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Grand Tournament. Office S. A. 'Society, ) Macon, Ga. f Ocl. -0, 1SG9. j Tiie Superintendent ol the To lrna- inent announces to all concerned, the following rules for the government, and j Resolved, That this Convention mem- j orialize Congress to grant the right of j way and such subsidies as may seem j just to a Southern Pacific railroad from j San Diego, California, via the junction J of the rivers Colorado and Gila, along: not woman. Will the Asiatic Society I Transmission of Iculal Disease, aid f 1 he founder of the Indian Mu- : Dr. Charles Elina, an English phy- seum some time since proposed a uni- jsidan, has just published a book in versal ethnological exhibition at Cal- which medical problems «re discussed. rm '“ • - - '- J - r -• - - ofihe transmission ot mental disorders, au event tor a general festival a mong geographical societies throughout world.— N. Y. Herald. iur : out iooi* “The man who pauses ou his honestv Wants little of the villain.” information of those who may wsh to j lbe v «dley of the Gila and south of the enter the iist: " same to El Paso, on the Rio Grande, 1. Each gentleman desiring to enter } an ^ thence to a convenient point near the list will communicate with Ml. W. ihe thirty-second parallel of north lal- W. Collins, of Macon, Ga., mfb'aiing I * lUf ^ e Rasl °flhe Brazos or near him what knight he wishes to tepre-i riVRr ' n ihe State of Texas; to which gefl(> ; main trunk feeder roads may be built 2. Each knight will appear and ride ^ r ° in Leavenworth, St. Louis, Kansas in the costume ofihe character ha per- ! Cit y> Cair0 - Vicksburg, Memphis, New smvdtes, and no one will be allowed to i Orleans and Galveston on the east, and ride unless in costume, and properly that Guay mas, Mazallan and San Frar.cis- co on the west, and such other roads w jj| | on the east or west as may be desired, and > with equal right of connection to all. lor the order in Resolved, That the President of this each kni’hi r e- Convention be requested to forward a resolution to the President mounted. 3. The enrollment of names cease ou the 15th of November, the knights will draw which they will ride, .... taining the position he has drawn, and I co py of this no exchange will be allowed. I 3he United states, the N ice Presi- 4. The Tin will be a circle of two j atul lhe Speaker of the House ol hundred ami twenty yards, with six Representatives, and request them to ring staffs, ai intervals of thirty yards, | P ,f * se " 1 the same to their respective leaving loriy yards lor the start. i Houses of Congress. That the Chair- 5. Size of ring, two and a half inch- j ,Iiai1 ot each State delegation be re- cs ... diameter. Length of lance, nine [ 'Vested to appoint two gentlemen from j their respective States to visit vVash- 6. ’ All movements of the knights will ington at the next silting of Congress be regulated hv the bugle. I ,n l , i,e '' ,te,C5ts of l,ie ^ a /hern Pacific 7. Fitieen seconds time will be al- j railf ”ad, as recommended by this Con- lowed to make the distance of one bun- ; ven *' on - [signer J died and eighty yards. Any knight! D P Lewis, Ala, M Emanuel, Miss, consuming more time than this will] Chairman, DCDeJarnette.Va, eiiher Ins- his ride or ride ever, as the j BDW iliiarns, Ark, J W Clapp, Tenn, judges ntfiv determine ; also, in ail | Jas Bradford, Del, Jno T Sprague N Y, cases ot accident the judges will de- C E Dyke, F la, W Schmoele, N J, c ' 1( j e> j A D Nunnally, Ga, J T Ludeling, La, b. The knights taking the greatest J H Obeiiy, 111, Jno Ingle, Ind,^ number of rings within the time speci- j R P Glenn, S C, W W Wright, Kan, tied, shail he entitled to the first prize, i C G Forshey, Tex, VV F Beasly, N C, of Love and i R H Corwin, Ohio, E Underwood. Min, culla. The tailed race, if it exists, would stand naturally in the front ranks of such an exhibition, and the speci mens would excite the curiosity and remark, not only of Calcutta, but of the entire scientific world, This is the true ‘missing link’—This is the great Asian ‘Mystery.’ ” Southern Wealth. A friend just returned from a North ern tour says that the idea just now rnostfdeeply impressed on the Norlherr ; he says: ; There, is no form of heritage more remarkable than that of the tendency to suicide without ariv other marks ot aberration of intellect. Dr. Winslow i relates the case of a family where all itfie members exhibited, when they ar- 1 rived al a certain age, a desire to com- j mit self-destruction ; to accomplish which, the greatest ingenuity and in dustry were manifested. Dr. Gall re ates a very striking instance of seven feet. and to crown the Queen Beauty. The second, the second prize, I and to crown the first Maid of Honor, j and so m the last prize, there being as j iiircuy Maids of Honor as there are \ Q amer0H prizes. :-t. There shall be at leasl one dele-; gate appointed from every coun v that ; is represented by knights, wh i will j choose five umpires to act as judges on tlrp occasion. 