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Newspaper Page Textqnjronicle an& Snttind. w KDNESDAY JULY 21. 1875. LAWYKRH’ FEES. The Bkeitikb cue ha been Big Bonanza for the lawyer*. Mr. F.yabts received *25.000. Mr. Tbacy, 410.000; Mr. Hill, *5,000; Mr. Beach. 45,000; Mr. Fctj.ebtos, *2,500; Mr. Moerib, *2,500, and Mr. Paros, *2.500. Mr. Bhearxah refused to accept money for hie •emcee We find the above paragraph going the round o( onr exchange*, and we have no doubt that it reflects public opinion. Most pepple look at the figures set opposite the lawyers names in the Beecher case and, without consider ing the nature of the services rendered, imagine them enormous. Suppose the above amounts correct, and they are only the fanciful figures of a newspaper reporter, and where is the “big bonan za” for the lawyers in this famous in vestigation of infamy ? Take the largest snm on the list: the fee of twenty-five thousand dollars paid Mr. Evakts, and we assert that it is a moderate charge nnder all the circumstances. Mr. Evakts is confessedly one of the greatest lawyers of the United States, of the world. He has an immense and lucra tive practice. Ho has no partner. The trial which has just closed required about four months of actual labor in the Court room, in addition to the time consumed in preparing the case for a hearing. Does any one doubt that during this period Mr. Evakts would have made more than twenty-five thou sand dollars, with far less labor, in the ordinary practice of his profession ? There is also another important point to be considered in this connection, viz: the injury done to Mr. Evabts’ business by his continued absence from his office and his inability to attend to any other litigation, which might have been of fered. Besides the actual loss in money, there was doubtless a much greater loss by reason of the injury done to his business. The fees paid the other at torneys in the case are simply ridiculous ly small. The greatest advocate, per haps, at the American bar—Mr. Beach received five thousand dollars for four months of exhaustive labor in the poi sonous air of a crowded Court room ! It may be said that admitting the truth of these statements, granting that the ac tual cash fees were small, there will be a large indirect return from the trial: that the connection of these gentlemen with such a famous, or infamous, cause will place them prominently before the country and bring them a large increase of clients and cash. Good wine needs no bush, and a lawyer of established reputation needs no advertisement. It will do very well for young men, without business to win their spurs in an nnfeed fight, but certainly such men as Evarts and Beach need not resort to any such practices. They have long since won distinction, and they are now engaged in converting their fame into demnition dollars. We think that there is an erroneous impression prevailing every where as to the exorbitance of lawyers’ charges. Men complain that they are charged two hundred, five hundred or a thousand dollars for the services of a lawyer in a case the trial of which in the Court room did not consume more than one day perhaps. A lawyer cannot base his charge upon the time actually con sumed in a trial. Ho usually charges in proportion to the amount in volved ami which has been made or saved by his skill; he charges for the work of preparation before the trial , for the time and labor and money which he has expended in attaining a know ledge of his profession. The first years of his life are usually years of unre quited toil. When he masters his pro fession and establishes his reputation it is but right that he should receive pay for previous drudgery and hardships. There are extortioners in every profes sion and calling ; but, as a general rule, the lawyers’ charges are moderate and reasonable, ( and there are not as many legal bonanzas as people imagine. “A FOOLISH (JUARHEL.” The Oolnmbns Enquirer in an article with the nbove bending ullmled to the quarrel over the Ohio platform as fol lows : A fow weeks ago, when the Democrats of Ohio nominated Oov, Aia.en for re-election, and adopted a “platform," every plank of which, exeopt ono, gavo satisfaction to all Democrats throughout the country, their suc cess in the approaching election by a large ma jority was deemed almost certain. We hope that they will still win the fight, but if they do, it will be in the face of extraordinary and per sistent attacks upon their position by the Dem ocrats of other Statos. The great importance of the Ohio election is admitted by all parties, and it is therefore more strange that Demo crats in other States should attempt to prevent instead of aiding to secure it. The resolution objected to is that relating to the currency, and tho papers that make war upon it are chiefly those of tho Eastern States—none of the South. Commenting upon this article, the Mobile Register says : “The difference between the controlling opinion in the Ohio Democratic Convention, on the currency question, and that in other Democratic sections of tho country, would, indeed, be a ‘foolish quarrel’ were it to be allowed to degenerate into a question of Democratic victory, or de feat in the October elections of that State. The Sun says truly that on eve ry other plank of the Ohio platform save that on the currency the Democracy all over the land is agreed. It would then be assuredly a folly to give up the battle and ground arms to the Radical enemy on a single disagreement, however important in principle. We therefore do not see any necessity for the sacrifice of the prestige of victory in Ohio on one plank of disagreement when there are forty ▼ital ones of perfect accord. In such cases there is no violation of principle, when among friends there is an ‘agree ment to disagree,’ for the time being nntil the common enemy is met and routed on all other points. While ‘hard money’ Democrats can never give up their well-settled principles and yield to what they hold to be party heresies on finance, they are not called npon to join hands with the Radical enemy to show their fidelity to the doctrine by a hostile assault on the Democratic party. We can hold that Governor Allen is committed to a wrong doctrine in Ohio, and it will still remain our duty to do all in our power to give that veteran Democrat a victory in Ohio. For, if he is defeated, what gain is there to the hard money principle ? He will only be defeated for the benefit of an opposing shiuplaster party. No one is simple enough to wish to put the Radicals in power in the interest of a return to a coin currency 1 So that on the disputed question we gain nothing, and yet lose the fight on every other one of the vital questions that divide ns as antipodes from the Radicals.” Oca Northern friends are determined not to be outdone in generosity and kindness. A Soldiers’ National Re union is to be held in Ohio this Sum mer and the following general invitation has been issued : Marietta. Ohio. July 4. 1875. His Ktaihetury, Ike ih iwraor of Mississippi : Dear Sis— l have the honor, on behalf of the Committee ou Invitations of the Soldiers' Natio u*l Re-union, to be held at Caldwell. Ohio. tO invite your Excelleucy.Mr. Jefferson Davis. Mr. Alexander Stephens. and all the ex officers and acldiers of the Confederate Army and Navy to bo present on said occasion. It is impossible to designate each and every one bv name, hence the general invitation. Our re-union means pe.-.ce and good will. The ex- Federal soldiers are all likewise invited. Such a meeting must advance the interests of peace and fraternity. We open our arms to Receive you. We pray you all to come. Tho war is over forever. This is the era of peace. Le t ns come together and rebind the dissevered cords of national fraternity. Let us get near enough to better understand eaeh other. We are entering npon our national centenary. Let ns approach the sacred festival with nothing but feelings of mutual pride and affection. We pray the newspapers of the South to publish this general invitation. Yours respectively, B. B. Hoover, Secretary. APPREHENDED TROUBLE WITH THE NEOROBB. We regret to learn that the people of Hancock county have reason Li appre hend trouble with the negroes in that section of the State. We received yes terday evening a letter from a promi nent citizen of Sparta enclosing copies of a letter aud hand-bill which re cently came to light in Hancock coun ty. The writer says : “The negroes are “up to something, and we have deemed “it advisable to have the thing publish “ed that all may read and judge for “themselves. I have given you an exact “copy—spelling, punctuation and all. “What the negroes mean we don’t know, “but it smells of something when Gen. “Rivecs, of Aiken, is connected with “the matter.” The indosures read as follows : Jclt THE 9th, 1875. Mr. We. Habu*. Hem I will try to do. So I seat my self to send you an Notice as you did, me you will please to send another notice to Glass Cock and to Warren ton. aud tell them to meet to Saudersville Ga the 24th of July. General Mokbas. Mass Meeting. There will be a National Convention of (he Itepublican Party held on Saturday, July 24th, 1875, at Sandersville, Washington Cos., Ga.. No. 13 Station. C. B. K., for the purpose of nominating some proper and fit person as a Military General of the Second District of Georgia to be commissioned by the Governor of the State. And also appoint a County Chairman of the Executive Committee of Washington County, Ga. And We Envite Each County iu the State of Ga. to send 35 Delegates with a legal credential to represent their counties and cast their Ballard for said Nomination. The Hon James M. Smith be re quested to order an election in the Second District of Ga. and We Kespectfuliy ask all gentlemen to wear the Blue Military Summer Dressing with a white waist band around the waist come down to the ground and a red feather in their hats and Each Company Shall