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SATPUDAY ^OBNiyQ, APBIL 29/ 1870.
xT lfi|e charleston May Convention.
The various committees who have the matter
in charge ate, says the Charleston News of the
2Cth, making the beBt arrangements possible
for the accommodation of the delegates, as well
as the visitors, to the Agricnltnral, Mechanical
and Immigration Convention, which meets in
this city on Tuesdaynext. There is every rea
son to believe that the attendance will be ex
ceedingly large. Every county in the State will
be represented, and Georgia and North Caroli
na will send delegates, to prove their interest in
the great oanse of mechanical and agricnltnral
development and white immigration.
A large number of papers upon questions of
importance to the whole South will be presented.
Among them we may mention:
1. A report on the necessity of Agricnltnral
education and teaching in the schools and col
leges of the Southern States.
2. A report on the value of various plants as
a UBefnl means of diversifying onr agriculture.
3. A report on Sonthem manufactures, show
ing the advantages possessed by the Sonth as a
manufacturing people.
4. A report on the hygienio character of
Charleston and Sonth Carolina.
These papers are in the hands of gentlemen
of marked ability and established reputation.
The convention will meet in the Academy of
Music. The body of the building will be re
served for the delegates and visitors. The
ladies will occupy the dress circle and the gal
leries. Upon the stage will ait the officers and
magnates of the convention. It will be the
largest gathering which Charleston has had since
the war—a gathering of earnest men, who have
but one aim, the well-being and progress of
Sonth Carolina and the whole Sonth.
Fort Sumter to 3E Reconstructed.—The
Charleston Courier says the wort of reconstruc
tion which has for bo long a time agitated the
country and engrossed the attention of Con
gress, has reached the classic walls of Sumter,
and now that battered old fortress, upon whose
walls so much indomitable courage has been
displayed, is to bo reconstructed. The crumb
ling walls are to be restored, embrasure, angle
and alopo to be remodelled, and an armament
to be replaced therein. In restoring the work,
it is contemplated to make it a “heavy tem-
poraiy battery," mounting thirteen heavy
calibre guns—eleven 15 inch smooth bore, and
two 12 inch rifles. It is to retain nearly its old
Bhape. The outside wall is to be rebuilt at a
height ranging from thirteen to twenty-six feet
above low water mark. Above the wall a heavy
earthen parapet will be constructed. All the
bomb-proofs and case-mates yet visible will be
filled in. A new dock and sallyport are to be
constructed on the west side, and the present
dock and stairs will be removed.
Captain Dnnlap Scott*
Is Capt. Dunlap Scott aware that he is a young
man? We doubt it, and yet the proceedings
Bhow him to be very young. We beg him to
make due allowance for the fact. Scott is de
luded with the idea that it is part and parcel of
a Democrat’s duty to do a heap of public speak
ing in the Agency, and as the Arkansas man
says, “to keep up a d—d fuss generally;” but
the whole outside world sees that a shrewd Dem
ocrat should keep his tongne still and his eyes
open. Capt. Dnnlap Scott is affected with a
verbal diarrhce3. Like old St. Peter, hi3 speech
betrayeth him. He is not easy except he’s talk
ing. We beg him to be quiet and say nothing.
Let him copy from the owL Minerva knew how
to train her birds, but Capt. Dunlap Scott never
W03 under Minerva’s training. We have no dis
respect for Capt. Dnnlap Scott. By no means.
But he ought to reflect that he’s a young man
and has a good deal to learn.
Territory vs. State.—The negroes in Augus
ta, says the Columbus Sun, nnderstood the Con
federate graves were to be decorated in May,
and they mado arrangements to celebrate the
adoption of the 15th amendment on the 26th.
Finding they were mistaken they postponed
their celebration until the 27tb, not wishing to
interfere with the honored custom of the whites.
Here in Colnmbns we find colored men offering
the use of their flower gardens to the ladies.
This is the way they do in a territory. In
Montgomery, in a so-called State, the negroes
forced the ladies to postpone the decoration of
the Confederate graves because they insolently
wanted to celebrate the adoption of the 15th
amendment on the 26th. We’d rather live in
the territory.
Bobbino Petes to Pay Paul.—The papers
charge the American Bible Society with holding
on to a bequest made by Rev. Ichabod Wash'
burae, of Worcester, Massachusetts, in the sum
of $25,00 when that bequest had been revoked
by Mr Washbume in a subsequent will, drawn
np by hi3 direction, bnt left unsigned by rea
son of the sudden death of the testator. That,
if true, is a very disgraceful and ridiculous pro
ceeding in a benevolent society. Do they sup
pose Heaven will sanction or bles3 the unright-
eons acquisition and use of money for the cause
of religion?
Sakfobds Analytical Arithmetic,—Messrs.
J. B. Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, have
just published this work, by Professor Sheldon
P. Sanford, of Mercer University. It has been
printed in beautiful style on fine paper and is
the handsomest school book we ever saw. The
work is highly recommended by J. P. Coxe,
President of the Sonthem Female College at
LaGrange, A. J. Barnes, Principal of the Jon-
ston Institute, at Monroe, and by Professor
Brantley, ofPenfield.
Feminine Doctobs.—Mrs. Carleton, a New
Hampshire lady, a medical stndent herself, re
cently lectured on “Woman in tho Medical Pro
fession.?’ She dwolt npon the fact that mid
wifery belonged exclusively to women for six
thousand years, and that to preside at the na
tivity of man was the most honorable position
which any one oonld occupy. Madame D’Ar-
blay, in the year 1663, was instrumental in
taking this department of medical practice out
of tho hands of women*
. Post Royal Railroad.—The Constitutional
ist, of Wednesday, is advised that the first train
on the Port Royal Railroad commenced running
yesterday, and will continue to run daily, from
Jamassee to Elsonville. It is expected that
trains will run to Allendale, 58 miles, within
thirty days.
Oabteesville and Van West Railroad.—
Colonel Eugene LeHardy, Civil and Topograph
ical Engineer, now Chief Engineer of the Selma,
Rome and Dalton Railroad, has been appointed
and accepts the position of Chief Engineer of
the CartersviMe and Van Wert Railroad.
. Peace in Sonin Carolina.—The Laurensville
Herald says that at thelRedical mass meeting
held in Laurensville on the 13th instant, the
Radical speakers “proclaimed to the negroes
that they would all be armed by the next elec
tion with rifles that would shoot thirty times to
the minnte.” Let us have peace !
Tbb Atlanta Intelligencer says but a few bales
of ootton came into that plaoe yesterday. How
many ia a few ? How many came in during the
year ? The dried apple trade, we eee was brisk.
