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Volume LXVII—No.17
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^.Kciicc/^or “No Fence?”
looSBSBOKO, Ga., Sept. 20,1873.
■ £»•>■< TeUomph and Messenger: On
,. T iUa«e seems to be the stamp of pro-
1 Its male inhabitants, the most of
• '"V' m young men, are honest, ac-
* ^ t lt ; n ., ;t nd enthusiastic in the pur-
^ of business. Consequently, they are
’ A d? . It is a sociable community,
v cridenee of this fact, let me mention
l t it i 3 tbe home of a good lodge of
-Patrons of Husbandrya lodge of noisy
-Rising Suns” (ooL), and a debating club,
t,« of the last that I write.
The dub, named “The Lee Debate,” in
• ,.«• of our beloved Confederate chief-
* was organized but a few weeks
"Iv- and vet it has grown so rapidly in
Merest and popularity, that its place of
tin - has been transferred from its
Sjtotiie church, which at last meeting,
almost filled with an intelligent
audience of ladies and farmers. The
cuUion for discussion was that most im-
Iftant to farmers, ‘,Should we adopt the
•nit fence’ law ?
Sotvitbshuidiiig the fact that our farm-
' a 0 iass, economise and labor hard
a*,hr scorching summer suns, as well as
the cold, tireary winter, their expendi
ng appear to be greater than their in
line, an't their debts weigh heavily upon
them. They are aware of their deplora-
condition, and are willing to hear of,
and ready to adopt any policy which they
juc convinced will prevent that pecuniary
death which, if they continue to decline
t hey now do, they are doomed soon to
The subject was one in which all felt
B interest, and many came several miles
r.ihcar the discussion. The debate was
i?ni and the arguments forcible. The
simiative, “we should adopt the no
hi.e law,” was supported by Messrs.
Joshua lliv.ne, Gartensteig and others,
»h,> very forcibly portrayed the pecuniary
adrantage that would accrue in consc
ience of t’.ie adoption of the law, by
Ailing that so much fence is unneces
sary and the greatest burden the farmer
jas to bear; that it is a greater tax on
iaa than that imposed by the Bullock
s'wmmcnt—indeed, that his fences cost
-in* uioretiian the real worth of all his
•aw-h i-ked” hogs, and “hat-rack” cat-
ile. win-h he so highly prizes, and likes
see grazing on the commons, and on
skr men's premises. Also, that if we
jere to pen onr stock and raise our own
we would not have to purchase
.•T .rio is fertilizers j that frequently, in
•At to got titty ac.res of land for eulti-
rg.. '3. one hundred acres must be fenced
a* m eiionnous cost; that the stock food
kit .a the fields would prove to be of fer-
utility if left unmolested ; that
:hen:o.-t lertUe patches might be selected
'".iltivation; and that if farmers per-
•i-t in continuing to practice the present
sui.-idal policy, their lands will, in a few
wars, be stripped of timber, will be worn
act and worthless; they, themselves, will
Wine poorer and poorer every year;
rill die penniless, and leave their chil-
Ccii paupers and their country bankrupt.
Tlie negative, too, was made to wear a
bright appearance by Mr. B. G. Hyman,
Judge Cannon and others. They con-
*ended that were the “ no fence” law en
forced. the fanners’ stock could not reap
the benefit of his pea fields and pastures;
that it would lie, at least, very damaging
to hare to pen stoek all Spring and Sum
mer ; that stock would trespass from ad
joining counties, etc. They argue, fur
ther, that it was neither a j’ust nor a pru
dent law, und that a majority of the peo
ple had concurred, or would concur with
them in this opinion at the polls. That
the law would be a blessing to the rich
man. but an imposition upon the poor one.
’Twonld lie the poor man’s “ fence” and
the rich man’s “no fence.” Therefore,
a> there are but few rich Southern men,
the law would be injurious to a majority
•if the people. To all of which the au
dience readily assented by repeated winks,
aods, laughter and applause.
The discussion being concluded, the
worthy President, Mr. W. S. Barron, re
marked that, while the question had been
skillfully argued on both sides, he was
of opinion that a preponderance of argu
ment had been introduced in favor of the
fixative—that we should not adopt the
a». ■
. Messrs. Editors, while I conscientiously
relieve, after having thoroughly studied
hhe subject, that the adoption of the “no
btre’’ law would conduce greatly to the
. mterest of our people, and might rescue
them from that abyss of pecuniary de-
■arudion, on the brink of which they now
**■*• yet, I must confess, that with the
P*ple of iriUbituoii county, this is an un
popular opinion; for that they desire to
"a beaten tank of their fathers,
to follow tueir example 1b being op-
to the law of “No Fence.”
Spiritualists and Free Lov
ers at Chicago.
_ The annual pow wow of these ill-starred
bedlamites has been going on for several
*%* in that sensational centre of the
*uuntiy, Chicago. The meeting is termed
the National Association of Spiritualists,
the extravaganzas of the delegates,
and female, axe to the full as impi-
433 and preposterous as usual. Wo give
a Quotation from the proceedings:
Woodhull is defending her course as
and her peculiar notions of life,
vigor, and, during Tuesday night’s
******> ahe indulged in the most radical
2?**a8e8 on all subjects. Miss Anna M.
*®Uebrook, of Connecticut, said: “I
here, to-night, as far as tho Cliris-
?** religion is concerned, determined on
V 3 ^-ruction. In politics I am a rebel.
***»» it boldly. This is a sham repub-
IV ;th reference to social problems I
r? k revolutionist: Why should we in
e nineteenth century go back 1800
for our doctrine? Is there not
7°^ taan we can learn from the living
V** 1 ® 4 • If wo live up to our philosophy
**ill see the time when the mummery
of Christianity will be overturned.’ ’
Higgins,of Jersey City, proposed
TjjPpjugthe name “Spiritualists” and
themselves anti-Christians, and
reighed against the laws of marriage.
aA* ExrxssrvE Doo.—John A. Bradish
in this city in 1871, intestate and
■about heirs, though he left considera-
TPtoperty. A. J. Eogers, Henry Alker,
Dayton, who were suceessive-
jf Public Administrators, took charge of
D. Willetts putin a claim of
i*-, w bieh $2-10 was for boarding a dog,
on* j breaking a dog, and §5 for taxes
4 dog. The claim was contested, and
•to . a b>ng litigation, was allowed,
'*?“ Willetts had meantime expended
,,,,. e case nearly one-half the amount
1114 daim.—Hew York World.
