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Newspaper Page TextI*Y W. A. ILEOIPUILL & CO. X. W. AVKUY, LNlitoi-. TERMS or .SL'Ii.V'KIlTION : WEOLT CONSTITUTION, pcrnnnum... $ S00 six months .... 100 DAILY CONSTITUTION, jkt :mnmn 1000 six months 000 one month 100 tST" N'o name entered on the subscription book ntiMi the money is paid. E*#~ AliVKftTlaKMKSTH Inserted at one dot- lar tier s*|0»re of ten Iinc9,nrs|iaee to that amount, f the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent in sertion. with-mt regard to length of a-Kertisement or lime published. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 28. tST Gold lias been discovered in Appo mattox county, Virginia. Of* Ilumplirey Mar.iliall.of Kentucky,is a candidate for Congress. 127* New Yorkers arc complaining of excessive beat in their latitude. . tH~ President Grant’s assertions to the contrary, Cuban vessels do ran to and fro in aid of the struggling patriots. BT Until recently, l he elective franchise was restricted in Liberia to persons of Af rican descent. Now a white-man can vote there. * IW Tlic question of the practicability of n &liip canal across the Isthmus of Darien, is one of the interesting problems of the day. tlT A great agricultural exposition is to be held tills year at Grata, the capital of the Duchy of Styria in Austria. W The cotton crop in West Tennessee has been badly damaged by the recent rains. _ tST Governor Hoffman recently vetoed a bill which discriminated inequitably against foreign Insurance companies doing husinessJn New York. IV Some of the leading Radical jour nals at the North, which in times long agone favored Knownothingism, arc begin ning to revive their opposition to foreign immigration. tW Republicans at the North are array ing themselves in factions for and against Grant, for and against protection, for and against the Cuban patriots, for and against San Domingo, etc. ST A society lias been organized, hav ing its headquarters at Montreal, "having for its object the annexation of ail the Urltlah possessions in North America to Die United States. tar Calculating and well-paid journals at the North applaud Grant's position in ills recent message on the side of tyranni cal old Spain against freedom and the straggling patriots of Cuba. (V A leading Radical paper in the North says that a-number of ofllcc-seekers arc about to secure, by subscription, a paid up policy for $50,000 on the life of the President. Grant always reciprocates substantial favors, and men with their pockets full of uionoy know how to get ofllcc at his hands. IV The increasing strength of the great nut-work of subterranean societies, uniting the dissatisfied (or os they please to term themselves tiio ‘•disinherited,’’) classes of society, is alarming the hereditary aristoc racy of the Old World. iW The Now York Ucrald, having sud denly become an ultra partisan of Grant for the Presidency in 1872, is amusing itself in digging lloraco Greeley under the ribs about ills war record, particularly about his profane abuse of Lincoln on a certain occasion. IV The cost of that paid up policy for $50,000 on the life of General 'Grant Is said to liavo been about $27,000. The New York tiun (Uad.)«tatcs that tills latter sum was extorted from employees iu the custom house and post-office. IV Chattanooga will soon have a big rolliug mill in operation that will give employment to fifteen hundred operatives. A gigantic railroad car and car wheel fac tory is also spoken of, that will employ seven hundred hands. In two weeks, Mr. tilanton will havo fifteen hundred China- men at work on the Alabama and Chatta nooga Railroad. tV Captain Charles C. Crowe, who has lately deceased, was a native of Giles coun ty, Tennessee. He began his career as a public speaker in advocacy of Know-Noth- ingism. He was never elected to an offiae in bis native State. For many years lie iiasbecnacitizenofMarlon,Alabama. He was a Captain in the Confederate army. After the war be became a Radical recon- slructionist. He was a brilliant declaim- or on the stump, was erratic as a politician, badly balanced intellectually, but withal a kind-hearted man. pretext is given to arm a militia force. Above all, it is necessary that peacefully- inclined people in every neighborhood have a care that Radicals of the meaner stripe do not put on the masks and dis guises of Ku-Klux, that they may furnish the legislature excuses to organize a mili tia force. It is assumed that the people of Georgia have already suffered too much from the machinations of the “ prolongationists be guilty of indiscretions, except under the most aggravating provocations. Rut they have an ingenious and cunning enemy to deal with. Hence this caution. Kye as a Fertilizer. Rye will grow and often yield largely on a soil containing not more than one and a quarter per cent, of organic matter. It affords a fine winter pasture for stock. It shonld be sown in the fall, as soon as tbe son’s heat has so moderated as not to kill the young plants. After rye has advanced in age and growth sufficiently to stool out, it is not damaged by tbe tramping of a reasonable amount of stock. Grazing it to a reasona ble extent in winter and early spring is said rather to increase than to diminish the yield. If it is not desired by the farmer to reap and thresh ont his whole crop of rye, bogs and cattle a re greatly benefited if turned in upon it. Tbe vitality of ttie rye crop is beyond timate in the raising of hogs, for the rye comes in at a time when swine cannot he otherwise economically fed, and need to be given a good start in anticipation of fall fattening. The rye straw, if allowed to remain upon the ground, shades it, thus aiding in its fertilization by preventing evapbration and the escape of valuable gases from the soil. Resides this, the straw makes a positive large addition to the organic matter in the soil. It also improves its physical proper ties. Turned under, it renders tbe ground pulvcriiablc and permeable to the roots of plants and to the rain. In grazing land, it is all-important to remember that tramping it by the stock in wet weather is injurious. A luxuriant rye-patch bears winter grazing with less Injury to the soil than any other crop we are acquainted with. Shonld the farmer prefer to save bis whole crop of rye, the grain always bears a fair price In market. It is important to be earcfnl in the selec tion of seed for sowing. Much of the rye found In the markets has been cut too ear ly, or, from other causes, is defective in germinating power. After getting a start in rye culture, the farmer shonld save his own seed from year to year. The Present and the Future. sly. and apparently cautious. He is gen erally a 111 ic ted with shortness of breath. His step*, when locoraoting, arc slow and measured. He prefers isolation. The jostling of the busy world fatigues and an noys him. Indeed, publicity is in the way of his favorite employment, wbicit is the munching and swallowing of delicate tit bits of the articles above enumerated. His enjoyments are not social. He de lights in tbe eremitic luxury of a solitary meal upon argillaceous or sooty matter, es pecially if flavored with a little dirty grease.” Nor does he object to a small quantity of putrid dyestuff to giTe the (to him) delicious morsel a delicate bouquet. Capital Punishment. The Riblical argument in favor of capi tal jiunishmcnt, which we clip from the New Orleans Times, is from tbe pen of a reverend gentlemen, who, for many years, was pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in this city. Grass Culture. Grass culture is always