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WHAT THE SOUTH SAYS TO HER
CHILDREN,
BY MARGARET J.PRESTON.
I have, smoothed from my forehead its sadness •
’Tis over, —thaak Heaven therefor !
I would hide now with garments of gladness
The sackcloth and ashes 01. war.
Not a ward of the past ! It has perished—
Gone down in its beauty and gloom ;
Yet because it so proudly was cherished,
Shall we sigh out our years at its tomb ?
llut the beauty and honor undaunted, 0
Still steadfast and stern as can be ;
By the laurels a Jackson has planted—
By the hopes that we buried with Lee ;
Lot us wrest from the future the guerdons
That to resolute purpose belong •
Lit us fiing from our spirits their burdens.
And acquit us like men and be strong !
\ bring you, compatriots, brothers,
(As largess ye dare not disdain,
Like Nature’s that bountiful mother’s),
Savannahs as smooth as the main !
% valleys shall whiten all over
With snows never born of the cold ;
And grain, like a Midas, shall cover
Every slepe that it touches with gold.
The clink of the artisan’s hammer
Shall scare from the forest its gloom ;
In the brake shall the water-fowl’s clamor
Be drown’d by the crash of the loom !
Then up from your terper, ye sleepers !
The dream ye are dreaming deceives !
Go forth to the fields with the reapers,
Aqd garner the prodigal sheaves !
With flocks gladden meadow and mountain,
With tinkling herds speckle each hill,
And blend with the splash of the fountain
’J ; rumble and roar of the mill.
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The Country Paper.
When men speak of the power of the
f"ess aim the importance of the “Fourth
Estate,” they generally hip/e m their
mind’s eye some influential metropolitan
journal. They invest their favorite
Herald, Jrilnvie or 'dimes with a pow
er which no single paper possesses. Bat
this is not the way to ileal with the sub
ject. The great city daiiiei are a power
in the land, it is. true, B it, after ah they
are only immense reservoirs fed by the
tributary streams which (low from the
sparkling fountains of the country press.
These little local weeklies—spicy,
newsy and audacious, have more to do
avith educating and forming public opin
ion than their pretentious city neighbors
.are willing to admit. The country mer
chants, farmers anti mechanics feel when
they take up their county paper, that
they are conversing with a friend—-one
whose present and future interests are
bound up with their own. They know
its strong and weak points. Its wisdom
or its folly, its fidelity or its treachery
cannot be concealed within so narrow a
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field of operation. These sud other rea
sons account for the influence of the
local paper, and should win for it the
patronage and good will of all within its
reach.
The country paper gives far more than
■it receives. It is the poorest paid ser
yant in the land. It informs, protects
and warns the public—advertises the
resources and progress of its section
makes and unmakes statesmen—is at
once schoolmaster, watchman and friend,
and for all this work it receives barely
enough from its patrons to keep the wolf
from the door of the editor and the prin
ters. This is not a complimentary ex
hibit for the communities to vvhich these
remarks apply. But intelligent men ev
ery where are beginning to appreciate the
value of the country paper. People of
this class believe iu having their locality
in the “Ear. Gallery of
JheGlobe.” They Believe iu advertising,
and experience has taught them that
.money invested in printer’s ink yields an
abundant return. There is no surer in
dex of the prosperity, intelligence and
litorals of a community than its paper,
and by that sign it is praised or con
demned abroad.
Schooling not Always Education^
Ordinary schooling is a failure because
-it too seldom goes beyond digging
nobs and putting in something hard now
and then, which may come up, but some
how very seldom does when most need
ed. Education should weed, spade,
seed and water, and that requires more
than one tool. A schoolmaster can go
very little beyond the books he is bound
up in. Perfection in Harvey’s Grammar
and Davies’ Arithmetic does not even in
jure graruatical speaking and writing,
correct accounts, nor even practical
book-keeping. The best farm accounts
I have seen are those of a Virginia
‘gentleman who, when a buy, taught
himself t° keep such accounts for “his
father when absent on business in iVash
j'lgton. Practical training kn 1 ,he cul
to and Cl ' o ' ent h:lbitS ,uU be *tten Ird
to, and the powers both of mi. and and
body diawn out and strengthened m the
most judicious manner
CONYERS, GEORGIA: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY TO, IS7O.
