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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
‘iEORGE A. KING k CO. ]
VOL. XX.
at iUuucat
F J.oVHI, TUESDAY’, N )Y. 2 1. !870
4'om.noti in Iht* West.
lilt if tlie common -school system lias beer
forced to make its way slowly against the op
>->itin of caste .aid sectarianism in the Nort>
ud East, and was nearly banish' and fro.u tin
South by the long prevalence of slavary, in tin
new States and Territories of the West and tin
Pacific coast it has won an almost inuuediat.
popularity. Here among the settlers of tin
wi! terries* its value was at once perceived.
The school-house, the church, the newspapei.
telegraph, and rail way have grown up together
M >.v i ire nis lii: An :riea:i plan of education
been found so perfectly suited to the wants o.
a progressive people. Nowhere were ever sucl
vast and complete educational systems so rap
i 11/ perfected as in Uni >, Indian, Illinois, Mich
igan, or in die newer States of Minnesota an
lowa. Tnrough all this wide, populous, an
pro 1 active territory, the granary of half th
wm l l, caste and sectarianism have been lai
lisi'le forever; by a spontaneous movement o.
the people education h is been made free to all,
► a h gre it sums are ia\ is'.ied upon the teacher
and their schools as n iturally startle our Kn
ropcaa co.itemporaries, and the money ot tin
people, which ill Europe ii*s been expendci,
usually upon priests and kings, has here been
devoted to the cultivation of those w ho earned
it. Uaio spends nearly ten millions of dollars
annually upon its public schools, Indiana auo
Illinois to&ctlier a sum not much less. Ihe
I dr, convenient, primary school house shines
out upon the prairie and in the forest; tin
higher school-houses of Chicago or Cincinnati
are unsurpassed in New York or Boston; tai
sci'otce of teaching is carefully studied in >•
host of teachers’ institutes, and with republi
can liberality the West an l the gn at North
west care for all tln ir children. This remar
kable enthusiasm for education penetrates uii
the nation ; it has become the distinguishing
principle of American progress, in the heaio
■if the 1 lookv Mountains, and in the midst ol
ihe gold an 1 silver bearing peaks of Arizona
: nd Colorado, the free school is the sentinel ol
civilization. In Tucson or Denver the love ol
knowledge has survived the prevalence ol
what is usually thought the stronger passion,
mi 1 the cities of the miners are seldom without
their public school. 1 lie most splendid of our
high school buildings is said to be that of Oma
ha, seated on a lofty blurt' over the Missouri.
Californi i lias produced a system of education
so complete and valuable us may well serve at
a model for all older communities; its teachers
arc made examples of propriety and tenderness,
its scholars Tire taught integrity and moral ex
c. lienee ; sectarianism and caste are forbiddei
to divide the people, an l the prosperous Stub
D already feeling in all its indu-trwl pursuit;
the happy influence of die common school.
Harper* Magazine.
(■eortftit Kenoti'CCii.
A Liberty county man lias shown the editoi
of the Gazette specimens of anew and useful
a. licit; in mnfactured from common pine straw
It consisted of three different grades—matting
suitable for stuffing mattresses, buggy cushions,
and the like, a softer and finer quality for bol
B tcrs, pillows, chair bottoms, etc; and a thin
q i ility, which w is a very gmi substitute foi
twine to tie up heavy parcels. All these wen
made from pine straw. Of this, there can la
iv> mistake, for we ex. mined it very closed'
u t 1 r the microscope, an 1 the original fibre ol
the straw is plainly visible. The patentee
Charles Hoboken. New Jersey, claims that b
has discovered a cheap chemical process, In
which the straw can he converted into this sob
material, which can be rendered useful in i
thousand ways. He also claims for his inven
tion that it can be spun and woven into
„r made into paper for printing and writin:
purposes. Beds m ule of this pine straw stufl
injr arc recoinended in point of health, especial
ly for persons afflicted with rheumatism con
sumption, as it is well kno'vn that luipontim
nn t rosin possess great medical properties. -
Grange.
