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MACON MaY 4,1875
«De. Mart Walker," a Washington
correspondent says, "looks like a mi3-
Bionary’a wife " Then we are mighty
sorry for the missionary.—Courier-Jour
nal.
flBBm Sfinner thinka the trouble
with women is that they lack nerve.
They must build the houses where the
General lives with very thick walls, or
ha never resided next door to a husband
in the habit of keeping late hours.—
Brooklyn Argus: ____
The Grand Jury and thi Schools.—
The Grand Jury of Bibb oounty, now in
session, will hear the application of the
School Board, in the matter of provision
fer the next scholastic year, this (Thurs
day} morning, at 10 o’clock. The Com
mittee of the School Board, together with
the Superintendent, will-please he at the
Court-house punctually at 1 that hour.
New Attobxbt Genxral.—Hon. Ed
wards A. Pierrepont succeeds Williams
as Attorney General of the United States,
on the 15th of May next. It would be
difficult to make a change in the incum-
bonoy of this offico without making some
improvement at the same. time. Let ns
bid Williams adieu with the cordial wish
that ho may never hold offico again.
The iron interests of Virginia seem to
be looking np. “Boyd’s Arcadia iron
furnace, in Botetourt county, has been
conditionally sold to a Northorn firm for
$155,000. There are valuable deposits of
iron ore on the place, and it is designed
to put tho works in fall blast. A num
ber of Northern men have recently in
vested $30,000 in an iron furnace at New-
fort, Giles county.
Information from Lexington, Ky.,the
home of Hon. John C. Breckenridge, re
ports his condition as not so favorable as
WU3 hoped with the approach of warmer
weather. He has been confined to his
room through the winter, and his friends
have at times been anxious as to the re
sult of his disease. No immediate seri
ous consequenceo arc feared, but the re
cent severo weather ha3 had very unfa
vorable effect on his already enfeebled
constitution.
Accident at Port Valley. — The
Eufaula Times says that Conductor Jim
Dense is a close observer. He observes
the Fort Valley girls. He says they tie
their hair tight behind their heads to
draw the wrinkles out of their faces.
Tho other day, one who adopted this plan
gut uu jim d uuiu. me collected her fare,
gut
but before he passed through again tho
essential string broke, and Jim came near
asking the ta<3jr tor hor taro again.
The Southern Baptist Convention will
meet at Charleston in the Citadel Bap-
tist Church on the 6th of May, and will
comprise over four hundred of the most
intelligent and representative ministers
and laymen of that denomination at the
South. It will be composed of delegates
from tho States of Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and part
of the Indian Territory.
Hadn’t Major Thompson of the Sa
vannah News, better "hide out" now
that the Rev. W. W. H. has captured a
newspaper down in Florida through
which to bombard him? We rather
tremble for the Major, but then he is
tough sir, tough, and has been through
miny battles. '- Wo advise the nimble
reverend aforesaid, for his own good,' hot
to come to doso’qnarters with the'Major,
or he’ll get a broadside that will-blow
him out of bis fat office,
long range suits his calibnb fegLiV
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A wooden ship can no'# ‘be built sfS-
cheap in the United States as iirpny
other country. It is stated that the cost
of a spruce vessel built in any of the
yards of the British Provinces would
reach $52 gold per ton, and in the yards
of Maine $60 to $65 per ton,the material
used being white oak and pitch pine,
conceded by all shipping men to be vast
ly superior to spruce. At Bremen or
Hamburg, owing to tho trouble with the
workmen and the scarcity of timber, it
would cost $100 gold per ton to build a
vessel.
On Friday night at 12 o'clock Daniel
O’Leary, of Chicago, began at tho rink in
Philadelphia a walk of 115 miles, to be
accomplished in twenty-four hours.
Great interest was manifested in the re
sult, and on Saturday night tho rink was
crowded. Twenty gentlemen were se
lected for judges, and every precaution
taken to obtain » fair test. At eight
minutes after 11 o’clock on Saturday he
completed a distance of 11G miles, thus
beating biB distance, with a mile to
spare, in fifty-two minutes less than the
timo set down. Thi3 is the best timo on
Tecord.
.
A writer in the Cincinnati Commercial
says tho express companies are preparing
to mako a proposition next winter to
Congress to take tho whole United State?
mail business into their hands. They
(the express companies) have been mak
ing inquires over the railroads in the
country, and have settled down to this
conclusion: They can carry tho mails
more promptly and safely than tho Gov
ernment now does, pay all their employes
just what tho Government now pays,
and do all this, mind you, for just one-
half what it now costs tho United States
Government.
Food lor the Body.
Although the disciples were com
manded to take no thought what they
should eat or what they should drink or
wherewithal they should be clothed, it is
not certain that the injunction as to food
was intended to apply to modem genera
tions of men, many of whom are not dis
ciples, and all of whom have stomachs
capable of tumnlt if unseasonably or im
properly provided for. It is doubtless
the part of piety, no less than of wisdom,
to look well* to the nourishment of this
perishing body and to forecast its prov
ender with diligent and particular medi
tation. “I consider,” said the coarse hut
sagacious Dr. Johnson, "that he who
does not care for his belly cares for
nothing else.” The life is indeed more
than meat, as has been written, bnt the
meat which sustains the life tempers its
quality, making it fruitful on the one
hand of generous thoughts and deeds, or
on the other of distempered spiritual
broodinga and procedures of bile and
wrath. It is only of late that science has
seriously stalked into the kitchen, and
basting the empirical rabble of cooks or
blind abetting scullions in their own
gravy, laid down the rudiments of a law
concerning food. It is not yet done with
the business. It still flourishes the sauce
pan in one hand and the alembic in the
other, and if the truth must be told, it
sometimes turns ont results which better
fulfill the requirements of dietetic theory
than of practice.—N. T. World, Sunday.
So the TForld introduces a long and hu-
meroas editorial chapter upon experi
ments by certain of the New York liter
ati to develop a greater volume and
activity of the brain by a diet of custard
and "Welsh rarebits, which they conceive
to be peculiarly efficacious to that end, (*.
e., the top end.)
Now, we do not care to push tho ques
tion of food nutrition into the niceties of
mere local adaptation to various parts of
the body, hut it certainly cannot be rea
sonably questioned that succulent, nutri
tious and digestible food in abundance is
essential to the health and vigor of the
human framo. This is so plain a truth
that it is, in fact, practically lost sight
of. Nobody thinks about it until con
scious of being pretty nearly starved out j
and before the physical man and woman
is strongly impressed with that fact, they
may be passed the point of easy recovery.
