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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, MAY 16 1871.
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T&t San Domevooes say. that Spain is intrir
going to embarrass Baez and' compel him to
solicit aid from that pow6r. That is a feebla
shift to revivo tho annexation project.
John O. BcECEpraiDaE wag elected a delete
to the Kentucky Democratic Convention, hut
ho refuses, while disfranchised, to mingle in
political life in any way.
It is understood that Mr. Colfax is soon to
retire from publio lifo and establish a foundry
in South Bend, Ind., Jor tho manufacture of
patent leather turkey eggs .—Boston Post.
Affairs in VraaiNiA.—Gov. Walker was in
Washington on the 5th, and represented affairs
in the Old Dominion as very serene and pros
perous—tho people busy, quiet and improving
- their condition.
The big Bonnet Carre crevasse was caused
by a man cntling the leveo in order that ho
might haul his sugar through. The loss of other
folk’s sugar at last accounts was set down at
20,000 hogsheads.
A colored roustabout and a white deck sweep-
er on a Mississippi steamer had a small game
lately. The former held “aces and,” but the
letter hold a revolver and tho coroner held an
inquest.
A nor of Versailles deputies went out to the
Bellevue batteries to encourago tho gunners.
A casual shell dropped near by, and the depu
ties became discouraged themselves and re
turned to Versailles with remorkablo speed.
Dev Goods Importations.—The imports of
dry goods into tho port of New York during the
ten months of the fiscal year ending SOth April
last amounted to $110,509,210—a sum never
exceeded before but once—in tho fiscal year
1865-6.
Bbuddeb Lotteb, of Montgomery, Ala., was
killed by lightning whilo spoiling tho Egyptian
com cxib. Tho loyal blacks are much perplexed
and piteously inquire, “ Is do Lord turned Ku.
KIox ’gin do poor darkeys jis for stealm’ a little
co’n?”
The value of foreign dry goods received last
month at New York amounts to $11,000,000
against $8,000,000 during the month of April,
1870. Ganged by Southern ability to pay for
its shore of thi3 excess, the prospect for tho im
porters is not very bright.
A populab fashion of wearing the hair this
summer at the Northern seaside watering places
will be, it is announced, the coiffure a la Godi
na. The costume a la Godina will probably
come along next season. Something nearly
like it is in vogue now, for evening parties.
The Iron Age says that a comparison, which
it gives in brief, of all the essential elemonts in
the cost of consirnction and operation of rail
roads will show that the cost per mile of the
narrow guage, from 3 feet to 2 feet, is from one-
half to one-third that of the standard guage of
4 feet 81 inches.
The South Carolina Tax-Payers’ Convention
meets to-day at Columbia to try and devise some
means of choking off the white and black Rad
ical thieves who aro beggaring the property
owners of that unhappy jeommonwealth. Wo
trust they may hit on some expedient to save
the remnant of their property.
The Savannah Regatta.—A circular from the
Association informs us that the first grand re
gatta takes place on the SOth and 31st instant
and 1st day of June. The firat day will bo a
contest between yachts, schooners and sloops.
The second day there will be four races with
row boats and a tub race. The third day will
conclude the regatta with sculls and row boats.
The census of last year shows some carious
facts as to population movements. According
to the Paul Pry of the New York Commercial
Advertiser, Georgia and Arkansas show an in
crease of 12 per cent, of colored population ;
Texas 23, and Florida SO. Louisiana has lost
heavily of its negroes, and so have Virginia,
Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee.
The Connecticut Election.—The Democrat
ic papers protest against tho recount of votes
In Connecticut, as illegal, unusual and bound to
lead to unfair results. The original canvas was
mado in the presence of the electors, and to re
open the boxes after the lapse of a month in
which no adequate protection has been main
tained against “stuffing,” is a farce.
Weatheb Last Week.—The World says the
weather has been peculiarly severe in all parts"
of the country during the past week. The
crops have boen injured both in the West and
South. Snow fell in Maine last week to the
depth of five or six inches, and the Hndson
River at Albany and Troy rose so high as to
submerge the lower portions of those cities, in
cluding the docks of tho latter.
Wives Wasted.— California sendeth greeting,
to the Atlantio States and wants young girls'or
attractive widows for wives. There is a doleful
scarcity of the fair sex in that region, and the
young men who need helpmeets are either too
poor or too busy to come for them. But they
offer to girls who will emigrate employment at
twenty to forty dollars per month, and a fair
prospect of speedy marriage.
Indiana divorces have “played oat.” It now
takes a bona J?<&re3idenoeof three years in that
State before a divorce can be obtained for any
cause. And it is iu*thermore’ enacted that, in
cases of tho application \>«icg made on the
ground of acts committed in another State, it
must be shown that thoso acts are legal gmnatig
for divorce in the State where they were com
mitted. Fond hearts pining for a new deal in
tho little game of matrimony will please ™nt-A
• note of these facts.
The Gbavb or Stephen A. Douglas to be
Sold at Auction.-rThe Chicago papers an
nounce that the grave of Douglas in that city
is to bo sold for taxes. It appears in a com
munication from the City Collector to the Coun
cils that an assessment of $2,200 for improve
ments had been made upon tho ground Wherein
xeposod all that was mortal of the Little Giant,
and that as the courts have given judgement,
he shall be compelled to proceed.
House flesh in New York has been increas
ing in prioe for tho last twenty years more rap
idly probably than any other species of property.
Since 1850 it has advanced 400 per cent. In
1858 Flora Templo 6old for $8,000, which was
considered enormous. But in 1862 California
Damsel brought $11,000; in 1864 Bonner paid
$13,500 for tho Auburn horse; in 18C6 $25,000
for young Pocahontas, and in 1867 $33,000 for
Dexter..
Pabtb Affairs.—Fort Xssy was captured by
tho Versaillisfs yesterday. The National As
sembly troops have now uncovered all the ram
parts on tho western side'of Paris, and it seems
probable that they will soon bo able to carry
tho latter by storm. However, if the Com
munists make an obstinate defence behind bar
ricades, as they threaten, the work will be, by
no means, done when tho ramparts aro sur
mounted. The city, in that case, will be pretty
thoroughly wrecked before the fight is over.
Db. Livingstone is again alive. This African
traveler is an enigma. He has been dead sev
eral times, according to report, and os often has
e comoto Ufe. Yet we hear nothing definite as
s !jf,v in8 ; ° e rtainly nntil he is “stone
dead he will be a Livingstone. He is a hard
case at best in our opinion. He is a traveling
philanthropist, and wo have very little faith in
that order of travelers. Most of them were
tt' sitaated » for world, in lonalio asy-
Monopoly of Cotton production.
