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OLD SERIES—YOL. LXXIX. <£i)romclc ant) £mtinel. Terms of Subscription. DAILY. One m« jIIi % 1 00 Three mouth* 2 50 One year 10 00 TRI-WEEKLY. One year ij 6 00 Bix mouth* 3 50 Three mouth* 2 00 WEEKLY. Three moqthu % 1 00 Si month* 1 50 One year. 3 00 WEDNESDAY MARCH 6. REMOVED FROM OFFICE. Deputy United Staton Marshal It. B. Wallace, Esq., of Bryan, Texas, has Been removed from office because, in summoning the jnry for the United States District Court, lie so far forgot his obligations to the Radical party as to call several Democrats for service. It will be remembered that it was this jury that preferred a special presentment against the Radical Governor, Davis, for violations of the Civil Rights bill. THE AMERICAN AN'D INDIA COT TON" TRADE. The articles on cotton, Which we pub lish this morning, will be found inter esting to the merchant and planter. Our English friends flatter themselves with the prospects of a large crop and consequently low prices. Their expec tations are likely to be realized, if Smith plants all cotton and no corn — taking it for granted that as Brown and Jones and others are going to plant less cotton and more grain, now is the golden opportunity for Mr. Smith to put every acre in cotton. This would prove ruinous, for unfortunately Brown and .Tones would be likely to adopt Smith’s programme. The South will never Ic independent, either financially or politically, so long as it continues’to plant cotton almost exclusively and go to the West for com and bacon. BLACK KU-KLUX. The majority report of the Ku-Klux Committee, a synopsis of which appear ed in our paper of Monday, contains no mention of the best organized, best disciplined, boldest and most blood thirsty Ku-Klux gang in the South—-the Dowry's in North Carolina. 'Those ban ditti have, for their numbers, committed more murders, burned more houses,out raged more women, and stolen more! property than any other Ku-Klux horde | iu all the Southern States. The other j Ku-Kliixes have suspended operations, j We read no more of nocturnal raids in (leorgin, South Carolina and Alabama by those spooks on horseback. The committee have hud to ruke up events that took place months ago in order to Ibid material for that labored eampain document which they call a report. But the Lowry crowd were on the wur-patli | as late as Friday night last, when they perpetrated one of the most audacious crimes that has distinguished their black career. They swooped down on Liiuiberton, the county seat of Robeson county, North Carolina, at night, broke into carriage factories and stables and helped themselves, and then into the sheriff 's office and one of the principal stores of the place, whence they took two large iron safes, one of which held $22,000 in money and other valuables. With this loot, and any quantity of smaller game, they started out of the town, and bore off' everything in safotv except the sheriff’s strong box, which they tumbled off the dray apparently unnoticed. All Lumberton, and all North Caro- j lina, arc wild with excitement over this | outrage, but they have been wild on the j same subject for two or three years, and neither their frenzy nor the reward, now j reaching $35,000, seems to be of any j avail against the Lowrys. Now, here is j a well known, unquestioned, present existing Ku-Klux Klan—not ghosts, not myths, but villains of flesh aud blood, I as much a matter of fact ami history as ' the State of North Carolina herself. We I can understand why so powerful and j desperate an organization is difficult to j suppress. But why—ah, why ! —do the I Ku-Klux Committee omit all references ! to it in their report ? We leave the com mittee to explain that the best way they j can. But with most knowing readers it may suffice us to observe that these are | black Ku-Kluxes. The Lowrys and j their followers are negroes and mulat- ! toes. They are persecuting the whites | on account of their color, and commit- j ting, with horrible exaggerations, every j variety of atrocity which any white klan I in any part of the South lias inflicted on j the blacks. In all respects they are of j the Ku-Klux order, only that the color ; is reversed, and it is the whites who are robbed, tortured and killed. To have pretended to investigate Ku-Klux af- j fairs, and to have excluded all allusions to this most notorious of gangs—the only one now really flourishing—has put the'committee in the awkward position of seeming to extenuate the Lowry mut- 1 ders, rapes, burnings and depredations. Not that the committee mean to do this, j but such is the actual effect of the j omission or oversight. About election time, as we all know, is the season for trieks and devices to make political cap ital, and, therefore, the appearance of tin' Ku-Klux majority report is the most natural thing in the world, and the non mention of the Lowry negroes precisely what might have been expected.—.V V. Journal of Commerce. THE CAUCUS SYSTEM. The Now York Tribune (anti-Grant) j intimates pretty clearly, in the follow- ■ ing extract, that if Grant is nominated at ; Philadelphia that it will bolt the nomi- j 1 nation : j , When party lines are tightly drawn and great principles or even interests are at stake, the nominating convention j or caucus will naturally be authoritative j —commanding; when a lull in political 1 controversy occurs, through the. virtual settlement or decadence of such issues, j then the masses will be likely to revolt, as they did in 1824. Nominations bv delegated bodies are at best an evil, sometimes to be endured in preference to the evils thereby precluded. Had it been possible to adhere to the design of the founders of the Republic, by eho sing in each State its proportion of the Presidential electors from among its ablest, wisest, worthiest citizens, and having them assemble, deliberate, compare preferences, weigh each other’s suggestions, and then vote for the two titties: in. n residing in different States, whereof he who should receive most , votes throughout the Union should be President, he who received next to the largest number Vice-President, that would have eoutinued to be an excel lent system, as, in the infancy of the Union, it proved. The power which the Constitution intended to vest in the eleotors has been transferred to caucuses and nominating conventions, State and Federal—unwisely, if you will, but it : seems irrevocably. The best course open that of independent, earnest, manly criticism and revision by the people of the acts and decisions of whatever body or bodies shall hence forth assume to provide them with ready-made candidates, whether for Federal or for State offices. Treat all nominations simply as suggestions, to be followed or resisted as your own judgment shall dictate. A caucus of members of Congress formerly made (in effect) both President and Vice- President ; that power was abused, and the people set their heel upon it. Na tional Conventions will doubtless in good time travel the same road and encounter a kindred fate. Meantime, hear and heed all proper suggestions of candidates, then vote exactly as your own unfettered judgment shall dictate ! Archbishop McClosky has suggested that the Irish societies discontinue their processions in celebrating St. Patrick's day. In response to the suggestion, several Catholic clergymen are trying to induce representatives of Irish societies not to parade on the approaching anniversary pf St. Patrick. ENGLAND'S EXPORT OF COTTON GOODS. During the month of January, Eng land shipped 296,000,000 yards of cot ton goods, against 230,000,000 yards in the same month last year. This im mense increase in the export of good-; is very directly connected with the rul ing high price of raw cotton, and there fore deserves examination. As the con sequence of the cessation of the war on the Continent, we find that France and Germany combined took 16,600,000 yards more than last year ; but, against this, we have to set off a decline of 10,- 700,000 yards in the shipments to Tnr- I key and a reduction of 8,000,000 yards in the exports to China and Hong Kong, these markets having been over-gorged by the immense supplies of last year. With respect to the Asiatic markets, J Messrs. Smith, Edwards & Cos., of Liverpool, remark in their circular of j February Ist, which we published yes- j terdav : “ The news from the East is anything j hut encouraging. A feeble response has i taken place in India and China to the j great rise here, but prices keep quite , below our level, and large stocks exist j in all the great Eastern markets." The over-stocking in China is already producing its legitimate results—rela tively low prices and a contraction of i importations. But in India, the over trading apparently continues iu full force. The exports of brown and bleach ed goods alone, for the month, to British India, amount to 99,500,000 yards, against 60,500,000 yards in 1871—an in crease of 65 per cent. We thus find that to one market, already so over-supplied that prices rule probably below the cur rent cost of goods, some 30,000,000 yards more were sent in one month than last year. There is only one way in which such a course of trade can serious break down in prices, with ruin ous losses and a stoppage of the demand from these sources. And considering that nearly one-half of the whole of England’s export of cotton goods goes to India, it is at once apparent what ef fect such a catastrophe would have upon the cotton market. —New York Daily Bulletin. Tire Machine Moving.