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Darling, when Iloved thee first,
What wise angel can impart ?
X was born into the world
With thie love within my heart.
Ks a seed beneath the sod,
Waiting for the sunny hours,
lav my love, until its birth
Severed all my life with flowers.
Nothing strange my eye discerned
When thy welcome presence came;
At tby touch the door flew wide.
And tbe hearth, was red with flamo.
Set and ordered from the first,
Decked and warmed, and held apart
I For thee, sole of all the world,
Was thy home within my heart.
Geobge H. Boeeb.
Tim 0>t July number of Lippincott's Magazine.
A SCARED INDIAN.
(cullin'* Ent “Seorpltim Ilns*’—A Disrelish
for Shrimps.
iFiom tho Virginia (N07.) Enterprise.]
It is said that it is next to impossible to as*
;jsish an Indian, bnt wo astonished, frighten-
tland disgusted a whole Hook of the “children
j tho desert,” a day or two since, and with a
sere handfnl of shrimps. A drove of aborigi-
:a, numbering over a dozen, male and female,
great and small, had settled down, sqnat upon
lie pound, just off the sidewalk, in front of a
Lirkot and fruit stand (a favorite plaoo of re
sort with them) and were in the midst of what,
to them, was a great feast. Upon an old shawl,
is tbe center of their circle, was heaped a lot of
h»If-rottcn apples, damaged cherries, soured
strawberries, and other offal from the stand bo
lero which they bad equated. Among the male
Indians was Smoke Crook Sam, who, with
lead thrown back, was each moment dropping
into his gaping month wads of strawberries,
squeezed together, stems and all, of the size of
codfish balls; some of the little Injuns were
imearcd to the eyes with a lathery mess, half
<rawberrics and half dirt, which they scooped
np and held to their faces with both hands,
while even the most comely among the squaws
bad a dab of rotten apple upon the end of her
nose which that organ had carried away as a
trophy during somo one cf the frequent visits
of her industrious mouth to the deep interior of
a slushy pippin. One hideons old woman had
raked a lo: of decayed cherries into her lap,
“ and munched, and munched, and munched.”
Under the vigorous attack of so many diligent
Uanda and capacious and willing months the
mound of vegetable garbage was soon swept
away. Wiping their smeared paws upon their
hips, they rested them in their laps, sighed and
■s*/ licking their bp.% and looked at each other,
the very picture of “ bloated ease.”
Taking a handful of shrimps from a box we
found in the market, wo approached the group
of savages, and began eating them, by way of
experiment upon their nerves. At tot they
looked curiously on, and some of the more ju
venile rose to their feet in order to have a bet
ter view of the new and terriblo esculent. At
a respectful distance they stood and.gazed with
lips curled up, teeth set and noses wrinkled.
The bucks shrugged their shoulders as each
fresh “bug” was hulled out and eaten, and the
squaws drow down their months and spat upon
tbe ground. The whole party closely watched
each shrimp as it was sucked’and gobbled np,
the general disgust each moment increasing.
Shoving tho half dozen crnstaceons specimens
remaining in our hand toward the nose of a
“brave” of some nine “snows,” adorned, ns to
bis head, in a man’s cast-off plug, and as to his
nether limbs, in a pair of unmentionables of
b&ke-oven capacity in the rear, that incipient
warrior began “crawfishing,” hi3 moon Byes rap
idly becoming moonier, when we suddenly
thumbed at him the empty shell of a shrimp we
bad just finished. By chance it lit upon a lock
of hair hanging over his forehead, and remained
for a moment dangling before his eyes. Hr. made
one grab for it, then turned a back summerset
over the old cherry munchor. He came up run
ning, and with his plug down over his eyes, bnt
finally dropped suddenly upon his knees, and
with his bead between a Chinese wood-peddler’s
legs.
Tho other youngsters scampered in all direc
tions, like a brood of startled qnail, while the
squaws hastily snatched np the papooses, which,
in their wicker-baskets, were lying about or
standing against awning-posts and empty boxes,
and hastily slinging them upon their backs,
drew tho straps thereof across their foreheads,
and made tracks np the street at a rolling gal
lop, which resembled'the stampede of a flock of
fat wethers in full wool. Tbe old hag men
tioned as the “cherry-muncher,” hanging to the
dead branch of a cedar, polled herself along in
the rear of the stampeders with astonishing
S . At the distance of thirty yards she
to get her wind, and seeing that she was
not pursued, faced about. Holding the staff in
both hands, and resting her wrinkjed and ven
erable now> on its top, she looked ont at ns from
undeT her mop of grizzled hair like an uneasy
owl man ivy bush.
Some of the bucks sullenly marched away,
casting backward glanoes from malevolent eyes,
but smoke Creek Sam stood his gronnd. Ho,
too, was outraged, bnt as he had not yet had
tone to beg a handfnl of smoking tobacco, he
referred his indignant retreat. Extracting the
pith of a particularly plump and healthy shrimp,
wo approached Sam with it. “Yon no fetch
urn. ho said, waving ns back with his hand.
No fetch nm me, you! Glaahop purty gooca;
bucket, mo eat nm; soorpiom bug too plenty
bad, same like debbil, make Injnn man big high
np sick; d—n scorpium bug!” We now saw it
all. Knowing nothing of shrimps, tho Indians
supposed wo were devouring scorpions (which
they greatly resemble, and which the red men
see bnt too much of,) hence all their disgust and
tenor.
The Famine in Pjebsia.—The stories of the
Persian famine, resalting from long drouth and
crop failure last year, are terrible. The people
are literally dying of hanger in the streets of
Teheran. In Khorassan parents are* selling
their children as slaves to the Turoomans in or
der to keep them alive, and in Ispahan, 03 is
said, men have boen seized in the act of dig-
filng up corpses to serve as food for their star
ving families. Ia Shiraz-Kerman and Yezd
the wretched families endeavor to support life
on the grass and roots which they may find in
tho neighborhood, and, as might be expected,
pestilence follows hard on the footsteps of fam-
mo; between them, the half of the kingdom of
Persia is being rapidly depopulated.
