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Sandcrsvillc, 6a., July 6, 1870.
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What Shall we Eat ?
lie is said to'bea public benefactor,
who causes t wo sprigs of grass to grow,
where only one grew before. Now as
we can only eat grass, as it is elimina
ted and developed into the flesh of the
ox, &c,, in these times, when the cot
ton mania is so rampant, apd porn and
meat are so' scarce r,nd the price so
high that the question -what shall we
eat,’is one of moment to everybody,
WC* should hold Him entitled to double
honor, v,’hp WQ'jld point opt some way
to reduce the high price of provisions,
so as to bring a wholesome subsistence
within reach of the humblest individ
ual. It seems to be settled that plan
ners cannot make breal, all the best
lands must be put in cotton, and the
little planted in corn'is a secondary in
terest. They cannot plant wheat eith
er,it has to be harvested at tl e t me t lat
Cotton'requires attention— the same ob
jection ex'ist to every pther cereal. But
We must have bread, and wc ought not
to depend ppon the western crop it is
neither patriotic nor politic,—and as
the only means of supplying at home
the deficiency of bread we propose the
establishment of factories in all the
cotton growihg 'counties, for the pur
pose of hulling apd expressing the oil
Onf qf’ cotton seed. This oil is in great
demand and would sell as fast, as it
could be made. This alone would re
munerate for all the outlay. But then
We are told that; the oil cake is rich in
nutritious elements, already ft is regar
ded unequalled as food ftjr stpclj. If
^o why might me not' use it for bread,
’cottoh se'ed cakes, cotton seed hominy,
potton seed fritters,' cotton seed pud
dings—why not? We have the 5-Ced in
abundance and they are pretty much
all we raise that is eatable—if they are.
Then why not at cnee try the experi-
We must raise Urge crops of
Cotton, we can’t live without it, and if
WC firid ' that the cotton seed answers
for food, and we do not perish on the
diet, why we are doubly independent.
It is true we might have to buy a little
porn and wheat "tor the lianas ror mey
might object to living on cotlon seed.
But the larger mass of cotton produ
cers, the intelligent and patriotic cot
ton planters, they might soon learn to
relish a dish so truly Southern—and
then the amount saved would be s©
great, that the country woyjd so©n he
burdened with its wealth-
' We call the- attention of the people f
to*fois subject. It is one of vast in
terest. Let the experiment be made
at once. We charge nothing for the
Suggestion.
f i
St. John’s Day in Louisville.
A number of members of Hamilton
Lodge, having availed themselves of
foe invitation extended by Stone Wall
Lodge, F. A. hi. of Lp.uis.viHe, jeffer-
tfon county, to participate with her in
the festivities of St. John's, pro.
ceeded to that place on Friday, where
they Were regalei with one of the most
idtellectual treats that has ever fallen
to the lot, of Masons.
At 10 o’clock a Procession wag. form
ed by Stonewall Lodge in which Ma
sons from the neighboring Lodges join
ed, and proceeded to the stand in a
grove near the Town, where qfie?
Player, by Rev. Bro. Sweet, Brother
Tompkins of Savannah, a young gen
tleman'of decided talents delivered a
chaste and well prepared oration, on
foe theme of Masonry, to which the
large assemblage of Masons*. a,s W^H
$s a large number of the gallant sons.
3ihd beautiful daughters of old Jeffer-
dou county listened with rapt attention..
He was followed by the Rev. Mr.
Johnson (an Episcopal Minister)of Ma
con with gn add,ress on the subject of'
Masonry, 6f such thrilling and hpast,
elevating interest, as to, defy, any afc-
lenipt at description. It must have-
been listened to, to be appreciates^ His
apostrophe on woman was the most
sublime, that ever was uttered by man.
Ji.s stated* it defies all description. The
Reverend gentleman, who seems to
have made Masonry, in addition to
Theology, a lifetime study, is such a
finished Rhetorician, as well as an or
ator that it was a real pleasure to listen
tqt him.
P 'ijhe.speaking overfall present^ were
invited to tUe boupxiful table prepared
by the fai-r ladies of Jefferson., where
justice was done to the inner man,
and ebough provisions seemed to have
been left, on the tables, to supply as
ifomy more 'as had already partaken of
the good thingh there spread out,
Meats, all the delicacies of the season,
Cakfes, Ice Lemonade were there in
ifoundahee. ‘indeed so lavish was 'thfe
hospitality of the good Jeffersonians,
that it seemed that they had not only
prepared for themselves and their
friends, but for the rest of mankind,
St. John’s day of 5870 will long be-re
rnembered by ail who were present,
and more particularly by Hamilton.
New Advertisements.—We call
the attention of our readers to the card
of F. M, Farley & Co., Cotton Factors
and Commission Merchants, in our ad
vertising columns' to day.
Also; to card of S. S. Miller, dealer
in Furniture. As Savannah buys all
our cotton and supplies us with all our
furniture and groceries, we solicit for
these two firms a liberal share of pat
ronage.