The World estimates the last cotton crop of
the Sonth at 4,185,000 bales, which at the New
York price of 15 eerie- war, worth two hundred
and fifty-ono melons of dollars; and this, he
says was a forger sum than was ever received
by tho planters for a single orop. Ho is mi3ta
jj C . r . in the figqres. For, if tho price: of last
year’s crop was 25 cents, as he states it, then
tho S,154,946 bales produced in 1869 must have
been sold for considerably the rise of three hun
dred millions. _■ 4^*-' ■.
Tho World argues to the length of more than
a column on the impolicy of curtailing produc
tion. Production should he kept up to the
highest limit, so as to break down foreign ri
valry. Three or four years, that paper thinks,
would break down competition effectually; but
to diminish tho crop in order to raise the price
is to offer a bounty to pur cotton-producing ri
vals. The Sontbem States have ample capacity
to supply the .whole world with this important
staple, of a bettor quality and at lower prices
than any other part of the globe. Mr. Commis
sioner Wells, in a recent letter, estimates that
not more than three per cent, of the Southern
lands adapted to cotton have ever been at any
one time, under cultivation.
The importance of this product cannot be
overrated—it is our chief article of export and
the foundation of our foreign commerce. But
for our absurd tariff, which increases the cost
of production and hampers trade, wo should
clothe tho world. Cotton is the cheapest ma
terial for clothing tho human race. Its con
sumption is vast, permanent and .<increasing,
and it would be a fatal mistake' in Southern
planters to give np their land3 to cereals, and
diminish tho cotton product Western grain and
pork wonld then loso their market. The true
way is to convert thorn into cotton, (so to speak)
on Southern plantations.
Tho European indebtedness of tho American
people, inoluding Federal, State, Municipal,
Railroad and other bonds and individual in
debtedness, cannot be less than fifteen hundred
millions, with an accruing interest of ninety
millions a year; and there is no way to meet
this but by cotton exports. Our large imports
lions during tho suspension of cotton exports
wero paid by exportation of bonds—that is to
say, by funding the balances against the coun
try ; but what the country now requires is large
exportations and a monopoly of the cotton trade,
This summary gives the drift and main points
in tho World’s argument, which is not for the
first time presented by that paper to the South
ern planter. There is a mjlxtnro of truth and
error in it. In its general bearing upon the
domestic and foreign trade of the country at
large, probably it wonld be better to produce
heavy crop3 at low prices, than smaller crops at
living ones. Bnt in this business we of the
Sonth wonld realize tho fate of the dwarf who
fought os an ally of the giant—tho giant took
the glory and the spoil, while tho poor dwarf
took the blows and wounds.
The country nuutua monopoly or cotton pro
ducing, and so do wo. The other sections of the
country say we can bring about this result all
the sooner, if we will import all our supplies
from them, and devote all onr energies to the
single end of crowding the foreign markets with
vast supplies of cheap cotton. Perhaps that is
true; but bow can wo afford to carry on that
operation at onr own sole expense ? We must
certainly lose a great deal of money in growing
cheap cotton on Western and Northern supplies.
But as all the other sections have a common in
terest with ns in this great enterprise of put
ting down foreign grown cotton, why will they
not divide losses ? Will they do it ? Not they.
They will sell us their com, meat, mules, hay,
guanoes and all other supplies for just os high
prices as they can get, and they will buy onr
cotton with tho last mill off.
Wo know, furthermore,, that when they fur
nish ns money for this very course, which they
insist we ought to pursue, and which it is so
Thus the Richmond Dispatch, and we have a
lively oonviotion that it ia UUdng
much for their interest we should adopt, they
do it with great reluctance and at very high
rates of interest. Manifestly, therefore, we
have got to carry on this cheap cotton war at
our costs and charges, and we should certainly
break down at it, because we have no surplus
of past accumulations to'moet the losses.
The true way, therefore, for ns to follow is?
to protect ourselves while endeavoring to mo
nopolize cotton production. We must adopt a
policy which will reduce the cost of production
to ourselves, oven should the operation of cheap
ening cotton to the outside world be somewhat
retarded by it. It is a point now settled beyond
all question that wo cannot afford to buy West
ern and Northern supplies with cotton at thir
teen cents a pound. The policy of raising our
own food, therefore, has assumed the simple
and sharp form of self-preservation. It may
ha wise for the West and for the North, and
worse for the great national trade interests;
but we must protect ourselves or sink into bank
ruptcy. Seeing, therefore, that tho other sec
tions will not divide risk or expense with us,
and we cannot carry out their suggestions at
onr own cost altogether, the only effective com
petition with foreign cotton wo can possibly
offer must bo one consistent with our own sol
vency as produoers. To attempt to carry on
any other would be to surrender the field.
Frost In May.
A planter near AhdersonviUe informed the
writer on the cars yesterday, that a sharp frost
occurred tho day previous at that point, killing
cotton dead in spots where it was attracted by
f traan, bifa of bark, etc. \ -
Wo hear oi .light frosts at Cnthbert and
other points, also; bnt no immediate damage
has resulted to tho crops. The injury to young
cotton will be more perceptible in a few flays,
when the plant will change its color, and become
diseased end lonsy, and perhaps die out right
on sandy lands.
Atrocious Onfragc.
We lcam that tho infant of one of tho most
respectable citizens residing near Cotton Hill,
waB, last week, cruelly beaten and bruised by an
incarnate vixen in the shape of a colored nurse.
The little innocent—a sprightly boy about
eighteen months oio—was whipped mercilessly,
and its little body snowed painful evidences of
the blows and injuries inflicted. Yet this wonld
not weigh a straw in the opposite scales of
Washington Ku-klux committees.
Countx Faibs.—We oall attention to the com
munication of Mr. Secretary Lewis on the sub
ject of County Agricultural Fairs, and to the
interesting report of a County Fait , lately held
at Marahallville, which seems to have been an
occasion of unusual interest* and enjoyment.
We agreo with the State Agricinttnral authorities
that nothing can bo better calculated to enthuse
the publio in tho great cause of agricultural
improvement, and, in fact, to promote social
harmony and enjoyment than these unpreten
tious gatherings. We are glad to See that Bibb
county will hold her first monthly fair on tho
29th instant. r -\ *
Chops in Bakes and Mxlleb.—From a friend'
jost returned from his plantation in that region,
we learn immense crops , of corn have been
planted, and tho prospect is more flattering than
for years past for an abundant yield of this val
uable cercaL Our informant had reduced his
cotton area 100 acres, and added that amount to
the com crop.
