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BURKE & ****** «).’8 PUBLICATIONS. ivlocrapb & Messenger and Farm nf P $1100 4 00 5 00 irn Christian Advocate with Weekly 5 Oo Tarhe s 4 00 tion, and then came back to Georgia and has insurance had been effected, and that there ever since been with ns in heart, and sonl, and was nothing further to be done by any of them; conduct, as well as by personal residence. He, that things remained thus, until the 19th of from tho begining, adopted the profession of a February, 1866, when the Bteamer White Bose teacher, and followed it with great reputation sunk at “Hell Gate" on her way to Apalachicola, and success, till at last old age warned turn, and and the cotton was damaged to the value of nine a comfortable estate permitted him, to retire | thousand five hundred dollars; that two or three with grace and dignity, after having greatly days afterwards, Cromwell, the agent of oom- added to the debt of gratitude, which the canse plainant, called on RuBt to arrange with him the of education in Georgia already owed to the I payment of the insnrance, when, much to hiB name of Beman. The two brothers have not surprise, Boat,after reflecting a little, said to him only taught and trained a vast number of the that the ootton was not insured; that he had re- finest youth in Georgia, bnt their example, ceived no money to pay the insurance with, and characteer and career, have largely contributed he was not in the habit of advancing an insn- to augment the honor and esteem in which the ranee; bnt complainant alleges that this was a calling of a teacher is held. Senex. | mere pretext and afterthought, because Bowers, in his letter, had requested him to send his bills gatban S. S. Beman, D. D. Mon Telegraph, and Messenger : The re- iir announced death of this venerable and —"yJZ and widely known man, at a very ad- * ta 81! e calls up many interesting remims- “ fl rf lone by-gono times in Georgia. For f£d a mil active, useful and distinguished mler in this State more than half a century ^ In tho year 1812, he arrived in Hancock ireshfrom theNortb, newly married and °““ U t Linbly endowed by nature, and accom- fiStoe&ion. He founded at once the *“ h00 l D t Mount Zion, of which he con- So be rector and absolute head for eight Cor nioie, whenhe retired from it and went IHl in New York to become the settled pastor fa largo and flourishing Presbyterian Church “ne acquired while in Georgia a double cleb- •t of the highest order—as a great and success- -1 educator of youth, and, also, as an eloquent •d powerful preacher of the GospeL In the ateriinhere, ho vied in fame with the renown- along lamented Dr. Kollocb, of Savannah, id was thought by many to be his equal, and . S0E1?) a little his superior. I never heard i f K lioch but once, and it has been a joy to je ever since to have looked upon him and lis- toed to him. Happy is he who has seen and card such a man; the holy, religious effect ever dies entirely away, bnt remains in the eart and memory through life. I used to hear [r7Beman habituallv for a number of years, tea my mind was yonng and forming. This, I iea thought, was a great felicity—certainly it >jg always a great treat. But I liave_ doubted iscs whether it was not ultimately a misfortune 10 oe, for it had the effect of making me faatidi- csstnd difficult to satisfy in regard to preach er to a degree that has ever since rendered aost sermonizing rather an infliction than an delation. His brilliant and unexampled success as a leather and chief of a great school, was undoubt- ly owing, in the main, to his extraordinary lent, and qualifications, bnt be was much _in- Ited, also, to accidental circumstances, which tatlv favored him. Tho college at Athens .] pone down very much; had, indeed, col- jrctd and closed its doors, in effect at least, for an i r -it unite period. That most useful and meritorious man. Dr. Moses Waddell, had bro ken up his great English and classical school in [olumbia county, and crossing the Savannah, id revived it in Willington, S. C., in the neigh- irbood ot the Calhouns, with which family he .is intimately identified by ties of affinity, ileson Academy in Lexington, the academy in iVaskington, Wilkes county, and those in Au- nsta and Savannah completed, I believe, the hole list of institutions then in the State, hav ing classical pretensions. They were all at a ery low ebb, as was mournfully and bnt too dearly evidenced by the numerous rasort of he first youths, in their respective vicinities, to "x. Bciaans school soon after its establish ment. Thus it will bo seen that Mr. Beman hated his school at Mount Zion, at a for tunate moment for himself and Georgia; at moment when such a school as he started j is a great public want, and the very best litronage was ready to flow to it from 11 parts of the State and in some de gree also from South Carolina. These advan ce ho tamed to tho utmost account by his irgy, talents and high devotion to his calling; 1 by the great care he always took to be sup- orted by able and highly qualified assistants in very department, and, most of all, by his ad- irable faculty of firing youthful minds with >b!e ambition, and stimulating them with a lofty enthusiasm and an ardent thirst for knowl- Ige and improvement. He was abundantly coaled, moreover, by pnblio approval and en- xragement, which not only overwhelmed him itb pupils, bnt liberally supplied him with tho leans of erecting a large, commodious Academic sliding, and also of purchasing a well selected cidemi'e library. He was never subject to any oard of ’trustees, or supervision or direction of lay kind. He was the Autocrat of his school fll the while. llsay of tho finest young minds in Georgia had [the advantage of his instruction and discipline, [low Governors, that were to be, two United Slates Senators, some half dozen or more Re presentatives in Congress, several Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts, and many others more or less distinguished in the walks public, private and professional life, passed through his bands andreceived impressions from tie which told upon them through life. Most of them precceded him to tho tomb. Were tbey “ring, ihore would not be one of them on whom the announcement of his death would not fall as a Eensorable and touching event. The numer ous dead, Charles J. McDonald, Dixon H. Lew is, Walter T. Colquitt, Henry G. Lamar,Hugh A. Jjwalson, Hopkins Holsey, Grigsby E. Thomas, H. Baxter, Milton Cooper, Jno W. A. San- ford, and others without end, would unite with phehoary-headed surviving few: Geo. W. Craw- jfoM, Charles J. Jenkins, Mark A. Cooper, Ab ide II. Chappell, Robert A- Jemison, Henry Siams, and others, in paying honor to him the grave, and sounding a requiem to his ottl—in drawing the mantle of