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The Family Journal.—Naw.s—Politics-Lit brat a as—Aoai cult u be—Domestic Affairs.
MACON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER *25, 1873.
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Volume LXVIJ-No. 16
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Kntre Nous.
m.Ike.1 that night, *
A'*-* f .'.'.nus.of f.-» r;
i ,„ fa «the light-
that I loved, yon, dear.
, ..... „-;n avainst your heart,
11 J . r V ’ l feel it lowtin? war-
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» Mwah for a lovfcfe I«rt—
w ,„ r ,. tii.n I loved you, dear.
n-mre-d a wool or two.
; v < .'I'o l your listening ear;
. iv f'l.v was so close to mine
• chouk with your chestjrot
: 1 s to veufs resign;
• via you—I loved you, dear.
. « •• you were odd and pale,
I**? 1 .n-Hovel you. dear.
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4 S2
•ll lot
t was a drop of rain
-hind? But’t was a tear;
never again
t l loved you, dear.
(v .ii'U listen now. I
,vnr I- you said last years
i ,-oy enough, and now
,1,7/01 llu.tlovod, you, dear.
tint von h-td mo light,
v >li,,ullersaid “BewareI
stj«Vi nVood tflflf
. V that I lovB you. dear, tt ,
RELATIONS OF FORESTS TO RAIN. Sicily were once the granaries of Italy,
. :o fJ J. — . , | but have long since lost the fruitfulness
Voice if ilte Congress of Vienna. sung of by the ancient poets. On the
Savants affirm and deny that rainfall is ! other hand man can improve the condi-
affected by forest growth, but the fo i. | ^ of.the land in which he Uvea, more
, . » _ • n : slowly indeed, hut equally a3 certainly,
lowing proceedings of a Vienna Congress by cultivating and presei ving the forests,
of world-renowned men of science should | In earlier years reliable authorities have
set the point at rest. The discussion took told us that in the Delta of Upper Egypt
nlaoe, nnd theresolutions werepassedbn i were &£• m . si *^ T * of
, , - “ r tt the year, but that since the time when
the -nth September last: ■ Mehemet Ali caused some 20,000,000of
The re solutions respecting the forests j trees to be planted the number of days
The discussion on forest culture by the • 0 f m in in the year has increased to forty-
Congress was exceedingly interesting And ! fi Te or forty-six. The Suez Canal has
instructive. The resolutions were sup- I produced remarkable results. Ismalia is
portod by a young, earnest and intelli- > built on what was a sandy desert, but
gent‘Prussian forest-maoter, N. A. Bern- J since the ground has become saturated
hardt, of Ncustadt-Eberswalde, who made j with the norm! water trees, bushes and
an interesting, well-worded and convinc- , plants have sprung up as if by magic,
in* speech. The resolutions as they were j and with the reappearance of the vegeta-
then adopted by the Congress read as fol- . tion the climate has changed. Four or
lowgs2A£*:';_ yUk j five years ago rain was unknown in those 1
The International Congress of Land and regions, while from May, 1868, to May,
Forest Culturists resolve: _ 11869, fourteen days of rain were recorded,
1. We recognize the fact that in order ‘ and once such a rain storm that the na-
io effectually check the continually in- j tives looked upon it as a supernatural
creasing devastation of the forest winch ■ event-. (Facts recorded in the Vienna
is being, carried on international agree- , Neue Freie Presse, May 10,1869, and in'
wonts are needed, especially in relation 1 the English journals.) -
to the preservation aud proper cultivation
•(for the end in view) of those forests, ly
ing at the sources and aloug the courses.
•of the great rivers, since it is known that, 1
■through their irrational destruction, the
■results are great decrease of the volume
of water, causing.detriment to- trade and
qpramerce, the filling up of Che' river’s
bed withfsanff, caving in of the banks and
.inundations of agricultural lands along its
course.
1 iln ii/lit you »lw> Man of men,
!i t,.--.lirivonnd rare;
>’’t ,l! ;",
VllhiU-'il 1 itel-rdwll IfrtCfttfiD
Asvinn-*—“
sj loved yon, dear. •
1 tive «v."-n-d. nod so have you;
1 ini tsemrfd. if vou were hut standimr here,
I’d mak- vou tin iiii-wer «traiuht nnd true,
Itjou’da-k amin if I loved you, dear.
“WHAT ?”
Hr*. *nnlll* 151-.covers that Squills
Ha* Bren to a Prlze-FlSht.
I was out a little late the othei night,
uiil Squills, so I took home a dozen fried.
If NwT Squills ha? one weakness stronger
t’n.in another, it is for a dozen fried, nice
sal brown, and not too much batter.
I wt the pacificators down on the out
sit* mat, so as not to burst too gorgeous
ly on her all at once, but directly I got
into the room I knew there was some
hing tip.
Mrs. Squills had piled up all the pillows
it a bean nnd was propped up, reading.
‘•<joo,1 evening, my dear.”
Mrs. Squills replied not. She is a wo-
nia» of a good deal of natural dignity, said
Squills, when she’s getting steam np.
The silence was becoming oppressive, so I
restarted in tones that were deferential.
••Lodge kept unusually late, my dear.'
I thought this was a good time to in
troduce the dozen fried, said Squills, but
the stem burst.
••So vou went to the prizefight, Mr.
S.'iiUs." ! .!
1 pledge you my sacred word and honor,
sa' l Spnlh, T think the baby could have
knocked me down with." h 'TejtfJhof, "*Na-
t'ir •, oversho -k.-d, failed to sustain the
leg- o' her S quill’, and I sat down.
•dYV-nt to the what, my love?”
"Don’t n-*r .'aricate, Mr. Squills. In
tVdepth’ of your degredation be a man.
Ho c did I come to know it ? That is my
t,'fines’. Mr. Squills. I know it, and
that ought to be enough for you.”
"It was.” said Squills, “an d some over."
_ "How can you sit there and look me in
the face"—T wasn’t looking her in the
fa -e, said Squills, far from it—“and not
sink through that three-ply into the
fr mt parlor, Mr. Squills, is a miracle. A
ni e lot o? friends you’ve picked np! Mis-
t -r ll n iaiuin McLooney and Mister Pat-
seyO'Allen. Hoivdol know their names?
