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Is There No Remedy?
The reader will he interested in an arti- '
clo which we copy to-day, beaded “What
We liny Abroad.” Au interesting inquiry j
is, How and wherewith do we pay for the
$1)77,000,000 worth of foreign goods
bought ? We have not before us the offi
cial report of exports, but we know that
the portion of last year’s cotton crop ex
ported contributed at least $200,000,000 of
the sum needed, and that about SIOO,OOO,- !
000 more of it was consumed by our
Northern factories. It thus appears that
the South—by far the poorest portion of 1
the Union in the valuation of its prop- j
erty -is probably the richest in its pro- i
ductive capacity. We make greatly more j
than <>ur proportionate share of the !
wealth that goes to balance this huge im
portation, hut it is managed by other sec
tions and is made tributary to the build
iu« up and maintenance of their supe
rior prosperity. This should not be, and
we are convinced that it need not be.
Hut it will require a great reform in our
industrial economy aud commercial com
plications to relieve our industry from
tliis stato of bondage. In our judgment
the moans of doing this should be the
paramount ipiostion with Southern agri
culturists, merchants and statesmen. It
should engage the attention of our poli
ticians and legislators, and the people
generally should give their hearty support
to any scheme that promises relief from
II condition of things which is yoarly
adding to our embarrassment and sinking
us deeper in the slough of poverty and
dependence.
THE MASSACRE OF THE MODOCS.
This disgraceful and dastardly net
crowns the Modoc war with infamy. The
treacherous butchery of Gen. Canby and
his companions, under a flag of truce,
was horrible, and called for the serverest
punishment. Hut that was an act com
mitted by savages who may or may not
have been fully conscious of the atrocity
of the deed which they were committing.
No such doubt can possibly palliate the
act of the Oregon volunteers, who so
foully murdered the captive Modoes. In
violable as a Hag of truce is considered
among civilized nations, it is not more
so than unarmed aud helpless prisoners of
wur. It is worthy of remembrance that
the Oregon volunteers, who showed so
much valor on this occasiou, were not to
be found within rifle range of Gapt. Jack
and his band when 1 hey hold the lava beds.
Until Ihe regular forces of the United
.States arrived and invested the ludian
stronghold, there was a reign of terror
in the locality—a regular panic—and lusty
were the calls for help and protection
from Unde Saiu. Hut Oregon rallied in
vengeance at last, and wreaked it terribly
upon the manacled men and the women
and children of the captive Modoes.
Sheridan's slaughter of the Piegans stands
not alone its glory !
The insufficiency of the escort sent with
these Indians iudioateH reprehensible in
difference to their fate, to say the least
of it. Exasperated as the Oregon set
tlers were known to be—even their women
seem to have been full of fury —there was
good reason to fear just such a “Ku-
Klux” raid as was made, and at least some
resistance should have beeu made to it.
This limsliing massacre and disgrace is
not the least of the blunders that have
marked the conduct of so expensive a
war to biiug to terms a handful of wild
ludians.
The Bainbkidge, Cdthbekt and Co
lumbus It. U.—The Atlanta papers stato
that W. H. Lowe, of that city, before he
accepted Ihe Presidency of that road, to
which he recently was elected, called up
on the Governor and made himself
thoroughly familiar with the history of
the enterprise. He found the Governor
fully alive to the importance of the work,
aud ready to do all in his power to ac
compli. h its speedy success. The new
President is said to he an eminently
practical and successful man. He has ac
quired a fortune l>y attending to his own
business and showing a persistent deter
mination that ensures triumph. lie is a
man of too much caution and good seuso
to become connected with any public un
dertaking that would end in failure. The
fact that he has decided to accept Iho of
fice gives the assurance that the road will
be built, and that very speedily. He was
selected without his knowledge or solici
tation.
With the hearty co-operatiou and aid
of the people along the line, Columbus
aud Hrainbridge will soon have railroad
connections. .Columbus will be ready to
do her part in due time.
The Postmaster General having decided
that postmasters have no right to read
what is written on the backs of postal
cards, but that it is their duty to exclude
from the mails all of an obscene or iude
cent character, the Philadelphia Bulletin
makes a centre shot thus:
“That was a happy thought of the De
partment which guards against improper
uses of Ihe postal cards. The carriers are
not to read what is written on the cards
unless it is scurrilous! It will be seen
that this is u perfect security against the
abuse of the new system. It was invent
ed in Ireland.”
Ihe Gorokous Kimballs. —The Griffiu
Star says:
Hannibal I. Kimball aud Edwin N.
Kimball have filed their petition in bank
ruptcy in the District Court of the United
States in the District of Massachusetts.
1 heir liabilities amounted to $5,700,177
The amount of indebtedness return
ed in Georgia foots up the handsome lit
tle sum of $708,550. Henry Clews A Cos.,
ouo banking company in New York, loses
the small sum of $1,000,000. J. G. Sears,
of Griffin, feels the pressure t-o the trif
hog sum of SIO,OOO, that he worked for
as contractor on the Yau Wert railroad.
As to tlm assets of the estate we are not
advised.
\ibginia Politics.—A Richmond cor
respondent of the Courier-Journal thinks
it probable that the Conservatives of Vir
ginia will need a man, as their candidate
f°r Governor, “whose very name will
gi'i- them all under holt,” and says he is
becoming more than ever convinced that
oucdf (; L . n j ie e's sous should be their
nominee.
Hon B. H. Hill Enoaoed. —We are in
formed that this distinguished lawyer has
been employed to assist in the prosecu
tion of Mr. John Hooper for killing Mr.
ibillips, in Opelika, Alabama. Mr.
1 killips, who was killed, was a brother of
the gentleman of that name who lives in
Atlanta and had a sou killed last year in
that place. Another brother lives in
Auburn, Ala.
' mted States Marshal Wallace left
oHilestou for New York last week, with
hree prisoners, convicted of violations of
“6 Enforcement act, and oue post office
lubber, sentenced to be imprisoned for
various terms, ranging from one to three
) ears, in the Albany peuitentiary.
YOL. XV.
.HE PRESS AND THE PULPIT.
Some of our exchanges are “having a
time” over a somewhat remarkable “ser
mon” preached by the Rev. Robert Coll
yer. of Chicago, on Sunday the 25th ult.
—the subject of which sermon was
“American Journalism.” We have not
yet seen a full report of this noted dis
course, as it seems to be the aim of each
paper noticing it to cull only such expres
sions as may lie made to sustain its own
position, idiocrasies, or necessities, and to
pay no attention to other points. The
fullest report before us is that of the New
A ork Herald of the Ist inst., and it is evi
dent that this, too, is garbled for the
glorification of the Herald. Hut we must
needs take this report as the best that we
have.
The first question, no doubt, that sug
gests itself to the Southern reader, is,
why did the Reverend gentleman “preach”
about the press at all ? and some may be
curious to know where be found a text in
the Bible applicable to his subject. In the
North they are more accustomed to such
freaks, aud an explanation there would
be useless. The Herald calls Mr. Collyer
“the Beecher of the West,” and there is
a great deal of significance in the com
parison. Mr. Beecher was a pioneer of
the Northern ministers who introduced
politics into the pulpit—who dropped the
story of redeeming love to fan the fires of
sectional hate—
“Who another Gospel preached than Paul,
And one that had no Saviour in it.”
The first and only occasion upon which
we heard Mr. Beecher “preach” was on a
Sabbath morning in the summer of 1854,
aud the place was his church in Brooklyn.
