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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.