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THURSDAY, JULY 8. 1875,
Commissioner's Iteport.
Wo are under obligations to
Commissioner T. I’. Janes, for a
copy of the Monthly Report of
crops, etc. From this report we
gather the following interesting
particulars with regard to the grow
ing crops ;
The average condition of the corn
crop is 2 per cent, below that of
last year. This falling off is attri
buted to the drought in Southern
Georgia. The crop is reported
clean, but small.
The cotton crop is reported the
same ns last year. It is late, but
in a thriving condition.
Fall oats 6 per cent, above an
average, and spring oats 20 per ct.
below. 'l’he yield of both, as com
nared with last year, is 14 per ct.
in excess.
The Commissioner says: “It is
well demonstrated that oats succeed
better sown in the fall. It has al'
so been demonstrated, that a good
stand may be secured by sowing in
cotton about the first of September,
without plowing in. Planters
should try at least a part of their
crop this way next fall.”
The condition of wheat, not har
vested, on the 15th ult,,was 10 per
cent, below last year; the yield of
.that harvested was 8 per cent,
above last year's yield. This crop
-has been harvested in good dry
condition.
Clover is 10 per cent, below an
averager
The area devoted to corn forage
is 20 per cent, more than last year,
and the condition of the crop is 1
per cent, below that of last year.
llh of July in Atlanta.
July s.—The celebration of the
4th of July here to-day, called to
gether the largest mass meeting
since the war. Citizens and sol
diers all participated. Gov. Smith
presided. lion. A. H. Stephens,
Orator of the Day, made a speech
two hours long. The Declaration
of Independence was his theme,—
lie reviewed the causes leading to
American freedom, and described
the grand celebration had in Phila
delphia, July 4th, 1789. He ask
ed; Are these small matters to
bring forth on this occasion ? Far
from it. They are deep footprints
o r truth impressed on our earlier
history, fixing the character of our
system of institutions, which asser
tion can never obliterate, argu
ment can never remove, time can
•never erase, and which wars can
•never destroy. They stick to the
very fragments of the primitive
mocks of our political formation,and
only have to be dug up and shown
■with their unerring inscriptions to
utterly refute all false theories to
the contrary. This is the time and
occasion to exhibit at least a few of
them. Wc should ever discrimin-
ate between principles] oT govern
ment and the acts ot’ its administra
tion : entire devotion to the one is
not at all inconsistent with stern
opposition to the other. This is a
Centennial period. The grand dem
onstrations in honor of the one
hundredth anniversary of tbo de
struction of tea at Boston, and the
battles of Concord, Lexington,
Bunker Hill, and the Mecklenburg
Declaration, which have brought
different sections into more harmo
nious accord, are but a prelude to
the celebration of the anniversary of
the declaration which is to come off
■next year in Philadelphia. “The
question is mooted whether we
shall be represented in that cele
bration. In reply I say with all
the emphasis I can command, yes.
What more fitting occasion could
be planned for the gathering of the
people ito consider the nature of
their institutions and contemplate
their workings in the past, especi
ally when administered on the prin
ciples on which they were founded.’
Tlr. Stephens closed with, “All
honor now and forever to the men
who, by their deeds in the council
chamber and on battlefields,achiev
ed our independence, and like hon
or now and forever to the principles
upon which that independence was
founded.” Mr. Stephens was fre
quently applauded for his patriotic
sentiments.—[Press Dispatch.
[foh tub iierald.]
••miOIA M3 KIVU BIT
<Hiui.ii2 r ”
We have read of disinterested kind
ness, disinterested friendship, disinter
ested love, and all this sort of thing,
but that age is past; or, if ever seen at
ali in this last day of progressive ideas,
it is looked upon as an irreconcilable
anomaly in man’s emotional nature,
and the actor considered as more fit
for a lunatic asylum than to move about
loose in the common walks of life.
These disinterested feelings may well
be remembered with the “ things that
were.” Our fathers may have told us
of them, but wc have learned to be
wiser, and, now, have rushed upon a
broader platform, inaugurating anew
era by introducing the higher, nobler
principle of disinterested patriotism,
Wo are all disinterested patriots, ex
tremely anxious to serve our beloved
country by holding—it is moro com
monly called filling, but in truth it
would be fitting to say emptying—
some public office, purely for the honor
and because we are conscious of su-
perior qualifications and merits; salary
and perquisites have no sort of influ
ence in the matter. Oh! no, these
golden charms do not effect us. It
would bo bard to tell in these days the
perquisites of office. True, after the
position is obtained we become very
greatly impressed with the fact that,
owing to the responsible and onerous
duties, the pay should be increased, not
so much on our own account but, main
ly from sympathy for our successors.
