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Proprietor.
ROME, GA„ FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 2. 1870.
Special Atmosphores.
At the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin,
Dr. Sigerson Las given a lecture on “Micro
scopic Appearances obtained from Special
Atmospheres," in which, as was to be ex
pected, he explained that, in examining the
air of factories and workshops, he found
tho atmosphere of each charged with 'par-
NEW SERIES-NO 14. | tides according to the nature of the trade
;i; riSEMESTS.
• .orators, Electors or
i f'v law to be held on
,*ca* month, between the
,re noon and three in the
t House in the county in
! be a
i pub-
»r s ".>nal property must
hrough a public gaz-
riil be made to the
; , sell land must be
4 ,,*f Administration. Gc—
u* puhlishod 30 days—lor
Vui-tration. three months—
•w Guardianship. 40 lays,
-ecl'^eure of Mortgages must
• • 'v for four months—for es-
f„r the full space of three
title? truin Executors or
’. ‘-ye”bond hus been given by
■ V: space if three months.
TV.»Vi be continued accord-
-...juiremont?, unless oth-
ten lines or less $3 00
sales, per levy, 5 00
levy 00
inistration 3 00
hip 3 00
ission from
6 00
for disn
from
<01T1IEKS SEITRITIES.
,. t i'i. tjbb’e :> -‘b »u: to be pricked
_ r ..„\. cs of Southern carpet
i 1 4 Iatt-rs are about to
... ... ,; 5t . w, ril at their true worth.
'-;o; hatinj Til Uirht that in the
State securities lies
Male
i- t**o?e irresponsible bodies can
f-, r their bonds they will have
•y ic i.-.-uit.j them.
;.*e?:ni:.ei by principle or decent re-
eres:
of the people, they
bmds as a wild cat
■ :i jouuterfitcr would
sot rv r \xi\l fur the law itself—
• Be:! has ir»ne on to issuing these
; i- nl xhea the State Treasurer
;.i ::rj *e h:s lezal right and author-
ranis this ruinous issue, he, with
jRparalled iu the history of
: ;«i t rriics the Triasurer’s pro-
::: his name forged to the
:ll; a th.- Governor i 5 , happily
ir * the .State, about to be
:. rJsinCw uuthiug hut a refusal of
tay the binds will stop their
at.\ we rcjoi.'o at the deliverance
v::'.: it c*»iuc« in the shape of bank
. w.lj. which we take from
f •iii;j 1 .' and t’iaiiin’s Weekly—good fi-
j.;:rr. even though published
—will show the direction which
i.vjihon scour ities are taking.
■* pr-'iniuently headed as fol-
1 ox SOUTHERN STATE
BONDS.
('application of State Funds.
Carpet Baggers’ Theft,
a therein by New York Hankers
'•Me Repudiation.
3 ‘Ms treated :
| “?:r wuc of the 12th of Novem-
r T *: *tatei our intention to expose the
“‘ 1 •’ t-r carpet-baggers and their co-
’sberth, in swindlings aud robber-
wilei by them ih the States of
.'oath Carolina, Florida and
Information received siuce
rjaiT cause us to include also the State
j In each and all of which
under the plea of State improve-
f ‘ ’ plea which could cover ras-
.he binds of the States have been
lavoritts or bribers of the Gover-
psicguUtiTebodiw.
I of other matter which we deem
£•-:-rtant prevented these exposures
F-ifpeariug in their due order in the
r;' : 13 J ues of our paper. Iu the in-
h 3 ‘Oiiintary contributor in South
h -. ut high social position, under the
L*; r-^ot ••Palmetto” send us intor-
p ;- T hicb we shall, as it comes forward
f;;V ,a ;l? Ofiisiual form, that our read-
L f n w exact feelings which cov-
portion of that State. These
L, ‘ r, “ l ^ e tbt place of our own re-
ri\ ^' a J 0IJ th Carolina.
“- re ^re, now desire to call the at*
L ;y y a M integrity, not only here,
br~»,. •'f. ^ J,Jl h and more particularly
1"from the geuuine, not
.% iQik0r = of this city—and bank-
aud the Continent, to
<? $1-': , 5 °^ or ^ Carolina, that
*5 o* events now fore-
•d- firm a
correct judgement of
attectioo is so far given that the
• clearly comprehended, dishon-
r‘ T > ■«.. f ’ comprehended, dishou-
k^... 2 r im Py te d to a whole people
rMv* • W UD pdncipled villains—scoun
^i^ Qre \ cducati O“ habit—-had
inn! • l ^ e ^^fTitive and Ex-
r r l he State, and used it
... • ^ uleot ends as may excite the
^:a th CUU3 ma y excite tne
* j‘ St ou ^ UX9t °f their indig-
: 'k® certl Scates of the
Sb»l® e V7 ^ lxc ^ bavo been almost
n from the State Treasury,
south of Mason and Dixon’s
to the rebellion, kept purer
i'
- r held h k rC • . ,0Q ’ ke P t P urer
did tK position for integrity
: ^per5r.°v he “ 0Lr) NORTH” as
r ort b Carolina delighted
^?e l* ntlr P^ent soil. And of the
qi.a p t ° P^ple to-day deserves to
h in a ^ a . 1 rel ates to social
;o5e C' thif y 0 ' 1 ^ us ^ ne ' s relations than
^ - r i>urn, jSU II is their veryinteg-
edition tr * ma y P reci P' tate tflem
’ liTe ' «'to Dnni 1 ! 1 ev ' e “- hand ed justice re-
cr eBt t„, the th ! eviah 6et w ho
pos,tlon or office and
!j*’ - Was'hfnd 6 33 diverBe inpriuci-
»l. t alwavsh- 39 , C ° rrUpt “ political
J ''-1 which Ji b ° W leu electe d from
; Sri '' fence of ' “ e3 .;° Resurface in the
h leof it«credit War ~ t0 rob the
,i *' tffiount so ] a 7 lSSue ot ' bon d8
r b -Ce ge ? loblDkr “ p t it. if
S,etb ')-*re\ .l re ^ ,uedi0 thefaa ^
tv l “') are nn-.T ,, 60 m the hands
Ce TJt’ an '‘ M to
Phtchased were loaned
also probably
the condition that the three principal vil
lains—who are now dodging from justice at
the South by taking refuge in Jersey City,
or preparing for more permanent refuge in
Europe—shall be placed under arrest be
fore departure, or brought back under a
certain clause of the treaties between the
United States and Great Britain and some
other of the European Governments, which
provides for giving up criminals. They be
lieve that criminality can be proved, not
only upon these three parties, but upon two
or more banking concerns—so-called—
which, growing up in this city daring or
since the war, have been prominent in
these transactions; one of which at least was
represented by one of its partners in Ral
eigh, and largely aided in corrupting the
Legislature.
