assert that in no city of the South was the bank ing oapital employed with the same de gree of enterprise and wise forethought. In every town and village in the State where the receipts of cotton amounted to a thousand bales, Augusta capital and Au gusta energy were found in active compe tition for or in sole possession of its trade. Our h»" kin £ capital wab sent in great abundance to the interior towns and cities of Alabama, Tennessee and South Caroli na. By this means the cotton crop in a large measure was controlled by Augusta capital, and forced to seek a market here. Since tho close of the war we have been sadly deficient in the means and capital necessary to renew this important feature of our trade connections. The consequence has been that Northern capitalists having seen the great profits which Augusta had reaped in this way before the war, have sent their money to almost all the in terior towns and taken pos-ession of the crop in the same way that Augusta had done previously. Having thus secured control of the crop,these Northern capitalists next sought the quickest, cheapest and directest routes for its shipment direct to Philadelphia, Boston and New York. Our leading Rail roads having been greatly crippled by the progress and results of the war were only too ready to lend their aid to these schemes of the Northern capitalists, and a sharp rivalry ensued between them as to who should do the most of this through freight ing business. In their efforts to secure the lion’s share, the interests of not only the planters, but of our own leading mar kets were ruthlessly sacrificed under the specious pretext of necessity. The local traffic was subordinated to the success of the “through business,” and combina tions and monopolies of the most dis criminating and tyrannical character were sought for and consummated,greatly to the injury of the true interests of the State. The corporation which took the lead in this work and which has been most cruel and exacting in its conduct, most grasping in its combinations and most ruthless in carrying out its monopolized powers, has been the Central Railroad. By means of its extensions and combinations it has been able to force thousands of baLs of cotton from their regular channels of communica tion and trade with this city and compel shippers to send forward their cotton over their own lines. The Montgomery & West Point Road, a leading and direct highway for the transit of the cotton crop of Middle and Eastern Alabama to this city, has been subordinated to their use and placed under the absolute control of the Central Road, which thereby acquires the power and does not hesitate to use it, to force these cottons over an unnatural and circuit ous fine tc Savannah. The Southwestern and the Muscogee Roads, always more or less under the control of this gigantic monopoly, have been merged into its com mon stock and fall now absolutely under its management. Augusta has felt a deep interest in the success of the Macon & Milledgeville Road, hoping by its completion to Macon to be able to secure a good share of the cotton and general trade which for years has been centering there under the impulse given to the Macon trade by the completion of their southwestern and western railroad connections; But no sooner are the ar rangements perfected for a speedy com pletion of this important work than we find the Central Road again at work to defeat us and destroy the trade of, Macon and Augusta. The recent lease for a hundred years of the Southwestern Road to the former —in effect a virtual sale — enables it to control absolutely all the cot ton and other trade which is compelled to seek a market over the Southwestern Road and force it through Macon direct to Sa vannah and thence direct to New York and Boston. The large amount subscribed by the city of Augusta and her citizens in the Macon and Milledgeville Road by this combination of the Central Road becomes almost valueless, so far as it was expected to reach the cotton and trade of Columbus and Southwestern Georgia. In this condi tion of our railroad and banking facilities, it is seen that our trade must languish un less some steps are taken and taken prompt ly to counteract the adverse influences now operating against us. There is a remedy, full, ample and com plete, and within our reach and under our control. The rich cotton fields of South west and Southern Middle Georgia must be made tributary to our market. A line of railroad from this city passing through Louisville, Wrightsville, Dub lin, Hawkinsville, \ ienna, Starks- I vdle and Abany to the Cktahoo : chee river aid theDce to Motel wifi work out our salvation and »ke Au gusta what nature and her citizens of the fast designed ht to be — the great oottan market of t Atlantic States. A glance at the m: will show that this is a direct, straight,cbP line and the most natural outlet for th vast pro ducts of these imr&ense cottoield ß - The completion of this road into our lap over one hundred a fifty thou sand bales of cotton anmly> besides a valuable trade in wool, stoc timber and other farm products. Thoustance from Augusta to the Chattahooee River, by this fine, would be aboi two hundred miles, and could be built J equipped for about twenty thousand dors i er mile,or, say, in round numbers, ar millions of dollars. But this road would !