. The New Cotton Exchange Building is now
) iogross. The location chosen is the prop
erty occnpled by the Hanover Buildings,
bounded by Pearl and Stone streets and Han
over Square, about "TO feet front by 75 feet
beep. The building will be three stories high,
irith the Exchange on the first floor. The land,
v ;rth ri.o buildings thereon, was recently pur
chased for’ $115,000, and it is expected that
about §10,000 will bo expended in altering and
jffPmvicg the property for the use of the Ex-
l For the T*?<jraph and Messenger.
By '•Heartsease.”
Not in India's richest mine
Where gleams tho Diamond’s light,
Not where orient Pearls lie,
’Neath waters pure and bright 1
Could I find a treasure fit
To be a gift for thee;
Then let me offer at thy feet
A heart no longer free!
A heart which ne'er hath felt Love’s power ’
As it doth feel it now,
When gazing on thy sunny amilo
And thy fair open brow!
A heart which oft hath long'd to find
Its mate in some fair gentle breast,
Where it could calmly fold its wing
And be forevermore at rest.
Sweet one, is each an offering fit
As token of my love for thee ?
If not, gently break the chain
And let tho heart once more go free.
Memobia.
Immigration from Sweden.
Monticello, June 20, 1871,
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Mr. John
Foss, the agent of the people of Jasper county,
as stated in a letter heretofore published in the
Teixgbaph, reached Monticello on tho 15th
inst., bringing with him twenty-one emigrants
from Sweden, eleven mcle3 and ton females. A
more intelligent and healthy looking lot of men
and women it wonldbe difficult to find anywhere.
Theso emigrants have been sent for by the peo
ple of the county, and aro all now domiciled in
their new homes.
Mr. Foss, who is himself a mechanic, imme
diately went into the employment of Messrs.
Talmage & Scharplng, carriage makers, until
the 1st of September next, when he proposes to
return to Sweden with orders for a large num
ber of laborers to be brought to this section of
Georgia. Mr. Foss, who is u young Swede of
intelligence and high character, feels that in aid
ing to bring laborers to the county, he i3 bene
fiting Iris adopted country and also aiding the
the |pocr of his own overcrowded land. No
risk is incurred of loss of money by those or
dering laborers through Mr. Foss. Mr. Foss
says he can secure any number of emigrants.
The money required to bo advanced is paid to
his agent, Mr. N. B. White, a merchant of high
character, and by him deposited in bank in New
York, to be drawn when the emigrants arrive
there. Mr. Fos3 will remain at Monticello where
those desiring to secure labor through his inter
vention can seo him or consult him by letter.
B.
JosU Billings on Strawberries.
The strawberry iz one nv natur’s sweet pets.
She makes them worth fifty cents, the fust she
makes, and never allows them tew be sold at a
mean price.
The culler nv the strawberry is liko tho set
ting of the sun, under a thin cloud, with a deli
cate dash nv the rain bo in it; its fragrance iz
like the breath nv a baby when it first begins to
eat wintergTeen lozzingers; its flavor iz liko the
negtar which an old-fashioned goddes used to
leave in the bottom nv the tumbler, when Jupi
ter stood treat on mount ida.
There iz many breeds of this delightful vege
table, bnt not a mean one in tho hull lot.
I think I have stole them, laying around loos,
without any pedigree, in somebody’s tall grass,
when I was a lazy schoolboy, that eat dredfnl
easy, without any white sugar on them, and
even a bug occasionally mixed with them in the
hurry ov the moment. Cherrys is good, but they
are tew mnch liko sacking a marble with a han-
dle<tew it. Peaches is good, if you don’t get
enny ov the pin feathers intew yure lips. Wa
termelons will ante ennjbody who is satisfied
with half-sweetened drink; bnt the man who
con cat strawberry, besprinkled with crushed
sugar and bespattered with kream (at somebody
else's expense,) and not lay his hand on his
stummak, and thank the Author ov strawberries
and stummak3, and the phellow who pjiys for
the strawberries, is a man with a worn out con
science—a man whose month tastes liko a hole
in the gronnd, and don’t care what goes down.
Baltimobe Beaut?.—One afternoon, early in
April, I walked on Baltimoro Street with a re
presentative citoyenne, herself and the day alike
gracious and beantifnl. “Now observe,” said
she: “here comes the prettiest girl in Balti
more t” It was as though she said, Behold the
most extravagant woman of New York, the
most exclusive woman of Philadelphia, the
most critical woman of BostoD, tho most mys
terious woman of Washington. It was as
though she said, “Now see a Sight!”
I looked and beheld an apparition such as
the native, to such visions born, would recog
nize as presenting the truest, purest type of
that Beauty which wo describe in a word as
“Baltimorean.” Not tho “Indigenous blonde,"
conscientiously portrayed by Mr. Fairfield—
with flaxen hair, skin of alabaster untinted,
and very dark eyes; form of exceeding full
ness, though not tall: “hands and feet that
are models of civilization—full, full, soft, well-
rounded, yet nervous withal—tbe former tip-
ped with pink fingernails, as if all the blush
of the woman’s heart were concentrated in
the ten smooth, elongated, pink gibbouses.”
No, not the indigenous blonde, who is more
than half Virginian, but that rarer product,
hybrid and matchless, which results from con
ditions of climate, sexual selection, and culture
strictly local, dark brown hair, sheeny with the
ripple that artists love; large, soft, profound
eyes, almond shaped as in Turkish harems,
mixed of hazel and afcadowy gray, and pensive
and tender under long fringing lashes; nose
nearly Grecian, bnt with more individuality in
their outline; lips short, bnt full and budding
and osculatory; chin fine and dimpled, and
promising to be double in its matronago; brow,
temples, oheeks transparently fair, and contin
ually 11 coming and going” with shy flushes of
emotional color; neck, shoulders, arms present
ing (yon may he swom) fine rhythmical curves
and cunning dimples at every turn, and divinely
blending and diffusing misty pinks and whites;
“A crystal brow, the Moon’s despair,
And tho Snow’s daughter, a white hand
person moderately plump, but elastic and flex
ile ; and movements of neck, shoulders, waist,
hips, arms, ankles undulating and insinuating.