— The South Carolina Legislature endorses Gen. Grant as President, and for President for a second term. Just so it ought to be, in view of its and his antecedents. Indeed, this is just the ground the Leg islative Convention of Delegates put their support ui on. A resolution was also adopted endorsing Gov. Scott as a true Republican and a faithful public officer. This, too, was in character. Negroes, of course, figure largely among the delegates, but not quito to the ex tent of the Radical Convention held on Wednesday in and for the District of Columbia. The wire-pullers had ar ranged that Gov. Henry D. Cooke and Alexander R. Shepherd, of the Board of Public Works, both holding commis sions from the President, should be elected, with a colored man for alternate. Six hours were consumed in organiz ing, when the Convention actually elected John F. Cook, a colored man, and Alexander E. Shepherd as delegates, and Gov. Cooke and John Thomas John son, colored, as alternates ! The Con vention adopted resolutions instructing the delegates to vote for Grant and ! Colfax. The white Cook, after the black j Cook is, of course, according to the j eternal fitness of things, according to the professions of many of the Radical j leaders. —New York Express. Beauties of Bullock’s Administra tion. —A correspondent of the Morning News, writing from Atlanta, makes this statement : Very important discoveries were made on Thursday, touching the lease of the State Railroad. The man who stands high in the ring “ has turned State’s evidence,” as the saying is. He swears that Bullock was one of the lessees ; thrt ho (witness) was to have had one share, one-half of which he was to carry for Bullock; that this arrangement waR subsequently changed, and that Kimball took aud carried the interest for Bullock. If this be true, away goes the lease. Other developments were made, in volving, it is reported, a high function ary under the Federal Government.— The truth is, people at a distance can have no idea of the corruption aud fraud that existed under the Radical Govern ment in Georgia. It extended every where, aud into all departments of business. Railroad men, contractors, merchants, lawyers, newspaper men, bankers, legislators, natives, foreign ers, white men and black men, with some so-called Democrats, assisted in plundering the State and appropriating the money of the people. The Discrimination Against Foreign ers.—That clause in the National Con stitution which debars a foreign horn citizen from the Presidency and Vice- Presidency has excited some discussion lately, and the suggestion has been made more than once that it ought to be stricken out, in view of the constant increase of this element in our popula tion, and of the large share of culture and intelligence which it contains. As an evidence of this foreign born “ strain” in our citizenship, and of the promi nence which it is attaining, we may men tion that the Minnesota Legislature con tains seventeen Scandinavians. It is a question whether the discrimination against the citizen who may chance to have been born in Ireland or Germany, which constitutionally shuts him out from the highest office iu the land, is not an injustice which should be done away with. It is certainly an anomalous state of things, which, while rendering impossible for Senator Schurz to reach the Presidency, leaves 4he legal way to the attainment of that prize open to any plantation negro.—Lancaster (Pa.) In telligencer. The tide seems to be turning iu John \V. Forney’s favor at last. The man j who has always wanted to be Postmaster General, and who broke faith with Presi- > dent Buchanan and left the Democratic party on that account, looks now as if he were approaching the goal of his ambi tion. Ore swell has never exhibited any brains, and he brought up from the marshes of Maryland very little strength to Grant's Cabinet. Forney is an accom plished political strategist. And Grant and Forney are now bosom friends. — Grant is just now in a dilemma where he requires all the shrewdness and political trickery obtainable. And it is probable that he w ill secure John W. Forney with the prize which has glittered before the eyes of the Pennsylvanian for so many years. The removal of Cre swell will do little harm, while the appointment of Forney will fasten to him the cunning pen of" an unscrupulous politician, who can do as much, probably, as any other living man to secure his master s re nomination. A change in the Cabinet is imminent.— Courier-Journal. The New York Tribune says : “ The | most revolting feature of the present investigation into the disorders of our Custom House has been the open and shameless perjury of the employes. , Whenever one of them has been in- j culpated by the evidence of a plundered . merchant, the delinquent is sent for by the committee, or boldly presents him self, to deny the charge. He usually indulges in no research of invention or play of imagination. He contents him self with a coarse and brutal statement that he never saw his accuser before in his life.” Savannah had a fire on Saturday and another on Sunday night, each attended , with heavy loss. IMr. Freeman Orr, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Washington county, died on the 21st inst, XYLOL. A NEW SPECIFIC FOR SMALL POX. The Loathesome Contagion Conquered - Interesting Discovery and Experi ments by a German Doctor—The Herald Correspondent Has a Talk TV ith the Great Human Benefactor— The Hopes and Anxieties for the Fu ture. Berlin, February 3, 1872. SMALL POX RAVAGES Throughout this Continent, and es pecially in this metropolis, where, dur ing 1871, the number of deaths from I this loathsome disease exceeded 9,000, j gathering victims .from all ranks of society, has naturally prompted physi- I cians to search energetically the realm of their art for remedies to check the disease in it3 course, instead of merely supporting the patient, as the practice lias been hitherto. The most successful of the zealous Esculapiaus in the search, whose opportunities for ex perimenting and observing are of the best —he being the chief director of the small pox department in the Royal Charite—we have hastened to interview, in order to obtain the important facts concerning his discovery. THE HAPPY DISCOVERER. Dr. W. Zuelzer, a native of Breslau, middle-aged, medium height, capital physique and broad, heavy German t face and brow, received ns very polite ly animat once expressed his readiness i to favor ns with the desired information. “ Well, Doctor, we are informed that you are the discoverer of this new small pox remedy, ‘ Xylol. ’ ” “Not discoverer, sir; the agent has ; long been known. lam simply the first | who has applied it In the treatment of ! disease, and, I acknowledge, it is creat- j ing some attention, as you may see by I these several letters of inquiry from | London, Southampton, Paris, &c.” “ But, Doctor, you speak of this xylol as a long known agent. This gentleman from Southampton inquiries as to its nature, whether animal, vegeta ble or mineral. ” “Well, here, you see it in this book; and also in this liand-book on chemistry, published in 1860. By distilling oil of tar you obtain at 81 degrees cels, bensol; at 110 degrees toluol ; at 140 degrees xylol, and at 210 degrees xylodin. The xylol, as numerous experiments I have made upon animals have convinced me, is readily absorbed by the system. Taken even in moderate doses for some eighteen or twenty hours its complete diffusion manifests itself in the breath, the urine, the exhalations of the skin. Its peculiar effect is owing to a proper ty it has of combining with the virus in the blood and forming a salt, which is harmlessly ejected by the system.” “ Would not toluol have a similar ef fect ?” “Not at all; it lacks the necessary