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On the Beach.
• BV JAMES FEAKELIJS FITTS.
When tko enn was burning low,
And his faint, expiring glow,
Gilded ocean's restless flow;
When the tide has ebbed away
With tho ebbing of the day,
In th© bosom of the bay;
When the starry fires are burning.
Lamps of heaven, With night returning,
Ecacon-ligbts of mortal yearning—
Then we walked the brown-gray sand,
Heart in heart, and hand in hand—
Walked the while in fairy-land.
There, beside the tinging sea,
There together happily
bang onr hearts its melody.
Then together—now alone.
Listening to the ocean's moan,
Banded like a reed o'er blown—
Here I walk the sands at evo,
Here in eolitnde I grieve,
Break the spells we loved to weave.
Still the silver fires ate set
In night's azure coronet—
Do they light thy pathway yet ?
Ob. my darling, earth is weary,
Lite, without thee, sad and dreaty.
ocean's song a llistrtre !
And my sun is horning low,
Fainter yet life’s embers glow,
Tides will ebb that cannot flow.
Appleton's Journal.
About Barbers.
All things change except barbers, tho way of
labers, and the surroundings of barbers.
Tieio never change. What one experiences in
is a lather shop the first time he enters one, is
always wbn*. he experiences in barber shops af
terwards till the end of his days. I got shaved
this morning as usoal. A man approached the
door from Jones street as I approached it from
Main—a thing that always happens. I hurried
op, bat it was no use; he entered the door one
little step ahead of me, and I followed in on his
heels aid saw him tako tho only vacant chair,
the one presided over by the best barber. It
always happens so. I sat down, hoping that I
might fall heir to the chair belonging to the
letter of the remaining two barbers, for ho had
already begun combing bis man’s hair, while
his comrade was not qnite done rubbing up and
oiling his customer's locks. I watched the prob
abilities with strong interest. When I saw that
No. 2 was gaining on No. 1 my interest grew to
solicitude. When No. 1 stopped a moment to
make change on a bath ticket for a new comer,
and lost gronnd in the race, my solicitude rose
to anxiety. When No. 1 caught up again, and
both ho and his comrade were pulling the
towels awry and brushing the powder from
their customers’ cheeks, and it was about an
even thing which one would say “next!”
fist, my very breath stood still with sus
pense. Bnt when, at the final culminating
moment, No, I stopped to pass a comb a couple
of times through his customer’s eyebrows, I
saw that he had lost the race by a single instant,
and I rose indignant and quitted the shop, to
keep from falling into the hands of No. 2; for
I have none of that enviable firmness that
enables a man to look into the eyes of a waiting
barber and tell him ho will wait his fellow bar
ber's chair. I stayed out fifteen minutes, and
then went back, hoping for better inch. Of
course all the chairs were occupied now, and
four men sat watting, silent, unsociable, dis
traught, and looking bored, as men always do
who are awaiting their turn in a barber’s shop.
I sat down in one of the iron-armed compart
ments of an old sofa, and put in the time for a
while, reading the framed advertisements of all
sorts of quack nostrums for dyeing and coloring
the hair. Then I read the greasy namea on the
private bay rum bottles; read the names and
noted the numbers on the private shaving cups
in the pigeon-holes; stndied the stained and
damaged cheap prints on the walls, of battles,
early presidents, and voluptuous, recumbont
enltanas, and the tiresomo and everlasting young
riri putting her grandfather’s spectacles on;
execrated in my heart the cheerful canary and
ile distracting parrot that few barber shops nro
without. Finally, I searched out tho least di
lapidated of the last year's illustrated papers
that littered the foul centre-table, and conned
their unjustfiable misrepresentations of old for
gotten events. At last my turn came. A voice
said “next,” and I surrendered to—No. 2, of
course. It always happens so. I said meekly
fh»t I was in a hurry, and it affected him as
if ho had never heard it. He shOTed np my
head and put a napkin under it He plowed his
‘•wgcra into my collar and fixed a towel there.
He- explored my hair with bis claws and sug-
gested that it needed trimming. He explored
“gain, and said it was pretty long for tho pres
ent style—better have a little off—it needed it
behind, especially. I said I had bad it cut only
4 week before. He yearned over it reflectively
o moment and then asked, with a disparaging
manner, who cut it ? I came back at him
promptly with a “yon did!” I had him there.
Then be fell to stirring np his lather and regard-
wghimself in the glass, stopping nowand then
,0 get close and oxamino his chin critically or
torture a pimple. Thon he lathered one side of
■ay face thoroughly, and was abont to lather the
ether, when a dog fight attracted his attention,
ead he ran to the window and stayed and saw it
oat, losing two shillings on the result in bets with
tie other barbers, a thing which gavo me great
satisfaction. Ho finished lathering, meantime
getting the brush into my mouth only twice,
*ad then began to rub in the suds with his
hand; and as he now had his head tamed, dis
cussing the dog fight with the other barbers,
te natnrally shovelled considerable lather into
“y mouth without knowing if, but I did. He
aowr began to sharpen his razor on an old sus-
peader, and was delayed a good deal on ac
count of a controversy about a cheap masquer-
cue ball he had figured at tho night before, in
md cambric and bogus ermine, os sonso kind of
a king. Ho was so gratified with being chaffed
abont some damsel whom ho had smitten with
hi* charas, that he used every means to con
tinue the discussion by pretending to bo an-
hoyed at the chaffings of his fellows. Thiamat-
ter begot more surveyings of himself in tho
pass, and he put down his razor and brushed
his h»ir wiih an elaborate care, plastering an in-
v crted arch of it down on his forehead, accom
plishing an accurate “part” behind, and brush
es the two wings forward over his ears with
utee exactness. In the meantime tho lather was
ucytng on my face and apparently eating into
“I yitala. Now he began to shave, dig-
Pug Uia fingers into toy countenance to stretch
the skin, making a handle of my noso now
cad then, bundling and tumbling my hoad this
**y and that as convenience to shaving de
fended, and “hawking” and expectorating
p.ensantly all the while. As long as ho was on
-he tough side of my face I did not suffer; but
fhen he began to rake and rip, and tog at my
cam the tears came. I did not mind his getting
■ a close down to me; I did not mind his garlic,
hucause all barbers eat garlic, I suppose; but
there was an added something that made me
fear that ho was decaying inwardly while still
alive, and this gave me much concern. He now
put his fiDger to my mouth to assist him to
shaving the comers of my upper lip, and it
was by this bit of circumstantial evidence that
I discovered that a part of his duties in the shop
was to clean the kerosene lamps. I had often
wondered in an indolent way whether the bar
bers did that, or whether it was the boss. Abont
this time I was amusing myself trying to guess
where he would bo most likely to cut me *bi«
time, but he got ahead of me audBliced me on the
end of the chin before I had got my mind made
up. He immediately sharpened his razor—he
might have done it before. I do not like a close
shave, and would not let him go over me a sec
ond time. I tried to get him to put up his razor,
dreading that he wonld make for the side of my
chin, my pet tender spot, a place a which a razor
cannot touch twice without making trouble. But
he said he only wanted to just smooth off one
little roughness, and to that same moment he
slipped his razor along the forbidden gronnd,
and the dreaded pimple-signs of a close shave
rose up smarting and answered to the call. Now
ho soaked his towel in bay nun, and slapped it
all over my face nastily; slapped it over as if a
human being over yet washed his face to that
way. Then he dried it by slapping with the dry
part of the towel, as if a human being ever dried
bis face in such a fashion; but a barber seldom
rubs you like a Christian. Next he poked bay
rum into the cut place with his towel, then
choked the wound with powdered starch, then
soaked it with bay nun again, and wonld have
gone on soakingand powdering it for evermore,
no doubt, if I had not rebelled and begged off.