These are the characteristics and typical points
of the “beauty/"par excellence, of tho Monu
mental City.—From Baltimore Beauty, by J.
W. Parker, in July number of Lippincott's
Magazine. ^ . .
A Gband DiqoovEEY.—Tho block coal recent
ly discovered in Illinois, near Oarondelet, al
though only thirty feet below the surface of the
ground, is the lowest vein of the coal formation
yet found in this vicinity. The reason this has
Volume LXIV—No. 52
and scientific pretenders have
enco of any coal below the two-foot vein, on tho
theory that what they do not know does not ex
ist. An assayer has made an analysis of a speci
men of this block coal, and found it to contain
less ashes than is contained in anthracite coal.
He was so mnch surprised at the result of his
assay that he refused to give a statement of it
until after ho could be satisfied it was a fair,
sample of the body of the ooal, saying it wa3
incredible, and then remarked, if it was a fair
sample and could be fonnd in quantity, that the
Si. Louis G&alight Company would go on their
knees for it.
One of the most prominent iron manufac
turers of Western Pennsylvannia, who is thor
oughly Informed of the immense iron forma
tions in Dent, Crawford, and Phelps counties,
in this State, upon examining specimens of
this block eoal, remarked if it can be found in
quantity it will revolutionize the iron interests
of the United States, and that Pennsylvania
iron manufacturers had better poll up their
stakes and come here as soon as possible.—St.
Louiis Democrat. , *'•
The great praotical political question in this
oonntry for several years, has been whether the
Democratic or Republican party could be man
aged with the most complete folly._ The Dem
ocratic managers have succeeded in being bigger
fools than the Republicans. Henoe the Repub
licans are still in power. That’s all.—Cincin
nati Commercial.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Mr. Parnell, living near West Point, has
shipped three hundred bushels of peaches to
to New York this season. •
P. T., of the Savannah News, doesn’t intend
J to take Rome in his tour, this summer. At
’ least we think it wouldn’t be healthy for in™,
judging from the following scandalous para
graph:
Iv there is any place in tho world where a
one-horse politician can flourish, it is Rome.
Besides having fifty or sixty Democratic candi
dates for the Legislature, she is now blessed
J with a man named Stewart, who writes, on an
■ average, sixteen letters a day to the papers about
his defeat. Isn’t there some old law, or some
thing, against this kind of nuisance?
John McOonagby, proprietor of a wholesale
liquor establishment on Bay street, Savannah,
was found dead in his store last Sunday.
We find the following in the Savannah News
of Monday:
Last Saturday Captain Daniel E. Knowles,
the representative to the Legislature from
Pierce county, and Mr. Thomas Sweat, who was
released from custody about six weeks ago on
bail, were arrested in Blackshear and brought
to this city, Captain Knowles arriving on Satur
day by a freight train, and Mr. Sweat yesterday
morning by the passenger train.
Captain Knowles is charged with complicity
in the gold counterfeiting which occurred in
Florida and South Georgia a short time ago,
and for which, it will be remembered, three of
the principals were sent to Dry Tortugas to
await their trial. The nature and extent of the
alleged complicity has not yet transpired. The
other party, Mr. Thomas Sweat, was arrested
for conduct which, it is supposed, has been re
garded as a forfeiture of the bond or such a vio
lation of law as to lay himself again liable.
It appears that he bought n stock of oattle
from an old gentleman named Johns, in South
west Georgia, for which he paid him five hun
dred dollars in what was represented as gold.
After tbe events referred to in regard to the
principals, the old man brought tho bogus gold
back to Sweat, and he received it from him.
He (Sweat) then took It to a man named Mc
Donald, from whom he had received it, and
gave it to him, getting his own money ia return.
For this he has been rearrested and brought to
this city. The prisoners will have an examin
ation this morning at 9 o’clock, before United
States Commissioner A. W. Stone. McDonald
is ono of the firm of Cason & McDonald, of
Lake City, Fla., both of whom are accused of
being largely interested in the .counterfeiting,
and have disappeared sinoe the discovery and
arrest of the other parties.
It was raining heavily, with occasional hail,
at Griffin, when the Middle Georgian, of yes
terday, went to pres3
Gainesville soothes itself this piping weather
with the scientific game of checkers,
The Atlanta Constitution is always wanting
to know something. Now it wants to know why
the Comptroller General’s report for the year
1870 has not yet been published. |
Rev. H. F. Buchanan, pastor of the Third
Baptist Church, Atlanta, has resigned.
We clip these items from the Atlanta Consti
tution, of yesterday:
Emort College.—The following speakers
have been selected by the Sophomore Class in
Emory College to declaim on the 13th of July:
H. F. Barnett, J. L. Fielder, J. W. Harris, W.
M. Jackson, George Martin, H. M. Mathews, F.
H. Richardson, William Slaton, O. L. Smith,
E. M. Whiting. We predict for tho boys great
success.
The Southebn Paoitio Railroad.—Tho
Southern Pacific Railroad made application last
week to Prof; Gharbonnier, of the University at
Athens, for the two best students in tho Civil
Engineering Department to survey that road.
Prof. Gharbonnier gave the appointment to J.
L. Saunders, of Fort Gaines, Ga., and Joel
Hurt, of Hurtville, Ala., who left on the 17ih
to enter upon their duties.
Db. Habbison Westmobeland.—Argument in
favor of tho motion for a new trial in the case
in Fulton Superior Court of Dr. Harrison West
moreland, convicted of assault with intent to
murder Dr. O. L. Redwine, was concluded yes
terday, and the Judge reserves his decision un
til Wednesdaymoming. Manson8trond, bailiff,
charged with allowing the jury in this case to
separate and famishing them with whisky, will
know what Judge Hopkins thinks about it on
Wednesday morning.
An Atlanta Sun attache strayed np to For
syth county a day or two since, and reports on
crops ns follows:
A run of a few days in Forsyth county has en
abled us to see something of tho crop prospects
in that section. The wheat i3 all harvested tmd
does not amount to half a crop. The fly and
rust sent it to pot prematurely. Oats arc doing
well and a full crop will bo made. Com is
growing finely, though it is sadly in the grass.