Why Editors Don’t Suicide.— The New
York correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
in a recent Idler says :
" While speaking of suicides as a feature in
hit.nan experience, lam led to the remarkabh
fact that editorial life exhibits so general nr
exception. While we have had instances ol
sdf inflicted death among lawyers, bankers and
mechanics, such a case lias never occurred
among the journalists of this city.
One may reasonably inquire, what is the
cause of this exemption ? They labor intensely
an 1 are generally ill-paid, and tliev have a full
sh ire of life’s hardships, which they endur
till tlieir change comes in course of nature. 1
can give no other reason for this except tlia*
the profession is constantly busy, and work;
with an approval of conscience, since its labor
are for the public weal. Editors in fact are sc
occupied with range of thought embracing
public interest *hat they have litile time to
think about themselves. Walter Scott uiadi
the remark after he had reached bankruptcy
that nothing saved him from insanity but his
habits of w riting. His mind was thus led away
from the contemplation of his miseriis. Jourr
alists are so engaged in chronicling the woe
of others that they lose sight of their own."
Rapid Cck you Catarrh —Wo find ir.
las; Amui.il Record of Science and Industry :
remedy for catarrhal cold which, from its con
stituents, should prove more or less efficacious
It is given on authority of Hamilton' wio says
it will remove the severest affection of the kind
in about ten hours. The recipe is as follows ;
10 drops of carbolic acid. 7.5 drops of iiHline.
and the same of chloroform. A few drops ol
this mixture are heated over a spirit lamp, in a
test lube, the mouth of which is to he applied
to the nostrils as soon as that liquid vaporizes
The operation is to be repeated after an inter
val of two minutes when the patient will deliv
er a number of vigorous sneezes, and then hi
troublesome symptoms will quickly disap-
P car -
Bowles went to church in Spring
fi Id, Mass; and feeling the effect of his severe
editorial labors through the week, fell to nap
ping. By and bv lie was awakened by the
preacher, who struck the desk and shouted,
“Who shall be able to stand up in the presence
of the Lord on that awful dayf And Sum
Bowles, rising in his pew. remarked, Charles
F. -ncis Adams is the only nun that can do it,
i UQißiaato ktUA fof
senator Bajard u I.ctler
Senator Bayard who made so worthy a speech
u the State Fair in M icon, has given, by ro
piest. an open letter to the Atlanta Herald. He
iscusses the currency question on the ground
if money being the basis of all public and pli
cate contracts. He asserts that if money lias
io intrinsic value, it cannot be used as a stand
ird of values and thus it fails in the highest at
tribute of money, because instability is its in
lennt and necessary feature; instability is un
certainty and uncertainly is the fruitful parent
f fraud and wrong. From this construction
•f money all ordinary business operations be
■nine speculative and gambling transaction.
The present currency no doubt has ha 1 more
dian all else combined to do with the gambling
spirit so thoroughly manifested by the Ameri
can people for the last decade.
Senator liavard s< e* a great opportunity for
restoring the laws of sound firanee by return
ing to the limitations of the Federal Constitu
tion. lie assorts, and no one can disprove it,
hat there has been since 1882 a combination
u tween the Federal Administration and the
noneyed power of the country, unwholesome
for both parties and unsafe to the country at
large. Oar National B inking system is s ib
ioct to the will of a congressional majority,
which the Constitution does not warrant. Says
ie:
Under it the banking business of the entire
country has been restricted to one special kind
of capital; i. e., the bonds of the United States
Government, and the employment of all other
descriptions as capital as a basis fur banking,
has rigidly been excluded from competi
tion.
Credit lias been restricted to the single form
if National Bank notes, and this lias been uu
iuwfully and unwisely taken from the States
and people, where it admitedly belonged under
the usage of our Government from its founda
tion, and deposited under the sole and despotic
control of Congress.
This was all accomplished by the passage of
an act of congress, which under the pretext of
taxing the State Banking Institutions for the
purpose of revenue,
CRUSHED THE IK Cl KCUI.ATION OUT OF EXIST
ENCE.