Constitutional maladies or infirmities,
ever on the watch for the weak points in
the fortress of life, may have obtained a
hold on the system which cannot be easi
ly dislodged.
No man waits for his horse or any oth
er domestic animal to get thin and feeble
before he practically recognizes the ne
cessity of a generous diet, or if ho is ever
guilty of such a folly once ho learns how
hard it 13 to restore their condition.
No sensible man indulges the idea that
he can raise a good vegetable of any
kind, unless with abundant nutrition, and
yet the same man will find himself feeble,
Frost Damage in Tennessee.
The Nashville Banner says it has now
given very full reports from almost every
portion of tho State of the effects of the
late cold snap upon tho crops. The
general opinion appears to be that the
fruit, with tho exception of apples, has
beecn seriously injured, and thit the
crop of peaches, pears, plums and cher
ries will bo unusually small; still, in
somo localities there will be a pretty fair
yield. There is a good prospect for a
fair yield of apples. The wheat has been
but slightly damaged, and as tbo report
comes up from every direction that the
area seeded to wheat is much larger
than last year, we may look for a very
large crop, unless it should be injured
hereafter. The injury to the tobacco
plants has not been very serious, and
there will be no lack to put in as largo a
crop as can be cultivated. The outlook is
LjreaUy more favorable than was antici
pated ten days ago.
buoyancy and vigor, and never once re
cur to an unwholesome or meager diet
as the prime cause of hi3 troubles.
The World and tho JT«w Tori, philoso-
phers are past the necessity of any con
cern as to the mere quality of their crude
food supplies. Tho range of these is
vast and £he quality excellent. No man
need buy an unwholesome article, or one
in bad condition. Of fish, flesh and fowl,
tho supply is not more varied than it is
choice in quality, and with no essential
exception the same remark is true all
over the United States, with the excep
tion of the cotton producing region. In
all parts of tho country, with this excep
tion, eveiy recurring day offers its chance
for a selection of good, wholesome articles
of food.
Naturally, then, having these they de
vote their discussions to questions of
mere cookery, and they talk earnestly of
the great importance to health of having
their good food cooked with a skill and
judgment worthy of the raw materials.
They go ■ into the science of the cuisine,
and to a considerable extent employ
learned men and women to expatiate on
; theu chemistry of the process and show
’ them how food'jjbonld be treated to ren-
most acceptable and beneficial to
the tody.* ] 1,1 ;.
. BofollonjiSy {lib situation here, and
reflect i| itjlfe not a case calling for seri
ous-thop~bti.__j^eFe, wo speak it with no
atesign tor bitoe anybody in particular,
but onfftbe situation in general. Wo
say then it Hr true, that very rarely can
one buy a' wholesome joint of meat. Our
best meats could rarely be sold at all in
any good market. They would be
laughed at.rOf thjpoultry we may say
the same. T3very one who has had the
chance for comparison afforded by even a
modicum of travel needs no amplification
on thi3 subject. Of tho imported salted
meats, we get wbat other places and
countries do, and are therefore driven to
an inordinate and detrimental use. of
them.
Then on the back of tbeso supplies,
such as they are, we come to the rudest
cookery known among civilized men. Of
course wo are not speaking of set feasts,
where the mistress actively superintends
every part of the preparation—for tho
Southern housewife is among the best
cooks in the world. But we speak of
what is more important—every day fare,
which is left to the tender mercies of the
ordinary run of hired Dinahs. That is
also a point needing no amplification.
Everybody's experience or observation is
suggestive.
So we are on tho food question, and it
is a very serious one, and things arc get
ting no better fast. Food supplies of
home production are improving neither
in quantity or quality, and we most seri
ously believe that the health, vigor and
mental elasticity of the people are suf
fering in consequence. We as firmly
believe that a generous nutrition is as
vital to the household a3 it is to tho sta
ble, the garden, or tbo field; and that
the monotonous, every-day diet of the
bulk of the people is doing them a seri
ous injury. Tho moral is that every
family should exert itself to supply in its
own case what oro the manifest general
deficiencies. This can be done, with somo
pains and effort; and it is also true that
tbo general food supply can be increased
with great profit to producers, if they
only thought so. Wo do not believe
Georgia will over be prosperous until she
grows plenty to eat and that of the best
quality.
Gen. Albert Pike has recovered from
Moxico $50,000 in gold for tho families
of Generals Persons and Standish. These
Generals were ex-Confederates in the ser
vice of Mexico, and fell by tho bands of
guerrillas.
Litters from Mexico.—The letter of
Mr. Nutting this morning will be found
oao of rare interest and value. Our friend,
for a man whoso literary career has been
so much restricted to tho ledger and cash
book, makes an uncommonly good news
paper correspondent.
A Good Speech.
At the Lexington Centennial Banquet
the speech whieh received most applause
and will be most generally read was that
of Gen. W. F Bartlett, a native of Pitts
field, Massachusetts. He commanded
Federal brigade during the late war
lost a leg atYorktown, and an arm at
Gettysburg; was shot twice through the
body in the Wilderness, and finally was
taken prisoner in the attack on the Con
federate lines at Petersburg, in connect
ion with the famous "springingof the
mine.” Since the war he ha3 been set
tled in Virginia, where he now resides,
in charge of the Powhattan Iron Works
at Richmond. He said:
Of the relations of the North to the
South I am not an unprejudiced obser
ver. On the contrary, I have a prejudice,
which is shared by all soldiers, in favor
of peace, and I think I may safely say
that between the soldiers of the two great
sections of onr great country fraternal
relations were established long ago. I
have also a strong prejudice against any
man or men who would divide or destroy
or retard the prosperity and progress of
the nation whoso corner stone was laid
in the blood of our fathers one hundred
years ago to-day. Moved by this preju
dice, fourteen years, I opposed the” men
who preferred disunion to death. True
to this prejudice I to-day despise tho
men who would for the sake of self or
party stand in the way of reconciliation
and a united country. The distinguished
soldier who is your chief guest to-day
never came nearer to the hearts of the
people than when he said, “Let ns have
peace,” and, sir, tho only really belliger
ent people in the country to-day. North
and South, are those who, while the war
lasted, followed carefully the paths of
peace. Do not believe that the light and
dirty froth which is blown Northward
and scattered over the land, often times
for malicious purposes, represents tho
true current of public opinion at the
South. Look to their heroes, the lead
ers, their Gordons, their Lees, their John
sons, their Lamar. Ransom and Ripley,
and tell me if yon find in their utterances
anything but renewed loyalty and devo
tion to a united country. These are the
men, as onr great and good Gov. Andrew
told you at the close of tho war—these
are the men by whom and through whom
you must restore the South, instead of
the meaner men for whom power i3 only
a synonym for plunder. As I begged
you last summer, I entreat you again, do
not repel tho returning love of these men
by suspicion or indifference, and if you
cannot in forgiveness “kill tho fatted
calf,” do not with coldness “kill the
prodigal.”
