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The Daily Herald.
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1873.
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TH8 MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN.
The recent meeting of Democrats in tho se
cond ward, was an illustration of how the
Democracy is governed. Forty-five votes
were cast, out of several hundred in the ward,
and of this number sixteen voted for a change
in the system of nominations. Of the re
maining twenty-six, not less than twenty per
haps were either present or prospective office
holders. Naturally, under the circumstances,
the second ward “remained true to herself,"
as our reporter enthusiastically recorded it.
But did the action of the second ward give
atisfaction to the people? We thiuk not.
A large committee, composed of gentlemen
ot high standing in the community, who are
not office seekers, and who do not propose to
Our State Exchanges.
I ments, and monthly payments in advance for see]£ nuRnjmoug , y r6port ed resolutions
' all contract advertisements. j against the system of ward nominations.
i Scarcely any debate was permitted upon them.
i large
Luprez i Benedict'* minstrels played to
house in Athens on last night.
The Montgomery Belle* who have refogeed to Co
lumbus are playing havoc with the hearts of the aua-
ceptible yonng men of that place. Tho latter wish
Montgomery would have a scare every year if *uch
attractions flee from her borders, the Sun aay*.
The run on our bar-room* has not yet occurred,
though it i* ardently desired. I* DeVotie sick or out
of town ?
The policemen of Columbus are engaged in cleaning
up the city. We believe a party left this city for the
same purpoe* some time since.
The Sun is mourning over tho death of a dog named
“Charlie," who, according to DeVotie’a account, waa
the moat efficient member of the poiice department.
The »ime paper is indignant because some of the
Georgia paper* have stated that Columbus is quaran
tined against yellow fever. They aay Coiambus is out*
side of the yellow fever district, and is ao alarmingly
healthy that all the doctors are thinking of removing
elsewhere in search of patients.
Columbia is atill unwilling to pursue the even tenor
of her ways, bot is longing for another sensation.
The Enquirer is soliciting “J. N." to come and raise
the veil and ease the pressure. We hope he will not
be so “nidering" as to fail to comply.
A young man in Fort .Valley made a “run" on the
billiard table a few nights age of sixty- six points. His
favorite letter in the alphabet is—Q. The proprietor
of the billiard saloon thinks he ought to pay more at
tention to hia I. O. U.'a.
Messrs. Levi Milon and 8imon Maddox bdth belong
ing to the colored gentry of Fort Valley, formed a de
bating society last Sunday. Levi opened the argu
ment by knocking several teeth down 8i.'a throat. Si.
tried to persuade Levi that he waa in the wrong with
ahugestick. The only damage dote was the break
ing of a good stick.
All overdue accounts for advertisements
and subscriptions not paid by October 10th. j Th recited trutbs whioh c0(lla not be con .
win be placed in the hands of our attorney for , tegUd . they showed up tbe e , ila of tbe prcs .
! ent system, but they did not suit the views
Mr. G. Clifford Sorren, office No. 32 Cedar j °f the manipulators aud wire-pullers, and so
street, is the agent of the Hebald in New
York, and is authorized to receive subscrip
tions and contract for advertisements.
TARE CARE OF THE BIRDS.
The attention of a stranger visiting Wash
ington or New Yerk, is attracted by the num
ber of small birds he sees flitting through the
trees in the Parks, and alighting almost at
his feet. On inquiry he learns that for many
years it was almost impossible to keep the
trees in these parks from being destroyed by
tho caterpillar. That a number of these spar
rows were imported from England and turned
loose in these parks under the protection of
the city. That they bad increased very rap
idly, and had proved so very effectual in the
destruction of insect life, that now it was sel
dom that a caterpillar could be seen.
Cotton planters have found, since the sur
render, that the caterpillar has pro red to be
the most dangerous enemy they have had to
contend against. They are certainly more de
structive tliin ever known before. In our
opinion, it is in a great measure
to be ascribed to the fact, that
nearly every freedman owns an old musket,
which he keeps in constant use on every rab-
Tbe Mirror reports the death of Mrs. Anderson, of j bit or small bird that ventures in bis way.
Tort Valley, on last Monday.
When it is taken into consideration that one
Th. "3corgi. Bojr." i. the UUe of . .mall taper pub- wju d jt a 8ufficient nHmber 0 f eggs
lisbed at Milledgeville. I;s youthful editor makes , , °
qiite a lively sheet. to P ro <-* uc ® worms to destroy one acre of cot-
To relieve the stringency, *he Griffin merchants j ton, it will be understood what benefit the
bare adopted ,be fobowing: ReBolrei That wo earn- small bird which catches this miller may be j di^atereWed patriots they claim'tube,
e«t!y solicit the banks of this city to issus certificates , to the f armer . We have seen meu kill wood-
of deposit to the amonnt of f*25,000 each, and to give j , . . , . j
* ! peckers because they were supposed to be de
structive to corn, when in fact the wood
pecker only destroys the worms on the end of
j the ear of corn. Everything that wars on
confidence, secure the payment of the samo by depos
iting good and sufficient collaterals with the treasurer
of the city, or some reliable banking house.