carry the Band of Music and the procession Shall Start from the C. U. B. to the county site Sandersville by Hon General P. K. Hiveks, from Aiken County, South Carolina. We envite 19 oonnties to be present, County Washington Sandersville Ga Caxdia. Harris, Secretary. JtutE 28th, 1875. We hope that the trouble which seems to be anticipated will not occur. At the same time we think it wise to make the matter public iu order that the people of Washington county may not be alarmed by what might other wise prove an alarming demonstration. Of course the negroes have no authority to elect a Major-General of Militia, but if they wish to indulge in such a piece of pleasantry there is no reason why any one should object. We hope that the white people of Washington county and of Haudersville will keep perfectly cool, as we aro convinced they will do, and let the negroes have as large a proces sion and as much music and as many red feathers in their hats as they may desire. THE SOUTH AND INFLATION. The inflation Democracy of the Bouth sends forth this solemn warning through tho col umns of the Augusta Chronicle and Senti nel, of Georgia: “If the Ohio Democrats are defeated, their defeat will be properly charged to the account of Tilden & Cos.; and this firm need expect no favors from the party which it has so grossly betrayed. We think, too, the people of the South have determined that the President should be a man from the West, and their votes in the National Convention will settle the question of a candidate. We are tired of the domination of New York and Tam many HaU. It has been fruitful of nothing in the past save blunders and disaster. We are not willing to be again sacrificed to its selfish ness, its corruption and its folly. It is time that Tammany Hall was made to understand that it does not own the Democratic party of the country, and that it will not longer be al lowed to rule and ruin the organization.”— .Vein York Tribune. The Chronicle and Sentinel does not pretend to be the organ of the inflation Democracy of the South or any other kind of an organ. We have never said that we were in favor of inflation or that the Democracy of the South were in favor of inflation. On the contrary, we have stated that if the issue of contraction or inflation should be brought fairly be fore the Southern people they would be found very seriously divided upon it. Differences of opinion on financial mat ters exist here just as they prevail in ev ery section and State of the Union. But the Southern people are willing to sink all differences of opiniouon this subject until other and far more important is sues Lave been fought to a successful conclusion. They do not wish and they do not intend to have the next national campaign fought upon the meaningless shibboleth of the New York World— “ free trade anil hard money.” No such insane test will be put to party candi dates; no such silly declaration of prin ciples will enter into the national plat form. We do not propose to give up Pennsylvania and Massachusetts to please the Free Trade Club of New York, nor do we propose to sacrifice Ohio and Indiana to tlje Wall street con tractionists. These questions may re main in abeyance, these fights may be safely left to the future—even though such a postponement should defeat the aspirations of Mr. Tilden and over throw the schemes of Tammany Hall. SOUTHERN VS. NORTHERN COT TON MILLS- The New York Bulletin says : A few days since we published the results of the experiments made in cotton man ufacture at the South, by which it ap peared that the mills of Georgia had been able to run steadily and full and to pay handsome dividends on the capital invested. Almost simultaneously comes the news of the closing of more of the New England mills on account of over production and inability to find a mar ket for their goods. Taken together, these are suggestive farsts and lead to the further inquiry of the causes at work whieh upon this showing would indi cate a tendency to change in the loca tion of this industry. Among the prob able causes are the following, as pre sented by a Southern cotemporary, which we give without comment, as showing the Southern view, if not in deed the principal causes of this state of affairs and their possible influence upon the future of this great industry. We quote : Beyond the depression of business, of which mention has been made, the Northern mills are affected more seriously than ever by Southern competition. They are being driven out of the market by Southern spinners of heavy goods, aud the time is fast coming when they must close up or come South. In the meanwhile the cost of machinery has fallen considerably, the price of Übor and material is low. and therefore no more favorable season for building new mills in the South could be had. This is understood, we are glad to see. by the gentlemen who are getting up the new mill in Atlanta. They will be ready for work next Fa’l. by which time business will be brisk again, aud they will be in condition to float on the top of the tide. It is not only true that machinery oosts less now than that of most of the New England mills which were largely bought at war priees, but the same may be said of all mill property. Water privileges, dams, mills and machinery can doubtless all be bought and constructed at nearly, if not quite half the aggregate cost of many of the New England mil s. Beside, the South has virtually a protective tariff on its manufacture, both ou raw material and goods, in the saving in transportation. And this ad vantage it will continue to hold until its pro duction exceeds its home consumption, when only it can bo compelled to come into equal competition with the mills at the North. These facts must have an important influence for voars to come, no doubt, while the effects nl4y Vt , r 7 possibly prove permanent. At all events the disposition certainly exists on the part of the SowLcrn people to make a thorough experiment in the filter. Capital only is wanting, and that, doaJ'fi®**; (SF’-r 1 supplied under the new era C? 7 vluct> is evidently dawning on the Soul.. The last number of the Monroe Ad vertiser says : “ It is nt monad extensive ly in Atlanta that Judges McKay and Trippk, of the Supreme Court, will re sign at an early day, and it is thought that Hon. Hope Hull, of Augusta, and; CoL L. E. Bleckly, of Atlanta, will toe appointed to the positions. We heard the rumor so ofte* while we were in At lanta that we are persuaded it is true.” We do not know how much of truth there is in this rumor; but we do know that the Governor could not find a man better qualified to be Judge of the Su preme Court than Mr. W. Hop* Hull. WHAT THE WAR COST THE SOUTH. A correspondent of the New York Evening Poet, who has a turn for statis tics, gives some highly interesting facts and figures connected with the losses the South sustained by the war, show ing the diminution of assessed personal property between 1860 and 1870 by reason of the emancipation of the blacks. Alabama, with two hundred and seventy-seven millions of personal estate in 1860, returns but thirty-eight millions in 1870-a decrease of two hun dred and thirty-nine millions. Arkansas is reduced from one hundred and six teen to thirty-one millions in this re spect. Mississippi returns three hun dred and fifty-one millions in 1860 against only fifty-nine millions in 1870— a decrease of two hundred and ninety two millions; and South Carolina presents even a greater difference, re turning three hundred and fifty-nine millions assessed personalty in 1860, and sixty-four iu 1870, being a loss of two hundred aud ninety-five millions.— Georgia iu 1860, returned a larger amount of assessed personal estate than any other State in the Union, namely four hundred and thirty-eight millions. In 1870 this total was changed to eighty three millions, a loss of three hundred and fifty-five millions. Missouri, though a slave State, has suffered com paratively little. Her personalty, as assessed in 1860, was one hundred and thirteen millions. In 1870 it was in creased to one hundred and thirty-seven millions. Taking the aggregate estima ted true wealth of all the slaveholding States in 1860, it presents a total of six thousand seven hundred and forty-six millions of dollars. In 1870 the same aggregate falls to five thousand four hundred and sixty-two millions, show ing a loss of twelve hundred and eighty four millions. The non-slaveholding States, on the contrary, show an im mense increase during the same period. In 1860 their aggregate estimated true wealth was nine thousand three hundred and forty millions, and in 1870, twenty four thousand three hundred and sixty millions ; being an increase of fifteen thousand and twenty millions. If we look at the wealth of the late slave States in 1850 there appears a great in crease from that period to 1860. The total in 1850 was twenty-nine hundred and forty-seven millions ; and in 1860, six thousand seven hundred and forty six millions, showing an increase of thirty-seven hundred and ninety-nine millions, or one hundred and twenty eight per cent. Had the war not taken place, the same ratio of increase would have fixed the wealth of the Southern States in 1870 at fifteen thousand three hundred and eighty-one millions, or more than two and a quarter times what it actually proved to be. And yet, with even all these enormous losses, the South would now be happier and more prosperous than at any time in her his tory but for the corrupt and tyrannous rule with which she has been cursed since the war. But peace has come at last, and the next decade will show a glorious outcome. The law is no respecter of persons in at least one county of Kentucky. Iu 1863 a statute was enacted prohibiting the playing of any game on the Capitol Square in Frankfort. The custodian of the place, however, has usually been in the habit of giving parties permission to play at “croquet or any innocent amuse