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The Gf-eorgia Weekly Telegraph and Journal & Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JUNE 3 3, 1871
What Shall We Enf,an«l now Cools Ii?
These are very practical questions, and yet,
upon their proper solution depend the health
tnd happiness of every class of society. .
Dyspepsia, that almost universal American
malady, is based in n great measure upon a dis
regard of the same. We are aware that estrem-
i-:s inculcato diametrically opposite methods
for the regulation of the food and hygiene of
the- human race. Some regard animal food as
the most nourishing, stimulating and concentra
ted form of diet. Others, again, deem a purely
vegetarian system most conducive to high health
and longevity. To ns the juste miliea or happy
medium is the best in the premises.
Lymphatic and sluggish constitutions require
the stimulus and caloric of animal flesh, to
quicken the pulses and qnslfy them for hard la
bor; while on the other hand, those of pletho
lie habits and sanguineous temperament, should
confine themselves in the main to a farinaceous
diet. Each particular individual must decide
.'or himself the character and quality of the
food best adapted to his physical structure.
Experience, however, has demonstrated that
certain articles of food are most healthful at
given periods of the year. Thus, pork and
highly seasoned condiments are best adapted.to
cold weather, and a freer use of vegetables to
the summer months. But the principal objeet
of this article is to insist upon the proper prep
aration cf the viands used in the domestic econ
omy.
Tho inordinate use of lard, butter, or bacon
grease, in almost every form of cookery, is thfe
undoubted source of much suffering to our peo
ple. Ham, already full of fatty particles, is
nevertheless fried to a crisp and served swim
ming in oil. Chickens, so delicate when broiled
or roasted, are subjected to the same eraeJdin
process; the delicious flavor of white cabbage,
cauliflower, turnips, beans, etc.,is likewise dis
guised and completely absorbed by tho odor
and taste of rancid bacon; fruit pies, in them
selves harmless and ageecable, become indi
gestible from the short, rich crust which envel
opes them; a thick pellicle of oil covers the
surface of onr sonp3 and gravies; beef-steak,
so jnicy and invigorating when broiled, appears
cn the table “smothered in onions”and satura
ted with the drippings of bacon; and thus we
might go on indefinitely, to show howonr cooks
with their drawn butter (not always too sweet)
villainous garlio, and fat bacon fixings, are the
prime causes of half the dyspepsia and melan
choly which we attribute t > dull times and ill-
health. Such food may be assimilated to the
stomach of a plowman, bnt to the habitue of the
city, and those of sedentary pursuits, it must
prove to the last degree deleterious.
A great revolution, therefore, is needed in
tho American kitchen.
The free use of soda and other powerful
alkalies should bo discarded as ruinous to the
coats of the stomach. Bread should be made
with the best yeast, then, well kneaded, thor
oughly baked, and permitted to get perfectly
cold and pass through what is termed the
ripening process before it appears on the table,
bleats should never be fried, as thp operation
d9prives them of all their juices, nor should
they be boiled too much for the like reason.
The fat that rises to the surface of sonp3 should
be skimmed off and converted into soap. Boast-
cd meats, when very lean, should be merely
bested with a little sweet butter, to prevent
turning. Gravies made up of lard or bacon
grease should be discarded as specially obnox
ious to the Btomacn. Vegetables should be boil
ed alone in several waters until thoroughly
done, and then they may be eaten, if preferred,
with a little nice fresh butter. They will thus
each retain its peculiar flavor and excellence.
Traits should be eaten in their natural state, or
simply stewed with sugar. The pastry addenda
is oftentimes the “hair which breaks the camel's
back,” and tho sole cause of all the misery which
follows an otherwise simple dinner.
>Ve are satisfied the observance of the fore
going directions, together with temperance in
all things, and rigid abstaiaence from physic,
unless really sick, will go far to banish dyspep
sia from the land.
Among the notables in history, the celebrated
Soyer, Napoleon’s chief of the culinary staff, fig
ures conspicuously in the Crimean war a3 the sa
vior and benefactor of the French army. When
the English andPrnssians were the victims of dy
senteries and other camp diseases; the health of
the Imperial host w&3 perfect, and the credit is
ascribed to the admirable bread and cookery of
this great caterer.
Too much stress cannot be laid upon this de
partment of household economy. Indeed it af
fects largely tho health, happiness, and useful
ness of all concerned. Let the reformation be
gin at once.
Mnxxoxs For. “De-Fexce. 1 ’—The New York
Commercial Advertiser well says that the fence
is a peculiar American institution, and nobody
will deny that it is a very costly one. Illinois
is said to have tea time th9 fencing of Germany,
and Duchess county, New York, more than all
France. A narrow path serves to divide farms
in France, Germany, and Holland. As to the
expense, au Illinois agricultural report w few
years ago said; “The fences of the United
States have cost more than the houses, cities in
eluded; more than the ships, boats, and vessels
cf every description which sail the ocean, lakes,
and rivers; moro than our manufactories of ell
kinds, with their machinery; more than any
one class of property, aside from real estate,
unless it may be the railroads of our country.’’
In South Carolina tho improved land is esti
mated to be worth $20,000,000, and tho fences
have cost SlGjOfiO.OOO. The snnuaTrepair is a
tenth of this. A recent calculation places tho
cost of fences in the United States at <$1,800,000,-
C00. Nicholas Biddle, thirty years ago, said the
Pennsylvania fences had cost $100,000,000. In
Ohio they are put at $115,000,000, and in New
York at $144,000,000. These figures hardly
warrant the rather exaggerated statement of the
Illinois report above quoted, but they show that
these brown and dingy division marks, over
grown with briars and thistles, are an enormous
tax on the industry of the country, and all to
keep stock from trespaasing.
Casxp-meetikg at Salt Lake Cut. — The
Northern Methodists have hit on a bran new
sensation, wherewith they expect to exalt the
horns of their own peculiar altar. They were to
have a big camp-meeting at Salt Lake City on
Thursday, and had arranged for excursion tick
ets from New York at $150. They were to
hold their meetings under a canvass capable
of seating 10,000 persons. If Brigham knows
the brethren as well 33 their home folks do, he
will keep a strict watch on his dove-cotes while
they are there.
Two Husdezd Dollaes a Basket.—Tho New
York Commercial Advertiser tells us of a basket
of peaches seen on Broadway last Monday and
offered at 60 cents each. Allowing thirty dozen
to the basket and wo have $216 as the price of
the basket—rather too steep even for 4 Kadical
politician who wants a foreign mission, and
knows how to set about the surest way. of-get
ting it. -•
The long experience of Lewis Rice, as land
lord of the Amemcah House, Boston, bas made
his name familiar with the traveling ■ public
throughout the country. This excellent hotel
is ataong the beBt In tho United States; ' '■
Tlie Macon and Western Lease.