affinity. Xylol alone has the desired effect and must be prepared with great accuracy.” ‘‘ Do you prepare it yourself, Doc tor ?” “ No; I get it from the chemical works of Scheering & Cos., in its neces sary purity. ” “ At what stage of the disease do you think it best to administer it ?” “ The sooner the better.” “ What doses do you prescribe ?” “To adults ten to fifteen drops every two or three hours ; to children from three to five drops. No injurious effects have been observed where larger doses have been given. I have it put up in capsules of gelatine, containing three, five or ten drops. It may also be taken in wine or water. The treatment con tinues until the postules are perfectly dry.” RESULTS OBTAINED. “ Now, Doctor, what about the suc cess.” Hero the Doctor laid hold of an im mense pile of returns from his depart ment in the Charite—that vast asylum in which are treated the sick of all parts of the city and State—and went on to show a multitude of cases treated be fore the new remedy was tried, all of which lasted from twenty to twenty-five days. “ Now,” said the Doctor, “ with the new treatment we have cut down the duration of the disease to ten or eleven days. The diphtheria, deliriousness and soreness of eyes usually accompany ing the disease are very materially les sened, and entirely obviated in the most of cases. Even the pitting is less mark ed.” “ These are splenetic results, Doctor, and must give great satisfaction.” “ I hope to improve on this, however ; I expect yet to succeed in combining other elements with xylol and obtain something more satisfactory.' Indeed, I am not prepared, and did not expect to bring this before the public now, as I am still busy with observations and ex periments.” THE SWAY OF THE EPIDEMIC. “Is small pox still raging as badly as ever ?” “We have, at present, 50 cases a day and 100 deaths per week. There have been up to 180 deaths per week, and even quite recently we had from 140 to 150. Previous to the war the deaths from small pox throughout Germany were only 14 per week. Here, in Berlin, the average w T as from two to four. — During the entire month of December, 1869, Berlin had 96 cases, of which 13 proved fatal. In the week preceding the war the Paris returns showed 267 deaths from small pox. Here we had none to speak of. Though the station ary figue is now 100 deaths per week, after every cold spell we observe a mark ed increase, which is due, no doubt, to the fact that people huddle together and keep doors and windows constantly shut. Again, we ODserve an increase at the beginning of every month, and especially at the beginning of ‘ quarters. ’ This is owing to the numerous arrivals of persons coming to locate here—being not vaccinated, they soon become in fected. The disease is no respecter of persons. All classes of society are reached by it. ! I have several noblemen in my depart- | ment. The fact is, that hotels will s neither admit nor keep anybody who is j attacked. The character of the disease seems to grow milder. Only from six to seven per °ent. are of the black small pox, and these all die.” THE NEED OF VACCINATION. “ Do you consider vaccination neces sary, Doctor?” “ Most certainly. The records show that only three per cent, of the properly vaccinated are attacked. Avery large per centage of the siek have never been vaccinated. There are scarcely any cases in the Prussian army, where every man is compelled to be vaccinated. For all the small pox and typhoid so vio lently raging since the war, we are in debted to French neglect of hygienic laws.” POLITICO-ECONOMICAIi CONSIDERATIONS. “Well, Doctor, onesword more. What ; of the consequent effects of this dread ed scourge upon the population?” “It is a matter of the utmost import ance to national wealth. You have to 1 consider that its victims are mostly per j sons in the prime of life ; widows and i orphans are thrown upon public charity, l and, what is still worse, those who re ! cover are subject, in after life, to com ' plicated diseases of the lungs, eyes, Ac., j beget sickly offspring, die early, and thus immensely swell pauperism. “Look at Silesia, where, twenty years ago, the poor and miserably fed weavers were decimated by typhus. She has not yet overcome the effects of the fearful plague. It is just the same with small pox. In Silesia, this very day, a weak and sickly generation is rising, which furnishes the army worse material than any other province. Yon see the im | portanee of timely sanitary measures.” An Important Decision. —The Su preme Court of this State has recently announced the following decision : “ Where a factor makes advances to a planter, and takes a lien upon the grow ing crops under Revised Code, section 1977, such advances are iu the nature of purchase money, and the lien is there fore superior to the wife’s title, where the crop was set apart to her as person ality under the homestead laws, after it was made.” Henry Clews & Cos. have filed a bill in the United States Court, at Atlanta, to restrain the sale of the Cherokee Rail road. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1872. SMITH, EDWARDS A CO.’S MONTH LY COTTON CIRCULAR. Adelaide Buildings, Chapel St., i Liverpool, January 31, 1872. j The Manchester market during the past month has responded far more freely to the advance in cotton than could have been expected. At the end of December ic was decidedly dull, but as soon as our market was fairly started it joined in the race, and quite as san guine a tone sprang up there as here. Very heavy contracts were given out for yam about the middle of the month, at prices equal to the advance in cotton, and since then the activity has been well sustained, and yam generally has gained for the month as much as the raw material. Cloth has followed much more slowly, still a considerable busi ness has been done in it as well, and no stocks of any magnitude have been allowed to accumulate ; but the position of manufacturers is very bad. In the great Eastern department the margin now existing between cotton and cloth, and still more between yam and cloth, is simply ruinous. So long as prices keep advancing the pinch is not felt, as producers are selling cloth made out of material purchased at a cheaper price, but when a falling market occurs, and cloth made out of dear cotton has to be forced off', it is easy to see that disasters must follow. We believe that the present strength of Manchester is in a great degree de lusive, the business doing is highly speculative, and based upon the opin ion that a cotton famine is in store for us, which will curtail production and so enable the present high-priced cloth to be moved off in foreign markets before the collapse occurs. We expect a dif ferent feeling to prevail when it is found that no curtailment of production need be expected, because there is cotton enough to keep every spindle in Europe running full time throughout the year. When it is also realized that the con tracts now entered into caunot be fairly closed by the sale of the goods abroad until the prospects of the next Ameri can crop are affecting the markets of the world, we expect a great change from the present buoyant tone of Manches ter. The home trade continues to be its chief support ; it is still very active and sound, in consequence of the pros perity of the country ; but the news from the East is anything but encourag ing. A feeble response has taken place in India aud China to the great rise here, but the prices keep quite below our level, and large stocks exist in all the great Eastern markets. The posi tion of fine spinnerss keep very good, and therefore we consider Egyptian cot ton in a strong position. Attention has been specially called of late to the great consumption of cotton, and the continued large deliveries to the trade have given rise to very extreme ideas of the consuming capacity of the country. Certainly the buying of the trade for the last two or three months has been astonishingly large. For twelve weeks their takings from this port have averaged 78,000 bales per week. Os this business it must be re membered that an unusually large pro portion consists of small Brazil bales, say 16,000 bales per week ; allowing for that, however, we believe that spinners have added to their stock in that time 150,000 bales, and as they were well stocked before, they probably hold now as large a quantity of cotton as they ever did in the history of the trade. The actual consumption at the present time we would put at about 64,000 bales per week, equal in bulk to 60,000 bales of the average weight of last year. The consumption of the Kingdom in 1871 was estimated at 60,000 bales per week, of 388 