10. There shall lie four inarsliails ap pointed by the Superintendent, whose duly it shall be to preserve ordt r and secure the services of a suitable band A M Speights, Ga, Secretary. “TAILED MEN” 's Great Discovery of the Con necting Link”—Men with the Caudal Appendage—How they Lire and IV here. The Indian papers contain the fol lowing letter from Cameron, of Calcut ta, announcing the discovery of “tailed men When I was in Sarawak, I went now and then with traders who had been in the Kyan country to the north- a_. ©•*- r**» % — ami omer rr perintendent the entrance fee of ten they maybe dollars before contesting lor the prizes. | huntiri^; and lor the occasion ; die marshals - to be , west G f the northern peniasula or pro- mounled and designated by a rei. sash, | j e olion of Borneo, who gave me detail- woin diagonally across the hrest, from et j an(] definite accounts of a race of lell shoulder to right hip. i m(M1 ( n ,the ourangoutnng) who dwelt 11. All questions that may , arise am011 g dense forests, living up trees of inu *' he decided by the judge-, and j mme nse size, with their wives and there decision is final. ^ children, with their bows and arrows 12. 1 hat each knight pay to the Su-j ;iIU | c'djer rude implements, whatever be. They lived entirely by had no sort of agriculture. J3. Jii case of two or more knights | j jo not recollect now after the lapse taking the rings the same number ol j 0 fsuch a long period, whether i was times, they shall decide by riding thro ; j n f 0 rmed that they made use of fire, or one time, and if they should tie the vvhether they cooked at all. They second time, they will continue to ride | wentt G f course, entirely naked. They through until it is decided by the juilg-j j lg( j no intercourse with any other pco- es. , j pie, and spoke a gibberish of their own. Peihaps there will be some few j It was only now and then that Ky- knighis who will prefer to have the bar j ans< Malavs or Dyaks ever came upon attached to the list of performances, J th e i r leafy habitations, when, of course there being the ring to take and bar lo| a S p ee ,jy retreat used to be beat by be ju mped. To those persons we will lbe grangers. These accounts by the say, that we will accommodate them it possible. There will be a fine Can adian thorough-bred horse, worth S500, offered as first prize, ami correspond ing ones for second, third, etc. W. W. COLLINS, Secretary. P ai x*r$ of the Stale please copy. people which hnd been in that part of i the country were confirmed by other Dyak tribes and by Malays. 1 find I no great difficulty m believing this sto- | rv- Science, in one sense, almost re- ! quires it. And in Borneo the monkey | tribe has received almost its highest development, and why may not man W e copy below, from the Louis' ilie I f )e found in its primeval and untrodden Courier Journal, such action ol the ate ; |o re st, existing in its initial state of pro- Comtncrciul Convention as is of spec- j g ress ? We have lately heard of a story lal interest to Southern readers : j coming from Africa, that there is a race Majority report oj the Committee on South- I °1 men with tails, far away 7 in the inie- j rior of the great continent; and it is ern Pacific Railroad. ; no t eV vorthy that the centre of Africa, To the Hon. Millard Fillmore, ^resi- j like Borneo, is just under the line, and dent Louisville Commercial Con- \ that in Africa, also, we find the mon- veulioii : | key race in a high stale of development, The undet signed, a Committee on a i and the lowest race of man, the negroes, 1 1 mind is the great wealth ot the. South- i children of one man who enjoyed a the rapidity with which we, in this competency and good health, yet all section, must be heaping up- riches out j possessed a rage for suicide, and all »( an annual cotton crop worth nearly [yielded to it within thirty or forty years, three hu fid red millions. Our friend “Some hanged, some drowned them- told them, as we believe truelv, that selves, and others blew out their rom | brains.” Many other examples of the the ; same tendency are brought forward by i the same writer. I may add one case per to the above from my own experience. Sitting one day with an acquaintance, not ten per cent, of this money the cotton crop is retained iri South. In the first place thirty three cent, of it goes to the laborers—is spent by Chrismas and sent North by the merchants to pay for their goods. Of the remainder, when Western corn, bacon, flour, hay, mules and horses and Northern fetilizers, agricultural implements, and goods, wares, and merchandize of every description are paid for, what is left? It makes little difference what a man’s income is if he I noticed some depression in his spirits. After a prolonged s lence, he broke out into the following dreary attempt at conversation: “My grandfather hung himself, my uncle look poison, my father shot himself, I shall cut my tlireal.” The facts .vere correct; but constant surveillance prevented the se quel in his own history. 