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About The daily sun. (Columbus, Ga.) 1855-1873 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1856)
COLUMBUS: Friday Morning, July 4, 1856. LAHHEBT CITT CIRCULATION. Vo paper will be issued from this office to morrow ; and she next day being Sunday, the Sun will not nppenr again until Monday mor "inff __ fourth of July. The American people arrive, to-day, at the close of one more year of national existence. Eight decades have gone over us, and the great principle of self-government still remains in tact, and our people still acknowledge no ruler but themselves. The recurrence of our na tional birthday calls up many glorious memo ries; but it also awakens sad reflections.— While we have gone forward with unparalleled rapidity in the arts and sciences—in territorial extension—in commerce and manufactures—in agriculture and literature, we have made no progress in self-government, but have rather receded. Corruptions, abuses, discontents, have crept into the body politic. The Union yet remains, but it is no longer one of brother ly love, nor based upon that solid foundation where our fathers left it. Its two grent sec tions survey each other with mutual distrust; while all men feel that the links which bind us, cannot endure further tension, and arc strained to their uttermost. Those are sad thoughts for the Fourth of July. But we are cheered by the belief that a higher power than man’s, controls our destinies, and will preserve us from destruction. Surely, if any nation may claim to be the recipient of Divine favor, we are that nation. Every page of our history contains proofs that we have been ordained to some great purpose ; and we have an abiding confidence in the continuance of that Divine protection which lias thus far been vouchsafed to us. Let us hope for the best. Let us believe that the sober second thought will ere long come into play, and in augurate reaction. Let us hope that the great Governor of Nations will put into the hearts of our people that conciliatory spirit, and those feelings of brotherly affection, which will avert tho threatenings that menace us, and on which only we can rely to preserve our National In tegrity. It is not in the power of politicians to preserve it. The people alone can do it ; and we sincerely trust that on this day, so dear to us all, North and South, every lover of his country will forget sectional disoontents, resolve to cherish fraternal feelings towards his fellow citizens, and secure to the whole people many returns of the Fourth, and hap pier ones, than we have to-day—days when the future will be as bright with promise, as the past is brilliant with glory. Mechanics’ Meeting. There was a very large and spirited meeting of our city mechan.cs on Wednesday evening, at Temperance Hall. At the moment of our arrival, the audience had just come to “order,” and Mr. J. D. Baldwin was on his way to the stand, for the purpose of making some re marks explanatory of the objects ol’ the meet ing. Mr. B. said:—“ Fellow citizens: u few nio o.hauics of this city, being of opinion that much good might be accomplished by the for mation of a Mechanics’ Association, and being influenced solely by a desire to advance the wolfare of the laboring men of Columbus, have called this meeting of working men, in order that the project might be discussed, and if possible some good attained. I need hardly tell yon that, similar fraternities exist, both North and South, though to much greater ex tent in the former than the latter; and that when animated by tho right spirit, they have been found to yield both profit and pleasure, to the mechanic. I am not accustomed to public speaking, und do not hope to entertain you with any display of oratory. But 1 may remind you of facts well-known to yourselves —of evils but too well known ; and as a broth er mechanic urge upon you to devise tho ways and means to promote your prosperity and remedy thoso evils. It is known to you all ihat the Southern mechanic lias a grievous competition to encounter from the North ern mechanic. Thij calls for remedy. It is well known that many of our brethren arc in want, at times; sick, and in distress. Wo should relieve them, and make mutual aid a principle of our association. It is well known that Northern mechanics occupy a higher place in the social scale, have more general intelligeuee, and more comforts than those of •he South. It is within our power, by menus of association, to lift ourselves as high ns they. We must studiously devote ourselves to self culture. and to increasing our proficiency in our respective callings. It is well known to you, also, to mention another evil, that the statute laws of Georgia in reference to negro mechanics, are not faithfully observed. And while we disclaim all intention to violate tho laws, it is our right to have those executed which hove beui t .