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The Elections. ih result of the elections which took place in eleven States on Tuesday last— except in the States known to be largely Republican- has demonstrated the effect which the financial question is having throughout the North, in the breaking U P of old party lines, and the power which the money monopolists are exerting on the masses. The suc cess of the Radicals in Massachusetts is, under the circumstances, no surprise. 1 he result in Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota New Jersey and Wisconsin might have been confidently foretold. The issue in the great States of New York and Penn sylvania was regarded with more inter est nnl uncertainty. Maryland, too, owing to the defection of leading • Democrats and the introduction of local issues, was doubtful. Virginia was regarded as safe for the Conserva tives, and strong hopes were entertained for the emancipation of Mississippi from carpet-bag and negro misrule. ThiH hope has been realized, and another Southern State resumes her place among the redeemed commonwealths of the South. Our dispatches published this morning leave the result still in doubt in New and to some extent undecided in Maryland. In Pennsylvania the Itadi cals have elected their Governor by a small majority. In this State there was not a fair issue between tne parties on the financial question, there being very little if any real difference between the platforms, both declaring against contraction, and in favor of “free hanking and a safe and uniform eurroncy adjust ed to the growing business inter- Ota of the country.” Hut while there was really no difference between the parties on the currency question, the potent influence of the national bunks was ex erted on the side of the Itadicals as being the party of the bondholders. In New York tho issue between the monoy power and the people wus more fairly made, and the rosult, as far as known, is little calcu lated to inspire the confidence of the bondholders or reward tho devotion of their Democratic allies. If the defection of the World and the Tildonites lias de feated the Democracy, it has also blasted their political prospects. If the State of New YorJ* is lost to tho Democracy, it is lost to Tiiden too. Arc There Lands In Southern Geor gia Tor Sale ? A few days ago wo called attention to the fuct that it would be well for those persons in Southern Georgia and Florida who have lands for sale to register the same at the ollieos of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, giving the number of acres, the location and other facts that might be of interest to immigrants from the North and Northwest who have expressed a desire to settle amongst us. We recur to tho subject again, not alone because it is of suoh vital import ance to this section, but because tho numerous lotters of inquiry which have been received at tho office of the Moun xno News, and which wo aro still receiv ing, as well as those that are daily pouring into the office of Superin tendent Haines, forces the matter upon our attention. It is impossi ble to induce a valuable class of immigrants to settle in any section unless they previously come into possession of some sort of definite information in rela tion to tho people aud tho country. In formation of this character, so far as re lates to Georgia aud Florida, can easily be supplied by journals like the Morn ing News aud “Evans’s Guide to Florida;” but in addition to this, tho cautious im migrant will desire to know something of tho uatnro and capabilities of ilie soil upon which ho proposes to settle as well as its topographical features. This informa tion can only bo given by the owners of the laud, and wo once more urge upon their attention tho necessity of giving the necessary information to the officers of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, in order that Superintendent Haines may issue an enlarged and revised edition of his land pamphlet, for the purpose of distribution in the North and North west. Nearly all the letters received have one refrain —“Please give us reliable information in respect to buying and selling land along the line of the railroad. ’’ As wo said in a previous arli le, we trust the newspapers in Southern Georgia and Florida will press this im portant matter upon the attention of 1 their readers. A PiJOTOobaphic Victory. —The Brook lyn photoX ra ph r who sued for the value of seventeen e*ti**<, purporting to represent one a‘ od th ' 9 Bame Bittor ’ and all rejected by the laller as boin 8 uusat isfaetory, has won L’* 9 case. Judgment in his favor was prouov ,noed ou *** turda y last. Henceforth becomes a safe and sure business. element of uncertainty has been elimi.from •the business, and the photogi "‘‘pher is now oheered by the certainty ti.’ at his patrons have the discernment to rec" 0 ? nize their own likenesses when reflected by the camera, they must at least pay him for the time and materials he has used in the endeavor to get a good nega tive of a negative face. A preparation of cork known as cuir liege is attracting considerable attention in Paris. The cork is cut in fine sheets ■or strips, and covered on each side with a B kiu of India rubber. It thus loses its •fragibility and keeps all its advantages. It is perfectly water-tight, is heat proof, and as light as a feather, while its strength is such that a strip of it an inch and a half wide has been holding up a 1,000- pound weight for six weeks. Boots, buokets, portmanteaus, hats, knapsacks, ambulance tents, awnings, and many other articles, are made of it, and it is proposed to veneer thicker sheets of it with fancy woods and make carriages of them. _ Mr. J. Edgar Thomson, late President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who died in May, 1874, left a portion of his estate, valued at over one imilion dol lars, for the eckication and maintenance orphans of railroad employees wve killed while in the Ik of their duties- There are HLhiu the estate which, if al n prevent the carrying luto Blesire of tin testator. J. 11. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR, The Southern Pacific Railroad—Tom Scott’s Misnomer. On our fourth page we publish the eifeu lar issued by the Memphis committee calling a convention of delegates from Southern cities and Boards of Commerce to assemble in Memphis on the 39th inst. to consider the location and adopt meas ures for the construction of the so-called Southern Pacific Railroad, in aid of which the United States Government is to be asked for large subsidy in the shape of endorsement of the company’s bonds. It will be remembered that during the last session of Congress, when Colonel Tom Scott's lobby were pressing this subsidy scheme in that body, and when an effort was making in our State Legislature to have our Senators and members of Congress instructed to vote for the Scott bill, we expressed our dis approval of the proposed action, not only on general principles of opposition to government subsidies to works of internal improvement, but for the reason that the road was a private speculation, in which tho South, It whose behalf the govern ment aid was asked, had really no inter est. We have seen no reason since to change the views then entertained in reference to an enterprize ostensibly for the development of the com merce of our section, but