Tho text we cannot now designate, but as
the subject was the cotton factories of
tho North, wo leave the reader to hunt
the text ut his leisure. Mr. Beecher, in
this sermon, strongly and eloquently set
forth tho advantages and advocated the
extension of manufacturing enterprises
at the North—not simply as a means of
advancing tho prosperity of tho section
aud improving tho condition of its work
ing people—but because, as 110 said,
“every cotton factory started there drove
a nail into tho coffin of slavery. ” The
uiain idea of his sermon was the building
up of cotton factories and other groat in
dustrial establishments of the North as a
means of increasing tho political power of
that section and to enable it to wage suc
cessfully its war upon Southern institu
tidUkg. And it is to aberrations prompted
and encouraged by this spirit that we may
attribute the now frequent selection by
Northern ministers of subjects having
neither a Saviour nor religion in them,
as the themes of thoir so-called sermons.
The “Western Beecher," it seems, had
some provocation—whether it was a jus
tification or not—for his sermon on the
press; and we are glad that we can add
that we find in the report before us noth
ing that ministers to sectional animosi
ties or prejudices, or mere party differ
ences. Oue of the Chicago Sunday pa
pers had for some time been publishing a
series of articles ridiculing aud reviling
the clergy of the city, charging them with
various ucts of folly aud immorality.
One of the churches had expelled a re
porter of this paper, ami it was seeking
to stir up an excitement because of what
it called “an outrage on the liberty of the
press.” Mr. Collyer, therefore, had good
reason to give his views of what the press
should be, aud to rebuke it for doing
what it should not do. But his selection
of the Sabbath as the time, the pulpit as
the place, and the Bible as the text, does
not seem so appropriate to those as little
accustomed as we of the South are to the
customs of his region. His text, which
we give to gratify the curiosity of the
reader, was the thirty-first, thirty-second
and thirty-third verses of tho second
chapter of Daniel: “This groat image,
whose brightness was excellent * * *
and the form thereof was terrible. This
image’s head was of fine gold, his breast
and bis arms of silver, his belly and his
thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay.”
Leaving the reader to make the appli
cation for himself, we proceed to a remark
or two on the general tone and hearing
of the sermon. This, except a few stric
tures that may be considered as having
reference to the course of the Chicago
paper above mentioned, is complimentary
in the highest degree. Indeed we cannot
help regarding some of its comparative
laudations as very extravagant, if not im
pious. It justly extols the enterprise and
progress of the American press, its gen
eral honesty in denouncing corruption
and crime, and the industry and tact by
which it makes itself so widely popular
and useful. But when it conies to allude
to its eager hunt after sensations, with
out rebuke, and speaks of the personal
“interviewer” with more of admiration
than repugnance, wo fool that tho
preacher was more anxious to con
ciliate than to correct. And when the
Reverend gentleman goes so far as to
declare that the secular newspaper is “ns
sacred in its own way as the Bible;” that
“he prays and praises best who keeps up
the truest and steadiest intimacy with a
good paper;” that “he preaches best who
watches the newspapers;” and that “while
the Bible is divine, the true newspaper in
its own way is divine also”—it scorns to
us that he goes to the very verge of im
piety. The connection of tilings sacred
and worldly is too close for our admira
tion. Nor do we believe that American
journalism can tie exalted by associations
of such questionable propriety; for, ns
Pope says—
“ Fame, impatient ol extremes, decays
Not more from envy than excess of praise.
We are at least glad to find that the
“Western-Beecher” admires the outspoken
and manly course of the press generally
that he has no word of commendation
for any shirking of its high duty to give
the people its honest opinions of public
men and measures, aud to criticise the
events of the day with a freedom hide
bound by no interdiction of embarrassing
or difficult topics. The papers he seems
to refer to as exemplars—the New York
Tribune, Cincinnati Commercial, Chicago
Tribune, and Springfield Republican —are
all journals noted for tho freedom with
which they discuss every public ques
tion and for their decided course in poli
tics. It is, perhaps, a little singular that
all these papers are of the Liberal Re
publican division, but that fact is perhaps
rather attributable to closer acquaintance
with them, brought about by political af
finity, than by a design to disparage
others equally honest and free spoken.
Weather in the South.— The Finan
cial Chronicle of June Gth, of New York,
reports the weather in the cotton districts
for the week ending on that day, sultry
and wet, and the fight with grass severe.
In the country tributary to Memphis and
Nashville, aud some inland portions of
the Atlantic, there has been less rain, but
with these exceptions the complaint is
general. There had been no rain at
Memphis, but frequent showers at Nash
ville. The mercury averaged at Selma
80, Montgomery 81, Macon 70, Columbus
81, and Mobile 7‘J. Showers fell at these
places all but two days of the week.
♦ ♦
Father Ryan.—The poet priest has re
turned from his visit to Italy, and re
sumed the editorial chair of the New' Or
leans Morning Star.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
THE ENQUIRER AND THE SOUTH.
Our noighbor the Enquirer and The
South (a New York paper) are exchang
ing spats. \V e are not fully into the
merits of the controversy, as we were
absent when it commenced. But we un
derstand the pffints to be these; The
South had compiled au article “descrip
tive of various cities of the Southern
States, which our zealous and jealous
neighbor did not think amply descriptive
of Columbus—wherefore it complained,
and we suppose with some asperity, for
The South says that we (late editor of the
Enquirer) “would not have treated it so.”
lhat s the way wo are lugged into a quar
rel that is none of ours. So far we would
have let it pass without notice. But the
Enquirer, replying to this remark of The
South, says that it knows not what we
would have done, “but as our object is
not to copy individuals or please them,
when such conduct would deceive , we must
still repeat that Columbus is something
more than a town situated on the Chatta
hoochee river at the border of the up
lands,” Ac. Now we have been in daily
communication with this people for many
years, and do not believe that we have
ever been accused of deceiving them.
For anew comer, and on short acquain
tance, our neighbor is marvellously apt in
making discoveries—such as they are. YYe
have no ambition that he should “copy”
us, aud freely acquit him of any imputa
tion of having done so, so far. Let him
be equally careful that he is lod astray by
no other unsafe instincts or counsels, and
he will 110 doubt get along swimmingly.
AVe will take this occasion to say to our
neighbor that he is mistaken if he sup
poses that the press of Columbus was, be
fore his connection with it, remiss in its
duty to make known the superior natural
advantages of this city, its progress in
manufacturing and other industrial enter
prises, and the great inducements which
it offered to men of energy and capital.
As The South truly intimates, many of
these “descriptive” articles of the Colum
bus press have beeu copied by it und
other Northern papers. Wo are even con
scious of the fact that some home readers
have complained of our devoting too much
space to such matters. Our neighbor’s
zeal may be equal to the undertaking, but
certainly its industry has not yet been
able to develop from this rich mine any
thing new—anything astonishing to even
“the vorie.it old fogies” whose iuertness
elicits so much of its pious commiseration.
A Layman’s Defence of Collyer and
Beecher.
One of the Enquirer’s “lay” preachers
is after us, in defence of Rev. Robert
Collyer’s sermon on the Press, aud to re
buke us for quoting from Alexander Pope,
of “doubtful morality!” He acknowl
edges that the “freak” of Mr. Collyer in
dropping religious topics and preaching
on the Sabbath on subjects of
pure worldly concern, is a custom
at the North, and wishes from his
soul “that the Southern people
through their clergy w r ere made more fa
miliar with just this kind of freak.” We
cannot joiii in the wish—even we who
profess no religion and fear that our piety
is sadly below par. We do not deprecate
criticism of the press by' the clergy, but
we believe that there is a proper place as
well as “a time for all things,” aud that
he desecrates the sacred desk and the
sacred day who makes them the lime and
the occasion oven for extravagant lauda
tions of the secular press. Much more
does our judgment condemn the perver
sion of the pulpit and the day to the pro
motion of sectional strifes and animosi
ties as Beecher did, and to comparisons
savoring of impiety as Collyer’s did in his
sermon on the Press. We say “from our
soul”—sinuer though we be—in behalf of
our section and people, “ Procul , oh pro
cul, cste profani!" (not from Pope).