Tiie Southern Fahm & Home, W.
M. Brown, Editor.—+he July num
ber of this excellent agricultural jour
nal fthas "been received, ftt is graced
by a liandsoiRe engraving’ af the late
Chas. pickens, and contains the usual
amount of very interesting original and
selected matter, Published'' by John
W. Burke. T'be typography is fault
less. Price $2 00 a year in advance.
The Eclectic.—A family magazine
published by John M. Scudder. Sin
gle subscription $2.00, Cincinnati, We
have received the July number of this
monthly and if this number is only a
fair sample, it is really a first class fam
ily magazine. The number before us
contains 64 pages of interesting and
instructive reading matter, neatly prin
ted on good paper—and the 12 num
bers will constitute a handsome volume
of 708 pages. *
jk, Gfqod Democrat.
AfS all who hnow us know, we were’
never a Peuaocrat, that is we never be
longed iq that great party, which for
fifty years controlled the Government,
ft nullifler, a State rights man, a whig,
until the whig party north became
sectional, we battled against th© Pern
ocraey* For years we admit, the con
test, was not for principle for the two
parties at the South, never differed
greatly in their principles still rs whigs
we opposed the Democrats. Even in
61, whea under the guidance of Chief
Justice Joseph E, Brown, the eloquent
advocate of the ultra State Rights wing
of the Beinocray, the State of G© >ig a
plunged into the vortex of Secession
true to our ancient patty affiliations,
we opposed secession, and Washington
County elected union deligates to the
secession Convention.
But these times are passed. The
whig party, dead at the south can
never be resuscitated, and damned a:
ihe noith, for it has been swallowed
up by Radicalism, like our Brother
ol the Griffin Star, we have had no
party affiiliations for several years—
when Georgia seceeded we stood by
her, and in the struggle for independ-
ance, we sympathized with the South,
and lent our feeble aid.
But the storm is passed over, we
have had. og,r bApti^m, of fire, our best
and bravest, have gone down, and
while we gaze with melancholy in
terest upon the wreck strewn shore,
and sadly call to t©ind the young and
gallant hem'tri that we once knew, that
now sleep far away in the Soldiers
humble grave, we mourn, the madness
and folly which raised the storm and
brought the ruin upon us. Tlie^C re
flections were excited Ly an article in
the Telegraph and Messenger of Satur-
dry last, under the caption of “Sound
democrats.” The editor will excuse
ns for saying that his description re
minds us of the Fable of die Gwl and
the Eagle, Bui we are willing to ac
cept it as descriptive of a ‘-‘True Demo
crat,” and will say fu.rtb.er tliat we shall
feel it an honor to serve with any party
made up of such men, we would sug
gest however ibatbe invite cooperation,
for if only such as he describes- vote
with the Democracy it will be awfully
beaten when it comes to the polls. \Ye
extract from the Telegraph..
A true Democrat is a conscientious
inan, and, in all his politics, is earnestly
seeking the public- welfare, AH the
plotters and intriguants—all the schem
ers and sharpers and operators—all
who- mean to,live upon die toil of oilier
people and aot the-h? own, have no
business in the Democratic camp. They
have no part or lot in .the matter.
A good Beiaoeiat is a fair and square
man—responsible to God and his coun
try. Knowing what is due to himself,
he is ever ready to concede what be
longs to others. He is an earnest, hon
est, active, industrious and careful man;
and has no idea of stealing, either in
the way of plundering the publicstrong
box, or the people—either in political
intrigue, dishonest speculation, or con
tracting debts which he does not mean
to pay, and then setting on foot stay-
laws and relief-laws to disarm and de
fraud creditors. He setks order, peace,
justice and liberty, and passes his days
in quiet and plenty, after the manner
spoken of by our correspondent.
When King David was in straits he
formed the first Union League known,
in the cave of Adullam, and we don’t
think it embraced the first .element that
ever rightfully belonged to the Demo
cratic organization.
1 11— • —» —T
Reaction.—The Washington cor
respondence of the Baltimore Gazette
says: Sambo’s appearance at the polls
in the Northern States is producing its
natural effect. A letter received: this
morning by a N,ew .York rownbfer states
that where one negro voted fpr the.
Radical-ticket,'-at 1 feast ten-white men
forsook the 'sinkifcg cause, ' and mainly
for that reason. The skies are bright
indeed.
*53
The End of Time.
' We;clip the .following from the Bal- ; :
timore Christian Advocate, a Southern
Meiliodiist paper, and one of our best
exchanges. It is from the pen of Dr.
Bond the Senior Editor.
Living upon the line of Sherman’s
march through Georgia, : most of our
readers, are perhaps, loss afraid of the
judgment or of future retribution than
they ought to he, Though Southern
character differs greatly from Northern
in that, wc are slow to adopt new theo
ries of religious belief. Grounded in the
belief, of the Scriptures as revealed
truth, the Southern mind rejects such
impostures as Mormonism, Free-loveism
et id off,no genus, which seem to find
oongenial soil in ivhioh to flourish in
Puritanical New England. Even in
1843, during the excitemont caused by
Miller, and Ilia followers, which spread
pretty generally over the North. The
believers in MiHevism &t tho South were
‘‘few iind far between.Dr. Cumining,
of Scotland, who has been hammering
upon the destruction of the world for a
quarter of a century, and has written
seveial prosy volumes upon the subject
has made no converts at the South.
