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VflL- U- IThethomaston herald, I' 1 PUBLISHED BY L,MICHAEL & CABANISS, ■ KVKRV SATURDAY MOUSING I TERMS. i-yv;:";’; 150 ■ 'f' ,n n JVVAHIARLY is ADVANCE. I nii p»y m<,n ir j|i he l :it the expiration of the I Tuf ! ' ,p !‘ r , U nle.xß snhscription is previou- renew, tl. ■ ü ß ey,‘ „ „fa subscriber is to he changed we I U!i>- *,L old address as w, 11 as the new one, to H ha 1 '* 1 , I P r ; r * nt f*cripti" n received for a less period than three I it, Currier in town without extra charge. I fro'* 1 ' ” i,aid to anonymous eommuni3ations. as 1 V"' lt!en ~ for everything enteri. goer columns. 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Plvertisenn nts inserted at Intervals to be charged new each Insertion. Vlvrrtisements t-> ren fur a longer period th n three month* nre 'hie and will be collected at the beginning of each quarter Transient advertisements must he paid for in advance. Vlveriiseinents discontinued from any cause bes-re •roiriiion »f time specified, will he charged only fur lb,, time published. pr.iiei'ion a I curds one square $lO 00 a. year. Marriage Notices $1.50 Obituaries $1 p.*r square. sn<ices of a personal or private character, in'en ted In promote any - Ovate enterprise or interest, will be ebsrvisl *1 advertisements Idvertisers are requ- t.e.l to hand in their favors as „r|r In the wee ns p-si hie ]U u ore U w* will he xtri'/f i/ adher'd to. LEGAL ADVERTISING. I»hsututore, since rhe war. the following nre the |mc« f'»r notice! of Ordinaries, Ac.—to iik paid in ad iaick: Thirty Days'Notices ••$ 5 00 furty fttys' Notices . 625 SilrtMif Lands. Ac pr. sqr of ten Lines 6 00 Sixty hats' Notices 7 00 Months' N"tiees It (Ml Tn r>iv-’ Notices of Sales pr sqr ... 200 NUKim’S iLi-'? —for theve Sales, for every 9fa $8:00. Mortgage Sales, p-r square. $5 00 "Let aside a liberal per centage for advertising Kef' yon self unceasingly bef.re the public; and it nutters not wliat busl <-ss y«»n are engaged in, for, if Intelligently an I Industriously pur-ued. a fortune will be the resui Hunts Merchants' Magazine. " \fter l began to a 'verti-e mv Ironware freely, basin.ss increased with aniaZ'ng rapidity. For ten yv» oust, I have spent, £30.000 yearh to keep riy Superior wares hes re the public ilad I been timid in rlvfrtising. I never should have po-Bossed my fortune o! £*.M.noo”. — McLeod Belton. Birmingham '• vlvwrtisine like Midas’ touch, tu'ns everything to goll it it, your daring men draw millions to their coUfers"—tHnnrt Clay ' I’Ad.i«dacity is t<» love, and boldness to war, the •killfni use of printer’s ii L *, is to success in business ’’ — Dr cilia', 'Vlrho it the aid of ad vertisetnen-s I >-ou'd have done noth ngin my p dilations. Ili .ve the most comple e hi li in “printers' ink.” Adve.tisitig is the “royal toad tn h i-ines*"—ltarnum. Professional Paros. AV X REA EL, Atls>rnev of L'lw '' • Thomaston Ga. Will practice i n the sevor »l Courts of Hint Circuit and 25th Senatorial Distiict. max 2o—tf Mil SANDWICH Atrorn-v at Low. • Thomaston. Ga Will practice in the several f"tT'inf the >t4te of Georgia Special Attention given to ('"llection of all Claims. Office up stairs. Cheney Building may2o fim j) \\ ()\ it o|>V||’K K llt'iri Cl's qf 1J L'iw.Oriffin. On. (»(ficein Almah Mali, next door the ‘‘Tar office Will practice in the. Gourdes coni|«(.sjng the Flint Circuit, and in the United States ouricn ourt. Attention given to cases in Bankruptcy, nrnvlUdy J) 'Y\L a- MJW \LEY Ao rrtHvs or 1 / low, (Iritlln. Oa. Will practice in all the poun- W* 'i»r„ prising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and In the . ot 'ledwether, Clayton, Fayette, and Coweta. practice sh the Supleme Court of Georgia and the x 1 ? ct ' ° l,rf the United Mates tor the Northern and vouth era Districts of Georgia * p NUNNAIXY. [apilS-lv] L. T DOT At. j 'LIEN. Atton ev :tt L w Th"»n- Br i.* aß ' on * <} s. Will practice in the counties com • * tPtl * II A Judicial Circuit, and elsewhere by All business promptly attended to. in Cheney’s brick building. inchll-ly ' R KEMII \ Ll, .floes his yxr-.fV s surroo* 'e' a ' * , ' TV ' W * S tethe citizens of Ihoinqstaq ahd BI) ' tl2 i country. May be tonnd rtnrin t e day at de e. ' ir ' l: ’* '.v’s store, at night at the former resl ec< ’ harks Wiu n . jan 14 ly. •f. n L’/fDI iV< v. Ar nroev Bt Lw. tvintiHi*/"' 1 " 1 ! p ’ co, Ga. Will practice in tile »l ewb!r u a'" ,,r,sin * ,h ” Mint Judicial Cir-nit, end m* l 1! - speefai on tract At tiisin.