[for tiie register.
intemperance.
Editors Register .-—Your humble
writer feeling a deep interest in the well
fare and prosperity of the Queen City,
(Conyers,) as well as the surrounding
country, is prompted from the purest
motives to offer a few thoughts, however
insignificant they may seem to bo, upon
the much neglected subject of intern
perance.
Every person is capable of exerting
an influence over his fellow man, wheth
er his station in life bo high or low, con
sequently no one can excuse himself
from the performance of duties that are
made obligatory, because he has not
as much of this world’s goods, or per
haps as liberal a share of intellect as
his neighbor, and be assured that it is
none the less binding upon him.
We see the saddenning effects of King
Alehohol every day, either the hungry
cry of some poor destitute family, the
sad look of some broken hearted mother,
tlie stricken brow of some fond, devoted
wife, whose pride has been brought low
on account of seeing him, who was once
a ipodel of society, a man worthy of
confidence, seeing him reeling as he
comes from his frequent resort, or as he
is picked up from the streets, a drunken
wretch. This is directly the effect of
the greatest evil that our laud is brought
to the painful necessity of tolerating.
Such should not be so if those who
are in power, do their duty without fear
or affection. Any reasonable thinking
man can admit that the abuse or even
the present use of ardent spirits, is the
greatest curse, or is the cause of more
mean, low, vi'c acts and productive of
less good than any other thing that
can be mentioned. And that the mod
erate use of it only encourages the abuse
of it, is a foregone conclusion and will
be admitted by all wio duly consider it.
Hence we can see the necessity ot total
absU'iegce front intoxicating drink.
Many a mother's heart has been made
sad, to see her son brought to degrada
tion and shame, when, perhaps, she was
the first to train him to quaff die poison
ous drink. Little did she dreem when
she began to make toddies for her prat
tling boy, that he would over drink to
excess, hut would have her friend to
understand her boy wo Id never be a
drunkard, at the same lime that is the
first step. If the first dram is not taken
the second wiil never be wanted, and if
we never acquire a thirst for it, we need
have no fears of ever becoming a victim
to it.
Hence, it is necessary that thereshoukl
be restraining influence unless the evil
could be removed, which would he the
the greatest blessing offered to the 19th
century.
Mothers should take warning from the
past and seek to train their offspring to
obey the first laws of piety and if such
was the case, there would be less fre
quenting of gambling saloons and grog
shops, which dot our Towns and Cities,
so closely, where every grade of vice
and immorality is taught and practiced.
But the result would be that their minds
would be trained to grapple after things
that would benefit them in after life,
and not after things of a low, groveling
nature, consequently they would become
men of distinction and leave their noble
history to serve as land marks to guide
others who are climbing up the steps of
fame. H. S. M.
A Singular Sermon;
Four gentlemen and an old minister
were assailed on the highway by three
robbers,* who demauded and took pos
session of all their funds. The old min
ister pleaded very hard to be allowed a
little money, as he was on his way to
pay a bill in London. The highwaymen,
being generous fellows, gave him all his
money back again on condition of his
preaching them a sermon. Accordingly
they retired a little distance from the
highway, and the minister addressed
them, as follows :
“Gentlemen, you are the most like the
o'd apostles of any men in the world,
for they were wanderers upon the earth,
and so are you ; they had neither-lands
or tenements that were their own,
neither, I presume hare you. They were
despised of all but those of their own
profession, snd so, I believe, are you ;
they were unalterably fixed iu the prin
ciples they protessed, and I dare say so
are you ; they were often hurried into
jails and prisons ; all of which suffering,
I presume, have been undergone by you ;
their profession brought them all to un
timely deaths, and if you continue in
your course,, sucli will be jour end. But
iu this point you differ mightily : for the
apostles ascended from a tree into heav
en, where 1 am afraid you will never
come ; but as their deaths were oompen
ate.l with eleinal glorv, yours will be
• ewarded with eternal shame and misery
tm.css von mend your manners ”
Hmv ManyfWould be Lott ?