General Bartlett then read a letter
from General R. S. Ripley, a former Con
federate officer, returning the flag of the
54th Massachusetts regiment, lost in its
attack on Fort Wagner, Charleston, 1863,
and continued:
No one but a soldier can know how ho
would cling to atrophy thathc had taken
in honorable battle. No one but a soldier
knows wbat it would cost to give it up,
unless compelled by loftier motives of
Massachusetts, but of a restored and
united country. There are tattered flags
in that sacred hall in yonder capitol
around which, in the short of battle, T
have seen dear friends and brave men
fall like autumn leaves; there are flags
there that I cannot look upon without
tears of pride and sorrow; but there is
no flag there which has to-day for us a
deeper significance, or that bears within
its folds a brighter omen of “peace on
earth, good will to men,” than that battle
stained emblem so tenderly restored by
a son of South Carolina, whom here in tho
name of the soldiers of Massachusetts I
thank and greet as a brother. And I am
prond that he was an American soldier.
As an American, I am as prond of the
men who charged so bravely with Pick
ett’s division on onr lines at Gettysburg,
os I am of the men who bravely met and
repulsed them there. Men cannot always
chooso tho right cause, bnt when having
chosen that which conscience dictates,
they are ready todio for it, if they justify
not their cause, they at least ennoble
themselves, and the men who, for con
science sake, fought against their govern
ment at Gettysburg ought easily to ho
forgiven by tho sons of the men who, for
conscience sake fought against the gov
ernment at Lexington and Bunker Hill.
Oh, sir, a3 Massachusetts was first in
war, so let her bo first in peace, and she
shall forever be first in tbo hearts of her
countrymen. And let ns here resolve
that true to her ancient motto while in
war, ense petit placidam, in peaco she de
mands not only for herself but for every
inch of this great country, sub libertale
quietam.
Presbytery of Macon.
This body has just held its sessions at
Geneva, and with an unusually full at
tendance. Every minister on tho roll
now resident within its bounds was pres
ent, with one licentiate, one candidate,
and ten ruling Elders. Rev. Dr. D.
"Wills was dismissed to tho Presbytery of
Washington City (of tho Northern
Church)—Rev. C. P. B. Martin to the
Presbytery of Brazos, Texas, and Rev. S,
S. Gaillard to that of Atlanta.
Rev. R. A. Mickle, of Cuthbcrt, and
Elder J. J. Gresham, of Macon, were ap
pointed Commissioners to the approach
ing General Assembly at St. Louis, with
Rev. J. R. McIntosh and Elder T. W.
Fleming os their alternates.
Appointments for missionary labor
with vacant churches were made as fol
lows :
Perry—Brothers Nall, llaxson and
McKay.
Newton—Brothers Clisby, McKay and
Mickle.
Whitney—Brothers McKay, Mickle
and McBryde.
Dawson—Brothers McKay, Clisby and
Briggs.
Mt. Tabor,—Brothers Clisby and Mc
Kay.
Lumpkin—Brother Mickle.
Smyrna—Brother McBryde.
Reports from the churches were gen
erally of a favorable tenor, and in some
respects tho affairs of the Presbytery are
regarded as in a better condition than
ever before, though much remains to be
done before they are established on a firm
basis.
Tho little church and community of
Geneva received the brethren with over
flowing hospitality, and if,they made as
favorable an impression on tbo people as
the people did upon them, tho Presbyte
ry must stand very high in tbo esteem of
all that region.
Tho next meeting is to bo held at Ma
con, beginning on Thursday before the
second Sabbath of October next (October
8th), at seven o’clock in tho ovening. C.
CONSTITUTIONALITY OP THE ENFOST-
sient Act.—A special to tbo Cincinnati
Commercial says tho statement that tbo
Supreme Court will declare tho enforce
ment acts unconstitutional, is doubtless
premature. The truth is that tbo case
which was recently argued involved no
features of the enforcement act which
have not already been presented in the
South Carolina kuklux and the Kentucky
election cases. Upon this latter case the
court held its conference, and at this
conference it was discovered that the
nearly unanimous opinion of that body
is that tho set of July, 1870, is not con
stitutional. It is said that the court
stands eight against the constitutional
ity to ono for the constitutionality of this
act. It is possible that this may have
had a determining influence in securing
the postponement of tho decision until
the October term.
Tbose “Devil’s Tools.**
A "little bird” has brought to onr ears
the report, that certain parties who love
whist and a social game of cards, were
down upon the writer for characterizing
those spotted and illustrated bits of
pasteboard as "devil’s tools,”in one of his
recent letters.
Now, he does not wish to be misunder
stood or considered hypercritical and
straight-laced on this or any other inno
cent pastime and recreation. In them
selves considered, no harm can possibly
attach to cards, chess, backgammon and
other games of chance or amusement.
It is only when used for gambling pur
poses that they become positively objec
tionable and injurious. And it is for that
reason that we have a prejudice against
cards, because of their universal employ
ment by professional gamesters, and the
fascinating influence they exert upon the
youthful mind. We exclude them from
the family circle for precisely the same
reason that onr children are never per
mitted to taste wine or ardent spirits.
Not that the latter are not among God’s
creatures, "to be nsed bnt not abused,'
and of great benefit as a tonic and remo
dial agent in many diseases. To this
wo can personally testify. Bnt the taste
once acquired in early youth, before the
habits are formed, in very many lamenta
ble instances, grows into a consuming
desire, which ultimately wrecks both
soul and body.
And here, par parenthese, wo would re
mark, that after the closest observation,
the writer is obliged to mako the start
ling announcement that he never knew
a youth under twenty years of ago who
drank whisky as a beverage, and occa
sionally got upon a spree, to be strictly
sober in mature life, while a very large
percentage of such, sink into the drunk
ard's grave. Honco onr son3 should be
placed upon their word of honor to ab
stain from over touching the inebriating
glass, and not commanded to do so. In
deed, parental affection and gentle influ
ences are appeals few hoys can resist,
while many are ruined by arbitrary
measures and undue severity. Once
make a cherished companion and confi
dante of your son, sharing his sports and
sympathizing with his griefs, and he is
yours by far stronger ties than mere
despotic authority can create.