oblivion over his failings, and eternizing the remembrance of the Nat, good and noble qualities which made up •he mass of bis character. Ipon the death of the ever-to-be lamented hr. liobert Finley, who died in the Fall of 1817, Jitbin a year after he had become President of ttacklin' College, Mr. Beman was chosen his successor, and after holding tho matter long -uder advisement, at length accepted the ap pointment ; bnt as tho time drew near towards ’•« close of 1818, for him to repair to Athens *sd enter upon his duties, instead of going, he tasigned. This vra3 tho great and irreparable saatako of Ms life. Ho had acquired a prestige a capacity for increasing usefulness and Ipatnoss in Georgia, of which his call to tho |«adsbip of the University was the proud cul- jtaa&lion and pledgo. Ho fell from his lofty I Vintage.ground by bis resignation. Never wn3 lUte a more perfect ripeness of things in favor r* «>y man—never a happier preparation of tho IP-blie mind—never a more eager and general Ijfptctation and desire, tin* that which was al- I welcoming him to his new and honorable IN®. But a great domostio grief was weigh- upon his heart—a great domestic be- l-tivenient was overhanging him, and cloud- bis vision and embarrassed his judg- l~ent. Had that bereavment came a year or a year later, it would not have |g7®R e f fli as it did, the destiny of his life. |.®'Mr*. Beman’s long sickness ending in l„tb early in the year 1819, occurred at a | j?® s “* t ‘t critical and fatal to his destination as I if* Resident of the Collego. Whilst his de- ° n was the subject of universal regret, ■of n° 8ma H censure, those who were fully awaro the circumstances, were always inclined 1^®*“ gently, though not approvingly, with I M regard to it. But for that ill-starred ro- Idonmi* 00 ’ Nathan 8. 8. Beman would law IbrinKi 3 run a long and ever widening and Ihtm career of usefulness, dignity and Isoil Geor 6 la » and he would have died on her I n- foQ nd a resting place in her bosom. ■ brother, (now the Rev.) Carlile »<*>«■«» «•*?« Georgia. press, and that Bust had aoted on his letter by delivered at Atlanta, tcesday, auouot 29,1871 hunting up Cromwell, reading it to him, and re- From the Atlanta Constitution.] “^8 fro “ Mm the particulars of how tho , T n xr „n™ - f -i cotton was to be shipped, and did acton it in M. C. McCann, et al., vs. T. C. Brown. Far- respeet to tb 0 other lot of fifty bales, in respect T-TO. •• •• 4„ to which he did not only insure as the agent of Wabntb, J. This wM ^ apphcation to tike Underwriters Agency, but made out all Superior Court for partition of lot of land No. bi3 charges, indnding the premiums for insur- 1 iO m Marion county. The P ar titiouera ap-1 ancQ against Bowers, making no objections to pointed by tho court to make partition of the Ljj r g0 ^ t rmg of p a y men t. The corn- land reported to the Court that it could not be plai ^ an t a i Iege s that Bns^ by his conduct in the equally divided between the parties agreeable prem i seg induced him and his agents to believe to law, and recommended the sale of the land £rthetod insured said cotton^ so prevented for division, to whichreportofthepi^tioners hiia and them from effecting an insnrance the defendant filed objections in wntmg, afieg- thereoQ elsewhere, as there was ample time to ing that said land could be equally dmded be- havedone> inasmT | oh aa the gteemer did not tween the parties by metes andboundswithout i eave Albany for several days after he received injury to the value thereof. The court, with-1 u owers » letter, and read the same to CromwelL out having any evidence in regard to that ques- and ^3^ sink nnt il the 19th of February. The bon, ordered a sale of the land on the report oj complainant aUe ges that in consideration of the the partitioners, to which tho defendant ex I premises, he reposed full confidence in Bast as cep ted. . the agent of the Underwriters’agency aforesaid Held, That it was the legal right of the 1 that ho would insure the cotton, and that his fendant to caveat the return of the partitioners, I omission or neglect to do so was contrary to his and that the court should have heard evidence dnty bot h legal and equitable, and contrary to as to whether a fair and equitable division of the trust and confidenco which the complainant the land could have been made by metes and and hjs Bgents rep osed in him, and is a bounds, andif fromtiiat evidence offered by the I f raud 0p on him for which ho is not only liable, parties in interest, it should be proved to the bn j. yj e underwriter’s agency also, who are satisfaction of the court, that a fair and eqnita-1 bonnd forth0 care> ^ijgenoe and fidelity of ble division of the land by metes and bound-1 their agents, in their business, and responsible conld not be made, then to order a sale of the j f or b ; a neglects and frauds in the transaction of land. Judgment reversed. B. B. Hinton, for plaintiff in error. M, H. Blanford, for defendant. such business; wherefore, he says that said un derwriters agency and the said Bust are liable to him for the loss of the cotton. As a general rule of law, the principal is bonnd for tho care, _ _ , r .. _ . , diligence and fidelity of his agent inhisbnsi- E. S. Mott vs. J. L. Mustian. Equity from neg3) and f or t ba neglect, and fraud, of his Muscogee. . . agent in the transaction of such business. In Wabneb, J.—This was a motion to dismiss a al j caSGS 0 f f rand (except fraud in the execution bill pending on tho equity side of the court. It 1 0 f a w jm equity has concurrent jurisdiction appears from the record that the bill was filed with tbo conrtg of i aw _Code 3115. mere law on the 31st of December, I860, and the process and £ q n jfy ba y 0 concurrent jurisdiction, the attached thereto required the defendant to ap-l CQUrt ^ rst J takil)g ^ letain itj un i es s a good pear on the fourth Monday m October, 18<0,1 reaaon can bo Riven for tbo interference of and was served on the defendant on the 22d of eqn i t y_304i. The allegations in the com- April, 1870. The complainant moved to amend plainant ’ s bi n ma ke a prima facie case of fraud said process so ns to make it returnable «> the £ r lect on ^ att of tho agGn t of the un- May term of the court in 1871, and havo an derwriter ’ s agency, in failing to effect an in alias snbpcena issued returnable to said term, surance on tho cotton, whereby the complain- which motion tho court allowed, and refused I bsg been injured and damaged, and the to dismiss the bill, whereupon the defendant ex- cotlr j. 0 f equity having first obtained jnrisdic- cepted: I tion of the ease, should have retained it nntil JJrfd, That under the liberal provisions of the the canso was heard and determined on its Code a9 to amendments of pleadmg3 and pro- cess, there was no error in the