But let us hear Dr. Bond ;
The four of some impending catas
trophe of the world is kept up by ignor
amuses who profess to expound the
prophesies, and sciolists who make
themselves CQuspiuuo'as by giving
scraps of physical discoveries and con
jectures lo the il!y---prepared | ublio.
When i.l was discovered that hydrogen
and oxygen bum together with fervent
heaq and that these two gases .constitute
water'and enter into the formation of
the atmosphere, people naturally began
to dread a general explosion and the
world’s conflagration. When, added
to this, some coldblooded geologist sug
gested that the earth is a thin »hell of
cooled surface enclosing an awful sea ol
melted minerals, things beoatne much
more serious. Now that the van seems
to be on fire, and great billows of bluz
ing hydrogen are said to bo delected
rolling in wild waves over its disc, ties
truction seems lobe olo-eupon us. At
ter a while, as knowledge goes down
ward, we may expect to see cooks afraid
to light a fire, or a smoker strike a
match, for foar of, kindling some of the
awful combustibles that' surround us
and firing the magazine of final con
flagration, -For ourselves we care for
non© of these things. It is comfortable
to know that if theseaand air are made
of combustibles, they are just what
they were when Adam came to live
here, and as they had been for thous
ands of ages before. We do not think
they will catch fire in our. time. So
will) regrad to the sun : if it be true
that it is only an immense gas-burner,
it has always been a gas-burner; and
as it did not set the earth afire when its
flames were fresh, we are not afraid ol
mat now. As to the fire in tho insides
of the earth, if it be there, which is
very doubtful, we are content. We do
not know what better to put there, and
it is satisfactory to know that the cool
crust is thicker ©o,w fclsat it ©yer was be
fore. In foot, no\y that, w© have be
come accustomed to living a© a ball
w hit lingaroundandon ward inoonceiva
bly through space an dh eld up bv noth
ing, we are not afraid of such little bug
a boos as fire in ;U© bo,w els of the earth
or gas-humors, ninety millions (if miles
ioff. Rot the sun burn ;• he who lighted
it knows how to manage it. As to
gloat spots and caverns, and all that,
they are just the natural conditions of
she great luminary-r-alxyays observable,
but bettos- observed with our pj-esent
instruments. We hav* no. reason to
believe that they affect ns at aU, Ceor
tainly wo, predictions founded upon
them, as to the weather are worth a
straw. The earth will last just as long
as God pleases, and as he hasconvunni-
oaied neither to man uorangel his pur
pose in that matter, it is not likady- that
he haa written his great secret ow the
universe to read with a tch scope. The
truth is, that the spots cm the-sun, of
wLiat seem, to W spots, arc cotiiitioiis
of its light, movea.bV', gaseous envel
ope, occasioned by the attraction of the
©earer planets, and are therefore peri
odical and regular, and are just what
they have b en since the beginning.
Climate dofsnotseem lo be at all affect
ed, by them. We are sumetim-s sur
prised by the little rt flection exhibited
by men who ought to think, whoalarm
the uninformed public by attributing va
riations of temperature to solar changes
when the weather is plainly due to
obvious terrestrial causes. For instance,
the cold weather of this Spring on .the
northern lake shore was attributed by
a Chicago philosopher to solar spots;
but a Southern Illinois farmer very
pertinently says that just then it was
very warm in that belt of country. The
land absorbed heat faster than the sur
face of the lakes. As a natural result
a lake wind set in from the north making
the cold air from the icy regions flow
towards the warm land, aod thus it
naturally became cold on the lakes.
The epidemic panics, about the end
of the world have- sometimes swept
over nations and begotten a general in
sanity upon the subject. About the
middle of the tenth, century a number
of preachers began to call attention to
the coming expiration of the thousand
years of the Ap calypse. In spite of
the opposition of the Church, the fanat
ical millenarians frightened tlie people
put of their wits. As the scene of the
judgment was believed to be Jerusalem,
multitudes of people set out for the ho
ly city. Many sold what they had;
the lands were untilled ;, buildings fell
into dilapidation. ‘Knights, citizens,
and serfs traveled eastwardjin pompany,
taking with them their w.i.vcs ar?(d chil
dren, singing psalrnp afljlpoking with
fearful eyes upon the sky which they
expected every moment, tp, open to let
.the So© of Gpd descend, in, his glory.
During l.fie thousandth year the num
ber oft pilgrims increased. Most of
them were smitten with terror as with
a plague. Every phenomenon of na
ture filled them with alarm. A thun
der-sterm brought them down upon
their knees.' As lafe as 183$ Germany j The Soil of Henry Clay.