ment”—the law being only enforced against actual depredators on the prop erty. A few evenings since, however, Governor Leslie, with some invited friends, were playing a game of croquet on the lawn, when the entire party was arrested on warrants issued by a Police Court Justice. The next morning the Governor and his friends appeared and offered to confess judgment. Justice Shallow declined to permit this, and ordered a separate jury to be empau neled in each case—“thereby,” says the local chronicle, “increasing the costs.” The parties plead guilty, and the jury assessed a verdict of one dollar each against two of the parties and one cent each against the other. Governor Leslie now sees the errors of croquet. He has no sympathy in his misfortune on ac count of the vice in which he was in dulging at the time of his arrest. The Columbia Union- Her aid says : “ The case of the State vs. Arthur A. “ Glover, for the killing of Wm. Gomil “ lion, at Edgefield Court House, in “ June, 1874, was concluded at Newber “ ry, on Friday, by the jury failing to “ agree. At the time the jury were dis “ charged they stood six for manslaugh “ ter and six for acquittal. There was a “ very bitter feeling manifested against “ the defendant during the progress of “ the case. We are informed, on good “ authority, that bets were freely offered “ on the result of the case, and even the “ Solicitor bet fifty dollars that he would “ convict, and a prominent attorney “ publicly made the assertion that he “ would be one of twenty to hang the “ defendant iu the event the jury failed “to convict. While we say nothing in “ regard to the merits of the case, such “ actions and expressions during the “ trial of a case in which is involved the “ life or death of a fellow being certaiu “ly show a perverted state of morals.” The thing is getting worse and worse. The New York Tribune, iu attempting to give a concise’statement of the Sher man matter, says the Courier-Journal correspondent accused tho [General of burning a “monastery,” and calling down a curse upon its inmates. Ac cording to the Courier-Journal's in formation, the inmates of the “monas tery” called down a curse upon Tecum seh. Sherman merely rode to the spot as soon as he entered Columbia to su perintend the burning of the “monas tery” in person. The yonng editor in the tall tower should not let things get so badly mixed np in his great journal. We should not be surprised now if it was to state that Sherman, instead of the poor women at Eatonton, had been robbed “of such articles of common jewelry as that people have, torn from his fingers, pookets and drawers.” We were mistaken in stating yester day, in an artiolenpou General Bennino, that the wound he received at the Wil derness rendered him unfit for further service in the field. Though he was wounded in that engagement so severe ly that one of his arms was permanently disabled, he served with conspicuous gallantry until the close of the war surrendering his brigade with Lee at Appomattox. The Columbus Enquirer states that when Governor Smith was elected Governor he tendered General Bennino the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, a place which he declined because of his inability to live upon the salary which the niggardliness of the Georgia Legis lature has attached to the office. General P. M. B. Youno is winning fame as an orator. Under the heading of “Good words from a prominent Southerner” the Boston Globe says: “General P. M. B. Young, the brave and dashing cavalry officer of the Lost Cause, was tendered a dinner by lead ing New York merchants a few days since. In the course of his remarks he said :” “While the Old World is arming for war. let us arm for peace. While we should exact and demand protection for oar citizens, at home Nad abrtSad, ue should cultivate peace and ap nrecia.*" the bleasuig* trhich it brings. Let us frown down and at marplots who would keep alive the fires of t hfed it to be Ih* duty of ail good men. North and South. East and West, to labor for the glory and prosperity of oar common country. Let us gather, next y csr„tp ttes£entenmsl as pil grims to Mecca, and offer up cur jA> or? on the altar of liberty for the perpetuation of the great principles that our fathers died to Secure for ns.' 1 Switzerland proposes to*“ watch’ - oar Centennial- Just lever alone, and she 11 oome outfall right yet - Own mercial Ad vertiser. She hpe already wheeled into line and joined the movement GOSSIP ABOUT ATLANTA. A Day of Exei’iuir Events—The Atlan ta Papers Jubilant—Shooting, Sui cide, Seduction, Kernsine Explosion -Tie-Back Dresses the Rage. [Special Correspondence Chronicle and Se:itinel.] H. I. Kimball House, July 14. This has been a lively day for the At lanta newspaper men, as they have had their hands full to keep up with the startling events that have demanded their attention. First came a case of shooting in a house of ill fame, and the Justice's Court was crowded this morn ing to hear the testimony. Several yonng lawyers made the welkin ring with their majestic eloquence and pow erful arguments. Yerily, if it were not for these inferior charts, of such fre quent occurrence, it Fs doubtful if some of the gifted and rising yonng lawyers would be able to survive. They must have a vent for their eloquent and fervid thoughts, and a case in a Justice’s Court is always a great relief to them in this respect. One young lawyer to-day even exhausted the English langnage, which he said was poverty-stricken. So far as being able to describe the loathsome character of the prisoner, whose offense was shooting a pistol in the presence of a woman, whom the other side lawyer modestly called “a thing,” on account of her disreputable occupation. Intemperance and Suicide. Next came a ease of suicide, Thomas L. Wells, a former merchant of this city, who was found dead in his room this morning. He left a note for his brother, in which he said he killed him self because he was worthless to society and to the world generally, and added that he did not believe in a God. In temperate habits were the cause of all his late troubles ; bnt he is now gone and we hope his sad fate will be a warn ing to the class of men to which he be longed. Strange as it may seem, while the coroner’s jury were sitting on the case of this unhappy suicide, who was worthless to the world generally, there was being bnried in this city a young man of such rare excellence of charac ter, aud ao.devoted, to GllHßiUw l4mM that almost the entire commnnity'bow ed in sorrow above his early grave. In his death and burial Robert E. Jackson fully demonstrated that there is a God, and that His people are the objects of His loving kindness and tender mercy even in the dread hour of death. In the cases of these two men, the one in temperate and unbelieving, the other a noble example of holy living, may be seen the truth of the declaration, ap plicable to the first, “ be sure thy. sin will find thee out,” and of the sweet as surance, which the latter realized, “ How blest the righteous when he dies.” Seduction and Elopement. The Constitution, of to-morrow, will contain a full report of a sad case of se duction which has just come to public notice. The parties are a shop engineer named W. A. Shields and a Miss Or mond, whom he had employed in his family as a governess. Her ruin was accomplished some seven or eight months ago, and as she is in a condition that will soon expose her shame, Shields per suaded her to run away with him last night on the West Point train. He left a note stating the above facts, which has plunged his wife into the deepest mis ery, as she is left with five children to cling to her for protection and support. The parents of Miss Ormond reside about five miles from the city, and the ruin of their daughter has nearly de stroyed their reason. Telegrams have been sent after the guilty parties, and it is to be hoped that they may be reached by the stern hand of the law. Another Terrible Kerosfno Accident. It is useless to tell people not to fill oil lamps after dark, and warn them never to pour kerosine on a slow fire to make it burn faster. Experience seems to be the only teacher that thousands will heed on this question of safety.— Being on Mitchell street at about two o’clock this afternoon, we were startled by an alarm from a wooden dwelling near the sidewalk, and rushing in with a policeman, a terrible scene met our astonished gaze. A daughter of the gentleman who occupied the house, Mr. C. L. Powell, had thoughtlessly poured some kerosine oil on a fire in the stove, which appeared to be goning out, when the oil took fire, exploded the can and set fire to her clothing and the house. Fortunately for her and the house, Mr. P. was present, and in an instant caught his daughter, who is a large girl of about thirteen years, in his arms, placed his hand over her mouth to keep out the smoke, and smothered the flames by rolling her in bedding. Her clothing was all more or less destroyed, and her legs, arms, face and left side badly burned. A doctor was immediately sum- moned, and those of us present who had had experience in such cases—as our assistance warf really needed—helped to dress the terrible wounds and make the sufferer as comfortable as possible. It was indeed a painful scene, and the re sult would have been almost instant death bnt for the presence of mind of the heroic father, who was himself badly burned in his efforts to save his child. Both parents had frequently told her never to use kerosine oil to kindle a fire with, but she thoughtlessly disobeyed them. And so will hundreds of others do by whom this very account will be read] Such persons learn wisdom only by a sad experience. Atlanta aud Tie-Back Dresses. Columbus cheerfully gives Atlanta the championship of the “Tie-backs,” and we think the award fairly made. Not many weeks ago we saw a young lady with a Columbus tie-back lifted bodily up into a carriage by two young gentle