<-sed tor our benefit, and our duty to insist upon such execution. But I will not undertake mention of all the objects which fall within tho scope of a Mechanics’ Association. Your Committee will report mat ter for your action ; and though 1 cannot say what they may do, it is immaterial at present to know. We shall have a voto upon their re solutions. There is much to be done; it is time we were up and at work. Come forward and enrol your names, and if you do no more, you can bread the hungry, comfort the afflict ed, relieve the distress, and protect the or phan and the widow. Come up men, andsign. After that you can select from such Committee as yon desire. Mr. Baldwin here wont to the desk, aud was about writing his name, wheu, Mr. Simons rose, and said: Fellow citizens, it seems to me these proceedings are very in formal. We should have a Chairman and a •secretary before going farther. Mr. Baldwin: Just wait a moment till I get down my name—(Laughter and cheers)—there now} (Great applause.) Mr. Simons proposition was then adopted by appointing Mr. J. D. Baldwin to the Chair, and Mr. W. H. McNeill to act as Secretary.- The officers having taken their seats, Mr. Si- rnons was loudly called for; whereupon ho took the stand, and said:— Fetlow-Citizen*: In complying with your call, and taking the stand, lam somewhat em barrassed. I feel up here, like a cat in a strange garret, for I have not been advised of the objects of this meeting, and do not know anythiug of them. But I have always hearti ly sympathised with mechanics; 1 have labor ed for their welfare; and l therefore feel that I have some right to address you. Ever eiucc I landed in Columbus in 1833, I have watched closely the difficulties which beset the path of the working-man; and in 1841, l, and another, endeavored to found a Mechanic’s Association. We were actuated by the purest motives, but we received the cold shoulder, and tiie attempt failed us many similar ones in Georgia bofore And since, have done. Now, 1 am of opinion that the reasou why these associa tions when formed, arc generally short-lived, is, a want of foundation., They arc not based upon fundamental principles, but have usually confined themselves to war upon some ulterior evil. Vet we have principles—great princi ples to be maintained. We all suffer too, and continue to suffer ; but. we might apply reme dies did we so choose. One great evil to which I would call your attention, is the apprenticeship system as it now exists in Georgia, and the conduct of some mechanics who avail themselves of its defects. It is too often the case now-a-days, that by the time a boy begins to boos some use to bis employer, and to repay him for the trouble of hie teaching, the apprentice is decoyed off from his rightful master ; his ear is filled with pleasant poison, and secret persuasions, and he quits his first situation to take up witli the man who has beguiled him. .Such conduct on the part of master mechanics is shameful; it should be frowned down, and your association should see that none of its members are guilty of such dishonorable couduct. One reason why we have such poor mechanics in the South will bo found in the workings of the appren ticeship systom. We should memorialize the Legislature on this subject, and have inoro stringont laws. (Applause.) The social position of the mechanic in the South, is a subject of much discontent. But it is uousense to complain of it, till we make some attempt at elevation. This we should do, by tho cultivation of the most scrupulous honor in our dealings one with another. In Europe a mechanic cannot get employment uules he can produce a certificate of honorable discharge from his last employer. (Great ap plause.) We should to improve ourselves, and become worthy of a higher po sition. We should have a library, newspapers and periodicals to tell us of the progress mak ing in the mechanical arts, and everything connected with the mechanical interests of the country. We should have lectures upon sub jects interest ng to us, as mechanics ; and even send to a distance to procure the proper men to address us. We should meet frequently too, and have a friendly and free interchange of sentiment and opinion, giving each other all the aid we can. But above all, we should look to that moral culture without which, all efforts t. rise will fail, or prove but transitory. In reference to Northern competition, I hope we shall not forever have to contend with it. The signs of the times forebode a day, when the dissolution of this Union will make us independent; against that time let us prepare. Let us set our house in order, and make ready for the day when locomotives will not be im ported, but be made upon our own soil. W'hen parlors shall not bo furnished from Northern manufactories, but from Southern. We must get ready for that time, by perfecting our selves in our trades, increasing our general in telligence, and raising ourselves to a level with the mechanics of any other country. I know not whether this association will take any action on the subject of negro me chanics, and attempt to forbid negroes from becoming mechanics. But I hope such attempt will not bo made. It is impracticable and would be unjust. Every man has a right to do what he will, with his own; nor is there a mechanic now in this room, who, if he owned a negro workman, would submit to be dictated to in regard to what kind work of that negro should do. We cauuot touch this subject my friends, without infringing on reserved rights; and 1 warn you that the establishment of such a principle is insidious abolitionism: right here the seeds ot fanaticism begin to germinate. And 1 implore you as you value your own pence and that of your country, to beware of it. Let us not breed strife in the community, nor seek to array one portion of it against an other. 