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Dr. Blacislicart CarU.
We print, eLsowhero, a communication from
»r. Blackahear, of this city, Inspector of Fer-
Mlizers for Bibb county.
We beg to say to the Dr. that as our article
•Bed no names, wo are at a loss to see why he
kas regarded it as reflecting upon him. We
Stated, explicitly, that there were exceptions to
ibe general incompetency of these officials, and
•why he did not range himself with the excepted
glare, wo cannot imagine.
In regard to any dereliction of duty on his
pert, wo are unable to speak, personally. We
feel assured, however, that there has been none
or we should have heard of it.
We had no man especially in our mind when
the article was written, and therefore cannot
specify any by name, now, who has demon
strated his unfitness for the position. We are
ield, though, by those who ought to know, that
hnndreds of tons of spurious, worthless com
pounds, have passed muster and been branded,
^at fact proves our case. If the Inspectors
knew their business, this would not happen.
A story comes from Bangor, of the death, in
the Maine wilderness, of four, out of five per
sons, with their two horses, who were on a
banting and fishing excursion. The sole sur-
wiror, who is a Frenchman, says that tho party
for tho first fortnight had good look and rare
sport; then one of them was taken with dip-
ttieria, and being fifty miles from any medical
resistance, died within a few hours. Within
three days three more perished of the samo
disease, and the remaining one was seized with
it He lay in a stupor so long that when he re
covered tho horses had died of famine, and the
wolves had partly devoured the corpses of his
companions, which had been buried in the snow
ectside the camp for preservation. After un
told suffering he reached an Indian camp, and
later came to th^ abodes of white people.
How They Voted.—Upon the question of the
confirmation of Attorney General Hoar as Judge
off the Supreme’Conrt, the vote stood, yeas 24
cednajs 33. All the New England Senators
present voted in the affirmative, except Ed-
aannds of Vermont. All the Southern (?) Sena
tors, except Warner of Alabama and Gilbert of
Slorida, voted in the negative. Williams of
Oregon, was the only Senator from the Pacific
Coast who voted “Yea." Both New York Sena
tors voted “Nay,” as did all the Democrats.
Mr. Morton was not present, but would have
voted “Yea.” Sherman was also absent. It is
Aefinitoly known that Mr. Hoar’s present in
tention is to remain in the Cabinet.
Who Sell Cadetships.—The Conrier-Jour-
cal’s Washington special, of the 3th, says Con
gressional inquiry reveals the fact that in the
Fortieth Congress some six members from the
Southern States sold to New Yorkers the ap
pointment of cadetships to West Point, for from
fire hundred to two thousand dollars apiece.
The- requirement of the law was evaded by
•reading the candidate to reside immediately
preceding the nomination to the member's dis
trict appointing him. The engineer’s bnreau
retold then notify him by mail to appear for ex
amination, and by receiving a reply to the samo
Ik* officer would be completely deceived as to
cadet’s actual residence.
A'Little Information.—Referring to the
9Gfl words spoken for Gen. Terry by the S3-
reanah Republican, Chronicle & Sentinel, and
jfirhnp-i other papers, the Columbus Son says:
A distinguished Major General of the United
Skates army, stated to the writer of this, that
Baknew all of the officers sent on reconstruc-
«»■» duty to tho South, that they were specially
selected and detailed to this duty on account of
■yK»?r antecedents and political proclivities, that
Ifesy ware the enemies politically and personally
off the Southern people, and were not entitled
Co respect or confidence.
Sailors’ Home in Savannah.—Wo have re-
oreved-a- circular from a committee of tho Sa
vannah Port Society, addressed to the people of
akvannab, soliciting contributions for the estab-
Sahment of a Sailors’ Homo in that city. They
state that a charitable lady of that city be
queathed $4000 for tho benefit of seamen visit
ing that port, which sum by judicious invest
ment has become $5000, and will be available
often a similar amount shall be raised. The
wmmitteo consist of Henry Wayne, J. D. Hop
kins, and J. G. Habersham.
“Sweets to the Sweet.”—Mrs. Revdls, the
wife of the negro who represents tho Mississippi
Medicals in tho Senate, was in tho Senate gal-
Irey on Wednesday. Messrs. Sumner and
TSfton spying her there, made haste to rush up
Ike stairs and beg an introduction, which was
gjtren by George Downing, the negro caterer of
Che House of Representatives. Revels had
Better keep a sharp eye on Tifton. Sumner
givo any amount of certificates as to his
moral character and—heavenliness.
A Stern Joke.—Governor Geary, at an even
ing reception recently held at the Executive
Mansion at Harrisburg, excused himself from
facing on the plea that: “I have not danced
■ince the war—my legs arc too full of bullet
HUts!” Whereupon the Easton (Pa.) Argus
reiggests that if tho valiant Governor really re
moved any wounds in battle, they would be less
likely to interfere with saltation than with sit
ing down.
Wx are not sure it was unintentional, but
really cannot help commenting upon tho fact
that onr friend of the Savannah Republican
published, on Sunday, a “beautiful and divinely
sweet poem from the pen of one of Georgia’s
loveliest and mo3t gifted daughters," and omit
ted to credit it to the paper for which it was
written, and where it first appeared—tho Tele
graph and Messenger.
An Assassin Killed.—Tho Mariana (Fla.)
Courier, of the 27th January, says: Calvin
Sogers, the midnight assassin, who mnrdered
Hiss Maggie McClellan on the night of the first
eff October last, in this place, was arrested at the
residence of Andrew Watson, (colored,) last
sight, and in attempting to break arrest was
killed by tho constable and posse.
The movement of young Swain, son of the
founder of the Philadelphia Ledger, to start a
sew cheap daily paper in that city, is likely to
prove a notable one in the history of jonrnal-
jam. He is worth two or three million dollars,
retd has set apart half a million to put his en
terprise on a permanent footing.
The Tammany bill for tho local government
of the city of New York was introduced in the
Assembly on Wednesday. Under it, heads of
departments are to be appointed by the Mayor
end confirmed by the aldermen.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte is thought to be “not
sight in his nead.”
Prom what happened to Victor Noir, we
should judge that he was “quite right” in his
hand, though.
“Mack” says Yates came into the Senate
the other day, “looking for all the world as if
he had been fighting tom cats all night, and had
got the worst of it.”
Vermont is to submit the question of woman
reffrage to the people next May.
The Atlanta Slander-Mill
AND A
Radical-Democratic Stool-Pigeon.