1 the plaining particularly that of our own State. the : bushel in Columbus. Some of you had cotton on the In a in to such an extent, that you plauted no corn this year. You made a little cotton, per- Oriuinai.ity :—That quality 0 f tb , | ha P 8 ’ and in that Proportion reduced the man miud tbat conce jves or orLin • i price, thereby injuring yourselves and i i , , , , . ° les * your neighbors, who pursued a different . j* n o w a is seen or sugg este( j | policy. They, however, have this advan- | ■“ * men are original by nature, with n )0r j tage over you—they have corn enough to or less of mental force ; for no two mii 1( j do them another year, and their cottou | like faces, are alike ; no matter how ] *’ crop will be pretty much clear profit while , the re s fi mblance, there is, neverthel.* ^ you will have to pav out most of the pro- ,. fl . r> ■ lHe *es S) a ceeds of your cottou for supplies to run 1 erence *. Ceasing to be an origin^ j a your plantations. , becoming an imitator or follower ui If you caunot atone for your error, you ! some other, a mere reflector, may at least remedy the evil, to some ex n : : v. tent, by sowing large rye and oat crops : I * j^ * 1 ^ 8J 0W8 upon a man the nioie rye for winter pastures, and oats to feed i ie l u |D ks or reflects ; for as one idea be- on next summer. But you must not post- gets another, new ideas are thus creat I pone it till spring. It must be done now. by thought. Two men may have the Quit picking cotton ,,,d melting it to | M „ , od , botb be „ r ; in ., in , “ e market lor two weeks, auti sow small grain i , .° 14C Mnay and the price of your cotton will go up e mea ,° 1 eren * ' ,ln g l iages. There ig enough to pay for all your seed, and more mora originality in the world tbau th too. Oats sowed late very rarely do much ; j world gives credit for ; but it is oulv they are liable to be cut off by drought | traded by that which strikes th« and rust ; but veheu sowed in October, sel m : n ,i ac n r • . in011 | dom fail to make a good crop. ; , aS ° f 8U » >enor . COD <=ept.ous, whetb- What say you to these suggestions ? j er * etter8 > art ° r science. The great o- Metbinks 1 hear some old skin flint say ! r, giual mind, like an explorer, seeks i - is j —j I i terest of the South, and I l ° biu } se j f * »„8 ood advi . ce ’ aad of . coa,se fields thought, and cuts his way throat . everybody will pursue if. Now is my : ,l| , Iras corresponding outgoes. We shall not begin to be rich as a ! Wine-Making in France—.Nuked community until we gradually adopt j Give it “Butiqnet.” Women lo A WORD TO PLANTERS. If there is any interest that occupies a pre-eminent position in our thoughts, it is | everybody wilfporsue if Now is my j a ll obstacles that present themselves ¥Ve -time, I will sow no small gram, plant no) look upon it as the driving wheel of every , corn again next year—put everything in The following letter f-o other interest, and should it fail or break. I cotton and make my “pile.” . , , . , ° ‘ nm au es- 1 The end of that man is ruin. Mark it ! teemed £nend We a PP r ^‘ a 'e. and hope s l, e PARMER. ; Wl11 cxeuse us for publishing it. \y e a Hatcbechubbee, Ala., Oct. 9. 1869. preciate her fully as much as a triend ♦ she does the Recorder as a paper Ex President Johnson Defeated. j Mar.anna, Fla., Oct i 4 1869 Iu the Senatorial contest in Tennessee, j Mettrs R M Qrme * ^ . Mr. Johnson was defeated by Henry Coop j ! received TOur Lotice by , as{ ^ | there would be, comparatively speaking, a : j suspension of business. It well becomes J our planting friends to turn their attention i to a nice calculation as to loss and gain by simply resolving themselves into cot tou planters, and the bending of every en tile policy of supplying our own neces sities and keeping our means at frame. Economy is the only road to wealth.— We mu3t raise our own food—make our own agricultural implements and diversify our industry generally, so that every thing we spend does not leave our country immediately, to re turn no more. When A buys of B, his neighbor, who sells supplies produced of Geor gia material and shaped by Georgia industry, the money remains here, and the State is the richer by the value of the goods created and purchased. But ! To the Editor of the N. 1. Tribune:— 1 Your California correspondent, writing | of wine making in France, refers lo the | practice the naked women nave ol (going into the wine-vats up lo their waists, lo stir the fluid, and thus facil itate the process ot fermentation! I have otten heard of such a practice, . hut was an unbeliever until a late visit , which I made to the vineyards ou the Rhine, and in Champaigne, France, where I found ihe custom was univer- i sal, and, on referring to authorities, I • found the statement fully confirmed. Writers disagree as to the object of this J 1 A recetveu > our Lonce Dy last mail t\ * ergy to make cotton at the expense of tue j er, the vote being, Cooper 55, Johnson 51. | my late busband’s subscription toour’d absolute iieceanarifts nf n smioiinn annnlino vf- n i i , f “ lu uur a«Rr if he buys of X, in Boston or New N ork practice, some claiming that the natu- Georgia loses the money paid, offset j r al warmth of the body hastens fer- onlv by the productive value of the ! mentation, and others asserting that the goods purchased. If they 7 be a piano, j stirring about and mixing up of the a fine cariaige, a splendid dress ora pomace in this way gives the wine a hand-organ, the gain of productive ! “fuller body,” a deeper color, or a su- value to Georgia is inconsiderable. If the Northern people think we are get ting rich very fast, let us not indulge the delusion. The great bulk of our earnings is lost lo us much than we made it.— Telegraph. absolute necessaries of plantation supplies. The planter or farmer who thinks he can at all times, regardless of the seasons, make enough of cotton extra, to buy his meat, corn, hay, Ac., will, nine times out of ten, fail. He will find that the extra laud put in cotton for the purpose of buy ing his supplies, will fall short of his cal culations,and that which he thought would be his cottou money clear, will go to buy that which he ought to have raised. If a Mr. Cooper, we learn from our exchanges, j 0 J d R ecorder was out. I regret this fa , is a very clever gentleman, but not the z 7 . , „ ’ rl . t i S • . n . .i itt am no longer ahle to subscribe for it, and equal ol Mr. Johuson intellectually. We ;» j. aa u A. A . xr T . J . . j has been a regular visitor m my bom,, desired to see Mr. J. elected, so that he ( loag before A wa8 born> and now \ could meet Sumner and others who have grand . mother . My ffitLer took h been his bitterest opponents. Oatside of the beginning of its existence, anil In that consideration, we have very little re- husband from his majority. I learned * spect for Mr. J., as he proved false to his j j e tters on its dear old pages ; but now record in days past. Was tyrannical as a j as i we mas t part, for a time at least Military Governor of Tennessee.aud want j Send me the amount now due and 1 wil ed to hang Mr. Davis without the advan- ! pay it , and if eV er my finances improve, 1 [ t £ • • r d / II ever ray naances improve, planter could make a bag to the acre tage of a fair trial. He became a Const!- wU1 renew the sab seription and be what rn met ennh n/vnn/\nn n K ’ 1 1 1 i tntllklial m«l l» rn Arrt m ^ iL - perior boquet. As iL is now estirnatecl that we have already planted in the United Stales 2,000,01)0 acres of vineyard, or an area quicker , equal lo two-fifths ol' that devoted to I vines in France, it is to he hoped that .. ~~ * the French mode of making wine will “Nothing in the Paper. —I he I . , • , ° . i • i . , not be introduced into this country—at Richmond Examiner has a spicy chap- v . . , t ! J -* least till i ankee ingenuity has been ex- have just such seasons as he wanted ; be i tational man more from necessity than sure all times of his labor, there might be I l°ve to the South, ail excuse to make a speciality of cotton, and with his cotton crop, buy everything ueeded from an axe helve to a mule. But when we have from the beginning, the cry of too wet a spring, or too cold a spring, then the worm, the hot weather, Ac., what folly to count once thought I should ever be, a life Ion subscriber. S. E. B ter op the subject of newspapers, elie- j hausted in finding a substitute. C. A. ited by the sterotyped remark of indil- i lerent readers alter scanning the “min iature world” of a daily issue ol news, that “there’s nothing in the paper.” It says: “And men are always grumbling about their papers, and insinuating how much better they could do it. They talk as flippantly about ‘fine articles’ j °tdinary scientific remedie on everv imaginable subject as if they, j f- r iLute^ for the benefit ot your readers : an Indian remedy, which has been suc- Brunswick, Ga., Oct. 15, 1*69. Editor Southern Recorder : In my last, I promised iu this letter CP* We see from our exchanges that a number of Giu Houses have been burnt of late, no less than three in Washington county. e do not think that the burn- give your readers some important inform! then the drought, then ! * DS ° f tLe Gi “ Hoase “ 5s the Tesah of tl0Q as t0 prospects here and of euferpri: what folly to 'count Ulatcbe8 dro PP ed accideut in the cot- es which might prove profitable. Befoi toil, or the result of incendiaries, but from j proceeding with these, however, I uni the ignition of the oil, jf oil is used in the here take occasion to announce the grat oiling of the boxes or gudgeons. We were ly ing information to our friends at a dii j talking with a gentleman upon the sab- tance, that within the past week two ca jject, and he remarked : if the lire was dis- goes of iron have arrived for the Brun covered iu