But as this difference between us and our
neighbor seems to be a matter of educa
tion on both sides, it is perhaps an un
profitable discussion, and w r e might as
well agree to disagree upon it—leaving
onr neighbor to the enjoyment of his lat
itndinarianism, as a principle
“So cast, so woven in liis very frame,
The mind’s disease its ruling passion ’came.”
(There now — we’ve run into Pope again).
But it by uo meaus follows, because we
entertain these notions of a proper reli
gious sphere, that we advocate either cus
tomary “doctrinal” sermons from the
pulpit, or sectarian bickerings and con
troversies. We have no admiration for
Puritanism in any of its developments
on the American continent. Neitherdoes
our idea of religion and the proper scope
of its teachers exclude auy works of the
Creator or any of the lessons of science.
Religion or its ministers never yet gained
any thing by combatting scientific truth,
or by opposing their fallible interpreta
tions of the Creator’s word to the immu
table history which He has graven upon
the everlasting rocks, imprinted upon the
whole faco of Nature, aud revealed in the
movements aud relations of the heavenly
bodies. “The voice of God is the har
mony of the universe,” aud he (be he
minister or layman) who closes his eyes
and shuts his ears to any part of His reve
lations —who is content, like Pollok’s
“happy” clown, to
“Nover hoar the word philosophy,
Or science, never hear et iiherty,
Necessity, or laws of gravitation—
Hut thinks the visual line, that girts him round,
The world’s extreme, and thinks the sliver
moon,
That nightly o’er him leads her virgin hosts,
No broader than his father’s shield”—
cannot fully enjoy (in this world at least)
a religion that must have been designed
to elevate and improve man in his pres
ent as well as his future state.
With this last splurge (which is from
neither Pope nor Hudibras) we turn the
chief layman of the Enquirer over to the
tender regards of his more devout Local
associate, who so long kept us iu the
straight path, with the iu junction to look
closely to his questionable orthodoxy.
Texas Crops.— The Galveston News
thus speaks of the crop —Mr. Baer, who
has just returned home from an extensive
journey through the interior of the State
informs us that he never saw the agri
cultural prospects of the country improve
more rapidly since the warm weather aud
rain set iu. Farmers, who were so much
disheartened a few weeks ago, are now in
fine spirits. Crops are still a little back
ward. but if no unexpected casualty oc
curs they will generally be very abundant.
The wheat is now made beyond peradven
tnre and the yield will be large. There
has generally beeu planted a larger acre
age iu cotton than auy former year, and
this crop looks very promising, though a
little later than usual. Sea Island cotton
is now in blossom, and the upland will be
iu a few days. The recent rains are
making the grass grow rapidly, aud some
extra labor will be required to keep it
from overrunning the crops. A few
weeks ago quite a number of the western
counties were overrun with grasshopers,
but these have now left, going further
north, as is supposed, aud the western
prairies, on \v hioh they had scarcely left a
blade of grass, are now covered over with
a rich carpet of green.
The spot where General Schenck got
whipped in Virginia is planted with car
rots this year, which moves the Detroit
Free Press to remark that the Virginians
were never much on romance. The Vir
ginians meant, we suppose, that the hero
of the Emma Mines was caret— iu the
vocative —wanting, himself about tbe
time of this fight.— Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Music Books bound in any desired
style at the bun Office.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1573.
LETTER FROM AUGUSTA.
Planters’ Hotel, June 7, 18715.
Editors Sun: Leaving your city at 4
o’clock yesterday afternoon, in charge of
conductor Giles, we reached this popular
hotel at C o’clock this morning, on time
and without accident. We have seldom
enjoyed a more pleasant and comfortable
night journey, there being no change of
cars, and the passengers getting a splen
did supper at Byington’s Hotel, Fort Val
ley, one of the most popular railroad eat
ing houses in the South. We passed
through several showers between Colum
bus and Macon, and many of the planta
tions along the line were in a very wet
condition. Some fields were quite over
run with grass aud the crops about de
stroyed, while others presented a half
worked appearance. AVe saw but few
plantations fully worked and in a clean
condition. Those we did see had tine
crops of cotton and corn, but they were
generally on high ground. The low
lands are still too wet to work successfully.
The planters complain bitterly of the in
cessant and heavy rains, and predict that
they will be followed by a long season of
equally intolerable hot weather, which
they say will prove destructive to the
forward corn crops.
Augusta, now that the trees are in full
foliage, presents a very attractive appear
ance, to a stranger, who almost involun
tarily exclaims that it is the most beauti
ful city in the South. Broad street cer
tainly is one of the finest business streets
in this section of the country, and is re
markable for the neatness and attractive
internal appearance of its stores, some of
which are quite elegant. Banks aud bank
ing houses are numerous, and money
ought to be plenty in this region. Busi
ness seems to be good, and we find here
fewer empty stores—in fact scarcely three
to be seen—than we have noticed in auy
other city that we have yet visited. This
speaks well for an inland city, one that
has received (>4l bales of cotton and sold
979 during the past week, an excess in
receipts over the same week last year of
388. There has been a total excess over
last year of 32,170 bales.
The Cotton States Mechanics and Agri
cultural Fair Association, of this city, is
said to be in au extremely embarrassed
financial condition, and has petitioned,
like the Columbus Associatiou, the City
Fathers for an appropriation. The Asso
ciation owes three thousand dollars, and
says it is “devoid of moans or credit, and
needs the help of Council to place it be
fore the public as a reliable and trust
worthy institution.” The petition has
been referred to a committee of four,
consisting of one member from each ward,
to consider what action shall be taken in
the matter. It is to be hoped that the
request for aid will be granted, and that
permanent prosperity and increased use
fulness may follow such generous action
on the part of Council. Augusta is too
large a city, aud occupies too central aud
important position as a railroad centre,
not to speak of its relations to the cotton
trade, to allow such an organization to
perish for want of a few thousand dollars
by -way of relief from pecuniary embar
rassments.
There are several striking features
about Augusta that a Columbusite readily
notices. The entire absence of express
wagons or other vehicles for passengers—
except the regular omuibusses to the de
pots—and the presence of forty or fifty
black aud white newsboys, many of them
bareheaded, who face you at every turn,
with “ Here’s your Chronicle,” or, “ Have
a Chronicle, sir ?” And yet but one daily
paper is now published here. The good
old Constitutionalist is cold and dead,
bearing upon its venerable form tbe evi
dences of long years of faithful service,
aud emblazoned with the names of some
of the most gifted men who, have ever
adorned the editorial profession with
their genius and renown. It is not yet
decided, we learn, whether or not this
time-honored name is to be forever
buried from the eye of newspaper readers,
as strong efforts are being made to
re-establish this old aud able journal
upon anew foundation, and with
a cash capital that will assure its
future and permanent success. We think
Augusta is able to give a liberal sup
port to two first class daily papers. Messrs.
Walsh & Wright, of the Chronicle and
Sentinel, whom we found hard at work in
their sanctum, are young men of rare en
ergy, with a ripe experience in journal
ism, and have no need to fear the most
vigorous competition, but rather to wel
come it as a source of inspiration for
their fertile pens and untiring energies.
Augusta is the headquarters of the re
cently organized “ Georgia Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, **
which owes its origin to tho persistent
and zealous efforts of a most accomplished
lady of this city—Miss Lou King, daught
er of Hon. John P. King, president of
the Georgia Railroad and a well known
banker here —who spent considerable
time in Atlanta last winter in the interest
of this humane movement. The bill,
which passed both houses, failed to be
engrossed, aud by reason of this failuro it
did not become a law. Not discouraged
by this oversight of some careless official,
Miss King has secured the organization
of the State Society, with the following
efficient hoard of working and honorable
officials: President, James W. Davies;
Vice President, Rev. Robert Irvine, Au
gusta, Charles Green, Sr., Savannah,
Anderson Reeves, Macon, and H. W.
