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I Georgia Matters.
S;ixc is *• *■ t down as a lmmbtig by
tin-Georgia papers.
,< i. tting out retail liquor licenses.
K:t't look worth a cent for the crutfadS?.
nft, a i.cli' « non it is said are never run
, they are always out of the way.
cling held ill Atlanta on Saturday to
K company to build a cotton iac-
C i,v,tl.e sum of SO,OOO was sub
«g9B ),v six gentlemen.
imrsday the two literary societies cf
WKb isty of Georgia elected their Com
flHKiaiit orators. W. II- Fleming was
tfA by the l’hi Kappa, and Charles Z.
jggpftd hv the Geinostheniaii. Both orators
9Kn< Augusta.
HKLal.a had a general old fashioned free
other day, and now Frank Evans,
,rr. >t«-r is howling for the incorpora-
BMBT tl.ut v illage.
alth of Mr. Stephens continues very
Bflftfjko" dealers are warbling arouud At
]••_ Owens lias been delighting 6'av-
JyMLi g a litter of puppies brought into
; ,t Grisworldvillo recently, was one
3Kw,11-developed human head and four
cl< •] < and human feet.
IHp,, ( ,f the Brunswick Appeal, held a
OgjßL of the tickets that drew the $75,000
jjSSL-t,, Louisville Lottery. His propor
tion m sL.'»oo
|BB< I V Morris, <»n«' of the oldest printers
fgjtygf r mi ’! uesday.
jB), nf ihe city cemetery at the
timeEf his death.
H| hn al. ill the Southwestern Road is
paired, and trains are now running
wßi gular trips.
. J|B^ an ; ~f has been offered for tho
Axifß• i cnlin Lo/.ur, who murdered L. C.
viile. Wilcox county, on tho
IL' is sopyioaf il to nave gone m
H,., tin;', of Florida.
agjh :r. Carpenter, the
>sr(l Tiiur.h ivr of young Cole,
r uhv; r, has been taken to Savannah,
MMUk, U kcv e.ag. New testimony bears
agf.inst the a. ensed.
88,,, t ], Farolina man, sojourning in At
mm , ( „ JX doses «,f morphine and table
and is stid ftliVe.
HK, , . hut t Cnitou FtH’tOlV, ill Mill til V
tllßjlity, wilt soon hv' increased to 2,OUU spin
mm it will tin n give employment to sixty
BB consume seven hundred bales of
ooUtm annually.
MKolnrs. arnv and with glass cutters, are
thin. > !i vt ly in All«uit*i.
expects to receive live hundred
<>f v'. .tton this week, whereupon the Ln
r concludes that .the cotton isn't all out
|m< country.
Albany .Wiry says there is no com
llfeu hoard from the farmers. Y.alAn'crs are
square up to tno most exacting con
ami the prospect for ample tillage and
harvests.
is becoming civilized. The boys
p.av.g tear down signs and gates ixs
K i; ' v as any of the night bummers of
Valley or Perry.*
Dalton t tii'H remarks that “Col
■TC-. of tin Macon Tt’'graph, is the ohlsst
ui tin United States or-Canada. He
i> distinctly what happened in Lib-
county as far back as 1751.”
e«i gatit new l'l-sidencc of Hr. Seaborn
ulu'Ti y. of Cairo. Thomas county,
burind m mtly. The lire wasjaccidcntal.
■ftte San .laeinto from Savannah for New
earra <1 thirty boxes of green peas on
tv p the lirst shipment of the sea
flf£ % f
■h. Atlanta ''onopoiub nt of the Augusta
.ax'- Hint the reported dueVbetwefen
■Ko. Alston and Clarke has not yet taken
Bfe progTi ssing : but it is believed that no
|Hi ting will take place. Mr. Avery, one of
editors of the Constitution, assumes? the
responsibility for the publication of
>w'» card, deelariug that he did it witk
B),:ors. Ho says he consented to its publi-
purely on busines principles, and iu
ffißgn h-vi no offense to Col. Alston. Efforts have
made to settle the controversy by refer
■k tvv out>ivle parties, but all such parties
ignoram** of the newspaper usages
customs on the question of publishing
BBfersv n&l ear.ls. and for that reason they were
to proceed with the arbitration.
