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Newspaper Page TextijV trI-WEEKLY. I; ’ 0 ( five or m< $4 00 2 00 1 00 AND- MODERATION." 5 ADVANCE. j one copy will be fpr- VOLUME XXV. I a pub- -.HDVEKTISEMENTs. lE " ^ v Ad^xUtratofs.Execton or • L, ” , b - ,Vred bv law to be held on w-*" "? r eaea month, between the 5 TueriVO 0 reaoon anil three in the ;w ■“ ll r , ort Honse in the county m L-.1 th '.|^Uuated. pWP* 1 '..,.,, , u ust be giv %:( c of personal property must ; m ;„aer! through a public ga.- t$J,« J.’IvrTao'i Cmllmrs of an cstat. will be made to the P*P p J Ji,.re to sell land must be ?°^months. ,')(l lavs pre’ . u ; administration, Guar- Sonil-' ‘ el “ rs b published 30 days-for p to. ffl . u , S ‘migration, three months— Guardianship, 48 days. /‘ ; ® Tnrccloseure of Mortgages must ■ ■ : lhi ,kiv for four months—for es- :...sted fur (be full space of three 1 pap 'i;'„e titles (rom Executors or U f*. a 1. l.nora rrix-nTI Tiv ai't-rere’hond has been given by i«* full space of three months. fi**-**.# always be continued accord- iiieaiiouj w'^, rc , iuirc ments, unless oth- the flowing rates. Oft! . X fi.fa en lines or less $3 00 sales, per levy, 5 00 saK-s. p< levy , 3 00 cr « of Administration... : Vf>ticr/ol Guardianship... cation f°rtom»»<m # ## ^p£.i.™''fudSsston from # ## );„.ilip,. 3 00 and Creditors, * JJ KSJir 4 00 .biswife: (in advance) 10 00 Y MORNING, Sept. 24. IbKOW NS’ sOLll.oaWEa NO. 1. La Brown, or IXTltoPl'CTOtlY. wu i» a bit of a philosopher, in his ia J Brown has a way. by the way, j v j,ij own. Now. in speaking ot I UJOJQ my i'rlctid Brown, and not 1'om Brown, or George Brown. They, the John Tom, George and Harry Brown i,ephilosophers too, and have ways ijriv their own. perhaps they have, ;’ r the sake of comity and good fellow- !am prepared to admit that they are - , fliers, and have ways of their own, aufthemand their ways I have no right tvu Indeed, nothing but the cordial- hoi., relation existing between my biSr-iJu and utyself, would permit me Lai if him or of his ways. But Brown y.i fellow, as ail sensible meu are WJ he. and while his excessive mod raid re'olt at the idea of intrudin; ,n.,in up.in the public, yet he may e,.',v- that while - many i flower is horu to blush unseen Kite its sweetness on the desert air’ : should an adventurous tourist peue is- dt-sert bower, he would have a s right t - mliale its sweets, and dis upon its loveliness, aud although I am tel less to a spirit of adventure than | ilippr iVtuiie for my acquaintance ’a Blown, vet I aui sure that he will tailless accord to me the privilege of (riisjtis wit. ami diffusing his wis blood remarking as he did so, “we are vam* pires all” a degree of philosophy and good nature, but few ol ns would be -likely to emulate under a similar trial. Of Browns’ personal appearance it is not perhaps necessary to speak, as there are so many contradictory ideas of taste and of manly beauty, that were he an Adonis, his appearance would fail to please every one, for while some might consider him hand some, others merely good looking, whiia others still—those who have no good looks of their own to boast o’f, would pronounce him downright ugly. In bis dress Brown, without intendin, be so, was somewhat eccentric. He had an unconquerable penchant for antiquated fashions, and never considered himself properly dressed unless arrayed in the style which rendered Will Wizzard, the obscrv ed of all observers, on his appearance at Mrs. B’s. so graphically described by An thony Evergreen Gent, in Salmagundi. The sly merriment of the ladies, with whom he occasionally associated, or the rude jest of the boys who gathered after him, as he perambulated the streets, could neither raf fle the severity of his temper, nor cause him to discard a costume in which he so advantageously displayed, if not the graces of his person, at least the oddity of his taste. I have been thus particular in describ- g the parts and characteristics of my friend Brown, for oho same reason, (which I consider to be a good one) given by the spectator for parading a notice ot himself before his readers. While, as I said before, Brown’s modes ty would not suffer him to intrude his opin ions, much less a personal allusion to him seif, upon the notice of the public, yet, what of wit, of wisdom, or of philosophy is contaioed in these papers may be accred ited to him. They are indubitably his, aud if the reader has any curiosity to know whether their author is a black man or a white man, or a married man, or bachelor, with other particulars of a like nature, that conduces very much to a good understand ing of author, my friend Brown is the le gitimate object of that cariosity. Hoping, therefore, that his curiosity is satisfied, and if it be not an inordinate one, I have been sufficiently minute to gratify it, I shall, without further ado, proceed to a faithful report of such of Brown’s so- iloquies as it has been, or may hereafter be, my good fortune to overhear. I - aiueh given to soliloquizing— hi Jt s ia this manner alone that he 5 vent to his pent-up wisdom. I have ■ sarong the whole course of my inti- wliBrown, known him to give ut- twtoconversation, to one single ex ■aa that would indicate the wealth of --’0:; ay hidden within. -lb hints that Brown finds in "‘“"a appreciative listener than 1 -j have in others, but then Jones is '1 besides, I have often known il'Muising to dissent from his a and to violently contradict I fiber insinuates that Browns’ so. I't 1 * is aspired by something more . (v’tuhe divine afflatus; that he im- -'-acihinj more potent than the usually drawn from the Pierian Sat. as before stated, Jones is I must be just, however, to Jones, - that it is very true when the ■ '» execsi'.wly warm, Brown does [Mmii-s indulge in m ; a t j a l e p, just to ffcwl inti, or when I - - laticliolly days (uve come, the sad- -if the year.” - s.urp wintery mornings admon- Mifj ourselves against the cold, *3pouch is brought into requisition, ' Ti:r e it otherwise, and the ... ^ ^-“uutious of Jones were true. matter for that. And 7°j, >lU1 re P rctens >ons than Brown " -own makes no pretensions at -““tes fire their genius and their . - *• the shrine of Bachus, and ac- . .. "•“( plodding faculities with an 10 ^ onerous juice. And I ' 'heir happiest thoughts are ar ° bho less true for Qj " en Gtled to our respect ? The L not I. sanitary measure, but that is My purpose is rjjj r 'P° rt ^town’s speculations, not e may at some future day draw | Br °“ t 0D the subject. . We shall see. tfi, Sir • T° mC luditorium own be dchamber, where, seated in “' ed ’ Chair, the latest pa- kook ia his hand, his M 'i J '“ ohimney aroh, his ^Ciu C? r of m y hu »Bie pre- ^it c • ludu ia e his cacoethus, im- L' t ^l ,nt T nption , until hLi humor f^'ci-oea L W ^ en u P oa returning to f>,.