Our space does not permit us to-day to
enter into tho details, but in our next is
sue we shall give more of the facts—the
amount of the robberies, so far as brought
to light, the names of the carpet-baggers
aod of the parties in this city whom the
people of Carolina charge as being mainly
instrumental in bringing about the condi
ticn of disaster to their State, by prompting
and encouraging the carpet-baggers to their
acts, bv aiding them with loans ot money
upon the fraudulent issues of State bonds
that they might get possession of them at a
rate so low ti at it would vastly enrich
them if they could by any known, or as yet
unknown, process of inflating the stock
market, force them off at an advance upon
the people of the city, or upon the London
or other European financial centres.
The Rome Courier, of Tuesday has a
protracted article on the Alabama claims,
in which appears the following remarkable
lines, in italics: “The Southean people
this day had rather pay the Alabama
claims themselves than to hav e England
to pay them.’’That is the mos* absurdly
ridiculous idea we have saw advanced. We
are snisfied that even Admiral Semmes
would say to England -pay up these claims
at once or take the, consequences.” We
think we see the editor of the Courier now
counting his uickles to see how many of
them he can th r ow into the contribution
hat when *t come9 around for fend ato pay
off the Alabama claims.
The above is from the Atlanta Sun, and
as that wonderful luminary assumes to re
flect the views of no particular party or peo
ple, it may be taken simply as the individ
ual opinion of the editor, and as his opin.
ions are often peculiar,not to say “absurd
ly ridiculous 1 ’’ it must be passed for what
it is worth.
We however have a higner opinion of
Southern honor, and of Southern spirit,
than to suppose that they would,after avail
ing themselves of tho kindly friendship of
England, to supply their wants at a time
when those wants were so pressing, now
wish to repudiate the debt of gratitude,and
tell her to ‘take the consequences’ Admiral
Semmes we happen to know would scorn
such a spirit of business, and so would any
other honest man.
It were better to count tho uickles for
the contribution hat, than to hide out in a
cave in the event of u war, to avoid con
scription, as the editor ot the Sun would
very likely do.
HE DID’ENTSAY IT.
Beojaman F. Butler, the distiuguised
gentleman of whom spoons ire so nnacconn
tnbly fond, arrived in New York a few days
ago, on his way to Boston. The Herald
thus reports him.-
“General B 1 . Butler arrived yesterday
morning at the Astor House and left last
evening by the twenty m nu es past nine o’
clock train for Boston In the course of a
conversation be averred that 'he statement
published by a certain republican newspa
per abont his views on the Alabama claims
was wholly unauthorized and does not rep
resent his ideas on that question.’’
And so the Republican party is not fo
be saved by a war with Great Britain. We
are glad that Benjamin is thus considerate.
We suspect that he thinks it is easier to
join a strong party, than it is to save a
weak one, and is preparing to somersault
back into the Democratic fold.
GREEDY.
Bennett must have been whetting his ap
petite on a flat rock—it is as hard as adam
ant, and as shtrp as a radicals’scent after
official spoils. Here is the way be goes on
about what he wants. Addressing Mr.
Grant, he says :
“But here, Mr. President, with this
great revolution completed, here is the
opening a new departure. Do you expect
to hold your ground on the merits of a care
ful and prudent administration ? ”
As he is not running the machine upon
that schedule, it is not to be presumed that
he does, but Bennett continues :
“John Quincy Adams could not do it.—
To stand still is not in the nature of the
American people, and it is a policy opposed
to the universal spirit of the age. You want
General for yonr party, some new legends.
“Let us have peace” is good; but we have
peace. We want something that we have
not. We want some new word oi progress
that will ring like a trumpet through the
land. We want Cuba and all that group
ofthe West Indies; we want Mexico; we
want Central America and a ship canal
across some one of those Isthmus passages
for a short cut from New York to Shanghae
we want the line of the grea* St. Lawrence
to the sea as an outlet for the rapidly ac
cumulating, heavy products of tne mighty
Northwest, and we want an American set
tlement, do you hear, of those Alabama
claims.”
Now, Mr. Bennett must be exceedingly
greedy to want alUthese things at once:—
Bnt since old Spoony has given up his ar
dent desire for war, we greatly fear that
Bennett will have to go hungry a little
while longer.
He that iB not fot us is against us.—
No man in this, ourcountry’s hour of dan
ger can sit idly by, and take no part in the
struggle between Democracy and Radical
ism.
General Young is the Democratic nomi
nee—he it is who if elected, will add one
to the list of onr friends in Congress.
Burnett is the greasy Radical candidate.
He if elected will add one more to the par
ty that hates and oppresses us. Choose ye
between them.
De Tocqucville—in his American Insti*
tute, says : “How strange does it appear that
nations have existed, and afterwards so com
pletely disappeared from the earth that the
remembrance of their very names are effaced
their language lost, and their glories are
vanished like a sound without echo, but per
haps there is not one which has not left be
hind it a tomb in memory of its passage. The
most durable monument ot human labor is
that which recalls the wretchedness and noth
ingness of man.
THE SCHEXGK CONTEST.
The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial writes, Nov.,
17th. <
“As a great deal has been said ot the
alleged intention of Gen. Schenck to con
test the election of Col. Lew. D. Campbell,
in the third Ohio district, it may be well
to state that the former, in a letter to an
official here, says he has no such intention
or desire, and if a contest is made it will
be by his friends,who insist upon a Congress
ional investigation.