He powdered my whole face now, straightened
me np and began to plongbmy hair thoughtfully
with his hands and examine his fingers critically.
The he suggested a shampoo, and said my hair
needed it badly, very badly. I observed that I
had shampooed it myself very thoroughly to the
bath yesterday. I “ had him” again. He next
recommended some of “ Smith’s Hair Glori-
fier,” and offered to sell me a bottle. I declined.
He praised the now perfume, “Jones’ Delight
of the Toilet,” and propjsed to%ell me some of
that. I declined again. Ho tendered me
_ in this latitude (exclusive of the late gale) have
tooth-wash atrocity of his own invention, and ij e6n preserved since the beginning of the 19th
when I declined, offered to trade knives with .
declined,
me. He returned to business after the mis
carriage of this last enterprise, sprinkled me all
over, legs and all, greased my hair to defiance
of my protest against it, rubbed and scrubbed
a good deal of it out by the roots, and combed
and brushed the rest, parting it behind and
plastering tho eternal inverted arch of hair
down on my forehead, and then, while combing
my scant eyebrows and defiling them with po
made, strong out an account of the achievements
of a six-ounce black and tan terrier of his, till I
beard the whistles blow for noon, and knew I
was five minutes too late for the train. Then
he snatched away the towel, brushed it lightly
about my face, passed his comb through my
6yehrows once more, and gaily sang out “next! ”
This barber fell down and died of apoplexy
two hours later. I am waiting over a day for
my revenge—I am going to attend his funeral.
—Mark Twain, in the Galaxy for August.
The Road Steamer Again.
Geoegia State Ageicultubai. Societf,)
Seceetaev’s Office, Macon, Aug. 22. >
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In the
haste of preparation and tho consequent illegi
bility of the notes I* sent yon on the Hoad
Steamer, I caused the printer to commit some
errors to one of the most important paragraphs,
which destroy tho sense. I would havo callod
attention to it at the time bnt for the necessity
of leaving the city for the Home Convention,
then pressing. Upon any other matter, per
haps, I would not urge the correction, but the
subject of the road steamer is one I deem of
such importance that public attention, with or
without a pretext, cannot well bo too often
called to it. The correction is as follows:
“The directors of the Central Railroad, with
a desire to give a fair test of tho practical work
ing of this machine, directed their President to
have this one made at a cost of $5,000, besides
tbe expense of shipping, and to place it where
it now is, (Dole Wadley Mills, Emanuel county,)
and can be seen readily, and where it i3 sub
jected to tho actual practical test of the heaviest
work.
Mr. Wadley informed mo that the machine
was thus introduced and tested, that the people
of Georgia might examine and see for them
selves, whether they may not, by companies,
take bold of it and save much of tho immense
outlay now incurred for horse-power and horse
feed by using it for plowing; and whether they
might not make it bear burdens and answer the
purpose of tbe three feet gauge railroad, and
arrest the waste of money to building tho wide
gauge, and thns diminish tho debt and taxation
that are to resnlt from the building of roads
that will not pny to a half century, if ever.
I am confident no ono can witness the per*
formanco of the steamer, without the convic
tion that it dates an era to transportation and
plantation economy—especially in the depart
ment of plowing. The machines at present in
nse may not accomplish all the inventors claim
or wish. They may bo bnt the rude beginning,
in comparison of what steam powor was when
it made its first appearance on water. They
have demonstrated that steam on the dirt road
can be utilized. Tho extont to which it con be
utilized is only a question of time—of improved
invention—of progress. Already, to less thin
six months, since the judgment of Mr. Wadley
pronounced that the Thompson steamer would
do all the inventor claimed, thisstcamcr basbeen
beaten to a fair field by Aveling & Porter, of
London. Tho improvements thus rapidly mak
ing in what has been pronounced a success
more than a year ago, prove that there are no
longer gronuds of doubt that the invention
makes a period to all social, commercial and
material progress—no longer ground to doubt
the wisdom of the public spirit which brought
this machine into Georgia for the inspection of
planters—tho main fact, indeed, to which it is
my object in this note to call public attention.
Vory xespcctfnlly,
Dav. W. Lewis, Secretary.
Crops In Twiggs Connfy.
Twiggs Cgustx, Ga., August 21,1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Having
just reached home from a jaunt over this coun
ty, and thinking yon would like to hear, some
thing in relation to the crops, I have decided to
givo you a few dots.
There is a greater area planted in com than
was last year, but will be only half a3 much
housed, with very little fodder, as it was burned
before the corn would admitof its being pulled.
