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MORNING
CARLTON & Co.,
Proprietor*.
!!. H. CARLTON, Editor.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7.
General Local and Traveling Agent.
Capt. J. E. Bitch,
Ii tb« duly aulltorUcd Agent of the North-east
Ommui.
Capt. Bimi U also the duly authorized agent of
that nplen.lld weekly, the '• Sunny South.”
Notice to Subscribers.
From and after this issue of the
Northeast Georgian, we will de
liver the paper on Tuesday, at the
houses or places of business of nil sub
scribers living in the city, and who
hare heretofore taken it at this Office
or at tho Athens Post-Office. As we
are endeavoring to correct and perfect
our subscription list, and as this new
arrangement may cause us, for the
time being, to uuiutentionally overlook
the names of some, we earnestly re
quest every subscriber, who may at
any time fail to get his papers from
the “Carriers,” to notify us at once,’
that the trouble may be remedied.
We hope, under this new system of
delivery, to get the Georgian to our
subscribers quite soon after it is issued,
and with their co-operation in perfect
ing the same, trust it will prove more
convenient to them and advantageous
to the Georgian.
er words, the formers of the South
paid a bonus of twenty-three millions
of doUara for the privilege of raising
fifteen hundred thousand bales of cot
ton. Now, if the area which was de*
been equally shared by the contending
sections? Would it not have been
nataral, would it not have been wise,
yea, aud would it ne^have been just, _
*° * iave so shupeged our industry, to I voted to raising this million and a half
haV^f^tipUMpMfour energies^ 1 ^tiff-bales of cotton had been devoted to the
have turned the devastating results of ™ isi “S of &*** «<* *•
.-*• i* *** Nor*
era progressiveness which produced an J they were. Now, there is another
unjustifiable and fanatical informed- fact which is patent No matter
dling with the rights and affaire of our whet . her ““"P
gar and filthy creatures who compose
nineteen-twentieths of the negro race,
Mr. Pullman should have hastened to
| or a
liens ani
their burdensome,
political oppression
South?
one, if it is incumbered with
mortgages, and the farmers
iiged te go in debt to run it,
ill have no control of it when it
and revengeful I “ made > and wiU compelled to sell
® I of tOhafAKAK LnnAM azWzvAm. _
section, to the undermining of that
strength of wealth which sustains the I are oblij
more numerous Northern section in they wi
upon the whole
at whatever buyers choose to; give.—-
Better to plant five acres, if it can be
done without going in debt, and have
But,, it may be said that such an the product under their own control,
attempt on the part of the South tha “ to P 1 " 1 , five hundred acres, the
... , product of which will be under the
would have proven abortive, so far as ^ ntrol of creditors. Strive to make
forcing the North to recognize our 1 the cotton crop a surplus product, and
power of strength in the government, then the farmer becomes independent,
* I .• . ml A . I tOHflf nnw if snlla Ala fan zuiafa aa A...
inasmuch 03 other portions of the
world would have supplied the deficit
in our cotton crop. In answer to this,
we need only call attention to the fact,
that Great Britain, some years ago,
foreseeing the coming increased de
mand for tropical products, endea
vored, through the most vigorous
efforts of her best and ablest states
men, to so increase and stimulate the
cultivation of cotton in the East In
dies, as to make the repudiation of all
Southern raised cotton by British
manufactories. What was the result
of this British antagonism, even
strengthened by Brazilian and Egypt
ian re-enforcement? The year in
which commenced this effort of En
in New England
known in California, to-morrow—-the
say to the country that this act ia un- democrats have lost courage in the
constitutional aud must be referred to other States and !
the Supreme Ccurt. He should have taken heart. The
said—
‘ I have the means to make a
This is lay traveling lodging
house, and I will admit whom I please.
I will HtapeolHthe history.the. natural
impulses, the prejudices if youplease,
of my white Southern patrons. I will
E
lines an
is
the
tidal i
and unless the demc
with their i
all Fools’ Day.—The you ng’lady
who was presented with a bottle of
extra foie Maderksays she was provemeo
Ways fond of-molasses and
enormous
the military _
him, combined
extracted from the summer supply,
gland to change the source of supplies I sure reduction of that source of wealth I where she remained seated during the j we may expect a fine time about next
The Northeast Georgian.
Having secured as Foreman of our
Office, Mr. James T. Powell, a native
of South Carolina, but who has been
for the past eight years engaged in the
Job Printing business in the City of
Washington, D. C., and having taken
steps to furnish our Office with new
type, presses, and all necessary outfit,
we will be prepared, at an early day,
aud promise our subscribers to present
them the Georgian in an entirely new
dress, and we trust, through our earn
est and untiling efforts, with a general
improvement in many respects.
Mr. Powell having spent a num
ber of years in the printing business,
having had ample opportunities for
perfecting himself in all the latest and
most improved styles of American
printing, and having made a specialty
of Job Printing for several years, be
ing the senior member of the Book and
Job Printing firm of Powell&Ginck,
of Washington City, we propose to
make a specialty of that class of work
in our Office, and promise to do ns
tasty and eiegant Job Work as can lie
done anywhere, aud at as low if not
lower rates, than the same work can
bo obtained even at the North. We
also hope, with his valuable assistance,
to make the Northeast Georgian
a First Class Family Newspaper
in all respects.