Gen. Schenck says he is satisfied the de.
cisiou ot the Supreme Court of Ohio, ex
cluding the soldiers at the hospital at Day.
ton from voting, will stand, as the court is
composed entirely of Republicans, who
would not decide against their own party
if it was not right to do so. This soldier
vote is said to be. the main ground upon
which it is proposed to contest the Beat ot
Col. Campbell.
In a le ter recently received here from
Col. Campbell, he says he bad a hard fight,
and was fairly elected. He says has abun
dant proof to show that fraud was resorted
to by the Radicals, which will greatly over
balance those alleged to havo been commit
ted by the Democrats.’
If Schenck believes, and we do not see
how he can believes otherwise, that the de
cision of the Supremo Court of Ohio.exelnd
the soldiers at the asylum at Dayton
from voting, will stand, why docs he not
peremptorily refuse the use of his name in
an appeal to a partisan majority in Congress
to g.ve him the seat to which a majority
of the voters ofthe district would not elect
him ?
James Russell, of Sutton, N. H. hang
ed himself a few days ago, leaving tne fol-
lowin r explanation: “I came into the world
in 1800 havo lived seventy years, and seen
the machine, but don’t understand it. I
came into th- world by the neck, and if t hey
will accept me will go out by the neek-”
A Youth of Kittery, Maine, who desir
ed to wed the object of bis affections, told
tur pa that although he bad no wealth
worth speaking of, be was “chuck fall of
day’s work.” He got her.
IMPROVING.
We are glad to eee the rapid strides
with which little “Dingy" is improving his
morals If he k’eps on at his present pace
he will be able by the time lie retires from
journalism, to approx'mate the truth very
closely, even if he cannot tell it directly.
Th's gratifying improvement on the part
of little “Dingy” is instanced in a para
graph which appeared in a recent number
of his Metropolitan journal, relative to a
speech made by Gen. Young, at Dalton,
but which he avers was made in Rome. As
Dalton wa3 only forty miles from Rome, lit
tle “Dingy” came within foity miles ot the
truth, in this instance, whereas one hun
dred is as clo30 as he was ever known to
como before.
We hope that he will continue in
improvement.
his
Rip Van Winkle.
The excellent rendiug of this serio-com-
ico Drama, at the City Hall, on last
Wednesday night by tho Templeton ttar
artists—calls for a more than a complimen
tary notice.
This Drama itself, as a work of art can
not be surpassed, and the manner in whioh
the artists sustained their several parts was
without fault. Each one seemed enthused
with the spirit of the work, and its every
tone and feature was rendered to perfec
tion. Mr. Wildman, as Rip Fan Winkle,
displayed the finest characteristics of dra
matic genius, and his rendiDg of the char
acter could not he surpassed even by Joe
Jefferson himself. Mrs. Henri also acted
to perfection, and evinced a capacity that
fits her tor the highest walk of the Drama
The following summary ol the weird,
fascinating pathos of Rip Van Winkle
we take from Scribners’ Monthly, as so fol
ly embodying its spirit, and so much better
than anything we can give ourselves :
“And I will drink your good health, and
your family’s; and may you all live long
and prosper 1”
He bows his white head, the curtain falls;
there is a rustling and a shuffling all over
the house; we bnttoo onr coats and are
moved along with the crowd—we hardly
know whither.
Stop ! How can we go away and leave
the old man there ! Will he be cared for
tenderly ? Will they see that he never
wanders off again and gets lost in the moan
tains ? will they keep that accursed bottle
away from him ?
“Have a coach ! Haae a coach, sir 1 Ac
commodate yon reasonably, sir!” Ride
right down to the ferry, sir 1”
We ronse, as lrom a dream—and here
wc are on the thronged sidewalk—out in
t le cool, crisp night !
Is it then ail paint and padding, all can
vass and clap-trap, all art and seeming!—
Rip Van Winkle, the rolicking, witty,
good-natured good-for-nanght—selfish, cru
el, tantalizing, yet sweet and loveable
above all; the dog Schneider; the broom
stick; the yolly fellows; the big score on
the tavern shu'ter; the • bag of gold; the
danoe on the green; the schwearing off, and
the not counting it this time; that wonder
ful drunken scene; the final, fearful giving
way of all forbearance—when the light
grows dim in the room and those terrible
words are spoken : “Begone, you drunkard!
Ont, you sot 1 Henceforth yon have no
part in me or mine 1’’ when his voice, end-
Wild Lands of Floyd County-
For the benefit of our readers, we pub
lish this week the following list ol lands
returned to the Uom'stroller’s office as
“wild.”
The order of the Comptroller, advertis
ing these lauds, is lated Nov. 11, and the
order closes with the following notice :
I repeat, i i conclusion, that if any of
these lands are returned, and tax is paid,
within sixty days from this date, snch
lands will be sold; bat if this tax is not
paid withiD the time prescribed, the land
will be °o!d by tha Sheriff of the connty
in which it lies.
We will successively publish a list of the
wild lands in Polk, Paulding, Chattooga
and Walker.
Cherokee original county, Floyd present
connty, 22d district, 3d section, nnmber >, IDO
acres, full lot, 10. 11.18,31, 26, 27,46, 47. 63.64.
103.114, 12S, 133, 141, 1SS, 150, 162. 163, 165, 166
170, 171,1S4, l S3, 211, 225, 231, 23S, 230. 244,
253, 265. 267, 273, 274, 278, 270. 231, 286, 2S1,
293, 301, 302, 313, 321, 322.327, 330. 331.
23d district numbers. 3, 5,16,57, 58, 59, 62, 82,
S6, 107,142,147, 158, 161. 166, 197.200, 223, 269,
271,230, 317, 3.33, 343, 343, 349, 350, 354. 199,
24th district, nnmbera 31,32,33, 87, 123, 127,
129, 149,150,153, 161, 166,176, 187.138, 202, 213
234, 247, 251, 261, 269, 273,277, 278, 279, 2S5, 236
287.
15th district, numbers 43 44.
16th district, numbers 120,150, 151,180, 182,
210.