A wliter asks the following pungont
questions : When too following classes
aie taken out of our churches, how many
, would be left ?
All who will npt pay just debts.
All who are hypocritical.
All who are deceitful, and talk about
others behind their becks.
All who go in debt without a prospect
of paying the same.
All who are proud and scornful, hold
ing themselves above their fellow men,
and shun those less fortunate than them
selves.
All who worship money more than
they do their Creator,
All who speculate on the ignorance of
others.
All who are tattlers.
All who think more of wicked rich
men than they do of a pious poor one.
All who oppress the poor.
All who make iong prayers for the
sake of being heard and seen of men.
All who are vain aud self-conceited.
When these, and a good many others
that could be mentioned, are taken out,
the church will be left without a mem
ber. The religion of Jesus does not
have any of the above defects. It makes
the true convert cheerful, hopeful and
charitable; disposed to visit the widow
and orphan, and to keep unspotted from
the world. It does not make one proud,
scornful, but on the contrary, makes one
desirous of doing good to he msi k and
humble, and to be kind to all, as oppor
tunity may offer. Oh ! that we had less
pretention in our churches, and more
genuine (Jhrisiianty.
Hon. A. H. Stephens.
In the February of Harper’s Magazine,
we find a brief but very interesting
sketch of Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens.
Referring to Mr. Stephens and his
known hospitality at Liberty Hall, the
writer says :
“Qnce in you are sure to be asked to
stay all night, if you find Mr. Stephens
at home and are n >t too manifestly a re
porter; and it he is in Washington,
someone will kindly show you all that
you wish to see. This is not n uch.
The house is the one Ip which ’ he once
boarded when the six dollars were a
great sum to him, and as it was the pride
and glory of his young manhood to at
last own and complete it and sloiviy to
own adjacent property and to gather
his kindred about him, so it has always
been his glory to keep its little rooms,
that are boarded and papered, and its
steep stairs, that he has not often climbed
since a great gate fell upon him in 1869
and crushed him into life long lameness,
and its breezy, passages, where the water
bucket waits for often-thirsty lips ; ils
twin back porches, in which questions of
Southern empire have had debate of life
and death ; its library from which thiev
ing borrowers constantly.skim the cream;
its lijttle back bedroom where lie wrote
the “War Between the States,” and
where lie suffers like a martyr and en
dures like an Indian.”
In conclusion, the writer says ; “His
heart has two loves, wifeless and child
less ; the one to rest his ashes wi‘h those
of his fathers by the heap of stones that
is th? ruin ot the chimney of his boy
hood's first fireside ; the other to die in
harness, always seeking the good of all
men, not of part, and loving the repub
lic and liberty as men have loved thejr
families,”
How this World is Given to Lying.
In proof of this, read the following
story from the Washington Chronicle,
which will excite the risibles of Mr.
Hill’s friend. It seems that the Yan
kees, having commenced by calling him
“Gen. Hill,” are determined to make him
figure as a military man—when, in truth,
he is and has been as guiltless of tnilita
ry aspirations a3 the writer of this :
“Ben Hill, the Georgia Congressman,
was a soldier—a General of Home
Guards in Georgia and Alabama, in
which capacity, at the head (when they
started home) of about five hundred
“mossbacks,” he paderlook to drive back,
from Talladega, Ala., April 23, 1865, a
bout eighty soldiers of the Second Mich
igan Cavalry, but Benjamin changed his
mind (as he lately changed his speech.)
and, within five minutes afte.i the first ri
fle shot, he was busy digging the sou
out of a noble S uthern mule wilh a big
pair of spurs, and still at the head of his
command. The “General” left on the
field, everything that was not fastened to
Lira, such as artillery (two pieces) pack
mules, overcoats, blankets, his hat, &c.