I iv:.d aljout them in the Republican, Mr.
Sl id!.. How should I know ?”
The next thing, you’ll be a stakeholder
or a second. Bother 1 No bother about it,
’ir. Where’s the difference, I should like
to know, between your paying five dollars
and— You didn't pay five dollars? Don’t
tell me yon didn’t. And there’s Tom
wants Uniting. What ? You think you’re
Setting the booting Don’t cause me to
despise you. Squills, under such awful cir-
eum-tan.-es. And Gussy wants a winter
boiiivf to inateh her diaess, and the house
»' rats paiuting next spring, and all the
ecu s not in. and the pew rent is due, and
. k'* ought to have a quarter’s danc-
mg. and—what’s that ? You got one for
a dollar? What?”
1 "it should have heard that “what?”
’#’"1 Squills,
"Do you dare to sit there and tell me
t uit yon sneake l your way into a dog
■ r>r » dollar! It-wasn’tadog fight?
sneaked is the word, Mr. Squills; de-
IK ITOXS KING.
AUSTRIA* —
Austria her3elE has a very striking in
stance of a change of climate being pro
duced by deforestation and replanting.
We refer to that stretch of miles of coun
try over which the railroad passes, near
Trieste, as you go from Austria to Italy,
bleak, barren, stony,' with hardly earth
sufficient for a weed to take root in, a
stretch of barrenness on which some
HBH dread .anathema seems to rest. It is a
*■'&• We further recognize it to be the enrse that rests on it called down from
TnutuaVdnty of all civilized lands to pro- ; Haven by man. Fjve.hundredJg&e pgo
'ejhhbg’afld to cultivate all' such foreste as and an immense forest stood on the
are of vital importance for the well-being ground where now is “nothing hut a. sea
f-agficultural and otherwise — of the of stone. Vv-netians came and they.
: land, such as those <*B_- sandy coasts, on hewed down the forest in order to prccner
the sides and crowns as well as on the ' wood for piles and for mercantile pur-
ste’ep “declivities of nronntains, on the sea J poses, and took the wood across the Adri.'
Coaets_and other, exposed places ;-and atic, which you can qpe at your feet. After
that" international principles should be ' the trees had been felled the result was
' laid down, to which the owners of such ' that the storm? soon washed away thfr
piotecting or “guardian forests’’ be snb- e rth. no longer protected by the trees,
' * 1 » ' an ,q {j took very few years for the once
blooming forest to become a dreary
waste. Twenty-five years ago and rain
umn aft/ir column with such oases of BEECHER’S LECTURE-ROOM TALK | th
DEFORESTATION AND ITS BANBFU1, RRCt] WWot »» «■ —/t h3l» I . . 1 IT ~I " IT. 1
More difficult by far it, is,to adduce CHrUtS AttrlOutes-Tfce only Sure »v«a* the City,
cases where the forest has proved of di- Sup part •* which t» U»n In Time
rect striking benefit, as it is not long •fTrwnhle.
since people began to think the forests In consequence of the storm last eve-
were of no use at alL The-cases of t xiing thgye was Jra a small attendance at
Egypt and Trieste, and of Salt Lake, are ■ toe Plymqqth lecture-room. Mr."Beecher
valuable to us. We hive hot' touched said tfeit in tracing out "the life of Christ
upon the important influences which the . as.it had been left tq ns'in the racords of
forests are admitted to have, or the gen-. the four evangelists, one was struck with
eral sanitary condition of toe country^ / the small amount that had been garnered
We know that the health of Rome suffers, of the events of that life. John himself
under the baneful miasmas arising from • was so impressed w££h this that he said
the Campagna, which was formerly tov*/.that “the world .could: not- contiun the
ered with forests, and it has been pro- -books” if everything that .Christ'said and
posed to bring it to i^s original condition, ydid had- been re corned, • and, yet. in the
The question of forest culture as 1 it mirelf • slender;recorda that were made, without
present itself to us sooner or later, is fm at all undervaluing the explicit state-
all-important one. And we have every- ments, wo:leamed,mdre of the interior -of
thing to learn before making the at-,. Christ’? life fppm, jingle incideiilnJ ro-
tempt; for, as a member of the Vienna marks than ‘ from these statement?.
Congress remarked, Europe cannot offer When, for instance,' Christ rebukedJP*-ter,-
any- data, since ahej3 herself a scholar.? 'we got aclearide4^)f discipline j and
But we know that a climate' becomes.; ip -another part -pf. toe, evangelists*
milder and warmer and more fit .fdr.hdb-’ where he . distributedto 5,000 .men,,
itatien by thinning the forests, by the .besides .women and ehil3r«‘n, mirac-.
pregress of agriculture; but beyond a -ulohsly, ' tod' fldAvee,’ their .faith • in
certain limit we cannot go. Wehave him'aathapromised.MeBaiah came-tea
yet to find out this just mean.. One fiaeftf head. The ; miracle was so griaE that it
we can- accept from the hands of this dnd produced a perfect uproar of enthusiasm,
former congresses,thatii is absolutely'.ahdS.OOOpedplesaiai^'He'isaGod; we
fecit, thus to preserve the land from dam-
age. " -I
3. Wjp recognize further that we have P . _
not at present a suficiqnE knowledge of ceased to fall on this region. The afcten-
the evils (disturbances in nature) which
are caused by the devastation of the for
ests. and therefore that the efforts of leg
islators should be directed to causing ex
act data to be gathered relating thereto.
A fourth resolution was to the effect
that the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture
should be requested to enter into commu
nication with other States towards effect
ing the pmpose of the congress—of at
taining international agreements among
other European States respecting the
preservation and culture of the forests. *
the decrease of water in rivers.
Much has been written both in Ger
many and in America of the forest and
its influence on climate, and consequently
on agriculture, on the water courses and
on health. Instances where the growth
or destruction of forests have had a
marked influence on the river systems,
through the rain-fall, can be recorded by
not only in Europe hut in the
tion of the Austrian .government was
cal’e 1 to the necessity of doing something
to priserve the communities livinginthe
district from impoverishment aha it was
decided to plant some l£Ecri of olive’
trees, in order to vegetate the hillsides.
