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The Currency ()uc*tioii.
The Cincinnati Knquxrer doesn't seem
to be used up, no witness : “ ‘We return
to our mutton.’ There is soon to be
what is called a Hard Money National
Convention in this city. Hard money
there in none at all. There is not now a
country in the world whose circulation
is exclusively hard money. • There never
was. There never will be. The pretense
otherwise is a fraud. Gold and silver
can no more be the circulating medium
of the world than diamonds can be.
There is not enough of them. Therefore
men talk about coin beiDg a txm*. It
is on its face an imperfect Acufr.
If thero was enough of it thejre
would be no bathi required. It would it
self transact all business, without the as
sistance of a substitute. Hut there i
not enough of it to tSe parlance of and
according to the ideas of the opponents
of greenbacks, it is to serve as the Uuu
of one dollar to redeem five debars in
bank paper. Every promise of this kind
is a lie, which is utterly impossible of
fulfillment unless one is equal to five.
We have scarcely $ 150,000,(XX) now in
the country, when we seek to redeem
&7000,000. There are but #150,000,000
in specie in the nation, and that can not
long be retained, because wo are a debtor
and not a creditor country. Are we to
shrink, on the Ist of January, 1879, the day
fixed upon by an act of a Republican
Congress, to one fifth of our volume of
circulation ? We may increase our for
eign indebtedness. We may buy, accord
ing to the law, four or five hundred mil
lions of dollars in gold at five or six per
cent, interest, and with that retire the
greenbacks, which bear no interest. But
how long could we retain them iu the
fuco of the immense drafts which, in
the way of interest, are made upon
them? The United States now export,
when we estimate its debts, nutional,
State, local and corporate, not less than
a hundred millions of dollars u year iu
gold. The production from the Califor
nia mines is forty million dollars annu
ally. A nice time for specie resumption!
One hundred millions flowing out! Forty
millions coming in!
Facts tor Farmers.
It is difficult to ascertain the amount
of crops, or tho average yield, of very
distant times past, but tho average yield
per acre of wheat in tho eleventh cen
tury was estimated by tho highest au
thority of that day, the author of
“Fleta,” at only six bushels. So three
hundred years later, in 1390, fifty-seven
acres on a farm at Huwsted yielded only
three hundred and sixty-six bushels, and
on an avernge of three years, little more
than that. The actual productive power
of Great Britain in tho article of wheat
alone increased during the half century
from 1801 to 1851 to the extent of sup
porting an additional population of
7,000,000, nu increase which can be
ascribed with confidence mainly to im
proved cultivation. So in every country
where agriculture receives tho at
tention it deserves the productive
power of tho soil has largely increased.
Even tho Atlantic States of the
Union, whore the system of cultivating
the soil without maintaining itH fertility
by a proper treatment prevailed for many
years, uro not an exception, since tho
condition of agriculture is rapidly im
proving in the oldest of them, where this
system was oarliost begun, and the gen
eral average of crops, with the exception
of the potato, is increasing from year to
year as a more proper oulture is intro
duoed and persevered in, the farmer be
ing led to improve his practice by the
pleasure of an increasing population uud
constantly rising prices. In New Eng
laud, for instance, the general average
yield of Indian corn per acre has risen to
about 35 bushels, while crops of 50 and
60 bushels per acre are not uncommon,
uud Ml and 100 are sometimes obtained
by careful tillage.
The Jesuits in America.
Wo learn from Appleton’s American
Cyclopedia that the Jesuits have the fol
lowing colleges in the United States:
Boston College, South Boston, and Col
lege of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.;
St. Francis Xavier, Now York; St. John's,
New ‘York(Fordham); St. Joseph’s, Phila
delphia; St. John’s, Frederick, Md.; Lo
yola, Baltimore; Uonzaga, Washington,
1). C.; Georgetown, D. C.; Spring Hill,
near Mobile, Ala.; St. Louis University,
St. Louis, Mo.; College of the Immacu
late Conception, New Orleans; St.
Charles, Grand Couteau, La.; St. Joseph’s,
Bardstown, Ivy.; St. Xavier’s, Cincinnati;
St. Ignatius, San Francisco; and Santa
Clara, Cal. In Canada, the Jesuits con
duct St. Mary’s College, Montreal,
founded in 1848; and they have recently
petitioned the Dominion Parliament for
a restoration to them of the estates owned
by the order before its suppression in
Frunce and her colonies. Tho number of
Jesuits in the United States and Canada
at the present time (1874) is 1,062. In
Mexico and the States of Central and
South America they have sometimes been
admitted, sometimes again expelled, their
fate being dependent on the success or
defeat of the several political parties.
They are now entirely expelled from the
Mexican and Colombian Republics. The
prosperous seminaries which they di
rected in Guatemala were suppressed in
1873, and the Jesuits themselves com
pelled to leave the country. Missionary
establishments had been also opened a
few years ago in Ecuador, Peru, and the
province of Maranham, Brazil; but they
were suppressed in 1874. In Chili and
Paraguay several establishments hav e
been recently founded, all of which are
subject to the same insecurity."
Rxfobm in Domestic Sebtice.— ln
New York city a work of reform in do
mestic service is being carried on at the
Ladies’ Directory, where free instruction
in cooking is given to all applicants who
desire to fit themselves for the kitchen,
and situations are procured for girls who
become proficient. By paying one dol
lar per year a lady can send her cook at
any time for instruction, and on Wednes
day and Saturday there are classes exclu-'
sively for ladies, when twelve lessons are
given for five dollars. A home and con
valescent house for servants belonging to
the directory, who, through age or ill- j
health, are unable to support themselves,
has also been established. <
J. 11. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR,
The Exportation of Cotton Goods.
Alluding to a recent cable telegram to
the effect that American calicoes are now
exported to Great Britain, the Baltimore
Gazette says that Manchester has at last
found a powerful competition in this
country, which she little dreamed would
ever be able to contend with her in the
world s market as in the production of
manufactured cottons. Hhe has for a cen
tury r>-igned supreme. English import
ers admit the superiority of American
cottons, both as regards quality and fin
ish, thereby paying one of the highest
tributes to American skill and industry.
This first exportation of our cotton goods
to enter into competition with the cot
ton kings of England we believe to be
but the forerunner of what will prove a
Large and profitable field for American
enterprise. The editor looks to the
great cotton-producing States of the
South, whose numerous and extensive
cotton factories are springing up in every
direction, and whoso unfailing water
courses afford almost unlimited power
waiting to be utilized, to supply this new
dent
and living are comparatively inexpensive,
thereby making possible the production
of cotton cloth at the lowest possible cost.
Southern manufacturers should give this
great change in the cotton goods market
their earnest attention, and make every
effort to push their products into this
new channel of consumption. They
should bend every energy, in common
with the Eastern manufacturers, to make
the exportations of American cottons an
unexampled success, and not a mere
problematical effort on the part of the
first shippers. It is auspicious that this
initial venture has turned out a brilliant
and somewhat unexpected success.
Cotton Manufacture in the United
States.