The disinterested patriot never seeks
any office, from Captain of Militia, Jus
tice of the Peace, on down grade ns
low as Governor and Congressman,
without first being earnestly solicited
thereto by numerous friends. How
very numerous these friends often are,
occasionally they amount to the whole
number of one. These friends write
lengthy biographies. They are written
and published, not for pay, oh ! no, not
they, but done through disinterested
motives; it would be perpetrating a
great wrong against mankind to allow
the possessors of such exalted virtues to
remain in obscurity. It is not because
the noble, distinguished public bene
faotor seeks position, by no manner of
means; for it is known as a fact by all,
that, if personal inclination was con
suited, he would never leave the quiet
retreat of privato life, he has a sort of
horror of notoriety. (Pity, but the
owlish tribe would continue to live in
“ the wilderness.) But then the State
absolutely needs his service*, and would
fall in pieces without him.
War, unfortunately, very often
makos a great man out of a very small
pattern, so in those times we find it not
uncommon to hear some friends—
“ Shout and sing, Oh ! humpty dumpsy,
Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh,”
Some men go to war moved alone by
ambitious motives, others from a sense
of duty and love of country, the first
are always a pest, the latter, although
they may rarely be heard of after vic
tory has been won, are an honor to the
age in which they live.
lienee the State owes these patriots
special honors. We have at this pres
ent time so many in Georgia, and they
are as prolific as dog-fennel, whoso
many personal friends are persuaded
beyond a doubt that the favorite of
each batch, should, without delay, be
authorized to approve the acts of the
Legislature, and issue thanksgiving
proclamations, that the people are in an
awful dilemma ; if they choose one, the
others will be scandalously offended,
and if all are rejected the State will bo
lost. So if all can not be elected im
mediately great damage will result to
the dear people, if this can not be done,
and they cannot wait a spell, I would
respectfully suggest that each and all
obtain a life insurance agency, and
then go out into the wilds of the West
and bunt prairie dogs. They would
have no business bruising around in
this locality. This would be largely
better for the finances, inflation or no
inflation. It would be hard to pay a
proper man to much, or an unfit man
too little.
We now have more ways to manu
facture noted men than was ever before
beard of. Here is this interviewing
plan, and if this does not stop it will
ruin the country. They interview rob
bers and murderers, politicians and
Governors, and railroads, aud fast
women, and everybody, and make fool*
of all, and when once a man is inter
viewed his fame is established, and he
must have an office.
“ Oli, wad gome power the giftie gie us,
To see oursei's as others see ns !
It wad frac ruoiiie a blunder free us
And foolish notions.”
“’Tis true, ’tis pity; and pity J iis,
’tis true.” that we now have no fin!
class men to serve as Governor, as in
“ days of auld lang syne.” Men who
instead of seeking the office, let the
office seek them. Men whose personal
histories, and public virtues, and ster
ling worth did not need to be written
by some fulsome upstart.
We have gpt the men, and the con
den nation will justly fall on their heads
if they bury their talents, and do not
lend a helping band in choking off the
numerous little puppets who howl
around the Executive Mansion. We
wont no “ring-master” of any kind<
“color, or previous condition of servi
tude,” no plunderer, nor anybody who
lias had any hand or partnership with
plunderers. It would be better to have
the shadow of our wise and good men
to hover about our public offices, than
have them filled by the uncertain stuff
that makes up the character of many
who now hanker after place.
Let us write no more letters to this
or that man to know if be will serve
the State, but we will have an honest
Convention of the people and nominate
and elect by no mean majority one of
Georgia’s noble sons. One of senso, ex
perience, integrity and courage, and,
though he may profer the shades of
private life, where is the son of them
that, with such an expression of confi
deuce, would refuse to honor us as the
Governor of our grand old State. J.
The l.nml lor Homes.
'I he time i fast approaching
when the South must cotno promi
nently forward ns a land forhorae3.
There is not ono Southern State
that has, or ever had, one-fifth of
its area under cultivation. From
Virginia to Texas and from Mis
souri to Florida, there are tens of
millions of acres of the finest un
occupied land in the world. Asa
rule, it is very fertile, and its pro
ducts are such ss ever command a
market. There is an abundance of
virgin forest, and the hills are fill
ed with coal and iron. Tho cli
mate throughout the greater num
ber of the Southern States is une
qualled for health and temperature.
The rivers are never frozen, caltle can
graze all winter, and there is not a
month in the year that, tbe former
cannot flow. With such advantages
one would think the South was the
heaven of farmers, and that others
would flock into that section to fol-
low the same calling Both these
suppositions should bo true, but
fortunately they are not.