The Griffin News reports the capture in Flint river
ol a turtle weighing one hundred pounds. Pretty j insect life ongbt to be protected. We bad a
good for a iresh water hard-shell. It was caught in “
; tame hawk on our place for some time and , and intrigued „ itb v
■ fed him on toads until there was not a toad ‘
they were voted down. More sensible and
more keenly alive to the necessity for harmo
ny in the ranks of tho Democracy, the Fourth
Ward Democrats last night adjourned to meet
Monday evening for the purpose of obtaiuin,
a fair expression of the popular will.
That the so-called nomination will take
place on the 11th, however, wo have no doubt.
The magnates of the inner circle have willed
it; their men are already selected, and the
sooner tbe form and farce are gone through
with the more time it will give them for other
combinations and manipulations. But we
greatly mistake the temper of the citizens of
Atlanta if they quietly submit to a “cut and
dried” nomination. There are hundreds of
men in this city—as good Democrats as any —
who will not vote a ticket which does not fuily
and fairly represent the will of the great
mass of the people. Daring the past few days
we have been importuned on all sides to
announce a good ticket, but we have declined
to do so, preferring to wait until after the so-call
ed nominations are made before taking action.
If a good ticket is selected, we shall support
it; if the ticket of the “strikers” and ward
politicians is nominated, we shall oppose it.
When it is considered how much dissatis
faction exists with the manner in which our
municipal politics are managed, it would ap
pear to be the part of wisdom to seek har
mony at every reasonable sacrifice. If the
gentlemen who are pressing for a nomination
eight days hence are really the high-minded
by
are they not willing to postpone the nomina
tion? If they are are not wire-pulling and
forming little rings in each ward in the inter
ests of individuals, why are they not willing
to leave tho nominations to a convention of
the whole people, who cannot be wire-pulled
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New York, Sept. 30, 1873.
Passing down Chambers street a few days
ago, at the corner of Greenwich I saw Mich
a pile of boxes and barrels, and such a num
ber of drays receiving and delivering, that I
concluded to inquire what it meant, and was
told that this was the large grocery house of
H. R. Tlnirber A Co. Remembering that my
old friend Tom Simm?, from Georgia,
was employed here, I. stepped in and
called for him He soon made his
appearance, looking as cheerful and con
tented as the Lord Mayor of London.
Ho was delighted to see me and
show mo through the establishment. The
first placo to which attention was directed
was a side room where there were a large
number of merchants seated at a round table
taking tea from their china cups. A number
of little boys were refilling these cups as fast
as emptied from a large keltle of boiling water
in one coiner of tho room. At another table an
equal number were testing the different brands
of the Century Whisky which, perhaps,
has the highest reputation of any whisky in
the United States. It was awarded the medal
diploma at the Vienna Exposition over fivo
brands on exhibition there.
This house sells over six millions of goods
and find their present stand too small for their
increasing business, and are now building on
the junction of two streets what will, when
finished, be ono of the finest houses in the
city.
The city is filled with merchants from the
South and West, but they have bought more
carefully than they intended, owing to the
crash.
Among those at the St. Nicholas I saw M.
J. Atkins of the firm of Atkins & Allison, who
looks as happy as though he did not have any
drafts on Jay Cooke A Co. Mike did no
bring his wife with him this time and there
fore he will hasten his return to the quiet
city of Cuthbert.
The scare seems to be over aud matters are
resuming their neenstomed channels. Money
will soon flow Southward to buy cotton, and
as McCullough said the other day tbe “three
hundred millions from our cotton will set all
things right once more." I suppose there
was very little sympathy felt for Henry Clews
in Georgia, and if he has treated everybody
else as rascally afi?ho has attempted to treat
the people of Georgia, it will be a long time
before all bis creditors get their dues.
POLITICAL.
MACON DEPARTMENT.
trap, and a£cour*e went to sonp.
A sensation waa caused in MacoD, on 8unday morn, i
ion, by the ditcovery on one of the streets of a shirt I to be seen on the farm. The next Spring it
all bloody, with a slit in it as if cut by a knife, and j w as almost impossible to raise vegetables on
r by a coat with the pocket completely torn away.
The Borne Light Guards have at last received their
arms. This has determined them to perfect their or
ganization, and to fill up their rank aa aoon as possi
ble. They invite tbe enrollment of new members.
The Commercial eaya: “We learned yesterday that
oar banker* are going North in a few days, to make
such arrangements aa will enable thvm to resame in
thirty days."