The number of cotton factories in the
United States in 1810 was reported to be
241, and the number of spindles esti
mated at 96,400, an average of 400 for
each mill. According to a report of a
committee of Congress, in 1815, $40,000,-
000 was then invested in cotton manu
factures, and 100,000 persons were em
ployed ; 27,000,000 pounds of cotton
were consumed, producing 81,000,000
yards of cloth, valued at $24,300,000. Iu
Rhode Island, Massachusetts aud Con
necticut were 165 mills, with 119,310
spindles; and it has been estimated that
the total number of spindles at that time
wa5 350,000. Power looms soon afterward
coming into general use, the number of
spindles increased to 1,500,000 in 1830,
aud 1,750,000 in 1835. Complete and
trustworthy statistics of cotton manufac
tures seem to have been first reported by
the census of 1840. There were then in
the United States 1,240 mills, with 2,284,-
6.31 spindles, and 129 dyeing and printing
establishments. These establishments
employed 72,119 hands, and produced
goods valued at $46,350,430. The amount
of capital invested was $51,102,350. The
leading cotton manufacturing States were
Massachusetts, having 278 mills, with
065,095 spindles; Rhode Island, 20!) mills,
with 518,817 spindles; New York, 117
mills, with 211,659 spindles; and Con
necticut, 116 mills, with 181,319 spindles.
In 1850 there were 1,004 mills in the
United States; in 1860, 1,091 mills, with
5,235,727 spindles; anil in 1870, 956 mills,
with 7,132,415 spindles.
Results of the Late Fair.
In a financial point of view the late
State Fair was undoubtedly a success,
according to the Macon Telegraph , as will
be shown by the following figures, which
will be found to vary very little from the
exact result:
RECEIPTS.
City subscription $ 3,000
Saloon, restaurant ami other privileges.... 3,000
Show privileges 600
Sale of rickets up town 2,000
Sale of tickets at the gate 8,000
Total receipts $16,500
EXPENDITURES.
Cash premiums awarded $4,528 CO
Four gold medals 120 00
Twenty silver medals 150 00
Thirty bronze medals 45 00
Seventy-seven diplomas 19 20—4,862 26
$11,637 75
Of course thero are expenses to be de
ducted from the above net sum, though
we do not know what they w\ll aggre
gate.
The total premiums offered were:
Cash $6,836 90
Four gold medals, at S3O 120 00
Thirty silver medals, at $7 50 225 00
Forty bronze medals, at $1 50 72 00
One hundred and seventy-three diplomas 43 25
Total $7,296 25
A considerable portion of this was not
competed for.
The attendance each day is set down
as follows:
Monday 3,500
Tuesday 4,500
Wednesday 8,500
Thursday 13,000
Friday 3,000
Saturday 1,000
Total attendance during the Fair 33,510
Civil Service Reform. —We have had
statements from Washington lately of the
tremor among clerks nnd others in the
Treasury Department, anticipating re
movals 'merely because of the desire to
distribute the officer, proportionately
among the citizens of the different States,
Territories and District of Columbia. In
this we see the complete abandonment
of the civil service reform by those who
professed to be rts friends. Congress at
its last session, inserted the following
proviso relating to the general appropria
tion bill:
“That on and after January 1, 1876,
the appointments of this department (the
Treasury) shall be equally distributed
between the several States of the United
States, Taj -ritories, and the District of
Columbia, according to population.”
This, aa the New Y'ork Journal of Com
merce say? , is a bold, undisguised recog
nition of the bad usage of dividing the
Spoils arc ong the victors, with reference
not in the least to the fitness of those
who receive them, but to their claims on
the party in powea Both parties act
upon this principle to some extent, but
it remained for the Forty-third Congress
to i-acorporate it in a law. Offices are
not to be bestowed on the men best
qua lified for them, but on those whose
political deserts are the greatest There
can. be ao other interpretation of the
me asure.
"Nearly every business failure reported
this fall caa be traced to the panic of
1873, and was produced by overtrading.
The business begun since that period is
generally healthy, because unaccom
panied By illegitimate speculation. Not
for two or three years will the last un
welcome echo of the explosion of 1873
die away.
smuttA H'eeMjf Sens.
Something Like It Before.
We very often read in the papers, and
hear people say, that the meteorological
phenomena of the present year are un
precedented. A similar assertion is made
by somebody nearly every twelve months.
It is because men forget—even from one
Christmas to another. He who keeps a
journal, a record of such matters, to
which he occasionally refers, can easily
perceive how much mistaken a great
many people are. But I will mention a
very few of the noted storms, Ac., of
which history speaks as having occurred
from ages ago down to modern times.
It is unnecessary to refer to the
deluge from which Noah and his
family escaped, for that will natu
rally occur to the minds of
almost every one. In the year of our
Lord 234, in Canterbury, England, two
hundred houses were blown down, and a
number of persons were killed. In 344
there were hailstones larger than hen
eggs. In 459 hailstones fell in most
parts of Great Britain more than three
inches in diameter, killing many people
.P. 4
and bis Queen were talking together in
their bed-chamber, a flash of lightning
struck in at the window, pa seed
by them, killed two of their servants
who waited upon them, but did their
majesties no hurt.” In 1359, as Edward
111. was on his march to Chartres, in
France, lightning killed six thousand of
his horses and one thousand of his troops.
In July, 1558, hailstones fell in North
amptonshire, fifteen inches in circumfer
ence. October 11th, 1737, twenty thous
and vessels were cast away, and three
thousand people were killed, and the
water rose forty feet higher than usual
at the mouth of the Ganges. At Alen
con, in France, the hailstones in 1774,
measured eighteen inches in circumfer
ence ! At Highhickington, Devonshire,
England, a storm removed thirteen
elm trees and the earth with them, up
wards of two hundred yards, where they
remained standing, and grew in their
new places !
But the list grows monotonous. I
have, as I said I should, selected only a
very, very few of the well nigh countless
storms of violent character, of which
we have historical mention. What does
the reader think of tho hailstones eigh
teen inches around? He will probably
be convinced that Hon. Joshua Hill’s ac
count of the hailstorm that occurred in
Jasper and Butts counties thirty or
more years since, was not exaggerated.
Somebody—l think from one of the
Northern States —sent Mr. Hill a big hat
on the publication of his narrative. The
writer of this present communication
passed through the region of that storm
a year, if not two years, after its occur
rence, and the forests, at a distance,
looked like “ new grounds,” such had
been the destruction of timber by the
hail. Mr. Hill probably told the plain,
unvarnished truth. It is not within the
scope of this article to mention any of
the earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, con
flagrations, inundations—what are now
sometimes called tidal waves—and other
calamities that have aillicLcil the world.
It would be easy to fill the News full of
such accounts.
I will, however, indulge in a few more
“ modern instances ” of remarkable
weather. About the beginning of the
present century a violent hurricane swept
across Georgia, pretty nearly in the
track of the most violent ones of the
present year. A little later than the end
of the first quarter of the century another
tremendous wind passed through in a
Bomewhat different course. Both of
them passed through Putnam county,
from where I write, and the traces of both
may be discovered even at the present
day. In 1774 there was, in this State,
a severe frost in May, which killed large
trees. In January, 1827, the Oconee
river was frozen over near Milledgeville,
and the Savannah river at Augusta. The
winter of 1828 was unusually mild, the
mercury ranging, the first ten days in
January, from sixty-four to seventy-six
degrees. The jessamine, woodbine, al
thea, hyacinth, jonquil were in full
bloom. China and plum trees were m
bloom in the up-country. Many people
lost all their pork. That was in the days
when Georgia planters had pork to lose.
