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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON,JULY 4, 1871
The Sonlhern Farm and Home
For July was laid on onr table yesterday. Farm,
work for the month contains two pages of judi
cions editorial suggestions. Sumach is an edito
rial upon the culture and treatment of this pro-
duat now becoming an important article of-
trade. Trefoil contributes an article upon
oldVer seed. T. N. Russell, of Cobb, writes upon
ditching botton land. Homespun discourses
upon upland rice, a product which ought to re
ceive a good deal more attention. Prof. Leroy
Broon has a very elaborate and well considered
paper on the proposed Agricultural College in
Georgia. Dairy Farming, is an editorial upon
caws and clover growing, in which it is stated
that Mr. Reid, near Atlanta, sold §2000 worth
of milk and butter from one cow ia the oourse
cf eleven years-
That humorous poetaster, S. L.,who wrote
r.bonttheman “which he lived ih Jones,” has
another ditty about Jones, showing the unhappy
result cf preaching in favor of growing yonr
own corn supplies. We suspect therois a great
deal more truth than poetry in the conclusion:
And presently says Jones : ‘-hit’s trne;
That Cliaby'a head is level.
Thar's one thing fanners all must do
To keep thomaelves from goin’ tew
Bankruptcy and the devil!
“More com! More com! Must plant lees ground,
And mustn't eat what’s boughten!
Next year they’ll do it: reasonin’ 'a sound!
And cotton will fetch ’bout a dollar a pound,
(Tharfore, I'll plant all cotton!”)
Mr. Barnett writes a valuable article on
piantationncconnts; Mrs. White contributes her
ti-ual chapter of domestic receipts, and edito
rials make up the remainder of the voluminous
contents—the number winding up with a con
lisnation of Mary Faith Floyd’s story “The
Nereid.” Speaking of clover-growing, the ed
itor tells of twenty-four tons of green clover
cut from one acre in the neighborhood of Grif
flu, which would amount to about six tons when
, tiry.
Wo repeat, what we have already frequently
remarked concerning the Farm and Home: that
it is a first-rate magazine for the farmer, gar
dener, stock-rai3er, and head of a family, any
ringle number of which is worth far more than
the subscription prico (§2) fora year.
By arrangement with the publishers, J. W.
Darke & Co., we can famish the Farm and
Homo and Daily Telegraph and Manson
for $11 per annum, and the Farm and Home
and Weekly Telegraph and Messenger for
$1 per annum.
Devout Bismarck.—In a recent discussion in
the North German Parliament, Prince Bismarck
took occasion, in dilating upon the “truly
French cruelty” of ihe Gauls ia expelling Ger
man residents from Franco, and in seizing Ger
man ships, to remark that the “avenging hand
of Providence was viable in recent events at
Fans.” It i3 singular, observes the New York
Commercial Advertiser, how palpable the hand
of providence is always observed in the misfor-
tones of onr enemies. If. tho war had termin
ated differently, had the close of it found tho
French in Berlin, instead of the Germans in
Paris—it Is very doubtful whether Bismarck
would have been so ready to recognize tho same
agency. People »can afford to be very pions
when they wish. . Bismarck would seem to have
taken a leaf out-of the book of his master,
“Pious BiH,’.’ js tho London satirist, irrever
ently call him. . ' * 7
CAMiStosf-^The HeraSrsays Simon has been
the administration candidate for Vice President
ever since Grant and he went a fishing together.
They did not catch catfish for nothing. Came
ron, of course, looks for a very enthusiastic
support from Charles Sumner and his friends,
rud whatever ho lacks there Morton and Butler
will make up. Cameron will fly the banner of
political and financial integrity—economy, re
form, no trickery and cancussing in politics—
no bribery in elections. He is now having these
sterling principles emblazoned in red ink on bis
shirt tail, showing that they are principally for
tho benefit of other people.
WnoBeats It?—A gentleman resident on
College street, and whose public spirit and dis
position to be up with the times in small as
well as large things i3 well known, send3 ns tho
first bunch of Catawba grapes we have seen
t ris season. They are not exactly ripe, but so
near it as tamale the eating and enjoying them
mere question of a distinction without a dif
ference.
Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, Va.
Among the list of pupils at this school who re
ceived diplomas and prizes for distinguished
proficiency, at the recent commencement, we
find the following from Georgia: Misses Regina
and Jennie Rambo, MissMillie Cobb, (of Macon)
Miss Moselle De Liuney, Miss Evelyn Rooney,
and Miss Lola McKay.
Changes in HabvabdUniveksitt.—Tho World
of Tuesday says that a “new departure” has
been taken by Harvard University. Increased
prominence i3 hereafter to be given to scien
tific studies; in certain departments women are
to be admitted to an equality with men; new
buildings are to bo erected, and tuition is to be
absolutely free.
Commissions Catron Bound for Japan.—
The Herald says it is understood that Hon.
Horace Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture,
has accepted an offer of $20,000 per annum to
proceed to Japan for tho purposo of developing
the agricultural resources of the Island of Iesso.
We hope the Commissioner will never be called
upon to commit bari kari.
Dcuke's Magazine fob Bars and Gibls.—Wo
have the July number of this excellent illustrated
monthly, full of very interesting reading for
the young folks. Published by J. W. Buike &
Go., Macon, at $2 per annum.
'The Wixamp Cotton Gin.—Wo call attention
to the advertisement in another column of the
Winship cotton gin, which embraces the com
parative results of a trial of speed at the iato
fair in Augusta.
A Strike.—The stone cutters at work on the
capital at Albany demanded last Monday the
'same pay for eight hours’ labor which they had
reoeived for ten. Tho capito! commissioners
declined to pay it, and tho workmen struck. *
The Poatofiloe Department will, next week,
order an increase of salaries to abont one hun
dred and fifty postmasters throughout the coun
try. because of the increased business of their
offloee. -
A California applicant before a school board
defined phlebotomy as “pertaining to the bot
tom of a ilea.” Ho has retired with a dignity
becoming bis proiession.
Quick Trip.—The Inman line steamer City of
Brooklyn, made her last trip from New York to
Queenstown, Ireland, in eight days and six
hours. - v ^ - V->
. 3LEU.—There is a general difference of eight
to twelve degrees cooler in the temperature in
New York thi* summer as oompared with the
ir.St.
Boons Bills.—Officials in Washington state
that about ten million dollars in counterfeit
National Bank bills are now In circulation.