3d district and 4th section, numbers 3,5, 8, 9,
12, 13,16,58,59,63,65,72,73, 74,78, 82,86, 95,
10], 102,10S, 109,121, 124, 131, 135,137,139, 141,
142, 143, 148, 150, 156, 159, 170, 174, 178, 192,
195,203.204, 210, 233,225, 226, 230, 331, 236,
239, 240, 253,267,263, 273. 275, 276, 282. 299, SOI.
302, 330, 342, 343, 346, 348, 352, 359, 361, 362,
367, 368, 386, 3SS, 392, 393, 403, 305, 406, 424, 425
426, 427,433,430, 450. 460, 462, 463, 469, 473,
479, 485,487, 501, 510, 514, 515, 533, 534, 535,
541,542, 550, 551,554, 555, 557, 566, 571. ISO,
585, 596,602, 603,604,609, 611, 612, 613, 614,
615,617, 621,622,624, 625, 626, 627, 629. 645,
660,666, 667, 670, 671, 676, 678, 687. 638, 692,
693, 694, 895,699. 722, 726, 735, 740, 741, 742, 743
748. 749, 752, 755, 759 7661 767, 772 786 787 790
91 792 797 79S 832 S52 S59 860, 869 870 876
SS8 907 915 924 928 935 937 947 984 997 998 999
1001 1011 1029 1030 1033 1033 1050 1053 1059
1064 1067 1063 1000 1094 1095 1096 1161 1163
1104 1129 1139 1131 1133 1133 1137 1133 1139
1140 1141 1143. 1
4th district, numbers 1 18 3339 41 54 53 68 S3
93 100 105 107 109 126 145 153 173 187 196 197
200 201 203 204 205 211 230 233 241 246 264 270.
5ta district, numbers 21 51 52 59 86 91 92 120
121 163 161 166 194 193 207 225 233 233 244
267 2S0 315.
15th district, numbers 36 60 66 82 90 91 92 106
111 116 118117 134 144 160162 463 164 165 168
169 170 175 176 177 178 170 181 182 IS3 184 185
186 187 1SS ISO 190 193 199 200 201.
16th distric', numbers 1 9 10 11 13 18 23 41 42
50 56 58 61 64 65 66 75 76 78 82 83 84 85 86 87 89
93 94 95 121 123 124 125 132 133 134 141 144145
151 152 153 156 157 165 169 1S7 189 194 198 198
201 202 212 219 224 227 229230 231 232 234 235
237 23S 264 265 266 267 269 270 272 273 274 276
277 278 239 290 300 303 308 309 311 312 316 319
320 329,330 333 334 338 339 340 341 342 344 345
343351 3 4 360 366 373 374 375 377 378 379 3S0
332 386 3S9 390 391 292 403 405 406 407 412 420
421 425 426 427 423 437 438 443 446 447 449 450
452 453 457 458 460 461 462 470 472 474 476 477
430 431 483 436 433 4S9 500 501 505 506 507 50S
510 514 515 517 510 520 531 533 533 53* 535 536
537 542 543 546 547548.
THE ELECTION LAW.
Fears are entertained that Bullock and
his thievish minions will by refusing to ap
point or confirm commissioners for the elec
tion, accomplish the defeat of an election.
We have no donbt but that to defeat an
election was the object of the Tinker in his
bill, but it sometimes happens that canning
and rogu try overreaches itself, and in this
instance it has done so, and if Bnllock or
the Senate were to refuse to appoint or
confirm commissioners, the election would
(till be held, under the old law. The fol
lowing section of the Code, authorizing the
proceedings, and which is not repealed by
the infimous bill of Akerman :
“If by 10 o’clock, a. m., on the day of
the election there is no proper officer pres
ent to hold the election, ot there is one
denly sobering, answers out of the silence
—in that wend, heartbreaking monotone
—Why, Grctchen ! will yon—will yon torn
me ont of your house like a dog 1—Yon
are right; it is your boose; not mine—I will
go. Gretchen 1 after what you have said
to me, I can never darken yonr door again;
that eloquent gesture as he points to his
child lying on the floor between them;
Gretohen’s agonized, repentant cries as he
rashes oat in the rain and lighting; that
witty, awful colloquy with Hendrick Hud
son’s ghost; the fatal draught; the cold,
and he refuses, three freeholders may su
perintend the election, and administer the
oath reqnircd to each other, which ahull be
of the same effect as if taken by a qualified
officer.” Sec. 1314, Chapter 2, Title 14.
Pt I, Code of Georgia, Page 253-
Let onr people ali over the State bear
this io mind, in the event no commissioner
appears on the day of election.
Provision Market.
We clip the following from the circular
of Messrs Fears, Bartley & Co., Louisville,
dated Nov., 23.
Tho weather continues favorable for
slaughtering operations,nearly all the pack
ers have ‘put in an appearance.’ Several
nonsgs were engaged to-day, and the num
ber killed amounting to over 5000 head,
making the sam total killed at this point
ap to this evening over 50 000 head.—
The receipts of Hogs are very light, and
prices ruled firm to-day at 86 22 to 6 50
gross for light to extra heavy averag-
Provision Market to-day wai a trifle
more active, and prices were firmer, for
nearly all descriptions of aide
meats
Moss Pork—The market is not as strong,
and several of the Packers have made
none so far, waiting for cheaper Hogs in
December.
Ramp Pork—We find as a general rale
packers are making none—rendering ramp
into lard.
Bulk Meat—The market is fairly sup
plied and purchases made at onr quota
tion.
Green Meats—Transactions are light—
sale of Shoulders, Sides, and Hams, 6,
91 and 101; sales abont 3000 pieces.
Lard—The demand, so far, has consum
ed nearly all prime Leaf as fast as it can
get cold. We can buy for December de
livery prime leaf 12}, prime 11), No. 1
1H.
We expect to see prices of Mess Pork
and cat meats much lower. Cotton, and
Breadsinffs are now ante war prices, and
with large nnmber of Hogs in the country,
low prices mnst come.
Virginia rad Palestine.
