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Telegraph & Messenger.
j^.TBTTTip WEDNESDAY AND 8ATUBDAY
■WEDNESDAY MOBBING. June 13^0-
— Tbe Associated Press.
AS few persons know what the newspapers
when they talk about the “Associated
jfcsss ” and “ Proas despatches,” we have copied
irom Putnam's Magazine a very full account of
Shis organization, and it will be found on the
iiist page- The reader will bo informed and
interested in the account. Before the war the
Texxobaph was a contributor to this “Associated
Press ” in large amounts, considering its finan
cial ability. When the war broke out the South
ern dailies started an Association of their own,
called the Southern Press Association, which
still retains its existence, but the business of
jsrnishing news has reverted to the New
York Association. To this letter the Telegraph
kkd Messenger now pajb a large weekly assess-
aacnt for the “ press despatches ” furnished its
readers from all parts of the world.
Grant as Guilty as Wliittemore.
The New York Sun (Rad.) declares that the
♦ttnngft must follow up tho principle laid down
ha tho rejection of Whittemore, viz:
That a man who bestows an office upon an
other person in consideration of money or val
uable presents giveD to him by the appointee or
Sis friends, is himself unfit to hold office; and
that the House will do all in their power to ex
clude such a man from office.
It insists that the House shall not stop with
its application to the case of Whittemore, but
giro it a wider application. The following ex
tract will show what sort of game the Son pro
gnoses they shall bunt:
Is it not notorious that the President of the
Suited States has received presents in money,
bouses, lands, and in other forms, from certain
persons and their friends, and in consideration
thereof has conferred upon those persons and
ihoir friends important and lucrative offices? Of
the reception of the presents and the be
stowal of the offices there is not a shadow of
donbt; for this was done openly and ostensibly
before all the people. If there be any doubt
that the offices were bestowed solely or partial-
3j in consideration of tho presents, is it not the
duty of the House to inquire into the matter ?
Bo the ninety-six Republicans who voted to
purge their ball of Whittemore for selling a
cadetship suppose that the people do not see
Shat the principles involved apply with far
greater force to the sale by tbe President of a
seat in his Cabinet, or a foreign mission, or a
oofiectorship of the customs ? The House of
Senresentatives bavo ample power in both
cfesses of cases. They can inquire into the
facts, and if they deem them sufficiently flagrant
can drive a Congressman from the Capitol, and
bring a President to the bar of tbe Senate.
There have been many Democratic Presidents
af this once free and proud Republic—some,
perhaps, not altogether immaculate, bnt no such
degrading charge a9 this was ever made against
racy one of them, even by the lowest and most
•icnrrilous opposition sheet, mnch less by a re
spectable newspaper of their own political faith.
The Boll Worm in Houston.
A friend in Houston sends ns the following,
with a-box of the perforated bolls and some of
tibe worms r
Jfei.trs. Editors—Sms: I have been aston
ished recently to see publications, and hear
planters talk of a glowing prospect for a cotton
crop. I think I am correct in saying that the
ysaospects have not been so gloomy for twenty
years.. Pirst: It is at least three weeks later
Shan, usual. SecondThe grass has materially
injured the crop. Third: The lice are doing a
serxons damage to it. But finally, and the
-woist of all, the boll worm is destroying the
Udom and young bolls. In corroboration of
Jfcat fact I herewith send yon a package of young
Dolls, all taken from one stalk this morning,
muuu 5 lUcm tou will find the centime
worm and see tho execution done. Mr. Wil
liam D. Allen, of this county, well known as
job of the most scientific and snccessful plan
ners of onr State, banded me the package of
young bolls sent you. He 89ys the ravage of
3he worm np to this time is unprecedented in
2h» annals of cotton culture, and predicts al
most a total failure. We are blessed, however,
with fine corn crops, and hope to have bread to
sat if cotton is scarce. Observer.
Tori Valley, July 2 d.
Vest Point Examination—SInny Fail*
ures.
Poughkeepsie, June 28.—At the examination
at West Point Military Academy, concluded to
day, forty-eight out of eighty-six failed, and
will bo sent home. It is said to have been the
most rigid examination ever held.
And this is tho way they get rid of the negro-
cadet elephant. Won't tho man and brother
want to know, now, why this examination, was
tie most rigid one ever held? Was that tho
only way to get rid of the two representatives
af their race whose advent at the Point has os
Jugusted the yonng Radical aristocrats there,
who thought negro voting and negro office hold
ing down Sonth to punish “rabels," was such a
bully thing ? Verily it looks extremely like it.
Mss. Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, de-
efines to reoeivo calls from the wife of Lynch,
tie colored Secretary of State. Social equality
.san individual matter and can’t be regulated
by politics.—Exchange.
That isn’t Radical doctrine, though. Their
tbith^as preached to the negroes, is dead against
any distinctions, anywhere, on account of race
or color. They want to make whites and blacks
associate together in steamboats, churches,
schools, theatres, railway cars, etc. Mrs. Alcorn
weds “reconstructing." She is Mrs. Govern
or by tbe graco of negro votes and Federal bay
onets so that to be grateful as well as consistent,
afae ought not, while in that position, to refuse
any recognition either may ask.
Cobx-plantixg.—All the Southern Agricultu
ral journals we get are unanimous and strong
am the corn-planting question, but it is too late
to save the country from punishment. How*
ower, all tho editorial talk would not, in any
weent, have amounted to much. We have got
hewne, as a State, to a point of great embar-
aaasmentand distress, before the people will
9M that if the South would be rich she must
moke her own food.
Georgia. Gibbs Sun Ahead.—At the close of
ifcfr exercises of the Academy of the Visitation,
st Georgetown, D. C., (a most admirable school
Sy the way) the farewell ode snug on the oc
casion was composed by Miss Fanny Casey, of
Georgia, who also won a crown and gold
medal for tho highest honors in the senior circle,
oooferred for excellence of condnct. Misses
lanrisa Casey, Willie Belt and Ophelia Robert-
0MB, also of Georgia, took silver medals which
an given to those winning the second honors.
The “Dead Democracy” at Tbeib Odd
Tracis.—And now that lively corpse tkq Raci-
aals call the “Dead Democratic party” has
men, and gone, and done it in Idaho. It has
swept that Territory, electing its delegate to
Congress by 800 majority, carrying every coun
ty,, except one, where the Mormons voted their
wires. Oh this “dead Democracy!” What a
datum lion unpleasant thing it is to the Radical
;pg>ers and raiders. We are surprised they
dm’t bury it out of sight, and be rid of its
mc&s.