Liquors.—Theoflfioial report shows 40,839,-
1CG gallons of spirits in bond and tax paid
against 45,039,893 last year.
Tlie African at hi* Beoks.
Tho board of visitors to the Atlanta Univer
sity, (an institution for the instruction of ne
groes) makes a very eulogiatio report on the pro
gress of the pupils. They say :
At every step of the examination we were im
pressed with the fallacy of the popular idea
(which, in common with thousands of others, a
majority of the undersigned have heretofore
entertained) that the members of the African
race are not capable of a high grade of intellec
tual culture. The rigid testa to which the classes
in Algebra and Geometry, and in Latin and
Greek were subjected, unequivocally demon
strated that under judicious training, and with
persevering study, there are many members of
the African race who can attain a high grade of
intellectual culture. They proved that they can
master intricate problems in mathematios, and
fully comprehend the construction of difficult
passages in the classics.
Many of the pupils exhibited a degree of
mental culture which, considering the length of
time their minds have been in training, would
do credit to members of any race,
Tho chairman of this committee was ex-Gov.
Brown and Messrs. W. A. Hemphill, Wm. L.
Scruggs and J. I. Whittaker were among its
mc-iLoc-rs.
We are wedded to no particular theory about
Africanus. We would not give the value of a
brass button to prove to the satisfaction of
mankind that the negro is at least twenty de
scents nearer that Simian origin to which Dar
win eventually traces the entire human race.
But this much may well be said: The Atlanta
University is by no means the first attempt
which has been made on this planet to indoc
trinate the African in philosophy and letters.
On the contrary, if we accept the Mosaic record
or choose tho almost illimitable chronology of
the Egyptians, that experiment has been prose
cuted with more or less diligence many thou
sands of years, without material result.
Under these circumstances the committee
should not make np their minds in too much
haste, upon the result of a few quarters’ school
ing in the Atlanta University. Wo desire, in
deed, that onr African friends Bhould shine
mentally as they do physically, when hog is
plenty; bet when we look around for all the
poets, philosophers, historians, artists, sculp
tors, painters, critics and scientists of the Afri
can race which have been produced from the
instructions of the ancient leamod Egyptians
down to this 19th century, wherein tho British
Government and Exeter Hall have fairly laid
themselves out in tho best kind of schools—
and Scotch scholars from Edinborongh and St.
Apdrews—andEaglish scholars from Cambridge
and Oxford, and Irish scholars from Dublin,
have been for more than a generation drilling
the, science and letters into the yontlifnl ne
groes of tho West Indies, at the cost of the
Royal Treasury, we gan’t feel as certain as
onr- friends Brown, Hemphill, Scruggs and
Whitaker do, thatallhnman experience is going
to be reversed by the Atlanta University, and
the world is now to see, what it has been look
ing in vain for many thousand years, a crop of
accomplished negro scholars, poets, philoso
phers and statesmen.
We are inclined to take a verymoderate view
of tho matter and to conclude that if the Atlanta
University succeeds ia teaching those young
darkies “the three R’s”—the practice of self-
restraint, prudence, good manners and industry,
they will have accomplished, on an average,
the best results compatible with the conditions.
The exploits in Greek, Latin, and the more
recondite branches of mathematics on which
Mr. Scruggs rhapsodizes editorially, will, we
fear, lead to no more practical resnlts than to
illustrate the dexterity of the teachers.
Let us do justice to our progenitors on this
globe. Let us admit that their experience ana
observation were at least worth something, how
ever small, and that wisdom was not bom with
ns. Wc know it i3 hard for a Radical to admit
so much, but it is due: and reasoning upon oven
this meager concession, we cannot promise our
selves with confidence s race of mental black
giants and scientific and literary experts, even
from the labors of the Atlanta University.
For (lie North Pole.
Capt. Hall sailed in his steamer Polaris from
New York last Thursday. According to the
newspapers, the captain does not credit the idea
of an open polar sea. He expects to find the
polar latitudes above the 81st parallel, a region
of eternal ice and snow, over which he will
travel (the distance being about six hundred
miles) on dog sledges.
What he i3 to do with the pole when ho finds
it, is not set forth. As the pole has been there
some' time, it may have rotted off, or if wood
don’t decay at that temperature, perhaps he will
hang the star spangled banner to it, and eat a
drink of frozen brandy to the honor of thething.
Then, perhaps, an application of walrus grease
to the pole, may enable old mother earth to turn
a little easier on her axis.
If he finds the pole gone, and nothing but the
hole left where it should have been, he can go
down into that hole as Capt. Symmes proposed
to do,-and ascertain how they keep up those in
ternal fires which spont out occasionally through
the cmgt in the shape of volcanoes, and give
constant token of their presence in boiling
springs, geysers and earthquakes, which last are
but the rattling of the great mundane teakettle
lid, when the fire is a little too strong.
We shall doubtless get the particulars when
Captain Hall returns, which he expects to do in
the year of grace 1874. Until then it is best
not to be too wise on polar scienco and litera
ture, which is the crowning error of the New
York papers the past week. The subject would
be quite exhausted, and the Polaris a needless
investment if their editorials were accepted as
the deductions of scientific knowledge.
The Southern Cultivator for July came to
hand yesterday and is, as usual, full of Interest
ing matter to the farmer. In one of the articles
Dr. Pendleton presents three calculations of the
cost of producing cotton in Hancock county.
The first was $11.49 to the hundred pounds of
lint—the second $10.90 and the third $12.11—
the average of the whole was 117-16 per pound,
at the gin-house. We see in the Cnlti vator a par
agraph recommending this method of putting up
green com: Shave it from the cob and pack it
away in common stone jars—first a layer of com
an inch thick—then salt enough too aver it, and
so on till the jaris filled. A pickle will soon rise
and the com must be kept beneath the surface,
by a boardand weight. The jar must be covered
with cloth or paper tied over the mouth. When
used, the corn must first be dropped in boiling
water, so aa'to render its milk insoluble. It
may then besoakedjmtil sufficiently freshened.
The writer says he h»g eaten green com pre
served in this way for four years, which oonld
not be distinguished by flavor from fresh r nrr ),
How Mr*. Thornton Collected 85,000 from
the State Bond—An Arithmetical Senator
and-bow Ho Compute* Intere*t-How
Much Fifteen per cent, on 83,000, Is.
On the 2Gth day of May last, Mrs. Mary R.