1 remember an attempt to put down negro mechanics, some years since in Macon. An Association was formed there and quickly became inad. They were going to rule the world; but they soou broke down, and thus damaged their real and other interests. Our safety is in putting the mechanic arts beyond the reuch of the negro. Negroes can piano plank and lay brick, (though you seldom see one on the outside of a handsome wall) but that negro lives not, nor will ever live, who can convert the ore of the earth into the proud locomotive that sweeps your plains. (Applause) So improvo yourselves, that the negro will in vain try to compete with you, and will in this way be driven out of workshops, to those occu pations for which they are better adapted, and where, in my opinion, they would be most profitable to their owners. The argument against negro mechanics, 1 will add, is absurd. You bad as well go and demand of Mr. Bar ringer tho stoppage of his planing machine, because it took bread out of the mouths of old fogy planers, as to demand that negroes shall be kept out of the workshops. The cases are parallel. In regard to mutual aid to each other in sickness, trials, and distress, 1 highly approve it. We are commanded of God, as men, to help our fellow-men. Shall wo do less towards brother'mechanics ? We should have a perma nent fund always accessible to those deserving aid. My friends let me conjure you to think well of yourselves. You obey the command—live by the sweat of the brow. Be not captious or discontented because some men may scorn you. You are tho jewels of Georgia—her jew els, as truly as the Roman matron's sons were jewels with her. Let other meu think of you wiint they will —have your own opinion of yourself. For my own part though my father before me was a blacksmith and hammered iron ; and though I have had to work so long as health permitted, with jack-plane and saw ; and thougb I have a hundred times been dirty and sweaty, and tired, I never yet felt that aScn tor or a President was any better thau 1. (Ap plause.) The only thing for us to be asham ed of, is our own immoral or dishonorable conduct. Follow citizens, l am no chicken. I have boys raising up, that 1 want to occupy good positions and become useful men. My head tells you that years have passed over it, but it does me good to see so many of you here to night. and so earnest arid enthusiastic. Press forward and you will yet make your mark. Fearing 1 shall weary you, l will conclude with a leal from my experiences. When I first chine to this city, I ought to have been fenced in, to keep the cows from eating me, I was so green. I was like a stray dog; noth ing to do aud nothing to do it with. At last I got work with a cabinet maker. I worked hard all day, but my nights I knew not what to do with. 1 had no books to road—uobody to talk to. I soon found the way to the whis ky shop, learned to play “rounce,” kick up tho devil and get a head-ache in the morning. Your association can save youth and young men from this. The latter can come among us, hear our conversations, read our books. Wo can take them to our houses, and mako their nights pleasant. If found worthy, wc can marry them to our daughters. I have none myself, but may have. (Applause.) Finally; I wish to see Southern mechanics side-by-side with all others. They only want opportunity. I have the greatest confidence in tho equality of the Southern with the North ern mind. We are as ingenious as they are, if we could but bring it out; and there are at this day, little white headed boys in the piny words, apparently without three ideas above a monkey, who only need development to equal a Fulton. Let us strive for self-im provement, and above all, have it distinctly undefstood that we have not combined in or der to infringe upon other men’s rights: but legitimately promote the interest of mechanics, and olevate the mechanic arts. Mr. Barry, rose at the conclusion of Mr. Simon’s address, to protest against the meet ing’s having any connection with abolitiou movements, and called upon the Chair to set forth the real objects of the meeting. Mr. Levy said that he was sorry that such a word as abolition should so much as be nam ed in a meeting of Southern mechanics, than whom no men were more loyal. He depreca ted the mention of anything political at a Me