| j. , e w °uld stare confusedly r’ -xl » . 1 ner vous jerk, reopen K ; n (!i entlttes Bottom upwards, re-1 Nle, « w . mosfc d °preciatous tone, im* ^ a l00 ^ ^ been making rN Urow a i 3 a good I‘ Uncle Toby, in the THE ELECTION BILL. We give below the full text of Mr. At torney General. Akerman’s infamous elec tion bill. When we were first apprised, by a special dispatch, of its iniquitous provi sions, we were too much shocked by the enormity of the outrage to give an expres sion of our condemnation of it—for, how ever oontemptible and unrighteous the measure may be, and loudly as it calls for the strongest terms of condemnation, it is yet so vitally related to the peace, nay, the very safety of the State, that we Bhould not discuss it in any than a calm and dis passionate manner. We have studied to compose ourselves into such a mood before reverting to it again, and however hard it is to calm down the feeliogs of just indig nation that rises up in our hearts upon each perusal of the ill-timed and usurpato- ry,measure, we believe that we can now speak of it with a mind, though warmed with indignation, yet unbiassed by preju dice. Our first serious objection to the bill is its ill-timed appearance There is, nor can there be any possible exigency that de mands an alteration of the time or manner of holding an election this fall. The Con stitution provides for tho election in No vember. The excitement of the prolonga tion measure was fruitful ot the bitterest passions, and when the disposition of that measure allayed those passions, and the peo pie were content with the thought that they were to have a legal and fair eleetion, it was certainly a grave and misohievous error to seek to revive those passions, and renew the excitement by bringing up an other measure eqnally obnoxious, aud more damaging in its effects. There can be no reasonable grounds for apprehensions of an unfair election under the provision of the present election laws. They are soch as obtain everywhere else, North, East and West, snch as freemen have voted under from the time that the franchise was asserted as the right of free men. Such as the people of the Southern States find to be ample for the protection of the right, aud such as the people of Georgia have heretofore found all sufficient to afford them a fair and full expression of their sentiments; r Itfis argued that the changed condition of our politieil constituency requires this change in the election laws. That the ne groes would be outraged.and their votes in. timidated without a new law. This is not The negro vote is insisted upon as a Radical policy, because the negroes are in a great many localities largely in the ma jority. Being thus they are able to protect themselves, and if any class requires addi tional protection it would be the whiles.— Not a single white man in the State de mands such protection, nor do wo believe the negroes dof. The enforcement act of Congress provides every safeguard to the HOME, GA-, FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 30, 1870. NEW SERIES-NO 5. * Were'it possible for-'Governor’ BtiHoek to divest himself of partisan motives, and to make appointments solely with regard to worth and fitness,it would yet be a dan gerous power, with which to invest an ir responsible body of men, hat when we are to know from whom he will make his selec tions and the dishonest motives that win influence him in his appointments, wc can but shudder at the contemplation of the in iquity. There is hardly an honest man in the State who would believe one of Bul lock’s creatures on oath, and when we have to surrender our dearest rights to the keep ing of these creatures, by tnem to be ma nipulated and shaped at will, we are al- most ready to urge upon our people- the duty of resistiDg the odious outrage. But for a while longer we will bear with them, and trust that there remains enough patri otism in the Honse of Representatives to defeat the bill, The expense of the election, under this 6ill, will be great, and a heavy addition to our already heavily burdened people, bat this is nothing to be weighed against the terrible consequences that will otherwise follow its operation. Those men who vo te for this bill should be published as traitors and their names handed down to posterity as a reproach and scorn, and if the worst does come, let their guilty lives be the first to pay the penalty of their treason. MEN NOW TRUE TO THE UNION- ALL THEY ASK FOR IS. Tho Union of tho States to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the gen eral welfare and secure the blessings of liberty, on the one hand ; and on the oth- ei the recognition of States as separ ate aud distinct bodies politio, fully and rightfully invested with all powers not del egated to the United States by the Consti tution, nor prohibted by it to the States ; but which are reserved to the States respect fully or to the people. This constitutes the true Union democratic platform. AH out side of this is higher law, unknown to the constitution, and dangerous to oar liber ties. The men now true to the Union, are not only those who opposed its dissolution, and who never ceased to" deplore the acts that precipitated us into rebellion against it; hat those who held to the right of se- , Important Newspaper Change.