Thornton, of Atlanta, was so unfortunate as to
lose her husband, he being run over by an en
gine on the State Road and instantly kiQecL
Naturally enough, Mrs. T. began a suit for
damages against the road, she being dearly of
the opinion that his death was the result of
criminal carelessness on the part of the road's
representatives, and the calamity, besides, leav
ing her unprotected and alone in the world to
get along as best she might
Well, the suit was commenced, and shortly
thereafter she received a message from State
Senator Brock, one of the trooiy loil members
of that body, who told her he thought he could
have the case settled without its costing her
anything in the shape of lawyer’s fees. This
was kind, very^and Mrs. T.’s opinion of tho
honorable gentleman’s benevolence immediately
rose several hundred per cent But Brock went
on to ask what she would give him to collect the
claim, and IDs. T. calling her son into the conn'
oil, they decided -that 10 per cent would be
about tho figure. Brock rather thought this was
not enough, and so they moved np a peg and
offered him 15 per cent Brock then asked
young Thornton what 13 per cent, on the $3,000
wouid amount to, and that ingenuous, but sadly
unarithmetical youth, with that prompt inaccu
racy which characterizes some folks when deal
ing with figures, replied that 15 per cent was
$1,500, of course. Brock’s tuneful voice re
sponded cor-rect, and the bargain was struck.
A few days afterwards Mrs. T. and son signed
a paper and reoeived from Brock $1000 in mo.
ney and two notes signed by Blodgeltas Super,
intendent, eaoh for $1250—Brock stating that
he had received his 15 per cent on the $3000
claimed, which any schoolboy knows amounted
to jnst $1500. Mrs. T. set about realizing on
the notes, bnt before she fingered the cosh she
had to pay her attorney (Mr. Mynatt) $250 for
collecting them, besides having to submit to a
bank shavo of $100 on one, and $250 on the
other. When Mrs. T. got through the business
she sat down and did some figuring on her own
account, and the result stood as follows: She
had signed a receipt to Blodgett for $5000, bnt
Brock's 15 per cent. ($1500) on that amount,
and the $G00 paid to Mynatt and tho banks had
made a $2100 hole in that plnmp sum, and she
discovered that she had landed only $2900 nett.
This was not at all to her liking, and so sho
concluded to give tho public the benefit of her
discoveries, and the Constitution prints them.
That paper, to which we are indebted for these
facta, concludes an article on tho subject as
follows
The remarkable feature in this case, however,
is that Senator Brock was the Chairman of the
Railroad Investigating Legislative Committee
that was appointed to examine into Blodgett’s
State Road management, and ho reported that
that management was all right. Mr. Brock's
access to the Superintendent and his opportu.
nities for settling railroad cases are a very fit
ting adjnnot to that fifteen per cent, matter.
The conjunction of the two is highly signifi
cant.
Of Brock’s qualifications as a legislator we are
not informed, bnt there certainly can bo no
question as to his eminent ability as a computer
of interest. If any banker or broker is in want
of a “lightning calculator” just now, wo do not
seo bow they conld do better than to engage
Brock’s services.
Store Railroad Strategy- -Sale of tlie
Montgomery and Eofanla Railroad.
We find tho following in the Montgomery
Advertiser, of Thursday:
Montgomery and EufaulaRoad.—At the an-
m«1 meeting of tho stockholders of tho above
named road, held at noon yesterday in this city,
the stock owned by Eafaula, Union Springs and
Montgomery was represented respectively by
the Mayors of the cities named and other gen
tlemen, -whose names we have not on hand.
The rest of the stock was largely represented
by delegates from the country all along the lino
of the road. The chief business of the meeting
was to consider and act npon the contract lately
entered into in New York hy Col. Lewis Owen
for the company, and Messrs. Opdyko & Hazel-
hurst for themselves and other capitalists of
New York, tho terms of which wore substan
tially as follows:
1. The Company assigns to Messrs. Opdyko
& Co., parties of the second part, all the assets
and a majority of the stock of tho road (abont
$530,000 worth) without reserve.
2. Messrs. Opdyke & Co. agreo to furnish
$680,000 in cash, which sum it is thought will
bo amply sufficient to pay off all outstanding
liabilities and complete the road to Eufania.
On motion of Captain Fowler, ably seconded
and supported hy J. W. L. Daniel, and one of
the Directors, this contract wa3 unanimously
ratified :
Although not stated in so many words in the
above article, it is understood that the sale is
virtually to the Macon and Brunswick Railroad
—Mr. Opdyke being one of tho largest New
York stockholders in that road, and Mr. Hazle-
hnrst its President. If we are not mistaken,
tho road from Montgomery to Enfanla is well on
tho way to completion, there being only nine
teen miles to finish. With a western connec
tion via Montgomery and the North and Sonth
Road, direct to Louisville, much of the South
western Georgia provision business now done
over the Western and Atlantic and Macon and
Western Roads, will very possibly be diverted
to the former-route—provided, of course, the
Macon and Brunswick Road secures a connec
tion from Eufania with some point on that road.
A friend at onr elbow suggests Hawkiusville, as
there was a charter—with State aid—granted at
the last session of the Legislature for a road
from Hawkinsville to Enfanla.
Chancellor Lipscomb’s Letter
To the Alumni of the University, which ^e
print this morning, will prove a most potent re
inforcement to the policy of Alumni organiza
tion, whioh is now being inaugurated through
out the State. It is an earnest, eloquent appeal
from a man whose opportunities for knowing
the immense advantages to result to the Uni
versity and the cause of education in the State,
from such organization, are supplemented by a
zeal, and energy, and ardent desire to do good
in these directions, only bounded by physical
ability to sustain him in the noble work. We
need do no more than simply call attention to
it. It commends itself by the resistless foroe
of fact and argament, illuminated by a graoe
of diction and eloquence of expression, all the
writer’s own.
Hard Licks at West Point.
A World correspondent narrates the sorrows
of Cadet Wilson—an inoffensive youth—the son
of a revolutionary officer—who fell a victim to
the superior muscle of Cadet Smith, of Afrioan
scent. This Bhows the importance of a new
system of training for the military academy.