Bat, revenons a moutons. Cards in the
family, antagonize directly with study,
supersede useful reading, interrupt social
intercourse, are selfish in their tendency,
and to a surprising extent engross tho
mind, to the exclusion of tho ordinary
duties and occupations of lifo.
We do not mean to allege that it is ela
tux or improper to engage in any of the
games they represent, for tho pastime is
undoubtedly harmless of itself. Bnt the
danger is that tho unwary youth may ac
quire an undue fondness for it, and be
led by degrees to play for money, and to
the gaming table. We have seen this
illustrated in the college life of many
young men.
Of course, however, every head of a
family ha3 a right to decide the question
for himself, and under proper limitations
no harm may inure to the household. Wo
neither pretend to dictate, or assume the
role of censor in tho premises.
How “Landanlet” Williams Came to
Beslgn.
The Herald's Washington special of
Saturday gives what is understood to be
the facts of the Attorney General’s resig
nation as follows:
The resignation of Mr. Williams,
though proclaimed a voluntary act, was
forced upon him, and it came upon him
03 a surprise. Ever since his nomina
tion for Chiof Justice, and particularly
since the disclosure of certain fact3 con
nected with tho withdrawal of his name
for that high position, there has been
more or los3 dissatisfaction in tho Repub
lican party with his continuance in the
Cabinet, and frequent ugly hints and
charges from Republican sources have
been made against him; bnt until lately
they wero all to no purpose. Tho Presi
dent paid no attention to these com
plaints of corruption in the Department
of Justice until last Friday night a week
ago, when ho sent for Mr. Williams and
told him frankly that his presence in the
Cabinet was embarrassing his adminis
tration and the party.
To this stunning announcement Mr.
Williams, of course, could only reply that
ho would not stand a moment in tho way
of the administration or tho party, and
that ho would send in his resignation at
once. But it was finally agreed that it
should bo withheld until the President’s
return from Boston, and that Mr. Will
iams should remain in his office until
somo time in May, to dispose of certain
cases pending in tho Supreme Court.
But whence this sudden overthrow of the
President’s late apparently unbounded
confidence in this man? It came from
some treacherous leakages in the depart
ment of justice. For instance, a good-
natured friend told tho President that
ono of tho Attorney General’s subordi
nates had “blown on him j” that tho in
vestigating committeo appointed to ex
amine those charges made against Mr.
Williams when ho was nominated for
Chief Justice had reached a point where,
for ’the good of all concerned, it was
deemed expedient to stop the investiga
tion and shut the books. Upon this
broad hint, touching a matter of which
ho had before heard nothing, tho Presi
dent sent for Mr. Williams and suggested
the propriety of his resignation.
Wo are more than ever surprised at
Grant, if these ore the facts. As a gen
eral rule, the more thickly tarred his pets
are tho closer he sticks to them. Some
thing is surely wrong with the “Boss,
A Balloonatlc’s Narrow Escape
From tho Baltimore Sunol tho 24th.]
Professor Donaldson, who was reported
as having been instantly killed near
Atco. N, J., by an accident to his balloon
on Wednesday, arrived in Philadelphia on
Thursday. He states that when the bal
loon 'started it ascended rapidly, and it
was very cold; he never felt it so cold be
fore. He arose to an altitnde of 8,000
feet, when it became so cold that the
mineral water in a bottle had frozen
thick, and be thought it be3t to descend.
His hands were so benumbed that be
could not reach the valve cord. The
balloon sped on, descending somewhat,
but rapidly nearing the sea. Tho drag-
rope was thrown out, and in the little
Jersey towns over which the air-ship
passed crowds of men and women came
ont to look at it, but wero afraid to ren
der [assistance. Finally, ns the balloon
was within a few miles of Atco, tho place
from which the first dispatch of Wednes
day came, it had descended until within
forty-five feet of the ground. He thought
it best for his safety to get out the best
way he could, and to carry out this idea
he took his [dirk-knife and severed the
balloon from the basket. Up sped tho
balloon, and it was soon lost to sight,
sailing no doubt for Europe. Downward
went Donaldson and tbo basket, turning
over and over until they reached the
bramble on the ground. The professor
was well shaken up and so stunned [that
he lay nnconscions for awhile, and when
he reeorered be wo3 in tho hands of good
Samaritans, who had seen tho ’accident
from afar and came to the rescue. The
balloon [which [was lost was a new one,
the journey on Wednesday being its first.,
It had a capacity of 30,000 feet of gas.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Spring vegetables are ooming in at
Savannah, bnt on a spring tide. For in
stance: Cucumbers, 25 cents each; snap
beans, 25 cents per quart; Irish potatoes,
25 cents per quart, or about $8 per hush-
el- m. ,-iJ§
We quote as follows from the Savon
nah News:
Federal Courts.—It is hardly proba
ble, we may say upon surmise, that eith
er the United States Circuit or District
Court will be in session again this week.
Judge Erskine continues confined to his
bed by an attack of erysipelas. Ho is
under the skillful treatment of Dr, R. J.
Nunn, and was joined by his wife yester
day, who came from Atlanta to attend
her husband in his sudden illness. The
juries of both the Circuit and District
Courts have been discharged, with the
exception of one member of each panel
to reform on if required. The arrival of
Mr. Justice Bradley next week will start
the machinery of the Court again, even
if Judge Erskine doe3 not recover in the
meantime*
Our readers will boar us witness that
we have not for several years regarded
Mr. Hill as a person of political virtue
and consistency ; bnt as matters stand we
do not see how the voters of the Ninth
district can better themselves by beating
him—though we greatly fear that his
chances have been injured by the incon
siderate action of some of his friends.
There is nothing calculated to flatten
public man more completely than intem
perate zeal on the part of friends, and if
over a man had to fight his way through
obstacles of thi3 kind, that man is Mr.
Hill.
Son-in-Law Shot.—Wo learn from
gentleman that reached the city yester
day that on last Wednesday at Swains
boro*, in Emanael county. Hon. G. B
Spence shot his son-in-law, Mr. Isaac
Cross, in a personal rencounter. At first
it was supposed that the wound inflicted
was mortal, bnt the injured man is re
garded as now out of danger and the bel
ligerent fathor-in-Iaw has been released
on bond.