/ . /\A Bad Licit. ‘
The State Government of South Carolina was
ejected from the Eutaw House, Baltimore, last
Week, on the ground that the House would not
“entertain negroes.” Here comes in the
Fifteenth Amendment, the civil rights bill, tho
United States Circuit Court and a suit at law.
White people who refuse to occupy beds and
bathtubs which have been used by the “men
and brethren” must be punished according to
the statute ih such case made and provided.—
The pnblio taste must be corrected. The nat
ural impulses of the depraved and unregenerat
ed heart must be curbed, and the party of
“great moral ideas" are the boys to do it
It is nnderstood that in order to set the nation
an illustrious example of practical opposition
to “caste” and “prejudices of color,” Sumner
and Butler are going to start in Washington a
magnificent hotel, where they will make, their
headquarters, and all applicants will be fur
nished with entertainment, “without regard to
race, color or previous condition.” George
Downing will be the lessee, Fred Douglas will
be steward and caterer, and the table d'hote
will be directed by a mixed commission from
the Boston Sorosis and the National Society for
famishing destitute African females with chig
nons.
Here the Fifteenth Amendment and the Civil
Rights Bill will be engraved upon all the table
crockery and universally respected. The guests
will be sandwiched at the table and everywhere
else possible, and the grand fundamental prin
ciples of the amended Constitution, an ad
vanced Radicalism and the great moral ideas of
the age will be enforced.
Butler stopped the Georgia bill and went
down to Cape Cad, to contract for stone for the
foundation of tho gigantic edifice, which is to
repose npon the everlasting granite of Massa
chusetts. The grand facade is to be of white
and black marble, in alternate blocks, and the
superb dining hall, five hundred feet long by
one hundred broad, will be famished through-
out—pavement, walls and ceiling—in elaborate
mosaic, in which all the colors, while placed so
as to exhibit the most striking and lively con
trasts, shall yet, in the grand tout ensemble,
present a soft blending—a cbhstened harmony
illustrative of the great political and social edi
fice which it is designed to exemplify and en
force.
Bntler and Sumner will shortly issue their
cards and invite stock subscriptions. Miss Anna
—the gentle Anna Dickinson, will inaugurate
this vast establishment with a lecture illustrating
the difference between whited and spotted sep
ulchres, and after that, the nation will move on
with some regard to equality. No Ku-Klux or
other white rebellious person will be admitted
unless with a colored partner.
This grand social reform movement is spread
ing, and it is demanded that all republicans in
the hotel business shall follow suit We are not
yet advised whether the great Kimball Hotel in
Atlanta haB consented to organize npon this
principle, but we doubt whether they will come
np to this exalted scratch for some time.
Georgia Muddle in the House.
The Washington correspondent of the Charles
ton News, of the 26th, says:
The Georgia muddle, as it is now mostflt-
ingly called, seems as far from a solution as
ever. Theconrse of the Senate in passings
bill remanding the State to a military condition,
and virtually commencing the work of recon
struction over again, does not accord with the
views of a great many Radicals in the House,
and especially meets with the opposition of
Grant, who informed some of the Ohio delega
tion yesterday that he hoped, whatever policy
Congress might adopt, with regard to the tenure-
of-office of the Bullock administration, that it
would not keep the State unrepresented any
longer in Congress. He repeated, what he has
so often said of late, that he was anxions for
the work of reconstruction to be closed up, and
all the States represented in Congress at this
session.
He is seconded in this by three well known
Radicals of the House, who have prepared bills
limiting the Bullock administration to Novem
ber next, and providing in the meantime that
the State shall have representation. It is daily
more apparent that the obnoxious presence of
Bullock on the floor of the Senate and House is
working against his own schemes. Senators
and members are disgusted with his persistent
lobbying and boring, until the Senate has
ordered an investigation into the charges of cor
ruption preferred against him in connection
with this Georgia mnddle. The evidence is
pretty conclusive that some of Bollock’s satell-
ities have endeavored to influence legislation
against the Bingham amendment by bribery
and corruption. Besides this, Bullock was per
sistently snubbed in the Senate daring the strag
gle on Tuesday night. Even Butler snubbed
him with the cut direct in the presence of the
crowded galleries, by turning away and refus
ing to converse with him. The temper of the
House is decidedly against the Senate bill, and
if the iatter body desire to let Georgia in at this
session they most swing loose from Bullock’s
demands and come over to the more conserva
tive views of the House.
Napoleon to the French.
The Emperor’s manifesto the French con
cludes as follows:
I address all the French people; you who,
sinoe the 10th day of December in the year
1318, placed meat your head, have recom
pensed me by your affection, and call on you
to give me a new proof of your confidence in
me, by casting an affirmative vote in the ple
biscite. Such a vote is a vote against threaten
ed revolution; such a vote assures order; such
a vote renders easy for me and for Franco the
transmission of the crown to my son. Let your
vote be unanimous as it was eighteen years
since. A great .nation, in order to secure the
fruits of its own "development, most support in
stitutions guaranteeing national stability and
progress. Let the people answer “Yes” on the
day of election, in order to ratify by their voice
the liberal reform which they have enjoyed dur
ing the past ten years. For my port, faithful
to my origin and confident in the providence of
God, I will continue to work incessantly for the
prosperity of France.
It becomes indispensable that tho new con
stitutional pact shall be approved by the people,
as were formerly the constitutions of the repub-
lio and of the empire. At those epochs it was
believed, even as I myself believe to-day, that
anything done without you was illegitimate.
The constitution of imperial and democratic
France may be reduced to a small number of
fundamental provisions, which cannot be chang
ed without your consent; yonr decision will
have the advantage of rendering definite the
process already made, and of placing beyond
the influence of political fluctuations the princi
ples of the government. I address myself to
all of yon who, from the 10th of December,
1848, surmoanted all obstacles to place mo at
yonr head; to you who for twenty-two years
have without cessation guarded me by yonr suf
frages, sustained me by your co-operation, re
warded me by yonr affection. Give me a new
proof of confidence in bringing to the ballot
box an affirmative vote. Yon will exorcise the
menaces of revolution; you will place order
and liberty on a solid basis, and you will render
easier in the future the transmission of the
crown to my son. Yon have almost unanimous
ly for eighteen years clothed me with the most
extensive powers; be also signally unanimous
to-day in supporting the transformation of the
imperial regime. A great nation has no way of
attaining its development without resting on in
stitutions which guarantee at tho same time
stability and progress. To the call which I
make on you to ratify the liberal reforms real
ized during the past ten years reply, “Yes.”