We cordially invite all who are in
terested, to call and examine Mr,
Powell's specimens of Job Printing,
and judge for themselves.
to her manufactories, witnessed the
consumption of but 445,744,000
pounds of cotton by her mills. After
fourteen years earnest endeavor at re
form, we see her using 817,998,048
pounds, nearly 700,000,000 pounds of
which were obtained from America!
England’s efforts proved but a signal
failure, and in the language of an
other, “ the golden apple, fully ripen
ed, dropped into the lap cf our South
ern cotton planters.'
The American and Foreign demand
for our cotton is still rapidly augment
ing, and to-day the Southern planter
is becoming more and more important
' l The Relations of onr Cotton Growing
to the Demands of Commerce, and to
the .Present Political Necessities of
thesdntV‘. n j,
, ' t t»o< t
(CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.)
whether it sells for ten cents or twenty
cents.”
Not only would this reduction bring
to the cotton producer just as much
for his crop, but thereby enable him
to raise his own provisions and other
necessaries of life. The sum then paid
for his cotton would be the surplus
which would soon relieve him as the
now burdened and embarrassed follower
of an overstrained agriculture, and ele
vate him to the proud position of the
comfortable, well-to-do, and altogether
independent Southern planter.
Another result equally certain and
equally desirable from this reduction,
and which would inevitably prove our
Southern aggrandizement, would be the
bject
these care of mine, I intend for people
of my own color."
Instead of saying .this, he issued
dere long before the Civil Rights
came law,- that his conductors should
admit to the sleeping ear blacks and
whites, without distinction. It seemed
that he labored' to bring about the re
sult arrived at by the act.
On Monday last, that impudent and
debased mulatto of New Orleans,
Pinchback, with a company of blacks,
occupied the sleeping car which reached
Mobile from Louisville. Here was an
opportunity for Mr. Pullman to have
said to this filthy bubble which has
arisen upon the cesspool of Louisiana
politics, “You may disturb the United
States Senate, but you cannot ride in
my car.” Shortly aftertbe train from
Jacksonville, Fla., jj|rich arrived in
Macon last SaturdaJ^left the former
f lace, a large black negro entered the
’ullman sleeping car and presented to
the conductor his check* for the upper
berth of No. 15. The conductor ex
amined it very closely, and finding it
all right, was, under foe orders of Mr.
Pullman, obliged to recognize it. He
accordingly assigned the sable ward of
the great republic to his berth. The
lower berth was occupied by a Balti
more lady, who immediately left it
and took refuge in the passenger car,
irrounds
that conservative
[ believe
would
We
should have a blessed escape from the
danger that couid befall the
greatest
date for a third term. the- side-walk, l
Explanation.
Owing to unavoidable trfrgularitiea
which occasionally occur in our office,
we sometimes fail to stop bur paper to
subscribers so ordering. We take oc
casion to say, that this is opt an inten
tional neglect, as we do not desire to
toroethe Georgian on thqne.udWifo
not desire to take it J and id every
where the paper is continued by our
neglect, after notice has been received
to discontinue it, we certainly will not
demand payment therefor.
Presbyterian Church.—The paint
ing which has recently been done on
the outside and inside of this Church
not only greatly improves its appear
ance, but now makes it one of the
handsomest Churches of the city
If the amount of rain which has
foodof-
young gentleman w
ut- of quite a
says tbat the suidi
duct ion 6f cayenne pepper
eyesmidnosejA cot only followed by
an intoOeraCle itching, but produces
symptoms very similar to those of a
severe catarrh.
That sage and dignified-Alderman,
who spent a whole afternoon in placing
of sand on
in front of his store,
and then watched his chancato-present
it to every lady who happened to pass
by, informing her that she had drop
ped her handle, says now, in his hours
of calm and sober reflection, that he
never intends to let the 1st of April
make a fool of him again. j
Those young gentlemen who were
borrowing around town generally, to
get “spike-tailed coatsf’ to attend t
dinner party, say they were not hun
gry, no how. Many such consoling
consclusion8 have been arrived at, and
explanatory comments deduced, from
the'numerous similar events which
transnired to make up the “ All Fools’
day.” ~
Little Fishes in the Brook.—
Last week, the Fish Commissioners of
the State of Michigan deposited 2,000,-
000 young white fish ip the various
ms of
The number of new houses' feow
being built in Athens, shows that u|r
prove moot is still the order ofthe day.
^ brightness of the
iy, how it
same as the
a^rns. thy pathway rath beau
♦•fairies” bos
Db. John S. Baxter, of Macob,
Georgia, has agreed to present. tbpnift
of Athens with an acre lot upon wlucn
to build a city school house. .The
Doctor shows by this act of generosity
Wm. Lefio" 1
The effects ofthe
that recently swepto^'t^K
tionofour^tatewasofiS
attention thWeicited
did bring
..vest responsi _
in times of industrial
., -.it streams of that State. Seventeen of
fallen in these parts recently, is to bt , the States of the Union now have Fish
anzinltr • Commissioners, and it is likely that
Illinois will soon make the eighteenth.
and prosperity
which
wherewith
to the North, upon j night.