Grady, Atlanta ; Secretary, Salem Dutch
on; Treasurer, B. Benson; Executive
Committee, John S Davidson, Miss Lou
King, J. B. Cumming, H. B. King and
Dr DeSaussene Ford. The society is now
operating under the old State laws, and
has already accomplished much good in
the city of Augusta. It is desired that
every town and city in Georgia shall or
ganize a branch society, and all iuforma
needed will be given by either Miss King,
or the Secretary.
SIDNEY HERBERT.
A Noble Tribute to a Noble Man—
Grateful Georgia’s Gift —We were
shown on yesterday the fae simile of the
seal of the Executive Department of the
State of Georgia, intended for presenta
tion to ex- Governor Charles J. Jenkins.
It is made of pure gold 18 karats fine,
and is worth $125. On one side it bears
the words, “Seal Executive Department,”
“Moderation,” “ Georgia,” while on the
other is this inscription, “ Presented by
the Governor in the name of the people
of the State of Georgia, to Charles J.
Jenkins, iu accordance with a joint reso
lution of the General Assembly, approved
August 22d, 1872. “ Arduis Fidel is." —
Atlanta Herald.
The Farmers’ Victory. —There is no
doubt that the farmers' candidate for
Judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois
has lieeu elected. The first dispatches
indicate a different result, but later intel
ligence states that Judge Craig, the nomi
nee of the Granges, has beeu elected by
a handsome majority. Judge Lawrence
Laving decided unconstitutional an act
preventing discrimination in freight rates
by railways, the farmers determined to
turn him out of office and they have suc
ceeded. The new Judge is pledged to
enforce the views of his constituents, and
the railroads may well apprehend trouble
in tbe future. Elated with their victory,
the Granges will not be content with tbe
result which they have already secured,
but will agitate and advance until they
obtain control of the entire State Gov
ernment. — Augusta Chronicle.
TELEGRAPHIC
THE MODOCS.
San Francisco, June 9. — Dispatches
from the fort state that Gen. Davis has
sent for the settlers to identify the mur
derers and stolen property recovered from
the Indians.
These people tell the following story :
Messrs. Boddy and Skiers took up their
quarters on a section of land near the
mouth of Lost river last August, and set
tled there with their families. On the
morning of November 29th, Capt. Jack’s
band of Indians were attacked on Lost
river by a party of volunteers and com
pelled to retire. Hooker Jim and bis
party of Modoes were on the north side
of the river from Capt. Jack, but knew
of the latter’s defeat, and during the after
noon of same day, Boddy and Skiers were
murdered by Hooker Jim and his associ
ates while they were cutting wood and
herding sheep within a mile of their
house and utterly unconscious of danger.
The agent of the Yaitox reservation had
promised settlers than any offensive
movement against the ludians should be
made known to the whites in time to af
ford them opportunity to obtain safe
refuge, but the messenger sent by the
agent failed to perform his duty, thereby
facilitating the massacre. The arrival of
Boddy’s team without a driver, with
blood upon the wagon was the first inti
mation of the terrible tragedy the poor
women received before noon. They
found the bodies of the murdered men
stripped of all their clothing. At differ
ent points within a few miles of the house
they also met the Modoes Hooker Jim,
Long Jim, Curley Headed Doctor, One
eyed Mouse, Rock Dove, Hump Jerrey
and Mrs. Hooker, wdio were all implica
ted in the massacre of the w'hites. The
Indians went to the house to find other
male victims. These women escaped and
traveled night and day, suffering many
hardships, and reached the house of Mr.
Rapp in a completely exhausted condi
tion.
Gen. Davis received the women kindly,
heard their story, and assisted them to re
cover their stolen goods. This morning
Hooker Jim, and Steamboat Frank, who
had just returned from a scout after three
or four Modoes, were taken to the tent oc
cupied by these women. Hooker Jim was
identified by Mrs. Boddy as one of the
Indians concerned in the massacre. In
response to some remark about the robbe
ry of a house, Hooker Jim said that Long
Jim look the long purse, and he Hooker
Jim, tho short one. At this point of the
interview the women became greatly ex
cited, began crying and lost all control
of themselves and started in for desper
ate work. Mrs. Sliiers drew a pistol and
went for Steamboat Frank, and Mrs.
Boddy drew a knife aud dashed at Hoo
ker Jim.
Gen. Davis interposed nnd disarmed
both the women, receiving in the struggle
a slight wound in the palm of his hand
near the thumb by a knife in Mrs. Bod
dy ’s hands. The savages during this
scene stood like statues. They never
shook nor offered resistance. It galls
Capt. Jack and his comrades in custody
to see Hooker Jim and Steamboat Frank
traveling to and fro at will, and armed at
that. He does not understand the conse
quences of turning State’s evidence. This
afternoon he became greatly excited and
gave vent to his rage in a fiery oration.
He rose in bis chains with Seonchiu aud
in a strong and impressive manner rela
ted his grievances. The purport of what
he said is told by Scarfaced Charley.
“He is mad,” says Charley, “to see that
the white men no trial all alike.” He
also complained that while in the Lava
Beds a portion of his fellow-captives were
winning in their sympathy with him.
Au officer of the guard came in and com
pelled him to desist in his wailing.
There are 131 murderers under guard
here.
San Francisco, June 9.—A dispatch
from Boyles’ camp, dated yesterday, re
lates the particulars of an atrocious mas
sacre of the Modoc prisoners, supposed to
have been perpetrated by the Oregon
volunteers.
Saturday morning, James Fairchild and
about a dozen other men left Fairchild’s
ranohe, on Cottonwood creek, with seven
teen Modoc captives, including women
and children, and Skaeknasty Jim, Bogus
Charley and Little John. The Indians
were in wagons drawn by four mules.
At the crossing of Lost liver, the party
encountered a body of Oregon volunteers
under the command of Iliser. The sol
diers gathered around the wagon and
questioned Fairchild. The latter told
them the Indians were all Creeks, except
Little John, and there were no charges
against them. Fairchild undertook to
push on to Boyles’ camp, and the volun
teers retired to their camp near Crowley’s.
On the road Fairchild noticed two men
ahead, riding to Rocky Point as it to in
tercept him. When the team approached
the two men one of them presented a
needle-gun at Fairchild, saying: “Get
down, you old white-headed “By
what authority ?” asked Fairchild. “By
mine. I am going to kill the Indians, and
you, too,” was the reply. The leader
caught hold of the mules and unhitched
them, cutting the harness. Fairchild,
clinging to the lines, leaped to the ground.
The poor wretches implored for mercy
and begged Fairchild to save them. The
warriors were unarmed and knew resist
ance was useless. They were the cool
est in the party, although fear
ing inevitable death, but the women
and children shrieked, groaned and
wept pitiously. Fairchild had nothing
but a small pistol, and six inches from
his ear was the muzzle of a needle gun.
He says tears came into his eyes and he
mingled his entreaties with those of the
Modoes in hopes that the massacre might
bo averted. He adds: “It was a terrible
scene; one I never shall forget. I shud
der when I think of what I saw. I hear
the tearful voices of those women and
children still wringing in my ears." But the
cowardly hounds were not to be balked.
A shot aud Little John lay dead in the
wagon with a bullet in his brains. The
mules dashed away with Fairchild, who
become entangled in the lines. Five
more shots were fired in rapid succession,
by which three other Modoes were killed
and Little John’s squaw frightfully
wounded ill the shoulder. Away ahead
on the road, in the direction of
Boyles’ camp, a cloud of dust was
perceived, indicating the approach
of a team. The murderers espied tho
dust and shortly rode away. Sergeant
Murphy, of Battery G, Fourth Artillery,
with ten men and teams came up to the
scene of the massacre. The Sergeant took
charge of ass airs and encamped with his
men on the ground. Fairchild, a team
ster, and the wounded squaw, with her
two children, came iu at 2 o’clock this
morning.