Owing to tho cotton plant being so full of sap
from tho excessive rains, and then the long
drontb, the bolls are opening very rapidly,
though little more than half grown. The weed
is small, consequently has on very little fruit,
and is shedding rapidly. Bo wo cannot possibly
mako more than half an average crop. Yours
truly, Farmed.
Louisville, August 19.—Tho negro who out
raged and murdered a little girl near Fnlton
Station, a few days since, was taken from jail
the night of his arrest, and shot throngh seven
times, and left for dead. Next morning he was
found silting up, and was taken to jail and had
his wounds dressed, bnt afterwards he was taken
ont and hnng. He confessed his crime.
This shaft is shot by tho Cincinnati Commer
cial (HadicaL)
Each of tho four great men out' of Grant’s
immortal Cabinet, Akerman, Robeson, Cres-
welland Belknap, is said to be willing to accept
the Vice-Presidency. Those great men think
that lightning has fallen into the habit of strik
ing the underbrush exclusively. Perhaps itis so.
A New England contemporary says: “The
girls havo got a new hobby. This time it is
the collection of different patems of printed
calico. One in New Hampshire has gathered
together ono thonsand different kinds.
Mb. Donaldson of Cincinnati, has so thor
oughly domesticated a humming-bird that upon
going into his garden the bird will immediately
alight upon a shell in hi3 hand and sip sugar-
water within it, no matter how many persons
may be standing around him at tbe time.
Tbe Three Fishers.
BT CBAET.ES KINGSLEY.
Three fishers .went Bailing down to tho west,
Away to the West as the snn went down;
Each thought of the woman who loved him the best
And the children stood watching them out of tho
town.
For men must work and women must weep,
And here’s little to earn, and many to keop,
Though the harbor bar be moaning.
Throe wives sat np in the light house tower.
And trimmed the lamps as the euu went down;
And they looked at the squall and they looked at
the shower.
While the night rack came rolling up ragged and
brown;
. But men must work and women must weep,
Though storms be sudden and water deep,
And the harbor bar be moaning.
Three corpses lie ont on the ehining sands,
In the moaning gleam as tho tide went down,
And tho women are weepiDg and wringing their
hands
For those who will never come homo to the town;
But men must work and women must weep,
And the sooner it’s over the sooner to sleep,
And the good-bye to the bar and its moaning.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Savannah, August 20, 187L
My last communication was dispatched amid
the roar of the elements and the prevalence in
all its fury of one of those terrific hurricanes,
which occasionally visit the Atlantic coast. In
violence and destructiveness they resemble the
dreaded cyclone, of whose awful effects we
have heard so much. A native of this coast and
residing there daring the larger portion of his
life, the writer has a vivid recollection of the
irresistible power of the storm king, and the
wrecked and forlorn appearance all nature pro
sents, when tho tempest subsides, and the
winds are again caged to the caverns of
-Eolos.
6T0EM3 OF THE BBESENT CENTT7B7.
Anthentio records of three great hurricanes
century.
Tho first bears date September, 1804, and
was the most destructive of them ell. Whole
families dwelling upon the Islands which fringe
the coast of Liberty and McIntosh counties were
swept away by the rising tide, and perished
miserably. A curious incident is related of a
very pious bnt eccentric old lady Who was dis
covered during tho height of the storm, cling
ing to the boughs of an uprooted tree, and
singing most devoutly the familiar refrain,
“Saviour, visit thy plantation,
Send ns, Lord, a gracious rain.”
She was rescued, and certainly had no caose
to complain that her prayer was unanswered.
The next hurricano occurred also in Septem
ber, 1824. It was a ternble tempest; and
dwellings were prostrated, stock killed, cotton
and corn fields submerged, and the prospects of
the husbandman utterly rained. Serious loss
of life also 'accompanied this calamity. The
third grand blow, on the 8th of September,
1854, was witnessed by the writer. For a week
previous light and variablo winds had prevailed
from the northeast, with occasional showers.
On the afternoon of tho day alluded to, however,
the sky became overcast with opaque and wild
looking clouds, which chased each other like
armed hosts across the empyroam. The wind
blew in fitful gusts with intervening periods of
perfect stillness, daring which all the universe
seemed hushed in preternatural repose. Im
mense flocks of martins skimmed the surface
of tbe earth, and sea gnlls, pellicans and other
water fowl3 wheeled throngh the air with omin
ous cries of approaching danger. Suddenly the
tempest, in all its wrath, bnrst upon tho af
frighted inhabitants. Floods of rain descended,
lashed into spray ero it reached the earth. The
wind shifted and veered from point to point,
nntil it bad boxed the entire compass. Tho
giants of tho forest reeled and staggered, then
:;eil with tho crash of thunder, by thousands.
Dwellings were dismantled or leveled to the
ground; barns and gin-houses overthrown and
their contents scattered for miles; stables de
stroyed, and tho poor animals in them maimed
or killed; smiling fields teeming with thair
ripening fruits submerged and desolated; ves
sels, driven from their moorings, were stranded
high and dry miles from the deep; cranes, sca
pula, gannets and other water-fowls, driven far
nto the interior by the gale, were captured or
shot to tho corn and cotton fields; every road in
the county was blocked np by the tranks of
fallen trees, and all communication between
localities for the time suspended; to short all
nature looked like chaos had come again, and
the demon of destruction was abroad to tbe
land—ofcourse tho crops were almost annihi
lated. The scene yesterday reminded ns of
that fearful period, but though as much water
fell, the wind did not rage so ferociously.
APTZABAKCE OF TUTS (JITJT.
The debris of the storm may bo seen on every
side, to the shape of prostrate trees, broken
limbs,, shattered signs, window shatters, and
roils of tin from the roofs and flooded streets.
Happily no lives were lost, though much appre
hension is felt for the shipping on tho coast.
It i3 a cations meteorological fact which is
again confirmed, that nil of tho northeastern
gales commence at the South, and gradually
work their way northward. The weather obser
vatories at Washington proved, to this instance,
wonderfully correct.
COHMODOBE MAUBY.
And here, cn passant, we feel constrained to
express onr indignation that tho United States
Government should have stolen the thnnders of
this distinguished Southron, who became a rebel,
so-called, to disgrace. His theories of wind
and sea currents, charts, etc., etc., have all
been appropriated and tamed to pracliaal
account, while their great anthor neither receives
credit or compensation for his scientific discov
eries. What arrant National robbery 1
THE TEACEFUL SABBATH.