Foreign.
■ Tlu P.>po has intimated that Archbishop
Banning and nine otlur Archbishops will be
au and C ardinals at the next consistory.
B lYiiK* Kulakena has been elected King of
Haa«au. to succeed l.unalilo. The elections
Cunmu rcial news unimportant.
■ A d.spateb from Spain to the London Hour
that an ammunition wagon oxplo
§Hßcd in Marshal Serrano s camp, and tiftv men
Blrvxc killed and wounded.
[ The steamship Faraday, which was built
■ expressly foT laying cables, will begin on the
I 6th of April to take on board the cable to be
B ly<d directly to the United States.
During the voyage of the Great Republic,
I from Hong Kong to Yokohama, Lieutenant
■ G. Ela.. of the United States Navy, committed
| suicide bp jumping overboard.
A Catholic mob, on the night of March 7,
[ attacked the Protestant chapel in Puebla,
Mexico, smashed the windows and furniture,
dcatroyed the Bibles and stoned tlie pastor,
Antonio Corral.
t VO.DCME IX. )
\ Vuni la 41. !
public Opinion.
The judgment, or rather the sentiment
of a community is often formed without
reason, aud is only too often the offspring
of senseless prejudice. A few men give
direction to public thought, a sentiment
springs up, and then to ‘controvert it is
treason; discussion ceases, and then if there
be any opposition it is heat’d of no longer.
This was the case in South Carolina be
fore the war, on the question of secession-
A few lAen like Calhoun, Rliett, and
Chevcs spoke. They were oracles, and the
crowd kept silence, except to echo their
words. The legislature filled nlost of the
offices —not only the State offices but ma
ny of the country offices —and the temerity*-
which gainsayed anything said by the Ora
cle was conclusive evidence of incapacity
fur public office. Mr. Petigru was an il
lustrious example. He believed that the
preservation of the Union was the only
guarantee of liberty; that the effort to
force slavery upon the Territories was a
folly. Os course this disqualified him for
office office of trust or honor. His won.
derful talent, his high personal character
and his personal popularity were nothing
in the balances. He biennially saw men
who were his inferiors in every respect,
placed in position to which it were idle
for him to aspire.
This thing grew, and demagogues —for
there were demagogues in those days too —
saw that to win they must not only be
wholly secessionists, but be conspicuously
so; must take position in advance, and say
strong things. Men vied with each other
in this matter. Public opinion became
wild. The State determined to go to war
on the issue of slavery in life Territories.
Who dared say the cause was insufficient?
Many a man of judgment felt so, but
why throw himself before an avalanche?,
The vote was small. Public opinion lash
ed many a man to take ground against his
judgment —none had the boldness to op
pose, and South Carolina seceded. The
votes throughout the South demonstrated
that the great body of the Southern people
were opposed to the war. The opposition
was passive—it could not encounter the
public sentiment, which was blatant. Its
strength was lost for want of organization.
Many thousands staid from the polls, and
yet the majorities for secession were gen
erally small. These facts are well known,
but we too often fail to use the experience
of the past in acting in the present. Those
days of wild excitement, the war with all
its horrible suffering, are all gone—gone
forever—but we may wisely dfaw lessons
from their sad experience.
The war ended, hatred and prejudice to
a triumphant, foe were only the too natural
instinct of human nature. It was hard to
look calmly and reasonably upon the situ-
at ion—the thing as it is. The emancipa
tion aiid every act of amelioration to the
sail condition of the freedmen was regard
ed only as an “act of triumph” by “a relent
less foe.” We have now no Word of cen
sure; we are trying to look at this issue
not from any party but a common sense
view. The Black Code was a failure from
every stand-point. Unwise, but more un
just than unwise and—unwise because un
just.
After the legisiation of 1865
Congress reluctantly undertook to meet
issue. May we not say reluctantly, when
we consider the delay? We may imagine
too that it was not easy to determine that
the coming legislation in Congress would
be acceptable at the North.