men, as it was her first tie-back dress, and she could not lift her foot to the step. But here in Atlanta the young la dies, many of them, walk like lame ducks on a frosty morning, as the re sult of the manner in which they almost bind their knees together by the lowest .tie-back. Going to Ponce de Leon Springs this afternoon, by the street cars, we saw a sad commentary on this awfully severe style which now prevails here. A young lady entered the car, which was full, when a half dozen gen tlemen arose and offered her a seat, but, strange to say, she declined, saying she preferred to stand. Her escort told her it was a long rough ride and she had bet ter take a seat, when she quietly re marked to him, as a blush mantled her beautiful cheek, “ I can’t sit down with' this awful tie-back dress on.” And she didn’t. Of the inconveniences and in decency of this style we shall say noth ing, as we wish to see it speedily abol ished, and onr criticisms wonld only have the effect to make the ladies per sist in tying back even still tighter. Sidney Herbert. FERTILIZERS. Regulations for the Inspection and Analysis. Thomas P. Janes, Esq., Commissioner of Agriculture for the State of Georgia, under date of Atlanta, July 15th, has issued a circular containing rules and regulations for the inspection and analy sis of fertilizers in Georgia, which will be of interest to Augusta dealers, and we, therefore, extract as follows : Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta, being the regularly established ports of entry for the State of Georgia, all fertilizers and chemicals for the manufacture of fertilizers, imported into this State, shall be inspected and analyzed at one of these ports of entry before the same shall be offered for sale or distribution in the State; and all fertilizers manufac tured in this State, for sale or distribu tion, shall be inspected and analyzed before being removed from the mill or factory. The inspector’s brand, when applied as required by law, is a recognition that the fertilizer so branded has the consent of this Department to go to sale or distribution, aud that it is such as a farmer may safely buy. Each inspector is, therefore, required to give his per sonal attention to the selecting of sam ples, and to perform his duty vigilantly and impartially. The current year or season for the in spection and analysis of fertilizers and chemicals for the manufacture of the same;shall be from the first day of Sep tember to the first day of May. The following determinations will be re quired in the analysis of fertilizers, viz.: Moisture (at 212 deg. F.) per cent. Soluble Phosphoric Acid percent. Precipitated or lteduced Phosphoric Acid percent. Insoluble Phosphoric Acid. per cent. Ammonia, by Nitrogen determination.per cent. Potash (over two per cent.) per cent. Organic Matter •••; percent. Undetermined Matter —i. e. Sulphuric Acid Lime, etc percent. Total Bone Phosphate P® r cent. Mechanical condition. In analyzing fertilizers based on the mineral theory, the determinations of the principal ingredients will be re quired. The law requires, in addition to the sample to be analyzed, that “ a fair sample of all fertilizers sold in this State; shall be first submitted to the Commissioner, and the same shall be thoroughly tested by him,” to enable him to pronounce on their practical y*)tee. m , The editor oi ik- (Kansas) Standard threatens the pastor of the rival sheet with the “horsewhip ami she cowhide,” and gives him to understand liis* Vjow vulgarity” must be stopped. The literature Kansas needs to be en riched, and, if a KttLj gore from these two can be seated for the purpose, let the soft thwack of the rawhide and the persuasive voice of the pistol be again mingled with the notes of the grasshop per. THE POOR INDIAN. LETTER OF PROF. MARSH TO THE PRES IDE Ni'. The Charges of Corruption in Indian Affairs—The Secretary of the Inte rior Arraigned. The Systematic Frauds of Agent; EaviUe. New York, July *l3. —The Tribune, to-morrow, publishes the following let from Prof. Marsh, of Yale College, to President Grant: Sir —ln two interviews I had with you on Indian affairs, I was impressed with yonr earnest desire to do justice to the Indians, and with broad philan thropic views on the whole Indian ques tion. This must be my excuse, as a private citizen, fof*bming to yon to lay before you a statement of wrongs com mitted on the Sioux Indians, mainly under my own observation, daring a re cent visit to their Country. My visit to this region was wholly in the interest of science, with no intention or wish to in vestigate Indian affairs. The frauds I observed were brought to my knowledge by Red Cloud, who refused to allow my party to enter their lands until I had promised to submit bis complaints to you in person. Since my interview with you I have been informed by the Com missioner of Indian Affairs of the ap pointment of a commission to investi gate the affairs at Red Cloud Agency, and was invited to lay a statement of the facts before them. * This lam quite ready to do whenever the commis sion request. I must decline, however, to give my statement to the Interior Department alone, for the following reasons : 1. I have no confidence what ever in the Secretary of the Interior or the Commissioner' of Indian Affairs, wheu they publicly announce their wish and determination to correct the present abnsesin Indian management, because I have reason to know they have long been aware of these abuses, and have made no sincere effort to reform them. 2. In all my intercourse with these two officials their object has been to find out, not so much what the frauds actual ly my information all means in their power, all publicity or exposure of them. 3. The evidence now in my possession reflects unfavorably on both Secretary Delano and Commission er Smith. For these reasons I have thought it best to lay before you, to whom, in accordance with my promise to Red Cloud, I made my first commu nication of the accompanying statement in detail, in confidence, that the evi dence presented will meet with the con sideration its importance demands. Iu the statement which accompanies this letter I have given the results of my investigation into the affairs of tne Red Cloud Agency, the largest and most important in the West. These re sults clearly indicate gross mismanage ment, especially in the following parti culars: First, the agent, J. J. Saville, is wholly unfitted for his position, and guilty of gross frauds upon the Indians in his charge. Seoond, the number of Indians at this agency has been syste matically overstated for purposes which can only result in fraud. Third, the last issue of annuity goods which I wit nessed was a suspicious transaction, and part at least fraudulent. Fourth, the beef cattle given the Indians have been inferior, aud, owing to systematic frauds, practiced by the agent at the beef contractors. Fifth, the pork issued to Indians during my visit wasnot suita ble for human fare. Sixth, the flour was very inferior, and evidence of fraud in this article was conclusive. Seventh, the sugar and coffee issued were not good, although better than other sup plies. Eighth, the tobacco observed was rotten and of little or no use. Ninth, in consequence of fraud and mismanage meut the Indians suffered greatly dur ing the pftst Winter for want of food and clothing. Tenth, the contract for freight from Cheyenne to Red Cloud Agency was fraudulent, as the true distance is one hundred aud fifty miles, while contractors were paid for 212. I would especially call your attention to the evidence of fraud in beef cattle, as presented in the accompanying state ment. This subject I investigated with great care, as beef is the principal arti cle of food of the Sioux Indians, and the frauds I observed have caused groat pecuniary loss to the Government. The statement I have prepared is supported in all its essential parts by the testimony of officers of the army who were with me in my expeditions, or at the Red Cloud Agency. Among these officers are several personally known to you, and all are gentlemen of high character. Should any part of my statement be seriously questioned, I trust you will allow these gentlemen to be heard. If the com manding officers of all near Indian Agencies, or other equally trustworthy and disinterested observers there could likewise testify, I think it would be found. but faintly indi cated the corruption pervading le dian affairs. I have purposely confined myself in this statement to a single agency and mainly to the time of my visit, without reference to much other testimony which has come to me inci dentally in the prosecution of my in quiries, showing frauds of equal magni tude at other points. This corruption, which is a constant source of discontent and hostility among the Indians them selves, in my judgment, is a natural re sult of the present loose and irresponsi ble system of furnishing the Indians with goods and supplies—a system that tends directly to invite fraud. Ido not believe that anything bat a radical change in this respect will prevent con tinued demoralization of the Indian ser vice. You alone have the will and the power to destroy that combination of bad men known as the Indian ring, who are debasing this service and thwarting the efforts of all who endeavor to bring to full consummation your noble policy of peace. Very respectfully, your obe dient servant, O. C. Marsh. The letter is accompanied by a long and interesting statement, corroborating points specified in the communication to the President. THE THIRD GEORGIA. Preparations for Its Reception in Portsmouth. [Norfolk Virginian .] Pursuant to notjee a meeting of the citizens of Portsmouth took place yes terday evening at the Mayor’s office. The inclemency of the weather prevent ed a larger attendance than would have been under other circumstances, but we observed several of our most prominent merchants and citizens present, who