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Jf! .•• i. • iMMU* —!■ V -•- .U.-Jt-Tt—-r».'. -jplsStGAr^ 1 to oar stock of frefitabie products. Let us the more cheerfully welcome 11 into food hojciwy* » ll *t has been es teemed so outcsst, when we fiod that oalf oar ignorance of its value has eeiiftig ae& it to that position.— The Sumac, as it has grown in hedge rows and fence comers, has always afforded a meagre return when gath ered foi < dyeing purposes. Why may it not be planted and cared tor and made profitable both for dye and wine which is now manufac tured fisu what have been hereto fore thought the poisonous berries? To counterbalance the fears of an over production of cotton, which of lufo has been so generally enter tained by those most interested id the article, we publish the annexed exinfot from the circular of Messrs. Barber, Simeon & Cos., England : “Great Britain is now consuming about 68,000 bales weekly,—conse quently the consumption of Europe, irrespective of Spain and Russia, is at the r*te of nearly 93.000 bales pier week; but the consumption or these'countries is increasing. We are without uny exact information regarding Russia, but we know that Spain is consuming about 4,000 bales weekly ; the arrivals at Bar celona in the first three months of this year have reached 62,000 bales, and the stock on the 10th instant amounted to 43,000 bales. Thus, Europe requires, at present prices, about 100,000 bales every week; and, even with an American crop of 4J millions, we shall not have more than sufficient for our wants.” Time of Cutting Grain. —The best time for cutting wheat is when the grain has acquired the consistence of stiff' dough, and can be kneaded between the thumb and forefinger. Grain 9Q cut is plump and heavy, Left until it is entirely ripe, it shrinks, and Ibepe is more loss from shattering id the seed, and from broken heads —moreover, it has been proven by repeated experiments that wheat cut before it is fully ripe, will yield 15 |>er cent, more Hour than the same grain will produce when dead ripe. 4 asst Ussfol Invsatien. One of the most useful and im portant inventions lately is the Tin lined Lead Pipe, which will preveul the water passing through it from partaking of the taste of lead in its transmission. Cases of sickness which have oocured from drinking water left standing in lead pipes can thus be obviated. The pipes will doubtless be generally adopted. In the pipes to which we allude ooe fiflh ol the thickness is pure block tiu, encased in four-fifths of lead, forming a perfect union of the tin and lead, and giving the pipe twice the strength ot common lead pipe, while the price is less. Bam. We should like to preach a ser mon to all our parishioners on barns. We think they need a ser mon on this subject-end it should be enforced in a positive style.— There should be no milk-and-water sentiments or opinions uttered on a subject of so much importance to every Western farmer. Millions of dollars are wasted every year by the want of good barns. Grain and bay are stacked in the fields, and exposed to the storms of the seasons, and damaged materially thereby. The waste and destruction thus caus ed would pay more than 25 per cent interest on every judicious in vestment of money in barns on ev ery form in the West. They are in dispensable appendages. The iDcrease pf in Aus tralia has so outgrown the require inputs of the population that an influ ential meeting of squatters of the Riverine districts was held at Dem liquio iq May, at which it was re solved to establish at Hay, on the Murrumbidgee, a joint stock estab lishment capable of boiling down ten thousand sheep a week. A Connecticut lawyer, who wish ed to cross the fiver on the ice, was told tbatit would be entirely safe to make the attempt if be crawled over on lp# knees. Anxious lo go, he humbled himself accordingly, and had laboriously got half way across when ha was overtaken by a man driving.leisurely ip a buggy. The rapidify with Which be assurrted an upright posjtiop, was startling to the driver. "a>i). ii eHSWaWwSNi J" it —■ — A certain insect lays 2,000 eggs, but k single tomtit will destroy SOO,- 000 in a year. A swallow devours 643 insects in a day, eggs and all. con tain 700 pairs of fbe upper wings of the cockchafer, though other food was procurable m abundance. 8o pave the birds. GMsHsasML Dr. *htu*i Ka^UoJ-Fellww «f thf Afopripae Academy if Ins and SqMtakua, lays: (i Tne fedfogiknh mao and arm mats, sad frequently transmitted by animals u> man, is generally accepted by physi °k?Lrth, air and water with the germs of fungi, ia rbe grakt, pert originating in human eacreU, and gaining admission into the animal through food, drink and breath. To prevent the vivificatioo of these germs in the living body, both in medicine and surgery, carbolic add is the best substance yet discov ered.” Asparagus from Ssel The Gardener't Monthly says: **li has been argued that asparagus will not come true from seed, but, like rhubarb, it can be propagated true only by division of the roots.