chanics’ meeting. The call upon the Chair being renewed, Mr. Baldwin rose, and emphatically disclaimed any desire upon the part of the projectors of the meeting, to interfere in the remotest manner, with the rights of slaveholders; and then briefly recounted the various objects which the Association had in view. Upon taking his seat he was loudly applauded. A list was then opened for the enrolment of member’s names, and fifty-seven signatures ob tained. A Committee consisting of Messrs. M. N. Clark, Charles I*. Levy, Thomas I)e W olf, Wm. R. Brown, E. A. Jackson, and N. B. Love, was appointed to prepare business for the next meeting ; after which the meet ing adjourned to IVednesday evening next, at 8 o’clock. It is proper to say that our reports of the remarks made, are very much condensed. We had full notes, but for want of room, have been compelled to be brief. Going, Going, Gone. The Omnibuses and baggage waggons, pass our office several times daily, on their trips between the Hotels, and Depots, and we notice latterly, very full cargoes, and a great many “Columbus” trunks, starting with their own ers, to the various summer resorts. The tide of travel from Montgomery, and other places west of this point, has also largely increased, and every body that can, is moving away from the heat. Having been promoted from the Can’t-get-away t C lub, to the Ain’t-a-goin-away Club, we shall remain, at our post, and do what we can to enliven our brother members during the “heated term.” In this connection, we would call attention to the advertisement of our City Omnibuses, and especially to that portion of it, having re ference to leaving “orders” at the Hotels. West Point. The following is a description of a drill per formed by the Light Infantry corps at West Point, during the reoeut examination : “There were six cannons, each followed by a caisson or ammunition wagon, both of which were drawn by four horses. The rapidity and celerity of the evolutions were astonishing. Upon the sound of the bugle the horses would be spurred across tho plain, tho pieces un limbered and discharged several times a min ute. Again would the bugle sound, and be fore the smoke over that part of the field had cleared away, the battery would be driven across the plain at full gallop, and, in a few seconds more, at the word of command, a dea fening roar would arise from that quarter, which thesourrounding hills reverberated with startling distinctness. These pieces can be discharged six times a minute. Another man oeuvre was dismounting the battery, which was done in less than a minute after receiving the order, the carriage having in that time been entirely taken to pieces, and laid upon the ground.” The Florida Branch. The Middle Florida Branch of the Bruns wick and Florida Railroad has been located, we understand. It leaves the Main Trunk at the point where it crosses the line of Clinch and Ware counties, and runs diagonally? across Clinch county to a point near the southwestern corner ot the county, and in the direction of Jasper, in Florida. W e had the pleasure of examining the pro file and was struck with the remarkable even ness of the surface, having almost no cuts or embankments, savo the slight ono to form the road bed. We are informed by Col. Schlatter, that the fall is only 27 feet in 39j{ miles. Brunswick Herald. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. In Congress, July 4th, 1776. When in the course of human events, it be comes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them With another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the lews of nature and of nature’s God entitle then, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires shat they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident:-that all men arc created equal; that they are en dowed by their Creator with certain unaliena ble rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pin suit of happiness. That to secure these right?, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the con sent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these euds, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute anew government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall setni most likely to effect their safety and happiness. J’rudenee, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly nil experience hath shown that mankind mo more disposed to suffer while evils are si. durable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are aecus tsmed. But when a long train of abuses anil usurpations, pursuing invariably the same ob ject, evinces a design to reduce them under ab solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, aud to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyran ny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He lias refused his assent to laws the most wholcsOfne and necessary? for the public good. He has fordidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, uuless suspended in their operation till his assent should bo obtained: and when so suspended he has utterly neglected to attend to them.