In a speech before the Agricultural So
ciety at Stannton, last year, Commodore
Maury eloquently remarked:
“Did yon ever reflect that Virginia ia in
the same latitude of the Promised Land—
that the same skies upon which David and
Solomon and ear Savior gazed, are gar
nished for ns as for them; that Pleieada,
Orion and Arcturas rise >nd set and shine
upon ns as they did upon patient Job; and
that everything that is grown there, from
the fig and the vine and the corn and oil,
grow here as well, and other things besides
Did yon know that Virginia and North
Carolina have given the greatest gifts from
the vegetable kingdom tint men have re
ceived since history began—that Indian
corn, potatoes and tobacco, come Grom this
part of the world 1”
Mr. Frank Drew lately returned from
Australia, has appeared at the Chesnnt at,
theatre in the “Inah Emigrant.”
rhe ’matic awakening, “on top of the Cat-
skill MonnU’n, as sure as a gun !’’ the old
man’s perplexed wandering through the
transformed village; the queer, pathetic,
mystification abont his own identity; and
the final, quiek mastery of himself and of
the situation when he flings back npon Der
rick that magnificent “Give him a cold po
tato and iet him go 1” —^
Is it all paint, and canvas and clap-trap?
Es it all unreal ? No, no, no ! It is tine as
truth, leal as life, deep as humanity ! And
the lesson—for there is a lesson—what is
it ? Only that wine is a mocker and
strong drink I-raging?—that it brings a
man ti rags and hanger, and want—(is
dere any more dere in dat glass ?”)—“for
when de tris is on me I believe I would
part wid my leg for a glass of liquor; and
when dat is in me I wonid part wid my
whole body, limb by limb, for de rest ob
de bottle !” It is this, and it is more than
this: that Gretohen’s way of dealing with
Rip is not the true way. The trne way,
alas! who may toll ?
And yet there are “Rips” off as well as
on the stage, and yon and me may be learn
ing how to save them—through the pitifnl
God only knows what trial and agony.
STORM AND FLOOD SIGNALS.
The following circnlar has been issued
by the Internal Department at Washing-
toe :
To the Public:
It is estimated that more than one-fourth
of the hay and grain crops arc, on an av
erage, injured annually by storms daring
harvest. Large quantities are cut down
and then a storm comes on suddenly or as
a settled rain, and they get wet to a degree
that they arc materially damaged. If far
mers bad warning of these approaching
storms in time to get their grain or hay un
der cover, or in a situation to shut ont tho
rain, much of this injury wonid be preven
ted. By the adoption of the following
simple plan, it is believed that this can be
effected at a trifling cost.
When a storm has formed and commen
ces to travel in any certain direction, the
first telegraph station or stations, over
which it passes is to send the news to all
the telegraph stations at cities,county-seats,
and principal towns Bcorcs or a hundred
miles in advance, according to the kind of
storm or probable distance : hat it may true
el, always keeping a suitable distance in
advance.
At each city, county-seat and principal
town, a cannon is to be kept ready by the
officials at the coart-house, or by a fire com
pany, and as soon as the news is received
of a coming storm, it is to bo fired three
times ; at intervals of one minute if a tor
nado, thunder or hail storm, terrific gale,
ai.y destructive storm is approaching; at
intervals of three minutes, if an ordinary
rain storm is approaching rapidly ;at inter
vals of six minntos,if an ordinary rain storm
is approaching slowly and at intervals ot
too minutes, if • destructive river flood is
approaching.
In cise of very destructive storms or
floods, the signals may be repeated, after
a suitable interval, to give additional warn
ing. At large cities, when a destructive
storm is approaching, fire and church bells
may also be rang, and steam whistles be
blown three timc3, at the same inter
vals as the gnus, to increase the warn
ing.
The storm signals will also be of great val
ue to commerce on our extended commerce
on onr extended coats and channels, and
particularly on onr numerous bays, rivers
and lakes, and especially in severe storms
and hurricanes, by warning vessels to seek
places of safety or prepare for the comiog
storm.
Terrific storms also sweep through onr
seaports, causing great damage to shippin.
The South Carolina Scnatorstilp.
The Washington cotrespouient of the
New York Tribnoc, writing to that journal
under date of the 18th inst., alludes to the
election of United States Senator by the
Legislature of this State, during the sts
sion which will convene in O .lu.nbia to day
The correspondent says.
The South Carolina Senator-hiD is a unt
ter of some interest I esc. aud the triends
of Senator Robertson do not afipo ir san
guine of his re election. There is a jcab
onsy, between the partisans of Senator Saw
yer and those of Gov. Scott, which, unless
reconciled, will create an alarming divi-iou
in the Republican party. Should Mr Bow
en be “counted out,” he will be pressed
for the Senatorship, and will haTe consid
erable strength. There is also a spirited
contest between Mr. Neagle. the Comptrol-
ler.’and Mr. Cordoso, (colored) Secret ry
of the State, both ot whom arc aspirants.
Bat in reference to Mr, Cardozo, it is urg
ed that tha colored element ought to be
satisfied with three Congressmen, a Secre
tary of State and Lieut. Governor. The
multiplicity of candidates, it is believed,
will force the presentation of a c-.mpromise
Senator, and Attorney General Chamber
lain and Chief Justice Moses are named in
that connection, with the chances in favor
of the latter.
and from Washington as a test. These
mes-aoes contained a thousand v ords
each, and were delivered within the min-
From Richmoni Dispatch.)
The Social Revolution—Economy.
We doubt whether a large portion of
the people of Virgin! t yet fully understand
the nature of the social revolution that has
fallen upon U3, and the system of domestic
economy which wc m ist adopt to accommo
date onrselves to it and to protect ourselves
from its consequences.
Wc have not yet abardoacd the system
maintained under slavery, and have not
fully cut loase from the extravagance and
improvidence that it inculcated.
Under the new order of thimrs to which
wc must submit, economy should prevail in
Recently experiments were made with
the automatic system by George B. Pres
c. tt, in which chemically prepared paper
was employed, and ic Was found that the
highest rate of speed attainable through
500 miles of o. 8 wire did not exeee. the
ordinary rate ot transmission by the M
apparatus; and that the greates: speed
wb ch could be attsined over a tele
graph line of 250 miles 700 words per min
ute.