It was a difficult undertaking, the very
soil for planting the Toung trees had to
be transported by the basketful, hut the
Tesnlt • was -equal to - the expectations.
After a careful culture of some years the
trees thrived,- the rains were induced to
fall regularly and beneficially, and in
course of time it is probable that the im
mense district will be again given up to
culture and prosperity. And if we need
a still more striking instance of man’s
power to alter the climate, we need bat
refer to . • „.
SALT LAKE AND THE UTAH TERRITORY,
whew a desert has been converted into a
blooming country, where rivers are filled:
_ ( _ with water that twenty ypaxs ago were
The diminution of the nearly dry, and toe Salt Lake itself hfts
water -volume of the Ohio river is at this increased* seven feet above its original
moment attracting serioue attml-km. In ! level. Brigham Young has taught U3
the first quarter of the century it was j these very important facts. In this he
navigable the whole year for the largest j has “rendered the State some service,
vessels, but is now available but for six ! u ~ K1 “ fa umwjg
months in the year, and growing “ beau
tifully less.” The same thing is said of
the Hudson, as I find in an American ar
ticle handed me the other day in the
congress. “ It is notorious that,” says
iny authority, “ even with our vast nor
thern forest remaining intact, the water
supply of the Hudson grows less with
* 1 2a._ moro ami
that is, if the State is able to appreciate
it.
The "guardian forests,” to which the
second resolution of the International
Congress refers are apparently indispen
sable in the household of nature to pro •
teefc sea coasts, exposed places and the
mountain valleys. The coasts of the
pro vince'of Prussia, with the exception of
' ’ ’ ' damland.
**-ery year, and its navigation more and j fruitful, amberrich damland, are an
mow difficult. But for the large annual j almost uninterrupted broad strip of sand-
outlays for the improvement of its chan- d an fe (down) 200 miles long and perhaps
nek and, the construction of artificial a m ile broad, with sand hills reaching to
remedies, the upper portion of the river, a height of 170 feet. Originally these
between New' Baltimore and Troy, would
long since have been practically closed to
commerce.” These are not isolated cases
with us, and I trust Professor Marsh will
include in the new edition of hi3 “ Man
and Nature a work largely quoted by
German writers on the influence of the
forest—aU the cases of diminishing riv
ers that have been noted in the various
States. When the results of deforests
sand mounds, which were apparently a
work of nature to protect the land against
the encroachments of the sea, were cov
ered with pine growths. In the past
centuries trees were felled. Soon the
sparse vegetation died off and the sand
drifted away, and on careful examination
proved that these very sand hills, • hich
under their forest cover stood firm am sen
tinels, receded at the rate of from fifty to
ha'-iling those poor fellows who* were try-
rar to make a few dollars to support their
unifies. I should be ashamed. Oh that
*. ’“other of children should live to hear
a *t her husband had sneaked his way
J«to a <k>g fight, for a dollar.”
*t was too much for her, said Squills,
rad she sunk back in among the pillows.
If ever there was a moment in the vtory
a . woman’s wrong, when a dozen fried
nld be introduced as atonement for the
Di'l and indemnity for the future, said
iiiai wi monient had arrived. I
the dozen fried before her, and
*«‘d affe.-tionately, "Fanny!”
b. ie looked round and said, "Squills 1”
was too touching to be suc-
ewsfully resisted, and I never saw the
, lor a family hoist in a dozen fried
, ® “ clock inthe morning with great-
♦rdetenninatioii.
f \ii, e wxt morning I had to shell out
r 1 ““’ray and Gussy and toe pew rent.
TyM Ef-E^PEROR Enjoting Himself.
•of h, r t< h ' uke Francis Charles, the father
to i l . !1 P er or Francis Joseph,Returned
kn 2 *!. y wtew, »y. Very* few ’ foreigners
* it i that th * oId gentle man.’ wjfopibdi-
.tTr 11 quarter of a century ago in favor
^ s °?- isnow a live. Yet he is very
“i *-"t'*1* 10 ^ r ‘ enna * “ud is always warmly
*i«“ted when ho can be induced to come
® png •. is stay this time he was
vjriw visitor at the exposition, attended
■oF r-‘lP ripa to physician solely. Instead
r.n-or * hia luncheon in the Imperial
•oneVr h U ery oft£n sl *PPed awpjrto
wfiT*u e Austrian restaurants, and ate|
4T..n- i Crow ' “ntiriHy unobserved. One
'“"J’t “e was racy gay after his bweak-
‘ 1 hie.’inger’s beer hall, where there
anS * a y 8 a hundred or more jjfrsons.
*** suddenly recognized by. the pro-
^**r. qq, e latter began to make ex-
Jf*** that he had not been notified of
honor of this visit. “All the better,”
u the ojd gentleman, “ I have been
• a dish of yotir Hungarian gulaez.
*; ***. rtT J good indeed. It is a long
«m, u*, 1000 * have relished anything so
ha-ft'a hruth was that the old man
1 r ‘ hi-* gulaez with sans-ceremonie
in enjoyed it immensely.—Letter
ro »» Vienna.
tion are seen and appreciated as they a hundred feet per year. In the course
show tliemselves at. home, then we shall I 0 f the past century and the first decades
be ready to learn from the experiences 1 0 f the present whole villages and thous-
o f these older and still worse deforested ! sands of acres of fruitful land were thus
countries of Europe, though, for the I buried by the drift sand.. At the corn-
matter of that. Europeans point to Amer
ica for evidences of deforestation m the
New England States and elsewhere, as a
warning to their own conn! -y men.
EUROPEAN RIVERS.