To carry it out the academy should be moved
down to the Mississippi canebrake country and
the cadets permitted to acquire brawn and mus
cle by the judicious use of. the hoe in the cotton
or cane fields. With four years of constant prac
tice, the whites may be able to stand their
hands with the negro cadets, so as not to be
knocked down so often and ignominionsly. So
long as we are running on the principle of mix
ing colors, the mixture should be equal—“’alf
and ’all”—according to cookney rule. The ex
aminations should be a general mill—Africa
against America—whioh should limited to fist
and sknlL (However, we are not so confident
on the skull question). But of one thing we are
certain: they ought to stop so much lying. The
white boys themselves say since the niggers
were introduced they have all got snoh a habit
of lying that it sprains their tongues to speak
the truth. This should be discontinued. But
the hoe business, so long as we ran the United
States military academy with plantation negroes,
should be the main feature of the system, and
then, with good overseers, the institution would
be self-supporting.
“If there is any one thing we glory in,” says
the gushing blookhead of the Buffalo Express,
in an attach upon Kentuckians, “it is the title
of American citizen, the highest honor that
mortal man can data on this earth." Ibis cer
tainly a proud thing to be an American citizen,
and especially an American citizen of Afrioan
descent; but for onr single Belves, if we can
live to see our names enrolled as members of
the Bare-Legged and Double-Breasted Base Ball
Club, we shall than feel that we have the entire
Udder of fame under ns.—Courier-Journal.
The Herald, of Wednesday, asserts that
Frank Blair endorses the “new departure.”
Columbus educates G50 children every year,
at a cost of $11 each.
The Columbus District-Conference met at
Bntler, last Thursday. Ninety delegates were
present. Talbotton was chosen as the location
for the distriot parsonage. The Conference
was very emphatic on the subject of the use
and sale of liquor by church members, and the
neglect of family worship. .*-y
If lied Head don’t put on his war paint and
go for the Brunswick Appeal man, we will lose
all out faith in hair sign. Says the Appeal:
Several huge turtle were brought to ono of
our city wharves on TaeBday last. They were
of the specimens known as loggerheads. Some
mischievous boys hod daubed the head of ono
with a composition of brick dust and water;
npon inquiry being made as to tho cause of
this rubicund caput tho urchins replied that it
was the local of tho Savannah Morning News.
If lineally descended tho News men seem stu
diously to endeavor to obliterate all traoes of
thoconneclions, as we learn they profess agroat
aversion for water. The instincts of boys, how
ever, are frequently unerring.
There mnst be a scarcity of cotton in Colum
bus. Wo seo the Eagle and Phenix factory is
working up fingers.
The Talbotton Standard says:
The Cnors.—Com is sappy and spindling on
grey land and low grounds. Wo aro afraid Uie
crop is gone. The weeds and grass are choking
out the stands. The red lands have a magnifi
cent crop on them. Rain continues. Cotton
prospects gloomy.
Tho editor of the Dawson Journal is open to
propositions from sporting parties to show them
fine snake hunting grounds. Wo thought
Weston was a Good Templar. ..
The Columbus police have organized a raid
on tho “ soiled doves” of that city, without re
spect to race or "color. Eighteen were arrested
Sunday and Mondaf night.
Rev. E. P. Brown, reotor of the Episcopal
Church at Thomasville, has been appointed
postmaster of that place. His predecessor—
Brown, loo—levanted on acoonnt of the E. Ks
—that is, he so represented at Washington.
Savannah “calls” Atlanta in the housebuild
ing game. Her hand shows 200, of various
kinds, now in course of construction.
Seventy-five of the principal business houses
of Oolnmbu3 have agreed to close their doors at
6 p. si, from July 1st to September 1st,
The Chronicle and Sentinel says strong efforts
are being made to have C. C. Reese, who mur
dered a man named Edwards, at Crawfordsviile
last year, and who wa3 convioted and sentenced
to bo hung, at the last term of Hancock Supe
rior Court, pardoned. It is said nearly all the
jury who found him guilty have signed the pe
tition 1
Goat stealing is the latest triumph of the
Butlerian system, at Savannah.
Peter Williams'and Frank JacksoD, very col
ored troops,Are under a legal cloud,-down at
Savannah, for chopping and stabbing their re
spective Dulcineas.
Thomas county is to meet and talk over the
subject of white labor, on tho 13th of July.
The negroes of the county have become so ut
terly worthless that no reliance can be plaeed
upon them as laborers. This is the county
where white Democrats went npon the bonds of
negro Radicals elected to county offices. Cause
and effect.
Says the Chroniolo and Sentinel, of Thurs
day:
Another New Departure.—An intelligent
negro man, whom wo have long known and re
spected, a citizen of Sonth Carolina, said to ns
a day or two since, that he was “getting np a
memorial to Congress, to be signed only by
colored men, asking that Congress would admit
free of duty all machinory for manufacturing
cotton that may be imported for actual use into
the State of South Carolina during tho next two
years.” To our questions: why do you wish
this done ? of what benefit will cheap cotton
machinery by to you? he replied: “Some of
ns believe that the best method of elevating our
race is by educating onr females as artisans,
withdrawing them from the cotton field and the
menial duties of life. We can furnish cheaper
labor than the whito labor of Massachusetts, and
yon Georgia people have shown us that manu
facturing cotton pays better than anything else.
We aro told that English machinery, imported
duty free, costs less than one-half the price of
that made in this country, and are promised that
if we can get the machinery duty free, ample
capital will be loaned us off mortgage to. bnild
and equip onr mills at a rate of interest not ex
ceeding ten per cent per annum; and this -will
leave ns a dividend of ten dollars on every hnn-
dred of capital, besides wages.”
Wo find the following in the Atlanta Era, of
yesterday: “
The Era in Macon.— A business letter, dated
Macon, 28th inst., and addressed to this office,
says: “Canyou not arrange so as that your
Maoon subscribers can get the daily Era at least
three times per week? The postoffice officials
at this place seem determined not to deliver tho
Atlanta dailies to subscribers until the news is
several days or even weeks old ! Wo consider
ourselves fortunate if we can get the Era threo
times per week. Wake up the postoffice officials,
else you may as well keep your paper at home,
We all want the Era—we watch its columns with
great interest; but then we want it duly, not
: in tri-weekly installments 1 ”
' We commend the above to the careful atten
tion of tho proper authorities. There is evi
dently something rotten between this and Ma
oon, or else at Macon. The Macon Telegraph,
for instance, reaches this office upon an average
of about three times a week only. Where is the
trouble?
The copies of the Telegraph and Messenger
for Atlanta aro sent to the postoffio9 here every
day—of that we are certain. Why they don’t
got to their proper destination is more than we
can say. If a guess was in order, possibly we
might stumble on tho reason.
Tho Constitution of the same date prints this
card:. .
- ■ THE MAOON POSTMASTER.
Macon, Ga., June 28, 1871.