The News is persuaded that Sambard
is too honest for Grant and Ins crew.
That balance of twenty-three cents in his
favor was altogether too much for Radi
cal patience to stand. If he had been
defaulter his tenure of office would have
been assured.
The Savannah Advertiser notes the ar
rest and jailing of a young clerk for
Bay street firm on the charge—after
wards confessed—of opening money let
ters that were handed to him to send off
by express, and taking therefrom $1,900
—all within the last three months.
Referring to the advent of the Rev.
W. Watkin Hicks as editor of the Fer-
nandina (Fla.) Observer, the Savannah
Neics casually remarks that "heretofore
his advent in journalism Las been the
oignai lor nia curly tcvawu,^
The Chronicle and Sentinel has tho fol
lowing on the recent purchase of the
Western Alabama railroad by the Geor
gia and Central in connection with the
bonds of that road, and the responsibility
therefor of tho purchasers:
Of the original $750,000 first mortgage
bonds of tho Montgomery and West
Point railroad, about one-third are owned
in Augusta. These bonds wore not
guaranteed by the Georgia and Central
railroads as were the two issues by the
Western railroad of Alabama, but by the
purchase of tho road the Georgia and
Central become jointly responsible for
tho payment of these a3 well as the oth
ers, together with tho interest due. The
latter amounts to 150,160 83, and will be
paid by the two road3 on the 15th of
May, To meet this they will have about
$80,000 of funds, net earnings of the road
while it was in the hands of the Receiver
and by tho latter turned over to the pur
chasers, together with the other assets of
tho Western road. Tho two companies
will therefore have to pay out of their
own funds only seventy thousand dollars,
or thirty-five thousand each, to make
np tho balance of the $150,00 to to
paid on tho 15th of May. Besides
tho road in Alabama for which the
companies pay $3,129,166 01, they come
into possession, under the mortgage, of
that portion in Georgia, valued, as above
stated, at $150,000. Tho whole amount
in cash actually paid by the Georgia and
Central railroads for tho entire Western
railroad of Alabama, is $70,000, or the
sum required to be added to the eighty
thousand dollars of net earnings in tho
hands of tho receiver, to meet the in
terest due on the first mortgage bonds
of tho Montgomery and We3t Point rail
road. As to the remainder of the large
amount stated a3 the total purchase
money, tho two companies merely assume
the mortgage debts of tho Western
road as represented by the three issues
of bonds mentioned in tho premises. In
tho aggregate given of bonds and inter
est thereon tho statement is as follows:
Montgomery and West
Point First Mortgage
Bonds $ 750,000 00
Interest on same (cou
pons due) 150,100 S3—
S 900,100 S3
Western Railroad .issue
ol $000,000 ,$ 000,000 00
Interest on same 184,652 70— 784,052 70
Western Railroad,issue
of *1,200,000 .$1,153,000 00
Interest on same SCO,CSS 83—$1,521.0SS 80
$3,209,497 45
Tbo interest on coupons added to this
makes up tho aggregate amount of $3,-
258,060.55. Tbo interest on the two
issues of tho Western Railroad proper
has already been paid by tho Central and
Georgia Railroads, leaving only the $150.-
160.83 on those of tho Montgomery and
West Point Railroad. Beforo the war
tho Western Railroad made an annual
net income of over two hundred thousand
dollars; since, from a combination of
circumstances, chief among which was
tho desolated condition of the section
through which it extends, it has netted
yearly only about eighty thousand dol
lars. In the opinion of experienced and
prominent railroad men tho road will pay
annually the entire interest on its bonded
debt, with its income over running ex
penses, and not bo a dollar’s expense to
tho Central and Georgia Railroads. The
bonds of the road hare already on up
ward tendency.
A Clod of Earth.—Under this head
the Columbus Times discourses as fol
lows:
Tho most important practical study in
Agriculture is tho racucation of plants.
To understand this one has only to
thoroughly understand the nature of a
clod of earth. Wo saw tho other day, on
a river plantation, near this city, a plant
er hurrying his plowmen to finish a cer-
tain "cut” beforo sundown. Before them
wa3 a tract of about eight acres, Tery
wet—as tho heavy rain had only ceased
that morning—and ho instructed them
to " bod up the com land ” through that
also. The water followed the furrow-
made by the plow. Wo have no doubt
but that nearly every plantation in this
mntry presents a repetition of that
scene. Thi3 practice forms clods. Wo
called up the old negro " foreman,” and
asked: " Don’t you know that tho work
you are doing now, in order to get your
corn planted before it is necessary to
plant cotton, is labor thrown away?”
Sir,” he replied. "Don’t you know
that for every day’s work you do in this
stiff bottom laud, while it is wet, you will
have to work four more days next Sum
mer than you would if you had waited
until the ground was dry, before plowing
it ?” " Yes sir,” ho replied, and added:
When the drouth comes next Summer
the ground will be so hard you can’t get
a plow in it, it will break up in clods
where you can plow it, and tho com will
turn yellow, and won’t make half a crop.”
That old negro spoke wisdom, and is
sustained by the natural laws of husban
dry. J
John N. Eberhart, of Oglethorpe
oounty, charged with the murder of Dr.
Strickland a few weeks since, has been
admitted to bail in the sum of $25,000.
Three Augusta merchants went on his
bond.
The Lumpkin Independent is anxious
to wager a $40 mule that a young man in
that place can eat sixty patridges in thir
ty days.
The Sandersville Herald says that there
lives in Washington county, not six miles
from town, a woman fifty years old, who
does not, nor never did, weigh over 100
pounds, who, by tbe sweat of her own
brow, supports herself, her little niece,
her mother who is between 90 and 100
years old, has ccrn and bacon to sell
every year, does not owoa dollar, and has
three hundred doliaTB out at interest;
all made upon poor land, and since the
war. Her cart was in town on Tuesday
lost with corn and bacon both to sell, and
a half dozen big, double-jointed, young,
good-looking fellows standing on the corn
er, arguing that farming won’t pay un
less we had better labor.
Having published the statement of the
Griffin Messenger as to how it lost the
legal advertising of Henry connty, we
now give the other side of the case as
follows:
Editors Constitution: I notice an arti
cle from the Griffin Messenger concerning
the sheriff’s printing of Henry county,
■which greatly perverts tho facts in the
case. It is well known to the readers of
the Constitution, that this paper, and this
alone, has for many years done the legal
advertising of that county, with the ex
ception of a short interval during the
term of the late ordinary. Judge Lemons.