£ paying one to its stockholders aud a iuable feeder to the trade of the city if ifere only finished to Hawkinsvi'le, a distpe of about one hundred utiles, or, if to Albany, about one hundred miles, would secure us the larger ske of the trade and cotton from that poj- The writer has "Deep-frequently ove the entire line and knows it to be entire feasible and prac tical for the cooslgction of a first-class railroad atacompijtively small cost. The country tfrugh which it would pass iu its whole igth is without rail road facilities. It s a rich and valuable portion of the Stateabounding in wealth and covered with iroad fields of cotton. The people along t» fine would contrib ute liberally towarthe building of the road, and it only nets the fostering hand of our people and »e city to secure its success. Having directed ttention to this im portant mattA, wehall postpone to a future issue the pulication of some im portant facts and sta*sties which we have procured upon the abject. Outrage ou* Merchant. The War on the Drummers. —As has already been menpned in the Cou rier, on Saturday zst, officers Coates and Levy arrested M. Thomas P. Stovall, of the firm of Brash, Scott & Cos., of Augusta, and Mr. A Seligman, agent of the house of W. Wendel & Cos., of New York, on the clirje of soliciting or ders without licenses--that is, on a charge of drumming without plying the city tax. They were up before in Mayor yesterday morniDg, and in each else a penalty of SSO was inflicted. The above extract, which we clip from the Charleston Courier & Monday, deserves something more than amassing notioe. The main fact which it contains is, that Capt. Thomas P. Stovall, of the firm of Branch, Scott & Cos., of this city, and one of our oldest and most enterprising merchants, has been arrested in Chtrleston and pun ished by a heavy fine asa drummer. Captain Stovall is, it no sense of the term, a drummer. He ii a large grain and flour merchant of this city, and has, for years, been doing a large business with Charleston; In the last fifteen years he has sold in that market perhaps one mil lion barrels of flour, and has bought there hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandize. He went to Charleston to sell the products of his large flouring mills and to purchase large supplies of bagging, hay, &c. While there in the pursuit of this legitimate business he was arrested and fined as mentioned by the Courier'. U would be well for our merchants to be on their gua*l j n deali r - * r '\ and if they are #/* 10 mulched, in heavy aamages ior trading there, they had better seek another market. If the people of Charleston think they can afford to lose the rich trade of the interior we would ad vise a strict enforcement of this law against non-resident merchants. The law undsr which tfie anest pf Capt. Stovall was made is as follows : “Three dollars on every hundred dollars of all goods sold in the city by persons not residents, by sam pie or otherwise. ' ' Under the provisions of this law no planter can sell his cotton there without paying to the city three per cent, on his gross sales. If the President of our large cotton factory were to visit Charleston and sell to one of its leading merchants one thousand bales of his sheeting he would be compelled to pay three per cent, for the privilege or be fined at the discretion of the Mayor. This, in our judgment, is not the way to foster and encourage trade. This is not a case of drumming or selling by sample. It is a regular legitimate business transaction. It is not drumming for trade but trade itself. If Charleston does not wish trade from the country it is all well; but if she desires to extend her business relations we submit that the ar rest of interior merchants upon such pre texts as were made in the ease of Capt. Stovall will not accomplish that object. It would be well for Charleston to remember that there are other cities iu the South where flour and grain can be sold and ex changed for bagging, hay, &c. The Augusta, Louisville and flulf Kail road. Having directed attention in a former article to anew line of communication with the rich products of Southwestern and Southern Middle Georgia, we proposein thi 8 to take a brief glance at the products of the country through whioh the proposed road would run, and their value, together with the probable results to the trade and growth of Augusti which would follow its construction. It will be seen, by reference to a map of the State, that the direction of the proposed road would be Southwest, and that an air line drawn from Augusta to a point on the Chattahoochee river at or near the corner of Decatur and Miller counties would pass through or near Louisville, Wrightsville, Dublin, Hawkinsville, Vienna, Starksviile, Albany, Morgan, and Blakeley. This lint, after crossing the Central Railroad at or near West Point, in Jefferson county, would almost equally divide the rich and valuable country lying between the Southwestern Railroad on the North and the Savannah and Gulf road on the South. The mean or average distance from the latter road being about 90 or 100 miles, and from the former 60 to 70 miles. This rich aud important belt contains some of the best cotton lands in the State, and is filled with an. enterprising and wealthy population who are entirely cut off trom convenient railroad communication to the great markets of the State. It is inter sected at right angles to the line of the proposed road by the Oconee, Ocmulgee and Flint rivers—streams which do cot af ford sufficient depth of water for the suc cessful running of boats. This large tract of country demands an outlet for its sur plus productions. It is too far to wagon their cotton to Macon or the Southwestern road on the North, and too far to take it over bad roads to the Savannah k Gulf road on the South. The completion of the Macon and Brunswick road will par tially relieve the small belt which lies up and down the East bank of the Ocmulgee river, bat will be wholly inadequate to fill the wants of the greater portion of this vast tract lying bet wees the fines just in dicated. If we examine the map, we will find that immediately upon leaving Augusta, the read strikes into and penetrates a wide tract of the very best cotton lands in the State. This portion of the