Boyles’ Camp, June 8, 3 p. m.— An in
terview between General Davis, Captain
Jack and Schonchin has just terminated.
The Modoc Chief says he was incited to
his cruel warfare by Allen David, Chief
of the Klainoths. He also denies having
killed Cauby, and laid the blame on his
boys. Schonchin told the same story.
A Modoc special says Capt. Jack, iu his
interview with Gen. Davis, said: “Bogus
Charley and Shacknasty Jim called Gen.
Cauby out. Allen David, Klamath Chief,
advised them to kill Geu. Canby ; so he
did it. lam telling the truth. I did not
kill him. I had it done, but did not do
it. I don’t lie. Bring the men that saw
me do this thing. I want to face them.
If I had my chains off I would tell all the
men who did these things.”
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
St. Paul, Minn., June 7. -The follow
ing dispatch has been received here:
Bismarck,’ Dakota, June <s.—The track
of the Northern Pacific Railroad reached
the Missouri River at this place to-day,
and the entire division of 450 miles, from
Duluth to Bismarck is open to business.
The people are celebrating the event.
Connection is made here with the naviga
tion to the upper and lower Missouri.
A line of steamers is established between
this point and Fort Benton, in western
Montana, and shipments of both Govern
ment and private freight are being made
by this route to the northwest. The rail
road surveying expedition, with a military
escort under command of Gen. Stanley,
will start west on the lGth inst., with the
intention of makiug a final and definite
location of the line of road from the
crossing of the Missouri to the crossing
of the Yellowstone, and along that river
to central Montana, this being the only
portion of the rente not yet determined.
No serious opposition from Indians is an
ticipated by those best able to judge.
The Geneva Award.
Washington, June 10.—No official in
formatioH has been received by this Gov
ernment from that of Great Britain with
reference to the payment of the Geneva
award, but intimations have been made
from other sources that Great Britain is
perfecting arrangements to meet the re
quirements of the treaty. It will be re
collected the Treaty of Washington pro
vides that the gross sum awarded, $15,-
500,000, shall be paid ill coin, at Wash
ington. As this amount in gold would,
according to calculation, weigh twenty
three tons, the question has arisen as to
whether the coin itself or its representa
tive should be received in satisfaction.
, A number of American bankers, some
| time ago, proposed to our Government to
transact the business iu a manner which
would satisfy the treaty obligations; but
as the Government had heard nothing
whatever from Great Britain on the sub
ject, they were informed that their propo
sitions could not be entertained. Fur
ther, that it was the busiuass of Great
Britain to take the initiative on the sub
ject
There is uo doubt that the money will
be deposited by the British Government
iu the Bank of England,aud that the Uni
ted States will, at the proper period,
be paid iu accordance with the spirit
of the treaty. It may be done in
this way, namely—-by the purchase, iu
England, through designated banking
firms, some of them connected with the
syndicate, of 5:20 bonds, to the amount
of the award, these to be sent to the Uni
ted States Treasury for redemption.
The gold flues (?) accruing will be de
liverable in Washington, without the ne
cessity and risk of transportation across
the ocean to this city, the equal amount
of gold in the Bank of England having
beeu previously used iu the purchase of
the bonds. Those who conduct transact
ions, receiving the gold certificates, could
place these in the hands of the Secretary
of State, and this would bo equivalent to
the coin, for which they could immedi
ately he exchanged.
Such, there seems to be no doubt, will
be the mode of payment. Several days
ago the Secretary of the Treasury gave
notice that the principal and interest of
$20,000,000 of 5-20 bonds will be paid at
the Treasury on and after the Gth of Sep
tember next. It is said in well informed
circles that this course was adopted in
view of an arrangement for the payment
of the Geneva award, in the manner
above stated, and to render easy the pro
cess of payment by the British govern
ment.
MEXICO.
St. Louis, June 9.—Dr. D. H. Williams,
who has resided in Chihuahua for tw r o
years, has arrived here. Dr. Williams
coufirms the capture of the Mexican In
dian Chief Larsada. It was believed he
was immediately shot. Dr. Williams
thinks there will be no serious complaint of
McKonzio’s incursion after the Kickapoos.
Williams, however, thinks the Mexicans
will use the exploit ns a precedent and
follow home the marauders into the Uni
ted States territory. This will eventually
lead to trouble and plunge the frontier
into a w r ar. Such a result would, how
ever, he hailed by many as desirable, as
it would lead to the carving out of another
fat slice from Sickman, iu the southern
border. There are, however, efforts being
made by some of the leading parties on
the Mexican side of the Rio Grande
which may lead to negotiations for the
annexation of more Mexican territory,
in order to strengthen the bound
ary line and by which Mexico will
he enabled to pay her debt. The terri
tory coveted for this purpose embraces
the States of Nuevo Loon, Copalia, Chi
puria, the north end of Durango, Sonora
aud lower California, known as the Mexi
can frontier States. This would shorten
the boundary line one-half of the present
meandering of tho Rio Grande and leave
a frontier that could he much more easily
protected by both nations, whereas it is
almost impossible to do so with the pres
ent boundaries. It would be a vast terri
tory, with fine irrigable and mineral lands
and pasturage, which are now nearly
worthless to the Mexican people.
A CHIPPEWA VENDETTA.
St. Paul, May 30. —At Aiken a few
weeks ago two young Indians quarrelled
and the one stabbed the other, a boy in
years, so that he died soon after his re
turn to his home al Sandy Lake, directly
west of Duluth and near the Mississippi.
Two relatives of the boy undertook to kill
his slayer, but the young savage instead
killed them. Then came more relatives
of the boy and killed the party of the first
part and his lather, be ides Hounding
four or five others of th • same family.
These last have sent Non i reinforce
ments. Before these conn , i-owever, the
remainder of the account of bloodshed
may he settled by a big talk, a tew furs,
and a savage feast.
NEW YORK ITEMS.
New York, June 10.—The President
goes to West Point to-day.
The Grand Jury indicted young Wol
wortk for murder in the first degree.
The Court of Appeals, by unanimous
opinion, grants Stokes, who killed Fisk, a
new trial.
Lester Wallack is making fight before
the Courts in four suits brought against
him for the exclusion of colored persons
from his theatre.
New Yoke, June 10.—Stokes was greatly
delighted upon the information that a
new trial was granted him, and there was
a good deal of rejoicing among those in
terested at the favorable decision of the
Appellant Court. His counsel says : Upon
the next trial we will prove to the satis
faction of the New York public there
has been a gross misapprehension of the
case from the day of the tragedy, and we
will be able to establish his innocence
by evidence of an overwhelming charac
ter.
The Post says: “The case of Bowles
Bros. & Cos. has come out of the bank
ruptcy court. The official assignee, we
are told, makes an offer to the creditors
of fifty cents on the dollar, which, ac
cording to law, releases the house from
liability. The members of the house,
however, have issued a statement to their
creditors that they will pay the other fifty
cents and will come under obligations to
do so when they have recovered their le
gal discharge. They propose, it is said,
to speedily resume business.”
FOREIGN.
London, June 9.—The loss by the burn
ing of Alexandria Palace is three million
dollars.
Later— The insurance on the Alexan
dria Palace was $(500,000. The fire was
caused by the carelessness of workmen,
who were repairing the zinc roof. No
one was killed but several injured. Wat
er was scarce, hence the rapidity of the
fire spread. Within half an hour from the
time of the alarm the entire structure was
in flames. The great domes by which it
was surmounted fell with a sound like
thunder. The large organ was destroyed,
but some of the valuable pictures aud oth
er works of art were saved.