Planters havo been seriously retarded in tho
plowing and chopping of the young cotton,
owing to continuous rains, though the stands
are generally good. The cat crop ia large and
very luxuriant.
The Laborer Is Worthy ol his Hire.
Dr. De Will Talmadgo quaintly but truthful
ly remarks, that tho too frequent absence of
force and fire in the pulpit, is the laek of beef
steak to the poor minister. -
* The salaries of seven-eights of tho clergy of
all denominations, are utterly inadequate to the
decent support of their families. What moro
effective tamer of the’energies of maD, than
hnnger_and-the pinohings of poverty?
And in a majority of instances,'tho servant of
God from his first experience in tho meager
commons or cheap boarding house of the semi
nary, is subjected through life to a hard and
scantily regimeD, little better than prison fare.
With a salary of four or five hundred dollars,
eked out by the odds and ends ol surprise par
ties, andofttimes paid in kind instead of cash,
after the shoddy wardrobe, fuel, medicines, and
other expenses of tho family have boon procured,
what remains to purchase fresh meats, good tea
and coffee, and the other necessaries of-lifo?
Hence, we have known faithfol ministers to go
days without tastiDg meat, and frequently see
them toiling in tho garden or field, to raise pulse
andlentils to supplement their daily meals. And
yet these men of God are expected to lead in all
objects of charity, and present a decent appear
ance in society, despite the paucity, of their
means. • .
Now aside .from Christian obligation, and
considered purely in tho light of a business
transaction, this. is all wrong, and smacks
strongly of in justice to a most worthy and
useful class of the community.
That congregation which expects moral and
mental pabnlmn, and “beaten oil” in the sanc
tuary, must be willing to pay for it. Is any
man fitted for intellectual labor, when L’is
thoughts aro a prey to worldly cares and anxie
ties, and the wants of the body are ever press
ing upon. Ms attention? But how can it be
otherwise in the case of the over-worked and
poorly paid pastor.
Tho writer can cite a certain church in South
west Georgia, whioh gave $150 for a melodcon
and raised but fifty for its starving minister,
Is not tMs a burlesque upon pMlanthropy ?
The secular press, and all honest men, are
equally bound to co-operate in upholding tho
claims of our faifMul clergy, to at least a mod
erate support, for their manifold labors in the
pulpit, at the death bed, amid tho ravages of
the pestilence, and wherever else suffering hu
manity calls for their presence.
A reform in tMs respect, will bo one of tho
surest indications of political and. religious pro
gress in the country. Let the self-denying min
ister of the most High God be released from all
eartMy cares.
The Florida Counterfeiters.
The Jacksonville Union says Oliver H. Sex
ton, the alleged counterfeiter, wa3 tried be
fore United States Commissioner Robinson, at
that place, last Thursday, and in default of
$15,000 bail was committed to Nassau county
jail. A deputy marshal was sent to Lake City
the day before to look after other parties, but,
they had received warning and fled. Ho got
possession, however, of about $400 bogus gold
five dollar pieces wMch Sexton and Ms confed
erates had passed on people at that place. Sex
ton will bo remembered by our citizens as a
workman formerly in tho employ of Messrs. E.
J. Johnston & Go., jewellers, of this city, and
afterwards a3 in business for Mmself on Cot
ton avenue, where he was understood to be do
ing well manufacturing college badges, pins,
eto. Noblo practised dentistry here for a time,
and was noted for his mechanical ingenuity.
The following extract from a report made to
tho Treasury Department by Kryzanowski
United States Supervisor of Revenue, shows
how the case was worked up:
Upon my arrival here, on April 28,1 received
information from a reliable sourco that one R.
Noble and O. M. Sexton had been making
counterfeit United States coin, at Lake City;
that the parties had removed their machinery
to Fernandinn,. bnt that a man near Lake City
had some of tMs counterfeit coin. Having full
confidence in the statement I concluded to act
even if it was out of my line of duty, knowing
that tho interests of the Government justified
me in so doing, and I instructed Detective
Beach to go to Lake City and work up the case,
He left on the 30th of April, and on the first of
May ho went to the house of the man, after the
counterfeit coin, wMch ho found. On Ms
return to Lake City ho met Louis Delomo,
United States detective, who told Mm ho was
there to work tho ease np. Beach, having pur
chased some of tho counterfeit coin, they had
the bey to the job. They then decided to work
together, and they traced Noble, Sexton and
one Swett to Femandina, and from the railroad
books they convinced themselves that the ma
chinery was sMpped there. Delomo went to
Fernandina to watch the parties and Beach
came to Jacksonville to watch a suspected
party. Tho counterfeiters precipitated matters
by chartering a steamer for Black Point, Ga.,
and loading the machinery. Delomo requested J
Deputy U. S. Marshal Hazen to assist him and
they made the arrest and captured the ma
chinery. Sexton was arrested by Deputy U. S.
Marshal Mooney. Sexton engraved the dies,
Noble assisted in the manufacture, and Swett
was a “shover.” At Lake City they had a shop,
ostensibly for jewelry and dentistry business.
Tlie News.
The Paris Radicals seem almost at their
rope’s end. Issy ia now held by the Yersaillists,
and they are entrenching up to the very walls
of the city. We gather from the noon telegrams
that an assault on the city was to have been
made yesterday, and probably our night dis-
patohes will contain some information as to the
result. Mont Valerien was to bombard the city,
we suppose as a preliminary to the assault. Gen.
Rossil, commander of the Commune forces,
seems to have despaired of success, and resigns
his command.
The South Carolina Tax Payers’ Convention,
wMch met yesterday at Columbia, was an im
posing body, and its deliberations promise most
beneficial results. We are glad to see that calm
ness and moderation are likely to mark its de
liberations, and that tho presence of some well
known Radicals relieve it from the charge of
partisansMp in ito purposes. Tho dispatch puts
the total bonded debt of tbo State at $70,000,-
000, wMch must be a mistake.
The English Church won a great victory ovor
the English Radicals yesterday, on tho motion
of the latter for its disestablishment—tho ma
jority being 28.*; Gladstone and Disraeli both
opposing the motion. -~i-
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Crops in Twigs* County, j
A farmer residing in this county .gives a
gloomy picture of the cotton prospect. Wet
and cold combined have damaged the stands
badly, and the plant is feebte and looks dis
eased. Yery litQe chopping or thinning out has
been done, and so rapidly has tho grass been
forced forward by the rains, that many farmers
despairing of subduing it, are plowing up their
cotton and planting oyer an«w.