took a lively interest in the proceedings. On motion the Hon. A. S. Watts, Mayor of Portsmouth, was requested to act as President, whilst the members of the press present were nominated to act as Secretaries. The President then called the meeting to order, and said that he was prepared to hear any remarks from the citizens on the question at issue, viz : the reception of the Third Georgia regiment on the 4th of August. He said that he need not remind the people that it was here where these brave Georgians made their first stand in a cause whieh wa9 then dear to us all, and that when a call for increased troops was made during the great struggle for Southern independence we found these same Geor gians willing and ready to fill np the gap. The soldiers of the Third Georgia made many warm associations in Ports mouth, and it becomes us to receive them in a hospitable manner, and them to feel and believe that time and distance does not diminish from ihe mind the re membrance of friends. Major Grice then came forward, and in a few neat and opportune remarks offered the fol lowing resolution, which was carried unanimously : Whebeas, The citizens of Portsmouth have learned with much pleasure that the veteran survivors of the Third Geor gia Regiment have decided to celebate their next annual reunion in this city on the 4th of August, aud remembering their pleasant association with our peo ple during the first year of the late war, when they were stationed near us, their prompt response to the call for troops to reinforce our own in April, 1861, and their gallant record during that long and unfortunate struggle, we will welcome them as becomes citizens of Virginia, and do everything in our power to make their visit an enjoyable one, and with the view of executing our desires be it Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a committee of ten citizens, with power and authority to appoint sub-commit tees, to collect funds and make all prop er and needful preparations for the re ception and entertainment of our friends of the Third Georgia Regiment during their visit and stay in our city. The Chair then appointed the follow ing committee in accordance with the preceding resolution, viz: Major G. Grice, Captain Thomas A. Bain, Major W. C. Wingfield, Captain Joe Sam Brown, Judge L. R. Watts, Captain James H. Robinson, Captain C. W. Murdangh and John T. Hill, Esq. On motion, the Mayor, A. S. Watts, Esq., was added to the committee, a meeting of which was requested to convene at the Mayor’s office this morning at 10 o’clock. The attention of members not present is drawn to this announcement. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. A lady, returning from an unprofit able visit to church, declared that “when' si*e zr.w the shawls on those Smiths, and tUfo thought °- f the things her own poor girls had'’ t 6 wear, jf it wasn’t for the consolation of religion she did not know what she should do.” R. E. Wilder, of Crawford county, was killed by lightning at Sanford’s mill, in Houston county, the 13th, THE UNIVERSITY. A DEFENSE OP ITS MANAGEMENT. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: Much has been said of late iu two or three of the Georgia papers about the present administration and some ot the officers of the State University. Your correspondent has been here for several days, and heard the statements of many of the citizens, most of the officers of the University and quite a number of the students, and these statements bear directly on the points in question. It is most unfortunate for the college that such discussions arise, but since this has been started, and we know that the staid old Chronicle is ever the champion of fair play, as well as the friend of the University, we ask to give its readers the results of our investiga tion. Ist. It is the universal testimony that the term just closing has been a remark■ ably quiet one ; and while the number of students iq attendance is somewhat reduced, which fact is due to the strin gency in the money market and the pov erty of our people, not to mal-adminis tra'tion in the college, the work done by the classes is of superior natnre. The examination now going on will show this. Dr. Tucker and other officers say this is largely due to the quiet, orderly and studious young men now here, and not specially to the present administration ; but it at least shows that the old institution is not in a state of decay. Under this head we would also state that the officers are workiug very harmoniously together, and if there has been any serious case of disagree ment, as we had heard intimated, we have not been able to find it. 2d. As to the “sectarian prejudices which have prevailed heretofore” (so charge some of our papers), and as these charges have often been made in connection with the name of the present Chancellor (Dr. Tucker) and his elec tion, we state what we kuow personally, as far as humanity can be assured, to be the truth in the case. It is this: The two gentlemen who were most active iu bringing the name of Dr. Tucker before jWßoard of Trustees, and who probably secured mcTre supporters and endorsers than any other four, are members of a different church from Dr. T.’s and would never have supported him on that ground. No doubt if all things were equal, the Board of Trustees would prefer to have the officers of the college from the different denominations, but we feel sure that their action last year was not controlled by that feeling to any great extent; certainly not so far as has been suspected and even charged; and these charges, by the way, and others of that sort, have done the college much more harm with the public than all the sectarian feeling in the Board of Trustees and all the “blunders” of Chancellors before the students. 3d. The fight on the present Chan cellor is, from all the facts we can get, most unfair and unjust. It is the testi mony of more than one of the older Professors that Dr. Tucker has been growing in popularity and influence steadily for six months, notwithstand ing the strong prejudice he had to meet at first. And so far from his habitually calling the members of the Junior Class “fools” and “jackasses” (as charged) when they do not recite well, he has not heard that class recite in seven or eight months. So it is with many of the other charges, and those which have any foun dation at all are very unfairly stated. We are no champion of Dr. Tucker, nor of any man here, but we have a good share of that old English love of fair play, and we do know that this, to say the least, thoughtless writing about the University is doing it great harm. No doubt it had much to do with the resignation of the noble and most popu lar Chancellor whose name has been very unkindly brought into the present controversy. The burden of responsi bility inside of the college is heavy enough, in all conscience, without any captious fault finding from without. If any officer fails to do his duty let him be reported to the Board of Trustees—not to the public. Such a course as the lat ter will soon drive all able and true men from the institution, and any disappoint ed party or dissatisfied student could very easily start such a current these days. It is very strange that the public should regard a newspaper scribler even, not a fair reporter, as a more honest and ca pable guardian of the great educational institutions than a Board of Trustees composed of the ablest and best men iu the State; yet it is true to a great extent, for the masses will trust the former and distrust the latter. How careful then ought correspondents to be. One more remark about the Chancel lor and we pass. Some seem to hold him responsible for all the offices being declared vacant this Summer, and also for the Taylor fund. This is all wrong. The former is an act of the Board; and as to the latter, the college has not re ceived one dollar from it, but Col. Mit chell has paid out over one hundred dol lars to redeem and save it from the sheriff’s hammer. Lastly, we regard the re-election of the officers of the college every four years as unfortunate. It will certainly create these public discussions and dis turbances at every period of election, and this will finally destroy all confi dence in the institution, or at least keep it unsettled and we think the Board will find it very difficult, if not impossible, to employ the best and truest men as officers. For to hold their places will require an amouut of political manage ment, to which such men will not resort and which, too, ought not to exist about colleges or any nurseries of the mind. It would be not only unjust, we think, but cruel to turn out the present offi cers at all, when some of them only had one year’s trial; think of it, a president or professor can hardly make any impress on stu dents, or people as to his general policy in that time, especially under the pecu liar circumstances which surrounded some of the present incumbents. Un less now, these men have shown them selves incompetent, of which the Board must judge. In that ease we have not a word to say. But we repeat we are sorry this discussion has gone to the public, and we regret more that the names of President Broun and ex-Chancellor Lipscomb have been dragged into it. We know they do not sympathize with it. The ex-Chancellor is too noble not to be pained at such a use of his name, though the design be a compliment to his splendid administration here, and he loves the University too well not to feel any stroke aimed at it. After all we feel sure that the college is not in a waning condition, not even in a crisis. There are about two hundred and thirty students here, about thirty short. All parties agree, however, that this fall off is due to the “hardness of the times,” not to mal-administration of the present officers. We find harmony among the officers, and that they have been doing good work ; so the Board of Visitors say. Let the people rally to