With tho dawn bf this glorious day of rest,
the exhausted elements ceased their strife, and
the blue and serene sky, lit up by the gorgeous
god of day, sent life and hope and happiness to
overy heart. *
Apnre and bracing atmosphere quickened
the pulses, and tempted multitudes to repair to
tho sanctuary of the living God, at tho sum
mons of the many sweet-toned bells which re
verberated throngh tho oity.
INDEPENDENT PBESBXTEBIAN CHUBCH.
This anoient edifice, vast to its proportions
and severely simple, yet beautiful, in architec
tural design and interior finish, retains its place
in the first rank of American houses of worship.
But ono spire in the Union, that of Trinity,
New York, is said to be loftier, and none exceeds
it in exquisite symmetry and gracefulness.
BEY. DB. AXSON
Is the cherished and gifted pastor of this nu
merous and wealthy oongregatiou. Modest and
unaffected to his manners, and rarely making a
gesture of any kind to the pulpit, he yet pos
sesses the rare faculty of enchaining the atten
tion of his hearers whenever he addresses them.
The text on this occasion was taken from 2d
Kings, 2d chapter and loth verue: “ The spirit
of Elijah doth rest on EliBba.” We regret that
lack of space forbids the use of the oopious
notes whioh we took from this most interesting
and instructive discoure. The Doctor possesses
brilliant powers of narration, and frequently, as
to the present instance, his sermons consist of
graphio and beantiful recitals of Scriptural
truth and passages connected with his text, each
of which points a moral, and is most happily
applied. It is a very effective and attractive
mode of preaching, and leaves an impression
almost ineffaceable upon the minds of his audi
tors. Dr. Axson is justly regarded as one of
the ablest and most blameless of God's servants.
Long maybe continue “to minister in holy
things” to his devoted people. J.
The Empress Eagenie is abont to make a visit
to Spain to see her mother. Napoleon is pur
chasing property near Geneva, in Switzerland,
with -a view of residing there.
“Let Vs Have Peace.”
Wo find the following exceedingly sensible
and timely words to the West Point Shield of
Friday last:
There has been more dissension and wrang
ling we believe abont the “New Departure" (so
called) to Georgia than any other of the South
ern States, but we are glad to note that the most
influential papers in the State sueh as the Atlan
ta Constitution, Macon Telzgbath, Augusta
Constitutionalist, Chronicle and Sentinel, Sa
vannah Republican and Columbus Enquirer re
commend that tho true course to be pursued by
those who wish to whip the Radicals in the next
election, is to eschew wraigltngs and bitter dis
sensions, and unite as one man with the Demo
cratic party of the North, upon whatever plat
form they may be pleased to put forth. This
is sensible, and it seems tons the only course
the true patriot could pursie, who wishes to see
his country disenthralled and freed from the
galling bondage of Ku-klux bills, enforcement
laws, etc. To the Northern Demooraoy we look
for redemption, and it illy becomesns to dictate
to them npon what gronnd they shall enter the
fight to 1872. So far as worreindividuaUy con-
cerned, we are perfectly whling ■ to ieavo tho
planning of tho campaign into the hands of
sneh men, as Pendleton, Vorhees, Hendricks
Thurman,Black and the Brooks satisfied that they
will commit ns to no policy inconsistent with
sound principle, or detrimental to our honor.
These men have been life long friends of onr
people as well as constitutional liberty and we
are willing to trust them.
We do hope that tho small faction to Georgia
who aro trying to get up a “ronsement’ upon
the “new departure” will close their babblings,
and that we may present a solid front against
Radicalism. In tho name of all that fe worth
contending for, “Let us have Peace.”
The Shield speaks the sentiments of an im
mense majority of the honest, unselfish, sensi-
ble Democrats of Georgia and every other
Southern State. The magic of a greal name,
and the noise and blaster of a few peispiricg
individuals who seem to think it necessity that
they should prematurely tear their shirts, may
confuse tho people for a brief while, btu they’ll
see their way, and proclaim it too, at the proper
time. When the voice of the Demotrats of
Georgia is heard officially, these individuals will
be struck “spaachless” to find that all thtir bel
lowing and cavorting has made so little im
pression.
In the meantime wo want to know how many
of them are willing to follow Gen. Toombs to
tho polls and vote for Grant against any
Northern Democrat, on a “new departure”
platform ? We hope they will not all answer at
once, for really thoy speak so long and so loud,
generally, that onr tympanum might not ho able
to stand it.
Rase Ball at Oglethorpe.
Font Valeev, Ga., August 18,1871.
Messrs. Editors Telegraph and Messenger :
Base ball, so universally popularized as to be
known as onr national game, has not yet lost
its interest and its prestige with our young peo
ple. Tired of political, agricultural, conven
tion and crop nows, which has crowdod the col
umns of onr glorious old Telegeaph and Mes-
senoe—universally acknowledged tho best con
ducted news journal of the South—by way of
episode it may bo interesting to some of jour
numerous readers to give a brief account of one
of the brightest days, rich to social, innocent
and splendid enjoyment to tho young peoplo of
this section of country.
Yesterday, on arrival of the Macon train, By-
togton’s Hotel, and the whole yard around the
depot was crowded with young gentlemen with a
few of our bright-eyed,smiling young ladies—all
laughing, chattering,animated with hope, and ea
ger for tho contest which was to come off at Ogle
thorpe, between the Oglethorpe “Fast Times”
and tho “Fort Valley Nine j” such a hub-bub of
loud laughing voices; enough to drown ont the
sonorous, loud, though-sweet, music from Math
ews’ Amatuer Bras3 Band. “All aboard”—
from our polite conductor, Mr. Bass—the whis
tle blows, and wo aro off for Oglethorpe. Wo
arrive at eleven o’clock, form in procession, and
the peoplo from the surrounding country andthe
invited guests from Montezuma fall to till, ere
we reach tho grounds, wo aro a great company
of five or six hundred. The brass band dis
coursed sweet music while tho dinner was be
ing prepared by the noble ladies of Oglethorpe.
