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jlg-v - ' i. i ii! From WashiiiKtou. Washington, Feb. 28. Senate.?The Bonnie debated till adjournment tbe concurrent resolution declaring that no Senator or Representative from the lately rebellious States shall l>e admitted until Congress decides that they i are entitled to admissiou. Hoi'BK.?The House debated and then J postponed till the second Tuesday of April tlie proposed Constitutional amendment telative to the privileges and immunities of citizens in lite sever*! States, etc. The vote on po?tpouenieot was?yeas 210, nays 37. Even the Republicans were disagreed as to tbs effect of ibis amendment During the debate Mr. Pinghafn, of Ohio, caused to be read an article iu the Norfolk Post saying that the veto was the greatest triumph since the first battle of Dull Run, and that President Johnson was a more eilicient ally of the South than Lee or Jackson. Mr. Marshall In vttib explained that the editor wrote ironically. Mr. Dingham replied that whether the article was written ironically or as an ex pression of the views of the Secessionists, it afforded a view of the feolings of the South, and he suggested that at no distant day testimony would bo adduced to show to every honest man who wishes well to his country that the.e i.v a conspi racy exieiKiing inrougn every suip lately \ in insurrection, under the invitation to kill the '"rilled calf," to swear them all and take possession of the legislative po*er of our country, and accomplish by false and corrupt legislation, what they failed to accomplish by arms. Washington, March 1. Senate.?Mr. Wilson reported a bhl f >r the dUbandment of the militia of the { late insurrectionary Slates and to prevent i their reorganisation. The House con* current resolution was debated. ilofsK.?The House discussed, hut 1 came to no conclusion, on the Senate bill providing that there shall he no discrimination in the civil rights and immunities ninong the citizens of the United States of Ahy State or Territory, and to furnish the means of protection. The bill refers to while atid black. Wasuixqtow, March 5. The House Committee on lieconstruction report m j ?iu 1 resolution to admit Tennrssee into the Union on certain con dilions, to be ratified by ber people, via.: No part of tho Confederate debt to be paid; those who were engaged in the; rebellion not to be allowed to vo'.o or j made eligible for ofliee for h certain ( period. This is the Republican programme i as to all the Southern States. The House, by a vote of 37 ayes to 100 cays, refused, to receive a cotnmunii cation from the Governor of North Caro i lina, enclosing a resolution of the North | Carolina Legislature, signifying their sc< I ceptance of certaiu lands for Agricultural | College purposes. The vote wsa taken j after Stevens saying they did not recormize North Carolina a* h State in the Cni.xi. { In the Senate, a joint resolution was introduced for the admission of the He preseutalives of any State of the insurrectionary States, uj.or, the repeal of all , distinctions of civil rights tu account of color, and the conferring of the right of | auffrage upon all negro* who have nerved in the army, can read the Constitution, and who pay tax on real or personal property. The resolution watt referred to the Committee on Reconstruction. A Radical Piisss on tiik Prxbie bnt'3 Svexed.?The baltimore American says: "Whilst the loyal men of the country | will lament over the defection of a Presi j dent whom they trusted, and whose ut, terances had heretofore given hope that ho would prove equal to the trust reposed in him, the tone, and temper, and Inn gnage employed by him on this occasion will cause a deep shock of humiliation ana sorrow. W? have no heart to fur* j ther Allude to the subject at this lime. We are in the midst of a political revolui < tioz that will at once cause the conren tration of opin:on and the formation of parties, and keep the country in a tur moil of excitement during the next three years." ? prathofthk OlDKAT MaN IN TUB Would.?Tlis Portage (Wis.) It*gU'er , announces the death of Joseph Cre'e, the aged veteran of one hundred and forty one rears, which occurred on KmiouA.v the 27*.h January, after a brief illneM, at lb? rtswlanre of bis ((rand daughter, Mrs. lirsbois, ic Caledonia, about four milts from IVrtsga. % % ITiuiraster jCrtigrr. PUBLISHED AT LANCASTER C. II. S. C., uy CONNORS A CARTER. WEDNESDAY MORNING, March II, 18GG. Subscriber* finding a (Xl cros-t tuark on the margin of their paper luaj know that their time is about to expire. ?:5?