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Newspaper Page TextPKOFUSSlOXAl- CARDS- LAWYERS. Lewis Arnheim, Attorney at Law. ALBANY, OA. woorwr * jowsa, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ALBANY, GEORGIA LAW NOTICE- MMriu «t lout pnMtuI MTlni n m .■Iml Ik. paUlcftunUr PKTIR J.8TEOZEE, WM. B. SMITH, DOCTORS* W.M.DxMOSS. THE ALBANY NEWS By WESTON, EVANS & WA3BEN.} Devoted to the Interests of Albany and Southwest Georgia. {$2.00 Per Anni.iL VOLUME 13. ALBANY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6 1S79. NUMBER 10 ONLY If AT A ““}• *n«« ll.Cnh Ike bull ; “fcUatjoajSrih. void. cm. i Th'qulra-lnz WbT Up: Ut»j hfcl DM unut f. .tier mnj void tbs t could plant a sting. tffiscar^tssa»S:« Aod Ivon that nomeot 0*1/ Me lad piece 4 od part with Pet In tenders FEHNIMORE COOPER. Dra. Holmes & DeMoia, samara AWAHf^l - r Post Office. Rashington ■MJ a. IfTWy W, A STROTHER, V. D. ALBANY. GEORGIA. OfK iYer GilterTs Dm Store. ^ADOTtanMlattk.Dn(ata.«ia nos^raaps Dr. E.W. ALFRIEND7 K rocrroiXT sswkss.1aib.Ta- rUusbraacbMot bUprofM^on, toth.clUnus HOTELS The Old Reliable BARNES HOUSE, SL, llbaij. Ca„ B06EN HOUSE, (fUftlOBLY TOWJiS HOUSE;) BROAD STREET. ALBAHY. GEORGIA fpHE Bogin Boom is now reedjfor them X ef (neott. The aane ie a sufficient caa kel Ue Man will be kept in fint-rlaae stylo. eetilx — JOHNSON HOUSE, SalthTllle. ca., Tissalm wgalwaTaiMl tkabsM cfa-rnasmsili lbs. Ts.lsa uffUsS »llb ska bsasK wspikteg. Timwb ra tors pitntj tiro to cal. MoATEE HOUSE, Smith.ville- - = Georgia S H. HeAFEE. Proprietor Clayton House, Kirtai, Ca, P. P. Clayton, Proprietor. A idsl rnaafry bosUlrt^Msd Inpt laoldVIr- glala welroos aad good cheer sty 1 *. Tabu si TOTS scppiud. lib tb.be*. MARSHALL HOUSE, SAVANNAH. OA. Hoaee ae a FUUT-CLASSMB pecs. The Hi an has been tBeconghly repaired and refaralahed. eod le cow prodded with every neces- aery convenience for the ermcmaodetlon and •«•*- tort ot 1U pet rone. the rooms are top, alrfr and HMMM sad ample neaaa are afforded for »Uon Lades!rable,aid co-veaiehi ^^e portion of the city. THE TABLE AT ALL TIMES WM be hteartlhUy Itoahhed with neata. Ac, ftma the North, and we have aU the vegetables and ddi- cadn which the nartcet aflbrda. TRE RATES Of BOARD HATE BLEX REDUC ED TO |Lit, fLS# nd fAOO PER DAY. . aad liberal terms wffl be aAced to parties wlihlog i by ibe month or seA»on. . LIVERY KTABLE U with the Moore. Omalbosea and Btggage Wagons will always bo In attendance*at the various Depots roAtted and la In the beet Wines, Liquors, 49* The Proprietor hega to repeat emphatically iox every care aad exertion will be exerdaed by Inoalfaadhls anlrtaata to sake the Bawiix Hocxx in every respect ucscrpaaaed as an and satisfactory place of borne resort. Hoping to obtai a a liberal Seduced raleaof Board 92M, $2M and day, according to location of Rooms. V. B.—Before eeScctlag vonr Hotel, It would* be a location sad sernmndlnga ef tne X. Lb BIBBER, Laze ef the Planter* 1 Hotel. Bow York Office. Bobt. W. Paterson, E. E. CHEATHAM, A machine has been invented for .paliking children. Theapiing bonnet will, ere long, trouble the feminine mind. One Indy at least has fought her way to a stand in the Virginia State Legislature. She keep, an apple ■nd. Beautiful clothing, woven of ipun crystal, is now made in Germapy.— It is light and dazzling; but glassware teem, a curious stuff for mortal wear. “George Eliot’’ is small and slight in person, with blue eyes and gray hair. She isn’t pretty, but she has the sweetest voice in the world, and lovely smile. It is claimed that the spirit of Char* lotto Bronte and the Duchess of Suth erland hold communication by wri ting with Harriet Beecher Stowe.— Whatastowery! Paris ladies have reached the height of the female smokers' ambition.— They can blow the smoke through their noses. The reason they smok all is because it looks so much like there is a man about. When the Superintendent of the New Orleans Mint informed Mrs. Gaines that lie conlil not appoint all, her lady friend-, she sauced him— mint-sauce, you know, ami always quite safe-ory. The Norristown Herald wants to know why some woman does not strike out into a new path, and get up sensation, by betting that she can “hold her tongoe for twenty seven hundred quarters of an hour.” Al bany ladies would say to this: “Give u* an easier jaw-b, Mr. Herald; that’s too lonesome.” A certain individual not a thousand miles away from here made a vow that every time he got tight he would let hia wife whip him all the wai home. Lately he earned the whip ping, and his wife laid it on to well that he took tea and toast in bed for two weeks. He says she needn’t ap peal to his self-respect any more.— That's a peel enough. The season of gavety in Albany ha? not been “tame” by any means. A slight retrospect brings np memoris- of many delightful entertainments i-, which the young people of the city and their visiting friends have in dulged in to their heart’s content.— Lent has come in now and snuffed out the lights for awhile, bat by the time it is off won’t it be “just ever to ex cruciatingly nice” to have the first picnic of spring ? Ladies buying black silks are often at a loss for some test which will se cure them from being deceived in the quality. In such a dilemma let them pinch the specimen on the cron, and then pull it in a contrary direction.