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Telegraph &Messenger.
MACON, DECEMBER 7, 18G9.
Tss State Lnnatio Asylum has 382 patients,
and 75 applicants waiting for accommodations.
Annexation.—Sonia' of .-the New York papers
are agitating the subject* ot the.. annexation-<rf
Brooklyn to New York.
iT.CTivnim Urr.wfn, late Chief of-the Bare at
of Statistics at Washington <3ity, has bought
the National Intelligencer.
The Warrenton Clipper* learns that all the
military stationed at- that place,- excepting <mh>
company, were to leaves on the 1st instant.
Utah.—An appointment-for -Governor of
Utah has been made by-the Erosident, the pub
lication of which is withheld for "the present
A news-stand in Mobile sold one hundred
and eighty copies of “Yashti,” Mrs. Augusta-3”.
Evans Wilson’s new novel, within six hours af
ter the work was received.
Db. C. P. Culver,, of Washington, who since
the Fair has been seriously sick with pneumonia
at the Brown Eouse, is now decidedly better,
and will be able to leave hiaroom in a few days.
nivnncE nv Wholesale.—-Three -hundred and
twenty-one applications ror .j*-. *.»«-«» i*»-
fore the Court of Common-Pleas--for Middlesex
county, Massachusetts, this, winter. Perhaps
some reconstruction is needed there.
“The recent, reneifal of motive .-hostilities
against the persons nnd property of colored citi
zens and white Republicans,” says the Gov
ernor’s proclamation of 29th November, and
thereupon ho starts upon tbo murders of Ayer
and Adkins to illustrate the “recent renewal.”
Fob Texas.—The-. Borne Southerner of the
1st instant says some forty or fifty citizens of
Floyd connty took the Selma, Borne and Dalton
railroad, the day previous, on their -way to
Texas. For somo months past,-there hao been
a considerable emigration to the.- West, from
toatregion.
Columbia (S. G.) j-Ganal.— 1 The • Columbia
Phoenix learuB that Col. • Pearce, the agent .of
the Messrs. Sprague,, has arrived in .that .city,
where ho may be expected-to remain, for a con
siderable time. His arrival is in ref
erence to the improvement of the property tin
the neighborhood of the canal.
Col. Nunnally.—This .gentleman, Senator
from the Griffin district, has.-nritten a letter, to
Col. Styles, of the Albany- News, emphatically
denying all knowledge, of, or connection with,
any "conspiracy” to sell .out.-the Democratic
party to Gov. Bullock and the Radicals, as
charged by the News some days-cince.
The work on the big iron railroad bridge over
the Ohio River, at Louisville, is nearly done,
and trains will pass over by the ,I5to instant.
It was commenced in August, 1867,-and is 3,280
feet long. The total quantity of iron, wrought
and cast, used in the construction of this,great
bridge, is 8,700,000 pounds, and the amount of
timber, including rail, .joist, cross-tiec and rail
way, will be 040,000 feet, board measure.
“Dixon’s System op Fabmino.”—Hon. A.-E.
Marshall, present Secretary of the Senate, (says
the Newnan Defender,) is now engaged in copy
ing for the press, from his phonograph!omanu-
script, a very valuable work on the subject of
Agriculture, of which Mr. David .Dixon,. of
Hancock county, is the anther. This work was
written phonogrephically by Mr. Marshall, as
dictated by the author, and contains six hundred
pages, octavo.
Mobtal Dim.—The prospect of Binkley, ex-
Assistant Attorney General under Johnson get
ting $50,000 damages for libel out of Rollins,
late Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and
whom he had arrested in Baltimore, on Satur
day, may be very appropriately .captioned as
above. Rollins will figure for a “Joyal” jury,
and Binkley will be bilked and balked both of
money and revenge. The faithful can’t be
reached that way.
Somebody’c-Chronology at Fault.—A Cairo
correspondent^jf the New York Times assarts
that “disregarding the unwritten or traditional,
Egypt has a .continuous chronicle whieh goes
back to the year 5807 before Christ. Nor is
Iris a questionable chronicle, for every princi
pal point in it is capable of confirmation.'’ Now,
as Dr. Adam Clarke and other commentators
fix the creation .4004 years before Christ, and
our Masonic friends date the present year of
light 58G9, it is evident the land of Egypt, or
this correspondent or tbo biblical chronologist
is mistaken.
fiengrem -and XJeowia.
- TheNew York Times cS the "29th dit., has*
letter from its regular Washington--correspon
dent, datedthe 27th, from which-we dip the fol
lowing opening paragraph.:
The status of Georgia will-bo ene-of the first
matters to .receive the-attention iof • Congress,
and the-resnlt is no longer • doubtful. I do not
.sneak unadvisedly when I*ay thaWbo determi
nation is “take the boll .by the -hems, and
remand the-State to her-original condition un
der the reaonstruction acts,.for toe-reason that
she has not complied-either in good faith, or
-even ins form with the conditions cf-rcstoration.
I have yet-to meet a single Republican member
•of-Congress who does not deem this-tho shortest
and most effective way of compellingRus recal
citrant State and people to respect the. funda
mental- law-cs it now stands, and to -abido per
manently hy-the results of the war. I Itic a matter
•of record today that Georgia istbe -worst State
in the South with which the -revenue *and law
officers of tho Government have to deal; there
is more disregard and violation of law ; more
•contempt for tho authority of the Government;
less safety.foc those wbose.dnty it is to execute
-the law, than any other State in to© Omen. And
there iano hope of a better condition, of things
mntil the backbone of tha present .anomalous
status is broken, and General Terry, is made the
absolute Government of tho State, and a genuine
reconstruction is begun under .his administra-
rticc. The opinion that this-shonld-bs speedily
done prevails, I am satisfied,, with a ..majority
of the Cabinet, and if measures to. this end are
•enacted by .Congress they will receive the
prompt.approval of the Executive. .The, people
of Georgia had, therefore, better, begin to look
the matter square in the face. They -will find
tnat cjongress is tired of being-irified with, and
that the policy here foreshadowed will.be sub
stantially enacted into law very early-iia the
session.
Not All Dead Yet.—The World, of Wednes
day, says that the Cubansdmve another expedi
tion on hand, which will _cnrpas3 all previous
efforts. Tho Junta are new paying out over
$000 per day for board of tho men who are in
this city, awaiting the word to sail. Contracts
have been made with several merchants for a
largo number of Winchester repeating rifles
and Peabody breech loaders, with suitable am
munition, and in one case the contracts have
been already filled. It is improbable that the
expedition will .start. before. the .meeting of
Congress.
