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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVII. € .&uide & Sicßtind. It.'.lMr* OF 8L BM.'tUPTIOM. HAIL*. (}■ ■ i, . »I TIU WBEK -A. . v. to '*• '.,'EEKI V. t B*’ M •«. i sc . JOO VVKDM KB9AY 4!(>RM>G, JINK 29. Reduction of the United States Army. Tiio bill lately parsed by Congress for flic redaction of the army las received the m/nature of the PreJdciit. After the first, day of July next, the United States army will be reduced to thirty thousand men. (Jen. Sherman recommended that the force ,uld not exceed fifty thousand. Some Northern newspapers assert that this reduction is depreciated by Gen. Sherman, and intimate., that he will tender the re signation of his military commission. This •»rc deem hardly probable. General Hhcr rna , is the heir appirent to the throne, and the Executive light arm of the Ad ministration. If Grant ever assumes any thin;' more than a segar policy, if ho ever inaugurate: any fix: 1 and determine policy Sh rman will, in our opinion, be the Ese eutivu H right hand in execution. It was Sherman that conveyed to Hancock the Executive’ll views of the relations he hire to the Administration, and forewarned him of what lie might expect from Execu tive discretion and the terse announcement of hisrclations to the Administration. Sher man known exactly how to deal with all who may be regarded as ‘‘Spotted Tails,’’ and moreover has the p! tek toexecutc orders and decision: l . If there is any wiping out to he done, Sherman will do it with as perfect nonchalance tm ever illustrated the career ot Atdla or the Iron Duke in the Penin sular campaigns oi Spain and Portugal. Now we opine, thoio is a great deal of this sort of thing to be done before the admin istration can effect an organization of an administration party. If as the Now Yoik Tribune wishes, General Sherman resigns his commission, it will be only to take the port folio of the Secretary of War, which Mr. Biknap will gracefully yield, for a 1 ircign mission. Under the new law, army officers cannot, enter civil office or remain in it without resigning their mili tary commissions. Beyond doubt this feature in the law was introduced for the specific recurrence of such an event as that which illustrated the previous administra tion when two commissions, civil and mili tary, concentrated in General, now Presi dent, Grant, and particularly as a rebuke and prohibition ot farther indulgence of like military proclivities which, subse quently has followed this precedent. We rather think Genera! Grant is lining badly in the house ol his political friends. The I’oiitictil Outlook. The Albany Argus lias been reviewing the political situation and prospects, am, | comes to the conclusion that with proper effort the Democracy can carry the lollow ing States: New Hampshire, Connecticut,, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, I)sla- | ware, Maryland, Virginia, North Caro lina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada. California, Oregon.” These States cast an aggregate of two hundred and twenty-two electoral votes, or more than two-thirds of the whole num ber of the electoral college. The Union niid Anmiota lias somo doubts, however, as to the ability of the Democracy to carry Now Hampshire, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Nevada. The “natives” of those Slates arc so thoroughly imbued with liadioalisui and fanaticism that wc fear a whole decade at least will ciapsc before they can be brought to a realizing sense of the error of their ways and the need of re pentance. The other States named, with a fair election, will give Democratic ma jorities, and those States elect one hundred and sixty-two members oi' Congress, two tliir L. of whom thould be Democrats, and these, together with these members we should elect in the more doubtful and lie publican Slates, wouli give us a majority in the next House of Representatives. The prospect is very flattering for the Democrats to carry the next House of Representatives by a good working ma jority, and the Radicals feel that this is so. Ail International Courtesy. According to a flittering paragraph, one Lieutenant Colonel Leo Lloyd, ot' Liberia, in a recent address before the Philadelphia Heard of Trade, informed his audience that the Legislature of the African Republic of Liberia, upon receiving the information of yf-Ai passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, promptly resolved to expunge that articlo ot the Liberian Constitution which restrict ed the right of suffrage to Alrieans or African descent. “And now,” said the Liberian Colonel, with far greater magna nimity cud Christian feeliog than Mcndosa tioott of South Carolina has displayed “in Liberia a white man is just as good as a negro.” Such prompt and generous in ternational courtesy demands equally prompt and distinguished recognition. As the Philadelphia* Hoard of Trade has been the instrument, and Philadelphia the theatre of this generous revelation, t e Hoard oi’ Trade should at onoe establish a steamship lino between tsierre Leone and the City of Hrotherly Love, under a libo r.;l Congressional subsidy. Such, would be all that eould be expected of Philadel phia. ’I he pre-eminent claims of Senator Revels could not be ignored to place at the disposal ol what was once Independence t*' quare, but which, under the new era, wc suppose wiil be denominated Equality Square. The magnanimity of the groat African Republic is worthy of all emulation by the Republican Congress of the Great Ameri can Republic- It would seem but a proper acknowledgement of suoh generous cour tesy that the American Congress should repeal its disfranchising acts to the same ; cod, so that in both of the great Republics it might be freely and truthfully said “a white man is as good as a negro.” \>’hiie it must be confessed, however, that the Liberians Lave greatly excelled the National Republicans of American j in Christian liberality and chivalrie gener- j osity, we tear greatly that such mag- I nauimity will be the downfall ot the African Republic, and that Licuenant f clone! Leo Lloyd has unwitingly pro- j uouneod the doom of liis cherished uation. t uht a "R :JCloud or Spotted Tail” reach the Liberian.- he would recount a sad, touching talc ot the results of such gen eroiity as would startle the unsophisticated iioerians trom their benevoleut humaui tarianism; aud a lvumc-Kamehaha would point the moral ot such insidious equal.tv from the history of the civilisation of the Sandwich Islands as would make the Re- publicans oi Liberia tremble for their fate It is safe to predict that an enterprise tor making black Presidents with white 1 cabinets will shortly be inaugurated at the brotherly end of the .famous middle pas sage, perhaps under the patronage of some hoard of trade. The Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, denies emphatically that he has gone over to the Radicals. He says ho has “neither done or said anything to afford ground for tho allegation, and no tolerably informed man in the State could insinuate that ho believed it witheut being guilty ot willful falsehood.” The Cotton Movement. The cotton movement for the week end ! mg Friday, June 17, {as we are informed | by the Associated Press,) is light in re j ceipts, but the exports are unusually large | for the season. The receipts at all United States ports ! for the week foot up 15,000 against 17,995 1 bales last week ; 22,441 the previous week, and 29,757 bales three weeks since. The receipts at all ports from Ist Septem ber, 18C9, to date, reach 2,800,478 bales against 2,087,725 tor the corresponding periods of last year, showing an increase of , 712,753 in favor of the present season. Ex : ports from all ports for the week 40,332 ! again3t 22,962 bales last year. Exports from all ports from Ist September to date, 2,022,824 against 1,400,905 bales for the same time last year. Stock in interior towns 46,305 against 48,167 bales last week, arid 8,022 this date last year. Stock in Liverpool 628,000 against 428,000 bales last*year. Amount of American afloat for Groat Britain 115,000 against 86,000 bales iast year. Amount of ludian cotton afloat for Eutope 355,446 against 623,500 bales last year. “The cotton market at New York has been dull and heavy during the week with a downward movement in prices. There were some transactions for future delivery in the new crop, and at close quotations— -18, to 19 cents for September and Octo ber delivery. “In regard to the growing crop advices generally arc favorable. In some sections there are complaiuts that it is difficult to keep the fields clear of grass, which the late rains have caused to grow, but no serious apprehensions arc felt on this point. In nearly ail directions tho fields are clean and the plant looks strong arid healthy.” T'Uc Nomination of Mi Aker mun. The nomination ol Hon. Amos T. Akcr mari, of Elbert county, Georgia, to the seat in the Cabinet, made vacant by the resignation of Mr. Attorney Genera! Hoar, takes us by surprise. The confused char acter ol‘ the first telegrams caused us to doubt their accuracy. Subsequent con firmation as to the nomination leaver no doubt but that President Grant has ven tured so tar ab to recognize Georgia as be ing in, and of the-Union, as to tenders seat in his cabinet to an acknowledged citi zen of the State, and this is done, notwith standing Congress not only refuses to ad mit. her Senators and Representatives, but is actually discussing a bill to promote further reconstruction, and the State is be ing governed by a quasi-military rule. Such an event could hardly be antici -1 ated, since the rebuke administered to the President’s Virginia policy by Congress. We submit the comments ci a few of the loading presses of the North : . From the Herald. The New Attorney General—The South in the Cabinet.