The slander-mill in Atlanta perpetrated one
of its highest flights in strategy on Saturday
last by making the Associated Press the vehicle
of the following piece of misrepresentation:
Atlanta, February 5.—The oldest and most influ
ential Democratic journal in the State of Georgia,
and alwava opposing tho reconstruction policy of
Congress, comes out to-day in a bitter protest against
the Belf-constituted delegation to Washington,
headed by Bryant, without any authority fiom the
people, who seek to stir up strife and keep Georgia
ont of tho Union, to havo reconstruction done over
and entail on the people the enormous expense of
going through what she has gone through for the
third time, in the earnest efforts of the people to
comply with tho demands of Congress; that
every interest of tho State demands that recon
struction be considered by Congress as perfected in
Georgia; that men of property, tax payers, labor,
enterprise, and every other interest of the State de
mand that a stop bo put to the schemes of the so-
called Bryant Democracy; that tho great mass of
tho peoplo of tho State receive the recent acts as a
final settlement of tho reconstruction issue, and tho
great body of Democrats in the State do not sustain
tho movement of Bryant and committeo to over
throw what has been done.
The article alluded to is tho following, from
the Atlanta Intelligencer of the 5th:
Movement of the Bryant Democracy.—Ru
mors are afloat that tho so-called Bryant De
mocracy are raising committees to go to Wash
ington in order to stir np a rumpus there, and
keep Georgia “out in the cold” for yet an in
definite period of time. The man, himself ever
mischievously inclined; broken down in his
personal and political aspirations; one of the
most subtle and vindictive of Georgia’s enemies
—wo mean no other than Bryant—seeks now
again to stir np tho reconstruction strife, and,
leading as wo are advised, a few indiscreet De
mocrats, is for posting to Washington with self-
constitnted committees, or committees appoint
ed by himself, deriving no authority from tho
people, for tho purpose of having the recon
struction work done 'over again, one result of
which will certainly bo the imposing upon tho
State of new and probably more stringent con
ditions by Congress, and another entailing upon
the State tho heavy expense of going through
what she has for tho third time gone through,
in the earnest efforts of her people to comply
with the demands of Congress, in order that her
rights as a State may be restored unto her. Wo
trust that this movement will receive no encour
agement at Washington, in any quarter. Every
interest of onr State demands that reconstruc
tion be now considered by Congress as perfected
in Georgia.
Not only do the men of property in onr State—
the tax-payers, who havo to bear tho brunt of
all the expense that has accrued already in the
progress of reconstruction, but the labor and
the enterprise and every other interest of
tho State demand that a stop be put to all the
nonsense and schemes of this so-called Bryant
Democracy party. While, as our readers well
know, we did not and do not approve of the re
construction policy put npon Georgia by Con
gress, wo wish and we know tho people wish to
bo done with it, even as it has been done by the
Legislature. Congress surely cannot complain
at what has been done, and ought to be content
with it, especially when it has every assurance
that the great mass of the people of the State re
ceive it, and are content, for the sake of peace,
and the great material interests of the State, to
receive it as a settlement of the great reconstruc
tion issue, and that the great body of the Dem
ocratic party of the State do not and will not
sustain any movement of the Bryanites at Wash
ington, calculated to overthrow what has been
done.
The fraud of this dispatch lies in represent
ing these as opinions of the Democracy of
Georgia, while, in fact, they are held only by
the faction of destructionists who are seeking
their own venal ends in the public disorder and
injury.
Before the Reconstruction Committee of Con
gress, last December, the Hon. Nelson Tift, as
we are sorry to believe, truly characterized the
position and functions of the Atlanta Intelli
gencer. He said, substantially, that it was the
hired instrument of Governor Bullock and the
destructives, and worked to promote their ne
farious objects, under the guise of an nltra-
Democratic print. The course of that paper
for the last few months goes far to sustain this
allegation. Last summer it backed the Tele
graph in its strenuous efforts to compose the
differences with Congress by reseating the col
ored members. But, all of a sudden, new light
came npon it, and it began vehemently to de
nounce the reseating of tho negroes by the
Legislature, as a base, unconstitutional andanti-
Demoeratic surrender.
It exhausted its eloquence in appeals to the
Democracy to make no compromise with Con
gress bnt to go down with colors flying. Its
maledictions of everything like compromise
were then duly telegraphed North in aid of the
efforts of the destructives, and to complete the
farce, Bullock produces this sheet before the Re
construction Committee as conclusive evidence
of the temper and disposition of the Georgia
Democracy. It was then and there that Tift im
peached the witness for Bullock, by declaring
that it was under pay of Bullock, to enact this
especial performance.
What next ? The moment Congress passes the
act to promote reconstruction, the Intelligencer
becomes as mnch alarmed for the personal, as
it had been for the collective, honor of the Leg
islature. It outstrips Attorney General Farrow
in getting np an opinion npon tho height and
breadth and length and depth of the Legislative
exclusions. It parades tho condemned ante
bellum offices seriatim—lines them ont—and
warns, exhorts, begs and entreats Democrats to
make no venture. Bullock .and Farrow stand
within the sacred enclosure with club In hand
warning Democratic members not to enter. The
Intelligencer stands without the gate beggiDg
them to “Beware of the Dogs.” For Heaven’s
sake keep away—there’s great danger. Bollock,
Farrow and the Intclligenccr'see eye to eye.
With an astuteness in behalf of Radicalism as
incomprehensible as it is fatal and destructive,
the Atlanta Intelligencer takes issue with Chief
Jastice Brown and every moderate and candid
Georgia Republican in its effort to crowd Demo
crats out of the Legislature, and must feel a
little chagrined to find that its exactions out
stripped the conclusions of even Terry's mili
tary conrt.
Lastly, when a portion of the Radical party,
appalled by the desperate plots and designs of
the destrnctionists, make their appeal to Con
gress in behalf of jastice and a fair construc
tion and enforcement of its own legislation,! the
Intelligencer, for Bullock & Co., applies the
party lash, and denounces them as wo have
seen in the article above quoted. He sneers at
the “Bryant Democracy,” forsooth. Bnt let
himspeak for his “Bullock Democracy,” and
explain to the Democracy of Georgia when and
where they authorized the Atlanta Intelligencer
to givo their assent to snch an administration
even of the hard reconstruction laws as scan
dalizes all moderate Radicals in Georgia, and
has invoked the opposition of Senators Trum
bull, Wibon, Carpenter, Edmunds, Ferry, and
other of the most inexorable foes of Georgia
Democracy in Congress!