A larger area than u-ual has been devoted to
corn, and this crop is qnito promising.''
Unlike cotton, com rejoices incloudy weather
and a cool atmosphere, when not accompanied
with drought.
“Onr Northern Friends.”
If there is one tMEg for which “our Northern
friends” stand pre-eminently distinguished, it is
their self-sacrificing liberality—their unselfish
desire to develop the resources of the Sonth.
TMs has become a passion with them, manifest
ing itself on all occasions and in every possible
connection. They are constantly giving us tho
most disinterested advice as to how to manage
our ora business, and tliongh we do not often
accept their counsel with the gratitude, due
such single-hc-arted. affection, they love ns too
well to be discouraged in the least—they still
insist on helping ns to develop onr resources,
and showing ns how to do it.
We suppose tho New York World may bo con
sidered as the principal organ of “onr Northern
friends.” It certainly is the most persistent
onr counsellors, ss well as the most earnest in
reiterated assurances of its sympathy and.good
will,. When wo complain of the dominant party
at the North, and disapprove of tho reconstruc
tion acts, the Ku-klux bill, and similar evi
dences of Congressional justice and good will
we are advised that tho best thing we can
is to acquiesce, to “accept the inevitable.” Our
“Northern friends” are willing to submit
these.aots for tho sake of-peace, and why should
not we be oqually so? They aro content to sub
mit to four or five thousand free negroes voting
and being eligible to office among a voting pop
ulation of seven or eight millions, and why
should we mnrmnr. even at five .millions
slaves being made the rulers of our government
and the arbiters of onr destiny ? Uncomplain
ing acquiescence on*onr part is essential to tho
success of “our Northern friends” in getting
possession of the government; therefore let
acquiesce and no grumbling. Their success,
on this line, will not remove - a particle of the
burden of iniquitous legislation under which
we are now crushed; but as it will perhaps pro
tect ns against any additions being made to the
•load; we must stagger on as well as we can and
not even wMmper, lest “onr Northern friends’
may be embarrassed in the execution of their
plans. How can we be so hard-heaited, so un
grateful as to besitato for a moment to shout with
ono accord, “We acquiesce, we accept the inev
itable. Whether constitutional or not, we swallow
reconstruction, disfranchisement and all, and we
trill never grumble again.” Well, this may
good policy, and it may be the best that we can
do. We do not say that it is not; bnt wo do say
that wa are utterly unable to see wherein wo,
Southern men, have any special cause for grati
tude to onr “Northern friends."
Tho oracular advice of the World, and to which
we referred in our issue of yesterday, in regard to
the “monopoly of cotton production” is another
proof of this same disinterested solicitude onthe
part of “onr Northern friends.” Tho World
satisfied that we have it in our power to recover
forever the monopoly of cotton production
and crush out all foreign rivals if we keep on
planting all cotton and no corn,.selling onr cot
ton to “onr Northern friends” several cents be
low the cost of prodnotion, buying all our pro
visions, clothes, eto., from tho same frionds
tho Mghest possible prices, and if we have not
got tbo cash borrow it from our friends at 2
per cent, a month. NotMog can be plainer in
the world. Onr “Northern friends” want all
the cotton we con raise and at the lowest price,
and which rings and speculators can depress in
order that they may destroy foreign importa
tion, pay foreign indebtedness, stimulate North
era trade and manufacturers and get rich, im
mensely rich, out of the sweat of Southern
brows. And why should wo refuse to acquiesce
in this requirement also ? Wo should not hesi
tate to do that wMch will promote tho “nation
al” trade in the Mghest degree, however ruinous
it may be to ourselves Since 1865 we have
been straining every nerve, spending all our
money and exhausting our credit to raise big
crops of cotton. We have at last succeeded in
raising 4,250,000 bales. It cost ns from 14 to
15 cents per pound to raise it and wo have re
ceived 12 cents—a dead loss of two or three
cents a pound.
While we have been striving after this pleas
ing consummation wo havo bought all our pro
visions and clothes at the North, and the result
is that it is hardly possible to imagine a people
more nearly bankrupt than the peoplo of the
Sonth to-day. Bnt what does that matter?
“Our Northern friends” have got onr big cotton
crop. They got it at their own price. They
made gigantio profits on tho guanoes, the meat,
the hay, and the com, oto., etc., which they sold
us, and they have raked in usury upon usury
for every dime they have lent ns. To diminish
the prodnotion of cotton, to raise onr own pro
visions, ito become independent of money lend
ers, to be in a position to control onr own cot
ton market, and fix the price of onr own pro
Auction, would hurt our “Northern friends'
very much, would pinch them like tho misohief,
“therefore,” quoth the World, “it is impolitic
to curtail production. Plant every foot of land
in cotton. Let provisions slide, you can get
plenty, if yon have tho money, from the North
and West, and thus our trado and commerce
will flourish—we will getrioh hand over hand,
and you can continue to toil and sweat as onr
overseers, breaking down foreign competition,
and the greater yonr success the less shall be
your remuneration.” It is impolitio to express
hope that one day' wo may bo relieved from
the pressure of unconstitutional tyranny, and
it is equally impolitio to curtail the prodnotion
of cotton and save ourselves from financial ruin.
Tho impolicy in both cases consists in the inter
ference with the schemes of “onr Northern
friends. So far from stimulating the production,
wo hopo that tho orop of 1871 will not reaoh
2,000,000 bales, and that not a man sonth of
tho Potomao and OMo rivers,.will buy twenty-
five cents worth of Northern or Western pro
visions.
Wo do not underrate either the disposition or
the strength of onr “Northern friends” to hotter
our-future political condition, but wo aro fretted
sometimes at their patronizing tone and the cool
way they ignore considerations that, trades to
them, are of the Mghest moment to us. We know
that if the Sonth ever stands upright on her feet
again, it must bo by tho aid of our “Northern
friends,” and we expect to second all their efforts
with all our might. Bat that is no reason they
should treat ns merely as a bob to their Mte, or
assume the attitude and speak the language of
superiors to inferiors.
Cheiamen’b Taub.—Wo noticed jesteiday
fire or six Chinamen in a high-toned barber’s
shop on J street, haggling with the proprietor
about something. We stopped to investigate,
and ascertained that the Chinamen wejre nego
tiating for the sale of their caudal appendages.