— The Hearth £ Home, a 'finely illustrated family journal of a high character, hitherto issued by Messrs. 'Pettingill, Bates & Co., has been purchased by Messrs. Orange, Jndd & Co, of 245, Broadway, New York, the well known publishers of the Amen- can Agricultural. Messrs. S M.. Pettingill & Co., whose great advertising agency established in 1849, is one of the largest and most reput able in the world, find that their extensive business requires their exclusive attention and they therefore transfer the Hearth & Home to the publishers, whose long experi ence and abundant facilities irill enable them not only to maintain the past high character of the paper, hut to add materi ally to its value. The new publishers also announce a redaction of the terms to 83 per year. The change will not at all effect the American agriculturalist, which will continue on independently as heretofore.— The illustrations and reading matter of the two journals will he furnished from now to the end of 1871 (15 months) at the yearly subscription rate, viz : the Weekly Hearth & Home at 83; the Monthly American Agriculturalist 81 50; or the two for 84. We wonder atthe bad taste of Governor Bnlloek in appointing a pardoned convict to represent the State, in the Southern Commercial . Convention, soon to meet at Cincinnati, fib pardon may relieve a crim inal from the penalties of the law, bat he has no right to impose such a criminal up on the society ol gentlemen. We hope the Convention will consider it due to its dig nity, not to admit him. Sensible.—We observe frem a late num ber of the Columbos Enquirer, that the Democracy of Muscogee County, will hold a primary election on the 4th day of Octo ber to elect candidates for the Legislatare. Thb b the proper way to make nomina tions and we will be glad when the system prevaib throughout tho State. The corruption and intrigues of nomina- ing convention, b too patent to be ques tioned and the only way to avoid this abom ination is for tho people themselves in pri mary elections to select their own candi dates. immediate friends, the Radicals, mid only have to keep their organization they would accomplbh an easy tic- tdky, and retain their power in Georgiai-cu There tan be no doubt whatever hut that the Radicab are iq a'.mSority in every Southern State, and was a fair election al lowed, a united Democracy .wouldr beat them, hence, why ; talk of a “free fight’ when everything that b dear add sai a people, qhould call upon every trneSonth- ern man to stand together firm and united to save Georgia from farther Radical rule, and when so much is at , stake, we must yield up personal prejudices aad pr’f cnees, to the urgent, demands which Geor gia require at the hands of every true man that, b a citizen. It b no time for quib- b5ug on abstract ideas, onr duty b plain anti before ns, onr taxes are unbearable, wrongs have been imposed npon us, reform b needed, and it can only be aecomplbhed by united action on the part of a people, who are for reformation. Such b the advice of a plain farmer, whose whale life has been spent on the farm, and has never been engaged in poli tics in any shape or form. As snch my views ore given to the public for what they are worth, and are given with but one mo- tive, and that b to rescue Georgia from further reckless legblation. Yours, truly, Observer. Tha names of those who vote fox Aker- cession, and believe in its expediency, but I mans hill ought te he pnhlbhed under the- who, dbcovering the evib which have re- head of “Traitors Traitors.”' salted from the experiment of secession, are willing and anxioos to see the Union re stored under the Constitution, and to aban don the right of secession, as inexpedient and dangerous to our liberties. All asked for, by these men is the res toration to each anl every State- politi cal equality, according to the Constitu tion. Whilst reviewing secession with increas ed conviction of its impolicy and danger, the trne Union men hold that the reserv ed rights of the States,according to a strict construction of the Constitution,should nev er be voluntarily surrendered ; and in case of a palpable violation of those lights, de priving the people of all peaceful remedies— then in that case, if war must ensue, let it be in the Union according to the Constitu tion and the laws in pursuance thereof in view of Recoring domestic tranquility, pro- “ ens - moting the general welfare and re-estab lishing and granting the right to each and every State to establish and regulate its own internal polity, hot in conflict with the Constitution. Thb b true Union democracy. Any other view presents ns with secession and disiuteragation on the one hand ; and con solidation and the destruction of States on the other. The great national Democtaoy north, is trying to shield us from these extremes aud it b not only right hat honorable to encourage them with the assurance of onr hearty appreciation of their efforts in onr behalf. J. ‘A. Stewart. Dr. Carry's Lectures. The leotares of tnis dbtingubhed divine npon thecollegiate education at the Baptbt church on Saturday fUMt the Presbyterian on Sunday evening were largely attended by-appreciative audiences. Dr. Curry,who b a native of Alabama, is at present con nected with Richmond College, in the inter est of which ho b traveling. As a minis ter, scholar, orator, and statesman, he has but few equals. Hb sermon on Sabbath was very impressive.