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WUIEBBAT MOKHIH6. DKCKMtKB 8* J
Bullock at iriltlßftPß
% Bullock left Atlanta on Monday night
for Washington,with the avowed intention
of trying to iofiuence Congress to act uron j
the Butler Bill before the assembling of
our Legislature.
lie is determined that the State shal j
not be admitted to representation if he j
can prevent it. To accomplish his ends j
no amount of falsehoods and slanders will
be neglected. He is prepared to lie about j
everything and everybody here if he can J
induce Congress to believe his tales.
Since he left a long proclamation has
been issued and published in his official
journals, in which he reiterates his false j
and mendacious slanders against the peo
ple ot the State, and declares that the
people are responsible for the non-enforce
ment of the laws. He offers large sums
as rewards for the discovery and convic
tion of parties who, he says, are implicat
ed in the killing of certain people during
the past year. The whole proclamation is
an artfully prepared bill of indictment
against our people, intended to prejudice
Congress against us and cause the over
throw of our State government.
lo each case enumerated, proclamations
and rewards have been previously issued,
and they are grouped together now in or
der a more formidable appearance
may be given to the present state of affairs.
Wo trust, indeed we have a strong con
viction, that his efforts will be fruitless.
The leading Radicals of the North are
tired of this reconstruction business and
have,in addition,a most thorough contempt
lor such cattle as this bloated Georgia
Bullock.
Where Is the Money?
We learn from reliable authority that j
nothing has been paid into tbe State Treas
ury from the State Road for the month
of October and November.
The other Railroads in the State have
been doing a very large business -larger
we learn than for months and years past,
yet it would seem that the State road has
not been making wore than its necessary
expenses.
Will the Intelligencer please inform us
why the Road does not now make money,
or if it does, where the money goes?
Korney’s Keceptlon at Macon—lts Ks- ;
sects Present and Prospective.
The recent trip of Forney to this State, j
and the treatment he received while here, |
has lnd a most wonderful effect upon his !
conduct and language toward the South.
This is not the first visit paid by this
bad, bold agitator to the land of Dixie
since the close of the war. On several
occasions he has come South, received the
social and friendly recognition of Southern
gentlemen, and in some instances has
been made the subject of their particular
attention and adulation. While receiv
ing their marked courtesies, he has inva
riably declared himself pleased, with the
situation of' affairs and delimited with
the evidences of the return of friendly and
fraternal feeling toward the United States j
Government and the people of the North, j
But as soon as he returned home he has, |
in every instance heretofore, given the lie
to the declarations made to the gentlemen j
here whose recognition ho received by \
increasing the intensity, malignity and j
untrutlifulnoss of his lampoons against our j
people.
Hence it was, when the Executive Com
mittee of the State Fair invited this noto
rious falsefier of Southern sentiment and
fecliug to bo present at the Fair, the moral
sense of the entire State was shocked at
the truckling spirit which the invitation
betrayed on the part of those who ex
tended it. And hence when he came,
recollecting his meanness and untruthfqj
ness on former occasions, our people let
him alone very severely. While in Macon
lie received no attention whatever, and
his presence there would not have been
known but for the fact that he came in
company with a few gentlemen- The
latter were hospitably if not cordially
roeoived, and to many ot them was ex
tended the generous hospitality and kind
attention for which Southern society has
been so long famous. Forney, alone of
all the crowd of Northern visitors, was
made to feel that true Southorn men and
women could not notice or extend courtesies
to persons who openly and daily insulted
and malignod them. The difference in the
treatment ho received from that of his
co-visitors was so marked and direct that
lie could not fail to perceive it. Yet with
the brazen stoicism peculiar to such
characters, ho pretended to be pleased with
his visit, and expressed himself on more
than one occasion as charmed with what
he saw and heard. We thought at the
time that he was only playing his old
game. That when he returned North his
“two papers, both daily,” would contain
the usual embittered lampoons against tho
South gene.ally, aud Georgia in particular,
in consequence of his cool treatment and
neglect.
To our surprise, we soon found that we
had misjudged the man. His long ac
count of the Fair and of his Southern
trip, published in the Press, was decidedly
kind, and in the main, very just. We still
doubted his sincerity and honesty, and
waited for farther developments. And
now we have them. In the issue of the
29th ult. the Press contains no less than
• three editorials, iu which the Southern
I eoplo and tho Southern situation gen
erally, is fairly and considerately com
mented on. The attempt made by the
ultra wing of the Virginia Radicals to in
duce General Grant to throw the weight of
his administration against the recognition
ol that State under its present organiza
tion he unequivocally condemns and insists
that no other or further guarantees should
be required of Governor Walker and his
friends. He is willing to trust tho Con
servatives of that State, and thinks the
efforts of the Radicals, if they should suc
ceed in setting aside the present State
organization, would be injurious to the
State and the country at large.
In the same paper the suggestion of the
Radical Governors of Alabama, Arkansas
and North Carolina for the immediate re
moval of the political disabilities ot the ;
people of those States he cordially and
warmly approves.
In another article he expresses the opin
ion that now the negroes have secured to
them the right to vote in the Southern
States Government should let them alone.
The relations and associations of the two
races, he thinks, can be best regulated by
the people here and sees no great harm in
the negroes dividing their vote with the
two parties in the South.
He thinks the next session of Congress
will lie an active without being an angry
one, aud can see no reason why tbe ex
citement about reconstruction should be
kept up and particularly after the passage
of the Fifteenth Amendment-
He publishes a special telegram from
Washington excusing the refusal of the
Macon Committee to raise the “dear old
flag’’ at the late Fair, and says it was
jiistui'd by the fact that it never was the
custom to do so in ante-bdlum times.
As long as the Southern people truckled
to and feared these malignant Radical
they continued their vile crusade against
t#eai. As soon as they regained their self
respoei and treated them.as they deserved,
with severe contempt, the manliness of
their conduct and their proud and lofty
bearing wins respect and esteem when
fawning sycophancy had failed. Forney
was converted, not by Virginia complacency
and feasting, but by Ge: rgia honesty and :
straightforwardness.
Artificial Limbs manufactured by R.
Lcßo.Vt corner Broad and Campbell streets, i
Auguste > Ga.
We are ,'.uformcd by a maimed Confed
erate officer wl'o has had great experience-i
iu artificial limbs, that Bly’s “ball and
socket joint” limb is superior to any other.
Mr. Leßoy has been engaged for nine
years iu their manufacture, a nd supplies
an article equal to any that can be producetL
in the North.
Very Cheap. —-The Chronicle & Sts '
TINEL Job Office isfurnishing and printing I
good business Envelopes for $3 per thou
sand.
lire l.ilr-Wh re Miall It be Held ?
Ti.o !• ut exhibition ot the State Fair 1
<t • »cou demonstrated very clearly, and,
a- v think conclusively, the fact that, in
the present condition of our agricultural,
mai dacturing and mechanical pursuits,
and the deep interest taken by our people
in all the efforts which are being made to
further develope and improve them, the
fa -ilities offered by a small city like Macon
are totally inadequate to meet the require
ments of such an exhibition.
The twenty thousand strangers attracted
to Macon b 7 the late Fair, who found
themselves utterly unable to obtain com
fortable quarters even at full boarding
rates, attest the necessity for a change of
the Fair Grounds to or near a city large |
enough to absorb such a crowd without 1
inconvenience to the local population, and i
with comfort to the visitors. The people
of Macon doubtless did all they could for j
the comfort and convenience of the vast j
crowd attracted there by the Fair. We
have heard no complaints against them for
a want of disposition to accommodate
i The Hotel proprietors prepared extra
: lodgings and provisions, in fact doubled |
their ordinary capacity, while the citizens i
generally opened their doors with r al 1
j generous and liberal hospitality. Yet, ;
with all this, the fact stands admitted that '
the accommodation, public and private,fell ,
far short of the wants of the occasion. .
; M aeon did her best and did it well —and |
| failed. Can she do better on another
trial? We think not. There are not
houses enough in Macon to shelter the
crowds which in future will visit our an
nual Slate Fairs.
It may be said that the Fair Grounds j
and the buildings necessary for the exhi- |
bition are ample and fine, and already j
prepared at Macon, and that but a small i
outlay hereafter will be required to keep
I them up. This we admit. But we ios'st j
: that the stock pens, poultry yards, race j
course and committee rooms are not of \
quilt so much importance on an occasion
like this, as the general convenience and
comfort ol the visitors. The sheds, pens,
tracks, rooms, etc., for the Fair can be
procured at very small cost in almost any j
respectable village in the State. They j
would be furnished free of cost to the So- j
ciety by any of the County Agricultural
Clubs iu the State. But these are not all, !
or even the most important, things for a i
j Fair.
| The first great pressing want is, ard
1 always will be, ample accommodations for
| all visitors. There must bo not only a
plenty of food but comfortable lodgings i
! also, both for males mil females. With- *
out. these the Fair will diminish to a mere
handful of inventors, and patent stock and
seed growers, who would continue to as
semble for purposes of mutual admiration, i
au 1 to advertise their wares.