As for myself, faithful to my origin, I shall con
tinue penetrated by your thoughts and fortified
by yonr will and, confiding in Providence, shall
work without cessation for tho prosperity and
the grandeur of France. Napoleon.
Governor Ballocli’s Message. •
We lay before our readers, says the Constitu
tion, the following message of Governor Bufus
B. Bullock, of Georgia, communicated to the
Chairman and members of the Joint Commit
tee, appointed by the Legislature, on the 25th
of April, 1870, and whioh was yesterday sub
mitted to the Legislature by the Committee:
Exxounvx Department, )
Atlanta, Ga., April ,2f, 1*70. j
Tp the Honorable Chairman and Members of
the Joint Committee appointed by joint reso-
lution of the Provisional Legislature, April
25, 1870:
Gentlemen : After having had the benefit of
p fall and free consultation with yourselves,
and in yonr company, with Gen.' Terry, touch
ing the subject matter of the resolution by
which yonr committee was authorized ,to act, I
would most respectfully recommend to you,
and through you to the Legislature, that, by
joint resolution, the appropriation act of 1869
be, in proper proportion, continued for the first
and second quarters of this year; that the
Comptroller General be authorized to proceed
under the tax act of 1869, and that your honor
able body then adjonrtx until such time in the
near future as will be most likely to embrace
the action of Congress for the recognition of
the State and her admission into the Union;
and I would respectfully suggest the first Wed
nesday in July as a convenient time for re
assembling.
The recommendation in regard to the reso
lution for appropriations, etc., is made because
we have the assurance of the General command
ing this district, that, owing to the pressing
necessity for such action, he will give validity
to the resolutions, and authorize them to take
effect. And the adjournment pending the
action of Congress is recommended because of
the peculier political condition in which we are
placed. The government of the State being
provisional, subject in all respects to the Dis
trict Commander under the reconstruction acts,
the Legislature can not proceed to general leg
islation, unless it shall organize by administer
ing the test oath to its members. This position
is established by the opinion of the honorable
Attorney General of the United States in the
case of Virginia. That opinion I bad the honor
to quote in my communication to the Legisla
ture of February 2, 1870, as follows:
“It is required under the previous law to act
upon the question of adopting the * * [Amend
ments] to the Constitution of the United States
before the admission of the State to represen
tation in Congress. I am of the opinion, there
fore, that it may come together, organize, and
act npon that Amendment, but that until Con
gress shall have approved the Constitution, and
the action under it, and shall have restored the
State to its proper place in the Union, by re
cognizing its form of Government as Republi
can, and admitting it to representation, the
Legislature is not entitled, and could not, with
out violation of law, be allowed to transact any
business, pass any aot or resolve, or undertake
to assume any other function of a Legislature,
if the test oath has not been required of its
members.”
* The Legislature having adopted the funda
mental conditions and amendments required
by the several Reconstruction Acts, and having
elected Senators, the question whether Congress
shall have approved the Constitution and the
action under it, and shall have restored the State
to its proper place in the Union by recognizing
its form of government as republican, and ad
mitting it to representation, is now under con
sideration by CongreBS, and is not yet decided,
it wonld, in my opinion, be unwise, if not un
lawful, to attempt to enter upon general legis
lation.
I am assured by the General Commanding the
District, that he will approve a resolution of the
Legislature providing for the appointment of a
committee, such as was asked for by me in my
communication to the Legislature in February
last, and which I herewith respectfully repeat
as follows:
“I shall esteem it a personal and an official
favor if your honorable body will authorize a
Joint Committee to sit daring the recess and
investigate the indirect charges made by the
Treasurer through the public prints against the
Executive, as well as any and all charges he may
now have to present. I would respectfully rec
ommend that the Committee be authorized to
send for persons and papers, and to administer
oaths.” i
It is also respectfully recommended that this
Committee be authorized and direoted to in
quire as to the Treasurer's use of the public
money for his own personal benefit, and into
the system of bookkeeping in the Treasurer’s
office.
I would recommend farther and finally, that
a committee be authorized and directed to in
quire into the financial condition and opera
tions of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
As yon, gentlemen of the Committee, under
stand from the interview with the General
Commanding the District, he desires to avoid
the exercise of any authority whatever in the
matter now pending, other than the approval
which I have heretofore referred to, but ex
pressed the opinion that it would be unwise to
enter upon any general legislation at this time.
I would, therefore, very respectfully repeat
and ask your honorable committee to communi
cate the same to the Legislature, with my re
commendation, that, after having duly consid
ered and adopted such regulations with regard
to the appropriations, the Tax Act, and the
committees for investigation as the wisddm of the
General Assembly shall dictate, the two Houses
adjourn until such day as that honorable body
may determine to be proper for reassembling.
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
Rufus B. Bullock.
Last Day’s Proceedings of tbe Gcor
gia Baptist Convention.
The Executive Committee was elected by bal
lot as follows: Thos Stocks, T J Barney," D E
Butler, P B Robinson, W G Woodfin, J E Wil-
let, JR Sanders, Treasurer, JT Burney.
W L Kilpatrick was appomfed to preach the
Introductory Sermon next year, (F M Daniel
alternate,) and H H Tucker to preach the Edu
cation Sermon, (L R GwaJcney alternate.)
Reports on Education, the State of Religion,
Temperance, the Report of the Board of Trus
tees of Mercer University, the Report of the
Executive Committee, and Finance, were read
and adopted. Fromche latter report it appears
that $1,178 05 were received by tho Committee
daring this session, and $242 72 contributed
directly to the objects named and reported to
the Committee. Collections daring the meeting,
$430 70; total, $1,851 49.
The names of tho Committee to act with the
Board of Trmtees of Mercer University,, were
announced a: follows:
Georgia Association, J H Kilpatrick; Reho-
both, J S Iawtop; Central, G S Obear; Wash
ington, WI Harley; Flint River, J D Stewart;
Fairburn, G R Moore; Ebenozer, G R McCall;
Hepzibat, W H Davis; Bethel, R J Bacon; Bow
en, R TJeming; Western, U B Wilkinson; Co
lumbus, O O Willis; Friendship, G A Loftin;
Mercer, J McBride; Middle Cherokee, J G Ry-
als; t^r.rta, F H Ivey; Stone Mountain, W T
Atkiison; New Sunbury, W n Stark; Appa-
lachae, G A Normally; Houston, L Joiner.
It was resolved to make Gartersville, Ga., the
plaM of meeting next year.
Americas News.
The Richmond Dispatch’s Washington special
of the 25th says -
It has been discovered to-day that $20,000
were brought here reoently from Georgia by
Bullock to be used in affecting Congressional
legislation for Georgia. The draft was drawn
upon the State fund of. Georgia in the firm name
of Dykes, Chadwick & Co. proprietors of Wil
lard s Hotel, where Bullock puts up, and was
payable to the order of Biggs A Co., bankers,
ot this city.