route is bound ed on the North by the line of the Georgia and Macon and Milledgeville roads, on the West by the Central road, and on the South by the Savannah & Waynesboro road. The proposed fine would be about equi-idistant from the Waynesboro road on the South, and the Milledgeville and Ma eon road on the North, and would run through the very best portions of Rich mond, Burke and Jefferson counties, and very near to the cotton producing portions of Warren, Glasscock and Washington oounties. To show the amouat of cotton and other trade which the proposed road would probably bring to this market, we have examined the census statistics, and find that the counties of Burke, Jefferson, Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens,Montgomery, Palaski, Telfair, Dooly, Wilcox and W orth produce upward of sixty-five thou sand bales of cotton. In addition to this the proposed road would draw from the lower part of Warren, Glasscock, Wash ington, Wilkinson and Twiggs, twelve or fifteen thousand bales. Four-fifths of this cotton now goes to Macon and Savannah. The counties lying west of the Flint river, and between the Southwestern and the Savannah <& Gulf Road, produce about one hundred and thirty thousand bales. None of this cotton comes to the Augusta market. If the proposed road should only secure one-third of this cotton it would add to our receipts upward of forty-three thousand bales, or nearly one-half of our present [receipts from all quarters. If we add the production of the coun ties East of the Flint, through or near which the road would pass, wo have as the probable gross amount of cotton com ing over the road to this place one hun dred and twenty thousand bales, or thirty thousand more than our entire receipts the past year. But instead of getting only one-third (43,000 bales) of the Southwestern Geor gia cotton, we would get more than one half, or sixty-five thousand bales, because the distance from Albany to Savannah via Macon would be upward of three hundred and ten miles, while to this oity, it would only be about one hundred and sixty or a fraetion over one-half the distance to Sa vannah. The distance to Charleston from Albany by tho proposed road, would be less than that to Savannah by about twen ty miles. This great difference in distance in our favor, and the further advantage of a straight line and low grades,would enable Augusta to control nearly the entire crop of Southwestern Georgia. In estimating the probable amount of cotton the new road would bring to this market, there is another important ele ment to be taken into the calculation. It is this ; Southwestern Georgia was set tled mainly by ) lantera who migrated from the middle, or old black belt of the State. These men, previous to removing to their new homes, had been doing busi ness here for a number of years, and had become familiar with our merchants and their mode of transacting business. The sons of those who are now dead have time and again heard their fathers rehearse around the family fireside tho advantages and conveniences of the Augusta market— the high character of her merchants, and their polite and affable manner of transact ing business. The whole of Southwest Georgia desires to renew business rela tions with this city, and were the facilities of communication only equal to those with Savannah, we should get the largest share of their patronage, but when we offer them a rapid, easy, direct, shorter and cheaper route, who can doubt but that Augusta would get the lion’s share of the rich products of these immense cot ton fields. If we had the space we could give other reasons —reasons which would be rec ognized as legitimate, forcible and con clusive, to show that with the road com pleted only to Albany we would receive more than half as much more cotton than we now receive over all our roads. We think we have, however, gone sufficiently far into this branch of the subject. We propose, in a future issue, to present some figures iu regard to the distances between Cincinnati and the West, and Augusta, Atlanta, Macon and Savannah. We think we can shqjv that A ugusta must become the great distributing point for the enor mous Paeon, gram anu uour iraae or the West, and that the completion of the pro posed road will also make us the depot for the rich trade of the Gulf and tin West Indies. We desire our capitalists and business men to consider well this great subject in all its bearings. It is one of vital interest to the welfare of the city. From Our Travelling Correspondent. On the Wino, Sept. 11th, 1809. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : The DeKalb Superior Court convened the 6th inst., Judge Pope presiding. On ly two or three civil cases were disposed of, the time being mostly consumed in an effort to try a man by the name of Wheel er, charged with murder. But failing to get a competent jury in the county, the case was transferred to Fulton, and per haps will be tried the coming week. The people in this tection seem quite dejected from the almost entire failure of their crops. Scarcely enough will be realized from the cotton to pay for the fertilizers used in its production, and there will not be more than a two-third crop at the best. Perhaps no portion of Georgia has suffer ed more severely from tie drought than DeKalb and surrounding counties, and it is thought many will have to farm on a very limited scale the coming year, if at all. We now see the wisdom in the admoni tions of the press last Spring, and the fol ly of farmers in not planting more grain. At early morn on the Bth instant I left Decatur, and after a flight of three or four hours arrived in Newnan, and found the Coweta Court in session, Judge Bigby presiding. Besides the local bar, consisting ofMessrs. Buchanan, Turner, Wright, Smith and Freeman, I noticed