The Fair grounds and rooms must be
convenient aud easily accessible even to
female pedestrians. No city in the South
could furnish proper conveyances for such
vast crowds to and from the grounds.
The grounds at Macon were too far from
town—three and a half miles. The
railroad upon which the Committee relied
| proved wholly inadequate to the occasion,
j Bc -idcs, in crowds like those assembled at
1 the Fair, rail communication is too unsafe
and dangerous. No railroad could have
| done better than the Macon and Western,
j yet, under the able and indefatigable ex
j crliom; of its officials, it failed to meet the
war.ti of the people. Trains running
j every fili.ecn minutes each way would not
have fulfilled all the conditions of easy,
safe and comfortable access to the grounds.
I The officers of the Sooiety may as well
| face the matter at onee. The late Fair at
Macon cannot be repeated, either in the
! number of visitors or articles on exhibi
| tion. If the Fair is continued there, its
I death and burial aro predetermined. We
: take it for granted that this patent fact
i will have due weight with the Society offi-
I oials.
Where,then, can a place be found which,
while it avoids the difficulties experienced
I at Macon, affords convenient at and suitable
j accomodations for the Fair ? We answer
I that Augusta alone of all the cities in the
State, affords all the conveniences and ac
! commodations required. Here we have
| ample room to easily accommodate twenty
| five or thirty thousand strangers without
uncomfortable packing. Here we have
four large hotels, and more than twenty
b arding houses, each capable of lodging a
number of boarders. Here we have thou
sands of fine, large, comfortable private
] residences,all of which would be freely and
j generously opened to strangers. Here we
j have fine markets well supplied with neces
ssarics and luxuries both of the land and of
the sea. Here wc have beautiful grounds
well adapted for the Fair,with large build
ing! already on them,and all within lessthan
one thousand yards of the centre of the
city. Hero wehave a street railway laid
to within a few squares of the propesed
Fair Grounds, which could bo extended
! with very little cost to the grounds.
Here wc have one of the finest trotting and
| racing tracks in the South in the ctntre of
; the proposed Fair Grounds, and here in
the Fall of 1853 was held the best and
most pleasant Fair ever held in the btate.
Here wo have two railroads completed,
and in a few months will have the third,
connecting with us with the seaboard and
two lines of river steamers plying every
i day between this place and Savannah.
J Here we have two lines of railways from
: the North and East, two from the West
j and Southwest and one from the North
: west. These lines of railway make Au
i gusta just as accessible to all portions of
1 the State as if she were really its geograph
ical centre.
Neither Savannah or Atlanta combine
j so many • advantages as Augusta offers.
We admit that the fair might be held at
| either of these places with very fair suc
! cess- But so far as we know neither Sa
i vannah or Atlanta could lurnish grounds
| easibly accessible to pedestrians. Atlanta,
particularly, is very deficient in hotel ac
! commodations and could not offer much ia
the way of private residences,the character
of such buildings being, generally, as is
the case in all new towns,small and cramp
ed for room- The facilities for reaching
Atlanta are very good, and now that the
reign of thc’Central Railroad monopoly is
about to expire through-the completion oi
the Maconjit Brunswick Road and the re
building of the Charleston & Savannah
Road, in connection with the Augusta &
Port Royal Road, Savannah will be quite
accessible and convenient.
The decision a3 to the place of the next
fair is narrowed down to a choice between (
Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta. We are |
satisfied, if ali important points in connec
tion with a successful fair be duly con
sidered and weighed, Augusta will be found
to offer the greatest inducements.
As far as the moneyed consideration goes ,
we venture to say that as much or more
cat: ~-di.re as a: either of the points
mentioned. We trust the society officials
will give us a chance and a hearing before
dc iding definitely upon any location.
Heavy Robbery is Columbia Coun- I
rv. —On yesterday we learned the par
ticulars of a very heavy robbery .recently
perpetrated in Columbia - county: It ap
pears that on last Tuesday, Mr. Bueben
ii. C ipeiier, a residout of Columbia coun
ty, who plants near Hsgysviile, about
twit.-y mites !rom this city, visited Au
gusta for the purpose of seeing some of his
relatives and to dispose of a portion of his
cotton crop. On Wednesday he sold some
of his cotton and, a her liquidating several
debts, started for his home with money to
the amount of five hundred and thirty
eight dollars in his possession. He reached
his plantation in Columbia that evening
without having *been molested. Retiring
to bed that night fatigued from his long
ride, he slept soundly and, while Asleep*
someone entered his room and rifling bis
clothes carried off his money without
having been detected. On awakening the
next morning Mr. Chspelier discovered his
loss but possessed no due by which so trace
out the robbers. The theft was evidently
committed by someone familiar with the
premises, but up to this time no arrests
have been made.
Box Heads.—The Cbronicle & Sen
tinel Job Office is now furnishing Bill
Heads at $y per ream-
Gold—Secretary Boutweil.
Gold fell in New York on Tuesday to 1
121 1 Immediately Bout well telegraphed j
to the Assistant Treasurer at New York ,
to refuse all bids for Government gold un
der 122. The consequence was, 'hat the
gold of the Government was kept out of
the market and the downward tendency
checked. If the Secretary of the Treasu
ry had gone on with his usual sales to the
highest bidder,, the amount thus thrown
upon the market would, in ali probability,
have sent gold below 20.
It is the duty of the Govern. ■A, having
deprived the country of a convertible
paper circulating medium, upon
State and private capital, and founded up
on State and local laws, to provide a cur
rency as good as that which it ha3 de
stroyed. The Government should relax
no efforts to make its promises to pay
iqual to gold. Those who have hereto
fore doubted the ability of the Government
to pay its obligations in coin have been, by
a certain class of politicians, known as
Radicals denounced as tavoringrepudiation.
A doubt has been considered as equivalent
j to a determination, and those who gave
i expression to such doubts have been brand
| ed as repudiationists.
Now, when from sheer force of favora
! We circumstances the currency of the coun
try begins to show such decided confidence
j of the people as to cause it to approximate
i a gold value, the Government, instead of
j fostering and aiding this feeling, actually
| combines with the New York gold ring to
destroy this growing confides e.
The administration of General Grant has
been lauded by Radical speakers and press
es for the steady increase in value of the
National currency which has been mani
fested since its advent to power. Leading
Radicals have been clamorous for a speedy
resumption of specie payments. The only
difference between them having been as to
the best means of securing so desirable a
result. Some—and they embrace the larg
er portion of the party—have insisted on
gradual resumption ; others advise that re
sumption should be fixed for a particular
day, while others, under the lead of the
Philosopher of the Tribune , have declared
“the best way to resume is to resume.”
The main disagreement among them aris
ing in relation to the time when a return to
specie payments should be commenced.
But the Radical Secretary of the Treas
ury seams determined that the whole
money power of the Government shall be
used to prevent such a decline in gold as
would make resumption easy, certain and
speedy. The curreucy of the country must
be left at the mercy of the speculators for
i a yet indefinite period. The interests of
trade and of commerce, the prosperity ot
our agricultural and manufacturing inter-
I ests, and indeed of all our extended iudus
trial pursuits, are to be left subject to the
caprice and whims and speculating propen
sities of Wall Street princ:s. And this,
too, when the Government could easily
prevent such a condition of affairs.
The truth is, tiie Radical party is con
trolled by men who make money out of the
uncertain relations of our currency to gold.
When a dollar in greenbacks becomes
equivalent to a dollar iu gold, their chances
for speculation and for making fortunes
out of the general distress of the country
are gone. Wheu the currents of trade are
obstructed,when commerce staggers under
| uncertainty, when the finances of the couu
i try are unsettled, and doubt and anxiety,
j and suspense settles upon the public mind,
j then W all stree tfortunes are easily made.
| The operations of a day or an hour give
I the bold and reckless speculator a princely
fortune. It makes no difference to these
men what distress is entailed upon the
country by these great fluctuations iu the
value of our only circulating medium.
Their individual gains depend upon the
general loss Merchants, manufacturers
planters—i,.e mechanic, the day laborer,
the professional man—the miner and the
shipbuilder may all be involved in finan
cial ruin, yet if tiieso Wall street lords
ani money rings mako profits—realize for
tunes—all is right. They claim that Gov
ernment should so manage the finances of
the country as to promote their interests
arid assist them in immense accumulations.
As long as these moo control the govern
ment we need not look for any material
change in our financial tffair3. They know
the power which they have and are cot
slow to exercise it.
Cotton.
The pries of this leading staple has been
steadily rising in Liverpool during the
past week. It has gone up (here fully
two cents per pound in gold. Yet the
market here has not boon favorably affect
ed. Iu fact we believe the home market
has ruled lower, while the Liverpool mar
ket was steadily advancing.