The Gentleman in Politics.
We do not doubt that many thousand
readers of Scribner have shared with us
ttie pleasure of reading Mr. Whitelaw
Beid’s Dartmouth address, on “The
Scholar in Politics,” published complete
in our September number. The pro
gramme of active influence which he
spreads before the American scholar is
sufficiently extensive, and the arguments
by which he commends it for adoption
sufficiently strong and sound. Yet the
question has occurred . to us whether,
after all, Mr. Carlyle’s “Able Man,” and
Mr. Herbert Spencer’s “Thinker,,’ and
Mr. Beid’s, “Scholar,” who are corns and
the same person, are quite sufficient for
the just and satisfactory handling of the
matters which this address spreads be
fore us in detail. “How are you going to
punisb crime?” We do not quite see
what scholarship has to do with the set
tlement of that questoin, or what the
scholar has to do with it, specially, be
yond other men. “How are yon going to
stop official stealing V' The question
may interest the scholar, and he ought,
indeed, to assist in settling it aright, but
as a scholar, specially, we do not see what
he can do, or may be expected to do, be
yond other men. “How are you going to
control your corporations f” Here culti
vated brains may help us to do some
thing—to contrive something; yet, after
all, what we want is not the way to con
trol corporations, but corporations that
do not need to be controlled. “What
shall be the relations between capital and
labor ?” The scholar ought to he able to
help us here. “What shall be done with
our Indians ?” “How may we best ap
point our civil officers ?” These questions,
with others relating to univt rsal suffrage
and the unlimited annexation of inferior
races, make up Mr. Beid’s very solid and
serious catalogue.
There is work enough, legitimate work,
for the American scholar, in the study
and intelligent handling of these ques
tions ; hut the fact that there is a con
siderable number of American scholars
mixed up with every scheme of iniquity
in the country, leads us to suspect that
the country is not to be saved by scholar
ship alone. There are two sides to the
matter, as there are to most matters. In
our late civil war, it was West Point pit
ted against West Point, each side being
actuated by its own independent ideas of
duty and patriotism. Military scholar
ship had a very important office to per
form in settling the question between the
two sections of the country, but it had to
struggle with military scholarship in or
der to do it. We do not know why we
are not quite as likely to find the scholar
on the wrong side as on the right side of
polities. Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Everett
were neighbors once. They represented
the height of scholarly culture, and the
two extremes of political opinion. They
certainly assisted in making respectable
whatever was bad in the party to which
they respectively belonged, whatever else
they did or failed to do. All that we wish
to say, in dissent to Mr. Eeid, or rather
in addition to him, is that scholarship
does not necessarily lead to any common
good conclusion in politics, and that it
may be, or may become, as base as any
other element.
What we really want is gentlemen in
politics. If our political men were only
gentlemen, even if they were no more
than ordinarily intelligent, we should find
our political affairs in a good condition,
and the great questions that stand before
us in a fair way of being properly adjust
ed. A gentleman is a person who knows
something of the world, who possesses
dignity and self-respect, who recognizes
the rights of others and the duties he
owes to society in all his relations, who
would as soon commit suicide as stain his
palm with a bribe, who would not degrade
himself by intrigues. There are various
types of gentlemen, too, and the higher
the type the better the politician. If his
cliaracter and conduct are based on sound
moral principle—if he is governed by the
rule of right—that is better than mere
pride of character or gentlemanly instinct.
If,beyond all, he is a man of faith and re
ligion—a Christian gentleman—he is the
tightest type of a gentleman; and in his
hands the questions which Mr. Beid has
proposed to the scholar would have the
fairest Bundling that men are capable of
giving them. The more the christh-n
gentleman knows, the better politician he
will make, and in him, and in him only,
will scholarship come to its finest issues
in politics. ■ "We do not think the worst
feature of our politics is lack of intelli-
n :e in our politicians. There is a great
of cultivated brain in Congress.
Public questions are understood and in
telligently discussed there. Even there,
it is not always that scholarship shows
superior ability. Men who show their
capacity to manage affairs are quite as
apt to come from the plainly educated as
from the ranks of scholarship. Congress
does not suffer from lack of knowledge
and culture half as much as it does from
the lack of principle. It is the men who
push personal and party purposes that
poison legislation. If Congress were
composed of gentlemen, we could even
dispense with what scholars we have, and
be better off than we are to-day.
In the government of our cities, we
could very well afford to get along with
out scholars, if we could have onlv mod
estly educated gentlemen. If the heavy-
iawed, florid-faced, fnll-bellied, dnunond-
ibrooched bully who now typifies the city
politician were put to his appropriate
work of railroad building, or superintend
ing ^angs of ignorant workmen, and there
could be put in his place good, quiet, bus
iness men, of gentlemanly instincts and
of sound moral principle, we could get
along very comfortably without the
scholar, though there would not be the
slightest objection to him. In brief, we
want better men than we have, a great
deal more than we want brighter or bet
ter educated men. Scholarship is a sec-
ondarv rather than a primary considera
tion : "the gentleman first, the sclio-ar, if
he is a gentleman and not otherwise. It
Christian gentlemen were in power, many
of the questions that appeal to us for set
tlement would settle themselves. We
should not be called upon, for-instance,
to stop official stealing. Instead of try
ing to ascertain how we shall punish mur
der, we should dry up the fountains of
murder. Instead of seeking a mode of
controlling corporations, we should only
need to find some mode of putting only
gentlemen into corporations. Our laws are
good enough in the main: we want them
executed, and in order
executed, we need a judiciary of Chris
tian gentlemen, with executive officers,
loval to the law. As long as notorious
scamps, scholarly or otherwise, are in
power not much headway can he mads
in politics. Until we demand something
more and something better in our politi
cians than knowledge or scholarship, un-
+il we demand that they shall be gentle
men, we shall take no step forward.
George Washington got along very well
ti a politician on a limited capital of cul
ture, and a very large one of patriotism
and personal dignity- Aaron Burr was a
scholar whose lack of principle spoiled him
for any good end ’ in politics, and made
his name a stench in thenojtnlsofhis
country-—-Dr. J. Cf. Holland, Scribner's
for October. m f , j,
A large reduction is being made in the
Austrian standing army.