Rains have been almost incessant, bnt the farm
ers are putting in lively licks between the show
ers. Bottom lands are almost drowned out.
Cotton is backward and spindling—owing to too
much wet. The blackberry crop promises to
be abundant.
Mr. Thomas Stewart, one of the first settlers
of Monroe county, died on Taesday of last
week.
Tho Monroe Advertiser reports Monroe coun
ty grain crops better than for several years past.
The aoreage in com is twice as great as at any
time since the war, and the crop is as good as
can he.
The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, prints the
farewell of Hon. Cincinnatufl Peeples as its po
litical editor. We extract as follows from it to
show what a complete summersault the Son has
turned to get on its present line:
The political situation does not, in my de
liberate judgment, require that I should retreat
from the strong conservative tone whioh I have
attempted to impart to the oharaoter of the
paper sinoe my oonneotlon with it. The line
indicated by me as political editor, is still, in
my judgment, the right one. The great inter
ests of the oonntry require that the Democracy
North and South should be a unit in the coming
Presidential election. In a word, I think that
the rule of the Democracy ought to be secured
if possible, if it can be done without a suicidal
abandonment of practical issues. While I do
not, in all things, approve tbe new departure,
inf heretofore Keen discovered is that geologist not, in all things, approve me new departure,
scouted without reflection,
Looking at the nervous and fitful condition
of affairs North and South, each standing In
front of the other, with passions not yet buried,
and with jealousies kept alive for the purpose
of securing and holding power, at the expense
of the people and popular right, it is the obvi
ous dictate of prudence and common sense that
our people should give no occasion for com
plaint. The Southern people desire peaoe, but
not the repose of despotism; and henoe I con
clude that the fangs of persecution should rot
be sharpened by our indiscretions. Extreme
opinions ought not to govern ns in the approach
ing conflict.
An old negro man named Abram Holland,
was fonnd dead on Broad street, Columbus,
Sunday morning. Disease of the lungs.
Jerry Reid, a well known and popular negro
employee of the Southern Express Company, at
Columbus, died last Sunday night.
There is a lodge of negro Masons at Colum
bus working under a oharter from tbe Grand
Lodge of Canada. The requisites for admission
require the applicant to be “free bom, of law
ful age, and having vooehers as to perfected
ness.”
Eatonton is “hooraying” over a watermelon
growing from the sideof a locust tree. -
Miiledgeville mourns and will not be comfort
ed, because the only billiard room in the town
has closed for want of patronage. But, dear
friends, there are knucks,jind checkers, and
mumble peg, and quoits. Will not these suf
fice?
A religious revival is going on at the Meth
odist church at Miiledgeville. Several joined
the church last Sunday.
The Miiledgeville Recorder tells a strange
story of a freedmari who ha3 six acres of cotton
“two feet high, filled with blooms and entirely
free from grass.”
Tho office of sexton of Ihe'Meihodiat church
at Milledgevillo is no sinecure. Besides his
singular duties, he is expected to tackle, single-
handed, benzined individuals who come in to
disturb the congregation.
We dip the following items from the Record
er, of Taesday:
“Batt.bqads too Much.”—The mania for the
construction of railroads is playing havoc with
the equanimity of a certain planter, who lives
between Miiledgeville and Macon, in the trian
gle between the Central and Macon and Augusta
Roads. His residence is about five miles from
the Central main trunk, half a dozen from the
Miiledgeville' branch, and two from the Augusta
line; moreover, he lives in expectation of see
ing the Savannah, and Atlantaroad pass directly
through his house. He says that he must either
cease farming, or leavo this country for the
West, as in ten years he thinks there will not
be twenty square yards of arable land in Middle
Georgia that is not cat by a railroad track. His
opinion is, that the people had better let rail
roads alone and attend to tho time-honored avo
cation of tilling the soil in peace; or at least if
they will not, they ought to allow an honest man
to liTe in quiet and attend to his own affairs.
The work on the new buildings at the Asylum
has commenced. Tho foundations are being
laid, and thousands of brick are being hauled
daily. A large fountain in front of the main
building, will add much to the beauty of the
surroundings. Everything will be greatly im
proved after the present enlargement, and steps
are being taken to make it one of the most ele
gant asylums in the South.
The Federal Union reports a week of sunny
weather in that seotion. Weeds and grass have
suffered, and oom and cotton are pushing
ahead. Small grain crops promise a tolerable
yield.
The snake crop about Augusta and vioinity is
reported to be the best known for years—most
ly of the rattle variety. Six were killed last
Sunday on one place near the city.
One hundred and fifty crates of peachesgrown
in South Caroline,-near Auguste, were snipped
from that city on Monday.
Augusta’s prospects for getting out of debt
are brightening. The dog tax, so far, has put
§702.30 into the city treasury.
The Augusta Constitutionalist is of opinion
that “the progressive Democracy of Georgia
form the rising party, and that they will control
the politics of the State.”
The Savannah Republican indignantly rejects
the Tribune’s Atlanta correspondent’s predic
tion, that the old Whigs of Georgia will ulti
mately join the Radical party. It says:
We tell the Tribune there can be no greater
delusion. One or two restless spirits or disap
pointed aspirants may give encouragement to
such a thought, but it has no root or counten
ance among the great body of the old Whigs.
