The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-07-15
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! WASHINGTON, July 14-An order will sooi
! DC issued from the War Department annOuhc
| ing tnat No more applications Tor the dlschai2f
| ot private soldiers will be entertained, as THE
| army mas been reduced to 800 men in accOr
oance WIN the recent act of Congress.
| The Cotton Prospects.
-, The July returns do not materially change
dne cotton crop prospects reported in June.
Lie severe rain storms have continued to OBJ
struct cultivation aud check the growth in the
states upon the gulf coast Ia Louisiana
MISS 'lsspp, Alabama and Florida average lower
III condition THAI at last report. Georgia and
Texas averages remain the the same and an
Improvement in Carolina, Tennessee and Ar
kansas. With reduction of IA per csut. in
acreage, the continuance of the present rela.
tlveiy low condition, and a season as long of
1871 there shOald be gathered 3, 200 900 bales
or about as much as 1869. With a season of
average length 100000 bales; with an early
frost aid a very HniavOrab,e season for pick ing
10000 bales. The prevalence of insects,
witn other unprOpltious circumstances would
probably reduce the crop to 2 500, 900 bales and
steady improvement of the plant for 60 days
with the largest and most favorable packil g
season. e might carry the aggregate up to $780,
600 bales,
Custom Receipts.
The custom receipts for the week ending
June 30th We're as follows: New York 81 $780,
800. Philadelphia ST. 1852, 2I9 Boston 1858 922
Baltimore $196 24S. Total 81 ,268, 1854.
Testimony of Treasurer of Georgia.
DR.. Angler Treasurer of Georgia, in his
statements before the Ku-Klux Committee to-
DAY, presented facts and figures against Gov.
builoek. DisavowiDg political or partizan
views, he said the Gov. had violated the plain
iettef OF law in many instances, including the
issuing of New State bonds and his effort to
conceal the amount, and his disposition Of
them.
Witness said that he knew nothing of the
huhluX except from rumOr and newspaper re-
ports. never having in bis know ledge seen one
He thought that lawlessness had exhibited it.
sell IN some sections of Georgia, as it did at
times IN every State, He could not say how
Iaf IL mad been political but concluded that it
was such in some sections, and that men both
Wnlte aud black were Low making Use of dis
gu,se for private gain and personal revenge
and boys for mischief.
he regarded it as wonder that the people
are as quiet and peaceable as they are with
corruptiOns and terrible plnpderings, and over
three hundred pardOns by the Governor A
large portion for murder, and in some cases
be ore trial
There is no such thing as a general distur.
bance and never has been. Many of the me-
groes and some of the whites are addicted to
stealing, and RIGHTEOUSNESS and this has cans
ed disturbance and violence in some localities.
Interesting Testimony.
Judge A. r. Wright of Georgia, who was
cAamiucu yesterday UeiOre the hu AluX Com
mittee, said: IF the people of the South can
be made to believe that the people of the North
will never retrace their steps on negro suffrage
and will perpetuate their efforts to make the
black man dominate the white race, | would
not stand security for the people of the South
if they should ever have a chance to free them
selves from such state Of things, but there
need be no fear OF further rebellion. The South
ern people believed that the present state of
things grows out of exctements and animosi-
ties engered by war and have an abiding faith
I'D the return of reason which time will serve
to produce and that the calm sense of the coun-
try will be excited to bring about a state Of
feeling and fraternity which nothing else will
ever produce and to which the present man
t cement can never contribute