Prince Esterliazy and tlie Vil-
liers Family.
I The death, by his own hand, of Prince
i Esterhazy recalls the untoward fate
j which -lias attended the family of his
j first wife, whose portrait, with that of
| her sisters, was, five and twenty years
j ago, to be found in every book of beauty
i and fashionable print-shop in London,
j Their father, the Earl of Jersey, held va-
j rious high appointments about the court,
and was something of a celebrity in his
way, but the moving spirit of the family
was their mother. Sarah, Countess of
Jersey, occupied a position in the great
world of London from 1815 to 1845, such
as no one has held since. Lady Palmer
ston’s was a very different sort of lead.
Lady Jersey started in life under the
most brilliant auspices. Her father, the
Earl of Westmoreland, eloped with her
mother, who was the daughterand heiress
of Mr. Child, the great banker, and the
latter started in pursuit as rapidly as
, four post-horses and ample largesses to
: postilions would enable him to follow.
! He nearly reached the lovers, when Lord
| Westmoreland, leaning out of the car
riage, fired at one of the leaders of his
future father-in-law’s carriage, and the
horse dropped dead.
However, fathers-in-law can at times
make themselves as disagreeable
mothers-in-law, and Mr. Child deter
mined to he even with his Lordship. Not
a cent did he get, but all the property
was left to a second son of Lady West
moreland, and failing such i.sue, to her
eldest daughter. So at twenty-one Lady
Sarah Fane found herself the head part
ner of Child & Co., of Temple Bar, the
oldest banking house in London, with a
fortune of .£30,000 a year at least, be
sides Osterley Park, a magnificent seat in
Middlesex. At an early age she married
Lord Jersey, and it soon appeared that
j she was destined to be a great leader in
the fashionable world. At the outset she
{ was one of those whom George the Mag-
l nificent paid the most court; but it is fair
I to Lady Jersey to say that, although by
I no means insensible to the distinction this
j homage at that time conveyed, her repu
tation was never compromised by it. Sbe
was long supreme at Almack’s in those
days, when, as Sir Henry Holland tells us,
he knew of instances of young ladies’
health being seriously affected by tbe dis
appointment of not getting an invitation,
and to be at her magnificent house in
Berkeley Square was to be somebody in
society.
It was at one of the splendid enter
tainments given there that Washington
Irving, who had gone through a hard
day’s pleasuring, was declared to have
been found fast asleep. Lady Jersey had
three daughters who inherited their
mother’s beauty, but their fate was any
thing but a happy one. Lady Sarah, the
eldest, became, to her mother’s intense
delight, the wife of Prince Esterliazy,
whose death has just been announced. It
was regarded gcnorally as a marriage in
which the taste of the bride's mother
rather than the bride haj been consulted.
She died early. The next, the most beau
tiful of all, tbe once celebrated Lady
Clementine Yilliers, whom men rushed
to get a glimpse at in the street, died
early and unmarried of heart disease. It
was commonly reported that her mother
had peremptorily forbidden her marriage
with the man she cared for.
The third, Lady Adela, took her mat
rimonial affairs into her own hands.
While staying at Brighton she had made
acquaintance with one Capt. Ibbetson, an
officer of Hussars, and their intimacy, in
creased by clandestine meetings on the
chain pier at that celebrated watering
place, ended in the sudden disappearance
of Lady Adela and the gallant Captain.
Like her grandmama, she took wings for
Gretna Green, and perhaps no social event
of the kind ever so convulsed London.
The Ibbetsons were the last notabilities
married by the famous blacksmith.
This event was a dreadful mortification
to Lady Jersey. It was said that the
Marchioness of Londonderry, her rival in
fashion, insisted on calling “to condole
with dear Lady Jersey,” under these un
toward circumstances, and dear Lady
Jersey, although she could cheerfully have
torn her sympathetic visitor to bits, had
to endure her. But she had the satisfac
tion of paying off in kind some years
FOREIGN NOTES. , Germany, and ceased to seek foreign al-
liances for the purpose of recovering the
Prepared for the Telegraph and Messenger.] { Schleswig duchies wrested from her by
The journey of the Bing of Italy to "VI- . the German war. . '
... _jn vi t. . -j. 1 The severe measures against the clergy
enna, which will probably be extended to listing tho ecclesiastic^ laws continue
Berlin, signifies a great deal more than throughout Prussia,
a mere exchange of courtesies. It is well The equipment of the Prussian cavalry
known that the personal sympathies of receive several additions. It will
the King are strongly inclined to France, only be provided with dynamit cax-
, .TTV 3 “ ° J tndges, but also with all necessary tools
to which country Italy owes her unity, for taking up and destroying railway
It is true that the liberation of Italy tracks, and with iron clamps to climb
originated with the Emperor Napoleon; telegraph poles and take off the wires
still, it was by French arms that the ar A conductors.
, ’ . J ° , , i Prince Bismarck has been decorated
Austrians were driven from Lombardy. ^ th the grand cordon of the Oamanli
The battles'of Solferino and Magenta led Order, with the star set in diamonds, by
to the annexation of Modena, Parma, the Sultan of Turkey.