To be Put on the sFbee List.—The Herald’s
Washington special of Monday, says that the
Ways and Means Committee of the House have
had several meetings already, with a view to re
vise the tariff, and that a long list of articles
heretofore heavily taxed, will be put on tho freo
list. Among them are chalk pepper, nutmegp,
cassia, cinnamon, cloves, ; cIove stems, mace,
ground cayenne pepper, vanilla beans, manufac
tured cork, barks from which quinine and other
drugs are produced, crude camphor,all gums use d
in the manufacture of tho best .varnishes, crude
gutta perch and India rubber, upon which tho
duties now range from €0 to 800 per cent!
Increase of Congressional Represent
tation.
A Washington special to tho Courier-Journal,
of Tuesday, says a movement of considerable
importance among Western Republican mem
bers has just been developed in the preparation
of a bill to increase Congressional representa
tion, from the present basis of two hundred and
forty members of the House of Representatives
to three hundred. The basis of representation
is usually fixed after the. taking of tho census
but os the ninth census will hardly bo completed
before 1872, it is intended to pass a bill thin
winter slightly increasing the present basis of
population and providing for threo hundred
members for tho Forty-second Congress. West
ern men say that .under the proposed apportion
ment Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin will increase
their present representation, while New Eng
land will be reduced two or three members.
Tlie Atlanta Municipal Election.
This triangalar fight came off on Wednesday,
nnd resulted in the election of Hon. William
Ezzard, one of the Democratic candidates for
Mayor, and a full Democratic Board of Aider-
men. The vote for Mayor stood, Ezzard, Dem
ocrat, 819 5 Alexander, Democrat, 498; Mark-
_ ham. Republican, 702. The following aro the
Aldermen elect: First Ward, D. C. O’Keifo and
Castleberry; 2d Ward, J. H. Calloway
JC ;. D . imnin b’ 5 3d Ward, W. C. Anderson and
T . n > AUUCIMUUHUU
j. G. Kelley; 4th Ward, C. P. Howell and M.
LFow! y ’ 111 Wftr ^’ Anthony Murphey and A,
Oar article yesterday upon tha conspiracy in
Georgia foreshadowed all this .correspondent
threatens. We.doubt not it is tho fixeienr-
poee-of the ultra radicals in Congress to destroy
tbo State of Georgia politically, since they can
not hope to control her. Our offenco is -dkat
we are Democrats, and not Radicals. That is
the whole story. That accounts Cor all these
slanders about disorder and opposition.to,.and
defiance of, the Federal Government .in .this
State, when there is none at alL When .Geor
gia is more quiet and law abiding ihan nine-
tentha of the States of the Union. When,'by
a steady attention to her industrial pursuits she
has raised herself, in three years, from utter
insolvency to a financial condition which chal
lenges the admiration of every visitor—which
fills her towns with agents of Northern mer
chants and manufacturers soliciting orders—
which has made the credit of her people better
in New Kork than that of any of the Western
States, and has elevated 'her and her Southern
sisters into a position in repect to productive
and recuperative industry, which has made them
in the words of the New York Tribune, the “Sal
vation of , New York trade” this fall and winter.
Against the demonstrations of such material
.results the party falsehoods and slanders about
-disregard and violation of law. cannot be cred
ited by any man of common sense. Productive
industry cannot exist in a condition of civil and
social disorder, and therefore sve assert that all
these stories are known calumnies, elaborated
to cover and excuse a foregone .purpose, to dis
able-the State, politically, from ,voting against
Radicalism.
If the Radicals in Congress choose to . make
the venture, and for that bold and bad purpose
determine to destroy tbo State government,
upon their own heads be the conseqnences. We
are defenseless, at present, but cannot always
remain sc. Their reconstrcution has already
worked thorn into a remediless Southern minor
ity, and the more they have of it, the worse will
be their situation. They cannot permanently
conquer and Setter public opinion in tho South.
They cannot -forever bind the people with the
chains of Congressional tyranny and repression.
Nor shall the people of toe South forever .stag
ger under toe burden of bankrupt State treas
uries, caused by toe ruinous frauds and spolia
tions of the creatures and instruments of- Con
gressional absolutism. Theso agents imposed
-upon toe people against their will and contrary
to fundamental law, have no power, either
equitable or legal, to dmpose the monstrous pe
cuniary burdens of tocir extravagance, waste
and spoliation upon tbo people of toe Southern
States; and in toe name of reason, justice and
liberty, we will one day -east them off as we
would a beggar’s rags.
This atrocious tyranny of party, which, under
toe specious guise of devotion to popular rights
contemplates nothing more nor less than toe
utter destruction of toe last.vestige of American
freedom, we must calmly endure until God shall
send the American people tight It may hasten
toe dawriof that blessed day if new and start
ling oppressions are inflicted on Georgia at the
very moment when toe industry of her people
is contributing, in so eminent a degree, to the
prosperity of toe nation at large. The great
bosiness and trade interests of toe United States
may bo' shocked to see an old State publicly
disgraced, discredited and trampled on by
Congress andtoe politicians, which every trades
man in America is most anxious to .recognize
and correspond with in every form of busi
ness and financial intercourse.
Tlie Work Before Tliem.
The indications are that no important legisla
tion will be entered into by either Honse of
Congress until after the Christmas holidays.
The main features of the session, when its zeal
business commences, will be Cuba, toe finances,
tit. Domingo annexation, toe Darien ship canal,
the census, revenue and reconstruction, of
course. Without the latter, a session of Congress
would be flavorless indeed. To go on and
honestly legislate for toe good of toe people of
toe whole country, and not for the advance
ment of party purposes and personal ambitions
and petty revenges, would reduce toe nation’s
legislators to a very dull and spiritless role.
Who would be most surprised to seo them
play the part, themselves or toe country, it
would be hard to say.
It is some satisfaction to know, however, that
toe ugly work is nauseating many stomachs
heretofore set down as iron-clad, and that they
may refuse to aid in toe perpetration of further
iniquities. We have not yet got our consent to
believe that Georgia will be turned over to the
tender mercies of her worst and wickedest ene
mies without vehement remonstrance, at least,
from some of this class.
Onr Railroad Future.
Tho Press says no less seasonably than truth
fully, that no clement of Sonthem strength is
so hopeful os too facility and cheapnes with
which railroads can be built over her flat coun
try, especially across her cotton, rico, sugar and
tobacco regions. It is well said by a lato writer
that a country without railroads is tike a loco
motive without fuel. Tho traveler in toe South
is always oppressed by too comparative scarcity
of passengers in the cars; but ho is apt to for
get her valuable freight in the great products of
toe soil and toe comparatively small cost of con
structing her roads. Of course, population is
toe great need of toe Sonth, bnt this will come
jost as certainly os it followed toe railroads of
the West. And in regard to cheap farms, varied
products, and mild climate, tho Sonth has ad
vantages of which onr new territories have
never been able to boast. In twenty-five years
toe railroads of the South will be nearly as pro
ductive, if not a3 numerous, os those of the
West.