— The only im mediately obvious fact in the appointment of Mr. Akerman, of Georgia, to the place made vacant by the resignation of Mr. Hoar is that it admits the South to repre se mat ion in the administration. This is a substantial stop of progress in the good work of reconstruction—a work of which the public has for a while lost sight, but which all Che time happily goes on. From the Tribune. Wc recognize in tho new appointment a cheering sign that the Administration is determined to break down the idea that men who were carried into the rebellion, but have ince frankly and honorably ac cepted the result, must be forever exclud ed from public trusts. We believe there is no better way to compose the remaining troubles at the South than by showing a generous disposition to meet them half-way in forgetting the past, wherever we are sure about our security for the future. Got). Grant acts on this theory, and we confidently expect to see good results from it. Correspondence of the Tribune Amos T. Akerman, to-day nominated as Mr. Hoar’s successor, is a native of New Hampshire, a graduate of Dartmouth Col lege, and about 46 years of age. He re moved to Georgia before he obtained his majority, and studied law in the office of J. McPherson Berrien, an cx-U. S. Sen ator, and also President Jackson’s Attor uey-Geucral. He has been one of the leading lawyers in the South, but has nev er held public office until appointed by President Grant U. S. Attorney for the District, of Georgia, a position which he now holds. He was elected at large on the Grant ticket. He was formerly a Whig, hut since the war has been identified with the Union party in the South. During the war, although a Union man, be was forced into tho Confederate army, and sorved on the staff of General Toombs, whom he defended in his celebrated court-martial case in 1864. He served in the Rebel army until the close of the war. He is married, has three children, and is in humble circum stances. He had no intimation that he would be appointed, and there is no posi tive iulormation that lie will accept. He was first brought to the attention of the President by some speeches which he de livered during the Presidential campaign. Tho announcement of his nomination was I received here with profound astonish ment by Senators, members, and all classes. It was said ho was even more obscure, if possible, than Messrs. Boric, Robeson, or Belknap, and tho question was asked over and over again, Who is Akerman ? Residents of Georgia, tem porarily in the city, were the only ones able to solve the mystery. Mueh oppo sition to him is expressed, and [some even say that tho Senate will not confirm him, but this is mere conjecture, founded on improper ideas as to other possible changes in the Cabinet, of which so much has been ! said lately. Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette. Ot tho successor (or rather the gentle man nominated as the successor) of Mr. Hoar, it is said he is recommended by com manding talents, and still more by his manly, noble and undaunted service in the constitutional eanse of the South, known as the “lost cause.” It is to be hoped that this little episode in the gentleman’s biography may uot jeopardise his con firmation, so-called. In fear that it might do so, l proceed to interpose the apology that his positioo up to, and fer some time after, the close ot the war, was identical with that of Alexander H. Stephens. In a word, Mr. (or “General”) Akerman, be fore the “rebellion,” what was called in Georgia a “co-operationistthat is to say, he was opposed to his State going out of the Union until she was assured ot having plenty of company. After the State had seceded, however, acknowl edging the right of expatriation (he was born in New Hampshire), and recognizing the sovereign right of his adopted State to claim his allegiance, he faithfully served it, along with the “Con federacy” ot which it was a part, and, not waiting to be ordered, saw proper to take time by the forelock by volunteering. What else, to be sure, could the man do ? Some say, too, that he has been pardoned for this little error of hie youth (he was then but forty), but this is doubtful. Why was a pardon iu his case necessary any more than in that ot S,okcs? His course tor the past three or four years, I hear, has been quite satisfactory ! He has stood upon the platform that it was best for Georgia first to get iuto the “Union” anyhow and then splurge—and not “splurge” before she teas let in. . Adber | ence to this admirable dogma brought him I ehcek-by-jowl with Biodgett and Bullock, in favor of “reconstruction,” and hence his high position iu the consistent and | harmonious “party of principle ” —the Radical organization. From the Philadelphia Press. The resignation of Attorney General Hoar, while not unexpected, will cause a [ general feeling of regret throughout the I country at the loss to the Government of a faithful and efficient officer. The Hon. Amos T. Akerman, who was yesterday nominated to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. Hoar, is a promi nent citizen of Georgia, although original ly from New Hampshire, having removed trom that State in 1842, soon after his graduation from Dartmouth College. In politics Mr- Akerman was an Oid Line Whig, but since the birth of the Republi can party he has been a consistent mem ber of that organization. During the war he was a staunch friend ot the Union, al though he too* no active part in the con j test. His education and legal qualifica -1 lions eminently fit him for the position From N< u; York World. Asa lawyer, Mr. Akerman is possessed of considerable local repute for soundness, caution, accuracy, and acuteness, though not distinguished for the lighter attributes of address and eloquence. In person he is slim and spare, in countenance semewhat resembles Alexander H. Stephens, having the same general appearauee ot large prominent forehead, and small, peaked lower taec, and is about fifty-tour or five years old. From his persistent advocacy of the Congressional plan,and ail the more so that this advocacy, by reason of his ability, ha« been effective, Mr. Akerman is in very bad odor with the great body of the people in Georgia, and has on several occasions been made the recipient of marked evi dences of that feeling, though never actu ally maltreated. Personally he has the manners of a gentleman, a consideration mentioned from the popular impression that Mr. Hoar’s deficiencies in this respect have had mueh to do in procuring the ill wili toward him which resulted in his eiim inatiou from office. Taken altogether, however, Mr. Akerman cannot be regard ed as a distinguished or even a notable choice, but the exigencies of Mr. Grant’s requirements were doubtless such as to leave the great niarg : n for selection. It is evidently bis purpose to have Mr. Hoar’s mantle fall on some man of fair repute among the few who, having an identifica tion with the South, are now inaccord with Radicalism, and in this view the selection of this new “unknown” is about as good as the nature of the case admits. Hon. JVelsom Tift. We are in receipt of a letter from Hon. Nelson Tift, enclosing a printed slip from the Albany News, which contains an an swer to sonic strictures upon his conduct, found in the Washington correspondence of this paper. We very cheerfully devote our columns to Mr. Tift’s service in correcting anything of error into which our correspondent may have fallen. We shall not attempt to re ply to Mr. TANARUS., as wc feel perfectly assured that our correspondent is able to take caro of himself. While we may not participate in the feel" ings which prompted the strictures on Mr. T.’s course, we must confess that we do not believe that he has any valid claim to a seat in ihc present Congress, either by express enactment or implication. We know that it was not spoken of during the canvass. We know that the people did not dream that they were electing Con gressmen to the present Congress, but only to till a vacancy in the last. At the same time we give Mr. Tift much credit for his services to the people of the State since his election. His energy: tact and ability displayed in detecting and exposing Bullock and Blodgett’s nefarious designs has placed tho people of Georgia under strong and lasting obligations to him. This, we arc quite sure, they will ingly extend, whiie they will surely resist any and all claims which lie may set up to bo recognized as a member elect of the present Congress. Tl»e Cotton Outlook. The New York Shipping &• Commercial List, which is good authority on such mat ters, has an article in its issue ol'.June 18tli upon the “Cotton Outlook,” which, from our standpoint, wc consider correct: j At the commencement of the current ! cotton year, the most popular estimate of the yield was 2,750,000 bales, but later the j receipts so far exceeded general expccta- j tion that the estimate was extended to j 3,000,000 ; and now, owing to tho remark- | able lengthening out of supplies, three millions may bo said to be a minimum figure, attentive observers hazarding es timates varying from 3,100,000 to 3,250,- 000 baits. The result of this changed aspect of tho supply has been a gradual weakening of tho tone of the market, and a fall ip the price of nearly thirteen cents per pound since September 1 si, though carrying with it very little pecuniary em barrassment among those who implicitly relied