-ss promptly iin si t)ltlue in Elder * budding,over* hamlter's ' re - augl*- y I BEALL Attornov nt Low, tait j n J'-Mnn, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir and '"•■tewhere by special contract ang27 'y I 'H.V I. || \L|, Arr-.r' eve <1 G Hins**ll r th ';‘Uw Will practice in the counties composing » I ’"H'lrcnit. In the Supremo Court, of *.eor ia, District tiourt of the United States for the ‘ ll^rnand Sou hern Districts of t.eorgia. “'"iaton. Ga . June ISth. A x "Kßm>\' it Mcl’ lI.L \. A'tnrn'-vs I'rH *- HW - oovingt *n, t'eorgia. Will attend regu t"uni\* n ' '' ra ''t'ce in the Superior ''.uirts of the M" r Newton, Butts. II nrv, SoaMing Pike Ptr Morgan, DeKalb Gwindette and Jas dec o-ly g uI»;VdL Nl v| 11K vx s - Au ,rM ‘* v Mt th,-. will [tractice all the counties •tx*cial I'oiifp.., ft:it ' a li'x»chee Circuit and elsewhere by declh-ly U business ni.p, i*? I *’ ,<a Prompt attention given to hands. declo- ly ll F.rnvtV A 'turnev at Law J ll in the (Tni» i*- Wll ' Police In the State Courts fr *v.annnh t; a n ‘States' District ('oort at Atlanta and dec. 0-ly * v||| e ß A,, “ n '®V } *t Law Bari.es* “ “Fi Jnl j’ ’ a ''ill practice in ail the counties of an ‘. Supreme Court of th* State. taw Rei hunk Atfunwi at y lln fies ~f *l ‘ “’‘‘"K Ga will practice in nil the " ri »ether ’bee (Jircali, and Ups-on and mnt 'es deciS-ly k Ri) J F i-f < ii °f Merfi 1 *' c> ivmtimie the prafMCP i"re 1 n>e. Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug dee*"-ly x or \t Upson that he will continue Staton, G a ' e ' ,lci ne In its various brtinches at - dec 18-1 y 4, S n W B R ■f 1 .rn v ... Eiw V* ®ss*. •' LADIES’ FANCY STORE! OVER MESSES. PLEMISTEE & BEOOKS, COKNF.R Or 111 LI. AND SOLOMON STREETS, griffin, Georgia, j yy-OULD respectfully inform the good 'citizens of Thomaston and vicinity that we have now in store, and keep constantly on hand a superior stock and very latest styles of | LADIES’ FINE DRESS GOODS, LADIES’ & CHILDRENS’ SHOES, LADIES’ JEWELRY, LADIES’ HOSIERY, LADIES’ NOTIONS, MILLINERY, «&c. A thousand little tricks and trinkets that Men-Mer* chants know nothing about, to be found at our Store. MILLINERY ! The Choicest, Freshest, and SWEETEST, stock in the maket. Goods manufactured to 3uit the taste of customers. Orders respectfully solicited. Call on or address MRS. M. A. HIGHTOWER & CO., ma yl3-tf Griffin, Georgia. ANDREWS & IIILL, manufacturers and dealers in FURNITURE, COFFINS, &c., &0., AT J. & T. G. ANDREAVS’ Mill, FiVe Miles Southwest of Thomaston, Ga. \VT R would rp-tpoptf,,!] v inform our v t friends and the public generally, that we have established a FURNITURE MANUFACTORY nt the f.bove named pla,'c, where we manufacture nnd keep con-duntlv on hand superior Furniture "f o 11 kin'ts, varii-tlcs, and grades. We are prepared to fill all or ders tor COFFIN*, and do nil kinds of Cabinet, work with neatness nnd dispatch We fl .tffer ourselves that we can please all that, know good work when they see it. Our facilities and advantages in preparing our own Lumber and Mannf etn ing our ow i Work enables us to otter anv quantity, better varieties, and d-eided'y better bargains than other Furniture dealers in this section of country. We earnestly tequest all that are in need of anything in «itr line to cdl and examine < ur stock, as we feel satisfied that we mn give s.atNtaction in style, quality and price. All work warranteed to be as represented. Orders solicited. mav2n-ly ANDREWS & HILL. FOUR GOOD BOOKS. Should be Had in every Family. DrynTTOV \ L nnd Practical P'lytrlott FVVILY BIBLE, containing a copious index. Concordance Dtc'ionarv of Biblical Terms. G<ograph ical and Historical Index, &<• Fourteen hundred pages furnished in three styles of hi ding L \ Ws o' BUSINESS for all the states in the Union I’ v I heophilus Carsons, 1. L D This volume contains forms f"r m-n of every trade or profession, mortgages, de--ds, hills of sale, 'easts, b >nd, articles of copartner fdvp. will, awards. Ac Luolishedby the National Pul»- li-hing 1 o . Nemphis. Tenn. Tilc, LIFE OF GEN. K. F. LEE. by .Tns D. McCthe, author of a life of Stonewall Jackson. ThUhnok shouitl find its way into every family as it is one of the best wi-Rten accounts of the heroic deeds of the Great Vir ginian vet published. 