the Gin, while running, you wick A Albany Railroad; also a vess on a cotton crop as a surety to fill an emp ty pocket book. Especially, when the cot tou factor has the farmer so tied up,that he must meet his obligations at a certain time regardless of the price of cotton. Cancers Cured. To the Editor of the. Cincinnati Gazette: I notice several communications in regard to cancer and cures thereof, and as tiff* disease appears lo be beyond will con- Southern Pacific Railroad, beg leave to report : That they have bestowed upon the living side by side with them. View ing the subject as about the most im portant matter which can engage the subject referred to them that attention j attention of science and of humanity uixi investigation which its paramount i (in the large sense explained above) in ‘ “ die present day, 1 offer myself to iLs elucidation. I hive little doubt tbat if the Asiatic Society and the Indian Museum jointly take earnest action in the matter, they could easily induce i he government toaid in the enterprise.” Mr. Cameron then details his plan.— “First, I should have to start to Sara wak, and there procute the active co operation of my friend Mr.Crookshank, importance demands—having carefully considered the various resolutions and papers reterred lo them, arid elicited information from various other sources within their reach ; and they have found their labors greatly abridged by the very able and exhaustive report of Colonel Blanton Duncan, as acting chairman of the Committee on South ern Pacific Railroad, appointed by ihe Kingdom. I should have to provide mvself with a quantity of valuable trumpery articles, such as mirrors, late Memphis Convention, with in- the present officiating Governor of tIre structions to prepare and submit a re port to this Convention ; which report, so submitted and referred to them,your committee desire and recommend be j beads, etc. I should also be provided published among the proceedings of with some rifles of long range. These this Convention in connection with the report of the present Committee, and as a pari then of. could effect such a change. Let some of these overrunning philosophers try it \ ces?l,i for one hundred and fifty days in sue- | cession. “And then they think it is nothing to ‘select’ for a newspaper—you have ! merely to run the scissors through a , half a dozen exchanges, and vou have ! got matter enough. Now this is the. ' most important, and the most difficult department to fill on a newspaper.— j Very few men have the slightest, idea ! how to do the work. It requires a j thorough newspaper man—who knows | the public appetite well—who knows ! y T applied in Louisiana. Make a strong ley from red oak bark and Imil it down to a pulpy consisten cy—apply as a poultice direct to the cancer. In from 48 to 60 hours, or as soon as the pain ceases, the cancer can be removed entirely by being very careful, as it will bn found to have shriveled. The application will be in tensely painful, but I am aware ol its having been successful. I obtained my information from an old gentleman named Andrews, living in the parish of St. Landry Louisiana, who had removed a cancer from his what is going on in the world—and. who knows how to rewrite and pack a i * ace l ^' r, y y^ ar s befote, and had never column into a dozen lines. been troubled afterward. He has pre served the cancer entire ns it was re moved, and there could he no doubt in his case of the disease or its cure. He had applied the remedy in two cases with equal Sin cess. “Men who skim a newspaper and toss it aside little reflect how much brains and toil have been expended in 'serving up that meal. Busy heads and busy hands have been toiling all day to gather and prepare those viands, and j ^ some vast building has been iit from Livingston Hie Mighty cellar to garret all night to get that pa-! Nile, per ready for the newsboy by crack of j ■yyg have late and authentic nows from dawn, ( (hat indomitable Africa explorer, Dr. Li* llank movement he might make upon him. It is all important to know exactly your ■ own forces and how to move them for an attack, but at the same time be prepared to meet an assault. So with the farmer, lie Bliould know exactly what his expenses should be, and go to work to meet them, but he should have an eye at the same time for au attack of a cold spring, worm, drought, Ac., and should he fail to meet such attacks with a good cottou crop, he should have a reserved force in the way of good corn fields and fat porkers, so if he met with a partial defeat, it ueed not end in a disastrous route, and all his labor lost entirely. But say many of our planting friends, we cannot raise hogs as we did in the good old days of slavery, “niggers will steal them.” Of course they will if you let them roam one and two miles from home to pick up a living in the woods ; in fact, the “niggers” ought to steal them for your iudiflerence. If there is plenty mast iu the some one along to watch them, for that which is worth raising, is worth protecting, for it is not money or time thrown away Removal of Mercer University.