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MACON, J1T.Y5, 1870.
.Sound Democrats.
A Decatur connty correspondent gives -ns a
picture of ft true Democratic community. A
great many essentially different descriptions of
people think tliey aro Democrats, but they are
wcfully self-deceived and lack the root of the
matter entirely. Somo bar-room loafers and
loungers think they are Democrats; but they
can’t be, because a true democrat is ait indus
trious man—looks well to his family spends
bis leisure hours with his wife and children, or
in church or lodge or in some proper and rex
sonable way. The bar-room loafer is no demo-
And first of all we want to tell them that we cr &h
A Few Serious Words to A Few 3bs-
clilef Makers.
There are a few would-be-leaders of the ne
groes of this city who aro walking very fust to
rn* the biggest sort of a scrape. 'We wofiia
rather see them out of, than in it, any time,
and we therefore propose to give them a word
or two of advice.
bun*, it is the desire—the earnest, sincere de
sire of the white people of Macon to live in
peace with them—to have no rows-nor- distnrb-
ances—not even angry words. It is much bet
ter for all parties to get along peaceably, and
tho white people know this, and in the main act
upon it. * But the white people are not so fond
of peace and their ease as to submit to the
■lightest infringement upon their rights of any
kind. They know that the great body, of the
negroes of this city aro well disposed, and will
never, without evil influences urging them
thereto, attempt the least infringement upon
those rights. With them the white people have
no quarrel, and will have none, so long as mat
ters stand as at present.
But there are a few worthless, insolent, half-
breeds, who belong to neither race, and have
no real sympathy wrth either—who never do a
day's hard, honest work with their hands, who
are not so well disposed towards the whites.
They hate the whites and despise the blacks,
and their dearest wish and most persistent en
deavor is to bring the two races by the ears.
Nothing would please them better than to see
the whites and the blacks cutting each other's
throats. They would most likely manage to
keep out of harms way, and thus reap any ad
vantage anoh a conflict might bring within their
roach. These miserable incendiaries call meet
ings and make Inflammatory speeches, telling
lies by wholesale, and indulging in all sorts of
devices of language and manner to inflame the
worst passions of the black people. They
scruple at nothing to stir up rage and hatred.
They brag and boast of baviDg batteries of fire
arms at Ibeir houses, and dare any white man
to “bite his thumb” at them. They proclaim
themselves warriors of the doughtiest kind, and
ready and willing at a moment's warning to
lead the black people on a crosade against tho
whites. They use the words “rebel” and
“traitor” very freely and insultingly, and inso
lently proclaim that the government is on their
side, and that the “great llepublican party”
will back them in their undertakings.
Now, wa don’t think the white people are
seared much by the insolent ravings of these
loafers, bscanse they know {hat barking dogs,
of whatever color, seldom bite. But the white
people are afraid these fellows may wickedly
precipitate a conflict between the real black peo
ple and the real white people. They know tho
power of demagogues upon ignorant, impulsive
people of all races, and they sometimes fear
that those incendiaries may succeed in their
wicked efforts. The white people dread and
deprecate such a conflict, but we are very sure
that if it is/orcedupon them, and if tho law is si
lent amid the clang of arms, they will not shirk
it. The blaek people ought to know this, and
we therefore take it upon ourselves to tell them.
They may have heard a different story from the
demagogues who mislead them. Wo beg them
to fully and seriously realize it. That is all we
ask them to do.
To these would-be leaders, these moDgrel
mischief makers, we have very few additional
words to say. As we said before, we had rather
ace them ont of tronble than in it, any time.
They hate tho white people of all classes and
kinds, we know, but probably not up to the
point of staking their precious lives to gratify
it They may succeed in precipitating a race
conflict, or they may not—there’s no telling. If
they do, though, it will bo their first and last
campaign. Whatever happens to the rest of
fixe combatants, their fate will be sealed We
say this in the vein of solemn prophecy, not as
a menace or as an empty threat It will only
be History repeating it9elf—that is all. Let
thorn, thon, when they get ready to open the
fight, look well to their lines of retreat—let
them be sure of a biding place before the first
gon is fired. Their best friends, if they have
any, could not offer them wiser counsel.
The Fourth sot a Legal Holiday.—For the
benefit of our business readers who may labor
under a wrong impression, we will state that
by reference to the Codo of Georgia, latest
edition, wo find the fourth day of July is not
made a legal holiday. We suppose, therefore,
that our banks will be open for business on the
fonrth as usual. Papers, therefore, falling due
on the 4th are not to be paid to-day, the 2d.
As was published yesterday Congress has
passed, and the President, it is said «rtH sign a
bill making the Fourth of July a legal holiday
throughout the United States. We have no in
formation, however, that the President has actu
ally signed the bill.
Ice Panic in New York.—The World of
Tuesday is sensational upon the ice question.—
Everybody is getting short, hot and furioup, ez-
oept the ice dealers, who, as might be expected,
are extremely cool, and having got up a comer,
sot only demanded $150 per hundred, bat give
very light weight at. that. The voice of the
fish-dealers and poulterers, the fruit, soda, ice-
eream and hotel men is as tho voice of one rav
ing with the cholic and no chloroform or bnrnt
brandy about.
The great fire in Constantinople was fed in
force and rendered almost. irresistible at the
first by a flow of petroleum from the stores in
which this article was kept for sale. The
“liquid flames” carried destruction to the ad
joining houses. Many of those who I6st their
flves during the disaster were, it is alleged,
either instantly killed or mortally burned by
explosions of the tin cases in which tho fluid
was kept.
Dr. Livingstone.—Tho faith which" hopes
against hope for tho' oxislence of the great Afri
can traveler is rivaled only by the obstinate re
fusal to believe in the death of the great arctio
explorer, Sir John Franklin. Professor Sir B.
Murchison, of the Boyal Geographical Society,
confidenily predicts good news from Dr. Liv
ingstone in about seven or eight months, where-
3 ., in till probability, he was eaten by the men
and brothers of Ujiji long time ago.
Tight Times at the North.—A Washington
special, to tho New York Times, of Tuesday,
says: A. T. Stewart does not return an income
of oven-§100,000 for the past year, while Claflin,
MeUen &' Co., and many o*her large houses,
show but small profits. Hundreds of other
merchants swear to losses for the yeir, and a
number of houses have failed. This year has
been a terrible one upon the merchant princes
as well as the small traders.
Thebe aro 3,SG7 distilleries of brandy frost-
fruits. of various kinds, in the United States.
Virginia has the largest number, 902, and North
Carolina comes next with 701. Georgia has
}2G. South Carolina, Louisiana and Texas have
only two each—that is, that the revenue officials
know anything about. We reokon those who
aro “posted” could scare up a great many more.
The Iiev. J. S. K. Arson, pastor of the Inde
pendent Presbyterian Church. Savannah, eailcil
from that port. Wednesday, for Europe, riu.