On the sth April the mercury fell to
twenty-six degrees—lower than it had
been at any time during the
winter. The December following the
mercury in Eatonton stood as high as
seventy-four degrees at 8 o’clock in the
evening. In 1831 there was frost on the
25th and 26th May in latitude as low as
Savannah. In July the mercury in Ea
tonton fell to sixty-four degrees. In
1832 the mercury in Middle Georgia was
at six degrees. February Bth, 1835, mer
cury three degrees below* zero in Eaton
ton. January 25tb, same year, the mer
cury in New England froze. March Bth,
1837, hailstones fell in Pike county
large as hen eggs; destroyed win
dows and killed a horse. May
29 th, violent hailstorm in Wilkes.
Some of the old people say that the
hail lay on the ground, in places, for
twelve days. In the spring of 1849 the
writer of this was on a visit to Southwest
Georgia, nearly two degrees below here.
Even there, on the 15th day of April,
there was a storm of mingled sleet, snow
and hail, and the weather turned sudden
ly cold after a beautiful, balmy sun-rise.
There was a heavy frost on each succeed
ing morning till the 26th, inclusive, when
the frost looked like a young snow, and
by noon of that same day it had turned
intensely warm. The crops in the fields,
that had been killed by the cold, fairly
stunk in the extraordinary heat.
Tubnwold.
October 19th, 1875.
A Remarkable Wound. —Mr. Samuel
L. Campbell, living near Clay Hill, S. C.,
was shot in the left eye at the fight at
South Mountain on Sunday, the 14th
September, 1862. The ball came out be
low his right ear, and since that time he
has not been able to see, taste or smell.
Mr. C. was supposed to be dead, and lay
on the field undisturbed for. two days.
Then he was lifted up and taken into a
field hospital near Middletown, Md. For
twenty days he was unconscious, but,
after reason was restored, he was kindly
taken care of by a Mr. Dutrow. In that
noble family every kindness was shown
him, and he cannot yet refer to it with
out emotion. Mr. Dutrow has gone to
his rest, but ’his generous wife is still
living, now a resident of Frederick. Mr.
Campbell is of good revolutionary stock.
His father was one of the true men at
old Bethel, where all were Whigs and
patriots.
The Chinese Government is sending a
mission to England, bearing an apology
for the Yunnan outrages, and safe con
duct to Burmah for the Commissioners
of Inquiry.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1875.
The Recognition of Cuba.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Suji says that there is author
ity tor the statement that a more vigor
ous policy is on the eve of being initiated
with reference to Cuban affairs. At the
same time it is proper to state that the
recent publications on this subject have
been rather of a sensational character.
There has been no “ significant concen
tration of war vessels,” for the course
which has been resolved upon is not
likely to lead to such consequences as will
require any particular concentration of
war fleets.
The large iron-clads are stationed at
the points to which they were ordered
after the conclusion of the great naval
drill, eighteen months or more ago. The
Wabash, the Colorado and other frigates
of the first-class have been detailed as
receiving vessels, in pursuance of a policy
adopted by the Navy Department long
since, and entirely irrespective of any
considerations touching our present or
future relations toward affairs.
It is true that they are armed and
sq\ippr4 g,j that they can be made ready
at short notice for sailing orders. When
the Virginius affair occurred it found us
almost totally helpless so far as our naval
arrangements were concerned, and the
Secretary of the Navy was compelled to
work all the force at his command, night
and day, for weeks before he was in con.
dition to meet possible emergencies. It
was then determined that the motto for
the future should be “Semper Paratus,”
and this is the explanation of
the present disposition of war ves
sels on the North Atlantic coast
While, therefore, there has been no at
tempt to menace Spain by any exhibition
of our naval forces, the navy is and has
been for months in a condition to give a
good account of itself if called upon.
The views of the President in regard to
the conflict which has so long been
waged in Cuba have never been con
cealed. Not only in his annual messages
to Congress and in diplomatic correspon
dence, but also in his private conversa
tions has he indicated his opinion that
this government should not stand aloof
and view the contest with passive indif
ference. He has refrained from official
action solely through the influence of the
Secretary of State, for there has been no
time within the last three years that Con
gress would not have endorsed his recog
nition of Cuban belligerency.
One year ago the President used very
strong language in regard to this subject
in the original draft of his message, but
subsequently, through the representa
tions of the Secretary of State, he was
induced to modify it. Latterly the Pres
ident has become more confirmed in his
views that it is neither politic or just for
the United States to remain longer si
lent. There is no doubt that this opinion
of his has been communicated to the
government at Madrid, notwithstanding
the apparent disclaimer, although it was
of course couched in more diplomatic
terms than first accounts seemed to indi
cate. The correspondent further says
tbit there is good ground for the belief
that, in accordance with these views, the
President, when he deems the proper
time has arrived, will institute such ac
tion as will secure the beginning of the
end of the pillage and rapine which has
run riot in Cuba. It is well known to the
President and to the governments of Eu
rope that it is in the power of the United
States to terminate the conflict in Cuba
at any moment, and emancipate that
island absolutely from Spanish control.
The only question to be considered is
whether we would be justified by divine
and human law. The President thinks
we would. As for the idea of a war with
Spain, it is perfectly ridiculous. No
nation can wage war without money.
The Spanish treasury is empty, and that
government cannot raise a dollar in the
money markets of Europe. The means
by which the war against the Cuban in
surgents has been carried on have beeD
supplied exclusively in Havana—not a
cent has come from Spain. No more can
be raised in Havana. This is iu brief the
situation as it now exists.
The Two-thirds Rule.
The Columbus Enquirer says that it
has not, as the Atlanta Constitution rep
resents, admitted that the majority rule
was right in principle, but impracticable
because it may lead to a bolt. What we
have said is that where the people indi
cate a preference for any candidate by
electing a majority of delegates favora
ble to him to a convention, it would be
right and Democratic in principle that
such a majority should secure his nomi
nation ; but if the people fail to express
a preference in this way, and the dele
gates, at first divided among a multipli
city of candidates, proceed to make a
nomination of their owniyioi the people’s),
by combination or bargaining, then a
two-tliirds vote ought to be required,
especially if such was the previous cus
tom of the party. And further, that it
might encourage bolting for a combina
nation less than two-thirds to nominate
a candidate in disregard of party usage.
The Enquirer continues; “The Con
stitution says that Governor Smith was
nominated under the majority rule to fill
out Bullock’s unexpired term, and that
he was afterwards nominated for a full
term “by acclamation, which is the ma
jority rule in its highest form.” We find
the facts to be that Governor Smith was
both times unanimously nominated “by
acclamation,” though the convention
that nominated him for the fraction of
Bullock’s term had resolved in favor of
the majority rule. This, however, was
stoutly resisted at the time by a large
minority as a departure from Democratic
precedent, and there is reason to believe
that if the convention had not been
almost or quite unanimous for Smith, the
departure would have neither been in
sisted on by the one party nor readily
acquiesced in by the other. But as to a
unanimous nomination by acclamation
being “the majority rule in its highest
form,” that is a manifest incongruity. A
unanimous vote by acclamation is a
larger vote than even two-thirds, and
signifies the very reverse of a close con
test, which is shown by a nomination by
a bare majority.
A Model Hotel Clerk. — Garrett
City, Jnd., October 25. —Wm, Bowles ar
rived here last night, and put up at the
Tamey House. Before going to his room
he handed the night clerk, named Eddy,
a package containing a large sum of money
to keep for him till morning. Some time
during the night Eddy toos the money,
jumped on a train, and left for Ohio. A
detective is after him close, and it is to
be hoped will_capture him.
The Thomasrille Fair.
