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REID & REESE, Proprietors.
The Family Jou rnal.—-New s—Politics—Literature—Agric ult ure—Domestic Affairs.
1826.
GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
.MACON, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, VBTOsSSuSS
YOL. LXIY.-N04B
To
OOP
Who Will Understand.
reeolloeUon of hl* CalL*’
gjuwe’l! ’hopSjandl heart*.
The Public Baby—A' Thrilling and
Graphic Account orthief Ubiquitous
Ioraut—The Babe’s Mission — The
Father of the Babe—Its Maternal
Parent—Depot of 'Subsistence.
No matter on what line you travel, be it the
Western Pacific, the California or the river
steamer, the Public Baby is always on board.
It can travel on three lines at once. Change
your car to rid yourself of the P. B., and you
may find its duplicate in tho next. Release
y ourself at the journey’s end from the inflic
tion ; get a room at the hotel, the Public Baby
occupies the next apartment. Go at night to
the theater, the Public Baby is in the next
scat.
. >. ..ml courosure on my face,
f „a "XdXSghYto see c infusion Use;
l£.~.rou hiU crocs
*W y ?,anTo msrt the easy grace
! 5jr«Vici I looked UP in another a
ll^ I0 S 1 f^Xny h h“min t & eb
r*r fr oO t he reva . hot tea:
Ttffr 0 ® and bide the hot tears c<ms
>SlJ«hawaJh. a m?m'ryofto night.
. i.mharpy than you are to-day,
Iwntf' A fMtare to the past and one
*o tme to you. and my.
bad that heart I trod upon 1”
IOSE.
lies*.
Love Up a Tree.
«.« was a seat in the apple tree.
0/5 j.iigatfuland coty nook;
iJu-eafteraoon about ha f past three.
*Ki«-JsU there reeling a book,
a JfurhaU bwe. with no hat to mar.
B \'%r Jrcss just showed one dainty foot;
I tr as besmoked his cigar.
^jYe wmeani stood at the ladder sfoot.
rrvha'fblusbed. then smiled and said.
L^tVu com, UP and s,t hero now T
i}U f iu< .
i.s KUti’.s brother, a boy to dread,
A S,« and de erminrd to.raiso a row:
<i» and as ennui™ - *
lp crept softly under the tree.
Lbieniag to alt they bad tosay.
hid ite impish brother, and sly as could be.
srited the ladder aud bore itaway.
si*, ihirssr himand she. with a frowp,
will that awful b-.y do next
Mibecilltd bim the areatestscamp.in town,
te tdoa’t be’iiva she was very much vexed.
Tabwliisha'f smiled though her eyes half cried
AsVbessw tho position of matters now.
iiihecitne over sod sit by her side.
Leitia* his place oa the opposite bough.
mutciuldtbcydo? The7 were captives there.
Hell ss if by an iron bltd: .
Kitty tossed bsek her golden hair, ...
Aim reflectively leaned her chin on her hand,
"if”»»idshe." *'we for help should call.
They'd langh to see us in such a plight,
jj red best stay here till the shadows fail,
" o ; (in some ono or other comes in sight.
An! ioae dil come. It was Kitly’s papa.
— . *— 1 - e—*-* — "—"ed.
Who post tha tree his footsteps tracet.
Acdnvth.ongh tho leaves a lighted cigat.
ladema'ealinearuirooni a feminine waist,
Kitty t Hiked down and b’nshed at one,
(tithes 1- ok-d up aid b'.ushtd at the other;
JiUhtr f.thor. " I ho e ara nice goings on !'
S .id she. "it wa< a11 ills fault of my brother.
If hit was the end ? T’iltell you that,
' '" iibs
Sineinoa hs alter, 'mid siiks and laco
Ardrihao.isasJ ruches, some ledies sat.
Who were di=cu-sing the time and ploco
As ti *hen—so ran rbeir debate.
And where .vtertainly weddirg should be;
At.l that impish brother was heard to stft'e.
• it bid b ' ercomo offii tbe app’etrec,
Suite* .Mrei liter.
kcaenriug tho Baby.
BT KMHA ALICE BBOWNZ.
Wo measured the riotoaa baby
Against the cottage-wall—
A lily grew at the threshold,
And the boy was just as tall!
A royal tijer lily.
With epota or purple and gold,
And a heart liko a jewelled clialtco
The fragrant dew to hold.
Without, the bluebirds whistled
High up in tbe old roof-lrees,
And to and fro at the window
The red rose rocked her bees;
And tbe wee pink fists of the baby
Were never a moment still,
Snitching at shine and shadow
That danced on the lattice-sill!
His eyes were wide as bluebells—
_ His month like a flower unblown—
Tiro little bare feet, like fanny white niice,
Peeped oat from his snowy gown;
And we thought, with a thrill of rapture
That yet had a touch of pain,
When June rolls around with her roses,
We’ll measure the boy again.
Ah me! In a darkened chamber,
With the sunshine shut awav,
Through tears that fell like a bitter rain,
We measured the boy to-day;
An! the littlo bare feet, that were dimpled
And sweet as a budding rose,
hsy eile t.y side together,
la the hush of a long repose!
Ip from the dainty pillow,
White as the risen dawn.
The fair littlo face lay smiling,
With the light of heaven thereon—
And the dear little hands, like rose-leaves,
Dropped from a rose, lay still,
Aever to snatch at the sunehine
That crept on the shrouded sill!
We measured the sleeping baby
With ribbons white as snow.
Tor the shining rosewood casket
That waited him below;
And out of the darkened chamber \
We went with a childless moan—
To the height of the sinless angels
Our little one had grown!
| Hearth and Home, June ith.
Color in Dress.
The simplest rules to bo observed ure tho fol-
Thc mission of the Public Baby on coming
into tbe world is to bowl.
The parents of the Publio Baby deem all
tbie howling a concord of harmonious sound.
They would not have a single note wasted.
This is why they manage that it shall always
go off in public. This is why it is taken to the
theatre to rip and tear in the finest orchestral
straino, or insert a screech into the culmina
ting moment of tho dying scene. Once, in
then and there encountered some one thousand
five hundred miserable people, whose enj oymen t
was at that moment being destroyed, and who
were meekly enduring the yoke, as people
have done for ages, of the Public Baby.