The Savannah News says: “Tbe Thomaaville Times
wants to know why we don’t establish a “bureau" iu
Macon. If we ever do have any furniture up there it
will most likely be a wardrobe."
The Mayor of West Point is evidently one of the
good Samaritans. He has issued a circular, setting
forth that as contagious diseases are prevailing at
Montgomery and other points, all persons leaving the
effected points, who shall not have been absent there
from and in good health for two weeks, shah
net be permitted to stop within the limits of that city
under penalty of “one hundred dollars and imprison
ment and labor, at the discretion of the Mayor."
The McDuffie Journal speaks in tbe following man
ner of the departure of one of her citizens: Jake
Moore, of the colored way of stealing, and who to sat
isfy the stern deman la ofthe law assisted in the erec
tion of our new jail, took rooms in that public house
on Saturday morning last. Bat an opportunity being
offered to him to leave, never to return, he ac
cepted the offer, and has left McDuffie for Mc
Duffie’s good. Jake had earned considera
ble notoriety by exhibiting his great industry in doing
more little mean tricks than any other darkey in tbe
county, and leaves few to regret his departure. We
bespeak for Jake a cordial reception by town marshals
and ..ailors in any town or county in which he may
make- up his mind to atop, as he will be sure in a very
short time to call into requisition the cold charities of
these functionaries. Faro thee well, Jacob, “and if
forevt r, fare thee well."
THE AVEST POINT QUARANTINE.
We are really sorry to se© the West Point
News so narrow-minded as to talk about our
minding onr own business, because we con
demned tbe yellow fever quarantine estab
lished in that town. The New3 has evidently
but a very small idea of what a newspaper is
published for when it indulges in such twad
dle as we have referred to. The Hebald
dees mind its business when it approves or
condemns anything that transpires in West
Point. Our subscribers there expect that we
shall devote some attention to their town.
Now, it is not unlikely that some of them
may favor the quarantine, and consequently
disagreo with our position on the subject.
Bat they subscribed for this paper
with the distinct understanding that we
would say whatever we believed to be right
and proper : hence they cannot complain.
But at any rate theyfunderstand onr position,
which is more than they can that of the
News, for that paper straddles a fence and is
unable to frankly say whether or not the
quarantine Ls'right.
For our part we repeat in most explicit
lauguage that it is wrong, unchristian and
uncharitable. The News says it has caused
much division of sentiment among the peo
ple. We are perfectly satisfied that a large
majority of th© citizens of West Point oppose
a measure which reflects upon hospitality,
and upon their courage, and which, in addi
tion, is calculated to inflict severe injury
upon the business of the town.
We trust that there will be a lull vote cast
at the election for Clerk of the Superior Comt
to-morrow, and that Mr. Collins will be elect
ed by a handsome majority. His nomination
was a good one, and although his election is a
certainty, still in view of the sinister reports
afloat, we think it tbe duty of every Democrat
to turn out and give him a rousiDg vole. It
is a duly every voter owes to tho late Mr.
Venable, ab well as to Mr. Collins himself,
and it is ona that we urge all citizens to per
form. Turn out and vote to-morrow.
account of the worms. Since then we have
not fed tame hawks on toads. Nearly every
one misses the sweet notes of the mocking
bird that were once so common, because
every little freedman feels at liberty to steal
the young and peddle them through the near
est village.
Gen. Harrison, a large rice planter on the
Savannah river, remarked last Fall to the
writer that volunteer sice was rendering the
cultivation of rice very troublesome ; that
the great numbers of wild ducks which for
merly visited the rice fields and picked up
the volunteer grains, had been frightened
away by the formidable musket of the stroll
ing freedman.
It is onr honest opinion that the fearful
destruction from caterpillar, which annually
entails such a heavy loss upon the South,
could be greatly alleviated by taking care of
the birds. In France they are protected by
law, and let them have the same protection
here.
THE OPENING OF THE OPERA HOUSE
Mr. DeGive signifies a willingness to d:> a
very liberal thing in regard to his Opera
House, if he can get any sort of co-operation
from the gentlemen of Atlanta.
The House is magnificently arranged and
will be ready for the public by ths 20th inst.
It is proposed to open it, by a grand bal
masque,^organized and arranged by a com-
| mittee of gentlemen. Mr. DeGive agrees, if
snch a thing is gotten up, to build a detached
floor, to cover the whole of the pit and par-
quette, and stand flush with the stage, thus
giving a superb ball-room—indeed, we may
say, an unequalled one.
The idea is a good one, and we trust that it
will be taken up by the young fashionable; 7 ,
and pushed to a consummation.
GEORGIA FARMS AND FARMKI19.
SOME GOSSIP .
Mr. L. A. Jordan, of Lee county, who is conceded to
be tbe most extensive planter in the State, cultivated
this year two thousand acres in cotton, one thousand
five hundred in corn, and three hundred in cats. Mr.