The dinner wa3 supervised by Colonel W. H.
Willis, Captain Charles Keen, and Major J. Bat
tle. And such a dinner! the tables groaned
nnder the superabundant weight of beef, pork,
mutton, kid, ham, chichens, etc.
After dinner the crowd spent a few hours in
free and easy social intercourse. Convention-
nlties were ignored and the law governing was,
that every one was at liberty to talk with any
one and all others, and upon any and all topics
—only remembering that we were a Christian
people and the oyo of God was upon ns.
At fonr o’clock, tho game commenced and
lasted until half past six. Unacquainted with
tho technicalities of the game, I can only give
yon the results. The nines wore composed as
follows:
Fort Valley: W. B. Mathews, Oapt; Austin
Russell, Sanford, Brantley, Groen, Preston,
Braswell, Mathews, J. B.
Past Times: Willie Fish, Oapt; Jones,
Willis, Webb, Montfort, Hudson, Williams,
Feagin, Summerlin.
The game closed by mutual consent with the
seventh inning, tho score standing:
Fort Valley Nino 35
Pastime Nine 23
Then with three hearty cheers for the Fort
Valleys and three more for the Pastimes, and
a “tiger” for the umpire, the crowd slowly dis
persed with gay jests and merry laughter, high
ly delighted with the game. Tho Pastimes bore
their defeat with that graceful good hum'-®*-
politeness that ever characterizes tra*
men. The Fort Valley nine we« escorted by
Oapt. Fish and Dr. Armstrong t® tke residence
of the former, where they w 010 regaled with a
most elegant supper. That prince among gal
lant gentlemen, CoL Willis, President of tho
dub, cared for the band to tho same manner.
At night the day’« sports ended with a grand
“sociable,” given at Stylos’ Hotel. Tho writer
was not there, but the universal testimony is
that the day will be cherished as one of tho
brightest, happiest days of earth.
The Fort Valley Club take this method of
tendering to the noble and generous hearted
ladies and gentlemen of Oglethorpe their Bin-
cere thanks for thoir pjincely hospitality and
kind personal consideration.
I forgot to mention that both olabs feel un
der special obligations to Mr. E. Wyche, umpire,
of your city, for the just and impartial manner
to which he performed his responsible duties.
Invited Guest.
A Grave Charge.
New Yoee, August 19.—It is reported that
affidavits have been made charging Stephen
Pearl Andrews, now editor of Woodhull and
Claffin’s Weekly, with violating a young lady,
niece of Mrs. Victoria O. Woodhull," and it is
charged that Miss Teanie 0. Glaffla aided and
abetted him to the crime. The lawyer of com
plainant says tbe affidavits will be published in
a day or two; that they will show a fearful
state of society here, and that the revelations
will shake the oity to Us centre.
What is the difference between a Democrat
of the “new departure” and a Radical? Both
indorse the war amendments to the Federal
Constitution. We Bee no difference.—Victoria
(Texas) Advocate.
The difference is between the natural deprav
ity that would burn a house down, and the oom-
mon souse which wonld be content to bnild a
less comfortable one rather than stay ont of
doors for free disoussion of the origin of thefire
Petersburg Progress.
CHECK!
Harvest.
Son-bathed and blest in the golden weather, .
Crowned for delight or crowned for pain,
Sheaved as ripe grain of the field together,
Covered with love from the possible rain
One are tho hearts that were yesterday twain.
Either has wandered a separate river.
Half of its comae through the meadows of Time
Here, at the junction, the floodgates deliver
All of the wealth they hare gathered betime—
Each unto each in a rhythm sublime.
Rapturous moment of fall-fruited gleaning!
Rapturous blending of spirits with kin!
One in the heavens but knoweth the meaning
This meeting or waters, this harvested shoes.
Mink Dodge.
A GREAT RAILROAD SENSATION.
Alleged Tampering With tbe Governor or
Alabama—How tbe People were to be
Swindled—Lindsay and bis Friend McKay
Chicago Timee New York Special.]
Railroad circles to New York are exceediogly
interested over the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad bribery case. It is alleged by oneL
Richards, the seoretazy of the railroad oompany,
that certain bonds, money, eta, were given to
one Nathaniel MoKay, for the purpose of
bribing Governor Lindsay, of Alabama, to neg
lect the interests of the State, and, to violation
of his boonden duty, advance the interests of
the road to question. In this allegation lies
the whole story, the details and incidents of
which are rich, rare and racy, and promise to
become more interesting and exciting as the
case progresses.
THE PASTIES.
Nathaniel MoKay is a brother of Donald Mc
Kay, the famous shipbuilder of Boston. They
were associated together for several years.
When they separated, Nathaniel entered into
the business of building locomotives to Jersey
City. Nathaniel .was one of those jolly, good-
natured men who are always popular, and al
ways great favorites with their associates and
business customers. He kept his fast team, and
was what might be called a man of the world
and a man abont town to the metropolis. Sel
dom a day passed that he was not seen driving
ont some prominent Southern or Western rail
road man. It was not only in this way that he
accommodated his friends, bnt, if the secrets of
out-of-the-way places could be written, many
mysterious and peculiar railroad adventures
would be brought to light to whioh Nathaniel
McKay and other railroad men well known to
the South and West were prominent aotors. It
was to this way that Mr. McKay became ac
quainted with the officials of the Alabama and
Chattanooga railroad. Always ready to sell a
locomotive (although McKay says there is very
little margin nowadays), these officials were
dined and wined and feted until, finally,
their hearts were re-opened, and they disolosed
to MoKay the condition of the road. It was
behind hand extremely, and its finances were
low. The State, by virtue of the mortgages
and securities it held, had the power to seize
the road and its appurtenances at any time, and
altogether they were to a desperate strait.
There were numerous caucuses and private and
mysterious interviews. When the Governor of
Alabama (who had the power nnder the consti
tution and the provisions of the seonritios to
seize the road) arrived to New York, McKay
took him to hand. Gov. Lindsay had a South
erner’s genuine love of a good horse, and an
artistio eye for the beautiful as exemplified to
the person of a portly woman. Therefore
nearly every day Gov. Lindsay andMcKay were
to be seen riding together on the avenue, the
boulevard, and the Central ParE, where all
these conditions were fulfilled. They were both
Scotchmen, and their taste3 natnrally ran in the
same grooves. What McKay’s object was to
thuB feting Gov. Lindsay can be imaginedwhen
the sequel is known.