— He has refused to pass other law-s for the ac commodation of large districts of people, un less those jieople would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature—a right in estimable to them, and formidable tot.yrants only. Ho has milled together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the repository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into com pliance with his measures. He has dissolved representatve houses re peatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time after sueli dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; — whereby? the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion, from without, and convulsion within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these sta cos ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners : re fusing to pass others to encourage their migra tion hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for es tablishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms'of officers, to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military inde pendent of, and superior to the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdi dioM foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to tl eir acts of pretended legislation : For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock-trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States : For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For impc sing taxes on us without our con sent : For depriving us, in many cases, of the bene fits of trial by jury : For transporting us beyond the seas to be tried for pretended offences : For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarg ing its boundaries, so as to render it at once, an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies : For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering funda mentally, tho forms of our governments : For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by de claring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. lie is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the work of death, desolation, and tyranny, already be gun with crcumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in tho most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of those oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms : Our repeated petitions have been an swered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be tho ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren: Wo have warned them from time to time, of attempts made by their legislature, to extend an unwarrantable juris diction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of oor emigration and set tlement here. Wo have appealed to their ua tivc justice and magnanimity, and wehaveeon jured them by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would in evitably interrupt our connections and corres pondence. They too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity,, We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our tep: them, as wc hold the rest of mankind IN in war, in peace friends. ’ . We, therefore, the Representative? ® United States of America, in general c assembled, appealing to the upreuw imE* 68 the World, for the rectitude nf our j n ' t ", do, in the name, and by authority ot’ ,i ■ > people of these Colonies, solemnly pubu’ Jfc 0 * 1 declare-—That these United Colonies J I® 15 * of right ought to be, Free and States ; that they are absolved irom all .3 ance to the British Crown, and that all n iK? connection between them aud the s® Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totVh® solved : aud that as Free and ’inder. 2 States, they have full power to levy vv , ‘l® nt elude peace, contract alliances, establidk 0 "’ merce, and to do all other icts and’ ‘t®f which Independent States nmy of right ! ®| And for the support of this declaration firm reliance on the protection of Divine |* a deuce, we mutually pledge t... each other® lives, our fortunes, and our -acred hono ° D! __ JOl N HANCOt'I Address to the People of America il the Citizens of Manchester ’ ® Friends and Brethren—We venturn t I dress you under a deep feeli- g o f sole! A occasioned by the peri lorn condition® winch the relations of our two great c” -J have been thrown, by the mistakes or m?® ceptions of our respective government Whatever may be the errors <f either or J these governments, we cam . t forget ,I.® have to do with a people who, for dome?t : ® lightcnmcnt, commercial enterprise audi.fl cal importance, take rank .-.uoiig the hr?!® tions upon earth, and who, l,v tbeii ‘ 4® siou, increase of population’ and C],vi® philanthropy, promise at no distant i>eii® attain the highest degree of influent,. ® the governments of the eivilund world ® A brotherhood of race and a communit® interests have sprung up between our two® tions, more intimate, more continuous I*l more comprehensive than the world ha- J seen before. Never in recognized hat® were two great coinmunitiet so closely ® by blood, or so intimately blended by com® interests, and never before was it given t ® world to witness a union where so much | involved—the wealth, prosperity and ha® ness of distinct States, each having a sen.