Jordan is worth over $100,000, and employs on his
plantation about one hundred horses and mules.
Mr. David Dickson, of Hancock county, the celebra
ted scientific planter, cultivates this year eight hun
dred acres in cotton, and six hundred In corn, be
sides one hundred and eigty-fire acres In wheat and
oats. Mr. Dickson is worth abont $103,000, the great
er part of which is invested iu improvements on hit
plantation.
Coffee county as the champien aheep county of the
State. Ordinary planters there keep COO aheep, while
many count their flocks by thousands.
Henry Peterson, of Coffee county, as the champion
sheep raiser of the State. He is . the proud shepherd
of 2,000 sheep. Following him is Henry Vickers, who
owns 1000.
James Hinson, of Coffee county, is the owner of a
herd of cattle numbering 800 bead.
Houston county, the banner cotton county of Geor
gia, plants this year 55,173 acres in corn.
Coweta county cultivates 39,346 acres Iu cotton, and
20,166 in corn.
The wealthiest planters in Dougherty county are,
Mesar*. Jerry Walters and T. H. Willingham. Mr.
Waiters is wo *th $75,000 or $80,000, sed plants 1,33
seres in cotton, 100 in oats and 060 in corn. Mr. Wil
lingham cultivates 1,350 acr. a in cotton, 60 In oats and
x,350 in corn. He is worth about $75,000.
Uancok county has this year 32,984 acres iu cotton
and 25,765 seres In corn.
Dougherty county, which probably haa more
wealthy planter* than sny county in the State, culti
vates about30,000 acres in cotton and 23,000 In ooru.
TLe wealthiest planters of Greene couuty are
Messrs. T. N. Armor, A. O. Carlton, B. II. McWhorter
who cultivate each about 900 acre*.
If the men who are so devoted to the “regu
lar” ticket do not wish to fee an “independ
eDt" ticket put forward they will promptly
make those concessions demanded by at least
one half of the Democrats of Atlanta. Let
them silence discontent by meeting the dis
satisfied half way and giving everybody am
pie time to canvas, and by giving every citi
zen a fair chance to express his preference,
and no matter what kind of a ticket may be
nominated we shall not oppose it. But un
less this is done; or unless the men nomi
nated are such as will give character to the
city government, the “regular” ticket will be
ignored by hundreds of good democrats ami
it icill not be elected.
There is a rumor afloat that a Radical has
been promised a deputyship in the office of
the Clerk of the Superior Court. It may not
be true; but to prevent the possibility of such
a thing, let every Democrat vote for Collins
to-morrow.
The next suspension—Captain Jack’s,
will hang to-day.
He
The city*,
d The Fo: rth Wind.
PMORY COLLEGE.
Anniversary of the Literary Societies—Phi
Gamma Society.
The subject matter of Mr. Burks’ address
was the adaptation of Means to Ends—a sub
ject as interesting to inquiring minds as the
present treatment was instructive. The ob
ject of tbe occasion, he stated, was not to
celebrate the laying of the corner-stone, not
to revive a longing for the honored Alumni;
not to bewail j ast follies ; but to celebrate
the founding of the debativ© method of
training—which method has given to the
world more glorious statesmen and ora
tors than perhaps from any other
cause or causes would have lived and loved.
It renders the young self-possessed; the old
confident, and gives a fluency to words and
rhetorical finish to sntences which could not
otherwise be obtained. No college curricn
lam can be relied on as a guide through life
its training is purely mental; the debate feeds
tho mind as well as renders one conversant
with life—it adapts means to ends. It is well
enough to know rules, to keep rules, to be
guided by rules—but not wholly; for to every
on© there is an exception—must be
exceptions. Exercise the curriculum
for the provision of your carnality, for tbe
cerebrum another sphere in its home. Thiuk
but not too much on the rythmic sound
study, but not wholly on rhetorical finish :
to adopt means to ends, the heart must tie
the knot. The soul of Patrick Henry, not his
words, swayed the General Assemby, and Bo
naparte succeeded only by adaptation. Last
ing monuments now stud many views which
would not have been so, had the debating so
ciety had not been introduced. Few Society,
Mr. W. M. Crow, Henderson, Tex., Orator.