Rublic opinion at the South at once grew
wild—wilder than in 1860. Common
sense aud sound judgment were dethroned
in u day—passion arid prejudice ruled the
hour. Demagogues seized it to advance
their own ends 1 The little lawyer, without
the brain and professional ability to com
mand practice, strove to draw it by being
called “a bold and out-spoken Democrat.”
The tradesman, shop-keeper, and many
such people, strove to get custom by pro
claiming that they were of “the tfde blue’
and a “Simon pure.” Public sentiment was
morbid, and favored all this. The more
reckless and unreasonable the ground a
man took, the more certain of applause.
Prejudice at once set violentle against any
man, despite Ids character or his record,
who dared say there WaS error even of
judgment in those things. To talk about
trying to secure a £ocd Republican gov
ernment was treason. No. said the polit
ical leaders, we will fight it out on the
Presidential campaign. “These govern
ments of the Southern States are uncon
stitutional. null and void—that is my
plank in the platform” said one; and the
utterance was worth more for Grant at the
North than tins Democratic vote of the
entire South was to Seymour:
Such folly iu boys would have beeu
laughable—in men it was lamentable. 1 his
was like a war for slavery in the Tefrito"
ries which broiwht ruin at home. It was
fighting fire in the woods when your
house was on fire. It went, however. The
politicians were wild and reckless, and the
people suffered. The wealth and iutelli
gence of the State took uo part in the for
mation of the government under which
they were to live. The people would not ?
und this wild sentiment tyrannically refus
ed to allow any one else to do so. Three
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, APRIL 9, 1874.
eminent, native lawyers and three business
men were offered seats in the Charleston
delegatien, aM they were “given to know”
if they accepted they would be “stunk out
iu thirty days.” Pure I«Sd able men, law
yers, refused for very fear to accept judge
ships—one was actually elected who had to
decline. Such was the tyranny of public
opinion. Such was the madness of the
hour. All was staked upon that campagin,
and it was a Waterloo—Pluclier came but
where was Grouchy? There was that plank
—it smelt of wah. It W_as a light whereby
to read Forrest’s letter. It was a rule of
"construction which explained many a cam
paign speech.
In the mean time some Unprincipled
scoundrels w’ere quietly ingratiating them
sefees into the confidence of the Republi
can party, and they were only able too
easily to succeed. The colored people were
justly and properly jealous of tlieir rights
Notwithstanding the legisiation of 1865
and 1866, they had confidingly gone to those
from whom they had a right reasonably to
expect aid, aiid they had been repelled
They saw that plank in the platform. They
were told about it, and threatened with it_
Who can blame them if they had to trust
some bad men ? Who can blame them if
they have elected some men who have
stolen with both hands and grown rich in a
night? Rather lament* the folly of 1867
and 1868, which kept the people of the
State from helping to make the government
undef which they*were to live. Learn a
lesson from the folly that staked an honest
Republican government oil the chance of
that plank.
We have reason to hope that some peo
ple have learned a lesson by the sad expe
rience which the folly of blind prejudice
has brought upon Republicans or well as
Democrats—for misrule hurts all alike.
Governor Magrath’s speech is, we trust, to
be the key-note recall the beople to an ex
ercise of their reason. If men could only
ci ircise their personal judgment iu public
affairs as they do in their ow’n business;
their prejudices would not be considered.
This will have to be done before there is
an effectual reformotion in public affairs.
The people must lay aside their prejudices,
and work for honesty , Until they do so
conventions petitions to Congress are mere
occasions for demagogues to ventilate them
selves. —From Greenvile (S. d.J Ttepub
! lican.