very much neg lected in cotton planting regions. This is due to the fact that the routine of cotton culture is such as to absorb almost wholly the attention of the planter. The absence of meadows and grass plats, in much of the cotton region, has produc ed the general impressiqn that valuable grasses cannot be grown there. The truth is, very few judicious experiments have ever been made in grass cultnre in the re gion referred to, nor will the planter find time to make them until he is content to dcrotc a part of his plantation to stock- raising and grazing. The grapes are most successfully and profitably raised on those farms where at tention is paid to small grain rather than Indian corn or cotton. The routine of to bacco culture docs not so much interfere with the small grain and grass crops as does that of cotton. Now that the free labor system forbids the perfect control of farm operatives throughout tbe year, agriculturists in the cotton growing region should gradually Increase the breadth of land to be appro priated to' the raising of stock, small grain, and the grasses. None should rashly at tempt the change in a single year. State Militia. The recent action of Congress, reviving the right of the States of Virginia, Georgia and Texas to organize and call into active service. State militia, has a partisan sig nificance, which our people should remem ber. it means no more nor less than that Radical Legislatures may, atgreatexpense, equip, arm and support military forces for partisan purposes, and place them in com mand of unscrupulous Governors, who, upon the slightest evidence or pretesoa of breaches of the peace, may use them to keep honest people from the polls. In short, so far as the Governors of the States referred to are concerned, it is a per mit (if the General Assembly will organ ize piebald militia, composed of mean whites and corrupted negroes) to repeat the role of |x*or old crazy Rrownlow, of Tennessee, and thus unrighteously prolong . their terms of office. Jjet, then, the people have a care that no The following, after it was in type for onr morning edition, was crowded out by an interesting report of an important de cision by oar Supreme Court: That the Republican party in the North is disintegrating is patent to every one ac customed to study party expressions. Tiie Republican party, having been inaugura ted prior to the war, in obedience to the suggestions of the ultraabolitionists, and stolen the livery of Jeffersonianism to servo fanaticism, has performed its mission The act to enforce tho loth Amendment is the crowning ono in its triumphal record. As a party, it is “ effete, defunct,” dead, past and soulless. Now,tho question which every member of it addresses to himself is, what shall'I do? What idea shall I cm brace ? What policy shall I advocate ? The answers to the queries are the wedges that arc riving the party asunder. They are the disintegrating causes that are compel ling deliquescence and efflorescence of the elements of which it is composed. This disintegration is inevitable. A solution of some elements is a necessity growing oqt of tho progressive political and social doc- trinesoftheday. The dcssiccation of others Is equally inevitablo from the same causes. Hence, while the progressive Democracy (the demoshrateo of Tom Renton) will ab sorb, dissolve and appropriate somo of the elements of tbo so-called Republican par ty, and assimilate and render them homo geneous, others will effloresce and be pul verized between tbe nether millstone (the representative of a defunct period) and the upper one, which is driven’by tbe progress ive moral, social and political dynamics of the age. The dead past mast bury the past. The living present has a mission to perform. Tbe contingent future is uncertain. The voxpopuli, that claims a divinity of origin, decrees the continual and eternal progress of man. It commands the uplifting of the lowly, while it forbids the dragging down of the worthy. It proclaims universal am nesty, and forbids the disability or disfran chisement of American citizens. Well may the President, aided by the New York Herald and other journals, whether notable for age or just in the pro cess of parturition, shout hallelujahs to the name of Grant. A President, without a party of ideas cr principles, seeking for re-elcctlon, docs well to set about the or ganization of a party, whose rallying cry shall be bis military prestige. Neither he nor his partisans have the gho3t of an idea or principle upon which to rely for mate rial for the formation of a new party. They are now in the condition of Wilkins Micawber, waiting for i'soniething to turn up.” The opposing faction of the Radical party, so far as ideas arc concerned, are without capital. They are “in,” and they are simply playing a gatqe to keep them selves “in.” Whether the real people, whose ideas are Democratic, and who hang their faith upon the traditions of the fathers of the Repub lic, will be deceived or circumvented by the machinations and pretences of either the Grant or anti-Grant faction of the Radical party, remains to he seen. Their sober second thought has never yet erred Among the morbid changes resulting from this deplorable habit may be enu merated a decreased temperature of the body, consequent npon the poverty of tbe blood, which soon becomes so defficientin red particles, that the patient’s checks never become suffnsed with a blush, it matters not how. trying, mortifying or shameful may be the circumstances in which be may be overtaken by his friends and acquaintances.' His tongue becomes white or pallid, re minding one of the tongue of frogs and other reptiles. His countenance has a pinched np appearance, and his expression is decidedly sinister. This latter symptom isduetobisconstantde3ire to secretly find and eat more dirt in private. The more he loves it the less is he willing that others shall know of or partake of his enjoy ment., HIs.general appearance is indicative of a griped condition of his alimentary or gans. Particles of the dirt having become, early in the progress of the disease, en tangled in the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal, his bowels become habit ually costive. An uniform symptom of the disease, and never wanting, is the persistence of the patient in denying that he does eat dirt. This disposition to deceive is manifested by the patient in various ways in supply ing himself with morsels of dirt. In cases almost in artieulo mortis, pa tients have been known to conceal dirt, clay, or soot under their bed-clothes. If yon chain their hands and feet, they will turn their faces downward and lick the ground. Put npon them wire masks, and tboy will manage to insinuate the dirt with in the masks, and, supine, toss tbe head abont until the craved morsels are brought in contact with the lips and tongne. The causes are, in general, poverty, bad raising, and bad associations. The cure is very difficult. Success can only be hoped for in cases of recent origin .Cases of long standing are rarely cured. If, in cases of long standing, the habit of dirt- eating is broken up, so vitiated docs the whole physical organization become, it is rare to find one once affleted with this dis ease who ever recuperates up to tbe normal standard. Such persons generally are phys ical wrecks. Our Athens Letter. Athens. June 22,1870. We arc laboring under a business drought, but we are consoled that some of our neighbors have something to do; for instance, you Atlantians. We are now willing to claim kin—yea, become socially and commercially “thick,” if yon please. We