—The Georgia Baptist Association, at Greeues- boro’, passed the following resolution, by a vote of 65 to 5 : Your Committee believe that they cannot belter perform the duty assign ed them and subserve the interests of the Southern and Southwestern Stales, and of the whole country, than by re commending for the adoption of this Convention the action upon the same subject of the Commercial Convention which assembled at Memphis on the 18th of May last, and the succeeding one that convened at New Orleans in the same month. It may well be presumed that these two bodies, each composed of a very iarge number of delegates, represent- dead specimen, but the difficulty would mg all the great interests involved, and be in opening up communications, and would be useful either to repel attacks or to bring back nt leasl a dead speci men. Query—Would 1 be guilty of murder 3 And if so, what court would try me ? At Sarawak I would, with Mr. Crookshank’s assistance, organize u party ol say thirty Dyaks to accom pany me. The next point lo make would be Mileanow country, to the northeast of Sarawak, and north or northwest of the tract supposed to be inhabited by the race with tails. Hence, after due preparation, I should have to strike off into the interi or, into trackless forests, after my ob ject. To meet with them may be easy, i( Lhey exist, and even to bring back a harmoniously reaching the same con clusions, gave a fall and fair expres sion to the public sentiment upon this subjeet. Other routes have been presented for the consideration of the committee ; but, while it may be true that great centres of trade and population may spring up in the future, requiring other arid different lines of communication with the Pacific coast, for ail the prac tical purposes of the present the route designated by the former conventions referred to is the one unhesitatingly re commended by yc-urcommittee. And therefore we beg leave to submit the foJlowi.Bg resoJutioBS: inducing them to show a friendly feel ing, if, indeed, they know what that means. Or, it is possible, should friendly negotiations fail, we might pro ceed to use artifice or force to capture women and children. In his second letter, Mr. Cameron remarks that the Duke ot Argyle has written a work called “Primeval Man,” which shows His Grace to be a disbe liever in the ape development theory, “His Grace,” he adds, “is the present gecrelary of State to India, and it would be a pleasant thing for him, for this country to conclusively disprove his weak theories hy showing that the ape is the physical progenitor of map, ‘“Nothing in the paper!’ Nothing in your head! ihai’s what’s the mat ter.” Collon—Ils Weight. Some weeks since, we published iii these columns nn article from the Charleston Courier, stating that Mr. J. 1. Holmes, of that city, had placed a bale ol cotton under cover in his office with a view to test the loss or gain in weight. The same paper gives the ngstone, that lie is not only alive anil well, hut that in prosecuting his geographical researches he has discovered that one of the sources of the Nile, emptying into tho great Lake Victoria Nyanza, rises some ten degrees south of tho equator. If this be true the Nile becomes the longest river in the world, eclipsing even the tremendous sweep of the Missouri from- its sources to tho Mississippi and thence to the Gulf. A fair idea of the long line of the Nile may l»e formed from the fact that tho distance between its last reported source and its result of the experiment, which may delta along the Mediterranean is equal to be of interest to our cotton merchants, j d' e distance f?<»m Lima, in Pern, to the The cotton was carefully weighed at 3 ^ ew d 0ld V 01 * r ?, m , ] , ®. clt y ^ Hex o . i n i . n I ico away up to Mount ht. Elias, the end p. M. on September 9, and at 9 a. it. . , fl , l f . 4 . ’ . . r i c, . __ i of the backbone ot this continent, in Alas on each following day to September 30., ka Wellf t , ie0f njay tlie aucient river of The result has been given ns in tabu- Egypt be ca j led tbe In j g hty Nile. lar form through the kindness of Mr Holmes. The main results are these : On September 6 at 3 p. m., the bale weighed 419 pounds, weather being damp. On September S, 10 and 11, the weather was dry and the weight fell to 417| pounds at C p. m., Septem ber 11. A succession of damp days followed, and at 9 a- W*> on September IS and 21 the bale had lisen to 420$ pounds; and by September 25—at 9 a. m. and 3 p. M —the bale reached 421J pounds, the maximum. On the last recorded day, at 3 p. M., the bale weighed 420 pounds. The key to the whole table is the thermometer. As the mercury fell, the cotton grew heav ier ; as it rose, the cotton became light er. And we should say that a differ ence of ten degrees Fahrenheit with stored cotton should -be generally equal