Heretofore an advance of a penny in
Liverpool was equivalent to arise hereof
2£ to 3 cants. Indeed, .the market hers
generally ran ahead of the- advance across
the water, buyers anticipating a further
rise. Now, a market advance there meets
no response from the home market.
But let ii3 look at tha other side of the
picture. If cotton is reported dull iu Liv
erpool our market sickens; if a decline
takes place there of a farthing down goes
our market a cent or two. Why is this ?
The cotton buyers say that it is the price
of gold which now affects the home mar
ket.
i This is the only reason which they pre
tend to give, and, doubtless, there is some
weight in it. But it by no means satisfac
torily accounts for the wide margin be
tween the Liverpool and home markets at
this time.
Cotton is worth to-day in Liverpool 25
cent* in gold—equivalent to 31 cents in our
currency. To this should be added the
premium on Exchange which would make
the actual value in our currency 35 cents.
Yet the planter is realizing only 22 to 23
cents. The difference being from fifty to
sixty dollars a bale. We do not say that
Southern buyers make this much, but we
! do say that the planters lose it, and some
body must make what they lose.
The speediest and best remedy for this
condition of affairs is the establishment of
direct trade with Europe and the require
ment of gold for all cottons sold. When
these two points ate established and en
forced producers will receive a fair price
for their cotton in proportion to the ml
iog rates in Liverpool. Bat as long as we
maintain the present system, which main
tains a large class of middle men, and
gives the absolute control of the market to
the New York cotton brokers, we must be
contented with whatever price they choose
to give.
We are aware that great and radical
changes in the course of an establish
ed trade are not easily made. We know,
too, that our present unequal and unjust
banking system is a powerful ally of the
N. Y. brokers, yet we also feel and know
tfcai the .-South must break the shackles
whit ii ■■■> ’j.d her to the power of
N-rthc c- • n and Northern middle'
men, if would recover the prestige '
which her situation and the value of her
great staple heretofore secured to her, i
(ireelej’s Letter to Butler.
We present below the letter of Hence
j Greeley addressed to Beast B a tier end
published in the Tribune of the 27th ult.
1 We have neither time nor space to-day to
make such comments upon this production
as it deserves. If will be seen that the
main point urged by Greeley is that the
Radicals shall bribe the people of the South
and their friends at the North by the offer
I to remove the disabilities imposed by the
j 3d section of the Fourteenth Amendment
i to the Constitution, in order to induce them
i to ratify the proposed Fifteenth Amend
! rnent. aDd which Greeley more than indi
cates will fail unless the proposition which
he makes be acted upon by his party.
We shall have something more to say
on this subject, but for the present content
ourself by laying Greeley’s letter in full be
fore our readers:
7b .I laj. Gen. B. F. Butler, AT. C.:
My Dear Sir —Your name, I think
you will have remarked, is very often pro
nounced, from one end of our country to
I the other. L travelling somewhat, ob
serving a liule, and reading newspapers
• considerably—quite often hear it mention
ed, and (it may surprise you to learn) not
j always admiringly. And yet, while I have
■ for many years heard and read all manner
of c-vil said of you—some of it absurdly
groundless and false—l cannot recollect
that I ever heard or read a suggestion that
you were a fool. Now, I come before the
public to impeach, not yourself personally,
but a policy wherewith your name is popu
larly and prominently identified, as lacking
rational motive and at war with common
sense. 1 allude to that policy which
prolongs indefinitely the proscription and
disfranchisement of a largo portion of the
men of the South for their part in the late
rebellion.
Understand that I speak from the stand
point not of sentiment, but of business. I
do net here impeach that poliey as harsh
or hateful, but as deficient in tact —in
gumption. I impeach it as nursing and
intensifying enmities certain to subvert, at
no distant day, the party which is identi
fied with it.
1 will not dwell upon the well-knownfact !
that the late Governor Andrew, in his j
farewell message or address, put forth !
four years ago, strongly urged a poliey
antagonist to this —a policy that *ontem
plated the early and compl te conciliation
of the South, through the enfranchisement
and magnanimous treatment ot her natural
leaders. Nor need I invite your attention
to the fact that Genera! Sickles (a shrewd,
thoroughly practical politician), officially j
remonstrated, more than three years j
ago, against the proscription of prominent j
and wealthy ex-rebels, as depriving him
of the services of the very men he urgent
ly needed and could make most useful in |
governing South Carolina. Nor do I care j
to press home the fact, of which you can- \
not be ignorant, that the Southern men of j
education and property are by far more |
reasonable and less bitter than their poor- j
er, more ignorant neighbors—are less im- \
placable, more rational, and more ready to j
unite heartily in rebuilding the waste I
places of the land. Nor will I dwell upon j
the noble addition made, on motion of j
General Carl Schurz, to the latest Nation- j
al platform of the Republican party—that j
plank which declares Proscription a tem
porary expedient, rendered necessary by a j
grave public peril, and to be abandoned |
when that peril shall have vanished. I j
rest on the naked fact that the Republican
party imminently needs the good will
which this policy repels, and must go un
der if that good will be not secured.
I assume that you realize the absolute
necessity of tho triumph of the XVth
Amendment to the sucess of Gen. Grant’s
Administration, and that you must be
aware that the fate of that Amendment is
yet doubtful. Ten adverse States suffice
to defeat it; and seven—(New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennes
see, California and Oregon)—arc already
beyond hope. The loss of Tennessee was
at once a calamity and a blander —one of
those intense stupidities which a great
party is seldom allowed to repeat. How
Rhode Island, Indiana, Georgia and Ne
braska, stand, I need not inform you.
Suffice it that it will require the wisest
counsels and the best efforts to avert. the
threatened failure of that great and wise
measure of safety, benignity aud peace.
The men now coming to Congress to de
mand that Tennessee be upset, and Vir
ginia remanded, and Mississippi and Texas
held as satrapies for an indefinite period,
unless they vote as they aro bidden, ut
terly fail to comprehend the situation.
They evidently suppose that tee have noth
ing at stake—that we may keep three or
four States unreconstructed and unrep
resented in Congress during pleasure. I
hope you know better—at all events, 1 do.
We do uot merely need the XVth Amend
ment ratified before 1872—we urgently
need it now. If it be delayed one year
longer, we shall have more than one.State
Legislature beside that of New York as
suming to withdraw tha ratification al
ready accorded; and, while you and I may
rightly deny the legal validity of such
withdrawal, I am sure neither-of us will
dispute its moral weight. Connecticut is
to hold au election next April, when the
votes of her colored citizens will be found
exceedingly useful if not absolutely need
ed; New Jersey and Pennsylvania have
U. S. Senators depending on the result of
their next State'election respectively, and
the like votes are absolutely needed in the
former, and probably so in the latter.
Several seats in the next Congress from
Ohio and other States will be won or lost
as the right to vote for members shall be
exercised by their whole people or only by
the whites. Keutucky, Maryland and
Delaware, will each be stoutly and hope
fully contested next year if the Amend
ment be meantime ratified, while ws shal!
not elect one member from all three of
these States if it be not. To my appre
hension, the control of the next House of
Representatives will probably hinge on
that event.
I ask you, then, to consider, as a practi
cal man, whether we can afford to pick and
choose from among those disposed to favor
that Amendment —whether it will not be
suicidal folly to repel any proffered or pos
sible support. I ask you whether any at
tempt to pry into the motives of those who
may favor it —to ascertain whether they
were not rebels, and, if so, whether they
.have repented of having been such—is not
a childish exhibition of that spirit which
“goeth before a fall.” In short, I ask
you to consider this whole matter in the
light of naked, hearty, homely common
sense, aud act upon it. as the demands of
the exigency shall seem to require.
The urgency of the case must excuse the
fieedom of this appeal. Rightly or wrong
ly, tha country regards you as the leader
in Congress of those who have been most
exacting in their requirements of the de
feated rebels, and least inclined to treat
them with confidence or generosity. The
reproaches which I have incurred in this
quarter will never attach to you, and your
adhesion to the poliey which the occa
sion demands will never be attributed to
weakness or sentimentality. I ask you,
therefore, to place yourself pomptly and
heartily at the head of a movement looking
to the instant and complete removal of all
political disabilities whatever from any and
every one who favors or shall favor the
XVth Amendment, and their prompt res
toration to all the privileges of citizenship.
“.Let us have peace !”
Yours, Horace Greeley,
New York, Nov. 20th, 1869.
SOUTH CABOLIAA.
Two Infamous Incendiaries—Hoge and
Guffin.
The Abbeville Press and Banner gives
the following particulars of the outrageous
conduct of “Congressman” Hoge, at
Abbeville, on Saturday last, an account
of which has already appeared in these
columns i
With flaunting banners waving belore
their eyes,an excitable crowd of blacks pass
into the courthouse, filling every nook and
corner, so that further ingress and egress
were equally impossible. There were
scarcely more thau a dozen whites present
including our worthy sheriff, clerk and
county clerk. Mr. Hoge is the orator of
the‘ day, and harangues upon the labor
question. He tells the laborer that one
third of the crop is not enough for him.