A Slander.—We published, a few days since,
tfce following paragraph from the Chicago
Tribune:
In the Episcopal Diocesan Council for Wis-
aansin, a day or two ago, the following cannon
was adopted: “Every communicant of the
ctarch marrying outside of our communion, or
married by any other than a clergyman of.the
shnrch, shall stand ipso facto excommunicated.”
Tho Rev. H. W. Spaulding, Rector of Grace
{Shnrch, Madison, Wisconsin, we are gratified
im see writes a letter to that paper pronouncing
statement an unmitigated falsehood.
I*Iiiety-Fonrt.Ii Anniversary of Amer
ican Independence.
Tbe Telegraph and Messenger will not ap
pear again until Wednesday morning. The
printers will celebrate the “National Holiday
with a pic-ntc at Paco’s Station in Twiggs coun
ty, and we wish them much happiness. Resum
ing work on Tnosday, our next issue will be on
Wednesday, «th instant. The interval of pub
lication seems long,but labor is intermitted only
a single working day.
The country is fast sweeping onward to the
completion of the fftst century of its existence,
and arrangements are even now in progress for
the celebration of its centennial anniversary
in Philadelphia, in 187G, on the precise spot
where the declaration of American Independ
ence was first published to the world. A hun
dred years is, or ought to bo, no great time in
the life of a nation, bnt the century of our na
tional record has never been equalled hereto
fore, and perhaps may never be equalled here
after in the rapidity of human development and
in the rush of grand events. It may be, as the
world approaches those grand prophetic periods
in which the power of moral evil shall be arrest
ed, still more magnificent achievements of mind
over matter will be displayed but such a re
sult seems impossible in the light of what has
beenaccomplished.
It appears inconceivable, for example, that
travel and transportation should ever again be
so much improved on existing conditions, as it
was when the locomotive and tho rail and the
steamer substituted the slowcoaches; wagons
and ships of fifty years ago, and slowly conveyed
that interchange of thought and intelligence
which now flashes by lightning, in a few min
utes, what was no longer than a generation ago
conveyed by slow and toilsome steps, consum
ing periods sometimes of six months or nine,
Forty years ago the editors of the Telegraph
and Messenger, as we find by picking np an old
file of the papers, got their news from New
York seldom in less than three weeks. One of
their papers of Jonell, 1821, gives the latest for
eign dates from tho Loudon Morning Chronicle
of April 13th, which reported Eastern news more
than three months old. To-day wo give news
from all parts of three continents the next
morning. The improvements in communication
have, in some particulars, put the inhabitants
of tho remotest parts of the East at a next door
neighborhood, and for all purposes have plac
ed Christendom in more easy intercommunica
tion than the capital of Georgia was with the
ontlying counties of the State fifty years ago.
It is this wonderfnl advance in the means of
inter-communication which is producing such
great events in so rapid succession as to startle
and bewilder the people. Every moral, intel
lectual and material agency has been armed by
these improvements with a hundred-fold activity
and power, so that he who measures and con
jectures by the old rules and standards is wholly
befooled. We, in the South, overlooked these
great changes in the moral and material condi
tion in thoso controversies which precipitated
the war and in onr anticipations of the final re
sult of that struggle. Steam and electricity
had concentrated an overpowering world-senti
ment against slavery, and it was doomed. Steam
and electricity multiplied the material resources
of the Northern States a hundred fold. Under
the old conditions tho moral and political con
troversy would have been slow and never have
sharpened into a deadly fight; or, if it had
been, the prostration of the South would have
been impossible.
Steam and electricity are now homogenizing
all the people of the earth—breaking down the
exclusiveness of the Turk,—the Chinaman,—the
Japanese—the Brahmin—the worshipper of the
Tjirna.—hrinmne every usace. oDinionand
custom to the test of the opinion and informa
tion of the world. This rapid, universal and
healtfifal circulation of thought, feeling and
opinion is vitalizing the world, as the current
corrects stagnant water or a confined and pois
onous atmosphere. Tho hoary East and many
parts even of Earope might have been compar
ed to parts of the human body diseased by de
ficient circulation, and theso new and grand in
strumentalities of an advanced civib'zation are
sending the tide of a new vigor to them in
strong and healthful currents from the centres
of life.
Now amid such a general upturning and re
volution as this, let us not commit tho folly of
measuring the future by the past. It is an era
of grand activity. Some of our ideas have
fallen before it, and so must some of every
other people. Nobody can set np to bo wise
above instruction. Oar prophets and teachers
of New England have got a great deal to learn,
just as well as we unfortunate rebels. If yon
do not believe it, just wait and see. Let ns
hope that we are getting through tbe hardest
part of our lessons, and shall now go easier
with every step.
There’s a manifest improvement in externals
tho past year. The animosity of the Northern
people seems to be abating, and they are
beginning to understand matters in tho South a
good deal better. The hatreds engendered by
the war are softening, and it may be that, .be
fore the first national centeuniad is completed,
this oppressed section will come to bo considered
as a part of the country entitled to respect, or
at least to some consideration. At all events,
we can do no better than mind onr own busi
ness, and watch and wait. In this hope we
enter upon the year ninety-five, and pass the
compliments of the season.
The “Good Time Coming.”
The New York Herald says “the approaching
general conflict between labor and capital will
be marked by a revolutionary reconstruction of
government and laws the most radical and be-
nifleent the world ever saw.” No doubt of it.
Work will be only ajfew minutes’ play, at the
highest rate of wages. And, at the same time,
food trill be plenty ■ and cheap and labor very
low. Property will be equally divided and sor
did and grasping monopoly rebuked. All will
be employers and all employed. All masters
and all men. Land will be free as air or water
and bear a high price for all who wish to sell
Mankind will live without any kind of restraint
and order and security be perfect. A universal
and perpetual holiday will be proclaimed, and
trade and industry reach a point of activity
never known before. The ocean will be white
with the wings of commerce; and the poor sal
lor stay at home in the embraces of his family.
The ham of millions of spindles will be heard
in the vallies, and hard-worked operatives and
factory ftirls, released from unhealthy confine
ment shall gather blue bells in the mountains
and redden their cheeks in healthful sports in
the summer breeze. The fields shall teem with
waving grain and the tired plowboy lay asido his
whip and hoe and lave his dusty limbs in the
bubbling fount orsparkliugstream. The bams
shall burst with plenty and make their own re
pairs, while tho farmers sport with wood nymphs,
dryads, fawns and eatyrtf in the cool recesses
of tho leafy forest. This is what the Tribune
calls the “good time coming,” and that is tho
reason why we have alt been learning how to
dance so that we can keep step to the mnsic
when we hear it.