eannot help admiring the spunk of your people, particularly the merchantile class. We have aiways'preferred Augusta as a home market, and still desire to see her prosper, but sufficient inducement will al ways draw trade, and, to tell the truth, speaking partly from experience and part ly from observation, I notice many goods, in all branches of business, comingto our city being branded (on the packages) from Atlanta. Go it, Atlanta, and if it do neces sary, Athens will pipe for yon. Pitch in, ye tobacco men, liqnor dealers, cigar makers, crockery dealers; yea, even groce ry dealers and dry goods men. You show true courage—Georgia grit I _ We are dry to-day about Athens, bnt, recently, we have had too much rain. 1 hear of no excessive damage tocropsyet, except to corn by washing rains. We will reap heavy this year in Clarke, and, as nsuai, hear off the palm in amount of wheat to the acre. Where are yon, Rar- tow? We are after cotton, too, with an earnest purpose, and will show well at your fair. Somebody will have to pull among committees very hard if they beat us in cotton. We are coming, and if ye Jones county don’t look ont; it will be, “Alas I poorYorick!” with her this year. Again, we intend to have the best turn out of human beauties there (population con sidered) that will be present, prize or no prize. Macon always furnishes much of this Dirt-Eating—Physical, -Moral and Political. No disease afflicts frail humanity, that is so distressing, so contemptible, and at the same time so amusing, as that of dirt-eat ing. This physical abnormity, having its analogue in moral and political nosology, deserves a description in a secular jour nal. The -peculiar applicability of the term dirt-eating, to certain kinds of moral and political degradation, can only be under stood by one familiar with the morbid ap petite and its consequent physical results, popularly termed dirt-eating. The disease is essentially a morbid ap petite for outre articles of food. The pa- ticnt,instcad of contenting himself with ar ticles that arc in their nature nutritious, acquires an abnormal appetite for clay, burnt feathers, rich mould or dirt, for soot, (especially if it be “greasy,”) slate pencils, and in short fcp .earthy matters, tbe nearer tasteless tbe better, and the filthier the more craved for. The symptoms of tbe disease arc unmis takable, though such as are calculated to mislead the inexperienced. A patient af flicted with it is remarkable for his hungry appearance. He looks -like be has lost something and is thwarted in his efforts to jjnd ‘it, fteqce, Ills movements are slow, The Georgia Bill. The House of Representatives has passed the bill to admit Georgia to representation in Congress. This bill, as reported by tel egraph, leaves the question of future elec tions for Governor and Assemblymen just where the Constitution of the State of Georgia places it. It is generally believed that the bill will pass the Senate in the shape it has passed the House, and will bo approved by the President. If this be the result, then tho United States Government'will have de clined to meddle in a matter it should clearly let alone. Congress will have recognized our State Constitution, and thus very properly let it govern in snch matters. That body shouid not undertake to regulate, control or fix tbe time of State elections. It willow be the province of the mem bers of the Legislature of tho State of Georgia to carefully consider the rights of tho people they claim to represent, and weigh well the question whether it is bet ter for themselves and the people to force a far-fetched, technical interpretation of the Constitution upon an unwilling con stituency, or to act squarely and honestly in tho definition of the Constitutional rights of the people. STThat the majority qf the members of the Legislature will carefnlly consider before rashly acting, there is no reason to doubt. Homan nature, though often weak, is also endowed with the instinct of self-preserva tion. It is, therefore, preposterons to sup pose that any set of men will voluntarily sacrifice themselves at tbe command uf Governor whose ambition to prolong his own power has well-nigh brought tbe bet ter class of the Republican party .in Geor gia into remediless disgrace. Candor compels us to assert that we be lieve there are some men identified with the party in power in Georgia, who would, for any'consideration, scorn to sell theif birthright for a miserable mess of pottage who, though differing from the majority of their fellow-citizens oh questions involved in the reconstruction of the State, have never yet entertained in their hearts the design to steal away the liberties of their neighbors by any jpegies of special plead ing. . Upon such men now hangs the decision of the weal or woe of Georgia for two years to come. Such as these have apologized to their fellow-citilens for the active part they have taken In promoting the recon struction of tho Stato in obedience to the commands of an usurping Congress. Thp apology has been that they were seeking the nearest road to pqapc. Is it the shortest way to tbe restoration of peace to defy the popular will, and to prolong the power of the members of the General Assembly beyond the period for which the people elected them?- This is the question. The change of venne of the great Geor gia case from Washington City to Georgia may be for the better, and it is hoped that it will prove so. Congress defers to the Constitution of the State, and declines to interpose its judgment in a question of in alienable fight. Snch questions shonld he tried at home, where 'corruption in the jnry-box can be detected and exposed; where an unrighteous jury most endure the consequences of an nnjnst verdict. Wc counsel .calm consideration and de liberate reflection in the crisis now ap proaching. As between citizens of the Commonwealth and neighbors, whose lots are cast in the same vicinage, (when Con gress remands the Georgia ,ca;e Jjack to the people of the State,) a just and equitable conclusion must be arrived at, else prece=- dents in the history of popnlargovernments are without influence, and the doctrine of force has usurped the place of reason. fSf* pr- J. A. Fremont, of Montgomery, is reported to have indented a roller skate which is a great improvement on any here tofore iu use. The Advertiser says that, with the new skate, the skater glides over tbe floor wltb an ease, grace, rapidity and perfect action that only needs to be seen to be appreciated. article at stale expositions; but this year, 1 fear, Macon won’t dance to the music, as 9he can’t hold Atlanta on her stomach well, judging by the way their journals get after you lolks. Why can’t you and, Macon agree ? Why do you fellows laugh derisively in your sleeves at Macon so, when she rails out at your enterprising men and merchants for seeking her trade and taking her state-house, that was to be, and building her hotels in Atlanta that she could have bnilt in Macon, if you bad not have carried tbe joke so far as yon have? If you Macon fellows desire to make some money quick and easy, emplo Kimball to go down and al:ow himself (! be put on exhibition for a few days. His name is more familiar, I dare say, in Ma con than in Atlanta, though in a different way. • “ Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” Macon seems con siderably irritated at least. And then there is Milledgeville peeping over Macon’s shoulder, and enjoying every thrust she aims at Atlanta; and some of thgse days you will all suffer with such opposition, perhaps. Just call on we Athenians, and we