— If the crease looks like a similar fold in a piece of paper, reject that piece unhesitatingly. But if it smooths out eutirelv, the crease disappearing, it is safe to purchase. Also see that the color is a gloisy blue-black. Blacks with a'tinge of dun or green are un safe. A pretty, new style of tea-party has been started in the North. Each cup- handle is tied witli a little bow of rib bon, and tlie color of the ribbon de notes tbe style of the party; as, a blue tea-party, literary; a pink tea-party, dancing; white and lilac, for a bride; brown and crimson, old folks and cards. Sometimes a bow of a differ ent colo.’ on a cup indicates that the guest to whom it chances to fall must tell a story, recite a poem or do some other trifling little task to entertain the company. Xothing can look pret tier than a table so decorated. H. FM8ER GRANT, General Commission Merchant K, SAVANNAH. OA. ) Bice & Naval Stores. would t* pUseed to roeolrs about 100 Bushels of Corn, la pnya* ofatoolfdM to tto Naira. WESTON k EVANS. TEE8H FISH & OYSTERS TX8TX.AZ. ttiZ FRUITS & VEGETABLES MeifKOMerj’i Refrigerator fanl Ibava comput'd amnrtmeota to famish tfctl •bow to wtolf on Um of ral iroods fries Co »nJ Keys to Alhony.SLd weekly frees Alhnj to AlUd U Tho fish pnck*d la cob/Kho LMUr Keys S *b aaiftoda,, nr oponrd. rletad, aWyniw sif aekrd by Montgomery'* proem,to carry Into ffeei country and keep for som« Uw, wid bo toned tops rior to nnyltlc* yet offered. B*!af «ppofnt«4 tMd agent for tbe ssl* of t rank Ptpnw’a ceubrattd i < tor. can supply,In shell or opened, freeh Oy teis tho t neat quality. Hotel kevptsn and otnen il tad it to their Interest to make engagements for* SSSaBWJS2JTSi.l533gr*® From the Camenaean Chimes.] The Smoke Nuisance.—What is smoke? It is made up of minute particles of unburnt carbon; it is fu el thrown away. The torrents of black vapor from our chimneys and smoke-pipes contain thousands of tous of coal lost because we have not learned how to save it. The time will come when this will be reckon ed as foolish as we should now con sider it to shovel coal into the ses, as we used to dispose of tbe refuse from gasworks, which has become the source of so many useful and valuable products. Tho chemical lecturer of the next century will tell how long it was before the world learned to barn fuel without blow ind a good part of It into tho air. IIc will grow facetious as he describe- the appearance of great cities per petually covered with a pall of va porous blackness. “Why, in thu> lark age,” he will add, “their rail way engines nsod to drag lonp streamers of dirty smoke bebidc them, and one could not ride in th cars without having eyes and nos trils and throat filled with cinder: nd dnst; and incredible as it ms seem, this was tolerated for main years, tbe introduction of smokeles- locomotives boing one of tbe last 1m provementa introduced into our raf| way system.” And his hearer* wil -ay to thcmselvos, “what a terrible ordeal a long railway ride must have been in those bad old times.” Judge Snead, after hearing argn incut on the application for an injunc tion to restrain the re-building of the market-house of Augusta on tbe old •lu, relussd to grant the injunction on Friday. Chlaak) Some writer, Cathcart I, believe, aaseria that while English character and custom have become familiar to the civilized world through thoflaclle pen of Dickens Thackeray and Bui- wer, America has produced but one novelist who has established for his country an individuality; the only one who has glvsn the world a correct idea of the peculiarities of the native American. This man is Fennlmore Cooper, who effectually “done” the character and customs of the aboriginoea of Amerl- If such were tbe fact, it would be an ignominious shame upon America. However, tho comparison does not seem just, or rather it la an incongruous mixture to compare Cooper to Thackeray or Bulwer. The former treats of savage nature; the latter of a more refined order of bar- barians. Tho same writer (Cathcart) compares Cooper to Walter Scott, but Cooper has never done for Amer ica wbat Scott did for Scottish his* tory. He (Cooper) deals tod largely in the imaginary—too. little in the practical. True, Mr. Cooper ranks high as a novelist, but he is not a cor rect delineator of the Indian charac ter; then why cail’him the only true, portrayer of “Americanisms”? There is prohsbly not sn American boy or girl who has passed the age of sixteen without reading “The Last of the Mohicians,” Cooper’s masterpiece; and yet wbat an erroneous idoa it gives us of Indian character. It is a sad fact that the tender, noble nature of Uncas existed only in the- imagi nation of the novelist. The tender affection of Uncas for his fkther la the most touching feature of the hook. In every few lines the reader meets the words: “dear,” “loved” and “be loved,” and yet, in all the Algonquin language there ie no word equivalent to oar word “to love,” and when Elliott translated the Bible for them in 1661, he was obliged to co‘n’ one; there was no word in the Tinric tongue for “beloved,” or even “dear.’’ Sir John Lubbock says, in his “Pre historic Times,” .that “Kane found the Cree Indians twearing in French, having no oaths in their language. Indians have literally not enough re ligion to swear by.” And yet Mr. Cooper is called a true delineator of tbe Indian character. Leaving Mr. Cooper in full enjoy ment of his fame, we, while discuss ing the Indian nature, will dwoll upon a few peculiarities of the “no ble savage.” If the intellectual pro gress of a people is determined by their progress in ai% the noble sav age is still at the bottom of the lad der. They object to sit for their por traits, because they believe it injuri ous to the physical constitution, (and is it not so ?) arguing that such vital ity can be put in the picture only by withdrawing it from the original, and subsequently they believe if an accident happens to the picture, some misfortune will befall the original. However, if portraiture is neglected, ornamentation of the person is not. A correspondent of a London maga zine relates the -following curious facts: “The East Islanders -enlarge their ears till they reach the shoul der ; the Chinooks and other Amer ican tribes flatten their heads; the Chinese diminish their feet; the Af rican tribes make saws of their teeth; the Nyambanas are characterized by a row of artificial pimples, or warts, about the size of a pea, and extend ing from the upper part of the fore head to the tip of the nose; in Aus tralia they beautify themselves by horizontal scars; in Tasmania it is thought pretty to have a front tooth taken oat; the inhabitants of Tama and Farmosa have their Whole body covered with elevated scars, repre senting plants, flowers and constella tions, which are painted in colors, and give tho appearanee of flowered damask.” Among savages, or, as Mr. Cooper would call them, “Nature’s Noble men,” science is unknown. “Of the thirty Australian languages, not one of them have numerals extending be yond the number four.” Dr Rae tella us that the Esquimau is puzzled if asked the numbor of his children; true, such a question often times puzzles our civilized paterfa milias ; but if the Esquimau mother D asked the question, the ia equally troubled, and after much reckoning on her fingers, gives np the case as hopeless, although she may havo but four or five. A certain missionary tells ns that the Fcejee Islanders think tba^,£fi re gards physical constitution', they wiU arise from the dead With the propor tion in which they die, therefore thoy voluntarily sacrifice their life before >ld age comes on. Ou one occasion a young Feejeean invited: the mis sionary to attenu hia (the Islanders’)' mother’s funeral. Tho reverend gen tlemao, much astonished to perceive uo corpse in the procession, made in qulries, as delicately as he could; of tbe bereaved young man. Who imme diately pointed to hia mother walking along and chatting gayly. She was buried alive. The widow of an An daman Islander wears his skull as a necklace; while the Feejeeans blister their skin, and cut off the end Joint of the small toe and fifth' finger, to express their sorrow. With two more historical sketches, ws will close this dissertation upon the “No ble Savage.” Am6ng tho Sea Dyakes, It is thought a compliment to a departed friend to eat him, and some Brazilian tribM 'drink their dead. “About a month after the fktncral, thoy disinter the corpse, which is thou much dc- oonipoeod/and put it iu a large pan ovor the fire till all the volatile parts are driven off, leaving only > black carbonaceous mass, which Is pounded luto a tine power, mixed in large conches of caxirl, and drank by the assembled company.” S|r John Lubbock tells ut that the Tjliitiana are’uothing else but chil dren, with the strength and passion* of men. Their queen, Oberea, about forty years of age, was passionately fond of a doll (nothing very strange in this, for our ‘lords of creation’ pay homage to mere dolls, having a few human attributes) which seme Euro pean visitor had presented to her; and Tootnhab, one of the great chiefs, be came so jealous of^her majesty, that they had to give hint a doll. THE LARGEST FLOWER TH THE WORLD. From tho Sunny South.] Tho largest flower blithe world is native of Somatra, called the “Raf- csia." It is heavier than any ordi nary sized baby—weighing fifteen pounds. Being red and cream color, and of enormous size, bursting out from a great, leafless snaky vine that clings around the huge trees of that island, it makes a marvelous show.— It was discovered liy Dr. Arnold, an enthusiastic young naturniist, who thus describes it: “It is a parasite, like many of the eccentric species of plants, and wholly without leaves.— The bud springs from one of the ca ble-like vines of tbe tropica. It push es its way through the hark and grows to the-size of a very large cab bage; and resembles it in form as well aa in size, before the petals expand.