—- There is no reason why varieties of asparagus may not do as well from seed as peas or beans.” CoNSCMMATS FoLLY. It IS foolish policy for a farmer to expend his la bor upon three hundred acres of land, when by judicious management he might get tike same prod at • from one hundred acres, and save the expense of two-thirds of the land and two thirds of bis labor. If the roots of trees are dipped into water just before planting, the earth that sticks to them will give immediate suppoittuthe small fibres. Look over our advertisements carefully, you may find something of advantage to you. The Be cant Railroad Movements Ex plained. Savannah, Ga., June 2d, 1871. Editor Morning N wt —Having been informed by my friends to the interior of Georgia that thore i< prevalent in that section a report that the recent lease of the Macon & Western Railroad by the Central bad been secured through some collusion of the Central Railroad aritli the gentlomen interested in the con struction of tbo Atlanta Be Savannah Railroad, and having had my attention called to a newspaper article, in which it was intimated that I had aa a “junior at torney” been a party to this matter, I consider it bat just to the Central Rail road, to the interests of the Ssvannab St Atlanta Railroad, of Which I am a Director, and to mytolf, that a statement of facts should be made. In my corres pondence with Col. Robert C. Humber, of Putnam county, 1 find a letter of the 25th of May, wbioh presents these facts, and I prefer to them to the pub lie by the publication of this letter, rath er than by a statement made subsequent to the events which seem to have dis turbed the equanimity of some persona. Very respectfully yours, H. D. CAPERS. Savannah, Ga., May 25tb, ’7l. Robert C. Humber, Eatonlon , Ga.: Mv Dear Sir —Your letter of the 23d iust., has been anticipated by me, find hence my communication of the satne date, giving my conjectures a: to the action of the City Council of Savannah on the resolutions aJopted at the citi zens’ meeting on the 16th, a eopy of which I have forwarded to you. The c 1 ims of the Atlanta & Savannah Rail road have been presented to the people of Savannah, as we desired that H should be presented solely on its merits, as an enterprise iu which they are interested as representatives of Georgia’s commer cial emporium. As far as ay part ia thU matter is concerned, whether well performed or not, I have oertainly labored under great embarrassments, just such as yon know how to appreciate, from our expended conversations and correspondence. Yon are, therefore, fully prep .ed to ap preciate the remarkable action of the Council last night, a copy of which I en close, taken from this morning’s papers. From the information I Lave receiv ed, I am satisfied that tome good has already come to Atlanta and Savannah, the termini of our road, even though our friends along the line may be for toe pre -eut disappointed. I am assured tb .t a lease of the Maoon & Western E:.il road has b?en, or is about to bo consum mated by the Central. This is a , :ult, at least, of the agitation of the qn: tions involved in the eonstruei : on of the At -1 '.nta and Savannah, rnd an incident in the progress of oar work which will re quire careful consideration. I would in vite your thoughtful attention to it now, as I will make it the principal anbject of tbia letter, and it must become a sub ject of grave deliberation among the friends of the Atlanta and Bavannah Railroad. You are familiar with the circumstan ces connected with the inception of oor enterprise and the obtainmentof its ch ■- tor from the L islature. Pray, pardon me, if I should weary you by repea iag them, and be jrod, my dear sir, lon ly do so to pre; .ve against every future contingency the re >rd of a work which has .o this and jo been preserved in its spirit, and moved onward in the full rr cognition of every principle of equity or of law—reoognizeil by men of ch a raster in tbo eivil walks of iiie. Oor charter, as you are aware, was obtained from the Legislature by myself representing tbo wants of tbo people in vour section of middle Georgia, nod their great com mercial friend, the Central Railroad. Mr. George W. Wyl'y, a sagacious bnsiocss man and public spirited cit-zen of Bavaunab, acting at tbs time as (be President of (be Central Railroad, da ring the absence of Mr. Wadley, aporov ad it. in advance of is being submitted to tbo Legislature, and haa to this day, unofficially declared hia hearty eodorse ment of the enterprise as one » the in terests of the people along its project ad line, tbo cities of Atlanta and Savannah sad of the Central Railroad. Acting under bis advise, I presented ifee eti.fr ter l« tut- Leg**-* ll !'* ihe loiui | of aa act t.f incorporation. This had xotboon done Lmg Before 1 ditcoveird id oho opposition arraigned against U the ialrMSt it waa to affect »u tbo State. Net withstanding that we asked for nnm, of the -muT' which was' being lavishly hast owed upon the multitude of railroad •bartered at this torsion, our enterprise was or with an opposition in the Le gislators, the very organization and MMly declared purpose of which evi denced the fact that rival corporations Wove at least afraid of its power. This opposition was by persistent effort over coats and the charter granted by a very smalt majority vote ia both branches ol the “developing’’ General Assembly. As •eon Os 1 returned to Savannah and could do so, I presented the charter to the Hoard of Directors of the Central Rail rood in session, believing that it war from the circumstances of my relations the property of this corporation. It was then for the firtl time that I hoard directly the views of Mr. Wadley, the President of the Central Railroad, expressed upon this subject, as it hail been