Ilia command did not again get together
until the day of B. H.’s election to Con
gress. It may be they have scattered
again.”
Hotel accommodations in Philadelphia
promise to be ample for the demand to
be made upon that city during the Cen
tennial Exhibition, and it is not likely
that prices will be increased beyond the
present rates. One of the’ new hotels
within a square ot the Centennial build
ings has already published its scale of
prices for lodging, A single room and
single bed will be furnished for one dol
lar a night, and meals can be procured
at restaurant prices, cither in the Hotel
or elsewhere, as the guests may desire.
TV Hoy’s Chances.
It is related of at least one of evory
two men of henorabh place in this coun
try who have died during the last ten
years that he achieved fame and fortune
under the most adverse circumstances.
The ohituariei of these men all contain
the picture of a sturdy lad poring over
his book by the firelight at night when
his day's work was done. Great stress
is always laid on the tact the boy reads
by the light of a blazing pine-kn >t, and
this, the first incident in Ins career, is
contrasted with the splendid scene of
his manhood's triumphs. These tri
umphs are almost invariably in the politi
cal arena. Now, so far from such cir
cumstances being adverse, the frequency
of their occurrence is proof to the contra
ry. The health and strength begotten
of daily toil, the strong and though per
haps narrow convictions resulting from
the reading of a few books, the self
reliance, the physical courage that be
long to the man who when a boy read
by the pinekot fire when his day’s work
was done, help to insure his success.
Moreover, “the masses" are disposed to
give their suffrages to one whose origin
is humble, and who, they think, is likely
to sympathize with them and take their
part in vexed politica' issues. “ The poor
boy” has every incentive to endeavor,
lie has fortune to strive for and social
position to gain. His every effort is put
forth in pursuit of these. II is very
manhood is to be measured by success.
To fail is to remain unnoticed and un
honored. But while our sympathies 'o
the youth whose ba our bears this de
vice, let us not overlook that other boy I
who is so unfortunate as to be born of
wealthy parents. For him, alas! there
is no pine-knot fire, no daily toi'. He
has fortune, why should he strive for if \
He has had social position, perchance,
what wants he more '? Ave, there’s the
rub. Actually, as the world 1 :oks at it,
he has less incentive to exeilion and a
more limited opportunity tor self devel
opment than tiie inoie favored “poor
boy.” Then too, if poverty lias its
temptations, so has wealth. Indolence
and the thousand and one vices that
spring from it—pride, resolution, effemi
nacy, physical cowardice which are con
sequences of self-indulgence—are not
these in the path ot the rich boy * It
two thousand ye .rs ago it was esteemed
harder lor the rich man to enter into the
kingdom of heaven than for a camel to
go through the small gate in the ciiy’s
vail cdlcd the needle’s eye, to.-day the
temptations that lie in his way aud in the
way of his children, and keep them from
striving after self-culture, are just the
same. The meaning of the pa-able is
plain : It is almost impossible for the
rich man to overcome the temptations
that of necessity belong to his position.
If, however, lie does overcome them,
lie deserves the highest praise! And
this conclusion leads us to the end of our
argument: the rich boy, if lie achieves
honorable success, whether in literature,
science, trade, or politics, in civil or in
military lite, deserves vastly more credit
than the poor boy who does equally well,
for the reason'd)at the former has greater
obstacles to encounter and fewer incent
ives to manly endeavor. But experience
shows that it is not from fhe wealthiest
nor the comparatively poor classes that
the most useful and the most distinguish
ed men generally come, but from the
respectable well to-do mid lie class—the
class that is equally removed from the
bitter temptations of poverty and’the
fascinating seductions of wealth. “Give
us neither poverty nor riches” should he
the prayer of all parents who have at
heart the welfare of their children.—-
Editorial in January Home and
School.