So long as this lasts, and Congress is invest
ed with the power and sole discretion to deter
mine and control the volume of currency—the
“Xtent of emissions of paper currency for all
the States and people—just so long uncertainty
and dissatisfaction will prevail, and the sound
and true principles of banking and credit will
be disregarded.
The ebb and flow of party power changes
Congressional majorities from year to year, and
1 can imagine no body of men so unfit to exer
cise so great a power and peculiar discretion as
the accidental majority of Congress. Such a
power has never been exercised in Great Bri
tain. Even there under their imperial system
md all the political omnipotence of parlia
ment, such folly as confining the banking bus
iness of the country to a single spec its of cap!
t il, or preventing any Banker, or Banking As
sociation from using his or their credit by tin
emission of notes in any form they saw fit, lias
never been attended or suggested.
Therefore we see the numerous Banks ol
Scotland, and Ireland, and England, “Counliy
Banks” they are called, pursuing a safe useful
uni profitable business, supplying currency
,totes .to tlieir customers, and regulating tilt
volume of st.cli issue* under such limitations at
>vlf preservation, and the laws compelling ri-
Jemption of their notes on demand
IN 001-D OK SILVEIt
coin make it necessary.
The notes of the Scotch and Irish Bank;
loat side by side with the notes of the Bank ol
>f England and the coined money of the realm
ui all avenues of business. They are not an<
.lever were a legal tender, but convertible a;
.vill into coin, they became practically equiva
,ent.
The combination between the moneyed pow
■r of the country anil Congress, gives to tin
former a degree of influence over legislation,
.vliich is inconsistent with the public interest,
md hostile to popular freedom, and at the same
time capital is subjected to the ignorant or ca
pricious sontrol of Congressional legislation,
rendering its operations insecure and unsta
ble.
It is not manifest that there is now a favor
ible opportunity for the Southern States to us
-ist in aiding the country to return to system;
>f sound finance and currency under the limi
tations imposed by the Federal Constitution
over the power of Congress over this impor
tant subject.
The cry of Kelly, Butler Wendell Philips,
(ilas!) heard and there a Democrat, is against
“MONKY-RIMGS,”
“bloated bondholders," “coupon clipper.-etc.,
etc., and passing by for a moment, the infa
.nous nature of such appeals, such outrages up
on the “law of the land,” which is for the rich
•is well as the poor, does not a moment’s reflec
tion make it manifest that all the profits c f
flunctoation in our paper money of credi*—
those changes in its value which are going on
day by day, and hour by hour, are at the cost
of the laborer and consumer, and benefit the
vert classes against whom Kelly dc 00. seek to
excite popular and ignorant prejudice.
The moneyed classes have it in always in
their power— by the purchase or sale of gold,
to raise or lower the value of the paper dollar;
and when Kelly and Butler insist upon a con
tinuance of the system of irredeemable paper
money, they play directly into the hands of the
very classes they affect to assail, and perpetu
ate in their hands a control over the currency
dangereus to the welfare of the laboring and
producing classes.
It is the man whose daily toil supplies that
day’s need; the man whose reliai co is upon
steady industry to whom the fluctuation in the
value of the currency, in which he is paid, is
so full of distress aud loss. That which de
pletes him, fills the pocket of the speculative
class.
A fifth-ward widow moved into her new
house the other day, mul her first six caller?
were lightning-rod agvnt*. She bluffed them
off one by one, but when the seventh came he
s iid : “ l don't claim that a rod will protect a
house, but I do say that if I was looking f r a
second wife I’d never marry a widow who
didn't have a lightning rod on her house. And
tbit’s the way all rich men think.” “You
may put up two of ’em," she promptly replied,
*• alii be sure Ural they afe ceuspkutAU, tool”
FORSYTH. GEORGIA. TUESDAY MOUSING NOVEMBER 23, 1575.