to a gain or loss of 3 J pounds a bale. Dexter trotted one mile Saturday last in oue minute and four seconds. This is, hy long odds, tbe fastest time oo record. The City Council of Rome bas exempt* ed from city taxation, for tbe space of ten years, *11 capital and machinery employed in the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods, or agricultural implements. But we need go no further on the one Imml than into the mountains of Abyssinia, whence the blue Nile and the Albarra tributaries of the main stre,am descend, and on the other hand, to the Lakes Al bert and Victoria Nyanza, the great reser voirs of the White Nile or main river, in order to establish tbe life giving and never failing stream of Egypt, iu its peculiar features, as the most wonderful in the world. F rom fl‘ e deluging rains which, from the Indian Ocean, are borne aud dis charged upon the Abyssinian mountains and table-lands, come th.e enriching annu al overflow of Egypt, while from the abounding equatorial rains of the lofty re gions around Lakes Albert and Victoria flows that exhaustlesss supply of the main stream which, for fifteen hundred miles through a burning desert, bears still its ample volume to tho sea. These facts have been fully established by tbe explo rations of tbat intelligent traveler and dashing son of Nimrod, Sir Samuel Baker, j l conjunction with the equatorial discov eries of Speke, Grant and Burton. Baker, in the service of the enterprising Egyptian Viceroy, is now at the head of a powerful expedition eu route to take possession of the whole line of the Nile, aud should Liv ingstone remain a few months longer “prospecting” around those equatorial lakes, Baker will probably find him apd bring him off. Such a ineetiug would be We would call that General, a very poor I V in* WIC f * A,Dan Y ltallroad J also a one, who never studied the position^ of his j b ^ reS \! P6Qred that “ CaU ^ t ,0aded WIth cba,rs and 8 P ike8 for 8 « enemy, aud prepared himself to meet any ! ‘iTr 1 • j' ^ ^ ^ ^ iaid ^ ““ flank movement he might make nnon him ^ ^ ^ ^ n ,° ‘ 8 * I™™ thaD a miie witbiu tbe P asttw0 da : lowed to gather around the gungeons. Our ( The force of bands is being rapidly i friend remarked that he had often seen the creased and by November 1st, the first gudgeons smoking eveu when he used tal- j miles of this road will have been compli low or mutton suet. Machine oil will do ; ed. By January 1st, 1870, we will qo well enough to lubricate all kinds of ma- j nect with the Gulf Road, at No. 9, a d chiuery but a Giu, for it must be remem tance of 59 miles. So much, Mr. Edit, bered tbat the lint will get around tbe gud j for the “great swindle," the “giganticfm geons, aud that it will ignite quickly, as it [ upou the people of Georgia.” We wa is u&tiuaily combustible. A word to the a few more such frauds to make Georg wise and cautious is sufficient. ! foremost in internal improvements, of at of the Southern States. If any of your readers contemplate b coming citizens of the “City hy the Sea I would advise them to corne with no id. Resolved, That is the opinion of this As \° U f ° rtUne iu a year or two ' They mn sociation that the most efficient means of conie prepared to wait, and may be, sud advancing the prosperity of Mercer Uni- some losses and inconveniences. Mercha vorsity, is to forever discountenance the 1 dizing is crowded, but still we will w< bj"™” ° f ,e, ” OVal lr °” il * f r “ ent i come .11 wbo com. .s m „ re ba„t, or I. .< Wa call tbat reaolntion good common I “‘ ber “‘’“‘‘r- g « man h. s mean, . . .i t j . . ! ncient to keep himself up for a twel sense, and the body that passed it, sensi- ! • T r •, tst • ^ , . i months, 1 would advise him to come noi ole men. We are in no way interested in ! . , i , , • , ; as now is the time to establish one's se .. JO lu lue 1 e r « °v ques ion ; n oo ing to the Tboge wbo come first wU , be firgt tQ m woods, enough to be of good service to the : weUare ot tbe boy8 ’ to the,r interests, and tfae benefitg hogs in the way of fattening them, send knowin S tho temptations that are to be * . found in or near a city—just such tempta- | _^-5 ood opening is now offered lieref tions as will lead boys astray—we hope to ! * LlVery Stable ‘ 1 am satlsfied a bani sec Mercer University remain where it is. 1 S ° me retQrn C ° uld be 8ecured from a m0 ' zz e :rz zi i * ^.»r* nm (hey am under lock and key^ jnst a, your ! «»« «’ « <■»«• ca, railroad to Peofleld T ..J /" mules me, or your corn crib for there ia ■ froul G’eaoeaboro’ or Union Point, bttt: . 