the noble old University; let the State do her duty in providing means, then we are willing to leave the rest to the Board of Trus tees and the officers whom they elect. Spectator. SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS. Dr. M. Waring, of Florence, died the sth. Died, in Graniteville, 12th, Mrs. Jane Young Giles. The crop prospect in Edgefield con tinues extremely fine. Rev. Whatley Lamar will preach in Edgefield Baptist Church Sunday, the 18th. The compositions of the young ladies of Due West College are read by male proxies. Rev. A. J. Witherspoon is canvassing Smth Carolina for Dr. Palmer’s Life of Dr. Thornwell. Mr. Philip Malone is going to make the “Healing Springs,” near Blackville, an attractive Summer resort. Josiah Etheridge, of Edgefield, had plenty of cotton blooms the 3d of June, and plenty of old corn in his crib of his own raising. In Charleston, the 13th, the weather was warmer than at any time since ’6B. At a quarter to 3 o’clock in the after noon the mercury registered 97 in the shade. The differences between Major Me Lucas, of the Marion Merchant and Farmer, and Captain McKerall, of the Marion Star, have been honorably ad justed. Dr. Sanders, of Edgefield, has a field in cotton, every stalk of which has from four to seven full grown bolls, many of them “speckling to open.” It averages about 150 forms to the stalk. Erskine College has conferred the de gree of D. D. on the Revs. D. G. Phil lips, of Louisville, Ga.; H, J. Raymond, of Marion, Ala., and A. G. Wallace, of New Brighton, Penn. Also, the degree of L. L. D. on the Hon. George Clarke, Attorney-General of the State of Texas. The Annual Commencement of the Male and Female Colleges at Due West came off the 7th and Bth insts. Rev. W. M. Grier, D. D., President, preach ed the Baccalaureate Sermon of the Male College, and the Anniversary Ad dress was delivered by Rev. J. C. Hi den, of Greenville. A Chicago man thinks that the In dians ought to be exterminated, be cause, after all William Penn’s kindness to them, “they went and made him stand op one dny, and shoot an apple off his little boy’s head with an arrow.” Sheriff Ivy, of Muscogee, seems to be having some trouble about his bond. THE COTTON STATES. THE LAST DAY’S SESSION OP THE CONGRESS. A Practical Address from Colonel Bridgers—How the South Can Save Money. [By Telegraph to the j\ews and Courier .] Raleigh, N. C., July 15. —The Cot ton States Congress adjourned to-day at one o’clock, after a harmonious and in teresting session of three days. The only business of importance transacted to-day was the hearing of an address, by appointment of the last Congress, from Col. J. L. Bridgers, of North Caro lina, on the subject of agriculture in the Southern States. He said that a change of agriculture in the South was neces sary. The population and prosperity were diminishing in quantity and quali ty, and the loss on production from 1860 to 1870 had been enormous, while the loss in the area of cultivated land was over seven million acres. He opposed" the cutting up of land into small farms as tending to reduce all farming to the forty acre and a mule system. The in ert minerals in the earth were sufficient to produce good crops by atmospheric action. The South could save one hun dred million of dollars by feeding horses on oats and clover instead of corn and fodder. His speech was full of facts and practical suggestions, and was list ened with groat attention. Its publica tion was ordered iu all the Southern ag ricultural journals. A resolution adopt ed yesterday, asking Congress to make greenbacks a legal tender for all dues to the Government and all importations, was reconsidered, and its further con sideration postponed until the next ses sion of the Congress. The First Day of the Session—Speech of Gov. Brogden—A Hearty Welcome to the Old North State. [Correspondence of the Keirs and Courier.[ Raleigh, N. C., July 12.—The Cotton States Congress assembled iu the hall of the House of Representatives to-day, at 11, a. m., Hon. D. E. Butler, President of the Convention, iu the Chair. The following delegates answered to the call of the roll : Representatives of Nation al, Grange Hon. R. Shankland, of lowa, aud Judge J. T. Jones, of Arkan sas. Arkansas—John T. Jones. Geor gia—Col. D. E. Butler, Dr. Thomas P. Janes, E. T. Paine, E. W. Butler, Eu gene Morehead, and R. D. Wynne. North Carolina—Col. Thomas M. Holt, Brevard Davidson, Capt. C. B. Denson, Capt. James R. Thigpen, Dr. George W. Graham, Jordan Stone, R. T. Fulg lium, Azariali Graves, G. W. Lawrence, James F. Johnston, Col. Wm. Johnston, M. A. Bledsoe, P. C. Carlton, Dr. M. Closs, S. B. Alexander, B. M. Collins, John T. Whitford, John C. Wooten, George C. Taylor, Gen. W. R. Cox, and Carter Harrison. South Carolina—R. M. Simms. Tennessee—Dr. W. Max well. Louisiana—H. N. L. Leary. The convention having organized, Governor Brogden was introduced and addressed the members as follows : Remarks of Gov. Brogden. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Agricultural Congress of the Cotton States : It affords me much pleasure to tender you a hearty welcome in behalf of the State to the capital of North Caroliha, and to assure you that your presence here on this interesting occa sion is pleasing to all who earnestly de sire to cultivate fraternal harmony, to improve the general condition of our country, and to promote our agricultu ral, mechonical, manufacturing and com mercial interests. These are all necessa sary to our proserity and improvement, and one cannot suffer serious damage without injury to the others. You have assembled for the purpose of consultation in relation to the most feasible and practicable plans and meas ures for the encourgement of honest in dustry and labor. In the consideration of such subjects a3 may occupy your time aud attention, during your present session, it is reasonable to suppose that some slight differences of views and opinions may exist for the moment as to the best modes of reaching the same ob jects. It is by a full and thorough ex amination of questions of great magni tude and importance that correct con clusions are often formed. You have important work before you, and time will determine whether or not it has been wisely done. We live in an age of progress and improvement, and we have learned something by the experience of the past. We want to improve our finan cial and commercial condition, by pre venting the continual drain upon our resources. We want cheap transporta tion and rapid transit. We want to em ploy the most suitable and available means at our command to increase the value of labor, as that creates wealth and prosperity and beautifies and adorns our land. The Divine injunction is true iu a worldly sense, that “whatso ever a man soeth, that shall he also reap.” We ought to manage Wisely in order to accomplish great and valuable results. We have a genial and beauti ful climate, a fruitful and productive soil, aud we are exempt from many of the inconveniences of several foreign nations. We have not been compelled to employ a system* of irrigation like Spain, Mexico, Peru, Egypt and India. We are blessed with the early and the later rains, with abundant products of the earth in due season. We have not yet produced as much as our soil is capable of producing, while much of it is idle and unproductive. Wo should not disregard the logic of facts, which reveals the greatest success in high culture. Gain is the end of all improvement, and nothing could de serve that name of which loss was to be the necessary cousequenoe. Our agri cultural and labor-saving machinery have greatly increased within the last fifty years. The improvements in these various implements and inventions aim at saving time, labor and expense on the farm, by greater efficiency and skill.— The plow is the most important im plement in agricultural operations, and is common to all ages and countries, as far as history extends. The book of Job, one of the oldest if not the oldest books of the Old Testament, speaks of “the oxen plowing and the asses feed ing beside them, and we find in first Samuel that the plow had a share and colter. Thomas Jefferson discovered the idea of making plos by mathe matical rule, although his plo when constructed contained a number of de fects. We sometimes learn by experience something which we did not before un derstand, and we ought to grow wiser by its teachings. We are probably not yet full aware of the waste of toil and effort which comes from neglect of the economical lessons taught by the statis tics of scientific agriculture. In the proper preparation of the soil for profit able productions, fertilization is needed everywhere, and drainage in many local ities* But these things cost money, and many farmers have neither the ambition nor the confidence for its expenditure, and, worse still, in many instances the money is lacking. These may be potent reasons for discouragement, but they do not prove that intelligent and scientific farming may not be highly profitable. The teaching of statistics in examples of high success with which culture dis proves the current assumption of the unprofitableness of farming. There are numerous cases in which the gross re turns per acre has been hundreds of dol lars instead of tens. While it is mate rial for farmers to try to raise most of that crop which will bring the largest gross amount of money, still experience has shown that larger net profits may be realized by diversified agriculture, so that all our industrial interests and vo cations may receive proper encourage ment and support. Suppose a certain amount of money, say a present average of 8300,000,000, may be derived from cotton. If the average quantity is increased the price is diminished. If fluctuations are fre quent the speculator or manufacturer, and not the producer, derives an ad vantage. If you choose to produce 5,000,000 bales you may obtain ten cents per pound and loose