This country never produced a class of men who
were more sincerely attached to the principles
of liberty, to whom they would yield in their
devotion to honor, truth and patriotism, or
whose detestation of fraud, usurpation and
wrong was more deep-seated and ulconqnera-
ble. They share tothe fallest extent,with their
fellow-countrymen of the South, in toir abhor
rence of a faction that has desolated tleir coun
try, sought to degrade and humiliate \ts brave
inhabitants, disfranchised its best peop’e, crea
ted a government of slaves over their former
masters, and has sought in every way, rot only
to plunder and beggar them, but to wp>e out
every vestige of republican liberty amonj them,
and finally, with sacrilegious hands to tear down
the government itself and erect a military des
potism in its stead. Such a party is at var with
every sentiment, opinion and emotion of the
old Whigs of the South, and their very natures
must be reversed before they can forget to scorn
or learn to forgive it. The past is so full of op
pression, indignity, humiliation and wrong,
that there oan be no repentance, Wien the
old Whigs get ready to offer np themselves and
their country on tho altar of Mammon, then
may the Radicals begin tolookforrecriits from
their ranks:
The Savannah Republican, of Taesday, is
surprised at the “very remarkable poslion the
city of Macon has taken against the lease of the
Macon and Western to the Central Rpad, her
opposition going so far as to unite in asuit be
fore the courts in order to defeat it. What does
this mean ? For the life of us, we canjot com
prehend the policy of such a course. , It even
looks suicidal, for the lease placed Mason per
manently on the great railroad thomnghfare
between the East and West. Suppose she
should succeed in defeating the lesse, what
then? The inevitable consequence of her tri
umph in the injunction will be tbe building of
the Atlanta and Savannah Road, and where will
Macon bo then? What becomes cf the interests
of those Macon and Western stockholders who
are so strenuous in their efforts to defeat the
lease ? We say we cannot understand the wis
dom of this movement, and it is bard to believe
that those who are engaged in it have carefully
weighed tho consequence of success to them
selves.
We do not speak of these things in a menac
ing spirit. We represent nobody bnt ourselves,
and deal only with facts and with a desire that
all who are interested will allow them a legiti
mate influence over their feelings and actions, ”
Thomas Sweat, charged with passing coun
terfeit gold coin, was held to bail on Monday,
at Savannah, to answer at the August term of
the United States District Coart, to be held in
that city.
Not content with a fair, Savannah is going to
do her level best on a cotton factory, which
will commence work in about six weeks. Mr.
Thomas Arkwright is the suggestive name of
the enterprising individual.
Room for Sandersville! She “bates Bana-
gher” on “praties." The editor of the Geor
gian “grabbled” three for dinner which satisfied
the appetites of seven persons, including the
cook, and next morning went round again inthe
shape of sliced and fried. Another is reported
20 inches in circumference. We get the follow
ing items from the Georgisn:
Swaiksbobo’, Ga., June 13,1871.
Editor Central Georgian:—Having returned
from a short tour through the surrounding coun
try, I am able to Rive you a few dots as to our
crop prospects. Many of our fanners are (as
they say) drowned out. Yet from all the facts
in the case, if the rain holds ont six weeks
longer we certainly will make more corn, pota
toes and sugar cane than has' been made in to 1 ?
county for years. Many persons oomplaj-
we have a great deal too much “
the fact, in certain localities.
perienoeof fifty-six yeare;£“® Te rttoSSm
M an MA«\ IfVflf DflUA QTOUtll* Xt IS wH8 WO
have had too miv* fo * cotton, peas and all
Trines, such 3 watenneUons, pumpkins, etc.,
bnt*oorm*i 6 staff of life, willoertainlybe abnn-
dant KUie rain holds out as above stated. The
Z^’crop of our county has cut finely and has
jwplenished many a dilapidated pooket-book.
Tall Oats.-—The Hannan Brothers, at North
Tennille, harvested a' small field of oats a few
days sinoe, which are some for “high.” Some
of the stalks measured seven feet, the average
height of the crop being something over six
feet y.&WM
The Kiss.
BI CHARLES SIELET. fc\.
*
Upon one stormy Sunday, _ .
Coming adoon the lane,
Were a ecore of bonny lassies—
And tbe sweetest, 1 maintain,
Waa Caddie,
That I took unneath my pladdie,
To shield her from the riun.
n.
She srid that the daisies blushed
For the hiss that I had ta’en.
I wadcahae thought the lassie.
Wad sae of a kiss complain.
‘‘Now, laddie!
I winna stay under your pladdie,
If I gang hame in the uin l”
m.
Rut on an after Sunday,
When clond there was not ane,
This self-Bame winsome lassie—
Wo chanced to meet in the lane—
Said: “Laddie,
Why dinna ye wear your pladdie ?
Wha kens but it may rain ?”
Foreign Notes.
(peepABED fob the telegeaph and uessengeb.)
Paris is beginning to assume a more pacifio
appearance. The government is anxious to re
move all traces of the recent disasters, and to
restore the capital to something like her former
gayety and splendor. The empire of the Com
mune has been put down by cannon and mitrail
leuses, bnt its spirit still lives, and there are
thousands of workingmon in Paris now eager
to avenge their brethren fallen for the sooialis-
tic Republic. Defeathas intensified their hatred.
The conduct of the Versailles troops towards
the insurgent prisoners-has gone fartoxender a
reconciliation betwen those two paxtiet impos
sible. One instance may suffice for many. Pour
prisoners being esoorted to Versailles were per
fectly exhausted and sat down on a bench.
“Arise,” Commanded the officer, “if yon dc not
want to be shot.” “Kill U3 rather,” said the
poor wretches, more dead than alive. “I hold
you to your word,” continued -the officer, “aid
consider all those who will not rise immediately
as sharing your wish.” Nobody rose. Quickly
there was a firing party at hand and tour corpse*
covered the ground. Admiral Pothuan is pre
paring New Caledonia for the Communists
who are to be transported. Their number wall
probably reach sixty thousand. There will hard
ly be a serious effort made to turn them into
colonists; but with that peculiar foresight so
characteristic of the various French govern
ments, they will be left to die, this being,the
simplest way of getting rid of political enemies
as Napoleon III. would send importunate talkers
to Cayenne to die there inch by inch.. In reply
to Jules Favre’s circular asking all foreign gov
ernments to give up fugitive Communists, be
cause they were no political but common crimi
nals, tne D.lgu& SaoniRK gpyflrraw »■>*»-
have acceded to this demand. The British,
Austro-Hungarian and Swiss Cabinets, however,
have adopted the corrector view that each single
case has first to be tried before the courts of the
respective countries.
The session of the German Keiohstag was
closed by a speech from the throne. The Em
peror thanked the members for the grants they
have mado for the support of the widows and
orphans left by tbe war. He reviewed the legis
Ialion of the session, referring particularly to
the debate ou the bill incorporating Alsace
and Lorraine. He said it showed that, however
Germans might differ, the spirit of union was
strong within them. Tho Emperor closed his
speech with the aspiration: God grant peace
to the new German Empire 1”
The triumphal entry of the army into Berlin
took place under the most imposing ceremonies.