court in allowing That the court below erred in dismis- the amendment of the process, and this court j tho complainant’s bill for want of equity will not interfere with the exercise of its dis- . |rii - 1 - cretion in doing 60 in this case and refusing to | dismiss the complainant’s bill. Judgment affirmed. Moses & Downing for plaintiff in error. H. S. Benning for defendant. A Rondeau. At my last ball became I bonnden thrall To Love, and by Love’s tender hands and small Was taken ere my heart was well aware, In toils of gray eyes and warm golden hair, Which graced a woman most divinely tall, Nay, though I see a hundred times the fall Of hopeful com, and .hear tho cnckoo call, I shall see none as her I saw so fair At my last ball! Who fills long nights with bitterness and gall— Have I not canse, good canse, since all tbingB pall Before her beauty, for sad dreams and care ? Such sour f mit that sweet kiss from soft lips bare For me, without one thought of barm at all, At my last ball! [.Belgravia. E, S. Bowland vs. W. A. Bansom & Co. Equity, from Muscogee, 1 trial term thereof. Judgment reversed. H. L. Benning for plaintiff in error. B. J. Moses for defendant. The State of Georgia vs. J. J. Bradford, Sheriff. Buie against Sheriff from Muscogee. McCay, J.—Where a Sheriff, in answer to a 1— w ..... ,, , rule calling upon him to show canse why he had Wabneb, J.—This was an application to the 1 ot madom0 ney onafi. fa. issued by the Judge of the Superior Court for an injunction, comptroller General against a defaulting which was refused, whereupon tho complainant ^ rece j Ter showed, for canse, that tho defend- excepted. On reading the allegations in com- ant bad no p ropei ty on wMch to levy the fi. fa., plainant’s bill, and the affidavit of the' com-1 and Jn ft traver g 0 of the return it appeared that plainant’s solicitor thereto, this court will not ^ de f endan t was in possession of a tract of control tho discretion of tho court below in re- j and bad been set apart as a homestead, fusing the injunction prayed for in this case. £ or tbe bene gt of his wife and family. Judgment affirmed. 1 jjdd, That there was no error in the court in Lochrane, O. J., having been counsel below, I re f n6 j n g ) under the circumstances, to make tho did not preside in this case. . I mjo absolute, as the sheriff appears to have act- L. T. Downing, E. J. Moses, for plaintiff in ed in good faitb> and tbe property was real es- error# Itste# Chappell & Bussell, H. H. Blantord, Farrow jj t \d, also, That it was the dnty of tho court & Thomas, G. E. Thomas, Smith & Alexander, {(J bay6 ’ d £ ree t e d the sheriff, by order, to levy for defendant. npon tbe property, that the parties may have an ——- . opportunity of testing, before the courts, wheth- J. F. Winter vs. H. H. Epping. Assumpsit, e J^ be homestead so set opart, is or is not snb- from Muscogee. Meet to an execution by the Comptroller General Wabneb, J.—This was an action brought by aKa j ns (; a defaulting tax collector, the plaintiff against the defendants to recover & Judgment affirmed, the sum of five hundred dollars infold coin. Lochbane, O. J., concurred orally. On the trial of the case, a motion was made by •yy AESEB J., dissenting.—This was a rnle the defendants to dismiss the plaintiff’s case, on inst ‘ tl J e g ber iff, calling on him to show the ground that no affidavit of the payment had canse wby be bad not made the money on a tax been filed as regulated by tho act of 1870, which execn y 0 jJ issued by tbe Comptroller General of motion was allowed by tho court and the case I ^e state against Brooks, a defaulting tax col- was dismissed. Whereupon the plaintiff except- j ec j cr and b is securities. The Sheriff showed ed. It appears from the record that the plain- for CRUSe tbit there was no property of Brooks’ tiff and defendants, on the 20th of March, I860, U 0 be found on which to levy the execution, purchased $25,000 in gold coin on joint account, Tfa0 retnm 0 f the Sheriff was traversed, and the which was deposited with the defendant. The fo ]j ow i ng B tatement of facts was admitted and plaintiff claims that there is $500 of the gold Emitted to the court for its judgment, to-wit: so purchased on joint account due him. There on the first day of Jnne, 18G9, tho date of is no evidence in the record of any demand hav-1 tbe 6xecn tion, Brooks, tho principal defendant ing been made by the plaintiff on tho defend- ^^,.£1) -was tho owner and in the possession of ant for tho payment of tho gold prior to the rt 0 j’ tw0 i 0 ts of land of the valno of $2,500, 1st of June, 1SC5, and the majority of tho court [ hat on ^ 21s t day of August, 18G9, said land are of opinion that this is not such a debt or wagse £ apar tt 0 thewifeandchildrenof Brooksas contract as comes within the provisions of the abome8 te fl a. After argument had, thecourtdis- act of 1870. Believing that act to be unconsti- cbargedtbexn leagainsttheSheriffandtbeSolic- tutional and void as to contracts, made prior to £t or General for the State,excepted. By the 915th tho 1st of Jnne, 1865, 1 concur in the reversal aeC ££ on 0 f the Code, the property of tax collect- of tho judgment in this case: . or s £s bound from the time of tho execution of Held, That the court below erred in diarms- j tboir bonds. Tho record does not show tho sing tho plaintiff’s action on U10 statement of 1 da j 0 0 f j b0 j ax collector’s bond in this case, facta disclosed by the record. Judgment reversed. Peabody & Brannon for plaintiff in error. Moses & Downing for defendant. bnt as tho execution against him as such tax col lector, was issued on tho 1st of Jane, 18G0, ho must have executed his bond prior to that date. Tho homestead was set apart on his land to his wife and children on the 21st day of Angnst, ■E. M. Seabrook, administrator, vs. Tbe Un-11869. By tbe constitution of 18G8, and the Act ct,L ** a * 1 4.