Mr. Crow treated the subject of “Unity iu
Diversity” in a masterly manner. Unity is
the ultimate characteristic of all things, ma
terul and Immaterial, and the light of learn
ing’s march has dissolved much mist, thrown
off the penumbra from our sight, and man is
no longer a walking tree, bat is identified
tbe by-roads arc fast merging into one—the
road of unity—which leads to the metropolis
of truth. The thoughts, opinions, and
beliefs of groat men may wander through the
fields in different channels, but the ultimatum
of all is one and the samo reservoir of human
philosophy. The pioneering thoughts of
Galileo and Newton centred where thousands
of their followers have since monumented
their names. In Dature, order has arisen
from confusion, unity from diversity—one
idea permeates the whole. Learning simp i-
ties tho laws of nature and multiplies
the facts. Tindall has familiariz d os
with the laws of heat, and inclosed in oue
law its most diverse workiuga. Tbe number
of theories of the separuto sciences continue
gradually to merge in their approach to the
fundamental truths; yet, no matter how lurit
may stretch its untiring wing, “ ’lis not giveD
for man to know tho unsearchable myeteries
of God.”
Tbe Societies now **nter upon another year,
and with the nro-perity ol the college they
prosper. M.
Nkw Yosk, October 2, 1873.
The Democratic State Convection met at ten o’clock
this morning. The committee on resolutions submit
ted the platform as follows: We condemn and de
nounce the aa’ary grab and all congressmen, wLetber
Democrats c*r Republicans, who voted for it or who
have not renounced all share in the plunder seized
for service* already done and paid for.
We condemn and denounce the President’s signature
to the bill which clinched this iniquity and which
gave five thousand dollars to each Congressman, while
providing one hundred thousand dollars for himself,
after Congress had just refused to increase his salary;
and we demand its repeal; demand a revenue reform,
so that the Custom-house receiver ahall get low and
productive duties on a few articles, and not high and
therefore less productive duties on two thousand ar
ticles!; we demand a return to specie payments; de
mand that the policy of paper Inflation, protective
tariff and Government subsidies shall be abandoned to
the half civilized nations and ages of which it is a
relict, because it plunders the farmers of the United
States both in their incor^e and outgoes; it ham
strings our manifold.industries; it convert sour foreign
commerce into 4n unsafe speculation, aud :
our domtetic trade into a game of |
chance; it breeds extravagance in our I
homes, and dishonor in public and private tiials; it I
fosters corrupt combinations of sectional lute-eats* j
ane ia the prime cause of the late financial disasters.
In the midst of these wide spread calamities and gen- l
eral disasters, we scout the President’s pill for panics, ;
and more inflation, more subsidies, more ballooning
and we point the country to their true remedy and ;
cure in the tried and historical principals, the old
Democracy, applicable throughout our national state
and tho municipal law which limit and localize moat
jealously the power* entrusted to public eeivauts;
enforce and honestly and frugality In public and pri
ll. C. STEVENSON
• - CITY EDITOR.
MACON, GA., THURSDAY, OCT. 2,1873
Oar Office.
The Branch Office of the Hebald ia ol
Cherry street, over Helfrich’s confectionery
store. Parties desiring to subscribe tar or
advertise in toe Hebald, will always find
some one in the office to attend to their
wants.
City Circulation of the Hernial.
Hereafter and until the night train ia again running
upon the Macon and Western road th* Heuaud will
arrive at three o’clock in the afternoon and be at
once sent by carriers and newwboya as heretofore
throughout the city. It ia hoped that in a few day#
the schedule will be so changed as to allow the paper
o g t here at seven o’clock in the morning.
Circuit Coming.
Mr. Haight, proprietor of Haight’s circus ami me
nagerie, is in the city directing the fall campaign. He
says he can be here during the fair if thought advisa
ble. But his past experience ia.th&t two big shows in
a town at once overcrops the demand. But come
along Mr. Haight. We will have twenty thousand peo
ple here that week, bound to eee all the sights.
.Mercer University.
Hon. David Butler baa informed an obscure (?) local
newspaper in this city that “More than a hundred
young gentlemen have presented themselves for mat
riculation, and many more have been heard from who
will bo here. The personnel cf the students, too,
vate affairs: which prescribes equal taxation for all j unusually fine and prepossessing,.and not a few a
Surroundings-
There are few natures, if any, mentally or
physically strong enough to resist the influ
ences of surroundings, which are a kind of
fate in themselves, and in a great degree
determine our intellectual reach aud cur
moral attitude, compel our imaginations and
decide religion, love, and friendship for ns, as
well as onr physical status. As in the garden j After consido:abie discussion
we see all manner of tiny insects that have
drawn their hues from tbe leaves on which
they feed, so the minds of individuals take
shape and color from their surroundings; and
in so far as these surroundings are of a supe
rior kind, ennobling rather than belittling, so
far will this shape be removed from deformi
ty and fashioned after the line of beauy, and
this color be warranted fast. All history takes
cognizance of
sioner.
THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE j ^
upon lace and temperature, and sets down the ! TreaBUrcr
and currency sb good aa gold, and we hold out to the
farmers of the United 8tate the right hand
and hearts of fellowship in their just resist
ance to tbe exactions of the mo
nopolists and their just demands for these great
reforms.