~ Mr. Thou a a I*. Ri.ii>er, is our authoriwJ agent to receive ml vertis-oneiM* and sub' scrip'ious lor the LcDOKIt in (.'baileeton. A E'roposi liou. Any person sending us a Club of rive new subset ibers to ono Post Oilicc address, accompanied .ith the cash, will receive a copy of the paper extra for one year. Among the lecent graduates of the Medical College of leston, we observe the nnine ol William J. White, ol this Diatrie*.. Dr. While h^ls fair to become an hoiiornMe member of the profession which he has chosen. We are requested to state that Mr. Robinson will not be altle to lecture on Friday night next, as before announced ; and that, should Mr. Peoples fill the appointment, the community will be notified in time to attend. Professional Services and Charges. Klsewhere in this nif.er is nublislird a nre amble and resolutions of the Lancaster Bar, establishing a iiiiifb in rate of uiiti iuivini charges for certain services specified. As tlie subject matter involved is one of gonen! interest, effecting .lie entire community, we leel justified in making allusion thereto in our cditoiiul columns. We do not assume to speak for the gentlemen of the Bar, for they are all quite able to answer for themselves, and it is only as a measure of oublic conce'n tii it v. e nlb.de to it at all. The object aimed at by the members of the liar is not, we conceive, so much to introduce in? novations in the rales of charges, us to secure touu ctitn/>en*olioh for all sm vices icnaercd. It is a fat t well known by the ci.tire community that Oleic is a va.-l deal oi giutuitous m vice performed t y the inemliers of the legal profession. We do not say that the lawyers are alone in this, (or it is well known tlait the niiiu is.'ers and doctors ere also accustomed to work for nothing; but the point to w hich we wish to direct attention is, whether it is right lor them to do so? Is it expected that a man shall devote his means and t dents to the acquirement of a piofession, and then, in c citaiu classes of prolcsj!oiul service, deal out to the public gratuitously that which lie had acquired by hard study and necossrry pecuniary cxpemdilute* Or rhould he establish some'uniform -.?? f... ?ti l:...i ..r - in his sphere, like the tr.urehanl fixes upon his coiikiito<iitie-t or tiie mechanic upon his labor * It secr.is tlntl there can be but one rational answer to tli's question. The lawyer is, wo conceive, as much entitled to compensation for professional advice us the merchant is (or his goods, or the 1 ibo/er (or his hire. Wo imagine it will pu/.zle the tnost astute reasoner to show the contiary, the many \uigai piejudiciesugaiiit the profession to the conn rr not>. ithstand, log. The next point t) which wc wish to direct attention is, whether the public is in any degree injured hy an arrangement of this kind. Common sense, to say nothing of business expci ience, will teach n nun that pi id service is ah ways the safest and most reliable. Is it expected that a nnn who wo-k- for nothing, shall observe the same particularity in the performaneo of his service as a man who works for a fee or n reward? If he gives you slovenly work, or unsafe counsel, who is the most to b'uine for it?you *hos-s object *n< to sponge upon li s icsource-*, or he who had no interest iu lO.ideru.g a faithful service? llolh are doubtless to Dame, and the remedy is pi tin : pay for what you require and then you can command proper and lawful set vice, and you can make the paity responsible if you do not obtain it. The lawyers, we presume, are willing to abide by this tuie and to auawoi for their errors, (where they are paid,) to the satue extent that a man, in any other business or voca tion, would be answerable for a failure iu that which he has uudensken to perform. If the rules wliicti Iwive been laid down aie adhered to, we believe they will operate as an advantage, not only to the profession, but to the country at largo. " 4 Restoration of Civil Law. The country has for some litne been in anxiaus expectation of a Proclamation horn President Johnson, declaring that the war is ended, and that civil government is lully restored with, in all tha State* lately ut war witli the United Stales. Accounts from vmious q larlers con cur in saying that a paper of this character will be issued vc.y soou. mc i.iiiiiiioiiu i mir* says that, tiie J'resident nojonger luakes a .Stat*} seferet of the fact that ho a ill in u Tory short liuio issue an oDicial proclamation that the la'e civil war if ended.? V. heu he doe* this ho will have accomplished the last and highest a:t which the Kiecutire Depat tincnt of the Government can peifuim towards the restoration cf peace. He cannot cosspul Congress to adnr.it Representatives hind the Southern Stat***, hut hie proclamation will an >ordinate militar/ to c.vil euthoi ity, and placs all the Status composing the Uuiou upon a footing of equality in that resprc t. The privilege of the writ of Ai6?is eorput will then be within roach of the humblest citizen of the South, and our State governments wltl become supreme wjthia the limits of the I States for the protection of whose citizens they were organized. 