® government and being under the control ® own independent laws. * IVe are, therefore, all the mrc alive—® allow us to say—tremblingly dive to what® may effect this union and ini nipt the ban® ny that has so long existed i tween us, to il reciprocal advantage, and, w believe,’to ■ benefit of the whole world. Providence I made us mutually dependeni -so much so■ deed, that whatever would s< iously injure A would, to an equal extent, si iously injure fl other. Asa direct consequ, oe of this ]’i® dential arrangement, we are t pi ally interc® with yourselves in the material that is gi® in your fields, in the shipping that coin® your cargoes to every marke of the umv® aud in the endless train of r ffationships til the most princely commerce f the world | interwoven between us for sown auxil® support. In a word, we are of one 1 md, one fan® aud one religion. Our sons, >y long cont| ued emigration, are spread o ?r your soil, | yon have made them happy every domes! endearment. A higher tho human ilestil has made our interests iden ieal, and int® woven the prosperity of one state with tfl prosperity of tho other. IVe are, therefol placed among the nations in a position to slifl what national friendships may accompli® where the rivalry is directed to the com ml good and where success is equally shared >1 tween the rivals. And shall war be permitted to sever us'.'! Shall battle, bloodshed, conflagration al sword be allowed to divide ’hose whovnGl and mutual interests have made one, and 1 convert into national enemies brethren 1 blood, by race, and by religion ‘! in the mn of our common Maker, and His holy fai® which both nations profess to believe and praß tice, we say No ! There is m sacrifice of timl wealth, and influence that v r e would not I ready to make to prevent so dire a catastropl among mankind ; a catastrophe that we bl lieve would more directly tend than any otlil possible event to throw the world back ini the barbarism of the feudal ages, and to furl ish despotism with a plausible pretext for bal ishing every form of constitutional governmel from the face of the earth. We implore you, therefore, in the name I all that is sacred and valuabl ■ among maukinl to employ such methods as your own judl ments shall approve of restraining your go! ment in any warlike tendency that it may hail exhibited, assuring you that we. on our pail will exert ourselves to the ut. nost of our powl to produce a similar effect upon the govern ment of the British crown. We believe till much of the dispute that now imperils til peace of the two countries 1. is arisen in mil take and not in design, and we further belirvl that a calm and quiet survey of the questioj will even yet lead to a satistm-tory solution o every difficulty and to the l eruoval of ever; cause of contention and comp laint. This, v are convinced, may best be done by submittiu the whole case to the arbitration of some povi er friendly to both parties, and while such course would avoid the huu o, cost anddH grneo of a war, it would tend to make our uiu ion firmer than ever, and. through our exam pic, exhibit the superiority of constitution!! liberty and Christian faith il j civilized world We, therefore, brethren, implore you to I‘d ert your utmost influence with the, Govcml ment of the United States in favor of amethoj of averting the calamities of war, assuring y°j with all solemnity that we will do the same tj the fullest extent of our power with the Gow eruuient of her Majesty the Queen ot GreN Britain. , j And, sincerely praying that our mutual if forts may be attended with complete succe-> wc remain yours in the bond of an insepa’" 1 ble national friendship, Crops in Louisiana-’ The Shreveport South We? tern of the ll* l instant, says: “Wo regret t,o learn that tut lice have made their appeart ace on many l* 1 ’ River plantations, in both (’ Ido and Posh* parishes, and are causing si ous damage. The Ouachita Register ol tune 11th say - “We were blessed yesterday .vith a refreshing shower—the first since the 1 th of last Apr* It is needless to speculate u >n the amount < good it has done to the sufli ing crops in th H section.” The Concordia lutclligeuc. of the -Oth in^ l has the following: “AVe nr* compelled from the accounts that reach us li om nearly e'er,’ quarter of our parish, to sn that for y es1 ’ past there never has been a poorer prosper for a good orop than the pro entyear exhi just at this time.” Female Cler *. So many clerks are provii ; defaulters, “ wouder employers do not enij oy young wonu instead of fast men. The ; iris don t go ° ( benders and spend their em loyer’s cash, an many of them are as well qr lified to pertorn the duties of a clerkship as he generality young men.— Portland Tram rift.