upon tbs earlier estimates and ex treme values, from the fact that the cur rency dollar has appreciated during the same period to an equal extent. Taking tho year through, it was worthy of note that the crop hay realized a higher average gold price than tho mueh smaller crop of tho preceding year. As to the course of prices between now and the in coming of the next crop, in the autumn, opinion is varied, though the majority in cline to tho belief that the lowest depth of depression has not yet been reached ; and the l'act that sales for delivery during the two months next succeeding are being made at fully one cent, below current figures, would seem to give color to such belief. The weakness of tone, lately so conspicuous, has not alone resulted _ from the increased receipts at our ports, but io a very considerable extent from the statis tical position of the article on the other side of the Atlantic, together with the promise of a material increase in tho yield of the growing American crop. The stocks in the English and Continental markets are much above the corresponding period last year, while the supplies afloat ior those markets are considerably less; but this latter feature excites no apprehensions of prospective scarcity, from the fact that the change in shipments of India cotton from sails via the Cape to steam via Suez, will render available, during the summer months, sup plies that would not be due, under the old system ot transportation, till the autumn. And by the time shipments from Bombay begin to fall off materially, the new Ameri can crop will bo available. There being, then, every probability of a liberal supply during the nexs four months, j a reaction in prices would not seem at all j probable, while the liberal rate of con- j sumption in Europe is relied upon by many j to obviate any further decided decline. Much, however, will depend upon weather 1 contingencies in connection with the grow- j ing crop. The accounts which have j reached us thus far, are in the main fa- j vorable. AH authorities agree in the opin ion that an increased area has been devoted i to the plant, and on the old and worn out I lands ot the Atlantic States, great efforts j have been made to increase tho yield | through the liberal use of fertilizers and 1 improved implements of husbandry. We hear of some drawbacks to the plant in j those sections, but taking the whole cottOD j region into the account, the “stand” may; be said to be fully equal to the average of j seasons. Already, we observe, it is freely pre- ; dieted that the growing crop will, without j serious drawbacks, reaffi three and a half millions of bales, and while all speculations as to results at this stage of the season are practically worthless, yet it cannot be doubted that the state of feeling thus in dicated has some be-ringupon the market. The New York Bulletin says : Corre spondirgto a rapid appreciation of wheat in the great grain centres of the United States, wc now have information of an alarming advance in breadstuff's abroad. ; This foreign advance is attributed to j drought, especially in Central and South ern France, and to a partial failure of the rye in Germany, Sweden and Russia. If j to the increased demand this state of af- | fairs abroad will make upon American ; grain be added the further consideration that wheat has suffered considerably in the ! various parts of the United States, it will S appear that prices must not only advance, but maintaiu themselves at an unusual j figure untilthe 1871 crop. Such at least appears the view of the commercial pa pers, and in the light of the now well as certained extensive drought in the wheat region of Europe and at home, but es pecially iu Europe, it seems difficult to doubt the correctness of the position. JtTE—General Capron, the Commit sioner of Agriculture, has imported from India a small quantity of the seed ol the jute plant, with the view of introducing its culture into the extreme section of the I Union, south of the frost lice. It is being distributed to planters in Texas and I Florida, whe will give it a fair trial. It is a fibrous plant, resembling coarse flax, of easy culture and rapid growth. It is the material of which gunny bags and cloth, ' and bagging for cotton, as well as cheap | eordage, mats and carpets are made. Its ■ great use, however, is for baling cotton, and as such will prove valuable at the South if Us cultivation can be made a success. The total debt of Savannah is $2,051,- ■ 880. To offset this she has railroad and other stocks to the walue of $1,235,000. 1 Her actual debt is therefore $816,880; AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1870. .The Currency Bill. Our readers have been informed by tele, graph that the currency bill passed the House of Representatives by a yote of 98 to 81. It provides for an increase of Na tional Bank circulation to the amount of ninety-five millions of dollars, and the cancellation of forty-five millions of United States three per cent, gold certificates- These certificates arc held by the banks as a part of their reserve or for investment, and have not been used as a part of the circulating medium. The bill expands the National batik circulation $95,000,000, re deems $45,000,000 three per cent, cer tificates, and re-distributes $25,000,000 o* the present issue of bank circulation, tak ing it from the East and giving it to the South and West. The proposition to re tire the National Bank notes and make the paper currency uuiform by increasing the greenbacks an equal amount, was voted down—though the difference to the gov ernment annually in interest money, would be about $40,U00,U00 in case the circula tion should be entirely in greenbacks in stead of exclusively in National Bank bills. The bill meets with no favor from the East, as it was passed by Western mem bers in order to influence the coming elec tions. The presumption is, therefore that the present inc nubents from the West are afraid to go before their constituents for re-election without doing something to ap pease popular indignation in the West, against the preponderating and over-shad owing influence ot'the Eastern and Mid dle States in the direction and control of the financial system of the Government. The New York Evening Post, in the fol lowing summary of the bill as it passed the House and went to the Senate, takes strong ground against it, and reflects we presume, the views of the bondholders of the East and North: MR. GARFIELD’S CURRENCY BILL. The House of Representatives voted yes terday, by a majority of 18, to increase the national bank currency nearly one hundred millions of dollars, by establishing new banks; and to redeem the 3 per cent, cer tificates, now held by the banks, to the amount of about forty-five millions of dol lars. It was asserted that tho redemption oi these certificates would compel the sub stitution ot greenbacks for them as reserve; and that the additional demand for green backs to be held as reserve against the new notes would be sufficient to prevent the measure, as a whole, from having the effect of an inflation. This is a serious mistake. The banks now hold only twenty five millions of tbe three per cent- certificates as reserve, the rest as an investment. All the country banks in the United States together hold but $30,000,000 in greenbacks as a reserve against $304,000,000 of'demand liabilities, or less than twelve per cent. ; the rest of their so-called reserve is merely fictitious, consisting of bank balances in the cities. Now the new banks would issue $95,000,- 000 of notes, and, grunting book credits in the same proportion to their circulation with existing banks, would have $24,000,- 000 of deposits; thus adding $335,000,000 to the effective currency of the country. They would require, at the same rale with existing country banks, less than forty millions of dollars in greenbacks in all, or not much more than the baoks.of this city could hand over to the to-day, at a day’s notice, without endangering their own re serve. It will be seen that the gentlemen who apologised to Congress for this bill as “a slight inflations,” are in error. Mr. Gar field and Mr. Schcnck had not a word to say in favor of this leaturc of the bill, but thought that it wan more than counterbal anced by other parts of it. Mr. Garfiefi admitted that it was a measure of inflation and a retrogade step in tho way to specie payments. But it does not appear that any member of the House, even Mr. Cox, whose remarks were more to the point than any others made in the discus sion, fully comprehended the practical ef fects of the measure. Every man who understands the nature of banking, and knows that the active agent in an inflation of prices always consists of book credits or “deposits,” will cn reflection see in this bill a moro dangerous expansion of the currency than if it directly added one hun dred millions of dollars to the issue of greenbacks. For an increase of the greenbacks, per nicious as its effects would be to the credit of the nation, would at least strengthen the bank notes, by widening their basis, and making the reserves easy to maintain. But this bill, while largely increasing the effective purchasing power of money, and the credit system of tho banks, actually weakens their reserves, and makes these more difficult to secure or maintain in times of pressure. It pushes them forward in the easy way ot expansion, and deprives them of their resources when the sure end of that way is reached, in a crisis of credit. Besides, the bill does not i rovide for a uniform process of change. The three per cent, certificates would bo withdrawn