1 Martial law, which now reigns supreme in eleven Slate", will then only be potent for the control and puni->hn^i|t those who are connected with the arun^in the manner defined by the Articles of War. The Southern people, after a probation of ! nearly twelve months, will hail the proclan.aj tion of peace with great joy. And yet, as far^ ' as our resistance to the authority of the Con atitntion and laws of the United States is coo? h certied, there has been peace the most piufuund and undistntbed since the 1st of May last.? The history o! civil wars, ancient and modern, furnish no more rrmmkuble and striking inst-inco of the speedy utid honest acquiescence in the result of a contest than the people of the Soutii have dene dnce their armies capitulated. The sun of the Confederacy sunk. leav. I Jn|j no margin of gradually darkening twilight. ' The blackness of daiknoss lell upon the "lost cause" as inpiiHv as night follows the scttisg of the pun in Fastern countries. The inexotablti lo.-^io of the war convinced the people of eleven State* with a rapidity 1 without piccedent in the hratoiy of the woild. I No thought of lesintaiiC'' to the Federal Gov. crnrncttl kept a single guerrilla in the held an hour aftei the vapiiulation ot Fee and Johnson. Tlie good faith of the people of the douth has been duting the la-1 ton months manifested iu many different wa. a. A labor system which the hulnta, customs and usages of tnany g?ee? i at ions had rendeied part and parcel of the South, was annihilated in a day, hut despite the terrible temporal y annoyances which its destitu tion vis ted upon our people, they lux* the change v.;th w on Jot fill foititude and equanimity. Indeed, in an infinite variety of wry* we have demonstrated to ull impartial, uripiejudii J eed persous, out fitness for the judicious exerj cise of those great civil rights which are so ] soon to lie restored to us by the Piesideiit. fits ; foitlieoming pio-lanation of peace will be ree! oguizeil by ull couset vutivo Norlbern men, uinl by all Christendom, as a most w so and MateaI manlike exercise of the mo.-t iirp jilc.ii' function of bis high till! ' ??. 9 ii m o rwi Seizures of property by Government Agents. w i? IliiVP in !i ir i?i#? I l.v (bivAmAt | lVirv tL.it, alii!hl in Washington, lie* lim< 1 I a conversation with tin; lion. Hugh Me; Cufocl), Sgcrotary of the Treasury, in r?t terence to 'he con<luct of the Treasury agents in South' Carolina. Mr. McCuh iocL assured CI ivernor l'eriv that Le Lad never aulboiized any of his Treasury agents iu South Carolina to take fiutn | the possession of iLe citizens, Lorses, mules, saddles, bridles or leather, or ?nything else, except cotton belonging to the Confederate Slates. Its expressed him self as deeply inOrtitie 1 to hear that his agents had been running about over the country and annoying the citizens by la. king horses, mules, saddles, bridles, wag. oris, Arc., which had been captured, or which had belonged to the Confederate j States or United States, and bona fide in the possession of the people. He had j given no such orders or instructions to any of. his agents, lie further expressed a dt-leiiniuatton t > lerret out the frauds which soma of these ngeiit* had perpetrated, and bring them to justice. We ilearii (hea luf irin ition very inipor. ( ant hit I Ik r><s /.ria I. >aI ? f si? >< |#o wu uimiiicM ui nip iires* ! will give ?t free circulation for the benefit j of ail concerned* It seems to us that every instance of a violation of the rulrv i estahhoherl l?y the Sei rotary of the Trea enry should he reported to headquarter*. , Our citizens should certainly claim nil the | protection of the United State* au'.hori j lies, ami they will realize that they live I under a (Jovernn ent both capable and willing to ehiehl them in the peaceab'e enjoyment of iheir right* of person and property.? Greenville Mountaineer. Th<f Fenians. There is "rent excitement untonir the Fenians in consequence of the now^of ili? suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in Ireland. John O Mahony ban issued the following order: II k adql' a ri si's, F. D., New Vokk, March 1, 18C3. I5boikkhs: The hour for action hat arrived. The habeas corpus is suspended in Ireland. Our brothers aro being ar rested by hundreds and thrown into prison. Cell your cireiitf together immediately, and send us all the aid in vour power at once, and, in God's name, let us start for our destination. Aid, brothers? help lor God and Ireland. JOHN G'MAIJON'Y. God save the "Green." All circles of Fenians ara to meet in their halls and armories on the receipt of j the above otder, to take action on lbs news just received. The exciiemeui in Washington and ouier cm**,comequeni upon a KnowiCil^e of iba I'maidenfe policy at eba<)??ed : lor ill in bia last public addreaa, conlii.ua* { unabiied. Tbe newapapara teeru w'lh I coinrubota. Arlicle* favorable and article* I unfavorable appear in quick auccesj'on. W;i><hing(on ISuiuorn But tow applications for pardon have , been received wiiliio 'be last day or '.wo, < but very large numbers on f)!