The inhabitants of the town of Red Dog,
California, being disgusted with toe name ap
peased their outraged sensibilities recently by
moving to the neighborhood village of “Yon
Bet,”
Hon. Kelson Tift on the Situation
Wo copy from the Albany News of last Fri
day, a letter of Hon- Nelson Tiftncpon toe eita-
*Son*in <Georgia, in respect to Congressional
reconstruction, in wkkih he insists, as a poift
of (honor, law and policy, that too negro mem
bers dfthe Legislature -ought to be reseated,
*nd-thos9 who now ooanpy these seats should
peeign-nnd leave the Legislature ffree 'to reoon-
srder tho resolution of expulsion.
Now, ‘the Telegraph never shad a serious
.ionbt'toet the Reconstruction acts and toe'Con-
-fiitntioEL -adopted under them contemplate jper-
Ceet eqwflity of political rights and privileges
betweentoe two races. That 5s, of -course, a
wery.unwelcome, ill-advised and injurious pali-
ey. The effort to blend two raoes divided ‘im
passably 'by God Almighty, in 'harmonious -.po
litical assimilation and .co-operation, is a .war
ageinst-nalnre which is 'bound te end at'lastin
qwaoticftl-defeat, no matter -what laws or Consti-
tuftons are-enacted; and-too more vigorously^
be pressed, toe sooner -this ultimate solution
-will be- obtained.
But all toi3 is nothing to toe immediate pur
pose. Thofiaws, in our judgment, contempla-
tediSiat.eqne.lily of rights -and privileges, and it
•was a. piece-cf political impracticability to deny
it; and-so -the effort now to obstruct or post
pone the effect of the Supreme Court decision
is equally ill-considered, and will practically
imount-to notiiing. Wo have tried-our best to
respect it as a piece of political policy under
the situation, -bat it is not worth a rag. There
fore, 'ic-e should consent to reseat toe negroes if
that weald avail to make peace-with‘Congress.
Buttoo obviously, even Ciat -will amount to
little or nothing. Another indispensable condi
tion to peace dsdbo passage of toe 15th amend
ment, and hore-ie a point of principle where we
are estopped. We cannot, in good conscience,
recommend anybody to go for tho ISMi amend
ment. It is a-sale of the constitution and gov
ernment to Congress. It not only takes from
toe States toe power to constitute their -own
citizenship, bnt, .under toe grant -of power to
“enforce toe amendment by appropriate legis
lation,” turns evory State election, if needfial,
over to toe control of federal bayonets. It
practically annihilates the States as balances in
the Federal system, and consolidates a central
despotism in point-of fact wholly irresponsible
to law and toe people. To voto for it is treason
±o liberty.
And, finally, success -on even these hard con-
-ditions of Congressional non-interference must
depend upon Radical co-operation in the State
{Legislature, which is already committed to the
defeat of all compromise between the people of
'Georgia and Congress. Governor Bullock has
already engineered one defeat of the fifteenth
amendment, and in some way will engineer a
defeat of a motion to reseat the negroes. The
paint aimed at is the political disfranchisement
of Georgia in Congress, and toe reason is—her
people do not vote the Radical ticket.
W-e.must go to Coventry again, in spite of all
Mr. Sift or any other Democrat can do. We
shall probably be called on to .-endure much—
but the voice of the people wiE ultimately as
sert itself and be heard. The rebound will be
all the greater for the increased repression.
The whole tribe of Radical maehinators, big
and little, .will in time be pitched, like Lucifer,
from toe. topmost pinnacle of pride and power,
into the lowest abyss of Pandemonium.
Well Answered.
Since toe death of - Mr. Raymond, -the New
York Times has. sadly deteriorated. From ono
of the most polished and courteous of antago
nists, it has lapsed into a coarseness and truou-
lonco that would have shamed its maker, as
much as it has disgusted too liberal and culti
vated class to whom it has habitually addressed
itself. It is no longer toe organ of toe gentlemen
of toe Republican .party of the North,but seems
rather to court toe bravos of that mob of bum
mers and spoilsmen whose shibboleth is execra
tion of “rebels” and “traitors,” and a noisy de
votion in barrooms and convocations of the
“Grand Army of the Republic,” to what they
aro pleased to term “loyalty,’’and “loyal” men.
We regret that a paper that stood so high
should descend. so low, and that a great power
in journalism—one that so well illustrated toe
energy, toe activity, and toe genius of toe
American mind—should prostitute its influence
to such unworthy and unpatriotic purposes.
Just now it is especially illustrating this de
cadence by a vehement assault upon Mr. Davis.
The fallowing extract will serve as a specimen:
“Jefferson Davis is henceforth free of all pub
lic prosecution and private molestation. The
fact is. especially noteworthy, as it happens just
at the moment when the revolutionary chiefs of
Western Europe (meaning France) are encour
aging new obstacles to political rehabilitation,
and are subjected to fresh persecutioirs-of almost
everykind. This difference does honor to our
people and to our institutions—to our people,
in that it shows that their sentiments are guided
by the elevated principle of Christianity rather
than by the vile and vindictive instincts of the
savage; to our.instilutiont, in that it shows that
they repose so largely on the moral foundations
which uphold them, without the aid of the harsh
penalties and intimidations which alone sustain
the thrones of tlie Old World.
Commenting upon which toe Courier dee
Etats .Unis, toe French organ of New York city,
retorts as follows. If there is any room for a
response by toe Times, ure confess onr inabili
ty to see it:
“Of such, declamations, are say frankly and
firmly that they are purely and simply calum
nies on the French people and their institu
tions. To say that the revolutionary chiefs of-
Westem Europe (read Franco) ‘encounter new
siltoinrlnnrt naiiino/’/ni/iVina *
TheCieorgiaPnm
The-Chrpiiicle*&.Sentinel argues against ‘the
continuance of-the income-tax, upon the ground
that a large-number, of people who are most able
to bear the-expenses ofgovemment pay nothing,
while-toosalaried and professional manipoys, in
addition do tlie.goneral revenue tax, this speoial
burden, placed-by-the-government on 'his men
tal and phisical-labor. It declares that dt>is in
no sense an eqnal<or just-one,*and that though
the-South pays very little of it, comparatively,
yet-its burden falls-heaviest upon the -class tliat
should be free from its exactions.
The Chronicle also calls attention to'the-fal
lacy of the idea that Spain is a feeble nnd effete
power, giving a list of the ships and the guns
they carry, of the Spanish n*r«*y, as proof
thereof. It appears (that the Dons have a fleet
of 117 .vessels, carrying 1,805 guns, all ready for
active service.
From the 1st of April, 1609, to November
25to, 1800, toe receipts in toe Augusta treasury
were $344,980 53, while the expenditures were
$53S,-60G:64.
The Constitutionalist notes the formation .of
a company nnder toe name of the “People’s
Daily Line,” to run a -daily line -of -steamers
from Augusta to Savannah. The oerporators
live in Richmond and -Chatham counties, and
application for incorporation has 'bees -made to
Chatham Superior Const. The capital stock
■will be $3GjtK)0 paid in, with tho privilege of an
increase to $100,000. ' •
A man named Cadell, from Burke connty,
was knocked down in Augusta, on Monday
■night, by a negro, and robbed of $20.