A Singular Klud of Planlinjft
A ootemporary, recently, in an article undei
t ie above caption, after commenting on tin
fact that cabbages are brought from the Nort;
anil sold here at forty and fifty cents a In a i
and upon the folly of buying hay from tin
North and West, reads our planters the fol
lowing lecture:
*' If sweet potatoes did not grow almost spon
taneously, we bediove our planters would bin
tbenr. elsewhere, as they now do Irish potatoes
It certainly looks as if our country will nevei
be cultivated with any prudence and discretion
Because corn won’t grow on a rock planter;
sen 1 West for corn, when land here that wil
produce com in abundance with a little nia
nure, is lying around them. No land is evei
too poor for cotton, or if it is the owner will
break himself procuring commercial manure;
to make it rich enough ; and yet cotton bring;
him deeper in debt every year.”
It certainly looks as if editors will nevei
write about agriculture “ with any prudenc*
and discretion.” In common with the farmer;
of the State, we are getting tired of these pt
riodic insinua'ions that farmers are ignoran’
blockheads. We assert that they comprise out
wisest, best, most industrious citizens, and di
more for the good of the people and of tilt
State than any other class.
It is a far nice difficult matter to manage,
successfully, a plantation working fifty freed
mi-n, than to run a large daily newspaper, i
to conduct a grocery store, where a merchant
can sit in his wheel-chair and calculate the in
terest on a car-load of bacon or hay.
Our legislators have neglected to provide
laws by which agricultural products can be
protected after they are made; they have been
grossly negligent in not making laws by which
the laborer is taught to regard the sanctity of a
contract. The planter contends with a thous
and difficulties unknown to and unappreciated
by the editor, or the merchant or the lawyer.
His business, if successfully conducted, requires
infinitely more labor and infinitely more ad
ministrative ability than either of the others.
Tiie planters have converted 4,000.000 undis
ciplined, semi-civilized negroes into industri
ous laborers and are gradually fitting them to
become good citizens. They have borne th
heaviest burdens left by the results of the war.
Go through the agricultural districts and you
find houses with leaky roofs and premises pre
senting a neglected appearance. The evidences
of debt are omnipresent. The planter who
U3ed to dispense lavish hespitality now rises
with tlie dawn and works until dark. He lives
in the plainest style and in the most economi
cal manner. In order to furnish food and
clothing for his family he gives to the ware
houseman or hanker a mortgage on his land;
and stock, and even on the crop yet to be rais
ed. This goes on from year to year until tin
inevitable end approaches and the bankrupt
takes advantage of the homestead law. He is,
sometimes, accused of dishonesty for thus pro
tecting his family from starvation. If lie raists
all the corn needed instead of paying the mer
chant, two prices f>; it, he win uc uiiul-lc ti
place in the hands of the man who enabled
him to produce it, the number of bale's of cct
ton promised to secure a return of the loan ad
vanced. He is accused of dishonesty if In
Joes not pay that loan; lie is accused of dis
honesty if lie does not pay the merchant; and.
f li3 takes the homestead all credit is refused
aim. Like Atlas, he bears the whole commun
ity upon liis shoulders and is afraid to lei
;o. The merchant or the manufacturer -mai
leave an unprofitable pursuit and try anothei
hid. Not so the planter, for though bis land:
.re for sale there are no buyers who will paj
uni so that he can pay others. lie siruggle.-
>n, hopeful, even when he takes the liomesteai.
.hat he may make enough to pay his hones:
iebts. The selfish policy pursued against tin
farmers in Bartow county resulted in deflect
mg trade from Cartersville, and real estate ha;
-uffered very materially in consequence, li
mr city, ow ing to the liberality of our factor
md merchants, no fears need be entertained o:
such a result, for no interior city offers bettei
a rices for the fanner’s products. But it i
time that the press should cease its undeserved
strictures and boldly “ hew to the line, let tin
chips fall where they will.” — C>l. Times.
Tlie Spitier’* Web.
The question has often been asked: “How
does a spider make its web, the lines -some o.
them—crossing at the center, are carried to the
surrounding objects, while others are fasten’d
to an outer circular line, made evidently before
the outer circular lines of the woof are forme?”