Captain J. N. Cochran, who is standing
near the door, addresses a civil question
to the speaker, “Tell these colored peo
ple.what a ‘nigger’ isfworth in money
money wages being paid in my section.”
Hoge evades the question, and appeals to
the passions of his audience by denounc
ing the word “nigger” as a term of op
opibrium Captain Cochran disavows the use
of term in an offensive sense; but Hoge re
fuses to hold any further colloquy. Major
Johnson, near by, says in an undertone,
“why surely nigger means a black man.”
Their “offence has this extent, no more.”
Sullivan (the late member elect) the
chairman of the mcetting, orders their
arrest, aud immediately followed a scene
of the wildest contusion. Pandemonium
let loose—cries of “kill him,kill, him kill
him,” frontman excited crowd convulsed
with all the agonies of a causeless pauje. j
Ail made for the door, some ove the I
heads of their less fortunate comrades, j
all except a very few (including the orator I
of the day, whom a reflex current landed '
safely behind the door of one of the jury j
rooms)
Messrs. Cochran, JohnsoD, Gray and
Carter were immediately arrested (the two
last though present in the meeting had
not opened their mouths), were arrested
without warianl —nere arrested, if upon
a*> pretended charge at all,for doing what
every citizen has a right to do—attending
a popular meeting and observing the rules
of legitimate discussion. Their lersons
were violated and their lives imperilled
without the shadow of justification or ex
cuse.
INFAMOUS THREATS OF MEMBERS OF THE
LEGISLATURE.
A Cokesbury letter says :
The law is ignored and vengeance ap
pealed to.by thoseielaiming to be law-makers
for Abbeville. On last Monday, when the
train arrived at Hodges from Abbeville,
Mr. Pern Guffin, recently elected to the
Legislature, got out of the cars, accom
panied by a squad of armed negroes, and
essayed a speech somewhat to this effect:
“I stand upon the soil where the Hon. B.
F- Randolph poured out his life’s blood,
and we intend to have revenge for it. The
first Republican killed in this county every
leading Democrat shaii be killed and their
houses burned down over them.” This
was apparently addressed to some dozen
white men who were standing near. Here
is an appeal to the passions of the ignorant
colored people to set aside law, and take
matters into their own hands. This is the
counsel of a so-called law-maker. Will
he be su9:ained by those in authority ?
The colored people, as a class, are misrep
resented by this fellow, for they are really
better citizens than he, and ne certainly
does not pretend to represent the white
people. It seems to be a bid for the votes
of the colored people at the next election,
but, from all that I can learn, he will fail
to get any respectable people of that class
to sustain him. The other, Mr. Guffin,
who claims the seat ts Senate,•, to which
he was not elected, sealed his devotion to
the fair sex by kissing two of them on the
platform just before the train left. This,
however, is a matter of taste, and I am un
able to say which was most degraded by !
it, or which was most honored.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Statistics of die Legidature— Majorities of
race anil of politics— Retrenchment —
House-Burning—Labor Convention —
Recognition of Cuba.
FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
Columbia, December 1.
Editors Chronicle <f- Sentinel:
The General Asseabiy has settled down
into its regular status of six dollars a day
work. The smoke and fume of organiza
tion have lifted, and we can now see what
the members are —their colors at least.
There are 155 members of the General
Assembly, counting both Houses. These
are divided according to race into 65 whites
and 86 colored members. Politically, they
are divided into 21 Democrats and 134
Radicals; for most of these Scuta Carolina
Republicans are Radicals. Radicals are
Republicans— only more so.
Iu the Senate there are 19 whites and
13 colored voters, and these 32 are politi
cally divided into 6 Democrats and 26
Radicals.
In the House of Representatives there
are 50 whites and 73 colored men. These
123 are politically divided into 15 Demo
crats and 10S Radicals.
So that, in the Senate the whites have a
majority ol 6, and the Radicals have a ma
j irity of 20.
In the House of Representatives the
colored members are in a majority of 23,
and the Radicals have a majority of 93.
In the General Assembly—on a joint
vote, that is to say—there is a majority of
17 colored member?, and a majority of 113
Radicals.
From these figures it is easy to see how
the legislation uiui go. The colored mem
bers always follow their party-leaders, and
their party leaders, are Radicals ot the
deepest tinge and of the strongest odor.
One good feature in this Legislature has
grown out of the cupidity of some o< these
party leaders. The good feature is re
trenchment. The effort of Governor
■Scott, Congressmen Huge, and other
holders of State bonds which they
have bought up at very low prices within
the past two years, is to appreciate tho
value of these Bonds. A year ago these
men were in hopes of making more
money out of some railroad schemes—the
Blue Ridge Railroad, iu particular—and
they urged and got Die State's,endorsement
of new issues of'bonds to a heavy figure.
The press of the State exposed these specu
lations and Scott and the rest saw that
the public had scented their guute.oifloece
ing the State iu that way), aud now Scott
and the rest are crying aloud for retrench
ment —economy—no appropriations to the
Blue Ridge or any other And
in this way they become the champions of
economy and low taxes, because they can
make more money out of State bonds than
they can out (of railroad speculations.
Their patroiism is transparent and hollow.
Yet it is a good thing to get retrenchment
and economy any way. The party in
power have at length (discovered that
heavy taxation hurts all parties ; and the
leaders begin to see that to keep the people
with them, the people must not pay so
much taxes as they have been doing.
Incendiarism is one of the means resort
ed to finally by the ignorant and degraded,
mainly, it is understood, by negroes. Gin
houses with cotton in them have been
burned down times and again in this State
since the crop has been in this Fall. In
most oases ot this kind the loss falls entire
ly upon the white planter, as in the case
of Dr. Anderson, of Greenwood, last Sun
day night. Tiie State has averaged, prob
ably, two a week since the cotton began to
come in. But sometimes the weapon cuts
botti sides, as in the case of Mr. Holloway,
ut Pomaria, in Newberry county, on the
9th of November. Here the cotton was
raised on shares, and the poor negroes
lost as much as the planter—all, or nearly
so. Mr. Holloway wrote a letter to the
Governor, asking that a reward be offered
for the apprehension of the gin burners ;
but his Excellency paid no attention to it,
although a few weeks bfore when the
storehouses ofD. Robertson, in Sumter,
were burnt, he offered liberal rewards for
the perpetrators. The. difference is that
Robertson is a Radical, and Holloway, and
Anderson, and Boinest, and the score of
others whose gin-houses have been burnt
by Legroes, are|Democrats.
During the past week the largest thing
after the Legislature has been the Labor
Convention. This (was a political move I
gotten up in a hurry in order to man
ufacture ammunition for the election cam
paign of 1870, when the general elections
oome off. The speaking was fierce,, as was
the design of the pol tioians ; but the re
port of the Committee appointed to
memorialize the General Assembly was
comparatively tame. In the Convention a
motion was made to fix the pay of planta
tion hands as follows: First class, sls;
second class, sl2; and third class, $9 a
month ; and, in addition to this, three
pounds of bacon, a peck of corn, a quart of
molasses and a pint of salt each week.
Some went higher than this and dernand
vd S2O a month or half the crop and pro
visions lor the year. All this .talking was
for the purpose of making the antago
nism between the races so strong that
nothing can win the negroes over to the
whites or Djinocrats. And such will, un
fortunately for both races, be the probat le
result. The report of the committee
recommended to the Legislature several
useful and important laws ; but most of
them had the leading idea of a contest for
the negro and against the whites running
through them ; such as the appointment
of a county “commissioner of contracts”
in each county to revi e and approve all
contracts for labor ; the division of lands
sold at sheriff sales into tracts of less tfan
fifty acres ; and that the claim of the
laborer on lands for wages due shall op
erate as a preferred lien upon the land
that he works, ard that the planter or
owner of lands shall not sell or alienate
the same until the claim of the laborer is
satisfied. The misfortune of most of these
is that they will prevent the real friend of
the negro from doing the best that can be
done. But so long as the poor negro is
blind to these results, the game is a good
one to gull him with.
A thing which may be called stylish was
Elliott’s resolution, advising the United
States to acknowledge the independence of
Cuba. Elhott is doing this in the inter
est of his race —the negro—to be eman
cipated by the independ nee of Cuba, or
to be remanded to slavery by the suppres-
I sion of the Cuban rebellion. Junius.
LETTKR FKOM ATLANTA.
I 77/c M tnicipal Election—Democracy Tri
umphant-Cliques Broken Up--Blod
j gelt Foiled—General Rejoicing—The
Governor Pro Tern.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.!
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Atlanta, December 2, 1869.