will pipe for you. We are ahead of Milledgeville now, because we do not have to give people houses and lots to get them to come and live among ns aid patronize onr colleges. This last is strictly confi dential. And to finish, if your tobacco and crockery merchants don’t let Macon alone, and keep clear of her territorial trade, no body will pity your drummers if they get kicked out of Macon. Impudent fellows! One more word about the fair. We de sire to show babies at your fair from Clarke, if anything of that kind be in order. Look out, ye good matrons in Cobb, who have been showing already, will you come to Atlanta? Mr. Editor, please-ask McRride & Co, or Kimball, one or theoth- er, to offer a prize, and we will show you some fair goods in this line also. Now,don’t think us wishing to boast, but just wait until we como over, and then judge of our turn out. You Atlanta chaps bad better not come over here so much to see our matrimonial market. Our young men,likelsaac of old. will need companionship, and our supply is not too great for the demand at present. After wc get some of our young men into business, then we will not object to your application over here. When Col. Acton comes over again, tell him to bring along some other little dwarf ish rant with him, and he won’t attract so much admiration alone. Very truly, Merchant. Things About Atlanta^. Wc looked in npon Atlanta on Monday evening last: aqd though there were general complaints of dullness in that fa mous city, wo saw evidences of steady growth, if not prosperity, on every 'hand. The towering brick fronts and church steeples that mark the places where, a short time since, stood tho blackened walls of destruction, are indeed wonderful evi dences of thrift and the foreshadowing of the future greatness of tbe Gate City. The mammoth hotel is steadily rising up to stately dimensions, and will be ready for fall business. Sharp’s new store will soon be completed and thrown open to dazzle the beauties with its shining elegance. The different papers, (and their name will soon be legion,) in that devo—wo liked to have said devotional—in that devoted city< arc still pouring an incessant Are into Rollock, Angler, and each other from masked and unmasked batteries. We also found the Atlantees much exci ted aboqt the acquisition of Merger.. The committee is engaged in canvassing the city, taking up subscriptions, and no doubt a handsome sum will bo subscribed to get it there. We have heretofore expressed onr opinion on this subject, that Atlanta is not the place to accomplish the ends for which the institution was founded. With due deference to the opinions of those in favor of this move, we hold that Penfield or Greenes boro is eminently more suited to farther the objects of tbe founders of tbe cherished old Alma Hater. Since nothing short of a move will meet the approbation of some, Stone Mountain, in our opinion, is preferable to Atlanta, and more desirable than any city in the State. And this re minds us that this famous resort has now all tbe accommodations necessary to meet the wants of visitors. The King House, which has just been re-opened,is large and well ventilated, and is kept by a prince of landlords. There is also fine mineral water, S renounced as good as any in the South y Dr. A. Means, which is kept in the hotel. This, in connection with tbe pure bracing air and the natural surroundings, renders Stone Mountain a desirable resort. Persons living alfing the Georgia Railroad, in visiting Atlanta, will find it pleasant to spend the night at the King House and go into Atlanta in the morning at 7 o’clock and attend to theirbusiness.—Qreenesboro Herald. The Georgia Bill. Odr telegraphic dispatches are of unusual interest. Vfe publjsh below so iqqch of the Constitution of the State of Georgia as bears upon tbe question of election of members of the General Assembly, which i3 of mnchimportanceat this time: Article II, Section 5119. (p.1080.) The election of Governor, Members of Con grpss, and of tbe General Assembly, after tbe year JSiJS, shall conjmcnee op the Tuesday after the first Jjonduy in Novem ber. unless otherwise provided by law. Article IH, Section 5121. (p.lOSO.) The members of the Senate shall be elected for four years, except that the members elected at the first election from the twen ty-two Senatorial Districts numbered in this Constitution with odd nnmbers, shall only hold their office for two years. The members of the House of Representatives shall be elected for two years. The elec tion for members of the General Assem bly shall begin on Tuesday after the first Monday in November of every second year, except the first election, which shall be within sixty days after tiie adjourn ment of tills Convention; bnt-the General Assembly may by law change the time of election, and tbe members shall hold until their successors are elected and qualified. ’ Personal, The Grccncsboro* Herald suggests the name of “Kimball House” for the new hotel. A monument in honor of Martin Lather is projected. Ex-Qaccn Isabella’s present lover is a French Talct de chambro named Ionfron. ‘ J-atlier zf array, who has spent his life among the Indians, says tlje !>ppear- anee of anything in the nature of a heard s an infallible sign of mixed blood. A fellow in Rutland, Vermont, a short time since, offered to sell his wife to an other for $800, the woman consenting to the contract. 4- grave-digger in Marysville, California, has gone crazy,' Twice' he has csgappt} from his keepers, and been found in the cemetery resurrecting his former inter ments. Georgia News. Corn is in silk and tassel in Pike county. Crop- in Trninjiis county arc promising. Thomasvillc boasts of twin eggs; one contains the yelk, the other the albumen. A copper foot adze has been found in Co lumbus. -Mr. Samuel Huron, of Jones county,has mployed six Swedish laborers. Rev. I. S. K. Axson, ol Savannah, is go ing to Europe for the benefit oi his health. _Hr. ilant Roberts, of Cobb county, has imported a three-year old Hrahmin bull. The religions revival at Marietta is still progressing with deepening interest. An Episcopal Church is to be built at HawKinsvllle. Musquitoes have made their appearance in Savannah. The Mayor of Augusta has directed the Chief of Police to take a census of the horses and mules owned in tho city. The census of LaGrange-shows a total populationof 2,253; dwellings4G6and fam- lics 4S2., Dawson boasts'* of a beet 32 inches in length, 27 inches in circumference, and weighing 13>£ pounds. Mr. James L. Rrown died Saturday, 18th instant, at'his residence, about five miles ■from Rowdou. Colonel Montgomery Cumming, a native of Savannah, died at his summer retreat, Red Clay, in Whitfield county. Thirteen young ladies graduated at tiie Southern Masonic Female College, at Coy ington, on Wednesday last. General Joseph E. Johnston, accompa nied by Mrs. Johnston, has gone to the Virginia Springs. The yield of wheat in Whitfield county this year is above average. Corn and oth er cereals look promising. Mrs. Alice Smith Lawrence, of Talbot- ton, died at Wetumpka, Alabama, on the 19th A ten-acre patch of Norway oats, in Jones county, will yield about seven hun dred bushels of oats, it is thought. Rev. H. H. Tucker preaches the Com mencement Sermon before the students of the LaGrange High School on Sunday, the 2Gth. Troup Superior Court, in consequence of serious continued sickness in Judge Big- by’s family, stands adjourned to the 4th Monday in July. Mr. Archibald Lmvhon, for twenty-five or thirty years a resident of West Point, died in that city on Tuesday mornlug last, aged