American Titles.
Since the war the extraordinary mul
tiplication of “colleges” has made civil
ian titles as cheap as military—let us be
thankful they are not hereditary. The
other day there was an account in the
papers of an “Illinois inter collegiate
contest, eight of the leading colleges in
the State participating.” Think of eight
leading colleges in Illinois, to say noth
ing of the modestly subordinate ones !
I wonder how many readers of “this
page ever heard of five out of the mul
titudinous colleges of Illinois. Well,
somebody has been showing from the
reports of the Bureau of Education
that there are no fewer than 238 “Uni
versities gnd Colleges" in our favored
country, which conferred last year 3,520
degrees in course, and 44( honor u-y de
grees. This was quite independent of
the 35 Agricultural Colleges, with their
3G2 degress, the 65 woman’s colleges,
with their 563 degress, the 81 medical
schools, with their 2,845 degrees, the 59
divinity schools, with their 339 degrees,
and in fine a total of 8,859 degrees in
course. In some of these institutions
the conferring of scholastic degrees a
mounts to a mania. One of them crea
ted six doctor's of law or divinity at a
pop.— The Galaxy.
Water Communication,
Col. B. W. Frobel, who was appointed
to make the survey of the water route
from Macon to the sea, and to Bruns
wick and Savannah, has this to say in
.reference to the communication from
Macon to Brunswick ;
“Between Ilawkinsville and Macon
the most fcmudable obstructions to nav
igation are the two bridges belonging to
|tbe Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
[Thu first of these bridges is about nine
miles below Macon, and its lower chord
is only fourteen feet above extreme wa-
ter. At the time wo passed it was scarce
nine feet above the surface of the water.
Th bridge effectually closes tho* river,
to steamboat navigation, and oven to
loaded flat-boats. The second bridge is
at Ilawkinsvillc. Its lower chord is a
bout twenty-nino feet above extreme
low water, and although not such an ef
fect al barrier as tho one near Macon, is
still a formidable obstaole. Before the
construction ot tiiese bridges boats USy
oended the river, to Macon, and this lias
been the case in recent years.
From the mouth of the Altamahu
there is an unobstructed inland naviga
tion to Brunswick, with water sufficient
ly deep to accommodate vessels much
larger than any that will be used upon
the proposed canal. One route is down
the south channel of the Altamahu
sound, and thence through Butter Milk
sound and Frederica River into St. Si
moil’s sound, which is Brunswick har
bor. The other route is through the
Darien lliver, which is the north chan
nel ot the Allamaha, to Three-Mile
Cut; and through that into Aitamaha
sound, and thence through Butter Milk
sound and Frederica lliver to Brunswick.
By the former route tho distance from
ihe mouth of tho Altainalia to Bruns
wick is twenty miles ; by the latter, the
dislancr from Darien is thirty miles.
m ad mm and ld.
Valuable if True.
4<A 2
The Fincastle Herald lir.s been in- 1
formed that a piece of iron hung in j
fruit trees will effeel ualy prevent the
lavages of frost Tho informant states •
that the night'before tiie freeze in April,
he hung several pieces of old iron in
ten of his peach trees, and the trees
were loaded with peaches, the yield be
ing not less than seveniy.--live bushels.
Tiie fruit of the remaining trees (sixty five
in number) in the orchard was killed.
A piece of horse shoe was hung in a
cherry tree in the same orchard, and the
yield wrs abundant, while in three adja
cent trees the fruit wis entirely killed
lie says the idea originated with his
mother, and that he, by her instructions,
when a jroy, tried the same thing fre
quently, and with the same result. This
is important, il true, and it will cost but
little to tett the truth ot it.
Brine That Will’ Preserve Butter
A Year.