The Constitution pays two Macon officisls toe
fallowing handsome compliment:
Mayob Obeab, op Macon.—While in Macon,
-during the Fair, we had the pleasure of meeting
our old acquaintance, Mayor Obear, and of
receiving courtesies from him.
He is au elegant gentleman and a fine official,
and-does credit to the Mayoralty of that beauti
ful and aristocratic -city. Macon is fortunate in
having such an executive.
We also met toe pleasant and -efficient Clerk
of Council, Capt. C. J. Williamson, a gallant
one-amed soldier of too Confederacy.
These acknowledgements should have been
made earlier.
The Constitution announces too assembling
of the State Supreme Court on Monday, in At
lanta, and says it will -continue its arrangement
with toe reporter, Col. Hammond, to publish
toe decisions.
Wo find the following nows items in the Con
stitution of same date :
Fine Cowon.—W. E. Penffiey, Esq., of
Lithonia, has placed on exhibition at P. W. J.
Echols’ store, a fine stalk of Dixon cotton with
over two hundred bolls of cotton on it. The
cotton was raised by W. A. Evans, Esq., and
took a premium at too meeting of the DeKalb
Agricultural Soeiety, on Saturday last. Mr.
Pendley took a premium on his oats.
Cutting Scrape.—Last night, Broad street
was aronsed by tho cry of murder in front of
the Post-office. When toe police arrived on tho
spot, one of toe men fled, leaving his hat be
hind. The man who hallowed, was Dr. Proctor,
who was found to be badly cut about toe head.
Dr. Proctor, said*he knew who cut him, but did
not give his assailant’s name.
Emiobants.—Another large batch of colorod
emigrants to Mississippi passed through Atlan
ta yesterday. A colony of three hundred whites
are expected to pass through hero week after
next.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN
GEORGIA.
Wliot too Legislature Should Bo.
Correspoadence Between Messrs. Wooten
nnd Tift.
obstacles and are subject to fresh persecutions,
at the very moment when toe largest amnesty
ever proclaimed effaces with one scratch of the
pen all political condemnations, and opens the
frontiers to all exiles, is an abuse of toe right
whieh certain writers arrogate to themselves of
trifling with toe truth. As to ‘toe rile and vin
dictive instincts of the savage,' whieh are put by
this writer in contrast with the sentiments of
toe American people, and ‘the elevated princi
ple of Christianity' which guide them, we can
scarce believe that such expressions, even from
a pen so thoughtless, could be applied to too
French. Thank God we have not, as a people,
to take lessons of generosity from the Ameri
can people; and we limit ourselves at present
to reminding too Times that the manner in
which, ajter five years of pacification, the van
quished of the South arc still treated, has no ex
ample in cotemporary history, except in the case
of the subjugation of Poland."
A Leaf from History.
Tho Baltimore Gazette, in an article upon the
folly of attempting to force a resumption of spe
cie payments, calls attention to toe fact that in
1817, after twenty years of suspension, and
when gold had fallen to less than one per cent
premium, resumption was .determined upon in
England. In somo parts of the country bullion
had been so abundant that country bankers
found it difficult to dispose of their gold. Yet
so great was tho rush for coin, the moment tha
resumption was attempted, and so dangerously
were toe business interests of the country dis
turbed, that, on toe report of Mr. Peel, toe
House in two nights passed a bill for the relief
of toe bank. Finally, resumption was post
poned till 1823. When left to itself, unham
pered by hasty legislation, toe bank resumed
specie payments as soon as toe credit of the
State had been firmly established, and two years
before tho time limited.
Towle.—Mr. Hamilton E. Towle, of New
York, has arranged the ordinary spirit-level so
that it can rotate horizontally, whereby tho
samo height at a number of different positions
can bo readily determined without moving the
tripod or stand on which toe instrument is
placed. This invention will be especially use
ful to builders in fixing the heights of founda
tions.
Tho Advertiser of same date, says:
Disteessino Accident.—Wo learn that on
Monday afternoon last, between 8 and 4 o’clock,
as a small boy about fivo years of ago, son of
John L. Grayson, deceased, was playing with
several of his playmates in his yard, near the
comer of Stewart and West Broad streets, he
was shot In the mouth by some person unknown.
The ball passed through from toe right side of
toe face near the month, completely lacerating
the tongue and inflicting such a serious wonnd
that it is thought the child cannot recover. All
efforts to discover toe perpetrator of tho deed
havo thus far proved unavailing.
Tho Atlanta Era “deeply regrets” to an
nounce that Gen. Terry is still sick, and not able
to attend to business.
The Athens Watchman announces the elec
tion of Mr. J. A. Robson, of Sandersville, an
ex-Confederate soldier who lost a limb during
too war, as anniversarian for the Demosthenian
■Society of too University. Mr. R. H. John
ston, of Griffin, was elected anniversarian by
toe.Phi Kappa Society.
The Watchman also chronicles too burning of
a new and extensive tannery, owned by Messrs.
Randolph, near Jefferson, Jackson county, in
cluding a large quantity of tan bark, cotton
gin, -tho gin bouse, and a quantity of cotton.
Loss about $5,000; and no insurance.
Under the head of “Longevity,” the Carters-
ville Express says an old lady, aged 103 years,
was in too store of Messrs. Howard <fe Erwin,
last week, and sold them twenty-five pairs of
men’s socks, her own spinning and knitting.
Daring the year she manufactured seventy-five
pairs. She was bom in Pennsylvania, in 1700.
Tlie KewYork Underground Railroad
Will have its lower terminus between the old
City Hall and the now York Post-office, where
there will be a depot five hundred feet long,
whieh will be a splendid architectural work, we 1
lighted and ventilated. It is proposed to have
stations at intervals of about one-fourth of a
mile along toe route, to be reached by orna
mental stairways from too sidewalk. The
largest sub-stations between toe City Hall and
Harlem will be in Union and Madison squares.
The proposed route of toe tunnel is from toe
City Hall easterly across to Centre street, across
Pearl street to Mulberry, nnder Mulberry to
Bleecker street, ncrosB Bleecker to Lafayette
place, up Lafayette place to Astor place, across
Eighth street, nnder St. Ann’s Church, to toe
westerly side of Fourth avenue to Union square;
the tunnel will then be continued toSeveuteenth
street, nnd in a direct line to Twenty-third
street; then under Madison square to Madison
avenue, and up Madison aveuuo to Eighty-sixth
street; thence in a direct lino to One Hundred
and Twentieth street and to toe Harlem river,
and thenco along toe Harlem river to the head
of Third avenue.
The directors estimate that toe cost of too
road, according to the new report of the engi
neers, will amount to $10,000,000 or 812,000,000.