Tuscany and a large part of the States of advertisementa” sorap-
*. ... idly increasing m the loading German
the Church, until the German wars, driving newspapers as to attract the attention of
the Austrians from Venice and tin.. Fref, .h the statisticians. Dr. Schwabe has col-
flag from Borne, realized the dream of looted and examined above four hundred
Italian unitv • of suc ^ advertisements, taken from a
T . . ,, . Berlin paper, and found that there are
It is generally understood tliat Victor three times as many men as women desi-
Emanuel has undertaken the journey to rous of entering the haven of matrimony
Vienna and Berlin by the counsels of hia by means of an advertisement in the
political advisers for the purpose of seek- P ubUc P res3 ,' * “ remarkable, that the
r ... ... ,, women are less pretentious regarding the
mg alliances for future emergencies. At age of the husband looked for than tho
the Vatican the King’s journey is inter- men are in reference to the wives wanted;
preted as a threat. The Vaterland, a for, 81 per cent, of female wants compared
leading Ultramontane Vienna paper, has to 56 per cent, of male advertisements,
been suppressed and it3 office seized be- do not mention the age at all, while 6 per
cause it published an attack on Victor cent, of the former and 32 per cent, of the
Emanuel while a guest of the Emperor, latter add the adjective “young.” Most
And the aversion against the so-called advertisements of either party seem to
despoiler of the Cnnrch is so great in feu- lay great stress on “ intelligence,” little
dal circles in Vienna, that many members or none on “ religion.” Only 7 per cent, of
of the Imperial household and the Aus- the gentlemen anxious to try wedded life
trian nobility have left the capital to mention the fortune expected, while forty-
avoid meeting Victor Emanuel. The peo- one per cent, of the ladies clearly state
pie, however, greeted him with a hearty the cash wanted, thus, seemingly, estab-
welcome. lishing the fact that, women more than
The visit to Berlin will be of the ut- men consider an adequate fortune as most
most importance. Italy and Germany indispensable and conducive to connubial
are both threatened by the same enemies, happiness. To characterize the progres-
The cosmopotitical party of reaction which sive tendency of these advertisements the
has its seat in Borne, comprises both following specimen, taken from the Ber-
States with an equal hate and aims at lin Vossische Zeitung, may serve as an
their destruction. Mutual interests thus illustration: ‘'Should a childless widower
compel, as it were, Germany and Italy to of good family, or a single steady gentle-
make common cause against the common man with a handsome income, he able
enemy. ° j to make up his mind to marry a lame »
The American consulates for Italian well educate^ middle-aged lady of good j
and foreign emigrants in Home have been family, he may send his address to letter .
provisionally closed. The Government H of this office. The ertiser professes j
has taken this measure to obstruct the the Jewish faith, but ihe cr^ed of the •
immigration of those who are still liable to gentleman would form no serious obstacle
military service. to the consummation of marriage.”
There is no change in the political situ-1 Jaiino.
Serenade ©fa Modern •politi
cian to His Love.
From the Atchison Champion.] ■
The moon is shining on the grange,
The winds are hushed, the leaves are still, „
Tho patient stats look softly down ■
Upon my cot at Shannon Hill.
Then oorne, my homy-hnnded love,
And wander through the dell with me,
And gaze upon the Durham bull
And listen to his pedigree.
Once ! was in the railroad ring,
But now my hands are hard with toil;
I’ve scattered hay seed in my hair
And blacked my boots with harness oil.
My city cows have all gone diy,
I am no longer in my prime;
My day is drawing to its close
And it will soon he milking time.
I think I know a new milch cow
That’s just exactly what I need ;
She’s thin from running out to grass.
But only wants a change of feed.
I’ll mix a mash of free-trade bran.
Swindles, high taxes, and back pay;
And coax her to the ballot box
And feed her till election day.
With one to grasp her by the horns.
And one to hold her by tail,
Oh, let me safely sit between.
And calmly fill my milking pail;
And when November’s breezes show
’Tis time my Berkshire hogs to kill.
I’ll more back into town again.
And sigh no more for Shannon Hill.
GEOBGIA SCHOOL DEBT OF 1871.
atiou in France. The fusionists are di
vided; the Legitimists are pressing'on
toward the absolute monarchy under the
lily banner; the liberal and cautious roy
alist, most ex-Orleanists among them, are
dreading the fanaticism of their allies;
h * Government is wavering, and the Duke
de Broglie is already threatened with diS'
Scenes in tlie New York Stock
Exchange on Friday.
The Herald of Saturday has the follow
ing on this subject:
Here it was the tragedy and farce of
the day were enacted. Such a frantic,
missal by Louis Veuillot, the all-power- bellowing crowd was never seen in tbe I
ful editor of “L’TJnivers,” as soon as wildest days of tbe war. The StockTCx- j
Henry the Fifth has seated himself on change ba3 a noble altitude of interior, a .
the throne of his fathers. MacMahon is great vaulting roof, that^springs upwards t
silent and devotes his attention to mill- to a focal point in the middle of the ceil- |
tary reforms, the re-organization of the ing witl* a strength and grace not often ,
artillery especially. Should the model of seen so happily blended. Over the ex- t
a new bronee cannon offered by Colonel pansive surface of the ceiling a brilliant.
RetTye, be adopted, France will own again flourish of colors ni renaissance design is ,
4992 new cannon within a year, the in- spread. In the centre of the ceiling is a
ventor having pledged himself to furnish cluster of gas jets, and yesterday they f
eight batteries every week. illuminated the dull and murky atmos- j
It is reported that the Count of Cham- phere with a golden light. At the end t
bord will shortly issue a declaration ac- opposite tlm President s desk is a galloiy
knowledging tbe right of the people to for the public. There are no seats, and it
share in the government of the nation, is well there are not, for the pressing, f
and consenting to the settlement of the eager throng of spectators that bent for- j
future constitution of France by national ward to view tbe counterfeit of Pande- j
representatives. Considering the well monium on the floor would have broken ^
known sentiment of the Count 'on his benches of cast iron had^ they stood in
sacred rights, we think it extremely im- the way. Behind the raised desk stood
probable that he can ever be prevailed the President of the Board, Mr. Whee-
upon to make such a concession to popu- lock, in snowy shirt front and necktie,
lax sovereignty, were it even to win a his strong tenor voice ringing out ever
crown. Elections to fill vacant seats in and anon over the warring tumult of
the Assembly have been ordered for the sounds beneath andaround him. At either
12th of October. i side of him were several demure gentle-
A petition with numerous Protestant men seated at clerical duties, and two
signatures bns been sent to the large black boards stood off to the right
Protestant deputies in the Chamber, and left, bearing in chalk marks the
urging them to use all their influence and figures of incessantly'fluctuating stock
throw their votes against the establish- quotations. Telegraph wires connecting
ment of the monarchy. • the Exchange with a thousand indicators
The evacuation of French territory throughout the city led into the great
by the German troops was completed on halls, and the figures, big with pregnant
the 16th of September. meaning to many, were momentarily
There is little news from Spain. The flashed far and wide. On the wide, capa-
_ _ . Cartagena insurgents continue to offer a cious floor, unobstructed by pillars or
later, when Lady Adelaide Vane, Lady vigorous resistance and make frequent furniture, savo one small table, whereon
Londonderry’s daughter, following Lady sorties. The insurgent men-of-war in the a large basket of flowers rested, the wild
harbor sailed to Aguilos, about thirty- mob of brokers and brokeFs clerks surged
seven miles from Cartagena, effected a to and fro, filling the immense space
landing, and pillaged the town and sub- above them with reverberating sounds of
urbs. Biots and disturbances have again most unearthly melody. The floor is por-
taken place in Sevilla and Malaga and tioned off to twenty different groups,
several other smaller cities. We hear Here we have one tossing New York Cen-
little from the Carlists. In Pampeluna, tral to and fro in this comer. Near by is
the authorities have levied a tax on the another howling over the ^ mercurial fate
priests and others suspected of favoring of Wabash. Northwest is _ jumping up
their cause. The Boyalists have succeeded and dowm as if afflicted with St._ Vitus’
in placing a loan, and Carlist bonds are dance, the middle of the floor is Bock
quoted at the Frankfort stock exchange. Island, going down like a burnt out rocket
The death of the Duke of Bianzares, and springing up like a lark. Pacific
near Havre, France, on the 15th inst., re- Mail is beaten with clubs in a remote cor-
calls a strange page of modern Spanish ner. Harlem is rising like a silk ballon
history. Like most prominent public men inflated with pure hydogen. Other stocks
in Spain, Prim, O’Donnall, Serrano, Es- are going up and down and all is extreme
partero, etc., Fernando Munoz, duke of noise and confusion worse confounded.