Among the many devices for keeping
butter in a manner that will preserve the
fresh rosy flavor of the new, withal
its sweetness, is the following fiom the
Duchess Fannei, which is said to be en
tirely successful :
‘ Three gallons of brine strong enough
to boar an egg, add a quarter of a pound
of nice white sugar and one tablesoonful
of saltpetre. Boil the brine and when
it is cold, strain carefully. Make your
butter into rolls, and wrap each separate
ly in a clean white muslin cloth, tying
up with a string. Pack a large jar full,
weigh the butter down, and pour over
brine‘until all is submerged. This will
keep really good butter perfectly fresh
and sweet for a year. Be careful not to
put on ice, butter tnat you wish to keep
for any length of time. In summer,
when the heat will not admit of the but
ter being made iuto rolls, pack closely
in small jars, and, using the same brine,
allow it to cover the butter to the depth
of at least four inches. This excludes
the air, answers very well, as (he first
method suggested.”
Farmers, ilon’l Go In Debt.
The greatest agent to produce pover
ty among farmers or any other class is
debt. Many farmers will got a deed to
a small piece of land, enough td support
themselves and families, and lay by a
small annual income. But that is not
sufficient. They run iu debt for more
land, and become a slave to debt. They
pay an interest on money borrowed,
which wi'l soon consume the little prop
erty they possess. They, often pay high*
er than ten per cent. Such proceedings
engender a spirit of discontent, and they
lose faith in farming and try to sell their
farms in order to get to town and enter
into business. In nino cases out of ten,
every farmer who is doing well, that
goes to town, tails outright. Having no
faith in farming, or having no breadth
of understanding, they buy the rqeanest
stock and the poorest tools, and drive
poor teams before poorer wagons and
agricultural machinery. Iu the fall and
winter they feed poorly, just feeding e
nough to get their live stock through the
winter into spring. Then it takes all
summer to put ou the flesh that was lost
in the winter by poor shelter and bad
food. They never put fruit trees on
their farms. Ttiey send their children
to senooi but little, as too much learning
is a dangerous thing. They always sell
their best lambs and cattle to the drov.
era and keep the poorest at home. They
do not take agricultural papers or believe
in book farming. They never give
their children spending money for it
makes them spendthrifts. In short they
are the most miserable people in the
world, and would not keep money if they
had it. Such farmers are poor and will
remain so to the eild of their days, and
most of the sons will follow the path of
their sires.
Sonic JKacfcs About Manures.
From careful experiments, made. un-1
der the supervision of Lord Kincaid, of:
Scotland, we hav<’ most valuable con ,
elusions concerning manures covered oi
lying iu open yards.
Potatoes treated wiih barn-yard rai
’. • * i . . i .
nil re.
One acre piodiiccd 272 bushels.
One acre produced 292 bushels.
Potatoes manured from the covered)
sheds.
One acre produced 442 busheb.
One acre produced 171 bushels.
Tho next year the land was sown wUh
wheat, when the crop was as follows
Wheat on laud treated with barnyard
manuro :
One acre produced 41 luisUc.ljS, 18<
ponnds(of 61 pounds per bushel).
> Ono acre produced -12 bushels, 38
pounds (of 61 pounds per bushel).
Wheat on land mahuved from coven(
sheds :
aero podtice 1 55 bushels, 5 pounds
(of Gl pounds per bushel).
One acre produced 58 bushels, 4T
pounds (of 61 pounds per busehl).
The srtawalso yielded one. third more
upon the land fertilized witli the manure
from the covered stalls than upon that to
which the ordinary manure was appli
ed.— Ihe Shaker.
Drinking, for the Effects.