— In about three months the flower opens,and displays five enormous pet als, averaging about three qnarters of an inch in thickness, of a brick-red color, but having tbe surface covered with small, irregular protuberances, which are cream-like in color. These petals are slightly concave, and about twelve inches in length, set around a cup large enough to contain about six quarts of water. This cup ia not empty, but filled about half way up by a thick, fleshy disk, the upper sur face of which is covered with projec tions curved and pointed, resembling In shape the horns of cattle. The flower would undoubtedly have be come a favorite with tho florist, hut for the unfortunate fact that the odor is that of carrion, and so close is tills resemblance that it ia supposed by some to deceive insects, as it is often found surrounded ky swarms of flies. The flower remains but a short time in perfection; tho petals rapidly de cay, and leave tbe central disk, which swells into a large fruit with a rough exterior, and Ailed with amall seeds. Tlie Stnte Agricultural Society. THE PLAGUE. Ita Terrible Ravages. A letter from St. Petersburg savs of the plague in Rnssia. It lias spread in the southern provinces at a rapid rate. Thousand and thou sands havo died within the last five or six days. Victims when taken live only about two hours and turn as black all over as a negro. All tlie physicians ordered to the care of the sick have died within twenty-four hours after their arrival. Corpses are burned and ao are the houses in which people die. Whole towns l-.ave been laid wasto in the past few days. The government has placed a cordon of soldiers around the infected prov inces so the people cannot get out and spread the disease. Any who attempt to break through the cordon are shot dead on the spot. All persons from Russia by railroad are stopped at the frontiorand detained twenty days in quarantine, their baggage and cloth ing disinfected, and if they prove all right after the lapse of twenty days they are permitted to cross tho bor der. Tlie Government is doing all in its power to prevent the disease from spreading, but if it is not stayed soon the victims may fall by thousands daily. It is much worse thau the yel low fever was in the South last sum mer. It was-brought by a Tartar sol dier a month ago, who on leaving the Turkish territory pulled off from a dead Turk on the battle field a hand some silk abawl, which he tied around his body. On arriving in his native town fie presented the shawl to his sweetheart, a girl 19 years old. She tied it around her body and danced about for joy in a room in which wore some 26 people. In two hours she died, in five hours after the introduc tion of the shawl into tbe room the whole party of 25 had died. All turned black. In three days the whole town, containing 1,100 people, died, with the exception of 43 per son* who had fled in time from the town. The peat then commenced spreading all over the country. An ignorant fellow whowasabout to be married resolved to make him self perfect in' the responses of the marriage service; but, by mistake, he learned the responses used in the of fice of baptism; ao, when the clergy man asked him, at the altar, “Wilt thou have this woman to bo thy wed ded wife?” The bridegroom answer ed in a .very solemm tone: “1 re nounce (hem all.” The astonished minister exclaimed: “I think you are a fool.” The trembling bridegroom replied: “All this I steadfastly be lieve.” Brigham Young’s son John ha* married wife number four. Tim convention just closed in Haw- kinsvillu was n harmonious and pleas ant one. Thu following resolutions, intro duced by the lion. D. E. Butler, of Madison, wore unanimously adopted: Tlie State Agricultural Society ia pleased to know, anil hereby declares its firm confidence in the great good already conferred on the Stato of Georgia by the Agricultural and Geological Depart menu oi the Shite, now under the able and successful iiiniingeincut of Dr. Janes in the first and Dr. Little in the second. We believe that the nctiou of the legislators by which these depart ments wore established has been sanctioned by a majority of the peo ple in all sectious of this common wealth, and that the people of the State expect these departments to bo continued, and that they are to be the recipients of a liberal support from tlie treasury year by j car as long as nmy lie necessary. And whereas, there' is in the legis lature at tills this time a number of members who seem to be opposed to these necessary agencies which are doing so much for the people; And whereas, this convention is a representative one, and all its mem bers are devoted to the department of the agricultural, mechanical, min eral anu mining interests of the State; And wiiercas, it is right and proper for this converftion to speak in be half of its constituenU, and the per sonal interest which each delegate has in his own lands, mines, miner als, water power and other property on which he pays taxes to the State; Therefore, resolved, That the State Agricultural Society of Georgia de- S lores the opposition made by anum- er of the honorable members in the present legislature to such measures as arc necessary to the support of the agricultural and geological depart ments of the government. Resolved, 2d, That this convention most respectfully requesU those hon orable members of the legislature wiio entertain such opinions to con sider the good already accomplished and prospectively most certainly to be realized for our people and the State from and by those