Bianzares, consortof Queen Christina, had The roar of voices is like the tumult of
risen from the ranks. In 1829, Ferdinand the sea in midwinter on alee shore of
the Seventh married his fourth wife, coral rocks, and it is heard faintly in the
Christina, a daughter of the King of Na- street as it rises and issues through open
pies. The Queen was then twenty years doors and windows. . Tho spectators
old, an ambitious, unprincipled woman, stand aghast. Tbe uninitiated appre-
frivolous and entirely devoted to the hend every minute a fight among the
pleasures of the senses. Fernando Munoz mob. They square off at each other, they
was a private in the King’s body guard, scream and yell and violently fling their
His father was a tobacconist in Madrid, roms around, till the whole scene is that
and a sister of his a laundry-maid. Sev- of bedlam and pandemonium, Blackwell’s
oral months after the Queen’s marriage, Island and Beddy the Blacksmith, broke
Munoz was one of tbe escort that accom- loose and struck with lightning. Yester-
panied her on a little journey; and here day was truly a great day in the stock
tho handsome features and winning ad- exchange, and it is to be hoped that we
dress of the young guardsman made so may never look upon its greatness again.
powerful an impression upon her, that, — , ...
violating all etiquette, she detained him Cowhiding a Brothek-in-Iiaw. A lit-
in famihar conversation near her carriage tie cowhiding affair created a ripple of
for several hours. That day decided excitement at Barnum’s City Hotelyes-
Munoz’life; henceforth he was a favorite terday *-“•
public schools, whenever the condition in
section 28 of the general school law, above
referred to, has been complied with.
In a few of the counties no school debt
has been reported. If no debt exists in
these counties, the proper custodian of
the regular school fund can draw the pro
rata of his county for the support of
schools whenever the Board of Education
has complied with the condition of the
general school law referred to in the two
preceding paragraphs.
The proper custodian of the regular
school fund, mentioned several times in
the foregoing, is the County School Com
missioner in the counties under the gen
eral law; and the county treasurer in
those under the special law.
When the apportionment was made in
December last I gave the two following
rules for disbursing the fund;
1. Each County Commissioner will be
entitled to receive, from the county’s pro
rata, an amount which shall bear the
same ratio to the entire pro rata that his
claim bears to the entire school debt of
the county.
2. The remainders must be apportioned
among the sub-districts in the proportion
of the number of children in each be
tween the ages six anfl twenty-one years,
and must then be paid out to lawful
claimants in proportion to amounts of
the several claims.
The first of the above rules has been
affirmed by the State Board, and will be
observed in the disbursement of the fund
just apportioned.
They have decided that the second is
based upon a wrong construction of the
law, and have expressed the opinion that
the fund ought net to have been appor
tioned among the sub-districts, but should
have been paid out ou' the claims of all
the teachers of the county in proportion
to the several amounts of their respective
claims. In order to enforce the con
struction of the State Board, I instruct as
follows: When the fund reaches the
county, add the present pro rata to that
apportioned last December. Set aside
the county treasurer’s commission on the
whole sum and the proportionate part due
the county commissioner. Calculate each
e - filer’s proportionate part of the residue
and pay him out of the present apportion
ment the remainder to which he is entitled
according to the estimate made as above.
It will be remembered that this mode of
disbursement applies only to this special
school fund: The rules given for the dis
bursement of the regular school fund of
this year, in the circular of the 25th of
July, are based upon the school law, and
must be observed in paying out that fund.
County treasurers and others who may
he entitled to receive the whole or any
portion of this fund, according to the in
structions above, can draw the same,
either in person, or by an attorney in
fact. In either case they must produce a
certificate, under seal, from the Ordinary
or Clerk of the Superior Court that they
hold the office they claim to hold, and
have given the bond required by law.
The necessary and reasonable expense
^ of conveying the fund to the county may
to heavy official labors in those offices at j be paid out of the fund itself,
that time the statements were a little _ The State Board of Education has de-
delayed. When received they disclosed | cided that county treasurers are entitled
the fact that there had been paid into . to only 21 per cent, for both receiving
the treasury of tbe regular school fund,! and paying out the fund—and not 2£- per
A Circular from Commissioner Orr—
Full Information About It of Gen>
era! Interest.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 22, 1873.
Editors of the Constitution: Acopyofthe
enclosed circular, with the blanks prop
erly filled, has just been sent to the Coun
ty School Commissioners and County
Treasurers of the different counties of
the State. Many citizens, who will not
have an opportunity of seeing the circu
lar, are interested in the information
which it contains. Will you please pub
lish for their benefit.
Gustavos J. Ore,
State School Commissioner.
Department of Education, }
Atlanta, Ga., September 13,1873. >
Dear Sir: I hereby notify you that I
have just completed the apportionment j
of another installment of the fund derived
from the tax levied under “An act to pro
vide for the payment of the debt due to
teachers and school officers who did ser
vice under the Public School law in the
year 1871,” approved August 19, 1872.
The amount just apportioned is $74,000.