August for drying clothes, making
is founded the political power . Mr " “unman shows no disposition brick and keeping our powder dry.
., 1 1 to prevent the intrusion of negroes into >'
?i l to oppress us. 1 he 1 the sleeping cars. Of course, uo de- Personal.—That visit which we
speedy and willing recognition of our cent_ white citizen will hereafter pat- received oue afternoon last week, from
In the New England States, the Com
missioners have joined together in
their work of re-stocking the streams.
They last, year hatched out 44,000,000
rights as one of the sections which con-1 ronize a man who permits his wife and
stitutes the American Union, and our
power to maintain them through our
daughter to be brought into contact
with negroes. We hope the Southern
le _will at once, from the Potomac
con
duct of the Pullman sleeping cars, and
that the Southern press will represent
r •'*** uu o‘* UUi people will at once, from the Pott
strength as an independent agricultu-1 to the Rio Grande, denounce the
ral people.
Much has been said relative to the
establishment of Southern manufacto
ries, and thereby a diversion of the
channels of American wealth. This
we concede as all important, and a
sure, ultimate result of the reform,
which will add financial ability to the
South. The results of the war, de-
two handsome and charmiug ladies of
our town, was anything but an “ April
fool.” If such are to be the visitations
upon our Sanctum ; if such are the
results of journalism; “ then come on,
a press will rep. , .. ... „
the dangers to which our travelers are “ lr ladies,” we will hold our position
exposed from the fanatical efforts of at all hazards.
Mr. Pullman to transport foul odors, „ —— . _ ,
vermin and disease. ^ | Street Improvement.—As Broad
Street and College Avenue constitute
What Hare the Democrats Done! I the principal business streets of our
We commend the following strong <%» and even with the greatest care
. - *wuiwi v,. .... uc-1 and sensible editorial from the New given to them under our present sys
to the manufactories and commerce of gtr0 ying t h a t system of labor which I York Daily Herald to the careful pe- tem of street working, must
the world; to day the results of his
labor is constituting more and more
largely, the basis of commerce and
trade; and thus is seen the nature
of the relations existing between the
South and her products, and the econo
mic interest of the whole world, more
can never be replaced, and which con
stituted us a strictly agricultural people,
necessarily forces us to look for relief I our present or portending difficulties
ruml of all our people. If there be filj remain almost impassably muddy
wisdom or truth in this presentation of during the winter and spring seasons,
in the diversification of our industry,
and the full utilization of those natural
facilities and advantages which the |
in the way of Democratic success, then
let us learn a lesson, ere it is too late—
let us heed that counsel which will se-
especially of the Northern States of | Southern land. Manufacturing enter
prises should be encouraged in our
God of nature has placed within our cure freedom to the American people,
we would respectfully suggest the fol
lowing remedy:
Let two of the regular street bauds,
I together with the town mule and cart,
be employed exclusively during the
this so-called Union.
Then, Southern Agriculturists, will
you not use this controlling power,
which is altogether within your grasp,
for your defence and protection, against I
that wrong and oppression which has I
been and is to-day being inflicted upon
through a glorious and triumphant year in pounding aud hauling rock for
Democratic victory in the election of 1 the purpose of macadamizing these
midst, receiving the patronage of the 11876:
people, the aid of capitalists, and the
fostering care of government; but this
should be and must be a secondary
step to the more important and absolnte-
ly essential primary step-thatofagricul-
you ; will you not use it, in demanding | tQra \ reform. Then will our agricul
ture prove the sure foundation of our |
well established manufacturing enter
prises, the strength of our wealth, and
the safe guide to our future prosperity.
Then will we be enabled to say auto
our Northern enemies and our political
oppressors, that in the “ Sovereign
that equal right and justice, under a
common constitution, which will guar
antee unto you that wanted prosperity
and relief from financial embarrass
ment, and which will place you in the
full enjoyment of those rights, privi
leges and immunities, contained in the
Six months ago the democratic party
was in the full swell of the tidal wave
which swept oyer the Republic, des
troying the supremacy of the republi
can party iu the House of Representa
tives, and threateningmot to spend its
force until it had carried the democrats
into the possession of the national gov
ernment. The issues upon which this
political revolution was accomplished
were—first, the belief that in every re
spect President Grant’s administration
had foiled, and the expectation that
the democratic party upon acceding to
original compact between the States, J r jgi,t» to control our own industry,
upon the sacredness of which our J j which we dare maintain, exists
po\
bri
wer would
forefathers founded and pledged the
American Union ? ,, .
that might which can and shall yet
make us a proud and happy people,
Yes, the dependence of New Eng
land, as well as old England, upon the
tropical growth of our country, is even
much more than has been claimed in
our foregoing statements. And, in
deed, to sucii an absolute degree does
this dependence obtain, that with the
proper manipulation of our Southern
agriculture, there can be no false or
vaiu hope of relief to our present finan
cial embarrassment and political op
pression.