Certain Northern Directors and stockholders
in the Macon and Western Road appeal against
the recent lease to the Central, on the ground
that a higher, responsible and safely guaranteed
bid was made by the Macon and' Brunswick
Company, in which they are largely interested,
and they ask that the stockholders shall refuse
to ratify it at the approaching meeting on the
26th. It Is a direct conflict of privato interests
in which the whole question is opened—how
far the public is involved ? These stockholders
in the Macon and Western Road, as we under
stand, became such mainly to seenro for tho
Macon and Brunswick Road a fair proportion
of the business accruing from tho Macon and
Western Road. The lease forfeits them the
whole of it, for it is not- presumable that the
Central or any other road will permit freight to
leave their line and take a competing one, if
they can possibly avoid it. Tho object of tho
lease on their part is to seenro the entire trade
of the Macon and Western line for their own
connections, and they are bound to doit if they
can.
The same parties, in connection with the
Mayer and Council of Macon havo filed a bill of
injunction against tho lease, and a hearing is
appointed for the 20th instant. In this bill they
charge that the lease was effected clandestinely
and hurriedly, without notice to four of the di
rectors, and withontany opportunity to marshal
adverse interests and opinions. That it was
made without authority of law and in contra
vention of public policy. That it was a fraud
upon their rights. That it will cause irreparable
loss and damage to the business and prosperity
of Macon—making hor a mere way station-
ruining her property in competing railways,
and destroying their ability to proteot the State
from loss on her indorsement of their securities,
or else driving them to the adoption of counter
vailing measures to save their own property,
which would be still more destructive to the
trade and interests of Matfon.
In short, the petitioners, by their attorneys,
have presented a very strong and alarming case
for tins good -city, and a prudent man on read
ing it over and recollecting the glorious nncer-
tiiutiesef the law and seeing that the whole
matter turned on a yes or no of the Superior
Court, might weH be justified in knocking fifty
per cent, off of tho value of his bonso and lot.
Of course, one cannot help sharing more or
les3 in these fears. Probably a majority of onr
-people are seriously apprehonBive of the prac
tical result upon the city, of turning its whole
transportation over to the control of a single
company, wielded by supreme devotion to the
business and interests of its soacoast terminus.
Such a concentration was never contemplated
by the incorporating power any where. It was
supposed that the laws of competition would be
a practical regulator here, as everywhere olse,
and upon these crude and practically false ideas,
competing lines were projected.
Bat it is clear now to every mind, that there
must be everywhere a failure of the practical
operation of competition as applied to railroads
Everywhere, from Maine -to Texas, the big
monsters are swallowing up the little ones, and
great rival lines harmonize instead of compe
ting. Strong roads enforce terms, and weak
ones are driven to the wall.
This consolidation in Macon is effected, if
successful, in- niter defeat of all tho ideas upon
which we multiplied avenues to the sea and
surrounding country, and will prove that the
law cm easily organize a capitalized power
practically superior to itself, and far superior
to public opinion. But that is being proven
everywhere,
In this business the Central and Macon and
■Western Roads, wo conceive to be prompted
by no hostility to Macon. They are merely
seeking their own interests as they understand
them, and intent on self-protection. The ulti
mate result of the controversy will, in all likeli
hood, be as everywhere else, a combination.
The interests at stake are too vast to permit
needless sacrifice, and tho real question (which
will not be determined by tho courts) 13 how
they can best harmonize and save loss ?
Off for the North Pole—'The New Arc
tic Expedition.
Capt. Hall’s new Arctic expedition to the North
Pole is expected to sail from New York on the
23d inst. Only one vessel will go—the Pola
ris—which has been fitted up with the greatest
care for the purpose. Her sides have been
planked all over with six inches of solid white
timbers, and throughout she has been nearly
doubled in strength. Her bow is almost a solid
mass of timber, sheathed with iron, and she
has a sharp iron prow to cut the ice. She is of
about 400 tons measurement, and folly able to
sail under canvass alone, though provided, In
addition, with a powerful engine and propeller
which can be unshipped when necessary. She
will consume about six tons of coal a day when
steaming, and only carries 150 tons in all, bnt
is provided with an apparatus by which steam
for propelling purposes, as well as for heat, can
be generated. The expedition is intended to
last three years, bnt provisions for four will be
taken—of which the vessel itself will cany
enough for sixteen months, the remainder be
ing brought on afterwards and Btored where
they can be found.
The provisions include large quantities of
flour, biscuits, dessieated vegetables, sugar,
coffee, tea, condensed milk, canned froits, and
all other necessaries for Arctic voyages. The
staple food, however, is pemmican which is
composed of three parts of dried meat and one
part suet mixed with other ingredients, but
without salt, so that no scurvy can follow from
its use. The crew are twenty-nine in number,
and have been carefully seleoted, so that none
but strong, healthy, reliable men, who have
had an extended experience in the Polar Seas,
or on long whaling voyages, have been taken.
No spirituous liqnors are allowed on board ex
cept a small quantity for medical purposes, as
it has been found by experience that men can
endure cold better by abstaining from aleoholio
drinks and taking nothing bnt hot coffee. The
yearly w&ges of the crew amounts to $30,000.
Each man takes with him about four pairs of
mittens, six pairs of woolen socks, three thick
undershirts, three extra thick overshirts, three
pair of drawers, besides heavy pants and pea
jacket, and nntanned leather boots. - These ar
ticles be it remembered, are only intended for
summer wear, as nothing but furs will answer
for winter. These furs are not taken on from
here, bnt will be procured at Holtteinburg,
Greenland
Editorial Correspondence—No. 5.
At the Big Black River, 12 miles east of
.ViokBburg, yon leave behind a considerable
scope of heavily timbered hammock and, moss
ing a long,high trestle and a bridge, enter upon
a country of singular formation, which termi
nates with the eastern banks of the grand river.
The “Big Black” is a very decided misno
mer. It should be the “ Little Yellow,” for its
waters aro as.yellow as those of the Mississippi,
and it is a stream not more than two-thirds as
wide as the Ocmnlgeo at Macon. Here we
passed the scene of the unlucky fight which ul
timately bottled up Pemberton and his army in
Vicksburg and led to the catastrophe which so
materially precipitated tho strangulation of the
Confederate cause.
•But not to fight the battles of the war over
again, let U3 look at tho singular country
through which, we are passing. On might think
it had been tossed up- by tho stormy waters of
the deluge. Its coantless, precipitous and irre
gular eminences are like tho waves of a cross
sea thrown up by furious. conflicting storms;
and the snrface of the sehills looks as if they had
been abraded by the action of the water. Ob
serve that they have been denuded of timber
and are, in fact, old fields, generally covered
with a heavy growth of Bermuda. Not long
ago they were the site of very productive cotton
plantations.' •' . L .