1.1 ■HT IN THE EAST, by the well-known writer, Fleetwood. • Mr. JOHN A. COCIIRAN hts taken the Agency for Upson and Pike counties, and wi l cad upon the people with these invaluable books immediately aprill-3t. f^TEUEOSCOPES, VIEWS, # ALBUMS, CIIEOMOS, FRAMES. E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., 591 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Invite the attention of the Trade to their extensive assortment of the above goods, of their own publica tion, manufacture and Importation. Also, PHOTO LANTERN SLIDES and GRAPIIOSCOPE. NEW VIEWS OF YO^EMITES, E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., 591 RE'ladway, New York, Opposite Metropolitan Hotel, Importers and Manufacturers of Photographic Materials. nichlS 10m The Southern Farm and Home. A FIRST CLASS AGRICULTURAL MONTHLY. G EN. W. M. BROWNE, IDITOE, At $2 OO per Year in Advance. r pHR Second Volume commences with | November number. Now is the time to sub scribe. Address, J. W. BURKE. <fc GO., octS ts Macon. Ga. DR. THOS. A. WARREN, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. OFFERS ht« services to the c : tiz°ns of Griffin and vicinity Special attention given to the treatment of CHRONIC DISEASES. Th ose at adistmee cancan consult him by letter. Office over George Beecher &< o , 111 Street. apri!29-tf WATCH REPAIRING. rpfJK ctizens <>f Fpso-* at and ndj-tuent I. counties nro respectfully informed that I hare moved my stock to the store o Vr Mm M all ace, and am now prepared to execute work jn my line of busi ness, -on the most favor .bl terms. IN-p Ring of all kinds done at the shortest no’ice nnd i- the neatest man ner. I have tMcilities for turning out good work, and by strict attention to bn-im-ss hope to receive a liberal Bhaie of patronage. Very respectfully, aprilS ts WM L- BRYAN. ~ DEISTTISTPLY! E huinir pp v mttncntly j[ locaytflHbunston,still tendersthicr professhtnal services of Dentistry to the citizens of ( T ps<>n eounti- s Teeth inserted on g Id sffver, o r Ail work wary nt.-d and ag -d fit guaranteed. Office up sCtiVkoveT 1 WILSON SA 'VVER’S Btcr(-, dec!) ft BRYAN & BAWYEE. THOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, .JUNE 24, 1871. Capital and Labor. Communicated.] It i* admitted bv most writers on political economy that labor creates all value. Capital in the absence of labor is entirely valueless. Ic cannot be made to produce one cent in value. If a man owned ail the land in the State of Georgia, it would not be worth a copper to him without labor. It a man had hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in houses and lots in the most thriving city in the nation, vet it would not bring l him in one copper without labor. 11. I. Kimball’s magnificent hotel in Atlanta would he no income to him hut for the value created by those who labor to conduct the hotel. The finest banks in the same city would he equally valueless with out the labor of the hank officers. Capital might be invested in railroads and steam boats, yet it would yield nothin}; without labor to run these cars and steamers, labor not only creates all value hut it pays all taxes, it is a great mistake that many politicians have fallen into, that of trying to make the taxes fall on the rich instead of the laborers. Ihe laborer pays it all, because it has been alre idv shown, that the rich man’s capital is valueless with out labor and is only made mote profitable by lab >r, hence labor pays all taxes. For thisreason the poor man is as much interest ed in taxes-as the l icit, since his labor pays all taxes. To illustrate this, suppose there was an additional lax of one thousand dol lars laid on each cotton fact- ry in Upson county, would not the proprietors be forced to make some changes in order to make up the loss, to pay the additional expense. The hrst thing they would have to do would he to either reduce the wages or to exact more labor from each hand, in either case the laborer would pay the additional taxes. Taking this view of the relationship of labor and capital we see