The Irish World says: He said lie
didn’t care anything about liquor only
for the effects, lie never liked tho’
taste of it; it always made, him “gag” to
drink it, and he made up an awlu 1 face
as he look it down. But it was the
effects that, ho was after. If it wasn’t
for the effects he would never dunk a
drop of whisky in his life, lie was a
nice young man wheo we first heard
him say that- lie had health, good looks
and a respectable position in society
T-hc only perceptible effects of his po
tations then were the heightened color
in his cheek, increased brilliancy of the
eyes, and vivacity in conversation. He
was generous and liberal with his money
too, and had a host of friends, well, lie
kept on drinking for tho effects, and " ho
got them a every mail will who keeps
at it long enough. Tiie last time we
saw him lie was that pitiable object, n
human wreck. lie was standing at a
bar pleading for a drink on time, his
trembling fingers being unable to'find q
solitay nickle in the pockets of his rag
ged apparel. Ho had kept on “gag
ging” over hiswliiskv and drinking for
I the effects until lie didn’t have any
effects left except thosoe painfully appa
rent onus, poverty, disease, privation and
vanished respectability. Verily lie got
tho effects.
Masonry in Georgia.
The first mention of Free Masonry in
Georgia in history was in fJrcston,s Il
lustrations in 1773. It said, “ Tile' his
tory of the society at this time affords
few remuikuble instances of record.
Some considerable donations were col
lected and distributed among distressed
Masons, to encourage the settlement of a
new colony, had just been estab
lished at Georgia, in America.’' In
1735, Lord Weymouth, being Grand
Master of England, issued warrant to
open anew Lodge at Savanali, in Geor. ’
gia. The Free Mason,s Monitor of 186.1
said : The Grand Lodge of Georgia is
holden by virtue of the right of succes
sion, legally derived from the Most No
ble and Most Worshipful Thomas Thynel
Lord Viscount Weymouth, Grand Mas ;
t4r of England, by his Warrant, directed
to the Bight Worshipful Roger Lacy, 1
and by renewal of the said’ power
Sshalto Charles Douglass, Lord Aber„
dour, Grand Master of Scotland, for the
years 1755 and 1756 ; and the Grand
Master of England for He years 1757
and 1878, as will be seen by his war
rant directed to the liignt Worshipful
Gtay Elliot.
December 16, 1786, a convention of
the smaller lodges holden in the S(,flto
assembled at Savaunali, when the per
manent appointments, which had been
theretofore made by the Grand Master
of England, were solemnly relinquished
by the flight Worshipful Samuel Elbert,
Grand Mrster, and the other officers of
the Grand Lodge. William Stephens
was the first Grand Master; an.l Solo,-’
moi.’s Lodge, No. 1, at Savannah, is the
oldest Lodge in the State. The num
ber of Lodges in the State of Georgia is
now neaily three hundred.
Till} Newspapers in New Yorls.
The first newspaper in New York
was the New York Gazette, established
by William Bradford in 1725. During
the war the only journals were Hugh
Gaines's New York Mercury, Livings
ton's Royal Gazette and Robertson’s
Royal American Gazetter, suspended
after the departure of the British. In
1784 the newspapers were the New
York Packet and American Advertiser
published py Samuel London, the New
York Gazetter by Shepard Koflock, and
the Independent Gazette, or the New
York Journal, by John and Elizabeth
Golt ; the Independent Journal or the
General Advertiser by McLean & Web
ster. Tc-'diy New York boasts of 44 4
newspapers aud periodicals, of which 28
are daily semi-weekly, 187 weekly, ‘Tii
semi-monthly, 180 monthly, 3 bi-month
ly, and 16 quarterly; 32 are in foreign
languages, and 99 have a circulation of
5,000 copies. Of the ten principal news
papers one has a circulation of 127,000
copies. Of the illustrated papers, one
weekly issues 100,000 copied Of the
newspapers devoted to literature arid
stories, one has a weekly circnladon of
300.000, and another of 180,000. Ono
of the religious papers issues 7H,00(J
copi s, anil one ot the monthly maga
zines 130,000 copies. The Weight of
newspapers and periodiea's mailed by
publishers at the city Post-office to reg
ular sub. i libers for the fi st three quar
ters ot 1-74, Jen. 1 to Sept. 30, was 17,
392,091 lbs and the payment of hostage
$ 4 ',952’17. __
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