Was thrdWh into the greatest alarm be- Yesterday morning our special tele-
ciause df the comet predicted by as
tro rib infers. Many persons ‘deolipyd do
ing any business. In 17JQ Whiston
predicted that the world Wduid'be de
stroyed bn the 13th of Octoberl Lon
don- Was'terribly moved By the f<3ar of
cdHiihg.'dpom. In 1761 the oitfoeiis had
another panic founded upon some
shocks of earthquake and the conse
quent prophecies of a fellow named
Bell, who ran about the streets declar
ing that London would be destroyed on
the 5th of April. The excitement was
intense, and multitudes abandoned the
city. Charles Wesley was moved to
fine poetry to check the popular terror.
The good people of Leeds had their
turn in 1806. A Leu was found to lay
eggs, on each of which was written
‘Christ is coming.’ The news spread.
Many visited Biddy’s pirivate apart
ment, and examined the miraculous
eggs. Evidently this was riot a ‘mare’s
nest.’ The eggs were genuine, the writ
ing was plain, the inference was of
cour.-qs absurd. As usual in such cases,
wicked people became awfully fright
ened and obtrusively pious. They
prayed vigorously and repented of their
sins—provided the eggs told the truth.
The miraculous mission of the hen was
now assured, for men repented at her
cackle as ibey did at the preaching of
Jonah. Rut some inciedulous gentle
men examined the matter and discover
ed tiie inscription to he a trick, where
upon the praying ceased, and the con
verts went back to their sins again, and
the hen to laying her natural eggs.
Ji is marvelous how little credulity
is abated by the spread of knowledge.
In font, it is father increased. For as
superstition fades away, leaving the
powers of nature in the place of im
aginary spints and demons, credulity,
or the unbounded belief in the possi
ble, is more stimulated. Certainly it
was never greater than now. Tiie lien
of Reeds did not r«sk as much of citd-
uliiy as the spirit- rappers do.
President Grant
TUo New York Sun, Republican, in
a leading artiole af his issue af the 22d
inst„ thus refers ta the President. We
have spaoQ for only a part of hi3 article,
the greatest severity of which we ap
prehend is in its truth. Th© Sun says :
Next, when he was a candidate for
the Presidency, we did what we could
to secure for -him the nomination of the
Republican National Convention ; and
then we helped to get him the votes o.'
a majority of the American people. All
this we did simpty because we thought
it best for the country ; and all we de
manded of Gen. Grant was an.,firmest,
sensible, disinterested^ and patriotic ad r
ministration of ki» o4$ee. Does any^
body think that was too much to expect
of him ?
But instead af this, his administration
is bad, foolish, weak, cowardly, corrupt,
anti Arne;idiii, contemptible at home,
ane contemptible abroad. It is impos
sible to speak the truth and deny that
iblo lo ev. lb io iuij»u?olUlv ft*r mt IBUC*
pendent journalist, anxi. u, to discharge
his obligations to the people, to conceal
or palliate facts so fearful and so noto
rious.
'1 he President is incompetent, lazy,
neglectful of his duties, unable to com
prehend tfioru, aud ©avofosH uftou,t per
forming ehou\, Ue appoints iften to
office simply Uc©t-u.Sf* tlivy have ib^de
fiim presents, or at e lii& relations, or
because some foolish caprice prompts
it. He degrades the ©utyitry in the
eyes of all tfie world, and stands trem
bling like a ©award for fear of a corrupt
and bankrupt power like Spain,. The
man who saved the nation as a soldier
is covering us with sharno as a Presi
dent.
But let Gen. Grant change his con
duct. Let him cease to do silly acts.
Let him make himself a man again.
Let him take off the vilo white feather
which he wears, and put the red, white,
and blue back in its piaco. Let him
banish venality, coswupti n stupidity,
and cowardice from his administration.
When that blessed reform has taken
place, The Sun will be prompt to recog
nize the fact, and to commend the im
provement. We have no animosity
against Grant as an individual ; but
wo will never be reconciled to that
which weakens, degrades, and disgraces
our country.
- i———mm
The Last Cotton Crop.
The crop year will closeinsixty days,
and a very close estimate can be form
ed of the result. Figures in New York
now range between 3,100,00(>,aud 3*-
250,000 bales. Tke result ©xceedsau-
licipation3 in the South at-thfo tingi las 1
year by six to eight hundred thousand
bales. One year ago to-flgy the- mass
of planters, believed the growing crop
would,fall shorn of thaj, of l«86$pand we
all laughed, ft,t those who predicted eyen
iwQufy-s^ye:}, to twenty-eight hupdped
thousand, bales. The growing crop,
unless.sotJjg great and signal cjjsaster
befpjfoii^tyitf gp into.o^grkpt. under th§
raoat ftx^apsive.idpas of, itSLproportions
—the estimates, of wfiiqjf wilhprobably
out foil, shpr-t, of, tfipeq, ftpfl a half mil-
.lioufs.