Tho following is from the Americas Republi
can of yesterday:
On Tuesday, the 26th, the graves of the Con
federate dead In the Americas Cemetery were
decorated. Quite a number of our citizens
turned out on the occasion, though not with the
zeal or unanimity which should have been exhi
bited. We do not know what cause we can as-
scribed for this lack of Reasonless it be due to the
entire want of management on the part of those
claiming control of the affair. In the first place,
no one seemed to know what was going to take
place. Although thero are two newspapers pub
lished in the city, and both were willing to pub
lish the programme, yet no one could obtain
any information. In the second place the hour
chosen was altogether inappropriate. It should
have taken place in the evening.
Rather Antediluvian.—On Tuesday morn
ing the Mayor sent his black man, Friday,
around to the various places of business with a
written order to close up business, and attend
the decoration. It forcibly recalled to mind
the time when there were neither newspapers,
telegraph wires, nor any other new fangled
notions “to fright the souls of fearful adversa
ries.” .
Dr. Bond thus touohes a peculiarity of the
negro race:
Bnt as yet negroes show no passion for work
among negroes.^ Their philanthropy Inevitably,
takes a tangential direction towards white soci
ety. Unlike Moses, who abandoned the culti
vated Egyptians to devote his educated talents
to his own rude people, the educated American
negro finds in his eduoation only a claim for
separation from his race and presumption of
nearer relation to ours. As soon as a negro be
comes a physician he wants to doctor white peo
ple, to associate with white doctors, to be un-
ntgroed by his diploma.
THE GEORGIA STATE AGRICUL
TURAL SOCIETY.
To all Whom It may Concern:
Atlanta, Ga., April 26, 1870.
Th e office of Secretary of the Georgia State
Agricultural Society having become vacant by
the resignation of the late incumbent, I here
by, by virtue of the power invested in me, as
the President of the Sooiety, issue this notice,
♦hat, on Wednesday, the 22d June Aext, an elec
tion will be held in this city, to fill the vacanoy.
All members, aa well as those who.may become
members by tho payment of two dollars for the
card which entities them to all the privileges
of Membership, for the year 1870, and to access
to the Fair Grounds, and the privilege of ex
hibiting articles for premium, without further
charge, will be entitled to vote. Members who
live at a distanoe can vote by proxy or ,'by en
dorsing their ballots to the President. The
order, and mode, and place of holding the elec
tion, will be published in the newspapers of the
city, on the morning of the election. Persons
wishing to become candidates, must make it
known in such timt and manner as they deem
proper.
The President srtight to obviate the expense
and inconvenience4o members and the necessi
ty of holding this election at a season so impor
tant to planters, ty addressing a letter to those
gentlemen who vere supposed to be legal mem
bers of the society—giving them the names of
the gentlemen vho were candidates, and asking
them to commmicate to them by letter their
choice, intendng, when all tho votes were re
ceived, to opei them in the presence of Mr. E.
C. Bawson, tie resident member of the Execu:
tive Committie, and the Assistant Secretary,and
announce tin result. When the time had near
ly arrived vhen these votes were to be opened
and conntid, a communication was received
from a mtuberof gentlemen, who, perhaps,
had been nembers for a previous year, but who
were not nembers by the payment of the initia
tion fee, i>2, claiming the privilege of voting,
and deducing that if not permitted to vote by
paying row the $2 fee, they would contest the
electionas illegal, and resist the payment of
the salary of any Secretary elected without their
votes lsing counted, as illegal. Pending the
time bitween the determination to holdthe elec
tion in the manner first proposed and the count
ing of the votes, many gentlemen had called on
me to know if persons who paid now and be
came members conld vote in this election. ' I
decided, and so informed them, that it was not
lawful or right for persons, after the polls were
opened and the election in progess, who were
heretofore so indifferent to the interests of the
Soeiety, as not to become members, now, in the
eleventh hour, to take advantage of locality and
proximity to the scene, and come in: and, by
means and nnmbers, o' -y an important elec
tion over the heads of : ie few legal members
who, merely through motive of pure and unself
ish interest in the cause of Agriculture, renewed
their membership, and thus gave their names
and means to the society. Tins ruling was in
accordance with the plain law of the Society. I
have not modified it, that the payment of $25
created a family life membership; $10 an indi
vidual life membership, and $2 membership for
tiie year only in whioh itwas made, the year ex
piring with the close of the first Annnal Fair
thereafter.
I am conscious of rectitude and no personal
interest in this matter. Ever anxious in my *p-
ministration of the business of the Society, to
be legal and jnst, and to extend the influence of
tiie Society, and to produce the greatest harmo
ny, I have concluded to yield to the views of
the gentlemen whose interest in behalf of one
ot the candidates induced them to make the
protest referred to, though in justice to the mo
tives of the gentlemen referred to, I most ox-
press my belief that they made the threat to at
tack the validity of the election proposed to be
held in ignorance of the rales of the Society.
In adopting the course now laid down in this
notiee, I hope all objections will be obviated,
and am assured it will add largely to the mem
bership as well as to the revenue of the Society,
The thanks of the Society are due, and here
by tendered to the press of the State, for their
liberality in giving pnblioity and circulation to
the cards and notices of the Society, and the
favor is asked of the publication of this notice
in all the papers of tiie State, it being one of
the most important it has ever issued.
Cards of membership will be sent to all edi
tors and publishers who will publish this notice
and send a copy of the paper containing the
notice to the Secretary’s office.
Cards of membership will be famished eaoh
member of the Executive Committee from
whom they may be obtained by persons wishing
to become members by the payment of $2.
The Secretary will famish these cards to such
person 03 may apply directly, by letter or oth
erwise, to him for them. , Ben. C. Yancey,
President Georgia State Agricultural Sooiety.
Honor Yonr Business.
We commend this paragraph, from the Lon
don Economist, to all who have a “vocation:
“ It is a good sign when a man is proud of
his work or his calling. Yet nothing is more
common than to hear men finding fanlt ! contin
ually with their particular business, and deem
ing themselves unfortunate because fastened to
it by the necessity of gaining a livelihood. In
this spirit men fret and laboriously destroy all
their comforts in the work ; or they change
their business, and go on miserably, shifting
from one thing to another, until the grave or
the poor-house gives them a fast grip. But
while occasionally a man fails in life because he
is not in the plaoe fitted for his peculiar talent,
it happens ten times oftener that failure results
from neglect, ,and even contempt of an honest
business. A man should put his heart into
everything he does. There is not a profession
that has not its peculiar cares and vexations.