<* are now | awaiting ibe action of (be Pre.idont. Tt is-now a common remark among Republicans that Cotigrnss Is softening. a ?: r> . i:?i ,i.? p. ?\ V xsvy 1* 111 i II U11 l I IJ lilt KAHVUliTf quarter said to day that lit0 ship of atate was again en tha rrghl track. In the United Slates Senate, on Mom : day, a petition whs presented front cili 7.011s of loan for h constitutional amend* merit recognizing the existence of God and the divinity of Christ. Tliere ia it rumcr that tha Secretary of the Treasury hits brought a bureau olDeer to account fur abuse of lit0 President. A large number of the subordinates in departments alii] think thoy are n great potver. The President to-day, in receiving tha Maryland delegation, who presented the resolutions endorsing his policy, paaaed Monday night in lialtimore, reiterated the sentiments heretofore expressed, and thanked them for the call. It is rumored that the wife of r. mein her of C?Migre?s, from one of the W astern States, bus cornniencad an action against him for a divorce, and that the trial will discius* some piquant feature* of fa?h ' ionahle society hero at the Metropolis. An order frottt the Secretary of \N sr has removed Mis. Swisaheori from iirr , position in tl.e 1 >spaiimetit, because in the paper vthicli she publisbea here, she . Iia<) spoken uf the President as "a Irai' lor." Some members now say that il it use ) j less to just bids for llie I *? e-i. I en l In veto, : I atul .list, h? llieir own measures cannol ' i I l>e enacted, tliev care for no oilier. j<>ther* propose a con'inooits session ti.l the expiration of the Thtrivri.inlli Con j gres*, to prevent the I'rrnoent from appointing his friends to otlice during the i recess of the Senate. The fact that one hundred men ere regularly detailed to ifuard the White House?es <n President Lincoln's time ? Indicates that Certain threats and anonymous letters have not been without their effect, and that it is believed necessary to guard against the attempt of any crazy fanatic or daring assaiiiu to emulate It cot Ii "s unparalleled crime. Tue Judiciary Committee of the House ' have before them i; hill submitted t'J j j i'liad. Stevens, providing that no removal I ? ??* r . /"< . .u _ll i . I oi any oiucer in 11>?* ??ovirnuj-ni nimi ui in4c!j Liv the 1'resident without the content of the Senate, provided :h*t body, in the first ineianca, confirmed the apt pointn.ent. l it* object of such bill needs no explanation. Tlit report of the Ways a.id Msans Committee upon the income question and | iheautjeciof cotton is ready, r.n.J will i be tent in immediately. 'i ha tax upon i incomet is to ha general, five par cent., all under one thousand dollars exempt ; i while that upon cotton is to le raised l 1 from two to fi?e cents per pound, wi;h a drawback nf two and a half ner cant, in I lavoj^of Lome manufacturers. So many nnd so Variant have been the rumors in circulation relative to the ! Cabinet, that we ere p'eased to find in the , New York Tim's what we suppose to he ! an authoritative declaration thnt there is j ! the "highest authority for mating that I i Mr. Stanton fully approve* the Presi j dent'a action, and it is also true that tlie ' entire Cabinet are a unit on the aanie question. The Preai<lenl ia full? sustained ' by hi* Oabi.ret." There ia a moet important rumor nftoat ; this 1\ M, to the (fleet that Thaddeut j has buried the hatchet, and in future will | j work more in harmony with the Presi dent. IPs first act of repentance wae to forward to the President n letter soliciting the appointment of postmaster in Peun j sylvNoi* for a friend, whom he (Stevens) endorsed in full, and which the President received in his usual gracious manner, 1 granting die favor naked for within an hour afterwards. Another week of the session begins. ; but with as little prospect cf the dispatch | of business a* heretofore. Were this the short session, it would be within week < of its termination, ??