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The Daily Herald. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1873. THE HERALD PVULISHHU COMPANY, ALEX. 8T. CL AIR-ABRAMS. HENRY W. GRADY, R. A. ALSTON, NO MORE CREDIT BUSINESS. On and after October 15, we shall cease to j deliver papers to snbscribers who have not i paid in advance. The necessity for os to I adopt a strictly cash business is imperative, | our expenses being very large and requiring a large cash outlay every week. We | trust that our friends and patrons everywhere will appreciate the motive which prompts this step. Ten days before each subscription ex- U A11. X, 1 1MT *1U UU ! nuuvui) J. w |» , ,, , , . , _ ... .. OAILY, 6 Month ... 6 oo | weekly, 6 Month* 1 oo pires, we shall send a printed notification to daily’, .1 Month*... 3 60 I WEEKLY, 3 Month* DAILY, 1 Month 1 00 Advertisement* Editor* And !H*a*(en. THE TERMS o! th« HERALD are ** foUowe : DAILY, 1 Year *10 00 | WEEKLY, 1 Year.. .$2 00 tho subscriber, and if ty the time of its expi- serted at moderate rate*. Sub-! ration it is not renewed, wo shall stop the pa- tcriptionn and advertisement* ‘^variably In advance. | Address HEBALD PUBLISHING CO., ! P er * On and after the same date (Oct. 15) we I shall most positively adhere to the system of Mb. T. J. Bubxey is the only authorized j cash in advance for all transient advertise' Travelling Agent of the Hebald. 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.