THE SEQUEL.
It was now well into the spring. The January
interest had not been paid to tho State, and it
was tho dnty of Gov. Lindsay to seize the road
to protect the oreditors. The object of the man
agers was to stave off this seizure if possible,
and Mr. Nathaniel MoKay was seleoted to bring
abont this consummation so devoutly to be
wished. On the 12th of April Mr. L Richards,
Secretary of the Alabama and Ohattanooga
Railroad (as appears to his affidavit now on file
in the sheriff’s offioe in New York city), gave to
Nathaniel MoKay, as agent of the oompany,
certain cash, notes and stocks. He swears that
these consisted of three notes of $5000, at 4, C
and 8 months, drawn to tho order of the oom
pany, and indorsed by them; 2C0 shares of the
capital stock, par value $50, winch were made
payable to McKay’s order, at his request;
$100,000 to second mortgage bonds—i. e., ZOO
bonds, par value $1000, numbering from 2180
to 2279 inclusive, and also $5000 cash. Thus
MoKay received, to all—bonds, notes, Btocks
and caBh—the neat littlo sum of $200,000, with
whioh, so tbe secretary of the oompany says, he
was to bribe the Governor of the proud old
State to assist them to still farther swindle its
creditors. McKay denies this soft impeachment.
His version is, that these bonds, notes, eto.,
were given to him personally for his services to
getting from Gov. Lindsay a certain letter where
to the Governor assures the company that itisnot
his intention to seize the road. The oompany took
it for granted that MoKay would have to pay the
Governor for so extraordinary a letter, and after
having received the same they thought they
were all right; so they congratulated McKay,
and McKay congratulated himself, and over
sundry bottles of Piper Hiedsick there was con
siderable chuckling and mutual admiration, all
at tho expense of the good people of the State
of Alabama. The railroad people returned to
their road, the Governor to his executive man
sion, and MoKay continued to drive his mat
horses, and sell locomotives on *> *®ry small
margin. The Alabama
road Company were. J'<- ,oTe .V ruae, y owaraea
from their of security, one fine day.
i the Governor’s agents appeared with the
proper papers and seized the road, appurtenan
ces, rolling stock, eta, and there was conster
nation and some not very prayerful language to
the offioe of tbe company. With vengeful heart
and packed valise Mr. Richards hurried in hot
haste to New York and made the affidavit re
ferred to on which MoKay was unceremoniously
arrested. The railroad company wanted torn
held to bail to the sum of $200,000, bnt Judge
Cardoza put the bail at $50,000, which wa3 fur
nished by MoKay to the person of O. K. Garri
son, the well known and wealthy steamship man.
THE CEE AM OF THE JOXE.
And now comes the cream of the joke. The
railroad oompany want their money back, but
MoKay says he performed his work and only
got half pay for it He thinks tho considera
tion very small, for the notes will go to pro
test and the bonds are worthless. He ol»ima
that these bonds are an over-issue to thirty-one
and a half miles of side track, which were not
authorized by the act passed by the Legislatnre.
The company got $500,000 - of these bonds
signed by the former Governor of the State.
One of the trustees at Boston got an injunction
restraining the company from issuing the bonds,
bnt they got the injunction removed and issued
and sold them in Philadelphia. Gov. Lindsay
will not now recognize them, nor will the State
pay the Interest on them. This, McKay elaims,
renders them practically useless, and he has only
the $5,000 cash to show for alibis arduous services
in inducing the Governor to see the advantage
of writing the letter the company wanted. He
however, intends to hold on to notes, sloe***
bonds, cash, eta, waiting, Micawber-li>*» \ or
something to turn np. It Is a dear c*<* °J
mond cut diamond, and from tHCF 5 *®®* ®P*
pearanoes McKay’s diamond to* U „f..
ert and doing the moat pf 1110
swears that Lindsay i* Wend *
that he never approa 0 * 40 ^ Tith any corrupt
proposition, and *nat he never gave ^mor of
fered to give itn any portion of tho $200,000.
As tho matter stands, U is lboked upon with
considerable interest among the prominent rail
road men, and there is xnuoh speculation as to
its result. MoKay, ertirely unooncemed, and
as jolly as ever, still drives his team on the
road, and is as ardent an admirer of the fair
sex as ever. "
A BLAST FROK A GENUINE BLACK KAN.
He Shows Up the KMcnUtlee or South Car
olina Carpet-Baggers, Scalawags, and Mu
latto Politicians and Plunderers.
We have had on file for several days some
extracts from a letter recently written to
Frederick Douglas, by one Major Dela
ney, a genuine negro well known in that
city. Delaney served to the Federal army as
Major, having been appointed to that position
by Mr. Linooln. He has been vary prominent
to Radical polities abont Charleston andthe
sea islands of that State ever sinoe the early
days of reconstruction, and knows all abont that
deviltry from beginning to end. Some of these
extracts are capital reading, and we propose to
print a few of them. And first we have Dela
ney’s description of the instruments used to es
tablish the thing to South Carolina. He says:
When reconstruction commenced, political
leaders were greatly required, but few to be
had. Southerners (the old masters) studiously
opposed and refused to countenance reconstruc
tion, and the freedmen were fearful and would
not have trusted them if they could have ob
tained their aid.
Those who eame with or followed the army,
with a very few native whites, were the only
available political element to be had to carry
out the measures of reconstruction.
These were readily accepted by the blacks (by
this I include the entire colored people) and the
fullest confidence reposed to them. Some were
or had been officers to the army, some privates,
some sutlers, others peddlers and various
tradesmen, others gamblers, and even pick-
pookets, “hangers-on” and “ hammers.” I am
particularly speaking of the whites. Among
these were men of refinement, educated gentle
men, and some very good men; bnt a large
part of the most active were of the lowest
grades of Northern society, negro haters at
home, who oould not have been elected to any
position of honor or trust Just suoh men as
burnt down negro orphan asylums and hung
negro men to lamp-posts in the New York riot
of 18G3. In this review I intend to speak
plainly, call things by their right homes, and
look those of whom I speak directly to the face.