—Bristol (Tennessee) Recorder. Dr. Curry b a native of Georgia, hut was for the greater portion of hb life a citi zen of Alabama,where he was honored with the confidence and esteem of his fellow cit- Georgta and Alabama may both be proud of hb fame. Mr. Attorney General Akerman has re turned to Washington; after the exhibition of his Statesmanship in the election hill he ought to leave the State never to return again. Judge A. O. Locnran has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual address be fore the Bartow County Agricultural Asso ciation, on the 4th of Oct. WORD TO OVR ALABAMA FRIENDS Every citizen of Alabama who appro, ciates the blessings of a good government, and would condemn the Radical mbrule under which they have so long been groan ing,will be expeoted to do his dnty in the approaching election, by voting wtih the Democratic party. It b not enough for our friends in Cherokee^ Calhoun, Etowah and DeKalb to say that the election of their local officers is certain,and that there b no need for their exertions. The election of yonr immediate representatives b not questioned, but for Governor every vote you cast will be net i- ed to offset the vote of some big headed thick liped negro down in Sonth Alabama, every negro down there will be driven to the polb, let avery white man in North Alabama tarn out, and vote against thb negro horde. Itb the only means of saving your State. If Gov. Smith chooses to turn against yon, and look to the ignorant ne groes of Sonth Alabama, for help and sup port, let him do' so, but do you rally for Lindsey, and see that every voter in the valliesand mountains of North Alabama turns out. JCENSUS OF. CHATTOOGA COUNTY. The census return of Chattooga county, have been completed and exhibit the follow ing interesting statbtics, number of inhabi tants. £915, of them, 1224, are negroes tearing 5691, whites. There are 1215, voters, 1230 families,. Ond l230 dwelling houses, value of real estate $715,508. Personal property $497, ; 931. The value of products last year 8240,377. vjUQgrcoo pruYiuua uvurjf oaitgudiu. w vuc • y )r fair and free exercise of the franchise that. It has been justly oomplained of ,tj nVe aad g °° d feei - Z } the that „ ’Poor devil 7" 7° anD °jed ^»orld' H ' ^’^JxBcaldlBurt jL’ with cqu ,, „ me ’ Brown would °° od Bumor, quietly i S Wmgfojjjf Ut “"^“ite.whicB u pon hb generous even s . radical Congress could suggest, [and this biU of Attorney -.General Akerman b therefore ill-timed, ■unwise' and uncalled for. H Our next objection to the hill b the ex traordinary power that it invests the Gov ernor and hb Senate with. The appoint ment of Commissioners in every precinct of the State, to superintend and control the elections and to establbh such poliee regu lations and inflict such punishments as they in their judgment may see proper, te a dangerous and unnatural usurpation of pow er, and are well calculated to engender strife. .people, that die present reckless wild'and oppressive legblation,greatly depricates the value of-properly, and that when itb re placed by a competent and hone3t Legisla ture, property W‘ll readily assume a high er value. Let us see to it that the change is made at the next eleetion. The State Fair at/Jglethorpe Park near Atlanta will he the greatest event of the year. Dbtingubhed visitors from all parts of the Union will be present, among whom will he Governor Horatio Seymour, of New York, and Governor Englbh of Connecti- [Communicated. On the Wayside, Sept. 1870.. Mr. Editor—In a rebent Courier, we see a writer advocating a “Free Fight,” “No .Convention, etc.” Let ns take a calm review of nutters.and things, and-I think that “Free Fight” will see hb error. In union there b strength, we have but to look at Radtcalbm, and wc will learn its exis-' tence alone has been in its being a united organization. Once let them - become dis united, and advocate a “free fight” and they would become scattered and - lost as fallen leaves before the gale. They are aware of such, hence the ef forts of Congress has been for the past four years to keep the Radical party a-united or ganization throughout the United States— its dbmembe meat would be its death. See how ingenionsiy it was gotten up,. First by establishing the “Grand Army, .of the Republic,” in which every Union soldier was enlisted, as a patriotic band who serv ed their country during the war,, and from thb organization sprung ;np throughout the country, the “Union, League Societies” and Radical union organizations, that hitve ridden rough shod over law, order and con stitutions. In all such wo have seen and. felt wh.it united action, has done.- The Conservative Democratic party throughout the United States b organizing to rescue the govern ment out of the hands of the Radical party and to do so it.can only be acoomplbhed by organization, a united organization, formed by a head oonventiew, aided by. 'dis trict conventions. Cano there hb anything wrong in such conventions, if (he delegatea to such conventions have been selected by the people. Surely not.- -dor—it is only a representative body—their chosen represen tatives, to organize a party, and select its standard beaier to battle with a political adversary. .But some say their nets in choosing can didates do not meet the’approbation of all, granted, and if. left to the people as a “Tree fight” as suggested, we ask, would it meet with the approbation of all, or likely to be' as harmonious. . The term “free fight” in dicates what it would likely be, discord, confusion and defeat. - In abort, experience has folly proven that united action can on ly be attained by party organizations. If left free for every aspirant to run who may be induced to do so, through, the persuasion Communicated.] The Elective Franchise. The franchise b one thing; and to regu late that franchbe b another thing. The constitution of the United States, no where gives Congress any power overithe franchbe itself, bat thb power' b reserved to the States. The constitution of the Uni ted States sets np no qualifications tor a vo ter—thb b done by the State constitutions and State Laws. The power or qualifica tions of a voter b no where hinted at— nor the pnnbhment for illegal votin; Trne the constitution has given a certain special and limited control to Congress over the “//me place and manner of holding elec tions for members of Congress”—and thb rather conditional, should the States, neg lect, fail or refuse to do so—and yet the act of Congress of the 31st of May 1870, pretends to impose penalties on the voters for illegal voting, different in addition to the penalties imposed by State Laws, and that these penalties iqqy be inflicted in the