Tho father of the Publio Baby wears a black
suit, creased by long folding in the trunk, a
paper collar several days old, a green necktie,
a gaily figured vest, and pants of tho same
color, as widely apart as possible from the rest
of his garments. As to color, he dresses In
compartments. He chews tobacco largely,
gets out at every station for a drink, puts his
ticket in the least known and explored recesses
of his clothing, so as to involve a long search
for it every time the conductor comes round,
and at home keeps a howling and barking pup
tied in his back yard—a pup which crowds
the debit column of the recording angel’s
ledger with the neighbors’ curses. When the
pup grows out of the howling and barking
stage he sells him and gets another young
enough to howl. 'Tisn’t the pup he wants—
it’s the howl. He wants it to raise the Public
Baby on.
The mother of the Public Baby wears a
black velvet bonnet more or less faded; it has
been hung up where she raised a dust with
the broom; her hair is slung around in reck
less coils; there is a washday air about it; her
hoops arc too large; they show too much
about the skirts; she is generally dusty, and
often bears many traces of amalgamation with
the Public Baby. She married mainly be
cause she had a chance: because a man came
along; because it is a pait of life to marry.
The union has resulted in one, perhaps sever
al, Public Babies. Society shudders, without
exactly knowing why, on the appearance of
each. She doesn’t. She would regard with
out alarm the prospect of producing three
score and ten. Should you to her hint that
Malthus didn’t approve of an excess of infants,
she would probably intimate that Malthus
might mind his own business.
Che Public Baby seems to have a full head
of ugliness on the whole time. I examined
* the other day whilecomine up here on the
cars. When we started from Oakland Point I
felt a strange sense of a missing presence I
wondered at the cause. * All was soon explain
ed. At San Antonio the Public Baby came on
board. I had forgotten that this little fiend
never missed a trip nor paid a cent. Then I
felt at homo.
At first this Public Baby cried and howled
on general principles. It hadn’t as yet, dis
covered any special cause of grievance. It
cried because it hadn’t. Its little hands were
sticky with something, its little face was
sticky; it rubbed its little face with its little
sticky hands; the stickiness on its little face
was thus amalgamated with the stickiness on
its hands, and vice versa.
Then, when it had prepared this mixture, it
wanted to rub it all over us who sat near by.
It clutched at a lady’s hat, or bonnet ribbons,
(what do you call them now?) on the foreward
seat; it did transfer an irregular spot of
molasses-colored brown on the bright blue of
the broad silk ribbon; the lady turned; she
looked for the moment as if she might be Mr.
Herod’s wile or sister; the parents withdrew
their sticky offspring; the offspring cried be
cause it couldn’t have that lady to paw. #
They gave it colored candy. By this the
little “well spring of pleasure’’ worked itself
still more into an uneasy lump of saccharine
and mucilaginous nastiness; the place where
the candy went inside of it soon filled up; it
cried because it couldn't hold any more; it
wanted to go to its father; it went; it then
cried to go back to it motker; it went; it then
howled to go back to its father. He went into
the smoking car. That mother held the Public
Baby high up; it cried. She held it low down;
it cried. She held it sideways; it cried. SI e
held it topside down; then it did cry a trifle
less. The rush of blood had stopped it a little.
Unfortunately, the mother too soon discovered
thin. The child was saved—saved to howl for
years.
first—When a oolor is selected which is fa*
to tho complexion, it is advisable to
^ciato with it tints which will harmonize by
JJbgy, because tho adoption of contrasting
•Jots would diminish its favorable effect.—
■**d—Whon a color is employed in dress
is injurious to the complexion, contrast-
colors must bo associated with it, as they
. J® the power to nentralize its objectionable
jw«ace. We will take an example illustrative
first rule. Green suits the blonde, and,
worn by her, its associated colors should
"WttM of itself (slightly lighter or darker),
•pfi will rather enhance than reduce its effeot.
.'.L.p'.e of tho .second rule, we may take
2*1 which, although unsuitable to brunettes,
*JI be rendered agreeable by having tones of
ft “°» °r orange grouped with it.
'jMors of similar power which contrast with
other mutually intensify each other’s
2®«icy, as blue and orange, scarlet and green.
, -ta dark and very light colors are associated,
ao not intensify each other in the same
Tjp 4 *; the dark color is made to appear deeper
jjw light lighter, as dark bine and straw
or any dark color and fhe light tints of
^ complexion. * • * In dress it is ob-
yficBable to associate together different hues
[j®**color; for instance, yellow green and
k 8 Breen, or orange brown and purple brown.
i- e must therefore be taken in selecting
gcreat tones of a oolor to see that .they be-
5J® lbs same scale.
Here is another fact we wish to bring before
L~*eader8 ere we close our remarks on the
]Zr[®y of color, namely, that tints which ac-
|l7. by daylight, may appear unharmonious by
(flight, and vice versa: thus, purple and
harmonize by day, but are disagreeable
-i./j". .’gbl; and white and yellow, which are
Ec t°ry by daylight, are suitable for
dress. There are : many colors which
- of their brilliancy and hue.by gos-
2 aad are, therefore, unserviceable for
.‘ir--! costume; of this class we may enumer-
• J-i "hales of purple and lilac, and dark
• greens. O-kera gain brilliancy in ar-
■: ht, as orange, scarlet, crimson, and
®i‘."»i'i t ljrowaa and “greens. It is advisable
j taese circumstances should bo consid-
a toe selection of colors for morning and
tv r -“ seieeuonof colors for morning ai
costumes—-Audtiey's Gator in lire.
George Maclean.')
The mother then made a requisition upon
what Mr. Micawber term3 tne ‘‘maternal
fount;” but this baby’s holding capacity could
not have been large; its internal lacteal, as well
as saccharine magazines, were not extensively
planned; it couldn’t hold enough, there had
been a grave error in its construction; it re
minded me of a war steamer built in wartimes
at Baltimore; bnilt by loyal contractors; built
in such a hurry that they forgot to leave any
space for coal bunkers; no room, you see, for
fuel. So seemed this baby: nothing should be
done in a hurry: the child had reason to cry;
it was the revolutionary compiaint of a soul
complaining of an inadequr-.te corporeal organi
zation. All children should be supplied with
roomy coal bunkers. Perhaps this m some
degree might remedy the annoyance of the
Public Baby— Correspondent of the Sacra
mento Reporter: •
THE ENFORCEMENT ACT.