In the House of Lords, Earl Russf.ll in
troduced a bill for better government of
Ireland, which abolishes "the office of
Lord Lieutenant aud provides that the
voice of jurors out of twelve will suf
fice for a verdict. The object of this
measure is to restrict the power of the
priesthood and secure the conviction of
criminals,
Madrid, June ill.—Senor Orenz has re
signed tbe Presidency of the Cortes.
At a Cabinet council to-day, the finance
bills, prepared by Senor Tuten, were re
jected. The Ministers afterwards ten
dered their resignations, and during the
afternoon the Cortes entrusted to Figue
ras the organization of anew Ministrv.
After consultations with his friends and
with leading members of the Cortes,
Figueras reported he was nnable to form
a cabinet.
The crisis continues, and has a most
repressing influence on funds.
The Cortes holds another session to
night, when it is probable Nicolas
Salmeron will endeavor to organize the
government, the members of which he
will select exclusively from the right
Should he fail the Deputies constituting
a majonty of the Cortes will hold a meet
ing to-morrow and determine on means
for a settlement.
The Gazette publishes a report that the
Cure of Santa Cruz has abandoned the
cause of Don Carlos, aud has proclaimed
the Catholic Republic with Calvera as
President.
Madrid, June 11. —A mutiny in the
command of General Velardi, arose from
superseding a captain. Twelve hundred
of the troops remained faithful and re
tired with the general to Dartasa.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, June 10. —The Postoffice
Department has been notified of the rati
fication by Sweden and Norway of the
postal convention recently concluded be
tween the United States aud those King
doms.
Two of the former officers of Mosby’s
battalion have beeu appointed Postal
i clerks.
Judge Thatcher, formerly Commissioner
of Patents, has been appointed to repre
sent this government at the convention
called by the Emperor of Austria for the
discussion of the feasibility of an inter
j national patent law.
The massacre of the Modoc captives is
severely denounced here. The military
and civil authorities will both use every
I means to punish the culprits.
Washington, June 11.—The State De
partment will furnish a copy of the inves
j tigation regarding Van Buren to that gen
tleman, who can make use of it as he pleas
es. The official report will be given to
the next Congress, but the State Depart
ment will withhold it from the press.
• Commissioner Schultz writes the Ameri
can department of the Vienna Exposition
will be completed June 15th, which will
not be the case with any other nation.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. _
A fire at Cincinnati destroyed 14,000
barrels coal oil, twenty-five freight cars
and seventeen dwellings, mostly shanties.
Loss $150,000. The tire originated be
tween South and Park streets in the yard
of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad.
Three million feet of lumber burned.
SENATOR POMEROY’S CASE.
St. Louis, June 10. —A dispatch from
Topeka, Kansas, says: The reports in
circulation that the case of Ex-Senator
Pomeroy was presented to the Grand Jury,
and an indictment made, are false and
entirely untrue. This case was never
presented to the Grand Jury, but will be
prosecuted by information and not by in
dictment.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, June 10.—The Mayor
has vetoed au ordiuance for shaving the
heads of Chinese in jail; such punishment
being infamous, and violative of the
treaty with China.
San Francisco, June 10.—The Modoc
massacre causes universal surprise aud
indignation.
SEVERE STORM.
Memphis, June 11.—The most severe
rain and thunder storm ever known here
raged about 10 o’clock last nignt, accom
panied by immense sheets of electricity.
In an hour and a half 2:70 inches of rain
fell. It is feared great damage has been
done to the planting interests in the ad
jacent country but the sanitary condition
is greatly improved.
Special Deposits.
the law of THE case.
Columbus, Ga., May 27, 1873.
Editors of the Journal of Commerce:
Iu this section there are no “ safe de
posit companies,” and our people place in
the safes of our banks and bankers their
bonds and other securities. If these
bonds and securities are stolen by burg
lars, are the bauks aud bankers responsi
ble ? An article in an newspaper, May
14, on “The Clearing House and Bank
Defalcation,” suggests the above query.
Yours, Ac., Bank.
Reply. —All that banks or bankers are
required to do to avoid liability for boxes
and packages thus deposited with them
for safe keeping is to use due diligence
in their care. 'This due diligence is not
simply (as many people suppose) the care
which a man actually takes of his own
property, but the care which a man of or
dinary prudence ought to exercise over
his own concerns, and the ever changing
circumstances of a place altor the appli
cation of the principle from year to year.
In a country town, where robberies are
almost unknown, and no stable doors are
ever locked, it is due diligence iu care of
a horse to place him in such a stable.
But in a crowded city, where burglars are
constantly prowling around, and trying
every door, more care is required, and
suitable fastenings should be provided.
So in a bank vault, a simple lock would
once have answered all requirements;
but now the best appliances of fireproof
safes, and perhaps even burglar alarms,
would be necessary iu our largest cities
where experts are at work, to free the cus
todian from liability. Where the bauk
vault and other means of protection are
such as in the location are deemed suffi
cient in the exercise of ordinary pru
dence, the banker who holds these special
deposits incurs no further liability.
Patrons of Husbandry.
The Herald publishes the following by
request of the Thomastou Grange of the
Patrons of Husbandry:
Since God created tbe earth, agricul
ture has existed ; there is uo occupation
that precedes it, no order or association
that can rank with the tillers of the soil.
Before literature existed, before govern
ments were known, agriculture was the
first calling of man. The Order of Pat
rons is the only association that origi
nates, exists, and works with its members
in their daily avocations. It is part of
the farmer’s life; it does not call him
from his work to put his mind upon any
other subject, but tends to recreation iu
his daily duties, aud, by cheerful instruc
tion, to lighten and elevate his labor.
Its teachings are the loftiest that man
can seek. It does not interfere with his
religious or political views. In morality
it seeks the highest point; honesty is in
culcated, education nurtured, charity is a
prominent characteristic, temperance is
supported, and brotherly love cultivated.
It is designed to bind the farmers to
gether in fraternity, and, by enoouragiug
education, advance to a higher state of
perfection the science of agriculture. We
aim to encourage the planting of fruits
and flowers by which to enhance the value
and increase the attractions of our homes,
adorning them with those beauties so
lavishly given us by the God of Nature;
and there is no calling more elevating to
the mind than agriculture, when viewed
as instructed in our Order. God, in the
beginning, made it honorable, and it is
our duty to sustain it as such. Discard
ing the principles which shut out woman
from a knowledge of the mysteries, we
open wide the door and bid her welcome.
In so doing we claim a precedent, when
God said, “It is not good for man to be
alone.” Ours is a social Order; all can
find herein something to enjoy, and we
believe there is nothing better for a man
than that he should eat and drink, and
that he should make his soul enjoy the
good of his labor. It is from the hand of
God. We ask none to join us who cannot
see good in their fellow beings ; but to all
those who have generous hearts and open
hands to help the needy, raise the fallen,
aud are willing to aid in making the labors
of this life cheerful, we say, welcome to
the Grange.
Cholera Morbus. —Tho Memphis pa
pers are publishing an old aud tried rem
edy for incipient cholera-morbus. It con
sists of equal parts of laudanum, spirits
of camphor and tincture of rhubarb.
Dose, thirty drops every four hours, in
diminishing doses, or in increasing doses,
if the proper effect be not produced. In
jections of stareb and laudanum are com
mended, aud mustard poultices and per
fect rest. In most violent attacks tinc
tures of equal parts of opium, capsicum,
ginger and cardain: Dose thirty to for
ty drops iu a little water, and from three
to four drops of chloroform may be added
in violent attacks. Strong poultices
should be applied to the stomach, arms,
legs aud feet. Doses of brandy and bot
tles of hot water sinapisms and friction
often work wonders. Give the least pos
sible water during and after the attack. A
little arrowroot aud brandy is often ser
viceable as recovering progresses. The
best preventive is perfect cleanliness and
use of pure water. Remember that symp
toms of diarrhma are precursors of cliol
era-morbus, which prevails in all South
ern countries when the spring aud sum
mer are wet and hot. Supply your house
hold with these medicines.