This “oldest and most influential Democratic
journal” undertakes to give the assent of the
people to the enforcement by Bullock of meas
ures never contemplated by the bill to promote
reconstruction—the pnrgation of the Legislature
by a military court—the swearing in of men to
fill vacancies never elected by the people—men
who represent nobody and nothing bnt a blind
and pliant registry of Bullock's edicts. He un
dertakes to give the assent of the people of
Georgia to the whole system of plunder, oppres
sion, misrule and misery, all the main features
of which are matters of common report and rn-
mor, and which, carried out as threatened, will
make the State almost uninabitable!
Let the Intelligencer know that this masquer
ade is now well over. It has passed the point
of longer disguise. It may call itself a Demo
cratic paper, bnt if it has a single Democratic
reader who is not moved to indignation at its
transparent treachery, we are very mnch mis
taken.
POSSIBLE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH
BY PROF. EDWARD KAYES, UNIVERSITY OF UXS-
' ' sissirn.
From the XIXth Century. J
The basis of wealth is production. That pro
duction may be classed into production of ma
terial, and production of utility. Each is val
uable aliko. The workman who fashions steel
into cutlery, produces a value, as well as the
miner who exhumes the ore. He who transports
an article from one place to another, and thus
renders it available for the satisfaction of wants
which otherwise would have been inadequately
supplied, as certainly attaches a new use and
consequent value to that article, as he did who
produced it. Now, production of material is
agriculture; that of utility is manufacture or
commerce. Upon one, or some, or all of these
three branches of industry, rests tho financial
prosperity of every nation. Heretofore agri
culture exclusively has absorbed the fuiids and
energy of the South; and yet it is the least re
munerative of them. The fields of Poland are
covered with golden cereals, and resound to the
hissing of scythes. The whole land is an im
mense granary; yet she is squalid and misera
ble, while manufacturing and commercial Hol
land is comfortable and wealthy. Spain is
sunken in poverty and ignorance. Barbary is
poor and illiterate, yet they furnish bread to
England. Brazil sends her cotton, coffee, lum
ber, hides, etc., throughout Europe, yet Brazil
is impotent.
Bring tho matter home.
In I860, Mississippi raised 1,200,000 bales of
cotton, (400 lbs. each,) worth, in round num
bers, $39,000,000. In the same year, Massa
chusetts imported and manufactured 31G,GG5
31G,GG5 bales, realizing $30,500,000. Now tho
number of bales imported and manufactured
by Massachusetts is to the number produced by
Mississippi os 4 to 15 about. Therefore, had
the former State wrought up all tho staple of
the latter, she would have realized S144,000,000.
Deducting the cost of tho raw material, we have
left a gross profit of $105,000,000. Bat this
cotton was manufactured somewhere, if not in
Massachusetts, and paid to those who did so
nearly three times what it did the producers.
The net results will bo considered hereafter.
Again, Texas, with 3,500,000 cattle, pro
duced leather, butter and cheese, (estimating
the two latter articles at 25 cents per lb.) to tho
amount of $1,G41,000; while New York, with
1,973,000 produces from tho same articles $58,-
GG9.000. Is it not incredible ?—a ratio of sixty,
three to one!
These are only samples of the manner in
which the South squandered her resources. Let
ns penetrate deeper. Mississippi, which was
the eleventh State in number of swine, im
ported her pork; blessed with the sunniest
skies, the balmiest breezes, a most fertile soil,
she bought her breadstuff’s; queen of the cot
ton world, she imported her cotton goods. Al
though only five States surpassed Virginia in
sheep-raising, ten eclipsed her in woollen man
ufacture—and Virginia imported woollen goods.
Tennessee produced pig iron seventh in tho
scale, yet she was the thirteenth founder, and
imported machinery. What was the result of
this ruinous policy ? Grant South Carolina her
twenty-six millions for cotton and rice! Her
population of 700,000 souls must bo fed on
purchased meats, must be clad in purchased
garments; her plantations must bo worked
with implements every one of which were mado
abroad, (she did not make $3000 worth.) Veri
ly; the twenty-six millions rapidly becomes—
zero! Let Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina,
etc., submit to the same process, and their
nominal incomes will bo found deplorably defi
cient. Are not these deductions, based, as they
are, on the official returns of the census of
18G0, legitimate? Witness the mortgaged
plantations of tho Yazoo and Mississippi val
leys. Tho commercial cities of New Orleans
and New York virtually owned the States of Mis
sissippi and Louisiana.
Snch are the results of an exclusively agricul
tural system.
Turn we now to Massachusetts, a State wherein
the tbreo great branches of production are hap
pily blended. In agriculture itself, notwith
standing the unpropitious climate, and an area
less than one-sixth that of Alabama, she pro
duced nearly half tho value of Alabama’s crop.
Her manufactures were twenty-eight times as
valuable as those of the latter State; end who
can estimate the returns of that commerce
which circumnavigated every continent, and
threaded every river of the globe ? Mark how
beautifully the industrial divisions play into
each other’s hands. The farmer feeds the man
ufacturer and merchant, and by them is clad
and enriched. The manufacturer supplies neces
saries to the farmer, and stocks to the merchant;
and by them, in turn,is furnished necessaries and
raw material. So, too, with the merchant.
Thus the nation prospers. The popular purse
grows plethoric. There is no efflux of value
without a countervailing return. The State is
like the great bed of the ocean. Its products
are sent, in huge waves, throughont tho world;
but there is a swift and constant “ under tow ”
returning ever, and the ocean is always full, al
ways mif hty.
Is not this the reason why Georgia, with sev
en times the area of Massachusetts, a climate
infinitely more salubrious, and an antiquity as
great, had yei one-third less representative pop
ulation, and three votes less in Congress ? Is
not this the reason why, while the two Caroli-
nas, which were tho original thitd and seventh
States of the Union,have fallen to the twelfth and
eighteenth positions, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and
Missouri (all of comparatively recent creation)
have forged ahead with giant strides, until
they stand at the very front of theStatos-ossocia-
tion ? No deeply laden argosies bear from thorn
the raw products of their soils, for other peoples
to enrich themselves npon. They have not been
content to play the part of the heart, in the body
national, stagnating itself whilst driving health
and grace, symmetry and power into the other
members. We-have fertile soils and happy
skills as well as they; and they gather no richer
treasures from the full bosom of the earth than
burst forth for us; but with them tho sounds of
busy manufacturing industry are heard fashion
ing their virgin products to the utmost devol-
ment, whilst with us all is silent; and D3 the
birds of tho air pass over the green swards to
settle on the rough, brown seed-fields, so the
migratory nations pass ns by. Ah, if the sward
also bnt covered a tempting grain! And it can
be made to do so.