agencies to examine the grounds of their oppo sition and to inquire if a generous support of the said departments is not the best policy for the present and future prosperity of our beloved State. Resolved, 3d, That each delegate will endeavor, by the use of all prop er means and argumemts, to change the views of l.hcBe honorable gentle men in lhe legislature and persuade them to a cordial and hearty support of these departments, which we hold to be so important to the well-being of our farmers, miners, mechanics and stock raisers. Resolved, 4th, That we record with grent pleasure our hearty approval of the position taken and votes given by the friends of these departments in tbe legislature, and hereby tender to them our thanks and the thanks of the great agricultural, mineral and all other interests in the State which we represent—“well done, good and faithful servants.” ' Resolved, 5th, That tlie Secretary convey a properly prepared copy of the paper to his cxcelleucy, Governor Colquitt; and the newspapers arc hereby requested to publish the same; and that the Governor, if it meets his approval, is respectfully requested to present the importance and necessity of these agencies to the legislature when it shall meet in July, and that copies be forwarded to the Secretary to be laid before each branch of the legislature. The following resolution was also adopted: Resolved, That the convention re quest Dr. Little, if possible, to keep open his office until the meeting of the legislature. Before tiie adjournment of the con vention the following named gentle men were appointed delegates to the national agricultural congress, to as semble in Nashville on the 25th inst. From tlie State at large—Dr. W II. Carey, of Troup; Rev. D. E. Butler, of Morgan; Col. B. C. Yancey, of Clarke; Hon. Arthur Hood, of Ran dolph ; Hon. J. K. Respass, of Tay lor ; Sir. J. S. Newman, of Fulton; S. M. Cnrter, Esq., of Murray; Col. Carey W. Styles, of Cherokee; Dr. II. AV. Grave's, of Brooks. First Congressional District—Hon. J. B. Jones, of Burke county, and Dr. P. Stalesherry, of Clinch. Sceond District—H. H. Sanford, of Thomas, and O. A. Barry, of Ran dolph. Third District—Judgo C. M. Boze man, of Pulaski, and Col. TV. M. Fel ton, of Macon. Fourth District—Dr. A. C. Flewel- lyn, of Muscogee, and Col. J. B. Gor man, of Talbot. Fifth District—E. Taylor, of Mon roe, and J. M. Huic, of Clayton. Sixth District—Gen. S. O. Myric, of Baldwin, and S. Barrow, of Jones. Seventh District—T. J. Lyon, of Bartow, and Col. J. O. 'Waddell, of Polk. Eighth District—J. A Shiners,* of Warren, and W. K. Nelson, of Rich inond. Ninth District—R. B. Burgess, of Banks, and W. C. Stovons, of Jack- son. Griffin Sun: The revision of tho jury list in Pulaski county has caused dissatisfaction with some citizens.— There are now two sepnratu boxes, aa provided by tho now Constitution.— Under the late revision there are ono hundred and twenty-six names in tlie grand jury box, and two hundred ami .-sixty-three names in the traverse jury box. The other day two men in tbe country met, when one of them remarked to the other, “Have yon heard of that confound arrangement of the jury commissioners of our county?” “No; what is it?” “Well, they havo stricken off tho grand jury list every mau in the county who doesn’t run a ten-horse farm, or own a bank, or a warehouse or a store.” “Thiinderation, you say 1” “Yes, and they won’t have any man on the traverse Jury who does’nt ruu a four-horse farm. “A monarchy, d—n my time if it ain’t. Tull it to me ugalii." Ho for the WI regrass. Ilia recent issue of the Atlanta Constitution we (hid an interesting letter from J. F. Brown, Esq. of Waycross, Ware countv Ga., al the Junction of the A. & G". and B. & A. Railroads, from which we make the following extracts. Mr. Brown is from New Jersey and is one of a large colony who settled iu Ware county last year. Uere is what he The electric light has proved a fail ure in the great London fish-market at Billingsgato. e like the people, climate, soil and its productiveness better than we had expected. I arrived in Wa»- cross about the 22d of last June, in the very hottest weather, and found men, (white and black,) and teams, horaee, mules and oxen working right along at various kinds of work the samo as with us at the north, in some instances commencing at 4 o’clock in the morning and resting three or four hours in the middle of the day, but more regular houra. I do not find any day here hotter, nor ns hut as in New Jersey, the mercury sel dom rising above 96 degrees, gener ally from 70 to 80 degrees, but the hot weather continues longer. I have never heard of a case of sunstroke here. Nearly every day there are cooling,, pleasant breezes from the Atlantic or tho Gulf, and every few days fine showers, with the wind, keeD the air pure and salubrious, while it hastens vegetation forward to an astonishing degree. I see a great many oxen working hero in yokes, single in carts and used for plowing corn, rice sugar-cane, cotton etc., and 1 have never seen an ox lolling his tongue. • * * * Of stock, we find cattle and hogs roaming at large everywhere, pro curing their own living wholly, and up to within the last four weeks, (middle of January) they have been looking finely, but are now failing off, especially the older ones, hut 1 am told that in a couple of weeks the fresh grass will start, wheu the cattle will again have an abundance. 