It was predicted in these columns some
time ago that the animal exhibition of
the South Georgia Agricultural and Me
chanical Association Mould be a remarka
ble success this year, aid that prediction
has been more than verified, if we are to
judge from the tenor *f our telegrams
and correspondence from Thomasville.
The display is conceded to be larger
and more varied than tiat of the State
Fair, and the attendant will probably be
quite as large. Ever; department is
crowded with specimens of the indus
trial, agricultural and mechanical re
sources of Southern and Southwest
Georgia, and visitors from a distance
will have ample opportunity to judge
whether or no the wiregrass region is an
unfruitful region.
A unique feature of the Thomasville
Fair, and one of the most interesting, is
the display made by the different Granges
of Thomas and adjoining counties. The
rivalry between these organizations has
been friendly but sharp, and the result is
one of the largeet and best agricultural
efver State. Two of
these Granges, we are toid—and perhaps
others—each occupy an entire building,
so numerous and so varied are the pro
ducts they have entered. The introduc
tion of this feature was an exceedingly
happy thought upon the part of the offi
cers of the association, and it is one, we
predict, which will be pretty generally
imitated in the future. It inaugurates a
species of competition, the absence of
which heretofore has in no small degree
retarded the progress of our agricultural
interests and the development of our ma
terial resources.
Iu addition to the splendid display,
there has been no lack of amusements,
and what with the running races and the
trotting, the tournament and the base
ball matches, visitors have enough lively
episodes to prevent that appearance of
monotony which pertains to a mere ex
hibition of ..articles. The weather has
been exceptionably fine, and everything
seems to have conspired to aid in the suc
cess of the exhibition.
Savannah, we are glad to observe, is
well represented, and we could wish that
Middle and Northern Georgia had taken
a livelier interest than they seem to have
done, for really the success of the Thom
asville Fair is as much a triumph of the
State as of the section. We daresay,
however, that when our friends in the
up-country come to see what magnificent
exhibitions the wiregrass people can get
up, they will come forward, and, with
their characteristic energy and liberality,
enter into a most spirited contest for the
premiums. Next year, we predict that
every section of the State will be largely
represented at Thomasville.
The Drift of Industry and Capital.
Under this head the Baltimore Sun,
referring to the drift of population and
money to the South, says that in no other
section can crops be cultivated with less
labor, nor are any crops more remunerative
than such as are peculiarly adapted to
this and the more southern region. The
great .-b’liigc which uuaf been affected b_>
the abolition of slavery presents the op
portunity for infusing new elements into
Southern life and new ideas of industrial
enterprise.
The landed interest is now relieved of
the necessity of supporting at its own
cost those whose labor it does not utilize,
the supply of whose wauts has now to be
borne by the class with which it is iden
tified. No matter what the means by
which emancipation was accomplished
this is the effect, and the freedman may
stay or migrate as inclination or circum
stances miy suggest. But in any case he
is not now in the way of coming white
immigrants, and will have to stir himself
to compete with them when they do
come, and thus add to the profitableness
of his labor to himself and the commu
nity at large. He also becomes to a
larger extent a consumer of general com
modities, making manufactures more
necessary in the country of his sojourn
than ever before.
A section which has lost none of its
resources of revenue, and which has in
creased largely the number of its profit
able consumers, cannot bo said to be in
jured in the long run by emancipation.
When society and business in the South
have recovered from the temporary
paralysis caused by the war, revolution
and succeeding bad government, the
value of the Southern lands will be so
very largely restored as to make them
most desirable. But, recurring to the
general idea with which we started, of
the evident increasing tendency of the
public mind to turn to industries that
may be slow but sure, and especially
agriculture, after so long a season of
undue trading and speculation, we can
but say that it is one of the most health
ful and encouraging signs of the times
that has been noted since the era of war,
and excessive paper money issues came
upon the country with their demoraliz
ing and ruinous results.
A Florida Carpet-Bagger.
The Pensacola correspondent of the
Atlanta Herald gives the particulars of
an attempted embezzlement by Luther
Mennig, late Postm&sterj at Warrington,
who is now under arrest for the crime.
Since the sth of June Mennig has been
issuing money orders at the rate of about
SI,OOO per week, sometimes more, so
that within fifteen weeks his indebted
ness amounted to $20,000, relieved, how
ever, by a credit of $14,000, being his
accumulated deposits. The government
not liking the look of the continued de
ficit, sent an agent of the department to
Warrington, clothed with power to act.
The agent findiDg a deficit of near
$6,000, at once removed Postmaster Men
nig and installed someone else in his
place. Under the agent’s spur, Mennig
during the day managed to raise
about $2,500 of the amount short,
thus reducing it to something over
$3,000 yet due. Mennig has held the
position for several years, but is known
as a very dissipated man. His wife is a
negress, black as a scuttle full of coal,
by whom he has several children. She was
arrested as being concerned in the rob
bery, (for such it undoubtedly was—the
restored twenty-five hundred dollars hav
ing been found in small sums in all sorts
of out-of-the-way places, showing that
it had been hidden), but was released,
there not being sufficient evidence to
convict her. A pretty specimen, you
will observe, of the average Florida car.
pet-bagger — a very pretty specimen.
Colorphobia prevails in South Africa.
Several children born in Bt. Helana have
been expelled from a school in Natal on
account of color. Some are nearly white.
Affairs in Georgia.
It will be seen by our special telegrims
that we have not at all exaggerated tho pros
pects of the Thomasville Fair.
It is nothing unu-ual to see the passen
gers on an inward bound Atlanta train
buckling on their pistols just before they
arrive in that city.
Onr Fair correspondent alluded to Mr.
Dewberry’s premium oales of cotton, samples
of which were shown him by Colonel T. J.
Smith. The cotton in question was raised
by Mrs. Dewberry, and samples of it may be
seen in the Cotton Exchange in this city.
The Columbus Enquirer says: Duriug the
summer and later months the newspapers,
our own among the number, published the
longest drought seasons ever recorded.
The longest was one hundred and twenty
three days. Now Conductor John Colvin
has it upon the best authority that in the
section bordering Shorter’s Station, on the
Western Railroad of Alabama, from April
Ist until September 10th, of this year, not
sufficient rain fell to wet a linen coat. The
people must have parched up in that sec
tion. Oue hundred and fifty days of glaring
sunshine! One can imagine he can hear
the leaves crackling.
Sam Small, of the Atlanta Constitution,
was born in Knoxville, Tenn. This looks
bad.
One of the features of the Thomasville
Fair will be a dog fight. It isu’t too,late to
go down.
The Social Base Ball Club, of Quitman,
will play at the Thomasville Fair.
The acclimated Macon man eats four
pounds of dirt a day, in the shape of dust.
O herwise he would fall into a spell of sick
ness.
A rattlesnake with forty rattles was slain
in the wilds of Wilkinson county recently.
Rev. E. J. Coats has resigned the pastorate
of the Baptist Church at Irwinton.
Mr. Berckmaus, of Augusta, is what Bar
low would call “sanguine.” He says the
State Fair was in all respects a most suc
cessful one. „
The Macon Telegraph says that Mr. G. N.
Monroe, of Marion county, had specimens
of the St. Domingo yam potato on exhibi
tion at the Fair, which oviuced superior fe
cundity of production. The editor saw not
less than a peck of tho tubers adhering to a
single root. This potato has tho advantage
over all others of yielding fine ciops upon
ordinary soil, but keeps during tho winter
almost like ear corn. Mr. Monroe raised
750 bushels per acre and harvested 2,000
bnsbe s of this invaluable esculent, which is
destined to be a blessing to the country.