the error of those orators and demagogues who advocate taxing the rich instead of the poor. It is nevertheless true under many circumstances that capital is master of labor, and in many cases a very cruel one, but such is not the case in this section of the country, for the number of laborers are too few, hut in all old. and thickly settled countries capital rules labor with a cruel hand. In donselv settled countries laborers are very numerous and consequently very poor. Capital takes advantage of the : r dependent situation and forces them to perform a large amount ol labor for a small amount of pay, hence ic is the policy of capitalist to keep laborers poor and dependant in order that they may the m 're easily control it. Hence the great necessity of till poor wien whether they be farmers, mechanics, or day laborers, using the most rigid economy in order that they may lay aside something each year, so as to enable them to purchase for themselves a house or farm and enough money to put them out of the reach of from the capitalist. There are many other reason why poor men ought to be very saving with their money in this section, some of which reasons are the following: The most important is the low price of land. A man who can accumulate SISOO to SIGdO can buy in Georgia two hun dred acres of moderately good land, on which he can make an ample support for a family. The same individual, if he were in Delaware or Pennsylvania, would be able to purchase with the same money only fifteen to sixteen acres of land no richer than Upson county land, being SIOO per acre in these States, and the man who cultivates these Georgia lands can make more per acre in value than the farmer of Delaware or Pennsylvania to the same number of acres. It is true those farmers take much pains to improve their lands and use rr uch more skill in the culti vation of their lands, hut the natural pro ductiveness of the soil is much greater here than there. And if farmers here would take the same trouble to enrich ihpir lands and use the scientific mode of cultivating the soil, it is only fair to say the farmers, as a class of men, would soon grow rich in this section. But this state of things is not always to remain as it is now. every means are em ployed to introduce laborers in this section. Soon the Asiatic laborers will be spread all over this country. Laborers are coming in from all parts of Europe so that when the demand for labor ceases then comes hard times and low prices for laborers. The introduction of foreign in this section will be highly beneficial to the land holder and capitalist, but it will be very hurtful to the laborers as it will lessen the demand for labor and consequently must bring down the price. This is one of the finest countries under the sun for laborers, yet many grumble and think they have a hard time, but if they knew the situation of the European laborers they would not regard their situation as hard. In England eapi* tal is ten times as severe a mas’er as was the Southern farmer in time of slavery. Slave labor as it existed in the SouTh before the war was the best fed and best clothed as also the best raid laborers on vrnich the son shonp. for they got enough to eat and wear, and were worked in mod eration as a general thing Rot the Eu ropean laborer ha> oneof Unse bless-, ings, for he is compelled by necessity of his poverty to worK for any price capitalists may see proper to pay him and that is very little, not more than from ten to twenty cents —just enough to keep S'>ul and b* dy together, their extreme poverty keeps them slaves to capitalists, so that they have ten times as severe and exacting a master as ever did the slaves of the South. These are not mere assertions hut can he proved by reports sent into the British Parliament from men of the highest positions in the State and church, men who were appointed by order of Parliament to go through the kingdom ami investigate the condition of the poor and laboring c’ass, and their re ports show that in England in the coal mines, men. women and children have to work in subteraneous mines where they often do not see day light once during the day, and have to work often from eleven to thirteen hours per day, men, women, and children of every age all in the