Editors Constitution: Can you arrange it
with the Fostoffice Department so that your pa
per can be delivered to subscribers in Macon
i;wo or three times a week? It seoms that the
carpet-bagger officials in the Macon postofiice
arrogate to themselves,the right to road all
newspapers before delivering the same to sub
scribers. Wo desire that would-be Radical
postmasters to pay for the papers they read.
• J. Fitzpatrick.
The Atlanta San says it is “freely charged in
that city that tho lessees of the State Road are
trying to manipulate the Georgia Western Road
in their interest, and to prevent its being built.”
Col. Avery, of the Atlanta Constitution, haB
gone to recuperate his health.
The Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, says the direc
tors of tho Atlanta and Savannah Railroad have
been in session there for two days, and that tho
feeling is the road must bo built.
The house of Mayor Tucker, of Marietta, was
robbed of $500 and a suit of clothes, last
Wednesday night.
A ground rattlesnake bit a young Daltonian
of the feminine persuasion last week, but she
declined to die.
Mr. Robert McCamy, one of the first settlers
of Murray county and universally respected,
died very suddenly, Friday night of last week.
The house of Judge D. B. Barrett, in Gordon
county, was burned last .Tuesday night with all
its contents. 8ome of the family barely escaped
with their lives.
The Rome papers say that city will take $100,-
000 worth of stock in tho Rome and Columbus
Railroad.
The vote in Griffin, Thursday, on the ques
tion of a city subscription to the Griffin and
Madison Railroad, was nearly unanimous in the
affirmative.
The Star, of yesterday, says :
A Shocking Outrage.—On Monday last, Mr.
James Moffett of Meriwether county, was as
saulted by a negro man and woman, whom he
had In his employe. He was shot by the negro
man; the ball passed directly through the abdo
men. The physicians think there is not much
chance for him to recover. The negro woman
is now in jail; the negro man has not been
caught
The Griffin Middle Georgian says:
GxobgiaHat.—Notwithstanding the fact that
grass won't growin Georgia, Mr. T. J. Threlk-
eld, within one mile and a half of the Court
house in Spalding county, 1b at this writing,
cutting a field of fonr acres of timothy and
herd grass, fred top) which averages nearly five
feet in height Part of the field is on a creek,
and the land too wet to grow any other crop
than red top grass. Clover for three years past,
•has been a success with Mr. Threlkeld, and he
now has acres of clover fonr feet high, and
equal in appearance to that of Kentucky, (so
said by those who know.)
Mr. H. McNeal, of Pennsylvania, has bought
the Bartow, Iron Works, situated on the State
Road, a few miles below Oartersville, and will
commence work as soon as possible.
Henry W. Champion, a worthy citizen of
Greene county, died very suddenly of heart dis
ease, last Sunday.
The Greensboro Herald, of Friday, says :
Fine Clover and Grass.—Dr. T. P. Janes
has left at this office, a fine sample of his clo
ver and grass crop the present year. He has
been growing clover and grass for the last fonr
or five years, each year to an increased advan
tage, yielding Upon an average of about one
hundred dollars per acre. He has an area of
thirty acres planted, including three kinds of
grass, which will, at the lowest calculation, pay
from $75 to $100 per acre.
The Augusta Factory, and the Graniteville
Company’s drills are now quoted in the Augus
ta market at 13 cents.
The Rev. Maurice Treichenberg has been
unanimously elected pastor of the Hebrew
church, at Augusta.
Richmond county reoeived its share—$2,000
—of the Peabody School Fund, on Thursday.
In bis charge to the grand jury of Richmond
county, on Thursday, Judge Gibson reoom-
mended_ the building of a new Court-house and
jail.
Waterman, of the Houston Home Journal
after playing Bonlly at ah agricultural dinner
down there, last week, exclaims: “If this be
agriculture, make ns a farmer.” F. S.—’We
hear that the young lady who sent him the
peaches doesn’t live in town.
Says tho Home-Journal:
A Curiosity.—CoL S. D. Killen has shown
ns a double ear of corn, growing in one shuok,'
which he raised. It was planted about March
20, and came np abont April 1st. On this stem
aro two ears, large, distinct and well developed,
having thirty rows of grains averaging forty
grains each, making 1,200 in all. Col. K. thinks
be has a good deal more of the same sort.
Henry Evans took a pop at Berry Smith, at
Columbus, Friday night, with a pistol, bnt it
wasn’t a sure pop and there was no funeral.
Tho City Counoil of Columbus have just bor
rowed $15,000 from the Chattahoochee National
Bank, of that city, at ten per cent, per annum.
The editor of the Savannah Repnblioan speaks
for two in the following paragraph:
Very Well as far as rr Goes.—It is a grati
fying evidence of Christian love for the ministry
to see the churches of several citios of Georgia
providing their pastors with horses and vehicles,
for their personal comfort, and to enable them
to perform their outdoor religious dutieB with
far les3 labor and inconvenience. These are
worthy tokens, and the example cannot bo too
gonerally followed. Bnt we would suggest to
our friends of the church who make these dona
tions, that their liberality requires that they
should not be made in a manner to entail ex
pense on the donees. They should be sure that
the pastor is able to feed Lis horse—no small
item in a city—before one ia given to him, or
else the provender should invariably go along
with the horse. It is not yet too late for the
adoption of this suggestion in all cases where
ministers are allowed moderate salaries. Those
chnrch members who contribute nothing to bay
the horse, should be called on for a purse to
feed him.
Mr. Charles Worner, of Savannah, is out
in a card in the Savannah Republican offering
a reward of one thousand dollars to anybody
who will prove that he was ever married to a
Mrs. Martha Sobleicher. We know a place
■Whoxfi, for half tnat amount that, or anything
else will be proven—if hard swearing will do it
—so xnick it will make his head swim. Ad
dress K. K. Com., Washington, D. C.
Savannah cotton recoipts last season foot np
710,977 bales, an inorease of 235,135 bales over
the receipts of ’69 and ’70: She now stands next
to New Orleans.