A bargain was finally struck at three dollars
each. They did then their tails unfold, the
barber cut them off, and paid the respective
owners three dollars apiece. What will the
barber do with the tails? Why, he will build
them into “switches” for fair American dam
sels, and get at least six dollars apiece for them.
—Sacramento Reporter.
A studious writer classifies blondes as fol
lows : The Gotbio-Irish, the Saxon-English, the
little ridiculous blonde, the cephalic gold blonde
and the lymphatio blonde. Of these the cephaiio
gold individuals are most dangerous to mascu
line peace of mind.
New York Newspaper Gossip.
The New York correspondent of 'the. Boston
Post writes the following gossip about the news
paper business, present and prospective: of that
city: i-; ’ |
We learn from the country papers that Com-
modore Vanderbilt is preparing to ’establish a
daily in this city, with a capital of nearly a mil-'
lion dollars. As Vanderbilt is a pretty shrewd
old gentleman, and very careful'of .his;money,
people here do not believe that he.has any snob
intention. There isno heed of Jt new’daily ip
New York, and oortainly the Commodore is in
no need of an-organ. The new, ono-cent' morn- -
ing paper, the Ray, -wMch a conple of adventu
rous journalists projected some weeks ago, has
made his appearance. As tho Evening News,
at the same price, has become one of the best
paying cheap papers in-New York) there is a
chance for the Bay to get on. At any rate, I
hope it will. Tilton’s Golden Age continues to
make inroads on the Independent, and is said
to bo prospering finely. Certainly it is a great
deal more readable than Bowen’s great blanket
sheet, and in every reaped a more attractive
paper, though muoh less gigantio and ponder
ous. Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, the younger, has
retired from the editorsMp of the Christian at
Work, having found the duties of the position
too onerous. Clergymen generally make ratheir
poor editors, thongh some of them think they
are the only men who know how to run a paper.
All the dailies except the Times are prospering
finely. *-
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
George Skerrett, a negro sailor who attempt
ed to commit murder on board tho British ship
Colorado, while on her last voyage from Liver
pool to Savannah, was put on board that sMp at
the latter port on Saturday, and will be sent to
England for trial. ..' —
There is weeping and wailing, and a bine fog
of blasphemy in certain too confiding circles at
Savannah, just now. M. M. Mooro, a lamb of
tho trooly toil flock, employed in tho Savannah
Custom-house, has-flitted to other fields, leavrog
an'agonized washerwoman, landlord, tailor and
bootmaker to remember Mm in their prayers.
Look out for Moore at WasMngton before long,
howling “ Ku-klux.”
The Dahlonega Signal says Hon. W. P. Price
has so arranged Ms “private affairs” that he
will be able, hereafter, to give all Ms time as
Congrossmarf^to attending to the affairs of his
constituents. We are glad to hear it.
The Northern Methodists abont Atlanta dedi-
’ catod a new church in that city, last Sunday.
The sermon was preached Jsy a Chicago parson
imported expressly for the oocasion, and over
$5,000 were subscribed to pay off the debt.
The Kimballs were the principal contributors.
The corner-stone of the Confederate “Memo
rial Monument'’ was laid last Friday, at Athens,
with appropriate ceremonies. The monument
will consist of a marble shaft twenty-five feet
high, resting on three blocks of granite three
and one-half feet high. After laying tho cor
ner-stone, the. procession was reformed and
marched to iho cemetery, where the soldiera’
grave’s were decorated and an address delivered
by A. L. Mitohell, Esq., a one-armed Confeder
ate soldier.
Athens is on the pic nic and strawberry fea
tivql-rampage, and yet some folks up there “are
not happy.”
Tho Athens Banner reports the wheat crop
in that section as likely to be seriously injured
by rust. . .* - .
Mr. Wm. Bailey, an operative in tbo Athens
factory, mysteriously disappeared last Wednes
day night, and has been missing over since.
The Griffin Star, of Monday, says : . - •
Savannah, Griffin and Nobih Alabama
Railbod.—A meeting of the Directors of tMs
Road was held in this city yesterday, at wMch
Judge Boynton, onr Mayor, was elected a director
to fill a vacancyjrecently created. The meeting
of the Board was qaite fall and enthusiastic.
Among other business, a resolution was passed,
anthorizing the President to pnt nnder contract
immediately the construction from Newnan to
the west bank of the Chattahoochee River.
Wo clip the following from the Griffin Middle
Georgian, of yesterday:
Important Decision —The Goyeenob has
no Right to PabdonBefobe Conviction.—
James W. Hancock, of the connty of Upson,
was indicted for an assault with intent to mur
der. He gave bail and absconded, and the
court permitted a forfeiture ni si of his bond,
Beforo the next term of the court, wMch was
hold lost week, Governor Bollock issued to
Hancock a pardon, and the secnritie3 pleaded
the pardon in bar of the right of the State to a
forfeiture absolute. Judge Green being inter
ested did not preside. Tho State demurred to
tho plea on these grounds :
1st Because the Governor has no anthority
to pardon a criminal before conviction.
2d. Because the Governor has no right to
interfere with tho powers confided to the Judi
ciary.
3d. Because the securities had no right to
plead the pardon, as that right wa3 a personal
privilege.
After an elaborate and thorough argument by
Hon. J. H. Smith and Solicitor-General Ander
son for tho State, and CoL L. T. Doyal and
John I. Hall for the securities, the Judge sus
tained tho demurrer to tho plea, and tho case
goes to-the Supreme Court.
The peoplo of Gainesville and Dahlonega,
and tho intermediate country, are moving
the matter of a narrow-gnage railway between
the two places. Officers have been elected,
books opened and a survey contracted for.
William Hood is th9 idlest man in Gaines
ville at present. He is in jail there on a charge
of mistaking other folks’ horses for Ms own.
The Gainesville Eagle maketh this brag:
Who Can Beat This?—At the examination of
school teachers before the Connty Board of
Education last Tuesday, Roderick McGuire, an
old citizen of this county, registered his appli
cation for a teacher’s certificate, and obtained
certificate for one year—his general average
being 88. Ho registered a3 72 years of age,
with an experience of 40 years in teaching; We
venture to say, that Uncle Roderiok is the oldest
teacher in tho State. What is further remarka
ble about the old gentleman is, that he reads
fine print without the aid of spectacles.
E. N. Kimball, of Atlanta, has resigned as
Superinlendant of the Pullman, Ramsay & Kim
ball sleeping car line, and E. H. Paine, of
Louisville, succeeds Mm.