New York.
Sometimes one of your fidgety, greedy, ner
vous, shuffling, intriguing little fellows, scoot-
•ing’aroued after offices and nominations fan-
tic.ih'ja Democrat; but it is a terrible mis
take. A zeal democrat always finds office hold
ing a losing business. He has.no time for it.
His own nffairs press him., and when you force
himiniooffice.be is-glad to get out of it and
go home to attend to his own matters. Office
may seek a sound democrat, but when, it shall
be proven that Franklin, Jefferson, Madison,
Jackson and Silas Wright ever packed a couven-
vontion or intrigued for a nomination, we shall
begin to doubt our standard of democracy anil
class the jackalls who nose round after office
and then prostitute it for unlawfal gain as dem
ocrats. *
Some think rowdies, bullies and Ku-Kluxes
can be Democrats; but that is on error. A
true Democrat is a very liberal,. conciliatory,
tolerant man. While ho insistsr upon all that is
due to himself and to law and justice, freedom
of individual opinion and action is the veiy
foundation of his creed.
There’s a large class of speculators, and
“operators” and “financiers” who sport about
the world Jike butterflies, except in innocence,
and work politics as they do the stock and gold
exchange, who claim to be very “leading Dem
ocrats.” If old Jefferson or Jackson were asked
their opinion about such imposters, it would be
that they had not a Democratic bone in their
bodies. They are nothing but gamblers—polit
ical black-legs—seeking their own selfish and
venal ends in perverting and prostituting the
party. A true Democrat is a conscientious
man, and, in all his politics, is earnestly seek
ing the public welfare. All the plotters and
intriguants—all the schemers and sharpers and
operators—all who mean to live upon the toil
of other people and not their own, have no
business in the Democratic camp. They have
no part Or lot in the matter.
A good Democrat is a fair and square man—
responsible to God and his country. Knowing
what is duo to himself, he is ever ready to con
cede what belongs to others. He is an earnest,
honest, notive, industrious and careful man;
and has no idea of stealing, either in the way of
.plnnderiDg the public strong box, or the people
—either in political intrigue, dishonest specu
lation, or contracting debts which bo does not
mean to pay, nnd'then setting on foot stay-laws
and relief-laws to disarm and defraud creditors.
He seeks order, peace, justice and liberty, and
passes his days in quiet and plenty, after the
manner spoken of by onr correspondent. When
King David was in straits ho formed the first
Union League known, in the cave of Adnllnm,
and we don’t think it embraced the first element
that ever rightfully belonged to the Democratic
organization.
Wliy It Was Postponed.
The Washington Republican, of Wednesday,
says:
The Committee on Reconstruction yesterday
agreed to postpone Gen. Bntler’s amnesty bill
till next December. Mr. Beck, of Kentucky,
offered a substitute embracing all the features
of Mr. Bntler’s bill, except those contained in
the eighth nnd ninth sections, and he was in
structed to put his substitute in a specific form
so it could be acted upon by the committee at
its next meeting.
It is probable if the elections in the Southern
States are fairly conducted this fall, that the
general amnesty bill will pass with but little
opposition at tbo next session of Congress.
The last paragraph explains “the milk in the
cocoanut.” “Elections fairly conducted this
fall,'’ means Badical success, anyhow, at the
Sontb. The Butler crowd know that they are
going to lose heavily at the North and West,
and most make good tho loss down here. If
they do, and their majority is thus retained,
why, then, perhaps, they'll grant amnesty. A
very dirty partisan trick, and a3 shallow as it is
nasty. l
A Strike Among the Tailors.—The Boston
tailors made a ten-strike last Monday and are
now practically experimenting on the question
whether money can be made by parading the
streets behind a band of music with tho mer
cury in the nineties. A dispatch says:
The labor question in Massachusetts is fast
assuming a prominence which will place it be
yond the pale of party politics, and in course of
time create a third party in tho commonwealth.
The tronble among the Crispins at North Adams,
aggravated by the introduction of Chinese labor,
and the discontent which has everywhere been
manifested among the working classes in the
States, more particularly the operatives in large
establishments, must eventually find a vent
which will, perhaps, work a revolution in the
cause of “the toiling masses.” .'.i;
Per contra, the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser of Tuesday asserts that the New Eng
land shoemakers have made a practical hari-
kari of themselves, and events indicate a com
plete breaking up of the order of St. Crispin in
Massachusetts. .
Suggestive Facts About The State Road.—
From authentic sources we learn that the Cen
tral Railroad, running from Macon to Savannah,
pays nett about §80,000 per month into its
treasury. The Georgia Railroad pays nett
$40,000 per month. The Mac in and Western
Railroad averages $25,000 per month; on the
other hand, Ihe Western and Atlantic Railroad
exhibits the fallowing financial condition:
It paid into the State Treasury of Georgia for
the month of— ; •
October, 1809.......;....:.... $00,000
November, 18GD
December, 1SG9
January, 1870
February, 1870.;.......
March, 1S70
April, 1870
May, 1870...
00,000
00,000
20,000
25,000
00,000
00,000
00,000
The State Rond is the trunk road of all these
lines, nnd should be the most prosperous, bnt
from tbo above statement it is apparent that the
“trunk” is rotten, whereas the branches are
flourishing. The people of Georgia will cer
tainly treasure up .these ugly fattsl land 'act
upon them when tho proper time arrives.—At
lanta Georgian, 1st. -r./,..
-National Bank Statement for Georgia,—
We find the following statement of the re
sources dnfllmbilities of the National banks of
thi : St.'ite, at the close of business on the nth of
June, which may be of interest:
Resources—loans and discounts, $2,273,833;
United States bonds; $1,483^500; dua from
banks, $1,538,924; checks and other cash item3,
$49,500; cash, $S42,000; specie included,
$54,870; three par cents., $75,000. Xiiibilities
—Capital, $l,-750,000; profits, $591,978;.bank
notes outstanding, §I,147;i20; deposits, $i,-
747,840; due to banks, $218,383; aggregates,
$5,453,324.
English Longevity.—The obituary list of tho
London Times of one day contains some re
markable illustrations of prolonged existence in
five Indies nnd three gentlemen, all of whom
had reached four .score years and upwards, their
united ages amounting to G80 years, giving an
average of exactly eighty-five years to each.
The eldest gentlemen had reached the great
not; of eighty-nine years, the two others of the
same sex being eigbty-six. Of the opposite sex !
the eldest was eighty-eight t.rd the youngest]
eighty years of age. i
The Georgia Press. -~r~-—*•
Thomas M. Cook, Sr., who was one' of ihe
oldest printers in the State, wad for fifteen
years Postmaster at Miiledgeville, died on the
23d of Jane; at Yaldofta.
Cotton and corn crops are reported-very
promising in Lowndes connty. Ditto of crab
grass and dog fennel. : Ja s>!