No man will escape annoyance by changing
business. No mechanical business is altogether
agreeable. Commerce, in its endless varieties,
is effected like all other human pursuits, with
trials, unwelcome duties, and spirit-stiring
necessities. It is the very wantonness of folly
for a man to search out toe frets and burdens
of his calling, and give his mind every day to
the consideration of them. They belong to hu
man life. They are inevitable. Brooding over
them only gives them strength. On toe other
hand, a man has power given to him to shed
beauty and pleasure upon the .homeliest toil, if
he is wise. Let a man adopt his business and
identify it with pleasant associations, for God
has given ns imaginations not alone to make
some poets, but to enable all men to beautify
homely things. Heart-varnish will cover np
innumerable evils and defects. Look at the
good thing. Accept your lot as a man does a
piece of rugged ground, and begin to get out
toe rocks and roots, to deepen v and mellow the
soil, to enrich and plant it. There is something
in the most forbidding avooation around which
a man may twine pleasant fancies, out of whioh
he may develope an honest pride.”
The New York Journal of Commerce, in no
ticing the passage of toe Senate bill, says
The amended Georgia bill is perhaps the best
that could have passed the Senate in toe present
uncharitable temper of that branch. It is but
little consolation, however, to say that it might
have been worse. The bill is a very bad one,
in that it continues toe dominion of the Federal
bayonet over toe State as long as Congress
choose to maintain it, fixing no time for toe ad
mission of Georgia to representation. What
ever Georgia may hereof ter do to win the es
teem and confidence of Congress, she is still at
their mercy as much so as she was the day that
toe rebellion ended with the surrender of Lee.
The bill as toe Senate passed it settles nothing;
but leaves the distracting Georgia question,
which has profitlessly occupied so mnoh time
this session, to be fought all over again at the
next one, and so on. We hope that toe House
will rise superior to the miserable bigotry that
prevails in the other chamber, and whatever
other regulations they may see fit to provide for
the Georgia elections, will at least name some
time when the State may be admitted to Con
gress. It is not so mnoh toe outrageous inter
ference of Congress with the locaj politics of
the State, or toe perpetuation of' armed rule
over her territory, that we object to—though
these things are unnecessary and cruel—as the
indefinite postponement of her admission. Let
toe people of Georgia be able to see that that
result is possible at an early day/ and. courage
and hope will take the place of the doubt and
despondency that now prevail among them.
The Crops.—The Columbus Enquirer says: ’
Beports concerning toe damage done to toe
cold snap of last week are various. Most of the
accounts say that the injury to vegetation was
slight; but we notiee that the Early County
News says that garden and other tender vegeta
tion was nipped in ita neighborhood, and the
'Marianna Courier expresses the opinion that
the bottoms, if not a largo proportion of toe up
lands, will require re-planting in cotton.
Corn, in this vicinity, was turned yellow, and
looked qaite sickly for a few days, but it is now
gaining a good color again. We presume that
there was very little, if any, cotton up in this
region.
THE COXING WAR.
Heft™ of American OtHeers to Egypt*
From Wilkes' Spirit of the Times. /
Though Europe appears, at present, to be m
a reasonably tranquil state, and (barring the
petulant disturbances in France and Spain) may
be said to be snoring in the very lap of peace*
it is evident to ns, from many signs around us
here, that a great war is upon the point of
breaking forth across the ocean. A war wlych.
is destined to envelope top whole of toe Eastern
Hemisphere, and probablygive a new commer
cial destiny to Asia. 1 J] f
It is % little singular thaf'no distinct warning
of this coming storm has been given to the
world through the European press; and still
more strange, with the many, special signs :of'it
which have been springing here under our very
eyes, that no Amerioan journalist has seen their
drift, or pointed to the crisis.
The war that we speak of is the obvious breach
which is now imminent between the Pacha of
Egypt and the Sultan, the former aetjug under
the patronage of Bnssia, and the latter stand
ing not only for his authority in Egypt, bnt for
his foothold in Stamboul. This Egyptian move
ment has evidently been going on nnder the
impalse of toe Sultan's hereditary enemy, and
the money which the Pacha has spent in the
United States daring the last two years for arms,
and toe millions likewise lavished by him upon
toe festivities of last December, may also be
credited, in large part, to the Bussian treasury.
But toe most significant of all the signs
which toe Faoha has given of toe friend who
instigates and counsels him is to be found in
the fact, not only that he has bought his arms
in toe United States, bnt has sought among toe
Federal officers who figured in the late rebellion
the chieftains for his. army. Prominent among
toe officers whom he has selected is Gen. Stone,
who, it will be recollected, commanded at Ball’s
Bluff, and who takes ship this week to assume
either toe commandership of His Highness’
armies or the rank next to it. On the Helvetia,
which sailed last Saturday, and which bore the
new Consul-General of Egypt, Col. John H.
Butler and his staff, were three or four young
American officers, also en’ route to Egypt—
among whom we may mention Colonel Sparrow
Purdy, formerly of Newton’s and Franklin’s
staffs, who enters the Pacha’s service with the
full rank of Colonel of Engineers.
Here we have signs sufficient of a large mea
sure of the war which i3 now on the point of
cracking with its own fulness, but of whom no
journal has yet spoken. To what enormous
limits such a war as this may finally extend, we
have unbounded warrant for conjecture. France
must take sides, and so must England, the mo
ment Russia moves. Bat France has the most
immediate reason to interfere. She can have
no interest in strengthening toe Pasha by toe
weakening of the Sultan, to say nothing of the
danger which such a debilitation of the Otto
man Empire would lead to, in the opportunity
it would afford for an undue extension of Rus
sia to the Mediterranean. Franoe united with
Great Britain to prevent that danger once be
fore, and since then it haB become more neces
sary still that she should curb the Russian pow
er. Besides, war between toe Pasha and the
Saltan would inevitably lead to the blockade of
the Suez Canal, a thing which France conld not
tolerate, but which England would be glad of,
because of the superiority of her marine by
toe old routes to India.