<!, ss yet, (be whet.lt of legislation are clogged by toe efforts of 1 Congress to defeat the President's plan of eeonstrtielioiK The war bet*e?n the President end Congress has begun ic earnest, but the Kapublieas majority could not, At lie caucus on Friday night, agree upon act plan of hostilities. They j took measures, howerer, to tbeir i ' elections. ' - .1 liW . - -Assistant Secretary Chandler's account of tbo results of his investigation of fcffi. cial corruption in the South will startle the country. The frauds nro moat com preventive, and involve military as well 1 r? civil officials. Within the last year ' the Government has been swindled otMMf more than one hundred millions of dollars. A special Committee of Iuvetti^a Uoii *> ill he instituted that will unravel a Complicated svstem of rsscalitv. The New Yoik Times (Republican) says ; "The age ( basliles uud guillotines has passed, but there is a despotism in Coogress hs infatuated as tbut which CMuaed France to weep tear* of blood The majority of the llonsu of Iiepresen tativee has invested a Committee of tit een with powers which, under the guidance of a Jacobin chairman, is becoming as odious bb any tiiuuivirate created by despotism." It it reiterated that the President will, in a few days, issue hie official prociama lion til At peace has been firmly established At the South, and that the States will then be left to govern themselves under the Constitution and State and local laws, without military interference, except in relation) to the Frredmei.'a Ujiieno, to continue one year after the dale of the forthcoming proclamation. Q lartermaster (iencrul Meigs has commenced the work of removing those in his deparimeut who entertain di Iferent views from those expiessed by the President in his recent harangue and ve'o message. Yesterday five clerks were discharged on this account, and o hers i threatened. A movement was set m foot to<dav in the Itepartinenl of the Inieiior to exclude the l>ailv Morning Chronicle from ciiculaling among the clcrUs mid J rinplovri't of the 1 >?-parlrnent. This is : under llie superintendence of a number of Copperhead*, who h a?e been allowed to remain in the 1 >ep*rtinenl over since j i It ?s administration of James pucki-nan.?Forney's Prtss. The united delegations of the Siatee and Territories on tho Pacific coast, called upon the President on Saturday, and re quested liim, through Senator Connors, iu pursuance of instructions receiead from their constituents, to give the Pa' fic coast a represeniatise in his Cabinet, mainly on account of the d.fli -ulttos con nected with their land titles. The tame request w*e preferred to Mr. Lncoin about the time he appointed Mr. Harlan. The impression left upon the minds of the delegation by President Johnson's reply was that he would take the matter into fasorable consideration A gentlemen of ih;? oil* , h*? ing ore* ! ion to pass through Arlington at dusk 1 on Salurdav, saw u lone'v ti *tue atand* ' ing with folded arms at the foot of a tre?. Struck with the sorrowful attitude of the j person, he walked past him, and saw ' that it was Robert iv Lee, standing in j the street that passes through the middle ' of the o'd estate. Mia. Lee hat applied | to the President for a restoration of this estate, which has virtually heroine a National Union soldier's cemetery. The , expectation i? general that the President v*iil order its restoration. The Senate duhste on the rjsolu'.i on of the*Reconstruction Committee, shutting out Stales lately in rebellion from rcprcsenialiou till Congress shall declare that they are entitled to representation, wi.l continue during the week. Mr Johnson, of Mary and, it jet to speak against li e , resolution. It will probably pa?a by a meagre majority of not ir.ore than four or tire. The passage of the resolution, howeeer, determines the great fact that the Stales which seceded will not be r*pre> sen lac' durintr i In i.??nm '. - ' - ? I * -? j md thai lli? coi?tmu?# of ? ttta will oon make m report, io p?ri. u(mn lb* ! condition of the ?!? & Southern State*, end give r?n?ont why they hnukl not be i recognized h* S <? ol (! Umon. Tkb Ni* York Mrkiiso.?The New ! York Sun, ftpenking of lh Join *ot meet* iug io New York, mjii MIl represented the buwneM, the wealth, Mod ike fiotn cinl influence of lha irretropolie, rutlier limn any party, cliijue or faction. The men who ?n? ioetrnmchtal iu bringing ' bout that meeting, by appending their ' name* to the mil, and iho?e of tb?tr cImm, _L- -.1 a--- - wiiv uiiieiwuo an<j<?r*e >i, are lo a gr**t extent the unit who were mom, active during the rebellion id |>|>lf 'Og the Government with the necesvary tuaaoe for proeecutinjj the war." A Washington <le?puch it ia pre j table thai Genera! Gram will toon lay } hie handa od eonia Kentuckieoe who ara 1 diepoeed