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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 NO. 46.