In both of these respects, however, and which
ever way the problem of toe ocean routes to In
dia might turn, Russia stands prepared to be
the gainer. She cares not for the route to Hin-
dostan by Suez, or for toe more tedious jour
neys round toe capes. Her road to toe E&t is
by a straight line; Westward, overland; and
thus tapping China and Hindostan in toe cen
tre, she may fling the riches of toe Orient by
rail to Brest, and tons settle toe problem of the
China trade, so far as Europe is concerned, in
seven days. The iron road aoross the European
continent is already more than two-thirds done,
while oars is entirely finished; so, with nothing
bnt the Atlantic lying in between these equal
railway spans of 3,500 miles each, toe world
will soon be belted with commercial traffic (even
at toe present rates of railway speed), in twen
ty-four days. By and by, when railways are
properly improved whioh must be toe case with
in ten or fifteen yearB, toe pendulum transit,
swinging from San Francisco Eastward, in a
straight line over the broad land, via New York
and Brest, to China, at the rate of fifty miles an
hoar while on toe land, and at the rate of ten
miles the hour where the dull sea comes in, will
barely occupy sixteen days. We shall then hear
bnt little more abont the Suez Canal, while the
burlesques of a short ship cut through toe nar
row neck of Darien and Panama—that foolish
fable of 400 years—will cease even to remain a
dream. Man in the new found power with
which he has already spaned this continent and
even pierced theadamantine Alps, will then shun
the ocean, because he can go round the world
with the sound earth nnder him, and with noth
ing to impede his flight more stubborn than the
air.
This is what Russia is looking to, among her
other calculations of toe coming Moslem war;
and her skilled captains, along with ours, both
wearing the turban nnder the banner of the
Viceroy, will contend with a mutual friendli
ness for a common destiny. Between us we
will command the commerce of the world; and
possibly Russia, putting her officers, at some
future day, at the head of 400,000,000 Chinese,
may sweep Hindostan to her coasts, and then'
playing, again, the part of Rome, swarm baok
over Western Enrope, and plant her standard
on eivery abutment of toe continent, from
Gibraltar to the frozen ocean. This is the most
likely mode by which the prophets will realize
their dream of a common family; the only de
fect in the picture being that America will hold
the same proud position on this continent as
Russia does on hers, and thus, between them,
divide toe empire of the world.
Building np the Sonth.
An excellent symptom, in the new movement
of population and industry, now so rapidly tend
ing Southward, says the New York Commercial
Jonmal, is that bodies of settlers, of both na
tive and foreign birth, are starting out with toe
co-operative principle, combining their experi
ence in various practical pursuits with moder
ate capital offered to them by responsible par
ties. We have heard of several enterprises of
this kind, within two or three weeks, and are in
clined to augur well for their success.
Only a few days ago, an expedition of abont
100 persons sailed for a certain point in Florida,
taking with [them implements, cottages in de
tached pieces that may be run np in a few hours,
seeds and live stock. Another set out last week
for Georgia, and there are several more about
to leave New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore, for Southern destinations.
Among these small colonies which have lately
been, or just about to be established, the Swiss
and German community at Grutli, in Grundy
county, Tennessee, already in operation, may
servo as a very fair specimen. One of onr
valued German exchanges, toe Baltimore Weck-
er, gives a long and interesting detailed account
of it, in a series of letters from the spot, and
the encouragement they afford may be useful
to other intending colonies and settlers. In
October, 1869, there were fifteen lots, of 100
acres eaoh, left for sale to private parties, of
the original purchase. In less than two weeks
after the fact was made publicly known, all of
them were taken np. The result was that the
Swiss OodsuI from Knoxville visited the spot,
and made two additional purchases for the
colony not far from Traoy City, and lying along
the Ohattanooga Road.
This is toe true way to go to work, and we
are happy to know that these spots of light are
swiftly breaking out over the surface of those
portions of tbe South which have hitherto been
reposing in the silence aud darkness of the
primitive wilderness. These are “armies of
peace " which are destined to achieve toe truly
grand triumphs of our time, and we take all
the more pride in their steady and victorious
maroh that, from first to last, in spite of all dis
couragement—the forebodings of the timid and
toe Bneers of toe skeptical--we have urged and
favored this emigration of the sturdy European
stock to the Canaan of the South. Already the
bug-bear stories of a deadly climate and hostile
population have been soattered to toe winds,
and the margin of Northern culture, industry
and thrift begins to fringe toe Gulf.
Experiments made in Germany by the mili
tary authorities show that a sheet of ice, three
inches thick, affords a perfectly safe passage
for infantry or horses, marohing in single file,
and for light carriages; with a thickness of six
inches it will bear all sorts of wagons and can
non. Tho strength of tho ice may be inoreosed
by oovering it with straw and laying planks un
der toe wagon wheels.
Tam Prussian Government has military maps
of every foot of its territory, so complete that
every hill, ravine, brooklet, field And forest is
delineated with perfect aconraoy. It is a com
mon-boast of Prussian military men, that within
eight days 850,000 men can be concentrated to
toe defence of any single point within the king
dom.
It is no sign because a man makes * stir in
the oc^nmunity that be is a spoon. ' '
Going to Meetfag.
. V .BYHEJtBY wabd akr/HVR
- The old Litchfield (Conn.) “meeting house”
^tood on the “Green,” very nearly at the in
tersection of the two main streets of the town.
There it stood, solitary, solemn and homely
There was not a single line or fixture in it sug
gesting taste or beauty. But that which the
architect had neglected, the worshipers sup
pled. The hearts of thousands of men and
women who had worshiped there from child
hood to old age, had thrown the color of the
deepest, feelings upon the gaunt old church,
and no doubt, in their eyes, the old wooden
“meeting house” looked more beautiful than
did Parthenon to the Greeks.
The building was square, with two stories of
windows, and a high Bteep roof, on which the
snow had hard work to lie in the winter. The
windows were large, with panes of glass six
by eigh£ in size, full.of warts and wrinkles,
through which external objects were seen by
our young eyes in'the most grotesque distor
tion.
The ooming on of Saturday night was always
a serious business with the youngsters. We
had no stores of religious experience on which
it is presumed the old folks meditated; and the
prospect of a whole day without anything in it
to amuse us, was not a little gloomy. On no
night of the week did the frogs croak so dis
mally, or the tree-toads whistle in a mood so
melancholy, as on Saturday night.
But those blazing summer mornings! What
a wealth of light spread over that blessed old
hill-top! What a wondrous silence dwelt in the
found heavens above our head! The birds sang
on. The crows in the distance called to each
other in hoarse discourse. The trees stood in
calm beauty—the great giant trees, tall, pliant,
graceful; the perfection of strength and beauty.
AIL this we saw and heard while buttoning on
our Sunday clothes by the side of our open
window. For the oow and horse had been
foddered, and the pigs fed, and all the ham
chores done up, and a bountiful breakfast
eaten, and our hands and faces washed, and
every article of apparel, from shoo to hat had
changed from a secular to a sacred use. Not
the every-day hat—soft, shapeless, universal
instrument—used as a liquid or solid measure;
used now for the head and now for a foot-ball;
used for a net to catch butterflies, or to throw
at wasps; no, not this bag, pocket, pouch and
magazine; but the Sunday hat, round, stiff,
hard and respectable.