United States Courts, where provbiops are made by State Laws, for their infliction' in State- Courts. How is it probable that Congress can create crimes and impose pen. alties, in a matter over.whbh, by the con stitution, they have no jurisdiction where by the constitution, power and'jurisdiction; b expressly given to the State except, as to time, place and manner, of' holding elec tions for members of Congress. Thb law (or pretended law) cf Congress, b an open and daring usurpation, unconstitutional and utterly void. Onr proposition b,that a law of Congress which makes the offence for illegal vqtetg, punbbable in the Federal Conrts, cannot be enforced, because it does not fall within the jurisdiction of the United States. For the case does arise, wider the Constitu tion of the United States, bat it arises under the constitutional laws ot the States, from which'emenate the entire power' to preK scribe rules, declaratory of the rights to the elective franchbe and an abuse cf this, privilege, b an offence against the States, and not against tho United States. Con gress has no power to pnnbh an offence against a State, that has ample power and constitutional jurisdiction, to prescribe the offence and inflict the pnnbhment. Because a law,which pnnbhes fraudulent voting, b not a law, regulating the “man tier of holding elections,” but a law to regu late the elective franchbe—and for thb reason Congress cannot make fraudulent voting a crime even in elections fo; mem bers of Congress—forCongress has never had conferred on it power .to say, who shall or who shall not vote for members of its own body—nothing bnt the naked , power to regulate the manner of holding the .elec tion. .. qU Supposo a State, should by law authorize a voter to vote in each county, in which he 1 pays tax (which has been done)—could Congress make thb a crime and punish the voter, because he had done nothing forbid den by the laws ofhb State, bnt had exer cised the rights guaranteed to him by law? clearly not, because thb would be a regu-' lation franchise,- and not a reguTaiibh of the manner of “holding the elections.” Thb law together with the test oath, iron clad, and all kindred legblation of Congress, b nothing but a scare-crow, a bugabo and a fraud intended to operate on the timid weak kneed. There has never been, bnt one indictment, (and there-nev er will be another) tor refusing ,to take the “Iron-clad, and that was against Frank Blair in,Missouri,where theJaw was prompt ly derided, by the Supreme Court; of the United States to be tmoonstiiurional,'.'la-. ■ Vfe haxzard nothing, when we venture the*asseftion,that there never wiU.bo anln. . / Tf«. Coraft-Lrafer Sketched., ; uL l thaq ia 8uch ' anian . , H alf a dozen -such Tlio C IVmrin/v ototeK nPonaniman nf 3 _l?tl ! L . V The .Allowing sketch of a specimen of the corner loafer tribe, taken . from tLar Daily Saratogian, of Saratoga, will tap; doubt be .fnUy : indorsed as correct in ev- ery respect, by aU who. hare come.*craja. any .this' shiftless, corner-obstructing class : ri vai That youug squirt on the corner,, witl^ hb flat a little ou - one side, the stab of a cheap cigar in ' hb mouth, and a stare for every lady that passes—is a loafer. Do you- know where be getsjhb money ? .His- mpther.earna.it for him taking in washing/ Poor soul! She thinks, her hoy, will soon get. work. If he'gets a place he shirks, or does hM #ork so poorly tnut-fae is soon - dis charged.. Or, perhaps, he is particular what kind of work he does.: He looks down on that sweaty.carpenter who hurries by him, nods condescending to hb friend, the shbeplakor, and senJa a whiff of amote into the'eyes of the bedaubed painter,with both hands full of- paint pots and' Brushes He couldn’t borrow ten cents of any one of them. They know he would never pay it. -They earn their money. He begs of his mother. Stylish boy, bn’t he 1’ man in a neighborhood will do much to de moralize a whole rommnnity of farmers.— Ptiarie Farmer. Don’t Expect to Farm It long. Thb will explain a large proportion of the failures in farming. From force of cir cumstances a turn goes into farming for a lit tie while, but he expects to go oat of tho business as soon os he can find something better to dopind by the wayjhejthinks almost anything b better.He regards farming in the light ofa menial occupation from- 1 which he hopes to soon become released. It b to hb mind, a miserable makeshift that he has been compelled to adopt, bat is hoping for the time, to come when he can follow anoth er calling. He b putting in a crop here and there upon the best land- he has in or der to make a living until he has matured an invention, secured an office, or found a chance to go into trade. Farming to such a man b.buta stepping stone to something ebe, and he ia anxious to tarry on the stone no longer than it b possible to get off in safety. You can often tell by the looks of a man’s premises that he does not expect to occupy them long. The buildings look like those that are put up on leased lots in cit ies,not erected tor permanency, or for com fort, but only to last until a lease has ex pired. The straw stack shelters the cattle; the fence covers the hogs- There are no walks to and from tbs house, and no pnmj in the well. Tnere b nothing in whicl soft water can be stored, if we accept an old meat barrel ora molasses hogshead. For eaves troughs there are fence boards, the ends of which are supporfe'd oq stokes lean ed against the side of the'house.'Of course there b oo wood house; it wouldn’t pay to ; rat one up. just fur a year of two. The I arm wagon and snch tools os there are, re main out of doors exposed to the. snow of winter and the rains of summer fb’r the ex cellent reason 1 tbit even with such usage tLey will last as toiig as Rifey will be want- edo>iJ. .;•!>*■ ••••! J. I.