At least, they will not undertake to work with
out $10,000,000 being subscribed, so that they
will ;be able to defray all expense at the end o
each week while toe road is being constructed.
If tho road to Harlem proves a success, it is
the intention of toe Company to extend it into
Westchester at once.
Sonth Georgia Annnnl Conference, Jt.
E. Church, Sonth.
Special Correspondence "Iclcgraph and Messenger.
Cuthbebt, Ga., Deo. 1, 1869.
This body convened hero to-day at 9j o’clock,
A. M.—Bishop Kavanaugh presiding. Quite a
large attendance of clerical and lay delegates
wore present. Rev. J. Blakeley Smith was
elected Secretary, and Rev. Henry D. Moore,
Rev. S. D. Clements and R. H. Leonard, E.,
elected assistants. The usnal committees were
appointed.
Communications were read from Rev. Dr.
McFerrin, Rev. Young J. Allen, Missionary to
China, and also from a Quarterly Conference in
Illinois, and referred to appropriate committees.
Rev. Mr. Cosby, of toe Presbyterian Church,
and Rev. Mr. Daniel and Rev. Mr. Muse, of the
Baptist Church, wera introduced and offered
seats on toe floor of the Conference.
Revs. F. A. and J. 'O. Branch, of the Florida
Conference, were introduced to toe Conference.
Both these gentlemen will bo hereafter mem
bers of this body.
The Conference then proceeded to tho exam
ination of tho chaTactor of Elders, when the
following weropassed: James W. Hinton, Geo.
G. N. MoDonnell, D. D. Cox, W. M. Watts, R.
H. Howren, S. S. Sweet, N. B. Ousley, R. F.
Evans, J. B. Lanier, S. G. Childs, C. R. Jewett,
and Joseph S. Key.
The latter gentleman, Dr. Joseph S. Key, toe
popular Pastor, for four years, of Mulberry
street Church in your city, tho Conference re
quested toe Bishop to appoint agent for Emory
College.
The Conference held its first session as a le
gal body, Dr. E. H. Myers in toe ebair.
Conference now adjourned to 9 o'clock to
morrow.
I shall try to keop yon posted regularly as to
toe actings of this important ecclesiastical body.
The citizens of Cuthbert are entertaining toe
preachers with princely hospitality.
Among tho lay delegates we notice Gen. A.
H. Colquitt, Judge James Jackson, of your
city; Col. J. J. Jones, of Burke county, and
other distinguished laymen.
Yours, eto., * N.
b'roin fhc Albany Nicies of December ZdJ\
Below we print a correspondence which, at
this-juncture, is-invested with profound impor
tance, nnd will not fail to excite the deepest in-
terest-throughont-toe country.
We cannot too earnestly appeal to our people
to weigh well toe words of wisdom so solemnly
pronounced by our Repiesentative, Mr. Tift
His stand-point is one ’from which he can better
survey toe £old, than those of ns who are les3
familiar -with the temper and purposes of too
partyin power, and as a tried and faithful rep
resentative, «re should not lightly consider his
views, or hastily reject his counsel.
Painfully assured aro we that many of our
party friends—the staunchest and truest of the
“old guard”—will disagree with CoL Tift, and
make-fierce war upon the policy he has enuncia
ted ; bnt the time has come for toe marshaling
of forces, and weoamestly invoke grave thought,
calm discussion and wise conclusions.
Dawson, Ga., November 18, 1809.
Dear Sir :: The -General Assembly, at its
-last session, adopted a joint resolution, submit
ting to the decision of toe Supreme Court, the
-question as to-toe right of toe colored man to
hold office in Georgia. That tribunal bas de
clared in favor of the disputed right. It is, I
believe, generally understood that this resolu
tion imports a pledge, on toe part of toe Legis
lature, to be governed .by that decision in toe
case of the colored men, who now claim seats in
the legislative halls of toe State.
It requires not the gift of prophecy to forsseo
that-very grave questions, growing ant of this
State of tha case, will be presented.for too con
sideration of the Legislature at its approaching
session. No question of greater importance
will probably engage the attention of that body.
Its determination may involve all that is valua
ble in toe way of government, remaining to the
people of Georgia. If you will pardon thorefer-
enco to myself, I will say that I, as a member
of the Legislature, construed the Constitation
adversely to tho eligibility of the colored man,
and cast my vote in accordance with that view.
Not only so; I opposed, with all the $ower at
my command, the passage of the resolution re
ferring the question to the Supreme Court. I
did this because, under the Constitution, whieh
makes each House the judge of the election re
turns and qualification of its members. I re
garded the action of the Legislature as final and
conclusive oa the subject. But the resolution
was adopted. The decision of the Snpreme
Court has been rendered.
In view of these facts it is not difficult to per
ceive that the position of the Legislature is one
of responsibility and embarrassment. To steer
between Scylla and Charybdis, to stand by a
record made in honesty and good ~ faitb, to
maintcin that dignity and independence which
should characterize "every legislative body, on
the one hand, and on the other, to eseape the
evils that further Congressional interference
would probably entail on a people who havo al
ready seen enough of tho Moloch features of
reconstruction, is a question of no easy solu-
tion.
Believing that you feel an abiding interest in
this matter, and knowing that you, as a Repre
sentative in Congress, have made earnest and
faithful efforts to preserve tho status of Geor
gia, I take the liberty to suggest that a public
communication from yon disclosing all the facts
pertaining to this question, within your knowl
edge, as well as any pledges made or assurances
given, may greatly facilitate_, if not influence,
the action of the Legislature in the premises.
I am, very respectfully, yours,
O. B. Wooten.
Hon. Nelson Tift, Albany, Ga.
Albany, Ga., November SO, 1809.
Dear Sir :—As one of the Representatives of
Georgia in Congress, I do not hesitate, in an
swer to yonr letter, to state such facts as in my
opinion are necessary to a proper understand
ing of the present relation of Georgia to Con
gress.
After the reconstruction of Georgia nnder
tho acts of Congress in July, 1808, and the ad
mission of onr Representatives to. Congress,
both branches of the Legislature of Georgia,
under the constitutional authority to judgo of
the election and qualification of members of
their respective Houses, adjudged and declared
the colored members ineligible, and their places
were filled by the eligible candidates who had
received tho next highest number of votes.
This action of the Legislature was denounced
by Governor Bullock to Congress, as revolu
tionary and violative of toe conditions upon
whieh Georgia was. admitted to representation
in Congress under tho Reconstruction Acts,
whereupon our Senators wore refused admission
to the Senate, and bills were introduced in both
Houses of Congress proposing various penal
correctives.
Subsequently a bill was agreed upon by the
friends of the several bills, and reported by the
Chairman of the Honse Reconstruction Com
mittee, (Mr. Butler,) whieh combined the worst
features of the bills previously introduced, and
embodied a military despotism for Georgia of
the most mab'gnant type.