Note the deep excavations through which we
are-constantly passing. The sides on either
hand are smooth and perpendicular. The earth
does not cave. A Vicksburg gentleman at my
elbow toll3 me that yon may dig a deep cister&,
and merely cement the bottom and perpendicu
lar sides, and it will preserve its shape for an
indefinite time, and subserve all the uses of an
hydraulic reservoir as perfectly 3S if it had beep
walled with brick or stone,
In color and consistency tho soil disclosed by
these excavations resembles very closely the
substance used by our good housewives for pol
ishing brass and silver—called Rotten-stone.
Take a little slice of it on the point of your
knife and yon will see that it is easily reduced
to an impalpable powder. That it breaks up
into little cubes and disintegrates very readily,
and it is apparently destitute of all silicious
material. Notwithstanding all this, it makes
excellent brick, and is at the same time exceed
ingly rich in all the elements of a vegetable
feltility. In short, it is a strange compound
and is strangely used, as we shall see.
At three o’clock Sunday evening, in the midst
of ashower, we drew np close by the side the Fath
er of Waters and sat down to dinner in onr trav
elling hostelry, ovfcrlooking-tho stream, which
was three streets and some seventy or eighty
feet below us. But there were tico Mississip
pi distinctly to be seen, and no necessity for
seeing double—at that.
You know how it is yourself. Very few will
fail to remember that a long narrow tongue of
land, protruding from tho Louisiana shore, op
posite Vicksburg, compels that stream appar
ently to duplicate itself and pass the Vicksbnrg
frontigo twice within a distance measured west
erly of about two miles. This fact, together
with the commanding bluff on which the city
is located, caused that point to be selected as
the Thermopylae, at which it was determined to
make a stand and dispute the passage and nav
igation of the river with “onr Northern brith-
ering.” About two mile3 distant, the Missis
sippi sweeps round a bend running easterly. It
is then met by tbi3 narrow Louisiana peninsula,
but a hundred rods or so wide, which shoots ont
needle-shaped northwardly. This directs the
course of the stream northwardly for a mile,
where it rounds, the point cf tho neealo and
again moves southwardly before the Vicksburg
levee—describing in the two bends as many
traverses of the entire riverfront of Vicksburg.
The city is built on tho summit and deelivitv
of the eastern bank. The chief business streets
ran north and south about midway up the hill
side, whilo the fashionable residences crown
tho sommit—half or three-quarters of a mile
from the margin of the stream, and perhaps a
hundred and fifty feet above water level. The
streets running riverward are, of course, almost
precipitous. The grade is about ono foot in
two. But as all the business avennes cross
these at right angles they are sufficiently level.
It is the action of the river upon this narrow
tongue of land I have spoken of which is creat
ing some little uneasiness about the fntnre of
Vicksburg. The stream is abrading the western
side of the needle and it 13 feared it may wear a
; passage through. Should it do so,the main stream
: nstead of passing twice before Vicksburg will
pass to the southward of it, leaving merely a
still-water bayou before the city, shaped like a
padlock staple, with the bow end to the north,
which wonld soon fill np with silt and make the
town useless as a river station or port. One
scheme of prevention proposed is piling the
western side of tho needle and filling in between
the piles with stone. But the efficacy Of this
remedy is doubted. The stream, if it seriously
attempted to break through this peninsula, is so
deep that it would undermine all piling. A sys
tem of loaded cribs, might be better—for these
would sink with the abrasion of the current,
Bull hope the Mississippi will not bid good-bye
to Vicksbnrg. Many of her people ridicnlQ all
these fears, while others watch the gradual en
croachments of the mighty current with serious
alarm. J. C.
it from the higher street fronting the lpt—for
please remember that the upward grade of the
streetB running at right angles with the river
frontages is piobably one foot in every two or
three.
The business streets, running north and soulb,
of which there are four or five, are pretty well
and continuously built of brick and all thickly
tenanted. Above these are the better classes of
dwellings, and some of them are very spacious;
and handsomely adorned with ornamental
shrubbery. There is but one prominent public
edifico—and that is tho Court-house, wbioh oc
cupies a lofty-sito which, is approached by Suc
cessive terraces. The view from the tower is
very commanding. The Court-house shows
mark3 of Federal wrath—but, in general, the
indicia of the seige are very faint or altogether
obliterated. The Yankee shells, as big a3 pork
barrels, made si terrible -noise and were very
frightful, bnt did no great amount of harm.
The whole site of Vicksbnrg and vicinity is
covered with a verdant carpet of Bermuda grass,
which the daily showers had made as green a3
an emerald, and which supported a large num
ber of fine sized dud -fat milch cows, and a
quantum snff. of goats. Unluckily this sward
was thickly intermingled with nut grass—here
called Coco, which is all pervading. _ How they
manage their gardens and grounds in the pres
ence of this dread enemy, I will not undertake
to say. 1.3
The two beds of tho Mississippi in front of
Vicksbnrg, are perhaps each three-quarters of
a mile wide, and the stream was represented as
about thirty-eight feet above the lowest Sum
mer stage. There wore no large river steam?
ers at the wharves, but at nine o’clook the
signal gun and bell of the Natchez was heard
as she rounded to at the landing. She was
bound ud, and had made the distance from New
Orleans,*400 miles, in twenty-six hours and five
minutes, including stoppages. Now ns she was
running against a current of five miles an hour,
making allowance for all advantages she could
take, she must have made upwards of twenty
miles an hour, which seems almost incredible
speed. But she is a boat which ranks with the
General Lee, as among tho fastest on the river.
I did not see her—too wearied to make the trip.
She stoppod not more than ten- minutes. But
Monday morning there was another opportunity
to examine fine river craft, and as it was my
first one, in my next I will “riso to explain.”*
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'Railroad Convention at Athens.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I trust
that the people of Macon will not forget that
the Northe astAn Railroad will hold a Oonven.
tion at Athens, next Wednesday, June 14th.
This is one of the most important railroad en
terprises in the South. -The road from Clayton to
Athens, will form a most important links in the
shortest route that can be devised between Cin
cinnati and Macon. Now that the Macon &,
Western Railroad has been leased by the Cen
tral, and the Macon and Brunswick virtually cut
off from a connection with the Southwest, it is
important that she at least, should turn her eyes
in the direction which' offers her the shortest
and best route to Cincinnati. This route is via
Athens and Knoxville. A glance at the map
will show that this is true. Let Macon and the
Macon and Brunswick send on their delegates np
to Athens next Wednesday, and see that their
interests are not overlooked. We arc deter
mined to build the road, and it only remains
to be seen whether Angasta, Macon or Savan
nah is to reap most benofit from its early com
pletion. “ Ocosee.
Editorial Correspondence—No. 6.
After our Sunday’s dinner in Vicksbnrg, rain
held np, and the party took an hour or two’s
stroll of observation. We find Vicksbnrg a
much larger place than we expected to see?