Additional honors have been bestowed upon
the two leading men whose genius has wrought
so marvellous results. Von Moltke has been
appointed Imperial Field Marshal, while a valu
able estate is to be bestowed upon Prince Bis
marck. To conynemorate the establishment of
the German Empire, linden-trees have Been
planted in many parts of the country, as a per
petual monumentf or coming generations. The
famous Augsburg Gazette warns the German
Liberals not to intermeddle in the affairs of
their neighbors in whose behalf it would enter
a timely protest. “"We refer,” the paper says,
“to Austria and the Baltic provinces of Prussia
—without reckoning. Luxemburg, towards
which Germany must maintain a friendly re
serve. If the inhabitants desire to re-enter the
German Empire—and some parties, the cleric
als, especially, appear to favor the idea—it will
be incumbent on them to take the initiatory
steps. Germany most neither invite nor press
them.' In Vienna, fears are entertained that
the ever-recurring constitntional crises may
some day terminate in the disintegration of
Austria; and many, instead of attempting to
arrest the centrifugal tendencies of the popula
tions, have come to regard the Fatherland as
the surest harbor of refuge. Let us give no aid
or countenance to these pessimists. Germany
has too much interest in the maintenance of
Austria to contribute in ai$y way to her decom
position. The monarchy of the Hapsbnrgers,
by its traditions, its habits and the Magyar ele
ments it contains, has the mission to interpose
and preolude a .collision between the German
and the Sclavs peoples.
The German inhabitants of the Russian Baltio
provinces have. often' complained that their
rights aro violated. The grievances they allege
are by no means always imaginary, but Germa
ny has no more right to intermeddle in the in
ternal affairs of Russia than in those of the
United States. The Russian Baltio provinces
contain 131,000 Germans and 2,437,050 Esto
nians, Lithuanians, Poles, Swedes, Russians,
etc., etc. But, at bottom, these grumblers are
firmly attached to Russia, and in case of war we
should find the Germans of the Baltio provinces
arrayed against us.”
The Berlin Exchange Gazette says the inten
tion is entertained in Berlin, of making large
purchases of foreign wools, particularly from
Australia, the Cape and Buenos Ayres, for the
purpose of selling them at regular auctions, ac
cording to the system pursued at Loudon and
Antwerp.
An interesting discovery has been made near
Holler in the Grand Dnohy of Luxemburg. A
workman, when digging a well, found 372 Ro
man coins, besides several turns, only a few feet
below the surface otthe soil. The coins belong
to the reigns of Vespasian, Domitian, Hem,
Antoninas, Diocletian, Diva, Faustina, eta.
The Italians have not quite forgotten that
Thiers once proclaimed the principle that, to
render France great and prosperous, all neigh
boring States most be divided and powerless.
After Sella, the Minister of Finanoe, had laid
his new financial projects before the Italian
Chamber of Deputies, Ferine introduced the
subject by a review of the political situation.
Calling the attention of the Assembly to the
former opinions of the present Chief of the
French Government, he demanded that the ar
maments should be made which were necessary
to oppose the enemies of Italian unity. Sella
replied, it was inopportune to allude to Thiers’
former views about Italy at a time when**"’
and Dan Carlos, the pretender, is said to be in
Bayonne. Numerous arrests have been made
in the northern provinces in consequence of the
denunciations by the French police. There is
also great uneasiness prevailing in Catalonia
and Andalusia, the strongholds of Spanish Re
publicanism, and it is feared that a simultaneous
rising of the Carlistic and Republican parties
will take plaoe. In the Cortes the committee
charged with examining the elections, have pres
posed to declare that of Boqnie Barela valid.
This deputy, who is accused of being compro
mised in the assassination of Prim, was arrested
shortly befoxo the elections took place. Hi*
preliminary examination seems to be at a stand
still, just as well as that of five ether suspicions
persons who have already been confined for five
months. Spanish criminal procedure is still
much behind, all examinations being secret.
-• Jaeno.
[From the Chronicle and Sentinel.
To tlie Alumni of the University or
Georgia—No. 1.
Brothers of the Alumni :
I have been indaoed by an appeal to yon
through a committee appointed at our last an
nual meeting, to throw together a few random
thoughts which perhaps may not have suggested
themselves to you. I was myself much touch
ed by the spirit of that appeal, and I earnestly
hope that it may find emotions vibrating in cor
respondence to it in the heart of every Alumnus
in the land. I have by me a roll of our mem.
berahip, twelve hundred (1200) graduates l The
record shows the deaths, only down to 1857;
but with the widest margin allowed for mortali
ty, certainly eight: hundred (800) or nine hun
dred (900) of us still survive.
Now I desire before God, whose goodness
gave us the opportunities we have enjoyed, to
ask these nine hundred men—have you done
your duty to your Alma Mater ? And do not
deem me a visionary dreamer in putting tho
question. I am very well aware that we cannot
all of ns bo members of the Legislature, and,
therefore, cannot all of ns vote for zneasnres
fraught with good to the College. This is bnt
one of many ways in which yon can work for
our Old Mother. Think of them:
1. You can all use your personal, individual
influence to create a more general interest
among the people at large in favor of the Col
lege ; and there are many modes of doing this,
too; for example (a), you can correct the fool
ish, unfounded, and, still, continually recurring
charge that the University is not a religions in
stitution. Yon can say that the University can
not, from the nature of things, be a denomina
tional college, but if every other characteristic
of an institution conducted upon the strictest
models of Christian morality are not to be found
there, they cannot be found anywhere. The
«ypxv.Que_of them, without ex
ception, aotive members of thentafir great re-
statesmen,” he continued, “kne-
accomplished facts. Twi'
rhe^Dhbli^ 68 ”^dings in Rome are almost
readr to the ' 1 tiffin bffldate toward the
end >eune, when the transfer of the scat of
jSvemment will take place. Ten thousand
mechanics had been ordered from upper Italy
to hasten the work.