The passage of this bill was defeated nnd
further action postponed until December, with
great difficulty; and prominent among the means
vsed to that end, was tho passage by toe Legis
lature of toe preamble and resolution to which
you refer.
Tho following extracts from toe record will
show toe opinion which the frionds of Goo'rgia
entertained of this action of the Legislature,
and the use they made of it.
In my published “statement to tho Recon
struction Committee of the Honse,” (February
18, 1809,) after setting forth the reasons upon
which tho Legislature had acted in excluding
the colored members, too “Statement” pro
ceeds :
“ Let us suppose, for the sake of the argument,
that tlio decision of tho Legislature is wrong, and
tliat tho Constitution rightly construed makes every
elector eligible to office. What is tho proper reme
dy? I answer without hesitation or a doubt: In
Georgia, as in every republican State, tho only
proper romedy for this and all similar evils is in tho
ballot and tho courts. Theso means are as ample,
and will bo as potent m Georgia as in any other
Stato.
“Both branchoBof the Legislature of Georgia
havo recently, in deference to tho opinion of thoso
who differ with them on tho question of tho eligi
bility of colored citizens to hold office under the
Constitution and tho laws of tho State, passed tho
following resolution:
“ Whereas, It is believed that a judicial decision
of the question of tho colored man’s right to hold
offico in Georgia under tho Constitution now in
force, would restore the State to her proper posi
tion in tho Union and give quiet throughout the
State; and whereas, said question is ono which the
courts of tho State can properly tako cognizance of;
and whereas, wo, the representatives of tho peoplo
of Georgia, aro unwilling that any effort should bo
spared on our part to bring about a stato of peaco
and happiness to the people, and and a settlement
of that important question: be it therefore—
“Resolved by the Senate and House of Jlepre-
sentatives of the State of Georgia in General As
sembly convened, That a case involving tho right
of tho colored man to hold office, shall, as soon as
tho same can be properly brought before the Su
premo Court of tho State, bo hoard and determined
by said Court, and we believe that tho people of tho
State will, as they have heretofore always done, in
good faith, abide tho decision of toe highest judi
cial tribunal of too State, whenever so declared.”
This seems to bo tho only responsa which could
have been given to the charges of wrong which have
been brought against them here. It Bhows a con
sciousness of right, and a desire, at all times, to
abide by the constitution and laws, as they may bo
expounded by tho courts."
In Gov. Bullock’s “Reply,” dated Executive
Department, Atlanta, Ga. February 26th, 1809,
directed to toe Reconstruction Committee, and
printed by order of tho House—after quoting
the above resolution, he says: ,
“This resolution, as i9 well known to the Hon.
Mr. Tift, was adopted by the legislature without
any intention on tnair part to abido by such decision,
if it should bo in tho affirmative, so far as their
own membership is concerned. It is a fact notori-
oualy public, that a very considerable division of
his-political party occurred upon too adoption of
this resolution—both wings, however, of that party
declaring their intention not to abide by such deci
sion, maintaining, that their action, so far as their
own membership was affected, was final and unal
terable, and one from which they would never re
cede.
“As there waB nothhing in this resolution tending
in auy measure to bring about a settlement of too
matter at issue, I declined to approve it, and it is
now on tlio table of the Houso of representatives
awaiting further action.”
In my “Rejoinder” to Gov. Bullock—printed
by order of the House—referring to this sub-
jeot, I said:
‘I disagree entirely with Governor Bullock. I
believe that tlie preamble and resolution expresses
truly tho motive and purposes of the Legislature
who passed them, and they could not properly go
further or do more under the circumstances. The
Legislature cannot rofer the question of the eligi
bility of members to their body to tho Supreme
Court, because it is a question confided by the Con
stitution to the Legislature, and the court has no
jurisdiction. Bnt when a case shall come before
the Supremo Court in the usual way, their decision
will be an authoritative exposition of what tho Con
stitution really means anu is on this subject, and
will settle 'the whole question, because, after that
timo, all persons, in the Legislature or out of it,
who take the oath to support toe Constitution, must
accept that -meaning.”
Such was the meaning which was given to the
preamble and resolution of toe Legislators by
the friends of Georgia, among whom I include
President Grant and several members of the
Republican party in Congress.
To show still more clearly my own conviction
that the Legislators had provided for a final set
tlement of our difficulty with Congress, I make
toe following extract from my address “To the
Press and People of Georgia,” which was pub
lished in the Albany News, of. April 23, 1869,
and was generally copied by the Press of toe
State, with wards of approval:
“There is now really but one disturbing olement
between ns and a majority of Congress: the right
of colored men to hold office nnder onr Constitu
tion and laws. It was (represented, and generally-
believed. that the Legislature acted in wiltol viola
tion of law in declaring them eligible. The opinion
and decision of Judge Schley in the case of the
State vs. White, which was printed in tho National
Intelligencer and distributed in Congress, modified,
and in some instances changed, tho prevalent
opinion of tho action of the Legislature. That case
will be decided by tho Supreme Court of Georgia in
June. The decision will settlo the law on that sub
ject. The-peqple of Georgia will abide by it; Con
gress will, jn my opinion, be satisfied of its justice
—will admit .the State to representation, and thus
will end our Federal troubles.”
■From these extracts it will bo perceived that
too friends of Georgia in Congress and else
where, understood the preamble and resolution
above quoted, as a sincere pledge of their fu
ture action, intended to settle the important
quostion in-controversybetween the Legislature
anrl-Congress by toe decision of our courts, and
thus to avoid the threatened change from civil
to military Government in onr State.
If resnlts should prove that I havo misappre
hended the purpose of too Legislature in the
passage, of this preamble and resolution, I shall
ever regret that I have been the innocent in
strument of a misrepresentation which involves
the character and honor of my Stato. But I
will not doubt the result. The decision of the
court has been made. Tho people of Georgia
are an honorable and law-abiding people, and
the pledge of their Representatives will be per
formed.
The constitutional power of the respective
Houses of the Legislature to judge of the elec
tion and qualification of their own members, is
never so concluded that errors of judgment may
not be corrected. If a contestant should be ad
mitted to his seat upon the judgment of the
Honse, that he was duly elected and qualified,
and it should subsequently appear that he was
disqualified, or that he was not the person elect
ed, they have the power, and it would be their
duty to correct their former decision. They are
judges of the law and the facts, and there is no
legal appeal from their decision.
I do not deem it necessary to discuss prece
dents on this subject. Our entire history since
toe war has been without precedent Placed
outside of the protection of toe Constitution—
powerless to protect ourselves—we have accept
ed, and must continue to accept, what seems to
be the least of inevitable evils, until Congress
is satisfied that we have complied with toe con
ditions of the Reconstruction Acts.