They tell ns its population, exceeds fifteon
thousand, whereof some eight or nine are of the
colored persuasion. The belles of all shades,
only including a small proportion of white, are
out displaying their Sunday attractions. They
congregate as to habitats mostly in the nnmer-
ons little tenements notched into the hillside
streets, and, of coarse, lead a sort of semi-
subterranean existence. Life most bo damp in
these apartments, andjf cholera or yellow fever
shoald come along, it would be apt to mark a
good many of them for its own. Just now,
however, they are happy and in high feather.
Now, gentlemen, be pleased to observe one
strange sight of Vicksburg; The grading has
been pursued somewhat miscellaneously and
aemi-oocasionally, as necessity arose and means
were in hand. Hence, some of the older tene
ments occupy the lofty summits of original
hills, while all their neighbors, having dug
down to the corporation grade, are thirty feet
below them. And the descent is not an incline,
bnt a sheer perpendicular precipice—to be sur
mounted by ladder or flights of stairs. Yon
der is a one-story cottage resting on a plateau,
say not seventy-five feet square and at least
thirty feet above any of its surroundings. Tho
area lor garden and yard-room aronnd the dwell
ing is, perhaps, ten or twelve feet, and not a
sign of fence skirts the fearful verge. How
da they keep the children from tumbling off—
and, if they tumble, who will mend their necks?
* walk np to sample the soil which, unsupport
ed, maintains, for years, this plumb-line con
figuration.
Just look here!—here are two of those bomb
proof caves where they used to deposit the wo
men and children for safety during the bom
bardment. In the base of this tall clay monu
ment, a foot or two above the level of the street,
is the month of an oven-like aperture, perhaps
eight or ten feet deep.' These were carpeted
and made as “comfortabuT as Dexter’s tomb
for occupation during the hours of daily bom
bardment. Lord Timothy said he wanted to
be buried “comfortiJbul” like a man of sense
and wealth, and, therefore, had his tomb fixed
up with plate glass windows—slot of “pipes
and tobacker—a staffed eoifin—some barls of
gude syder and whisky and a cumfortabul arm-
cheer.” That is the way theyfixed'up their
living tombs in Vicksburg—and I never heard
that any of the occupants were hurt. But con
fess that the soil whioh will beat suoh uses and
adaptations, and yet is a soft, crumbly and
friable soil, is one of Nature’s marvels.
Passing along, we see oases where the first
story wans of other houses have not been, dug
out, and families are occupying the second
story. When a demand for the first story for a
shop Shall arise, the day will be dag ont and
removed; but at present it stares at you—a
dull, blank and. perpendicular surface through
tho apertures left in the brick wall for doors
and windows. ■
Now, please see that old horse grazing on the
verge of another precipice twenty feet up, with
one forefoot not twelve inches from the edge.
Now he stops cropping the grass and calmly
surveys us from the dizzy height. That horse
has steady nerves and a firm trust in the tenac
ity of Vicksburg clay. The horse did not attain
his elevation by staircase or ladder. Ho gained
Editorial Correspondence—
As we were breakfasting on Monday morn
ing, June 5, “by the margin of fair Zurich’s
waters,” the steamer Katie—~n new “crack
boat,” bound downward, hove in eight. Gross
ing the wharf-boat tho party went on board,
under the very polite esoort of Captain Carrol
and were duly presented to Captain White, of
the floating palace. ," v
There are larger boats than the Katie on the
river, but she is said to be as fine as any; and
was well worthy of careful inspection. Her ex
treme length was 288 feet. A very broad and
elegant flight of steps led from her main to her
second or saloon deck, about eighteen feet
above tho former. Entering the forward end,
was an immense silver water cooler just'before
you with silver drinking cups, inviting a drink.
To the right was a showy bar, and to the left
the clerk’s office. A grand saloon opened be
fore yon with a very ornate ceiling and pan-
nelling which was eighteen or twenty feet in
height, and over 200 feet long. The richest
carpets and table cloths, and very elegant fur
niture adorned this magnificent hall, and a row
of ten great chandeliers, with twenty lights
each, showed how it was lighted np after dark.
A barber’s shop, as spacious and elegant as the
best to be found onshore, was duly inspected—
and so were the sleeping apartments—some
provided with berths, and others with French
bedsteads, and all with perfect ventiliation,
front, rear and above. This second deck was
upwards of twenty feet above the water, and
over it the hurricane deck, Texas and pilot
house elevated youa good deal more. Tho tops
of her smoko stacks were 72 feet above tbo
main deck, and over eight feet in diameter. A
battery of nine boilers generated steam power,
and two engines of thirty-eight inches diameter
of cylinder, and ten feet stroke propelled her
enormous paddle-wheels. Eveything about her
was very elaborate and perfect. Her heavy
gangway planks were suspended by elaborate
cranes, and worked by her steam power.. Her
steering wheel was twelve feet in diameter,
which shows the power necessary to control her
course. Full handed she carried, of officers and
crew, 111 men. By the side of her was the
Potomac—a fine Louisville boat of smaller
size bound np.
At seven o’clock tbo party received by ap
pointment, a considerable number of promi
nent citizens of Vicksburg and spent an hour
in lively conversation.
Afterward, two or three of us visited a cotton
seed oil mill. Ono mill of this description was
lately burned in Vicksbnrg, and this only re
mains. The prooess is simple enough. The
seed is carried up by an elevator to the second
story, where it is first linted by gins adapted to
the work, and the lint is good paper stock. It
is then hulled by a simple little mill in which
the seed passes between two rasping surfaces,
which strips off the hull. The kernel is then
crashed and exposed to a moderate heat, and,
tiffin, while warm, pressed in twilled cotton
sacks, which will contain abont a peck, and
which are enclosed in a stout husk or envelope
of some unknown substance.
Six of these sacks are submitted to pressure
at once between the same number of iron sur
faces and by hydraulic power. The oil gushes
out in a three quarter inch stream, and is con
veyed to tanks, where it is left for a week to
deposit the sediment. It i3 then barrelled arid
finds a market in New York, where it is con
verted into linseed oil, castor oil, palm oil,
olive oil, or any thing required by tho necessi
ties of trade. The oake is shipped to England
in that form, and ground np for stock. The
lint goe3 to the paper mill and the hulls are
burned as fuel for the engine.
A few questions satisfied me that the proprie
tors were not disposed to bo communicative
about their business. They said they paid eight
dollars per ton for the seed. This is at tho rate,
say, of seven to eight cents a bushel, but they
did not know the product of oil to tho bushel.
Outsiders sajd the cake and lint drove the mill,
and the oil was the profit.
But this can bo done only where (as about
here) cotton seed lias no value as a fertilizer.
In parts of Mississippi and Louisiana it is
looked npoa as a nuisance—in the way. The
land is said to be rich enough without it. Then
tho seed Is worth only sacking and transporta
tion. ’ But in Georgia it cannot be bought on
the plantation for less than twenty-five cents a
bushel, which would amount to about thirty
dollars a ton at the mill.