Although the new hat was always disagree
able to our head, yet we had a wonderful rev
erence for it, and spent no inconsiderable por
tion of our time in church in getting it dirty,
and then brushing it clean.
Our jacket, too, was new. Only a handker
chief was then_ in the pocket; no knife, no
marbles, no strings, no stones, no fish-hooks
or dried angle worms. No; a boy’s Sunday
pocket of the olden time was purged of all
temptation. In meeting time we ofteii put our
little hands down into our Sunday pocket with
a melancholy wish, “Oh, if I only had my
other clothes on!
As sobn as we were dressed and mustered
in the sitting room, an inspection was had.
The collar was pulled up a little, the hair had
a fresh lick from the brush, the mouth must
bo wiped with a wet towel, the shoestring tied,
and after being turned round and round, we
were started off.
“Now Henry, be a good boy.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“You must not laugh or tease Harriet”
“No, ma’am.”
“Don’t stop on the road—go right in when
you get to church.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
Fvery word was sincerely promised, and offi*
ciously broken in ten minutes. -
Oh, how high the trees seemed! Oh, how
bright the heavens were 1 Oh, how hard it
was not to play with Chester Covington’s dog,
that came running to us with hark and frolic,
Here go the people! The Lords are not
going to-day. The Landons have gone on the
other side, with the Bacons and the Champi
ons and the Demings. On one side came forth
the “Miss Pierces,” as they were called, the
Braces, Dr. Sheldon, Dr. Catlin, Colonel Tal-
mage, tall and stately, Judge Gould, and mul
titudes of others. The long street was full of
people. The first bell had rung., It was de
corous for every one to be in his plaoe by the
time the tolling was over. Among all these
we made our wa^—kindly people—many of
whom looked benignantly forth upon us from
Sunday bonnets, but no one saying a word.
. The old musical bell up in the belfry was
busy tolling. It was the only thing that was
allowed to work on Sunday—the bell and the
minister. That bell-rope was always an object
of desire and curiosity, in our young days. It
ran up into such dark and mysterious spaces.
What there was up in those pokerisk heights
in The belfiy tower we did not know, but some
thing that made onr flesh creep. Ooce we
ventured to pull that rope. It was a bold and
venturesome thing, we know. But a sorcery
was on us. It come gently and easily to the
hand. We pulled again. “Dong! dong!”
went tho bell. The old sexton put his head
out of the door when, on that particular morn
ing service had begun, and said, in a very
solemn and low tone, “Boy 1 boy 1 you little
-youl” and much more, I presume,
Railroad I1&
toa, Eafcmtoa *ad
Athens.
Eusaratw,,
Thare ought to bo a raflroad
oon, through (Minton, Eatonton,
son, and on to Athens, ffhls wouia
direot route—indeed as near an air fia,'
of those that are so called. Atpn *
nam county, thanks to that great .w
toe Central Railroad, is virtually oonfl^l
market, to-wit: Savannah. She 0 *nil l |
and meat cheaper in Macon than ia fijl
toe former is much nearer to her,
the freight is less, so that it would h. 4
saving for her to purchase these nrGj
the Bibb capital. Fertilizers, and rIN
oles, too. could be bonghtto better^!
in Macon, by Pntaam county planted
the seaport. The trade of Putnami.
heavy one, and the profits accminDft
factors, grocery merchants, provision!
etc., are immense. Business men nG
will yon make a note of this fact forvLl
gnidanoe ?
Putnam is quite a cotton-growing e™,
is probable the number of bales ?
limits does not fall very far short ofv j
sand bales. Besides, a considerable
of the cotton raised in Jasper county i« j
at Eatonton, as well as a little
The road I speak of would carry a nJr
this cotton to Macon, or throm* ] 01
Brunswick—for, the privilege ofew-,
tween two sea-ports is ono of the
whioh I wish to secure to toe peopfe
line of the proposed road. DorttL*!
toe cotton of Jones county which no 8
Savannah would, if it had a prone,
its way through Macon to BrunsCl n.J
not a doubt that much of the oL,,,
Putnam, Morgan and Clarke coMl ,q
pass over this road, and it is very wa; 1
Macon wonld gain a host of solid eocij
customers that are now forced to tnal
where.
This article is hastily written, and
as a mere hint, perhaps to be enlarged*
a future time. ”
Tbe Garden or Eden.
The New York Herald says:
Our correspondent in this ancient i
after ascending in a Turkish steamlL
Euphrates and the Tigris to Bagdad, vrSj
the site of the Garden of Eden, bytrafoL
located at the junction of the Enpbrjj
the Tigris, at an Arab village called
(abont a hundred miles above the Persbtj
and that this is the only place whi<4. j
essential points, (including tbe foorji
agrees with the Scriptural narrative of tta
roundings of Paradise. * ‘To look at Ki
says onr correspondent, “it is by no t_
Paradisaical abode,though it is certainlul
more inviting location than many othaj
along these rivers. Soattered along the td
some couple of hundred houses, madeiJ
and thatch, while nearly on the extras J
where the rivers meet, a shanty has
for a telegraph station;” and we agree^J
traveller that “it is carious, indeed, tc J
the site of toerastia arbor in which*J
parents billed and cooed being appn
a resting-place for commercial b&J
newspaper dispatches.” We are frntsl
that “the town people live chiefly by del
vation of dates, of which there are several I
tations enclosedby mud walls;” thalbesiij
date there is only one other kind of trees
locality, which, toongh not a fig tree, iil
dered of its leaves by every traveller t]
venirs; that two or three years ago then
trees of Kornehwere carried off to the!
residency at Margin, and are much e
lineal descendants of the trees from i
leaves Adam and Eve made themselves ■
■ESliwBSnHHHHX
but I did not wait ;for it, but cut round to the
other door, and sat all church time trembling,
and wondering whether he would tell “my
pa;” and if he did, what he would say, and
more especially what he would do. I "called
up the probable interview. I had numerous
precedents on which to found a possible expe
rience, and afflicted our little soul all meeting
time with needless punishment by the imagi
nation.
Butordinarily we escaped into the minister’s
yew without special temptations. Imagine a
joy of eight years old, round as an apple,
hearty and healthy, an hour and a half in
church with nothing to do. We looked at the
galleries full oFboys and girls, and wished we
might go into the galleries. We looked at the
ceiling, traced all the cracks hack and forth.—
We looked at the dear old aunties all around
the church, fanning themselves with one hand
and eating fennel seed ora bit of dried orange
peeling out of tho other. We gazed out of
the window high above our head into the
clouds, and wished we could only climb up
and see the trees and horses and dogs that
abound around the church on Sunday.