Judge Wm. Dougherty, of Atlanta, and Col. W. 0. Tuggle, of Troup, in attendance upon Court. A case that has been on docket for twenty years of Mr. Sumerlin, against the estate of W. B. W. Dent, was under dis cussion, Judge Dougherty and Freeman lor the plaintiff, and Messrs. Wright and Buchanan for the defendant. The speeches occupied from five to seven hours each in their delivery, so you may guess this is the banner Circuit for long-winded lawyers, and the abundance of counsel to guide jurors in making up a proper verdict. But really these were no mere gaseous effu sions, but exhibitions of legal knowledge and a power of appeal rarely heard before the courts of the country. The suit involved about $20,900, and had twice before been decided in favor of the estate of Dent. A murder case was on the docket for trial the coming week, which seemed to ex cite a great deal of feeling among the peo ple. It was thought the prosecution would secure the services of Judge Stephens, or General Toombs, but I did not learn whether or not they had succeeded in do ing so. Both parties to the case were quite excited and determined, and the community will look with interest for the result. Newnan has grown to be a town of con siderable business importance, and pre sents an array of neat and substantial buildings, equal to any other in W estern Georgia. But few places enjoy in a higher degree, social, religious and educational advantages. For the latter, Newnan owes her importance to the indomitable energy and perseverance of President Kellogg, who has done as much for the cause of female education in Georgia as any other man. I had the pleasure of a brief visit to “College Temple,’’ situated in the most pleasantly shaded and beautiful portion of the town, and a cordial welcome from that polite and courteous gentleman the Presi dent. This I 'ollege was chartered by the Legislature in 1853, and was in a high state of prosperity before the war, but, like all others, was quite prostrated by the general wreck of the country, but is now rapidiy on the rising ground, and bids fair for a career of usefulness unsurpassed in its history. I took a few moments observation through the spacious rooms of an adjacent building appropriated to an extensive and handsome library, philosophical, chemical, and astronomicaljapparatus, all complete, in working order and adapted to thorough practical instruction. Attached is a little printing press, by the aid of which the method of teaching becomes more efficient. The enclosures or several acres abounds with fruits and flowers, vegetables and t evergreens, and all that is necessary for mental and physical refreshments and in i vigoration. The literary and musical departments of 1 the institution are filled by teachers of vast i accomplishments and experience and emi ! nently adapted to their positions. The Fall term opened with 125 pupils and the prospects ahead quite encouraging. The i commencements are said to be models of ' taste, refinement and culture, exhibitions ! everyway worthy of the head of the insti tution, who deserves public confidence and patronage, not to say the gratitude of the i people of Coweta, and especially of New nan, for the educational attractions he has | given the place. ! Quite a number of invalids, mostly from I the low countries of Alabama, have been up the past Summer to enjoy the advan tages of the climate and mineral waters of the town, and, I learn, were highly grati fied with the results. The water is very strongly impregnated with -medical prop erties and is quite 000 l and pleasant to the taste. But few towns in Georgia that of fer greater inducements every way than Newnan. Traveller. THE GREAT GALE. ONE HUNDRED HOUSES UNROOFED. DEMOLITION OF CHURCH STREPLES. U«se/s Driven Ashore—Lives Lost—Com munication Interrupted. New York, September 9.—The South ern steamers due at 6 a. m. have n)t yet (noon) arrived. An evening paper 1 has the following : The telegraph munager at Providence represents that the fme of the storm was so great in that viciufijr that the people in many localities were oftly rescued through the prompt action of boatmen, who paddled through the business streets. There are as yet no reports of loss of life, but the effect of the storm upon the Sound must have been latal to all crafts afloat. Sever al churches and other laree buildings were demolished by the storm, and fences scat tered in every direction. No telegraph is in working order connecting with either of the Atlantic Company’s cables or with the French Cable Company, and no European advices will probably be received here until late this aftei noon. The telegraph lines now in communica tion with Providence and Worcester are forwarding dispatches from New York to Boston by railroad. New York, September 9, 8 o’clock a. m.—The land wires connected with the French aud English cables are still down. No European dispatches have been re ceived since last night. Providence, September 9.—The gale last evening from four o clock to five, was the most severe known since 1815, when the city was partially submerged. Through out the Stateths damage is immense, aud several lives have been lost. In this city the Hartford Railroad depot was demolish ed, Rose & Walker’s tannery partially blown down. The Oriental Mid was un roofed, and two operatives badly hurt. The Chestnut Street Church steeple was blown down, and nearly all the church steeples injured. Probably one hundred buildings were unroofed ; fruit and shade trees were destroyed. Boston, September 9.