The aQCurafty of.tfie e8tioifttes.fofnish-
,ed by the Agncfotwa) fifepartment has
;lbeefiiremftrkgjble,.ap(fi\vJI pretty much
govern the opinions ojj the commercial
jand ffiiancipft world, upoip, ttyst subject
hereafter,, rqpy thprefor^ dispense
i with aft thftt old world,npq^ens^, which
! we sonap tiroes observe, evep, now* in
the newspapers,, about the danger of
liberal eat1m3.tes.011 prices. Y/ffiak l be
Southern papers «ay or foif tp say on
the subject will amounti to.liyjft opnpth-
ing. The information obtamediby cot
ton dealers and the Agricultaral De
partment is accurate and general, and
will control 1 the ideas of the '.oafoide
world, and all movements in the mar
ket. The best course planters van take
is to acknowledge the situation and pre
pare to meet (ts difficulties. The great
poiflt"is to, diminish expansions by di
versifying crops., In this way we shall
spend less apd get just as much money
for the cotton crop. ; —Islcgraph <1- Mes
senger.
The male coltege building at West
Point was destroyed by fire last week.
grams announced the eud of a weary
life, statingfhat Theodor©, eldest son of
Henry Clay, had died in the Lexington
Lunatic Asylum, aftfey ft long confine
ment. The record : of his blasted life is
brieflly thus:
At thirty years of £ge Theodore Clay
was a promising lawyer. He- was the
image and the hope of the statesmen
whose fame was on every tongue. It is
true that there were whispera of wild
-living, and of indifferent morals, that
somewhat tinged the fair repute and
eveh darkened the future prospects of
this scion of a noble house. Still it
was boped that these were b it the re
sult of youth, and would be cast aside
when circumstances called upon the
matured man to assert himself and
make hisaltant felt in the community.
It was at this tnfning point in his life
that Theodore Olay began to pursue,
with an uftwearfod perseverance that
caused his friends great uneasiness, a
young lady of Lexington, whom lie
bad long loved hopelessly. ' The object
of Ins attachincn t,who is one of the
brightest ornarnen sof Kentucky socie
ty, repulsed, firmly but kindly,' every
attention by the infatuated young
man, after hismeanrog bad become man
ifest. At last it became evident that ‘he
was not all here,’ to use the soft phrase
by which a kindly peasantry express
insanity.
Subsequent violent demospiratfons
tended to confirm the impression, it be
ing even related that he went to the
house of Mr. and demanded his
daughter at the pistol’s point, until at
last the wretched truth could no longer
he ignored, and confinement in lire asy
lum became a stern necessity- This
was accordingly done ( in 1832, we be
lieve), his father providing for his
support at that time, and leaving ten
thousand dollars in his will, the income
from which was secured to Theodore
for life.
For nearly thirty years he was one
of the most noted of the inmates, not
only his proud desoent, but his graceful
mam.ersand flaw of conversation, ren
dering him an object of interest to all
visitors. Ue labored under the hallu
cination .that he was Geo.ge Washing
ton, and was ftmd of assuming the tnfi
ditional attitudes of the Father of’ bis
Country. At the occasional balls gi ver,
to the inmates (averaging some five
hundred in number) he wasal ways.ex
quisitely dressed in the style of his day,
and was the beau par excellence.
Daring all t .ese long years, despite
his general gentleness and cheerTulness
of maimer, he was restless and discon
tented, and required close watching, it
never, in fact, having been considered
prudent to allow him to go out huo the
grounds \i ithout attendants.
may havfet beard a different story from
the demagogues who mislead them.
We beg tbfem ftp fully and seriously
realizalt.' That is all we ask them to
do.
1% these .would-be leaders, these
mongrel mischief makers, we have
very few additional words to say. As
we said before, we had rather see them
out of trouble than in it, any time.
They hate the white people of all clas
ses and binds, we know, bat probably
not up to the point of staking their pre
cious lives to gratify it. They may
succeed in precipitating a race conflict,
or they may not—there’s no telling, if
they do, though, it will be their first
and last campaign. Whatever hap
pens to the rest of the combatants, their
fate w H be sealed. We say this in the
vein of solemn prophecy, not as a
menace or as an emty threat. It will
only be Hfotory repeating itself—that
is all. Let theta,then., when- they get
ready to open their %ht, look well to
their lines of retreat—let them be sure
of a hiding place before the first gun is
fired- The.ir best fnendb, i? sbey have
any, could not offer them wiser ©oan-
sel.— Telegraph & Messenger.
x . —1
. Trouble in the State Agricultural
" J ' Society.
About the year ISflfl his condition,
begun to grow worse, and he soon after
became demented, continuing in hope- [ this extraordinary
Tiie Albany News, referring to the
declination of Rrv. C. W. Howard, as
a candidate for Secretary, says there is
a deep, ami angry current, beneath,
which threatensto engulf the State Fair,
and all connected with it, and adds: It
will be remehibered that Go!. B. C.