Hljh-pressure SulTriigc as Enunciated by
fongri ss—Provisions of tbe Bill to Carry
/ Ont the Fifteenth Amendment.
The following is a complete and carefully re
vised abstract of the bill to enforce the Fif
teenth Amendment as passed by both Houses
of Congress. The copy hitherto published is
incomplete and incorrect. The bill is entitled:
An act to enforce the right of citizens of the United
States to vote in the several States of this Union,
and for other purposes-
Section 1. Citizens who are otherwise quali
fied by law to vote at any election in any State
or Territory, shall be entitled to vote atany
such election without distinction of race, color
or previous condition of servitude ; any consti
tution, law, or regulation of any State or Terri
tory to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2. Where any local law requires any act
as a prerequisite to voting, and makes it the
duty of any persons to furnish citizens with an
opportunity to so qualify, it shall be the duty of
such persons to give such opportunity to such
citizens without distinction mentioned in sec
tion 1; and any refusal or omission to give full
force to this section makes the delinquent liable
to tho agrieved in the sum of £.">00 damages,
full costs, and attorney’s fee, and for such of
fense such offenders may be fined not less than
$500, or imprisonment not less than one month
or more than one year, or both, at the discre
tion of the court.
Sec. 3. When any prerequisite to voting is
prevented by the wrongful act or omission of
tho persons charged by law with tho duty of af
fording an opportunity to qualify, the offer to
shall be deemed a performance in law
of such act as is required, and the person so of
fending shall, if otherwise qualified, be entitled
to vote. A refusal to receive and give effect to
such vote, on the presentation of the voter’s
affidavit stating the facts, makes the offender
liable to the party aggrieved, and also liable to
the punishment provided in section 2.
Sec. 4. If any person, by force, bribery,
threats, intimidation, or other unlawful means,
shall hinder, delay, prevent, or obstruct any
citizen from doing any act required as a prere
quisite to voting, or shall combine with others
for this purpose, he shall be liable, and may be
puished as provided in section 2.
Sec. 5. If any person shall prevent, hinder,
control, or intimidate from voting any person
to whom the right is secured by the fifteenth
amendment, orshallattempt the same by means
of bribery, threats, or threats of depriving them
of employment or occupation, or of ejecting
them from rented houses, lands, or other pro
perty, or by threats of refusing to renew leases
or contracts for labor, or by threats of violence
to himself or family, 6uch offender may be pun
ished as provided in section 2.
See. C. If two or more conspire, or go in dis
guise upon tho pnblio highway, or the premises
of another, with intent to violate any provision
of this act, or to injure or intimidate any citizen
to prevent his free exercise of any right secured
to him by the Constitution and laws of the Uni
ted States, or because he has exercised the same
any such person is guilty of a felony, and may
be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisonment
not more than ten years, or both; and, thereaf
ter, shall be ineligible to office under the United
States.
See. 7. If, in the violation of tho two pre
ceding sections any other offence is committed,
it may be punished with such punishment as is
attached to the offence by the laws of the State
wherein committed.
See. 8. Gives exclusive jurisdiction to tho
United States Courts or all criminal and civil
cases arising under this act.
Sec. 9. Directs the arrest and institution of
proceedings against persons violating this act,
and authorizes the appointment of additional
Commissioners to facilitate the enforcement of
the act
Sec. 10. Provides for the punishment of Mar
shals who do not diligently execute all warrants
issued under this act; and authorizes the Com
missioners to appoint persons to execute any
warrant they may issue, with power in persons
so appointed to summon bystanders, or posse
comitatus of county, or land or naval force of
the United States, or the militia to aid them,
and to insure observance of the Fifteenth
Amendment.
Sec. 11. Any person who hinders or prevents
any officer or person lawfully aiding any officer
from making any arrest, or makes or attempts
a rescue, or aids or abets an escape, or harbors
or conceals aDy offender for whom a warrant is
issued, may be fined not more than $1,000, or
imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Sec. 12. Provides for payment of fees to of
ficers charged with the execution of this act.
Seo. 13. Authorizes the President of tho
United States to employ such part of the land
and naval forces of the United States, or of the
militia, as shall be necessary to aid in the exe
cution of judicial processes issued under this
act.
Sec. 14. Directs proceedings by writ of quo
warranto against all persons, except members
of Congress and Stato Legislatures, who hold
office contrary to section 3, article 14, of the
amendments to the Constitution of the United
States. .
See. 15. Any person accepting or holding of
fice, or attempting to hold or exercise the dulies
of any office, after the passage of this act, in
violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, may
be imprisoned not more than ono year, or fined
not more than $1,000, or both.
Sec. Ip. All persons in every State shall have
the same right to make and enforce contracts,
to sue, be parties, give evidence, and enjoy’the
full and equal benefits of laws for tho security
of person or property, as is enjoyed by white
citizens, and shall be subject to liko punish
ment, taxes, licenses and exactions of every
kind. No tax shall bo imposed by any State on
persons immigrating thereto wbidi is not equal
ly imposed upon every person so immigrating.
Sec. 17. Any person who, under cover of law,
ghail subject or causo to be subjected any per-
to the deprivation of any right secured by
ber of Coagress or Legislature by reason of the
denial to any citizen, who shall offer, of the
right to vote on account of race, oolor or previ
ous condition of servitude, his right to such of
fice shall not be impaired thereby, and he may
bring suit to recover his office; and where the
above is the ODly question touohing the title to
such office, such suit may be brought in the
United States Courts.
THE “SLEEPING BEAUTY.”
The Great Tennessee Woiiiler—An Account
by One who has been Her.