1 should not advise bringing northern stock here in large numbers, because having some costly cattle here, thev have not done well, having lost half of them and part of the remainder seem ailing, yetall had the best of care. We are fully satisfied that cat tle, sheep, hogs, hens, ducks, turkevs and geese will do well and get all their living through the year; hut think giving them a little feed for a month at this season of the year would pay and bo a great help. In fact I find many are in the habit of doing ao especially in the village. * * * Rice, cotton, sugar-cane and oats all make paying crops. I mean liy this to say to my New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachu setts neighbors that they can come down here and buy land at from 50 cents to (3. per acre (yes, at from $100 to to $500 for a lot of 490,) and make money off irom the same number of acres, with the same amount of work and machinery than they could at the north. I would not :o back to old Jefferson county, New fork, or the Warren and Bernard township farms,” if I could have ei ther as a present, free and clear from all mortgage, and bo obliged to live on them. We can raise hero good crops of everything that grows in Jersey and very many things that do uot grow there. Grains, grasses, vegetables, fruits and berries, alt of which do well there, do well here. Here we have a profusion of beautiful flowers and trees of a tropical nature—tbe magnolia, live oak, cape jessamine, sweet, sour and bitter orange, fig, ba- uauna, etc. are all perfectly at home here. I find the currant docs finely —but I cannot enumerate. I must say emphatically that these things do not grow wild here and without care, any more than at the north We call back to our neighbors to come and join us in this goodly land and to our sisters sinking in decline come breathe the air of the Georgia line. We say to all who are seeking lealtb, a mild congenial climate, land that is good and cheap, come here, look around and you will find a hear ty welcome. Buy all the land you can pay down for; mortgaged lands are poor legacies to leave one’s child ren ; it only leaves them serfs for life. TenB of thousands at the North can appreciate tho last sentence. We want working, industrious citizens, also men with capital. “The poor ■re havo always with you,” must have i ieen spoken to the rich. Rich men are wanted everywhere (save one place. Singular Bravery of the Zulus. For courage and other war-like qualities, the Zulus may fairly be called the Afghans of Africa, and many of their recorded exploits would do credit to any trained soldier. Some few years ago a Zulu hunter, hearing a young British officer speak aoine - what lightly of native prowess, offer ed to give'him a specimen of it by killing single-handed a huge lion which infested the neighborhood.— The challenge was accepted, and the brave fellow at once set forth upon his dangerous errand, the officer and several of his comrades following at a distance. Having drawn the beast from his lair, the hunter wounded him with a well flung spear, and in stantly fell fiat on the ground beneath his huge shield of rhinoceros hide, which covered his whole body like the lid of a dish. The lion, having vainly expended his fury upon it, at length drew back a few paces. In stantly tho shield rose again, a second lance struck him, and his furious rush encountered only tho impenetrable buckler. Foiled again, the lion crouched close beside his ambushed enemy, as if meditating a siege; but the wily savage raised the further end of tho shield just enough to let ”him creep noiselessly nwny in the darkness, leaving the buckler unmov ed. Arrived at a safe distance, he leveled Ms third spear at the broad, yellow flank of the royal beast with such unerring aim as to luy him dead on the spot, and then returued com posedly to receive the apologies and congratulations of tlie wondering spectators. l’edeslrian (who bus dropped half a crown in front of “the blind") - “Why, you confounded humbug, you are not hliudI” Beggar—“Not 1, sir! If the card says I am, they must have given me a wrong one. I’m deaf and Selected Miscellany. 1 hardly know so truo a mark ol a little mind as the servile imitation of others.—Grevillc. In Norway a horse can help him self to water as he does to bay, from a trough kept ftill of it, and accord- inglv drinks liko a human being et meals—a rip, then some hay, and sc on. Broken winded horses are al most unknown in Norway. Feature* alone do not ran in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, cheerfiil and melancholy tem pers are transmitted through the samt sure but unseen channel.—Hazatt. Our passions act as the winds whirl propel tho vessel; our reason is tie pilot that steers her. Without tin winds she would not move; without the pilot sho would be lost.