BlackwoodMagazine, an able and
, g leading exponent of English sentiment,
in referring, a few years prior to our
war, to the cultivation of cotton by the
United States, remarked:
“ With its increased growth has
sprung up that mercantile navy, which
now waves its stripes and stars over
every sea, and that foreign influence
which has placed the internal peace—
we iuay say the subsistence of millions
in every manufacturing country in
Europe—within the power of an oligar
chy of planters.”
The Loiulon Economist, about the
same time, and in speaking on the same
subject, quotes as follows:
“ I vet any great social or physical
convulsion visit the United States, and
England would feci the shock from
Laud’s End to John O’Gioat’s. The
lives of nearly two millions of our coun
trymen are dependent upon the cotton
crops of America; their destiny may
lie said, without any kind of hyperbole,
to haug upon a thread. Should any
(lire calamity befall the land of cotton,
a th iu.-wnd of our merchant ships would
rut idly in dock ; ten thousand mills
must stop their busy looms; two thou
aand thousand mouths would starve,
for lack of food to feed them."
w j'wjUt was then predicted in regard
to. Intend,-aught with as good foun
dation have been prophesied as the fata
of New England. Still, revolution
lias come, such as has shaken onr ag
ricultural interest to'its very founda
tion, yet, even destroying, with one
fell swoop, that system of labor which
w«is the very strength and security
,, thereof, and yet how reversed has been
the effect from that prophesied ta the
•seemingly sure andluevitable result.
Then, has - not unwise , policy—a
too great eagerness to recuperate by
adhering to the system of agricnl tore
of our more prosperous days—not only
*: proved Southern ruin rnd Northern
‘j.prospe^, but fattened .upon nsalmost
m these failures and
nga new regime of economy, states
manship and peace. The third term,
the civil service reform, retrenchment,
back pay, the salary grab—these were
the cries which animated the democrats
in their canvass. They now enter up
on another campaign. New Harnp-
streets. Let the work commence at
the Post-Office and be continued until
the above-named streets have been put
>in .first-class order. Rock are plenti
ful and convenient for this work, and
when so done, will prove not only a
lasting improvement to these highways,
but in the end, a saving to the town.
Election in Oconee County.
This the 7th of April, is the day for
an election of officials to organize the
new county of Oconee. If the numer
ous candidates for the various offices
to be filled in this newly made county,
can in anywise be taken as prognostic
of that multitudinous success and
prosperity which is to mark its history,
then is its future pregnant with that
brilliant career which must make all
It may be, and is said, that the j in again beholding the former power,
abandonment on the part of the Cotton wealth, prosperity, freedom and inde-1 shire, which they should have carried j to regret those circumstances
Btatesof that which is thenatural staple pendence of our Sunny South. decisively, is a drawn battle. Conhec- j-jgg t 0 a separation or di
product of their soil, would prove but
a suicidal effort; the punishing of our
enemies and oppressors by our own
suffering and death. We ask, aud
with better grounds of proof, if there
is not more suffering and-a more cer
tain death, in the pursuance of that
system of agriculture which makes us
absolutely dependent upon other sec
tions for our provisions and the neces
sary supplies wherewith to live
Where, we ask, is the wisdom or sound
policy, iu raising such an excess of
cotton, as to force the market price
therefor below the cost of producing
it; where is to be seen, or how can be
hoped, our recuperation, in that ap
pliance of our industry which reduces
the average wages of our labor to one
dollar a day per head, and then sub
mits us to the mercy of a market pay
ing the lowest minimum prices for our
products, and requiring for the neces
saries of life such maximum prices as
are consequent upon their being fur
nished from a land where first-class
labor commands five dollars per day ?
By rest to oar cotton lauds, as sug
gested in our previous remarks, we do
not desire to be understood as recom-
The Civil Rights Act and the Pullman
Sleeping Car.
Let every Southern white man, wo
man and child, read the following
from the Mobile Register, and then
govern themselves accordingly. The
Civil Rights Bill does not apply to
sleeping cars, they not being strictly
classed as public carriers, and this is
a voluntary Radical insult of Mr.
Pullman to his Southern customers,
who have so largely built up his wealth.
ticut, which should be demcratic by
good majority, considering the majori-1
ties in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
New York, hangs in the balance.-
| Take what our correspondents write I
from that State, and the issue is still |
uncertain.
Why is this ? Grant h*« done noth-1
try to a greater degree than six mouths
ago. On the contraiy, he has shown
astubbornnessof purpose in hisappoint-
ments aud much of his
indicates that he is as stiff-necked as
Let our whole Southern people give I ever, and not disposed to change his
up the sleeping cars of Mr. Pullman Pj. an3 *“ obedience to tho popukr will.
altogether, to the aviation
months ago, for we have had the Ar
kansas Message, developments in the
Washington city government, and cor-
his colored friends and customers :
So clear is it that the Civil Rights
act is unconstitutional, that the Dem-
vision of old Clarke.