A letter from Union City, Tenn., dated May
20, says :
So much has been already wri tten in regard
to the lady knownhere as the “Sleeping Beauty,”
that I Can scarcely hope to give yc>u anything
new, but will add my testimony to that already
given, and make you a plain statement of facts,
as I know them from her mother, brother and
friends, who now have her in charge in the
same house in which I am stopping, and from
which I am writing to yon. Miss Susan Caroline
Godsay was bom in Obion county, Tenn.. and
within ten miles of this city, of poor but very
pectable parents. Her father has been dead
for over twelve years. Her mother still lives
and watches over her loved child, and the sunken
eyes and furrowed brow shows plainly Ihe trials
and sorrows she has experienced in her duty
for twenty-one years. She is very poor, and,
to some extent, dependent on the contribu
tions of visitors, to take care of and procure
proper supplies for ber charge. Miss Godsay
was taken sick when abont four yea?3 of age,
with what is supposed to be chills ind fever,
but which baffled the skill of nurses and physi
cians for more than two years, at *hich time
she fell into a nervons sleep, from whioh she
has not woke since for a longer timethan twelve
minntes. She usually sleeps soundly from
about 11 o’clock at night until about C in the
morning, and through the day awakes about
once an honr. Her wakiDg spells tre never of
less than four nor more than twelve, but usually
about six minutes' duration. In her waking
moments she speaks both pleasantly and intelli
gently, answers promptly any question asked
her, and appears quite happy and contented.
One of the strangest points of this strange
case is the seeminly total absence of anything
like respiration. A piece of the finest polished
glass held to her lip3 fails to disclose the slight
est trace of breath. Her pulse is perfectly still,
and bnt for a nervous and tremulous motion of
her body, whioh never censes, yon might al any
time call her dead. She has grown daring her
affliction from a little child to about the average
height of her sex, and weighs ninety-six pounds,
and though her body and hands show her very
poor in flesh, her face is full and smooth, and
her features well developed. Indeed, such a
rare style do her features portray that she is not
inappropriately called tho Sleeping Beauty of
Tennessee.
tbjq act, or to different punishment on account
of his being an alien, or by, reason of Ms color
or race, than is proscribed for the punishment
of citizen?, may be fined not more than $1000,
or imprisoned not more than onoyear, or both.
Sec. 18. Re-enacts^thqCivU ' 1
[RightsBill, of
April 9, 18CC, and provides that sections 16 and
17 ot this act shall be enforced according to tho
t The Pine Forests Disappearing.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—It is,
literally speaking, a remarkable fact that tho
pine forests of Georgia are being pushed out of
existence. No doubt exists in the minds of
naturalists, geologists, and other classes of men
of observation, that all the lands of tho State
W6T6 one© under eh ocseil When the water
passed away they were left as poor as any sandy
beach now is—unable to produce anything. But
in the lapse of ages the soil became rich enough
to grow vegetation. The pine being the least
exhaustive of all our trees—requiring very lit
tle to make it flourish, and thriving where noth
ing else will live at all—it seems that nature first
gave it birth and sustenance.
In traversing these forests now, one is slruok
with the remarkable fact that all, or nearly all,
the younger growth consists of oak, Mckory
and other trees requiring' strong land, and not
one bush in ten thousand is pine. It looks like
this favorite tree will, as time goes on, be su
perceded by those of other kinds. If fires are
kept from ravaging the woods, they would be
reduced to a very limited space in a quarter of
a century. Our uncultivated lands are becom
ing richer every day by the simple operations
of nature herself, and hence are able to sup
port forests requiring more nutriment than
pine. Now this is in regard to what is going
cm in tho open conntry. ' ,. .
The second growth of old worn out fields is
almost universally of pine, bat as the nnmber
of acres contained in these is comparatively
very small, the gradual loss of our pine es
rapid as it is startling. It seems to be the
workings of a law of fiature, and, therefore,
must be for the best, is inevitable—inerrable.
provisions of said act of April !*, lbilb.
Sec. 19, If at any election for member of
Congress any person shall vote or attempt to
vote in the name of any other person, living,
dead or fictitious; or vote more than once, or
where he is not entitled,'or mthbatlawful right,
or do any unlawful act to securo an opportunity
to vote for himself or other person ; or by any
unlawful means prevents any voter from freely
interferes in any w*y_ with,any
tion, or induces such offioer to neglect or violate
any law requiring him to ascertain or announce
the result of any election; or induces such offi
cer to receive an illegal vote, or who shall aid,
or advise any officer or voter to violate this act,
may be fined not more than $500, or imprison
ed not more than three years, or both and shall
pay ooeta of prosecution. - ;
Sec. 20. Applies penalties of preceding sec
tion to registration of voters, and provides that
any registration made under the laws of a State
for State or other elections at which members
of Congress may. be chosen, shall be dfeemed a
registration within the ‘meaning of this act.
Sec. 21. Where the laws of a State require
tbe name of a candidate for Congress to be
placed on a ballot with names of candidates for
local offices, proof that, ahy .person voted for
local officers shall be prtnui. facie evidence,
under the provisions, of this act, that he: voted
at some time for member of Congress.
Sec. 22. Any officer of election, at which a
member of Congress is voted for, who shall ne
glect or refuse to perform any duty .required by
any law of tbeUnited States, or of any State,
or who shall aid or advtso any person to do any
thing forbidden by this act, or who shall omit
or attempt to baalt anything required herein,
may be punished as provided in section 19.
Sec. 23. When any person is defeated for
any office except Presidential Elector and mem-
OTertfressin g.