under it as fast as the new banks arc organized, and before the effect ot the expansion they would proauce-could bo felt in New York. Tho result might be a severe stringency, for a time, if the change were carried out rapidly and with money in active demand. There would then be that harvest time of speculators, a period of violent fluctuations in prices and in the rate of interest, while the ordinary trade ot the country would suffer. In short, this bill is an enormous scheme for inflating the currency, for postponing indefinitely the resumption of specie pay ments, and tor enccking the growth of con fidence in the financial soundness of the nation. We cannot believe that it will find favor with the Senate. The Probable Advance in Bread stuffs. —The excitement in the New York markets for flour and wheat recently was something remarkable. The sales of wheat considerably exceeded 300.000 bushels. The French were large buyers,' and their presence in the market led to an active speculation. A further largo advance is not probable. Great Britain, as appears by late circulars, is not getting any foreign wheat, except from the United States. The demand at this market for the conti nent has interrupted her supplies, and she will soon feel the want of them. Bat the most important fact is, the falling off of the receipts at the lake ports which were, for the week ending June 11, 92,000 bus hels ot wheat, and 20,000 barrels flour ; or, reducing the flour to wheat, equal to 300,000 bushels wheat, less than lor the corresponding week last year. This, in connection with aD increased demand, can hardly be over estimated. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says there seems to be no doubt that a number of changes in the Cabinet are at hand, and mentions that Fish and others will probably follow the suit of Hoar. Iu conversation with some Senators Wednesday, Grant expressed the determination to have men around him as his advisers who aro acceptable to the Radical party and in harmony with it. Grant is finding that troubles are coming upon him thick and heavy. " The Georgia Bill.—A Wasliington di. - patch to the Nashville American says: The Georgia difficulty was settled yester day (Thursday) by the Reconstruction i Committee, it having been agreed to sub mit the whole question to the House, with the statement that eight members are for Mr. Farnsworth's bill, which does, and seven members of Mr. Butler s. which does not provide for an election this fall. It was further stipulated that a full op portunity for debate and amendments should be allowed in tho House. It is not expected tho report will be brought in for several dayi. The bill as agreed upon provides for the admission of the State at ccco, at the same time repealing ail laws which prohibit the organization of tho Georgia militia. The Darien Exploration.—Com mander Selfridge now writes in very good spirits with regard to his success in finding a central route across the Cordilleras. He still believes that the route from the gulf of San Bias to the Bayano river and thence to the Pacific wil prove practica ble. However, he will continue his explo rations until the best possible route is ob tained. It is certainly to be hoped that American energy and capital will carry through this great undertaking. Letter from Ron. Ifclson Tift, Setting forth the Reasons that actuated him and his Colleagues in their Efforts to Represent their Constituents in the Forty-First Congress. Albany, Ga., June 20, IS7O. To the Editors of the Chronicle iff Senti nel, Augusta, t la.: My attention has been called to the fol lowing extract from a letter of your Wash* hgton correspondent, published in the Co lumbus Sun: “Strange to say, Nelson Tift and P. M. B. Ybung have bees here for some time (opposing Bullock it is true) acting in con junction with Prince and Clift in trying to obtain scats in Congress as representatives from Georgia. It is well known that Tift, Yeung, Prince, Clift, Edwards, Gove and Christy wereelected to fill cut the unex pired term of the Fortieth Congress. Bul lock. however, has commissioned them for the Forty-first Congress—and they are actually here asking admission as duly elected representatives from Georgia. And they haW drawn eight hundred and sixty dollars api ee before they wore stopped by the committee on elections. It is by no means surprising that Prince and Clift — and such iike carpet-bag scum should seek to represent a people without their knowl edge or consent —but it was expected that Nelson Tift (although fran Massachusetts) and Gen. P. M- B. Young would have had more respect for those who once honored them with their eonfidente. Such conduct is reprehensible in the cjtreme. It is bad enough for a people to to nominally repre sented by carpet-baggers, and those who can get their disabilities removed, but to be represented amply by tin commission of a Bullock, without going through even the farce of an election; yea, not permit ting the “colored man and the brother” to exercise their inestimable guarantee of the ]sth airenlmcnt, is the very dregs of reconstruction intensified. Surely the people of Georgia cannot forget this effort to barter away the few restrictive rights left, but yetin abeyance?” As one of the persons mentoned, occu pying a position of public tru£ by the will of the citizens of the 2d Congressional Dis trict, for the people of Georgia, I think it proper to answer even this mcharitable ar.d unfriendly voice spoken through the medium of your paper. Ist. The following letter written in Washington about the begiutir.g of the 41st Congress—March 1809—and forward ed to the Legislature, then in Session, will answer one ol the complaints oi' your cor respondent : Washington, D. C., March 1869. To the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representative, and Mem bers of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia : The questions concerning the rights of Georgia as a Staid in tho Union, which engaged the attention of Congress at its late session, will again be broaght forward for action in tho 41 at Congriss. The ad vocates of military government and a now reconstruction under the authority of Con gress, are still persistent in their demands, and are using extraordinary efforts to ac complish their ends. The Representatives whicti wete elected in April 1868, were certified by Gen. Meade to the4ofch* Congress. Theoidinanoe under which the election was held declared that the officers then elected should “each of them hold their offices as theugh they were elected on Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1868,” which should have been the regular time for election to the 41st Coigress. Gov. Bullotk issued com-, missions in November to the members elected in April, attaching thereto the or dinance ol the Convention as authority to take scats in the 41st Congioss. Tho importance ofthe questions involved in the action of the representatives from Georgia, made it proper to consult our friends. Having doubts, I first referred the whole subject (including the condition of affairs in Georgia) to a caucus of tho democratic members of Congress, who re commended that tho Georgia members should be admitted under the ordinance and commission of the Governor with the purpose of settling the question of the right of the State to representation, pre venting tho subversion of the State Gov ernment, and stopping the agitation of that subject. I then conferred with good men and good lawyers among my political oppohents, Thomas A. Jenks of Rhode Island, Hon. Luke P. Poland, and others, who agreed that the ordinance of the Convention and the commission of the Governor gave an undoubted legal right to seats in the 41st Cjngress. Under these circumstances the Georgia Commissions wore presented to the 41st Congress, and referred to the committee on elections. The views which determined me to pur sue the course recommended by the friends of Georgia, and sanciioned by my own judgment of my duty, are t Ist. Our State Government is in danger of being overthrown, and a worse one Id" augurated. 2d. There is at present no law for the election of Representatives to the 41 st Congress, should vacancies occur, nor is it probable that the Governor would order elections in accordance with the present laws. 3d. If t.hc policy advocated by Governor Bullock should be adopted, it would se riously injure all the material interests of tho State and produce great disorder. 4i.h. If by the admission of members in Congress at the present time, which is fa vored by the administration, we can pre serve our State organization against the assaults of its enemies, it will, in my opin ion, far outweigh any objection which might be urged to the political character of the Representatives, or to any question of the formality of the election or the com mission by which they hold their seats. My single purpose here is to serve the people of my State, and if I should be ad mitted to t lac 41st Congress, so soon there after as the status of Georgia can be set tled, oral any time w'-en the people may desire it, I shall be prepared to resign my position, and furnish tho opportunity to supply my place. I may state, in conclusion that Hon. J. K. Barnum, a member of your body, and myself called on President Grant to day, and had a conversation on the subject of Georgia affairs. He is decided in the opinion that the State has been recon structed in accordance with the laws of Congress, and is entitled to representation. He regrets the action of the Legislature in declaring colored men ineligible to seats in that body. He appreciates the motives of the General Assembly in pas-ing the re solution pledging the people to abide by the Court.