The emancipation of the slaves in the South
has introduced a new phenomenon into the
world’s history. In vain do we look backward
for its precedent. Wo find nations slowly and
laboriously emerging from the mists of a silent
inception, and nations springing at once lusty
and vigorons into nfflaence and power; we be
hold some falling, yet rising again into all their
pristine prosperity, and some that fall to riso
no more ; we start with affright at the almost
instantaneous annihilation of this, and follow
that through the long-drawn centuries of a deca
dence almost imperceptible; parties and schitms
have arisen and passed away; revolutions have
shattered the fortunes and powers of the higher
classes and overwhelmed the aristocracies;
counter-revolutions have reinstated the one and
renewed tho other; yet in nil these various for
tunes, amid all this diversity and complication
of national records, no combination of affairs
snch as now obtains in the South, presents itself.
For the first time the labor system ofapeople has
been completely abolished, while the intellect and
wealth maintain their original supremacy. For
the first time, the genius, the morality, the sen
timent, the chivalry, the daring, the energy
and the perseverance of a highly cultivated and
mighty people essay in vain to grasp an organ
ized blind forco by which to accomplish their
ends, and, throughout the extent of a nation,
employment goes begging. For the first time,
a people is neither awake, nor sleeping, nor
dead, bnt in a trance. Our social organization
now resembles a child’s block-palace, from nn-
der which the foundation has been so suddenly
stricken that the entire superstructure has fal
len, shaken and wrenched, bnt proud and shapely
stil 1 .
A new problem in political philosophy is to
bo solved, and upon us devolves the vast task
of making what is to be certainly the most cu'
rions, perhaps tho grandest chapter in the his
tory of any single nation. It is true that, in
the past, wo can find no prognostications of onr
success, but neither do we find any portents of
our failure. Our footsteps must pass through
an unknown land ; let them make a broad and
deep road for the guidance of posterity. The
primary object now should, of course, be the
judicious management and assiduousd evelop-
ment of our industrial resources. Let us com
pare the new things with the old which “havo
passed away,” and see what these resources
are.
In Mississippi a census of 18G6 shows a dim
inution of the black population since I860, by
one-eighth. Sinee this State was thoroughly
harried by the enemy daring the war, we wifi
assume that her loss m this respeot was at least
as great as the average. There are then 3,000,-
000 negroes yet remaining in the cotton States.
Of these, perhaps 2,000,000 may bo called la
borers. What can be done with them ? Take
a plantation which works twenty hands, and
oompare its receipts and expenditures before
the war and since. Omitting those things which
would be in common between then and now,
i, a, com whioh is consumed by the laborers i
and stock, meats, etc., the returns would be:
BEFORE THE WAR.
120 bales Of Cotton at $40 per bale:. r. $4,800
Probably 5 infants bom, which, after
being fed, clad and physicked for ten
years would be worth, per annum. . 000
Now deduct:
Physicians’ bills for about 40 slaves... 100
Clothing ($400) and “Taxes on Slaves”
($80)........ 480
An average of 1>£ deaths every year, by
which negroes are lost whose annual
value was 150
$5,S00
730
Remainder in the planters hands $4,070
SINCE THE WAR.
GO bales of Cotton, of which the
planter gets 40, worth, at $110 ,
per bale $4,400
Deduct tho “Income Tax” 170
4,230 00
Premium in gold, at 40 per cent.... 1.208 50
Remainder in gold in tho planter’s
hands $3,021 50
Bnt this is not all. Apart from his land,
stock and utensils, tho Southern planter of
to-day need own nothing save a thousand or
so dollars to feed his' “hands” with; and
his income of 3,021 50-100 dollars is all profit.
On the other hand, the planter before the war
must have owned 40,000 dollars worth of slaves
in order to realize his income of 4,570 dollars.
What is his corresponding net profit ? Deduct
the annual value of his forty slaves, estimated
at .05 per cent, and you have it—1,370 dollars.
Let the judicious planter weigh candidly and
carefully the considerations which I have ad
vanced above, and think whether he has not
more money to spend than ever ho had before
from the same number of laborers. What has
become of the midnight sufferings, over long
accounts that once tossed his torinred soul ?
Where are now the anxious reckonings as to
how he may defray the interminable expenses
of the current year?
From this investigation several facts of vital
importance appear. First, That whereas, be
fore tho war a man must have had considerable
meats in order to begin the culture of tho
ground, with any prospect of making more than
a bale subsistence ; now, that field is thrown
open to almost tho whole population, and he
who owns but a thousand or two, need no long
er hoard it np for want of a profitable invest
ment—that thousand will supply five “hands,”
and return to the owner fourteen bales of cotton.
Secondly, that while, before the war, from tho
failure of the crop, the planter suffered an act
ual loss of the annual value of his slave proper
ty in addition to the many current expenses of
the year, (in the case above cited, 4000 total,)
and the failure of one crop out of three would
neutralize the profits of the other two; now his
only actual loss would be tho cost of the provi
sions consumed, viz: about $800, and he could
lose three crops out of four and still make
something—thus being more than twice as apt
to prosper as his ante helium friend. Thirdly,
that the agriculture of the country can now
bo prosecuted without devoting to it all the
funds of tho nation, for example, he who pos
sesses $40,000 heed no longer invest it all in
slaves in order to raise cotton to the value of
$1,400; $10,000 will much more than supply
the labor with which to do this, and tho residue
of $40,000 may be otherwise invested.
Such is the direct effect upon the interests of
the agriculturist. Let us now regard that npon
the State at large. Formerly, the crops of ten,
and the crops of a thousand, were shipped di
rect to a seaboard town, and there sold to the
branch establishments of Northern or Euro
pean houses. Immediately, the proceeds of tho
sale were taken to other branch establishments
of Northern or European houses, and there
principally disbursed for plantation supplies.
The plain truth is, that the Yankee or the Eng
lish manufacturer paid tho Southron two or
three thousand per annum, to “oversee” a largo
plantation, and raise for that manufacturer the
cotton which would yield him, when wrought
$18,000 or $19,000 net. In the meanwhile, the
neighbor of onr planter, who was a merchant,
saw with despondency the great current of trade
rolling past bis doors, onward to those of an
alien straDger; and picked up, with much
mortification, all which the great feast
afforded him—the crumbs. At present, it is
otherwise. Various causes, which it is not ne
cessary to specify, have co-operated to effect
the disposal of the crops to the merchants of
the interior. As a consequence of this happy
change, the villages and towns of our inland
country are prospering to a degree unparalleled
in their annals. Along the whole lengths of our
many railroads, the all but magical upgrowth of
station-houses into villages, and of villages into
busy towns, bears indisputable testimony to the
incalculable benefits accruing from the estab
lishment of this home trade. This, too,
without any depletion of the planter’s pocket;
for the merchant’s extensive dealings and
professional character create for him a con
siderable diminution of original costs and
of transportation rates; and the amount of
thisdiminution is the measure of his profits.