—The hurricane last night extended over most of Eastern Massachusetts. At Nahant a large dwelling and stable were blown down,and the depot on the steamboat wharf was blown into the sea. At Hull, every boat at anchor in the harbor was driven ashore or sunk. The windows of the Mansion House were blown in and the outbuildings unroofed. At Higham the streets were blocked with trees, and barns and chimneys blown down. Agricultural Hall, in Marshfield, was levelled with the ground. In Abington three church steeples fell; and a large hall and back faotory in South Abington was unroofed. At Braintree the steeple of the Congregational Church was carried off, level with the roof. At Newburyport and towns further east the gale was less violent. The damage to fruit trees, shrubbery and corn is immense in all directions. The Cobseum organ is ruined. It had just been sold to parties in Chicago for $5,000. The big drum was also ruined. Nearly every vessel in Boston harbor dragged their anchors, and many oollided, sustaining damage. At Marblehead, Frank Barratt, of Nashua, N. H., was killed. The Sagamore House,on NaDtaskct beach, was swept from its foundation. The in mates escaped injury, having just left the bouse for safer quarters. The gale along the Eastern coast was the most terrific ex perienced for years. The Marine Hospital had one-third the roof blown off. The fog-bell at Portland Head Light was blown over the bank into the sea. The gale raged fearfully pn this —uvery uescriptiori of vessel dragged anchors and drifted hopelessly. From the Atlanta Constitution, Stpt Uth. Destructive Fire. About 4 o’clock Sunday morning, the alarm of fire was sounded, and found to proceed from the burning of the store of Compton & Peddlecord, on Marietta st. The fire soon spread to the store of Pow ers & Son, below, and the wind blowing steadily up the street in the direction of the State House, the stores occupied by Malone & Johnson, McMillan & Snow, J. Warlick and II Shelzer, quickly disap peared before the onward march of the Fire King. At the same time the fire had been gradually eating its way into the Norcross Corner, and the stores occupied by Horn & Silvers, and W C Lawshe were considerably damaged by the burning of the second floor, used as parlors for the National Hotel. Atlanta No 1, was promptly on the spot and her members worked manfully. Me chanic, No 2, was about an hour getting ready, owing to the absence of the engin eer. The engine of Tallulah being laid up in the shop for repairs, that gallant company tried to use an old machine, but found that it wouldn’t work. The fire is supposed to have been acci dental in its origin. We give a summary of the losses : H Seltzer, one story brick, crockery and glass ware. lusured $7,000, saved about SI,OOO of stock. Building owned by Healy and Hayden. Insured for SI,OOO. J Warlick, stoves and hollow ware, in sured $3,000. Building owned by Healy & Hayden, insured SI,OOO. Biggers & Henderson had-a lottery agency stand at Warlick’s. Loss light. MoMillan & Snow, groceries, insured $3,500. Building owned by Healy & Hay deD, SI,OOO. Orme k Farrar, stock same building, $1,250. Malone & Johnson, grocers, insured, stock $2,500; building SI,BOO. Compton cfc Peddicord, grocers, insured $4,000; building, Berry & Ward; no in surance. W Powers & Son’s, grocers, insured $6,600; building owned by lleaiy k Berry. Between the two latter stores was a small store occupied as a fruit stand; loss trifling. Next to Powers k Son’s Store was a small store occupied by a barber shop, and a lottery agency office; loss trifling. The buildings just noted were one story brick, with shingle roofs. The next building was the corner build ing at the Norcross corner. The building was erected by Messrs. Friedman k Dove man, lessees of 1 lie ground, and t to sto ries. Insured, SB,OOO. “The Exchange" bar room, formerly kept by John Cavan, aud at tho time by IIoro'& Silvers. Stock not insured. Loss in damaged stock not ascertained. Front part occupied by Quinn’s News Depot and barber shop. No insurance. Damage not ascertained. Next to the Exchange was another small fruit stand ; loss slight; no insurance. W C Lawshe, Druggist, insured for SIO,OOO. In the drug store, B Hermann kept a small jewelry stand; insured $2,500. In basement, on Peachtree street, “Le Bon Ton” bar room, D Lynch; loss slight. L Mihafovitcb, Dry Goods, Peachtree street; insured $2,500. The second story was occupied by the National Hotel, as parlors. The following are the insurance compa nies with the amounts insured in them by the sufferers; Georgia Home —McMillan & Snow, $1,500; W Powers k Sons. $3,000; Malone Johnson, SI,OOO. Total, $5,500. Astna—Compton k Peddicord, $2,000; Friedman k Loveman, $3,000. Total $5,000. c TT , Southern Mutual—Healy & Hayden, $2,000; HSoltzer, $1,000; Powers & Son, $2,700; Malone & Johnson, SI,BOO. Total $7,500. Enterprise—McMillan & Snow, $2,000; MaloDe & Johnaon, $1,500. Total, $3,500. Home, of New Haven —L Mihaloviteh, $2,500; Pemberton, Willson, Taylor k Cos, $1,500 on goods stored in cellar of Powers k Son; H Beltzer, $6,000; B Herman, $2,500. Total, $12,500. Putnam —J Warlick, $2,000; Compton & Peddicord, $1,000; W Powers k Son, $600; Healy & Hayden, SI,OOO. Total, $4,600. Hartford—W C Lawshe, $2,500; Orme & Farrar, $1,250. Total, $3,750. Empire State—W Powers & Son, $300; W C Lawshe, $2,500; total, $2,800. International—W C Lawshe, $2,500 ; Friedman & Loveman $2,000; total, $4,- 500. Home, New York —W C Lawshe, $2,- 500. Atlantic—Friedman k Doveman, $3,- 000. „ Continental—Healy & Berry, $2,000. Yonkers and New lork—J Warlick, SI,OOO. Aggregate of Insurance $58,100. The amount of loss sustained by the merchants, is estimated at over twice that amount. A cireful review of the amount of stock saved, and the amodbt on hand, may possibly lower the figures. At present, the loss is estimated at over i SIOO,OOO, NEW SERIES, YOL. XXYIII. NO. 38 SOUTH CAROLINA. SALES-DAY IN BARNWELL—PURCHASES BY LAND COMMISSIONER LESLIE. Mr C P Leslie, Land Commissioner, pur chased, on sales-day, ia Blackwell, two val uable tracts of