-, and he regrets the action of Governor Bullock iu vetoing that resolu tion. President Grant expressed the hope that the Legislature of Georgia would adopt the 15th amendment to the Constitution, lie said, it wjuld not alter their condition, j but would place all the States on a footing j of equality with respect to suffrage, and added—he could not see why the adoption j of that amendment would not be sufficient j to settle the Georgia question now before i Congress. \ He spoke kindly and hopefully of the other Southern States, and expressed the i desire that they should all soon be lestored j to civil government and representation in \ Congrets. _ I am favorably impressed by President j Grant, I think he is sincere, unprejudiced, j clear-headed, plain spoken, and patriotic ; and ii he administers the Government as 1 believe he will—with an eye single to the good of the whole country, our people will have reason to support his administration with a unanimity seldom equaled. I send you this communication lor the two-fold purpose of explaining the course which I have thought best to pursue, and to furnish information which you might deem important iu determining your own action. Very respectfully, your obd’t serv’t, Nelson Tift. -This should have been written “to Con gress” without stating to what Congress, as such was the language in the eertifi ca'e. , Following up the views and purposes ex pressed in this communication, after a thorough examination of the law, I pre pared the following communication to the Committee on Elections. To the Honorable Chairman and Commit tee on Elections: The commissions of the Governor of Georgia, together with the Ordinance of the tjfate Constitutional Convention at tached thereto, as the authority for both the election and commission of the under signed as members of the 41st Congress, are before you, having been referred for examination and report. We de-ire to cad your attention to the action of the Convention on this Ordinance, as shown in its published journal, here with presented. It will be seen on pages 473-4, that on the 3d of March, 18G8, the original draft of this Ordinance, after set ting forth its objects in the preamble, to whitdt we invite your attention, provides forclection of “members of Congress” and all other civil officers, and that “the per sons so elected shall continue in office tiil the regular succession provided for (in the Constitution) after the year 1868,” etc- This report was laid on the table and printed, and was subsequently referred to the committee. it will be farther seen on pages 501-2 that on the 9th of March the committee offered an amended report, intended to make the object of the Convention more clear. But not yet satisfied, and with the evident determination to place tho purpose of the Convention beyond all doubt, Mr. McKay proposed tbe following amendment, which was accepted, to-wit: After “1868” occuiriDg in the ninth line of tho second paragraph, add the following : “So that said officers shall each of them hold their offices as though they were elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem ber, 1868, or elected or appointed at the General Assembly next thereafter.” This perfected the Ordinance as finally adopted, and makes its language and pur pose unmistakable, By comparing this Ordinance with the XI section of Article 2, of the Constitu tion, page 544, they will be found to har monize on the purpose so distinctly set forth in the Ordinance. This section of the Constitution provides that the election of * * “members of Congress,” * * “after the year 1868, shall commence on Tuesday after the first Monday in November.” 'I he Ordinance provides that the election in April, 1868, shall have the same effect as if held “on Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem ber, 1868,” aod “the regular succession,” mentioned in the Ordinance, for the elec tion of “members of Congress,” “after tbe year 1868,” will be “on Tuesday after tbe first Monday in November,” 1870. The provision in the Constitution of the United States, that Representatives shall be elected “every second year,” does not conflict with the Ordinance of the Conven tion. The election under which commis sions have been issued, was held in 1868. The election for the regular succession as provided for in the Ordinance and Consti tution will be held in 1870— the “second year” thereafter. If it be said that the action of General Meade in certifying the members elected in April, 1868, to the remaining days of the 40th Congress, was unusual or irregular, so it may bo said with equal effect, were the laws and the circumstances under which he acted. The object of the Con vention in tho passage of the “Ordinance was two-fold, Ist, an early restoration to civil government, and 2d, to avoid the loss of time and expense of another election, at the regular time in November.” [Sigucd and forwarded to the Com mittee. J So much for this branch of tho subject— the motives which have governed me, the course which I have thought it my duty to pursue, and the law ofthe case. 2nd Your correspondent ought to have known that no person could draw pay as member of Congress, except according to law. The Committee on Elections recom mended and the House of Representatives appropriated two months pay to the Geor gia members elect to the 41st. Congress. 3rd My political disabilities have boon removed by Congress, and this seems to be a cause of offence to your correspondent. In July, 1868, after my election, I was in Atlanta, on my way to Washington to ask for the removal ol my disabilities. It was tho day of the meeting of a Convention of the Democratic party. A circumstance oc curred at that time which determined me to learn the opinion of my constituents on the subject of my mis-ion to Washington. By my request the chairman of the delegations from the 2nd Congressional District, Gen. A. H. Colquitt, called a meeting of the delegates to consider that question. After deliberation, a resolution was unanimously adopted, requesting aie to ask for, and if possible, obtain the removal of my disa bilities, to enable me to represent the Dis trict in Congress. 4.th Y'our correspondent is mistaken as to tbe place of my birth—it was Connec ticut instead of Massachusetts. But what has this to do with the subject ? I havo never denied, or been ashamed of the place of my birth. It was an oc currence over which I had no control, and for which I claim no credit and feel no re sponsibility. But lam responsible for the fact that, from choice, I have been now more than forty years a citizen of Georgia, and that during that period I have tried to reciprocate the generous confidence of her people by devoting my best energies to her welfare. Ido not claim exemption from error. I claim nothing but an earnest desire, in common with all the good people of Geor gia, to aid in her redemption irom misrule. Wc may differ as to the means, but let us not forget the charity which is due to faithful labor in a righteous and common cause. Very respectfully,your ob’dt serv’t, Nelson Tift. Cotton Seed as a Fertilizer, Bairdstown, Oglethorpe Cos., Ga 1 June 20, 1870. j Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: In response to past solicitations that I have noticed in your valuable paper, I send you my experience with cotton seed as a manure for wheat. I tested one acre of rather (lark, stiff, old land, that niade about five bushels of corn to the acre last year. About the middle of November, 1869, 1 broad-castcd 100 bushels raw cot ton seed on the acre, ami turned them un der with a common turning shovel. I im mediately broad casted another hundred bushels of the same kind of cotton seed on it, and then with a small scooter mark ed it off in eight feet squares, taking those small lands as guide marks, I sowed one bushel of wheat one way, and then sowed nearly a bushel the other way, making nearly 2 bushels on the acre. I then plowed it in with small scooters very light, beginning at the side and plowing around the acre and ending in the centre, thereby leaving no furrows in it. I did nothing more to it until it ripened, which was about the first of this month. I cut it with the common scything cradle and shocked it into 100 shocks, 12 bundles in a shock, in the' field. When ready to thresh 1 hauled and threshed it at the same time, measuring 56 and weighing 59 bushels ol wheat from 1 aero. I had 3 moro acres of wheat, adjoining the aero, that I sowed 1 bushel wheat and 60 bush els cotton seed to the acre, and plowed them in together with tbe same turning shovel, that made 107 bushels, averaging 35jj bushels to the aero. Ia n confident that 1 lost at least 10 bushels on the four aercs when cutting. I used the large white wheat, called by us the “Johnson wheat-” K. tetter from Hancock. Sparta. Ga., June 20, 1870. Editors Chronicle if; Sentinel: The continued heavy rain is telling up on the prospects of the cotton crop. It will be materially injured by the grass, and, as there is no indication of open weather, planters are growing despondent. I The oat crop, which had very much iin- j proved, is also in danger of being lost by j want of fair weather to save it. Corn is I doing fairly, Titer e is more breadth of | acres in corn than this people have Dcen i heretofore credited with. Respectfully, L. Letter from Burke. Burke County, June 20, 1870. Ed dors Chronicle if; Se7itinel; I do not recollect now that any one has written you anything of the Burke crops, so I propose, with your leave and pleasure, to remark succinctly—just a line or two what I know of the status at present. It may be an apotheosis, arising out of Southern vanity, to deify cotton as' ‘King,” but it is no myth in Burke. Here he is God, greater than the real Cretan Jove. His idolaters know no equal in devotion and his shrines are everywhere. It may be seen around each house—under the house, in the house, and, perhaps, on the house. The people—and I am one of them—bow to the demand of the king as to a true despot. They dig for it, scratch for it, sked tears over it, pray over it, yea even die * for it. There will be a million of bales made in Burke this year, more or less. It would be wrong to disparage the crop iof corn, for there’ll be an unusually large one made, Deo volenle; we’d say, in a rough guess, about ten grains to the head. You perceive our people are gradually growing more sensible. But, indeed, my dear friend, laying aside ail jokes, our cotton is ; starvationally good this season, viewing it from a guano stand point. J txQuse digression; there is a man in our county who is fully mean enough to be a Radical, but he faiteto find someone irre ligious enough to “am” him into “the ! party.’’ That body politic being mostly ! of African ’cent have not “ ’sa'vereeT him j yet. Can’t you send us somebody eloquent in portraying the meanness of a man who j is so low that he is not fit for anything but the Radical party, that this decomposing fertilizer may not want longer the potash of a good/Yussui,” to secure his amalga mation. Mon Droit. From the iSeic York Observe)'. Sorllt and South In the Denomination of Presby terlnns. Gocisville. Ky., May 2Sili, 1870. Rev. E. F. Hatfield, I). D.,~ Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyte rian Chu ck in the United States of America ■' Dear Bri nER — The “General Assem bly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States,” in session at Louisville, has directed me to forward to you tbe fol iowing official document. It is a true ex tract from the Minutes of Friday, May the 27th. The Committee on Foreign Correspond ence, to whom was referred the overture for reunion from the Old General Assem bly, North, of 1869. at its sessions in the city cf New York ; and also the prpposi- j tion from the United Assembly of the t Northern Presbyterian Church, now sitting ; in Philadelphia, conveyed to us by a special delegation, respectfully report: That the former of these documents io virtually superseded by tbe latter because the body by whom it was adopted has since been mergod into tbe United Assembly, from which emanates anew and fresh pro posal reflecting tho views of the larger constituency. The proposition, then, “that a Committee of live ministers and four cid ers be appointed by this Assembly, to con fer with a similar Committee of their As sembly in respect to opening a friendly correspondence between the Northern an! Southern Presbyterian Church” your Committee commend the following answer to bo returned : Whatever obstructions may exist in the way of cordial intercourse between the two bodies aboved named arc entirely of a pub lic nature, and involve grave and funda mental principles. The Southern Presby terian Church can confidently appeal to all the acts and declarations of all their As semblies, that no attitude of aggression or hostility lias been, or is now, assumed by it towa;d the Northern Church. And this General Assembly dhtioctly avows (as it has always believed and declared) that no grievances experienced by us, however teal, would justify us in acts of aggres sion or a spirit of malice or retaliation against any branch of Christ’s visible kingdom. We arc prepared, therefore, iu advance of all discussion, to exorcise to ward the General Assembly, North, and the churches represented therein, such amity as fidelity to our principles, could under any possible circumstances permit. Under this view the appointment of a Committee of Conference might seem wholly unnecessary, but. in order to ex hibit before the Christian world the spirit of conciliation and kindness to the last de gree, this Assembly agrees to appoint a Committee of Conference to meet a similar committee already appointed by the Nor-' them Assembly, with instructions to the same that the difficulties which lie in the way of cordial correspondence between tho two bodies must be distinctly met and re moved, and which may be comprehensive ly stated in the following particulars : 1. Both the wings of the now united Assembly, during their separate existence before tbo fusion, did fatally complicate themselves with the State, in political utterances deliberated uttered year after year; and which, in our judgment, were a sad betrayal of tho causo and kingdom of our common Lord and Head. Wo believe it to be solely incumbent upon the North ern Presbyterian Church, not with refer ence to us, but before the Christian world, and before our Divine Master and King, to purge itself of this error, and, by public proclamation of the truth, to place the crown onee more upon tho hdad of Jesus Christas the alone King of Zion. In de fault of which, the Southern Presbyterian Church, which has already suffered much iu maintaining the independence and spirituality of the Redeemer’s kingdom upon earth, feels constrained to bear pub lic testimony against this defection of our late associates from the truth. Nor can we, by oflicialcorrcspondence even, consent to blunt the edge of this our testimony concerning tho very nature and mission of the Church as a purely spiritual body among men. 2 The union now consummated between the Old and New School Assemblies, North, was accomplished by methods which, in our judgment, involve a tota surrender of all the great testimonies of tho church for tile fundamental doctrines of grace at a time when tho victory of truth over error hung long in the balance. The united Assembly stands of necessity upon an allowed latitude of interpretation of the standards, ana roust come at length to em brace nearly all shades of doctrinal belief. Os those falling testimonies wc are the sole surviving heirs, which wc must lift from the dust and bear to the generation after us. It would be a serious compromise of this saered trust to enter into public and official fellowship with those repudiating j these testimonies ; and to do this express ly upon tho ground, as stated in t:ie I preamble to tbe overture before us, “that the terms of reunion between the two branches of tlie Presbyterian Church at the North, now happily consummated, pre sent an auspicious opportunity for the ad justment of such relations.” To found a correspondence professedly upon this idea, would he to endorse that which wo thor oughly disapprove. 3. Somo of the members of our own body were, but a short time since, violent ly and unconstitutionally expelled from the communion of one branch of the now United Northern Assembly, under ecclesi astical charges, which, if true, render them utterly infamous before the Church and the world. It is to the last degree unsat isfactory to construe this offensive legisla tion obsolete by the mere fusion of that body with another, or through the opera tion of a faint declaration which was not intended, originally, to cover this case. This is no mere “rule” or “precedent,” but a solemn sentence of outlary against what is now an important and constituent part of our own body. Every principle oi honor and of'good faith compels us to say that a i unequivocal repudiation ot that in terpretation ofthe law under which these men were condemned, must boa condition precedent to any official correspondence on our part. 4- It is known that similar injurious ac cusations were preferred against the whole Southern Presbyterian Church, with which the oar of tho whole world has been filled. Extending, as these charges do, to heresy and blasphemy, they cannot be quietly ignored by an indirection of any sort. If true, we are not worthy oi' the “confidence, respect, Christian honor and love” which are tendered to us in this overture—if true un-Christian manliness and truth require tnom to be openly and squarely withdrawn. So long as they re main upon record, they are an impassable barrier to official intercourse. Yours fraternally, Joseph R. Wilson, S. C. of G. A. of P. C. in U. S. SOUTHERN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Dr. Adams submitted the following pa per from the Committee appointed to con fer with the Southern Church : RESOLUTIONS IN REGARD TO SOUTHERN ASSEMBLY. Whereas, this General Assembly, at an early period of its session, declared its. de sire to establish cordial fraternal relations, with the General Assembly of the Presby terian Church in the U. S., commonly known as the Southern Assembly, upon the basis of Christian honor, confidence and love ; and v, r ith a view to the attain ment of this and appointed a Committee of five ministers and four elders, to confer with a similar Committee, if it bhould be appointed by the Assembly then in session at Louisville, “in regard to the amicable settlement of all existing difficulties, and the opening of a friendly correspondence between the Northern and Southern churches,” and for the furtherance _ of the objects contemplated in the appointment of said Committee, and with a view to re mote the obstacles which might prevent the acceptance of our proposals by our Southern brethren, re-affirmed the con current declaration of tno two Assemblies which met in New York last year, to the effect that “no rule or precedent which docs not stand approved by both bodies shall be ol any authority in the re-united body, except so far as suon rule or pre cedent may affect the rights of property founded