This covers the entire sum realized from
the tax mentioned, from the time of the
apportionment in December last up to
the 10th instant. The pro rata of yonr
county is $—.
There has been some delay in making
the apportionment. Thelaw fixes no defi
nite time, but, after consultation with
the Governor, I published in my pam
phlet of instructions, issued in March
last, that the apportionment would be
made about the 1st of July. When that
time arrived the Comptroller General
and the Treasurer were each called upon
for a statement of the amount of this
special fund collected up to date. Owing j
Adela’s lead, eloped wite the tutor, and a
fellow-feeling making us wondrous kind,
Lady Jersey hastened to offer her condo
lence to “poor, dear Lady Londonderry.”
All Lady Jersey’s sons, as well as daugh
ters, died early. The eldest married the
eldest daughter of Sir Bobert Peel, the
minister, and her son is now Lord Jersey,
and head of the bank. He had been on
the turf, and lost money, but is now sup-
S ised to be reformed. Of the other sons,
on. Frank Yilliers had pecuniary trans
actions of a kind which prevented his
ever living in England, or in a country
•which had an extradition treaty with
England. But, like old Sarah Marlbro’,
who wrote to Lady Mary that she had
gone through so much trouble, that noth
ing could kill her now but old age or doc
tors, Lady Jersey held on bravely, and
only died three years ago. She was the
last to drive out in a vis-a-vis, always
with two gigantic footmen, and her equip
age and history will long be held in re^
membrance around tho classic region of
Berkley Square.
A Sure Cure for Boils.
Dr. Simon, a physician of Lorraine,
states that, as soon as tho characteristic
culminating point of a boil makes its ap
pearance, he puts in a saucer a thimbleful
of camphorated alcohol, and, dipping tbe
ends of his middle fingers with the liquid,
rubs the inflamed surface, especially the
central portion, repeating the operation
eight or ten times, continuing the_ rub
bing at each time for about half a minute.
He then'allows the surface to dry, placing
a slight coating of camphorated olive oil
over the afflicted surface. He states that
one such application will, in almost all
such cases, cause boils to dry up and dis
appear. The application should be made
at morning, noon and in tbe evening. He
avers that the same treatment will cure
whitlows, and all injuries of tips of fingers.
As soon as pain and redness appear, the
fingers should be soaked for ten minutes
in camphorated sweet oiL The relief is
said to be immediate, and three applica
tions are generally enough to afford a
After the Worms.—A Middlefield
farmer has “rastled” severely, this year.
afterafcn' about two o’clock,
at Court; wealth amdhonors were lavished Messrs. Thomas Shryock and J. Mason
upon him, and three months after the Saunders, brothers-in-law and officers m
death of Ferdinand the Seventh, the the 5th regiment, figured in the affair.
Queen was secretly married to him. The It is alleged that bad feeling had existed
Kino- had left two infants, Isabella and between the two for some time, and yes-
Loulse, of liis fourth marriage, and ap- terday, after a meeting in one of the pri-
pointed Christina regent during the form- vate rooms of the hotel with a friend of
mer’s minority. each, the cowhiding took place in the
?S‘SrfS'T 8 S“Kti.S!»a brotter-to-W. .hould™
was soon after married inpublic to Munoz, S ^ers in ttte meantime using hm fete
who received the title of Duke of Bian- effectively. Shryock fell on the marble
zares Even after her .daughter I^bcUa id order.
- -w tou^P^ r S«reis^Stsm- satffifiedjiathe
with cabbage worms. When they first infil £^ on Spanish affairs, until “ ^ a cowhide. Theaffair,itiP
put in an appearance, he gave them a I he was compelled to leave the country said, S r ?^°°t «’S?
dose of slaked lime, followed by lime un- j ^ never to return again. The Duke «>Rcemin a lady of ^ ashingto ty.
slaked, charcoal, pounded oyster shells, j jjjmself took little part in politics. He Battunore nun, hth. * *
copperas water, hen manure, carbolic, created a grandee of Spain of the . , . . . ,
acid, bromo chloralum, kerosene, (on the! fir3t . cla<iSj an(1 a Knight of the Golden Livrigstone nt heard from agam A
application of the latter, “theywnggled In 1847 Louis-Philippe bestowed Paris dispatch reports the amvalm that
their tails and asked for more,”) magic, ^ Grand Cr033 of the Logio a of Honor city of Mr. Starnes, the English traveler
oil, vermifuge, pro, cough syrup, ano-: d theFrenc htitle of Duke of Mont- basbeen roammgaroimdm Ccmtm 1
dyne liniment, sneezing snuff, several ] mQrat Mm _ Africa, where he had the pleasure of meet-
washes, and dyes for the hair, condition, The 4 it the Crown Prince of Ger- mg Dr. Livingstone m June, parting from
powder*, and various remedies of the | man y ma d e to the Danish royal fam- 80 recently as the 1st of July. Mr.
day, after which it was about “an even U y, 4 castle Fredensborg, is much com- Starnes reports the doctor m perfect
thing” for the cabbage mid worms. As ^ nted m >X)tll Denmark and Ger- tbe
a last resort he gave them a dose of many, asit is the first step toward estab- mahon as to how much longer he expected
sperm oil, which exterminated every a friendly intercourse between 111 ^ nca *
worm, and he has this year the best lot countries since the Dano-German The late Duke of Brunswick was borne
of cabbages he ever raised in hi3 life. | war> the cordial recep- to his grave on the funeral car that wat
shoDkeeuCTs'won’t trustlsabella, turn of tho Crown Prince by the. Danish used at the obsequies of Louis XVni, the
cvO^een of Swain, and she is obliged to family, seem to imply that Denmark has Duke de Mon y and Prince Jerome Bona-
adhere to the C o! D. system nowaday t. abandoned her hostile attitude towards parte.
derived from all sources, between tbe
4th of November, 1871, and the 19th day
of August, 1872, the date of the passage
of the act referred to in the first part of
this circular, only about $97,000. By
reference to the first section of the act of
August 19, 1872, it will be seen that this
special school fund was raised to replace
in the treasury all school funds which
had been drawn out and used for other
than school purposes between the dates
just mentioned. One hundred thousand
dollars of the fund realized had already
been apportioned; and the question arose
in the mind of the Governoras to whether
any amount which might be realized from
tbe tax, in excess of what was sufficient to
replace in the treasury the funds men
tioned, was appropriated by tho act. This
question he very properly referred to the
cent, for receiving and the same for pay
ing out.