Glorious re volution of the labor system ! Dear
old Land of Dixie, how have thine enemies blest
thee when most they sought to wound! Short
sighted race of mortals that we are, how we
clung to that institution whose abolition has un
locked the riches hidden in the earth’s bosom to
tho poor man as well as the rich, and may yet
make our loved land flourish and bloom as she
never did before, could we only believe, and
work in the faith! Mysterious work of God,
which in seeming to strip us of our pomp of
wealth, and arrogance of dollars, yet places us
whore we may receive more of the benefits of
prosperity than we have ever done! Bat while
these reflections afford onr people a broad
ground for self-congratulation, there are yet
other considerations to which our most anxious
attention should be given. While felicitating
ourselves that our progress has been such as it
is, we should neither forget nor ignore the fact
that we have the means for a far higher ascent.
I have already endeavored to show to the
reader that the production of her necessa
ries and the manufacture of her own staples
(or other people’s) are indispensable pro-reqni-
isites to any nation’s fullest development of
wealth and political power. The South is
no exception to this rulo; and, while we are im
proved in our commercial system, still there is
room for a far greater improvement, os the ul
timate origin of our vast supplies is abroad; and
there is, also, the final destination of millions in
money and millions in cotton that should be
kept at home. Never will we occupy the posi
tion that we should assume, unless wo fill our
wide territories with laboring looms. And why
should wo not ? What advantage over ns have
the sterile rock-beds of New England that could
not be easily retrieved? Capital? They did
not always have it; hut made it in the face of
competition. Why may not we ? Besides, tho
greatest things have small beginnings—neither
Manchester nor Marseilles were built in a year.
We must be patient and persevering. Opera
tives ? Spindles will not long be silent for want
of hands to make them buzz. What advantages
has the South, by which she may bear all others
down ! One—and that eternal as her own deep
foundation. She produces, and others do not;
tho material which must be fabricated grows
from her own bosom—others must import it.
Who can doubt that we will be able to compete
successfully, within onr ownboundaries, with that
trade which must twice traverse a continent or
an ocean before its goods are presented to • tho
consumer? Moreover, we havo virtually the
monopoly of the cotton market. The Indian
and Egyptian staples are comparative failures;
Brazil is remote, and her production very lim
ited. 'When the Southern planter shall have a
consuming market at home, and at home his
cotton shall be manufactured, then'the foreign
factory owner must either come to a mart where
purchasers are not wanted, and pay enormous
prices for his raw material, or consent to issue
to tho world fabrics immeasurably inferior.
Then will come the days when Dixie domestics,
calicoes, muslins and lawns, will be sold in the
stores of Lowell andLiverpool and Lyons. Aye!
let Louisiana clarify her own sugars, and make
candies for the world; let Texas pickle her
own beeves, tan her own bides, and build up
shoe and harness factories throughont her vast
extent; let Tennessee fill her domains with
iron foundries and machine-shops; let all pro
duce their breadstuff's, their meats, their agri
cultural and domestio utensils; let the South
raise her own cotton, work np her own cotton,
ship her own beautiful fabrics; and, in a thou
sand ways, unthought of now, her tens of mil
lions will swell to billions; her ships will plow
every sea; her cities will sit upon every one of
her glorious plains; along top green slopes of
every valley will steal the sweet chimes of a St.
Paul’s; the low murmur *of a'^hundred Cam-
bridges will arise; Peace and Joy will rest npon
every hill-top, and cover the land as a dome;
and the deep pulsations of her noble heart will
quicken all mankind!
There is one other thought, and we shall have
done. If the cruel experiences of the past few
years have taught us any lesson, it is the ruin,
the suicide, involved in dependence upon other
peoples. What Southerner, who possessed a
heart to feel, and a brain to think, did not, a
thousand times, deplore, in sackcloth and ashes,
the impotency of his country, and her blind folly
in so binding herself ?
“Oh, Absolom, Absolom, * * wonld I oonld
have died for thee!” and yet, for the want of a
few factories and a few ships, thou art sunken
into death! Henceforth, forever, the North arid
we are one. The wager of battle decided against
ns, and there is no appeal from the decision;
but there is yet another struggle we can make.
Let the South pursue tho policy which is, so ev
idently, now her only wise one, and she will rise-
up from her ruins, growing in wealth, growing
in population, growing in intellect, growing in
morality, growing in power, until her conqueror
will sink slowly into her train-bearer, even as
Scotland, which gave England her king, became
but England’s subsidiary. Wo betido the indi
viduality of that nation whioh annexes to itself
another that possesses the elements of future
superiority. It takes unto itself a master.
Behold! In the centuries that are to come,
the South, if wise, may yet bid defiance to the
world!
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, February G.—Bullock, leading one,
and Bryant another Georgia delegation, have ar
rived. Both claim to he Republicans.
Peter F. Washburn, Governor of Vermont, is
dead.
Washington, February 7.—The House is discuss
ing a resolution that tho tariff should bo for revenue,
not tor protection.
Senator Morton has presented documents de
claring that Georgia has adopted the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments.
Tho case of Hipbura vs. Griswold, brought from
tho Court of Appeals of Kentucky, involving tho
legal tender law, was decided in tho United States
Supremo Court to-day. Chief Justice Chase deliv
ered the opinion of tho Court, sustaining the de
cision of the Court below, and holding that a con
tract made before the legal tender law could not bo
discharged in United States notes. The opinion is
very long, and discusses at great length the powers
of Congress. It holds that Congress had no right
to make government notes a legal tender for pre
existing private debts. It does not touch the ques
tion of contracts mado since the law was passed.
This opinion waB concurred in by Mr. Justice Nel
son, Justice Clifford and Justice Field. Mr. Justice
Miller delivered the minority opinion, concurred in
by Justice Swayno and Justice Davis—holding the
law to he entirely constitutional-rtreating it princi
pally as an incident to the war power.
Hoar is to he retained in the Cabinet.
A delegation of Georgians, compoeed of Conley,
President of the State Senate, and Speaker pro tem.
Tweedy, Judges Gibson, Parrott, and Harrali, of
the Superior Court; Representative Clift, Mr. To-
chen Rice and others, called on President Grant
this morning. The interview was of an hour’s du
ration. They discussed tho political situation fully.