Extbaobdinaby Heat and Mortality ix New
York.—Neic York, June 29.—The extraordinary
heat of the past few days has caused a great in
crease in the city mortality, at least an average
increase of 75 per cent, upon last week's mor-
During the twenty-four hours ending at
noon to-day there were 106 deaths against G1
daring the corresponding hours last week. Yes-
terdfty there were 107 deaths against 74 last
week, and so ever since the hot weather set in.
The Georgia Press. «»
The "Washington Gazette has reoeived “a nat
ural curiosity, in the shape of an ear of corn,
with perfectly formed grains of wheat on tbe
smaller end. The com is of the kind called six
weeks corn, and was planted in the neighbor
hood of a wheat patch. Its larger end is cov
ered with grains of corn, and perfectly formed;
the smaller portion of the cob has alternate
rows of corn and wheat, while on the extremity
is placed a perfectly formed head of wheat."
There was a thunder storm and very heavy
rain in Savannah, Thnrsday afternoon. It
seemed to have been general throughout South
ern Georgia.
Among the cargo of the Herman Livingston.
from Savannah for New York, on Thnrsday,
were 140 mocking birds.
The News has the following additional items:
Large Oabgo.—The Herman Livington car
ried out the largest cargo yesterday she has ever
taken from this port, and a very remarkable
one for this seasoD of the year. It consisted of
1,531 bales cotton, 25 bales wool, 17 bales waste,
50 casks clay, 130 hides, 85 barrels watermelons,
317 packages vegetables, and 173 packages of
merchandise. She also took 53 cabin end three
steerage passengers.
A Bit of Newspaper History.—When the
Morning News was started in 1850 there wore
two papers published in Savannah, the Republi
can and tho Georgian. Since that time the
Evening Journal, the Daily Mirrar, the Savan
nah Courier, the True Georgian, the Evening
Express, the Mail, the Commercial Index, the
Daily Herald, and the Advertiser have been
started, and all have passed out of existence ex
cept the Morning News, the Republican, and
the Advertiser. In addition to the daily papers
mentioned above, several magazines have been
published during the last twenty years, all of
which have passed away. Five dailies were
published in Savannch in 1851. . Of the papers
that have passed away, some of them have
fought stroDgly for life. The Journal was con
solidated with the Courier, printing two regular
editions, one in the morning and the other in
the afternoon, nnder the name of the Journal
and Courier. This paper was united with the
Georgian, and was continued until 1858, under
the name of tho Georgian and Journal, when,
from a lack of support, it was suspended. The
Daily Herald was united with the Morning
News, to which paper was also transferred the
good will of the Commercial Index. These data
shows how perilous an enterprise is the starting
of a newspaper.
There was a fine rain Friday, near Columbus.
Judge B. F. Coleman, succeds Rev. Dr. De Yo-
tie, as President of the Board of Trustees, of
the pnblie schools of Colnmbus.
The Son has the following items:
lx New Colthes.—Onr policemen, fourteen
in number, first appeared Tuesday in their new
uniforms—double-breasted grey frock coat with
brass buttons, and pants of same color, and
black military hat. They present a handsome
appearance.
Death of Mb. Beenard Dolan.—This gen
tlemen died yesterday morning, aged about fifty
years. For twenty-eight years ho has resided
and carried on business in Colnmbns, and has
been respeected as a quiet citizen and honest
man. He was born in Ireland.
Cotton Lice.—Onr Alabama exchanges report
great quantities of cotton lice.
Senatorial.—Bill Dougherty of Toskegee,
Ala., a notorious Radical, and who was suppos
ed to lie one of the inciters of the recent nigger
riots iathat place, reports'that he was shot by
some one in ambush near Chehaw. A little nig
ger who was with 'William at the time, says
William shot himself sligatly. It is not nnlikely
the little nigger tells the truth.
Thnrsday was tho hottest day of the Benson
in Savannah, though the thermometer only
reached 93 deg.
The Cartersville Express sums up the situa-
tion there as follows:
Weather hot; harvest over; good crop of
wheat; farmers contending with weeds and
grass, and by the last of the week will be victo
rious if it don’t rain.
The Rome District Meeting (M. E. Church)
commenced at Cave Spring, Friday night Largo
attendance. Bishop Pierce preaches to-day.
LightniDg struck the wall of the ticket office
m me depot at xnomson, on n» utu.gi. ._a
road, last Sunday, shattering it considerably.
Fortunately no person was' in tho tuildingat
the time.
On Monday last a destructive hailstorm swept
over the Southern portion of Newton connnty,
injuring crops on the plantations it touched,
from one-third to one-half.
We scissor a3 follows from the Lagrange Re
porter.
The Wheat Ceop.—The wheat crop in this
county has turned out better than was antici
pated. Mr. Geo. S. Bailey, living eight miles
from LaGraDge, guessed that his crop would
turn out from 80 to 100 bushels, and could hard
ly btlieve his own eyes when he saw Messrs.
McGee and Jones, proprietors of a Resell
Tbresb, measure np 225 bushels. Rev. D. W.
Howell made CGjj bushels on one acre and a
half, an average of 43| bushel per acre. No
rertilizer used bet cotton seed.
Jail Delivery.—Wo bad a general jail deliery
on last Monday night. AH of tbe prisoners es
caped except one who is indicted for murder.
They were assisted by persons from tho out
side.
The Thomaston Herald says:
Dead.—Mr. Daniel Denham, an old and very
highly respected citizen of Upson, died at bis
residence on Wednesday eveuiug lost, after an
illness of several months.
Monday evening we were visited by quite a
lively litile shower. Through other sootious of
the country the raiu fell iu torrents,' swelling
all the branches in an amazingly short time.
Daring the shower the lightning struck a tree a
hundred feet or more from onr office, at tho
same time prostrating a young man who was
passing, and knocking another off a fence.
Mr. Nat Teagle, of Meriwether county, gath
ered 8G bushels of wheat from 2J acres, this
last harvests
Referring to the advertisement of n Maoun
firm in its columns, the Newnan Herald says:
In days long past, our farmers traded almost
exclusively in Macon, but later, commerce
sought other channels, and our people went
with the current, but when the Savunmk, Grif
fin A North Alabama roailroad is completed to
this place, we see no reason why trade and com
merce 8honld not retorn to its original chan
nels.
Mr. Kramer, of Newnan, has just sold a dog
whose only fault was that he sucked Mr. K’s
cow. He used to follow her to the pasture, and
was caught in the act.
The Georgia Press.—Calhoun county has
had plenty of rain, and the crops now are quite
pro missing. In Early county also, fine rains
have fallen, and com and cotton, generally, are
in fine condition.