The Savannah Republican V6ry justly and
forcibly condemns the practice of petitioning
for pardons for criminals who have been fairly
and legally convicted of crime. It scores Bul
lock for his shameful abuse of the pardoning
power, and then goes on to say :
But Bollock is not alone responsible. Tho
people have their share of guilt in this unthink
ing war upon society. Men generally have a
weakness on the subject of petitions for par
don. They allow the promptings of meroy to
overrule the stern demands of justice, and sign
all that are presented to them, little thinking
what a wound they aTe inflioting npon the com
munity in which they live, and whose safety and
good order should be the objeots of their high
est consideration. Even juries, after condemn
ing a man to death as his jnst desert, mot unfro-
quently come forward and affix their names to
petitions to turn loose again the blood-thirsty
victims of the law upon the publio. This is all
wrong, and we must stop it or consent to set
aside all law, or make every man the avenger of
his own wrongs.
Govington is developing its internal resources
with TOIoteon peaohes at one dollar a. bushel.
But as the editor of the Examiner, from whioh
paper we learn this fact, says he hasn’t seen a
quarter in circulation for a week, we are
forced to conclude that the man who raises them
isn’t realizing much cash in his business.
Colonel P. W. Alexander, of Columbus, who
has been extremely ill for several weeks, has
recovered sufficiently to appear upon the streets
again. . • - ■ ; . *
Chas. Hughes, a well known boot maker of
Atlanta, formely of Athens, died very suddenly
of cholera morbus, Friday night.
J udgo Lochrane gave an elegant dinner at tho
Kimball House, Atlanta, on Friday, in honor of
Jaugo "Woods, of tho United States Court—so tho
Atlanta papers of yesterday, inform us.
The Atlanta Era turned up misBing, again,
yesterday. .
Three young ladies of La Grange took.a “new
departure,” at a concert, in that plaoe, last
week, “by skillfully performing on the violin.’
Atlanta says she is worth $12,730,000 in real
estate. The expenses of running the municipal
machine for the quarter jnst ended was jnst
$8,639 87.
The Warrenton Clipper says nineteen cents
is rapidly knocking the grass out of the cotton
fields in that section.
A NICE RECORD. .
All Abont Samnel Hunt, the Lately Ap
pointed Bevenne Collector for the 2d
(Mncon) District of Georgia.
Wo dip the following from a Washington
letter published in the Baltimore Gazette, of
Wednesday:
Borne time ago J. S. Bigby, member of Con
gress from Georgia, had one Samnel Hunt ap
pointed Collector of the Second Georgia Rev
enue District. From information subsequently
received at the Revenue Bureau, it was suspect
ed Hunt was not all right, and npon investiga
tion it turns ont that 1m was indicted some time
ago, in Tennessee, for illicit distilling. Inquiry
was made of Senator Brownlow, who replied
that Hunt was MsfBrownlow’s) nephew, “but,”
said the Senator, “I have no oonfldence in him.
He was, to all intents and purposes, gnilty of
the charges preferred against him in this State,
and I was greatly surprised at learning of Ms
appointment as Oolleotor.”
The correspondent adds, that Hunt has not
yet filed his bond and will not be appointed.
The question now oomea np: What moved Big
by to go outside of Georgia to make snob on
appointment? Was there no material better
than this in the district ? And if not, what fast
does it illustrate? We maintain, though, that
it will be hard lines for Hunt to miaa bis ap
pointment on such trivial grounds as those al
leged. Up where he lives, the loil don’t do
much else but manufacture illicit whisky and
whip Southern Methodist preachers.
ALCXBI CLUBS.
We invite particular attention to the follow
ing address to the Alumni of the Georgia Uni'
versity, the manuscript of whioh came to hand
last Friday night:
University of Geoboia, Jane 25, 1871.
To the Alumni of the University of Georgia.
Gentlemen—I beg to call your attention to
the importance of forming local clubs of ihe
Alumni of this University.
The main objeet of this organization is to
unite onr Alumni as oo-werkera-in behalf of the
interests of the University. Wherever a few
of tbeAlnmni, residents of the same city or
neighborhood, can combine together in the for
mation of a club, it is earnestly desired that
they fraternize in an organic shape, holding
meetings at stated seasons, interchanging views
as to the best methods of promoting the wel
fare of the University, and adopting the most
effective measures to create, snstain and em
body an earnest publio sentiment in support of
the University. Such an organization has a
genuine feeling for its basis. It has a sphere to
fill and a work to do; for onr Alumni owe it to
themselves to cling together, and they owe it
to the University to cling to her. Educated
ruen lose many of the benefits of early cnltnre
by neglecting just such fellowship of intellect
and heart as these clubs will supply. What is
equally unfortunate, their personal attachment
to Alma Mater loses much of its intensity, and
most of its utility, simply for the reason that it
has no means of organic action. If, then, these
local clubs can be the centres of association and
sympathy, both as it respects the relatione of
individual members and a common relation to
the University, they should certainly commend
themselves to onr thoughtful regard.
It is believed, moreover, that these local clubs
can be brought into an auxiliary, relation to the
Alumni Association of the University, and
thereby prove an efficient agency in carrying
ont its prospective plans. If the Alumni Asso
ciation expand in the direction oontemplatednt
its last session, August 1, 1870, it will find these
clubs most serviceable adjuncts to its power.
It can accomplish throngh them what it cannot
accomplish without them. Not only will it
have an organization by means of which it can
operate, bnt the University itself will have at
every leading point in the State, a channel
through which it can reaoh the public mind.
What your Alma Mater most needs, is to perpet
uate a vital connexion with .her sons, so that
she can call them at any critical period to her
side, anddean npon them for generous sympa
thy and manly support. The hour of gradua
tion has too often been the hour of separation, of
practical alienation, and of forgotten obligations.
If the protest of her wounded heart can reaoh
you, this shall be her misfortune and her sorrow
no longer. Nor is this all. What yon most
need as cultivated men, is to perpetuate yonr
connexion with yonr Alma Mater.
The best and safest proof that a man can give
of his education, is the active interest he takes
in the well-being of the University that inspired
him with high aims, protected Mm against evil
by her vigilant power, and held him clceely to
her heart during the years when she worked for
him, bnt when he could not work for her. Qn
each side, thon, great benefits will accrue from
the organization proposed. The return of yonr
hearts to the sanctity of a neglected duty, will
inspire yon with the fervor of a deeper life, and
renew that youth of the affections which too
frequently grows prematurely old just because
the obligations and associations of onr earlier
days are allowed to lapse into an unnatural ob
livion. On the other hand, your Alma Mater
will enhance her own sense of responsibility and
do a far broader work for Georgia, if Bhe will
follow yon as she ought to follow yon to the
homes yon build, to the private and public
spheres yon fill, and to the solemn relationships
which grow upon yon with your growing years.