Good luck and a merry time to you
each, former fellow-citizens, in this
your day of organization, and may it
but proVe tho inauguration of that
life-long happiness and prosperity
which your character and bearing as
a noble people so justly deserves, and
which the writer so earnestly wishes
to each aud every citizen of your
couuty.
Remember, that the Georgian will
ever prove a friend and advocate of
your interest and welfare, and though
now of you, yet, through its ^col
umns, we hope to hold frequent com
munication with the good people
Oconee.
ocrats in the Senate did not think it rupt appointments to office. Why is
worth the exhaustion of time and phys-1 it, then, that while the republican par-
I ty has not improved
thedefe
ic party
aud the
will
un-
American
mending the entire abandonment of| act attem P ta what the fourteenth
1 amendment does not contemplate, the
iarly wil
ical strength to defeat it by a three
days’ debate.
Senator Carpenter denounced it as
unquestionably an illegal act; and
Senator Bayard, one of the most
learned of the bodv, declared that if it | certain os anything can
should become a. law, it would never
be sanctioned by public opinion or the
sentiment of the people, tiiat it would I ocrats have shown themselves to be not I of the noble and heroic, “ old Guards,’
not be sustained by the courts, and " i-i-.-i-.u-j-
that it would go forth without authori
ty and return without respect. The
its record since
defeatof last autumn, the democrat-
y is checked in New England
the question as to whether it wil
succeed in the next campaign is
be in Atr
politics ?
The Athens Guards—Are the re
presentatives ot that gallant company
which contributed so largely towards
winning for Athens the reputation of
being one of the most patriotic contri
butors to our late Confederate war.
They bav« banded together, that they
The answer to this is, that the dem- may perpetuate the name and memory
— i ui meuuuiu auu ucruic, uiu uuarus,
ffThi " , ‘ o “ batUea - “ 4 *>. i“ Wo -
our cotton crops. We mean simply
the reduction of that crop to our own
home necessities; or, if beyond this
amount, let our cotton furnish the
surplus of Southern agriculture,
proof of this as the true and sound
policy', we here quote the following ex
control of subjects peculiai
the cognizance of the State,
within
Institu-
statesmen but
politicians at
of the
by the
victory last fall only
continued victory, no matter what mis
takes they might make. Consequently
party are quietly pushed aside
hack politicians who saw in the
' last fall only the assurance-of
They
shad. 40,000,000, together ..jgitb
,000,000 salmon, have been deposited
the Connecticut river.—.
Farmer.
Would it not be well for our South
ern States, the very land of fish, to
make a note of this activity of other
States to increase their fish supplies,
and do likewise?
The unjustifiable and altogether im
proper destruction of fish in our
streams, will soon destroy this luxury
of our peop^, if some remedy is not
provided.
We had the pleasure of a call, a few
days since, from Mr. C. D. Camp,
now of Atlanta, but recently a citizen
of our city, who is now engaged in
selling Bowyeris world renowned Coal
Oil Neutralizer. We would advise all
of our eitizens who use Kerosene to
give Mr. Camp’s preparation a trial,
as its renders the commonest Kerosene
perfectly safe, improves the light, and
very materially lessens the smell. Dr.
Wm. King, Jr., after giving it a thor
ough test, says it added forty-three
degrees to C. West & Son’s best 110
degree Oil, and that he " considers it
absolutely safe and invaluable.” Suc
cess to you, Charlie.
See That.—The reduction of the
wages of our police, has caused one of
them to spend much of his time in
telling the rest how he use to catch
offickens with fish books when in the
army. Low wages, like the memories
of war, brings fresh to our minds the
impressment laws,” the necessary
effect of those causes which bring hard
times.
Personal.—We were glad of. the
opportunity last week, of extending the
courtesies and hospitalities of our sanc
tum to Mr. J. G. Parks, the accom
plished associate editor of that most
reliableand readablepaper j the Dawson a;
Weekly Journal, and to Mr. Piark, the
wide awake agent df one of Atlanta’s
that he still loves his dative town.
One of the
depression, is to call public attentidii
to the real issues involved and to indi-
cateJbe true path of relief. The great
problem of labor and ita re-adjustment
m this country underlies the whole
question of public prosperity, and it M
high time that the public mind should
be diverted from the delusive hopes of
legislative relief to the substantial re
form in the application of labor. It . is
not long since an eminent professor of
Harvard declared that “ to restore the
deranged balance of society its old.
honor must be rendered back to labor
—a sentiment which should be stereo
typed in illuminated letters and dis
played throughout every land. There
can be no question among thinking
men that the commercial condition of
the country to-day is ultimately to be
referred to an unhealthy deficiency of
productive industry. It has been 6aid
that modern mechanical invention has
superseded hand labor and made it
secondary to automatic machinery. It
is very true that all of the strong men
in the world could not do the work ac
complished by steam and water power
in the single island of Great Britain,
and the substitution of machinery for
human hands is rapidly progressing.