West Point Examination.—The examina
tion at the West Point . Militaiy Academy
was conclnded lust Tuesday. Forty-eight out
of eighty-six candidates failed, and will be sent
home. Five of the cadets at large, appointed
by tbe President last year, to enter West Point
on tbe 1st of Jnly, have been set asido by tbe
Board of Examiners as incompetent, and will
not be admitted. The examination was very
rigid.
Lower Still.—To make room for his fall
stock of goods, Mr. Gus. Nnssbaum, on Second
street, next to Mrs. Audouin’s, has again marked
down his Summer Dress Goods so as to place
them w ithin reach of everybody’s purse. Refer
to what he has to say in another column. It is
interesting reading for those who want fine
goods at low prices.
Bibb Superior Court.—The attention of
this Court was engaged all of yesterday in
bearing motions and discussing the same. We
understand that the case of Parker vs. .the City
of Macon will be carried again to tho Supreme
Court In noticing the verdict in this case yes
terday we inadvertently ‘wrote that the jury
found for the defendant We should have said
plaintiff. Court adjourned till 9 a. m., on
Monday.
Liverpool Stock of Cotton.—It seems a
very serious mistake (see despatches) was dis
covered in the Liverpool stock of cotton Friday,
though it failed to raise quotations.
[From Putnam’* Magazine for July.
At tli© Associated Fress Office.
In thd modest apartments at the corner of
Broadway and Liberty street, np seventy-eight
stairs, actual count, one will find at almost any
hoar of the day or night a dozen men writing
away as though for dear life. They do not
■write with peos and pecoils, and on ordinary
paper, as ordinary men do, but with styles made,
of cornelian and agate, and on, the finest kind
of tisane paper. Nor are they satisfied to make
one copy at a time; such contortion of counte
nance, rolling of tongue, and jerking of head,
guarantee no less than a score, whereof the last
evidently mnet go right down through _ the top
of the desk. Tnis is a veritable curiosity-shop,
in more senses than one. It is the headquar
ters of the Associated Press—the birthplace of
that subtile, indescribable something we enjoy
new every morning and fresh every evening,
which is commonly called “the news.” Its
works go forth every day to the extremities of
the earth, and millions of people are interested
in them; yet itselfis scarcely known except by
name, and to the ontside world the little poste-
haste and romage before us are a perpetual
enigma and stumbling-block. Daily newspa
pers, printed in the United States, have been
sent to this very office with “Please exchange”
deliberately written across their wrappers; and
enterprising business men, native and to the
manner born, have, forwarded advertisements
with the request to “Please have ^inserted in
the Associated Pres3, and send bill.” ,
Bat before looking in on the central office, it
may be well to glance a moment at the natnie,
object, and extent of the Associated Press. As
its name implies, it is a union of certain jour
nals brought about to cheapen news by making
one despatch serve them all. The scope of this
union is the' collection of telegrams from all
points, and of marine intelligence in New York
narbor. All other fields of journalism are left
to individual enterprise, and for any other than
those two objects there is no Associated Press.
These papers are tho Tribune, the Times, the
Herald, the World, the San, the Journal of
Commerce, and the Express, of the city of
New York. Bnt their news is not confined to
them. By bearing an equitablo share of the
expense of gather.ng the despatches, two hun
dred papers of the United States and Canada
have become members of the union, to all in
tents and purposes, whereby the news is pub
lished every day, almost word for word, from
Newfoundland to California simultaneously.
The Associated Press has an army of corres
pondents, called local agents, scattered all over
the civilized world. In thinly-settled districts,
where news is likely to be too scarce to warrant
the appointment of regular agents by special
contract, the telegraph company, which is alike
interested in the lorwarding of dispatches, takes
upon itself the service by making its operators
ex officio agents of the Associated Press. By
such economical means the whole field of oper
ations, co-extensive with the telegraphic sys
tem, has been covered effectively with no less
than fifteen thousand intelligent news reporters.
All dispatches from the local agents are sent di
rectly to the headquarters at New York, where
they are corrected and re-produced by a process
of manifold writing, and tne copies distributed
to the several newspapers. The services of the
telegraph are then required again—this time to
scatter the news already collected, to all points
of the compass and the farthest ends of the land.
The receiving telegraphers at other cities de
liver their copies to the Associated Press agents,
by whom they are again manifolded and sent to
their individual papers, as in New York.
Such, in brief, is the Associated Press. These
six rooms, called, with a little pardonable im
propriety, the General Agency, are the centre
of all this complex machinery, radiating thous
ands of miles in every direction, and become,
therefore, the heart, the distributing reservoir,
of the American news system. Here are the
offices of the executive and his assistants, who
control the details of the vast concern. Here,
also, is the committee room, whete the repre
sentatives of the seven papers meet every
month, and allow tho cigar of peace to osnrp
tbe poisoned qoill, while they make and annul
contracts with the telegraph and ontside news
papers. The next room but one is set apart for
the messengers, who deliver the news to the
newspaper offices, presided over by an old
schoolmaster, who comes as near keeping two
dozen fourteen-year-old New York boys from
driving crazy every body in the same block as
any man ever did or will. Iu that room, away
over in the corner, smaller than a cigar store or
a box office, sits the cashier, who most be mas-
rtf till itm nindfirn Lmsu&sed. Ha takes
care of the fiscal affairs, to the extent of mil
lions of dollars a year—receives and pays bills
in dollars, pounds, reals, francs, and marc ban-
cos. This large, light, and airy room in the
centre is the manifolding room, where the news
is pat in a shape fit for publication. We shall
find enough here to engage our attention.
Ranged at about a dozen desks sit a dozen
men, who are expected to know something of
everything under the snn—the ports and pro-
dnets of every country, as well as every vessel
by name. Parliamentary practice most be at
their fingers’ ends. They would be worthless
without poetry and the dead languages, where
with to correct politicians’ bad Latin, and equal
ly so without the living languages. Chronology
is indispensable in the nows building; hence
Rollia, Gibbon, Hume, Haltan, and Motley
must be learned by heart. That great Englisn
lawyer, Lord Campbell, said: “There is noth
ing so dangerous as for one not of the craft to
tamper with our freemasonry.” Consequently
these men must have studitdlaw enough to mat
ter the statutes and rules of practice of all the
States and all the nations. They must be able
to “write up,” understanding^, horse-races,
regattas, and base-ba'l matches, a3 well as sy
nods, conventions, and congresses. Liko po:
licemen and soldiers, they must bavo no politics,
affections, or opinions; they mast bo stoically
unconcerned iu conflagrations, murders, ship
wrecks, and battles. Practical printers they
must be, certainly, as well, as practical electric-
ims. Finally, they must have good sense and
j adgmeat, in order to know tho value of news,
and a good common school education, that they
may write it out intelligently. These extraor
dinary men are the mamfolders. They edit
the despatches as fast as they arrive, whatt ver
the subject-matter may be, and at tbe s.>. ne
time write them out in good English, twe -ty
copies at once. As may be supposed, men
having all theso qualifications do uot present
themselves every day. How many has this
office been obliged to turn away, who were
weighed in the balance and found wanting—how
many college graduates, philosophers, lawyers,
yea, even editors, who, like Fielding’s hero,
promised much in the prospectus, and per
formed nothing at all; who, upon trial, per
sisted in inventing new and non-existent geo
graphical localities, like the Isle of "Wright, the
titraita of Andover, and the city of Cmcinnatti!