land at about four dollars per acre. There was some spirited bid ding against the Commissioner, as these plaoes,- we learn, are capital cotton lands. Mr. Leslie will not, he says, purchase any property when the homestead may be claimed. The following is a report of the sales in detail: C G Hoffman’s land, 434 acres, sold for SBS0 —bought by H Hart zog. S M Sanders’ land, 875 acres, sold for $3,525 —bought by J M Hoover. M H Darlington’s land, first tract, 848 acres, sold for $2,000 —bought by W R Darling ton. Second tract, 256 acres —sold for sl,loo—purchased by the same. Third tract, 930 acres, sold for $1,900 —purchased by same. Fourth tract, 105 acres, sold lor SBOO, and purchased by same. In the Court of Probate—D C Bradley vs Bowers and Wife, 101 acres of land, sold by the sheriff for $75, and purchased by Willis Loadholt. D H Rice ts G N Cain and Wife, 330 acres of land, was sold for $1,300, and purchased byC P Leslie. The following tracts were sold by the clerk: Threo hundred and twelve acres of land, at the suit of James Patterson, commis sioner, for another, tiPW Baughn, was parchhsed tor the sum of $2,000. One acre in the town of Bamberg, at the suit of the same vs A E Simmons, was sold for $1,600. Ninety-seven acres of land, at the suit of same vs J M Smith, was sold for SIOO. SALES DAY IN ORANGEBURG. The Orangeburg Neios says: “Quitea large concourse of farmers were in town on Monday last, sales-day, and business brisk ened its pace some among the merchants. The sheriff made the following sales of real estate: Lands of L W Dash, 1,200 acres, for $1,535; the first and second tracts were purchased by J W Hydrick, the third traot by Joshua Ulmer; Lands of estate of Christian Keitt, 400 acres, for $865, pur chased by NE W Sistrunk; lands of J J Houck, 586 acres, for $575, purchased by S Dibble, Esq; Lands of E W Andrews, 66i acres, for $55, purchased by G H Cor nelson; Lands of Mrs Glaze, 138 acres, for $175, purchased by J H Amaker; Life estate of J D loabinet, 240 acres, for SBS, purchased by J D Stroman. On Tuesday after sales-day the sheriff sold personal property to the amount of S6OO. The per sonal property of Mr Avant was sold for $379. Two fine milch cows were sold for $37 and $43.” SALES DAY GOSSIP IN ANDERSON. The Intelligencer says: “The property sales in front of the courthouse were large ly attended, and tho bidding in several instances was quite spirited. W W Hum phreys, Esq., Judge of Probate, sold seve ral tracts of land as follows : 265 acres, $1,965; 99i acres, $625; 40 acres, $330; 14 acres in the village of Belton, $430; 1 acre lot in Pendleton, S3OO. Sheriff Mc- Gulkin sold on tract of land, containing 140 acres, at $485. These prices indieate an increased value of laud, notwithstanding the prospect of taxation. We talked with agood many farmers concerning their crops, and from the best information we can gather, the conclusion is general that not more than a half crop of corn aud cotton will be made in Anderson county. The cold weather, early in August, attended by r artial rains was succeeded by intensely hot and dry wca her, and the last drought has done far more injury than its p-ede oessor. Altogether, the signs indicate scarcity of breadstuff's and money. ACCIDENT ON THE BLUE BUDGE RAILROAD. As the passenger train on the Blue Ridge Railroad was approaching the depot grounds on Tuesday morning, two flat cars laden with lumber and one box car were thrown from the track by coming in con tact with a cow. The two flats were de molished and one of them precipitated down the embankment. The damage will amount to one thousand dollars, it is said. The President oftheoompany has ordered a rigid investigation of the facts attending the occurrence. SCALING OLD DEBTS. The Walhalla Courier having stated that the process of scaling old debts ori ginated at Anderson, under the auspices of General HarrisoD, the Anderson Intd ligencer remarks: “In this our contem porary is mistaken. It was first applied on this circuit in the manner stated, hut the scheme originated in Edgefield two or three years ago when debts were scaled at twenty-five to thirty cents on the dollar. Governor Piokons was the first public man, so far as our knowledge extends, who ad vocated this course in reference to ante war obligations.” ANOTHER SLANDER REFUTED. The Abbeville Press contradicts the Radical falsehood which has been publish ed that the Rev. Manning Brown, of that plaoe, had declined to perform the funeral services over the remains of G. W. Allen, a deceased member of the constabulary. The Press says : “Mr. Browp authorizes us to deny this statement as false in every particular. He was not at home at the time of the application, and knew noth ing of it until his return. Had he been applied to, common humanity would have precluded his refusal.” SALES DAY IN LANCASTER, S. C. The Ledger reports the sale of the fol lowing tracts at what were considered fair prices : 218 acres, bankrupt eetate, for $l,OOl, W U Patterson purchaser; 1,200 acres, more or less, lands of Allen Morrow, for $1,250, Dr J T Kell pur chaser. Estate of M P Crawford, de cea ed —1,200 acres of Waxhaw land for $9,050, purchased by Hasseltine & Chafee; reversionary interest in 225 acres, S3OO, J D Wylie purchaser; reversionary in terest in house and lot in the village, $l,lOO, J D Wylie purchaser ; reversion ary interest in three acre town lot, $l4O, Williams Stevens purchaser. THE COTTON CROP IN LANCASTER COUNTY. The Ledger says : “The cotton crop has arrived at that stage that we may calculate with some certainty as to its yield. It is our purpose to arrive as near the correct figure as possible, and relying upon the judgment of several experienced farmers, we think the mark will not be missed very far in estimating the present cotton crop of Lancaster county at about