The whirlwind that destroyed the gin factory
of Clemons, Brown’ & Co.; also blew dowh, in
the same neighborhood, so the Snn says, a ne
gro cabiD, and killed a woman and two chil-
dainv, : hr-if; mi 1* i
The Thomasviile Enterprise says crops in
that county are well worked, clear of grass, and
promise splendidly. ’ts’
A smash np on theA. G. Railroad, three
or four miles from Thomasviile, demolished a
second class passenger car and damaged two or
three others. Two'traln hands were injured:
The Chronicle and Sentinel says :
The Cotton Crop.—Accotmts-of the growing
crop in this section are generally favorable. The
yonDg plant is stroDg and developing welL Mr.
John H. Smith, of this connty, who is running
the Goodrich farm, about; four miles from the
city, shoved us yesterday two stalks well branched
with blooms, measuring respectively thirty-uiuo
and forty inches. Tho seed was planted April
15th, and not an ounce of fertilizer used.
Proscription.—‘Weleamthat the negro James
Anderson, alias Rhodes, who was tried in the
Superior Court on Tuesday for the murder of
Benjamin Franklin, colored, and acquitted, is
afraid to trust himself in the streets of the-ciiy
lest he should be killed or maltreated by his
colored.brethren, who tried to have him hung
became he was a Democrat and a detective,
and because the negro he killed wa^a Repub
lican. ” r : * w
A little negro boy about five years old fell in
the canal, Thursday, and was drowned—the
fourth accident of the kind that has happened
there within six months.
The Constitutionalist says:
Fatal Accident at Geaniteville.—During
tho prevalence of a wind storm at Graniteville,i
on Tnesday, a log house was blown down, kill
ing a child instantly, and severely if not fatally
wounding tho wife of Mr. David Smith, former
ly of Angdsta.- *•*" V* • * ” 1 C--*g|
A Heinous Crime—Yesterday afternoon a
United States soldier, belonging to the Arsenal
detachment in Summerville, was arrested, charg
ed with the outrage of tho person of a little
white girl between tho age of seven and eight
years.
The editor of the Griffin Star, who ought to
bo authority, makes the following report of the
final action of the Bollock-Angier investigating
committee : .
Bollock and Angier are to bo sent to the peni
tentiary for life. Kimball is to ran the State
Government until a new Governor can be elect
ed. The Committee will divide among them
selves what money there is left in the Treasury
—so that there will be no need of a successor to
Angler. Blodgett is to be chained baud and
foot for a thousand years, if bo can be caught;
and Fatty Harris goes to Glenn & Wright’s
phosphate works at the Fair Grounds. The
Committee had more tronble with Gaskill than
anybody else. They would have sent bim to
the penitentiary, but Mr. Alexander, the convict
contractor, swore he wouldn’t have him on any
terms. Varney was finally let off with thirty-
nine lashes. Chairman Brock is to be execu
tioner, and Pike Hill was elected as clerk to
count the licks.
Andrew Griffin, a Savannah negro, is a poor
persecuted lamb, surely. He was arrested,
Wednesday, npon three warrants; one charging
him with stabbing with intent to murder; an
other with cutting his wife No. 1 with a razor:
and still another with gougtog’out the eye of
his wife No. 2.
Savannah is to have an Opera Home, Mr.
Thomas Arkwright having purchased tho old
theater for that purpose.
The Savannah News says:
Our Wocld-be Rulers.—Tho ultra black
wing of the Radical party, engineered by Clift,
Stone, Waring, ct id omne genus, met at the
Forest City Mills last evening. The meeting
organized as stated elsewhere.
The plan thns agglomerated looks to a gen
eral meeting of tho elan, when the candidates
selected by the parly to fill the municipal and
other offices will be reported npon. It is un
derstood that Mr. Flye will succeed Clift in the
postoffice. A. W. Stone is to take the place of
Judge Schley. White, the present negro clerk
of the Superior Court, is to be District Attor
ney, and a man by the name of Wilson is to be
Ordinary of Chatham connty. The judge of
the City Court Las not been determined upon
by the Radical conclave, various names having
been mentioned in that connection, from whom
all disabilities have Seen removed.
It was reported, and definitely settled, that
Dr. J. J. Waring was to be the next Mayor of
Savannah, and a colored “gentleman,” Secretary
of the Union League, and now in the employ
of the Customs department, is to take the pos
ition of the Clerk of Council. Of coarse the
whole programme will be regularly carried ont,
nnd 03 tbo sachem of the extreme red wing will
be here Saturday, we hear that the “spondnlix”
will be ready to make the programme a com
plete success.
The News says that Bradley, Sandy Mills, and
H. Z. Burckmyer, all negroes, have been ap
pointed delegates to the Jacobin Convention,
at Atlanta, July 21st. The Bradley wing swear
the negroes must have half the offices in Chat
ham county, and the State, generally.
The revival of religion that commenced three
weeks since in the Marietta Methodist church,
still continues with unabated interest.
Tbo Marietta Jo'nrnol says the corn crop pros
pect never looked more flattering. Cotton is
nnusually forward aiul promising, though there
is some talk of lice and caterpillar. The Jour-
- - - ■ T— \;-Tl ■
nal says:
LaBOB-UkIONS AND STRIKES.—It lools OS if ft
colored combination bad been formed in this
vicinity, from the Tabt that on different farms
last week the laborers asked for an advance from
seventy-live cents to a dollar a day for labor.
We would like to see the farmer .in Cobb who
can give this labor more than fifty cents a day,
for tiie year, and get more thanhis money back.
Wo find the following in the Columbus Sun :
Death of Mrs. Marshall.—We find in the
Mobile Register of Tuesday morning the accom
panying announcement; which will be received
with sincere regret by many to this community:
Died, yesterday, 27ili inst,, at four o’clockp.
m., Caroline A. Howard, wife of B. F. Matehalf*
and daughter of the late Major Jno. H. Howard,
of Columbus, Ga. orfr- H-.<s m
Six persons were buried at’'Carteraville, on
Sunday last. Colonel '‘William’ H." Pritchett,
Mrs. P. M. Johnson and her infant babe, (which
was buried in hor ’arms,) tho sixth and only-
child of Mr. J. Q. Harwell, child of Mr.
Scott, end the youngest child.of .Colonel W. M
iBtak!
Fiom the following paragraph^ .the Atlanta
Con.-titution, of yesterday, we learn who the
editor of the -Jacobin organ at Atlanta, is :
. personal - rencontre - took-place -yesterday
morning between Alton Angier and AYilliam L.
Scruggs—Angier being the assailant. Young
Angier broke bis cane over Soruggs’ umbrella,
and Scruggs Yetroated into the Lire'Drug Store.