The' annual convention of the stockholders of
the Georgia Railroad assembled, yesterday, at
Augusta. A lively time is expected, as the
question of that road’s participation in tho State
Road lease will likely come np.
Mr. Joseph Miller, jeweler, of Milledgeville,
died very suddenly, last Thursday, of heart dis-
easei I * V, .
A little Japhet was “in search of his father”
in Justice Elsinger’s court, at Savannah, Mon
day, to the great delectation of the local editors
of that city.
Rev. W. A.. Pkrks, General Agent of the
American Bible Society for this State and Flor
ida, states that Georgia has given $6,818 to that
sooiety the paBfc fiscal year.
A negro helped Mmsolf to a bolt of cassimere
worth $10, in broad daylight, Monday morn
ing, from J. Greenwood’s store at Golumbns,
and bolted successfully with it. He works no
moro this summer, if the blackberry orop is a
good ono. L ' rir - ?•
Tho Columbus Enquirer says there was a very
perceptible f all of She:snow at Genova, last
Sunday. lv II . 5 u,-; > - 7
Feom Emanuel County.—The editor of the
Sondersville Georgian, who has just returned
from this connty, reports the status as follows:
Daring onr stay we met with planters from
every part of the connty. Like others, bnt few,
if any, made money on cotton last year. But
fortunately tho provision crop was a good one,
and supplies are ample for home consumption
In short, the connty is in good condition. A
reasonable cotton crop will bo cultivated this
year. And a limited amount of commercial ma
nures applied. Farm work is rather backward,
owing to the repeated heavy rains and conse
quent overflow, of low lands. The health of the
county is distressingly good, so tho Doctors re
port. Guessit’s true; the people look that way.
The greatest wants of the peoplo are sohool
houses, churches and moil facilities. j '
Of matters and things in Washington county,
the Georgian says:
Col. Wm. A. Irwin, a prominent and influ
ential citizen of this connty, died at Ms resi
dence at Irwin’s Cross Roads Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Clarke, a very nged lady, died at the
xesidenoe of Mr. Youngblood, her son-in-law,
on Sunday night last a V iVvr—<
Quite a severe storm passed over a portion of
this county on Wednesday last.
Crop reports are not as favorable, in this
county, as oould desire. Tho continued heavy
rains and repeated heavy blows have retarded
plantation 'Work, and dampened the ardor of
many. The young cotton looks poor and glass
is growing “with a vengeanoe.” Already some
crying out “this is going to bo a poor prop
year." The report from the wheat crop for the
past few days is very unfavorable. Rust and
the fly are hard at work, it seems to out off the
supply of bread. ■ ■ "p 5 «*•
The congregation of the Second African Bap
tist Church at Savannah, now “raise their Ebe-
uezer” to the notes of a new organ just received,,
and whioh cost $1,000. *"'■ .
John Graham, a big, black, shiny wharf rat,
drew a very “sassy” tongue and two brickbats
on Mr. R. M. Cohen, wharf'clerical Savannah,
Monday, and was dosed with a bine pill from
Smith & Wesson pistol wMch made a sizeable
hole In his left thigh.
The Savannah Advertiser of Tuesday, says :
Jefferson County Ku-klux.— Another de
tachment of darkeys from Jefferson county,
made their appeaTanoo at the “Bnro” offioe in
the Custom House yesterday to relate their re
cent experience with abont two hundred ahd
fifty thousand *‘Ku-kluxers. ” The entire party
had evidently been soverely whiskied, no doubt
the better to horrify their imaginations.
-The Constitntionalisf, of Tuesday, says
■ Yesterday morning ths following gentlemen,
Messrs. John f. King," Edward Thomas, Thos.
G. Barrett, Charles J. Jenkins, J. J. Cohen, W.
H. Goodrich, M. O’Dowd, Henry Moore and J.
J. Gregg, met at the office of the Augusta Fac-
Let our planters then
themselves with renewed vigorTaQ 1 .
tion to the work of rendering the'* 0 ®* - !
really independent, by raiaing^wV^I
plies of food for both man and beasf ^ ‘v|
Thus situated, with even ahalf cron
and enhanced prices, the silver v - c
cloud will again cheer their vision
of their present tribulation bo
Letter from Ii^r olds
Reynolds, G»
Pdilors Telegraph and Messenger;
tory Company and organized a body of corpora- nication from these “ lowm™. 7,, ’ 1
tors, to apply for a charter for a new cotton t - on £ela pr . np ,„ 0Unds of Proses. I
manufacturing company, with a capital stock of j -PP • your valnsy. I
$1,250,000, in $10 V 0 shares. After a full discus- and inasmuch as you hhve solicited
sion of the subject, on motion of Mr. Cohen, lions and aro in constant corresnona
tho Chairman appointed Messrs. J. J. Gregg, T. other sections of onr , ecee »i!il
G. Barrett and W. E. Jackson a committee to I 5 .. , monwealth ? | u l
open books and solicit subscriptions to the 1 ^ ® ? r *° a 3dress you brieg- : |
capital stock of the company. Also, to adver-1 ° a ]; y\ rmi ?S operations have hr r S I
lisa that, in conformity to law, a charter would retarded by the protracted wet weath.
be applied for at the June toim of the Superior tho P ast month. The young com on 5?
Court of Richmond county. that has received its first working tool,. 9
The Atlanta Georgian has the following: or>Mmt?nfnTifit r0C t ly * * Tbelowl!
Masonic.—On tho 24th instant there will be ““i? 11to ™ nder ‘“Monel
a grand Masonic encampment in this city. The £ . Li’™ 1 ? aWe ’. ^ose coBiimLf?'
Masons of Atlanta, with their visiting brethren, !LJ ot r umndated by th*
will go into camp for three days. The religions I yesterday afternoon and night whisj^
serviced connected with the order will beheld ^
in the Second Baptist Church, on the 24th inst., | P“? ted to middle of
Hon. Thomas Hardeman having been selected I ?*YL a T _?? a d exceedingly unpromisi I£ T;$
as orator of tho day. 'On the night of the day b ybakkg mD ^
mentioned, there will bo a grand banquet given *“ at an “crastation of the
by the Coeur de Lion Commanding of this city „ „„ tbo tender plant
to their visiting brethren. - . On the next night a tb °^ rst Ranting ] 113 £ Jj*
splendid baU will be given. A large attendance tbe writer is infoneci .77
of Sir Knights from various parts of the State, tlu3 community are iJaVTq 7
and a number of visiting brethren from other 0 .Mb® 33 ?? 0 Ppporimn as last rear-ivi
Bates «• «P-tod <» «w as®S
William Bonneli, Jailor of Fulton county, and planters gain wisdom eodS?