I know the talk is that the hull is just as
good for fertilizing as hall and kernel, bnt I
fanoy that kind of discourse is better adapted
to marines than sailors—bnt let every one be
lieve it who will.
Monday in Vicksburg was prodigiously warm.
Strolling about the city in the blazing sun, we
were forced to imitate the example of the an
cient Romans, in warm weather. Tho perspi
ration started at every pore. Shirt collara were
like dish rags. In short, and not to pnt too fine
a point on it, we were like Miss Carolina Wil-
belmina Amelia Washington Potts, “all in a
muck of sweat,” and right glad, after looking
a whilo at the process of constructing the great
elevator wharf, to lmnt’np the coolest plaoe we
could find and sit still as mice till 4 o’clock,
when we left Vicksbnrg in a squall and violent
thunderstorm, very much as wo entered it.
Vicksburg is a lively and improving. town,
and has, I think, a promising future, if the river
don’t run away. Bhe is blest with a carpet-bag
and negro administration, bnt will shake off the
incnbns in due time. She will be in a short
time the Mississippi initial point of the Great
Southern Pacific Railway, and we left a party
of St. Louis surveyors there who are about to
lay ont a route from Vicksbnrg via Chrystal
Springs to Ship Island in the Gulf. Success to
the Bluff City. . ' J. C.
Editorial Correspondence—No. 8.
As it might have done in the days of Noah, so
did it rain when we left Vicksburg. The horizon
was black with rain—and a fierce wind swept up
the tossing waters into white caps. Gen. Wirt
Adams accompanied ns a Bhort distance—a very
attractive gentleman of forty or forty-five, who
looks and talks like a man of ability. A run of
forty-five miles took ns to Jackson, where we
drew up on a sideling to pass the night. The
rain was over—and indeed it had been light at
Jackson. Here McGardle, of the Vicksbnrg
Herald, (the MoCardle ease) left ns to go to
Winona, where there was tip be a convention.
McCardle is the embodiment of. inexorable
hatred to Radicalism and all its works, but is
going to Winona to induce the Mississippi edi-
tors to baok the policy of non-representationin
the National Democratic Convention. He is
in favor of giving tho Northern Democrats a
carte blanche on both candidate and platform,
and then backing them np by State ratification
meetings. Hb says that it is the feeling in-
Mississippi, and if Georgia-had felt the iron as
deeply she would not cavil about platforms—but
would only study how she might be deliveeed
out of the bands of her enemies. . _
It was twilight when we reached Jackson, ana
found all the trains of the New Orleans, Jackson
and Great Northern road out of time in conse
quence of a storm and flood below and a run
off above. Jackson is located on an extensive
plain, and is a city of magnificent distances,
numbering say about 3,000 people. A half
mile-s walk brougbt ns to the capitol—a large
brick edifioe with stone trimmings—but the
stone is disintegrating and the structure, I was
told, has cracked and settled very much—partly
due to the material and partly to tlw singular
character of the ground on whioh it rests. The
Governor’s mansion is an imposing edifice with
extensive and well kept grounds. Gov. Alcpm
was at home but wp/did not call. The Missis-
sippi Democrats say His Radical Excellency
would probably be decent if the situation would
permit. An intelligent Southern man—once
having a fair social position—babas purchased
political eminence at the cost of outraging his
better nature as £t pander to’negro 'politicians.
He might do worse in the matter of appoint
ments than 1m does, but any-man of naturally
Southern sympathies,-.oompglled to make negro
appointments by the regiment, is in a pitiable
ease. His stock of self-respect must bo low.
_ BoUiTioksburg gnd Jackson have, of late,
been favored with the..light of Mr. Greeley’s
wisdom and eloquence. At Vicksbnrg Mr, G.
was chaperoned by Stringfellow—a carpet-bag
negro State Senator from Ohio, of the genus
Tamer. I suppose.we. ought to feel obliged to
Mr- G. for the .copiou3 gushing flow of his pa
ternal connsels.and admonition, bnt it is a little
hard to see people.who.have raisedthe devil in
the South, so forward, in their, advice, howto
lay him, * -sci • v . • , *•:
..Spent all xif Tuesday on the road between
Jackson and Yotk. The day was very warm,
and we had bnba sprinkle of raid. Here I ex
amined that crawling and slacking dirt which
puzzles the railway so much. Superintendent
Roworth offered the whole ot.it for nothing if
I would only 4hke it awavrr it seems to be a
conglomeration of day and .vegetable decompo
sition, and it slacks like a lime bed or ground
“spewed” up by the frost. It will never be
Ijuiet. - I . mxL’r
York is a hamlet of half dozen houses, and
the western terminus of the Selma and Merid-
ian'Road. The 27 miles beyond belongs’to the
Alabama and Chattanooga Road. At York we
campedfor the night, and here-Judge KingAnd
Colonel Pollard left us.‘ -Both had contributed
wonderfully to the social enjoyment of the
party. There are few men 'of suoh varied, ex
tensive and aocuratoinformation as Jndge King.
Conversation with him is an Inexhaustible
source of pleasure and profit. Colonel Pollard
is a polished gentleman and a’rare good talker
—fall of humor and anecdote. Both, although
in advanced life, are scarcely impaired in men
tal and physical vigor. Judge King conld walk
with the best of'ns. Colohel Pollard, though
scarcely so ambitious as s pedestrian, is in per
fect health and full of life. The reminiGoenses
of these two in the personnal and political
history of the country were exceedingly inter
esting.
A few miles west of D&mopolis we strike
again that most-valuable country, the cane brake
region of Alabama. I tried to describe it as we
passed through it on the way west. Its general
and most common -development is a reddish
soil, a foot or eighteen inches deep; on a founda
tion of shell limestone of unknown'depth. Col.
Pollard said that it was not shell limestone; bnt
on examination I find abundant remains of ma
rine shell formations—the enamel of oyster,
clam nnd muscle shells. The railway track
sometimes pierces this substratum to the depth
of eight or ten feet, and shows successive
strata about four feet in thickness—the upper
one of a dirty white and very much disintegra
ted, while the lower are of a slate color. En
tering Demopolis we pass over a culvert pierced
through this stone, say fifteen or twenty, feet
below the surface. This culvert shows few
marks of abrasure and is abont five feet in
heighth by four in width. The stone is so soft
as to be easily cat with a knife, bnt will not dis
integrate until exposed to the sun. ’When so
exposed it shells off in thin flakes, crumbles in
pieces and rapidly takes the form of soil.
The rivers and creeks crossing the railway
track look as if they. had been chiseled ent of
this stoho and present solid walls on either side.
The soil formed by this disintegrated rock feels
damp and soapy to the foot and its fertility is
inexhaustible. Fields of waving corn shoulder
high, and embracing in the whole area insight,
say threo or four miles wide, present a grand
and munificent spectacle. I saw one large field
in silk and tassel, good probably for 5,000 bush
els. The worst thing I see abont the country
is here and there nutgrass in the fields, and
probably it is destined to overrun the whole re
gion. The wit of man must devise some means
to exterminate this pest.