-TU, . tm b, I S.ggti/.IS plamant against the defendants, on the NHh of ,., d d homestead act, and it was April, 18CG The defendants had answered the ^he sheriff to havo levied this tax bill when tho cause was called /PL 1 ***} Z® I execntionoattie homestead set apart on his land November term of the court, 18,0, and after ^ w j f0 and c bUdren, as tho property of tho bearing tho bill read, tho oonrt dismissed the d0 . dan £ £bere£n, inasmnoh as it is not exempt same for want of eqnity.to whMi the oom^sin- frQm j andsa!6 f 0 r taxes under tho provisions ant excepted. The facts alleged in tho bill are institution and tho act of 18G8, as a in substance os follows: ThaTtho complainant ome8tead> The fact that a homestead is claimed had two lots of cotton at Albany, G&., one of „ Iand of a de f endan t in a tax execution is fiflybales, the other of sixty bales, which ho d^ | q . excng6 or protection to a sheriff who sired to ship to Apalachicola, and to inroro the 1 8 ne „j eC £ g jq £ ev y an execution for taxes same. On the Cth of February, 18G5, Bowers, tbereon _ t ^ e more especially, as the Iand was as agent of the complainant, wrote .0 Bust, the tbo payment of the tax oxecution, agent of tho Underwriters -Insurance Agency, ^ homestead was set apart on it. at Albany, to please find Mr. Oliver Cromwell I Delore ... (who was also an agent of complainant) and get • Seusatlon-Grant particulars of how ho ships two lots of cotton York Huns ^ c . Komluntion ^ to Apalachicola, one of fifty and the other of 1 wui uecun sixlv bales, and insure them to Apalachioola, We find tho following Western press dispaten send bills to me, and I will remit by express. iQ Njebville Union and American, of Tnes- Yonr prompt attention will much oblige, etc. _ Tho bill alleges that this letter was received by aa y- „■ . __ „ Th« Rnn’ii Wash. tain from shipping 1 informed 1 h?m that W 4eTot MtaIdete7minationpositivelytodeclinoa ro-norr mmsm pfngMxtySof cMtonbyX steamer White in aU probabffity, tMowmgthe Presidency into Bose, now loading at this place, the other fifty tho hands of tho Democracy. bales ho will not bo able to got off in time for 1 . TfltnrnH the State of Ala- tho boat, bnt will sMp next week; that this leU e ; eb t D»raons of an even mil- tor was received by Bowers two or throe days bama “P’y^^S^eightbofomad, after its date, who considered it to mean that lion of Son ? vnnnAcf liflrf eomnlifid tiith and tlie COfc- * 80 thftt th© btfl.1© J •JBeman, camo quite a youth to Georgia with and was partly a student, partly a bearer of his request had been complied with and the cot- 1 so STOR3K AMD SUNSHINE. Sow Sis Sblp Came In—An Affecting Story of Struggles, Patience and Trlnmpli. From tho Capital.] I ran across what at first struck me as a very singular genins on my roam from Springfield to Boston. This was a stout, black-whiskered man who sat immediately in front of me, and who indulged, from time to time, in the most strange and unaccountable maneuvers. Ewery now and then he would get up find hurry away to the nar row passage wMch leads to the door in these drawing-room cars, and when he thought him self secure from observation would fall to laugh ing in the most violent manner, and continue the healthful exercise nntil he was as red in the face as a lobster. As we neared Boston these demonstrations increased in violence, save that the stranger no longer ran away to laugh, but kept his seat and chuckled to himself with his chin deep down in his shirt collar. Bnt the changes that those portmanteaus went! He moved them there, here, everywhere, he put them beMnd him, in front of him, on each side of him. He was evidently getting ready to leave, bnt, as wo were yet twenty-five miles from Boston, tho idea of such early prepara tions was ridiculous. If we had entered tho city then, the mystery would have remained un solved, but the stranger at last become so ex cited that he could keep his seat no longer. Some one must help him, and, as I was the near est. he selected me. Suddenly turning as if I had asked a question, he saia, rocking himself to and fro in his chair the mcantimo, and slap ping his legs, and breathing hard. “Been gone three years!” “Ah!” “Yes, been in Europe. Folks don’t expect me for six months yet, bnt I got through and started. I telegraphed them at the last station; they’ve got it by this time.” As he said this he changed the portmanteau on his left to the right, and tho one on tho right to the left again. “Got a wife?” said L “Yes, and three children,” he returned, and he got np and folded his overcoat anew, and hung it over the back of the seat. Yon are pretty ner vous over the matter, ain’t yon? I said, watch ing his fidgety movements. “Well, I should ♦Link so,” he replied; “I haven’t slept soundly for a week. And so you know," ho wont on, glancing round at the passengers and speaking in a low tone, “ I am almost certain this train will rnn off the track and break my neck before I get to Boston. Well, the fact is, I have had too much good Inch for one man lately. The thing can’t last; ’taint natural that it should, you know; I’ve watched it. First it rains, then it shines, then it rains again. It rains so hard you think it’s never going to stop; then it shines so bright you think it’s always going to shine; and just as you’re settled in either be lief, you are knocked over by a change to show you tfiat you know nothing at all about it.’ ' ‘Well, according to this philosophy,” said I, “you will continue to have eunshine_ because you are expecting a storm.” “It’s curious,” ho returned, “bnt tho only thing that makes me think I will get through safe is, because I think I won’t.” “Well, that is curious,” said I. “Yes,” he replied; “I’m a machinist—made a discovery—nobody believed it: spent all my money trying to bring it out—mortgaged my house—all went. Everybody laughed at mo— everybody but my wife—spunky little woman— she said she would work her fingers off before I shonld give it np. Went to England—no bet ter there; came within an aee of jumping off London bridge. Went into a shop to earn money enough to oomo with; there I met the man I wanted. To make a long story short, I’ve brought £30,000 homo with me, and here I am.” “Good for yon," I exclaimed. “Yes,” said he, “£30,000, and tho best of it is, she don’t know any tiling about it. 1'vo fooled her so often, and disappointed her so mnch, that I just concluded I would say notMng about this. When I got my money, though, yon better be lieve, I struck a bee-line for home.” “And now you will mako her happy,” said L “Hap py !” he replied, “why, yon don’t know any thing about it. She’s worked like a dog while I have been gone, trying to support herself and the children decently. Tbey paid her tMrteen cents a piece for making coarse shirts; and that’s the way she’d live half the time. She’ll come down there to tho depot to moot mo in a gingham dress, and a shawl a hundred years old, and she’ll think she’s dressed up. Oh, she won’t have no clothes after tMs—oh, no! I guess not 1” And with these words, which im plied that his wife’s wardrobe would soon rival Queen Victoria’s, tho stranger tore down the passagoway again, and getting in his oH cor ner, where ho thought himself ont of sight, went through the strangest pantomime, laugh ing, putting his-mouth into tho drollest shapes, and then swinging Mmself back and forth in the limited space, as if he were “walk ing down Broadway,” a full-rigged metro politan belle. And so be went on till we rolled into tbe‘depot, and I placed myself on the other car, opposite the stranger, who, with a portmanteau in each hand, had descend ed and was standing on the lowest step, ready to jump to the platform. I looked from his face to