An Italian referred to the United
States in this relation yesterday. He
gave no particulars, however, and I have
no works on American fore.-ts to aid me
in adducing them here. But then we
have scores of striking cases of theeffccts
of deforestation on the rivers of Europe,
proving the necessity of international
treaties for protecting the sources of the
great water arteries. TVe need only refer
to the Rhine, the Elbe and the Oder, all
of which havu a lower water-mark than
formerly. / According to measurements
token at Altenbrnch, to Hanover, the
low-water (summer) mark of the Elbe
represented in 1787 forty-eight Ham
burg fr«t; in 1812. forty-six and a half
feet; in 1837,thirty-eight feet—showing
a diminished supply in half a, century of
-ten'feet.- The sources of the Elbe are in
Austria-in Bohemia—where np to »
very recent period the forests were neg
lected and sadly-mutilated. The Bhuie,
which has a less volume now than for
merly, rises in Switzerland, where, as
9MUor Landolt remarked, the forests
have’ been considered as common proper
ty, mutilated .and destroyed. Germany
ii in both cases the chief sufferer here,
since she commands the Elbe and tue
Rhine; and it were quite possible • for
Bohemia on the one hand and Switzer
land on the other to serim-ly interfere
with the navigation of these rivers did
they choose te'carry on the destruction
of the-forests as heretofore. It is in such
coses that the want of international trea
ties are seen.- Prussia, herself and most
Of toe Herman States are rational forest
culturists, taking good care to preserve
and cultivate their forests, and have good
cause to protest against the forest crimes
committed by their neighbors.
MAN CAN DESTROY RIVERS; HE CAN CREATE
THEM.
Many rivers have totally disappeared
or hare been reduced to mere streams by
an irrational and heinous felling of toe
mimeemeut of this century the work of
reforesting commenced, and at present
there are but few sandy points on the
coast which are not made firm, excepting
those belonging to communities and pri
vate persons, and not the State. Wher
ever on sandy coasts the forests are de
stroyed
THE SE* EN'—OVTTIES
with slow but terrible certainty. Where
the rocky coasts are deforested bleak,
necessary to preserve the foresta ll will have'the Messiah right on the spot,”
the sources- of our streams," ton and they undertook to seize him and
-which so much . of our. r .agrjcujtu7 ? make him king. Now, that the,disciples
ml and commercial prosperity r ; de- took any part in this was not recorded,
pends; that we should preserve toe for- and j*et it' was'app'arent that they did,
ests in all the mountain sides, so that the for we hear that he went up into a'inohn-
culture of the valleys be tempered arid' tain and compelled the disoiplea to go
preserved. One speaker of the Vienna into a ship and go over on the other
Congress urged that the State should in side; and so that one word “ compelled”
m . *«*ra**i J ^'” window, opened, through
* faatcgwtouO *,;T
Tree* I'prMtet, Hoofs Torn Off,
Chimneys Blown Down, anal
~ f *- other Damages.
ntr-i yhisS -m iC’iiis. - a S -i jd» !
- u rA General 1M of the Winds.
Between ten and eleven o’clock Sunday
night Macon was visited by a most ter
rific cyclone, which did a vast amount of
damage to property. The oldest citizens
remember no storm that even approxi
mated this in violence. It seemed that
if the winds had collected all their fury
and exhausted it in a dash across the
centre of the city. It was an irresistible
tornado, sweeping everything that came
within its path, twisting off the trunks of
large trees, prostrating others, and mak
ing* general havoc such as no one can'
conceive of or appreciate without passing
aloag the track of the itoi-ui.
Sunday was mostly u cloudy day, and
about half past three in the afternoon ouuuaujje!> u)Jauw
ram began to foil slowly and continued j 0 ^ er damage done, inflicting a I033 of
for an hour or more A r -r that it to-
mained cloudy; b ' or-iing unusual was
joring toe toot to an extent which re-. ages, smashed one of the handsome plate
quires' immediate repairs. No damage glass windows in front of Brown & Co.’s
was. done to the hew college building. J book store.
Many out-houses about the square were i lt is f or t U nate that no rain fell during
damaged, and many trees prostrated. ; tll0 8 torm, or the damage would have
St* Fkuls' Church (Episcopal) had a j very much greater,
considerable portion of the root tom off. i ^ most remarkable thing connected
This was a shingle roof. j with the whole terror is, that, as far as
The two large stack chimneys—each we fi as - e been able to ascertain, no serious
having four flues—on Dr. G. E. Suss-. personal injury was sustained by any one.
.doiJFs residence, were blown down upon j incidents of the storm.
the roof, crushing it down considerable. ... .. , ,
No damage was done to the inside of the A “ 03 f fc interesting chapter could bo
building except to toe plastering of one'^ 0 th / “ cld , cnt3 TT > ^
room,to portion of which fell upon one of «“* ^ “^y the time to col-
the doctors daughters, but fortullately ; le“t and write them, which we have not.
hurting her very slightly. We will mention a few.
From here u^to College Hill the storm ! A g“ntleman who looked out while too
appears'to havo oonfiW iWlf to tim d e . ’ storm wa3 at lts hel « hfc * said he °° uld 3ee
struction of fences and trees; but on Col- j«*• ****** ot *8^3 that the whole
lege Hill it did its work welL All the I atmosphere was filled with flying mis-
:“t- F “r’*
but two were blown down, the parapets . ^ wind could pick up or throw do*vn.
were blown off, windows were shattered, j Mr. O. F. Adams, being unaware that
outhouses upset, trees uprooted, and his front steps _ l*ad been blown down
fifteen hundred dollars upon that insti
tution.
The destruction of chimneys in this
neighborhood was particularly severe.