On a recent visit to McDonough, I learned
for the first time that one of the proprie
tors of the Griffin Messenger, Colonel Alex
ander, had been there and had made an
effort to take from tho Constitution the
sheriff’s printing of Henry county, by of
fering to do it at a reduced price, much
lower than the Constitution was doing it
for; that is, he offered to do it for 50 per
cent., or one half. In accordance with,
tbe above, I stated to Sheriff Bryans that
"two could play that game,” so I agreed
to take it at the same rates proposed by
Col Alexander. These are the facts of
above case, and Hon. George Nolan, of
McDonough, will hear me out in my
statement a3 ho was present when the
contract was drawn up and signed.
Bcspcctfullj;
T. M. Acton, Agt. Con.
A Nzoro named W. W. King, from La
Grange, played civil rights on a Forsyth
landlord in a way the latter very natur
ally despises, a few days since. He was
so searwhitethat the clerk of the hotel
thought he was the genuine article, and
gave him a bed and breakfast, and did
not find ont his mistake until informed
to the contrary by . a gentleman from
L&Grange who was in Forsyth and knew
King. If the landlord had found him
out before his departure, we are per-
nuwould have been lively
times—for Eng, m,
Grant’s Special Friends In Louisiana
—How They Ban the Loyl Machine,
Mr. Charles Nordhoff, special corres
pondent of the New York Herald, whoso
recent letters on tho condition of affairs
in Arkansas have attracted so much at
tention all over the country, end from
which we had the satisfaction of making
some extracts, has drifted down into
Louisiana and is letting daylight in on
the rascalities of the Grant leaders in
that State. Mr. Nordhoff, it must be
recollected, is a staunch Republican. He
says:
They have laid, collected audjspent (or
rather misspent or stolen) all the taxes,
local os well as State j they have not on
ly made ail the laws, but they have arbi
trarily changed them, and have misera
bly failed to enforce any which were for
the people’s good; they have openly and
scandalously corrupted the colored men
whom they have brought into political
life; they have used unjust laws to per
petuate and extend their own power, and
they have practiced all the basest arts of
ballot-stuffing, false registration and re
peating at election after election. In the
last election it was proved before a com
mittee of Congress that the Republican
leaders had, in the city of New Orleans
alone, made not less than 5,200 false
registrations. A few days ago I went
down the river to attend court, in order to
see the working of a negro jury. The
court had to adjourn for lack of a jury,
and no panel had been drawn, because
the names being taken from the registra
tion lists of the parish, 36 out of 48 were
found to befictitious; and this inacountry
parish. The Republican Returning Board
was condemned as a transparent fraud by
two Congressional committees, and has,
so far as I know, no defender in Louisiana
or in the country, except the President, who
has just given a Federal office in New Or
leans to Mr. Wells, who was chief of the
Board. I know of ono case in the last
election where, the Conservative ticket
being elected, the records of tho election
wero carried by the Supervisor from the
parish to New Orleans and concealed in a
iouso of prostitution, one of whose in
mates was sent to drive a bargain with
the Conservatives for their return. So
common is corruption and so unblushing
still that the Grand Jury of New Orleans,
only the other day, began an investiga
tion to discover who had altered, after its
passage, an important appropriation bill,
passed by the Hahn (Republican) Legis-
ature, and tbe discovery of so gross and
daring a fraud scarcely excited attention
in New Orleans, where I have myself
seen colored members of tho Legislature
—men who were slaves but ten years ago
and began with nothing at that time-
now driving magnificent horse3, seated in
stylish equipages and wearing diamond
pins.
But wo musn’t blame Grant. Oh! no.
He is so much better than his party and
is so kindly disposed towards the South
ern people.
Tho Pope—91s Appearance and Pres
ent Health.
Rome Correspondence of the New York Herald,
April 1.]
Holding in his right hand and resting
heavily upon a handsome walking stick,
tho Pope approached tho group of earn
est young priests who had consecrated
themselves to tho work of mercy of at
tending the sick in the hospitals. The
Holy father’s features brightened a3 he
received their customary salutation. He
spoke a few words to each and then
placed his hand upon the head of each in
lis kind, fatherly manner, evincing in a
striking manner the paternal feeling he
entertains toward all who consocrate
themselves to works of charity and hu
man welfare. I had timo to observe the
Holy Father’s features and general ap
pearance before ho approached mo. I
noticed that ho walked heavily, shuffling,
as old men do who have passed threescore
years and ten; and, though I could seo
traces of the early nobility of carriage
and happy, bright dignity of feature, yet
the form before mo was no longer that of
a few years ago. Tho firm contour of
face lias been ?03t; tho features seem to
hang heavily down, and tho old, bright,
penetrating eye X3 dimmed and weaken
ed. There is no concealing the ravage?
that old ago and trouble and conflicts and
disease have wrought upon this once
noble figure. I would indeed gladly be
lieve that His Holiness ho3 yet ten years
of life and usefulness before him, that he
may yet live to see the final victory of the
Catholic Church over her enemies; bnt I
cannot. Pope Pius IX. is bnt a wreck of
his former seif, but a magnificent wreck
nevertheless. I would be unjust to my
self were I to describe him not according
to the impression left upon me in my
brief interview. Some day, and in all
probability not long hence, Pope Pius IX.
will take to his bed never more to rise
from it again.
Georgia Baptist Convention;
Reported for tho Tefepaph and Messenger.]
Mxllsdgeviu.e, April 28,1875.
MONDAY, 8| A. K.
The convention met and proceeded to
the consideration of the special reports
of the committee to which hod been re
ferred the report on Sunday-schools and
Sunday-school work, by Dr. Spalding,
chairman of the Sunday-school commit
tee. Daring the year a large amount of
work hod been done, both among white
and colored schools, by the two agents
employed, and very gratifying results
were attained.