The nol'ca came up-and prevented Angier -from
cO'nltouirig the attack. ...The rencontre grew out
of an article which appeared in the New Era
the day pre vious, which it is' alleged' Scirnggs
MMM."rrairrti-Mxnuoh Ji . > - 7 wh* _j: ■;o
A horse thief named John Bacon .was .over
taken noar-Lithonia, a few days ago, by a pur:,
suing party, and refusing to halt was shot dead
by a man named McWilliams, from whose
father ihe horse had been stolen.
The Daiton Citizen sr-ys Mr. Helan, propri
etor of the hotel at Ringgold, bought a large
catfiah a day or Iwo since that bad beira canght
near Chattanooga, and that on opening it an
infant was found in Hs beily: - r --
The Griffin Star says:
Terkieic Hail Storm.—We hear of ft terrible
storm on .Tuesday last in th; Towaliga country,
near Judge St jtwell's farm.. The wind was very
high, blowing down many.fruit and forest trees,
and the raid descended in floods, completely
washing the soil away where it i aged in greatest
fury- - v I r - H. T. Glass was perhaps the great,
ess sufferer. He estimates’ his damage to the
orop and land at least §1,000
The editor of tho Greensboro Herald, who.
has ja'st paid Mr. Stephens ft visit, says:
Accompanied by a friend, we called on this
distinguished statesman and patriot last week,
and were glad to find him cheerful and in some
what improved health. .Though quite feeble,
he is able, by the assistance of bis crutches, to
walk abont the yard and superintend the culti
vation of .his garden, in which be appears to
take great interest. Hopes are entertained by
some of his friends that he will regain the use
of his limbs so far as to- dispense with his arti
ficial supports. He iu by no means sanguine on
this subject, but quite resigned to Gods will in
this, and all other matters, whether relating to
himself or the country.
Supreme Court—Daily Proceedings.
-i- ■ • •. Thubsday, Juno.30, 1870.
Argument in No. 1, Atlanta Circuit—Bryant
Easly, va. Joseph Camp—was resumed and con-
eluded. Tidwell, Fears & Arnold for plaintiff
in error, and Peeples A Stewart, by T J. Hill
for defendant in error. ’’
No. 2, Atlanta Circuit—J. W.' Clayton <fc Co.
vs,.Campbell Wallace,- Superintendent Western
& Atlantic Railroad—Assumpsit from Fulton—
was argued for plaintiffs in error by Messrs. J.
D. Pope and It. fl. Clark, and for defendant in
error by Messrs. P. L. Mynatto and N. J. Ham
mond. :• r<Vr 1 M i
No. 3, Atlanta Circuit—The Mayor and Coun
cil of Atlanta vs. Isaac P. Calhoun—was with
drawn.
No. 3. Atlanta Circuit—Robt. M. Clarke vs.
Bobt H. McCrosky—Assumpsit from Falton—
was argued for plaintiff in error by Oliu Well
born, Esq., and for defendant in error by Col.
N. j. Hammond.
Pending the argument in No. 5, Atlanta Cir
cuit, the Court adjourned till 10 o clock A: M.,
to-morrow.—Era, lit._ , , to j . . -
Acivs Items. -J ...
There- were 472 deaths in New York City dur
ing the past week. This is an increase of 99
over tho number that occurred daring the pre
vious week. '
The largest cotton sale of the season for Gal
veston, Texas, was made on the 14th • instant,
reaching three thousand bales, and selling upon
a basis of seventeen coats for good ordinary. -
Considerable destitution, it is stnted, exists
in Caroline, King and Queen, Appomatox,
Prince Edward and Nottingham counties, Yn.
Many persons are said to be in want of the ac
tual necessaries of life.
The income tax was settled on Monday by
the announcement of Mr. Sherman, in the Sen
ate, that tho Finance Committee had re-exam
ined the whole subjeot; and would mako no fur
ther contest upon tho point. Ho then moved
to strike ont all the sections of the tax and
tariff bill relating to tho income tax, which was
agreed to, thus insuring tho triumph of right
and justice, in behalf of which tho leading press
of the country has stood np so resolutely, backed
by the imperative popular will, against an in
quisitorial and odious measure of oppression.
There is scarcely room now to doubt but that
the House will promptly follow this example of
the Senate, by receding from its own position
on tho income tax. Whether it does or not
makes little difference, for tho emphatic ex
pression of tho Senate will prevent any re-en
actment of the law, which expires by limitation
after the present year.
The Polish colony recently established under
the auspices of the Virginia Land Agency, in
the upper part of Amherst, and in Bedford
connty, is prospering well. The colonists have
already planted out 50,000 grape vines, and
speak confidently of tho prospects of a large re
turn.
Steam plowing has been at length successful
ly introduced into Louisiana. The forty acres
broken np in 18G8, after being planted in corn
and peas, yielded in addition in the fall of the
same year one hundred thousand pounds of dry
sugar—two and a half hogsheads an acre. The
estimated result is that steam plowing is fifty
per cent, more profitable than ordinary horse
employes.
A clever mot is attributed to the Prince Im
perial. When asked why people always said,
“Brave as a sworJ,” and never “Brave as a
cannon ?” he replied: “Because a cannon al
ways recoils when it is fired.”
An Early Bird. — Peterson's Magazine for
Anguat, reached us on the 1st day of July.
How Akerman Stands Towards Bill-
lock.
A Writer In the Atlanta Georgian signing him
self “One Who Knows” says :
Since November, 18G8, Hr. Akerman has been
an uncompromising opponent of the scheme in
augurated by tbo Governor to go Hack on the
reconstruction of Georgia. He made speeches
in Atlanta against it; he wrote a long letter to
CoL T. P. Saif old in opposition it; he went to
Washington at the request of a number of Re
publicans, and opposed it there; he talked with
General Grant before bis inauguration, and a
number of Congressmen, making known his
views to oil. Ail these facts aro well known to
tho Governor and his supporters. Up to tho
day of his nomination, he euntinued to hold the
same views, expressing himself in clear and
strong terms, both publicly and privately. He
is a warm friend of Hon. Jo3bna Hill, believing
that he was legally elected, and that he is entitled
to his seat in the Senate. He holds that Geor
gia was legally reconstructed in 18G8; that we
onght to have an election in the fall of 1870,
and repudiates the doctrino of two years longer
as repugnant to tho Constitution which he as
sisted in framing.
About the Cadetship Sales.
New York,’Jane 2D.—The Snn his the fol
lowing : When the Military Committee first be
gan investigating the cadetship sales the car-
pet-bag members held a secret meeting. They
resolved, if there was to be an investigation,
snch investigation should begin among the
leaders, who are making their.thousands, and
not among a few powerless members, who now
and then take five hundred dollars. At this
meeting resolutions were prepared.