The Griffin Sunday Press gives tho parti
culars of a very atrocious murder recently
committed at Goggins’ Station, on the
Macon and \S estern Railroad. It seems
thatron Thursday last Mr. Frank Flynt, an
honest, and hard-working farmer of Monroe
county, carried a bale of cotton to Goggins.
While there a man by the name of J. J.
Butler, who, from what we can gather,
bears not the best reputation, thinking that
Mr. Flynt htd sold his cotton, made him
self very intimate with him aud invited him
to take a drink, and, it is thought, drugged
Mr. Flvnt’s glass. When the effects began
to tell on the gentleman, Butler, as a friend,
rilled Flynt’s poeketq and carrying four
dollars to some gentlemen, asked them to
bear witness that he had taken that aud no
more. They told him they had not seen him
take the money and could do no such
thing. Flynt soon missed his money
and came to Butler for it. He was
handed four dollars, but complained that
that was not all. Butler told him to get in
his wagon and he would go down to the
grocery and prove it. Both got in and while
on the way they got into a difficulty, when
both jumped from the wagon, and Butler
drawing a knife, stabbed Flynt in tho back,
aud as the latter stumbled Butler again
made a rake at him with the knife, severing
the jugular vein. Flynt died in a few min
utes. Butler is still at large, although he
has been seen since around the place. Mr.
Flynt leaves four children,U"'o grown and
two small. His brother, Capt. T. W. Flynt,
has brought his youngest son here to care
for him. The affair is a shocking one, and
much regretted by the entire community.
Dr. Joel Branham, State Librarian, has
resigned, and the Governor has appointed
in his stead Mr. James Banks—an appoint
ment that seems to give much satisfaction
where Mr. Banks is known.
Tho Augusta police think they have a cine
to the idcutu;, o: the parties who rex’
cently attempted to murder Mr. Jacob Levy,
of that city, several times. Au Augusta po
liceman with a clue must be a pestered man.
Two young girls fell into the Augusta
caual the other day, and narrowly escaped
drowning.
Toe gin house and screw of Mr. James 0.
Cook, of Muscogee county, together with
four bales of cotton, were burned by an in
cendiary recently.
A colored female doctor in Talbotton, ad
ministered a dose of herbs to a sick nigger
the other day, and cured him. That is to
say, instead of being diseased, he is de
ceased.
Captain M. J. Kenan, of Milledgeville,
died in Macon last week.
Mr. Wiley Phillips, of Columbus, who was
accidentally shot by his brother some time
ago, has since died.
They have some pretty cheeky thieves in
Columbus. They steal from poor widows
without compunction.
In Hinesville they put a man in the chain
gang for stealing chicken-pie. May it please
the Court, is this justice ? Is it law ?
A negro boy was accidentally shot the
other day by a companion, who was flirting
with a gun.
Liberty claims to be a fruit-growing
county.
The Atlanta Constitution learns that Gov
ernor Smith yesterday respited Brinkley,
condemned to be hanged on the 29th inst.,
for four weeks, being till November 26th.
This was done because the jury of inquest
into the sanity of the condemned had failed
to agree, and that all persons might be
heard in the matter. We understand that
Dr. Calhoun, of Newnan, and other physi
cians state that Brinkley is undoubtedly in
sane.
A Liberty county man has shown the
editor of the Gazelle some specimens of a
new and useful art cie manufactured from
common pine straw. It consisted of three
different grades—matting, suitable'for stuf
fing mat tresses, buggy cushions and tho like;
a softer and finer quality for bolsters, pil
lows, chair bottoms, etc., aDd a third
quality, which was a very good substitu e
for twine to tie up heavy parcels. All these
were made hom pine straw. Of his th re
can be no mistake, for we examin dit v ry
ciosely under the microscope, an the i
giual fibre of the straw s i,:ly
visible. The patentee, Ch les I ni
ton, Hoboken. New jersey. aims
that he has discovered a cheap ch oical
process by which the straw can be con
verted into this soft material, which c. nbe
rendered useful in a thousand ways. He
also claims for his invention that it can be
spun and woven into cloth, or made into pa
per for printing and writing purposes. Beds
made of this | e straw stuffing are recom
mended in point of health, especially for
persons afflicted with rheumatism or con
sumption, as it is well known that turpen
tine and rosin possess great medical prop
erties.
The Buena Vista Argus says that the citi
zens of the southern portion of Marion
county have for some time been watching the
mysterious movements of a white man who
was seen prowling about negro cabins be
fore sunrise and about dusk in the evening,
but seldom in broad open daylight. This
creature associates with the worst class of
negroes exclusively. White men could not
get near nor converse with him,he shunning
them as the wild deer shuns the hounds.
A few days ago the citizens of the county
living on the line of Webster, in which
neighborhood he was, made chase after
this wild thief, and arrested him on
suspicion. When caught he confessed
that he had associated with the worst class of
negroes and lived upon theft since he was
twelve years old. He has been sneaking
and stealing through several counties in the
State by several aliases. His real name is
Bill Taylor. The Sheriff of Webster countv
bad a warrant for his arrest, on the charge
of burglary in the night time, having broken
into a house in that county. It is rumored
that Randolph county has offered fiftv dol
lars reward for his arrest on a like offence
committed in that county.
Columbus Enquirer, indignantly: Is it
not m actual shame in an agricultural coun
try like ours, when cabbage is brought from
the North and West and sells for forty and
fifty cents ner head, while the same people
are buying Southern cotton at about what it
costs to raise it ? It is a mortifying fact to
acknowledge. Then, too, the South works
twelve months in the year to keep the grass
out of her fields, and then buys hay
from the North and West, and transports
it_ hundreds of miles at costly rates.
When will our people iearn * to be
anything but slaves to others? If sweet
potatoes did not grow almost spontane
ously, we believe our planters would buy
them elsewhere, as they now do Irish pota
toes. It certainly looks as if our country
wiil never be cultivated with any prudence
and discretion. Because corn won't grow
on a rock, planters send West for corn,
when land here that will produce grain in
abundance, with a little manure, is lying ail
around them. No land is ever too poor for
cotton, or. if it is, the owner will break
himself procuring commercial manures to
make it rich enough ; and yet cotton brings
him deeper in debt ever; year.
The Buena Vista Argus prints, editorially,
the following impromptu liues : “ Since its
absorj ;iim of tho Adcertuer, the Savannah
Morning News is undoubtedly the best
daily newspaper iu Georgia. It is a model
journal, aud we are truly proud of it. It has
no superior in the South.’!
Irwinton Southerner : Several weeks since
a number of law-abiding, orderly aud well
behaved colored men published in this pa
per a card, denouncing in pretty strong
terms the late conspiracy, and advising the
colored men to refrain in the future from
such mad and devilish attempts, and pledg
ing themselves, if future emergencies
should require it, to stand with the whites
in the preservation of law aud order. We
learn that ereat indignation has been ex
pressed agaiust the signers of this card by
several evil disposed negroes and one
of the signers has had his fears
sufficiently aroused as to causa
him to call upon his white friends for advice
aud protection, and has been furnished with
arms, and promised other protection in
cise lie is attacked. We take this oppor
tunity to inform these turbulent negroes
that the signers of that card said nothing
to which exceptions conkl be taken by any
one, and so far from arraying themselves
against their race, as has been charged
against them, they simply gave their colored
friends good advice, which, if wisely follow
ed, will cause many a negro to live to the end
of a natural life, who will otherwise die a vic
tim to outraged law, aud we want it
distinctly and plainly understood that any
violence or threats against these colored
men will be viewed by the law-abiding peo
ple as evidences of the existence still of au
insurrectionary spirit., which will be lawfully
prosecuted to a rigid punishment. The
judicial clemency exercised in favor of these
conspirators, we fear, is having rather au op
posite effect from what was mtended, aud
has emboldened rather than restrained some
of them in their lawless course. Our ad
vice to them is to beware.