the faces of the people before ns, but saw no sign of recognition. Suddenly he cried, “There they are,” and laughed outright, but in a hys terical sort of a way, as he looked over the crowd. I followed his eyes, and saw some dis tance back, as if crowded ont, shouldered away by the well dressed and elbowing throng, a little woman in a faded dress and well worn hat with a face almost painful in its intense but hopeless expression, glancing rapidly from win dow to window as the coaches glided in. She had not seen tho stranger; bnt a moment after she caught his eye, and in another instant he had jumped to the platform with his two port manteaus, and making a hole in the crowd, pushing one hero and there, and running ono of his bundles plump into the well developed stomach of a vonorablo looking old gentleman in spectacles, ho rushed toward tho place where sho was standing. I think I never saw a face assume so many different expressions in so short a time as did that of tho little woman wMle her husband was on his way to her. She didn’t look pretty. On tho contrary, 6he looked very plain, bnt some way I felt a big lamp rise in my throat as I watched her. She was trying to laugh; but, God bless her, how completely she failed in the attempt! Hor mouth got into the position; bnt it never moved after that, save to draw down tho corners and quiver, while she blinked her eyes so fast that I suspect sho only caught occasional glimpses of the broad shoul dered fellow who elbowed his way so rspidly toward her. And then, as ho drew close and dropped those everlasting portmanteaus she just turned completely round, with her back towards him, and covered her face with her hands. And thus she was when tho strong man gathered her np in his arms as if she had been was a baby, and held her sobbing to his breast. There were enough gaping at them, heaven khows, and I turned my eyes away a moment, and then I saw two boys in thread-bare round abouts standing near, wiping their eyes and noses on their little coat sleeves, and bursting out anew at every fresh demonstration on the part of the mother. When I looked at the stranger again he had his hat drawn down over his eyes; but she was looking np at him, and it seemed as if the pent-np tears of those weary months of wailing were streaming throng^, her eyelids. _ • Pale sapphires exposed to intense heat, slow ly and gradually applied, and permitted to cool to the same manner, can be rendered colorless.’! They acquire greater brilliancy by the pro- oe3S, and are tho best counterfeits of diamonds sold. EDITORIAL COBBESPOXDBNCE. Cuthbkbt, September 6,1871. Until the present fool weather set in, for a week past, the season has been propitious for the farmer, and'ootton forced to premature maturi ty by previous drouth, has opened rapidly. We hear of some who estimate that one-half of the total yield is already ripe for the gatherers. Bust continues its ravages, and the weed seems to have ceased blooming and remains almost stationary in size. The crop in this section will fall far below the figures of the Agricultu ral Bureau at Washington, and the gamblers in “future deliveries” must, as they deserve, oome to grief. middle oeoboia baptist colored association. The meeting of this religious body here forms an era in African history. For several days Cuthbert has teemed with sable divines, and the tinkle of “the church-going bell” has been interrupted ^nly by the stentorian tones of the boanerges who held forth in divers places. Two hundred and fifty delegates, representing nearly all the colored centres of the State, have been present. Among them were quite a sprinkling of intelligent, fine looking men, while the whangdoodle and muscle parsons of course pre dominated. Eev. Wilkes Flagg, of Milledge- ville, was chosen Moderator, and presided with dignity, firmness and sagacity. Mr. Flagg is one of the noblest specimens of his race, and they woald do well to give heed to his example and admonitions. SABBATH EXERCISES. . According to usage, the moderator occupied the pulpit of the Baptist Church (wMte) at 11 o’clock, which had been kindly tendered by its pastor, Mr. Campbell. From early dawn to the Tour of worship, a stream of veMdes of every character, from the primitive go-cart drawn by a single bullock, to the more pretentions ba rouche or buggy, and the ponderous plantation wagon crammed to overflowing with young and old, poured into the groves and vacant spaces of the town. At least 3000 were in attendance; and gleaming ivory, happy smiles, and costumes vising with the rainbow in their hues, greeted the vision on every side. Soon every seat in the spaoions building was occupied, and even tho aisles were crowded with listeners, many of them prone npon the floor. Some pews were doullc tanked, tho inmates sitting in each others laps by turn, “ride and tie” fasMon. THE 8EBM0N was based upon the simple passage of Scripture, “For the love of Christ constraineth me.” It was _ practical, fervent appeal to his hearers, de void of pretention, and though wanting in ele gance and rhetorical finish, was deeply interest ing at least to the writer. The speaker said he was no “politicianer,” nor did he desire office, or wish to degrade the pulpit by an allusion to politics. Had he received a good education, and been born a genins, he might have been tempted to preach tho gospel tor fame; bnt now the love of Christ only constrained Mm to do so. In passing through Smithville, he had met a lady friend who begged him to get the Associa tion to silence those ignorant ministerswho are doing so mnch injury to the church and people. He felt bound to say that they who were not able to preach were not called npon to do so; and like the blind leading the blind, both they and their hearers must fall into the ditch. If any of you wished to send your children te school, would you select a teacher who did not know A from B ? Bnt is it not equally absurd to expect to have the Bible expounded, and to be instructed in theology by men who could not even read God’s Word ? Such men did more harm than good, and should not be allowed to preach at alh The principal object of his dis course was to advocate the claims of a colored Theological Seminary to bo located at Atlanta, for tho express purpose of qualifying candidates for the ministry. And here he would publicly proclaim, that no yankee, or carpet-bagger, would be allowed to have anything to do with tMs Institution. Its professors would be South ern white men in whom the colored people had confidence. He then paid a toucMng tribute to tbo services of Bev. Mr. Warren and others, in their efforts to instruct the colored ministers, and said he was a staunch friend of that glo rious seat of learning, Mercer University. The sermon over, a collection was taken np, to