the mountains or at the source of, rifr^rs. throng]?, the recorded life of Christ there
It is indeed hardly probable that private were just such hints, which were cxceed-
parties can he got to preserve tracts of ingly luminous, ip. tracing the history
forest “for the public good.”. The landed of the master with these twelve men, so
proprietor demands interest for his capi- infinitely beneath'him in knowledge and
tal invested, and forests pay But small an'-moral sagacity, there were, few in-
returns. The good produced, is’for the stances on record where he faulted them
community of the State, or for the entire or in-which he rebuked them, but in
land, and it seems only just that the eveiy.case ho rather .availed himself of
State should take upon- itself the'duty o£ ; ;toe?r.f rong-doing to toraw them nearer
preserving. ”cpunfjpg nEheeo joreste to him, ind in dealing .with these, many
which are rendered, necessary* to, the - timqs provoking them, he so carried
State's welfare. The subject of forests himself with them that they were in
is one of great importance to us. Were- habits of ..endearing intimacy with
gret.thatpur authorities at Washington* him. . v^e.went abroad in such a.*W
did not see fit to have us fitly represented with the common people and with his
here at the Congress. - . r „ j disciides, that every where their greeting
r - Ernst.’ Moritz Arndt, the. German poet of the Lord was familiar; men, women,
and i»tridt, uttered" a great truth when ancLlittle children aU acted as though toe
he gaid that the axe applied to the root whole, community. knew that this was a
of a tree was, in too many cases, an axe man that .could ho approached. ’TOw
laid to the well-being of the people.. -Ibrought their sickness to'him and'aU
. ~ a their toaefs and troubles, and when they glass, amroa ■ H
Will it Pay ? ibad libtle children ■ they brought them; up of roofs, and. crash of falling trees,
u 7 „ “i .the stream of sympathy set in towards that it was a very stout-hearted man who
of *X*%*$. SS7S we— -«»»'»•
it by.wM-. Aconflict with Spain _wou]4 0nl . Lordhasgohe uphnhigh, not having
Sable aristence ^^
PI & ^ ?f ^ them, 0 he teas Hke^n actor, who!
robbed and oppressed a8 . -It has con-i. h Viu do ^ e Hs part . tWs 0 ff his
ducted one wmr successfully, but at a ' c]oth £ an(1 leave3 tWsta^e; but so I do
fearful cost, and we .^^.rjxow tea-l it, so much of God as could'be
I? 10 stn ff about the ; n the body was manifested
qvSds ’the Dzrtv^richZriu!;^ ^ 6 Lord Christ, audwhentoe
a! Vi i leffc went-te take these attributes on in
would
would
tract,
„ . . -, „ , 1 •;? jiimmie career, noro on earn m was
“r
War is a ^
always rise
noticed in the atmo- qtiere or clouds to
create apprehensions <ii so fearful a visi
tation as the storm proved to be. About Among the residences that suffered in
eight o’clock there was some ligutninc: j that respect were those of Mrs. Washing-
and this continued until the storm came, i (on, Mrs. Lamar, and Mrs. Dr. Collins.
The first intimation toe people had of j. The latter lost two, while the others had
'the coming*of the tornado Vas a roaring • none left.
soniid, which at first reSemblod the noise The .colored Methodist Church on
of a train passing along a railroad. The ; Washington avenue, not far from the
noise grew nearer and began to resemble | college, was entirely destroyed. Scarcely
the roar of flames in a dry, old wooden . a whole piece of timber was left. It was
building. Still nearer it came and the blown completely down and blown almost
8band is~likened unto “the rush of many ’ entirely off the foundation. Other build-
waters. 1 *' It was not until ithddfully^ mgs'in this neighborhood were more or
burst upon the city that the people uu- less damaged.
derstood what event was transpiring, and j . From the college the storm swooped
it came suddenly and with such fury a3 down the steep bluff in front and trav-
to create a panic the like wnereof had ersed the. deep hollow along Magnolia
never before been experienced. ! street. At the residence of Mr. O. F.
It found most people in bed arid asleep’, Adams mneteen trees were blown down,
and lost no time in arousing them from his iron fence completely wrecked, his
their slumbers; and then almost every front steps blown down, and a j>8-ticode-
household was the scene of the greatest molished. His loss, especially in shade
alarm: There was a series of crashes, trees, is irreparable,
and rattling otiWliIdows, arid shivering of j Across the street a chimney was blown
glass, arid banging of doors) and ripping from Dr. Baxter’s residence, and a num
ber of shade trees prostrated.
The roof of Mrs. Burch’s residence was
crushed completely down upon the joists
stood at first what was transpiring, and l.rhioh support the ceiling. It was forfcu-
when they did understand, no one knew nato that it sunk no further,
where wa3 a safe place. People rushed Some chimneys were blown from the
from room to room in their houses, hunt- residence of Mr. Stepheu Collins,
mg' - for safe places. Women screamed - AH along Magnolia and Cherry streets
and men.shivered at each fresh crash, and toe destruction of tries was very great,
none knew when the nest would oome, or j The storm struck Mulberry street about
what damage it would do. ' the - Presbyterian Church, the rwf of
is impossible to give any exaggerated -which, on too..east side, was cracked
iscription of the'scenes that transpired. 1 nearly its who! J length.
The ornamental work on the tower of
the Mulberry Street Methodist Church
was blown off, breaking a hole in the roof,
dent lover of sensations, and it is not J a large window in the Court-house was
game from which both parties 1 ^°. n . tl ) n . t „ s0 / ™ d i 0 l 1 n t *“***£ ,^£2 VeT * that somc of the more ttmid blown in, and the wind escaped by break-
flosers, and our loss might ■<** ^ the end of all things had come,- I ’ ” ||
burdens, in darl-nesS, when lonesome; for
saken, betrayed j Whatever may be the
might
consist in the sacrifice of what is more :
s£$s»“? ir § t &**ri
mnt, 1 infirmities.’ We sin, but he did not’; he
Jin!! h f T is perfect in power exalted at tbe;right
Slor are^en4tiverf it Sd nev^ | A^ do work
_ A „ia OTlrl T-V.V. pro] A i„i, whKJii We need every hour and need mo-
Shonld war bl Llrad £o,row. tS™ |
^ he can breathe life into those that are
^ I ^ bind up the wounds of those
that are bruised; sOlet every man, what-
Pi'toPT i ever comfort he may have in companion-
. - nr ffi-hnnnrnhTo nr t,/’ 8 b'P or in the sanctuary, remember that
like vultures to their prey, and gather manifested m Jesus
thick about the carcass of a great milita- ■ r -
ry establishment. ' When our war dogs
The
ing a hole through the slate rodf.
and that earth and its appertenances were damage was not very great.
about to be swept “in the twinkling of an i About the intersection of Second and I . „ . .. - . t . . . , ,
eye” into the mysterious great hereafter. 1 MuJoeny street, the storm appears to toe net! fo^aS^d to fLeiS gok^J
ments and absent cardinals, which Litter
are invited to the conclave for anew elec
tion. While the vacancy continues the
chamberlain exercises the supreme au
thority. The cardinals who have been
created by the defunct pontiff put on as
mourning serge robes of a violet color,
while such as were created by his prede-
,, .cessors wear green faced with red.
windows wrecked. The roof or the Ma- The dead body is washed and em-
Our observation of the results of the ‘ have been very violent. The roof of Mr.