It is no unusual occurrence to meet a Ma
con man with a ball of thread and a set of
knitting needles on his person. Wbat is
the use of talking about reconciliation .in
the face of this ?
They make nothing of killing a cata
mount m the jungles of Jackson county.
Here’s anothor. All affectionate colored
mother in Macon wont out and left her
infant offspring playing in the auhe*.
When she came back tho child was pretty
nearly ashes itself.
The death of Mr. Jonathan Gladden, an
old citizen of Washington county, is an
nounced.
The giu-house of Mr. D. P. Montgomery,
of McDuffie county, was burned by an in
cendiary on Wednesday night.
The sheep in Jackson county nightly fall
victims to the wonderful sagacity of the
average cur.
One more. A little negro girl was burned
to death in Sandersville the other day.
The dwelling-house of Mr. Charles Lowe,
in Warren county, was burned last Wednes
day night.
Major Harris Brantley, one of the first
citizens of Washington county, died last
Monday.
The barn of Mr. David Lowe, nf Warren,
county, together with its rutin contents,
was burned by an incendiary last Wednes
day night.
Mrs. Sarah Wimberly, of Stewart county,
is dead.
A white man robbed a negro of a horse in
Stewart county the other day. When au
Anglo-Saxon is mean, bo is mean for fiity
or sixty yards all round him.
Mr. John Harris, of Washington county,
is dead.
Colored cotton-stealers sometimes get ar
rested in Stewart county.
The gin-house of Mrs. Katie Rooks was
accidentally burned in Stewart county the
other day.
The gin-house of Messrs. Huckeba &
Haines, near Columbus, was destroyed by
lire the other day.
A Stewart county cow has to support twin
calves.
The gin-house of Mr. Taler, of Harris
county, was destroyed by an incendiary on
Friday of last week. The flames commu
nicated to the outbuildings and they were
also burned.
Mr. Solomon Bray, of Columbus, dropped
d> the other day.
uriffin Doy& d*ittli ico-wator, &at pea-nuts
and behave badly in church.
Fort Valley is to have a concert shortly.
Columbus Enquirer : A correspondent
from Dellwood, Florida, propounds this co
nundrum to us, and wo give it to our read
ers as food for reflection. Tanneries flour
ished before and duriug the war. Why not
now? But to our correspondent: “Why
will we pay two dollars per pair for bropan
shoes, whon hides can be bought at one
half that sum ? We have beautiful oaks,
never failing springs, saw mills to cut lum
ber, but tho vim and gumption that makes
men do their own work, whore are they ?
Is there not a living—money—in tanning and
turning into shoes the numerous hides in
the country? No, the city attractions
eclipse all the strong and do-my-own-work
occupations.”
The same paper says that the people of Wa
verly Hall, in Harris county, were very much
excited last week over a report that a young
lady in that neighborhood had been out
raged. It was soon discovered that the foul
crime had found a victim in the person of
a young lady scarcely seventeen years of
age. The unfortunate subject of the vile
creature’s lust proved to be Miss Boswell.
She resides with her brother on his planta
tion. It is said her mind has been im
paired, and that the scoundrel took ad
vantage of that fact, and committed the
heinous crime while she was out walking
in her brother’s fields. No sooner had the
crime been committed, than the unfortu
nate young lady told her wrongs, and point
ed out as the man a negro who had boon
living on the place, named Eugene Howard.
Hot pursuit was made, but up to the latest
accounts no oluo was obtained of his where
abouts. He is supposed to Lave gone in tho
direction of Columbus, but of course this
fact is not known. Such crimes are unfre
quent in this country, beoause tho punish
ment is very speedy, and very certain. Wo
are never in favor of the people taking the law
in their own hands, for when everybody ap
peals to the law for redress, then it will
surely come, but notwithstanding all of this
we would not insure his life, if he is cap
tured, while the neighborhood are in fever
heat. A description of the negro may lead
to his detection, and we would like to gee
our police distinguish themselves by his
capture. He is described as a square built
negro man, about twenty-four yoars old,
weighing about one hundred and thirty
E ounds, about five feet ten inches high, and
aving a few scattering whiskers. Tho
crim j occurred Thursday about noon.
Florida Affairs.
Bananas are alive in Palatka, and oranges
are beginning to ripen. So Pratt says.
A steam yacht will arrive at Palatka next
month, and the Palatkians aro much excited
thereat.
The gin house of Mr. J. R. Redding, of
Madison county, was struck by lightning
the other day and burned.
Mr. James L. Mauldin, of Madison county,
was killed at the store of Judge Fiilman, the
other day, by Joseph Fiilman, a nephew of
the Judge. The coroner’s jury brought in
a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Manatee is a cattle-producing county.
Monticello is to have a sugar mill.
On account of malarial diseases, the fall
term of the Circuit Court will not be held in
Santa Rosa county.
Marianna has a band of Thespians. Also,
a debating club.
They have colored tournaments in Jack
son county.
Uncle Tad is defending McMurray. Good
for Uncle Tad.
The Sentinel bss begun. One of its cor
respondents, writing trom Liver Oak, gives
the details of an alleged cold-blooded mur
der in Suwanee county : “On the night of
the 18 li inst. one Charles Leak, white, went
to the house of a colored man named Wilks
Thomas, in this county, called him up out
of bed, and told him to come and help him
to drive some cattle out ol his field. He said
that he bad run his horse down trying to
got them out, and did not succeed. Thomas
said, ‘Wait until I put on my clothes, and I
will go and help you.’ When he had dressed
himself, and was opening the door to come
out. Leak shot him in the bowels, eleven
buckshot taking effect. He fell backwards,
and Leak discharged the second barrel into
the house. Thomas Uved about three hours,
and Leak made his escape.”
Jacksonville Press: The steamer Lizzie
Baker, on her trip this week, brought her
usual complement of passengers. Among
these were several families destined for
permanent settlement on the upper St.
John’s, who report that more are to follow
soon. The tide of immigration has set
Floridaward in such a steady volume that it
almost seems as if it would be necessary to
keep these lines stereotyped for publication
in each issue for the next six months to
come. We. are, however, never tired of
chronicling these fresh arri -als that tend so
materially to increase 'our wealth and swell
our population, and regard them as cheering
indications of future prosperity aud great
ness. There is no danger of an overcrowded
commonwealth, for our resources are bound
lees.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Jacksonville Union: At a county fair held
in New York State, last month, a'plant was
exhibited by Mr. J. M. Race which attracted
universal attention from its very noveltv.
The seed of the plant had been brought bv
a lady from Florida in May, and sowed in
very rich soil. At the time of its exhibition
it had already attained a growth of seven
feet and a half in height. It is supposed
to be the celebrated castor oil plant of our
own State, aud the correspondent from
whom we get the above intelligence sugges
tively inquires, “Can Florida beat that?”