7 ° are orced to make t .e ».e, ur your corn erm, tor tliere is , inspections of the city and surroundiu just as much sense in letting yonr hogs lie j never remove tbe L-versity The little . ^ ^ * because a ho, out at night, as there would be in throw- j ‘convenience of get twig to the Institute and . g ^ ^ ^ for We . ing your corn crib doors wide open al j | «n Commencement days, is a trifle com- ^ p assengerg ^ car8 or boal night. It is temptation that makes the ! P ared *° fhe temptations a city wodd °f-j are forced to trudge on foot through th thief, and a man has. morally, no right to ; fer ‘ Fl °™ our observation, agitation of d th ; h f j of abode Cil tempt any one suclj questions do no good but a great deal |. „ , “ , f . t . , , . , , . | of harm, and as long as this question is an i COm P elled t0 fore g° the P lea£ “‘ All that is needed, with our pl«tmg | open 0B6f the University will suffer, f or i ° f 80 occ » 8ional «iriog on horseback or i friends is system ; but when everything is j the argument of incODVenieace wi „ be U9 . : chaise, because they are unable to keep bent to make cotton, all system ,s at an j eJ aga ^ ngt it§ gnd made an excuge to j ^rse, and there are none to hire. 1 h.v enff, and the excuse for Vhe neglect of the | e , sewhere Let 0Qr Baptigt friendg th ® . j ^od for hours about the streets and hav perf r ance of those duties that should be i 0Qt |fae Statfl resolva f ha( u jg at the rigLt actually begged draymen to haul for m obligatory, .. answeredi with the argument. ; ^ ^ their boyg lher(}j r J r ; offering two prices, without avail. A m« l.av nt time must be m cotton held, \ . , ' has to engage a dray several days in a Now i» .lie time for oue planting friends to P ros P en, r -« ties, tbe Ins,,- j ^ f turn under the weeds and all green vege- ! n n : in your city a man, than whom, no one tation, for it is tbe very best of fertilizers i “* r “ r ' gfg* better lalifieJ for , 8uccessfol b „,i„ M s i and .ill be wertb bnndr.ds, perhaps tbon ] "‘ a ‘„ “ ! lhis And several warm, perms sands of dollars to the planter iu tbe mak- remain ' — j friends in onr midst would be happy ' ing of hia next crop, yet it will all be 1 In °ur statement last week of our 8ee his genial countenance, feel tbe thrown away to pick out a few hundred j v ‘ sit to the Lunatic Asylum, we stated of his friendly hand. I allude to tin pounds of cotton. Lose a little cotton to ( t5iat fLe number of patients was 4S0 odd, prince of good fellows, that honest hearte save such fertilizers,for you will be doubly j ** should have been 3S0 odd ; but count- high-toned gentleman, Hon. Sam. McCom repaid next year, both iu what you make ! ia a11 connected with the institution as la- For a business larger in proportions, i and in the increase value of your land. j borers, attendants, Ac., our statement was profits, to the capital invested, than anj near correct. We also said tbat the tank thing I know of, I would recommend g® in tho ceuter buildiug contained 70.000 deuiug for the Northern markets. Vep gallons of water, we should have said 7,000. tables is a certain crop, and cau he gro* Honesty :—DoIngThat which is right at seasons of the year. Radishes, beet for the love of right; acting from a prins P ea8 ’ carrots, turnips, onions, &c„ are no ciple for the love ot a principle ; doing to ! in season for P lant ‘ n S- Green P eaS others as we would others should do to us; U8Ua ^ oa Uhristmas dinners, taking no advantage because the advan- Soon we will have direct shipping 1 tage presents itself; dealing fairly under New York, and vegetables out of 6easo every aud all circumstances. As Sbaks- there, always command good prices. “ n Study political economy as a science, and reduce it to practice ; aud when that is done, the door of success is wide open to <ti8. But this way of buying everything and having nothing to sell except cotton, is deliberate suicide of ourselves, finaocis ally, when wo have the means of raising what we buy. The following from tbe Columbus En quirer, written by a Farmer, is to tbe point. He talks good commou sense. A CHAT WITH PLANTERS. Editor Enquirer :—If you will grant me the space in your paper, I would like to indulge in a short chat with cotton planters. Having closely observed tbe report of ♦he corn crop throughout the United State, “so-called,” I am convinced that it will be a short one ; and that unless the fanners and planters pursue a proper course this fall, corn will rule very high uoxt spring and summer. I would not be i peare says : “To be honest, as this world for this purpose can be bought within ( goes, is to be one man picked out of ten an hour’s sail of the city, for §10 t0 thousaud.’’ What a reflection upon hu- per acre. Such land as I speak or, man nature and the influences of the teach- produce from 300 to 400 bushels of 6’ ings of the Christian religion. Socrates potatoes per acre- Take this simple, said : “The shortest aud surest way to live j sy vegetable to cultivate, and I will d onstrate that a foitwte can be made 1 witb honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, for allbuman virtues increase and strengthen themselves by tbe practice and experience of them.” An honest man is a law unto himself, and We will say * of it in a few years purchases jtO acres of land on oue adjacent islands and pays for it $600. builds a small wharf to load his pM*