The tim& may come when tbe boasted
Briarean steam engine may be sup
planted by inventions of tenfold or a
hundredfold industrial power. But to
conclude from such facts that manual
labor is thus to be thrown into the
shade, is-one of the most ruinous and
not of value, to your 0f re°d® iB ^
this vi«w> aadin *n«iSS£j
herewith submit what is
j oooniw? twdewiads-^rith^^
humid, warm, aud conseqiWn
air at and near the surface 0 f of 1
The great velocity of the O
tinnen nurrent of air is reaS
men we rememte
air with the velocity of fo 8
the earth at the equator, broa4
our latitude, would have anetf
motion of more than one
miles, per-hour. ■
f This condition, with the be,
on top and the lighterteio* T
one of unstable equilibrium ?
that point where there
resistance in the cold <] 0VB
air, the warm uumidair freT
would rash ramdly upward t«J
equilibrium. This ascending
of air would create a partial 0 ^
and the air from the — -
rushing
uld ii
whirl or rotation
fallacious errors of the age, and one
which we sorely need to be disabused of.
One of the causes of tfie dishonor
now cast on manual,. 'and especially
agricultural labor, is traceable to the
education of our young. ‘ ; The acade
mician is trained for the college or the
university, and the collegian is trained
with aspirations for the-learned .pro
fessions—the bar,- the pulpit, politics
medicine or science. They fe
would be a waste of talent and a dese
cration of genius to step from the uni
versity hall to the plough, the lObpvoJ
the anvil. Hence the crowded pto&d
sions, in which hundreds are reduced
to the starvation point, and from which
hundreds are annually forced to seek
for bread by recourse to new and ad
venturous occupations. As it has been
so forcibly said, the same recoiling,
from hand labor leads thousands to
rush into unremunerative and preca
rious clerkships and paltry enterprises
for which there is no demand, while
the soil of the earth is left half tilled
aud its mines unopened.. r ■..
In conjunction with these false' al
lurements from the slow but sure paths
of agricultural and mining industry,
the civilization of the century has
added another disturbance of labor.
The fascinations of the large cities,
their excitements and their luxuries;]
have i attracted' thither thousands who
are useless and dangerous, because of
idle elements of society. One of our
city ieontentemporaries has strikingly
remarked, “ that there were many men
Who would not leave ,Nej? York foif
scarcely ! any pecuuiary inducement,
and multitudes who preferred scanty
wages here to- a’sufficiency elsewhere.”
It is safe to isay tiiat if one-half of the
young End able-bodied: men now en
gaged ,in non-productive commercial
ventures and wjm-qyepff«*<ithe mer,
cautile ana ^ professional. vacations,
journalistic worthies, the Constitution.
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We are glad to note the arrival of
Mr. Myer Cohen and his fair bride in
our city. They have been on quite
an extended Ibrrdal tour North.
We extend to this happy couple a
most cordial welcome, and may the
beautiful spring which aoconjpanies
them in their arrival at their “ Sunny
home,” be but an ode to their future
happiness, j u jno ->.?
1 '’ : feEY. : UB. (Joseph S. Styles died
a short time since at Savannah, Ga.
This good man of God w&s well known
to, and much beloved by the ex-Con-
federate soldiers of the army oft North
ern Va., and the news of his death
will bring sadness and regret to their
every heart. ' •’' I :
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tions built by private citizens for their there has not been
own emolument, hotels, conveyances | made by the democrats ii
yyl and theatres, do not foil under the su- vass that they have redeemed. Th<
pervision of the Federal Government.
! They are subjects of the State equally I
with warehouses, saloons and business
They
fought Grant opon the third term, ana
what democrat in Congress made the
With<
tract from an able and sensible article offices of any description.
of the Atlanta Herald, on “Cotton
Ciiltu^e: 1 *! 1( ,y
Let the formers remember that the
We do not propose to
question.. It is admitted*,
can and Democrat alike, that
o argue
third term an issue ? Without invidi
ous mention of names, wherever the
tically suffered for Southern indepen-
in the I dence, many of whom, though now
assurance- of I sleeping beneath the gory sod of Vir
ginia’s battle grounds, still live fresh
and enduring in the hearts and mem
ories of every Athenian. Yes, it is
the sacred duty of standing sentinels
aronnd “ the bivouac of onr hero
dead,” that their noble deeds may be
emulated, and their names and honor
a single pro;
ts in the las t
Dmise
can-1
The sm all pox has again made its
appearance in this county. Several
cases hayaocoured on the farm of Mrs.
Maynes, four miles below Athens.