Resolved, That those who are vested by by our laws
with the appropriation aud expendition of the public
money should be subjected to the same restraints,
rules and regulations that are imposed upon the tax
payera and collectois and should iu like manner
be required to keep such accounts of
thair business affaire at are demanded of merchants
and manufacturers, ao that an examination of their
books and transactions will show any trauds and cor
ruption ia their affairs of business; that they shall
{ take aud subscribe to the official oaths at the proper
periods, and that they have not in anyway been
unlawfully benefitted by their official action.
Resolved, That we recognize in the Liberal Repub
licans worthy coadjutors, and cordially invite them to
unite with us in our efforts to restore pure government
iu our State and Federal administrations.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted. Tilt-
Convention then proceeded t) nominate a State ticket.
other candidates,
Mr. D. Wiilers, Jr., of SeDeca, wai nominated for
Secretary of State. Thomas Rains, a Liberal Repub
lican, and th© present incumbent, was nominated for
State Treasurer; Sylvanu9 H. Sweet was nominated
lor State Engineer; Asher H. Nicbolls received the
nomination for Comptroller. Tbe nomination
for Attorney General was next in order, and
Daniel Pratt waa selected.
James Jackson was nominated for Canal Commie-
of Raiu:s, Liberal Repub ican, for
eted with great applause.
Geo. W. Millspaugh received the nomination for
State Prieon Inspector, thus completing the ticket.
SPECIAL TAX OF $3 OO ON FARMERS-
For sometime past the Revenue collector,
under his construction of the law, has impos
ed and collected from tho farmers who have
been in the habit of supplying their han-L
with tobacco, a special tax of fivo dollar.
Colonel Autbnr Hood resisted the tax because
he believed it was unlawful and carried the
case to the Department. It will b© seen by
the following letter from the Commissioner
that he gained his point, lor which ho cer
tainly deserves the thanks of the people.
Treasury Department, )
Office of Commis'r Internal Revenue, J-
Washington, September 17, 1873. )
Col. Arthur Jlood, Cuthbert, Ga.
Sib I have received your letter of the
11th inst., in reply to mine of the 8th., in
which you acknowledge the correctness of the
ruling of this office “that purchasers of to
bacco. snuff and cigars in original packages,
as put up by tho manufacturers, and who
make a business of selling to any person
wishing to purchase, whether his employees
or otherwise, as a matter of gain or profit,
are liable to pay a special tax as a dealer in
tobaccos.” This ruling, however, you allege
does not cover your own case, which is sub
stantially as follows;
“I give’my employees part of the crop, in
order that they can work. I furnish them 1
with what they actually need, bacon, shoes,
Ao. and tobacco. Say I work ten hands, they
want five, six, or it may be ten pounds of to
bacco; being without money orcredit, I must
let them have it, furnish it to them and charge
it tc be paid at tbe end of tbe year. I pay
cash for the tobacco which I furnish the
hands. I charge them as I do for|the shoes I
buy, sufficient advance upon it to pay the in
terest on the money I have advanced to pay
for it. I don’t furnish any but my own hands.
You now |ask if I cannot’give a construe-*
tion to the law that will relieve you
and also relieve other farmers and planters
who furnish their hands with tobacco in the
manner you have described, from the pay
ment of a special tax on tobacco.
To your letter, and upon the statement of
facts which you present, I reply that the law,
in its definition of dealers in tobacco, declares
that “Every person whose business it is to
sell, or offer tor sale, manufactured tobacco,
snuff or cigars, shall l>e regarded as a dealer
in tobacco," and shall pay a special tax of
five dollars. The law does not impose this
tax unconditionally upon every person
already men in stature and maturity of yearp.
When such present themselves in the halls of the Uni
versity, they mean business, and there will be no
child’s-play fn their sturdy effort* to mount the
heights of Parnassus, and explore the hidden fields of
knowledge."
That is a firatraU notice.
Mayor's Court.
The Mayor had a caae of pretty much drunk before
him this morning, f or which he charged five dol
lars and costs.
Go In Weeklies.
Mayor Huff haa offered a gold medal worth fifty
dollars for the beat country weekly printed in the
State of Georgia. As the Houston Home Journal i»
the only^one which exchanges with this Bureau, we
are in favor of its getting it.
Macon Snbsciibrrs
to the Heuald who changed their residecccs or placea
of business on the 1st, are requested to leave infor
mation at the office on Cherry street.
As will be seen by a card elsewhere the proprietors
will, after the 15th instant, require advzncd payment
for all subscriptions, and that the rule will be most
rigidly enforced. The Heuald has become such a ne-
cessity in the c'Ay of Macoa that we do cot contem
plate the loasof a single patron by the change of the
Cotton In Macon.
