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TIIE UNION & RECORDER.
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Wednesday, July 18, 1874.
A Mistake or Something' Worse.
A writer in the Telegraph and Messen
gar over the Signature of “Farmer,” in
advocating the claims of Mr. Blonnt, goes
out of his way to make a personal assault
upon tho Editor of tliis paper and aci
dises us of the awful crime of being bom
in New England. If this charge had
happened to have been true, we do not
see what it has to do with tho compara
tive fitness of Mr. Nutting and Col
Blount for Congress. We thought this
last resort of a demagogue, the argument
of a man’s birth place, had boon discarded
from respectable Journals. If it had been
true that we were bom in New England
we don’t see how that would effect Mr.
Nutting. But it is not true as the writer
well knew, if he knew any tiling about us,
We were not born there, nor never lived
there except a few days as a traveller,
We have lived in Georgia ever since we
had a right to vote or to exercise the
rights of a citizen, except four or five
years when we lived in Alabama. We
have been a citizen of Georgia longer,
we presume, than Mr. Blount, and we be
lieve have done the State as good service,
both civil and military, as he has, but
have not received as much pay. We
have made these statements in answer
to the charges in the Telegraph & Mcs
senger not because they are of any im
portanco to the people of the Cth Congres
sional District, for-we believe every hon
est man in Georgia have ceased to use
such arguments. No man of common
sense believes that the place where a man
happens to bo bom, either qualifies or
disqualifies him for office, and none but
fools or demagogues ever use such an ar
gument. The only perfect man that ever
walked fhe earth, was born in a stable,
and the greatest man that ever Borne
produced (Julius Caesar) was never born
at all. This writer professes to dread a
division in the ranks of tho Democracy,
but is he trying to prevent it.’ Is he not
rather doing the very tiling to create di
vision ? We have never failed to support
the nominee of a Democratic Convention
and expect to support tho nominee this
time, even if ho should be Col. Blount;
and we will whisper to liis friends,
if he is nominated ho will need all the
help ho can get to elect him, and if
he should object to voters because- they
were not bom in Georgia, he will be
very sure to be defeated, fora majority
of native Georgia voters iu the Dis
trict are block republicans.
The writer of this mass of spite-, spleen
and mendacity, signed “Farmer” m the
Telegraph and Messenger, is a fraud and
a cheat. He is neither a farmer nor a
Democrat, both of these classes of men
are more liberal. In all probability he is
some old aristocratic broken down law-
ver, who can claim no other distinction.
Taxation.
We publish in another place an article
ft om the Athens Watchman, headed a
question of taxation. This article has
been^copied into sevens! of our exchanges,
and seem* to elicit considerable attention,
and if there is a question that comes
home to the feelings of every man in Geor
gia at the present time, it is the subject of
taxation. We all feel that we are crush
ed to the earth under a load of taxation,
and the question arises how can we be
relieved f The writer in tho Watchman
points out one way : Each session of
the Legislature costs over a hundred thou
sand dollars. There is no necessity for
having a session oftener than once in two
years and by this means one half of the
expense of legislation will be savod.
This can bo done by calling a Constitu
tional Convention and changing the Con
stitution. Tho people we believe last
year wanted a Convention called, but a
majority of the legislature after they had
been in Atlanta a while decided not to
call one, as they pretended, for fear of
the cost, when a Convention in this
one item would save more than four
times the cost of a Convention. But
we want many other amendments to the
Constitution. One important amend
ment is to prohibit forever the payment
of Bullock’s fraudulent bonds. H. I.
Kimball, is now in Atlanta ready to de
velope any scheme for paying his bogus
securities. Let us alter the Constitution
so as to prohibit any Legislature from
paying them. The Savannah News well
says, let the people speak out in the oom
ing election. If they Want oppressive
taxes let them oppose a Convention, but
if they want their taxes reduced, let them
elect men who will vote for a Conven
tion. They must elect men too who can
not be changed after they go to Atlanta.
It is for the interest of tho people of At
lanta to have high taxes and annual ses
sions. The money arising from taxation
is nearly all spent in Atlanta and no man
need expect the people of Atlanta will be
in favor of low taxes or bi-annual sessions,
neither are for their interest.
The Congressional Convention.
The call for the Congressional Conven-
The Atlanta Daily News-
We have received several numbers of
this new daily, published by Mr. St
Clair Abrams. It is well got up in all
its departments, and thus far is a very
interesting daily. If Capt. Abrams con
tinues to publish as good a paper
as he has commenced, the other dailies iu
Atlanta will have to look well to their
laurels. We believe from present indi
cations Capt. Abrams intends to publish
patriotic, truthful and honest paper.
But whether such a paper can be sustain
ed in Atlanta remains to be seen. We
hope the publishers of the Daily News
will make the experiment and givo it
fair trial. But we fear a majority of
the people of Atlanta will not sustain a
man that will tell the truth on them. St.
Clair Abrams is just the man to make the
experiment.
tion of the Sixth District to meet at Mil
ledgeville on the 12th of August seems,
so far as we can learn, to give general sat
isfaction, both as to the time and place
of meeting. We lielieve that the people
will find ample time between the date of
the call and the day of meeting to select
delegates who will well and worthily re
present their wishes in the Convention and
select a Democratic candidate for Con^
gress who will be worthy of and who
will receive the hearty support of the
Democratic party of the District. An
early nomination is, in our opinion, very
desirable for several reasons, chief among
which is the opportunity it affords the
nominee of the Convention to go all over
the District, become acquainted with the
people and givo them an opportunity to
know him before tho election.