L»y Mr. Little’s ne.v invention, however
2,U0il words per minute can be transmit
ted over a No. 5 wire, between New York
and Washington, and 1,000 woids per
minute on a No Snire-
Under the new system,a message costin
a d "liar by the Western Union line, will
co.it about seventeen
19th.
cents.—iY. T Sun,
everything. The farmer must he sure
where even a few minutes warning would
save a vast amount of property, fhe sig
nals will save numerous lives, will be use
ful to commerce, to agriculture during har
vest, and in seed time, spring and fall and
in fact will be of value to every business
city or country.
The signals nsed for storms at river
towns may also be nsed to give warning of
destructive river floods. By firibg a canon
at the principal townson stiver, a coming
flood may be sigoalel throughout its en
tire length several hoars in advance, by
which many lives and largo amonDts of
property will be saved.
Even an hoar’s warning will be of great
value when the riTer rises suddenly and
runs with destructive radidity and force.
Tfarongh a recent act of Congress to es
tablish storm signals at forts and military
stations, this plan will be tested on rivers,
lakes, bays, and on the coasts for the benefit
of commerce and incidentally of agricul
ture:
Bnt as these military stations are not nu
merous, and will be of inconsiderable utili
ty to agricnltnre, except to test the system
it is therefore recommended that agricultu
ral societies and city and town authorities
take immediate measnre to establish the sig
nals at every city, connty seat and establish
the signals at every city connty scat, an t
principal town having telegraph facilities.
Many cities and towns a suitable cannon,
which could be fired by a fire company, for
which they may receive additional pay,
their dntiea being increased to storm sig-
•als as well as to fires.
Where a town has not a suitable cannon
to be nsed as a storm gnn^pplication should
be made to the State or National Govern
ment, whose arsenals are fall of these im
plements of destruction, which may now be
nsed for the saving of life and property.
Every newspaper should publish this cir
cular that the plan may become generally
established in time for the next harvest.
A. Watson.
Washington, D. C., 1870.
The Heathen and the Salats.
The “heathen Chinee" does op shoes in
Massachusetts and linen in New Jersey,
to the great grief and scandal of St Cris
pin in the former State and St Patrick
in the latter. What shall be done abont
it ? He is a clean man, and we eannot
indict him as a nuisance. He is an indns.
trions man, and we cannot proseente him
for vagrancy. He does his work faithfully
and Well, and we eannot discharge him.—
He is sober and orderly, and we eannot get
him into the lock up.
He minds his own business, and it does
not seem to be quite the genteel thing to
kiek him. More than all, he is ingenious
and we need hitn. It really seems to be
one of the unhandiest eases to manage that
has fallen into saintly hands since the land
ofthe free and the home of the brave was
discovered.
When the heathen gets to be cleaner,
mote industrious, more faithful, more con
tinent, more courteous and inoffensive and
more ingenious than a saint, we should
like to know what a free and highly civ
ilized Christian people are going to do with
him.—Scribner't
Adelina Patti has left Brussels for St.
Petersburg, whither Madame Stas has also
gout.
that he not only makes a support for his
family, but that he makes inuucy enough to
pay taxes and keep his place in repair, tie
las no such resource as the increase of
slave property to makeup au, deficit which
neglect, improper tilage,or wasteful extrav
agance may occasion.
The first great point is to diminish the
area cultivated, that it -nay be tilled tlior
oughly upon a system that will improve the
land.
No man should undertake more than his
means, or more than the lorce he can em
ploy will enable him to cultivate exactly in
that style. The holding of lmd exceed
ing this area is also unwise, and the owner
of such excess should reut or sell it as so >o
as possible.
To hold land that you cannot cultivate is
almost as unwise as to hire hinds when
you have no laud to till.
As an indispensable adjunc: to the prop
er tillage of this reduced surface, ihe lar
mer should keep only so many horses, cat
tle, &c., as he needs and can well support
—keep fat strong and serviceable. Stall
ing and soiling should b-'- much resorted
War and Commerce.
The Herald of Ye.-terday, in its money
arilele, avows itself a believer of the old
doctrine that “what is one man’s gain
another’- loss.” It says:
‘ It it folly to say that war in Eurofe
will do our business harm. As our imports
are always larger than our exports, a com
plete interruption of oar trade wich Enropi
would be to our benefit.
A Chirese wall around the United Stat s
would make us rich r than we are. Our
vast aud grand country is self su; portin;
W re it not for the l uxury of our wealthy
classes, who import silks and all kinds ot
dry goods, wines and brandies, we should
be constantly creditor with Europe. The
sooner all Europe is overruu with devasta
ting armies destroying the sources of these
luxuries ihe sooner shall we cancel the
balance of trade against us.
With all Euorpe at War we shall become
the “nation of housekeepers,” to sell fire
arms aud breadstuffs to the belligerents
Were ali at war every foundry in this
Country would be wo: king night and day
The railroads ofthe West would be unable
to draw the pork and produce required for
export lrom New York.
Iu lSG5’5Gthe pork packers of New
York con d not procure hogs enough from
tne farms of the West to ship to the Crimea
Iu this emergency they rallied oc the wild
hog—an unpalatab!.- and unmarketable ar
ticle—which was slaiu in thousands by
hunters. The carca.-s when packed and
salteu, was not to be told from the regula.
article.”
We suppose the Chinese wall which the
Herald desires to see placed around the
United States, would be furnished with
new patcut outlets that would permit uc
limited exportations of the products of
American labor, and be hermetically dos
ed against this of the pioducts of foreign
labor. But suppose this wall constructed
aud these patent outlets, invented and ap
plied, how would American laber bo re
warded fur the useful commodities they
parted with through the exportations of
the couutrv?
We suppose the wise acre of the Herald
- „ , ;a intend to force toreiguers to pay us for < ur
to-first, because a diminished area cur- comcio< ] it ; es (itlt! t ud ? ag .he wild hogs‘slain
tails, pasturage; secondly, the importauci - - - •
of making a plenty of manure is «o great
that no wi«e man will allow his to ruain
over the old fields.
The neglect ot stock gives the fa-mer
neither good crops nor good stock, and is
criminally wasteful.