Lord Chief Justice Cockbum has just
made a joke. A Mrs. Jury being exam
ined as a witness in the Tichborn case,
stated that she had had eleven children'
whereupon His Honor observed he had
always understood it took twelve to make
a jury. England is still echoing the laugh
which convulsed the Court.
NO. 10.
THE TINKERING OF NAMES.
Your traveling correspondent bogs to
suggest that the statement of the Courier-
Journal in regard to Daniel F. Webster,
that he was a brother of the great states
man, is ineorrect. Daniel Fletcher Web
ster was the only surviving sou of the
great Daniel Webster, and was killed du
ring the late war, near Bull Bun, while
in command of the 12th Massachusetts
Begiment. He was named Daniel for his
father and Fletcher for his mother; but
having used his middle name for many
years, and become widely known by it,
he finally dropped the Daniel, aud few
persons who knew him in his later years
were aware of the fact that it had ever
been given to or used by him in any way.
The same is also true of Bayard Taylor,
the celebrated author and traveller. Ap
pleton s Encyclopedia, as well .as other
high authorities, fails to state that his
original name was Joseph Bayard Taylor,
and that after he commenced his travels
in Europe, under the name of J. Bayard
Taylor, he suddenly dropped the J. and
has let it pass into silence and obscurity.
William Wirt Sykes, the husband of
Miss Olive Logan, aud a well-known
literary character, has gradually worked
his name down to simple Wirt Sykes,
using W. Wirt Sykes as a stepping stone
to this end.
The case of Senator Mitchell,of Oregon,
is not anew one. Vice President Wilson
years ago adopted an entirely new name,
while President Grant fixed his to suit his
own or somebody else’s fancy. The Kt.
ltev. Arthur Cleveland Cox-e, Bishop of
Western New York, is a sou of the vener
able Samuel Hanson Cox, D. D., and yet
he does not write his name as does his
father. Cooper, the groat American
novelist, was plain James Cooper until
the death of his mother, when he assumed
the maternal name of Fennimore, after
which he became distinguished as James
Fennimore Cooper. Prof. Daniel Talcott
Smyth, of the Maine Theological Semi
nary, several years since dropped the
Smyth from his name, and he is now
known only as Prof. Talcott. Bret Harte
has also dropped the Frank from his
name, and in a few years, we presume,
the fact will be lost sight of that he ever
had any other given name than Bret.
We might multiply instances of such
tinkerin with names, which is as general
as the habit of tinkering with old and fa
miliar hymns. It is peculiarly an Ameri
can custom, as in England such changes
are usually made by official authority and
by the inheritance of titles or estates. In
'this country many changes are due to a
desire to Frenchify our more plain and
blunt names. Thus Dr. Walkup, of Eu
fuula, announces that hereafter his pat
rons, when visiting his office, must walk
up to the more fashionable appellation of
Dr. S. A. Wauchope, which moans the
same, in French, as Walkup does in Eng
lish. A lady friend of ours, now dead,
could not hear to he called Mrs. Mudgett,
but desired to be addressed, with the
Parisian accent, as Mrs.Mu-sha. And
yet old Will Shakespeare, with his vast
knowledge of human nature in all its va
ried aspects, asks this question.—“ What’s
in a name?”
Sidney Herbert.
THE CATERPILLAR SCARE.
A Few Words of Cheer for our Disconsolate
Farmers.
The writer of this article was for twen
ty-five years a Sea Island cotton planter
on the coast of Georgia, and during ten
years of that period, also raised the short
staple in Baker county. Both localities
are noted as the home of the pestiferous
insect, which, liko the besom of destruc
tion, sweeps over the fertile fields of tho
agriculturist, selecting for its prey those
that are most promising aud luxuriant,
He proposes to give his experience as to
the habits and operations of this much
dreaded scourge.
The theory, that extremely cold win
ters will destroy the larvae of the cater
pillar, and ensure immunity from its rav
ages the ensuing season, has been effec
tually exploded by the range of the ther
mometer during the last two years. The
cold during that period has been excep
tionally severe :,;id so protracted, that
scarce a semblance of spring could be
discerned, summer and its torrid suns
rapidly thawing the throne of the Ice
King, and arraying all Nature, with the
magic of Aladdin’s lamp, in its bravery
of green. Yet even now, before the earth
has been thoroughly warmed by the rays
of the King of Day, and while the incho
ate cotton crops in its infancy, ami not a
blossom, aud hardly a “square” greets
the vision of the planter, from the ever
glades of Florida almost to the limit of
the “Black Belt,” comes tho cry, the cat
erpillar is upon us in thousands, aud are
“webbing up,” preparatory to the final
onslaught.
Now we know of no effectual check to
this dire invader, save one somewhat sim
ilar to that which saved liome from her
foreign foes. And even this can be used
only in small fields and limited areas.
We allude to the use of turkeys (not
geese) as au agent of destruction to tho
worm. A drove of one hundred turkeys
once effectually protected a cotton field
of twenty-five acres in Bryau county,
Georgia. The voracious bipeds, in the
worst of caterpillar visitations, kept up a
constant march over the grounds, shaking
from the boughs and gobbling up the
nauseous vermin. 'The result was a mag
nificent show of herbage, and an abund
ant yield of the fleecy staple, where all
surrounding plantations were black aud
desolate from its depredations. But of
course this remedy cauuot he expected to
apply under the new radical regime,
which makes a native born turkey almost
as rare an object as one of Barnum’s os
triches. Tennessee even contributes our
thanksgiving and Christmas offering of
this delicious bird.
But here comes the comfort, or at least
the hope, which the writer would extend
to his agricultural readers.
It is a well authenticated fact, corrobo
rated by the uniform experience of cot
ton planters, that in any given season,
after the caterpillar makes its appearance,
webs up, comes out again, partially strips
the fields, renews its hatching operations,
and finally makes a clean sweep of leaves,
blossoms, tender fruit, etc., even scarify
ing and mutilating the Larder bolls, that
the insatiate wretches vanish from tho
scene and are beheld no more that year.
In Liberty county, the writer has ob
served tho ruts of the highways so filled
with multitudes of the insect, who hav
ing completed their work, were migrating
to other parts, that they caked like mud
upon the wheels of tho numerous vehicles
which crushed them to atoms. But once
having thus abandoned the fields, we
have never known them to return the
same season. Now every farmer will tes
tify, that each year after his crop has
been eaten up, a most luxuriant eecond
growth puts forth, of foliage and fruit,
which, but for the nipping frosts of Au
tumn, would fully repair the ravages of 1
the army worm. The fact that hitherto j
the visits of the caterpillars have been at
so late a period that it was impossible for j
the second crop to mature, (and indeed
its appearance but retarded the opening
of the surviving old fruit.) has imparted
no significance whatever to this renewed
effort of the plant to reproduce thut which
had been destroyed.
But at this early stage of tho season if
the caterpillar performs its usual work in
a few weeks, tho cotton weed will have
ample time to repair damages, at least to
some extent, before the winter sets in.
Wo have known fields, riddled aud al
most denuded of limbs in June by severe
hail storms, and pronounced utterly ruin
ed, take anew start and produce abun
dant crops. So also one of the most pro
lific yields of cotton ever witnessed by
the writer, was from cotton not a seed of
which, sprouted until after the 21st of
May. It is true that the present season
may prove an exception to all that have
preceded it, and the caterpillar coining so
extraordinarily early, may go on increas
ing, multiplying and reproducing itself
even to the latest day of Autumn;
but still there is room to hope that old
precedents will continue to obtnh , UJ d
that, having accomplished the , errand
of destruction at the outset, they will re
tire to return no more. At all events let
our farmers continue to cultivate their
fields industriously and put their trust in
Providence. Who knows that the ex
tremely early visit of the insect may not
prove a blessing in disguise ?