We have faith in the wisdom and pv
triotism of the Democratic party of the
district. We have no doubt that they
will do their whole duty and that the
Convention at Milledgeville will choose
the best man to represent us in the next
Congress. We have our preference, and
we believe that our opinions are largely
shared throughout the district. We hope
that the choice will fall on our worthy
fellow-citizen, C. A. Nutting, because we
believe in his capacity, energy and sonnd
practical sense; and we form our esti
mate of what he is capable of doing in
the future by the signal services he ren
dered the State dining his service in the
General Assembly and by the life of ac
tive usefulness, enterprise, and success
ful effort he has spent among us. We
prefer Mr. Nutting because we are hon
estly convinced he is the best man for
the place, and can do us the most efficient
service. We have no prejudice against
the worthy gentleman who represents us
in tho presnet Congress. On the con
trary we respect and esteem him highly
Nor have we any dislike to any of the
other gontlemen whose names have been
mentioned as probable condidates for the
nomination. We would like to gratify
the honorable ambition of them all: but as
we can only have one representative, and
we must make a choice, we declare our
selves in favor of the nomination of C. A.
Nutting.—Morning Star.
The Approaching Comet.
Prwhwfcility That the Tail af the Coai l Will
Bawrap the Earth.
than tbaffhe was born in Georgia. Many
of the convicts in the penitentiary can
claim that distinction, for they too were
born in Georgia. Georgia is a good old
State, and those who have become citi
zens of choice, have shown their apprecia
tion of her full as much as those who be
came citizens by birth and necessity.
K. I. Kimball in Atlanta,
The Atlanta papers announce that Col.
H 1. Kimball has returned to Atlanta to
stay. And why not ? If he can’t stay in
Atlanta, where can he stay 1 If a man
can’t live with his own people, where can
he live'* Mr. Kimball built a great part
of Atlanta—the famous Capitol, itB great
Hotels, its Fair grounds, its Mineral
springs and its magnificent harbor. In
short it was Mr. Kimball who first sug
gested the idea of making Atlanta a sea
port and of having a custom house, rev
enue? cutters, pilots, Ac.. Ac. After hav
ing done all of these things, why should
he not come back to Atlanta? He has
come. He came to liis own, and, his own
received him. He developed tho State
•when he was here before, and many of
tho people of Atlanta helped him. He
probably intends to deoil up the State
again, and if so, some of the people of
Atlanta will help him again. He is pro
bably the agent of Henry Clews A Co.,
and will attempt to develope their Bonds.
Col. Kimball knows how to develope
Bonds : so does some of the citizens of
Atlanta.
The Atlanta Xems has drawn a strong
bill against Mr. Kimball, which, if true,
should consign him to the Penitentiary.
Will the people of Atlanta enquire wheth
er it is true, or do they sympathise with
Mr. Kimball ?
An Old and Siily Device.
The Blount Organ in this District—
the advocate oftlie ins against the outs—
the champion of w hat they believe to be
tbe strong against the weak—the friend
of Publicans and lawyers—says, we have
injured Mr. Nutting's prospects by ad
vocating them. We have been told the
same story several times before iu our
editorial career, but in each instance, the
man whom it was said we had injured,
happened to be elected; and so we hope
it will be this time. On reflection, we think
if the enemies of Mr. Nutting really
thought we were injuring him, they would
not tell us of it, but let us go on injur
ing him. But has it come this, that
we injure the prospects of a good, hon
est and useful fellow citizen, who has
done the State good service, by urging
his claims for Congress against a num
ber of lawyers ? for every man who has
lx?en named in opposition to Mr. Nutting
is a lawyer. We have nothing in the
world against any of them, and two of
them are our warm personal friends, but
we believe it is best for the country to
have a part of our delegation composed
of business men. We are willing and
have so expressed ourselves repeatedly
that a fair proportion of our delegation
should be lawyers; but this does not sat
isfy- them; they want all, and make a great
clamor if they don’t get all. The Tele
graph says that only eight out of our
pi- sent delegation in Congress, are law
yers, and that three, only think three are
not lawyers. \\ e have heard repeatedly
they were all lawyers; but if the Tele
graph is right the lawyers have not been
badly oppressed as yet, and they might
consent to have one Financier elected
from Georgia. Such men are much need
ed in Congress. We happen to have
such a man in our District. Will the
lawyers consent for the people to elect
him ? W r e hope they will.
Wilkinson County*
We learn from Mr. J. T. Parker who
lives near Toombsboro that tbs crops |of
that section are very promising. If good
seasons continue the farmers of this good
excess of births over deaths was
What Blount Drew.
Two of Col. Blount's constituents
were overheard the other day discussing
his exploits in Congress. One of them
ho was not very well posted in politics,
said, “well, Jim Blount drew the Civil
Rights bill didn’t he?" “No” said the other,
Sumner drew that!” ‘Well what did
Blount draw, he drew something certain
ly.” “He drew about sixteen thousand dol
lars for his salary,’’ said tli$ other "and
brought it home ” -‘Good" said the first
“an<l will he divide with his stituents ?”
“Not much,(he don't understand division.”
“What good then does it do us for him to
go to Congress if he won’t divide ?’’
the
Will They O-ive the People
Man of their Choice?
It is well known that the primary
meetings and conventions for nominating
candidates are generally controlled by a
few wire-workers, who nominate their
friends. It may be very important that
the people have the man of their choice
at this time. If the wire-workers will
permit us to vote for Mr. Nutting, we
are confident we can give him one thou-,
sand majority in Baldwin county. Some
gentlemen who are well acquainted with
the county believe we can give him thir
teen hundred. But if a man that we do not
want, is forced upon us, the resnlt may
be very different, and those who force an
unacceptable candidate upon us will be
responsible for any adverse result.