Gradually these died out, and we dropped
asleep. Blessed liberty! the child’s gospel.
All trouble fled away, For a half-hour’s para
dise was gained. But then an unusual thump
op the pulpit Bible, and the ring arid roar of
a voice under full excitement, that went on
swelling like a trumpet, and that no one, not
the most listless, could hear without catching
its excitement, waked us, blushing and con
fused that we had been asleep in church!—
Even on the serene and marble face of mother
the faint suggestion of a smile came, as we
clutched our Eat, supposing the meeting to be
overhand then sheepishly dropped ana sank
back in dismay. But even Sunday cannot hold
out forever, and meetings have to let out some
timel So, at length, a universal stir and
bustle announced that it was time to go. Up
we bolted! Down we sat as quick as if a mil
lion pins were sticking in our foot I The right
leg was asleep 1 Limping forth into the open
air, relief came to our heart. The being out
of doors had always an inexpressible charm,
and never so much as on Sunday. Away went
the wagons. Away went the people. The
whole green swarmed with folks. In ten min
utes all were” gone, and the street was given
up again to the birds 1
Little good did preaching do me until after
I was fifteen years old—little good, immedi
ately. Yet, the. wholo Sunday—the peculiar
influence which it exerted on the household,
the general sense of awe which it inspired, the
venr rigor of its difference from other days,
ana the suspended animation of its sermon
time, served to produce upon the young mind
a profound impression. A day that stood out
from all others in a hard gaunt way, might
perhaps be justly critioised. But it left its
mark. It did its work upon the imagination,
if not upon the reason. It had a power in it,
and in estimating moral excellence, power is
an element of the utmost importance. Will
our smooth, ooozy, feeble modern Sundays
have such a grip on the moral nature ? They
are far pleasanter. Are they as efficacious?
Will they educate tho moral nature as much ?
m [A! 'H Ledger.
Mercer University.—The Constitution fs of
opinion tote Mercer University abattid St lo
cated in ^ *^1 -. * ■ • ”
'cl+iSaOk
Commodore Vanderbilt is turning tiis
tion to the erection of a magnificent str
iron and glass on Fourth Avenue, Xev II
for the use of the cars of his sevenl lial
railway. The edifice, when completed, rij
the largest, most costly and imposing ini
of the kind on this continent. The weig!
iron to be used will be over 8,000,000 p
It will require 100,000 square feetof i_
the roof alone, and 90,000 square
ized corrugated iron to cover the roci. ,
roof over the car-house will extend on
area limited south and west by the ^
buildings, east by Fourth Avenue t
by a line thirty feet six inches i
Forty-fifty street. The entire length ot tel
will be six hundred and fifty-two feet, aJ
be one hundred and ninety-nine feet twrnf
in width between toe walls, and suppx
thirty-two arched trusses, placed twe?|
four inches apart The great arches i
npon the foundation, whose upper fact 4
feet below the surface of the ground, :'
an elevation of ninety-four feet from the s!
ing line to toe extrados of the arcb. Ij
pot is intended to accommodate the t-k
the Harlem, Hudson River and New Tcd|
tral Railroads. The car : house will have u
modations for twelve single trains, while, ifl
necessary, double or even treble thatry
can be accommodated. It is expected j
open to the public by January, 1871.
Farming; in Brooks.
Quitman, Brooks Coustt, Gt.
April 19,1874J
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
Sir—I am not in toe habit of writing«
for publication, but I feel that it is the d
some one to make'known to yon andywj
era generally, the following faots conns
toe farming of Mr. Flavins E. Young, >>|
respected citizen of this county.
In the first place, Mr. Yonng’s physktj
ia very poor, having had a heart diseaiy
years, and of oonrse, must be oonsidH
abled ns all who know him, will at ocsl
But notwithstanding his physical disabir
various other hindrances, all of which^
with marked Christian fortitude, haj’ '
gathered the following orops :
15 acres of Com made 14 bushels per acre.
210 bushels, worth at $100 per bu.'
3500 lbs. fodder worth.
7 acres of ground peas made 32 bu. per
—224 bn., worth SI 00 per bu ,1
16 acres of field peas made 100 bu., w|
52 50per bushel.. ,1
15 acres of Boyd’s prolific cotten made s-|
bales weighing 2650 lbs.; Bold in SavicM-l
at 20c -vf
Half an acre of sugar cane made two tw J
syrup worth 520 per bbl..
Saved 2000 seed cane, worth
One-quarter acre of potatoes made 25 m
One-eighth acre in rice made 4 bu., worti •
Total....J
None of the above crops were a
the cane; he manured it with stable ®
The whole crop was made and gsthe^
Young himself and one horse, aave ^i
bor to toe amount of $70—who c»n D4 *-l
Very respectfully, Staff*“2
On* Dozen Eve ^ 11:3
Boston Philanthropy and
Pauperism.
Sumner is a fair representative* 1 1
chosetts. He raves about the wro? ( *
negro, but never does anything to 1
whites or blacks. Massachusetts,
many years past wasted all her syrup*®*!
toe negroes of the South, whilst she b*-J
thousands of whites in an infinitely “j 1
dition. The last New York Tribune 9
that at Chicopee, Mass., one compwL
1,600 persons, of whom 885 can new*
nor write. The same paper notie? J
of the Boston Bureau of Statistics, * 1
visit to the homes of low-paid
oribed, showing their condition in ^
ment houses. One picture given oft®
is a fair sample of the others: .
“We next passed into Stone’s Tat' 1
street between Nos. 100 and 102 Hat"-’
A three-foot passageway led into they*
12 feet, wherein lived fourteen faob^J
was one privy, too horrible to be
toe whole tenantry; some small pl* 06 ^
ed off in the yard, and intended ^
covered with human exorement T- s r
were three stories high—wretobec
downs, and not fit for oattle. ^
room wo visited was 14 by 14 .
posts, occupied by four persons, °*"JL
sick. The floor was perforated by
patched up by in-pourings of ““J!) J
This room yielded a rentage of f i- ‘
advance. Going then up a dirk, (
rickety stairway, we came to a roo' I
bv Mrs. B. She stood at a tub
room was a bedstead, a tahle, thr e
a stove. Everything denoted toe ‘ (
of poverty. The officer attendm?
he once found here a family
appeared cleanly and indnstnooi,® {
disheartened. Is lew tbsa »
visit theme etabbed e*d firt «r
with a neighbor about the to*” ~ ^
What buma to j
to be tem.
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