—From-I Proverb. If the mind, which rules the body, ever so far forget* Itself as to trampi< upon its slave, the slave never forget* or forgives the injury, but at some time will rise and smite itsoppreasor. [Longfellow. As folly on the one side, though ii should enjoy all it can desire, would, notwithstanding, never be content; so, on the other, wisdom ever acqni esces with the present, and is urvei dissatisfied with it* immediate condi tiou.—Montaigne. The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do } that baa got no work cut oiii for him in the world, aud does not go into any. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind—honoet work which you intend gettingdone. [Carlyle. The evory day cares and duties'.* which men call drudgery, are tin- weights aud contemporaries of the clock of time, giving its peudulum a true vibration, and itq hands a regular motion; and wheu tlioy cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, and the hands no longer move—the clock stands still. [Longfellow. Most people, I observe, work uutil they are used up, and then rest to re cover themselves. I am persuaded that the true principle for an ener getic man is to rest before he gets tired, as a preparation for labor.— The minister ought to rest on Satur day, aud go into the pulpit tull of vigor. For this reason the morning hours are generally tho best hours, because they are the freshest. If the pond has a toll head of wa;ar on, the machinery runs easily enough and vigorously. If the water i* low tbe machinery drags. My rule, (though I sometimes violate it) is never to work except when I have ao much steam in me that it is oarier to work than to keep still. Thera ie the eame difference between a worker who has a great reserve of force to draw on and one who can barely keep himself at work by hia conscience, than there is between a trader who has a large capital behind him and ana who Ison the edge of bankruptcy. The Irish |Bar—Henry Grattam. To ran Editob or t*» Sun—I read in a recent Sunday number ef the Sun some account of a work written by Mr. O’Flanagan, which rmlads roe of several familiar namaaaartic- ularly Mr. Henry Grattan. The last time I saw Mr. Grattan waa in Henry street in the city of Dublin, in the vear 1819. It was on n day wheu iie and Col Robert Shaw were elec ted as members of Parleiment for the citv, after which th* customary chairing of the member* took piece, graphically described by Hogarth in one of hit caricatures. A large mob was in attendance when th* prooee- sion started from the coart honte in Green street, endth* mob increted with tbe movement of th* proeeerion until it reached Henry street On coming opposite to the entrance of Cole’s Lane Market it was joined by the butcher boys, fish women and chimneysweepers. At that point en attack was made on the carriage by the mob, and Mr. Grattan was hurled from it Had it not been for the citizens who came te th* rescue, eml brought him into th* hone* of a Mr. Preston, he would have beau killed. The mob were much excited aud furious in denouncing Mr. Grat tan. One woman roared out “why don’t you murther the ould traitor.'’ Mr. Grattan had been a strenuous advocate of Roman Catholic Etnan- ipation, and had hitherto been idol ized by the Roman Catholics, and I know not for what causa they show ed such a hatred of him. On former occasious when n chairing of Mr. Grattan took place, if yonliappened to meet th* crowd, and did not take off yonr bat, you were knocked down by some chimney sweeper or other gentleman. Shortly after this occarrence the Dublin City Corporation presented an address to Mr. Grattan, congrat ulating him on his fortunate escapo. I believe it waa opposed in the Com mon Council by a Mr. John Glffbrd on the grounds that Mr. Grattan was beaten by hiB own mob. Mr Grattan was of medium aize, and had a pale face, aad sharp-angu lar features. He was dressed in a plain, dark coat, drab knee breeches, white stockings and low shoes. 1 have not read Mr. O’Flanagan’s book, and he may, perhaps, gives fuller account of what I waa an eye witness to. E. D. C. The wool crop in Georgia is said to be very large this year. It will soon he harvested.—Sparta Timet <t: Planter. Oh, well, wait a little while before you go to shearing our sheep. The crop will not be as large as you im agine, either, and fortunately the owners are able to control their wool. They arc not pressod like the cotton planters, and if the prices are uot sat isfactory, tlie wool will keep. The people will not submit to any comlii- nations to buy their wool.—Hawkins rille Itispatrh. Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, paid immense sums of money to be taught elocution; Cicero, the Roman m-ntor, after having completed his education, in other respects, spent two years in practicing elocution under a celebrated tragedian. Brutus de clared that lie would prefer tbe hon or of being esteemed the master of Roman eloquence to tho glory of many triumphs. Netvs Items. Tennyson loves English farm life in its most practical ways. Paul H. Hayne has been added to the editorial staff of the South-Atlan- tie. .Sixty years ago, February 21, the first American locomotive was run. Tlie clover leaf design expreasesth* style of the new dinner card. At Lyons, Franco, a bonk has been woven in silk, letterpress'and all. The faabionabln wedding-ring is a S lain gold band with a