Governor Bollock and some of his political
friends have personal and political reasons for
defeating, if possible, any action of the' Legis
lature looking to a compliance with their resolu
tion. "Whatever may be their public profes
sions, they have been using, and will continue
to use their utmost efforts to secure Congres
sional interference and a reorganization of the
State Government, and they will not permit toe
pretexts for such action to be removed, if they
can avoid it Skoy will, if necessary, sacrifice
the people of Georgia to obtain their ends.
The maintenance of our present State organi
zation, in my opinion, will depend npon toe
wisdom, patriotism, and self-sacrificing spirit of
tho members of tho Legislature. They will not
allow selfish considerations, or necessary sac
rifices to stand in toe way of duty. Those who
occupy the seats of too expelled members will
doubtless tender their resignations, so as to
leave the Legislature freo to reconsider the reso
lution of expulsion.
If the necessary action Ls taken promptly
upon the ground that it is in compliance with
the law, and their pledge to abide by it, it will
refute the predictions and silence the slanders of
our enemies, and our Federal troubles, show to
our colored citizens that we are willing to'do
them justice according to the law, and enable us
to maintain a State organization which will pro
vide for and protect the interests of the people
of Georgia.
_ If I were a member of the Legislature, in
view of our present condition, and the future in
terests of Georgia, I would remove the pretexts
for the interference of Congress in our State
Government, by complying with tlie pledge of
the Legislature.
No one can regret more deeply than I do tho
present condition of the United States, and the
condition of the State of Georgia, which, in my
opinion, justifies toe advice I have given. * But
I do not despair of the future. Unavoidable
evils are overruled for onr good. Let ns make
a virtue of necessity and trnst to that wise and
merciful Providence, who will guide us through
toe present darkness to a brighter and happier
future. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Nelson Tirr.
To Hon. O. B. Wooten, Dawson, Ga.
Life in the Gi^en Mountain
special Correspondence TV/*™.—,.
^^ondence Telegraph and ^-
Middleton, Yt., Nov ember oT?>.
Country life, even in Nove m ber!i t K’, I8r 4
ng p loneer of winter-is not shoe,T
less ; and among the scenes and , 'W
Southern Vermont-your co» P l
enough to dispel all sense of ennT«n ent fi «d(
for metropolitan associations To
nature, although shorn of its vernal1 °* r c!
summer luxuriance, there is K mi L
locality to afford pleasing recreationVV^
structivo occupation. n and
Autumn has tom down the green P .
summer and withered toe manifold I* 113 <4
leaf and flower; but it has also -
through the openings of the naked hopM Tei H
sels of beautiful landscape, patches nt '
ted fields, stretches of winding roads .J* 1 *.
resque hillsides. Tha white-washed cm
the villagers are no longer embowered
yet the picture of home comfort that' s!? pees .
them is scarcely less pleasing, and the
have met in social reunions around «? , 1 ^
boards and firesides appear quite h <>
when the tide of summer travel indneilnv^ 1 ^
extend hospitality to multitudes of ton'd? 010
health seekers.
Naked and leafless _as the woods no*.
and
are, there is _ something grand about th*" 1 *
November wind, uplifting its miehtv v • peat
pealing like an organ through the™.? 53
cathedrals of nature—these hnge temnu!?? 9 *
God’s own hand erected. Who can^S' 11
neath these wide-spreading avenues^ r
vaulted and Irellised roof—these ei«T,r' tlA1
lars, which the hand of man rcarednotJIv pi! '
lent workmanship of thousands nf - esi '
-S-VL. S. #--V .V . .. STlISlUfci
ROCHEFORT’S RETURN.
Pen ninl Ink Sketch of the “Irreconcil
able.”
Hurrah! hurrah! ono cheer more! What!
can they really be shonting for toe Emperor ?
Thero is a strange movement away below in the
hall—a real enthusiasm is there; let us listen.
What cry is that? “ Vive Rochefort/” Roche
fort is coming—Rochefort has come. Yet I had
my eye on the door nnd saw nobody enter.
Thero he is. How did he come in? “Thp
same way he wished to get into toe Chamber,"
says Gavroche, “by too window.”
Thero is a hnrry-senrry on toe platform.—
President is excited; Commissary looks like a
hen on a hot griddle. Hnzza! A tall, slim
young man is helped up toe steps and comes
forward smiling. Huzza again! ’Tis Roche
fort. The little bell is agitated, and-while the
President is frantically endeavoring to restore
something like order, I shall endeavor briefly
to trace toe portrait of this man, who has taken
a somersault into notoriety within a short
twelvemonth, partly by his own audacious wit,
but chiefly by tho blind impolicy of a govern
ment which made him somebody by lending the
charm of tho forbidden to his piquant and too
often indecent sallies.
He is ugly; but so was Mirabcau, toe ultra-
radicals say. A face such as one might meet
any day on the Cannabierre of Marseilles, or,
to come nearer home, inthepnrliensof Hatton-
garden, behind a hurdy-gurdy and a learned
monkey. A complexion, sallow, turning to the
green that is fonnd on occasion in the counte
nance of the Emperor he loves to blackball. A
nose pert, audacious, intrusive, rising, promon
tory-like, from toe physiognomy—a prominent
forehead and eyes which sparkle from malice.
There is a portrait of Rochefort which repre
sents him very much with the air of a Texan
editor, who is in toe act cf handing his familiar
answer to too challenge of CoL Buncombe at
tho whisky-store around the comer; but to-night
ho does not look ferocious. Iu fact, he is timid,
uneasy, oppressed with emotion. He wears a
dark mustache and nourishes a flourishing tupt,
a la Yankee, under his chin. As a whole, the
man’s appearance is not prepossessing, candor
is wanting, and, for the moment, firmness.—
Cor. London Herald.
Business Aspects the Coming Year.
The New York Times, of Monday, says:
There can be no use in disguising the fact,
oven if it were possible, that a profound anxie
ty pervades the business community in regard to
the coming year. The long-predicted “shrink
age," whioh has. been so often falsely prophe-
cied that people have come to doubt its ever
occurring, seems at length really to have begnn.
Prices of commodities have undoubtedly begnn
to fall; the currency is slowing bnt steadily ap
preciating, and toe result is, as was to be ex
pected, a temporary slackness and dullness in
almost all branches of business, and consider
able tightness in the money market. * * *
The appreciation, too, of toe currency; or
“the fall in gold,”is a matter partly metaphysi
cal as well as financial—that is, it depends on
the general feeling and confidence of too public,
as well as on laws of economy.