The Nintli Crusade*
At this distance in time the crusades are
regarded as notable exempligeations of the
romance of superstition. They are un
doubtedly entitled to rank somewhat high
er. As phenomena of human progress
they have important philosophic bearings
that ought not to be ignored. It is con
ceded that civilization originated in the
east. From what can be known through
research and comparison it is probable that
the first impulse was scarcely felt at all in
Europe, apparently having expended its
greatest force near its starting pofet. A
later impulse, aided by pride of dominion
and a restless spirit of adventure, made
itself felt beyond the eastern shore of the
Adriatic and the southern shore of the
Mediterranean. Often chocked and"beaten
back, it nevertheless forded its way west
ward to the Atlantic and northward to the
North Sea and the Baltie. It was only a
little leaven introduced into the lump of
barbarism, but its effects were measurable
even as regarded the first generations to
whom it came. And these effects became
more positive ifi the history of each suc
ceeding generation.
The civilization of Europe during the
period of the crusades Was crude and im
perfect compared with European civiliza
tion to-day. Its people were moved by
impulses of Whose nature and origin they
were ignorant, The spirit of unrest seem
ed to pervade every rank aud condition of
men. Just as this spirit touched the bound
that separates amity and neighborhood
quarrel the idea of the crusades appears to
have taken form. The formulation of that
idea may have saved Europe from nameless
horrors. It is only known that the empty
ing of European chivalry, fired with re
ligious zeal, upon Palestine was the return
ing wave of that civilization which invaded
Europe from the east age3 before. It was
the recoil of that wave. It came on crest
ed With conquering spears, and so it return
ed after many centuries. It rolled in Pagan
and it rolled back semi-Christian. It was
simaly the flux and reflux of the tides which
wait upon man in history as the ocean
tides wait upon the earth in its eternal
round. The spirit of the crusades was
emotional. Variously modified by circum
stances the same spirit has been felt in
every subsequent age. It is seen in what
is passing at this very time, and attracting
no little attention on evert hand.
We allude to the “women's War” upon
1 the traffic in intoxicating beverages, which
may possibly rank in history as the ninth
crusade- The impulse of civilization iu
this hemisphere, as in the eastern, is from
east to west. The impulse which has given
the great west all its triumphs was derived
from the east. The sons and daughters of
eastern men and women peopled the west.
They could not take the luxuries ofadvan
TEE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—THE UNION AS RESTORED.
ced civilization with them, but they look
the impulse of progress, and kept it alive
during their prolonged conflict with unre
claimed nature. The next generation felt
the influence of that impulse and cherished
it. Iu time improved means of communi
cation gave new force to it .and as the force
accumulated a condition of unrest came on.
This restlessness was perhaps only the dis
agreement between the strong impulse of a
higher civillization and the surroundings.
However that may have been, the result
was seen in excesses of various kinds, such
As flow disgrace the border lands of civilli
zation When men read of these excesses
they are ready to believe that v in
border regions is going to pieces. .Out the
condition of Europe just prior to the cru
sades was similar. Yet society did not
fall into chaos. There seems to be a law
conducting all phenomenal evils to a cer
tain point only the better to eradicate
them. Thus the impulse of a higher civi
lization appears to have inagurated a bitter
and unrelenting war upon certain agencies
held to be demoralizing. The movement
originated in the west and spreads east
ward. It is closing down upon us slowly
but surely. It will not pause until it rea
ches the sea; and no can say that the
reflux of this ancient tidal wave may not
invade Great Britain. It may suit some
to ridicule this singular demonstration,but
ridicule cannot stay its career. Like Mil
lerism and other emotional demonstrations
it appears to have all the occult force of
an epidemic.
Certainly it has all the force that relig
ious zeal give it, and every reader of histo
ry know r s something of what sort of foice
that is. Religious zeal may be mlsdireci
ed and misapplied, but it is a tremendous
power under all circumstances. It is a
power because it is in dead earnest. It is
impervious id ridicule, aud it thrives on
persecution. And the man who, or the
combination of men which, sets out to ob
struct such a movement will assuredly fail.
The spirit of unrest is abroad, and it must
have some objective point, in gaining which
it can expend itself. It will riot dd to
laugh at “the praying women,” nor can
they be intimidated. If mistaken, as many
believe, resistance cannot disabuse their
minds of the error. It must work itself
otit; and the world can learn something, if
not too proud or too scornful, while the
problem is solving itself.