about 90 years. The City Council of Savannah has pur chased the old Confederate magazine for $1,003,00, for the location of a powder mag azine. General Apathy is likely to make serious raids on the general prosperity of Rome. The machine shop enterprise has ceased to be thought'oi or talked of. A post-office has been established on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Road, near Green Cunningham’s, in Floyd county,- to be known as Cunningham’s Station. Riley V. Riclt has been appointed postmaster. Gordon McCray, of Carroll county, was arrested last week by parties from St. Clair county, Alabama, and while attempting to escape near Oxford, Alabama, was shot and killed. Joshua Keen, a well known ship carpcn. ter, and a resident of Savannah for the past fen years, but a native of Portland, Maine, committed suicide on the 23d, while labor ing under maniaaporlu. Two deer hunters in Laurens county killed seven deer in one day in seven con secutive shots, and four out of a flock of five—each two apiece. In the last four years both have killed one hundred and seventy. Mr. John D.Gray has sold out his inter est in the firm of John D. Gray & Co, con tractors on the Savannah and Memphis Railroad. Colonel Colt is the only remain ing member of the firm. Tho jailor of Richmond county refuses to discharge a prisoner committed from Jefferson county unless tho jail fees are provided for the connty authorities of Jef ferson. The Thomasville Enterprise editor has bargained for 5,000 bushels of sweet pota toes at fifteen.ccnts a bushel, to be deliver ed at tiie proper season next fall. A proper precaution against journalistic bank ruptcy. Thos. L. Sa(tcr\vhite, % for number of years a resident of Randolph county, com- ipittedsuieide, at his place in the southern portion of the county, by hanging himself. No cause assigned for this rash act. The deceased;was in his72d year. Mr. John Wilson, who lives about five miles westof Talbntton,killed a large gold en eagle which measured six feet and a half from tip to tip of his wings. Mr. Wil son was hunting a catamount which had been seen on his farm, when he shot the eagle. A conductor on the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad, while in the act of handling a pistol, accidentally fired it off, the ball taking effect upon and penetrating the forehead of a negro, also an employee of tho road, which resulted in instant death, John E. Martey, agent of the South Car olina Railroad, at Augusta, has resigned, and will be succeeded by Edward Hull, Esq, of Pennsylvania, a brother of George G. Hull, Esq, formerly of this city. John Tames has been appointed Assistant Su perintendent, vice Mr. Gilbert retired. Andrew Washington, an old colored man, about 90 years of age. who was one of the first workmen on the South Carolina Rail road, apd fqithfql in the discharge of his duty, died at the Charleston City Hospital on the 21st instant. The officers of the South Carolina Railroad having been in formed of bis death, made a handsome do nation to defray his funeral expenses. Pound was found guilty, at Wilkes Su perior Court, of muraer in Hancock coun ty. and sentenced to he imng'at Sparta, on Friday,'the 19th of August. A motion for a new trial wag submitted and overruled by his Honor, Judge Andrews. A bill of exceptions was then taken by counsel for the (prisoner, and the case now stands sus pended until after tbe December session of the Supreme Court. John H. Roberts, Esq., has some Egyp tian corn *— *r* — 1 —1 * - the urfH ■ HHHMRL and only slightly covered at first—earth was gradually added. It is now about five and a half feet high, and there are from four to six Elioots on each stalk. He informs us that where the stalks are close together they mature much faster than when some distance apart. It is claimed that (bp Egyp- tain corn will make two crops a year. ■ The employees of the Port Royal Rail road have bad a Convention in Augusta. It seems that George D. Chapman & Co., principal contractors, failed to meet their obligations to tliu bands employed. Tbe amount due the employees is about 816,000. An attachment was issued and levied upon about $3,000 worth of the personal effects of the contractors. Chapman telegraphs from New York, that unless the bands re sume work, he will supply their places with Chinese laborers. OCR VIRGINIA LETTER. The Baccalaureate Sermon Deliv ered by the Kcv. YV. T. Brantly, D. D., at Washington College, Lexington, ATrgiuia, Correspondence Atlanta Constitutions Lexington, Va, June, JS70- The past session at this celebrated Insti tution has been one of remarkable success, considering th** great drought of last sum mer. which so crippled the finances of the Southern Suites, trom which this college draws its principal suppoit. The number of students in attendance was three hun dred and forty-four; and they have shown most satisfactory evidences of thorough training and assiduous application. Geor gia is well represented. Mr. W. A. Dabney, of your city, is a distinguished student. General R. E. Lee. the President of the college, lias lately returned from a tour in the Southern States, which the state of his health has rendered necessary; and wc are happy to say that lie was much bene- fitteil by tiie healthful climate of your re gion, and, with ids serene but commanding countenance, forms the most attractive ob ject of the commencement celebrations. These opened on Tuesday, June 19th, with the Baccalaureate sermon by the Rev. Dr. Brantly. This sermon was exactly what the circumstances demanded. The text was judiciously selected, and handled in a masterly manner; so that the whole was eminently appropriate to the occasion, and calculated to do much good. The text was, “Show thyself a man;” and having de scribed, in an interesting and attractive manner, the circumstances under which David gave this charge to his son Solomon, Dr. Brantly proceeded to investigate the question; “What did David mean by a man?” And in ' clear and simoie language and striking illustrations, which bis youngest bearers could understand and appreciate, he showed that man must possess some thing more than mere physical energy and activity—something more than personal bravery and military skill—and eygn some thing more than intellectual excellence and rational endowment; that he must possess some distinguishing characteristic, which should make him entirely distinct from the other animals which possess the above qualities in a higher or lower de gree; that a man is a religious animal—a moral being that can discriminate between right and wrong. The latter half of the sermon consisted in tho application of the text to the young men present,. who were about to enter upon the realities of life; and the text was interpreted for them as meaning that they must conform them selves, as much as possible, to tho image of God, in which they were created: that they must imitate all the excellencies of the Redeemer; that they must be Chris tians. The sermon was universally admired by tho many distinguished visitors pres ent, and all others, not only as an excel lent specimen ot clear and elegant compo sition, and easy, graceful and energetic delivery, but as a powerful appeal to the better nature of the young men for whom ft was intended, and for all others present, and ns a powerful incentive to tho highest moral excellence and complete mastery of tho lower appetites of human nature. Virginia. ■ _ Political. C. O. Crowe, of Alabama, who was con firmed last Friday as Secretary of the Ter ritory of Utah, died on the following day, at his home in Alabama. It took the United States Senate twen ty-five minutes, the other day, to give away twenty million acres of the public domain in the way of a railroad subsidy. In Italy, when a young man joins tho brigands his friends say he has gone into politics. Here they speak right out in such cases, and say he has joined the Radi cals. The Radical soldiers of Indiana arc com plaining of the ingratitude of that party in excluding them from the various tick ets to he voted this fall. It is all negro no white soldiers. 