money; if you grow but 3,000,000 you may get eighteen cents and realize a profit. It is better for the grower to produce regularly enough to supply the current wants of the trade at a medium and remunerative price, or as near a regular supply as possible, for the vicissitudes of the seasons will inevit ably cause injurious fluctuations despite the highest efforts of human wisdom and foresight. If we were to manufac ture more of our cotton at home, we might find home markets for more of our agricultural products. To overstep the current demand and glut the cotton market may be pleasing to the specula tor and to the manufacturer, so far as he combines speculation with weaving, but it is of course injurious to the grower. If I correctly understand the Direct Trade Union, it is for the purpose of carrying on direct trade from our ports to Europe. We have learned by expe rience that of the 4,000,000 bales of cot ton which have been produced annually in the cotton States, they have manufac tured only about one-fourth of that quantity, and the balance has been sent elsewhere at our own expense, and after it has been manufactured abroad we buy much of it back, with a tariff tax and all other expenses added. It is manifest that if we would check this drain upon our means and resources, we should estab lish more manufactories in the cotton States, and thus keep at home immense amounts of money paid out as costs and charges for the transportation and com missions. As capital, enterprise and skilled labor locates more and more in the cot ton States, more and more manufactories of all sorts will spring up from year to year, and with the blessings of God we shall have a great and glorious ebuntry, filled with wealth, happiness and pros perity. I hope you will have a pleasant and harmonious session; that your labors may be crowned with the most abundant suocess in promoting all our industrial interests and vocations,and that they may redound to the prosperity and welfare of our whole country. I congratulate you upon the favorable and auspicious meet ing of your Congress, aud I again offer you a cordial welcome to the State of North Carolina. President Butler’s Reply. President Butler, in reply to the re marks of Governor Brogden, spoke as follows: Governor —On behalf of the Congress I now thank you for the hearty welcome extended to ns. We are laborers in the great cause of agriculture in the cotton States. We antagonize no one, but seek the co-operation of our own people and the inhabitants of each section of our country. We are glad to hold our third annual meeting iu the old North State, where one hundred years ago the first fires were kindled into a flame upon the altar of Liberty, which afterwards cul minated in the establishment of a con stitutional government for a free peo ple. Our objects aud purposes you have well stated. But we earnestly hope that our meeting here may be productive of the like results iu the establishment of our agricultural independence iu these States, and placing on a firm foundation the prosperity of our wholo people. Again, for the cordial reception extended to us by your Excellency, accept our profound thanks, and be assured that the remembrance of it will bo always preseut with each of us. Cal. Wm. Johnston introduced Mr. T. H. Busbee, who, on behalf of the Mayor of Raleigh, extended the hospitalities of the city to the delegates. Dr. Max well, of Tennessee, responded to Mr. Busbee in behalf of the Congress. On motion, Governor Brogden and Mayor Separk, of the city of Raleigh, were in vited to seats on the floor, and these gentlemen acknowledged the compli ment in befitting terms. A committee, consisting of Judge Jones, of Arkansas; Janes, of Georgia ; Sims, of South Carolina; Holt, of North Carolina, and Maxwell, of Tenuessee, was appointed to prepare an order of business for the Convention. President Butler gavo a brief history of the organization and its objeots. It was organized in Atlanta in 1873, with a view of bettering the condition of the people of the Cotton States. The farm ing interest of Georgia were to-day in a better condition than it had been for fif teen years, and he could but attribute this fact, to a great extent, to the prin ciples which had been inculcated in the two sessions of this Congress in that State, the principal object of which was to make the farmer a more independent class, to teach him to cut,loose from that ruinous credit system which has so thor oughly impoverished the South, and to learn to till the soil by his own exertions. It was not the purpose of the friends of this Congress to array themselves against any class or against any business, but he believed that every interest would be benefitted by the system of working pro posed. He hoped the deliberations of the present Congress would result in much good to the whole country, aud he felt confident that it would be fraught with both pleasure aud profit to all pre sent. He read the following statistics: The following table shows the average number of pounds of ginned cotton per acre in the eleven Cotton States of the South up to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, for the years 1870, 1871, 1873 and 1874, the year 1872 having been left out of the statistics : States. Average number pounds per acre of ginned cot ton, 1870. Average number pounds per acre of ginned cot ton, 1871. Average number pounds per acre of ginned cot ton. 1873. Average number pounds per acre of giuned cot ton, 2874. Virginia... Ifis 172 I 163 N. Carolina 175 143 j 150 172 5. Carolina 170 <> 117 188 194 Georgia... 173 120 184 136 Florida... 165 85 126 160 Alabama.. 155 130 151 129 Mississippi 205 150 172 139 Louisiana.. 252 150 180 173 Texas 275 180 221 170 Arkansas.. 255 215 195 108 Tennessee. 190 180 190 14.3 The following shows the number and capacity of the cotton mills in the South ern States, aud their consumption of cotton for the year ending June 30,1874: States. Mills. Looms. Spindles. Pounds con’m’d. Alabama... 16 1.362 57,594 6,490,079 Arkansas... 2 28 1,256 136.050 Georgia..-.. 42 2,934 137,330 18,522,399 Kentucky... 4 42 10,500 1,878,020 Louisiana... 1 300 15,000 1,294.260 Mississippi. 11 348 15.150 1.138,604 Missouri.... 4 882 18,565 3,481,573 N. Carolina. 30 1,005 55,493 6,032,673 8. Carolina. 18 1,238 72.872 7,134.558 Tennessee.. 42 1,014 47,053 6,276,153 Texas 4 230 10,225 1,278,125 Virginia.. . 11 1,564 56,488 5,334,025 Aggregate. 187 10.447 497,6271 58.996,519 At the conclusion of Col. Butler’s re marks the Congress adjourned until 8 o’clock in the evening, having accepted an invitation to visit the Insane Asylum at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Night Session The Convention re-assembled at 8 o’clock, President Butler in the Chair. The following order of business was re ported and adopted : 1. Report of Committee on Consti tution and By-Laws, of which J. L. Bridgers is Chairman. 2. Report of Committee on Cotton Factories,* J. E. Moore, Chairman. Report of Com mittee on Statistics. 4. Report of Col. J. L. Bridgers on agriculture, etc. 3. Call for information from the Direct Trade Unions of Patrons of Husbandry. 6. Call for information in regard to the establishment of agricultural bureaus in the several States. 7. Essays on agri culture education, by Dr. E. M. Pendle ton, President of the State Agricultural College, Georgia, to be read by Capt. C. B. Denson. 8. Inquire into the best means of bringing about a close inter course between the South and the West and the Southwest. 9. Time and place of next meeting. 10. Committee of three on improved agricultural imple ments and machinery. 11. Miscella neous business. The regular order of business was de ferred and miscellaneous business was entered into. The Congress decided to hold its next regular annual session at Nashville, Tenn. The following dis patch was read and referred to a special committee, composed of Messrs. Wm. Johnston, Jos. J. Davis and A. M. Mc- Chablotte, N. C., July 13, 1875. To the President oj the Cotton States Congress: Your body is asked to consider wheth er the ten per cent, tax on other circu lation than national currency is benefi cial to the cotton interests of the South, aud if its repeal would not lower the rates of interest and greatly benefit the farmer. J. Y. Bryce, J. E. Stenhouse, Delegates to National Cotton Exchange. The Congress then adjourned. An Astonished Bostonian. A few weeks since a resident of Bos ton, who had been passing a year in Texas, started for home with his wife, to renew his business connections iu Bos ton. He reached Little Rock a few days after the 17th of June, and, having re corded bis name and residence, was shown to his room. He had scarcely dusted his coat and washed up when a rap at the door was given. Upon open ing it he found three strangers. “You are from Boston, I think ?” said the spokesman. “Boston is my native place, and Boston is my destination,” replied the gentleman. “Well, you are the gentleman we are looking after,” con tinued the Little Rocker. “We want you to step down stairs a few minutes.” “Don’t go,” said his wife, who had un pleasant reminiscences of past un pleasantness. “We want you to go, too,” continued the gentleman. “Well, what does all this mean?” said the Bos tonian. “Has anything broken, gentle men?” “Broken?” reiterated another member of the self-appointed commit tee, “Haven’t yon| read the news papers ?” “Have not seen a newspaper for three days,” was the reply. “Well, my friend,” he continued, “Massachu setts and South Carolina have buried the hatchet on Bunker Hill, and Mary land and Virginia saw it accomplished. But come down stairs, for we’ve got something on ice, and as you are the first Bostonian that we have got hold of, we propose to have the deed of recon ciliation between Arkansas and old Massachusetts signed and witnessed right here and now.” The Bostonian was a little dazed, but he went down stairs, where he was received with