The authorities have taken all neces
sary steps to prevent its spread and in-
creese, and no apprehensions need be
entertained as to its reaching beyond
that neighborhood. C :! 1 ’
the democratic party had it iu its power to | forever cherished and perpetuated in
Ui-
act
honor an independent statesman it
struck him down and preferred one of
«« w.o miiocio ruuiemuer wax me i must foil assoouas the Supreme Court j its own politicians. In New York vei, , ■ , , , - _ —
amount received for a cotton crop is a of the .United States has an opportu- J were to have a complete change of the Athens Guards ot to-day. Then,
whether wo make three I nity to pass apon it. Such bang the whole government Here the demo-1 let all who feel an interest and a pride
ales or .five millions. I case, it would seem that a wealthy 1 erati acceded' to unquestioned power in I ; n the inheritance and perpetuation of
the memory of a surviving country,
that has called into existence “the
needed tosup-
worid, and the
fixed prod ii
millions of^|
Just so much cotton
nlv the demands of 1
wild standarredytogirejortsomoS
for it, and whenever the supply ex
ceeds this demand, the price falls ac-
I oordjugly,. Thiefiret has been gwuod
into our understanding, by the expert-
iience of'ithe purtten. years,aodrarelj
the man, or set
who any lor
The <
musTbe
toft. The crop 6f l^/wiicVwasa
little over two and a half millions
bales, brought two hundred and sixty-
three millions of dollars, while the crop
of 1873, which was over four millions
entts acceded to unquestioned power in
‘ * “ “ ' Yet the party
exdiiHively-the riilnoiisresultsefrevu^ ^'jbales, brought,only .two hundred
1iutioH/ a ivhfch'kialdjfalIy should bave “ " * '*
w*. I** w«
A. V’
>Wui. tat
; *a‘
«n[d forty millions of dollars. In oth-
itf-Jui ’«l! 1*. •»(!♦ rn ImmA
i*Mt lovoviti n ‘ f s;ufcu‘’4<-
corporation, able to employ the most 1 both State and city.
learned oounsel and to await theactiou 1 ' ~ * , i
of the court, would hasten to seise upon
the first opportunity to resist the Civil when Tweed was in power. Xtia true
off in New Yura* to-day than «n were I *ts glonous record, whose
Bights act and to * appeal in behalf of that Tweed and bis
the outraged white people of the coun- far more, but if Gr
try to the supreme tribunal of the
land. : ,
ThePullman care traverse the entire
collea$wes
i- and ms
stole
party
more, but if
are not robbing ns they are strangling
a. Questions of local improvement,. . .. ,, . „
uestions necessary to the growth of the now organized and bearing the n
recollections and associations are so
interwoven with its history, furnish
every means within their power to aid,
encourage and build up the
The Tollman care traverse tbe entire questions necessary to tnegrowtn oi tne now
net-work of railroads in the South. I city and State,' have been'overlooked I and honorable name of .“ the Athens
Mr. Pullman is a white man and made I and forgotten, and all the supremacy 1 G uar da,” and which should be the
his money from the patronage of white of the democratic party in the city and .. f
men. Extreme Republican as he is. State culminates ^ intrigue for plans | P n<Je of ^ Athenian citizen,
he must understand the antipathy of in the city, intrigue for power in Al-
the races, especially at the South, and bany, and.intrigues for the Presidency.
—- v? liMilywith an wa 1
din this’ country
>‘l SpilV.-a
A* »•m-’ ■; :i >\ hi
If,
sens who
sympathize with onr white citi-
* i^bhortb * " "
or tbe contact of the vull I
•bill (-_-•;: -ir- -‘1 hi (Jim!-
w r*m vod* in '! tie. i- ' r\ >• ift»-j
free
furniture for the Methodist
Parsonage has arrived an^ la, quite
elegaut. . --ui;.; -rmn of j-otlSNfcutty ei
The Southern Mutual Insurance
Company are contemplating erecting
a magnificent Insuntaoe building upon
tbe site where now stands the old
Lombard building. This is a fine
location, and the wealth of thfa com
pany will enable them to erect a buad-
ing that will prove quite UR ornament
tboorl^ty.'S '
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The raauy “ floriculturists ” among
the ladies of our i city are busy this
pretty weather,; looking after their
flower gardens, which constitute one
and ai
antiie ana , professional vocations,
ho uld turn their, toil and talent to til-,
ageand ^iiriing. th^vhole aspect^
! surround,'
‘ towards this partial*!
• The war® j
air passing upwards would y
vapor condensed, and thus fy
dense black cloud that stood]
prominently as a huge vertical^
The rotary motion of the ^
column of mr, being once U
would; continue, and os the W
rent of cool heavy air moved, y
the tornado follow its load, Ii J
slant efforts to restore equiij
pressure. This upper cunwU
towards the northwest, wecogJ
termined the velocity and dirjj
the tornado. . The current i
moist air ascending in the |
regions caused the vapor to L
densed, which subsequent!; fd
form of rain, and when carrel
height above the snow linefdj
form o£ hail. Inequality of p
in this upper heav;, dots y
current caused tornadoes to iw
in different parts of its r
we have accounts of difi
and of the storm dividing.