In the firs* place it is self-evident that
intemperance is a great and growing evil.
It saps the vigor of youth, develops the
worst passions, and thus lowers the stand
ard of morality. Law may interpose some
checks to its growth, but it is agreed by
pretty nearly all thinking men that prohib
itory meaSUres do not destroy the evil.
The truth is that the tendency to excess
is radical, and no law can root out that
tendency. Law can ouly lessen opportu
nity at most; or it can lay on such restric
tions that the traffic shall become a matter
of hourly risk. But even that depends
upon the enforcement of the law, always a
difficult matter. And it is because of
these disabilities that this crusade of tile
women has bloomed into such formidable
proportions. There is no law against
prayer. Such as deny its efficacy need
not fear it; and such as believe so much
in its efficacy as to fear it, if wise will re
frain from useless opposition.— Phil. North
Ametican.
Pofauity.
The awful prevalence of this vice ob
trudes itself upon attention, go Where We
will. Iu cities, towns, aud villages, along
the railway lines, and by country highways,
one’s ears are daily saluted with profane
utterance. The vice is hot restricted to
ignorant negroes and abandoned white then,
but those wearing the exterior of cultivated
gentlemen, too frequently indulge in blas
phemous expletives without seeming to
think that their claims to gentility are
thereby disparaged. Always the chosen
costume in which the raging passions of
men disport themselves before theis fellows,
much of the profanity which smites tlie ears
of tlie virtuous is the idle hecompaniment
of ordinary conversation, without even the
shallow vindication of angry excitement.
But the most odious and deplorable evi
dence of the prevalence of this form of evil
is furnished by the great swelling oaths
Which may be heard issuing from the lips
of callow youths, and little boys scarce
loosed from the traditional -‘mother’s apron
string.” It would be marvellous—if the
feeling of wonder were not swallowed up
by the profounder sentiment of painful sor
row—to note the fluence of these fledglings
iri the dialect of the pit.
For this lamentable state of things,
parents are largely responsible; and upon
them, mainly, depends its correction. Few
men contract the habit of swearing after
maturity, and if the early youth of the
present generation of profane men, bad
been properly guarded, the evil never could
have reached its present fearful proportions.
There is a peculiar charm far boys and
youth iu this gratuitous vice, growing out
of the mannish air it supposed to impart
to the stripling who indulges it; and iflany
a boy becomes ensnared iu the meshes of a
vile and almost invincible habit from no
worse beginning than a vain desire to re
semble his father, or some other man.
Slang, too, is the stepping stone to pro
fainity, and a few boys descend rapidly
from the low plane of home-circle cant, to
the lower level of profane swearing. In
this particular, as well as in higher depart
ments of moral training, a grave Responsi
bility claims the vigilant and untiring at
tention of parents, and they can hot be too
diligent iri guarding their children against
this vicious habit.
Nor are we certain that the pulpit is
wholly guiltless with reference to the wide
spread disregard of the third Command
ment. The irreverent flippancy with which
the Sacred Name is uttered in sermons by
some preachers, is sufficient, to dull the
edge of any rebuke they
to profanity. But enough, the evil is great,
aud seems to be growing; let parents auu
preachers, and indeed all who reverence
God, or even appreciate high-toned society,
bestir themselves for suppression.— S. G.
Advocate.
E 7 atur&lhmtion.
Sutton, Neb.. March 19,1874,
To the Editor of the Inter-Ocean.]
Sir: Having some difference of opinion
with reference to the naturalization of
foreigners, I wish to ask information re
garding the following points;
1. Can a foreigner, by filing his inten
tion to become a citizen, take a homestead,
and then vote within one year ?
2. How long have they to live iri this
country before they become citizens ?
3. Must children coming to this coun
try get their papers before they are legal
voters ? Flease answer ’ the above and
oblige A Subscriber.