By the table below it will be seen that over five
thousand bales have been received in this city, and
that nearly all of it is atill on band. It would doubt
less all have been sold had it not been for the already
well known cause. But we firmly say to the manu
facturers ot the world, gentlemen, we have the article
on hand, send forward your money and get
it. You can’t have it until you do. And we are again
assured to-day that the cash is on the road, and that
it will be here before the lapse of many days.
MACON COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1873 1,399
i Received to-day 374
I Received previously 4,803—5,177
6,576
! Shipped to-day 74
Shipped previously 1,875—1,949
Stock on band this evening 4.627
The demand for Provisions and grain, of almost
evexy grade, la active, with ample stocks held by mer
chants to satisfy it.
We quote clear ribbed at 11 cent* for round lot*. - 4
higher for small orders ; shoulders 1 cent less. YcUow
corn 90c; white 93, which figures mar he “shaded” for
car load lots from depot.
Frosty.
We did not lack many degrees of having a frost in
this region yesterday morning, as all early riaera will
avow. Wouldn’t care much if it did com?. We hav e
had enough of hot weather for one year. The crops
are about all made and secured, and therefore no mat-
terial damage wonld be sustained.
The Stricken City.
The new* from the poor little stricken city of Lou
isiana, Shreveport, is read with feelings of horror.
It is hoped that the appeal of the Howard Associa
tion for assistance will not be in vain to tho readers of
the Hkhald. Any subscription* sent to the Macon
office will be transferred to the City Bank, and the
President of the Association at Shreveport notified by
telegraph to check at once for It.
indolent will and swarthy physique to south
ern latitudes, carrying enterprise and energy
over to tbe blonde northern nations; moun
tainous regions boast a brave, sure-footed
people, with no consumptive tendencies, since
climbing demands entire and healthy expan
sion of the lungs—while to dwellers by the
sea are meted out a quickened intellect and
contempt of dangers. But climate is only a
wilder surrounding, which moulds us after
its own methods, aud there is no doubt but
the surroundings ot* a more intimate nature
have as decided effects upon character and
constitution. They, in a great measure,
dictate our preferences and habits, since, un
less we conform more or lees to the world
about us, life resolves itself into a warfare.
But the fact is that we do conform unwitting
ly; the influences are as certain and subtle as
those of the sun and air. We are set iu our
surroundings like a picture in a frame, and if
they happen to harmonize with our inherent
qualities, well and good; if not, we must
MAKE THE BEST OF IT.
The nature of a young child, malleable like
gold, is worked upon by the atmosphere into
which it is bom, and if that atmosphere lacks
mental stimulus, in most cases the young mind
will suffer; and, in like manner, even the
mature mind, transplanted among unconge
nial surroundings, will insensibly adapt itself
to tho conditions of things; for with the Ro
mans one must do as the Romans, and in or
der to imitate them acceptably, one must
adopt their manner of thought and being. In
most communities it is the prevailing relig
ious creod that governs; the members are
hedged in by the surrounding doctrine of in
fallibility, of free-will, or predestination, as
the case may be, and are rarely invited to
search for truth in any other direction; thus
one’s surroundings come to have a tendency
to w’arp and color and often to restrict one's
views. It is what Neighbor Gruudy thinks
which regulates our thought, what she does
that decides our behavior. We can as easily
travel beyond our surroundings as we can
GET BEYOND OUB ATMOSPHERE
without dying, when we would perhaps mere
ly change them. The most timid and selfish
among ns might find herself as heroic as
Jeanne d’Arc if the surroundings demanded
it; the moat reserved feel the spirit moving
her to preach with the tongue of men and
angels, if those whom she had been bred to
hold in esteem in her little world were wont
to “speak in meeting.” Our surroundings
are at once our inspiration and our opportu
nity—they bid us be up to the occasion. To
be sure, the opportunity and inspiration may
be meagre, aud the occasion small, since the
stream may not rise above it© source, but they
arc not the result of the things that teach us,
that surround us, just as certain plants are the
product of certain soils, and could adapt
themselves to no other condition without va
riation.
Without sensible effort our tastes become
the outgrowth and assimilation of our sur
roundings, be they esthetic or otherwise.
One to whom high behavior and noble senti
ments arc
A DAILY LESSON AND EXAMPLE
is heir to a natural nobility; to one born, as it
were, in a library, learning would seem to be
that mother-tongue. Living constantly among
beuaty and romance engenders beautiful and
romantic ideas. As there are peculiar forma
tions of mind belonging to those who dwell
in mountainous districts and to those who in
habit the valleys, it would be strange in
deed if the neighborhood of a renowned river,
a storied waterfall, crowned with rainbows,
or a historic ruin, - made no lasting im
pression on mind aud matter. On the
other hand, those whose glimpse of heaven
is onlv as wdde as the narrow street, whose , . , -. r -
‘•ftiuple spirits" aro confined nrnonb brick m*nncr .. » d«ler in, or h.vmR mwnf.c- house in « helpless condition
Exciting Scene in a Menagerie.—A terri
ble scene took place in Menders' Menagerie,
nt Whitby, in England, on September lit.