J. D. Garrison, Atlanta policeman, interviewed ence. That they would devote the!-
each other with pistols, Tuesday afternoon, more to tho production of the cereal's ujfSf!
Result: Bonneli shot iu the little finger of Ms | v ^°°, cl ^ r . cultivation of thera&t
left hand, and Garrison shot in Ms right Mp.
The Forsyth merchants will hereafter close
their stores at 6 p. m.
There has been a “colored May party” up at
Forsyth, and the wMte folks are wailing over 5
and stock growing—which would* caDse'S*!
homes to teem with plenty, and thrirfcJSl
to reverberate WithmirthiaSKSS
S0 . n S» 13 “a consummation devoutly^
wished.” Yet, mrabile dictu, with all th 6 l.
i of their suicidal foil.
the loss of numerous fat porkers, in conse- j they still havo “cotton on therbndm ffV 2sT?l
quence thereof. I ibis infatuation suggests an anaSoevhl
We dip the following items from the Monroe ni °^am m "borprodnringamote^J
.. . m , -I Iho Reynolds and Butler Sabfcqi I
Advertiser of Tuesday: held their annual celebration U {MS? 1
County Finances.—Tax Payees in Council, day. The morning was very inawririmn f
—At 3, moptiner nf tliA tllY ufiVPffl of Montnfl l onnli or* c?nn +V»n y * iv® I®
COUnty, <.» ——, — J J—» I W'lnin, miu uccasiOIRU EtOWn f»!t
2d day of May, called to take into consideration ing. Before noon, however, sanshina
the financial condition of the connty, Judge B. shadow were chasing each other, andthsafo?
H. Zellner, was called to the chair, andR. G. noon was beautifully brightand pleasant Atm
Andersen requested to act as Secretary. [ 9 o’clock in the forenoon, our dashing and cr.C
• The following resolution, offered by CoL Geo. ited young townsman, P. M. Adams, Esq. ml
W. Adams, was read and adopted: J ter of ceremonies and marshal of the day cm.
Resolved, That a committee of five be ap-1 vened at the Methodist Church, an nssemW*
pointed to confer with the Ordinary, for the j wMch filled it to overflowing. The scene of a
purpose of ascertaining the financial condition many little cMIdren, with bright faces, in»s
of the county, and that they publish their re- ated with happiness and joy, awakened nsiw
port in the Monroe Advertiser. . memories of days of “lang syne” with
The chair appointed Geoige W. Adams, W. I ter, and caused him involuntarily to drt oj
L. Lampkin, Monroo Clower, L. A. Ponder and I pathetic old ballad, “Oh! Would I weseabor
W. J. Dumas under the foregoing resolution. again.” The exercises w.ere opened with mm
Col. G. G. Flint offered the following: _ by tho Rev. Mr. Littlejohn, of Butler, tad tha
Resolved, That it is the sense of tMs meeting reception address to the Bufer school delived
that the tax payers of this connty should resist by Mr. W. T. Christopher, the enterpiisia
by all legal means tho paymet of taxes until tho I young editor of tho “Business Mirror,” iats
Ordinary requires of the Treasurer and Collec- usual felicitous style. TMs was acknowletej
tor valid and legal bonds—that is, bonds with in a chasto and appropriate response, bj ti*
seeurities worth double the amount of said | Rev. Mr. Griffith of the Butler schooi-ayaj
bonds over and above homestead exemptions, fine young gentleman, who has bnt recently*
Resolved further, That in the event of said I sumed his clerical ermine,
bonds being given, that this meeting approve Next introduced was Master Robert Taoke,tl
of Messrs. C. A. King and M. G. Turner acting t the Reynolds school—the puerile Demosihaa
as aids to the Treasurer and Collector respect- of the day—whose well declaimed Iittb speech
ively, and that a committee of five be appointed ! was received with great applause.
to examine and report when said bonds have
boen strengthened, as contemplated by the
above resolntion.
The resolutions were adopted,* and the follow
ing gentlemen appointed said committee: G.
G. Flint, M. T. Harper, Edmond Dumas, G. A.
Cabanis3 and W. H. Head.
Fatal Accident.—John Goodrnm, a youth of
thirteen years, was killed Saturday afternoon
on the plantation of Ms father about four miles
from town, by the accidental discharge of his
gnn while out hunting. He set M3 gun against
Then followed young Littlejohn, of the Bails I
school, who acquitted himself most creffitabir. |
After this, the Rev. Mr. Littlejohn delires'l I
(by request) a most forcible, well-timed aniis- ]
pressive address to the Sabbath School I
Daring the intervals between the speeches^: I
children “discoursed” some of their sweetest I
sacred song3. At tho’close of tho address Is I
mentioned, Marshal Adam3 announced an ad-1
jonrament of two hours for dinner and reerts-1
tion. Tables were arranged in the grovea«|
the church, and a most sumptuous repast spreii I
‘‘W.’
a tree, and in taking it up again the hammer I —combining substantiate and delicacies—c!|
wasraiHodby coming in contact with a twig; ( which all partook “sans ceremonie.” Dmrsl
tho whole charge taking effect in the right tern-1 over, tho young people amused themselves hi
pie. He died almost"instantly. I innocent games, and promenadiag. At fs.'l
Air._ John Wooten sold fifty bales of cotton to J o’clock, the crowd reassembled at the church I
Captain Lampkin on Saturday at 124 cants.— and after singing an hour, an invitationvas a-1
The cotton was stored in Cabaniss’ warehouse I tended to tho schools by the courteous o&is I
moro than a year ago, at which time he refused I of the special train, to take a pleasure nisi
30 cents for it. across tho river. In this exoureion yonr canes-1
The farmers of Monroe are now paying la- pondent was hot a participant, bnt “parted I
borers from $12 to $12.50 per month. company” at this juncture, with the gsy and I
George W. Collier, who was shot at High happy throng. I
Falls on the 29th nit., has so far recovered as to j The Superior Court of tMs Circuit coaveafi I
resume active duties. | at Butler on next Monday. Judge Johnson, its I
presiding officer, is extremely popular with ttf I
A More. Clieerfal Outlook to the I people of tMs county in his judicial capacity. |
Planters. To acquaint your, readers more fully with the I
Tho terrible experience of the past two years, extent of Ms popularity and the estimittoniJ I
( whioh ha ia held, I make the following enns [
maugre nil predictions to tae contrary, is bo- from the neral p ressn t mei ,ts of the grad
ginning to work out the pecuniary salvation Of jury for the - October term, 1870: “Inteiteg I
the Southern agriculturists. j leave of His Honor, Judge James Johnson, vs I
From an interview, yesterday, with one of the I would fain hope to express the sentimsatof re* J
largest provision dealers in the city and perhaps s P® cl and esteem wMch we “tertian forks,
. ?. / .. .. , . - , / | were we equal to the undertaking, weprofomt
in the South, tho pleasing intelligence was de- ly aamir e his dignified bearing, his impute
rived, that up to this period in the current year administration of the laws and unswerving ti-
not more than one-half of the bacon, and one- herence to Ms oonvictions of right. Hisfafn-
fifth oi the com had been shipped to the interior ai ?, ac °. men ? h L ch expeditea business. togeto
J J * • 77 ,7 with Ms exalted sense of justice, which ignores j
as compared with the consumption of the pre- any invidiona distinctions and recqgniw * j
vious season. I ‘Tycoons’ among the advocates at this bar, an!