Cometie.
The star gazers have been enjoying a
treat every cloudless evening, recently,
gazing at a very interesting comet vis
ible to the naked eye in the North-West
ern part of the heavens. A few evenings
ago a line commencing at the star Phad
and extending through the star Merak,
both in the Great Dipper, would have ap
proached very nearly to the comet some
twenty-five degrees distant from Merak.
But its position in the heavens is rapidly
changing, and when this paragraph ap
pears to the reader’s eye, the erratic visi
tor to our evening sky will doubtless be
visible in some other locality of the North
Western heavens. Its nucleus appears as
a star of the first magnitude; and its
tail visible to the unassisted eye sweeps
through a space of six or eight degrees.
Happily for the world, modem science
has completely dissipated the terrors of
mankind in former ages at the appear
ance of a comet. These bodies no more
signify disaster, or foretell great events,
than does the rising or setting of the
humblest star that nightly traverses the
firmament of heaven wholly unregarded
by mankind. They have their orbits as
the earth has his, about the sun, and as
the moon has her's about the earth ; and
the periodical return of many of these
bodies is calculated by astronomers with
great precision. The whole number of
comets whose paths during the vis
ible parts of their course, up to 1832,'
was one hundred and thirty-seven.
Many of our oldest citizens doubtless
remember the brilliant comet of 1811
which was afterwards considered by many
persons as a portent of the War of 1812-
15, which began the following year be
tween the United Statee and Great Brit
ain. The nucleus of that comet was es
timated by scientific men to be 50,000
miles in diameter (six and a half times
the diameter of the earth,) and the tail
extended over a space of twenty-three de
grees in the heavens. A great comet in
1680 exhibited a brilliant tail reaching
from the zenith to tho horizon (90 de
grees) and approached so near to the sun
that the space between the body of the
sun and the comet's nucleus was only
a sixth of the diameter of the sun him
self. Well might astronomers tremble,
then, and philosophize over the probable
results should these vast bodies suffer a
“collision” in tho heavens. W. G. M.
*tf“Hon. A. H. Stephens having de
clined to be a candidate for Congress, at
the «n wring election, nominations are
in order for his District The Sparta
Times & Planter suggests the name of
Hon. Goo. Fj Pieros, Jr. This is a very
clever nomination notwithstanding the
fact that Mr. Pierce is a lawyer. We ex
pect thatmoet of tbs Districts will con
Henry M. Parklmrst, of New York,
published the following facts on the 30th
ult.: “Having ascertained that the nu
cleus of the comet was moving iu satis
factory accordance with the orbit which
I had computed, I proceeded on the
26th of June to compute the position and
probable apparent magnitude of the tail,
in order to learn whether it would be
long enough to extend beyond the earth's
orbit, so as to be visible at all after the
head of the comet disappears in the West
From my own estimate of its length on
the morning of the 25th, after the moon
had set, I determined its actual length at
that time to be certainly over 3,000,000
miles. I then assumed an increase of
length of ono tenth each day, and reached
the startling result that upon July 20th
its tail would actually strike our earth.
* * With later observations of great
er accuracy I have repeated and ex
tended my computations, and I am con
firmed in the opinion that we shall be
either so near the tail of the comet, as it
sweeps across the ecliptic, that it will
fill a large portion of the heavens, or, if
its curvature is not too great, shall be
completely enveloped within it; and the
phenomenon may be visible in the north
era hemisphere, although it is too early
yet to determine whether it may not be
during the hours of daylight in this conn
try. At the risk of having erred in my
judgment, that the brightness and con
densation of the nucleus and attendant
coma indicate the formation of a tail e
qual to that of Donati’s comet, which I
watched with so much care, I will ven
ture some predictions, trusting that they
may be received with more confidence
than my early predictions of the future
of Donati’s comet, and that they may be
as fully confirmed.
On the evenings succeeding July 2d,
tho nucleus will move towards the South,
while the tail will increase in length, so
terially modify the phenomena of oc-
cultations and'solar eclipses. I will add
that Venus is safely out of the way, so
that the transit expedition will not be
interfered with by the great comet of
1874.” r
[Pari* Cor. of the K. O. Picayane]
A Bride That Awoke in alTomb-Sec
onds That Were Centuries.
Two years since a family in Marseilles
married their daughter, who had just
turned sixteen, to a young man in Salon,
a town not far fr om their residence. Af
ter tho wedding festivities the bridal pair
set out for Salon, which they made their
home. In the usual course of time a
child made its appearance. The mother
seemed in a fair way of recovery, when a
violent hemorrhage supervened. A phy
sician conld not be immediately procured.
The lose of blood had produced a swoon.
When the doctor did at last come, he
could only declare that the patient had
passed away beyond professional skill.
These incidents occurred in August. T: a
weather was unusually sultry, even for that
month and latitude. The medical man
encouraged the family to have the body in
terred as speedily as possible. Six houi a
after her death the young mother was laid
in her grave.
Recently the widower acquainted his
mother-in-law and family that he pro
posed to marry again. She insisted that
her daughter’s body should be delivered
to her, to be buried at Marseilles. The
mother in-law came over to Salon to su
perintend personally the exhnmation.