They -were well digested and based on ab o-
lnto facts, in possession of different members of
Congress. They were to be the bombshell
which was to make tho leaders dodge to pro' -ct
their own corrupt job3. The leaders heard of
the resolution; they "Were thrown into intense
excitement. “They shall not bo introduced:”
“their introduction will be tho political death
warrant of any man who shall stand up and of
fer them;" “they will destroy tho Republican
’parly." Snch exclamations, with threats of the
ostracism of any Republican introducing the
resolutions, squelched them.
The.Death of Horace Greeley’S Uncle
id a Poor-House. U «n
Mr. Leonard Greeley, an uncle of Horace
Greely, of tBe New York Tribune, .and , brother
of Zacchens Greeley, Horace's father, long since
dead, died in the county poor-house here hist
night, of old ago and' neglect in life. He was
77 yehrt^fAge, destitute'and low spirited, and
came; here about a month since, nearly.pspni-
less and sick, and put up at a hotel. He,soon,
however, became a charge’ on, tho county, and
was removed to the poor-house. He gradually
sank day by day, and last night bis soul .passed
from earth to heaven, and to-day his body fills
a pauper’s grave. ' ,. r . _.
We understand .that the County Poo’r Com-
mittee* Mve written to Horace Greeley n'sking
for money to defray the expenses of; his board,
and; funeral.: The county. phjsician-alno wrote,.
to Mr. Horace Greeley, somo weeks since’the’
condition of his unde.
Letters were found upon bis person from
'Horace Greeley, giving tho old man informa-
tion concerning his family. It seems he has
one brother living—John Greeley, aged 88—in
Londonderry, N H., nnd that a sister, Mrs.
Mary Colley, died nine months since ia Man
chester, N. H. ,
Caustic.—Occasionally, MV. G.eeky blurts
oat great truths. Here is a specimen of whnt
be says, in his most lucid moments, c6ndsfniog
Bullock and Angier:
T^ two such rascals as the'gentlemen repre
sent each other to be really bold office in Geor
gia, there might be ground for refusing to re
admit the Btate into the Union.”
W«J assure our venerable contemporary of the
white ooat that - they really hold office. One of
them lives in a pot and the other in a kettle.
The.Strikxb s.—Cork, Ireland, was on a geiv
eral strike last Monday. Beginning with the
tailors it reached all classes of mechanics and
laborers; Everybody stopped work down to
the newsboys May they ail gat rich at stopping
work. . .
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
. Bejwrt of (be Poard .of .Examination,
To his Excellency, It. j}. BnUoelq Governor of
Georgia r
The undersigned,’a portion' 'of fhe B6ard of
Visitors Appointed by yonr Excellency to attend
the examination of the Senior Class of the Uni
versity of tho State, at Athens, would respect
fully submit the following report of ohr obser
vations and labors :
We entered on the discharge of the duty as
signed us on Friday, the 17th day of Jane, and
completed onr work on the. following Friday,
with peculiar interest and pleasure to'ourselves.' -
The Chancellor, Faculty and students treated
us with the greatest personal kindness and con
sideration, and every facility was afforded us
by the authorities of the College to inspect its
■internal operations, and to enable us to form a
fair and impartial judgment in relation to the
nature and results of the modes of instruction
and government which obtain in this institution.
The examination ot the Senior Class was con
ducted wholly in writing and eonsumod several
hours of each day, then tho papers of the stu
dents were placed in the hands of the Board of
Visitors to be examined at leisure; so that by
this arrangement we had abundant time and
opportunity, to ascertain the respective merits
of these manuscripts. The answers to the sys
tem of questions prepared ’by the Professors
were clear,' direct t nnd exhaustive, evincing ,on
the part of the Seniors vigororvs thought, patient,
labor, critical research, cultivated taste and, in
deed, an admirable acquaintance with th’e broad
field of science and'literature. Wo'havo never
known a body cf students more earnest in the
pursuit of knowledge and more exemplary in
their; daily .deportment. They , are the. living
fruits of a lofty type of intellectual'and moral
culture. Their advantages have been vastly
superior to those shared’by students a quarter
of a century ago,- and hence a corresponding su
periority in respect to scholarship and general
laiturityof manhood. These'forty graduates
with their fine gifts, qaalitiesand acquirements,'’
are destined to exert a potent infinenca on the
public mind. The State may well feel proud of
this noble band of her educated sons. .
■, The old Franklin College is gradually emergi
tog into a grand University, wherein all the de
partments of education are diligently and
thoroughly taught. As now organized it num
bers five distinct and. separate schools, and yet
the principle of unity, in opposition to tho old
exploded idea of union, runs like a-golden chain
through the entire circle of studies. Under the
operations of tho new system, which has been
so auspiciously inaugurated, we. feel confident
that there will soon be realized a literary con
summation most devoutly to be wished for.
There are, at present, sixteen-professors as
sociated with the. several departments of the
University, all of whom aro men of liberal ed
ucation, laborious application and of true pro
gress in their spirit and aims.
Discarding the frigid dogmas of an infidel
philosophy, and the hasty generalizations of
superficial thinkers who essay to antagonize
science with revelation, they are, nevertheless,
fully abreast of the great thought of the age.—
They are possessed of such a rare versatility of
talent and training that each professor is entire
ly competent to tho task of teaching all the
branches embraced in the curriculum of the
College. It would be bard to find a coterie of
more learned gentlemen. Chancellor Lipscomb
is still discharging the duties of .his office with
great fidelity and acceptance, and occupies, by
common consent, a princely rank in the repub
lic of letters.
But notwithstanding tbo high literary charac
ter of tho professorial corps of the University
it still lacks certain things in order to place it
on a level with the higher class Colleges of tho
North and fhe older Universities of Europo.
The spirit of the age and the necessities of our
people demand that every facility should be af
forded onr young men, to become familiar with
all the modern discoveries and applications of
Policy of Ceorjia Planters.—So. 9.
Editors Tdfgr.qph and Messenger In my
Woods Afire.—The World, of Tuesday, says
three thousand acres of forest on Long Island,
near Deer Pork, are now making a lingo bon-
fit©. The conflagration wan caused by sparks
from* locomotive. ■
tho University is not provided with, and their
absence prevents its rapid expansion in a scien
tific direction. It is very desirable that the de
partment of Analytical Chemistty'should be es
tablished,' wherein our educated ydfith ean be
prepared to become Mining Engineers, and thus
aid in developing the rich mineral resources of
our State. It is estimated that to erect a modern
working Laboratory for Analytical Chemistry,
and to tarnish tho departments of Natural Phi
losophy, Chemistry, and Engineering with the
required modem apparatus and suitable models,
will cost not less than ($100,000) one hundred
thousand dollars. This amount expended in
the manner indicated, would be a permanent
investment for the State of the most valuable
character, inasmuch as thereby our young men
would be educated at home to aid intelligently
in the important work of internal improvements
and in developing our great mining, manufac*
hiring and agricultural interests. More ample
preparations for the .cultivation of the mechani
cal arts and for the’practical illustration of the
science of agriculture would be precisely adapt
ed to the present posture of our affairs, and
would give the University new attractions for the
masses of the population of Georgia. The time
has come when tno dignity of labor, in all its
departments, must be universally acknowledged.