The “manifold writer” is now no new thing.
Almost every body knows that it is a simple con
trivance for bringing forth a number of copies at
one writing, by nsing a hard peacil on a book
of oiled usaue-paper, with carbonized paper
laid between the leaves. But do:s every body
think if there was no such contrivance the Asso
ciated Press could not live ? The manifold writer
has been introduced and rejected in every
counting-house. Its practical uselessness in the
ordinary affairs of business has been demons
trated time and agaio, yet in this office its value
is incalculable. One man does tho work of a
hundred. Manifolding has been brought to an
astonishing degree of perfection, by the inven
tion of a gentleman now seventy years old.—
For a quarter of a century he has supplied tho
Association with tho very peculiar paper re
quired for this service, and that he alone knows
how to make. With his paper thirty copies may
be made easily, and it is often necessity to
have so many, while eight or ten copies is the
maximum claimed by other manufacturers for
their paper. For forty-two years the secret of
this old man has baffled imitators, who have
not scrupled to lark about his manufactory un
der cover, of the night, and to invoke the aid of
tbe ablest chemists of the land. Bat he has a
family of vigorous sons, and the Associated
Press has not borrowed any trouble as to what
the effect might bo if the secret died with him.
The “Agency” is the heaviest customer of the
telegraph, hence it has been placed so near at
band, that despatches are trundled across the
street, from the one to the other, by three
miniature elevated railroads, to the apparont be
wilderment of humanity below. These rattle
to and fro, night and day, bearing nows from
all quarters of the globe. Bnt the manifolder
is always ready. He knows full well that, in
this land of telegraphs and fourth editions, news
is perishable property;
“It dies in an hour;”
so in much less than that time the most startling
intelligence is among the types everywhere, and
almost a forgotten thing of the past. In the
daytime the manifolder takes twenty oopies of
the despatches, which are distributed to the
Herald, the Times, the Tribune, the World, the
Son, the Journal, the Post, the Express, the
Commercial Advertiser, the Staata Zeitung, the
Brooklyn Union, the Newark Advertiser, and
the Newark Courier, and to tbe reporters of the
State press, the Boston press, the New England
press, the Western press, the Bonthern
and the far Southern press, leaving one copy
for the offloe reoord. After the last evening
edition is printed, fourteen copies are sufficient.
When the despatches are manifolded, all the
copies are stamped with the office seal, or die;
a precautionary measure to guard the editors
against the use of fraudulent “despatches,”
furnished by malicious persons. Then the
messenger department is called on; the sheets
are quickly separated — pat into envelopes
already directed; a noise like the voice of many
waters prevails for a moment—(for Mercury is
no longer winged, and there are Beventy-eight
stairs to go down)—and the despatches are on
their way to the types.
The average day’s work is one hnndren and
fifty sheets, containing thirty-five thousand
words—thirty or forty routes for the messen
gers. Oa the oooasion of a President’s mess
age, or an interesting discussion in Congress or
the British Parliament, so mnch news is sent
ont that the papers are obliged to issne supple
ments, to make room for it. Indeed, if &U the
news furnished at this office were printed in fall
every day, there would not be room for mnch
else. Congressmen forward their speeches by
express, in advance of delivery, and people all
over the country mail an avalanche of details
that are not important enough tobe telegraphed,
with the hope to see them appear as telegraphic
despatches. The most of such news is' smoth
ered in the inexorable editorial waste-basket.
The old lady who was lost in the contempla
tion of the multitude of Jobs in the printing
business, would often find her counterpart in
the unsophisticated visitorto the General Agency.
Mr. More is apparently the name of the local
agent at Philadelphia, at Baltimore, at Wash
ington, and at one or two hundred other places
—for so he signs himself in the despatches.
When the law was enaoted requiring an inter
nal revenue stamp on telegrams, the Associa
ted Press mounted with occasion, and proved
itself in possession of the true jurisprudential
profandity. By an innocent fiction the local
agent, who usually sent a dozen dispatches a
day, was enabled to send one only by regarding
the first elfivea as merely parts of despatches,
signing each one “More,” or “More Coming,”
and affixing his name in fall to the twelfth, at
midnight. The practice of signing More still
adheres, though the reason has long since van
ished ; and there is no signature more honored
in the Associated Press office. Always on the
lookout to guard against polls and first-of-April
messages, commonly known as “sells,” this of
fice 8cratinizes first the signature, and More or
More Coming isprima facie evidence of genu
ineness A newly appointed agent at Norfolk,
Ya., who received a despatch from New York,
chronicling the arrival of the ship Black War
rior in the following regulation form: “New
York, 30th. Black Warrior arrived. More Com
ing,” signalized his advent on a new field of
labor by startling the people of his quiet city
with the news that a delegation of thirty black
warriors had arrived in New York, and more
were hourly expected.
The regular Associated Press telegrams are
what would be called in Earope, “semi-official.”
The special dispatch is colored to snit the par
ticular journal, bet the press despatch is strictly
non- partisan, for it goes to papers of all poli
tics and all religions. Tho local agents, on ac
count of their presumed fairness, and because
they have it in their power to bring despatches
before so many readeis, have the ran of official
records everywhere, often where the “special”
would not bo tolerated. The government ap
preciates the power of the Associated Press.
The Washington Agent frequently has his news
brought to him by tbe heads of the Departments.
But the Washington news is not always start
ling. The decisions of the Internal Revenne
Commissioner, aud the proposals of the Naval
Constructing Bureau, are matters that the gov
ernment is more interested in getting printed
everywhere than the publio is to read. A wag-
ish manifolder once headed one of these doc
uments with the words, “Government Adver
tisement.” Instantly a storm of questions came
from the newspaper offices, as to who would be
responsible for the bill. Bat the 'editors, on
being informed that the matter was really tele
graphic news, for which they would be expect od
to pay five cents a word on the next Saturday,
printed it with the other telegrams, leaded and
garnished with head lines.