We cross two important rivers—the Tombig-
bco and Warrior—the former navigable even
above this point of intersection. From the
bridge to Mobile the distance is about two hup
dred miles by the river—so they say; but I
think it most be more.
Throughout this whole region the people
drink rain or cistern water, and it is very fine,
even without ico. It is collected from winter
rains in very deep and large cisterns, from
whioh it is pumped, or drawn by bucket and
windlass, and at this time-is quite as cool as our
best well water. The crops have improved con
siderably since we passed through this region
last Saturday. It has been dryer, but is raining
now. Throughout our trip every day has had
its shower, and always heavy ones. In tho
North, on the contrary, it is reported to be dry.
Cotton hero is small and backward, and with
good weather will not begin to bloom generally
short of the last of June. The crop will be a
month behind-hand.
I am told land here, in 1865, could be readily
bought for fifteen dollars the acre, but now as
readily commands forty to fifty. It is a beauti
fol region, and I bid it adieu with regret.
All day long tho party has been slowly tra
versing the eighty miles of road from York to
Selma—measuring and inspecting bridges, tres
tles, sidelings, and station houses, with labori
ous fidelity, and taking a rough engineer’s
sketch of the road. We stop for the night in
Selma. - J. G,
Editorial Correspondence—No. 9.
Wo reached Selma at dusk Wednesday even
ing, after a hard day’s work measuring bridges,
trestles, station-house3, eto., of which there are,
perhaps, an average of two to the mile. A
thunder storm met U3 just beyond tho Tombig-
boe, and as we moved eastward the signs of a
very heavy rain increased. Tho great plateaus
had collected an immense flood of water which,
gradually concentrating in heavy streams, was
ponring furiously through the culverts.
One important feature of tho country tra
versed by the Selma and Meridian Railroad I
havo failed to notice,.and it is this: the absence
in a great degree of fences... The people are
fencing their stock instead of their crops. The
land to an extent of at least sixty per cent, is
cleared, and though there is still left what ap
pears to the eye au abundance of the tallest and
mo.st majestic timber, yet, I suppose, the plan
tations generally lack fencing timber. Con
sequently this noble andopnlent country is not
disfigured by millions’ worth of fences to keep
fifty thousand dollars’ worthy of mangy, tight-
hided rants from eating np the crops. This, as
Mrs. Grundy wonld say, is orfuh
Coinrioia in this country. I should say that
sixty per cent, of the land is iu corn, and it is
rank and glorious.
It was too warm to perambulate Selma to any
great extent. It is a fine town and has a grand
future. I think Selma will, perhaps, in ten
years, be the largest town in Alabama. Our
friend Major W. L. Lanier; the acting Presi
dent of the Selma andMeridianRailroad, enter
tained us splendidly in one of the warehouses
of the company. He is every molt a gentle
man, bnt a terrible iinposter. Any man with
shining black hair and no wrinkles, who sets
himself up to be sixty years old is scarcely to
be tolerated.
Selma, I have said, is one of the headquarters
of those artesian wells. Look here at one whioh
in 1853 poured out a furious torrent of limpid
water, four inches in diameter-, and I stand be
fore it in 1871 and see the flow unabated. How
much water has poured out of that iron tube
ad interim ?
Gen. Hardee met ns in Selma and was present
at Major Lamaria entertainment. I was pleased
to see the General well and prosperous. He is
planting in this fine region.
Left Selma atl2u., on Thursday and at seven
miles out crossed the magnifloent iron bridge
constructed for the'Western Railroad by Max
well, Grant & Co., of Macon. It is an imposing
structure and the first of that pattern. It is 800
feet long-and the rail is about 70 feet above or
dinary low water. The abutments, which are
just now about two or three feet above the water
line, are constructed of blue limestone, brought
from the Talladega region, and laid by means of
coffer on the solid limsBtone bedof~the
rivers with iron shafts planted in them. To
these are keyed the lofty bnt light wrought iron
lattice piers. Upon these piers rests the super
structure, which is substantially a Howe Truss
Bridge elaborated in wrought iron. It seems
frail but itbas not yet deflected ahair’sbreadth,
and it is a beautiful bridge. It was invented
and built by Mr. B. M. Grant, a Macon engi-
gineer, and I trust will stand a perpetual
monument to his chill and ingenuity. A great
drawer 290 feet long plays upon a circular
tramway in the centre of the bridge, and it was
wonderful to see this long and ponderous sec
tion of the bridge, swung round with ease at
right angles, by the strength of two men.
It is a grand and striking piece cf, architec
ture, and cost $160,000. A wooden bridge of
the same character and dimensions, It was esti
mated, wonld cost about $123,000._This bridge,
in all important parts, is imperishable, and if
the calculations of Mr. Engineer Grant shallbe
verified by experience, will prove a grand econ
omy. Some of the old railway men shake their
heads andprophesy failure by & gradual process
of disintegration is tho fibre of the wrought
iron, but I believe the bridge will be there when
our grand-ehildren are buried. . ,
The Western Railway, from Columbus to
Selma is now, tbarikk to the energy and skill cf
'Mr. Superintendent Foreacre, getting into prime
condition. Ha is a very able executive officer.
We reach Montgomery at 3 p. 11., where we
shall pass the night.
Editorial CorrespoEdrccc-Xo. 10.
Thursday, 9th, was the first day without rain
sinee onr departure. Readied Montgomery
about three o’clock and spread our table, like
independent freemen,under the passenger shed.
Afterward took carriage and drove to the Capi
tol to pay respects to Gov. Lindsay. It is true,
none of ns knew him, but the curiosity to see
Democratic functionary in these times is strong
and natural like that to see a white black bird.
By and by they will get to be common, and
then we shall care little about them.
The Governor, unluokily, was siok. Secre
tary Gindrat, a personable gentleman, did the
honors. * The Capitol is perched on a lofty em
inence, and from its very porticoes commands
the conntry round as far aw the eye can. reach.
The view is very fine. The city" lies at your
feet—a maze of streets—tasteful dwellings,
shrubbery and shade trees. The Alabama, like
a silver thread upon a green chrpet, matte its
torlnou3 coarse far adown the western plain.
The whole landscape is green as an emerald—a
beautifulpicture, gentlemen, and seen from
the lofty dome, five r wearisome flights of steps
higher, it Is still more striking. •
The capitol is in fine order and handsomely
furnished.. The reoeption room is frescoed and
very richly carpeted. This magnificence is, I
suppose, a legacy from the previous Radical ad
ministration. The Supreme Court was in ses
sion, and a dozen limbs’of the law were in the
libroryimnting up authorities and precedents.