Sweat of the brow, as well as sweat of the brain
is necessary to make a great and virtuous peo
ple. . r
Every State ones it to itself and to the civili
zation of the age to encourage sound learning
and the liberal arts. This cannot be done bet
ter than by means of a leading institution that
shall be a centre of mental power, and of liter-
aiy and scientific appliances. The history of
nations shows that efforts for the education of
the masses amount to little unless the higher
education through the agency of universities
be maintained. Good common schools will not
develop first class universities, but first class un
iversities will develop common schools of the
best order. The great fountain will feed the
streams which water a wide and fertile territo
ry, and one sun will shed more light than a
thousand stars.
The State University has long been a com
manding power in Georgia. It has sent forth
about one thousand Alumni to fill tho most im
portant offices of trust and honor, to elevate the
standard of education and publio morals and to
promote the social culture nnd refinement of
our citizens. It is the Alma Mater of the meu
who have contributed most to mould the char
acter of this grand old Commonwealth, and to
give it au exalted place in the powerful family'
of American States. And it is plain that for
the proposed widentog of the sphere Of oper
ations -in the University and thus to make
It a 'more perfect agenoy in advancing all
the important interests of our people, an
additional amount of financial hid’is indispensa
ble. The annual payment of the State is eight
thousand dollars, and one half , of this sum is
consumed in the work of beneficiary education,
and tbo remainder is required for the necessary
repairs of buildings, etc., so that a direct ap
propriation is a necessity ta meet the growing
wants of a progressive age and people.
The Institution is now in a very prosperous
condition, and with an increased endowment,
its prosperity and influence would be immeas-
ibly enhanced. The social ’ and family fea
ture which has been engrafted on it, is working
admirably. The students now board in families
and thus share all the kindly influences of the
homo circle. Tho old system of espionage is
exploded, aud the laws of love and honor are’
found to be far mo/e- elevating and effective
than the former rigid methods of managing the
young meu. . .vCi Cat"*-**.
Again, no political combinations or tests are
tolerated in tho University. 'Every stndent is
allowed to exercise the utmost freedom of
thought on all State and national-questions, and
no one is proscribed for bis opinions on the sub
ject of politics. The great purpose of tho offi
cers of tho Institution is to make gentlemen
and scholars, and n o t politic? ansanddemagognes.
-Their honorable njm is-tho-highest patronage of
lotteip. • *’
And. finally, the moral and religious character
of’thbjColIege is its crowning glory. The spirit
of sectarianism is not suffered to creep into its
classic halls or to mar tho harmonies .of this
noble Temple of Science, and yet the spiritual
welfare,of the students is habitually viewed as
an object of prime importance, and every law
ful moans is faithfnlly employed to impress
them with the transcendent power and value of
Divjno truth. Tho President and Faculty are
distributed among the four loading Christian de
nominations, and about sixty collegians are pro
fessors of religion, and abound in the works of
faith, charity and prayer. We gladly prediot
for the University a career of increasing useful
ness and renown. David Wills,
James A. Nisbet, tv '
Matthew H. Henderson.
JiwnfiQthf 1870. v»Sg' i« rr -.'v- rtf'--a ~- v 'r--' ■
-s Td.egr.ofh an _______
fiAfc article I pointed to the great mistake of
planting too* much ©btton and toolittlfe eorn >
and suggested that this policy would bring the
cotton market below remunerative prices, and
raise the provision market to disproportionate
figures. I farther suggested that the pursuance’'
cf this policy must inevitably lead to bankrupt
cy of the country. Over production of cotton,
and neglect of provision crops, must necessari
ly produoe these results. Any calculating man
can read it as clear as the handwriting on the
wall. > .
The world requires only so much cotton, the
finer grades of which can only be raised in the
Southern States. This is the home of the cotton
plant, it grows better, and produces a finer sta
ple here, than in any other soil or climft’e. The
many experiments to grow cbfton in other o >nu-
tries have comparatively failed, and the cotton
mills look to the Sonth for a supply for the man-,
nfacture of all the finer fabrics with which to’
furnish the world. So, the world is dependent
upon ns for our cotton and we oonld monopolize
the cotton market, and dictate our own prices,
by pursuing a proper policy under a well.organ
ized combination and concert of action. We
oonld control the cotton market,'and make the
cotton oolture remunerative. The cotton.plant
is a rich legacy to the South, if properly used..
With proper restraints upon its production, it
will pay tho Southern planter better than any
other orop. The high prices'paid for cotton
after the war shov.-ed the clamorous demand for
American cottons. Tho scarcity and inefficien
cy of labor since that time has kept up the price,
by keeping under tho pj’olh.Hon 'of the staple,
In this light, the war was a benefit to the cotton
culture—it deprived ns of one-third of onrlabpr,
diminished the cotton orop one-half, and gave
us moro gold for the other half ihnn we had been
getting for full crops, thereby saving us the ex
pense of one-third labor.
But how are we using this benefit? ’We ars
bending every energy to. paralyze it. Not only
calling in immigrants from every quarter of,the
world, but cutting down our provision crops to
half rations, for man and beast, in order to
swell the cotton crop to the former-maximum
figure, and bringdown the price below what
we can afford to raise it at. What madness!'—
What suicide ! We cau as easily command 2.
cents for cotton as 7.0 * cents. The one will pay
ns a profit, and the other will bring ns to bank
ruptcy. The policy most expedient for keeping
up the cottoa market will afford the most
efficient means for preserving, improving,
and enhancing the value'bf onr lands; while the
policy we are pursuing not only tends to pull
down the price to alow figure, bat tends to im
poverish and destroy our rich legacy in Southern
cotton lands—if not to bring us to’starvation.
Which,’then, is the wiser policy? good compen
sation for labor, improvement of our lands, and
plenty to eat; or bankruptcy, wa3taof lands,
and starvation? Who cannot, deoide between
the two ? And yet the course we are pursuing
will as surely lead to tho latter fate as the mag
net points to the north pole. Increase the
cotton orop to over production, and the spec
ulators wilt buy it at their own prices.—
Grow large crops of cotton to the neglect of
provision crops, aud the small price for cotton
will not buy your meat and. broad. Hence Mr.
Dickson says that a cotton panic will “produce
starvation in many instances.”
For the correct policy to guide us through
these perilous times. I refer your readers, Mr.
Editor, to Hr. Dickson’s letters on immigration
which they will find iu his book recently publish
ed by J. W. Burke & Co., Macon, Ga. As I
may have leisuie, I propose to continue the dis
cussion of this vory important subject.