There isjnow. a general expection abroad in
the community that prices are boginiDg to fall
—and that a dollar will bo worth more in value
a few months hence than it is now. Conse
quently, consumers hesitate to buy except what
is absolutely necessary; dealers and jobbers are
forced to make smaller purchases or “to carry”
heavy stocks; manufacturers and importers
find themselves with large quantities of goods
on band, which they are anxious to dispose of,
as their price may continually fall Money is
in demand to carry these various articles, or
keep dealers afloat till they find purchasers.—
But lenders aro becoming timid in faoe of a
falling market, and great stringency shows
itself, especially in the Western cities. ^
Who can look upon those neiahborine
tajns and hills, the creation of His hsnS? iC . !I5 '
glance at the little piles which the bnii.D, E1
erected, without acknowledging how fcpt?’. 5
the human arm compared to the power it' 3
reared those stupendous monuments? y.,: 11
is ever beautiful, and even now we find in?
perspective ronnd about .us abundant then? f
admiration. The Green mountains rise an* v
toeatre-like in the distance, with here and it '
towering peaks that stand out now lit. ??
sentinels against the leaden sky, ana nowK?
glittering pinnacles over majestic domes «s-
ant with sunshine and gold; the ornna -M
woods are still bedecked with the wanico??
fantastic colors of Autumn’s palette, and t’-
varied scenes of monntain, valley and stream
present an ensemble charming indeed to J? 1
template.
Apart from these idealistic dreamings-anut
from toe healthful exercises of wandering ow!
toe mountains and through the woods, and ft.
pursuit of rural sports that give a ruddier oi 0I
to toe cheek, and drive the blood in freer
henlthier vigor through the human econotcr
other and" more practical recreation is fonnd jj
visiting and inspecting the great marble and
slate quarries for which this country is celebra
ted. The marble and slate region of Souther-
Vermont is the most extensive and productive ij
toe United States; andtoe developments pushed
forward with commendable energy in this,
(Rutland) county, have long made of these pro
ducts au element of wealth and prosperitr
whose beneficial effects are felt in tho commer
cial interests of tho whole State.
The working of marble quarries is not deserv
ing just here any detailed description, although
the various processes of sawing, enttinn,hoisting
and modelling, now greatly simplified by modeni
appliances, were alike instructive and interest,
ing to us. We witnessed the raising from the
depth of one hundred feet or more a greet
block measuring a hundred cubic feet, and
weighing perhaps fifteen tons. We saw the
multitudinous thin steel saw strips put to wort
to cut it into manifold slabs preparatory fothe
final process of polish and ornamentation. These
quarries but lately visited, have supplied mate-
rial for many of our palatial metropolitan build-
ings, and have also furnished monnments for
nearly every cemetery in toe United States.
The slate quarries are also yielding abund
antly, both in the coarser material for roofing,
and toe finer for ornamental furniture, mantels,
table and bureau covers, etc. This latter un
dergoes a process of marbleizing, toe details of
which we gathered while on a visit a few
days ago to the splendid works of a neigh
boring manufactory. The slate is taken out
of toe quarry generally in blocks five feet
wide, seven feet long and two feet thick. It is
split parallel with its Iamintation in sheets as
into or an inch and a half in thickness, then
plained, sawed and cut into any shape desired
The catting is done by hand, except the straight
mouldings, on which machinery is employed
The scourers next take it in hand and give it
the necessary smoothness of surface, after
which it is ready to be marbleized. In a large
tub or vat partly filled -with water and floating
on the surface, is placed a mass of stiff, gluey
substance resembling mineral paint, and into
this snbstance, whieh is either white or colored,
according to the base desired, the coloringor
vein matter is placed, and traced, with a stick
in the hands of an expert, to represent auy
desired pattern. The water being previously
well shaken so as to spread the mass and giveit
uniform thickness. The slabs are then care
fully dipped; the mineral coating on tho sur
face readily adheres to the slate, is soon ab
sorbed. and becomes, as it were, a component
part thereof. After this process tho sheets are
taken and thoroughly baked, then varnished,
and finally polished. The marbleized coating
thus obtained is so thin as to be scarcely trace
able when viewed laterally, yet it is said to_be
powerful enough to recist exposure, and is im
pervious to stains from oils, acids, coal gas,
smoke, etc.
Some of the more elaborate patterns are mar-
bleized entirely by hand, and require a skillful
artist to perfect the design. The base of mine
ral paint is applied by hand, and the reining is
traced directly upon the slate, after which it is
baked, (heated to about 1.50 degrees,) vamisted
and polished as before stated.
The imitations and polish are so perfect as to
deceive the eye of any bnt an expert. Many of
toe snecimens exhibited us were artistically mar
bleized to imitate the most expensive and de
sirable varieties of Egyptian, black and gold,
Spanish, Galiway, Green, Btocajello, .Sienna,
Lisbon, Porphyry, Jasper, Agate, Mosaic, Terd
Antique and all toe rare marbles of either for
eign or American production. Any species can
bo imitated except toe pure white. The re
semblance is certainly wonderful, and the
many advantages possessed by marbleized date,
and its comparative cheapness, will give it con
siderable demand when it is fairly introduced
throughout the country.
A sojourn in this section of toe country im
plies, as a matter of course, a visit to the fa
mous “Healing Springs” and a partaking of the
waters thereof. Theso springs are located *
toe village, near the banks of the river, and o
our daily health-seeking visits thereto, we have
remarked a wonderful faith, on toe part of the
public, in toe curative virtues of the waters.
This faith is further evinced by an unceasing'
unabating pilgrimage of the afflicted from au
the surrounding country, and even remo.e
points who comeat this, and all seasons,!
drink deep and long of the healing waters tna
gurgle from six or seven sources within a tew
feet of each other. . .
The waters of the more prominent springs are
a pure, strong chalybeate, and unquestionao^
efficacious in dyspepsia, diseases arising lrem
impure blood, constitutions enfeebled by enrom
The growing reputation of the Middletown
Healing Springs promises for this nowqmety''
lage a future of prosperity, and it will no aoa
become, in the course of time, a very pop u
and much frequented resort for the afiucteo.
An autumnal sojourn in. Vermont has tx*
prolific in agreeable associations, and , tie
sincere regrets an adieu shall be .spoken to
beautiful hills and charming friendships; t
grew up amoqgjhem. Cckba- -
Swedish Immigiunts for South CaeoUSL
Tho Charleston News, of Tuesday, says:
x “Mr. IV. J. Feriow, who was some ume »s
appointed one of the immigration agents ci
State, and who, for many months past, has
diligently at work in the north of Europ«
turn a portion of tho tide of immigrsti
wards South Carolina, arrived in this ^
terday from Malmo, Sweden, bringing wiw ^
twenty-six Swedish immigrants, mostly
masons and carpenters.. The new c°m
expect to select homes in the interior
Mr! Feriow says that he can induce thei^
gration of any number of Swedes, Dane
Germans to South Caroliea, if the planters
desire such laborers will oo-operate witnn
advancing a portion of the passage mon „ •
' About two hundred breech-loading
aro daily turned out from the SpringnetUi
Texas has more than 3,000,000 head of ca
and can export annually 1,000,000 3)ee 7
Accobdino to a reoent decision, . to
house keepers who serve hash are q,_
take out a license as manufacturers.—- 1
leans Times.