The electricity manifested!
in .the ascending column di
.humid air, decomposed bjth'a
live action of the earth,
equilibrium in flashes of dK&l
that exhibited the appaiwt
“ million of matches ligbttitti
and at times by rapid flashrifri
phosphorescent hue to the;
cloud. When the tornado <
river the partial vacuum intbt^
columns manifested itself
suddeu upheaval of a column
The d^itructrve effects ofthe)
are accounted for by tbe
and rapid velocity of a larger
air rushing towards a partial n
A’ cubic of air weighs tho:
pounds. Now, if we suppose!)
ofjair 400 yards lqpgt>r
pelled against ‘an* VBstalc
velocity acquired by rush's!
partial vaeaum, w«, should i
cause sufficient to produce <
stnictfve effects, equal to I*
ifeBted by ’ouf terrible visitant
was a great tumult and \va
elements in the upper
‘lere on tbe 20th, ihi
The uprtuhofl
oduce <. “
the earttl j
unusual hail stprms < iu ranijj
ties. AY hen i this equilibrium!
atm
ou
In the Country would be speed
iiy changed lor the better. In time of
war,,the hardy and-the young go to
the, , front, and so-in A national situa
tion jilt# the p.maeot. the> sasie classes
must, du the actual battle .with.
rough forces of nature* leaving tin
Starving women-and poor, industrious
gills the minor and lighter crafts,
which are now too'much monopolized
by robust boys ahd Stalwart men.. :
-Cheap food, In every age'of the
world, has been at the bottom of all
uational prosperity, and development.
The splendid civilization of. ancient
Egypt resulted from, the cheap food in
the prolific agricultural valley, oft '"
Nile, where, acbordihg to . __
Siculus, the expense of rearing a child
did not exceed twenty drachmas, or
about five dollars. In South-America
the cheap food afforded fay the easy
cultivation: of maize! enabled the Pe
ruvian Incas to erect an imposing em
pire in the Andes, the magnificent
ruins of which still excite the '
wonder of the; world,
clouds, and the subsequent fdj
and hail, and not in destrucT
on theBurface of the earth.
r This theory off an upper
blowing^
ortheast, accounts for tbe
appearance and cylindrical M
storm-cloud, for its direetwj
locity, for the [subsequentrfl
hail, for the absence of via*]
in portions of the State in I
tbe path, for the different t
for the light manifested in t
cloud, for its extraordinary i
•faota; anfo also for-jtsphar
and limited area at anyomj
dc Sentinel.
lirfog
of
m
of the
Athena.
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Dr. Lane, of the Presbyterian.
Church, delivered on Sabbath afternoon
an able and interesting sermon on tbu
subject of .the late cydono. ii n!
. The Metbodiste arc protracting.their
quarterly meeting cf la^iw^into
daily Ptoetinga, dnfiag; thripresent
aiinouiitott odj.-tot
And it is only
t of .food,; inaii *
the development of Noi._
merican agriculture, that we can look
for a pathway. ; leading out of present
embarrassments into enlarged and
solid prosperity, ,,' ( *
Mr. Buckle, the philosophical his
torian of civilizations has shown how
the capacity and disposition for manual
labor out of doors has been determined
bv the climates under which men live.
The deadly polar cold and the enervat
ing ttopieaf hmtt equally discourage
the open air. laborer. The equatorial
regidn, .Fith its spontaneous product-
turn, destroys eVeiy incentive to labor,
While the Arctic cold necessitates a
frightful consumption of food. But
American sociologists have been wont
to advert with pride to i their fevored
they do, a propiti-
ment of muscle
therefore, are we cafiSl to ehcouraa»
the retum of labor to its natural and
ordamed channdk Let the thousands
pf the Unemployed and work seekers
who now throng the cities and towns
turn their attention, to productive in
once more (afi irr the earltei
this century) concentrated „„
husbandry and pasturage of the soil-
so beautifully cuffed •• the two breasts
of the State’’—and another; year,
WW eee f the still
‘ ! *qd comtpercial
and the dawn.-of a
nosph
r lati
owing upwards, the
isible:inUhe rapid ft
' Rigging the Tobacco Mu
Our English exchanges
time been loud in their dencaa
of the whole tribe of Amend*]
co dealers and exporters, *"l
ding to the Engiisn account*. 1 ]
now engsged in engineering* ]
in . them, staple, or, as oin‘
phrase it, “rigging the m*r»
course the lovers of the need
the score sat down and wntsaj
to the Times and other pap® 8 !
working themselves into a - 1 *
horbitant prices. J
leering of the Central
ation of Tobacco Manufactory
the trade of ft 8
i) held a couple of*
ester, resolution*
the present b$ .
tobacco to y* -
action of . speculative 1
United Spates, and deelto'Uj
operations of these spec"
best be counteracted by J
ufacturers purchasing ° nl J. A, |
required for foeir imroW*']
and, where possible,
grown tin other countries
United States. These
have excited the livli«8tiu“
the tobacco merchants oi
K°j,S ka
j r,
higher
“ > Cheating the
inent article in the J ter)U
form of 1872 was as
“The franking prit^
abolbked; anffthe wan
tiie .
Jbenj ^ibedjlrdcliiette* m
jafeftrV
lini
clouds
better and |
dusfries of the
tod ,oni) r. no jjl'nwi im-mb
doubling the rates of t
Witt