June AJth, 1870. ‘ Linden.
Oak
From Becatnr Counly— Crops, Bain
etc.— A Democratic Gouimuiiity of
Ike Right Stamp. .,
-it,,, Baisbridue, June 30,1870
' r iEditors Telegraph and Messenger.: The
WieUher is intensely hot about this place. We
arc having fine seasons, and the crops look
well, as far as I have seen them. The corn
has improved beyond expectation since tho
rains set in; but tbere is not enough com
planted, for it is corn patches and cotton fields.
it is strange that people can never learn that
it is to their interest to raise their own corn
and meat at home, and not have to depend
on the West to supply their smoke houses
and corn cribs. The result will be that we
will have an over supply of cotton worth only
ten or twelve cents per pound, and out of that
all the fertilizers to pay for, which have been
extensively used in this county. What will
be the balance to profit?
To show jou the advantages of planters
raising ihnr own provisions, i will refer you
t > one section in this county, which is pursu
ing a better policy. This section extends
from the Florida line up the Oehlocknee river
nearly to Tired Creek, a distance of about
ten miles, and out west from the river about
the same distance, embracing the 19th Dis
trict. The land is not, for the most part, rich,
but tolerably , productive pine laud. On the
creeks and branches the soil is stronger, but
the climate malarious, being subject to chills
and fevers in the summer. With’this excep
tion, the whole region is as healthy as any
section you can find in the State. ; It really is
a fine scope of country*, having good water,
and free from infects. It was originally set
tled up by emigrants principally from the
State of North Carolina, and is known far
and .wide as the North Carolina settlement.
In passing through this little territory, in
stead of seeing cottoa fields* you will see corn
fields, cane, potatoes—in fact, everything that
makes good, living., StUl. they raise some cot
ton, but the corn crib and smoke house are
attended to first
Now, I say this in no disparagement to any
body or section, but these people are the most
independent people in Southwestern Georgia,
being out of debt, and with few exceptions, all
haviot: some money. They have com, bacon
and syrup to sell at all' times of the year, and
a great quantity of .these articles come into
thi3 market at all times of The year from this
little section of country.
Do not understand me to say that the citi
zens of this regiou are all North Carolinians,
for this is not the ca.-c. A good many others
have settled among them. But I speak of it
as a community, ail things.considered, one of
the most desirable neighborboods in Georgia,
and the people that live here make it what-it
is by being honest, nioral and sober—paying
them debts punctually, and having nothing to
do .with homesteads—all Democratic,- so much
so that the freedmen were Democrats too. At
the last election there was over 100 votes
polled iu this territory, and hot a Rad. among
them to tell the news. _ i'L&b *'■ .t^Jr
The prevailing denomination among thbrn
istheBaptist—known vulgarly as “hardshell’’
and if one of their members was io take the
benefit of the homestead act he would be ex
pelled at once.
What I have written is for the purpose of
showing how much better it is for us to raise
all of our provisions at homo and let cotton go
to the dogs. Taking this little settlement ror
ah example—sccing that they arc prosperous
and'ha'ppy.by. pursuing tho right course. But
where you see cotton strong on the brain you
will see confusion such as bankruptcies, home
stead exemptions and law suits which break
up tho very foundation of society. J. A.
Examination Day at
Academy.
Houston Coubty, Ga., 24, ]s 7a
- Editors Telegraph and Messenger- n .
Grove Academy is fixated east of. and
Six miles distantfrom Fort Yallev in » H 001
tiful oak grove on Mr. Wm. I). Allen's .T® 11 '
ises, fronting, and within three hundred
of his large add ihsgiiitioont mansion.
thing conspired to make the 24th a nl«Z_ ery
delightful and favorable day for the oc^ nt ’
Tho day was ushered in by a Ldin^fr
dence, a bright sun and gentle breezes V1 '
According to previous notice the friend, A ,
the school gathered early in the morning
supplied with boxes and -sacks filled tg\y-
mouths, with the very best imbstantuk , [
luxuries of tho land, which strongly indir,,!-
something to eat after a while. At 8 d’25
our competent, able and wortbynrwSE?
«*>. a £*££&
ditorv into the school-room, and comment
the exercises of tlie forenoon; by review^-, "{
examining his primary, or.hogranhv. toO®
■jitioa, reading, etc., and regain a grauW,
classes upon the studies and literary
they had pas-.ed over duriog tho firs: scWl
term of 1870. -lts a001
After a rigid and severe test % the Mr,
venng, energetic and untiring iounictorit
was found his pupils had made a raiM , b
fidency; and it was further and condasuX
proven that they were perfectly c 'nve-«m
with, and fully understood every step thevtra
made in Iit.ralure. The hour lit 12 o’cii',1-
having arrived, the polite teacher called m
from labor to refreshment,.by announcing »
recess of two hours, and..cordially invhin| a n
present to participate ift a suutpfubiG dinrT-
then being arranged and-spread by the
on tables shaded by green foliage of b-aotifoi
oak trees, leacher Murray brought his scho'
ars to the dinner table ia order, aud
Mr. Jacob Hampton to ask a blessing.
feast was spread amid charming scenery y"\
were: completely endrclcd, with beautify taH.
lands, and on the west were shaded and coded
by a forest of. toweling pine and oak tree= —
East of us was a large aud perfectly leveffiell
Of 120 acres, in cotton. South of us could be
seem a fifty acre field of the best corn in the
county,^ fairly promising a yield of forty bush
els to the acre. • All the land belonging to that
nice, energetic, practical, model man iiudsuc-
cessM fanner, Wm. D. Allen, Esq. Almo-‘
everything about him bears his impress, and
seems to be prospering.
Dinner over,. 1 we were called from refresh
ment to labor, and back into the school room
again. The afternoon exercises were opened
and con’sisted of examination in mathematic
by different authors, declamation, and readme
of essays on different subjects. The audience
were again highly gratified with the answers
in mathematics, the performance onthe black-
loard, Lad the manner of tho ueelamatorv es-
orci'cs. The compositions by the young
ladies were also very accurate and meritorious.
In closing the exercise::, the accomplished
teacher, Mr. Jasper B. Murray, in a graceful
speech returned thanks for the polite attention
of the auditory and the hospitalities of the
people; and so closed a pleasant and pmut-
ablc day. Ja 14 ,~tu-4s r-'r.- Ji. F.
The Fourteenth Amendment—Does ir Pco-
HiiiiT State Monopolies ?—The recent deciiLu
of Mr. Justice Bradley to tho United States Cir
cuit Court at New Orleans, in the e-.se.-: kiiO'-u
as the slaughterhouse case, which has attracted
some attention iu th© public press, seems to be
invested with much more than passing interest.