Tho same want of adaptation of the dress to
the occasion, as exMbited in female church cos
tume, is shown by the habit prevalent among
onr dames of pntting on their showiest garments
whenever going out, even should it ba for tho
performance only of the most ordinary duty
connected with tbe household. Whether it is to
the draper’s shop to buy a dozen kitchen towels,
to the grocer’s to dabble in butter, or to the
butcher's to dribble in the blood of . a sirloin,
sho is tbe same finely-dressed personage. She
more frequently, however, avoids the inconsis
tency of performing hnmble duties in lofty at
tire by shifting them to the lowlier and more
soberly clad shoulders of her husband. This is
one, and not the least, of the ill effecis of tMs
habit of female overdress. It unfits women for
tho simple and unostentatious duties of house
hold life. Our unmarried girls are entirely
overdressed. They are allowed to wear such
suits as are never worn ty modest maidens in
Earope, and are hardly seen in publio by
the most matronly persons. The young
miss, flauntingly costumed, is sure to attract
a notice in the streets wMch should not be
agreeable to, and is hsrdly safe for, virgin mod
esty. Our countrywomen, as also our country
men, are recognized immediately on the high
ways of travel by the finery of their dress. The
glistening black coat and satin waistcoat, and
the silk gown and flimsy bonnet of fasMon, are
discerned at once amidst tbe dust of the railway
and the smoke of the steamer, as American na
tional peculiarities. Apart from the obvious
advantage on tho score of economy, of adapting
the dress to tho occasion, there are certain
moral effects of Mgher impo tance which might
be expected from a national reform in this par
ticular. Overdress leads to false expectations,
and confirms a deceitful vanity, wMch prompts
to a pretence of wealth, and the iniquitous
means by wMcb it may be supported. It has
more to-do than any other single cause with the
fall of woman, tho bankruptcy of husbands and
the ruin of families. Its effect in destroying
female reserve, especially that of the young, as
it thus takes away one of the best safeguards of
virtue, makes it very pernicious. The excess
of dress is certainly tha cause of much of the
characteristic vice of the day; and with the
general adoption of a much more modest attire
there would be less temptation to that part, at
least, of the prevailing ill-doing for which wo
men are responsible.—The Bazaar Book of De
corum (Harper.)
Political Before itcligloiis Harmony.
The Cotton Market.
The Commercial and Financial Chroniole’s re
port of last week, says the total receipts for the
>ast seven days have reached 22,441 bales
against 30,737 bales last week, 44,055 bales the
previous week, and 38,286 bales three weeks
since), making the aggregate since September
1, 18G9, up to this date, 2,772,432 bales, against
2,016,851 bales for the same period in 1868-9,
being an increase this season over last season
of 725,581 bales.
The market the past week has continued doll
and declining. Now that the India cotton has be
gun to come.in freely, and the weekly sMpmenta
from Bombay to be in excess of the same weeks
of last year, the remaining prop to prices has
given away and holders appear to be inclined to
supply freely whatever demand presents itself,
although the stock offering is not very : heavy.
But on the other hand buyers are very shy, al
most nothing being done for export, while spin
ners are only supplying their more pressing
wants. Daring yesterday and to-day the market
has been unfavorably affected by the failure of
certain parties to protect their contracts for fu
tures, resulting in a considerable amount being-
thrown upon the market for sale, depressing
prices largely for forward delivery cotton, so
tbst yesterday at one time there was quite a
paniky feeling prevailing. To-day, however,
the market has been farther depressed by ramozB
of very large shipments this week from Bombay
and very dull Liverpool accounts, and the close
is heavy, though prices are very little changed
since yesterday. The sales for forward delivery
reach 12,800 bales (all low middling or on the
basis of low middling), of which 300 bales were
for May, 200 at 21 J, 100 at 21$; 2,950 bales for
June, 200 at 21 7-16, 450 at 2l£, 1,050 at 2 If
100 at 21£, 400 at 21 3-16, 750 at 21f, 100 at
21f; 7,300 bales for July, 500 at 21$, 1,250 at
2l|, 1,500at21f, 100 at 22,960 at2H,100at21
7 1-26, 1,500 at 21$, 700 at 21$, 200 at 21$; 400
bales for August, 100 at 21$, 100 at 21 3-1G,
200 at 21$; 300 bales for September at 20$; 700
bales for October, 500 at 19$, and 200 at 19$;
250 bales for November at 19, and COO bales for
June and August, one-half each month, at 21$.
The total sales for immediate delivery this week
foot up 9,900 bales (including 29S bales to ar
rive), of which 4,985 bales were taken by spin
ners,515 bales on speculation, 3,530 bales for
export.
Supreme Court of Georgia.
Jane Term, IStO.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
June 6, 1870.
The Court met pursuant to adjournment.
Benjamin P. Hollis, Esq,, was admitted to
tha bar.
No. 7, Blue Ridge Circuit—(a continued ease)
Rhodes vs. the State, was transferred to the
heel of tho Circuit.
No. 1, Blue Bridge—Cole vs. Watkins, Cer
tiorari from Gilmer—was dismissed for want of
prosecution. ■>
No. 2, Blue Ridge—Hill vs. Wilkee—was
continued for providential cause.
No. 1, Western Circuit—Briley et al. vs. Un
derwood—was dismissed for non-compliance
with the 10th rule of this Court.
No. 1, Southern Circuit—Anderson, Admin
istrator, vs. Taylor, trustee—was transferred to
the heel of the docket'.
No. 2, Southern Circuit—Hughes vs. Coursey
—was dismissed for want of prosecution.
No. 1, Southwestern Circuit—Livingston vs.
City Council of Albany—was argued by brief
for plaintiff in error—no appearance for de
fendant in error.
No. 2, Southwestern Circuit—Jones vs. Payne
et fd.—was argued for plaintiff in error by Col.
W. A. Hawkins and Judge R. H. Clark, and
for defendant in error by Judge R. F. Lyon
No. 3, Southwestern Circuit—Home vs. Byrd
& Spivy—was withdrawn.
No. 4, Southwestern Circuit—Barnard vs.
McMurry—was dismissed for want of prosecu
tion.
No. 5, Southwestern Circuit—Jordan ’ vs.
Haygood—was dismissed for want of prosecu
tion.
Oil motion, No. 13, Southwestern Circuit was
called. Pending argument in this case the
Court adjourned till tea o’clock a. sl, to-mor
row.—Era, 7lh.
WmrnaiOBE ought not to be re-admitted to
Congress, notwithstanding his re-election. He
has been convicted of an offence wMch shows
him unfit for the duties of a legislator. The
reputation of our government, as well as of the
Republican party, would suffer by permitting
Mm again to lift up Ms voice in the councils of
tho nation. The fact that he was able to im
pose on a rural and not over-intelligent constit
uency is no vindication.—Forney's Press.