same mines, this they are compelled to do in order just to live. In Ireland it is much worse, often the poor tenant’s house is not as good as is used for hogs in the Middle and Northern States—they are so poor and are so oppress* ed by the land holders that they do not eat meat once in six months, and bread never, hut have to subsist entirely on potatoes. While this is the ca-e with the laborers the land holders live in fine mansions and in great luxury. They build high walls around their mansions expressly to keep out beggars, and place military guards there for that purpo-e. Surely if the labor ers of this country would only compare their situation to that of the Irish, they would not only feM thankful that thoy were in a country so highly favored, but would set to work at once to lay up money and buy themselves and homes, before the influx of foreign laborers reduces the laborers of this country to the same de plorable situation as it is in the old country, which is just as certain to he the the case as that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West. The direct communication with Asia will soon flood this country with heathen laborers, then farewell to prosperi ty of native American laborers. MassncluuetG Decaying. It is very melancholy to think that Mas sachusetts is on the decline, hut it is even so. WTien it is remembered that this ven erable and pious old commonwealth has an iverwhelming monopoly of the goodness and greatness of this ent re Union, it is very sad to think about. Great and good as she is, aye, greater and better as she is than all other human communities, her labor statis tics show a down grade in civilization, a decay in agriculture*so rapid, and a grow ingly discouraging condition of her laboring classes, that would stimulate any other people hut hers to drop for a while the management of the universe, and attend to home concerns awhile. In 33 cotton factories the average earning of 17,'*00 laborers, including overseers and • gents, was less than $5 per week. These are some of the agreeable results of their svsfum : “Th >t even at low rates work is not steady all the year round ; that few are able, even if the work is had, to work -teadily ten and eleven hours a dav ; that large numbers are obliged to stop work from sheer exhaustion ; that young lads walk thirty and more miles a day while tending the machines ; that many become intemperate from over work ; that the cha :, g“ of hands in large factories is frequently equal to an entirechangu every four months ; that very few persons die while operatives, because finding their health give way under their toils arid exposures, they leave their employment and cease to be operatives. Men are being dismissed from their oc cupa'ion for the sole reason that they had been prominent in discussing the eight hour movement, and refused employment in every mill in the State, where n< t>ces from their previous employers had proceded them; of men and their families incontinently turned out of house and home because they could not agree on the subject of factory wages with the owner of the tenement; of numerous employers combining to prevent the men from belonging to associations and labor unions ; of employers who openly boast that since a labor union broke up “they can do ns they please with the men ” In regard to the agriculture of the old State, the following agreeable condition of matters is report'd : “It may be sumed up in two words— rapid decay. Increased nominal value of land, higher rents, fewer farms occupied by owners, diminished product, general decline of prosperity, lower Wages, a more ignorant population, increasing number of women employed at bard outdoor labor (surest sign of a declining civilization.) and steady deterioration in the style of farming—these are the conditions described bv a cumulative mass of evidence that is perfectly irresisti ble, and that is unfortunately only too strongly cot.firmed by such details of census statisticts as have so far been made public.” The great and good old State will have to drop Southern Ku-Kiux for a brief period, and fix up its household matters. We see ro he p f >r it — Constitution. Intelligence in the Jury B<>x —A Vir ginia paper tells the lollowing as an aetual occurrence : Recently in one of our courts the Grand .Jury, as is now usually the case, was com posed paTtly of negroes. After being “charged” in the usual wav by IDs Honor the jury rptired to their room, when one of the white juror* ventured to a*k a e l«-red a-*ociare it he understood the charge of the .Judge. “Goliv ” exclaimed the amend- : tire nr. “he dhn’r charge ns muffin fr dot, j does he ? Why, I thought we was gwiue to j git pay.” Aunt Hetty on Matrimony. “Now girls,” said Aunt Hetty, “put down your embroidery and worsted work, do something sensible, and stop building air castles, and talking of lovers and honey moons : it makes me sick, it’s perfectly antimonial. Love is a iarce ; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napole ons, Neroes, Alexanders, sighing for other hearts to cmquor after they are sure of i yours. The honeymoon is as short-lived a* a lucifer-match ; after that you mav wear your wedding-dress at the wai-h-tub, and your nigh’cap to meeting, and vour husband won’t know it. Y u may pick up your own pocket handkerchief, help your self to a chair, and solit your gown across the hack reaching over the table to get a piece of flutter, while he is laying in hi* breakfast a* it were the last meal lie should eat in this world ; when he gets through he will aid your digestion, while you are sip ping your tir-t cup of coffee, by inquiring what you’ll have for dinner, whether the cold lamb was all ate yesterday ; if the charcoal is all our, and what you gave for the last green tea y>u bought. Th“n he gut* up fr'm the table, lights his cigar with the last evening’s paper, that you have not had a chance to read, gives two or three wiffs of smoke, sure to give y<<u a headache for the afternoon, and just as his coat-tail is vanishing through the door, apologizes for not doing ’that errand’ for you yesterday thinks it doubtful if he can to day, so press ed with business. Hear of him at eleven o’clock taking an ice cream with some ladies at Vinton’s, while you are putting new linings in his coat sleeves. Children by the ears all day, can’t get out to take the air, feei as dizzy as a fly in a drum ; hus band comes home at night, nods a ‘how d’ve do. Fan,’ b xes Charley’s ears, stands little Fanny in the corner, sits down in the easi est chair in the warmest corner put his feet up over the grate, shutting out all the fire while the baby’s pug-nose grows blue with the cold ; reads the newspaper all to him self, solaces his inner man with a hot cup ot tea, and, just as you are laboring under the hallucination that he will ask you to take a mouthful of fresh air with him, he puts on his dressing gown and slippers, and begins to reckon up the family expenses 1 after which tie lays down on the sofa, and you keep time with vour needle, while he snors till nine o’clock. Next morning ask him to “leave you a little money,” he looks at you as if to be sure you are in your right mind, draws a sigh long enough an strong enough to inflate a pair of bellows, and asks you ’what you want with it, and if half a dollar won’t do.’ Gracious king ! as if these 1 rtie shoes and stockings and petticoats could be had tor a half a dollar ! Oh, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots, or lap-dogs, but let matrimony alone. It’s the hardest way on earth of getting a living: you never know when vour work is done up. Think of carrying eight or nine children through the measles, chicken-pox, rash, mumps, and scarlet fev er, some of ’em twice over; it makes my headache to think of it. Oh, you may scrimp and save, and twist and turn, and digdelvp, and economise, and die. and yoer husband will marry again, and take what you have saved to dress his second wife with, and she’ll take your port ait tor a fireboard; hut what’s the use of talking? I’ll warrant every one of you’ll try it, the first chance you get: there’s a sort of bewitchment about it. somehow. I wish one half of the world warn’t fools, and t’other half idiots I do, oh, dear !” Tile Alumni Meeting Yesterday. A meeting of the Alumni ot the Univer sity of Georgia resident in Macon, was held yesterday afternoon at the office of Nisbets & Jackson, Col. John Rutherford in the chair, arid N. M. Solomon acting as Secre tary. The list embraces the following