In conversation with the man of books, I con
gratulated Mm on having a good Southern man
for Governor. “Oh! no,” said he, “he is only
a Scotchman.” Now, as my two companions
were both from the land of cakes, I conld not
help tipping them the wink.
Montgomery censusscd, like Macon, upwards
of eleven thousand people. In matters gener
ally she maintains about the same order' of
speed we do, and relies entirely on natural pro
cesses for growth'and development. Both of ns
scorn to take any unfair advantages. Mont
gomery is a polite, gay and fascinating place.
The residences are spacious and stylish—the
streets shady—on the greens and squares the lit
tle girls were having their games of .croquet,
and the boys were playing base ball. On the
whole, Montgomery will do well enough.
On Thursday Judge Bustee'd, <jf the. United
States District Court in Montgomery, turned
Stanton’s road over into the hands of receivers,
and threw'him into bankruptcy. This is'the
beginning of a general State Aid collapse 4n
Alabama.
I jndge the idea among the old railway men
in Georgia.is that prospects are abont the color
of indigo. The multiplicity of lines cuts down
the business and valne of. the old roads wMch
were bruit with private means, while very few
of those which are in construction by means of
State credit, and must be paid foe by taxation,
will be of any value. Railways of some kinds
will soon be lying round loose and bought very
cheap—principally for sorap iron. In. tMs
prospect, the old lines are combining for mu
tual defence and succor, and to save their stock
holders’ property, if they-can; but none of
them are happy or flush. Just now they are all
running at loss, and will do so into next Sep
tember, and all, therefore, like the Dutchman’s
son, are thinking cuss words.
I see by an extract from one of your recent
editions that some apprehension is expressed by
the people, that the Central Railway interest
may oppose the building of the North Georgia
Road. That is needless. The. Central has a
good deal of employment on its hands in taking
care of itself, but'.I heard Mr. VTadleysay, a
day or two ago, that the Ocmulgee and North
Georgia was a sensible project and a movement
in the right direction for Macon.
I cannot close this very desultory correspond,
ence—all pencilled on my portfolio, while the
cars were in motion, without tendering. my
hearty thanks to all tMs pleasant party for their
great kindness. Mr. Wadiey is as liberal, kind
and considerate, as he is astnte, sagacious and
practical. General Holt’s indomitable good na
ture has been .all the tune tested severely by
one of those excruciating tormentors—a bone
felon ; bnt his hearty good nature always won
the victory. Superintendents .Rogers, Powers,
Clarke, of the Mobile and Girard Road; Fore
acre, of the Western; Bill, of the Selma and
Meridian, and Roworth, of the Vicksburg and
Meridian, were all exceedingly polite and atten
tive, nor conld anybody be. kinder than Mr.
Cunningham, Major Spellman, Mr. Mplhtyre,
Conductor Marlow and every officer and attend
ant of the train. Even Cato, the Censor, who
presided over the steward and caterer’s depart
ment, has laid me under heavy obligations.
TMs has been a business trip; bnt one of un
usual enjoyment. .1 know not whether the com
bined’roads will buy the Selma and Meridian.
There is at present a good deal in tho way of the
purchase, and-if completed, the road must be
put in safe running order by an immediate ex
penditure of half a million dollars. As a feeder
to the line eastward, it will be valuable, but
much of this value will be due to good, active
management. It crosses an immensely produc
tive region, but that region all the way finds
oheap and convenient outlets by numerous nav-
agable rivers. There is a great deal of talking
and thinking to be done before this purchase
will be made. ' .
In respect to crops, this much may be truly
said: If those seen from the roadway are a
fair illustration of the whole; then sixty per
cent., at least, of the land under cultivation
from Macon to the Mississippi River iB in 00m,
and, in general, the corn is magnificent. The
cotton is small and backward, but I think it
healthy as a rule. All agree that itis six weeks
“daily bread.” Itbehooreaw,then,.
behind last year, and although the Agricultural', sons and good brothers, totake a mo P
Bureau disavow the prediction that it will be -view of fanning, and profit by the expe™^
mm - - of-late years, and make, as newly as
KAlf-sustaming. If w« win 00 N7
twelve hundred thousand bales short of last
year, yet I think anybody can renew it with
safety,, . . . J. G.
Editoeial Coebespoxdexce. — The' Senior’s
letters from the West were written with a pen
cil npon a little leathern portfolio held in the
hand, and while the train was in motion. When
the train stopped it was far more amusing to
walk about and talk. Of course the cMrogra
phy bore a striking resemblance to the signa
ture of the venerable Stephen Hopkins finder
the Declaration of Independence, only not’half
so plain—it wts-ali of a tremble as.if affeoted with
palsy. Sometimes, when, the track was rough,
the pencil would fly off . the track altogether,
and leave a MeroglypMq to bo interpreted by
the context—in whioh .thing .the printers and
proof-readers, as might well be anticipated,
were not always successful. As a natural cop
se quence, words were sometimes substituted
for others with a different and sometimes cosj-
trarious meaning. We will, however, leave
them to the charity of tha reader; and' deoline
to bore the pubtio with an elaborate erratum
now that tho publication ia completed. The
world moves so fast in these days that even
hasty and imperfect notes promptly made are
better than delay for-the-purpose of elaboration
and improvement. . . ... ,, . .
Stbawbeebies.—We had two boxes of very
floe strawberries yesterday from ex-Congress-
man Gove—large, fine fruit—showing that he is
better at strawberries than going to Congress.
His politics are not good, bnt'no man can find
fault with Ms strawberries.
“Coxfediiute.”—Your communication is un
avoidably crowded out this morning, but we
will take ploasure in printing it Tuesday morning.
The District «?«wrtn
JSSffZX
to convince them of their utility,
that induce me to call upon “Qmdam-, eas «i«
tie more light. In Ms fast artfeie he
. do «» not assume the champions*;,, 78 U*;
tribunals in general” I am fera ^‘iese'
does not, and with that we could
the reason that induced onr Legislatm^ 6 ; 83 to
“ »<* ®“«ng tiiese tribunal^ft® 10
of the. act Itself throws no light ut)on
ject, and, since we differ about the^J,^ E5!) -
repealing the. act of 1868, we muffin cf
.reason wMchprompted the Legislate to tie
the same. The spirit of thelfw j
with a good motive in the minds
makers, we receive good laws t few-
that it was the blunder of the’
tioned in the artiole of the 26th
inducedthfiLegislature to renealti,! 00 ’ *^4
not conclude, from the langX 0
that he committed any blunder nI** 1 ' 1 *,
that all officers am presumed to hsv B
their dnty until the'contrary i.