That “bates Bannagher,” and Bannagher, as
all know, beats the deviL WMttemore sold a
cadetship—Forney Ms columns and opinions—
what "s the difference ? As for tho Radical
party’s being damaged by ‘Whittemore’s “lifting
up his voice”—and Ms honest palms' to boot—
in Congress—whew! The party that boasts of
Forney and leans on Butler," is iron-clad to such
assaults.
It is now apparent, says tho New York Jour
nal of Commerce, that a cessation of political
unfriendliness between Noriliom Radicals and
the South must precede the establishment of
harmonious relations between the religious bod
ies of the same denomination in tho two sec
tions. It would bo hotter if tho latter consum
mation could take placo first and help on the
former. But the religious leaders, both North
and South, act .as if they thought otherwise,
and we do not look for a fraternization of Meth
odists or Presbyterians until tho way has been
prepared for it by a restoration of cordiality
among Northerners and Southerners, belonging
to those two sects, in their political relations.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference South gave
their views on this subject recently with great
positiveness, and now the Southern Presbyte-
rinn General Assembly take similar ground, of
objection to present union with Northern . Pres
byterians in even stronger language of refusaL
The discussion of the differences on both sides
has done one good thing, at all events; it has
.developed the full extent of the sumpatMes mu
tually felt, and, in the cases of the Presbyterian
branches,- has made clearly known the real cause
of dissentiou 'between them—and that is this
mixing up of polities with religion in some of
thi Northern Presbyterian churches. Whenever
the Presbyterian Assembly of the North isready
to vote against the expediency of commingling
religion with politics, wo doubt not that the
Southern Presbyterians will receive them with
open.anns. The.same is true of the dissevered
Methodists. But there is little likelihood that
I tMs -will be done for some years—probably not
until the unkindly feelings of Radical politics
towards the South have ceased to make, them
selves manifest in many Northern pulpits.
DeBow’s Review collates a few figures which
show most strikingly the immense loss suffered
by the cotton-growing States in not manufao-
taring a larger proportion of the cotton crop
before exportation.. :Of Jt stock of 2,392,254
bales, one and a half million are said to have been
exported to foreign'countries. Northern mills
span 767,512 bales, or 3\per oent,, and South
ern mills 64,998 bales, about 2$ percent
The Synod of the Refowned Presbyterian
church of New York has declared against Free
Masonry and other secret aocieties as “pagan in
their character, infidel in their tendency, and
perilous to the liberties of the State and the
church.”
A gentleman, who was rather impatient at
table, declared he wished he could manage
without servants as “they were greater, plague
than profit” “Whynot have a dumbwaiter?’'
suggested a friend. “O, no,” returned the
other, “I have tried them, they don’t answer >,
Chejiistby is furnishing U3 new agents for
fuel, force, food and many other important aids
over those we onee possessed. Ports from
which commerco was driven during the hot
months by their terrible fevers are visited all
the year with impunity now. Many localities
in the South and West kept tenantless by their
deleterious miasms are now filling up with pop
ulation under the-protection of Ayer’s Ague
Cure. Their afflioling chills and feVer are so ef-
fectnally cured by this remedy that the disease
no longer turns emigration aside or destroys the
settler if he ventures upon, its infected districts.
. • -..: in;.[“Gazette," Independence, Mo.
The Courier-Journal is very positive that “iwo
brothers whoso wives are not deaP'and dumb
and blind and paralyzed in all their limbs should
never attempt to live in the same house. In
fact, everything goes to show that there must
either bo two-houses dr’s fight-” There is wis
dom ful JUU—whole cUuiiliS or It. Wo Rope,
for the editor’s sake, it was not learned by expe
rience. . We oairhardly imagine a man’s getting
thi3 sort of knowledge that sort of way, and
havifig brains emotigh left-to tell of it after
wards. *
On the question of taxing United States bonds
live per cent., as proposed by Mr. Beck, of Ken
tucky, in the House, Friday, the vote was 78
for and 110 against the proposition—Beast But
ler very warmly favoring it, and 24 Radicals
following his lead. Perhaps his advooacy killed
the measure—a ve>y righteous one, it appears
to ns. Most of the carpet-bag and scallawag
representatives from the Sbuth voted, of conrae,
as told by their masters, the insolent rag
barons of the Ease and Middle States.
. . • -
The income tax, -we' supposed may be oonsid-
*ered Settled at 3 -per cent.,“with $2,000 income
exemption, and a limit of $500 exemption for
house rent. The Senate will doubtless agree to
the House action on the question. On a square
vote for its total repeal there were only 56 votes
in favor of that proposition, against 126.
Supply ana vonsump
lutluenees Affecting the Trade.
From the Boston Advertiser.]
The daily and weekly reports of the market
have for many months shown an unsatisfactory
condition of the cotton goods trade and manu
facture. Tha greater part of the production
le&veB no profit to the manufacturer, while the
declining tendency of prices has deterred deal
ers from making purchases beyond the immedi
ate want of consumers. The market will not
take the full production in some of the largest
lines of goods exoept at prices whioh leave an
uncomfortable loss to the manufacturer * upon
the cost of the raw cotton worked into them.
There are some exceptions, as in the case of
special fabrics and fine goods, having an estab
lished reputation in market, the whole of whioh
are readily token at fair and steady prioes. But
these are oMefiy consumed by people who need
not economise closely, who can always buy as
they want; while tho larger production of coarse
and medium goods find consumption among the
agricultnral and laboring people chiefly. Upon
these the influence of the great fall in the price
of grain and other agricultural produce is seri
ously felt, as is the effect of every check to the
well-paid employment of labor.
There is, however, a more important or far-
reaching reason for the depression in this trade.
Every dealer in cotton goods, from the heaviest
jobber in New York to the most remote of re
tail distributors, watches the cotton market
closely, and is as keen and often a more correct
observer of tho main facts in the market for
raw cotton, wMch determines its rise or fall,
than the cotton speculator or manufacturer who
studies mainly such points in the relation of
supply and demand as the speculator lays before
him. The principal dry goods houses have
agents traveling through every district in the
South where cotton is grown, and through them
learned the truth of the shortened crop grown
in 1868, and of the greatly lengthened crop of
1869. For a long time the trade as a body have
pursued a conservative course, and during the
last year have taken, from week to week, with
rare exceptions, only such qualities of goods as
they could quickly and without loss distribute.