lbs weight. We put the increase of machine power for the year over last at 5 per cent., and were cotton equally cheap, we would expect a similar in crease of consumption, but it is well known that many spinners are raising their counts of yarn considerably. This process always takes place when cotton is dear, and has a more important effect than is generally known in limiting con sumption. We do not believe that the actual use of cotton will be greater this year than last, if the present scale of prices continues. At periods of infla tion, like the present, the rate of con sumption is always exaggerated, and when the subsequent reaction comes, the trade holds off so long tjiat opinion veers round in a surprising manner. We believe that our spinners hardly ever held a greater stake in cotton than they do now, for they own a large proportion of the amount afloat and on shipboard, and their views are correspondingly sanguine. Previous experience has often shown that this is a dangerous basis for the market to rest upon, and conclusions as to consumption made at such a time are often fallacious. An agitation is now going on among the operatives to reduce the time of labor to fifty-four hours per week ; at present they work rather under sixty. Should this suc ceed, it will materially reduce consump tion. The prospects of our market at pres ent are viewed by the public almost en tirely through the medium of the Ameri can crop. Public opinion has settled down generally to lower estimates than prevailed a month ago ; we should say that three and a quarter millions is now the favorite opinion on this side the Atlantic. In America there is still nearly as much difference as ever, esti mates varying all the way from three to three and a half millions; but we should tliink that the average lies about mid way between these points. There is nothing conclusive in the receipts up to the present time ; they are large enough to he compatible with a crop of three and a half millions, but it is generally believed that a very rapid decline will now be witnessed, and as we will com pare with seven weeks of 145,000 bales on the average, last year, it is thought the deficiency will be so striking as to keep up a strong current of speculation and push prices higher. Most people expect 12d. to be reached for middling Orleans, and some look for higher rates. Attention is fixed on the great decrease in the supply of Amerioan cotton, and the extreme reluctance of the trade to substitute East Indian ; and it is argtjed that even at present high prices there will be little or no diminution in the use of American cotton. We do not agree in these opinions, and we think the present scale of prices dangeriously high. We have no doubt that as tlie year advances the consump tion will turn more on the cheaper kinds of cotton, as it has always done before under similar circumstances. The present margin between middling Or leans and fair Dhollerah is 3d per lb, in place of 2d, which would be about the proportion of former years at this season, and if that is not sufficient to force Surats into consumption the margin will widen further ; but one thing is certain, viz : that all the cotton that comes to Europe will be worked up sooner or later, and the real question is, what will be the aggregate supply ? Knowing well the uncertainty of all statistical forecasts, we yet venture to submit the following estimate of supply to Great Britain for the year, simply as j being a fair approximation with the light before us. Assuming the American crop , at 3,250,000, we would expect to receive 1,600,000 bales, against 2,250,000 bales last vear, and 1,664,000 in 1870, when the total crop was 3,115,000. Against this it may be urged that- the Americans will keep prices so much above us that the crop will move slowly, but we have no doubt that the country will be thoroughly swept of cotton before the next season commences, and stocks will be reduced to the lowest ebb, for there is no reasonable expectation of opening next year at such high prices as rule now. ‘ From India we expect some in crease, not on the ground of larger crops but in consequence of the high prices, which will sweep the country as it has not been swept since 1869, and we would call special attention to the fact that the crop is arriving much earlier in Bombav than last year, and that there is a great increase of steam tonnage in Indian waters. We expect nearly two thirds of the crop will come by canal this year, and consequently we expect a far larger import in the Spring and Sum mer than last year. We would put the import from all India at 1,400,000 bales, against 1,235,000 bales last year, provided iiicii prices are maintained till the Sum mer From Egypt we expect about the same, perhaps"""rather less hut from Brazil a great increase. Very heavy ; stocks are reported at the Brazil ports, and the amount afloat is much larger than last vear. We would put the im port of Brazil, Egyptian, and all other sorts at 1,000,000 bales, against 920,000 bales last year. So much for supply- Now for the out j iroings. Let us first consider the ex- I port. We believe this will prove a weak 1 point in our market. The Continent is i in a very different position from last t year. It was then entirely empty of | cotton, and an immense void had to be 1 filled up after the conclusion of peace in February. During the Spring months we had a very heavy demand in this market, rising for several weeks to 25,000 or 30,000 bales each. France drew largely from us, being entirely ex hausted. Now there are 249,000 bales afloat and in stock at Havre, against 46,000 bales last year, and French spin ners are heavily stocked besides; in deed, it is thought that France has‘al ready secured the bulk of all she re quires for this year, the fear of a duty being imposed having censed every one to stock in anticipation. The rest of the Continent is odlv moderately sup plied, but still much better than last year, and, therefore, we conclude that our total export cannot be put at more than 750,000 bales, if so much, against 910,000 bales last rear and 658,000 bales in 1870. There remains the question of con sumption. We have already said that we estimate it at 64,000 bales, including a great proportion of Brazil, and we think this allowance sufficient for the year, especially as the trade held a large surplus on Ist January, which they would probably part with if next Ameri can crop promised well. The deliveries to the trade would then Vie 3,328,000 bales, against 3,214,000 bales last year, and 2,817,000 bales the previous year. We tabulate these figures as follows : Import. 1872. 1871. 1870. American 1,000.000 2.150.000 1.6G4.000 East India 1.400,000 1,135.000 1.003.000, Brazil, Egyptian, etc .' 1,000,000 920,000 734,000 Add stock Jan. 1, Liverpool and London 727.000 440,000 460,000 Total 5upp1y...4,727.000 4.851.000 3.921,000 Deduct— Deliv'es to trade, 52 weeks, at 64,000 3,328.000 3,214,000 2.817.000 Export 750,000 911,000 658,000 Total 4,078.000 4,121JJ00 3,475,000 Stock in Gt. Bri tain. Dec. 31... 649,000 727,0)0 446,000 BOMBAY COTTON CROP REPORTS. We select the following from the Dis trict Inspector’s reports as to the pro gress of the India cotton crop, generally dated the first week in January Ahmedabad.— Cotton crop in a flour ishing condition ; cotton pods are set ting freely. Weather very coll and windy. Heavy dews. Laria cotton podding well. Dholleraii.— Weather cold. Cotton crop doing well ; also Winter crops. Broach and Jambooser. —Cotton is coming out freely in most of the fields and picking is going on ; all the Winter crops are doing well. Surat. —Some of the presses have be gun to work, and picking is going on pretty generally. Weather very cold. The folly report, up to the 9tli ult., has been received from Mr. A. Stormont, superintendent of experiments, Surat and Broach : “ Picking continues to go on steadily. Not, however, so much in the immediate , neighborhood, as the first lot lias been pretty well gotten through. The mar ket, supply at present is mostly brought from a considerable distance. The quality is good, almost without excep tion, and the price obtained is now very satisfactory to the grower.” Mr. Walton, cotton inspector in the Southern Maliratta country, writes, up to the 6tli ult., as follows : “ For the las 1 few days the heavy east winds have considerably abated in the Dharwar districts ; and the beneficial effect this has had on the crop already shows itself in a satisfactory Manner. It would be still more beneficial were it not that we have a scorching sun daily, far hotter than is usual at this season.” Mr. W. Shearer, superintendent of ex periments, Dliarwar, has forwarded the following report up to 6th ult : “The American cotton plants in the Hoobjee tallooka have during the week under report flowered freely. There ap pear to be more flowera on the plants than have been at any other time during the season. The plants are well set with flowers and buds, and seem healthy; they are generally under the average size of late years. This may be accounted for from the sowing season having been late. Picking in ordinary seasons would by this time have fairly commenced, but there is not sufficient cotton in the most forward fields to pick at this date. It will be at least from fourteen to twenty days before picking here will be fairly on. The late favorable appear ance of the plants has caused the culti vators to resort to surface stirring again, to keep the soil loose, and from crack ing. The indigenous cotton is now flow ering freely where the fields were well attended to.” Sind.