The election yesterday passed oft very
quietly. Little or no disturbance. The
vote in the first ward was not count ;d out
until about ono o'clock this morning. The
j result was glorious. It demonstrated that
ino faction could rule the Democratic
| parly, and that the people had determined
to bust the “ring” of emasculated Bullock
| Democrats, who had fallen victims to the
| wiles of Blodgett. Judge EzzarJ, the
j nominee ol the party, received 819 votes,
Markham 762, Alexander 497, and Clarke,
the workingmen’s candidate, 30-
To properly understand the canvass, it
is necessary to state, that certain men who
kept Dr. Alexander in the field, were
i nearly to a man the recipients of “pap”
i from either “State or Federal Adminis
| tration.” I- they did not “support the
; State and Federal administrations” they
lat least received support from them.
: Some of these men were in the habit of
I taking Blodgett by the arm, and could be
I seen with him after nightfall. And when,
lit is remarked, that the candidate put
I forth by these men were said by leading
■ Radicals, including acting Governor R.
: Paul Lester, to be their choice, you, who
are familiar with Blodgett’s tactics, will at
once see his game.
That he played a bold and almost suc
cessful hand cannot be doubted. Under
the idea that if Alexander would use his
influence for the Opera House swindle, the
Radicals would not bring out a candidate,
but would support Alexander, the “ring”
was duped by Blodgett to keep Alexander
in the field. The people began to move in
the matter of ward meetings to nominate a
candidate for Mayor. After the Demo
cratic party had spoken out for Ezzard,
Markham announced himself as a eitizen’s
candidate. Radicals claimed to have
nothing to do with his nomination, and
made a show of bringing out J. M. Willis,
of Confederate tax and Lincoln Monument
notoriety. Democrats began to smell a
huge mice. They saw in Markham anoth
er Trojan horse. Ex-Mayor J.
like a true Democrat, as he is, although
an independent candidate, would not stand
in the way of harmony, but came down in
favor of the regular nominee, Judge
Ezzard.
On Wednesday, all the Radical cohorts
were at work for Markham. The influ
ence cf the State Road and the State and
Federal governments were brought to bear.
The “colored troops” were massed in
each ward, and thousands raised to
pay the taxes the voting machines owed to
the city. Ooe Federal offieer is said to
have donated S6OO for that purpose. Af
ter the palls were opened, it soon became
apparent that" Alexander, a clever gen
tleman and a good Democrat, had been
sacrificed by the "Ring.” They brought
no strength to him. While it is a source
of regret that Alexander should be sacri
ficed, it is a matter of rejoicing that the
“Ring” has been broken.
At the close of the polls it was generally
conceded that Markham was elected. He
was confident. A band to serenade him,
and a long string of army wagons, etc.,
were ready to form a triumphant proces
sion in honor of his election, when the re
sult was announced. But alas ! they had
forgotten the strength of Ezzard and the
Democracy ! When it was announced
that the old “Grey Eagle,” as Judge Ez
zard is called, was elected a thrill of re
joicing went over the entire city. Redwine
& Fox’s drug store was the gathering
place of the faithful. About 2 o'clock a
iarge erowd proceeded to Judge Ezzard’s
house and made him accompany them to
James’ Bank,where he was called on for a
speech. He responded in a felicitous
and happy manner, urging concilia
| tion and harmony. Mayor Hulsey
' folbwed in his usual eloquent style,
! and was succeeded by (LI. E. Y.
! Clarke, in a, few pertinent and well
i timed remarks.
| The Aldermen elected are all Democrats.
I The City is jubilant over the defeat of
I Blodgett’s trick. You can understand what
is meant when I state that the payments
i of the State Koad for October and Novem
ber have never reached the State Treasurer-
Was it used in the City election ?
i The three papers advocated their candi-
J hates. The Constitution supported Judge
| Ezzard, the Intelligencer Dr. Alexander,
j and the Era Mr. Markham. The result
| tells the tale of the influence exerted by
j these papers. While I believe that Dr.
Alexander may get right, I have little
hope of some of his advisers unless they are
politically regenerated, and I am fearful
that is too stupendous a work.
By the way, Gov. Bullock is off again,
and R. Paul Lester is Governor protein.
Tbe Executive Department is hauuted by
“departing spirits.” Hannibal.
LETTERS JO THE YOINE MEN OF TIIK
SOUTH.
LETTER VI.
LEVELISM AND ITS FOES.
I hate that word Conservative. Yet by
a strange contradiction it has become sy
nonymous with the word Democrat in
Southern politics. True Democracy can
not be at peace with Conservatism. De
mocracy signifies the rule of the people,
that is liberty. Conservatism signifies
standing still, keeping things as they are,
whether they be right or wrong. As most
governments are despotic, convervatism is
nearly synonymous with tyranny. The
Southern Democrats called themselves
Conservatives,because they desired a name
which should be the one most perfectly op
posite to the word radical. There was a
time when the Democrats, as their name
implies, were the least Conservative party
in the country. But when the old Feder
alist and the Northern Whigs, some to
save themselves from destruction, and
some under the guidance of master minds
—when these, 1 say, formed anew party
calling themselves Republicans, and mount
ed the car of Progress to outrun the world
in the road that the world was going, it
was then that the Democrats found them
selves face to faoe with a party more
thoroughly Democratic, more intensely
Radical than themselves. They were
placed on the defensive. Held by the
dogmas of their party creed, committed to
enforce the institutions ol slavery, right or
wrong; cramped by many ideas which,
undemocratic in their nature, had crept
into their creed, they struggled in vain
against the new party, coming, as it did,
flushed with a fresh song and armed with
ihe more advanced ideas of the modern
world.
Struggling to keep themselves in
power, that is, to keep things as they were,
they very naturally called themselves
Conservatives. But now, when the Re
publicans are triumphant and surrounded
with the entrenchments of fortified success,
it is their turn to be Conservative to resist
new ideas and to struggle vainly against
genius, progress, and the irresistible logic
of all history. The fear of chaDge “per
plexes monar.-hs.” All that the Repub
licans now want is to be let alone. Above
all things they dread new armor, new ban
ners and new foes- Hence it is that civili
zation can hope for nothing more from the
Republican party. All the tenderer ideas
of forgiveness, humanity and equal rights
which came to us with the authority of
Christianity and the kindlier reasonings of
common sense, all these are at war with
the Republican party. In every view of
the subject it is their selfish interest to
have a strong,despotic, central government
and to keep themselves in power. It is
always thus with rulers. Thus it was with
hereditary kings, and thus it is with these
children of time and fortune. lOvery day the
spirit of the Republican party becomes more
and more opposed to levelism. As things
now £ stand their success will keep
back civilization two hundred years. Now
is the ripe hour for Democracy. Seizing
the latest currents in the great atmosphere
of modern thought and helping geuius and
civilization to do their inevitable work,
she will speed the mission of Christianity
and share the harvest of the ages. We
feel confident that the Democratic party
cannot be a foe to change and progress-
We make this prophecy. Bear it in mind.
In five years there will be a great party at
the South, which advocates all the more
advanced ideas of equality, suffrage, peace
and good will toward all men—that party
will be called the Democracy.
But Levelism does not find in politics its
greatest foes or friends. The Church,
strange to tell, has struggled here against
the very teachings of its Master. Oh !
Rome what a weight thou hast been upon
the heart of the civilized world! Rome
that stifles thought, subjects reason to the
dominion of empty show, and in the name
of the Prince of Peace would wage 'war
and persecution, if she had the power,
against all who question her authority or
struggle for new ideas.
Thou Church of England, too, with thy
lofty ritual and thy boasted hatred of
heresy, thou who art so fine in the fashion
of the world that poverty shrinks abashed
from thy presence and the poor will not
seek heaven through thy gjates. Oh how
fiercely thou.hast fought England’s philo
sophers whenever, in their investigations,
they dared to touch thy “thirty-nine ar
ticles” or question the foregone conclusions
of thy founders. Thou who art the friend
of Kings, hast ever been the foe of liberty.
But meanwhile freedom and free thought,
struggling through the hearts of the peo
ple, continues to throw off the shackles of
tyranny in spite of thee and all thy
surpliced priests. The churches, too,
which call themselves Evangelical, being
all institutions of men, are lilied with the
intolerance and the prejudices which are
incident to frail human nature.
Presbyterians will allow any amount of
progress which does not touch upon either
chatechism- Methodists, unwilling to
worship with their eyes, like Homan
j Catholics, took council of the howling
I Dervishes, and substituting sound for
j sight endeavor to arouse the spirit by
i shoutings of the human voice, and are
! happiest when men think of them in con
i nection with new wine. This church,
I despotic in its government, retards pro
| gross by stifl’mg individual thought, and
I owing its own existence to rebellion, will
| nevertheless not tolerate rebellion among
| its members. The Baptist Church, too,
j which, professing to disregard form, is
fanatieal.in regard to a certain question of
i form, and boasting of its Democratic,mere
i government, belongs, nevertheless to
j the strictest sect of the Pharisees,
! and enacts that many things are
| sinful in which the man of Naza
| reth saw no barm. While all the
I Churches have grown in their time to be
barriers against Progress, it is wondorous
to behold how the spirit of Christianity, in
spite of frail hunan nature, has home
alODg in its own undying essence the des
tinies of the'human race, >ud brought to
newer light in these latter days, the same
great ideas of forgiveness, gentleness and
equal rights, which were taught by the
Prince of Peace in days when the world
was young. The Church of God, waose
tabernacle is the human heart.and whose
noblest Ritual is the conscience and every
day life of an upright man, this Church
never opposes Reason and Progress. But
the Churches of men, trenched in the tra
ditions of darker ages, with their priest- .
hood, like drones in the hive, untried in
the real actions of life, blind leaders of the
blind, arrogant in their ignorance, these
Churches must accept the logie of the
newer day or their Churches must surren
der.