They have known that cotton was too Mgh, and
they inferred that cotton goods were too high,
and must cheapen.' The great increase in facil
ities for transportation also favors frequent re
plenishing, and relieves them from the danger
in carrying heavy stocks.
TMs conservatism by the trade, and the econ
omy of the people, whether of choice or ne
cessity, have concurred to reduce the demand
for cotton fabrics below the needful supply to
tho people, and lately below the production of
the mills, until it has come about that in the
last twelve month our whole population has
taken but little if any more weight ot cotton
cloth than in the year I860, when its numbers
were so much less. Before the war, every well-
to-do family had its store of cotton articles for
domestic and personal use, beyond the immedi
ate want, and tMs surplus was used up by and
during the war. Becauso of the Mgher prices
since, very little of it has been replaced, and
the purchases of each year since 1865 have near
ly measured the current needs. It follows that
the country has no surplus of cotton goods.
Those in wear must soon be replaced. TMs ne
cessity is aggravated by an extensive substitu
tion of light fabrics for the heavier cloths in
common use prior to 1861. Many more yards
are now made from the same weight of cotton,
and their cheapness has given them preference
in market; but the necessity for new cloth
comes all the sooner.
The inference from all this is, that there must
soon come a large and necessitous demand for
the production of all onr cotton mills. There is
a limit to the “waiting for lower prices.” These
may come, but whether at higher or lower
prioes, the want, now real, though unseen, will
become urgent and visible, and when once re
cognized by the trade, there will be no idle
looms. Our manufacturers have now the dull
ness of the summer before them. It may be
expedient now, ns in 186S and 18G9, to shorten
the production in all mills where fabrics do not
sell close np. It would tend to hasten the turn
in their favor, as the same policy produced it in
1868, when the few weeks of short work were
followed by a very profitable autumn and win
ter. A suggestion has been recently made that
manufacturers should combine to bring about a
common reduction. Such a thing is impractica
ble, and would be wholly inexpedient if feasible.
Even concerted action of tMs eharaoter is un-
Every manufacturer should decide upon
hi3 own case, according to its facts, of market
and of profit or loss, present and prospective.
It wonld seem now quite sure that there will or
can be no further material decline in the gener
al value of cotton goods, except such as may
properly result from a decline in the price of
cotton. We need make no prediction in regard
to that, especially now when the whole cotton
dealing world, awakening from its long-sustain
ed blunder as to tho supply of tho current year,
is carrying its opinion to the opposite extreme
and looking for superabundance.
We place before our readers the prominent
facts of cotton supply and consumption, as they
stand to-day, leaving each to make Ms own de
ductions therefrom as to tho future course of
prices:
Since September T, the receipts of cotton
at all our ports amount to... .hales.,. .2,770,000
Tho visiblo stocks at seven interior towns
were last year 24,000 bales; are now 52,-
000 bales. After this date last year, the
receipts at ports were 80,000 bales. The
cotton other than that at the interior
towns is supposed, from:the "ratio of ro-
i _ cent deliveries, and fromjriantation ad
vices, to be in larger proportion than it
was last year, but in relative proportion . ■ ‘
to the inland stocks the receipts to Sep
tember! will be.......
The overland cotton direct to the mills has
not yet been accurately Btated, hut good
authority on this point in past years aay
i t is
Add Southern connmption ..............
173,000
220,000
90,000
The crop will be stated at abont...
The consuming capacity of the
Northern mills is say 6.700,000
spindles, at 4 skeins of h’o. 23
yarn each per day for 3JO days,
! -with an allowance of 25 per , •"
cqnt. pf the weights of yam . , •; ,
for waste—the" equivalent at
460 pounds per bale; of nearly—800,000
'Add-for. other uses than spin- re >
ning.,.. 40,000
Add Southern coneumption as
above. ..C....T. 90,000
3,260,000
930,000
Total available for export, . ,....
Ot this tho export since Septem
ber has been:
To Groat Britain ...........7:.. .1,300,000
To the continent of Earope 645,000
, ..-,24130,000
Defeat of Bowen.—Bowen and Ms sable gang
of municipal plunderers m Washington have
been whipped out of their boots;'And all the
Washington people are rejoicing.' Won’t the
Reconstruction Committee interfere ?
Total export to date 1,945,000
Thomas County.—A note from Thomasville,
dated the 3d inat^ says^JiYery dry. Two brief
showers Iasi week, but we need a two three
(l ays’ rain. . _ ; vl- >
■ Leaving available for export, if wanted.... 338,000
The movement of the India crop has been de
layed equal to two months, chiefly from a tardy
maturity and a more tardy preparation for
market. We have not changed our opinion,
early expressed, that the India crop now coming
in, is considerably larger than the preceding
one. Its shipments from Bombay to Earope
stands abont 190,000 bales behind that of last
year. There are bnt two or three weeks more
before the early monsoon, when its movement
should n early cease until October according to
the experience of previous years. The receipts
jin Bombay- ure very heavy, and increasing
weekly. It seems probable that in the last
quarter of the y ear there will be suoh an ac
cumulation of cotton tn Bombay and other
Indian ports as has never beefa-known; but
whether, and how njuoh : el it will, come to.
market in Europe, must depend upon the price
and other conditions of trade. Ot the sMpments
prior to the monsoon, though likely to be 160,-
000 to 180,000 bales less than last year, so large
a part cornea through the Snez Canal, that by
the end of Jane or in July the supply of India
cotton in Europe will not differ widely from
that of last year.
-In each year sines -1863 the consumption of
American cotton in England has been largest
in the months when the supply of Indian oot-
[ton was lowest and of Amerioan largest.; the
use of India ootton increasing with its free sup:
ply. The relative proportions, up to May 27th
and for Ihe whole year were as follows for three
years (per week:)
Taken for consumption Year’s oonsumptioo in
from Liverpool to Hav 27. Great Britain.
American. E. India. American. E. TmWa.