When the door of the family vault at Sa
lon was opened a heart-rending spectacle
was seen. Her daughter’s coipse lay in
the middle of the vault. The coffin’s top
had been wrenched off, top and coffin lay
on one side of the vault door. The floor
of the vault was strewn with hair of the
corpse, the grave clothes were tom to
shreds, the hands half eaten. The un-
happy young mother had been buried
alive, had recovered consciousness in the
vault, had burst the coffinlid, and made
superhuman efforts to escape from her
fearful prison! or to attract attention to
her. AJ1 of them had failed, and she had
died of terror, of starvation of exhaustion
of despair, a living death, whose seconds
seemed centuries. The mother has been
a raving maniac ever since.
Taxation.
Has the Legislature of Georgia any
right to exempt any property whatever
from taxation under the Constitution of
1.868 ? > ^ ^
This question of taxation isj&w attrac
ting much interest; nor do we wonder at
it. Our people are most grievously taxed.
The reason of this is, that a large propor
tion—one-third, more or less—of the
property within our borders is exempt
from taxation. This, of course, increases
the burden on the remainder.
We have not yet had iimo to investi
gate the subject sufficiently to justify an
attempt to answer the question in the
opening paragraph of this article. It is
propounded by an intelligent gentleman
who is distinguished for his sound sense,
and whose opinions are generally cor
rect.
lie unhesitatingly affirms that the Leg
islature is prohibited by the Constitution
of 1868 from exempting any thing what
ever from taxation. As soon as we can
command the necessary time, we shall
investigate this matter.
In the meantime, we have heretofore
pointed out a very effectual mode of
reducing taxation, which is by so amend
ing the Constitution as to provide for
biennial instead of annual sessions of the
Legislature. This, of itself, to say noth
ing of many other needed reforms, would
greatly lesseu our burdens.
The most direct and only practicable
way to effect these reforms, is to provide
for a Convention to alter and amend the
Constitution. The last Legislature oppo
sed this, and many of the members con
tended the people were opposed to a Con
vention. In this we think they were
mistaken. Be this as it may, let the
people speak iu the coming elections. If
they favor high taxation, let them oppose
a Convention. If they wish their taxes
reduced, let them instruct the Represen
tatives they elect to call one. It need
not cost more than twenty or twenty-five
thousand dollars. A single session of
the Legislature costs upwards of one
hundred thousand dollars, and there is no
earthly necessity for annual sessions.—
Athens Watchman.
Big Fire at Wehawken—135,000
Barrels of Oil Burned.
New York, July 11.—The fire which
hroke out iu Wehawken last evening was
in the Erie Oil Works. It was caused by
a stroke of lightning, which struck one
of the tanks containing 15,000 barrels of
oil, during a heavy thunder storm. The
flames spread rapidly, and one tank after
another took fire till five, each containing
15.000 barrels, and another containing
20.000 were soon burning fiercely. Sev
eral smaller tanks, containing in all
125.000 barrels, also took fire about mid
night and it was thought others would
follow.
The inaccessibility of the works and
the fact that the fire has raged steadily
since its commencement, makes it impos
Bible to give more definite particulars.
The actual loss conld not be ascertained,
as the fire is likely to burn all day, but it
is estimated at $600,000. These works
are probably the largest oil works in the
United States, all the oil coming over
the Erie road being stored there. The
light from the fire illuminated New York
most of the night. One hundred and
twenty five men will be thrown out of em
ployment.
UJUUIUlO tiiU 1IU1UCZO Vt ULUO '
old county will be on the high road to tinue ti send lawyers. We only want a
few men in Congress who are not lawyers
to watch them. It isn’t every District that
sit forward
prosperity. Mr. Parker thinks that
... gpuftty will put a man in the next Legis- , - , ... , . . - ,,
metric tons, ‘and the annual raUbii ^^ nofo.
B.Hv’i. £20.000 •“* faoU.mAbu.gaon S.'SEUW’:
•— ~ —xia — - I. i. ir 11 *0^0 Af# * —
of property is £20,000 sterling. |«Htyear
the number of births was 121 100 in T . .....
three weeks, or 2,285 weekly/ and, as the and ? 7°r ® man, g:,!?!™* K *q , l r<5 :. fey 1 **? jn 6««kr*punr, ai
deaths were 75,654, or l.dh !***•, !* ^ ^
4^,*46tb fab%* r W,qrwflfttic, md job*
*>r of 7 our
as to bring its extremity gradually north
ward. On tbe 14t.h of July the head of
the comet will have reached the horizon
in the northwest at the end of twilight,
so that it will not easily be visible after
that date; but the tail will extend nearly
to the polestar. Donati’s comet had a
retrograde motion and when the earth
met it, and the tail was most brilliant, it
was placed nearly at rightangles with the
line of vision. On the other hand, this
comet, whose perihelion distance is very
little greater, coming just within the or-,
bit of Venus, moves in the same direction
with the earth, and nearly with the same
velocity (reduced to the plane of the e
quator), in consequence of which the tail,
which is now nearly at right angles with
the line of vision, will gradually turn to
wards us, still apparently pointing nearly
in the same direction. It will be remem
bered that Donati s comet was curved like
a soldier's plume, but Coggia’s is now
and will remain nearly straight, because
the curvature will be directly from us,
and therefore imperceptible. Another
striking difference from the tails of com
ets generally is that it will be so foreshort
ened as to be remarkably wide at the
end.
On July 16 the tail will extend far be
yond the pole and develop a new charac
teristic, tapering off rapidly toward the
end. Within three or four days after the
16th the tail will have become so expand
ed in the neighborhood of the pole as to
fill a large part of the northern heavens.
Yet it will not be a conspicuous object,
because it will be so faint as to look
rather like an immense cloud or a now
milky way than what it really is. By this
time we shall have solved the question
whether the tail is hollow, or lias a radi
ated structure, or what is its constitution.