— Mr. W. Strclian has submitted the following report up to the 4th ult. as to the crop in Sind : “Cotton picking is not yet finished here. There are a great many half grown pods and flowers on the plants, which will not come to any good on ac count of the cold and want of water at the roota. I now hear many complaints regarding the out-turn of cotton this year compared with last. Some of the cultivators say it is not over an eight anna crop ; others put it down at about teu-annas. None of tliem allow it to be a twelve-anna one, and certainly it is much less than last season. This is be lieved to have been brought about by the long continuance of the south-wind and the sudden and severe setting in of the cold weather. Many of the plants were still green yesterday, but to-day there are but few of that color. Last night’s frost, 34a, has put an end to the fresh appearance.” HUMAN LIVES AND LIMBS. A Train Drops Through a Railroad Bridge—All the Passengers Killed or Injured Cincinnati, February 23.—The pas senger train north on the Cincinnati j and Louisville Railroad, due at Coving- j ton at noon, fell through the bridge j three miles north of Elliston station. There were sixty-six passengers on j the train, and it is reported all were J more or less injured and several killed, j THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. The following is a partial list of the j killed and wounded on the Short Line i Railroad : Mr. Brock, of Sparta, Ken- | tacky, killed ; Maggie Cowers, of Rush ] Creek, Pern- county, Ohio, injured ; S. | Halle, of Memphis, slightly injured ; P. L. Childs, leg broken ; E. C. Michael, hurt in the hip ; U. S. Zull, leg broken and badly burned ; Samuel Fox, hurt ; Ira De Graff, badly injured; Mrs. Jeannette Levi, of Mobile, badly burn ed ; M. Shea, badly hurt ; B. Varis, slightly wounded. LATER PARTICULARS. The bridge on the Louisville Short Line Railroad was what is known as the Finch Suspension Truss, was 20 feet high and 70 feet span, and rested on two abutments. It had been considered safe, j The train reached the bridge at 11:20 a. j in., and was running about twenty miles an hour. The locomotive passed over | safely. The structure went down with j two passenger cars, baggage, express, j and mail cars, which were all piled to gether in a mass of ruins below. The i front passenger car was reduced to splin- . ters, while the others fared but little bet ter. The fragments of the first car were soon in flames, but by the promptness of the engineer they were soon subdued. There were about sixty-five passengers on the train, Os this number two were killed and fifty-two wounded. Surgeons and supplies were sent from Covington, and soon after the wounded were cared for and placed in the cars, A passenger says the wounded were heaped in a hor rid mass, and that the soene following was heart-rending in the extreme. The passengers who were slightly injured joined with the citizens from the sur i rounding country and the officers of the road in the work of extricating the bodies from the wreck. The killed were John Brock, of Sparta, Owen county, Ky.; Harrison Julian, a colored porter of the train. Both were badly mutilat i ed. The mail agent was wounded, but not badly. A train took the wounded jto Covington, arriving there at 6:30 o’clock this evening. Wounded —S. H. Albertson, of Browns ville, Tenn., head and shoulders badly. Mrs. Levy, of Columbus, Mississippi, head badly. Craig Mitchell, of Louisville,' teeth knocked out, back and head injured bad- N. B. Jacobs, of Warsaw, Ky., head, hips and legs badly. Doctor B. Flomblin, Mount Zion, Ky., arm broken and bead badly hurt. Michael Madden, Louisville, slightly j hurt. W. Hukill, Louisville, severely in hip. S. B. I ant, conductor, hurt all over, * cut his tongue nearly in two. J. P. Mosely, La "Grange, Ky., slight ly. Samuel Fox, Cincinnati, and Henry Klodspak, Newport, Ky., badly. Maggie Powers, Perry county, 0., severely. Frank Demarest, Portsmouth 0., bad ly. Robert Sherrard, Canton, Miss., severely. Andy Pierson and George Brown, of Portsmouth, Ohio, severely. P. M. Hunt, Cincinnati, badly in head. G. S. Scroggin, Bagdad, Ky., back, leg, and arm, badly. J. W. Hance, New Liberty, Ky., hurt on shoulder and side. Stephen Allen, New Orleans, slightly. J. N. Odell, Brownsville, Tenn., ribs broken. Mrs. Odell, hurt on breast and back ; and two children of the same name ; both hurt, one only slightly. William Clark, of Chillicothe, 0., leg crushed. J. L. Text, of Oakland Station, Ky., slightly. J. S. Ledman, express messenger, slightly. T. J. Martindale and wife, of Racine, Wis., severely. S. Bull and wife, of Raoine, severely. M. Shay, of Covington,’ Ky., badly. O. A. Coffin, Cleaveland, face cut and breast injured. Frederick Shafer, of Cincinnati, slightly. A. E. Hewitt, ofDerbv, Conn., slight ly. Charles B. De Graff'e, of Wisconsin, slightly. Mr. and Mrs. Ira De Graffe, of Wino ma, Minn., slightly. J. B. Martin, mail agent, of Louisville, badly. Preston Cliilds, of Covington, Ky., badly. Wm. r. Congers, of Lyon station, slightly. William Teall, badly. Thomas Gayle, of New Liberty, Ky., severely. S. Maddox, of Poplar Grove, Ky., badly. Calvin Maddox, badly. E. G. McMichael, of Anchorage, Ky., severely. James* M. Hall, slightly. J. S. Todd, of Louisville, slightly. Mary Martin, of Springfield, Ohio, badly ; and her child slightly. When the train with the wounded ar-> rived at Covington the sufferers were conveyed to the hotels and the hospital. Wm. Tull, of Louisville, will probably die. The clothing of many of the passen gers was literally tom from their bodies: Dallas Pullman, the engineer of the train, was the only employee that es caped injury. The cause of the bridge giving -way has not been ascertained. HERE AND THERE. . Kid gloves hare now got up to 18 but tons. Guarsano, the seed of a Brazilian fmit, is anew rival to coffee. Gold bracelets are coming into fash ion two or three inches broad. Friends are beginning to ask friends where they are going next Summer. To have a narrow, elegant foot, shave of the little toe, and be fashionable. Chattanooga has five temperance so cieties. The other houses sell whisky. England declares she won’t be bullied. Neither will Brother Jonathan be cowed. The Kentucky Legislature has voted to extend the corporate limits of Para dise. “Ready maid” bridal costumes are ap propriately advertised in a New Jersey paper. Broad-brims and seoal-scuttle bonnets have gone out of fashion among English Quakers. The Boston Journal says highway robbery is becoming too frequent iu that city. A squirrel in a revolving cage runs a sewing machine iu the window of a Sara toga shsp. , A' Kentucky couple were married on the platform of a railway depot. The bride wore no train. An extensive lumber dealer at Minnea polis, Minn., is said to cut 100,000 feet of lumber every day just now. Since the beginning of the year the sale of American vessels in foreign ports have been unusually large. The French language has about 32,000 words, the Spanish 30,000, the Italian 35,000 and the English 40,000. A Kansas bee-tree yielded 300 pounds of honey. Kansas is evidently a land “flowing with milk and honey.” Many a soldier, with a good record for bravery, would have run away from liis first battle had he had the courage. Eighty-two wharf rats, weighing 65 pounds, were killed in an attic of a store on Commercial wharf, Boston, recently. An irreverent itemizer says that the body of Christopher Columbus is to be used to start anew cemetery in Havana. A woman at Petersburg, Va., has be come deranged from investing in lottery tickets and failing to draw prizes. Rochester, N. Y., is trying hard to il luminate by means of natural gas from a well at Bloomfield, and thinks it will be a success. 