The jubilee of the Pope has been celebrated
with great pomp, over the whole globe, by the
members of the Catholic Churoh. A report
having been lately circulated that in consequents
of the projected removal of the Italian capital to
Rome, some governments intended to acoredit
the same diplomatists to the Pope and Victor
Emanuel, Antonelli, the Roman Secretary of
State, has forwarded a dispatoh to the Papal
Nuncios requesting them to inform the respec
tive governments that His Holiness will neither
receive nor enter into any official connection
with the representative of a foreign State, who
ig at the same time accredited to Victor Emanuel.
The news from Spain is discouraging. There
are many carlists assembling in the Pyrenees,
ligious denominations, and there are always in
attendance many students educating themselves
for the ministry. But (b) you can exert your
personal influence to direct patronage toward
the College. Very few men are in positions
so loyly that they cannot affect one man. If
each of ns sent one student to Athens next year,
the College would float clear of all shoals. And
again (c), yon can indirectly influence publio
opinion by advocating anywhere, and every
where, a more liberal spirit in the education of
onr youth. Show the vast advantages of a col
lege education to those recipients of it who do
not abuse those advant§ge3, and disprove the
assertion that a college is a nest of idleness and
extravagance, by aitribnting such results to the
bad training of the boy at home, and not neces
sarily to temptations met abroad. As well say
that religion is a humbug because there are un
worthy members of tho church, as to declare a
college to be a school of evil beoause certain
bad young men are found within its walls.
2. Some of you have very extraordinary op
portunities of befriending your Alma Mater.
You aro wealthy, have - far more than will sup
ply your wants a thousand times multiplied.
What a noble appropriation would yon make of
the superfluous riches the Almighty has given
you, by endowing a professorship in the State
University! We hear continually of this being
done for the Sectarian Colleges. There are
Nott Professors and Hitchcock Professors and
innumerable other chairs founded by the men
whose names they bear. I have yet to Ieam of
a solitary foundation made for any State Insti
tution, save the magnificent donation of Dr.
Terrell, constituting the Terrell Professorship
of Agriculture, at Athens. And yet what nobler
monument could a man erect to his memory
than this? But suppose yon are very far from
being able to endow a Chair; then perhaps yon
are a Minister of the Gospel, a lawyer or a phy
sician ; in either of these three capacities yon
are liable to be called to the bedside of the sick
and dying wealthy, and unlimited opportunities
are afforded you of inducing such men to
“Dying, leave behind them,
' Foot-prints on the sands of time.”
3. Some, nay, many, very many of you are
in political life. You, my brothers, have larger
opportunities than any of ns of striking a blow
for onr nourishing mother. In what a pitifully,
niggardly attitude does this great and wealthy
State stand with reference to its only institution
of learning. Eight thousand dollars a year, paid
simply because it is a righteous debt, which
would be collectable from an individual by
oourse of law, is the State of Georgia’s provision
for the liberal education of her people. Contrast
with this the following magnificent endowment
of the University of Mississippi.
“At the session of the Legislature just closed,
on the recommendation of His Excellency, tbe
Governor of the State, the following liberal ap
propriations and additional arrangements for
the promotion of theoause of education, in con
nection with the University, were made, to go
into immediate effect:
“1. .The sum of fifty thousand dollars per an
num, for ten years, was appropriated to support
the University and to enlarge its sphere of ope
rations and increase Us faculties.
“2. Two-fifths of the proceeds of the fond
donated l>y Congress to the State for tbe pur
pose of establishing a College of Agriculture and
the Mechanio Arts, were appropriated by the
Legislature, to be used in founding and equip-
ing each college in connection with the Uni
versity. ,
“3. Provision was also made by law that one
hundred dollars should be appropriated out of
the Common School Fund, towards the payment
of the expenses, at the University, of one stu
dent from each county, this appropriation to***
termed a scholarship, and to be giver
most meritorious student, after a -'•aperitive
examination.” . ...
Let every Georgian °
act blush for his BStr-**.***¥
the State Univejg* 101136 lumsel f n P to labor
I these suggestions In future.
D( r jJak too much in soliciting the press of the
evtte to aid me in reaching the Alumui, by
copying these rough note it
An Alumnus of 1832.
IN 1848 Mr. Junius Smith, of South Carolina,
commenced the cultivation of tea in this coun
try, and since that time it has been cultivated
with moderate suocess in various parts of the
South. A correspondent of the Wilmington
(N. C.) Journal says that his brother has raised
plants and oared tea whioh oannot be excelled
in flavor by the imported article.
Teh sugar interest of Louisiana, which was
almost annihilated during the war, is again ris
ing to prominence. In 1861 the yield was 449,-
410 hogsheads; in 1864 It was but 6,568 hogs
heads, and from that time it gradually roee until
in 1869 it was 87,000. This year’s crop is ex-
peeted to be about 140,000 hogsheads, which is
more than a fair average yield.
In a certain cemetery in a town in New Lon
don county, Oonn., can be fonnd a lot contain
ing fire graves, one inthe centre, the others
near by at tbe four points of the compass. The
inscriptions on the latter read respectively,
after the name of deceased, “My I. Wife,”
My IL Wife,” “My III. Wife,” “My IHL
Wife,” while the central stone bears the brief
but eloquent expression, “Our Husband.”
At Peace,
Shut close the wearied eyee, O Bleep !
Bo cloeo no dream may come between
Of all the sorrows they have seen;
• Too long, too sad, their watch hath been.
Be faithful, Sleep,
Lest they should wake—remembering;
Lett they should wake, and waking weep
O Sleep, sweet Bleep!
Clasp close tho wearied hands. O Rest!
Poor hands, so thin and feeble grown
With all the tasks whioh they have done,
Now they are finished—every one.
O happy Beet I
Fold them at last from laboring
In quiet on the quiet breast,
O Rost, sweet lteet!
Press close unto her heart, O Death!
So close not any puls8 may atir
The garments of her sepulchre,
Lo, life hath been so sad to her 1
O kindest Death,
Within thy safest sheltering
Nor pain nor sorrow ontereth—
O Death, sweet Death!