tnercon and, as a further pledge ct our rincerity in thi3 movement, sent a copy of our resolutions together with our Christian salutation to the As sembly at Louisville, by the Lands of dele gates chosen for that purpose : And whereas, the Southern Assembly, while receiving our Delegates with marked courtesy, and formally complying with our proposition for the appointment of a Com mittee of Conference, has nevertheless ac companied that appointment with declara tions and conditions which we cannot consistently accept, because they involve a virtual pre-judgment ol the very difficul ties concerning which we invited the Con ference. Therefore, Resolved , That the further conside ration of the subject be postponed and the Com mittee be discharged. At the same time, we cannot forbear to express our profound regret, that a measure designed, and, as we believe eminently fitted, to promote the establishment of peace and the advancc j roent of our Redeemer’s kingdom in every 1 part of onr country, has apparently failed NEW SERIES, WOL. XXVIII. NO. 26. to accomplish its object. We earnestly hope that the negotiations thus suspended may _ soon be resumed under happier auspices, and hereby declare our readiness to renew our proposals for a friendly cor respondence whenever our Southern breth ren shall signify their readiness to accept it in the form and spirit iu which it has been offered. Rev. Dr. Van Dyke, after avowing that his ooulhern sympathies have not been destroyed, but only absorbed and eularged by his broader sympathies for the honor and prosperity ofthe Church, said : 1 wish to express my profound mortifica tion and regret at the temporary and ap parent failure of this effort to make peace. It has failed. The terms and conditions which you have just heard read are mani festly impracticable. How can your com mittee meet their committee with this terrible indictment flung across the thresh old of our conference ? It it were all true, there is no propriety in putting it there. The things complained of and decided in the paper adopted by the Southern As sembly, are among the very questions con cerning which we preferred the conference; when men enter into negotiations for the settlement of existing difficulties, it is not for cither party to prejudice the case ac cording to their convictions, and demand that their decisions shall be conditions pre cedent to the settlement. But, sir, I cannot stop here. I think it due to you, to this Assembly, to that As sembly, and to myself, to say the imputa tion laid there is not true in the form in which it is laid. (Applause.) Mr Mod erator, there are some, at lea:,t, in this - Assembly who firmly believe that during the heat of passions excited under civil war, the Assembly with which I was for merly connected, did pass acts and make deliverances inconsistent with the headship of Christ and the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church. Our votes, our pro tests, arc on record on that subject, and l am not here to take back one word in re gard to them; but, sir, that this Assem bly, that the Christian men and women with whom God has cast my lot, has taken (he crown from the head of Jesus Christ aud chained his bride to Cfesar’s chariot wheels; that these two Assemblies, by their reunion, have totally cast aside thoir for mer testimonies for the doctrines of grace; that this re united Assembly stands neccs sarily upon an allowed latitude in tho in terpretation of the standards of the Church sueh as must ultimately result in bringing in all forms of doctrinal error—this I strenuously deny. (Applause.) And I say frankly, affectionately, and sadly, to you—and, if it shall reaoh theirears, to our Southern brethern —if thoy wait for us to stultify ourselves by admitting such things as these before we enter into negotiations, we will all have to wait for the settlement of these difficulties until wc get to the Gen eral Assembly of the first-born in heaven. (Applause.) Now, sir, excuse what may seem, per haps, to some too great nervousness in regard to my own position. Ido not wish to be misunderstood. 1 have endeavored faithfully to serve this Assembly in what I believe to be right, and I believe they will accord to mo the privilege to put my self right in all respects in regard to this matter. Tho apparent failure of this at tompt at negotiation has not altered my opinion or ieclings toward tho Southern Church. True love is not easily offended, and the last thing that a true man consents to do is to go back on his friends. Let no man suppose lam going to do that thing. 1 love and honor them just as I alway* have done for their firm adherence to the doctrines of grace, and there is not a so: ndor body on the face of the earth than taat Assembly. I love ar.d honor them for their zeal and energy and tho success with which, under all; tho disadvantages of their circumstances, they arc prosecut ing the work God has given them to do. Yea, I honor them for even what you may suppose their mistaken zeal, tor adherence to their avowed princi ples utder which they have manifestly in this case gone against their interests. It is something in these days of mammon worship and temporary expediency to see men sacrificing interest to what they be lieve to be their principles; and even though in tLis ease _we may think their feelings swayed their judgments, we ought not for one moment to suspect their mo tives to be anything but pure and lofty. I think that if any man in this Assembly could have been with me and listened to their discussions upon the work of their Church, and could havo heard the able and protracted and eloquent debate which resulted iu the adoption of this paper, he would have come away as I did, with mingled admiration and grief that men so wise could yet be so unwise ; that men on whom God has injured out such splendid sndowmeuts for tlis work, should yet fail to have attained tho ability, the gracious ability, to see the things that belong to their peace, and to rise above all the bitter memories of the past to the brighter hopes of the future. And now bear with me once more, while I say in conclusion, that T do not think it should be a cause of regret to any cf us that this unsuccessful attempt has been made. Mr. Moderator, the peacemaker shall inherit in his own soul and before God the beatitude of Christ, even though the olive branch lie bears be stripped of its green leaves, and turn to a rod for un reasonable man to lay on bis own back. '1 he failure is only apparent. “Kind word- never die." Kind deeds aro but seed corn that fall in the earth to live again- The handlul of corn you have planted on the top of the mountain shall wave like Lebanon. The bread you have east on the waters will return after many days, “The time of the figs is not yot ;” but it will come—just so surely as love is stronger than bate, ju9t so surely as the clear shining of the summer sun is strong er than the blowing of the north wind. An iceberg, floating in polar solitudes, may say to itself, if it could think, “I will keep mv cold and stern integrity;” but there is a tide, silent but strong as des tiny, that shall drift it out from its isola tion; and, sooner or later, it will melt or mingle its kindred drops with the waters of tropical seas. Mr. Moderator, let us shine like the sun and not blow like the north wind. Let us love in deed and not in word only. Let us forbear wrath and bitterness and evil speaking, publicly and privately. Let the blood of Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours, through which alone any of us might be saved, wash away the resentments that have (heir roots in the shedding of human blood, and the time will come soon when your desires and mine, and all of us who love the Lord Jesus Christ, shall be accom plished in reference to this matter —a de sire, not for retaliation, not for human con quest, not for the disintegration or absorp tion of a sister church, but just the desire I expressed in the Southern Assembly, and which 1 am glad to repeat here —the desire of an affectionate son whose father and mother have quarrelled, who loves them both, and longs to sec them reconciled upon terms that will leave no stain of dis honor upon either; the desire of those that pray for the peace of Jerusalem, of those that love the crown and kingdom of Jesus Christ above all crowns and kingdoms on earth ; the desire of those who, when the people gather atMizpah andrejoice, never theless mourn and lift up their voioc to God and say, “0 Lord God of Israel, why is it oomei to pass this day, that one tribe i should be lacking in Israel?” Land is in general accounted among the most permanent of possessions ; but Mis sissippi shore property is a continual ex ception to this and all other rules. The town that is built on the river bank t i-day, may next year be several “removes” from the water side, or be left on a rapidly de creasmg island, according to the freak which happens to suit the Father of Wa ters. There is a story of one settlement that by some such prooess as the latter, was actually found one morning on the opposite of the river from its situation of i tno night before. New Orleans is in a somewhat curious position in this respect, being situated on a bend where the river runs from south to north ; the shores op posite the city are continually losing, and the city itself gaining pieces of land. Memphis on the other hand is from time to time losing frontage, while a bar op posite it has increased to enormous pro portions, cutting off ferriage to the opposite shore except by a long roundabout route. On tlie Ist instant, about four acres of the river front of Memphis suddenly cracked off and fell into the stream, swamp ing $15,000 worth of floating property, aside from the loss of land. Tho neigh boring bluffs have also given way in places, and the levee is considered to bo in great danger. The Egyptian Army.