wMoh tho wMtes present contributed liber ally. BEV. GREEN MCARTHUR, Before concluding this sketoh we feel that it is but just to relate an inoidont wMch occurred at the close of the Moderator’s sermon. Bev. Green MoArthur, a respeoted citizen of this place, read the last hymn and directed the col lection. He was interrupted by a black brother on the floor, however, who addressed the meeting and claimed that thewMte people, hav ing been educated by negro labor, were bonnd now to give freely to the enterprise under con- consideration. In reply, MoArthur stated from the pulpit, that he was compelled to differ, “re ligiously, however,” from the brother who had just taken Ms seat. If the negroes in slavery times had helped to educate their masters, it was because they were forced to do so, and it was likewise their duty a3 faithful servants. They had no right then to claim any merit in the premises, nor shonld they ask assistance of the whites in such a spirit. We challenge the records of the country to furnish a nobler in stance of true moral courage than was here af forded. GREAT EIRE IN DAWSON. Again has tMs flourishing village been visited by a moBt destructive conflagration, wMoh has laid in ruins a large part of the biwiness por tion of the town. On Monday night about I- o’clook the flames made tbolr appearance be tween two buildings on the northwest side of the square, and dofying all opposition, soon sweptaway ©very edific© in th©ir course. So fen stores, ono large ■warehouse, two other Bhops and several dwellings were destroyed. AU agree that it was the palpable work of anincen- diary. The loss is estimated at over $o0,000. The amount of insurance we could not ascer tain. The people of tins enterprising little city have our heartfelt sympathy in this the sea son of their calamity. J- Foreign Notes* PREPARED FOR THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER. A celebrated diplomatist is reported to have recently said that Bussia, after the capitulation of Sedan, found herself in the same position aa Franoe after the battle of Sadowa. During the war the Russian press was very anti-German, but Alexander the Second adhered to a friendly neutrality which was of incalculable valno to Germany. "We tMnk pnblio opinion in Bussia was right in dreading German unity. While the Czar sinoe the times of the Holy Alliance, had always played the part of a protector towards Prussia, the war Of 18GG greatly diminished Bnssian influence, and after those brilliant vic tories in Franoe the Mosoow and St. Petersburg press warred against the establishment of a German Empire which wonld prove a check to to Eossian lost of conquest. There will be a war of xeveDge on tbe part of Franoe aa soon aa the French have Bomewhat recovered from their last political bankruptcy, and as far-sighted a statesman as Bismarck is preparing for that eventuality iu time. France alone has ceased to be a dread, but she wiU ardently covet an al liance with Bussia. To meet suoh a powerful combination, the Germans must seek new aUi«s» and Austria and Italy suggest themselves as their natural auxiliaries. We believe that Aus tria. in time, will dissolve her Germ*up r °v mc es joining the kindred Empire; f et Germanys wisest policy is to hold the monarchy of the Hapshurgs as long together as p<wsible, be cause, in oase of dissolution, the large slave population will considerably strengthen the power of Bussia. Hungary, numbering fifteen millions, and forming suoh a vital nation ality in the Empire, has learned to look Upon Bussia as her deadliest enemy. There is nothing to prevent a sincere friendaMp be tween Italy on the ono and Germany and Aus tria on the other hand. Prussia and Italy have already fought side by side to mutual advantage, and since Austria has given up Venetia, both countries have no interests at variance- It is otherwise with the relations between Franoe and Italy. We need only cast a glance at the papers of the Peninsula to learn that pnblio opinion is very hostile to France. The debates in the National Assembly on the Boman ques tion have convinced the Italian people, that France only refrains from meddling again with Italian aff airs, because the charm of her power is broken. “Italian unity was the mother of German nnity,” said Monsieur Thiers, and we acknowledge that Germany is vastly indebted to themaster-intelleotof Gavour. It will, hence forth, be the aim of every Frenoh ruler, whether he be a President, King or Emperor, to destroy German unity. Woe, then, to the Italians, should France ever succeed in this task. To arrange a definitive treaty of alliance to wMoh Italy is said to have already given her adhesion, the Emperor of Germany and Austria will have another meeting in Salzburg. There the Boman- ian question will also be discussed. The present difficulties withBomania’originated in a great railway contract; Strousberg, a wellknown Berlin contractor, had made with the govern ment of Prince Charles. Strousberg had the roads built partly with hands furnished by a oommittee of Berlin Bankers, partly with the proceeds of obligations the interests of whioh were guaranteed by Bonmania. Almost this whole stook is owned in Germany. The roads being now almost finished, the Chamber has cassed a resolution refusing to refund the cap- : 'tal borrowed in Berlin, as well as to pay the interest guaranteed, on the ground that the roads were badly bnilt, that the rolling stock consisted of old worn-out Prussian cars, eto., etc. In vain did the Government, denying these allegations, protest and state that the work had been faithfully executed; the deputies did not wish to be convinced, and Prince Charles, though reluctantly, was compelled to add his signature to the bill. The Prussian Government, anxious to protect German inter ests valued at many million dollars, appealed to the Sultan, as the Suzrain of Bonmania, and proposed to bring the question before a Con gress of the powers wMoh signed the treaty of Paris. Turkey, however, having deolined to do tMs, Prussia endeavors to gain one or two of the powers over to her views for the purpose of forcing the Sultan to a European Congress. Perhaps the Emperors of Germany and Aus tria may also wish to come to an understanding in reference to the polioy towards the preten sions of Borne. The Prussian Government seems to bo de termined to make a most decided stand against the Papal Syllabus. The Berlin “Provinzial corresponden z, ” thus comments on the situation: ‘The Government,” the paper says “arecleariy justified, after they had vainly warned the counoil of the dangerous results of its resolu tions in refusing to lend their assistance to the promulgation of such principles. Though the Prussian Government viewed them from the first with disapproval and regret, it had suffi cient