the same of last year. It is presumed that the in creased acreage in cotton the present year will make up for all deficiencies in bad stands, &c. This estimate, we are satisfied, will not hold good throughout the State, and but for the superior quality of our lands and other essential causes, injured as this crop was by the late frosts and wet Spring, we, too, would have fallen far short of our usual production.” SHREDS OP STATE NEWS. The number of bales of cotton shipped from Blackville to September 9, 1869, is 96. La4 year the number of bales shipped to September 9, 1868, were 2. The following additional magistrates in and for Orangeburg County have been ap pointed : E A Price, Edward Argoes, Dr R V Dannerly, Wm N Mount. Sam Beatty, colored, was drowned on tho 4th instant, in the Waccamaw, while trying to board the steamer Staples , as she was moving past Bucksville. Judge Orr will hold an extra term of Court at Newberry on the second Monday in October. Over fifty bales of new cotton were sold in Winnsboro’ on Thursday and Friday, at an average of 301 cents per pound. The Laurensville Herald , in its sales-day report, says: “The sheriff sold, as the property of Ferguson & Hill, the steam saw mill and fixtures at Clinton, fourteen acres of land, subject to mortgage. Bid off at $25. The complaint as to crops was universal—corn short, and cotton shorter. Anew Masonic hall is to be built at New Prospect, Spartanbu g County. Shocking Murdkrnear Columbia.— The Phoenix, of yesterday, says: “A young woman, Eliza Boyer, was found dead on yesterday near a stream about three and a half miles from the city. From the marks upon her person it is supposed that she had been outraged and then mur dered. No clue as yet has been discovered as to the perpetrator of this foul a The jury of inquest impanelled by Coroner Thompson met, but have not yet arrived at a decision. The post mortem examina tion was made by Dr. R. W. Gibbes. Her head and face were wounded in several places; the skull fractured and the neck also showed marks of violence, which un doubtedly caused death.” Heavy Seizure.— The United States Collector of Internal Revenue on yesterday seized and closed the store of a merchant doing business on Bryan and St. Julian streets, for alleged violation of the Internal Revenue Laws, in relation to whiskey. About thirty thousand dollars worth of merchandize was in the store when seized. — Savannah News, Sept. 14 Scarcity op Cotton.—The Ranken Knitting Company, of Troy, N. Y., held a meeting on Friday, and resolved to shut dowp their mill at Cohoes forthwith, on account of the scarcity of cotton. The Bandlake Mills, New York, have already stopped from the same cause, and it is said that most if not all theootton mills in * the vioinity will likewise suspend. FROM EUROPE. The. Cuba Question — Views of the English l\ess The International Rowing Match — The Cotton Trade and Supply The Byron Scandal — etc. , etc. England. London, Sept. 10. —The Times to-day lias an article on the subject of Sickles’ note to the Spanish government, in whioh the writer says it is hardly credible that America contemplates the recognition of (’uba. While Spain has little to lose, except the Island, owing to the ooufusing pros pect of the war, and its damaging effects on her commerce and finance, she admits she must ultimately consent to abandon Cuba. Th o-Telegraph has aD article on the same subject.saying the American action with re spect to Cuba is the same that England was so much blamed for,although the cases are not precisely parallel. The Cubans are absolutely without strength, without oivil or military organization, and without an established government. If the Americans vindicate their action by the plea that they cannot remain indifferent to the struggles of a friendly people for freedom and independence, then England in 1861 acted in a manner Americans now em phatically sanction. Looking at the con troversy in its broadest view, we shall scarcely be displeased to sec America take a step which the practical world would regard as an auspicious exculpation of England from responsibility to America. London, September 10. —The Times to day has an editorial on the result of the international rowing match. The writer asks if the admission of a coxswain does not counterbalance the weight in the boat? If not, the American system of rowing is the best. He regrets that the Harvards have no advantage over the Oxfords. With a coxswain they lost in steering; without one they would have lost more. He hopes that if a return match is accept ed, both crews will row in their own fashion. If that course had been followed in the late race it would have been quite as fair, and more instructive. He considers it hard, however, to pick holes in a raoe so well contested and so gallantly won. London, September 10.—A meeting of Americans was held at the Laugham yesterday. Resolutions were unanimously adopted, thanking Prince Napoleon for his recent speech, and especially that passage in reference to the advantage of Demo cratic government in the United States. London, September 10. —The Times has another article to-day on the cotton trade and the supply. It says : “There was a time when tho intelligence of a good sup ply of ootton in the United States would have caused satisfactory assurance to the manufacturers and workmen of Lancashire. The sudden destruction of the old cotton trade has been attended with the destruc tion of old conditions. Things are no long er as they were, though the cotton supply has come back again. New fields and new factories have been opened; some under shelter of protection, and some in a more natural atmosphere. A more extensive demand for raw material raises the price, and that rise deprives us of tho condition essential to the superiority we once' main