We shall show in our next letter, how
the idea of science is the best interpreter
of the idea of religon. We shall show
bow the marvel of the everlasting will un
rolls itself in the light of science, doing no
violence to law, bringing about the prophe
cies of Scripture in regular course of nature,
showing the point where faith and science
meet in the perfection of civilzation and
the achievement of the Divine purpose by
the evar restless energies of the human
mind, To-Morrow.
Facts for t«tk Ladies. —On the 7th day
of August, 1857, I purchased a Wheeler a
Wilson Sewing Machine, which has been
used from that day to this, almost inces
santly. Ido not recollect any day, except
Sundays, in which some work has not
been done upon it. By farthe greater part
of the time it has been run from seven
o’clock ip the morning until ten, eleven,
and often until twelve o’clock at night. It
has never costone cent for repairs, and is
to-day in as complete working order as the
day I bought it I would not exchange it
for anew machine of any other kind.
Harriet A. Bellows.
Seneca Kalis, Nov. 21, 1868.
decs—wl
Cotton Supply Association.
The twelfth annual meeting of this asso
ciation was held here yesterday, in the
Mayor’s parlor, Town Hall, Manchester.
Mr. J. Chc-etham presided, and there was
a large attendance, amongst those present
being Sir Thomas Bazley, Bart, 31. 31.;
Colonel Gray, 31. P.; Mr. H. Birky, 31.
P.; 31r. S. R. Graves, 31. P., &a.
31r. Isaac Watts, the Secretary, read
letters apologizing for non-attendance from
Mr. Jacob Bright, 31. P., and Mr. J. B.
Smith, M. P. 31r. Smith, in his letter,
said he had long been impressed with the
importance of irrigation as a means of
producing an increased quantity of cotton.
The Indian government should be urged
to try scientific experiments in the growth
of cotton by irrigation, which bad sucoeeded
so well in the growth of tea.
The following is anabstract of the report
of the Executive Committee:
Your committee during the past year
have given constant and anxious attention
to the best and speediest means of provid
ing increased supplies of cotton, and they
venture to believe that the measures winch
they have adopted will meet the approba
tion of their constituents. Driven by the
slow progress made by America since the
war to recover the position previously at
tained as a cotton growiug country, and
the increasing losses and sufferings experi
enced by our manufacturers through the
scarcity and dearness of the raw material
required to keep their mills iu operation,
your committee have felt constrained to
turn their attention afresh to India and to
consider how the production of cotton
might there be augmented. Repeated
conferences were accordingly held with
several government officials from tho cot
ton-growing district of India, especially
with Mr. Asbburner, collector of Khan
deish, whose successful exertion to improve
the cotton of that district are so well known;
and the conclusion at which your com- |
mittee at length arrived was, in the first ]
place to represent to the Secretary ‘
of State for India in Council the measures
most likely in their judgment to be speed
ily effectual in securing an increased
growth of cotton in India. They accord
ingly, in an interview with tho Duke of
Argyll, recommended that the collectors iu
the chief cotton districts should be re
quired aud authorized to make it a part of
their duty to promote an extended and
improved cultivation of cotton in their re- j
speetive oolleetoratos,and that they should j
be instructed not only to ascertain and re
port upon the best means oi'accomplishiDg
the object desired, but aided by competent
assistants, should take such.steps as they
might consider best calculated to be benefi
cial ; and further, that some recognition
of the services thus rendered by those
gentlemen either by pecuniary reuiuuera
ionjof civil distinction, should be made by
government. 3lore particularly, your com
mittee urged that in the districts of the
Funjaub, Sind, Guzerat, Hingunghat,
Berar, and Jhe South 31abratta country,
and io the cotton districts in the presiden
cies of Madras aud Bengal government
should place under the care of the local
officers and well qualified assistants a plot
of land, of sav ten or twenty acres, for the
purpose of experimental cotton cultivation
with exotic and selected indigenous seed,
and various kinds of manure found to be
so successful in tbe Southern States of
America. Your committee regret to re
port that the reply of the government to
their recommendations, whilst expressing
willinguess to comply so far as practicable
with the representatives of your associa
tion, did mot fully realize their expecta
tions, and did not evince as much readi
ness as it was hoped would be shown to
act at once upon the suggestions which
had been made. Your committee there
fore considered it necessary to reiterate and
again urge their recommendations upon
the attention of government; and to this a
reply has been recently received, contain
ing the assurance “that the practical sug
gestions made by your association shall re
ceive the careful attention of the Duke of
Argyll in communication with the govern
ment of India.”
Encouraged by the great interest which
the present Governor General of India has
manifes'ed in the development of the re
sources of the country placed under his
control, and by the special solicitude which
he has shown to promote an improved and
extended cultivation of cotton, and so pro
vide readier means of transport, your com
mittee resolved to memorialize His Ex
cellency in council, and to recommend the
formation of a department of agriculture
in each of the three presidencies, to ensure
the carrying out of all practicable methods
of improvement, to provide the necessary
assistants to collect statistics, receive and
| transmit reports, and to all that may be
expedient for the full attainment of tho ob
jects desired by your association. Also,
that the railways inti die cotton districts
which would give readier access to markets
and afford additional facilities of transport,
such as two short branches to connect the
great cotton marts of Khangaou aud
Oomrawutte ■ with the Great India Penin
sular 31am Line, a branch from Ahmcda
bad to Veerumgaum and Wudwan, one
from Amedabao toward Dcesan, a line
from the port of Garwar, on the Malabar
coast, to tiooblee and Dharwar, should
have precedence, and be constructed with
as little delay as possible out of whatever
funds may be allotted annually for tbe con
struction of railways in India. And fur
ther, that works of irrigation, and roads
where needed and likely to increase the
production of cotton, should be quietly
provided, aud that all projects of this na
ture which may be brought forward iu tho
cotton-growfbg districts should receive
primary attentiou.
Your committee being anxious to en
courage all attempts to promoto the im
provement of India cotton, offered, for the
best samples at the Broach Exhibition,
twenty silver medals, together with money
prizes, varying from £2 to £lO each, which
were duly awarded, and the samples have
been sent to your association.
Your committee rejoice to learn that the
exertions made by the United States to
increase the production of cotton justify
the expectation of increased supplies from
that quarter, and that the new system of
free labor is gradually becoming more satis
factory, aud giving assurance that eventu
ally it will prove fully as efficient as that
which it has superseded. «Your association
has always endeavored to show tho Soulh-
ern planters that, whilst impelled by pow
erful considerations, to promote the growth
of cotton elsewhere, and especially in In
dia and other dominions of the British
crown, no jealousy is entertained with re
spect to the renewed exertions of the
United States, nor any desire that less cot
ton should be produced by them than
formerly. On the contrary, your com
mittee regard with satisfaction the pro
gress which has already been made, and
will hail the success of the efforts which
are now employed to overcome the diffi
culties which still exist. Although it is
not the business of your association to di
rect emigration from this country, your
committee would recommend those who do
emigrate from Europe to turn their atten
tion to the South, and after careful prelim
mirniry inquiries to consider the expediency
of establishing themselves in those cotton
States in which the climate may he suit
able for white settlers, and thus aid thone
who with indomitable energy are endeav
oring to raise the American crop to at
least “five millions of hales.”
Your Committee are gratified to find that
Egypt continues to make successlul exer
tions as a cotton growing country,and they
have witnessed with much gratification
the steady progress which has been made
in the growth of cotton in the Brazils.
The advance has been v ry considerable,
and no country perhaps has come lorward
so successfully to aid us m providing ade
quate supplies of cotton-
Your Committee regret to be unable to
express satisfaction with the progress of
cotton cultivation in the Ottoman Em
pire. There is reason to believe that this
year’s crop will ho larger than the last ;
but there is no doubt that much more
might be done than has hitherto been ac
complished, and it is not too much to ex
pect that at least a million bales should be
produced.
in Queensland, the Cape of Good Hope,
Peru, .Tahiti, and other minor sources of 1
cotton supply, your committee are grati- !
fied to find that energetic exertions to j
make the growth of cotton permanent and I
successful continue to be made,and it is Lt- 1
lieved that the imports from all these ,
quarters will steadily increase. The 1
countries which, iu addition to the United 1
States, are now earne.-tly and successfully
engaged in the growth of cotton, are so
numerous, and such powerful inducements
to persevere, but it is impossible to believe
that the supply of cotton can long continue
to be inadequate.