It would certainly be strange if political bias
and prejudice did not occasionally crop ont in
the twenty mill'ons of despatches received at
this offico annually. Once or twice a year the
Democratic editors formally complain of the
radical complexion of the Eastern aud Western
news, and the Republican editors, in their re-
j have a valid set-off v -bil tone qf
the Southern dispatches. Bear and forbear is
generally the motto, until the inscrutable Penn
sylvania election comes, when the Associated
Press makes due amends by imitating every
body ehje in electing both tickets for a week or
so, until the mail advices comes to hand.
The stranger in this office will noto that the
despatches fiom the East come early, and tbeso
from the West late; but the wonder will ceuse
precisely at the moment when tbe reflection
forces itself udou him that the world is round,
and revolves eastwardly. Tne great interna
tional boat race at London, in August last, was
completed at six o’clock in the evening, bnt the
fall details were printed here at half-past two.
The closing markets at London and Parts, dated
at five in the' alterncon, are invariably printed
here before three; bnt the despatches from San
Francisco, not half so far away as Paris, are the
last received at night, and sometimes do not ar
rive until the next day.
The notion prevalent in some quarters that
tho Associated Press is a gigantic moneyed Cor
poration, grown rich by the sale of its news,
and that itd own bills are met with the profits
received from others, need scarcely be seriously
dealt with. The regular morning journals form
ing tho Associated Press, pay about fourteen
thousand dollars euch, per annum, for the news
service or this office; those having Sunday edi
tions fifteeen thousand. Tho evening paper,
the Express, pays about eight thousand, as do
also the Post and the Commercial Advertiser.
The money paid gives a fair idea of tho pro
portionate amount of news furnished. The
evoning papers pay rather more than one-third
of the total bill, aud receive fonr ninths of the
total amount of nows.
How many hundreds of thousands of milc-s of
land-wire, and what scores of submarine cables,
are pressed into the service every day to satisfy
this awfnl craving of the American people for
the latest intelligence! It is a novel sight to
stand at the depots, so to speak, and watoh
thoso little aerial railroad-trains, as they sweep
in at the windows, freighted with news, now
from Washington, then from Chicago, then from
London. Many of thoso dispatches are in the
French and oilier foreign languages ; many are
so condensed and squeezed together that they
might as well be to another than a manifolder;
some are in “ cipher,” a sort of abbreviated
language, known only to the manifolders, where
one word stands arbitrarily for an entire Eng
lish sentence; and others, again, . though in
open English, are so corrupted and blundered
by frequent re-writings at repeating stations on
the telegraph lines, as to be almost unintelligi
ble. Bnt the manifolder sticks at nothing. For
eign languages, legal and.uautical technicalities,
the mysteries of the arts, sciences, and all known
trades and professions, he is expected to pre
pare for the printer's hands at a moment’s no
tice, ready to ran the gauntlet of universal crit
icism. While tho individnal newspaper moat
have its musical critic, financial editor, and
sporting editor, the details of a great battle, the
price of land, Congressional proceedings, an
obituary, a Democratic triumph, and a confla
gration, all come within the prehensile grasp of
tho manifolder. Given an Associated Fress in
1570, and the Shakespearian problem becomes
easy.
The devices of the distant agent to convey
much in little, and thereby innocently defraud
the telegraph, are many of them perfect wond
ers of invention, and are only matched by the
ingonnity of the manifolder in restoring the
words left to his imagination. In the dispatch
es, serening and smorning means this evening
morning, fob, free on board, swells, as well as,
and certain high-sounding capitals are degraded
to York, Rio, Orleans, Bayres, and Frisco, Bat
the manifolder is not always absolutely perfeoti
Sometimes he negleois to expunge the eoonomi-
cal abbreviations of the local agents, which were
never designed to get as far as the printing of
fices. Then conservative old philologists file
protests against the creation of suoh verbs and
participles as burgled, ezeurted, injuncted, in
terviewed, incendiaried, sleeting, and confer grat
ing, and the Associated Press is held to a rigid
accountability for “ pouring a stream of cold
poison into the Englis language every morning. ”
It is said the Americans nave preserved many
old words which the passion for Johnsonian dic
tion has banished from conversation in Eng
land, bnt it is doubtful whether these are of
them.
In order to save the expense, dispatches from
remote cities, especially those by the cables, are
ent down to mere hints. Notwithstanding the
columns of Enropean news printed every day,
it remained for a member of tbe Association
itself to proclaim to the world that the Associated
Press had not reoeived an average of a hundred
cable words a day since the cables were laid.
Surely, after such inoonoclasm, it can be a se
cret no longer that the two words “Vesuviaa
grows,” were once metamorphosed into the fol
lowing
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM ITALY.
“ London, March "25.—Telegraphic dispatch
es just at hand from Naples annonnea that the
eruption of Mount Vesuvius is continually in
creasing in power and grandeur. Deep rumb
ling sounds, like detonating thunder, arer con
stantly heard, and the affrighted inhabitants of
the neighborhood are fleeing to places of safe
ty. A dense volume of smoke is rising from
the crater, visible a hundred miles away. The
ashes and dost fall in elonds, and at night the
lurid glare of the flames, reflected in the calm
bay, impart to surrounding objects a ghastly
and sombre aspect.
Enthnsi&Bts may praise the musical Italian,
the facile French, aad the majestio Spanish,
bnt th^Associated Press has demonstrated that
the copious English is also the language of brer;
Ity. But it must be confessed this was a mem
frolic of the manifolder. Though the mail dates
received subsequently sustained the florid de
scription, he was reprimanded, but escaped
mnch easier than his companion, who headed
one of the stereotyped despatches from General
McClellan’s army, “ All quiet on the Potomac,”
with the words ileus nobis hoe otium fecit. He
was discharged as incorrigible.
The strangest freaks of lightning occur in the
telegraph offices. The jubilant telegraph per
sists in having doubted doubled, being bring,
mediate meditate, com coin,and nine none, and
it is a question whether the names Waverly,
Binghamton, Owego, and Ithaca were ever car
ried a hundred miles away from home in a tel
egram without orthography. Such errors as
these the experienced u.auifulder corrects at a
glance; bnt there are times when the tele
graph surpasses itself and reduces him to his
wit’s end. This was the case when the steamer
“ Cena ” was announced at a southern port.
The manifolder knew there was nonesuch. Bnt
what should it be ? After ransacking ship lists,
and cudgelling his brains to no purpose, as a
last resort he wrote down the telegraphic char
acters for “Cena,” thus —,and saw
they were preci aly those that would be used to
write Iona; and that was the answer to the puz
zle. In this way are corrected the mistakes of
careless telegraph operators, made, perhaps, a
thousand miles away, and perpetnated at every
repeating station. So long as tnese mistakes are
hnge blunders, not mnch harm can come from
them. Bnt occasionally they are insidnons, and
no amount of watchfulness can detect them.