Also: “Where does the spider place itself when
it ejects the lines which form the spokes of the
wheel?”
To these queries the Scientific American re
plies: "The extreme outer line surrounding the
web, to which the spokes are fastened, is by no
means always circular; this depends upon th*
position of the surrounding objects to which
the web is fastened. The spider first extends
lines from one point to another by the shortest
route possible, enclosing a sufficient space to
build its web. He next fixes the centre by fas
tening a line thereto on the central line, and
carrying tlie line at right angles or nearly so to
the first line, hitches it to the nearest object
whether that be the outer Hue of the web, oi
anything to which the web is fastened. L
will be observed here that the spider ejects ali
the spokes of the wheel (except the first lint
across the center of the web) fio.u the intended
center, placing the first lines at right angles or
nearly so, and dividing the distance each time
a line is extended from the center until a sufli
cieut number are put up, always stretching the
lines alternately in opposite directions until tin
spokes of the wheel arc complete. He then
places his left forefoot on the center of the
wheel, an l hitches the first en 1 of the circulai
line of the woof to on* of the spoke* >f the
wheel, and moves rouu.t the center fas ening
his thread to every spoke a3 he goes along;
measuring the distance from one line to tin
other by stretching his right hind foot to secur
tue web to the spoke, with his left fore foot one
liue toward the center and moving spirally
along from one spoke to the other, until ho get*
his web sufficiently for his purpose.”
- ■ ,
A lady school-teacher in Omaha having e
dnau of small pox, sent a little girl home be
cause she said tier molucr was ic£ and had
marks n her face. Tue next day the chile
appeared at the school-house and said to tlr.
teacher: “ iliss——, we have got a little bab\
at oar house; but mother told me to tell you i.
isn’t catc.nnj.’*
“In G-od we Trust.”
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Attention Planters!
I HAVE PURCHASED THE LARGE
FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE
‘, n wiiVif: sr h “ d,i ” s
23 Cents Per Bale.
lam Well prepared to store cotton, or serfto the best advantage. I give mv friends a
cordial invitation, to come and see me.
JEFF, DXJMAS.
a at-p lit i Wlissoois.
The undersigned Din e‘ors or Committee, having assumed the management and contro'
of the former interest of W. L. Lampkin in this well known Warehouse, and having assn
iated with us S. D. MOBLEY, would ‘.inform the Planters and Public generally, of Mon
roe and adjoining counties, that we will be fully prepared on uud nftcr'st'pl. ial to
Weigh and Store Cotton,
And conduct a General
WAREHOUSE BUSINESS,
The services of S. D. MOBLEY have been secured who will attend to the weighing and stor
age department and all other business connected with the warehouse. We intend that no effort
on our part shall be spared to extend any facilities and accommodations in our power; and by
our promptness and close attention to business, we hope to receive a liberal share of the pub
lic patronage.
w. T. MAYNARD, E. H. WALKER,
PETER McMICKLE, JNO. A. DANIELLY,
E. M. MOORE, TITO.t G SCOIT.
ATTENTION Planters of MONROE! !
LAWTON & WILLINGHAM.
if AiuHousE am mmmm mbrubants,
FOURTH STREET, MACON, GA.
Tender their services to the planters of Monroe and adjoining counties in the handling of
Cotton for the coming season. We have assisted our planting friends in the past, and expect
to continue to do so. Our charges are as low’ as other leading warehouses of the city who
have made advances. Bring us vour cotton and we w ill do our best to please you.
LAWTON & WILLINGHAM.
sep7 3 m
W. A. HUFF,
WHOLESALE
PRODUCE MERCHANT.
MACON, GA.
BA CO!¥, CRRF 7 ,
FLOUR, BE Ali,
It AY, €*ATS,
RAG&IAG, TIES,
NUB Alt, COFFEE
SYRUP, YARD,
NAIjT, rice,
Tobacco, Lime, Etc., Etc.