confidence in its own stability and the good sense of its subjects to refrain from im posing any restrictions npon the full religions iberty of the catholics. It has not forbidden any bishop, clergyman, or teacher to propagate the dogmas of the council. It ha3 only refused to lend the assistance of the temporal arm to compel catholic teachers to incnloate, iu oppo sition to the dictates of their conscience—prin ciples which, in the opinion of the Government, havo not only introduced important changes into the creed of the chnrch, but also modified in many very important respects her relations with the State. The question now at issue is not, whether the Government will acknowledge e religious dogma as such; this it leaves to the conscience and religious liberty of every indi vidual catholio. What it is now called npon to decide is, whether it will lend its legal influence to support a dogma which it considers fatal to the existing relations between tho chnrch and the State.” On the authority of the Vienna Free Press it is reported that the Prussian Government is determined to close all Catholio colleges, shonld tho Bishops continue to persecute those teachers who decline to submit to the new dogma. The Bishop of Paderborn, Westphalia, on the occa sion of the Papal jubilee had issued a pastoral letter in whioh the flattering epithet of “Bob ber” was bestowed npon King Victor Emanuel. His Eminence, after having been tried for this offence, was found guilty and is said to have been oonducted to a Prussian fortress. The Frankfort Journal states that in Offen- baoh six families, consisting of thirty-five per sons, have seceded from the Boman Chnrch, on account of the oonfliot arising from the procla mation of the infallibility of the Pope. Alan in Southern Germany the old Catholio party is gaining ground among the educated olasses. In Bavaria they have began to perform the marriage ceremony after the Council of Trent, whenever a priest refuses to marry peo ple who are excommunicated. Bride and bride groom call on the priest, and, having stated that they will take each other, for better or worse, they join hands before him, wMoh ceremony constitutes a legal marriage, no matter whether he sanctions it or not. In Weurzburg,Weurtenburg, Professor Eeiss- manD, who is decidedly opposed to Papal infalli bility, has been elected Eectorof the University there. After a most violent debate the French As sembly was declared to be possessed of consti tuent powers. Thiers’ term of office was also prolonged. Gambetta, who most fiercely op posed the assumption of constituent^ powers, is said to have withdrawn Mo proposition for a dissolution of the Assombly. The feeling between the inhabitants of Strae- burg and the Germans has not much improved. There ocourred serious disturbances between the people and the German soldiers, in wMch several on both sides were seriously injured. The Duke of Montpensier, now sojourning In Paris, who is suspected of being distantly con cerned in tbe assassination of Prim, has offered to testify before competent Spanish authorities in relation to that event, his daughter’s sickness preventing him from leaving the French capital. The Spanish government has issued a decree of amnesty, applying to all political offenses committed in Spain. TMs wise act has caused great satisfaction among all classes of the peo ple, and much increased the popularity of the new ministry. The Turin Gazette reports that Garibaldi is improving, and requires only repose to recover his perfect health. The Holy Father toldthePapal Guards who, in a body, paid him their homage, that he conld not name the day of their deliverance bnt that the time was not remote, when they wonld issue together from their prison.” The Italian journal “Concordia” states that His Holiness is so embittered against the Prus sian government for its decided attitude against the Ultramontane party, that no one in his snr- nailing on a plowhandle, or ever tying a hame- string. “Plowhandlee” is all the time writing about five or six bushels of ooro per acre and two hundred pounds of seed ootton per acre. Now if he has ever attempted to farm at all, that is about tbe amount of com and cotton he made on his plantation, and the poor fellow thinks every crop in the whole country is like his. •'Plowhandle s” seems to have wretched moles on the brain. No donbt his mules look as bad and as wretched as they well can. I guess be does not see them fed and watered often, as he spends so muoh time in reading the works of Tull, Von Thaer, Loudon, Liebig and others of equal eminence. Planters that farm on paper in a comfortable room, with a pitcher of ioe water by their side, generally have poor, wretch ed looking mules, and everything else on their plantation looks very bad, also. My friend P. talks very fluently about’'Bon- Bingault, Buel, Sanford Mid others and general ly sprinkles in the usual amount about subsoil ing and under drainage. This class of farmers generally make from three to five bushels of corn per acre, and everytMng else on the plan tation in proportion. “Plowhandles” knows too muoh about BoUsingault and Liebig to make a successful farmer. He makes poor crops, and no donbt he feels bad, andif an opportunity offors bo bolts for some agricultural convention and endeavors to obtain consolation by drafting highfalutin resolutions and delivering bunoomb speeches. “Plowhandles” seems to be very bitter in deed; he says our instincts are as blunt as our scooters. That may be so. We do not pretch'd to be as sharp, intellectually, as the gifted “Plowhandles.” Dull as I am I oan assure him that if he oontinues to Bit in his fine rooms and read Tull, Von Thaer, London, Liebig, Voelck- er and others too tedious to mention, and con tinues wasting his time talking about subsoiling and under drainage, he will soon find his pockets as empty as his cribs, and he Mmslf will be as bare of flesh as Ms old poverty strick en mules. It is common at tMs time for the so-oalled scientific to call suoh men as Tarver and Everett fogies. Yes, men that made prinoely fortunes farming, are now called by a few upstarts fo gies of the old Bip Van Winkle order. When Tarver and Everett died they were very rioh, and they made their fortunes, if I am correotiy in formed, by farming. Yes, they wore non, and strange to say, they never heard of Bousingault or Voelcker. “Plowhandles” says much about galded spots and wretched mules. As to galded spots, I have none on my place. Yes, wretched mules is Ms words, but I stand ready to bet that my mules are in as fine a condition ashis. I have plowed some of them twenty years. I have one on tho farm that has plowed on an average forty-five acres every year for the last twenty- four years. She is fat and Bleek now at this time. “Plowhandles” says