tained.” London, September 10- —John Bright says in a letter that “a good harvest will tend to restore health to the general trade of the country, and when we have a suf ficient supply of cotton Lancashire will re cover from her distressed condition. More cotton is what we want, and not more taxes on imports. I suspeot the people of Lancashire will not fail to understand this.” London, September 10. —The Daily News has an article to-day on the Cuban question. It says : “The rumor afloat of the proposed purchase of Cuba by the United States found a powerful friend in the Spanish administration. It is difficult to perceive, if the rebellion is suppressed in Cuba, how a material change can be ef fected amid a defiant and subjugated popu lation. If the rumors have any founda tion, t'lese considerations may possibly in cline this powerful leader to listen favora bly to an offer from the United States. Though his advocacy may obtain great force with the other members of the gov ernment and the people, the interests of England and France in the West Indies are scarcely inferior to those of the United Slates, and they will have tfieir Bay before the settlement can be regarded as final.” London, September 10.—The excite ment in regard to the article written by Mrs. Stowe, on the subject of Lord and Lady ByroD, has not abated. The news papers still teem with correspondence on the subject. A letter in the News this morning says: “In no instance in histoiy has any one told a more unpalatable truth and repented of his handiwork. When the first flush of indignation subsides, all thank the author and publisher for telling tRe truth. Mrs. Stowe unveiled a secret formerly carefully guarded by a few, and restored vice and virtue to their proper places. In the future it will be remem bered that by her courage there is one less imposture in the world.” The Athenaeum , belie-’ng in Mrs. Stowe’s high principles, hop«3 for her de nial of the receipt of an honurarium for her story. It is sure she holds with all moralists that gold unworthily earned leaves an indelible stain. Mr. Wentworth writes to the Rail Mall Gazette to-day in the matter of the Bto we- Byron scandal. He says that Lady Byron’s statement, in her own not contain an accusation as grave as Mrs. Stowe’s. Mrs. Stowe’s story is inconsist ent with Lady Byron’s letters. Went worth concludes his letter with the follow ing words: “I cannot believe Mrs. Stowe’s statement substantially correct.” London, September 10.—The Examin er says the prevailing question is not soli citude regarding Napoleon’s health, but the consequences of the discontinuance ol the despotism whioh must occur by a change in the political system on his death, which, whenever it comes, must be a re lief and benefit to human race. London, September 9.—The weekly statement of the Bank of England, pun lished last evening, shows a decrease of £360,000 in bullion. Ireland. Queenstown, September 10.—Thirteen Cuban prisoners, recently confined at Fer nando Po, and who made their escape, were landed at this port to-day. Armagh, Sept. 10.—The Armagh Synod was opened to-day, the Primate presiding. Bishop Trench’s invitation to meet the Dublin Synod was accepted. France, Paris, Sept. 10. —The Opinione Na tionals demands the immediate completion of the senatus oonsultum. Fears are en tertained of the early return of the Em peror’s weakness, which fact makes it ex tremely important that the constitution and government shall be well settled. Without this, revolution is certain in the event of any change of a sovereign. Paris, Sept. 9.—The specie in the Bank of France has increased 4,900,000 francs. Riraiiß* St. Petersburg, Sept. 9.—The har vest throughout Russia is almost com pleted. In the south the crops arc gen erally good, but in some of the northern provinces the yield will not be more than half the average. Southwestern and Macon and West ern Railroads Transfer Enjoined.— J udge Cole, of the Superior Courts of the Macon Circuit, yesterday granted an in junction, at the suit of Thomas C. Demp sey, I. C. Plant and George G. Hull, stockholders of the Southwestern Railroad Company, and of certain citizens of Macon, and the Macon and Augusta and Macon and Brunswick Railroads, restraining and prohibiting the transfer of the Southwest ern road to the Central road, and the pur chase of the Macon and Western Railroad by the latter, as >*ell on the ground of an infraction of the rights of the stockholders as a breach of the charter of the contract ing roads—an invasion of public and pri vate rights aud interests and a contraven tion of sound public policy. Nisbets & Jackson and Whittle A Gustin are solici tors for complainants. The hearing of the case is ordered for the third Monday ■ in November. — Macon Telegraph, Sept. 14<A. _ ‘ Attempted Insurrection. The Athens Post, September 10th, gives us some additional facts relative to the negro plot, in the vicininity of Mooresville, to murder some of the best citizens and rob and desolate the country. They had regu lar drills and appointed Friday night last to carry out their hellish designs. It was discovered in time to prepare for the issue. The civil officers from Athens went up and on Saturday last returned with nine of the ringleaders. Threeof them turned State’s evidence and were released. The Post says there are six in Athens jail, but names seven. Dan Mathews. Clayton Baker, George Fletcher, Jessie Cunningham, Wil lis Stanley, • ■■■ Harrison and Isiah Fletcher. One Ed. Lane gave information of the plot and implicated a number of" white men, who managed to escape the justice which should have been meted out to them. The trial of the negroes was to take place to-day before Judge Coman, W. W. Hayes, Solicitor, prosecuting, and R. A. McClellan for the defence.—Hunts ville [Ala.) Democrat, Sept. 11 th.