•storm here, and inquiries of its direction E . j. Johnston’s building was damaged,
and ravages elsewhere, lead us to believe the plate glass windows badly broken,
that the effects in Macon were the result Thomas Wood’s furniture store was un-
of a. conjunction of two tornados one - roofed and one front window entirely
coming from the direction of Aclanta and destroyed. The roof of the Lanier House
the other from the direction of ColSmbus*
They met somewhere near this place and
formed a cyclone, which went whirling
across The centre of the city. While
there was a general blow of great vio
lence,' experienced all over Macon and
in too suburbs, the real traek of the cy
clone; was less than one-eighth of a mile
rocky barrenness is left, and the desert uow. We do not believe that either
- - - - • - —* —■**- Cromwell or Napoleon contemplated the
steps they took until the opportunity
district encroaches inland with every
year. Deforest the mountains an-? the
valley it shelters suffers in the los3 of
frnitfhlness and from the inundations
which a well wooded mountain would
prevent, by checking the sndden rain
downfall. Switzerland has suffered se
verely from the effects of deforesting the
mountains. Professor Landolt, who spoke
to the International Congress, attributes
the devastations caused in the Alps by
avalanches and land slides to the destruc
tion of the forests. The poet Schiller
attributes to the forest the po3t of guar
dian when In his “William Tell," Ititle
Walter says:
Father, to’t true, that on the mountain there
The trees <lo bleed whene’er the woodman strike^,
With eruel liiow. his axe into th.'ir root j?
The master herdsman told mo that M trees
Aie hound, and if wo injure them the hand
la cursed until we reach the grave.
Tell—The trees are sacred to us; that is true!
And but for them the avalanche had long.
Long since the village Altdorf buried ’ncath -
Their load, if tliejr had not, like landwohr. stood
Above to guard ft,. 7 ... _ ... .
Of all central European countries
Switzerland occupies the most important
position as regards the preservation of
the forests, considering that in her moun
tains are tho sources.of.two.of. £he great-'
estxrrera of this continent. But nowhere,
perhaps- has the devastation of the for
ests been carried on *o. reekJewly, Mid
centuries of careful cultivation .will not
make good what the past few generations
have sinned. Professor Landolt attributes
the fearful inundations which took place
in ^witzerlahdin September and October,
dans lea JJpa" 'nofa
foi-estsl ihthe northeost of Germany the [lTO6 Lakes NeutchateJ, gfol aad^wteu
Ns*> and Gold rivers eiist only in name. -<»nstiteted a^g^8h^ of water, but
The classic l«> da of antiquity are neb in since toe deatrn iboAef the surrpnEding
sad lessons of dcfore?tatfon. The springs forogto !^2*2***§*2
and brooks of Palestine are dry, and the dSlnct lakes. The h«ds are toegroat-
frartfulnese of the land had disappeared, eat foes on ^h<j mountains .to 4e new
The Jordan is tour feet lower than it was growths of wood ; hut toe trufb i^that
returned from the red shambles of Cu&, A Great Wrong Rlghjed-The Largest wide _ Ifc entered the city from tJie WC3t>
who knows that .theywould sit down , City in the United States, a j a i m03t directly across, and passed
quietly to lick their bloody lips m peace ? , From tho Courier-Journal.] I ^
The fact that more than a million of men [• Philadelphia was shamefully-treated “““in, an,e?ste|l)r direction. It
laid down their arms, after our late , b y the Government in the census rebdrt’' Harrow tiaok that the groxtes
war, and mingled in undistinguish-1 of 1870 , which, in making up a table Of
able cou%adeship with civilians, is j toe population of fiftv principal cities,
nn argument that is greatly w&ikeried' Philadelphia 874,012 inhabitants,
by the fact tnat changes which often rs- but <nvvo New York 942,292. r New York’s
quire a century have been effected within triumph was of brief duration. - ’Tie a
a few years. AYe are not the same peo- 1 long lone which hath no turn. Murder
pie now we were in 1865, and General ■ —*«- ----- ••■ - r
wa3 almost entirely rained and many
started to go to his front yard and fell
among the wreck, a- distance of some ten
or twelve feet, stunning and bruising
himself considerably.
Frank Thweatt, an old and trusty ser-
vant of Messrs. Hardeman & Sparks, -"as
awaked by the storm, and got up and
went to the warehouse, where he remained
the balance of the night, for fear some
accident should happen to the immense
amount of cotton stored there.
A negro house on Magnolia street was
removed several feet from its oundation
without awakening its inmates. Wjen
they were awakened yesterday morning
they were surprised to find a number of
bricks in bed with them, and that their
habitation had been removed without
their knowledge or consent, or any legal
process.
Officer Wrye wa3 prostrated by the
wind on Cotton avenue and thrown vio
lently against a building, and is satisfied
that he only prevented himself from be
ing blown down the street by holding
fast to tho door-facing.
Officer Robert; asserts that he was
lifted several feet in the air. He fell on
E. J. Johston’s corner, and managed to
moor himself by holding fast to the iron
railing in front of that building.
A couple of young gentlemen who. had
been calling on some ladies were caught
out in the storm and attempted to beat
it on a square foot race. The wind over
took them, however, and gave them a
lift, and they issert that they made two
steps in the air for each one they made
on terra firmq,
THE STORM ELSEWHERE. ,
Reports reaoh us that the storm was
very severe in Atlanta, and aLso all the
way from Macon to Columbus, and down
the Southwestern road, but wo have no
definite reports except one from Rjfqpla,
Vfhwh Will ho found elsewhere.
Taken altogether it was such a storm
os never before visited this section of - the
State, and such a one as we hope will
never come along this way again.
Ceremonies} a»vci ?■ Pope’s
Peatii.