The approaching session of the Alumni Asso
ciation, July 31st, will be nn occasion of much
interest. Tf you cannot all attend, see to it that
your local club is represented in the delibera
tions of the Association.
I beg to remain,
Very respectfully yours,
Andrew A. Ihtscomb.
The Chiselhurst Exiles.
From the London Court JonrnaL]
The Emperor Napoleon’s life at Chiselhurst
is ttns aescriDeG ny ono who Has the privilege
of becoming acquainted with the social doings
there : “During the forenoon all is silent in the
mansion. The Empress, after prayers, break
fasts with the Prince Imperial, who then walks
ont in the park for a short time, the rule of re
suming his e’ulies in the morning being broken
throngh during tho indisposition of tho Em-
poror, to whom the society of his son is the
chief solace of his exilo. The Prince remains
with his father daring the whole process of the
toilet, then assists at his late breakfast, which,
contrary to the custom of the Tuileries, is taken
alone. Daring this time the conversation be
tween father and son is maintained with inter
est and affection. The boy has cheered and
soothed the bodily pain and mental agony of the
Emperor, who is sometimes seen to smile.as
the former recounts his experiences of England
and the English, and - offers judgment according
to his lights concerning the habits of Frenoh
boys as compared with those of England.
"When the Emperor leaves his own apartment,
the Prince Imperial repairs to his stnies. Bnt
His Majesty declares that already the glory of
the day i3 over, although he feels the necessity
of the separation for awhile. The morning’s
report of the state of Paris is still furnished by
Piotri, but is never once alluded to. Even the
Empress herself never dares to venture an
opinion on tho subject. She has her own re
porters, and is always prepared for the event
before it happens. What has struck the friends
of the Imperial family most of all is the com
parative solitude in wMch each of its members
seeks to live. There is something touching in
the solitary walk taken by the Emperor np and
down the avenue leaning on his cane, and stop
ping every now and then to remove the pebbles
from his path, according to tho habit of all men
engaged in deep thought. His Majesty has
frown much fatter since his arrival atGhiseN
1 inrst. But be walks with far more ease than
on his first arrival in England, and now only
requires the arm of a friend to help Mmnp the
steps of the hall door of the mansion.”
A charming anecdote, worthy of tho ancient
days of chivalry, is being whispered about
among the higher circles in London. It seems
that one of our young Catholic heroes of high
life, always a gTeat admirer of the Empress
Eugenie, paid a visit to Chiselhurst, last week,
revious to his departure for Paris. “What can
bring your Majesty from Babylon ?’’—the
name by whioh the doomed city is always desig
nated now by the Ultramontane party—said tho
young nobleman, as he bent low over Her Ma
jesty’s fair hand. “Nothing,” replied the Em
press, sadly; then suddenly correcting her
speech, said, quietly. “Yes, there is one thing
1 should love. Bring me*a rose from the gar
den of the Tuileries! ” The young man pro
mised to execute this apparently easy commis
sion, and departed in sadness. On Friday he
reappeared at Chiselhurst with ft case of purple
morocco in his hand, which he reverently pre
sented on bended knee to the Empress. It was
the Golden Rose, gift of the Pope of Her Ma
jesty, that he had brought “from the Tuileries."
How he had obtained it, or through what long
course of adventure he had traced it to the par
ty willing to part with it, will never be known,
nor yet at what sacrifice it was obtained. But
great was the Joy of the Ulootriooa lady on be
holding it, and pardonable the feeling whioh in
duces her to hope that it will bring a blessing
to last to her house and stay the wrath of heav
en. It had always formed part of the altar de
corations of the chapel of the Tuileries.
Alarming Condition of the Cotton Crop. —
The Herald’s Washington specials, of the 27th
nit., have the following:
Recent reports from several sections of Geor
gia oonfirm the previous reports of the diaoour-
aging condition of the ootton crops. The long
continued rains have rendered the ootton so
grassy that it will be almost impossible to rescue
it. To increase the discomfiture of the plan
ters, most of them are short of hands, many of
the colored'people having gone off to gather
blackberries. The alarming oondition of the
cotton crops has caused the com to be neg-
leoted. A gimilmr state of things is represented
to exist in all the Gulf States that have lately
been visited by heavy rains.
During the week just passed there have been
three or fonr good hot, grass-killing days, and
we believe there has been a general and mate
rial improvement in the oondition of the grow
ing ootton crop of Georgia.
Adipose.—When Judge Nixon opeoed the
session of the United States District Court at
Trenton, N. J., last week, the twenty-four grand
jurors confronted Mm, weighing 6,491 pounds,
or an average of 270 pounds. The lightest was
160 and the heaviest 425 pounds.
Llffe’s Pity.
I thiii the pity of this Mo is love:
he [ gl ° 17 won ;
“*> ?j\ en , mto her very heart he sighs.
Behold 1 she puts away her life—and dies.
I think the pity of this fife ia love;
B ®“ us ®. but little joy has come,
Or all that most I hoped would nuke life’s e-nn •
For though the perfumed seasons come and » ’
The spring birds warble, e’en the rivers flow “ ’
f om ® lo ve that to their own doth run
My bud of love huh bloomed for other eves
And I am left—to eorrow and to sighs. ■
I think the pity of this life ia love:
For from onr fore we gsthor all lire’s pain,
waf-oS-U 00 *s£^5 °$ r hearts on earthly shrines
^ kneel —hut where, alwl we fall
Beneath * shadow ever past recall;
miYj? a ??„ /or 8013 wh en ’tie but dross that shines
Then if we may not turn our hearts abovo
I know the pity of this fife is love.
Overland Monthly for Jifne,
THE NORTHERN Kr-HLtX.