'The Northern Methodists of Cold Spring. New York, on tho Hudson, have recently erected a new church edifice, dedicated last week under the name of tho “ Grant Meth odist Episcopal Church.” In the Mississippi Legislature, Moore, the colored member from Lauderdale, said al though lie was a blnok-lcg preacher, he would vote against Jesus Christ if he ig nored his rights. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette says: “Shoals of deserters from tho Radical ranks arc hovering just outside of the outer guards of tho Democratic army. There is danger from that source alone! Admit the subordinates, but exclude the leading offl ccrsi Political amnesty for all except the prime culprits I” The Cincinnati Chronicle (Republican) says > “ It is reasonable to conjecture that Charles Sumner would willingly accept a nomination for the Presidency, if tendered him by the Republican party. * * « His course in the Senate, in public session seems to betray a purpose of placing him self in defiant antagonism with President Grant.” Capital Punishment. r> m Iho New Orleans Times 1 My purpose is. by your leave, to present, in brief, the biblical argument for capital punishment. Thcaiithority to which I ap peal will be scoffed at by some, no doubt; ret the hope may be. indulged, that n very arge portion of your renders will consider it not only pertinent, but paramount. I begin with the precept given to Noah anil recorded ill the ix ot Genesis: "Whoso sheddeth man’s blood by man shall ids blood be shed.” These words need no ex planation. That this divine precept was ntended for human guidance in all ages appears from two considerations. It was o-iven immediately after tho flood to Noah, the second father of tho human race, and under circumstances plainly showing that it was intended for all mankind. And fur ther, the reason assigned for tho prohibi tion of murder and tor itspenaity is a uni versal and permanent one. “ Whoso shed deth mans blood by man shall Ids blood be shed,for in the image of God made lie man.” Whether it be a principle ot common law or not,' certainly it is ot common sense. Manente rataione manet ipsa lex—tbe reason of a law continuing the law itself abides. True,in largemeasureof human codes, this is absolutely true of the Divine; because Communicated.] Marietta, Ga., June 25,1870. Editors Constitution: I notice your pa per and my good friends of the Mont gomery Advertiser have had inppjrcct jn- fqrmatjqp as to the object o'f my present visit to Georgia. I am sure it is a matter of small consequence to the public why I am here, but I protest against the impression being mdfie that it is in any way connect ed with the State Road Investigating Com mittee. 1 am not here for the purpose of tes tifying before that Committee. ‘I came here, after an absence of ten months, to quietly spend a few days among some cherished friends and relations. Truly yours. Campbell Wallace. A Faithful Employer —“ Old Jimmie Holland,” formerly of Limerick, Ireland, so well known in the neighborhood of Fort Mitchell, Alabama, was one of the members of the celebrated Palmetto Regi ment in the Mexican war. When the reg iment was disbanded he accepted employ ment under Colonel (now General) L'ayty, and lias remained with him ever since. Probabiy death alone will part them. A compliment to both employer and em ployed. Feminine- New Jersey now claims the champion old woman—114 years old. A lady in Montezuma, Iowa, has a baby two weeks old that does not weigh quite two pounds yet. Boston has discovered a remedy for tiie social evil by shipping its superabundant women to Iowa. c Miss Bateman is winning enthusiastic praise as “Mary Warner,” at the Olympic, London. A young State woman has sewed up a child’s nostrils because it wouldn’t uso a handkerchief. A St. Louis Census Marshal reports that one woman told him to call again in a day or two, when she could promise him a larger lis(. Filomena, the wonderful girl violinist, has eloped and married a Spaniard, San Juan Salcedo, formerly ono of Dodworth’s band. A New York belle broke her pledge to her intended not to revolve ;n thq waltz with any othep he, qqd she is now cast on the market* The latest development in woman’s rights is the right of woman to lead an or chestra, asserted by a Mrs. Dennett, in Portland, Me. Mrs. Henry Hathaway, of South Adams, Massachusetts, tbe mother of nine daugh ters in succession, gave birth to a son, last week, in the 52d year of her age. On the occasion of Miss Nilsson’s last visit to Swoden, she purchased'six farms for her six brothers and sisters, and has also had buiitachnrcb at her own expenses endowed it liberally, and provided a fund for the support of a permanent minister. The Lonisviilc Courier regards itself as anxxpcricuccd authority in thq definition of Indian names. It says that “Ogallalla,” or rpore properly. ‘•Ogailallah.’Ms compos ed of two English words, O and gal, and the Arabic word Allah, and means a god like gal—snch, tor instance,as Olive Logan, or Susan B. Anthony. There is a bit of romance connected with Spotted Tail, the Sioux chief. It is said that his daughter, when dying, clasped her arms about his neck and made him swear never to take tbe life of a white man. Since then he has often averted the band of rapine and murder from falling on the defenseless settler. Mme. Demorest, of New York, the Soro- sian and queen fashionist, has formed a co partnership with a lady whose name (not yet permitted to be made public) is a syn onym for practical good sense and success in large financial operations. Sbp. like the Madame, is enthpsjasUc in tier desire to es tablish a mamm'ofli woman’s importing and wholesale business, employing women in all its offices and branches. She brings into the enterprise an immense capital and unbounded business experience, acquired by personal attention to her previous nnan- ciafoperations all over the United States. The account comes to us from far away Montana, of a Welsh girl named Gwen Evans, having appeared before the Clerk of the Court for that district to make a decla ration of her intention to become a citizen of tiie United States of America. After it was received, certified, and sealed by (bat functionary, instead of going to the Terri torial Governor to ask ior a commission as justice of the peace, or applying for admis sion to the bar, or for any other Jike privi lege, she went straight to the public land office, and made ont in dne form her appli cation for a homestead of ICO acres, and proceeded energetically to work in im proving, fencing, and cultivating it. Evans has always itcetr a good, honost name, and this young lady bid3 fair to add to the fame which it has acquired in times past, through the conduct of men and women who have borne it in the old land and in tbe new. the supreme law giver islnot subject tothose whims and caprices which influence hu man legislators sometimes to repeal a good law, wlille the reason which originally led to its enactment survives in full force. In the xxxv of Numbers we have an ac count of tiie cities of refuge, to which every manslayer was permitted