Your committee have the highest satis
faction in placing upon record the noble
proposal of Miss Burdett (Joutts shortly
after the last annual meeting of your asso
ciation. That lady, having observed from
the speeches and statements then made
that the supply of cotton was by no means
so large and secure as could be desired,
expressed her anxiety, in a letter address
ed spontaneously to Sir Thomas Bazl y,
Bart, to promote still further the work of
your association, and generously offered to
place the sum of £SOO at the disposal of
your committee, to be expended upon such
special efforts as it might at this juncture
be thought useful to make. Your commit
tee gladly accepted ih- proposal, and, re
lying upon the continued support of their 1
constituents, resolved to add another £SW
to the amount so liberally offered by Miss '
Coutts, making £I,OOO to be expended j
upon special measures, more particularly :
those urged upon the attention of the j
Government of Cuba. They accordingly I
suggested that a part of this special fund I
should be appropriated to each of the dis -
tricts recommended for experimental cot-I
ton cultivation, and they entertain a con- !
tident opinion that if tne plans which j
they have placed before the government I
be carried out, the ryots of India will be !
greatly aided in their efforts, and that an I
increased quantity as well as a better quali- |
ty of cotton will be grown upon the lauds j
now in their occupation.
Ihe cotton seed distributed during the i
year amounts to two hundred and fifty
seven cwt, chiefly American and Egyptian; j
one hundred and eighty-seven cwt was lent
from Manchester, and seventy cwt, from
Alexandria. The following places have just i
been tup plied with seed: Bombay, Darjeel- j
ing, Khaodeish, and various parts of India,
Sarawak, Gape of Good Hope, Natal, An- j
tigoa, Nevis, aud other places in the West '
Indies , . jaiaahaui [and other parts of ,
Brazil, ban krancisco, Salto, Rosario,
Honolulu, and the Fiji Islands.
Your committee, in closing their report, i
desire to express their conviction that the j
work of your association was never more
needed, nor more important, than at the
present time, and they earnestly recom
mend the trade to rally around the associa
tion with fresh ardor, and by their contin
ued and liberal supp rt to assist its efforts
I to procure as speedily as possible an
abundant supply of cotton.
the Chairman, in moving the adoption
of the report, said he had had the honor
I 01 .meeting some of them on previous oc
i easions at aunual meetings of the associa
tion, but he confessed he did not know,
even in the midst of their severest distress
during the American war, that he met
them with deeper feelings than he did on
the present occasion. What was their
i positi-n ? They found the cotton trade of
i Lancashire involved in difficulties and em
| barrassments and losses which they thought
they had long since bid adieu to. There
was light, however, to be seen through the
darkness, ho thought; still he thought
there was a gravity iu the circumstances in
which the cotton supply of the world was
j placed to make them more determined, if
possible, not to relax their efforts until
they finally saw. by an adequate supply of j
cotton, that their property aud their in- !
dustrious artizans were placed out of dan
ger. It seemed that they would not ex
pect large crops from the United States,
and only in proportion to the labor which
was aude i in the cotton fields to that which
already existed. That appeared to be a
work of time. The introduction of Chinese
into the cotton plantations would be a very
wise step, but it wonld require time to do
! it, and it would require a long period to
| bring the cultivation of the Southern States
to that point they desire to obtain. They
| were in the fourth year, after the civil
war, of short cultivation in that country
He found that this year they terminated
1 with a crop delivered at the ports of 2,260,-
1 000 bales, against 2,430,000 last year,
i 2,070,000 the year before, and the year be
! fore that 22,14,000. Until America sent
u.s 3,000,000 baies we should have no relief.
What, then, was tho Course to take? it
behooved them more earnestly than ever
to look toother sources of supply. America
would inevitably grow the required quan
tity of cotton when the stimulus was given,
but in the meantime Lancashire would be
exposed to much suffering unless they get
| other countries to fill up the void which
America had caused. The country to which
they must look was ludia. Last year India
I exported 1,700,000 bales. India was about
j threefold in extent of cultivation aud ex
| port to what she was previous to the
J American war. They had had various
; schemes before them for increasing the
supply from Lnaia The great hindrance
to tho increase was that of the old
fashioned mode of cultivation, which pro
duced only 70 lbs. per acre, against, in the
United Slates, 300, 400, and sometimes
500 lbs “per acre. It steps were taken
to make that 70 lbs into 140 lbs, then their
work was done. With a three million sup
ply from India, they would then see their
way to have cotton much nearer its normal
price than in the present state of
things. After referring to the cultivation
of cotton in the Brazils and in Peru and
Egypt, he said that (from the figures of a
Swiss gentleman) in 1808 there was a sup
ply of cotton from the whole world of 5,-
170,000 bales ; but this year the supply
was only 4,860,000 bales, being an actual
j loss on the growth of the world of 300,000
I bales. The prospective supply from the
whole world for 1870 was estimated at 5,-
| 700,000 bales, or an inc ease of 800,000
| bales upon the present year. The con-
I sumption of Europe was estimated at
j 4,500,000 bales, and of America 1,000,000,
making together 5,700,000, so that grow
ing 5,700,000 only was a very unsatisfac
| tory state of things; and until they could
j alter this state of things by a very much
increased supply he saw neither comfort
nor peace for the trade. Referring to the
recent cry for the revival of protection, he
said that was evidently an absurd mode of
remedying their distress. He would say
one word to those gentlemen who talked
of reviving the old days of protection. If
they wished to carry out their views of
reciprocity, then at least be courageous
and honest, and let them prevail upon
I some member of Parliament to make a
motion “that, whereas, the United States
of America put on property duties against
our industrious artizans in this country,
therefore, as a punishment to them, wo
will put on equal duties to thirty or forty
percent, against their cotton.” He would
then believe in tbe sincerity of their pro
leßsions, but without it, it was not worth
i while for tbe defence of the free trade
j principle to cDter into discussion with
| them.
Sir Thomas Bazley, M. P., in seconding
the motion, said the only remedy to re
lieve the embarrassment of the cotton
trade was an increased supply of the new
material. 'J’he increased supply of con
sumption of colton was not less than 10,-
000 bags per week, and with a diminished
supply they must inevitably have distrSss.
Sir Thomas exhibited several cotton trees
bearing ottou pods, which he had grown
it) his own hothouse, and said the cotton
was of that quality that it would realize
13d or 14d per pound iu Liverpool. He
had grown the plants in various depths of
soil. The trees were of remarkable height
and he said if such could be produced in
this country under unfavorable circum
stances, lie did not see why the same class
cf plant, with proper cultivation, could
not. be produced in India. Wbat was
wanted.in India was not a greater breadth
ofsoil under cultivation, but better culti
vation, and he should be very glad to do
all he co Id to promote that object.
The report was unanimously adapted.
3lr. S. R. Graves, M. P., moved "that
this meeting has witnessed with great sat
isfaction the progress which has already
been made in the cultivation of cotton in
India, and desires to record its oonviction
that the mersures adopted by fbe associa
tion and recommended to government are
well calculated to accomplish the objects
desired. The marked improvement which
has taken placo in the quality of Indian
cotton, the increased care now bestowed
upon its preparation for market, and the
abandonment to a great extent of tbe
fraudulent packing so prevalent, afford
the highest encouragement, and fuliy jus
tify the assurance which this meeting en
tertains that eventually India will take the
I foremo-t place amongst our best sources of
cotton supply.” Mr. Graves said he at
tended the meeting to show by his pres
ence that Liverpool was not unmindful of
the present critical condition of one of the
| greatest industries in this country.
I It had been hoped, as year after year
I rolled on that they would be rescued from
I this state of things cramping the energy
1 and industry not only of the great eapital
j ists, but also of the industrial population
j ofthe country. He should look with very
j considerable apprehension upon this state
| of things if it were not that daylight could
j be seen through it, and that daylight came
■ from the East in the enormous emigration
! that was looked forward to with consider- i
! able expectation hy the cotton growers in
: the Southern States. Mr. Graves then
read this paragraph from a Charleston
1 newspaper stating that steps were being
1 taken to introduce Chinese laborers to work
the cotton fields. This, however, would i
I be a work of time, and in the meantime i
this country must lo'ok to India as the !
great source of supply. He was sorry to
see, year alter year, a deficit iu the finan
ces of that country, while on the other
hand, the income was increasing at the
rate of about a million a year. They had
somehow managed to have a deficit in the
Indian finances of two millions; and he
noticed with regret that in order to make
up for this deficiency a portion of produc
tive public works, amounting to something
like two millions of money, had been order
ed to be suspended. He held that the low
est of all policies that could be adopted in
financial reform in these days was that
which reeks to make up a deficiency at the j
expense of pr.ductivo public works in a !
country where they are much required.
(Hear.)
Mr. A. Chassels seconded the motion, j
which was carried.
The other business consisted in the ap
pointment of a committee and officers of the j
association, and the according of the cus- I
tomary vote of thanks.— Liverpool Mer- j
cur)/, ‘id Bov.