There were several hundred people iu tho.
show when heart-rending cries, as from one
in mortal agony, went through the air. A
panic ensued. The people, terribly excited,
ran en masse to the narrow outlet, and en
deavored to escape |by other means. A cry
was raised outside that one of the beasts had
burst through the bars of its cage, and the
excitement among the crowd without was
scarcely less intense than that within. In
the rush to the door many people,
particularly the weaker sex. were in-
jured, aud the confusion was increased from
the circumstance of a couple of camels block
ing up the doorway. Meanwhile the cries
continued, and it was discovered that a poor
boy named Langley was the victim of the vi
ciousness of a big tiger, placed alongside an
other next to the cage containing the lion that
worried to death poor McCarthy,the lion-tam
er, at Bolton last year. The tiger was infuri
ated, aud was making strenuous tfforts to
draw the lad through the bars of the cage.
The beast growled frightfully, and what with
M S P tbe pitifnl cries of the boy, the shouts of the
shall sell or offer for sale, Ac., as in the case men, and the screams of the h^lf-fainting wo
of liquor dealers, but npon every person men, th© sceue was one of the most terrible
whose business it is to sell, or offer for sale,
manufactured tobacco. Ac.
I do not think that tbe furnishing of your
hands or employees with tobacco in the man
ner and under tho circumstances stated by
description. Some men ran for hot irons,
while others beat the beast with their sticks
and umbrellas, and did all they could to draw
the brute from its helpless victim. Ulti
mately, after a severe mauling, the animal
you, in your own case, does constitute “such relinquished its prey, and the boy. helple*
a business” as the law contemplates in the And faint through loss oi blood from the iu-
imposition of this tax; and I have no hesita- j unes he had received, was borne away
tion in so construing the law as to exempt through the crowd. His wouuds, upon be-
from a special tax a farmer, or planter, who iug dressed, appeared to be or a serious na- r
furnishes manufactured tobacco to his hands ture, though they are not likely to prove
whom he employs to make a crop for him on
shares, as ho furnishes them corn, bacon,
shoes, or other supplies, charging them with
the same, on account, to be settled for at the
close of the season and paid for out of the
crop produced, but who never ©ells for cash,
nor to any other person than to his own
fatal. The brute seems to have caught its
victim just below the elbow, and took a deep
lump ot flesh right down the forearm to the
wrist. There is also a deep gash in the palm
of the left hand, from which tbe hemorrhage
is great. The patient lie© in great pain, and
it is feared that be will not recover the per-
hands or employees engaged in making a crop | feet use of his arm. One of the keepers ha.,
for him as aforesaid, and who never offers i also been severely injured. He was struck
manufactured tobacco for sale, nor advertises. ; bv one of the elephants, and his ribs were
nor holds himself out to the public in any slashed iu. Tho man was taken to the work-
walls and importuuate industries, naturally
experience tbe narrowing influences, nnle.ss
they take caro to ebauge the situation to
“larger flelds and pastures new,” just us a !
plant in an earthen pot too small for its ca-F
pacity, though holding the secret of growth
and expansion in its germs, yet shrivels and
fails of development becauso of its cramped
surroundings. Yet the littlo Edelweiss find©
material tor a beautiful life underneath the
mountain suows, aud ;tho Mayflower blushes
Irugrautly on tho borders of tho bitterest
winter; so perhaps the surroundings of each
one of us are better adapted to work out in
u* riiose purposes for which we were created
than any other* that wo might choose. — 7/ar-
/*. 's ftar’ir.
tured tobacco for sale.
Yours, respectfull),
J. W. Douglass,
Commissioner.
Metal jewelrv of all kinds will bo worn this
season, the oxydized silver taking the lead
this style is finished in all sorts of filagree
work.
Train skirts on the street have evidently hud
their day. The ultra-fashionables, however,
have exerted every nerve to make these long
sweeping dresses tvchcrckc for out-door wear,
but ail their efforts have failed. The !ate^
mode promenade skirt is cut to just touch
th* ground.
AH woolen fabrics are now in vogue, such
as serge, saline, camel's hair doth, alpucj.
aud cashmere, tbe Ulter is 111© most eleganr
and costly. A caslmurc suit, handsomely
I trimmed, is generally considered to rank in
tho stjle wiih a black silk dress. Yd vet garni-
mode dark co’ors for morning wear ©n 1 pile I tore, also grosgrain silk trimmings will la
Ladies ju-t returned from Europe wear the
hair v«*ry plain and low on tho mek, a style,
we are assured, “all the rage” in Paris.
tints for fitll-diess occasions.
err much worn.