names *• Col. XV. II Jacksbn, lion. James Jacks in. Col. I). W. Lewis, Jas A. Ni>bet, Esq , Hon. J J. Gre-hatn, Professor S. P. Sanford, Professor W. D. Williams, Rev. S Boykin. Col. II 11. Jones, Col. Henry S. Glover, Col. Pulaski Holt, Ju Ige T G Holt. Capt. T. G. Holt. Jr., Dr. W. F. Holt. Dr J. S. Uaxter, Samuel Hall, E q , W. A. Reid, E-q , Capt. A. O. Bacon. Col. L. M. Lamer. J 11. Blount, T C. Ni-bet, E-q, R F. Wool folk, E-q. W. Lundy, Esq., E. D. Huguetiiri, Esq , W. 13 Bonneil, E-q., and A. W. Reese. Upon motion of Mr. Jas. A. Nishet a committee of five was appointed to prppare business, and make a report to a future meeting to he called by the Chairman. The chair named thefidlowing as the committee; Messrs. Jas. A. Nishet, J. J Gresham, W. D. Williams, H. H. Jones, and A. O Bacon. Another committee, consisting of Messrs. D. W. Lewis, (chairman,) H S. Glover and A. W. Re‘‘se was appointed to confer with the managers of the various railroads in the State for the purpose of inducing them to extend all the facilities possible to the Alumni in the State who may desire to attend the Alumni dinner at Athens next Commencement. There was a free exchange of views as to divers measures ealcu'ated to further the results aimed at in initiating this move ment. and a cordial and harmonious spirit manifested as to the necessity and desira bility of attaining them as speedilv as may he. We think this meeting may prove the pivot upon vrh<ch there can be made to turn events of the highest moment to the University, to the people of the State and the cause of education. As an incident of the meeting it may he mentioned that Col. W. H. Jackson is the last surviving member of the first class ever graduated at the University —sixty odd years ago —and Messrs. Solomon and Hu gmnin members of the last graduating class—that of 1870. Telegraph and Mes senger. Our friend Harvey is n o only a good taylor, hut a Consfiderab e to hoof. A short tune ago he stepped into a photograph gallery here, and after swaggering around a few moments wanted to know of the man ts ho ran the “mersheen” if he could take a picture just like him. “Yes.” replied the artist. “Are v >u sore. r»«w that rou can take it just ex'i thj like tv ‘ Y 8, sir, 1 fhi; k T Can.” “Well, rhen, d—d if l want it, 'f you are Certain that it veij! he as ugiv aS'f am.” j V- hereupon William turned upon his J heels and left. The Strike anil its Lesson. Strikes in Washington, and especially that of last week, differ essentially from th >se which are witnessed occasionally in tho great centres of labor. There, trium phant capital in dull times too often over steps the bounds of fair dealing, whilst here, where the laek of capital is ignored bt b .is erous demands upon the body p.-litic, the strike is » forced product in the hot bed of demagogisni. W • have hailed, with pleasing anticipations, the caning of anew era in the afl urs of the Ibstrict, when man* ufaeturing and commercial enterprise would be attracted here by natural advantages, promising a remunerative investment to capital. That change, however, so impor tant to the material and prosperous develop ment of resources yet untouched, will be postponed into the far future, if the occur* reuccs of the last week are to be repeated. Iho va. uft of capi 1 81 and of labor, is regu lated by the inexorable laws of supply and demand, and when the events of the war left on our hands a laboring population wholly disportionate to the wants of the city, "a sympathetic cry for public and private charity was raised, the aid of Congress was invoked, and in this wav the pressing ques tiou o oversupply, has been, from time to time, tided over. Instead of seeking a posi tive remedy, demagogues have, by local legis ation and partisan devices, only ngnv vated the evil, and thus chocked, not seri ously retarded, that healthy progress to which we have reterred, as furnishing the promise of a brighter future. \\ hen a disorderly crowd, headed by a former functionary of the city government, interfered forcibly with the pursuits of peaceable laborers, the police was found in many cases to be inefficient, while its chief is said to have been occupied with other du ties in a different sphere. The Governor and the Board of Public Works, instead