1. Any person who is the head of a
family, or who lias arrived at the age of 21
years, and is a citizen of the United States,
or who shall have filed his intention to be
come such, as required by law, find has
never borne arms against the government,
or given aid and comfort to its enemies,
is entitled to enter land under the home
stead law Foreigners who have declared
their intention to become citizens are per
mitted to vote, having complied with laws
of the State wherein they reside. In most
of the States the period required to gain
residence is one year.
2. Five years’ residence is required for
full citizenship.
3. Minor children whose parents have
not been naturalized, and who desire to be
come citizens, must get their papers ot age,
before they are entitled to the privileges of
citizenship. The only difference in their
case is, that the declaration of intention ia
not required. For instance; if A becomes
a resident of the United States when he is
16 years old. with the intention of remain
ing here, he will be entitled to his papers
on arriving at age. If he is 18 at the time
of his arrival in this country, he must wait
until he is 23 before getting his final certi
ficate. Os course, when he is 21, he can
file his intention to become a citizen, if he
desires, and vote or hold property the same
as any other adult foreigner. The above
only applies to minors whose parents are
not citizens. Children of persons wdio
have been duly naturalized are considered
citizens without any formal naturalization.
—lnter Ocean.
Good Advice.
President Porte of Yale College gave
the following advice to iße students of that
institution the other day:
"Young men you are the architects of
your own fortunes. Rely upon your own
strength of body and soul. Take for your
star self reliance, faith, honesty and indus
try. Inscribe b'ti flag. Luck is a fool
“Pluck is a hero.” Don’t take too much
advice—keep at your helm and steer your
own ship, and remember that the great art
of commanding is to take a fair share of
the work. Don't practice too much hu
manity, Think Well of yourself; Strike
out. Assume your oftn position. Put pota
toes in your cart, over a rough road aud
small ones iftill go to the bottom. Rise
above the envious and jealous. .Rise Shove
the' mark you intend to hit. Energy evin
cible determination with a right motive are
the powers that move the world. Don't
driuk. Don’t chew;. Don’t smoke; Don’t
swear. Don't deceive. Ddn’t read novels.
Don’t marry until you can support a wife.
Be in earnest. Be self-reliant. Be generous.
Be civil. Read the papers. Advertise your
business. Make money and do good With
it. Love truth aud virtue. Lowe your
country and obey its laws. If this advice
is implicitly followed by young men of the
codntry, the millennium is at hand.
The Ocala Banner says Mr. Jno B. Gro
ves, the gentleman sent otrt to this coun
try sometime since by Messrs, Powers &
Weightman, drnggists, Philadelphia, to
make a test of extracting the jntce of sour
oranges and converting it into "citric acid,
will soon famish us with a report of his
operations. He is very much pleased with
his success and believes there is as much
money to be made on sour groves as on
gweet ones, and with but a small outlay of
capital. His report will furnish some val
uable information and already some Os our
citizens have embarked in this new enter
prise.
It is‘bad manners to walk into a private
house with a lighted cigar in your mouth.
j OFFICE, HKOVGIITO\ ST., >
Sunburn Building.
A Chapter od Manners.
It is a sign of bad manners to look over
the shoulder of a petsori who is Writing to
see what is written.
It is the height of bad manners to blow
one’s nose with the fingers in the street or
iri company; use your haudkerehief, aud if
you have none, borrow one.
It is bad manners ffcr a man to walk the
streets with a female, and at the same titn*
smoke a cigar or pipe.
It is bad manners to occupy a scat While
other people stand Around Without a seat.
It is bad mariners to go into any person’s
house without taking off your hat:
It is bad manners to use profane lan
guage in the presence of decent company.
Ii is bad manners to use your own knife
at meals in cutting off a piefie of meat, or
to use it on the butter dish—get a clean
knife.
It is bad manners to go into Any person’s
house with mud or dirt on your shoes.
Itis bad manners to talk in company
when others are talking, or to talk or whis
per in church.
It is bad mariners to talk in company
to one or two persons about some subject
which the others present do not ‘under
stand,
It is bad manners to stare at strangers
in company or iu the street.
It isliacl manners to say “yes” or “no"
to a stranger, or to your parents or to aged
people; let it be "yes, sir,” and “no, sir.”