--!).. The man who don’t expect to farm it long, plants no hedges, makes no under drains, pnto out no orchard. He raiies no fruits, either for the family orjfbr market. It wonld;toke too long for them to come in to bearing. He has notevea a raw of.pie plant root or an asparagus bed. They re quire two years to get establbhed. Most likely he will move away before that time The mnoute b pied up reund-thu'apology' for the barn, where he keeps hb horses. It don’t pay to hanl ont manure just for the good you get from it,gne, year. Flawing under clover and summer following in hi^. opinion both well enough for men who expect to do such sort of wo/k 1 all 'their days; but for hb-part, he does '’not -always intend to ben clodhopper, i flia ifarm ia running down—he knows this ^r«ll. enoug h —bat he bwaitiog for aomethiqgto turn up, when Tie .will let somebody else take the farm Who wilf make something ont of Department o.' Agriculture- Washington, D. C., ) September 13th, 1870. j Edicin D. Neicton. Esq., See, dec., Rome 7 Georgia. Mv Dear SIB: I have the pleasure to (acknowledge receipt oFyour ncte, covering oireular of yonr Association, kindly inviting me tosbit the annual Fair of the Cherokee Georgia and Alabama Association, and ex soon tending to me the hospitalities of your city during my stay; for which courtesy I beg to tender my sincere thanks. Invitations of thb description are so nu merous from all sections of tlie country, that I am forced tidecline the most.of them, and very much regret that I must do so in this case, nevertheless, I; beg to assure you that, it will afford me the greatest pleasure to corOperatef with your Assocbtian in every way in my power to prom >tc the general interests of Agriculture as well as the in- terests ofyodr Association. I now beg to inform you that I have transmitted to your address by mail sam ples of wheat, rye, barley, oats and Italian rye grass seed, which can remain in exhi bition daring the fair, and then placed in the hands of reliable persons who will make careful experimentwith the same and report the results to thb department. The Italian ryegrass has been imported especially for the benefit of the Sonth, ani 1 think as a forage plant,it will prove very valuable. It should be sowu in the fall and on good land; it may be cut in early spring, as well as several times during the season, producing an abundance of nutri tious grass for pasturage. - Thanking you for your very flattering expression of personal regard and esteem and as also of interest manifested in the success of thb department, I am, vary truly, HORACE CAPRON, Commissioner. it. The man who don’t expect to farm >t long bn’t much interested in the introduc tion of fine steely ^ in new varieties of- grain. Native cattle and sharp-nosed hogs will do him well enough. for the little time, he expects to be engtj&d in stock-raising. He don’t object to seerngjUlftw, finU cattle. at a fair, after ti^has dnjdyed the horse 1 race, and has taken a look St the ' patent rights thi(t''arej otfeixil] — to be ouVfarm itioh,,btit he don’t expect hgr.etilougti ,to ! hiveany,| How Many Wives Fade. How many pale, lifeless women yon see in the west, and in the east, too, fiir that matter. Young, fresh-lookiDg women mar ry, and in fi. e or ten years yon can scarce ly recognize them ; while their husbands look as well as od the day of their wed ding. One cause of this b complicated house, keeping. When a man undertakes a busi ness, he finds learned men ready to assbt him. He knows what there b to do, and secures help accordingly. A yonn^ woman goes to housekeeping often with out- any help at all or perhaps one awlr- ward girl. There'are three meals lo get every day —that means cooking; and then comes the dbhes to be washed after each meal. It wonld take about forty-five pieces for breakfast and- supper, seventy for dinner for a family of five, one hundred and sixty five pieces to be carried from the dining room to the kitchen everyday, washed ana carried hack. If you have six rooms in yonr house, there b one room to be swept and cleaned daily, beside brushing up the others,making-beds, bringing in wood and carrying water. „ ■ ' . . Twice a waqk there b bread making, twice . week joist making, one day washing, one day ironing, all yonr pantries and safes to‘be washed out once a week, dairy work to be'attended to, beside’innumerable jobs n the way of preserving.jelly making.pick- ! ing, curing hams, {ratting down pigs’, feet, looking over and Dinging off yonr apples twice in winter, and making; hogshead cheese, a thorough honse cleaning twice a' year, theU Bewing on dtosses,a'pran3gowns, etc., by the'd6^e;n. ’,7. ’’' 1 Then suppose tlie housekeeper has a baby; an average .«jk months'old baby that weighs abjut eighteen pouatfe. Suppose she hits thb child in her arms thirty times a day (a cross infant b taken np more frequently,) and often she b obliged tq work with the right arm, while carrying the burden of the baby about with the left. 11 have -heard women say. that they would give almost anything for a pight of undis turbed sleep, “with no care on the mind.” Then np in the morning and at it again. Don’t yon Bee why women grow pale, and why they ore a little erass-eomff times, and how their husbands wonder that their wives don’t look pretty and dress -well, and en tertain them as they did -before they were mowing machines, and sab-soil plows, and field rollers are all good on tlie farin; that they save labor, improve _ the soil, and in crease the crop; hut they cost too mneh to biiy them for the little time .he wiU have use for them, and so he b best content to borrow labor saving machinery of hb neigh bore. .Gates are more handy than barsjind if he w^re going, to stay ona, farm fora life time ho would put some npj ; The man who don’t expect to farm it long,seldom takes an 'agricultural pap°* He thinks newspapers' 'devoted to j The wives don’t reason on the matter ; they think its all the man’s fault, and then they turn .cross, and so things go at sixes and sevens, and this b the place woman’s rights should be taken hold of. Woman’s labor should he made a study. In the fiist place men most realise that it b a great la bel to keep honse. • -. ’ | A great many women sink down under the weight and then every body says :— “Poor