There is not to-day a more wretch
ed system of agriculture than that
pursued by the Southern “plant
er,” as ho still delights to call him
self, and we question if any farm
ing people in the wcrld live more
wretchedly or are more in debt.—
This must not be attributed to the
war, for the land and tho climate
are left, nor to the depletion of la
bor, for it all remains, but to the
utter thriftlessnesß an_d want of pro
gress of the people. Tho six mill
ions of people in the Cotton States
depend on the North-west for their
meat and bread, and this with a
soil capable of producing every ne
cessary article of food in abundance.
In truth, they buy every thing, and
raise and sell but one thing, cot
ton. Of course, they are poor,and,
in debt, and discontented.
In such a land tbe skilled and
economical Northern or European
farmer would grow rich in one-half
the time he could in the West, and
wherever a Southern man has adop
ted a careful mode of agriculture,
ho has succeeded. This surely
should be the place into which a
portion of the tide of emigration,
now reaching our shores, should
pour. The Southern peoplo claim
to desire this; but here is the great
stumbling block; all the good lands
are held in large bodies by a few
men. The farms, so miserably cul
tivated, number often thousands ot
acres each, when they should tens.
The country is all owned by some
body, and they live so far apart
that the roads arc wretched,church
es scarce, and schoolhouses nearly
impossible. It is true, they are
willing to have capital and labor
flow South, but they hope in this
to find customers for their lands,or
cheaper and more reliable labor
than the negro to work them. Of
course, the inferior free lands of
the Government will continue to be
occupied, and the Southern States
must drop farther and farther be
hind in the great inarch of progress.
It is to be hoped fbatthe South
ern legislators will see the necessi
ty for some vigorous policy, look
ing to the encouragement of emi
gration, and its subsequent pretec
tion. If one-half the money spent
on railroads and other swindling
undertakings by all the Southern
States since the war, had been used
to transport emigrants and give
them free farms, the South would
bo far richer, happier, and with a
more brilliant future to-day. We
hopo jour Southern brethren will
give this subject the thought it de
serves.—[N. Y. Irish World,
The Alee of the Times.
If the beginning of anew centu
ry of our national life should be
marked by a revival of the early
virtues of the people, such as sim
plicity, frugality, and economy,
in place of luxury, extravagance
and prodigality, wo might reason
bly boliove the next hundred years
will witness our growth in prosper
ity and powor, such as the present
state of things givos us no right to
anticipate.
It will hardly be denied that os
tentatious display is ono of the
great vices of our times and coun
try. The haste to be rich and to
mako a show of what riches can
buy, are the cankers of our social
system, and will eat out the solid
and enduring strength of any peo
ple. Tho facts on which this state
ment is made Jare apparent. In
deed they are thrust upon our ob
servation as the grand ebject of life,
and wo are compelled to see them
whether they disgust or delight us.
It is in city and country alike
Everywhere the disgust of the eye
and the pride of life, flare them-*
selves in the eyes of men. This is
so much the fashion of the day that
it has ceased to receive censure.and
it rather commands admiration, as
the thing to be done and desired.—
The struggle of those who have not
tho means to make the display, is
to get them, and the more they get
the more they want. This is hu
man nature. It always was so.—
Perhaps it always will be so. But
it never did mark the upward pro
gress of the people. It is the sign
of culmination and decline. It be
tokens those views of life—luxury,
effeminacy, tinsel, glitter, veneer
ing, shams, show, froth, folly, van
ity and vice—that cannot co-exist
with the stealing honesty, simplici--
tv, purity, sobriety, and religious
principles, on which true greatness
and permanent prosperity are built.
To draw the line between the
right and wrong in this matter is
not for us : oar fathers, the foun
ders of the republic, drew it. There
is but one of the distinguished men
of tho revolution to whom extrava
gance is imputed, and he was Ben
edict Arnold, lli- greed was the
incentive to his treason.
We know how silly seems the at
tempt to say a word against the ex
travagance of the times ; as indi
cated in the style of living, the
equipage, the furnitnte, the enter
tainments, in which the rich, and
those who wish to bo considered
rich, but are not, indulge.
We aro laughed at for our pains,
and regarded croaking when the
world is singing for joy. But the
day of reckoning comes, to nations
as well RS individuals, and then
“whose shall all these things bef”
Who, of all those that pride them
selves on costly displays, contrib
ute anything of wisdom and power
to the republic ? How ft .7 of tnc-m
leave children whose example is of
any service to the country ? The
sons of men who waste thrir sub
stance in luxurious living, amount
to nothing. Such families soon
run out. Those who endure, per
petuating their names and their in
fluence through successive gener
atons, are the sober, frugal, steady,
conservative people, whose highest
ambition is to do thir duty to God
and to their country.
We shall see these (ruths bro’t
to the front in the discourses which
the centennial will produce, and
well will it be for the country, and
so for the world, if the truth be so
sent home to the understanding and
conscience of the nation, that we
shall have a revival of those domes
tic and social virtues which indi
cate solid worth, and assure the ex
istence and influence of those pub
lic virtues * which are essential to
permanent national life. [Ex.