Tbe Ynllamltgham Tragedy—How
the Fatal Shot evtmeto be Fired.
Mr. Vallandigham had been engaged for ten
days in preparing for the defence of one Ma-
Gehen, charged with the murder of Meyers, at
Hamilton, Ohio, some weeks ago. He had
gone to Lebanon to attend the trial, and his
wife had been summoned to attend the funeral
at Cumberland in Maryland—the Hon. John V.
L. MacMahon, a distinguished lawyer of that
State.* - ...
A Lebanon correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer furnishes that paper with the follow
ing details of the terrible accident which result
ed In his death:
After taking supper, he procured from the
landlord of the hotel a bit of white muslin cloth,
perhaps a foot square, for the purpose of test
ing to bis own satisfaction the question as to
whether a shot fired from a pistol in olose
proximity to it would or would not leave a mark
of powder upon it Having provided himself
with this, and put his pistol in Ins pocket,
he and Mr. Miliken and Mr. Hume
went out together to the sonth edge of
town, beyond the residence of Governor Mo-
Barney. Arriving there, they were joined by
Mr. McBarney, and the trio become a quartette.
THE PISTOL
which he took with him for this purpose is a
new revolver which he had purchased only a few
days before coming to Lebanon. It is one of
Smith & Wesson’s manufacture, with a four
inch barrel, and five chambers, and carries a
ball of 32-100 of an inch caliber.
HOW THE ACCIDENT CAMS ABOUT.
-Two shots itom firoi .into the cloth, and all
were satisfied with the result of tBe experiment,
and started back to the hotel.
Mr. Milliken, ever oautions and thoughtful,
said:
“VaL, there are three shots in your pistol
yet. Yon had better discharge them.”
“What for?” responded Mr. Vallandigham.
“To prevent any accident,” replied the cau
tions attorney. “You might shoot yourself.”
“No danger of that,” replied Mr. Yallandig-
hara, “I have carried and practiced with pistols
too long to be afraid to have a loaded one in
my pocket.”
“You had better bo careful, though,” said
Hr. Miliken.
“Never fear me,” was the reply.
They then slowly walked back toward the
town, and, before they had reached tho hotel,
separated.
Arriving at tbe Lebanon House alone, Mr.
Vallandigham was stopped on his way trn stairs
by the landlord, and a package that had been
left for him in his absence placed in Ms hands.
That parcel contained another revolver—a weap
on that had been exhibited at the trial in court,
and was not only unloaded, but had had the
chambers removed. Proceeding to his room,
he unwrapped the parcel, and at the same time
taking his own weapon from Ms pockety laid
the two murderous instruments on the table,
side by side. s
A moment later, Mr. Scott Symmes, a young
lawyer who has been connected with the prose
cution of the case, passed tho door.
“Symmes,” said he, “Follett is mistaken. A
man conld easily Bhoot himself as Myers was
shot. Come in and I will show how it is done."
Thus invited, Symmes entered the room, but
a moment later, seing JndgeFope coming np
stairs, excused himself on the ground that he
was going to Hamilton in the morning, and
wished to see the Judge before he left. He
passed out, and a minute or so afterward Mr.
McBarney came into the zoom. Mr. Vallandlg-
ham, still standing by the table on wMch the
pistols lay, said:
“I’ll show you how Tom Myers shot himself.
Follett’smistaken when he saysit can’t bedone.”
Saying this, he took up one of the murderous
instruments in his hands, pat it into Ms pant-
loons pocket, and slowly drawing it ont again,
cocking it as he drew it forth, he attempted to _.
place it in the exact position wMch he believed
Myer’s weapon to have assumed at the mo
ment the fatal bullet was sped on its mission of
death. The muzzle of the weapon still witMn
the lappel.of the pock6t, he brought it to an
angle of about forty-five degrees.
“There, that’s the way Myers held it, only he
was getting np, not standing erect.” Saying
this, he touched the trigger.
. A sudden flash—the half-suppressed sound of
a shot—and Clement L. Vallandigham. with an
expression of agony, exclaimed: “My God, I’vfl
shot myself,” and reeled toward the wall, fe
wounded and dying man—wounded and dying
by Ms own hand, )
A Model Appointment.— 1 Th® Bev. David
Strang, an American Missionary in Egypt, writes
the Independent a dolorous tale about tho
pranks of George Butler, nephew to Ms uncle,
Benjamin F., and American Consul in Alexan
dria. Young Butler started ou£ with a solemn
determination to sustain the reputation of the
family and uphold the paxty m one of “high
old moral.ideas.” The Springfield Republican
says: 'JF
“Georpe” flaa had the reputation for years of
breath 010,6 °* the commandments, and
teener, and mote rougMy, than any man of his
age in America! Neither marriage nor the
Egyptian climate seem to have qualified Ms pas
sions or their indulgence. The first thing he
did was to sell otit his under appointments for
good round sums; the next to make an excur-
aion into the oonntry towns, and at each stop
ping plaoe call ont aoompany of naked Egyptian
dancing gills, and “make a night of it" in rev
elry in their society; while at court he has un
dertaken to prosecute a claim against the gov
ernment, as monstrous in falseness as in amount.
Light is thrown on the latter transaction by his
boast when going for tbe appointment, that he
was “bound to have a plaoe with a rake in it
worth $30,000 « year."
How to Lose Money.—The Monroe Adverti
ser says Colonel Bamet proved to the satisfac
tion of the Colnmbua people the other day, that
the South lost, last year, forty millions of dol
lars by raising four million bales of cotton,
when if she Lad raised two and a half million
bales, she would have cleared one hundred mill
ion of dollars.
We have shown that already the rise in price
from 14 to 21 oents in New York on low mid
dling, consequent upon the suspicion that tho
next crop will be only a little over three millions,
represents on the whole 4,200,000 bales, a value
of about $80,000,000, The old Quaker lady,
in her speech in meeting, said she had three
marvels—andoneofthemwiswhytheyoungmen
should run after the girls, when if they would
only stay away the girls would nm after them.
But a still greater marvel ia vby the planters
should be so eageq . to multiply cotton tales
when the fewer they are, the more money comes
to hand. v
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