Of the way in which this will eud, it is not
safe yet to speak with definiteness; for
although if the tail were straight we
should be almost certainly near the mid
dilo of it on July 20, yet its curvature
will probably delay it two or three days,
and even until the earth has passed be
yond its path. Taking the best value I
can from the records of previous comets,
I should expect the earth on July 22d to
be wholly within the eastern edge of the
comet's tail; and I will assume tins to be
the case. Tho comet will thon disappear
to ns; but then the inhabitants of the
Southern Hemisphere, who may be ignor
ant of tiie cause of the luminosity of the
evening sky, will see it gradually rise and
pass away, and will be amazed by the sud
den apparition of a comet of extraordi
nary size and brilliancy, which will burst
upon their vision as unforeseen as the
great comet of 1867. The gradual dim
inution and final disappearance of the
comet will be so nearly converse of what
we shall have witnessed here that it needs
no description.
"What will be the effect upon the earth?
I dare not predict the effect upon the
minds of men, especially of the ignorant.
but I do not anticipate any appreciable
physical effect further than possible elec
trical phenomena like the aurora. It will,
of course, leave us a portion of its atmos
phere when it departs, but, probably, not
enough to affect the barometer, or to
come within the cognizance even of
scientists. But there may be by possi
bility, one permanent effect of scientific
interest and curiosity. If the earth should
not entirely escape, the moon will also
probably be involved, and it will also re
tain a portion of thet cometery substance.
As the amount of the atmosphere upon
small, Af,
meeting of Creditors, held in Macon, before
lexander
at 10
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A Washington dispatch says : “Secre
tary Bristow is known to bo opposed to
allowing any syndicate to place the re
mainder of the funded loan abroad. He
believes that it c:ui lx 1 negotiated without
i the aid of a syndicate, thereby saving a
large sum of money to the government in
the shape of commission.”
If Secretary Bristow continues to go
on in this way, dispensing with lady
sinecures in his department, breaking up
the official livery stables, cutting down
unnecessary expenses, stopping all sub
sides and moities. and depriving the
money changers of their accustomed per
quisites, he will be the death of the
Radical party. We shall not be surprised
if a clamor is raised for his removal by
the time Congress convenes. Secretary
Bristow will soon be given to understand
that honesty and economy are not only
superfluous, but dangerous virtues in a
Radical office holder.
Discussing the jiolitical outlook-and
prophesying what will be the condition
of parties in 1876, the Philadelphia Press
gives its party some sonnd advice. It
enumerates certain issues which the Re
publican party must meet if it does not
wish to “vanish into thin air in 1876.”
The Republicans must devise something
like civilized government in the fairest
portion of the Southern country. “A
great people can never be long controlled
by hatreds.” The attempts of Carpenter
and Poland to muzzle the press were
shameful and shameless,” a “blot on the
Republican party," and the authors
should be “followed by the American
newspapers to the close of their public
lives.” The way to success is to be wise
and honest; the way to defeat will be to
yield to the indifference and natural blind
ness iucident to a long possession of
office. “If,” the Press concludes, “the
people are once convinced that the Re
publicans are mere self-seekers, mere
partizans of the hour, guided by no pat
riotism, and reckless of all principle, they
will thrust them out of their confidence
indignantly and forever."
Ax old lady writes to say that she is
warmly in favor of women doctors for
women ; that a sick woman will tell one
of her own sex more about her feelings
in five minutes than she would a male
doctor in an hour.—Erchange.
There are many others besides the old
lady who "warmly favor women doctors
for women.” have heard the same
opinion expressed by a great many
men. .
And somehow or another, their argu
ments in favor of the change seemed very
strong to us.
How Wist Found a Wifi*.—A recent
sketch of tbe loves of the great lawyers
contains this touching incident in the life
of William Wirt: In his younger days
he was a victim to the passion for in in
toxicating drinks, which has been the bane
of so many distinguished in the legal pro
fession. Affianced to a beautiful and ac
complished young woman, he had made
and broken repeated pledges of amend
ment, and she, after patiently and kindly
enduring his disgraceful habit, had at
length dismissed him, deeming him in
corrigible. Their next meeting after his
dismissal was in a public street in the city
of Richmond. William Wirt lay drunk
and asleep on the sidewalk, on a hot sum
mer day, the rays of the sun pouring
down on his uncovered head, and the
flies crawling over his swollen features.
As the young lady approached in her
walk, her attention was attracted by the
spectacle strange to her eyes, but, alas!
so common to others who knew the vie*
tun, as to attract little remark. She did
not at first recognize the aleeper, and was
about to hasten on, when she was led, by
one of those impulses which form the
turning-point in human lives, to scrutin
ize his features. What was her emotion
when she recognized in him her lover!
She drew forth her handkerchief and
carefully spread it over liis_ face and hors
ried away. When Wirt came to himself
he found the handkerchief, and in one
corner the beloved name. With a heart
almost breaking with grief and remorse,
he made a new vow of reformation. He
Lucy Cobb Institute Commencement
Exercises.
Athens, Ga., July 6, 1874.
Editor Telegraph and Messenger-. The
exercises of the Lucy Cobb Institute, in
which we feel so much interest and pride,
have just closed, and as many of your
readers are patrons, I thought that a
little sketch of it would prove not unin
teresting to them.
The exercises began by a powerful
sermon from Rev. Dr. Dixon, of Au
gusta
On Munday morning we had readings
by the Sophomore class that proved very
interesting and were highly creditable to
the young ladies. In the evening, reci
tations by the Fresh class that proved
not at all less interesting than the mom-
ing.