It is, in effect, that the first section ol tho Four
teenth Amendment prohibits not only State
legislation which interferes with the equal rights
of citizens of all classes and colors, bnt slso
that which interferes with any of the funda.
mental privileges and immunities of citizens—
whether they be citizens of the State which
passes the law, or of other States. And the
decision regards as among these fundamental
privileges and immunities the right to adopt
and pursue any innocent employment, subject
only to police regnlation, and without any re-
striction by monopolies, or exclusive privileges
granted to a favored few. The case arose upon
a recent law of Louisiana, by which the monop.
oly of keeping slaughtered houses, cattle yards,
abattoirs, and live stock landings to and about
New Orleans for an extent of fifteen or twenty
miles np and down the Mississippi river, on
both sides, was granted to a close corporation
of seventeen individuals, compelling all others
engaged in the business, who numbered over a
thousand persons, to bring-their cattle and other
animals io the establishments of the monopoly
and pay a heavy fe© for the privilege of landing
or slaughtering therein. Jndge Bradley held
that this law was a clear invasion of the funda
mental right of adopting one’s own pursuit, or,
in other words, of the 6acred right of labor,
which is forbidden by th» Fourteenth Amend
ment.—Newark Advertiser.
Appointment of a Cadet—He Refuses to
■akethe Test.Oath.—A boy named Baldwin
Alexander, about seventeen years of ’nge,[re-
aiding in Pulaski connty, Virginia, having boon
f appointed a cadet at tho Nnval Academy by Re
presentative Gibson, of Virginia, underwent
thorough examination, and pawed. He made a
favorable impression npon tho Board of Exam
iners and llie Secretary of the Navy, and his
appointment was confirmed; but when asked to
take the test oath he declined, asserting that al
though he was a mere child at the commence
ment of the war, and but twelve years of age at
its olose, his associates, surronndings, etc., had
created sympathy in his mind and heart for
those around him; and to sweftr that he had
not sympathized with or countenanced the “re
bellion, would be base perjury, and ho could
hot do so. He'could tahe all the remainder of
the oath but those two terms. His honesty and
uandor elicited encomiums from the naval au
thorities, and Senator Johnson took the matter
in hand and tried to have the youth admitted
upon taking the proper constitutional oath. The
The Opelika (Ala.)'Ern publishes an adver
tisement of Ihe tax collector of that’ connty,
(Lae), 9/ that portion of the Montgomery tuad
West Point Railroad, in Leo conntv, on both of
itB lines. The sale is for non-payment of taxes,
amounting to about eight thousand 'five hun
dred dollars.
.►r«a.iVmw p w a <1U B gs -AS ra-jit
liw on the subject is imperative, and the Beore-
tof of the Navy to-day informed Senator
Johnson that Alexander could not be admitted
to the academy as a oadet unless he subscribed
tl> the iron-dad oath. ~ Senator Johnson will ask
special congressional legislation to his case, and
Representative Platt also stated that he would
f»k the removal of AleranCer’s disabilities by
til© House, and that he be allowed to, enter the
ao*de»y without takiog.the iron clad oaft*. . .
• . •'**»- • Wit isjfto aa-.afc -jj-mA
muaotermj mx*
Morrissey’s Gambling Palace at Saratoga.—
A correspondent thus writes : John Morrissey's
new house at Saratoga is said to be by far the
most gorgeous house for play on the continent.
The main floor is divided into three rooms, two
of which are devoted to play and one for din
ing. The fittings np for the rooms- are simply
magnificent. The floors are covered with scarlet
and white velvet tapestry. The furniture, side
boards, cornices, mantels and mirror frames are
French cheval, inlaid wifh gold. The curtains
are silk aud damask. The monogram “J. M-
fl imes out on all sides. Over the masfive mir
rors'fire carved tigers'heads, with mouth wide
open to devour, an emblem of the tiger persons
will fight within the walls. The chandeliers are
gold gilt, and the brackets are burnished in the
same style. On the saloon floor there are one
hundred and twenty-five lights, and two hun
dred and seventy ia all the house. Private
staircases lead to rooms aloft, and these rooms,
on the two stories above the parlors, are gor
geously fitted up for guests. The lower floor is
for a kitchen, wins cellar, biundry and for do
mestic uses. The dub house coat ninety thou
sand dollars. A lot near is o wned by a church.
The parish would not sell, bnt the ground is
rented to Morrissey for tea years, at one thou
sand dollars a year, to give room and light for
the club house.
Twenty-one Years of Silence.—There is a
woman in the town of Harmony, Chautauqua
county, who ha.s not spoken to her husband for
twenty-one years. In'-the year 1849 her hus
band contradicted her harshly in the present*
Of company, and she threatened that if he didn't
behave better toward her she never would spesk
to him again. He retorted that he wished she
wouldn’t; and she has not since spoken to him-
They have continued to live together peacefully,
and during the Jong silence have hid several
children. Everything goes -onattheirhov.se
as usual with farmers. The husband is a‘-ty n ’
tive, and does his conversing with his wfl®
through one of the children. For instance, h f
will ask a child at the table, “will yonr mother
have some more meat ?” Or, ot another time-
“is your mother going to (own with mo to-day?
The family is wealthy, and belongs to the better
class of Chautauqua farmers and respectable
citizens.—JamesUrten (N~. Yi) Journal.
Free Trade and Free Labor.—If free tr»de
is good, why not free labor? If it is wrong w*
American consumers are compelled to pay hiS s
prices for home made goods because of the P 10-
tective tariff npon English goods, is it rightio
oppose the introduction of cheap Chinese Is® 01
because it comes into conflict with American
labor? Again, what better plan can be adopts
to secure free trade than this plan of iutrodo®-
tog Chinese labor, which in cheapness
ble our factories and foundries to compete w®
thorn of England without a protective tsr'3-
In a word, do not free trade and freo labor, -
a free field for labor, all ga together? vha' -•
tho politicians?—New Hark Herald.
A black heart cherry free brought from
ginia in 1610 by Mrs. Ann Cooke, and planted
in her gardoD, thirteen miles south of ‘
tog Green, produced a tree which is
sixty feet high and ten feat in belt. It y : -* clea
about ten bushels of cherries this season.
ju There is a very large number of immigrsnh
arriving on onr shores, at. present. D uring *•*,
week 7,100 landed at the port of New Fork,
immigration continues to go on at this rate tn
will ba no difficulty in populating Hade to
unoccupied lands in the/West.
In no couutrj in the, world is.
'severely dealt with as, in ’ China. A (
wotruia near Shanghai recently had for “'r 0 j
guilty alliance and connived at the tuui'ilv*
hoc husband by her lover. The crime wm'
covered, and the woman sailed at full ^
on her hasband'eeoflba and :Wt tqdis.
Tho Freneh trass-Atlantic steamers “v®
king fine time. The Pereira toft Brest
Jiine, In the evening, and reached New Yor
one .o'clock, p. u., 2Itti~spy ei^d tia J a
hours.. to' ■ - J -
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