As soon as a Pope iCS t)ie Cardinai
Chamberlain calls out to him three times
in the presence of several members of the
council, addressing him by his proper
name, “Art thou dead ?” Then, answer
ing for the deceased, he exclaims, "Et- is
dead!” and taking the fisherman’s ringi
as the seal of the Pope ii called) breaks
Grant may not be the same man, after a
victorious war with Spain, that he is
age was deffie, and the greatest conster
nation was produced. Outside of it
houses wdfa rocked a little, some trees
-were uprooted, fences prostrated and
small duthfojses iii some instances were
upset;, but no very great damage was in-
fiiutod, nor were the people so badly
frightened. But inthe main track the
wildest fright prevailed, and the results
were fearful to behold.
We have heard of only a few persons
who were out at the time of the storm;
but these wer-e deeply impressed with its
. I terror and its grandeur, and lost no time
the boa<t "that republics are destitute the work begun. The voters poured in in seeeking some place of security. They
of ambition; that they are dedicated to a^ t8 a / B ‘fontof’ tW Jfflce^The Hke 8a ^ »immense cloud of pitch blackness
shaken by the shock of battle. It can The ^registration was completed, when It to be heavily gorged with electricity.
and the lionr offered. Temptation makes
men usurpers as well as robbers. This
will out. ”T v
“Time nt last brings nil thines even.
And if we do hut murk til ■ hour,
There never yet Was human power,
AVluch could evade, if unfomven, j
Tho patient search and vigil long
Of hun who treasures up a wrong."
An election wa3 held in Philadelphia
wolf-crv mav have been false before and the othrt ’ da * *»* Previous, to that a reg-
S S war of of the. voters had to be taken
wrathful conquest, for the acquisition A lot of serpn^ pious, upright, fr^yloyM
of territory ; would give the lie to
sonic Temple was damaged, but to what
extent .we could not ascertain. From
Second to Third street a clean sweep was
made of trees, and many signs were blown
down.
From hero the storm passed over to
Walnut street, taking in its passage' a
number of trees and fences, the stables
was m in the rear qf (he'C^urt-house, and some
what damaging residences dii both sides
not withstand another such wrench. The !found,te.the exceeding grgat joy of
rattle-brained heroes of fireside engage- the go<% Philadelphians, thattheir city
no objection to the acquisition, but we .larger than that of New Teak,
rete we hSbetter contempSp^ribifi! ^
ties. As his minister said to the King of . ^ e4o ' 0(X / aforesaid are. not men of
Epirus, “We should take our bottle ox , “t’ 11 a£ul blood ’ b “t. my toical persons
wtoe before instead of after the exploit.” I?
-Couner.Journal. ' fo bste the
Angry lightnings seemed to he darting
out and in like serpents of fire, and one
coold -almost fancy that - their hissing
larger than that of New York! could be heard. The roaring sound,
| | , JShfcwe rejeefc
The Jl rt-Hater—If there could be ’ the insinuation as calumnious^ Philadel-
metoing like a political confessional W / C
here, aftei-'eTectioti day,' repentant citi "t
registering for fear of being “drawn on , and the Dlatnct "“Sf-Mso* ot J « ,
the jury.”^ The figures would be start-J * “
to convince any one that this j Salting Meat.—-Nessley considers the
‘rdinqniglfnient of the privileges of, citi- ' questions, what’are the Bast-'propeatfohs
zwishui to fDrder to pscape its bmrdens iz 0 f salt, sugar ahd ^altpetre? and is ft
> delinquent may bethe tune of theabove substances,or to diqBoWfe
is
who denounces the salts anxbthet'sugar ini water aEd -fo'
in the New Testament days. Greece and
Spain Mffer to this day severely from the
effects of de. troving their foresta. Many
p^rts Of the Kingdom of Wurtemberg
hare beqa rendered almost barren by *rae
felling of the trees. In Hungary the pe
riodically returning drought is umversal-
““unties in Iowa have elected nuun—j ^: -r.. .. . -
four countv school superintend- I lr attributed to tire
e? srsmSst. as! ssffSftatt
(he people themselves are iatenrely ig
nore- t of the value of trees to the* and»
their well-being. The people. etpeeiaSy
the herdsenqn. look upon trees *»oore.m<M
properfv. Gfjate yews there has ;hesa
considerable tfatetioa’to &F0r ofntartrr-
ation and culture of the fo^fet. TWearn#
may be said of Italy, whe$l, some rear*
ago, the academies of Fibre*®. Mwu,
Modena, Palermo and Pisano offered pre
miums for the beet methods ot reftoret-
y, or the cousin ot
apply this solution ?. An to the first point,
convmcmg^^ recommends a pAyture of nix pounds
HmlSS'*"* !twase^r«n’fortunateiy, to fill cel- Trffiane.
brother of the der^
neglect of political 01
'iwS Uttiat who writes
ticla to the same effect, but sermon
editorial seem equally ineffectual. The of eommon salt, three ounces of nitre and
jury-hater has reached the limit of his one pound of sugar to every 100 pounds
reasoning powers, the jumping-off plaoe of of meat; these figures aorreroqnd vere
argument. Likethewomanwhowentdown eloiely to the proportions aBpfSsd fer
tor; the third 'time gesticulating “sqti- salting meat fs England As tojle see*.
sots,” he him only one answer to make to ond, he fs in favor of using a solution jn-
airsemonstrence : He doesn’t want to get stead of too dry mixtuzb, b“<ahue this
on the jury- Titore is one thing to be - latter extracts from the mert not only-
said In ax tarnation of his offense- -It water but also some of the mostniltriti*
,i«ky be that to* contemplation of. the eonstitaenfo. GfiJfoe ether hand.-it vtoB;
fSgurehe ifeneraJly cuts yx w jury re- net b» overlooked that ssltiag by means
stsains him, and his resort to this wh»r- of bruts soquinas epeoial £reia ««der to I .T m '~n ZJT’t
able trick is prompted not so much by insure thoME contact of sB the ir’f a <W *® °* s^Mre. The Mesf
indifference as by self-respect.—-Y«c r»rA- of the meat Wife thesaltividaWa. l<m<^ '(ft* 111 Mereer tlmvsrsi% snfferea. by
which at first startled the, whole city,
seemed to emanate from this cloud,-whieli
swirled over and. over as if being rolled
ahead by some, invisible po^or behind.