— Among the Confederate officers in the Egyptian army are Generals Jerifer, Sibley, Rhett of South Carolina, Colonels Campbell,Thome, Rogers, and Majors White, Brandine and Phelps, who have lately arrived in Cairo. Brigader General Alexander, the once popular Chief of the artillery of Stone wall Jackson’s corps, out to take charge of a similar branoh in tno ERyP“ an army, with tberank of General of Division. Col. Frank Reynolds, who elicited the admiration of his old oommander, General Joseph E. Johnston, for his daring, is said to be in command of a crack regi ment of Arab cavalry.—A/ew York Sun, From Cur Travelling Corrcsimudcnt. On the Wing, Juno 18th, 1870. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: About twenty-four miles from Augusta, on the Georgia llailroad, anew town is springing up, as if by magic, and bids fair to become place of some importance- Several neat and substantial buildings have already gone up, and others are in process of construction. I learn that the Baptists have about completed anew Church, and the Methodists have one in contemplation. Captain Hicks, conductor on the Geor gia Road, has donated a lot to the letter, for a parsonage, which with the Churches iu vogue, will centralise the denonmina tional influences of the surrounding coun try upon this place, and give to it a moral, intellectual, and religious tone, that will command it to public favor. Those who own the lauds, arc gentlemen of high standing, and are determined on such restrictions upon the incentives to vice, and corruption, as to make the lo cation desirablo to the lovers of good so ciety. I learn that measures are on foot for the removal of the depot, from Sawdust to Harlem, the name of the new town, which if successful, together with the other enterprises will make it fully what it promises to bo, an attractive and pleasant place. At Barnett, on the 13th inst., 1 found Quite a crowd aboard the cars going over to Washington to attend the adjourned term of the VV ilkes County Superior Court. Un our arrival we were quite disappointed at the limited number of citizens in at tendance owing, it was supposed, to fears ofbeing caught on the jury lor the trial of rounds, charged with murder, and whose case had resulted in two mistrials in the county of Hancock. On Tuesday morning a jury was struck from the regular pannels which, for intelligence and veracity, conld not have been excelled in the county. The examination of witnesses commenced, and during the entire progress elicited the un divided attention of the CouiT. A deep interest was manifested for and against the prosecution, and rarely have I witnessed such a display of legal ability. Messrs. Hook ami Jordan defended the State, and Messis. Stephens and Toombs the accused. The people were familiar with the practice of Judge Stephens, and knew what, to expect, none other than such a practicable and vivid exposition and forcible application of the principles of law, as are within the gift of but few jurists in the Southern country. He made just such a speech as just such a man should have made. J udge Hook and Col. Jordan being strangers to the people, of course all were anxious to hear them, and to most speakers it is quite embarrassing whon conscious of the existence of great curiosity among their hearers. Col. Jordon, though young in the practice, made a forcible and effective speech, and distinguished himself as a lawyer of fine promise. I regret not being able to hear all of the great effort of Judge Hook on this occasion, but was in formed by those who did that his speech abounded with as able arguments and elo quent appeals to the jury as they ever heard. The stores, shops, and streets, were va cant, and the Court-hcuse full of people all absorbed in the issue of the hour. The jury, alter being out a short time, re turned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Pounds was sent to jail, and I learn his counsel will probably carry his case to the Supreme Court. While at Washington 1 attended Schu man’s Biorama, heard tho very interesting lectures of Prof. Harding, and observed a style of magic pointings that surpassed anything I have ever seen. Those who desire an entertainment, with that which js truly beautiful and sublime, will find it in this Biorama. Traveler. From the Mark Lane lJxpress, June 7. The Drought in England. With rain-clouds flying about in abund ance at the commencement of the past week, only a lew goed showers have par tially fallen, and Hough these haro refreshed the foliage and the grass, they have gone very little way into tho soil. A raiu of about forty-eight hours is still wanted ; and our neighbors the French it. seems have had very similar weather, and show their increasing fears by the rise in their prices and demand on our stores. A considerable quantity of oats has again been taken on French account, and wheat not so threatened there by the weather has been relatively forced up till English price have left sufficient margin foe business in this grain also ; indeed, medium quality Californian white has been taken lor llavro at 525. per qr. tree on board, and No. 2 red American has been shipped for Antwerp, the ready transit making our markets more eligible than those more dis tant. There aie still indications of rain however, and should it come we may ex pect a little reaction, more especially in spring corn. Yet oats have been so low, and our own stocks so cleared out, that we cannot expect them to fall back to the ex tremely depressed prices from which they started. As it respects wheat, we take up this grain on the broad scale of a deficient crop last year and probable short supplies from the Baltic. We have already reached the turning point, our last average licing 455. 4d. against .455. 2d. in ISG9. After touching 40s. 9d. during the second week in March, we then held it a very possible thing that rates before harvest might move upwards 10s. —they have about rcaohcd half way and are still rising ; so any rough weather or foreign casualty might easily fill up the complement, and then there would be something better for the farmers, without any pressure on the community. If France should keep outbidding us an .i buying too, the matter would be vary ea sily attained, and the fact that, before th and ] a te start, our low qualities; were going off to Central Europe makes it sufficiently clear either that the crop there was not good, or that farmers in these countries declined selling on our terms. The transient dream, therefore, of over-loaded granaries and endless supplies seems now lading away. Since the above was written,', buyers from France and elsewhere have further sent up prices. The Chinese Shoemakers in Massa chusetts. —Two gangsjof Chinamen were at work at Noith Adams on Thursday un der instructors, learning to bottom They have made remarkable progress, and turn out some work which no Crispin need be ashamed of. In fact, one shoe, which the smartest ChiDere workman com pleted by himself, is decided to be as good as any which could be picked out of a hundred cases of American 'I hese first learners will te'ach their com rades, and in a very weeks the full force of the establishment will be at work turning out shoes which need not fear comparison w.ih those of any other manu factory. The Crispins held a meeting on Wedc»-day night, and, under the advice of the Head Centre of the Order inßoston, resolved co hold out in their strike against the other manufacturers, and use every treasure to embarrass Mr. Sampson in his undertaking, such as tempting the white men to leave him, continuing the fright ening prccesp, &c. The shoe business, of course, is at a stand still there ; tho facto ries have telegraphed to countermand all orders for stock, and the town is losing thousands of dollars every week by the strike. The Princess Editua—Her True Story.— Mesdames Woodbull & Claflm, whom the Princess Editha Gilbert Montez accuses of appropriating $4,000 worth of valuables left with them for safe keeping, tells a story which puts an entirely differ ent light upon the matter. They say that she came to them in rags and told a piti ful tale of want and despair, which in duoed them to assist in bringing her before the public as a lecturess in order to enable her to earn an honest living. The idea of her owning jewels worth four thousand dollars appears to them utterly ridiculous. Mr. Michaels, editor of the Druggists' Circular, said on being ssked : “That wo man who calls herself Editha Montez is tho greatest imposter and swindler that ever ■ walked on two legs. She is the daughter of a former book-keeper of Joan flecker, and her name 13 Claudia Solomon. A scampish relative of mine. w ho_ has got himself into innumerable difficulties, chose to figure as G'ouut Napoleon Be Plesny. She formed an acquaintance with him and perhaps that gave her the potion ol as suming the title of Princess Editha Mon tea. She used to come here and inquire, about him, but I gave her to understand that he was not to be seen here. I heard no more of her until the affair of the lecture. As to her possessing diamonds or anything valuable whatever, it was per fectly ridiculous.” General Hancock denies the statement of his discourtesy towards the President, which Radicals have been urging in justifi cation of the outrageous conduct of Presi dent Grant, recently, towardaGeneral Han cock