In the circular of the 25th of July, the
following sentence occurred: “ It is made
the duty of the State School Commis
sioner to see that the proper actions, pro
vided by law, are brought against all
officers and agents of the system who are
liable to the same, for misapplication of
the school fund, or bther cause; and
while he hopes that necessity will not be
laid upon him to discharge this duty, he
hereby gives notice that he will faith
fully perform it should occasion arise.”
I now repeat and reaffirm the same.
I take this occasion to say to the
County School Commissioners that, in
the blank headed “ Consolidation of the
Eeports of Private Elementary Schools,”
I neglected to provide columns for sepa-
Attomey General, asking for a written | rating the children of the white and col-
opinion. The absence of the Attorney; ored races. I hereby instruct the com-
General at the time, and protracted sick- j missioners to separate the races by fill-
ness after his return, added to tbe delay. {ing up with two horizontal lines across
The opinion, when received, was to the j the blank, the whites in one and colored
effect that the entire fund raised by the ; in the other, with the letter W placed at
tax is appropriated by the act to tbe pay
ment of the debt of 1871. After tbe
opinion of the Attorney General was .re
ceived, a little further delay was occa
sioned by the temporary absence of the
Treasurer. This statement, I trust, will' Louisiana Statesman of the
the beginning of the first, and the letter
C at the beginning of the second.
Gustavus J. Orr,
State School Commissioner.
prove satisfactory to all reasonable men
among the numerous correspondents who
have written to me, making inquiries con
cerning the causes of delay. The delay
will not be a source of much regret to the
claimants on the fund when they learn
New Regime.
The New Orleans Herald says:
Thursday night was made memorable
by the entity into this city of a saucy,
impudent, corrupt and reckless mulatto,
that there has been added to the amount who, before the war, was a very unrelia-
of that fund, by collections since tbe 1st Lie boot-black, and now plm'™* a seat in
of July, about $29,000. It will be remem-, the United States Senate. This is the
bered that, in the pamphlet published in ; personage who rejoices in the very appro-
March, I expressed tne opinion that there . ptiate name of Pinchback, that of m
would be realized, by the 1st of July, i eccentric and rather reckless and disso-
from this special tax, from $80,000 to lute old Mississippi planter, who begot
$100,000. _ That opinion was based on an him of one of his negro slaves, and then,
official estimate made by the Comptroller fimimo, no use for him on hia plantation,
General. The taxes came in much more se t him adrift to seek his fortune. The
slowly than was anticipated, so that the ' youthful Pinch, adopting the name of
amount collected up to the 10th instant is hia author and owner, struck for the Mis-
but an approximation to the smaller of sisgippi river, and smuggled himself
the amounts stated in the pamphlet. ; aboard of one of the steamers, where he
I am frequently asked by correspond- obtained a very precarious livelihood in
ente why the Governor does not sell the the responsible occupation of boot-black.
^ n te 0Ti A ded i n th , e a Uin August i now Pinch, in this day of small
19,1872. A word of reply will be neces-1 , , , , ,,,
sary to satisfy this class of inquirers. mea rogues, nursed and upheld by
The bonds which the law authorizes to be Federal influence and the bayonet, having*
sold are seven per cent, bonds, and are attained to the very highest honors of the
•subject to both State and county taxes, returns home and is greeted by an
Men who have money to invest can do so . , . .
much better with it, that it would be im- 0vatl0n from his people. We quote again
possible to induce them to purchase these . from the Herald:
bonds, except at very low rates; and the Pinch returns to the scene of his tri
statute requires the sale to be “at rates umphs, and generously forwarding five
not injurious to the credit of the State.” hundred dollars to aid the expenses of a
Other bonds have been selling readily, grand reception by his colored friends
These bonds, however, are eight per cent, and the white tax collectors and others
bonds, and are non-taxable, and the act appointed by him to fat offices, he enters
which authorizes their sale binds the the city in a chariot drawn by four grey
Legislature to raise a large sum by taxa- horses, with the pomp of a Boman Empe-
tion annually, to pay the interest and fur-, ror returning to the capital from a victo-
nish a sinking fund for the ultimate ex- rious campaign; is welcomed with trans-
tinguishment of the principal. It is cendent eloquence by an indicted defaul-
hoped that this statement will also prove ter to the Federal Government, and
satisfactory. _ i addressing his colored brethren and tax
The county treasurer is made the cus- collectors in an elaborate speech, declares
todion of this special school fund by the that he is quite willing to concede to
law under which it was raised. He can -white citizens a fair share of the offices, if
draw, however, only to the amount of the they will behave themselves, and enthuses
existing, ascertained school debt of his his howling audience by announcing that
connty, with an addition just sufficient General Grant is certain to be elected a
to pay bis own commissions. An amount third time to the Presidency of the
over what may be necessary to pay the ^ United States, or as many times as he de
debt of a county will, by law, “remain in ' sires.
tbe treasury to tbe credit of said county j And this is the spectacle exhibited in
For future school work,” and can be drawn one of the largest commercial cities of
by tho proper custodian of the regular ■ our Bepublic, and in the nineteenth cen-
tchool fund whenever the condition set tury, to the great joy and exultation of a
forth in section 28 of the general school large portion of the Caucasian, enlighb
law is complied with. ■ ’ — * -—‘
The County School Commissioners of
some of the counties have failed, np to
this time, to make an enumeration of the
school population, according to the school
law in force in 1871. - The law enacts that
the pro rata of a county, in a case like
this, “shall remain in the treasury to the
credit of the county, to be drawn upon
and used for the benefit of the people of
the county, under the public school law.”
The proper custodian of 'the regular school
Fund can also draw in this case, both the
Former apportioned pro rata, as well as
that just apportioned for the support of
ened and moral population of this great
nation.'
"What a burlesque upon greatness.
Maine.—The Portland Press announces
that the attempt to bribe the country
members of the new Legislature by the
railroad corporations has already begun,
in the offering of passes and furnishing of
boarding-houses, and thinks the prospect
good for a decisive and vigorous railroad
war, and the introduction of new tactics
in the coming session.
THREE LETTERS,
Portraying' the Hisc, Progress and.