to make trouble. lie pronoun I eee Kentucky, next to Virginia, iht tnoit' dieloya! State in tba Union. # [Fro.n the GuKiinttu* (Oa ) tiu i) The Cotton Crop oflSGG. Much ha* been laid and written respecting the amount of cotton that would be produced in the United State* the present year. Some writer* have put it k* high a* two-third* of a crop, white oilier* hare contemed \heraselve* frith half a crop. * Our esiiruAle i* 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 bale*?what we term a little .U. t . I. * .L - ' titvi iu? iuuiui ui it crop?wm iwuria wr ili? crop of 1861, which we set dowu at 4.800.000 bales. This is a high figure, uiul may poseib'y ha orer lha mark. In proof of lha correctness of our eatlf mala, we will state a few incon lestiWe facts. Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, West Tennessee and Alabama have bean lha greet cotton producing rations. Tbey liHva'liaeii relied on fororer thraa million* of the crop ? wa might say, three fourtba of the cotton crop. What is their eondi* tion now ? In the rich and productive terriloties of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis* sippi, Wast Tennessee in North Alabama, what', of African labor wis left by lha Federal army is completely demorelided, aud is composed of the old, infirm and woman and cb.ldren. The larger half of the labor that cultivated the crop of 18C0? 61 are absent. Soma are dead, mini are it the army, anJ many hate congregated ia the towns and citiea, seeks ing employ mailt more agreeable to then* than tie d labor. In South Alalnma, it 's thought, Afri' ma labor is in better trim. There the absent from tl-'J labor aie not so numerous, but from the best infoimation we cmii gather from the productive tactions <>f South AUbai. a, African labor is mncli demoralized, ami ilioae wlio have con* tracted for plantation service cannot be relied upon for more than lialf thsrerye they did-perform wli l? in slavery. Even there one fourth to one-third of the laborr era are absent from plantation service. in Georgia, we are sati?fi~J not more than, the llnrd of the crop of 18G1 can ha relied on. Planters will make an vff r:, aud poe-.il.ljr a large surface will be planted in cgltoo, hut we believe the In* bor cannot be relied cn ir. the crieia of the crop, aud aa a consequence grate will become master of the situation, mod iuucU will bare to 1/e abandoued. lo South Carolina, as alto in Gdorgie, the valuable cea island lands are in poet session of lit a tog roe*, and-but little can be expected, from that quarter. In the in tenor 01 oouiq uarouea African labor baa Lean greatlj d jmoral ced I>j tlia presence of negro tmop*. ao much to, that hut little labor will ha got out of ihona even who contract, nod hut iillle cotton can ho looked far from that Stale. Three are fa-vt vol, k-iown to all who are acquainted with the condition in which the war haj left the cotton region and the disposition of the negro aa a re* liable laborer .under the present ayatetn. We have bean induced to write thie article from having seen nup.trou* speculative opinions sent abroad by coerespondents and commercial fi-ms whoee opinion* heretofore were entitled to credit, but whose [ re-ant want of knowledge of he ''situation" totally unfiia them to be * reliable advisers. When the planter could control lh? labor at command be kat# precisely bow many acres of laod b# could plant and successfully cultivate, aod it was an easy matter to estimate from fer*. mer dsta (the seasons being equal) with* in a few thousand bales of the amount of cotton that would be produced. finch is not the rate under the c baa fed labor system. We ere satisfied that not only the prospective crop has been largely overestimated, but thai the stock of eld cotton on hand in this country bas also '<aen over estimated. Theaa ara matters of serious Iropoit to our peopla IB B pe? cuniary {mint. Kver since tbe snorroous eaiimatea bane been goiug forward ootloa has manifested a downward taadaney abroad, and many on tbia aid# of tba water have sustained heavy loeeee. \V# do not charge any una with having ins lenlionally misrepresented in tbie matter "-wt have more charity for tbera. lint we do charge thein with ignorance of tba trua elate of tha eituatioa. Tub New Part*.?Tba New Tork Ttmu ?)- that a meeting of promiaeal cuizena baa b?an he'd, at whicb com* miuee oat appointed to go to Washing* ton aad acak a conference with Praatdaat Jobnaoc, u to tba baU meant of aaataiai ing bia Administration. Tba oommittao baa agreed to undariaba tbta Uuk, aad oa their return, it ia atatad, will aubmil a report to meeting to be called for tba purpose. Tba Georgia beuata baa paaaad a bill to pcub bora# atea'mg with death.