1 A prominent citizen of Maine lias died insolvent, in whose name a hundred thousand acres of timber laud stood recorded. The tail, the horns having been ex hausted of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, now sells at 25 cents per inch. There are several miles of it left. A man died suddenly from intemper ance, and a Western jury found “ that deceased came to his death by drinking between drinks.” The ladies of Australia do not care about suffrage, but do want collegiate degrees,and have petitioned the Coloiiial Parliament for them. There is a woman in Philadelphia who weighs but 95 pounds, although she eats three pounds of meat between sun rise and sunset every day. A jury recently assembled at Reading, Pa., the members of which averaged 80 years of age. The youngest was seventy one, and the oldest ninety-two. Many people have taken lancets in their arms to defend themselves against the small-pox ; though scared, they are not afraid of being scar-red a little. A Hindoo prayer for the recovery of the Prince of Wales alluded to him somewhat eulogistically as “ the joy of the Queen and the ocean of merit. Montreal papers rejoice because of an abundance of capital in that city seek ing investment. A still better thing could be, paying business seeking capital. The manufacture of Etruscan jewelry is one of the lost arts. Jewelers say there is no method known to modern science which will enable them to repro duce antique specimens, The race between the Biglin Brothers, of New York city, and Coulter and Cabot, of Pittsburgh, has been arranged to take place on the Schuylkill, Distance, five miles ; stakes, $2,000, A farmer in lowa discovered that the chinch-bugs ate his wheat. So he got a lot of partridges. They ate up the chinch-bugs by way of an appetizer, and then finished up the wheat. A Welsh farmer, residing near Utica, while being run away with by a pair of frightened horses, shouted, “I leave my wife $10,000; no time to make a will. ” He is still alive, but badly bruised. The villages of Wisconsin are being rebuilt with an energy which is charac teristic of the people of the West, and which exceeds even the marvellous en terprise by which Chicago is rising from i its ashes. In Boston, a life insurance company I is contesting the payment of two policies, j aggregating $9,000, on the ground that j the insured life was represented as sober ' and temperate, whereas it was in fact the reverse. The tenth of April has been set apart in Nebraska for tree-planting, under the name of Arbor Day. The State Board of Agriculture offer prizes to the indivi duals and counties who shall accomplish the most tree-planting that day. Grain for Chickens. — The cheapest grain for chickens is Indian com. It mav be fed to them raw and cooked, in hominy, in scalded dough, and in bread. For a "change, feed sound wheat, oats, buckwheat, boiled potatoes, and scraps from the table and kitchen. In Winter, when worms and bugs are not to be had, thev should have a little fresh meat once or twice every week. Raw onions, sliced, is stimulating and healthy. Leeks’, chives and garlic mixed in dough ; are admirable tonics for young or old ! bird*. THE “ GREEN LINE.” The following letter from Col. E. W. Cole, to an officer of the Georgia Rail road, explains the object and operation of the ‘ ‘ Green Line Nashville, Tenn., February 4,1872. Dear Sir —Understanding that there is some want of information with the Directors of the Georgia Railroad in re gard to the objects and working of what is known as the “Green Line,” and hav ing had my attention called to this mat ter by one of the Directors, I take pleasure in making the following expla nation : Previous to the present arrangement, freights between distant points—between Louisville, Kentucky, and Augusta, Georgia, for instance—was transferred from the ears of one road to the cars of the connecting road at the terminus of each road— at Nashville, Chattanooga and Atlanta—each company using its own cars exclusively on its own road, making three transfers between Louisville and Augusta and four transfers between St. Louis and Augusta. This system was found to be very ex pensive to the railroad companies’ and damaging to shippers in direct loss and in delay of freight. To obviate this loss and delay, to both shippers and the railroad companies, the present system of running through cars, and of painting them green, was adopted, and which is nothing more nor less than the following arrangement : Each road is assessed for cars pro rata, according to the volume of its through Western business. These cars are appropriated to this through busi ness exclusively, and to insure certainty and regularity in the service, they are ell painted green. An agent is ap pointed, and paid by all the roads, who keeps at Atlanta the mileage account of these cars. He receives detail reports from the officers of each road of the mileage made over their respective roads by cars in the “ Green Line” be longing to other roads. At the close of each month this cen tral agent balances the mileage account of each road with such checks as to do exact justice to each company in the settlement of the mileage accounts. As remarked, it is intended that each road shall put in cars in proportion to its Western business over the respec tive roads. But this is not always done. For instance, at present the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad has 165 cars in the Green Line ; the Western and Atlantic Railroad, 250 ; the Georgia only 30. At present some of the roads have in the line less than their propor tion—as the Georgia Railroad—while others have in their line a greater num ber of cars than their proportion, as the two first named. But this is equal ized and made just by the balancing of the mileage accounts at the close of each month. There are fifteen roads running cars j under this arrangement. The tariff's for freight under this ar- j rangement are considered and agreed to j by the officers of the different com- | panies, just as they were when the j freight was transferred at the terminus of ! each road, and the revenue derived is divided exactly pro rata per mile be tween the roads over which the freight passes. This line is unlike most of the fast freight lines in the country, in this that there is no private j interest connected with this, enterprise, j but it is exclusively the interest and j profit of the railroad companies inter ested. The arrangement has proven eminent ly satisfactory to both the shippers and the railroads, and must continue to prove profitable to both in lessening losses and preventing delays. Respectfully, your ob’t. serv’t., E. W. Cole. ——- THE STATE UNIVERSITY. University of Georgia, Athens, February 22d, 1872. j Editors Chronicle &• Sentinel: Among the many educational advan-! tages now offered by our State Univer sity to our youth, no school—either scientific or academic—can be of more practical benefit to the student than the literary societies. Forming, a» they do, such an important element in the gener- ( al system of instruction, they should be recognized by college laws and regula tions as a distinct and separate depart- j ment of the University. Here the stu- j dent finds a field opened for improve ment and inducements, offered for lite rary and historical investigation, afford ed by no other department. On Mon day, the 19th inst., we had the pleasure j of attending the seventy-first anniver- ! sary celebration of the Demosthenian Society. The oration was delivered by ! Mr. A.' H. Gray, of Graysville, with great credit to himself and honor to his So- i ciety. Mr. Gray chose as the subject of j his address “ The Degeneracy of the Times, as Applied to the American Peo ple.” A subject which though when viewed abstractly might be in a mea sure, revolting to national prejudices, yet, as discussed by our orator, in a moral, literary and aesthetic point of view—showing the decline of national character in each of these departments and at. the same time discovering the cause, and suggesting the remedy, and clothing all in that beauty of language, which together with the pleasing style of the composition—the subject was ren dered peculiarily interesting to all. The extreme tendency of the age to utili tarianism was assigned as one of the chief causes of this national decline, and in the same clear and forcible man ner in which he established himself in this, did he show the neceesity of dis carding the motto “Cui Bono ” and giving more attention to the truths of philosophy and the works of the! magina tion, in order to regain our position among the nations of the