Ai! or •uy of the above articles can he bought on one to fonr month*’ time by culling on
W. A. HUFF.
snglO 2m
“SOLOMON & MOUNT
HAVE MADE AN
IMMENSE REDUCTION
IN THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING IN THE
DRY GOODS LINE.
WE are selling Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes and Groceries at prices far below any
ever offered in this market
Best Calico at 6 and 8 cts per yard, Shirting at 7 cts per yard.
Shirting yard wide. 8 1-2 cts Osnaburgs, 10 cts
Columbus Checks. 10 cts 1000 pr Ladies Shoes at $1 00 a 1 50
1000 prs good Ladies Cloth Shoes $125 and $2 00 1000 prs Brogan Shoes $1 25 to $1 75
500 prs Ditching Boots $2 00 to $3 50 200 prs fine Calf skin Bioots $2 to $3 50
100 suits of clothing $5 00 to $lO 00 50 tine Cassimere suits sl2 00 to S2O 0C
Ana Other Goods in Ir*roportion.
We have two stores, one in the Morse building next to the Pye Hotel block; and another in
the Head building, formerly occupied by L. Wolfe, we have in both
M STOQS
Of everything usually kept in a
First Class Dry Goods Store.
Together with a large and choice stock of
Family Groceries & Plantation Supplies.
All of which are offered at the very lowest prices. If you examine our gu<ds you willl
•ound to trade. We buy our goods in large quantries and get the bottom price* in New
York city. None buy to better advantage than ourselves, and in consequence of large sale*
we sell at small margins in the way bf profits.
US S XTB& TO CALL TO SEE TJS.
ecU9* O* 4 JlOilX
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sometliing' Mew
Wiley L, Smith,
NCS3 TO IH3 FKIEND3 THAT HE 13 OPENING A NEW BUSINESS IS
SMITH’S BUILDING
N.ii dccr Ulc Ls <■< rui, ihc* uhmi’j crj!* Ij 1 > . limit j Hnl -tM> *£•
w:tii a full stock of
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS,
Wood Willow and Tin Ware,
SADDLES, BRIDLES. HARNESS. FARMING IMPLEMENTS, ETC, Eft’..
For Cash Only..
indistinct print
1 buy my Good* tor C*b aud am determined to eeil then, - lo* at. aevbodv and toilcl’a
share o! me patronage. lex eud a cordial invitation lu ail my .rienda to ciil 4 a„a exmiinc ooda
MAJOR D. G. PROCTOR i-with me and will b? jrlad to see bis old Mends and customer*.
~yg 7 3n„,. W T-i. SMITH,
Groceries, Provisions,
500 Bushels of EAR CORN, for Sale
Cheap, to arrive, Call and
Leave Your Orders.
16,000 LBB ‘ FIOUB ‘ COOK & CHEKK S CHOICE IKSNNEBAW and MARIETTA.
10,000 Ltt9 ' BA<<r; 8,,d BULK MEATS
CUBA MOLASSES, SUGAR,
COFFEE, BVGGING
TiE S- SALT,
LARD 1N TIERCEs * Dd3 - • aiid 10 pound cans. TOBACCO
MCESH CORN MEaET
And ail other Goods Usually kept in a
FIRST CLASS GROCERY STORE
AIL FOR SALE AT BOTTOM FIGURES FOR CASH. MACON BILLS DUPLICA TED
_ Beptl4ly W. A. jE=YII!.
W. A. Banks & Sons,
FORSYTH, - - - - QA.,
Offer the largest and most desirable Stock of
Dry Goods, Domestics,
White Goods, Je^ns,
Laces, Notions, Hosiery,
Boots, Shoes, Etc,
of any house in the place. Special attention is called to our
CLOTHING DEPARTMENT,
Comprising a full and complete assortment of
FALL ANB WINTER SUITS,
AT
EXCEEDINGLY LOW PRICES.
OUR
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
1* rerj Urge and will be told
As Cheap as the Cheapest.
It (‘member Uim- Facta When Purchasing l our Supplies,
¥. A. IMIS & SOUS
[PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS
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