It is bid manners to pick your teeth at
the table, and bad manners to pick them
with a pin in any company.
It is bad manners to comb your hair or
brush your coat iri the eating room.
It is a sign of bad manners to rudely jos
tle those sitting or standing near you, par
ticularly if they are strangers.
It is a sign of low breeding to make a
display of your finery or equipage.
It is bad manners to boast of your
wehtth or prosperity or good fortune in
the presence of the poor or those less for
tunate than you are.
It is bad manners to spit on the floor or
carpet, or to spit at meals, ond yet many
people who think they are genteel do it.
If you must spit at meals, get up and go
out. Children ought to be taught at school
that spitting is mere habit.
It Is vttlgai’ to talk much about yourself,
and it is very low r and vulgar to lie.
It is bad manners to stand with your
side to or turn away your face from the
person yon are talking to —look them in
the face.
It is bad manners to stand in the middle
of the pavement when people are passing,
or to make remarks about those who pass.
Tlie Convicts .Leased;
Gcfv: Smith has leased all of the con
victs, under the law authorizing him to do
so, in his discretion.
In distributing them his view was td put
them in different localities and in various
pursuits. The total number of convicts is
six lmridted and thirty, and are leased out
as follows:
John T. &W. D. Grant, 180 for five
yearfe at sll per capita per annum.
Wallace, Raley & Cos., for the North
Georgia Railroad, from Marietta to Elli
jay, 100 for two yeas-s at sll per capita
per annum. With great promptness thesd
men executed their bond yesterday.
The Dale Company 100 for five years a
sll per capita per anntim;
Smith; Riddle & Cos., of Washington
county, 100 for five years milling and agri
cultural purposes, at sll per capita per
annum.
Smith, Riddle & Cos., of Washington
cotmty, 100 for five years milling and agri
cultural purposes, at sll per capita per an
num.
G. D. Harris, of Rartow county, 50 for
wofk iii irori works at $lO per anntim.
The Northeastern Railroad Company of
Athens 50 for 21 months at sll per capita
per annum.
Ilenry Stephens, of Baldwin county, 50
for one year, with privilege of two years,
for in Kaolin Works, at S2O per capi
ta per annum.
This will average Over $lO per capita
per annum.
It is not often that the orthodox piilpit
is accused of being too liberal on the ques
tion of temperance. In Chicago, however,
the Rev. Dr. Thomas, an earnest and able
divine of the Methodist Church, the other
day expressed the opinion that the use of
wine and beer should be permissible; and
further, th'at the substitution Os such
drinks for strong alcoholic beverages would
do more to lessen habitual druhkeness
than any amount of misguided enthusiasm.
Some of the temperance organization s have
thought it necessary id rebuke this minis
ter for the frank expressioh of his views.
We have no doubt ho will be able to sur
vive their censure. If the special advoca
tes of temperance were a little more prac
tical in their views and demonstrations the
result accomplished would be fully as satis
factory to the public and beneficial to the
cause of morality.
[Terms, Two Dollars a Year.]
*83X33 SOUTH.
Emigration to the Southern
States.
The Irish Citizen remarks, too man/
emigrants remaiu in the cities—far too
many remain ill New York. According
to some political philosophers, the growth
and tfie progress of the large cities demand
t* o. According to onr views, the pro
flres.. and welfare of the emigrants com
mand them to take themselves and their
families out of the large cities and into the
country, where they will build up their
health instead of undermining it; save what
money t hey may have instead of wasting itj
learn economy instead of lavish expendU
tore, and benefit by self-reliance insjtead of
Wdoing ruin through temptation.
Many good men and their families arrive
with means which, if properly invested,
aided by industry, would guarantee com
parative comfort. They unfortunately re
main in the cities until all their capital i£
wasted in living, waiting for something to
turn up, and making well meant effort to
get into some kind of business or employ
ment. All goes finally, the loving family
has to separate under various exigencies,
and the members are more or less, bound
irrevocably to the wheel by which they
may probably grind out a bar existence,
but without the freedom of spirit or action
which might have dignified them, and kept,
the family together, if they had gone right
through the cities planted themselves
on the soil.