There must bs no idle ones to feed—no
supermanaries. Nothing should be wasted;
aud onr people should give up the old Vir
ginia maxim of Selling everything they
can’t eat, and adopt as nearly as they can
the Yankee rule of eating what they can’t
sell! With the view of keeping the whole
commissary department, as well as the culi
nary. under the immediate supervision of
the housekeepers,the store-rooms aud hous
es should be compacted and in neat order,
and tne kitchen should be so arranged as
that hands heretofore a little too daiuty
may perform many duties which have here
tofore not only involved expenditure, but
great waste.
There is really little about the homestead
that the female members of a lamily iu mid
dle circumstances may not do without dam
age and without shame. The milking of a
cow may be set down as a little trying.but
it is certainly easily for men to milk.
If the wa-hing be too heavy, is it not
far better to put it out in the neighborhood
than to hire a woman possibly with two or
more children, thus increasing the mouths
to feed and the cost of living much be
yond the amount of the cost of wash
ing!
12?
With the surrender of e little pride, and
a full conviction of' he necessities upon ns,
there are hundreds of families which, by.
adopting these ideas, may not only live bet
ter and happier, but increase each year
their income and the productiveness of
their lauds Let any man consider how
little his own family consumes compared
with the hired persons and their wasteful
ness and destructiveness.
Let hint think how neat things might be
kept by his own family—how much would
be saved—end how admirably well would
his supplies hold out under the system ot
vigilant oconomy and the employment of a
limited force to cultivate well a limited sur
face.
This is the system to multiply crops, to
refrench the cost of living, and to maintain
personal indcndcnce. When onr people
cime to adopt it with eDersy and vigilance
they will have accepted tho revolution en
tire, in all ita details. It involves the ne
cessity of the family patting its hands to
mnch that has been left to others, and tuere
is a plenty of the virtues of fortitude and
perseverance in the State to meet this ne
cessity.
A grand moral effect of a system of in
dustry and self independence like this is
that it will not tolerate idleness and vaga
bondism.
The idler and the dron» cannot linger
amongst an industrious and frugal popula
tion like this. Snch a people most increase
in wealth, and most enjoy contentment—
most swell the power and increase the dig
nity of the State
Domestic economy like this will pnrge the
State of useless people and strengthen the
securities of order, property lite, and pub.
lie virtue.
Trial el Little’s Automatic Telegraph
ing Apparatus—2,000 Words per .uin-
ute.
Yesterday afternoon some extraordinary
experiments were made with Little’s improv
ed automatic telegraph, at the office of the
National Telegraph Company, 66 Broad-
When this system was first brought ont,
the rate at which words conld be transmit
ted was 200 per minute;bat since that time
Mr. Idttle, the inventor of the automatic
system, has been able to increase the speed
to 1,000 words per minute, and he is hope
fill of extending this figure.
Yesterday messages were transmitted to
by thousands by huaters,” though “an uo.
palatable aod unmarketable article,” H'beu
packed and salted are not to be told from
th- regular article,’ and therefore will do
very well for the starving Europeans) in
gol'i and silver whie 1 may be pitched over
the wall or hob ted over it by patent der
ricks; but will he be so Lind as to indicate
to the Au erican people before they coc-
trust the Chinese wall, how gold and silver
can be made to replace useful commodities?
Will gold and silver feed clothe, shelter
transport, educate or amuse humanity ex
ccpt by being exchanged for the useful re
salts of labor? Is he cot recommending
that we should exchange a reality for a
shadow—accept a representative imagining
it to be the thiDg it represents? And will
he also state who is the best judge of wbat
is most cost conductive to individual bap
piuess. the individual himself or a legisla
ter philanthropist, or philosopher like him-
self? It' the individual is the best judge as
to which ol his wants and desires is most
imperative, should not every producer be
permitted to exchange what he produces for
anything he may desire, rather than allow
others to dictate to him what he shall do
with the results of his labor and industry?
A little learning is olten a dangerous thing.
We recommend to our contemporary to
dip a little deeper into the laws of political
economy therefore again attempts to teach
the science of exchanges,the benefits of war
nd the injuries ot commerce to the people
the United States.—-Ycir York Daily Bui.
leiin \Cfli.
The tide moves steadily on, and it the
wise and patriotic take it at the flood the
country’s fate will be most fortunate- Tho
public dispositions are favorable.
The spirit of harmony grows stronger at.
ter the long fever and delirinm which had
educed it to so low and fcble a state. The
bitterness of nitra Radicalism is on the
wane and grows weaker as the spirit of liar,
many gathers strength. The promise ot
better state of things is therefore
bright.
Only it would check the coarse of har
mony now for extremists to press their
ideas and endeavor to force them and their
men upan the country. Uncompromising
men will not do for a day of compromise,
when all the true friends of the country
should meet upon a common platform ready
to sacr fice personal prejudice and personal
ambition to promote the general welfare ot
the Union.
Men are prone to make gods for them,
selves. This country is great at goduiaking.
They do not here set up a stone or a brazen
image, bnt worship men, and they will dis
pate about men and grow so wrathy and
unconciliatoty that they would plunge th
are of the eleaTtst significance. And they
come from the great body of the poop’e of
the Union. Nothing can check tbcpicva
lence of these s:ntiments and views of the
people bnt gross mismanagement by the
leaders
carried on. In an iron factory he fonnd
carbon, ash. and iron, the iron being in
the form of transluvid hollow balls one
two-thonsandth of an inch diameter.
In the air of a shirt factory, filaments of
linen and cotton and mina’e eggs were
boating, and in places where gra n is
thrashed and coverted, the floating duM is
fibrons and starchy, mingled with vegeta
ble spores; bnt according to Dr. Sigerson,
the dost of a scutching mill is moie hurtful
than any. and as mnch pains should be ta
ken to get rid of it as that of the grinding
mills of Sheffield.
In tteairof type foundries and printing
offices, antimony exists; stab'es show hair
and other animal matters; and the hair of
dissecting rooms is descrihed as particular
ly horrible.—Apph ton's Journal.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF LOCOMOTIVE
ENGINEERS.
We publish the following just tribute to
a worthy class of public operitivcs. from
the New Jersey Mechanic.