to flee. At first sight, such an arrangement would seem to shield tbe murderer, like the sanc tuary of former ages, from justice; but tiie context shows that the full benefit of it was intended only for involuntary homi cide. “The slayer may flee thither which kilieth any man at unawares—that the manslayer die not until he stand before the congregation in judgment.” Murder ers were to be put to dqath, a3 appears from the following precepts: “And if he shall smite him with an instrument of iron, so that if he die, he is a. murderer; tbe murderer shall surely be put to death.” And if be smite him with throwlngastonc. or if he smite him with a hard weapon of wood, or if he thrust him of hatred or hurl at him by laying of wait, etc., in every such case he was to be put to death. They were to permit no commutation of the penalty. “Moreover ye shall take no sat isfaction tor tbe life of a murderer which is guilty of death; but ho shall be surely put to death.” And the reasons stated for these enactments were these: that tbe blood of the murdered polluted-the land, and could only bo washed away by the blood of the murderer—“for blood itde- fileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but the blood of him that shed it.” Here arc some of tiie principles of tho criminal jurisprudence, laid down by the author of human life, given to a particular people, but if correct and just then, given them in trust for all mankind. These divine precepts recorded in the Old Testament arc not repealed in tbe New. On the contrary, in the xiii.of Homans, an inspired apostle enjoins obedience to mag istrates as duty to God; and cnlorccs it by language, which implies at least an in dorsement or the deatli penalty as in some cases proper: “For rulers arc not a terror to good works but to the evil; wilt thou not be afraid of the power, do that which is good and thou shnlt have praiso of tiie same. For he is a minister of God to thee tor good, but if tiiou da that which.is evil be afraid, for be beareth not the sword in vain.” As the sword was the instrument used in deenpitation, it is here put for the power of inflictiqg death. Permit me to Add, by way of it short an swer to some of the plausible arguments used on the opposite side, that the prin ciple assumed by some people to be axiomatic, viz: that “ the certainty of punishment is of more influence in deter ring from the commission of crime than its severity,” is at least debatable; while tiie assumption that some other punish ment less than “judicial throttling,” yet somewhat propertlonate to the crime, would be inflicted with any greater cer tainty, remains to he proved. The princi ple in its broad statement is demonstrably false. Any man would experience a greater reluctance to commit a crime if the chances were one in fifty that he would be hanged tot it, than if the chances were fifty to one that he would be imprisoned for it a twelve month. And ns for the greater certainty of conviction under milder penalties, I im agine money and social standing would be as potent influences in warding off the prison for lito ns, alas, they are in.saving trom tho gallows. After all, there is no penalty so dreadful to men as the death penalty. Bacon, in his Essay on Death, remarks that we ought not to fear it, for it has been conquered by the weakest pas sions of our nature. Yet, as thorough an observer of human nature, the Prince of Evil has said: “Skin for skin; yea, all that a man hath will ho give tor his life.” Several States which abolished the death penalty, I have seen it alleged, have been driven to Its re-enactment by the fearful increase of crime apparent ly traceable to its repeal. There was a great deal of hard sense, as well as wit, in that remark of a Frenchman: “It would doubtless be a capital thing to abol ish capital punishment if Messieurs, the murderers, would only consent to quit in flicting capital punishment.” Until that happy reform takes place, it seems to mo that it were safer anil every way better to retain a death penalty imperfectly execu ted. If ricli criminals escape, why, the rich are tow in number. If many a mur derer escape through tiie tenderness of ju ries, some do not. Now and then the ex treme penalty is inflicted, and he who knows of it or witnesses it needs nosccond reminder of the fact, that if he murders, lie may fill a felon’s grave. It is not our Criminal Code which needs remodeling, but public sentiment, so far as it has been perverted by a false humanita- rianism. Let public virtue lie improved and elevated, then gold will not weigh so heavily in the scales of justice. Let the press address its really gigantic powers to this task. It will be found difficult and glorious enough to satisly the most exalted ambition. Oar Washington Letter. Special Correspondence for The Constitution.] Washington, June 22,1870. Tiie Senate has refused to give up the franking privilege, as every one predicted it would. It was a long time coming to the point, however. Monday evening tho Texas Pacific Railway bill was taken up, but no material action taken. This is an opposi tion scheme to Fremont’s “Trans-conti nental,” and it is believed it will get ■through tho Senate without difficulty. Trouble is anticipated in the House,- how. ever. The door of the House was barred against Wliitteraoro yesterday. The South Caro lina delegation (Mr. Bowen is out of the city) dodged the vote. Dawes and one or two other prominent Radicals voted for Whittemore’s admission. Beast Butler’s contortions were wonder ful. He wanted to address the House in defense of Whittemore so much that he could hardly sit still. The cowardly crea ture feared Logan, however, and held his tongue. Logan has twice handled tbe Beast without gloves, and the Beast don’t want Logan to do it again. A SCENE IN THE HOUSE. The^House was plodding quietly along when the (who desires the extension of a patent) was reached. It will be recollected that this bill was vetoed by the President, and that it was passed by the Senate over the veto. General Farnsworth charged that Butler had been paid for getting this bill through Congress. Butler replied in a characteristic way, his manner snowing, however, that he was bit in a tender place. He said he had received a fee of $2,000 for pre paring an elaborate brief when the matter was before the Supreme Court, but denied receiving anything for other services. He stigmatized General Farnsworth as a “cow ardly assassin ” who had stabbed an unpre- B .red man in the back, and lavished upon m the bitterest invectives and the most unsparing ridicule. General Farnsworth took It all very quietly and made no rejoin der. He has sqch a mortal bate for Butler that he doubtless feared to trust himself. When Butler had concluded, a vote was taken, and the House sustained the veto of tiie President by 158 to,12. butler’s general amnesty, Butler’s general punishment hill, mis named a General Amnesty bill, seems to meet the approval of Democratic members of Congress to this extent: that it is much more than they had expected, as it had be come tiie general opinion that no measure of the kind would pass the present Con gress. it is assumed that Butler’s bill will pass. lYffil* it relieves some men of prom inence in Iho South, it cxrludcs probably a much larger number, nml is but a hair way measure at best. Tbe people dr Band hgoueraliimni'fty.Miul it will bn fur the Democrats to give it if "the Radicals re fuse. WIIITTMIORK’S PROMISED DISCLOSURES. Now let us have cadctship-pcddlcr Wlilttemorc’s di-closures! It is said that he lias declared that then; are worse men in