cheers. He was interviewed by the local editor, he and his wife were shown the beauties of the place in the best turn-out in the place, and he was sent on his way rejoicing, with his hat chalked and his hotel bill paid. He now states that he is prouder than ever of old Bos ton, and relates the incident as indica tive of the effect of the greetings given to onr visitors by the people of Boston on the occasion of the centennial of the battle of Bunker Hill. That was rather a touching allusion to a deceased spouse, made recently by a farmer, who came to the village store to purchase things. “Can’t I show you anything else to-day?” politely asked the clerk. “No, I reckon not,” replied the sad looking customer ; “I lost two horses and my wife last Fall, and I feel putty poor. Good span of horses, too.” | THE COURSE OF COTTON. New York Weekly Review. [New Tork Bulletin .J We have again had a feverish and at times somewhat doubtful market, though a show of considerable firmness has been kept up and further progress made in the advancement of values. From abroad the advices generally were void of anything stimulating, and in some cases proved rather discouraging, but movements were largely independ ent of Liverpool and gauged almost solely upon local influences. The ma nipulations, so far as could be discov ered,still appeared to tend to the one ob ject, the working up the cost of the contracts for months covering the bal ance of the present cotton year, and possibly a short distance into the next, and this effort has proven successful. The fear of a “corner” on August has remaiued strong on the minds of many operators, and an additional stimulus has been found in the increased demand for actual cotton to go out of the mar ket. Some sales were made on foreign account, but the call came in the main from home sources, and this increased interest shown by spinners lias been made the most of by operators for a rise, especially as it iu a measure verifies their predictions. The stocks, too, it is claimed again, is really smaller than shown by the running count, aud there is an expressed belief on the “ bull” side that uu actual scarcity will ensue before new supplies can be obtained in quantity, even under the most favora ble conditions. A number of the trade, however, are still unwilling to admit the probability of a “ corner,” aud seem to think a reaction likely at any moment. Taken altogether, however, and except ing the somewhat increased sale of spots referred to, there does not appear to be a positively new point developed, and the market simply awaits the culmina tion of the speculative operations now in progress on contarcts falling due within the next teu or twelve weeks. Spots have advauced |c per lb. since the publication of our last review, and owners feel strong and confident at the improvement. The demand has come largely from Eastern spinuers, ami this appears to be considered one the most encouraging features. Iff-' was noticeable, however, that no gen eral attendance of manufacturers took place, and one of the principal buyers is supposed to be largely interested in contracts. Early in the week a few for eign orders were filled on Continental account, but English shippers remaiued quiet, aud later the entire export de mand was shut off by the increased cost of cotton and the weakness on gold and exchange. Offerings have been moder ate, and it generally required bids well up to extremes to secure any stock. There is not much detail to give on the market for contracts, the course of business being much the same as for a week or two past. Nearly all energies were concentrated upon July, August and September, for which, with the ex ception of a few very small and unim portant fluctuations, prices have gradu ally hardened, the fear of an impending corner unquestionably frightening a great many of the remaining “shorts” into covering. On the new crop there has been little doing; indeed the busi ness was at times almost at a standstill, with some difficulty experienced in de ciding upon a close value. Sympathy with the early months naturally induced sellers to look for higher figures, but few buyers could be found. Indeed, the tone has been weak for almost any thing beyond, say, about October, and a great many operators stand ready to “put out” cotton upon the first signs of a break. From some few sections bints of a little too much rain have been re ceived, but, as a rule, crop accounts are admitted to be very favorable, and about all that could be desired. THE CENTENNIAL. Colonel Tyler to the Southern Gover nors. Montgomery, Ala., July 5, 1875. Hon. James M. Smith, Governor of Georgia : Sir —l deem it proper to take the lib erty to acquaint you with the fact that the board of finance of the Centennial celebration of the Declaration of Inde pendence at Philadelphia has recently sent me a commission by their own un solicited action, iu which they have done me the honor to appoint me centennial agent for the States of Alabama, Geor gia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennes nessee. No doubt the spirit of this ap pointment should be construed into an intention to manifest a feeling of kind ness aud compliment toward our people rather than to any personal merit recog nized in myself. But I havoaccepted the appointment with pleasure, beiug con vinced that the managers of the interna tional exposition and the Congress of the United States have desigued the meeting at Philadelphia as the cel ebration of a great national and historical event near to us all, and that the proposed gathering dis tinctly tends to cultivate in favor of peace, union and nationality, industrial progress and prosperity, a sentiment of fraternity and reciprocity among the co equal citizens of all parts of our vast country. Oil carefully reading my com mission 1 find that my principal duties are : First—To encourage such a feeling as has been above described, iu forget fulness, as far as possible, of our recent collisions, by turning to tlie memories of a glorious past, in which we all have an equal heritage, and to the contempla tion of that future in which we possess a common aud most immediate and com manding interest. Second—To induce, to the extent of my ability, the people of the States embraced in my sphere of service to take timely measures for an exhibition to the millions to be assem bled at Philadelphia in 1876, from all quarters of the globe, specimens of their mineral resources, of their inventions, and of their varied productions of soil aud climate. And third—To take sub scriptions to the stock of the Centennial within the five States mentioned, to a certain limited amount, on the part of the persons who may be willing to sub scribe, either from motives of profit in expectation of dividends, or from those of a less selfish and more purely patriotic character. I have regarded it as both personally respectful and officially proper to com municate to yourself, as Governor of Georgia, the facts and the objects of my appointment, with a feeling of confidence that you will be prepared to lend with avidity whatever assistance that may be in your power, or in the scope of your office, to promote so desirable and im pressive an undertaking. I shall be happy to hear from you upon the sub ject at your earliest convenience. In the meantime, I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Robert Tyler, Agent Centennial Celebration. A FREAK OF FORTUNE. The Career of a London Speculator in Real Estate. [London Corretponrlence *f th* PhilwMphia Telegraph.] Charles J. Freake, to whose assem blies half tho aristocratic world delight to crowd, and whose residence accom modates somewhere about 1,000 guests, was originally a pot boy, whose father gained a livelihood by carrying on a double trade in beer and building—both on a limited scale. His youthful incli nations led him to give a considerable larger measure of attention to building than to beer, and he quickly became a small speculative builder, trading iu his own name. With him speculation pros pered; he purchased lands, built on them, and sold the houses. From modest houses ho went on to build man sions, and what is known as Queen’s Gate, where the most spacious and costly dwellings in the metropolis are located, sprang into being under the persevering toil of this hero of an al most romantic story. He now employs thousands of men in his various works, occasionally gives a church (building it himself) to anew parish, erects schools at his own expense, is a millionaire, and occupies the largest of the houses he has built,namely Crom well House. He did not design to oc cupy that house, however. It was built for the Duke of Rutland. His Grace re sided there some time, and might be re siding there still, for he liked Cromwell House exceedingly well; but, when the adjoining mansion was finished, Freake settled himself and family in it, and as a Duke, with his builder for a neighbor, was wholly contrary to his Grace’s ideas of propriety, and certainly does seem an odd illustration of the eternal fitness of things, negotiations were hurriedly completed for handing over the larger residence to the tradesman, while the most noble tenant removed to Bute House, on Campbell Hill, becoming the next neighbor to his Grace of Argyle. Other;nobles have been less punctilious, and at the present time the Lord Chan cellor and the Earl of Denbigh are the millionaire builder’s very near neigh bors, and Princes of the blood not in frequently deign to make morning call, and even occasionally appear at fashion- • able gatherings there. A Western editor insists that he wrota the word “trosseau” as plain as a pike staff in coimection with certain bridal presents. The printer, however, vulgar ly put it “trousers.” There’s nothing so wonderful about malleable glass that can be hammered. A friend of mine has a glass still unbro ken, though he has kept punch-in-it at intervale for several years.