We pause for a reply.
South Ilorida Journal : Tho vanilla bean
is the most commercially valuable product
of this splendid valley, and brings a great
deal of money into the country. The ac
count of the method of growing this preci
ous article is too long for reproduction
here, but we shall be pleased to furnish a
summary of it to any one desirous of infor
mation in the matter. Four .hundred dollars
a year is the average yield per aore from
vanilla, and one planting suffices for years.
There are many other things grown at Tux
pan that cau be most profitably grown in
South Florida, aud we propose to attempt,
through the Consul at Tampico and the De
partment of Agriculture at Washington, to
obtain some seeds of these plants.
Palatka Herald : Much is said about tho
frost lino in this section of Florida, hence
many suppose that a settlement iu the
neighborhood of Lake Munroe or Mollon
villo secures them against the possibility of
being injured by the cold, llut this is not
the fact. To go beyond the frost line would
carry you far down on the Peninsula, as
far perhaps as the Miama, a region with
but few inhabitants. The largest number
of orange groves you will find in tho lati
tude of 28 or thereabouts. We have frost,
more or less, in all the country extending
to Lake Washington, the head waters of
the St. John’s river, and sometimes ice.
Frost does not injure the orange troo nor
its fruit; to the contrary, a certain degree
of cold renders a delicious flavor to the
fruit and makes it more hardy aud less lia
ble to decompose while transported to
Northern markets.
South Carolina Affairs.
Mr. Eugene Cramer, the scenic artist of
the Opera House iu Columbia, has made a
coutraet, to paint the arms of the Stato on
the cap of a pillar in Independence Hall,
Philadelphia. South Carolina will thus take
her place again as one of the original thir
teen. Mr. Cramer is well known iu Sa
vannah.
Mr. Henry de Berry, an old and respected
citizen of Jeffrey's creek, Marion county,
died last week.
Mr. Henry Bobertsou, a son of Rev. Toli
ver Robertson, and a native of Laurens, re
turned a few days since, after au absence of
twenty-seven years, having removed from
that county to Georgia iu IS4B, thence to
Texas, in which State he has lived twenty
five years.
Captain Joel W. Anders in, of Laurens,
died uoar Greonville on tlie 21th inst., and
bo was carried to Laurens and into rred
He was one of the best citizens of Laurens
and a gallant soldier of tho Confederate
army.
Pinckney, a son of Sheriff Bri'.y, of Ma
rioD, had one ol his hands seriously injured
on Tuesday by being caught in liie hand
wheel of the gin.
The llev. A. R. Kennedy, the very accept
able and devoted pastor of the Presbyterian
Church, at ludiantown, has received and ac
cepted a call from Arkansas.
Two genuine tramps, named J. Pearson
and W. H. Pearson, passed through Colum
bia last Monday on their way to Florida,
having walked every step of tho way from
Worth county, West Virginia. They started
about the last of August, and say they have
had fine, dry weather nearly every day
since.
The Marion Merchant and Farmer says :
“A young man from Charleston, who pushes
his business with onorgy and pluck, niado
twenty-five dollars in our town Monday,
cleaning and remodeling old liats and
clothes.”
A white man unknown, but supposed to
be named Wilton, was found dead and
horribly mangled on the track of the South
Carolina Railroad, near Jameson’s, on Tues
day morning.
Tho marriage of H. N. Obear, Esq., a tal
ented young lawyer of Winnsboro, to Miss
Eunice Harris, daughter of J. L. Harris,
Esq., of Cliustor, tooji place on ,Wedimsday
last in Chester at the Presbyterian Church,
Rev. A. Dickson, pastor of tho church,
officiating.
The good people of Marion have been ex
cited over the appearance among them of
one Rev. A. M. Esperiden, a self-styled
priest of tho Greek Church. Ho claims to
have been enslaved by the Turks and ran
somed by the Greek Church for a fabulous
amount of money, and now in the employ
ment of the church at a salary of ten dollars
a day. He is expected to visit Charleston.
Mr. J. A. Baker’s new cotton gin iu Marion
was damaged to tho extent of $50,00(1 last
week by fire.
York Joe, a colored man living on the
Mount Zion estate place of Capt. George W.
Cooper, in Sumter, was shot a few nights
since through a crack in his house, tho ball
grazing hia leg.
While tho times are undoubtedly hard
and money in many instances difficult to
get, the merchant and farmer takes a very
hopeful view of trade prospects in Marion.
Collections have generally been good, and
more cotton has been shipped an 1 pur
chased from that depot during this season
than for several years past. Tne price paid
has averaged at least half a cent higher
than could have been realized in Wilming
ton or Charleston.
On last Saturday night tho blacksmith
shop of Mr. A. L. Hinshaw, in Marion, was
broken into and a number of hides stolen,
which he had hung in the shop to dry.
“Macy,” writing to the Greenville News,
recounts the great success attendant on the
late Pair, and suggests that the name of the
society uuler whose auspices it is annually
given be changed to tho Gieat North Amer
ican Agricultural and Mechanical Associa
tion, or tho Piedmont Agricultural Associa
tion of Groenville, S. C. The same coi re
spondent is of tho opinion that the State
Fair should be changed to Greenville ; if
not, it will go down.
The Cape Fear Baptist Association, which
convened at Hear Swamp last Thurs lay and
closed on Sunday evening, was veiy largely
attended.
EX-CONFEDERATES.
Olllcial Report of the Proceeding* of the
Survivors’ Association of Confederate
Soldiers for the State of Georgia.
The association met pursuant to ad
journment, on Wednesday, October 20,
in Harmonic Hall, in the city of Macon,
General John B. Gordon, Vice President,
presiding.
Upon motion, the books of the asso
ciation were opened for receiving new
names, under the provisions of the con
stitution, and the meeting adjourned to
7£ p. m., to hear the address of General
Gordon as by resolution adopted at the
January meeting.
T. L. Massenbubg,
Acting Secretary.
7 j o’clock p. in.—The association was
called to order by General Phil Cook,
who introduced Rev. Arminus Wright,
who opened the exercises with prayer.
General Cook then introduced General
Gordon as the orator of the occasion, in
a few well-timed and appropriate re
marks.
At the conclusion of General Gordon's
address, upon motion, the thanks of the
association were tendered to him for the
able and efficient manner in which he had
discharged his duty.
The association then adjourned to.
meet at the Central City Park at t o’clock
p. m., on Thursday, 21st instant.
T. L. Massenbubg,
Acting Secretary.
Cknteal City Pabk, )
Macon, October 21,1875. j
The Survivors’ Association met pursu
ant to adjournment. General Phil Cook
stated that General A. R. Lawton, the
senior Vice-President, had arrived, and
resigned the chair to him.
* General Lawton, in a few earnest re
marks stated the object of the meeting,
which was for the transaction of such
business as looked to the perpetuation of
the historical facts of the late war, and
to provide the means for erecting a sol
diers’ home in Georgia.
General Lawton stated that Captain
Massenburg was absent by reason of ill
health, and requested Colonel Capers to
act as Secretary.
General Gordon moved that a commit
tee of five be appointed to solicit sub
scriptions of five hundred dollars each,
to be paid by the subscribers in stum of
one hundred dollars annually, or quar
terly payments of twenty-five dollars
each, for the purpose of establishing a
home for the care of disabled Confederate
soldiers, and for tho eduoa„on and oare
of the children of their fallen and desti
tute comrades; and also that a commit
tee of three be appointed in each Con
gressional district in furtherance of the
same, and to obtain subscriptions in
smaller 6ums.