We have iiecn led into this expression
of a deep conviction by a conversation with
one of the most prominent and practical
meii hi the fro rid of railroad enterprise}
the mention of whose name will only add
to the importance of the brief remarks wo
mean to offer, lion. Samuel Sloan, iii
company with another leading financial
authority, recently made a tour through
S6m ii Carolina and Georgia.. Mr. Sloan,
it is scarcely necessary to sav, was former
ly President of the Hudson River railroad}
arid now occupies the same position to thO
Delaware, Lackawanfiti, and Western Rail
road Company. He is eminently obser
vant, experienced, and practical, and the
success of the enterprises under his direc
tion m a sufficient guarantee of his
sight and the wisdom of his conclusions. ,
Mr. Sloan,3 observation was aided by
personal conferences with the most promi
nent men of all parties; and we are happy
to say his conclusions on the future of tiid
South are of the most hopeful nature. If
the government were to withdraw its sat
ellites and permit the people of the South}
black and white, to attend to their own
affairs without the crowding of unnecessa
ry and degrading intervention, the difficul
ties which have waylaid Southern prosper
ity would soon disappear. Os course, there
are many and unavoidable chocks on the
development of the South left by the war;
but the action of the government has
heightened, widened, and intensified them,
'[’hey are not, however, insurmountable;
and could be made of comparatively easy
access by the exercise of wisdom, discre
tion and impartiality on the part of tho
government.
One special fact we gleaned from Mr.
Sloan—one of deep importance to those
directing the course of* emigrants in thid
couutry. We knew the field was wide and
large, but the advantages presented in the
best of the Southern States seem greatly
in advance of anything offered in the West.
The land in Virginia and Tennessee—the
uplands of Georgia and South Carolina—
are of excellent quality. They can be
worked at much less cost than knd in tho
West; cattle can be fed cheaper, the cli
mate is more salubrious; the winter short,
so that all the farmer can raise need not
be expended in feeding his stock. Then
these kinds can be bought at a very low.
figure,and the settler, whether he comesf
from over the Atlantic or the Kastern
States, or the Western, is sure of a hearty
welcome. - .
Good men are needed, and the inhabi
tants w ill hail them with good will and hos
pitality. The settler can take his position
the moment he plants his foot upon the
ground, and nothing is needed to, insure
competence and success, save integrity and
honasty. Half Ihe industry and energy
expended in J\ 7 ew Jersey or the West would
gi\j3 superior personal comfort and insure
fortune to a farmer in the now idle lands*
of the States alluded to.
We understand some organized effort
will soon be made to direct enterprise and
industry to this quarter. It is a good
move, and we shall have more to say od
the subject.
AClianc©for ibyTarmers-
The State Agricultural Society will hola
its next annual Fair at Atlanta in October,
It offers premiums to boy farmers as fol
lows:
Largest and most valuable yield cultiva
ted by boy under 20 years of age, SSO. Chi
ton, one acre, by boy under 16 years, $25,
Corn, one acre, by boy under 16 years,s2s,
We hope that the boys will go to ‘work
with great zeal and energy for the pre
miums. The money is a consideration, but
the bailor of getting it would be greater;
bat they both go together the winner
would have a right to feel proud and press
forward with a vigor and determination to
still illustrate the boy in years of manhood.
Who will beat, the piney woods or the?
mountain boys? We advise piney wooda
it on cotton.
The Louisiana Cane Crop. —The New
Orleans Picayune says: “The appearance
of the cane fields along the coast was sever
more encouraging and cheering than at
present. Roth the plant and stubble have
a remarkably healthy and vigorous appear
ance, and should no BerioUs mishap occur,’
there is a prospect of a large crop of sugar
this season. iThe mild winter has left
the seed cane in a better condition than
has been known since the war. It is to be
hoped that our sugar planters will be con
soled for the many misfortunes of the paaf
season by a brilliant result of the ptojenv.