Tho convention has a special commit
tee to promote the Sunday-school cause
among the Georgia Baptists, and that
committee is authorized to appoint a su
perintendent of Sunday-school work and
general evangelist for the State, who is
sustained by the churches and Sunday-
schools. The Sunday-school Superin
tendent is Rev. T. C. Boykin, who has
proved himself admirably adapted to the
work of organization and promoting the
Sunday-school cause. He is again ap
pointed to tho position, and the pastors
of the Baptist Churches were, by special
resolution, requested to use their influ
ence in sustaining him and the cause he
represents. Rev. H. Woodsmall, who
had been in the employ of the Sunday-
school committee, ha3 accepted a position
as missionary to the colored Baptist" Sun
day-schools of Georgia, under the Ameri
can Baptist Publication Society of Phila
delphia, and he was by special resolution
recognized as such by the convention,
and the sympathy and co-operation of
tho Georgia Baptists in his work were
extended to him. Mr. "WoodBmall is
gentleman of education and ability, and
fall of zeal. He but recently led to the
hymeneal altar one of Macon’s fair daugh
ters.
Always in our convention the Christian
Index is brought up, and many speeches
made in its behalf, and tho custom was
not departed from thfe session. The
truth is, Georgia Baptists love the paper
and could hardly get on without it. A
report strongly recommending it was
adopted, and a system wa3 suggested of
securing subscriptions for it, by taking
notes from subscribers, payable to the
ministers who act as agents for the pa
per. A good many blank note books wero
dealt out to the ministering brethren
who were thus willing to act as agents
for this old, time-honored organ of the.
Georgia Baptists, The paper was heart
ily endorsed by the convention. ; "
A short report on the general state of
religion among tho Baptist churches wa3
made on Monday, and it is a source of
congratulation that it announced the
prosperous condition of most of our
churches, the existence of a state’ of re
vival in many of them, a burning zeal in
a goodly number of pastors, a general in
crease of membership, and cause for
thankfulness in the enconragjng state of
reugion gnuaaUy in our churches. Cer
tainly a manifestation of zeal is made
when two hundred or three hundred del
egates assemble annually, at a cost to
themselves individually of from $10 to
$20, on an average, simply to promote
the general welfare of the denomination.
And this reminds me of an important
step taken by tho convention at the in
8 tan co of Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick, one of
our ablest ministers. It was that here
after the delegates to the Southern Bap
tist Convention from Georgia to appoint
ed by the District Associations at their
annual meetings. This brings the South
ern Baptist Convention nearer to our
State Associations, and will probably be
the means at snhammimf tk- missionary
spirit in the District Associations and
endearing tho convention to them.
Another one of the many resolutions
passed and which I deem worthy of no
tice in your columns, is that the commit
tee of fifteen appointed to select a loca
tion for the female college of high grade,
is authorized t> receive applications for
the location of the college during the
present year. This will be likely to bring
about a comparison of the advantages of
different localities and a competition bo^
tween them for the college. One propo
sition already made is that the old State
capitol bo purchased for the purpose,
and that tho college be located right here
in the centre of tho State. Thero are
a good many who favor the idea, and
perhaps it is not a bad one,
Dr. H. H. Tucker, Chancellor of the
State University, was appointed to preach
in the old Hall of Representatives at 11
a. m., and for one hour and a half ho held
an immense audience in rapt attention,
by a sermon on the importance of Bap
tism. Without saying ono word about
tho mode of baptism, or the subjects of
baptism, he simply spoke of its import
ance as a heaven-appointed ordinance.
He called it a Christian duty, as impor
tant as any other Christian duty, and not
more essential than they, to salvation;
and not in tho slightest possible degree
ground of salvation, tbe merits and at-
tonement of Christ being the only meri
torious grounds of salvation. Then he
followed out a bold and strikingly origi
nal and logical line of thought to show
tho importance attached to baptism by
tho Godhead. Thus without advocating
or combatting the views of any except of
thoso who believe in baptismal regenera
tion he excited in the minds of all a far
higher estimation of the ordinance than
they ever entertained before. An intelli
gent Presbyterian, while commending
the sermon, said: "If thero was an art of
higher order than logic, in communica
ting truth, Dr. Tucker wo3 master of it.”
The sermon received universal praise and
approbation.
On Sunday afternoon there was a very
interesting Sunday-school mass meeting,
which was addressed by Mr. W. G.
Whidby, President of tbe Georgia Union
Sunday-school Convention, and by Rev.
L. B. Fish, and by Mr. J. J. Hickman, of
Kentucky, a most eloquent and effective
orator. The meeting, held in the Metho
dist houso of worship, was large, and the
exercises, interspersed as they wero by
various songs, was highly interesting
from first to last. The singing was con
ducted by Rev. L. B. Fish, and the meet
ing was presided over by Rev. T. C. Boy
kin, who also made some appropriate re
marks.
Jleceicedfrom Georgia.
I860 SUM 95
1867 4,967 76
1868 4.023 47
1889 4,073 92
1870 7.055 60
1871 8,799 50
1872 7.852 63
1873 6,605 12
1874 6,253 63
1875 .. 6,350 49
ham, W. B. Crawford”'aT r* GU
G. A. Nonnally, C. D. CampbeU j S’
Brittain, D. E. Butler. p
“ That we earnestly request the
of each Baptist Church iu Geori^ 8 ^
briog the subject of the establishmJ?
Md endowment of a Baptist
Umveraity prominently before the
tista of their respective communiti«T
early as practicable.” 68 **
The matter of foreign missions
operation with the Foreign Mission
of the Southern Baptist Convention^
grasses much of the attention and».
ceives much pecuniary assistance W
the Georgia Baptist*. And, in regard ?
foreign missions the following wa3 adop”
‘•That E. W. Warren, F. M. Daniel t
H. James, C. Peoples, J. H. Callaw..
A. K. Seago, N. T. Spalding, be an ^’
nual committee on foreign missions^
requested by the secretary of the Fore’i^
Mission Board of the Southern Banta*
Convention, and the moderator of ft!,
convention, and the moderators of fie
associations represented in this body bo
ex officio, members of said committed’ ’
During tho discussion of mission —*
tera. Dr. J. H. Devotie, of Columbus’
made an appeal in favor of foreign mis’
sions, and was allowed to take up a co’
lection, and Dr. M. 8. Snmner, Corres
ponding Secretary of the Home
Board, of the Southern Baptists Conven
tion, made some statements in regard to
the contributions of the Georgia Baptists
to domestic missions, which I think o'
sufficient importance to report. It shows
what Georgia Baptists have given to our
Homo Mission Board since tho war, and
also what has been paid out by tho said
board, for missionary labor in Georgia
during the same time.
, 0 „- Paf d to Georgia.
.$2.18850
1867 6,04) ta
I860.... 1485 95
1870. S.1S4P
1871 ?5SJ45
2.75575
1875 3,70555
10 years. $57,518 IS 10 years.