thing,she always was a good-fornoth- ing creature;”, and the 'poor thing’ has • The Election Bili. ,. JThe following syn ipsis of thb jnfai bill should hare been appended to an arti cle in our last issue, but was unavoidably crowded ont. Lei it Be read by onr peo ple, and-lev no effort be left undone to hnrl from power the men who would im pose this outrage upon them: The election to be held on the 2Cth, 21st ainf 22d days of December next, within the hour-) now prescribed by law. Elections ean be held - only at county seats, or precincts now establbhed, or which may hereafter be setablbhed,. in every in corporated town or city. The Governor, with the advice and con sent of the SeUate, appoints five manageis of elections for each voting precinct, pro vided in the bill. ; Judges of Superior Courts can impose a fine of $100 on auy manager, who, without a good excuse, fails to officiate. Managers are empowered to preserve or der at the polb, but cannot refuse the bal lot of any person, of apparent foil age, who may offer to vote, and who has not. previ ously voted on 'he same day. . Managers shall not permit any person to challenge any vote They shall not permit more than OLe person, and he only while voting, to ap proach within less than fifteen feet of the place where the ballots are received. They may require the voters to fall into a line and prohibit aDy person Dot in the line from approaebieg tho ballot box nearer than fifty feet; and in no case b more than one person at a time permitted to eome nearer than fiftei n feet. The managers can order the arrest and imprisonment, dnring the day, of any per son who may dbtnrb tbe' pcafcentYTorwIbear- the polb, or who disobeys any reasonable orders for the cnfoicement of the provi sions for preserving order. None bnt the managers, and their clerks chosen by them, are allowed to remain in the room when the ballots are received, or so-near tho ballot box as to examine or han dle the tickets, and the managers have foil power to enforce all provbions of the bill. One manager receives the ballot and hands it to another, who puts it into the bill. No vote can be received except when three managers are present; and tney are not allowed to open any closed ticket, or reveal how any one votes, except in answer to questions pnt before a legal tribunal, i Each manager and officer, except a po lice officer, is allowed three dollars a day for the time he serves. The managers can fine any officer one hundred dollars, as for contempt, who may fail to obey any lawful orders, The Autumn Fairs. Tho present month opens,the fair season at the South. First on onr list are the Tennessee State Fair, Nashville, October 3rd-8th and the Georgia Central, to be held in Macon on the same days. Next come the Agricultural and Mechanical I air As sociation of the Cherokee section of Geor gia and Alabama,}it Rome Ga.,on the 11th 12th 13th 14th of October, the North Car olina State Fair, at Raleigh, October 18th 21st, the Georgia State Fair, at Atlanta, October 19th-26tb, Cotton States’ Fair at Augusta Ga„ October 25th-49tb, and fi nally the Mississippi State Bair, at Jack- son, October 24th-30th. In November we have first the fair of South Carolinalnstitnte, Chari.stou, 1st 5th, and the Virginia State Fair, which opens at the saame time at Richmond. The Sonth Carolina State and Alabama Union fairs follow on the 9th-llth, the former at Colombia, and the latter at Selma; and the Cape Fear, at Wilmington, N. C-, Nov,,-. llth-17th, closes the list. ‘We trust that all these fairs will he well - attended, and prove in every way success ful. If the people will take hold In earnest they can easily make them so. “Be an ex hibitor if yon can at yonr State or Connty fair or at both, bnt if yon cannot do this, go and see what others exhibit; learn what.. improvements are being made in imple ments and systems of cultivation, in stock and in domestic manufacturers,and go home resolved to make good use of the lessons learned •’ J '— - The Agricultural Fair is the farmers’ own institution,and he should sec to it that it is made an efficient instrument ot prog ress and improvement.—Rural Carolinian dictment and-conviction for a violation of any, hr all of the prarisinns of the act' (or S rtended act,) of Congress of the 31at of [ay 1870. before any -United. States Court—however illegal the vote. We ido: not propose to in courage illegal voting un der the State Laws, but we do say to the voter, be not intimidated : under the act above referred to; or any other act ofCen- gress, proposing to inflict punishment flirt illegal voting, no not even for members at. Congress, let alone State dffioers. . Romulus. A smart girl .in; Minnesota popped the: question to;her lover, asked:dm mumtii her parents, procured a marriage licerise, ordered the. wedding break&st, the carri age to drive them to the depot,-and had a private conversation with theparaon,' all on the same day. The young nian had tufen- pied seven years in the effort to akk her to have him, and had failed every time'. She finally noticed that he had someting preying npon his mind,and haring in the meantime heard, Miss Anthony assisted him to get rid of it in the manner prescribed.: news, commerce, or inventions would be better for him, since they . wonld give him information on one or the other of the pur suits that he b ppon. expects to. ei He never buys an agricultural boo., hb knows second hand books are never" very saleable; and’hb is snre that he will not want to keep them for- reference. I (fie. does not joint* Airmen’ dob or an agri- cultural society fw ■ seyeraj {reasons- He does not care to Jdarn how to manage his his farm .any better ,than he has done for he ingoing into another business direct ly. Hellas’a sort of contempt for farming which even extends to those who have adopt *d *t as an oocqpatian fa Me. : , Next to the .man who don t expect to, farm it long, thfman Who expects'Soonto change his' location’ is the 'poorest farmer He is likdy to let everything: go to nek: and nun. He has got his mind fixed on * locaaonswhere crpmgtqw .with.riWe pr>o labor being bestowed on them, and thinks (to till fields on which an enemy his bowed rib tares’. ’ He can^t’ be expected to trim fruit trees/ir to fuss with grape vines,wheni- some ono else: is. to eat tho fruit that.p *o growtheropp., M £ eafa ™??F, all hisldavs. nerhans, but he is tired of his all the labor 1 rovements on been doing for thepastten years more than two women onght.