world. After interesting for the space of an hour an appreciative and listening audience, Mr. Gray closed with a beautiful tribute to the memory of Dr, Sinead. To-day it was our privilege to attend the aniversary exercises of the Phi Kap pa Society. The orator of the occasion was Mr. J. C. Avery, of Florida, who, in his eloquent address, did honor to his State, credit to himself and gave to his friends just cause for gratification. Mr. Avery selected as the subject of his ora tion, “National Intellect,” and we would : congratulate the orator not only on the happy selection of a subject, but on the able and methodical man ner in which he discussed it ; noticing first the great characteristic differences existing between the intel lects of different nations, and then in the same clew and early style he traced the rnVdtion between earth and man— showing the influence of external cir -1 cumstauces on the formation of a na- I tional intellect, illustrating the subject j most beautifully and forcibly by that ■ theory which is. in itself creation’s | history, the “Nebular Hypothesis.” In | noticing the progress and changes of j national intellect which have charac j terized the different ages and countries, Mr. Avery divided the history of the world into four divisions, showing what changes each age wrought upon the mind of m a n> all d in the end showing the superior advantages of our own country for the development of a na tional intellect. | A copy of Mr, Avery’s oration has | been requested by his Society f<*r pub \ lication, as an evidence of its high ap ! preciation, K. F. Feed and Treatment of Horses.— Hay and oats make the best feed for horses that are obliged to work hard and regularly. If the hay is cut fine, and the oats bruised or ground, the whole mixed and moistened, the horse will eat his rations quicker, digest them sooner, and thus have more time for resting and renewing his power for labor. 1 armers’ horses that work little during the Winter time may be kept cheaper by cutting and mixing bright straw and hay in equal quantities, and adding a ration of steamed potatoes or raw carrots, Colts should be fed liberally qq good hay (bright clover is best; and bruised oats ; give them a roomy bqx stall in stormy weather and during nights. Litter freely, and do not let the manure accu mulate under them. Saw dust or spent tan makes good and convenient bedding as well as straw. Groom horses well, and let them have exercise every day ; a run in the yard is excellent. See that stable floors over basements are sound and strong. Arrange the feeding racks so that dust and hay seed will not fall into the horses’ manes or eyes ; and the mangers not so high as to force the ani mal to take an unnatural and painful position when eating. Farm horses that are not worked should have their shoes off, and those that are driven on the road should be kept well shod.— Stock Journal, NEW SERIES—YOL. XXV—NO. 10. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. I The official report of the officers of Wilmington, N. C., shows the debt of that city to be $545,062 19. The Wilmington Journal publishes a letter nominating Kemp F. Battle, of Raleigh, for the next Governor. James Howell, the manipulator of the educated hog, and Miss Lodi Dournell, the beautiful Circasian woman, were married in Vicksburg recently. While in New Orleans, Alexis visited Dan Rice's Circus, and was so much de lighted with Dan’s horse opera that he remained during the entire performance. The Methodist Publishing House, in Nashville, recently burned, is to be re built. About $20,000 have been sub scribed by the citizens of Nashville for that purpose. Venturesome Danbury boys extract enjoyment from filling bottles with water, tying in the corks, and putting the vessels on a hot stove for the result. The coroner is on the lookout for a job. The Vicksburg Herald says Alexis missed a lino bale of cotton by not stop ping at Duncansby Landing. One hun dred and fifty negroes had been sum moned to the gin to prepare a bale for his Imperial Highness to take to St. Petersburg, but the Howard did not land and General Wade Hampton is, the’/oforo, one bale of cotton better off. There is a most extraordinary woman in Rutland, Vermont. She has had rather a remarkable experience for a person only thirty-eiglit years of ago, for she has followed to the tomb two hus bands, has been divorced from No. 3, and is now living with No. 4. Fourteen children have been the result of this rather miscellaneous marrying, and, as the dame is still in the prime of life, sho can be married much more, and make further additions to the popula tion of Vermont. A Prophecy. —The public thanksgiv ing in honor of the restoration of the Prince of Wales to health has not yet been held, hut the tide of loyal sympa thy has already subsided, and, if we may credit Mr. Bradlaugh, even a reac tion has set in. This noisy representa tive of the most turbulent faction in the Republican movement in England writes a letter to the New York World, detail ing the incidents of a lecturing tour in the North, where he found a “ strong minority ” ready to applaud his most revolutionary doctrines, and in Lanca shire, Manchester and Sheffield, where he spoke with great effect in the halls of the Trades Unions. Mr. Bradlaugh is the most practical in his sedition of any of the Republican speakers in England. He does not court martydom, like Mr. Odger, or trust too implicidly to the good temper of his audience, like Sir Charles Dilke. But collecting a few hundred “faithful friends,” who, he assures us, were “ men of peace,” but yet “ strong enough to render fighting unpleasant,” he said his say at Manches ter, even forcing applause when he “ at tacked the Prince of Wales,” and re ceived cheers when he “ struck the crown.” Bradlaugh dates the revolu tion within the two following years, in which time he expects to make the House of Lords elective, turn out the Bishops, and change the whole method and scope of legislation as it now exists. This is a bold prophecy, since it refers to a period close at hand; but he pro fesses to believe in the constant and rapid increase of the proletariat mi nority. Cotton Planting in Texas.— The Shreveport (La.) Times says : “We re gret to learn from our Texas exchanges that tho planters of that State intend planting more largely in cotton than they did last year. And that is one drawback to the country resulting from the high price of cotton. It prompts a large planting of the staple and a conse quent decline in price the succeeding year, with no grain in the country.’’ Springfield, Mass., has elected Miss Sarah J. Williams to bo City Physician. Twelve Doctors of Medicine in panta loons contended for the honor and emolument of physicking and bleeding the Springfield paupers ; and wise as they were, they were all beaten, the whole dozen of them, out of the field by a woman—the Board of Health consid ering, wo are told, that “tho majority of patients coming under a city physician’s care are women and children, and their cases such as a woman can best attend.” What is to be done with the cases in Springfield which a woman cannot best attend we are not informed. A Crowing Dog.— A natural curiosity exists in Decatur, Illinois, in the shape of a dog that never barked in his life, but instead of indulging in the vocal exercise common to the canine family, each morning imitates the crowing of a rooster. His owner accounts for this strauge peculiarity by stating that the dog was born and bred in the country, and from his earliest puphood was sepa rated from all other curs, enjoying only the companionship of barn-yard fowls. Hearing no other sounds so frequently as the crowing of the cooks, and doubt less never knew that his species enjoyed the sole ownership of another and dif ferent sort of music, he began to imitate the matutinal exercises of his feathered companions, in which he has at last ac quired a proficiency which surprises and charms every one who has had the felici ty of listening to his performance. Six-Bottub Jack. -Twenty-two clergy men of the Isle of Man met on a politi cal convocation at the end of the last century, when hard drinking was the fashion. The subjeot to be discussed proved so dry that forty-four bottles of claret were drunk in discussing it. Par son Jack amused hi >‘n arranging the empty bottles round the room where the meeting was held. Some pick-thank fold the quantity of wine consumed at this meeting to Bishop Hildesley, who, being a very abstemious man, at the next convocation expatiated much on this horrid excess, as he called it. During this harangue the eyes of the whole , company were turned on Parson