Fall of the Celebrated Canteen As*
surance Association, by the Presl.
dent Thereof.
Progress of the Canteen Association^
Prom the Toledo Blade.]
NO. II.
0 Bourbonyille, III., Aug. 26,1873.
We met, by call uv the President, this
momin, to determine the question of sal
aries, commissions, brokerage, and sich.
When I say we, I mean, uv course, tho
officers. The policy holders hev nothin,
to do with settlin them questions in other
sich companies, and we see no reason why
they should in tlie Canteen. The first
bizness wuz to fisrger un wat our proba
ble seats would' e E. w. kept 100 mem
bers at 25 cents each per week, tho re
ceipts wood be egg3ackly $1,300 a year.
This we hed as a basis to go on. It is
well, in the Canteen plan, to hev a basis
to goon.
We voted ourselves salaries, as follows :
President—$500 per annum.
Secretary—$300 “ “
Treasurer—$200 “ “
And, in addishun to this, we voted that
on all the business eornin in we shood be
entitled to not less than 35 per cent, as
commisshun. And we voted that, tlie sal
aries be paid weekly. We took, out of tho
$25 we had in hand, 33 per cent, commis
shun, $8 33, which left $16 67. Then we
was goin to take $10 for my week’s sala
ry, the Secretary $6 and the Treasurer $4 ;
but i s there waznt enuff in the treasury
to pay this, we decided that, in justis to
the policy-holders, so as to keep the con
cern clear uv debt, we wood only take 20
per cent, for commishuns. We ain’t a goin
to run the Canteen in debt, ef close fig-
gerin and sooperhuman eggsershun will
keep it clear. On this basis we did have
67 cents left, and, as it wuz too little to
go to Cincinnati on, we postponed puttin
anythin in the barl till we shood got more
members and more money.
“But how will this look P’ asks the
Secretary.
“An empty barl looks jist as full as a’
full one,” sez I; “the policy-holders will
see the barl and be satisfied. They can’t
assertanc anything till the Canteen pe
riod expires.”
‘But spose they shake the barl ?”
‘The barl will be so spiked down that
it can’t be shook. There’s got to be sol
idity in this instooshuu. Just pour a lit
tle whisky about tbe bung-hole, so that
they’ll smell it, and it will be all rite. A
smell is all the policy-holders get in the
most uv the instooshuns after which we
model, and a smgll will satisfy ’em here.’
Uv course the board uv officers dis
played great activity. We hed to get
new business, so that by the time the
first Canteen period arrived wo should
hev suthin in the barl to show, and wo
succeeded. The plan looked so nice and
innocent that it was no trouble at all to
rope in the outsiders, and we did it lively.
A quarter a week to each uv cm waz
nothin.
When the membership reached 200 we
determined to fill the barl. I wuz se
lected to go to Cincinnati to buy the
likker, and I went and bought it, dcduct-
in, uv course, 25 per cent, for my com-
mishun. It is understood in our Board
that we don’t expect nothin to be done
for nothin. The likker come all rite, and
was poured into the barl, and two buck
ets uv water added, that it mite be as full
as possible.
So fur, it wuz as satisfactory as it cood
be, but while on my way I hed put in the
time faithfully readin up the subjek uv
Life inshoorence. I made a diskivery
that no Tontine cood go on without a re
serve, and, uv course, we hed to hev a
reserve. It woodn’t do to draw the lik
ker out in site uv the member -, becoz
they ain’t as yit edjucated up to the pint
uv understandin them things; so we
shoved the barl up agin the wall, and
tapped it on the back side with a gimlet.
We drawd off every day a quart apiece
for each officer, fillin up through the bung
with water. This, wich wuz our reserve,
we put into a keg, wich we kept hid in
the bushes outside the office. .
In case this process should be diskiv-
ered, and any onpleasant results come
from it, we hed our Consultin Actooary
draw up a paper directin us to do it, and
certifyin that it wuz necessary for the
proteckshun uv the policy-holders. This
we hold in reserve, so as to be pervided
agin tbe impertinent and inquisitive en
quiries uv ignorant people, who don’t
know wat is strictly necessary in these
matters.
It is troo, we each drink up our quart
every day, but ef any trouble should grow
out uv it, we kin pint, triumphantly, to
the barl in wich it wuz. But nothin of
that sort will happen. The main barl is
all that we hev to keep in site, and that
is put up so high that none ut em kin
see in the bung, and never kin tell how
much there is in it.
One man did want to know suthin about
it, but I assoomed a hawty look.
“ Sir,” sed I, “ the report of the Direc
tory will moke its appearance in doo time,
when the barl will be gauged, and the
quantity in it declared. This is all, sir,
that we can say about it.”
Everything looks beautiful. New mem
bers are oomin in every day, and none uv
em are droppin out. We officers take our
salaries promptly, and our comxjpshune
likewise, and the contributors ask no
questions.
This Canteen Association wuz a lucky
thought. Sam*l Sharkkt.
The Chicago Pension Agency.
The Chicago pension agency is an office
under Government worth about $6,000 a
year. It is now held by a Mr. Blakeley,
the editor of an evening journal in Chi
cago. There are three applicants for the
office, which will become vacant soon ty
the retirement of Blakeley. All of the
applicants are also editors of evening
Chicago journals of Administration poli
tics. The most noticeable applicant is
Mrs. James A. Mulligan, the widow of
General James A. Mulligan, who was
killed early in the war at Lexington.
This lady is said to be a person of ac
complishments and for some time past
ban been one of the associate editors of
the Chicago Evening Fost. About a month
ago Mra. Mulligan saw President Grant
and applied for the office. Tbe President
asked her to collect her credentials and
come again to see him. She refurned to
Chicago, did as the President advised,
•end she has now gone to Washington
armed with her credentials and with a
fair chance of obtaining the appointment.
The precedent, should she be made pen
sion agent at Chicago, would be an in
teresting one in the present problem of
woman’s rights, as the office in point of
salary would be the most important one
ever held by a female under Government.
N. Y. World, 21st.
Compliment art to a “ Senator.”——
The Montgomery Advertiser eays:
The “little fat sutler,” George E.
Spencer, was in the city yesterday. He
wa3 at one time Senator for Alabama by
appointment of Congress through the
operation of the violent and exceptional
reconstruction measuies adopted by that
body with respect to this State. We
thought the city had been quarantined.