Tho President stated that although his first im
pressions were that tho action of the Legislature
previous to the expulsion of tho colored members
was legal and binding, and the election of Senators
was to hold good, he was satisfied, after more ma
ture reflection, that the present legislative organi
zation was tho first, and that all action should he
commenced therefrom. Ho inquired who tho Re
publicans would elect Senators, to which the dele
gation responded that no nominations had yet been
made, but would probably be on Monday, and an
election held on Tuesday. No doubt they would be
loyal Republicans.
The President said both he and Sherman had en
tire confidence in Terry, and he would fully advise
them of the situation in a few days, as he would be
here on public business. The delegation also ex
pressed confidence in Terry’s judgment and ability.
Revenue to-day $847,000.
Twenty-seven cases of yellow fover occurred on
tho Seminole. The fever is abating, and the cases
are milder. The Seminole leaves Key West for
Portsmouth, N. H.
Tho Senato Judiciary Committeo will hear tho
Conservative Republican delegation on Wednesday,
regarding Georgia. Trumbull has notified the Bul
lock delegation to bo present.
Tho Election Committee has indefinitely post
poned the case of Segar, who claims a seat from
Virginia at largo. •
Tho President has nominated Joseph P. Bradley,
of New Jersey, and William Strong, of Pennsylva
nia, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, February 7.—House—Ridgoway in
troduced bills to repeal the act prescribing an oath
of office; also, for removing political disabiities in
Virginia.
Weeker introduced a bill to discontinue the
Freedmen’s Bureau.
The resolution offered on Monday last, declaring
that constitutional authority to levy taxes does not
include any power to impose duties, other than for
tho collection of revenue; and that a tariff levied
for any other purposo than that of revenue, espe
cially if levied to foster and encourago one section
of country, or one class of citizens, at the expense
of another section or class, is unauthorized by tho
Constitution, unjust to a great body of people, and
injurious to almost all industries, and directiag the
Ways and Means Committeo to prepare a bill ac
cordingly, was laid on tho table, 89 to 77.
Tho Indian appropriation hill was reported and
mado the special order for Tuesday. It appropri
ates three millions of dollars, against six millions
last year. The amount estimated for was live
millions.
The death of the late Hoag was announced in
both houses.
Dispatches to Secretary Fish, from Havana, say
that one American citizen was killed and two wound
ed there yesterday. No particulars.
Senate.—Petitions were presented favoring an
additional amendment granting female suffrage.
A bill was reported encouraging telegraphic com
mnnication between the Eastern and Western Con
tinents. It gives tho American and Asiatic Tele
graph Company the exclusive right for fourteen
years to the telegraphic cable from points in Wash
ington Territory—government vessels to assist the
enterprise.
Tho bill to protect Congressmen from importuni
ty and preserro tho independence of the several
departments, and also tho census bill, were dis
cussed, bnt without final action, the Senato ad
journed.
FROM AUGUSTA.
Augusta, Ga., February G—Senator Hill and
Messrs. Bryant, Caldwell, Holden and others, Re
publicans, opposed to Governor Bullock and his
policy, are on their way to Washington to represent
the condition of affairs in Georgia to Congress.
Bryant Bays tho object of the delegation is to show
that Governor Bullock has violated the Reconstruc
tion laws—that tho Legislature, as now organized,
is illegal, and that several persons aro allowed Beats
in tho Legislature who aro not entitled to them,
and that if Congress sustains the Bullock Republi
can party in Georgia, it will be destroyed. Tho
delegation represents the Conservative wing of the
Republicans in this State, and repudiate all politi
cal affiliation with tho Democratic party.
FOREIGN NEWS.
London, February 7.—Bark Jesse Campbell,
from New York, was foundered. All wero saved.
City of Mexico, February 7.—A conspiracy in
favor of Santa Anna has been discovered hero. The
ringleaders havo been arrested.
Mabrid, February 7.—It is reported that tho
treaty between Spun and the Spanish Republics
will be signed immediately.
Valentia, Irelanb, February 7.—The Irish tele
graphs eastward are cut off.
Paris, February 7.—General Heine has departed
for Panama, to conduct tho Darien Ship Canal ex
plorations.
Tho Marsellaise, Heniy Rochefort’s journal, ap
pears this morning with a characteristic article over
the signatur eof Rochefort himself, relative to the
recent notice ordering him to constitute himself a
prisoner, in obedience to the sentence of the court.
He declares boldly that he will not surrender him
self, and if ministers want him they must come and
take him; and furthermore, they must como pre
pared to use force.
The new postal arrangements with the United
States applies only to prepaid matter.
FROM CUBA.
Havana,’ February 7.—General GAsenoche has
returned to Paerto Principe, and reports capturing
two pieces of aitilleiy and many prisoners.
In sugar there is very little business; prices are
arely maintained.
GENERAL NEWS. '•
Chicago, February 7.—Extensive smuggling by
mail has been discovered. Among the packages'
seized are twelve dozen hymn books, addressed to
Brigham Young, Salt Lake.
Cincinnati, February 7.—At Dobbins’ distillery,
at Dayton, Dobbins refused to pay tho taxes, in
order to test the legality of the forty-eighth fer
mentation rule. ' : : - r - ; -
Savannah, February 7.—The steamship Oriental,
from Boston to-day, was towed in port.
The British brig Helen, from N.ew York for Wil
mington, 'N. C., was dismasted off the North Caro
lina coast in the late gale.
New Orleans, February 6.—The Legislature
yesterday passed a bill making Metropolitan Police
warrants receivable for taxes.
Tho House passed a bill authorizing the issue of
three millions of bonds, to pay for work heretofore
done on tho levees under contract by tho Board of
Public Works.
John M. Nelson was drowned last evening by
driving through the open draw of a bridge into the
canal. A child accompanying him was rescued.
Another sugar fraud case, involving eight hun
dred and fifty boxes, was decided by the United
States District Court in favor of the government.
Tho eugar was imported undor false invoices as
to weight.
FROM ATLANTA.
Atlanta, February G.—Tho dispatch last night,
quoting from a Democratic journal of this city, rel
ative to Bryant, Caldwell and others, was intended
as a special, and was sent to the Associated Press
by mistake. [Is that story intended for tho ma
rines or sailors ? |
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
Montgomery, Februaiy 7.—The Senate Alabama
and Chattanooga Railroad bill passed the House,
with the amendment that two million dollars of
State bonds should bo loaned in place of three mil
lions of dollars, as was provided in the original Sen
ate bill. The Senate will undoubtedly concur in the
House amendment.
Decisions of tbe Supreme Conrt of
Georgia.
DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8.
From the Atlanta Costitution.j
James R. Smith, plaintiff in error, vs. Adam
Jones, defendant in error. From Spalding;
claim case.