After this the whole school gave some
exhibitions of their proficiency in Calis-
thenic exercises that were beautiful. Over
a hundred lovely girls, dressed in pure
white, with pink sashes and golden
wands, was indeed a beautiful sight, and
then the precision with which they per
formed so many movements.
On Tuesday original compositions by
the young la kes of the Junior class that
proved excellent training and eager ap
plication.
Whilst all did well, yet some struck me
with great force.
Miss Emma Jewell, of Mayfield, who,
by her queenly beauty attracted all at
once, by the exceeding beauty of her
composition and grace of manner, kept
the audience enchained.
Miss Ida Callaway, of Milledgeville,
won your heart bv tho modest face, man
ner and form and such elegance of dignity
that her subject had no fitter illustration
than herself. “Who can paint liko Na
ture ?”
Miss Annie Compton of the same place,
plead for the “Eloquence of Eyes.” It
was useless after seeing the writer.
But I cannot dwell. In the evening
the giand concert by the Mozart and
Beethoven societies was a perfect success.
Some of the pieces played on two of
Knabe’s square grand pianos were as per
fect as was the singing.
Wednesday was commencement day.
Compositions by the Senior class—four
teen in number.
Of those Miss Lula Callaway, of Mil
ledgeville treated beautifully “Three
Flowers of Life—Faith, Hope and
Love."
Miss Nannie Schaub’s “French Saluta
tory” was sweetly spoken—pure accent
and eloquent.
The Valedictory by Miss Minnis Hun
ter, of Washington, received the plaudits
of all.
After presentation of diplomas and
prizes by Mr. Lamar Cobb, the address
of Bishop Pierce on “Female Education,”
enraptured the audience—especially when
he displayed the mathematical profession
in its true light and eloquently urged the
importance of paying more attention to
literature.
This school under the able management
of Mrs A. E. Wright and her crops of
teachers, (every one a native born Geors
gian,) is doing a great work and has
reached the highest standard, and is de
serving of the patronage of our people.
Uojib.
The Brest Staple.
Circular af Ike ZiUi*aal Kichaq^
In accordance with action tak^n at the
recent Cotton Exchange Convention held
in Augusta, John S. Too#, Esq.„ Secretary
of the National Cotton Exchange, has
prepared and forwarded a circular letter
to the several exchanges represented,
informing them that all exchanges at
points receiving 25,000 to 100,000 bales
of cotton shall be entitled to two dele
gates, and one additional delegate for
each 100,000 bales or part thereof in
excess of the first mentioned 100,000
received. The assessment for defraying
expenses is $25 for each delegate. Re
mittances must be made to W. C. Black,
Treasurer, at the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange.
This circular is also sent to various
prominent cotton dealers in different sec
tions, inviting them to form Cotton Ex
changes at points where 25,000 bales art
received, and sitting forth the advantages
to be derived therefrom.
The Secretary reminds tho several Ex
changes of their duty to make up, to the
31st of August next, an accurate account
of the consumption of cotton in their
respective districts, and forward the same
to H. G. Hester, Esq., Superintendent of
the New Orleans Exchange, for use in
compiling the annual crop figures. The
territory assigned to die Augusta Ex
change is the State of Georgia, commen
cing with the parallel of Augusta, north
to the Tnnnessee State line. This Ex
change will also make reports of the crop
in tho section mentioned.
The Savannah Exchange has the south
ern . half of Georgia and tho State of
Florida assigned to it, and the Charleston
Exchange the State of South Caro
lina.
Under the report of the Committee on
Country Damage, President Phelps has
appointed Mr. J. B. Lafitte, of New Or
leans, Chairman of the Committee to ,
confer with the Liverpool Cotton Brokers i
REGULATOR
Nearly all di.-eases originate trom Indigesti,
Torpidity of the Liver, and r»dief is always anxiously
sought after. It Ute l.ivrri- Rcxnlait-d
VUnt of a
tion, health is almost invariably secure.]
tion in the Liver causes Headache. i[iat
Jaundice, Pain in the Shoulders, Cough, Oliiife
ness. Soar Stomach, bad taste In the mouth, bill/.”
attacks, palpitation of tbe heart, depression „{ '
or the blue*, and a hundred other symptoms fort*/,"!'
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toju*7 Ml any quantities that it may betaken r,
is harmless in everyway; it lias been used for si,
ywkrs, ami hundred* of ***
hundred* of ths good and great fr,, rn
part* of the country will vouch for its b-in- ;i, p
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all
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by mail, without delay to the Chairman at
Liverpool.
Mr. J. T. Doswell, Chairman of the
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a communication to the various exchan
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31st of August as the day for that com- menu, and no/ 1 Eagerly *de»ire tile Compleu'"^/"
mittee to meet in New York, for the pur- History of tbi* world rennwnas s*™ „.. i
pose of establishing a uniform classifies
tion of cotton for ail the markets in the
United States, to he known as the “Stan
dard American Classification,” and re
quested the appointment of one member
from each exchange represented in the
late convention.
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Ill-dory of tins world renowned hero and benefa.w
which unfolds also the curiosities and woa’ili of a h t
and wonderful country. It i* just ready ‘onn agent
wanted quickly. One agent Bold 184,'another 196 one
week. For particulars, address HUBBARD BROS
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The Temple of Diana.