1867.. ........21.000 13,000 20,500 17,150
1868 28,000 10,600 21,400 15,400
1869.. ... ....19,000 14,500 47,540 18,400
For the first 21 weeks of 1870 the trade have
taken (for consumption) at the average rate of
25,150 American, and 12,000 East Indian, per
week, from Liverpool It will be observed that
the quantities for the first 21 weeks are front
Liverpool only, while for the whole year they
inolnae deliveries from London, eta Nearly
all the American cotton goes to Liverpool, while
London gets a large share of the India cotton,
materially changing the proportions for the
whole year. So far "the proportions approxi
mate those of 1868, and indicate a weekly aver
age for the whole of 1870, about 23,000 bales
Amerioan, and 17,500 bales of East India oot
ton. This would call for an average rate from
now to December 31, of 21,500 American bales
per week, and oovers an average increase of
consumption of all sorts equal to 3500 to 4000
bales per week for the whole year. Compared
with I860, a total increase of about 200,000
bales. The continent has been slowly increas
ing its consumption from year to year. Last
year, worked to its full spinning capacity, it
caln increase this year only by increase of its
machinery or by heavier work. If the new
spindles be reckoned at an increase of six per
cent., which is hardly probable, they will re
quire an increase of only 100,000 bales of oot
ton. To sum up : The increase in American
supply actual and offered to Europe from tMs
crop is—export:
This year bales 2,300,000 •
Last year 1,656,000
644,000
Increase from other countries 36,000
Total increase 680,006
Per contra:
Required for English deficiency to
Dec. 21 150,000
Deficiency from India say 160,000
Deficienby from Brazil, 75,000
equal to American 40,000
Increase in English consump
tion to Oct. 1 150,000
Increase in continental con
sumption to Oct. 1 75,000
225,000
—575,000
Net increase of available supply of
American cotton, after covering
all deficiencies, and a fall rate of
consumption 105,000
To be added to stocks in Europe, Oct. 1.
This assumes what is not probable, that an
export demand will take to Europe all of this
crop that we have to spare; what does not go
there will remain in our ports. We have allow
ed for home consumptions thefull requirements
of the capacity of our mills. Last September
they began with stock in hand 50,000 bales lar
ger than usual. To that extent, and more, they
may reduce purchases this year, if so induced
by 'the state of the market; in which case so
much more may be exported, or left to swell the
stockin ports.
Jetsam et Flotsam.
For the Telegraph and Messenger. |
One of the St. Louis papers give3 an ao-
count of a man whom the physicians declare
to be dead, but whose body shows no sign of
decomposition. The journal with the most re
freshing naivete, declares that the family are
determined not to inter him until he gives
symptoms either of life or death. So, if the
poor fellow does not wish to be buried alive,
he’d better “play possum” as long as he can.
During the late war between the North and
South, the enrolling officer in a certain county
ih Middle Georgia gave a youth a delicate
hint that his presence was desired at thefront:
whereupon the young man posted to town, and
engaged the services of a lawyer to get him
Out of the scrape. Said he; “I don’t mind
goin’ to war, but I can’t git to Yirginny, with
out traveling on a railroad, and I never is yet
been rid on de cars,”
Says the People’s Literary Companion: “It
is perfectly proper for a gentleman to raise his
hat in passing a lady. Such little courtesies
are always appreciated by the fair sex.” Per
haps so; but in ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred. the aforesaid fair sex fail to manifest
any feeling of appreciation. Generally they
let “concealment, like a worm i’ the bud, feed
on their damask cheek,” so far as anything
like gratitude, or reciprocal politeness is con
cerned. In this latitude they always expect
this raising of the hat, and consider themselves
ill-used uuless they receive the attention, but
most of them repay it with an insolent, ill-.
bred stare.
I know about three ladies who have suffi
cient knowledge to know what is due to gen
tlemen, as well as themselves, to return the
bow of their ordinary acquaintances, but the
most of them are as ignorant en this point; as
the veriest savage who wears a ring in her
nosa a3 well as her ears. Meu may give them
the best seats at concerts,bn railroads, etc.,
Whioh they will appropriate with the most
perfect coolness, impudence, stolidity, or what
ever you choose to tenn it, and never so much
as bestow a glance, still less a bow for the
courtesies thu3 thrown away upon them, even
as the pearls were cast before the swine. It
may be asked. “Dp you expect a lady to ac
knowledge obligation to a perfect stranger 7'lo
and I answer, “Certainly, if she accept his
services, or anything at all at his hands. It
would be best to avoid anything of the sort,
if possible, but if this cannot be done, in the
name of good-breeding let her have politeness
enough, in some slight manner to acknowledge
the courtesy that she accepts, taking care, of.
course, that no acquaintance shall be formed,
from this circumstance alone.’ The worst of
it is, thst they very often allow this very
methodiof commencing an acquaintance, with
au impudent, brazen-faced knave, when they
will not bestow the slightest thanks on him,
who shows by his manner that he is modest
and reserved.
It is time for Southern women to under
stand that there is room for them to improve
in this matter.
I have heard that Judge Underwood was
once at a villago in Upper Georgia, Where a
company of actors, either professional or ama
teur. were astonishing the worthy inhabitants
by tneir renderings. One morning some one
spoke ofi the entertainment of the previous
evening.
“What play was perfosmed?.” asked the
pt-'- *•*>
- Ouglas,” was the reply.
“Ah! Douglas! Exceedingly clever 1 Very
appropriate for this locality,” said his honor.
"“Appropriate to this locality ? Why I
wss ftsked.
“Ob, rejoined the wag, “for a good many
reasons. In the first place, one.can easily im
agine that these surrounding mountains sire
the Grampian Hills; but the chief reaeon is
that this vicinity is filled with $heqp-stealert. i,
POYNTZ.
A New York paper advises some of the crow
ing hens to go to tha Fejee island on a leetar
ing tour. We think it good advice. If toughness
S3 an objection to tha inhabitants, a totur ot
sort would come nearer breaking up eanuRad*
ism thou anything else- we can imagine.
The Brandon (Miss.^)* Republican States that
Gen. Robert Lowry has received a kmg and
friendly letter from Gen. W. W. Luring, dated
Cairo, Egypt, Gen. Loring is fo’the mfiif—*-
service of the Viceroy; with this farlk
dier gonerai, is well pleased, and speaks rill
iermt of fhe Vftfefoy. • ' ' " ""
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