Positioned to places of power, profit and
trust they soon sought by that guile and decep
tion known only to demagogues, nnder the ac
ceptable appellations of Yankee, Republican
and Radical, to intrude themselves into the con
fidence of the blacks, and place themselves at
their head as leaders. So insidiously did they
do this that it was not discovered by the few
colored men of intelligence who held places
among them till too late to remedy the fatal
evil.
These demagogueslaid the foundation of their
career npon a basis of the moat dangerous poli
tical heresy. Deoeption, lying, cheating, steal
ing, “whatever can be done to politics to fair,”
and to “beat is the dnty to a political contest,
no matter what means are used to effeot it,” are
among the pernicious precepts of thto moral in
fidelity.
Jealous of the few intelligent colored men
among them, they stndionriy sought to divide
the blacks, by sowing the seeds of discord
among them. Thto was facilitated by prejudic
ing toe ignorant against toe intelligent. These
men strove and vied each with the other, regard
less of conseqnenoeB, to place himself to the
lead of a community of blacks to both town and
country, which in time was reduced to little
else than a rabble mob of disorder and confu-
wfjwi. Trained in iKo m s«t(s to their
masters; it beoamo dangerous to oppose toe
teachings of these men of mischief. Because,
having been recommended to their confidence
at toe commencement of reconstruction, their
experience and knowledge to pnblic men and
matters were too limited to believe anything
against them.
Of the effect upon the negroes of toe evil
counsels of these creatures, he bears this testi
mony:
To such au extent are they misled that they
regularly trained themselves with fire-arms and
marched in companies to political meetings, fre
quently led by miserable white men. Menacing
threatening, abusing, quarrelling, confusion,
and frequently rioting are common results of
thto most disgraceful state of affairs under
which we live, all in the name of Republican
ism.
The effeot npon toe people to wonderful.
From a polite, pleasant, agreeable, kindly com
mon people, over ready and obliging, there is
now to bo met with an ill-mannerly, sullen,
disagreeable, unkind, disobliging populace,
seemingly filled with hatred and ready for re
sentment. These changes in the character of
the people must have been noticed by every in
telligent observer, to contradistinction to their
former excellent reputation. Formerly they
were proverbial for their politeness, latterly
they are noticed for their absence of it. These
people are despoiled of their natural character-
sties, and shamefully demoralized by renegade
intruders.
Of how the “pure black men” have been
treated by the Radicals, at Washington, he says:
To another important point I wonld invite
your attention—that of the course of toe Na
tional Government. While distinction to tho
rights of citizens on account of “race or color”
is most pointedly prohibited, distinction on ac
count of color is most definitely made by the
government at Washington.
It is a fact most noticeable to executive ap
pointments of colored men, there are none of
trare blaok men, toe pure negro raoe.
Lave been most carefully select^* ‘“® se
having an admix*"*® rf y® blood. In neither
0 f iAo departments m Washington is there a
single black holding a position above that of
porter or lacquey, while to many, if not all of
them—exoept the army and navy—there are
those of mixed blood holding positions of clerk
ships—as is just and right—and other equally
respectable places. Nor to no appointment re
quiring qualification by culture, in and ont of
Washington, is there a pnre blaok man or wo
man to be f£mid, while many such applications
have been made, bnt always rejected. This is
no fault of onr brown brother, bnt that of the
government and the misfortune of toe blacks.
Under toe rallying cry of acting for and repre
senting the “negro” men of every shade of
complexion have attained to plaoes of honor,
profit; trust and power to the party, except toe
real negro himself—save such plaoes as he had
the power with whioh to elect himself—he re
mains to-day as beforo emancipation, a political
nonentity before the governments of the country.
How toe <c pnre black men” are socially ostra-
A Cotton Revolution.
From tho Commercial Advertiser.]
In the year 1860, eighty-five per cent, of all
the cotton used to England was of American
growth—but the rebellion put an* end to
virtual monopoly long enjoyed by onr Sonthem
States, and; as events have proved, began a
complete revolution. The English manufac
turers, deprived by the war of their usual sup
plies, cast about for new fields, and under the
stimulus of absolute necessity, they have caused
the lands of the East to beoome abundantly
fruitful. Tho increasing yield of the new cot
ton fields, and their brilliant promise for the
future, are strikingly Bet forth in a work just
published in Manchester, under toe title of
“The Cotton Supply Association: Its Origin
and Progress.” The author, Mr. Isaac Watt*,
is toe Secretary of toe Association, and he
has drawn toe facta of his interesting nar
rative from the official reoords. The Cotton
Supply Association was organized in 1857,
for the specific purpose of opening up and
developing other sources of ootton supply
than the Southern States of America; but np
to the time of our civil war ils operations were
limited in extent end comparatively barren in
result. The pressure of the cotton famine to
1861 lent new vigor to its undertakings, and In
dia became the theatre of elaborate experiments.
The results of these experiments, during a period
of ten years, are now given for toe first time
to a connected official form.
In 1860, toe sum paid to India for ootton was
about $17,500,000; but in 1864 it had increased
to $190,000,000, and toe average ennnal amount
remitted from England for cotton during the
past eight years is stated at $115,000,000—
showing an aggregate increase in the value of
the Indian ootton trade; daring this period of
abont $750,000,000. This astonishing growth
has been followed by & corresponding develop
ment of toe cotton producing districts of Tur
key, Egypt and Australia. tStooe 1872. the pre
eminence of Egypt has been a notable fact to
the history of ootton culture. Mr. Wat Ik writes
that to that year “ootton began to be so muoh
to favor that cereals were almost neglected, and
the enormous profits derived from its cultivation
during the American war led to toe abandon
ment of toe ordinary succession of crops—a re
snlt whioh the late Viceroy, Said Pacha, beheld
with apprehension and alarm.” The present
Khedive, however, has encouraged the new in
dustry, and during his visit to London in 1867,
gave much attention to toe selection of cotton
seed, and to the moasures best calculated to
render the oropa excellent and abundant. Cot
ton culture is now firmly established in Egypt;
and both the government and toe people aro
alive to its importance. It is believed that toe
fertile regions which are watered by the Nile
will, in time, be converted into a vast cotton
field, and that India, prolifio as it now is, will
become a secondary source of supply.