—Ex. An enterprising Yankee wants to take the contract from the Prussian government inse Tor reducing Paris. For tins service he. asks a hundred thousand Prussian soldiers, whom he will arm and . subsist while in his employ. Foy forty-five francs per soldier he promises to pillage the city ; for fifty to pillage and rapine ; for forty six to pillage, rapine, and burn. He is to do every bit of it by machinery,- for which he has pat ents; “The National Hog.” Among coDsejryatives throughout the conotry who have been disposed to credit President Grant with liberality and mag nanimity, a feeling of honest indignation innst take the place of friendly approval in . view of the President’s letter to a Missou ri Radical official,published in onr dispatch es yesterday. In that letter Grant endeav ors to prop the waining cause of political . inscription and intolerance by the aid of ■is name and official influence. “I regard,” be says, ‘the movement headed by Carl Schnrz, Brown, etc., as similar to the Ten- nossee and Virginia movements, intended to carry a portion of the Republican party over to the Democracy, and thus give them control. I hope you will see your way clear to give the regular ticket yonr sup- •The Tennessee and Virginia movements’ simply amounted to the enfranchisement of the masses in those States, who had for years been debarred from exercising the privilege of freemen by harsh and proscrip tive laws. In other words, the President regrets that the reign of Brownlowism in Ten lessee, with all its evils of tyranny and civil strife,has given way to an era of peace, prosperity and good will, because, forsooth, the,.‘tegular ticket’ may have anffered by the transition. The palmiest days of Vir ginia since the war have bceD under the Walker administration, but the party that lives and thrives by proscribing its oppo nents has suffered by the change, and the President mourns. At this late day, when a wholesome public sentiment is forcing universal suffrage over all this broad land, our. Chief Magistrate steps in, and as far as in him lies, essays to stop the sweeping current. The other day, it will not be for gotten, James Fisk, Jr. expressed the opinion that (he qualities exhibited by a. certain distingoshed individual entitled him, to the significant appellation of the “national hog.”—Nashville Beamed. Backgammon—A‘lady’s waterfall. A journal', asks what is the difference itweeh a soldier and afasbionahle young ly-f and replies, ‘Onefaces the- powder, aad tbq dther. powders, the free.’ Cincinnati brings forward a woman who ~ fj^ ; feet.of hair on her head every three years.' She li luis ' gathered forty- eight feet’of the afticlo since'she came in- Andy Johnson to be at Dalton.— We are. informed by Mr. Palmer, Secreta ry of the Cherokee Agricnltnral Associa tion, that Ex-President Johnson has accep ted the invitation to deliver an address on one day during their Fair; which opens oq. Wednesday October 5 th. No', man in the country would draw as many anxious list eners.— Citizen. to the nanfket.-: 1 "Ybnng man'do you beleivc in future state?” “Jn coarse I dnz, and -what’smore, I mean to enter it as soon as Betsy gets her things ready.” ^ A colored man in Mississippi is going to lecture on “Personal Recollections of Dick ens.” When Dickens was in this country twenty years ago, the negro blacked his boots in a hotel in Cincinnati. Ho is not t Anothr fatal Ah A few weeks agjr MrtL ’ George • Marks fell into a crevasse in the mountains of Cha- monni, and up to twenty-four hours after the occurrence she had not been found.— The lady was on her wedding tour In Switz erland when the accident took place. * It is .supposed to have occurred on the Mer de Ghee, or at some of the glaciers near by. spent in vain.’: ig, Lat his faith in it points to fiurer skies, richer soils, and' broader fields than those he hiis been ac- enstomed to. frO" 10 ” 7 -’ . Of all tho men who till the soothe nan who don-’t expect to fam.it long is by far the poorest specimen. His fehces are down his freaky cattle tun at huge; while' the seeds of his Aral weeds are Mowing over all hisneigbors’fields.' He id always ready to borrow farming tools,but never ready to re-: torn them. His place is an eyesore to. the _ .In~ Long Creek was lately ittfan elegant card case by onc of er admirer*. A few dtys afterwards, while showing it tea.:lady ,fraewt, :She remarked that she wished be Jiad given her a biz one. This little thing.wont hold 'more tl half a deck.” •, . ..., . A Miss Taylor, livingin Jackson conn ty, Indiana, committed suicide last week by hanging herself with a ludter strap. She was only fifteen years'bld! In the lower and more densely popnlated diftions of Philadelphia, a malignant fetrer as-broken ont, and many persons are suff ering withit. A Davenport, lowa paper tells of a colored man who was caught in the gearing Of it brick machine, and crushed to a jelly. The negroes are tiring to sell the remains of the deceased as blackberry jam. 7 Waiting maids—Elderly spinsters.. neighborhood, and his example is to be dreaded By every thrifty farmer who has by Tub . 1 associates .• vti .,1 IIO'.U a: ; The British and Canadjan police vessels cruising along the northeastern fishing grounds have captured ^Yankee fishing smacks valued at 850,000, which they now hold subject to trials for breach of treaty stipulations in crossing the line,and in fish ing in forbidden waters. 1 fintler would ultimately have had a for- . rival. • A report has been received at Rouen i the escape of 10,000 Frenoh prisoners. ~ .

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, September 30, 1870, Image 1