Upon inquiry, we learn, also, that the books we bespeak for him when Ms rulings are ro
of the Central Railroad show a fulling off G f Monger heard an immortality which wW
,, ...... . . his name m the Temple of Farce, with moss»
near three-fourths in the guano trade of Middle his iu ustr i 0tig predecessors Phillips, Cota
and Southwestem Georgia. Grattan, Webster, Choate and Berrien.”
From this we argue, that our husbandmen I The Telegbaph and Messenger enjoys an rt -
finding out how dangerous it’ is to toy with cot- tensive circulation, and shapes
. ,®. . ... .. . all matters of public policy to a very large"
ton, that most uncertain of coquettes, aro be- {ent in this pa f t of the country. It standssnn -
ginning to turn their attention to the produc- Vailed here by any of its cotemporsries.
tion of grain, stock, fruits, and other com- [Messrs. Editors, is not prompted by any fo- c - -
forts and luxuries of the farm. The lesson, if {i “ disparage the merits of any^
,, • . , . . . ’ but simply a conscientious desire to _
really acquired, was taught not a moment too to - Crc3 £rth & things that are Osar’s.”
soon. not, however, attempt any dissertation
And now that the planting season is over, and merits here—it speaks for itself, ana
there is no longer danger of further increase to
the cotton crop, through the greed of thought-I ° 1 Yours truly,
less parties, wo propose to show that tho farmer
has a fair prospect for an improvement in the
price of the great staple, at the opening of the
Fall market. Our reasons for this opinion may
bo briefly summed up as follows: . i iV I a- pnvaio .ww - a--— ^
1st. The acreage laid down in colton.tMs year | bnr g to a friend in Chicago, w i ^
wiU bo onc-fifih less than in 1870. TMs is cans- found its. way into ^ de by tt e
ed in part, by tho abstraction of thousands of gives an account o a v Davi3 to the pli
able laborers, who now swarm upon the numer- writer in company wn • ^ D ^
onsrailroads, and other public works In progress I tstion cultivated before * wri!£I
of construction, and the unprecedented rains and b* 3 brother, Goneral Josep
freshets of the past fow weeks. In the West, j sa y 3 '• r -.. mn R. E oc6 ° f
on the margin of rivers, in the region desolated on “flnest^teamMfindlanded'attheHmrtC®^
by the dreaded crevasse, and in Southwest plantation about daylight tho ne^ ^
Georgia, Florida and Alabama, where thousands | This plantation and another known 031;*^ £
of acres of. the best lands are stiff under water, [were oc “P! ed ^?/°;° p^ent Davis- ^
orop
come forward too late for a good yield. them both, to his favorite freedman, q{ , eB
2d. The "unfavorable spring has greatly re- f gomeiy, for $300,
tarded field operations, and much cotton will be years, (1st January, 187C)m ^ j 3 very
eaten up by grass before it can bo chopped and buf thoroughly educated before the**
cleaned out. One of the best planters In Ran- met us and gave us a breakfast,
dolph actually plowed up a good stand of cotton table himself, but not offering to ‘ cT e:
last week, as he oould only destroy the grass by -Yfter breakfast we had a carnage an ^ a yz
te.tm.thoa, wo, withog t. »a„go «»
chances of a late crop, in preference to the labor | Montgomery made last ye^.r
of cultivating that which was already unmanage-1 ton and a large quantity of corn. ^\r u ‘je#*-
able. To this may be added the fact, that pres- j Blairfield, the former residence of - e w
ent low prices do not offer any inducement to ^ wil^oW^
the farmer to neglect Ms corn prospect, ana, as to learn that former slaves of ^ r - “ ^
is most proper, this.branch of agrioullure Is I greeted him with .all- the warmth
ceivlng far more attention than nsual. I that they were capable of expressis*- if
3d. The pacification of Europe will enable its °°^ !y Mte/dte^r, at wl
war-weary inhabitants to turn their attention weald!y tost again waited on us - f“ ^
onoe more to the production of food, and the f style, we passed on to a very large act j^b
recuperation of their exhausted resources, and plantation which hai^been pnz . „ ata ;e, 8^
era another season opens, the hum of business
wiU again begin to enlivon the blood-stained ^ooo bales more, making 3,500 m a 11 : “
streets of the half deserted cities of the conti- j good crop year.”
nent, and the demand for cotton resume its •" Kited* 8
normal proportions. j “Atom,” of t ^®^ arTar< ^ T - ! l ^^tjperisB eJ , :
Lastly, As has been announced in a former y°“ like t0 ^
issue, carefully preserved reoords of past sea-
sons indicate that three successive years favors- j
He for the development of the eotton plant,
attended also with late frosts, are unknown in I
the history of the country. A heavy crop,
therefore, the present year, is not within the j
range of probabilities.
EX'Presldent Davis Visits Hi* . i
Home—Negro Farming on » b. rfiJ
Scale. • ricks-
A private letter from a gentleman m *
i Young lady—Sir, wouldn’t you
| some tickets in a punch-bowl. ._v
Atom-No, thank you; 1 J3
. Young Jady;:(insmuatingly)—
I like to buy some cigars, then ? jjjai*
f Atom (with a very grave face)-* 0 ’
you; I never smoke. , rd ofW
Young lady (losing
[ you some soap if I thought you eve