TMs article does not alleL ?
anoe of duty, but, upon the cohIt-m- 1 '^^-
intimates a defect in the la. fe
guage—“We do think the law sfcS, li2 *«•
discretion.to the magiatrafe in
petty cases as this.” Wh£ j- Iff , E ! such
ence? That this magistrate r, itf «'
district having no incorporated £ca:e
and, consequently, possessed no
diction under the act of 1808
.the article of the 2Gtb, was not' ot
magistrates In general (any more cf
of District Courts in general 1 bnt^* 6reiC:i
or that particular magistrate, and
doubt, from the manner in which , 2 Co
Mm, that the law gave Mm no discrtiii^ 6 of
bind over, or comSiit to jail : aTd v?’, bctto
his mentioning this isolated case,
be ?‘$*? 0 HS ument ia favor of the repeal 0 . f .v U
act of 1868, was, and still is, i 0 Z It? 5
strong argument in favor of enlarging^*
—make it so read as to vest criminal
tion.in all magistrates whether, in dislrictb?
mg incorporated towns therein n? ^ - T '
Let ns reaB<
The act 1
iepealefl^—.—.—. ^., -
sities-of- the people demanding fheest$*
ment .of a cheaper and more summary tritS
for the disposal of misdemeanors.” ])id
it in the .act creating these Districted?!
WeUj.inlBbout one-taJf of the Stale yosrii
say we did. -No, you don’t advocate sw?
them but your own district, ana I will waii-s
compromise with you by saying nothing derclx-
tory of it if you will help , me fight the tahd
pn. principle and firm policy.
I didn’t mean to insinuate whea lseid
you did not comprehend the motive IV
prompted the Legislature to organize thej 3 w’
bunals, and am sorry that yon ncdertcohfo
run a parallel between my theory epdiia
strategy of the second Napoleon/Too 537
that this cannot be true in fact; that neither
patronage, nor power was attained bytteee
new appointments, and why? “BecsKeth
Radical party lost more than they gained/’ &
this, that “the criminal jurisdiction of several
hundred officers (ona-halfof then were ep.
pointed by Bullock) were taken away and con
ferred upon forty-eight officers." Bythisctiure
of criminal jurisdiction, you argue that ve
are politically better off. That we hare lost J
nothing, and have gained the difference Is’
tween forty-eight district judges and solicitors,
and one-half of several hundred justices, i
have heard of. things so large as to ver af.±-
metio to compute, and may I not say that the
gain resulting from this theory is too errito
be seen? I confess that I cannot cck:*:3
any political benefit in this change, neiiucea
I see that they are any weaker by it. I do to: :
understand that any of the appointed justices
were removed'from office. It i3 not inthoaii
creating the district courts, nor in that divest
ing them of their criminal jurisdiction. Tie
act’of 1868 simply constituted them cnatial
courts—invested them with authority to by ad
minor offenceB, and its repeal only direkid
them of the powers therein granted. Sot fiat
they aro numerically weaker. Strange lope,
that an act divesting them of one braifi c!
their jurisdiction should destroy the office itsdt
Are not all these appointees still in cffice: ex
ercising all the functions of their office, except
their criminal jurisdiction ? If this be so, art
forty-eight newly constituted officers havet«:
added under the act creating tho district courts,
on which side is the gain ? Is there co strategy
in tMs ? At whose expense and npon whox
does the burthen and trouble of sustaining tbe
courts fali ? Echo answers npon those who
don’t want them, and who do not expect to
sustain them. Yekua
Letter from Qnitmscn Connty.
'QuJTMAjf'CorsTT, Ga., June8,lS71.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger .--Siic;
my last note we have had rain, rain, raio,sri,
as a natural sequence, grassy crops and long faici
are not at all uncommon. The programme tu
been somewhat changed in this county. Hereto
fore cotton has been the ungrateful recipient cf
moat of onr thoughts and all of onr happy
dreams. This year, after tho “King’s” iognt-
iiude, we have reversed the order of things, aid
base our hopes of prosperity not upon cm cot-
of the ^speculators alone, but upon tie crops
that we retain in our midst. And just here I
would say that a word of advice from your tine
honored journal would, I have no douot,
much good in Southwestern Georgia at this pax-,
ticnlar time, a3 so much depends npon the tcjS
of the next few days. ‘Warn the planters
neglecting their com, peas, potatoes andotier
crops in order to save their cotton. Y"e show
first secure snch crops as are consumed on tie
the plantation, and then gtye our undivided a.-
tention to the cotton. _
The.farmers of tMs section are nigh upanfie
verge of bankruptcy, and the only hope for x^,
in my opinion, lies in raising all that veccx-
some .ana less cotton, and get more money fox
what wei -do make. This doctrine P £ri ^
seems strange to many, as it did at fist to®
writer. But actual experience and c!c3eoM«-
vationhave taught me to believe thrill is “•
true policy. In fact, the only way to add to 0
material welfare. A big cotton stops® 1 "
mighty 'pretty, and does us a deal of 8®°“ .
talk about, but after all of this it don t p
money into onr empty pocket-books, i
stubborn tMngs—and these are verystubboxnm-
deed. ,It was said a long time sgo that tixne
money. If it was true then it Is especially _
in this progressive day. Then why_do1 y **
"men so recklessly disregard the flight of •
Old'age will steal npon some of ns erelosg.»
making cotton to bny com and bacon m
prepare ns to lay aside anything forest 0
brothers and sisters who are enbrely ^^
upon our success as tiller* of the soil fox
----- - - •• — • - Sivsma fta. then, as auu***
our farms self-sustaining. hi-
my word for if, in a few years the® 0 ™
eon merchants will be in »
their business—the cant Phrase,
tight," be expunged from our voMbnlart
me, “one gaMua farmer, be con t*jg,
happy as a newly married couple don«
honeymoon. Very trnly,
Fxsiaxe Kfi-snux ax West Pok 1 -' 1 '^'
York papers exclaim in an t at
i“What’s to be done?” The con: f , fato i
West Point Military Academy has w.
this year the cadets should not h»«“ ^
nual hop. The Secretary of war 0T * rrc L
decision, and the hop is to come off. J
soriptive right each cadet ia entitled to a
and thus so is colored cadet Smith. TM
not haring. the fear of emigres 3 bef ^
eyies, now combine together in defianM®^,
body and its solemn enactments, to if for
citizen of Ms rights on account 01 uJjjcs-
they utterly refuse to danee vrith ,«• tinted
det. It has been suggested that » g-;
“lady” might be invited for Ms beW®!' t o
in this case the fair rebels say they
the hop at alL And thus a .baud of h
dimity triumph
DOS’S Htcmmx Hnc.—The
Sunday Herald communicates tfi*
intelligence: ... gffldir.-
“Foetor Blodgett, of CtaflWV o*sk
documents through the maUsbejpOiLgijj pe
as United States Senator. The inJlr-
partmentevidently does not pat joo-
Blodaatt’s pretensions, for on one 010^ ^
aments, shown to as, pottage was®^^ w»
coUeeted. It every man who!
United States Senator, vnliwirt P*?.
formalities of a legal election, ri* mails, 8
Sdto send UbW*
■trikes us there wouldbequiteaheTJ ledger-
a&a Aft?**®**