diamond ecplv embedded in it New York Herald: “In New Jer sey it costs more to hang a man than you could buy fifty vote* for.” Hereafter every loaf of bread sold in- Cincinnati must -hare “tra- weight stamped upon it Mary Anderson is besought by mn admirer to never wear a bushy blonds wig again. It is said that- Secratary Evarts gives better dinners than any others of the Washingtonians. •The New York Mercury has been taking a census of the/rat population of that city, mid sets it down at three hundred millions. Scotchmen with 12 000miles of her ring nets catch every year 843^50,000 herrings, while the ganuet bird* take 1,110,000 aud the codfish eat 20,400,- 000,000. Mrs. Southworth has made herself rich by writing novels. I she had tobl nothing but the truth ,uu would have to pawn lisr utster to raise the price of sheer. The old American Bible society have decided that King James was infallible, and they are going to stick to hi- version of the Scriptm t*, typo graphical errors and all. It it stated that Mrs. Thurman did not call on the wife of Senator Hi uco, is reported. The correction is made at Judge Thurman’s request- The largest number of notes- ever paid into the bank of England iu one day was 82,000, and this waa done one day last mouth. Tbere.is food for solemn thought in a recent report of tiicfiuandal con dition of the country. The writer an nounced thatiu the market money was close, but nut close enough to reach. Alas! so near,, and yet ao for!—N.Y. Herald. In answer to the question if Mr. Hillard is to be recalled as Minister to Brasil, Mr. Ev&rta said it had not yet been decided, but he intimated that Mr. Hillard had not folfiiled the duties of hia office exactly satisfacto rily- - t* There were - thirty-two murders, eleven attempted assassinations, five lynching* and twenty-one rapes in lows during the . last two weeks. If Iowa would only move South, she could take the banner aa an “outrage” Stats. A* it is, she will have to.pins, neglected. POLITIC AlToPINIONS. Wkat the Colored Voter West Do. . What tiie colored voter has to do ie to pro'vehimse'i worthy of the ballot ana regard'himself not as a colored, man with separate race interests, but as a citizen with only that interest in politics that is common to all-citizens, whits o^black. Then hit vote will be solicited aa are the votes of others, and both'parties will take care that there Is do discrimination against t him. Let him act as if he were sure , of his rights and he will never loss them. Senator Lamar says very tru ly that the difficulty so far has been'' that the republican party desires to retain, the negro not as a voter hut as a republican voter. -'-ThSBon. Bannlbal B. - Mb. Pmsidxnt : I am a political isrtisan. I have been one my life ong. I have little -respect for any man who is not; and I have a high respect for every Senator upon the other ride of the Chamber who ex presses with manly firmness his po- itical convictions and stands by them like a man. I trust I lore my whole country in all its length and its breadth, and I am willing to leave the record of my life to prove the sincer ity of that assertion. If there bean injury to any citizen of this broad land, however remote, I would re dress that injury, no matter' from what source that injury may* 'ttftne.— I would do it “deceutly and-- in or der.” 1. would do it with the respect that belongs to the civilised nations of tli* world. Rsmuka of Grant's Bottle-Holder. ZMhsttakCbudlefl “I predict, my fellow-citizens, that whether you nominate for your standard-bearer in 1880 the mau who they didn’t love and did hate aud yet fear—U. S. Grant [prolonged ap plause]—or whether you nominate that gallant staudard-bearer, Blaine, of Maine [great applause]—or.wheth- cr you nominate John Sherman, the ireaent secretary of the treasury mild applause]—that you and I will march shoulder to shoulder to rescue from the grasp of the rebel gcuerals and rebel Drigadters the capital of the nation.” Washington, February 22.—Tlie large iron safe, known as the “Cen tennial,” and which wa9 on exhibi tion at the late Centennial Exhibition, with autographs, photographs etc, of distinguished men of the country, was closed to-day at noon in t he Stat uary Hall of tho Capitol, in the. pres ence of a large number of people.— No formal ceremony, however, was observed. Senator Forty, who presided over tlie senate after the death of vicePres- ident Wilson, the late Private Sccre- tart?of tlie present Administration, and Mr. Nicholay, Private Secretavy to Mr. Lincoln, were present. The safe is to remain closed one hundred years, and then it is to be opened. Grent Wool States. The three greatest wool growing States are California, Ohio and Texa-. California being first in the amount of wool produced and Ohio next.— Texas has three millions six hundred and seventy thousand sheep, and the number is increasing. U is believed that Texas will soon out strip Ohio and California. Thewire-grasscotin- tics of Georgia are now teeming with sheep, and the golden-footed animal will soon be shorn of his winter coating.—Hawkintrille Dispatch.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Albany news. (Albany, Ga.) 186?-1880, March 06, 1879, Image 1