Brown, O. J,—1. The Mayor and Council of
tho city of Griffin have power conferred by the
charter to levy and collect a tax. And in case
of non-payment, the Clerk of the city may issue
execution against the defaulter, which is a lien
npon all his property, and may be levied npon
any property of the defendant! real or personal,
sufficient to satisfy thefi. fa., by the Marshal
or his deputy, who may sell the same at public
sale at the City Hall, giving such law as is re
quired by law for Tax Collector’s sales.
2. The Marshal is not bound to make an en
try of no personal property before he can levy
upon real property. Both are alike subject
Judgment reversed.
Speer & Beck, Doyal & Nnnnally for plaintiff
in error.
Peeples & Stewart, Boynton & Dismuke for
defendant.
Sarah Wyatt, plaintiff in error, vs. A. W.
Turner, defendant in error. Certiorari, from
Henry.
Brown, C. J.—If either party is not satisfied
with the answer of the Jastice of the Peace to a
certiorari, all the exception must be taken or
traverse filed, and the case is heard in the Supe
rior Court npon the answer, and brought to this
Court, and a judgment rendered, the parties are
bonnd by that judgment, and neither party will
be entitled to have an amended answer to the
certiorari filed in the Superior Court, after the
jndgment of this Court.
Judgment reversed.
S. O. McDaniel, Peeples & Stewart for plain
tiff in error.
John R. Hart for defendant in error.
J. J. Bagwell, et. al. vs. Jas. M. Head, et al.
Equity, from Spalding.
Warner, J.—When a bill praying for an in
junction was presented to the Judge in vacation
for his sanction, which was refused:
Held, That as the complainant had a com
plete and adequate remedy at law, in regard to
the several matters, as charged and set forth in
his bill of complaint, that the injunction prayed
for was properly refused.
Judgment affirmed.
D. N. Martin, by CoL Price, for plaintiff in
error.
Peeples & Stewart, for defendants.
Roger L. Gamble vs. Hardeman & Sparks, et
al. Complaint from Bibb.
Warner, J.—When the plaintiffs and defend
ants entered into a parol agreement for the rent
of a plantation for one year, and for the pur
chase of the stock, provisions and agricultural
implements thereon, and afterwards reduced
their agreement to writing, and one of the de
fendants swore npon trial that it was the inten
tion of the parties to have inserted in the writ
ten agreement that the plaintiff was to use his
influence with the negroes on the place to re
main there as laborers, but by “ mistake" it
was omitted, without showing hour, or by what
means, or by whom the mistake was committed:
Held, that this was not sufficient evidence of
mistake under the law to lay the foundation for
the introduction of parol evidence to prove that
was part of the agreement that the plaintiff
should use his influence with the negroes on the
place to remain there as laborers, and that it
was error in the Court in admitting the evi
dence as to the injury sustained by the defesd-
ants in consequence of the negroes leaving
there. Held, also, that although the plaintiff
may have represented to the defendants that
there was a greater quantity of stock and pro
visions on the place than they found to be there
when they took possession of it, and they made
no objections, but proceeded to make a crop
with what they found there, and paid part of the
rent without any complaint as to the deficiency
of com and other things, ibis too late at the
end of the year to insist that they did not get as
mnch as they expected, and for that reason seek
to repudiate their contract. They kneic when
they took possession of the place what was on
it, and if there was any material deficiency in
anything represented to be on the place, then
was the time for them to have repudiated the
contract if they had desired to do so.
Judgment reversed.
Lyon & deGraffenreid, for plaintiff in error.
Whittle & Gustin, for defendants.
James H. Connelly vs. R. A. Crawford find
Nicholas Cruger. Bill from Spaulding.
McCay, J.—When A sold to B a parcel of
land, taking B’s notes for the purchase money,
and giving him a bond for titles, when the notes
wore paid, and B, with the consent of his wife,
paid one of the notes with money belonging to
her separato estate, of which he was trustee,
and A brought suit on tho other notes with in
tent to get judgment, file a deed and sell the
land under 3,G04 of the Code, and a bill is filed
by the trustee, for the children of the wife, she
having died; settling up these facts, alleging
that tho land will not pay the balance due, and
claiming that the trust money invested in the
land should he first paid, and praying an in
junction, to restrain A from taking judgment
on his notes, until the rights of the parties
should be settled by a decree.
And A answered the bill, denying any knowl
edge on his part of the trust, any notice that
the money paid was trnst money.
Held, That it was not error in the Courts be
low to dissolve the injunction on the coming in
of the answer.
Boynton & Dismuke for plaintiffs in error.
Speer & Beck for defendants.
O. C. Sharman vs. Jesse B. Howell. Rule
againBt Sheriff, from Upson.
McCay, J.—Where property is levied on by a
sheriff under an execution from a State Court,
and the defendant is adjudged a bankrupt, and
no proceedings are taken in the Brnkrupt Court
to compel toe property levied upon to be
brought into that tribunal for distribution, the
adjudication of bankruptcy and the issuing of
toe ordinary writ of protection is no excuse to
tho sheriff for not proceeding to sell the prop
erty and raise toe money.
Doyal & Nnnnally, Hart & Alexander, for
plaintiff in error.
Smith & Alexander, J. J. Hall, for defendant
Central Railroad, etaL, vs. Stephen Collins,
et al. Bill for injunction, from Bibb.
McCay, J.—The State of Georgia, being a
stockholder in the Atlantie and Gulf Railroad
Company, may, on her own motion, become a
party to a bill filed by other interested persons
against the city of Savannah, the Central Rail
road, toe Southwestern Railroad, and the At
lantic and Gulf Railroad, to enjoin the consum
mation of a contract by which a controlling
amount of the stock of the Atlantic and Golf
road is about to pass into toe cont^uT
Central and Southwestern roads. ^ I
A citizen of the State, as such, is not *
er party to a bill to enjoin a railroad c 0m '
froin illegally making a purchase of
another railroad company ‘but if ^
other proper parties to.the bill, this 2?*
is not a good ground of general demurr^'l
If one be a bona fide holder of stoJi l
railroad company, and-file a bill to eniai *1
company from making a purchase not W*
ized by too charter, it is not a ^
to the bill that the plaintiff is not in
seeking toe interests of the companv
acting in toe interests of a rival road *’ “
Each stockholder has a right to stand-
his own contract, as provided by the chart'
The banking powers of the Central R,*
and Bpking Company,-and the incidents!?
to expired on toe 14th of December, Isgr .L
ter that date, toe general powers of th»J j
company to buy and hold real and personal/!