The motion was adopted amid accla
mations and applause.
General Phil Cook moved the commit
tee of five be authorized to apply to the
Legislature for a suitable charter for this
home, and for a donation from the State
in aid of this cause, and in a few remarks
stated that the State had established
several asylums for other praiseworthy
purposes, but none more worthy than
those that the association had in view.
General Gordon sustained the motion
in a short speech, explaining that the
home meant a shelter for every disabled
soldier and destitute child of the fallen
braves; that there was no man, woman or
child that would not fail to contribute
their mite, even if it was but five cents,
upward to more, according to their ability.
At the court house the evening previ
ous, he asked the opinion of the audience,
and every man voted to give a contribu
tion, and to-day a number of gentlemen
had offered to subscribe five hundred
dollars. The people for whose care the
home was intended were made crippled
and destitute by the call of the State for
State service, and it was the duty of the
State to aid them in their destitute con
dition. The motion was unanimously
carried, with applause aijd cheers.
The chair announced that the associa
tion would be pleased to hear any other
speaker. Calls were made for Hon.
Thomas Hardeman, who thanked the
audience, and said he approved all that
had passed, but had no time to speak, as
the great object now was laudable busi
ness. As it was necessary that an elec
tion of officers for the ensuing year should
take place, Captain A. O. Bacon moved
that General Gordon be elected President
for the ensuing year. General Gordon
attempted several times to decline in fa
vor of his predecessor, but was actually
cheered into silence, and could not be
heard, until he was unanimously voted
the future President.
In acknowledgment of the compliment
Gen. Gordon briefly and in substance
said: His comrades had done him great
injustice in elevating him to a position
over the most distinguished soldier in the
South, and whose heart was as warm in
this cause as ever beat with patriotic
emotion; but that he would have that
great captain’s energies and devotion in
the cause. Your cheers thrill me with
recollections of scenes I will not refer
to now. If you, though in some in
stances in poverty, will but give us that
energy that you so gloriously displayed
in action at the call of your State, our
efforts will be rewarded with victory and ‘
not defeat, as then, and the cheeks of
Georgians will not be made to blush that
they have no home, and made no effort
for the cause of those disabled in her ser
vice. You must insist that your mem
bers of the Legislature shall sustain our
cause, aud moreover, that every aspirant
to the Legislature hereafter shall pledge
himself to work for this object.
Upon motion of Colonel Capers, Capt.
John Millodge, of Atlanta, was ro-elected
secretary, aud Gaptaiu T. L. Massenburg,
of Macon, re-elected treasurer.
Upon the motion of Colonel Charles O.
Kibboe, all the old officers not already
elected, except at the request of General
Lawton, General Phil Cook was elected
first Vice-President instead of himself;
General Lawton remaining chairman of
tho Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee is oomposed
of the following members of the associa
tion: Gen. A. R. Lawton, Chairman;
001. Thomas Hardeman, Jr., Col. C. C.
Kibbee, Lieut. Col. H. D. Capers, Col.
L. J. Glenn, Col. J. D. Waddel.
On motion of Col. Hardeman, tho
meeting adjourned, to meet at Atlanta
during next State Fair —the day to bo
appointed by the chairman.
On motion the papers of the State were
requested to publish those proceedings.
A. It. Lawton,
Senior Vice President, presiding.
H. 1). Capers, acting Secretary.
WONDERFUL DEXTERITY.
The Itoomeriuig anil Its Mysterious Pecu
liarities.
[From the Chicago Tribune.]
A traveler tells us something of the
singular weapon used by the Datives of
Australia, , the boomerang. Ho saw them
used by thfe natives. They ranged from
two feat-to thirty-eight inches in length,
and were of various shapes, all carved a
little, andlooking, as he describes them,
like a wooden new moon. They were
made of a dark, heavy wood, and weighed
from one to three pounds. In thickness
they vary from half an inch, and taper to
a point at each end.
One of the natives picked up the piece
of wood, and poising it an instant,
threw it, giving it a rotary motion. For
the first one hundred feet or more it
went straight ahead. Then it tacked to
the left ana rose slightly, still rotating
rapidly. It kept this latter course for a
hundred feet more, perhaps, but soon
veered to the left again, describing a 1
broader curve, and a moment later fell to
the earth six or eight feet in front of tho
thrower, having described nearly a circle
in the air.
Another native then took the same
boomerang and cast it, holding it with
the same grip. It took the same course,
but made broader curves, and as it came
round the black caught it handsomely in
his right hand.
Another native next threw it, and
lodged it on the ground about twenty feet
behind him, after it had described a cir
cle of two hundred yards or upward.
After him they all tried it, and but one
of them failed to bring the weapon back
to the spot where they stood.
Carnboo, a native, then selected from
the heap of boomerangs another one,
and cast it with a sort of jerk. It flew
very quickly for forty or fifty yards,
whirling like a top. Then it darted into
the air, mounting fully one hundred feet,
and came over our heads, where it seemed
to hang stationary for a moment, then
settle slowly, still whirling, till he caught
it. Two others of the blacks then did
the same thing.
Meanwhile I had with my knife shaved
a little of the wood from the convex side
of one of the boomerangs. This is now
offered to one of them to throw. He
took it without noticing what I had done,
poised it, but stopped short, and with a
contemptuous glance at my improvement
threw it down and exclaimed :
“Bale budgeryV” (no good).
The others then looked at it cautiously,
but it was a bale budgery also to them.
No one could be induced to throw it.
Myers asked them why they did not
use it, but they could not give 9 definite 1
answer. It was plain that they did not
like the way it poised, when held in the
hand, yet I could not distinguish any dif
ference whatever between this and tho
other weapon.
Burleigh then walked to a distance o
two hundred feet or more from the blacks
and bid Caraboo throw to him. The
native looked at him a moment rather*
curiously, then,'comprehending what wag,
wanted, he selected one of the heaviest!
of tho missiles, and, turning half round|.
threw it with great force in a
almost opposite from that where (Burleigh!
stood
The weapon sped smartly for sixty orl
seventy feet, then tacked in an instant 1
and flew directly at Burleigh, and, had!
he not most expeditiously ducked, ho
would have received a hard thump, if
nothing worse. It struck the ground
twenty or thirty paces beyond. This
feat brought out a broad grin and sonjp
thing like a chuckle from the whole of
them. Carnboo even intimated that he
would like to try another cast, but Bur
leigh expressed himself fully satisfied.
Mr. Smith, however, offered to “take
a shot,” but not at too short a range. We ,
were standing in front of one of the
storehouses. Carnboo placed Smith in .
front of the door and stood with his back/
to him, with Smith’s hand on his
shoulder.
None of us knew what sort of a
manoeuvre he had in mind, not even
Myers. Standing in his position, the
black threw the boomerang straight
ahead. Immediately it curved in the
air. Then it disappeared around the
corner of the building, and, before he
had time to guess what was meant, it
came round the other end (having passed
completely around the storehouse) and
gave him a sounding slap on the back,
which made his eyes snap.
George D. Prentice’s poems, compiled
and edited by Mr. John J. Piatt, are soon
to be published. The volume will con
tain a sketch of Prentice’s life.
Germany, with a population of forty
two million, last year graduated six hun
dred and sixty physicians, rejecting one
hundred and eight applicants.