Excess contributed by Georgia (or do
mestic mission labor, beyond tho
state $23,297 89
During these ten years tho number of
missionaries employed in Georgia by the
Domestic Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention wa3 132, who per
formed 2,631 weeks of labor, and bap
tised 1,108 persons.
Late on Saturday afternoon Rov.W.
D. Mayfield, of Memphis, Tennessee,
made ~an excellent speech on the opera-
•tronsi aim and objects of the Southern
Baptist Publication Society, in that city,.
of which Rev. G. A. Lofton is president,
and Dr. S. Sandwin chairman of the busi
ness managers. At tho conclusion of Mr.
Mayfield’s address tbe following was of
fered by Rev. E. W. Warren, and adopted:
Resolved, That we havo listened with
pleasure to the statements of Brother
W. D. Mayfield, a3 to tho i access of tho
Southern TFUbucation Society,
and we hereby commend it to the patron
age of the Baptists of Georgia.
The subject of establishing a Southern
Baptist Review was then brought up and
briefly discussed, and a committee of
three was appointed to consider the sub
ject. Their names are W. G. Whidby,
A. J. Battle, and D. S. Shaver.
A report was afterwards brought iu by
the two first named members of the com
mittee, strongly recommending the estab
lishment of a Southern Baptist Quarterly
Review and suggested Dr. D. Shaver as
editor of it.
Among the instrumentalities employed
by tho Baptists of our State to promote
missions, oro what is called "woman’s
missionary societies,” and these have suc
ceeded in raising a great deal of money.
Lately those iu Georgia have had their
efforts directed to securing funds for the
erection of a house for Mis3 Lottie Moon,
a y«ung lady, who went out from Carters-
ville, Ga., to China as a missionary. A
;ood deal of enthusiasm has been aroused
ay them on the subject, and their efforts
have proved quite successful,- so much
so, that, owing to the efforts of these
societies, in Georgia and in Virginia, tho
desired amount has nearly been collected.
This will enable your readers to compre
hend tho following resolution, which wa3
adODted:
Resolved, That we have witnessed with
deep interest tho labors of tho Woman’s
missionary societies of our State in pro
curing a house for Miss Lottie Moon,
our missionary to China, and hail with
; joy the near consummation of their cher-
: shed wish, in receiving the amount of
money desired.
Resolved, That we now commend to the
societies the current support of Miss
Lottie Moon and Mis3 Lou Whilden, as
an object worthy of their devotion, prom
ising our sympathy and co-operation in
the prosecution of the enterprise, and re
quest the contributions to be forwarded
to Miss Jennie Clayton, tho efficient cor
responding secretary of tho Woman’s
missionary society of tho Second Baptist
Church of Atlanta, Georgia.
AT NIGHT.
The report on education was read and
adopted at night, after several very ex
cellent speeches by several of the best
brethren in the convention, but a report
of their speeches is unnecessary. Tho
meeting was held in the old Hall of Rep
resentatives, and was very largo and en
thusiastic.
HOSPITALITY.
The hospitality of Milledgeville was
the subject of. general enconium, every
one being highty pleased with his own
place of entertainment and deeming it
tho best in the city. Your correspondent
was a guest of the McCombs hotel, Mr.
C. G. Wilson, proprietor. Ho would
speak in high terms of the excellence of
the fare, and of the kindness and atten
tion of the host and his employe3,keartily ’
recommending tho McComb hctel to all
visitors to the old capital. B-
"Wliippinsr Post Arguments.
I should not do justice to tho conven
tion if I did not mention tho Sunday ex
ercises and the general spirit of devotion
that prevailed. Each day the conven
tion adjourned at 11 o’clock to hear a ser
mon, and on the Sabbath all the pulpits
in the town, even thoso of tho colored
churches, were supplied by preachers ap
pointed by the convention. Somo of our
best preachers wero appointed, and tho
general verdict was that good Bermons
had been preached. In ono of tho col
ored churches, a warm-sealed brother
was appointed to preach, and the interest
excited was so great that when mourners
were called up for prayer, eighty came
forward and knelt down, two of whom
professed conversion and joined the
church, then giving their religious expe
rience.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
April 24, 1875.—The same brethren,
nearly were elected Trustees of Mercer
University and then a resolution was of
fered by Rev. C. H. Campbell, and adopt
ed as follows, in substance:
Deploring tho destitution on tho coast
and in Southeast Georgia, it calls upon
th« brethren in more favored sections to
contribute liberally to tbe support of
Rev. W. A. Atkinson, at Brunswick, and
of Rev. D. G. Daniel, who is laboring in
tho coast counties, and requested funds
to be forwarded to the Executive Com
mittee at Macon Georgia.
I havo already announced that a Fe
male College of high grade was resolved
upon, and that a committee of fifteen
was appointed to select a location and
make a report ono year hence. The
Tho editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) Sen
tinel, who was recently in Roxboro, in
that State, has this to say of a relic of
the past he found thero:
Tho old whipping-post in Roxhury still
stands in a good state of preservation
under a shelter. Without a single ex
ception, so far 03 wo could learn, the peo
ple without "regard to race, color or pre
vious condition” were in favor of putting
this old, idle machino into active work
again upon all able-bodied men who, too
lazy to work, resorted to stealing. Wo
alluded in our speech at Roxboro to the
condition of the whipping-post, and tho
forecast and economy manifested in tho
care taken of it, under the shelter where
rain, storm and snow could not strike to
decay it. We then called and repeated
tho call for tbo negro who was opposed
to whipping a negro for stealing. Ho
could not be found. We then called for
iho white man opposed to whipping tho
white man who would steal rather than
work. He wa3 not to bo found. We
then ventured to say if any one would
show ns a nogro opposed to whipping a
negro for stealing,*wc would show them
a negro who would steal. Thero are_500
voters in Wake against the whipping
post, but they will not get to the polls
unless Gov. Brogden shall pardon them
out of tbe penitentiary. There was much
of wisdom in the old Mosaic law, and the
people of North Carolina, both white and
black, are ready to return to that branch
of it which gave rogues forty, rave one.
The manufacture of alligator leather
has now become an important branch of
industry. Tho skins come chiefly from
Florida and Louisiana, and the hunting
and skinning of the animals for their
hides is extensively pursued. About 20,-
000 skins are tanned every year. They
are manufactured in various parts of the
United States, and a number oro exported
to England and France. Tho French,
owiDg to their superior methods of tan
ning, are formidable competitors.