of vindicating the majesty of the offended law, conciliated the ring-leaders and counselled with the Corporation contractors—the leeches who havt. been'sucking the life b’ood of the city for years, in order to effect an understanding, by which the disaffected “loyal” colored voters would be satisfied* . Let us be charitable, hut we have a right to ask that our charity shall be wisely distributed. It is evident that the market for unskilled labor here is over-stocked, while other parts of the country are suffer* ing from a scarcity. What is the duty of intelligent benevolence in this state of tacts ? Surely not to encourage in idleness, and almost necessarily in vice, a large element which cannot find employment, because the supply of labor is greater than the demand. If we are to contribute at all, it should be in aiding the impoverished to seek homes, where laoor ; s not only needed, but liberal ly rewarded. To tamper with this serious subject, which is full of peril, would bo to encourage the very evil which is most de precated. Every attempt to overthrow tbo laws of political economy, and to thrust aside the instruction of experience, will react disastrously. An excess of a particu lar class of population has been brought here, in order to swell a partisan majority. And now it has to he maintained or sent away to “fresh woods and pastures new.” This is the problem which must be solved sooner or later, no matter how scheming poli ticians may strive to tinker or traffic with it. The party in power may ruin the taxpay ing community, in their efforts to put off the evil day, and from th'eir want of courage to face the inevitable. But still the practi cal question will always return to plague the inventor, and the bad consequences will confront these demagogues when they least expect it. They are planting the seeds of social antagonism, which sooner or later must bear such bitter fruits as sprung out of the rank and tangled growth of the Paris ian Commune, now so execrated for its out rages upon humanity and Christian civilie* Zation. In a country like this, with a do main so vast, rich, and uncultivated, it is hardly less than criminal to force a concen tration of laboring masses, who are so much needed in the rural districts, into the cities, and especially a city like this, which, be* cause it is not commercial or manufactur ing, in the large sense, being in the infancy of its new development, from the nature of the population, is not able to maintain any such large excess of idlers, as have been imported or attracted here, by the tempta tion or proini-e of political rewards.— Washington Pit riot Steam on Dikt R >ad».—One of the edi tors of the Macon Telegraph, who is travel ing West with the railroad party, says in a recent letter: Mr. Wadley tells me he has contracted for a steam traction road engine, which will be employed in hauling logs at bis brother’s saw mill, in Emanuel county. The cost of the machine will be five thousand dollars. It is perfectly manageable, travers rough roads and even plowed grounds without difficulty, and will drag after it a gang of plows which will pulverize the soil to almost any desired depth in land free from stumpV; In dragging carry logs be expects it to A<y the wi-rk of many mules or oxen or far les® expensive fuel. Should experiment justify it, he will pur one of these machines on the mad from (ieneva to Talfrotton, and carry the Meriwether Springs travel. He tbinfs they can be used with economy on oar dirt roads, and will be found useful in hauling cotton to points on the railways. This is a “personal” taken from a coun try journal: “A young lady takes this method of in forming a certain young man that the next time he dpsires to gaze upon her. forty-five mortal minutes without winking his eves she will consider herself highly favored if he will c ose his mouth, arid not set there like a yuuug robin awaiting the parent bird.” A New Relate n—A man was divorced from his wife and she married another, whereupon husband No. 1. inquired of No. 2 i ‘ What relation are you to me 7* “N me that I know “Yes yon are.” said No. I : “you are my step husband—l stepped out and yon ster ped in.” Only one-film of the population of the city of Naples can read and write. NO. 29.