erty and make contracts, are confined toll
property and such contracts as are incirb.!^
the building, managing and maintainirl 5
Railroad contemplated and provided for F :
charter,, and the purchase of stock i a • 1
er, and cspecialy in a rival Railroad co.-T
is outside of the objects of the charter ?i
Neither the Central Railroad Comnan*
toe Southwestern Railroad Company is
ized, by its charter, to become a stockhrM'
other Railroad Companies, and conrt of
will, at the instance of stockholders in thol
enjoin a purchase of such stock by said,
nies. c
A railroad company chartered for the ntm-w
of building and maintaining a railroad fee l <
vannah to Macon, with general powers b a uj
chase and hold personal estate, of any
whatever, is not authorized to becom» a?”' 1
holder in a railroad from Savannah to
bridge. Such purchase is wholly be- 0 Jti
purposes of toe charter. * “ a 4
It is a part of the public policy of the & !
as indicated by toe charter of several rail/!
from the seaboard to the interior to sect/
reasonable competition between said road/
public patronage, and it is contrary to ;t lf 5
icy for one of said road3 to attempt to «<J!]I
controling interest in another, and any co/vi
made with that view, will be set aside bv
of equity as illegal, beyond the objects oh' 3
charter, and contrary to the public poliev ft
State.
The act of December, 1861, authorizing
connection of the Central Railroad and til
lantic and Gulf road, having, as is express.)-!!
cited in the preamble, been passed in fc.-C
ance of the late rebellion against the r$i
States, is no indication of the policy tfs
State to permit toe Central Railroad Coc>
to acquire, in any manner, a controlling jZ
in the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.
When the city of Savannah and the I
Railroad and Southwestern Railroad Com-,
entered into a contract by which the sail/
transferred to said Railroad Companies ];
shares of stock in tho Atlantic and Gulf'
road; 307 shares in the Montgomery andi!
Point Railroad; 424 shares in the Save
and Augusta Railroad, and one share ii>
Southwestern Railroad; and the Mayorcfj
city of Savannah was a stockholder inthFi
tral Railroad, and toe said city one of the
nal corporators in said Central Railroad.
Held, that even if toe railroad charter*
not public laws which all are not bound tv
tico, that the city of Savannah is charged
notice of the powers of the Central and So
western Railroads, and cannot stand upon
footing of an innocent actor without notice.
Judgment affirmed.
Fusion's Commercial College.
We have been favored with circulars fromjl
institution which carry evidence of the fact is
by his rare capacity and energy Professor 17
ton has built up in Macon, a highly valuable? j
prosperous business school, which is not c:|
making fame and fortune for himself and:'
Associate, bnt affording onr young men as
opportunity to perfect themselves in all t
learning and accomplishments of toe book-1
er, accountant, the rapid and skillful penmaa,u (
even the arts of toe telegraphic operator., Is j
advantages afforded by this school should ij
highly valued and diligently improved by yc: 3
men who intend to follow business pursuits. ..
thorough indoctrination into the modus open: u
di and routine of business will be of iacalci!
ble benefit in after life.
Great excitement prevails in Clark couri
UL, in consequence of the discovery of golii
Big Creek, about twenty miles from Tre
Haute. A lately returned Californian, a 1 '
of eighteen years’ experience, has been!
been for some days prospecting in toe ran|
along the creek, and found gold in pay tog q-
tities. The people of that section are le«q
their usual avocations to search for the preeg
met >1.
An Engineering Triumph.—The last spacij
the bridge over the Ohio River, at LouisvJ
was completed on Monday afternoon. !|
length of the bridge, exclusive of approach;I
one mile. It has two mam spans of threeir
dred and seventy feet, and a draw over:
channel. The time occupied in its construe
was two years and six months.
The flight of a hawk, when its powers 1
fully exerted, has been calculated 150 milts ij
hour; of the eider duck 90 miles. The /
can passenger pigeon will fly a mile a
and the albatross 90 miles an hour.
Gen. Lee—We grieve to learn, as we do thro
a private letter, that the health of General^
is not so good as his family and friends d&J
though it would appear to give himself little f
no concern. A trip to Europe in the spritij
urged upou him, but there is no certainty c
he will accede.
Had we the ear of toe General, we woull'-J
him that, if he does not take the very best f
of his health, we believe the Southern ]
will actually get angry with him.
A trip to Europe will give him a new least j
life, while his presence there will be b
with he liveliest satisfaction by millions,
latter fact may, we fear, have rather a deterZj
effect, bnt it is no less a fact, as every Ac-'
can who visited Europe dnring or since tbe*
can testify.—N. O. Picayune.
An Indian Chief is the most popular pre«
on a Wisconsin circuit.
We havo a good fish story from Maiyk'j
As it runs, a man fishing in a riverin that M
found that his hook was attached to somelKl
and pulling it up with some difficulty, discove-ff
at tho end of his line a jug holding*about
gallon. Not wishing to lose his only hoA/S
demolished the jug, and, to his great asta-i*!
ment, found that the hook had been swallo*
by a monster catfish exactly the size and st''
of the jng.
A couple of unique medals, connectingA^
gold chain, were picked up by a farmer *»r
building a fence at Lawrence, Kansas, the oti*f
day. One was stamped with the British coa‘-*
arms and a bust of George HL, while the ots
has the inscription: “Second Presidency!
George Washington, MDCCXCYI.” Five tfi
dred dollars has been offered for the medal.
The vine is cultivated in Beventy-nipe depf
ments in France, and toe annual yield is all
71,000,000 of hectolitres, which if valued atf
average of twenty-three francs, represents P
sum of 1,000,000,000 francs. The cultivafj
and producing of wine.in France gives em| t|
ment to G,500,000 of people, and the wine
alone employs 2,000,000 more.
A clergyman lectured in a Canadian tom
cently, on toe aubjeet, “Go it while
Young,” and mentioned Demosthenes, M 1 -
Knox, Arkwright, Watt, Stevenson, PeaM
Sir Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde,) as exa
of men who “went it” while they were yot
a good sense.
A Russian officer, writing abont the Cri
war, says the difference presented by the
tive English and French soldiers was
marked. The former were almost always s
ingly wonnded before being taken pria<
the latter often quite sound and only some
bearing a few insignificant scratches. And
if so wounded, the English soldier womi
f ive up his animosity to the Russians, wM
ranchman immediately fraternized with
The Chicago Tribune says : “A i>etw IP
per publishes the ‘will of George Washii ^1
which was removed from the court-he *1
Fredericksburg, Va., by Rev. John,
chaplain of toe 4th Michigan Infantry.
“Removed” is good. Down here
“stolen.” Is there any prospect of tbi 1
father's removing it back where it bek® ^ J
wonder ? Hardly, unless moved by •
ward.