The Wando Fertilizer.-- Messrs. F.
' W. Sims & Cos, Cotton Factors,Savannah,
j Ga, are the agents in this State for the sale
ot this celebrated fertilizer, as will be seen
by reference to their advertisement. The
attention of planters is particularly direct
ed to the certificates which arc published.
They arc from some of the most experienc
ed farmers of Georgia and South Carolina,
and are very conclusive. A premium of
SSOO is offered by the Wando Company,
through the Georgia State Fair, for the
best yield of cotton from ten acres of land
manured with the Wando Fertilizer.
The following oertificate is from our well
known and honored fellow citizen, Gen.
W. M. Gardner:
Near Augusta, Ga., October 29,1869,
I used two and a half tons of Wando ,
Fertilizer upon 20 acres of my poor gray
land. The cotton grew off strong and vig
orcus, arid up to the Ist August retained a
deep green color; at that period rust ap
peared, though the land was subject to j
rust in all previous years,
I am entirely satisfied with the manure,
and shall use it largely upon cotton the
coming year. lam confident tbe yield per
acre has been more than doubled by its use.
W. M. Gardner, i
__ AGR'CLL 1 Urtt
Cause of the Failure ol tfoliti i, t j„ n
Seed.
Editors Chronicle <£• Sentinel;
The writer has heard several complaint <
of late that the so called select cotton sci .'s
sold by Mr. Dickson, of Hancock, and a. ■ >
by Mr. Dickson, of Oxford, and otii
have turned out to be no more prolific :han
ordinary upland seed. There appears to
be aD evident cause of this failure and it is
suggested iu the hope that many who have
been purchasers of these seeds may yet
profit by them.
The greatest and most common error in
culture of cotton is deep plowing. Lit
any man try it impartially and in any oi
dinary season in which a rain does not fol
low atur a fieen plowing, surface culture
will be fouud tur the best.
Tho roots of the cotton piaut epr ud
rapidly and very early. The inevitable re
sult oi the use ol any plow but a sweep so
that these roots are cut, tho crop becomes
late and the quantity of fruit - p.
There are dow before us three talas of
prolific cotton raised from the same seed,
but by two men, one of whom used a
sweep alone in his crop, the other used
a rooter plow the first two or three plow
ings. The one stalk from the fidd
of the first so crowded* with open
bol 8 from top to bottom, while the two
stalks from the latter party’s field have no
bolls at all scarcely except toward the top,
and there they are thick as need be.
In the case of the first, where the sweep
was used exclusively, the plant took fruit
heavily all through the season.
. In the second case, the rooter plow be
ing used the growth ot the plant was con
tinually cheeked by roof-intting&ud it took
on no du: on ii it i*js hud by. As soon
as ho lei the roois alone, tho growth p;o
ceeded naturally and was attended v.vh
much fruit.
One planter stii.,u a'.cd his crop by
proper culture, while the o her only butt
it by bis syst in, and never allowed it to
bear fruit until he stop cd working it.
We venture to say tha t four fifths of
the so-called failure in select seeds result
ed from ti e fault here indicated. The ap
pearance ot th stalks before m from the
same seed, clearly indicates the fatal is
sues of tins course as well as the advan
tages of shallow tillage.
If the blame properly belongs to the
planter himselt it should not be laid upon
the seed. Christopher.
[communicated.]
The Public School Question.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The positions taken by 3lr. Galvin in his
educational communication, which ap
peared in the Chronicle & Sentinel
of Sunday, 28th inst., as to the import
ance ol graded Public Schools, are im
pregnable. The subject is one iu which
every citizen ol necessity feel a very lively
interest. Tbe plan proposed by Mr. Gal
vin meets with the hearty approval of
numbers of our staunch citizens. The
people feel upon the subject; let them
speak.
What objects has the proposed plan in
view ? Simply these :
1 - A Board of'Education of twelve citi
zens —frieuds of popular instruction—who
will act independently of Parisian or sec
tarian bias. 2. An energetic Superintend
ent. 3. Graded Schools of such an elevated
standard as to be the delight and pride oi
the rich and poor. Commencing with the
Primary, the system shall include tho in
termediate, Grammar, and High School
grades. The annual promotions, from
grade to grade, will enliven school duties
as if by magic. From tho High Schools
our future teachers, merchants, mechanic--,
Ac., would come —practically educated,
fitted for almost any honorable position.
Here is a consideration: No sudden reso
lution will come of this. It is no new enter
prise— the Schools are already in opera
tion. It will require no new or extra tax —
the taxes are already being paid annually.
All that is desired is to have the City care
for the children within her bounds. lustead
of the Grand Jury certain
amount to be raised by the Couoty Au
thorities (Augustalpaying a very large
proportion of the tax), let the proposed
City Board of Education report to Council
an estimate of amount meussary lor the
support of the schools, and let the city ap
propriate said amount. There the teachers
can be paid salaries, monthly in stead ol
depending on a perdiem for each pupil in
actual attendance, aud waiting a twelve
mouth for the money. Then the teachers
could find more time aud have more heart
for study, so necessarry to the faithful per
formance of their duties. We shall not have
to build schools houses just now. They can
be left until wo are more able.
Major Allen, our new and accomplished
3layor, has won a name for the spirit of
genuine progress which seems to actuate
him. Let him join his young, energetic,
and able coadjutors in perfecting this
measure, which must sooner or later be
adopted. Such action on their part will
hand each of their names, full of honor
And melody, to posterity.
It can certaiuly do no harm to appoint a
proper committee to inquire into the feasi
bility of the proposed pLn. Let the “City
Fathers” act upon this matter as early as
practicable.
December 4, 1869. Citizen.
Clothing.—Mr. John Kenny presents
to the public this •morning an attractive
lot of goods which he has just reoeived
from the North. These goods were select
ed by 3lr. Kenny himself, and he feels
satisfied that he can sell them very cheap.
See his advertisement.
Caution.— 'This is to certify iliat I have
sold ail right, title aud interest in the
Simmons’ Laver Regulator to J. H. Zell ill
A Cos., who are the only ones tiial have auy
right to make the same, and tho only
ones that have the original, true, and only
receipt for the same. Any one manufac
turing or offering for sale the Simmons
Liver Regulator, or Simmons’ Medicine,
other than that put up by them, is an im
§os ter and counterfeiter. None genuine
ut that put up by J. H. Zeilin A Cos.
dec4—dlwl C. A. Simmons.
Prize Schemes in General are look
| ed upoii with suspicion— and justly so, bo
! cause they are usually conducted by par
| ties who are uudor no legal restraints or
obligations to fulfill then- promises. hoW-
I ever extravagant they may be. Nor are
| prize Schemes usually regarded with favor
. by men of integrity or financial responsi
bility. We are happy to say tha: noobjec
! tions of this kind can be urged against
! the great Henderson (Ky.) Scheme
which are advertising in our columns
All parties xmnected witn it are men of
the highest social, financial and moral
worth, and if this were not so, they are
strictly bound by angular legal charter,
so that not a dollar of (h > funds arising
from the sale of tickets cun be touch and un
til the winners of the prizes a-e actually
in posession of them—thus forming tho
best possible security in behalf or the tick
et-holders, So honorable an enterprise
certainly deserves well of our citizen *
Ex~ decl-Ulwl
The Emperor of Brazil iias appointed a
“Board of Health” to investigate and do
cide what proprietary remedies should be
admilUxl into the couth ry .»-> 1 what ex
cluded. After s linn months’ session, they
have reported condemning them all ex -
eept I>r. J. C. Ayer <t Co.’s ..reparations.
Three of those they recommend *d the Em
peror to admit lor the benefit of tho pub
lic he Ith, while they hold !Ue fourth.
Cherry Pectoral, under ad viv-menf furfur
ther information respecting one of its in
gredients—morphine—winch, while so ex
tensively employed and so highly esteem
ed as a remedy in this country, is scarcely
known in that. Os all the other medicines
before them the Imperial commission say
“no one of them merits any favor what
ever, or protection from this Government,
as they contain nothing new nor any spe
cific virtues not fully known and used by
our own physicians.” The Imperial Gov
ernment has accordingly prohioited them
all from admission through tho custom
house, except the remedies of our distin
guished country men above mentioned a
discrimination by their learned uieu, very
like that to which experience has led the
.American people. —Boston Herald
deed—dl*wl
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vember 9‘ta. 1999.—At • me-tin* of tbe BOARD ol
i DIRECTORS of tbe Aii<oet* * llarlwuil Ksliroad C m
i party, held thb day. the lolowiuy resolution wax adopted,
| to-wlt:
j Revolve!, That a Cail is hereby made in TWO I'bK
j CJGNT ugdd the amount .I—. .L>—J"t<> the Capital tx k,
• acd that the Secretary !». :u h iib.nl to give j-.blic notice
i of the Bam .
; Ell AS. R. ABBOTT.
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