Congress tli^n himself, (docs any one doubt it?) anil that in ease be was refusril admission, lie should show ihcui up It {g also understood that Whittcmoro claims to have evidence of some very naughty doings on tiie part of tho redoubtable John A. Logan. Well, let us have them. But stop; who will believe him? On the whole, Whittcmoro had mucli better subside. the bayonet senators. Farrow thinks Bullock lias gone back on lilmsclf and Whitclcy, and that lie don’t care a d n whether they get in or not, so long as he succeeds iu perpetuating tiie I/egislature and extending bis own term of office. Very likely. BLODGETT is said to bo lobbying with a view to pre vent action by Congress this session in re lation to Georgia. It is also said lie wants twenty thousand troops sent to Georgia to protect tho perpetuated Legislature, and the extended Bullock from the Ku-Klux. Shouldn’t wonder! BULLOCK ought to come on here. His face would do more to kill his schemes than any tiling else. If his “private fortune” is entirely deplet ed, the Democrats of Georgia should get up a subscription and send him on. “MY PROrnETIC SOUL, MY UNCLE.” A horrible rumor is in circulation, that an cx-United States official in Georgia, now here looking for another office, has been reduced to such extremities as to be driven to “put up” ids watch. akerman’s arrival is looked for with mucli interest by all parties. Argus. The Bibio ami Geology- Great interest being always felt by all classes in tho relative position of science to religion, wo present tho appended state ment as directly touching tho question: The numerous attempts made, witii more or less ability, to harmonizo the teachings of geology with tho Mosaic account of tho creation, havo hardly been considered com plete successes by competent geologists. Tho writers, not satisfied with disprov ing any essential contradiction between tho Mosaic account and tho geological record, havo labored to find in Genesis a resume, more or loss comprehensive, of geological science, and failing in this; have not unfre- qucntly substituted intolerant declamation for argument Professor Molloy, in tho very readable work before us, is guilty of •neither of theso faults. Tho points of contact,” ho says, “between geology ami Revelations are chiefly theso two—first, tho antiquity of tho earth; secondly, tho an tiquity of the human race.” And in this volume our attention is confined to tho first point only. In carrying out his schomc, tho author gives an interesting, and, on the whole, fair account of present geological teachings on his subject,, and teachings which ho, in common with every intelligent person competent to weigh phys ical evidence, admits as conclusively show ing that tho earth's ago must bo computed in millions rather than thousands of years. Ho then goes on to provo that the vast antiquity, of the earth is not disproved by the inspired record when intelligently in terpreted, and is not inconsistent with the views of many of tho early Fathers and Divines. In the examinations of what Palaeontology teaches concerning the an tiquity of the earth tho argument so inge niously rehabilitated somo years ago by Mr. Go sse, that rocks and fossils were mado and arranged as we find them by a single creative effort, is wisely disregarded; for wo can hardly believe that tho Deity made this earth an intricate geological puz zle for the simple purpose of educing the reasoning powers of its inhabitants. * * * After considering the geological evidence in favor of the antiquity of tho earth, Pro fessor Molloy goes on to look at the samo subject from a Biblical stand-point Ho finds, from a critical examination of tbo Hebrew text and from the writings of va rious divines, ancient and modern, that there is room for an indefinite interval be tween the creation and tho first day; and moreover, that there is no insurmountable objection to supposing that each of tho days of creation was a period of indefinite length. It seems to us, however, that tho author is less successful in -fashioning a schcmo of adjustment according to which tho days are made co-oxtcnsivo with cer tain periods of geology; the reasoning, wo almost said, had tho special pleading, on which tho scheme rests, is not conclusive. Among the wcll-choscn quotations from Patristic literature,-which Professor Molloy f ives, there is ono from St. Augustine, well nown, but littlo regarded, that seems to deal in tho best possible way with tho diffi culties of this subject As to the descrip tion given by Moses, it is accommodated to the capacity of a rude people, and the suc cession there set forth is intended only to exhibit tho several parts of a great whole, in tho manner best suited to tho concep tions of human intelligence.—Athcneum. A Remarkable Corn Cnor.—In tho Mis souri bottoms, opposite Cairo, Mr. William Rodney raised a crop of corn that will do to talk about On eight aerc3 he produced one thousand and fifty bushels. This is equal to ono hundred and thirty-ono and ono quarter bushels to tho acre. Talk about tho valleys of tho Nile and tho Am azon, tho Scioto and Miami! They are a barren waste compared witii our Missouri bottoms. If anybody “wants tiie docu ments,” Mr. Rodney can furnish them in tho certificates of his neighbors and Mr. Clark, to whom ho sold tho corn, and in tho fact that ho stands ready to bet $50 that ho will raise the same quantity of com on tho samo land this year.—Cairo (III.) Bulletin. Dried Fruits.—Tho return of tho season for gathering fruits and preparing them for market , makes it our duty to offer somo suggestions to fruit raisers. To bring tho best prices apples ought to bo sliced thin; takiDg out tho core. There aro simple, cheap machines for doing this at a great saying of labor; but avoid that machine which cuts tho apples into rings. They aro scarcoly salable in that shape. They should bo dried a bright straw color, tak ing caro to keep them from wet. Peaches should bo peeled and cut lengthwise of tho peach, and great care ought to be taken to dry them bright. Blackberries must bo dried. thoroughly without breaking them. Cherries, when pitted, sell better with red and black mixed. Thoy must ho thor oughly dried, and no sugar, molasses, or syrup mixed with them. The Atlanta Constitution.—Mr. J. H. Anderson, of tho Atlanta Constitution, is now visiting East Tennessee in tho in terest of that paper, and for the purpose of impressing our people with the mutual advantages to be secured by cultivating more Intimate business relations and trade with our Southern neighbors. Wc wish him success.—Morristown (Tenn.y Gazette. A Committee of Bullock's Georgia Legislature have given him an endorse ment. This is as valuable as tbe endorse ment Whittemore received from the car pet-bag fraternity of South Carolina. They are most approved rascals—and theirgang3 applaud them heartily. — m jNpEfENDENT.—Brick Pomeroy notifies managers of theaters and other places of amusement, that after June 20th, no per son connected with The Democrat in any capacity will bo allowed to solicit compli mentary tickets to places of amusement, a3 an attache of tills paper. And I will not permit the insertion of any notice, criti cism-editorial, in The Democrat, in return for complimentary favors, as above. “Such notieesofamusements will be writ ten and printed as the performance de serves. “Believing the dead-head system to be a tax on managers, and prejudicial to the true interests and dignity of the press, so far as the The Democrat is concerned, from this date it will not be allowed.”

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