Jack, as the subject of the Bishop’s admoni tion, as he only mentioned wine-bibbing in general. Jack, seeing their mistake, boldly exclaimed, “ Gentlemen, bis lord ship does not mean me ; be speaks of i two bottles a-hend, and he very well knows I am a six-bottle man.” Ashes for Sweet Potatoes. — A cor respondent in the Southern Cultivator says : “I notice the question is asked, which is the best fertilizer or manure for sweet potatoes ? From the expe rience I have had in manuring the sweet potato, I must say that rotted ashes, when properly put on, has precedence over all others I have had any expe rience with. The plan that I adopted was to opeq « deep furrow with a scooter plow, and put in a plenty of ashes. Bed on the ashes, and a sure crop may be realized on the poorest soil. Cow-pen ning is good—so arc ootton seed and stable manure ; hut, after experiment ing with the ashes, they will all be aban doned, provided ashes can be bad. I ex perimented on as poor soil as I bad, and the result was as fine a crop of pototoes as I ever saw on any kind of land. Rotted ashes is good for cotton also, and almost any kind of vegetation. I am convinced there is not a better fer tilizer made on any plantation than rot ted ashes. So every one will find it greatly to his interest to take special care of it.” A sensible shoemaker, who made a princely fortune by the sale of an exten sively advertised shoe string of his own invention, wrote this stanza, which now adorns his crest: If you are wise and wish to rise. Then pitch right in and advertise, If vou are not, then sit down, sot, And let your business go to pot. Gov. Smith has returned to Atlanta after a visit to his home in Columbus. Murder in Wilkinson. —The Central Georgian mentions a shocking murder that occurred in that county on Sunday night, 17th inst. The particulars, in a condensed form, are these : The deoeased was Mr. Joel Burke, a young man of irreproachable character, a gallant sol dier of the “ lost cause, ” who had been severely wounded and lost a leg during the latter part of the war. Ho was engaged in farming and merchan dizing, boarding at his father’s—about one mile from liis place of business and sleeping at his store, lie left his father’s on Sunday night for the store, as usual. He was absent at breakfast, but as that frequently occurred, but lit tle was thought of it. At dinner lie was still absent. His brother went to the store and found it closed, and no sign of the occupant having been there since the rain the night previous. Search was instituted by the family, and the young man found murdered by the roadside near Providence Church. His skull was broken and beat in pieces on one side of bis head, his throat cut, his pockets cut open and his purse, money and knife taken, as were the store and iron safe keys also. On breaking open the store, it was found that the iron safe had been robbed, and the money drawer cleared of change, and also about a dozen pair small size ladies’ shoes, two bolts of calico and some other goods taken, the murderer taking the keys off with him. It is not known how much money the murderer got, but it is thought some S4O or $50 —about §1 in silver and $1 in gold, and the most of tlie other in green backs. An examination of the ground revealed the impress of the murderer’s knee and toe, where he had crouched in the edge of the woods, waiting the approach of his victim. A negro man named Hicks was subsequently arrested and confessed having committed the crime. Church Music. —The following, from the Working Chris!inn, we commend to those who croak for congregational sing ing, as a general thing. Teach the young to road music, and till up your choirs. This is the way to get congregational singing. Here is the article : Congregational Hinging. —ln Ger many, music is a part of common edu cation. All sing—-except the few whom nature has denied the gift—and the or gan and choir lead the praises of the great congregation. It would be well if it were so everywhere. Ho one, in his zeal, wished that all God’s people were prophets. But this lias never yet been ; and we must be content with what we have. If all preached, and most of then! preached poorly, we should crave a re spite from the universal prophesying. All people cannot sing. Home who are proud of their gift, in this way, had better be silent, for they disturb the de votions of their fellow-worshippers with their “ godly noise.” If we would have congregational singing, we must educate our children in music. Until that happy time, let us be thankful that others more gifted can do for us what wo cannot do for ourselves, and thus maintain the praises of Israel. Educational,.— Our educational and special traveling correspondent, “Lo raine,” is always on the qui vive for whatever of interest that transpires in the field in which lie has been a careful worker. He prepared for the Chronicle & Sentinel, a short time ago, an inter esting synopsis of the school law of Georgia as amended. The article has gone the rounds of the press of the State. He promises us, at an early date, the leading points in the educational bill which recently passed the lower House of Congress. Ho hands us the following : The interests which the people of this State feel in public education is evi denced by the fact that very many coun ties which appeared perfectly careless of the subject last year, have begun to manifest their desire and intention to act under the law as it now stands. It is quite probable that Dr. Barnas Hears, General Agent of the Peabody Fund, will attend the meeting of the Georgia Teachers’ Association, in this city, next May. Cotton Claims.— The United States Supreme Court has recently de cided an important case in reference to claimants of cotton captured in the South. In tho case in question, the plaintiff, a widow, was administratrix of her husband, a resident of Arkansas, who, in his life-time, had given aid to tho rebellion. The claimant offered proof of her own loyalty, but the Court of Claims rejected the evidence, and held that her right as administratrix depend ed on tho loyalty of the descendent, and as it had been shown that he voluntari ly gave aid and comfort to the rebellion, the case must be dismissed, and this al though the cotton was seized after tho husband’s death, and while in the pos session of the claimant. The United States Supreme Court, however, reversed this judgment, and decided that under the act of 1868 the “owner” is the per son in whose hands tho property is when captured, and that the Court of Claims erred in excluding the evidence of loyalty offered by the widow and ad ministratrix. Accident. —On last Sunday, about twelve o’clock, Mr. Obadiab Rooney was run over by a locomotive and seriously injured. The accident occurred near and just above the Union Depot in this city. From what can bo learned of the sad affair, it seems that as an engine belonging to the Georgia Railroad was moving up tho track Mr. Rooney at tempted to cross the rails, but was caught by the cow-catcher and knocked down. His leg fell across the track, and the wheels of the locomotive passed over it, crushing the limb so severely that it had to be amputated below the knee. We are glad to learn that there is no apprehension of a fatal result. Since writing the above, wo are sorry ! to learn that Mr. Rooney has since died from the effects of his injuries. Died From His Injuries.—Two or three weeks ago wo mentioned an injury received by an employee of the South Carolina Railroad Company, Mr. Wil liam Forbes. It appeared that while with an ehgine of the road at the bridge across the Savannah river, Mr. Forbes, whilo attempting to couple the tender and a freight car, was mashed between them. He was earned to the City Hospital, where he lingered until yes terday, when he died from the internal injuries received at the time of the j accident. Mr. Forbes was a native of Charleston, and had many friends in this city. j Statits of Gen. Di Bose. — The Wash ington correspondent of the Atlanta I Sun says that “Miss Yinnio Ream, the | sculpturess, is said to he busily engaged on a model preparatory of a statue of General Dudley M. Dußose. This gen tleman is recognized as the Apollo o Congress, and Miss Ream has become so infatuated with his splendid person nel that she designs that ins “ u ‘dy form shall adorn the art gallery of the ‘Nation’s Capital’ as a fitting testimo nial of her genius and admuation foi tlio highest type of the Genus Americano .” The Atlanta Sun says it is understood that the Nov Era is to change hands, and that Hon. B. H. Hih will become its editor. -Also that Mr. Hill will be a candidate for Governor next Fall.