A lesson of wisdom seems to have
been drawn from the calamity at
Holyoke, by the Legislature of Con
necticut. A bill, which orders that
the doors of churches and other public
edifices shall in future open outwards,
has been introduced into that Legisla
ture. It is expected that it will hecom*
a law.
Grout EartliQUUke
HORROR UPON IIORROR.
Most Awful Calamity minor the
Creation off Iso
New York, July 4.
Later mail advices from different
places in Colombia more than con
firm the horrors by the earthquake
in May. A letter from Salaza,
dated May 2Stb, says: “Cucuta is
a pitiful sight. Everything is in
ruins. Not a house remains stand
ing. Thieves and robbers from the
surrounding country have swept
down on the ill-fated city, and
hardly a single safe has been saved
from the custom-house. Four
hundred mules were killed in the
streets, and as there is no one to
remove them the stench is becom
ing frightful. The villages of San
Custobal, Farina, Guassinjo, Capa
cho, San Antonio, Lobatera San
Juan de Urena, Reosario and San
Cayetana are completely deet-oyed.
The store houses at Fuerte de los
Cachos was sacked and burned by
the bandits.”
A letter from Ocana, dated May
30th, says: “Ten thousand peoplo
were killed in Cucuta, in addition
to other thousands who were seri
ously wounded and bruised. Death
and desolation reigned everywhere.
A great number of haciendas have
been destroyed, and hundreds of
houses in the country have been
overthrown, leaving the people
homeless and,consequently, in pov
erty. Many of the trees were torn
up by the roots and small hills were
opened like a melon. The cause
of the great catastrophe is, of
course, unknown, as well as the
precise place of its first manifesta
tion. Some suppose that the vol
cano of Sobotera, which was in ac
tion in 1848, again breaking out,
while others say that anew volcano
has appeared in. the hills of Gira
cha.”
forelgnitems.
The Pope of Romo received eight
hundred congratulatory telegrams on
his last birthday.
The workingmen’s society of Paris
have opened a national subscription to
provide for sending a delegation to the
Philadelphia exhibition.
London, June 29, —A despatch from
Buda-Pcsth to the Standard says a
furious thunderstorm passed over that
city to-day The lightning was inces
sant, and hail fell in such quantities
that the roofs of the houses and the
surrounding hills were covered two
feet thick with ice. The waterfall was
extraordinary. Torrents swept through
the streets of Buda, carrying men, ve
hides and everything moveablo down
into the river. Many houses were sud
denly flooded and destroyed before
their inmates could escape. Five hun
dred of the inhabitants are missing,
and at least one hundred have been
drowned or killed by falling walls. All
tin railways are interrupted.
Latest. —London, June 30.—The
Standard’s special despatch from Pesth
reports that the loss of life by the
tempest of yesterday exceeds the first
reports. One hundred and twenty dead
bodies have been found in the Danube,
and many more must have been carried
away by the current.
London, June 28.—Special tele
grams to the Times say 900 persons
perished in the flood at Toulouse alone.
The outbreak of an epidemic is feared.
It is believed that 2,600 houses have
been 3wept away in the town and envi
rons. The damage there is estimated
at from £12,000,000 to £15,000,000.
The Paris correspondent of the Times
makes an appeal to British charity in
behalf of the sufferers. The Daily
News’ special telegram says the lowest
estimate of deaths in the flooded dis
tricts is 2,000. It is proposed to bom
bard and destroy the St. Cyprien quar
ter of Toulouse to prevent danger from
the crumbling walls of the houses that
yet remain. The Standard publishes
reports of fearful inundations in Bohe
mia, Corinthis, the Tyrol and Banat,
with some loss of life and great destruc
tion of property. Many bridges have
been carried away, thousands of cattle
drowned, and crops in several districts
are totally ruined.
Later. —Paris, June 29.—The dam
age to property by the inundations in
the cities of Toulouse and Agen alone
exceeds $24,000,000. The heaviest
losses are in the Departments of Haute-
Garoane and Lot et-Garonne. The de
struction done in the Department of
the Hautes-Pyrenees is comparatively
light. Contributions for the relief of
the sufferers are pouring in from all
parts of France, Switzerland aDd Bel
gium.
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well to call on the subscriber, wlio is the oldest dealer in Georgia : and the owners
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arrangements with the celebrated makers, Guild, Church & Cos., of Boston, whereby he
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No Pianos with fancy names sold, hut all have the makers names and warranted for fire
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Paper Dolls, beautiful China and Wax Dolls. China Tea
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Wheelbarrows. Also a good assortment of Pock
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Lead Pencils, Jewelry, Pins, Needles
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And mail}’ other Articled too numerous to mention,
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