Yarfcey, about two months agg order
ed an election for Secretary of the So
ciety, by the Executive Committee, and
directed the members to seal their votes
and send them, toCol. T. C Howard, As
sistantSecretary at Atlanta, in whose
office the Ik;oht would take place on a
certain day. Col. X'aocefo.R seems, had
a favorite whom, he desii ed elected, and
to further his wialies-in that regard sent
a circolar to eaeh xj©lifter ofi the com
mittee—naming several off the- candi
dates, anti closing wralu the name of his
friend,_Gol. Wm. M. Bfc®t»w>,of Athens,
setting forth his peculiar claims, and
saperior , ability. Go!. r -T. ©1 Howard
and othefs had their friends- mni the
name of.Rev. C. W. Howard, one ol
the besfiand meet capable inen iz?,Geur
g ; a. was urged with modest &-al and
courteous confide»et\
The election wewton^and iheballo'a;
were all received at the office. Colo
nel Yancey,” learning foal Coll. 'IH C.
Howard, Assistant Secretary,had been
urging the claims of his ftnewtR. C. W.
Hovyard, find that gentlewsmwair-prob
ably elected, permitted paseion. to get
the better of his judegmenfoarid 1 after
great, exeitetnept seized the b»Wt>ts r car
ri d them from the oilice, cotinted tin »
elsewhere, and relused to proclaim C.
W. Howard elected. It seema that
demonstration of
less idiocy until
he died.
day
A Tew Serious Words to A Few
ftiadiioF Utolv^iQ, -
There are a few would-be-loaders of
the negroes of thU city who are walk
ing very fast inwards the biggest sort of
a scrape. We would rather see them
out, than in it, a»y time, and we there
fore propose to give them a word or two
of advice.
And first of all we want to tell them
that we know it is th - desire—the ear
nest, sincere desire of the white people
of Macon to live in peace with them—
to have no rows nor disturbances—not
even angry words. It is much better
for all parties to get along peaceably,
and the' white people know tais, and in
the main act upon it. But the wlitie
peop'e are not so fond of peace and
their ease as to submit to the slightest
infrigement upon their rights ol any
kind. They know that flte great body
of the negroes of tins city are welL-fts
posed, and will never, without evil in
fluences urging them thereto, attempt
's since wtieu [ Executive power was based upon the
[ground that Col. T. C. Howard, being
'an officer of the Society, acted 1111 prop
erly in writing to his friends in behalf
,0 ;ou,..i.Ju,., 1 *!•»*> -r-oi.x...
was tnerc-forc void—at any rale he as
sumed that it was void, and ordered a
new election to be participated in by
every member of ti.e Society.
But this is not all that causes Mr.
Howard’s‘self respect’ to recoil from
contact wit’h'Life organization in the ca
paciiy ofS' Cretary. Col. Yancey’s con
duct towards Col. Lewis, late Secreta
ry, and Col. T. C II nvaid, present A —
sistant Secretary, has been that of the
master to the menial, and without a pm*
allel among gentlemen.
Claiming Credit for a Bad j
New York Sun, tft© ©flitor 'L fA
During th?. war, when he
was digging canals at Yicksbura l
was on the point of being relieved f ^
his command, Mr. Dana did wha . ru fo
could to have him retained at tlie h
af the army in the Mississippi y
and the effort was successful, jj e A
his agency Grant would then hareW
sent back to Galena; and in that e
he could neither have become p VeiU
mander-in-Chief of the Arrny norT'
sident of the United States. fe ‘
We judge Dana Is tolerably
now, he didn’t help send U]yss ( . s ^
10 Galena and his tan vats, ^tl
he talks that way. Of Grant as P?
dent he says:
His administration is bad,
.weak, cowardly, corrupt, auti-Ameri
• can, ontemptible at home, and rr, 0
conteinp ible abroad. It is impost
lor an independent jjourjxilisr, u nx j 0 ^
to discharge liis obligations fo
: pie to conceal or palliate
[ami so notorious,
j The President is jncompetsnr faa
j neglectful oi his duties, unable to
firehend them, and careless about per'..
formisg them. He appoint* men t 0& f.
flee simply because they hnve made
him presents, or a:« his
because some foolish* ’ssiprice* ^tjoinpt'
it. He degrades the country ia the
eves of all the world, *andstands trem-
b ing like a coward f- r fear ofa eorru ? 4
and bankrupt power like Spain, '[lie-
man who saved the nation as a soldier
is covering us with shame as*a Presi
dent.