my neighbors do not agTee with nib. This I deny. They utterly re pudiate tho abominable theories of “Plowhan dles,” and they say if such expensive farming as he recommends was put into practice, that it would break every farmer in the country in a few years. Now, I am going to make a sweep ing assertion. I have plowed deeper and ma nured heavier than any man in Georgia. On my experimental plat of seven acres last year, I applied thirty loads of lot manure broadcast and plowed it in with a two-horse Brinly, send ing the plow in to the beam, and then run in tbe same farrow with Murphy’s snbsoiler. _ I then applied 540 ponnds of guano in the drill, and on a quarter of an aore I applied at the rate of a thousand ponnds of guano per acre, and forty bushels of cotton seed. “Plowhandles” himself wonld call that heavy manuring, wonld he not ? Where I manured so heavy I made a heavybaleperacreandyetitdidnotpay. Apor- tion of the patch I broke with a one-horse turn ing shovel. I made as mnch cotton there as where the land was broke fifteen inches deep. “Plowhandles” would have the people believe that “Plain Farmer” opposes manuring the lands. Not so, however. Last year I cultivated 320 acres. I used 2,000 bushels of cotton seed and 23 tons of gnano. How is that for Mgfa, “Plowhandles?” “Plowhandles ” wonld create the impression, if he conld, that I regard such men as Mr. Dixon and Simpson as upstarts. I do not say any such thing. As evidence of sincerity I have adopted Mr. Dixon’s system of farming, because I believe it pays. I cultivated one hundred and forty acres in com tMs year, with eight furrows to six feet rows. Had my sweep been twenty-six inches wide, it wonld not hav6 required but five. The entire crop will average fifteen bushels per aore. I never used anthing in my crop after it was planted bnt the Dixon sweep. In 1867, 1 run a two horse farm. That squad was under my control and worked as I directed them. I made on that little farm fifty bales of cotton, one hundred bushels of corn, and two hundred bushels of potatoes. At that time I did not know that the distinguished gentleman Tull, Von Thaer, London, Liebig, Bousingault, and others ever existed on the face of the earth. Neither did I have the enlightened “Plowhan dles” to instrnot me. I did not use one pound of guano on that crop. Last year my crop suf fered severely with drouth, but notwithstanding all the draw backs, I made ninety bales of oot ton and 1464 bushels of com with fourteen bands and only worked them five and a half days in the week. I know a young man that rented a plantation tMs year, and is to give fifty bales rent for it, and I am reliably informed that he was offered, a month ago, $7,000 profit and he be at no more trouble about the business. I call that good fanning. Now, I will make a lively bet that that young man never heard of Bousingault or Liebig, and furthermore, I doubt his ever read ing ten pages in any agricultural magazine in his life. I do not think he knows muoh about my friend “Plowhandles.” That young man was taught how to farm by his daddy, and taught in the fields. He was not taught in a fine room with the floor carpeted and a pitcher of ice water by bis side. I have a son, 18 years of age, and one negro boy (and a very trifling negro he is) that have made 400 bushels of corn, and I think he will make twelve bales of cotton, and did not use any manure at all on his cotton. He had, how ever, some advantages that other young men did not possess. His path has been made plain by the writings of the gifted “Plowhandles” as he L»i» read Ms letters once a month. I am opposed to erecting a college for agri cultural purposes at toe expense of the State. “Plowhandles” Breaks of the State endowing the oollege liborally. I will oppose any such proceeding^ long aa I live. Farmers can never be madoiu colleges and in tbe little track-patches connected with the institution. The plantation id toe place to train them. There is one elaan that it will benefit. A lot of professors will have roundings dares to utter toe name of Bismare* that it will benefit A lot of professors will have ana Emperor William before him. He i» «*» to be employed. They would have a fat time ■ '*— at the expense of toe State. And toe very men that wonld get the situations would not know as much about praotical farming as a common Emperor —. _ said to have recently expressed Mm«»ff con cerning the policy of Bismarck tow*™ 8 ■ L a " pal claims as follows: “I had expected that the C T a ?°^ would be treated with MSjy* oonceal from you tb^ I ? btn f n ^TvLl mat as Prince B^marck would not have pro voked discord in the new Empire. All measures that are uadertaken against toe Church are alwavs converted to her ultimate gain. They hnYpalways reinforced her, have made her mem bers more compact, have fortified them in their faith.” Jaen °. John Plowliandles. Neab Bybon, Houton County, Ga.,1 September 5,1871. ) Editors Telegraph and Messenger: “John Plowhandles,” in the September number of toe negro. If yon wish to make farmers of your sons, put them on the plantation under intelli gent, practical farmers, and there they will learn all that is necessary for them to know, to make them successful planters. Do not put them nnder a set of bigoted, fat, ignorant, lazy pro fessors at some agricultural college. If you do, they will spoil your boys. When they return they will be too proud to work and probably not able to live without it. Now I am done with you, ‘‘Plowhandles.” I have written in a good spirit, and would not write otherwise. I would not under stay con sideration wound the feelings of my friend P. If I have written anything that irritates or wounds toe feelings of toe gentleman, I here- Farm and Home, is down upon toe way our by beg his pardon in advance. I will close by daddies did, and wishes somebody wouldmusale ] hoping that “Plowhandles^ will always have “Plain Farmer,” from near Byron, Houston county. . No doubt but he wishes my mouth was her metically sealed, as I will, in spite of him, occa sionally show np toe absurdity of his preten tions. “Plowhandles” professes to be a firstrate scientific farmer, and so he is on paper. He talks fanning and writes farming very wefi. I haven’t toe smallest idea, however, that he ever lost a drop of sweat in his life following good lack on Ms little track patches, as he seems to have a great fancy for pop-oom, grass nuts and lucerne, and such like. Now yotl may consider Plain Farmer muzzled on this subject. I suppose that will afford yon some consolation if yonr track patches should fail to make a good yield. Flain Farmer. A .Wisconsin lover wrote his sweetheart: eyoi mo .. w “There is not a globule of blood in my heart toe 1 plowhandle^ and doubt, capitally, Ms ever that doeB not bear your photograph.”