A recent despatch from Omaha contained the
words, “Company Fifth U. S. Infantry attacked
by indians on the plains. All scalped.” It was
a pretty serious matter, but the despatch was
plain enough. 'While the manifolder was copy
ing it, and reflecting on the affliction it most
carry to a thousand hearthstones (if he ever
have time for such reflections), another despatch
came to hand, reading: “Chicago. Correction.
In onr Omaha, for scalped read escaped,” and
peace flowed into his soul.
The bustling manifolding-room contains, also,
the bureaus of the provincial papers, which de
pend upon tbe Associated Press for their supply
of news. The country journals are grouped to
gether, according to their geographical posi
tions, in order that the despatches may be dis-
tribted more conveniently and expeditiously.
The groups are called the Western press, the
Eastern press, the Philadelphia press, the State
press, the Boston press, the Southern press,
the Far Southern press, etc. Each of these or
ganizations has reporters in the manifolding-
room, night and day, who have access to all the
Associated Press news, and who send snch parts
of it as are likely to be interesting to tho peo
ple of their respective sections. As fast as
they compile their reports, they forward them
to the telegraph offico by the elevated railway
route before mentioned, duly directed “ State
press,” or “Southern press,” as the case may
be, when their responsibility ends, and that of
the telegraph begins. Let the State press be
taken as an illustration of the manner in which
the telegraph performs the distributing service.
At certain specified hours, convenient alike for
the telegraph and the particular editions of the
newspapers to be served, the operator, with
one manipulation of his niagio key, transmits
the news simultaneously to Poughkeepsie, Hud
son, Albany, Troy, Utica, Syracuse, Auburn,
Elmira, Owego, Binghamton. Rome, Oswego,
Rochester and Buffalo, New York, to Rutland
and Burlington, Vermont, and to Scranton,
Pennsylvanix These stations are not all on
the same wire, nor on the same ronte; bnt by a
certain combination, through an American in
vention called the telegraphic repeater, they are
LxuiQihisn in effect, and the news mifihi lm sent
to a thousand offices as easily as to one. The
other groups are served in like manner. But
it must not be supposed the Associated Press
supplies these organizations only. They are
tie chiefest, certainly; but despatches are sent
every d-y lo London, and thence all over
Europe; io Havana and thronghout Cuba; and
on steamer days snmmaries are forwarded to
Aspinwall, which are used wherever there are
telegraphs in Central and South America, and’
are then resent from Panama to Australia and
New Zealand. The San Francisco agent, in
the same way, exchanges his home and Euro
pean news with news-gleaners at the Sandwich
Islands, in China, Japan, etc.- It would be
rather more difficult to tell where the Associat
ed Fress news does not go.
Over in the corner of the manifolding-room
still another little railroad train stands ready to
trundle messages across the street, diagonally
to the Commercial News Department. This
new feature deserves attention for a moment.
The American prices of stocks, bonds, and pro
duce have always been regulated in good part
by those of London and Liverpool The mer
chant who receives the first advices is enabled
to forestall the home market. Ever since the
celebrated financial achievement of the Roths
childs, which their first knowledge of the result
of Waterloo rendered easy, this desire to get
ahead in matters of news hkely to affect mark
ets has gradually grown to be a monstrous evil,
and opened the door to all manner of cor
ruption. False news, fraudulent quotations,
and stock-jobbing “despatches,” to deceive
and defraud, were circulated every day, and
the subordinates of tbe telegraph and press
made to run a terrible gauntlet of temptation to
prove false to their trusts. Partly to correct
this evil, and partly to provide a new source of
revenne, the Associated Press and the telegraph
formed a copartnership for making all com
mercial news, immediately on its receipt and
before publication, the property of the public
everywhere. The Association, on its part, fur
nishes its commercial and important general
news despatches, domestic as well as foreigo,
and the telegraph distributes them, at a trilling
cost, as nearly simultaneously as possible
thronghout the Union. But this system, while
it erects a bulwark against fraud and stratagem
for the business community, is not without one
slight disadvantage. Fonr-fifths of all Euro
pean despatches are commercial in their char
acter. Bat an Associated Press cable-telegram
carries the prices of fifty staple articles, and
which, by this distributing process, must go far
towards meeting the wants of every business
man in America. The threo cables axe not
crowded, nor are they likely to be for twenty
years to come. “Multiplying the facilities”
may be a trifle overdone, as any company
which lays a new cable within that time will
probably find to its cost. Consequently this
doubling np, whereby one commercial despatch
serves tne tarn of tne whole American conti
nent, cannot bnt make great inroads on the
private revenue of the cable companies.
By parity of reasoning one would think the
interests of the Associated Press antipodal to
those of the telegraph—that a system which
saves six sevenths of a stun to the one must ne
cessarily lose it to the other. But the press is
the sheet-anchor of the telegraphs. In 1860 the
telegraphic service of combined continental
Earope, for despatches of all sorts, press, so
cial and commercial, aggregated less than two
hundred and sixty millions of words. In that
year the American newspapers paid one domes
tic telegraphic company alone fifteen millions of
dollars for three hundred millions of words;
and the greater part of that immense mass was
sent at night, after business hours, when the
telegraph lines would not have been otherwise
occupied at all. If there were no such organi
zation as the Associated Press, the individnal
papers could not bear the enormous expense of
the news that is now published every day ; and
if they could, the telegraphio systems of the
world would not be sufficient to carry it. Con
sequently the mails wouldsupersede the telegraph
as a transmitting medium, except in great em
ergencies ; journalistic enterprise would be no
more marked in America thyi it is in Germany,
and we should soon cease to have six newspa
pers to any other country’s one, as now. This
associated system, then, is in strict keeping with
onr national institutions; for, while it may op
erate harshly in isolated cases, its tendency is
to bring the news within the reach of alt, to
foster cheap newspapers and tints promote the
cause of general education.