Dana is a true blue Radical, one of
the original panel of abolitionists hu;
he talks very much like a genuine K11
Kiuat How loyal hair would bristl-
and loyal eye balls ndl if th e Tele
graph and Messenger, or any ot h er
Southern Democratic newspajier, criti
cised Mr. Grant after this vigorous
fashion Why, we should not wonder
S there was-a proclamation and a call
for troops- aa'soon af Bui luck beard
of it^
A lifoo©*)’ C5t«B3Xfs.—The Mobii-
Register yaint;*- this glowing j-ietuie:
“ \Y e are a© tl■ v Bi gi&wing o( ;i fl.wd-
tide oJ » 'JaK whin*- i-tejniigration fn.iu
Europe, jfu-r bosn.rss is over
done 1-m ri-.e West a*d in Calilmnia.
jTlienifcaru ‘vxaiht-r tunptations t
muna'«-Miiiki?tf£ ui tlnse legions, wk-I
to day tke A;odi offers the most ternjn-
tii.g field’for new settlers of laborer*
and artisans and capitalists in dm
known world. The whole civilized
world is waking np to a eon.-iiousness
of this fact, and these of us who live
five years lunger will be aimed ax fox
result of causes now in netive oyeuv
tion.”
The Grifiln Star says :.
crop is generally harvesn-d in ttti&stii*.
•tioo, and is very flue, (fods ari; g><«i.
‘Coni- and e'>lton,; ; re- thn vjrtg hugely
The generail pro^iH-ui never betlci,
Every.ood^x, uheei .'/ij. :tiid|linj|;fulJ’
Tu rt it? eggs set 1. .m ti ntafo vannaii ni(.r
ketal fifteen cents per d'-zen.
i ' ni ~~ — "Snnivm-iimpa
Bravo! General. —During the ex
animation of General Bradley Johnson,
of Rielynond—who is counsel for the (
prisoner—before the House Comtifluee j; N e\x
appointed to investigate the gh^rge
against Fat Woods, of I^bhi^.x>nd K for
assaulting oiie Porter, a earpet-iiag M.
C. from Virginia, I^ufteftlQonsu
I5y Her. Mr. Howren, at die reviiloi.^.Qli
the bride’s falller, the lateGen,Jy_Si(.irtliwi,
Josei-h II. Hikes, Esq^ am). M:yc Auql'STy
McCokxela, all of W-.i-ipngton eoijnty,.
On the Sy-r.il Jajie, at t^jt- resilience of John
G. Ful^haift. b>' yftdqy Aasi- .M. Fiilahiiiu.Ur.
A. T EfoKTAi^ u.Hji Mips Lacka C- Ah.so.v.,
ail of
tuted himself, the priii,ci”ftl inqiJJaitor.
—Thg foilpi.ying ^flkshow lioi^‘
^‘he for
the least infrigement upon tliose rights, j ed,in tliAf. congjtija) role.
With them the while people have no j .‘Ijhu^ycji. '-©x*q Inpyp of, ftpy
quarrel, and will have none, so long as : other act, good or bo<f, done by, Ifal
matters stand as at present. _ jWoqda besids this assault on 1’orter i”
But there are a few worthless, inso- ; Q^rieral J f —‘Yes I have heap! pt one
lent, half-breeds, who belong, tp upuh- : other good,apt of lift
er race, and have no real sympathy
with either-who never; do.a foy’s hai;d,
honest work with their? hanfjs, wl o are
not so well disposed towards the whites.
They hate th© whitt s and despise the
blacks, and their dearest wish and most
persistent endeavoi is to bring t’qp two
races by the ears. Nothing would
please thqin better ih,m to see the whites
and blacks cutting each othpi s, throats,
they would n.osff likely niauage fojteep
out yf harm's, way, arid thus reap aby
advantage suph,a.conflict might t v ri n g;
wibiiin their reaqh. These, miserable
jneenctkii ies call meetings and make
inflammatory sppecliQS, telling lies by
wholesale, andundulging in all sorts of
devices of language apdf.tnppnpr tp in
flame the worst passiops of e b|ack ought to beaiiuhofity.irgike.s the fbllo.v-
■ \n/\nln li At* rv 1 A n. tflt mnr f r\ 'll fur rott/M f A f l li/t 1 . h < ..I « AI ■ V, . . f" > . . » T) ..I
people. r I[hey scruple at mithiag to
stir up rage and hatred. They brag
and boasft of having batteries of fire—
jarms their, bppses, and dare any white
'.mini to ‘bite hjs.foumb’ at them. Th.ey
r proclaim, thetjaselyes warriors of the
dougfttipsl, ^iridj ftwdjrftadjr ap^, vyilling
at a ir f prnpHt’9warning^t» lead the Mack
'people on. a crusade agajost the whites.
:They use the words ‘rebel’ and ftrattor’
very foeely and in^ujtingly, and inso
lently proclaim that-the government-is
Ion their*aide, and. that the ‘great Re
publican party’ will? b©ek : their;, in their
undertakings. ,
N,ow, we don’!; thftnli- thp. uhfttp peo
ple are scared mpeh by fop*.fnadent
ravings o^ these loafers, because they
know tb&£ barring dogs, of whatever
|color 9 seldom, bite. But the vy^hitje pgo
'pie are afoaid these fellows inay wick
edly precipitate a. collect between, the
real black peopjp Ofifo thp. real v^hite
people, They' km>wt the. poweit-of de
magogues upon - ignorant, impulsive
people Of all races, and they sometimes
fear thatTthese incendiaries may sueeed
in their wicked efforts. 'I he white
people dread and deprecate such a con
diet, but we are very sure that if it. is
forced upon them, and if the LAW is si
lent amid the dung of. arms, They will
not shirk it. The black people ought
to know this, and we therefore take it
upon ourselves^ to tell thpra, They
‘What was it ?*asked fuller, and lie
ftnd tl.p otheis^f tl;e qi.minittqe looked
at the witness with great interest.