The excavation carried on for some
years by Mr. Wood of the great temple
of Diana of the Ephesians, lias been dis
continued- The platform on which the
temple stood has been recovered, and on
the north side was found a limekiln, built
since the construction of the edifice, and
into which much of the sculpture and
marble work has been thrown. The large
altar was also uncovered. Mr. Wood
says in a letter to the Athemeum :
“In so doing I discovered remains of
three distinct temples—the last but two,
the last but one, and the last. The for*
mer must have been that built 500 B. C.,
for which the solid foundations described ..,, , , . ,
by Pliny and Vitruvmns were laid. A I tere*t to the American pem
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for rent, in City or Country, during this month’ll
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School*, Lodges, etc.
Forenrmcl. To be forearmed
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hc-d of such universal in-
. . people. It appeals to no par
portion of the west and south walls of i tlcol| w alone, but to all .-laese*; to men and I
U miih nf all nrofanab.mi
the cells of this temple, with some of the
menofali professions, creeds, occupations and poi:-;.
cal opinion*—Jo Farmers, Lawyer*. Business Mer:
eut*. Manufacturer*. Salesmen, men of learning and
men who can only read, to old and young Ali want
it as a book ofcoustant reference, and to preserve lor
their children and children** children as tiie only com
plete and reliable work, showing the gigantic results :
the first one hundred years of the Greate-t Republic
the world ever saw. It is not a luxury but s necessity
to every well inlormed American citizen. Agents
make $100 to per month. Send tor circular.
ZIEGLER Sc McCUKDY. Philadelphia, Pa.
pavement were found remaining in posis I MeohanicH, Physicians, -Politicians, Teachers.' sta
tion, as well as a great quantity of the u ‘ *
pavement, under the peristyle of the last
temple. The pavement consists of two
layers, one of white marble, the other of
limestone, and it is the same as that
which was found the last day of the year
1869, making the site of the temple. Be
tween five and six feet below the pave
ment, and under the foundation of the
walls of the cells, I found the layer of the
charcoal,, four inches thick, described by
Pliny; this was laid between two layers
of a composition about three inches thick,
similar to and of the consistency of gla
zier’s putty. Could this have been the
fleeces of wool on which the temple is
said to have been built? The lower stones
of the antic of this early temple were
also found in position, as well as those
of the bases of one or two of the columns.
Between the antic were found five of the
mortices which were ent in the pavement
to receive the standard of an iron grille,
which separated the prjnaos from the
peristyle. We found remains of the
pavement of the last temple but one, the
one commenced in the early part of the
fourth century B. C., and burnt by Heros-
tratus in the year 356 B. C. This paves
ment had been higlily polished, and was
raised nearly fonr feet higher than that of
the preceding temple."
Profits of Cotton BEannfactares.
The Caterpillars.
We learn that there is unmistakable
sign of the existence of the caterpillar in
this neighborhood. It seema, too, that
they are fast appearing in the same los
calities where they were first seen last
year. AVe are informed they appeared
last year, first on the plantation of Mr.
Richard Allen, some two miles east of
this place, and they reappeared here some
two days since. We understand that
Mr. Allen will commence the use of the
proper means to destroy them. He is
one of our most intelligent, energetic
and successful planters, and if their ap>*
proach can be arrested, it will be by him.
If all om planters were like Mr. Allen,
we would anticipate a fair crop of cotton,
in defiance of caterpillars.—dMmopolis
Xetrs.
The Montgomery Advertiser of the 8th
hears similar complaints from Montgom
ery and Lowndes counties and suggests
to planters that they follow the example
of Mr. Allen and commence applying
worm destroyer at once, but it seems to
us the true point of assault is the fly and
not the worm.
jS*Stiiuiw%*wr mer v* g
JO yeara enables him to tmnt diseases with
teiiTvasTri*
From AflhMnc# to Foiwp.
A woman who was arrested in Troy, N.
Y., a few nights ago on tbe charge of
drunkenness, said that previous to the
late war she resided with her husband
and family on a large plantation near
Pensacola. Fla,, owning, besides one
hundred and eighty slaves, about $200,-
000 worthy of property. She and her
husband, who had been brought up in
Maine, refused to take the oath of alle
giance to the Southern Confederacy, and
they were compelled to come North. All
their property, excepting $30,000 in a
New Y’ork bank, was confiscated. With
the $30,000 her husband began to specn
late and lost. In 1867 he died, leaving
her almost pennilem. Since that *»»*>
she has travelled from plaee to place. She
says that she still has the interest of
$10,000, which is deposited in bank for
the benefit of her children, six in number,
when she dies. She rays that she was
intoxicated when arrested; hot drank
only a few glasses of sle, intending to
take the evening boat for New York.
When arrested she was smoking a cigar
in the street
Only sixty thousand dollars, says the
Chronicle, have ever been paid in to the
stock of the Augusta Factory, and yet
from this comparatively small sum the
company has paid out dividends to the
stockholders, since the war, to the amount
of $1,068,000; has to day property worth
$1,200,000 at the lowest ealcidation, and
a surplus of $265,800. Tlrnt is better
than shaving notes at two per cent It is
better in every way—puts a larger per
rentage of profits directly into the
pockets of the fortunate capitalists, gives
employment to the desert ing poor, builds
up and enriches the neighborhood, and
this indirectly puts another fat dividend
into the pockets of those who had the
sagacity to secure stock.
JL Brilliant Decord of Cores.
An American humorist tells us that it
would have been money in his pocket if ,
ho hail been bom without a stomach, and
Bast Winds.
It is a carious fact, which tiie natural
philosophers have not undertaken to
explain, that the east wind, all over the
world is the most disagreeable of winils.