Lot them remember too, that fair
crops of corn can be roared to a very late
period in tho season. Tho writer once
gathered ten bushels per acre from a field
planted on the sth of July, besides a large
pea crop.
To sum up the whole matter, should
tho caterpillar destroy your cotton, plant
peas, potato vines, corn for bread and
forage, millet and turnips, and everything
indeed that will feed man and beast.
Especially should attention be given to
curing our native grasses, the crab and
crowfoot, which, cut when in flower are
little if any inferior to the best northern
hay. Don t sulk, but remember that tho
great God overrules all for good, and quit
yourselves like men to the bitter end.
Macon Telegraph.
What Wa Buy “Abroad.”
The United States during the year 187!
imported foreign goods to a greater value
than during any previous year. The im
jxirts for the year amounted to the large
figures of $€77,144,579 in gold—over
eighty-seven millions more than during
1871. Os this immense importation about
one-fifth came in as free goods, being
chiefly the raw materials of foreign pro
duction, entering into American manu
factures. The other four-fifths paid
duties, and these duties were the chief
source of revenue of the Treasury during
the year. Os the aggregate importations
only sixteen millions came into the coun
try over-land from Canada and Mexico.
It is instructive as well as interesting
f in examining the details of this enormous
importation to find how largely foreign
1 countries contribute to our stores of
1 goods, aud what diversified articles they
, send us. Tho greater portion of the im
j port trade, however, is usually made up
of a few classes of staple articles, and
more than one half of the imported values
for 1872—some three hundred and fifty
i millions of dollars—was composed of
, sugar and molasses, coffee, cotton, woolen
, and silk goods, and of iron aud steel aud
manufactures thereof. The heaviest im
portation was of sugar aud molasses aud
their manufactures. The value of these
articles was over ninety millions of dol
lars, this being nearly one-seventh of the
entire trade. The second was wool and
woolens, of which we imported nearly
eighty-two millions. Iron and steel wore
the third in the list, England aud Ger
many sending us nearly sixty-two mil
lions. Tho fourth article was coffee, of
which we got forty-two millions ; the fifth
cotton goods, thirty-six millions, aud the
sixth silk goods, thirty-five and a half
millions. These six classes of articles
made upmore than one half the import
trade of last year.
There are several other articles of
which we also receive large auiouuts from
abroad. Thus of tea during 1872, we im
ported over twenty-four aud a half mil
lions ; of hides aud leather, twenty-eight
millions ; of ttax and linen goods, nearly
twenty-three millions, aud of gold and
silver, over twenty-one millions. Nearly
eleven millions of chemicals also came in,
exclusive of a large amount of acids, salts
aud similar goods that are separately
classified. Os foreign fruits we consum
ed ten aud a half millions’ of dollars’
worth; of tin seventeen millions, and
of foreign woods and furniture, eleven
millions. There were nine million dol
lars’ worth of foreign wines imported,
and a little more than that amount of Cu
ban tobacco and cigars. We got nearly ten
millions’ worth of breadstuff*. Os foreign
crockery, nearly six millions came in,
and nearly seven millions of foreign glass.
Wo also took over seven millions of In
dia rubber, whilst the growth of our silk
factories is attested by an importation of
nearly seven million dollars' worth of
“raw silk.”
Some smaller items also are of interest.
We imported more than a million and a
quarter dollars’ worth of foreign jewelry,
a million and a half of precious stones,
aud three and a half millions of watches
aud watch materials. Over two millions
of spices came in, and nearly' four mill
ions of tlaxseed. That wo are at peace
(except with the Modocs), is attested by
a saltpetre importation of but $884,000.
Salt came iu to the value of a million and
a half. Maine aud New Jersey, it seems,
cannot grow enough potatoes tor us, for
we imported 138,000 bushels; and the
American hen well probably demand more
“protection,” when she learns that last
year over live million dozen eggs came
from abroad. A half million pounds of
bristles from foreign countries show that
the American hog will have to look after
the safety of his hide. There is also food
for speculation in the inquiry as to what
was done with 31,000 tons of imported
brimstone, and that rags are of value is
attested by an importation of nearly 112
millions of pounds. Nearly a million dol
lars’ worth of “human hair” was import
ed, and this was accompanied by' a half
million dollars’ worth of perfumery to
dress up the natural article. Coffee drink
ers, who prefer the pure article, will re
gret to learn that four million pounds of
chicory figure in the list of importations.
That buttons are numerous as well as use
ful, is attested by au importation of over
two and a half millions of dollars’ worth.
A million dollars’ worth of sardines and
nearly a third of a million of salad oil
came in. We also took a million’s worth
of foreign musical instruments. Some
body bought and others doubtless drank
over two million gallons of English ale
aud German beer, three times the quanti
ty of the provious year. Indigo to the ex
tent of 1,€71,000 pounds came in for tho
washtub aud other purposes, whilst that
plaster of Paris is used for something
more than casting images is attested by au
importation of 115,000 tons. Os Wines
in bottles there were no less than 7,040,-
070 bottles brought in last year, at au av
erage gold valuation (without duty) of
about fifty-six cents a bottle, which is an
interesting fact for wine consumers to
know considering that it costs them from
two dollars to four dollarsa bottle.—Phil
adelphia Ledger.
Ex Gov. Jenkins and the Seal.
The Savannah News, noticing tho re
cent presentation of a golden seal of the
State of Georgia to Ex-Gov. Chas. J Jen
kins, recalls the interesting and honora
ble events which led to this testimonial of
the high appreciation in which the people
of Georgia hold the noble old Ex-Gover
nor, as follows:
It will he remembered that in 1867,
when Jenkins was Governer, the Congres
sional reconstruction troubles set in. Af
ter the meeting of the Convention which
adopted the Constitution of 1808, its mem
bers began to hunger and thirst after the
money iu the State treasury. General
Pope called on Governor Jenkins to draw
his warrant on the Treasury for a suffi
cient sum of money to pay the per diem
and mileage of the members of the Con
vention. He declined to do so, as no ap
propriation for such a purpose had been
made by the Legislature. The then and
now Stale Treasurer, another noble Ro
man, would not pay the money without
Executive warrant. About this time Pope
was removed and Meade took his place.
Meade made another effort to get funds
out of the Governor and Treasurer, fail
ing in which he removed them and put
military officials in their places. Jones
left no money in the 'Treasury, and Jen
kins carried the seal of the Executive De
partment with him into private life, re
taining it until the elevation of Governor
Smith, when he returned it “to big first
honest and rightfully-elected successor,”
as he styles Governor Smith in his re
markable letter written at the time, which
has becorno part of the history of Jenkins
and of Georgia. For thus faithfully pre
serving the seal of the Executive Depart
ment from desecration, the Legislature
directed Governor Smith to have its
fae simile executed and presented to ex-
Governor Jenkins, in the name of the
grateful people of Georgia. The tribute
is a most fitting one. It required nerve
and conscientiousness to do the work he
did for Georgia at that time. It is meet
that the people should regognize aud ap
propriately reward such signal services as
his were. This they have done through
their chosen representatives, the Govern
or and General Assembly.
No “Disloyal" Postal Cards. —“ Di
sloyal devices” are among the things that
postal cards will not be permitted to con
tain. A suffering public had fondly
hoped that they were to have a vacation
from those words loyal and disloyal; but
that is too much to expect under Radical
rule. And now will not the gentleman
define accurately what disloyalty consists
of in this year of grace, 1873 ? Would
an allusion to the Dent family come un
der the ban ? Aud would a postal card
be confiscated hinting that Thomas Mur
phy is rather a worse patriot in some re
spects than George Washington.