Two Illinois Maid* Bewitched-They: Tarn
Acrobats, Eat Flics, and Talk in an Un
known Tongue-Wholesale Murder and
* Witchcraft!" M,ssonrl -‘ A Case or
_ Chicago, June 27.-116 town of Frankfort
Perry county, Ills., is greatly excited over what
the citizens regard as a clear case of witchcraft
recently developed in that vicinity. Two young
ladies, daughters of James Williams, are the
victims. It has been thought by the neighbors
fear some time past that something was wrong
with the girls, and a few days since a physician
was called to visit them. He failed to discover
the difficulty. Since that time immense crowds
have Tisited the girls, averaging from fifty to
one hundred eaoh night They are perfectly sane
daring the day, but at the approach of night they
become frenzied and uncontrollable, performing
feats that would put the first-class of acrobats to
Shame. Scaling the house, they will dance and gy
rate on the comb of the roof with perfect ease and
impunity, uttering at the same time the most
Mdeous and frenzied screams. Very frequently
while performing suehfeats, they fall perfectly
rigid with spasms, bnt they never fall off, how
ever near the eaves they may be. Daring the
day, at which time they are perfectly sane, they
seem modest and reserved. The spell comes
upon both near the same time, generally during
twilight, when they both.break into a ran, al
ways north in the direction of the house cf a
lady who they say has bewitched them. These
spells are put on them, they say, on account of
their telling something she forbid them, and
she and a cat are with them in their house-top
dance. Their conversation when laboring un
der these spells is in on unknown tongue. They
catch and eat alllhe flies they can get hold of
until nausea is produced, when they both vomit
at the same time. What one. does the other
does at the same time. They seem to be moved
by one controlling power.
a door girl ku-eluxed to death.
St. Louis, Jnne 27.—The examination of
Mrs. Gertrude Engle, oharged with administer
ing medicine with a view to producing abortion
in Emily Robinson, the girl whom Logan D.
Cameron is alleged to have seflnced, began to
day in the Court of Criminal Correction. The
court room was densely crowded, many women
being present. Doctors Johnson and Pallen
testified to the condition of Hiss Robinson and
the cause of her death. Mrs. Dr. Roberts, of
St. Luke’s hospital, testified to the condition of
Miss Robinson when she came to tho hospital,
and gave some of the dying confession of tho
girl, wMch was rnled out. The examination
will be continued to-morrow.
two desperadoes ktt.t.tt) Aim their murderer
LYNCHED 1
A party of desperadoes got into a quarrel at
Hardin, Ray county, in this State, Saturday
last, and one of them named Price, killed two
others, one named Reeves, with a huge knife.
Price was arrested and locked np, but during
the night was taken ont by a party of citizens
and hanged to a tree.
GSISSIA'G AND BEARING IT.
Sontbern Self-Control Mnst Solve the Po
litical Problem of the Fntnre-Another
Practical, Comaon Sense Letter from
John (Iniaty Adam*.
The A ignsta (Arkansas) Bulletin of the 2fth
inst.,- publishes a letter from John Quincy
Adams to the editor of that paper, in which he
says:
I feel shy of speaking to you or any citizen of
the “snbject States.” I dislike to earn the re
tort—‘ ‘Ob, it is very easy to preach; bnt, suffer
as we have, and then tell ns how yon feel and
we will listen.” I do try to take it home to my
self ; and I do not doubt that, in similar cir
cumstance, I should be to-day an “unrepentant
rebel”—sore, angry, beaten and defiant. And,
with mei, It would doubtless have been as it has
been with you, that “the tender mercies of re
construction had been harder to bear than all
the horrors of invasive war.” I should have
been galled by misgovemment, robbed by im
ported knavery of the pittance which the war
lad spared; exasperated by willful and persis
tent misrepresentation, and cruelly condemned
to hopeless impotence for the imputed guilt of
cowardly crimes I abhorred. I should have
been oondenmed, too,to hold my personal liberty
at the nod of a mercenary carpet-bagger or the
whim of a military satrap. I say that I fear
I Bhould have been an “irreconcilable.” In
such a case, I think I should bo sulky; bnt I
know I should be silly if I yielded (o the feeling.
For, whence mnst my relief -come, if my last
estate is not to become worse than the first ? Is
there a man outside an asylum who thinks that
by such a course the “ lost cause” can be re
gained? By whom, then? If by the North, believe
me that the experiment of secession has satis
fied all that ho oanse is worth a civil war. That
war has confirmed, beyond a shadow of a turn
ing, the destiny which decreed that there shall
be bnt one confederated people of the North
American Union. No. Rebellions I might be;
but weak enough to await the resurrection I do
not think I conld bo. You and I and your
friends and neighbors and mine are of one
blood; we were once “fellow citizens,” and the
old time kindness must linger yet, in spots.
Our fathers were “brethren,” and that must
count for something. The whole political
problem of the future turns upon the an
swer to the question—“shall we live to
gether a3 friends or enemies?” Now, the
whole internal polioy of the present admin
istration 9ays war. Reconstruction weani war,
and tho Ku-klnx bill declared war. This Union
is now held together by foroe. Certainly, if
this is .to be permanent, it would have been bet
ter to have parted at first If the straggle to
oast ont slavery overthrew the Constitution,'what
chance is there for a “free” government if the
North is to rule tho South ? South Carolina is
to-day the most shameless parody on republican
institutions since republican Rome bestrode aU
the nations of the ancient world, put the sword
to their throats, stripped th*m bare, and then
looked words to laud the loveliness of liberty.
You cannot be subject, and we be long free.
The untrammelled exercise of local self-govern
ment by the people of the States is the salt which
preserves our whole system. Take that away
and onr frame of polity will rapidly rot into des
potism. Therefore, it Is that, not as a partisan,
mt wholly as a fellow-citizen, I trust that ail the
good citizens of the seceded States will frankly
accept the revolutionary changes whioh have be en
forced upon the Constitution, and with them
cheerfully adopt the new relations of amity and
political and civil equality toward Uie eman
cipated class whioh these changes involve.-—
And, therefore, I am glad when I see the noble
spirit of your letter pervading the Southern
people as it does, despite the_ malignity of a
partisan press; while the sterling sense of Mr.
Vallandigham ba* reformed the Northern Dem
ocracy. And it matters not what man may k®
chosen to lead ns, so long as Ms heart is large
enough to hold his whole country; his soul
brave enough to embraoe a Confederate as a
brother, and his platform wide enough for every
American citizen to stand npon. To compass
thin end something of sacrifioe is required of ns
all; much of self-control is demanded of the
South- Yon and all I hear assure me that the
attempt will be made; and if made honesUy
and in earnest, it cannot fail.
Hon. Jas. Jackson.—We printed a commu
nication from Griffin yesterday, giving an ac
count of the recent Commencement exercises of
the Griffin Female College, In which a merited
compliment was paid to the address delivered
on the ftocairion by “Judge Henry R. Jackson.
It should have read Judge James Jackson, ol
this city, mid was so oorrected in the manu
script: bn* the printer who set it up thought
he know better than weJj^Rnud so reiterated
the mistake of oar oo l*ut.
A living near Hamilton, Ohio, dan
gerously shot himself, last Friday, while en
deavoring to show some bystanders bow Mr.
Vallandigham oamc to his death.