As the cloud reached the city it appeared
to .explode, giving vent to its fury in one
tremendous tornadd of wind, which howl
ed aad shrieked as if mad because of ifc-
long' confinement and impatience to be
1st loose upon Hfa work of destruction.
The spectacle w*3 inconceivably grand,
or would have bee® had it not been sc
frightful. . ,
THE saxaoe.
It is difficult to form any estimate of
the damage that was done to the city,
and it is equa% difficult to enmnemti
every instanee in which damage wa.
done. There were few buildings in tlu
track o£ the cyclone wMfch were not in
jured, more Or less. True the damage te
many was very slight, but all bore testi
mony to the weight tt the dreadful
storm-king who had driven along in his
chariot during the night.
The cyclone first struck the Labors tar? ’
bui’dlng, hi the suburbs of Macon, which
was nnroofed, and otherwise damaged it.
Between the Laboratory and Tattnall
sqifce we observe me great amount of ’
damage, further than the prostration- o:
; trees aati fences. A -goed deal of damage
time for subsequent drying.
having three chimneys blown down, in-
of Second street. A number of those
lavgeoaks on the old academy lot were
prostrated.
The east side of the roof of Christ
Church (Episcopal) was almost entirely
tom offj and two pinnacles were wrested
from the other side of the church.
Many of the'shade trees in the middle
of Walnut street were either uprooted or
twisted off. j
A chimney wrs blown off of Dr. Roose
velt’s residence, and two off of Mr. Mas-
t rson’s. The piazza in front of Mr. T.
C. Dempsey’s residence was literally de
molished and his front door barricaded
with the rubbish.
On Bridge Row one house, occupied by
some colored people, had its roof crashed
by a falling tree.
Here the damage ends till we reaoh
Central City-Park; where we find half a
dozen of those tall pines - outside prostra
ted, nearly all the Park fence down, and
some twenty-five or thirty trees on the
inside’either uprooted nr broken off. No
damage win done to any of. rthe Park
buildings, except.the judges’ stand, which
was turned over upon the race track, and
badlywrecked? * *• —
From the Park onward, in an easterly
direction, as far as the eye ceuld reach,
the track of the cyclone was marked out
by fallen tree*
All the casualties above enumerated
lie in the tradix of the cyclone; but do
not nearly include all the damage tiqit
was done in the city. For instance the
varehouse of Campbell & Jones was un
roofed. The roof of the Spottswood Ho
tel was badly damaged, tyke “himney of
the Brown House was blown down upon
the root. The roof of Dr. Baiter’s new
building received soiqg fajury. The trees
b front of the Flkst National Bank were
blo^n down. ’ Many signs ware scattered
ibofft in various parts of toe city, all
Eyeing tfo show (hat the wind was very
general.
We think the general damage was done
by * heavy gale-which began to blow
vbout three o'clock jn the morning am-
-cntinned until daylight. This gyle wa-
1 very heavy one, a$d calculated to lif
any tin roof-under which it could pene
trate. It blew down signs and awning
at a fearfal rate, and, among other dam-
balined, and taken to the Pauline
chapel of the Vatican, where it is array
ed in the pontifical habits, after which
it is taken to St. Peter’s and placed in the
Sistine chapel on a splendid bed of state,
- urrounded by burning tapers night and
day, and by priests who pray for tho soul
of toe departed. The people meanwhile
crowd to kiss his feet. On the ninth day
after death the body is put into a coffin,
irith coronation medals in gold, su.er,
and brass, to show that death equals all
tilings. Alter funeral ceremonies tho
coffin is removed to a i^»
said to have been founded by Constantine
the Great, and there left tul it is depos
ited in the tomb prepared for it: After
the nine days of funeral rites, all cardi
nals who can possibly be present in Rome
meet together to go into conclave. Be
fore entering they visit Saint Peter’s,
where the Mass of the Holy Spirit is
sung, and an oration delivered on the
election of a pontiff. They then return
to the Vatican, where the hymn "Veni
Creator,” ii sung,and certain prayer 1 are
rehearsed, and the bill for the election is
read.
The Last New Y*rk imiitlH t
Man shoot* HI* WMiera the Street.
New York, November 15.—-Duncan F.
Templeton shot his .-wife this forenoon
while they were walking together on
Fortieth street at Eight avenue. Mrs.
Templeton is a daughter of Ccd. Babcock
of President Grant’s staff. It seejms that
the husband and wife have not lived hap
pily for some month*, and during the
past week Templeton was absent from
their boarding house, 238 West Foui-
teenth street. He called this forenoon,
however, about half past nine, and at ten
the two left the hou-k& together. White
going down the street Mrs. Templeton te
said to have twice informed an officer
that her husband was' abusing her. but
he did not feeL warranted in interfer
ing. Soon afterwards an effeer was at
tracted by the report of .a pistol and saw
Mrs. Templeton fall. Re accused the
husband and had the woman taken to her
boarding house aad physicians called.
The wound is not fatal, but Mrs. Tenple-
ton wifi be permanently disfigured- Th*
parties were married three ye«i$ aad
have one child. Templeton te from Cin
cinnati, aged 37. Hte wife is twenty.
Production or Gorrocr.—Ik the 3
cultural report tor 18755, we have thalE.
lowing interesting facto at*ut the pro
duction of cotton, ml toe estimate of
the increased value given to it 1^ its
manufacture, is given in a review of a
-ork on cotton; ; I* *«#
In speaking of fee immense in fewest*
'mvd^red in toe cotton ®Ue, the ajfthor
«tatoa feat in the>Umted r States and Eu
rope, at the armtito.time, there are man-
factored abSlt 7,080,000 hates annual^,
iveraging lot fer from V* jetpiin ]
sate, - For this, the pNdnoara nne
vbout M00.000,000, { , value,
his cotton te manuMtttxwd, aad -
oately sold to tbf oyamoru in aE part
the world, to tetetWw
” o probably at-mi to amt, teav-
ug to the merchant*, khteemp. Eren-
ifooteuen and tax toaitom act fan.than
H,901X000,000 per annum, as retfeneca-
tion for their capital aad labor.