associated with the interests of LL rood. Mr. Wadley, in the frankness and daliboratien characteristic of tue gen tleman, stated to me, that under the cir cumstances then existing the Central Railroad could not aid fn the construc- tion of the Atlanta Be Savannah Rail road, either aa a branch of the Centra), or as an independent line of railway, and that aa far as the interests of his road were eoneerned, be did not appreciate the necessity for its construction. The action of the Board of Directors was in harmony with Mr. Wadloy’s view S, as expressed to me, and thus terminated ul! eouoection whatever of the Cent at Rail nod with oor enterprise. Up to this time I considered that I had been acting as attorney for the Cen tral Railroad, with the interests of an attorney in the work which had been completed by him, and as a citizen ol Georgia, with the interests of a citizen ia the results to secure to this seaport, the city of Atlanta and the people along the line of the projected road from Ten oille to Atlanta. Since then, by no , word, spoken, written, or iu any man ner whatever conveyed, has Mr. Wad ley or any official of the Central Rail road intimated to ine, or to any one con nected with our enterprise, that I am aware of, that he desired the construe lien of the Atlanta and Savannah Rail road, or that he or nig Board of Direc tors would encourage auy more iu that direction. This, us a tact, you arc a ware of. All that has been done to wards the construction of our road has been accomplished through the advice and counsel of onr President and Board of Directors and as independant of the advice or of any collusion with the Cen tral Railroad as we are to-day of the rail roads in Great Britalu. The lease, therefore, of the Macon and Western Railroad by the Central, if indeed it be really accomplished, is but incidental to the active manner in which we have prosecuted our work. Mr. Wadley, with the sagacity of an able exeentive officer, has watched the progress of the fight, and having placed himself in position, has accomplished an end which he would have achieved at some day by a slower but by an equally sure process. Had he done less than this, be would not have buon ac ting np to bis past record as a discreet aad skillful officer. I think Atlanta and Savannah should be congratulated ou the result, and give ns at least, the credit of having hasten ed the eomplction of a through line be tween these important commercial points. There yet remains much merit in onr enterprise,and lam rather indisposed to leave the field when my judgment is convinoed that there is a remaining ebanee for success. Let us bury the dead, send the wounded to the roar, get the old women and the croakers out of dangers, and call another council of war. I have great confidence in our Gener al, and at the same time that the great Oentral has not expressed any open friendship, we have no reason to believe there is any enmity existing towards ns. The country betweau Tennille - and Atlanta is as fertile to-day as it was last week, and if the people along the line really feel the necessity for tho road, they most eome forward and evidence this by subscribing stock. Atlanta is a progressive place abounding in ener gy, and desires to reach the trade of this fine country. This in manifest in the subscription made to the road by that eity, and in tho manner in which it was done. The increasing commercial importance of Savannah, as a seaport, will at no distant day stimulate merchants of en terprise to establish a wholesale busi oets here which must be Maintained to make oor city more than a depot, and who knows but that the day will soon come when the people of this city can oanvass all questions of pnblio improve ment, and express their judgment in the good old-fashioned way of freemen? In the prosecution of our work, however, we must folly appreciate one fact con nected with our record. Wo arc clear of H State aid.” the great curse inflicted on oor people in these days of affliction. Let us keep the record preserved. If onr people want a railroad, in the name of common honesty let them build it with their own mouey, or with means secured in some other way than by com promising Stvte credit, Stato pride, and their own self respect. If railroads can not bo built in this way, in my opinion they are not worth the time I have ta ken in writing this letter. Very truly yours, H. D. CAPERS. By passengers from Raleigh, we learn that the Hon. Josiah Turner, editor of the Sentinel, had gone to South Carolina, aad from that Btate bad sent a challenge tn Governor Caldwell, in consequence of a sard published in the Telegram last week. Mr. Turner was accompanied, as we are informed, by Governor Vance, H. C. Joses and Benj. Guion, Esq. Tho hostile message wss received in Raleigh on Wednesday eight, but whether the flevortir will meet the gentleman whom he bos SO outrageously slandered, has uot jet transpired, — Newbem Journal. The Ulnstrsted ■ : '.*■ « <*,# J" FAMILY FRIEND m STUDENTS ASSIST ANT. A RECORD OR SCIENCE AND ART. A Repository of Select oad Misnsllaasam reading. now umiia mms nun. A paper for the Tanner and Meshxnle Teacher and Student, Homo Circle and Um Sunday School. Terms until introduced sissy ehsre. Only Om Pillar «> Tear. Pronounced by all who know it, the Largest the Cheapest, the Best Paper of the kind it the South. 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