These facts indicate the character of the
change which is gradually coming to onr South
ern States—a change which will deprive the
cotton fields bf their fancied advantages, and
lead the planters to cultivate cereals for home
consumption. The altered conditions of labor,
the partitions of old estates, the loss of fortune,
toe necessity of giving larger areas of land to
the cultivation of corn and grain, are some of
the causes whioh must produoe marked changes
in the South; and with the complete explosion
of the fallacy that cotton is king, will come a
better system of agricultural development, a
sounder financial basis, and the encouragement
of the working classes, who are toe real rulers
in a Republic. Certain districts of the Sontb,
fitted for little else than the culture of ootton,
toR ocstmne to famish, supplies for toe home
and foreign demand, bnt toe extraordinary de
velopments of ten years in other fields show
that in toe granary, rather than in toe ootton
bale, the elements of future prosperity will
exist*
SlilledgeTille Agricultural College;
Milledgeville, August 22,1871.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of toe citi
zens of Baldwin county, was held to-day in the
Senate Chamber of toe old capitol building in
reference to the organization and location of
toe Agricultural College to be supported by the
proceeds of lands donated by toe Congress of
the United States.
CoL J. S. Thomas was called to the chair, and
Mr. B. W. Barron was appointed Secretary.
The objeot of too meeting was briefly explained
by CoL W. McKinly, in eloqnent and appro
priate terms. CoL J. D. Capers, was then in
troduced to the audience by Dr. Case, the Mayor
of the city, and proceeded to the discussion of
the subject in detail with great learning, zeal,
and effectiveness.
We cannot attempt a synopsis of toe eloquent
speaker’s remarks. One important position
taken by him favored the placing of the subject
of location and supervision of the institution
nnder toe control of the State Agricultural
Society. Incidentally, the looation of toe insti
tution at Milledgeville, and at Dahlonega, was
advocated by CoL Capers and CoL MoKinly.
It is understood that not only the old capitol
and Governor’s mansion in Milledgeville can be
bad for toe purpose, bnt also the ample build
ings and extensive lands of toe old Oglethorpe
University at Midway, near Milledgeville. By
the act of Congress the State accepting toe do
nation must provide toe buildings at her own
expense. Here, they are already bniit and
ready for use, without any taxation of toe peo
plo for providing new buildings (which wonld
be necessarv,) at Athens, or elsewhere, save at
Dahlonega.' Colonel Capers’ remarks were at
tended with frequent burats of applause from
the crowded house, wnich a large concourse of
graoed with their presence. The famous
hras3 band of Mr. West, of Hancock county,
enlivened the occasion by bursts of exquisite
music at proper times.
CoL Capers was followed by our eloquent fel
low citizen, Oapt W. W. Williamson, in a brief
address peculiarly felicitous, whioh was received
with enthusiastic applause.
Next Mr. John H. Furman addressed the
meeting for a few moments very happily; after
whioh Ool. MoKinly introduced resolutions of
fering pnblic buildings and lands at and near
Milledgeville, worth more than a million of dol
lars, for tho said agricultural college, and em
bodying other important cognate matters, which
with an important amendment by CoL L. Car
rington, were unanimously adopted.
After a unanimous resolution to CoL Capers
for his able address, and a few soul-stirring re
marks from Hon. T. W. White, the meeting ad
journed. G. M.
Suef Bathixo at Lono Bbasch -—A corres
pondent who evidently has sharp eyes writes
as follows on this subject:
I have com® to two conclusions, after watch-
mo “““ 7* 1 "'. * -- ’T* j n3 peon!* bathe for half a dozen mornings,
cized by their mongrel and mulatto brethren in g* *23 ona is, if I were a pretty woman I
Charleston and elsewhere, he says:
The social relations of the colored people is
another shameful evil, which does more to
en their strength, neutralize their 0 ffm*
divide them in politics than even thj’gra 00 ! 0 ^
intrusion and imposition of whttM*®°**g°gfl 0 ®«
because being of their ttffl
adhering to a5 absurd! tyspr 0 ^
past, they ding to
to racbB«tevf! * carried, fam told, that
old societies EAvebeen been revived and revised,
and absoJ" 1 ® provisions made against the ad-
ra ; M vn among them of a pnre blooded black,
jrcte, military companies, and even chnrohes
and graveyards, it is said, are permanently es
tablished on this basis. In one church at least
no blacks are to be seen, and in another there
is a division line between too blacks and browns
by different seats.
This will do for Delaney. If the ‘ ‘pure black
men”—the real negroes of South Carolina and
elsewhere, don’t have their eyes opened now,
toe job is hopeless.
The simplest and cheapest way to cool a room
is to wet a cloth of any size, the larger toe bet
ter, and suspend it in toe place yon want cooled.
Let toe room be well ventillated, and toe tem
perature will sink from ten to twenty degrees in
less than an hour.
an ugly one I should always bathe in privacy.
Any woman observing one or both these conclu
sions saves herself from salt water oriiiaism.
What one’s bitterest enemy fails to detect too
surf makes manifest. There goes a woman in
her bath house with a mountain of. hair, a
waist as round as a pine tree, end No. 4 boots.
I watch her. She comes out in a bine flannel
blouse, with a head like a man’s, her actual
hair being not more than two inches long. Her
feet predestined for No. 5’s, sure evidence of
having been sadly distorted. The water flattens
her figure, and her roundness elongates hori
zontally. She is quite a belle at her hotel,
though, and toe beaux who never saw tote Ve
nus emerge from the bath shower her with com
pliments. __
At an Iowa Sunday-school toe superintendent
was reviewing toe lesson, and was talking of
the verse, “Let your loins be girded and your
lights burning.” He asked the question, “Why
are we commanded to‘gird our loins?’” One
little sharp shaver sang out, “To keep your
breeches up.”
A Mesxbal which performs all toe duties of
soap, and has an aromatio odor, has been dis
covered in immense quantities near Iowa rity.
HAinn kfest, Norway, is toe most northern
town of Europe where's newspaper is printed.
It is a weekly, and is entitled Finmarkeposten.