The moat grateful words to the manifolder
are “Good-night.'' Good-night is the signal for
closing the reports until the next day, and is
understood wherever there are telegraphs or
rewspapers. The western news is all sifted
through the hands of the agent at Cleveland,
which iaoneofthe great news
toons. No southern news can rearF^**
without first coming to the
When these agents, therefore, tele?«\W
“good-nights” to this office, vAich ^^
do from one to fonr o’clock in the
day’s work is considered done,
words are quickly caught np and sent aT**
gleaming wires from the Atlantic to
The manifolders. in the fulness of th
write them at the foot of their W it
newspapers, and editors, reporters - ,
tors, pressmen, sweU the long choms
to Good-night. B nonw of Pul* |
Choice of Coaretifcrate states w I
dent. I
We published alettir, a dsy 0 r ♦*„ •
written by Hon. A. M. Clayton, of Missi^ '
to tho Memphis Appeal, in which the ■
ment was made that Judge Martin Jr *****
of Colnmbus, Georgia, had told him (c*^ j
at the time of the election of President T* I
Confederate States, that Mr. Stephens hail &
Georgia’s first choice for that position L C (
tho Georgia delegation were satisfied n*"
was the choice of the oilier States thev • I
to urge Mr. S. for Vice-President.’ Thi/]^
has called ont Judge Crawford in th a rvi ,
Snn in a letter to the editor, from whi^
following is an extract. As a contiibuUc. ^
the history of the stirring times that
Southern Confederacy launched upon ita si ^
career it will prove of public intercsi, ° ,V
The mistake into which Mr. Clajtcn f«]i •
that I should have said to him that Georgia ?u
desired Mr. Stephens as President. Oa
contrary, Georgia desired Mr. Toombs,
delegation in conference upon the
the morning of the election had so
and if upon inquiry Sonth Carolina or rS
had not determined to cast their rotes for v*
Tlawio tin \Tr TAAmKa 1 ma. * i *‘
Davis, then Mr. Toombs' name
lo i»
brought forward. To ascertain how thisma*t
stood was made my duty by the de!ewii 0 7 lr j
with positive instructions from Jlr 'jv.J 5
that his name was not to be presented if tb 5
States had declared for Mr. Davis in their j*
arate meetings. This they had done, ardS
made it necessary to act upon the subjV rmT 1
of the Vice Presidency as agreed upon is^
meeting of the Georgia delegates, which *7
that in the event Mr. Toombs’ name wu m i
presented for the first place, Mr. StepherJ
should be for the second, and I had be«ihri
requested to see whether that would Le acestk
ble to the other Slates, hence my interview v»
Mr. Clayton. I intended to say to him, and hi
always supposed that he so understood me th;
onr State intended to present a name for &
Presidency, bnt tho action already taken bt
some of the States would prevent that, aiJl
had called to see him for the purpose of ism!
tainiDg whether or not Mr. Stephens would U
an acceptable man to his delegation for Via
President.
Mr. Stephens never entertained an idea of I
tho Presidency, and indeed thought that it woij
not be proper for him to have it. This I hot I
because whilst the subject was being con-idg. I
ed some members of the Congress mention I
tho matter to him, and he very promptly I
that his name could not bp used in that to,
After these gentlemen left our lodgings he aii
to me, in his usual frank manner, that he bit
not been a leader in the movement which n
about to result in the establishment of a w I
government, and that “to make him Presila I
would be liko taking a child out of the hanhd I
its mother and giving it to a step-mother 61
raise.” “Bnt,” continued he, “someonevhI
has been identified with the cause should it I
chosen, and whosoever he may be. he slnti L: I
the benefit of whatsoever experience and ali j
ty I can bring to his support. We are enteihf I
upon new and untried fields, and I greatly foe I
that onr people are not prepared for the grat I
responsibilities which are ahead of them. Bi. 1
Georgia, whose sovereign will I am boned tt
obey, ha3 taken her course, and that assigns tie
to my position, and in tint, I will . v : |
her my duty honestly and faithfully, and ii 1:
last we shall lose all, I do not care to sturhe
the liberties of my country.”
I give in substance, if not in word 1 , theta-
guage of this great and good man in the tort
of onr repose from the great duties then dew
ing upon us, and which neither he nor I era
expected to be brought before the public eu. 1
Tbe Augusta Factory—Annual State J
meat.
We find the annual report of tbe President o£ I
this Factory, in the Chronicle A Sentinel of K-1
day. As it is one of the most profitable itta-1
tutions of the kind in the country, paying 11
regular quarterly dividend of 5 per cent, at j
readers may feel an interest in it:
Augusta Factobl j
Angnsia, Ga., June 30,18M|
To the StoeUiolders :
\ I submit to yon the result of the operitks I
of the Company for the year ending the Hi I
inst., also, its financial condition, together i£|
a list of the Stockholders on that day:
Gross earnings, interest received,
&0 .7. $175,3:-:
From which is deducted—
Expense act $26,742 09
Repairs act 5,886 29
Taxes and Water
Rentpaid 14,972 11— 47,•
Leaving as net earnings §127,7.'? 51
From which four dividends were
made, in July,. October, January
and April last, of 5 percent each,
amounting to §120,iu" 1
Enabling ns to add...........? $
To profit and loss; and ranking the
amount now to the credit of that
account §233,3
It affords me pleasure to state that the I
nnder the direction of our attentive and®®!
enced Superintendent, Mr. Francis Cogin- b’T
run with remarkable regularity, the ptoi«di*J
been very good, and the entire profit'd®
complete order.
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. Jacks®,
Preside
REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING lllHOF JYX J; ' , " , |
Capital Stock..; $COaOOO<!j
CHARGES AGAINST STOCK.
Mills, Machinery and Beal Estate..
Commercial capital §1747"^ - I
Bel. Profit and Loss
aco. 12th June,
760 225,51560
Gross earnings, in
terest reoeived,&c. 175,380 22
Commercial capital
and surplus prof
its .'..»400,S95 82
Less ex-
peuse
account.. 26,742
09 Rto
Less repairs
■ret
ncsount.. 5,886
29
Less taxes
and water
n
rent pd.. 14,972
ftp,
Less Div’s
41, 42,
Bfiti
Surplus profits.,
capital.
.§403,2
GOODS MANUFACTURED.
Pounds.
L... 1,475,841
............. <>o3,53.>
258,071
Drills 184,855
Pieces.
112,946
50,520
29,920
14,101
2,472,302 207,437
lltjl
4,46^1
546,^1
^ I
DALES OF MANUFACTURED GOODS-
4*4 x X
On band 12th June. !#».. 89 4 d
Made to U*h June, 1870.5272 2S£913,6
Sold to lltltiJun*. 187a.
5311 7383 1434
. 5260 2SJ U24
51 25 10
2,90:
BH
Colton oonsnmed
Avfgage oost of cotton
Whole number of Ioobm.......
Average number of looms running
Average yards per loom per day-..---
Average number of hands employtA..^-;
Aggregate wages paid
Aggregate sales
Average per. day p«* warp spindw
Mr. W. E. Jackson wanJw-ate#**
and Messrs. EdwM&ftttCM* Tbo*. 0
and J. B. Ottfimiet DijeotoMof the'
Tm
BHnm