Everywhere it extracts the vital force,
exasperates the nerves, and gives human
creatures “the blues. We attribute its
strange chilliness here to its passage over
a long sweep of ocean before it reaches
us; but it produces the same effect in
England, where it comes from the Con
tinent; and the hydrometer proves it to
be the dryest wind experienced on the
island. Neither is its power to chill and
depress the vital functions to be attribu
ted to its temperature, for the west and
northwest winds are generally colder,
but produce the opposite efi'ect on the
body, quickening the circulation, raising
the animal spirits, and kindling an inter
nal warmth that resists successfully the
atmospheric cold and promotes a pleasur
able glow and excitement.
If it is neither its coldness nor itr
moisture that makes the east the most
dreaded and execrated of all winds, what
is it? Job expresses hearty dislike of the
east wind, and declares it the last thing
with which a wise man would bo willing
to fill his belly. And yet it was the hot
test and dryest wind known to him. so
hot and dry that Moses represents it as
blasting the growing corn. Isiah descri
bes it as a “rough’ wind and with nearly
all the Old Testament writers it is a
favorite symbol for whatever is disagreea
ble and destructive. John Jamdyce, in
“Bleak Heuse," but follows out the line
of thought in ascribing to the east wind
every feeling of irritation and annoyance.
Men who exult in rude, bovine health,
whose internal fires are at red heat and
send the blood tingling to then fingers’
ends, may not take much notice of the
east wind, nor perceive in it any particular
quality of discomfort. But those whose
animal heat is low and variable find in it
a source of positive suffering. Many a
man and woman, amiable enough, knows
it to be the hardest thine in the world
then proceeds to figure up the cost of a 1 “ ut ‘ tue Uiir i ICHL ... . , , lin
„1 r.r_i. i. . • _ i to seem even formally poute when the
wind is cast, and their milk
in and soar
malign influence.
i»f human
under its
chronic dyspepsia, to which ho is a mar
tyr, and which he 6ays it is impossible to | 18 casi ’ “, a .
cure. On this point. “Josh Bilngs,” kin t dnc88 thx
(for he is the party referred to) is mis
taken. Unless his stomach differs from
all other dyspeptic stomachs, Hostetler's
Bitters will cure him in less than three
months. This it would be safe to guar, i every old place in central Kentucky t here
Wasted Fertilizer.
The Fanners Home Journal savs: On
OARDINES, Cracker*, Pickle*. _
lot aaie cheap for cash a* Ik* News ■‘laii.
Patronage respectful]* -anBriW
antee under any penalty. There are a
few, a veiy few, actual specifics for disease
in existence and Hostetler’s Stomach
Betters may be set down as one of them.
In cases of indigestion it never fails.
Persons who had suffered for many years
almost every conceivablqspeeies of torture
from this agonizing complaint, have been
permanently cured with the Bitters in six
weeks. Hundreds of such instances are
on record, authenticated by the testimony
of prominent men in every walk of life,
eminent physicians among the number.
But this celebrated vegetable preparation
is something more than a stomachic and
tonic. It is also an alterative of wonder
ful virtue. In liver complaint its effect is
as direct and immediate as that of calo
mel or blue pill, and far more salutary;
and in all diseased conditions of the bow
els, notably in cases of constipation, its
regulating properties are in the highest
degree serviceable. The new settlements
in the west ancT all low-lyfng tracts of
cocntry infwrted with miasmatic exhala
tions, so fruitful at this season, of the vas
rious types of intermittent fevers, should
be always well stocked with this incom
parable chologuc, which will cure any
case of fever and ague in a period vary
ing from three days to three or four
weeks, according Id the violence of the
complaint. Nervous disorders which are
always aggravated by the adulterated
liquors usually prescribed by physicians,
are readily cured by a course of this ad
mirable combination medicine, in which
the properties of a stimulant, a tonic and
alterative are happilv blended. 49 lm.
PREPARED BT
T. K3NGSFORD & SON,
- for food, when it i* proper!jr matte iato Pod-
fa— : * a dewert of great excellence.
I VhatolaMl
9th, 1874.
are such things as old wood piles,
chips have accumulated and deconqjosed
for fifty years; then there are old piles of
ashes, sometimes three or fonr feet deep,
which have been acmnnlating for tho
same length of time ; then there are old
straw-piles and heaps of stable manure
which have never been hauled out; again
there are deposits undej the hen-roosts,
sometimes two feet deep, which aio
equal to the best Peruvian guano, and
when these are all hauled cut, we will go
to an inexhaustible supply of rich molds
and alluvial deposits of decayed vegetable
matter, which have been collecting f° r
ages, in places on branches end creeks
which run through most farm.-. We have
still another supply yet in the muck mud,
which, if dug out in the summer time,
when tho marshes and swampy places aro
dry and hard, it can be hauled close to. if
not quite to where it is wanted, ami the
winter freezing will pulverize it and l nl ^
it in fine condition for a crop next sea
son.
COIN AGB AT THE PHILADELPHIA MlVL--
The coinage at the United .States Mint at
Philadelphia during the month of June i»
as follows: Gold coinage, $962.8w;
silver coinage, $185,785; minor ccinag 1 ’’
$33,070; total, $1,181,655. The goW
coinage was entirely in double eagles, to
the number of 48,140. The number o
silver trade dollars turned out was loc-*
100.
■Geo.
from
An Ei-Cohgmssmen in Peison.-
\V. Smith, ex member of Congress
»«-. •. -• - : 1 .i ilm ittviriv Jjtw
TWINE, CARPET WARP, Ac.,
RE prepared to jupplj tbe trade upon Btont ret-
A*4JS3H2
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