General J.-raHj© e?«fn^d, the polors
of the first Virginia reiginpiq lor four
years.’ .
ILiilerX face, wjy a study as he, re
ceived this reply, lie fairly gasped
for breath.
B.itier—Oh, ye-,vou were q 1ft;iga-
dier General in the vpjifpdqrate army, I
believe.’
General J,—-Iliyas, and I-hope the
time will never cyme when I shall not
be willing to divide what I have with
jtheftepiepj
Ihe editor of, the Griffin Star, whi
Adii'ilisements,
S. S MILbEB,
[Next dour to W ced *L Cornwell.J
I>EALEK IX
mliahogauyi W'ulnul S’ PiM
LI,
ling repoit of Lhp flpal notiba of tne Bui
loek-Angier investigating eoiamttee:
Dulioek ami Angier are to hesent to
the penitentiary for life. K naftall is
!to the State (^ovefouR^nt until a
nev\r Governor can bffi e|ect£cfl ^he
CpojpiitpeQ. will divide a»ong tbpiRsel-
ves' w,haf rppney there is left in the
Trpaaufiy-dK) that there, will bo no need
of aonpeessorto Angier. Blodgetisto
be chained hand and foot.for a thou
sand, years, if he can be caught; and
Fatty Harris goes to Glenn & Wright’s
phosphate works at the Fair Grounds.
The Committee had more trouble with
Gas kill tjflftn anybody else. They
would hjuvq sent him to the penitentia
ry, b#it M t r. A^foxandqr, the convict con
tractpr,-sw<jfe he wgpjdp’t hftve him on
any terms, \arney was finally let off
with tfyfity-nine lashe^ Chairman
Bfiock is to be executioner, and Pike
Hill was. ftlwted, as clerk, tp count the
I licks.
A Liverpool dispatcii of the 27th
says:
‘The total receipts of cotton from all
ports for the week ending June 24 were
36,000 bales; of this all but 1,000
bales came from the United States
I he amount of American cotton on
hand here* is estimated at 463,000 bales,
and there are besides 108,000 bales of
American at sea bound to this country.
French. & Oottag#
Chamber
AND
Mattresses Made to Order.
Nft, Tf&arnl. 157 Broughton Sir'd
\ . .sav.vn.^a^gA-
July fi.
F. SI. Fari EV. (
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Jiisuru ErwW-L"
F. M. »-kMiEY & CO,
(Sucocsstaa. t^Fftrley i
Cotton
‘ 'AX.-i
CoiumiSsi#*
BAY STREET, N.1 . L
AOEXTS FOR
CHOASDALE’S SLiPKfi»' ,, l 0S1 ,. , .
- BEFBK1S1IC*S :
Messrs. Watsh, Patrick A Co., N. S.
Mr. Jos. II. Joliuson, Uriffiii, (*“•
My. It. A. Solomou, Eufaula, Ala-
•j. T. Seegar, Quiucy, Florida-
Ujjn'I L. SI. Aver, Buford’s Bridge, »• *-•
J. F + Pi«e, M. D., Darisboro, Ua.
door ft
conn
lot-
\¥g#ibington Sheriffs Salj
W ILL tie sold before 11 ', e ,'U 1 "'iftinfft-■>' c<
Idle.town o£ Sandcrs\ die, f - . ihe
ty. on tiie til at Tuesday in Sepieuibe
lowing prooerty, ta T wit: , ,, a puur“
A certain, Stcaia Mill 'f itb (*nst 3 , un to in a®?
nances attached; ani^all Machinery • )s
Arise attached, two log et^Oo. and y ,-jin a
ing to said Mill and described aud c . ^
rs. sfissg** w “SsWSW. f
Jftly 6, 1870.
Whereas, John T. oook, llc!C ... (’•esera'- ,
:Elta N. Peacock oft^isdurge t.j. v ' Juj
applied for, Bxpinjjtion »H»* J’mumesteiid. 1 A,
Ting apart and yjtlaalpot ol Horn A sl „u
pass upon the same at ft) o e.pe >
lfilh day; of July. ,870 u“wb1TiIk1XSi- wI ' 1 ’
’ Jiriy fit 187t). '
Notice to Debtors and Hm r . v
A bb persons 'indebted to the c ft ‘‘ uU tv,J e *'‘‘f
K. Walker, tateot'Wasln«?! 0 “ v „ie 0 t, *
cd,are reqne.-*ted to make
those having demands tiffahist-
uiwpv s.»...».jj r-
present them to tho nuden*ijf»^J y ^\dm -r
faw. L. J, UUILMAKU-’-
Jaly 6, 1870
of *'■$