The worth ofthe Engineer is uot known,
bnt few have ever bestowed,
upon him or his invaluable‘services and .'
yet an instinctive homage i3 paid to his
skill and his trnstworteiness,$very horn and
every day.
Thousands eaj
and quietly select an easy*placc for sleep
ing, and with ali the security of home,
they commit themselves to the care of the
Engineer.
In doing so they all unconsciously pay
him the highe-t possible tribute of appre
elation. The appreciation of the heart and
not of the lips.
It may be doubled if any class of me
chanics are so inadequately appreciated as
locomotive engineers. Few others have re-
ponsibilities equal to heirs add none have
more ardurous and da gerous duties. The
terms of their qualifications for the posi
tions they hold are rigidly- exacting —
Generally they must serve a novitotte in
the locomotive building or r.-pair shops,
and then a year—perhaps more—iu the
position of fireina i or ‘greaser’ before a nia
chine is entrusted to their care.
They are expected to have gained a suffi
cient practical knowledge of the locomo
tive engine; not only to run and ktep it
in order’ but to make at 'east temporary re
pairs in an emergency.
It might be suppose 1 under these cir.
cnm.-tances, that their work woull be ap
preciated by the public generally, or at
least by their employers ; yet it is seldom
we hear of any recognition of their services,
and presentations of merit by railroad com -
panies to engineers are so few that it is dif
ficult to recall an instance.
Yet recorded occurrences of rare hero
ism on the part of locomotive engineers
show that they arc a coble class of men,
ami many cases of heroic self-sacrifice have
occurred which have never been pnblibly
noticed.
Instances of engineers sticking to the
foot board or thf ittle oven the in the plain
and immediate view of almost certain death
not unknown: choosing rather to
ils.
of t
chieye a posthumous reputation for cowr
ie than to retain a life saved at the ex-
nse of honor.
The employment of the locomotive en-
ineer is one of continually recurring per-
Hc stands as Uriah in the Tore lront
the battle ;’ it there is danger ahead he
the first to see it aud consequently must
be the first to meet it. If death comes to
any it must come probably to him. And
frequently he is without auy warning as to
what danger may be before him, and with
out signal or guide to prevent it.
In the darkest nights, when the fog may
be ‘cut with a knife,’ lie must drive his
unpityiDg steed, over tressel work, bridge,
and culvert, either oi which may Le under
mined by torrents or storms, or burned by-
parks from the locomotive of a proceed
train, even if the evil passions of men
who have not combined to provide the means
for a catastrophe.
Miles away from the habitations of men.
he may have no assurance that kindly heart*
will prompt to timely warning. He can
not rest, cannot relax for a moment the
gilance which is the price or safety for
himseif as well as the hundreds of huma-i
lives behind him.
Overlooking his fireman,noting the bight
of the water in his boiler, and the pressure
~ the steam, keeping his ahead and his
hand on tho throttle valve or reversing le.
ver, be must be continually wide awake
d watchful while on the road. Such Ia.
bor is exhausting ; it affects the mental as
1! as the physical powers.
The jars and - jolts of the locomotive are
believed to tend greatly to the impairment
the engineer’s health. The violence and
extent of these shocks can be understood
only by those who have ridden the iron
The passengers in the upholsterd
ears conceive but a faint idea of the move,
ments of the locomotive from the easy
-winging of the cars. At times the whole
machine, with its ton3 of moving weight,
appears to leap from the track; it jerks from
side to side of the road as if a scnticent or-
aniinis in spasms, and shakes the engineer
and fireman in fibre of their bodies. With
all this the engineer most not allow his at.
tention to be diverted from his duty. He
gets to learn the present condition of his
machine even by the noise it makes ns it
echoes through cats, or tannels or spins
hammingly along the open track. If a sin.
le thiDg is wrong his edneated ear detects
in the darkest night that his obscured
sight fails to discover.
The perpetual strain npon the mind—the
sense of never mitigated responsibility—and
be continual facing of possible death or
disaster more or less affects the mental
character of the locomotive engineer. He
partakes ofthe character ofhig machine—
of which he insensibly becomes a-part—and
is sometimes rongii; perhaps in manner, al
ways reaey, and blunt in his commnniea-
couotry in war rather than allow any but
their favorites to be elevated to the high
est places in the land. Much is said of
principle; but persons more than principles
have tor long years governed parties in this
country. There was principle at the bot
tom of the gTeat leud which ended in the
civil war in this country out had it not
been for the miserable ambition of men,
sustained by their partisans, this division
on tbe question of principle could have been
settled. Rut men, eaten up with ambition
and full ot their own conceit wonid not at
low the counsels of the good and great and
tbe ardent wishes of the people to prevail
and the fratricidal strife followed.
Tbe present period is one that is critical
and that may be marred by this same per
sonal ambition and party spirit. The coun
try needs rest. The people desire to be
delivered from passions of the war and the
abominable vindictiveness which has been
incorporated into the lawf of the bad. In
the demaud for general amnesty this desire
has appealed ia the bte political campaign
Then there are policies of the ultra Repub
licans which cannot receive the approval
dons. Cat from his position and the de.
mands of his office he seldom speaks—nev
er conversewhen on the engine. Thns
he becomes tacitn n in manner, although
not in reality. This brasqneneas and reti.
cence if not a part of his duty becomes a
part of his character, and even if time per.
mits he seldom allows himself to unbend
in social life. With such responsibilities
he boars, levity soon becomes gravity, and
Iigbt-hoartedness seriousness.
It is not too mnch to say that the loco
motive engineer, rather than the condne
tor, is the real manager of the train. The
I itter mingles with the passengers, and be
ing ossensibly what his title imports, he
receives the credit lor a favorable issue of
a threatened danger, which more properly
in many cases, belongs to that isolated in
dividual, the locomotive engineer.
D M Carter is engaged on a group repre
senting a beautiful damsel besieged by two
lovers, one young and poor, and tha other
igeil and wealthy. Behind them MephistO'
• Teles holds the ballance, and Cnpid is
ntweighed by cash. The artist calls it
i&'i
of the United States. These indications^‘fThe Old Story. 1 '
atii