really for the promotion of private in terests and incidentally detrimental to Southern commerce. We give the cir cular of the Memphis committee for the information of our public, who are now asked to send delegates. The following editorial from the New York Bulletin is so opposite, and so fully expresses our own opinions, that we adopt and endorse it in lieu of a repetition of what we have before written on the subject: “ We learn, through a United States Senator from a Southern State, that the Southern Legislatures have, in every in stance, instructed their Senators to vote at the next session of Congress in favor of government aid to a Southern Pacific Railroad. Whether these instructions have been given in each instance in fa vor of Col. Scott’s scheme we are not in formed. No means have been spared to influence opinion at the South in favor of that route. Gen. Beauregard has been retained in that special interest, and it is to be presumed that his efforts have not been entirely in vain. It is, how ever, a matter of the first consequence to the South that it should know just what is to be asked in their behalf. Col. Scott’s scheme is in no sense a Southern road. It gives the South the go-by, making a western and southwestern circuit of the Southern States, really calcu lated to draw trade from that section, rather than to develop it. It is a total misnomer to call it a Southern Pacific road; but mere names are sometimes po tent ; and this Scott pseudonym is calcu lated to lead the South into clamoring for the very thing it does not want. We can easily understand how some of the border cities of the Southwest which Mr. Scott’s road proposes to touch should Bh earnest in the advocacy of that project; and for this reason we are not surprised at the strictures of the Louisville Courier- Journal upon our recent remarks on this question; but the South will not be long in discovering that a road which touches its territory only at its most northern boundary caa be of no advantage to the ten cotton States it passes at such a dis tance. “Our Louisville contemporary inti mates that we are indifferent about whether the South has a Pacific Road or not, because we have expressed an opin ion against the government aiding any such enterprise. W e are opposed to the government lending its credit to any more railroad enterprises. First, because tho government has no business to bol ster up schemes which cannot command confidence on their own merits ; next, because government aid begets political and corporate corruption ; next, because it fosters vicious speculation ; and, next, because, if donations of do main and endorsements of bonds are to be renewed after the signal break-down of railroad speculation in 1873, we show ourselves incapable of profiting by the severest lessons of expe rience. But while thus generally op posed to more government aid, we are especially so against a scheme that de mands the xegium donum under false pretenses. It is argued that to make the government sponsor of Col. Scott’s road would be an act of political wisdom, inas much as it would show a spirit of gener osity towards the South that would tend to the healing of rancorous memories. What an admirable specimen of sugar coating. But how much healing would such an act effect when the South dis covered, as it ultimately would, that this generosity was not intended for it, did it no goodj prevented the possible building of some other road that might be of great service to it, and that the real object was to render available a few hundred miles of railroad in the wilderness, foolishly built in the times of railway mania and which must become a total loss to its speculative constructors unless the government can be made re sponsible for it ? We are inclined to think the South would, in the long run, conclude it had been shrewdly practised upon by Northern speculators, and that, under the pretense of political generosity, it had been made a party to anew national burthen, to its special injury. To all intents and pur poses, this is a scheme to benefit North ern speculators; aud we cannot imagine how the South can be hoodwinked into si''PP° 8 * n 8 has any other concern with it u'mn to pay its share of the addi tional taxai i° n that must be saddled upon the country t o pay the expense of main taining it These pretenses are too hol low to stand the scrutiny to which they will be subjected. If there be really good reasons why the South should have a railroad running through its heart and connecting with the Pacific coast, it is only necessary for good, practical railroad men of resource aud character to place the question before the public purely on its merits, and with due guarantees that it will be constructed with honesty and economy, and there will be no lack of the means to build it There must, sooner or later, be a central Southern road of this kind. If Col. Scott succeeds in committing the government to this border route, the realization of the route that must benefit the South must be indefinitely deferred. If the South demurs to waiting until it can have a road to suit its wants, constructed upon proper conditions, it certainly cannot afford to accept the alternative of back ing Mr. Scott's proposals.’’ It will be seen, by the report of the gmjMfc ittefeljj Sous, proceedings of Council last night, that the subject was considered by that body, and that it was resolved to send dele gates to represent Savannah in a conven tion to be held in St. Louis on the 23d instant. This action on the part of Council is eminently proper. It is of the utmost importance that the State of Georgia and her chief seaport should be represented perhaps in both the pro posed conventions, and that our people should have a voice in a matter which is to compromise or greatly promote the commercial interests of our section. In these conventions the project of a South “ern Pacific road will be fully discussed, and the route definitely determined. If, as is alleged by the Bulletin , the object of the projectors of the road is to “com mit the government to a border route,” thus “indefinitely deferring” the con struction of a central Southern road, the scheme should be resolutely opposed by our people. If, on the contrary, the proposition is to build a great central Southern Pacific trunk road upon a line constituting it in reality a Southern route between the South Atlantic and Gulf States and the Pacific Ocean, then it will be for our people and their Representatives in Congress to consider whether the benefits to accrue from the speedy consummation of such an enter prise are such as to justify a depar ture from principle for its attainment through the aid of government subsidy. By just such schemes as Col. Tom Scott’s Pacific Railroad the United States Government has in years past been plundered of millions upon mil lions of dollars. It may not be in the power of the Representatives of Georgia to prevent a repetition of this species of government robbery, by which corrupt Northern corporations have been enriched, and the burthens of the people enormously increased; but there is no reason why they should give their aid and indorsement to a ruinous policy in which their constit uency, while they would have to bear their full share of the taxation, would not have even the poor excuse of being sharers in the plunder. An Impending Revulsion. The contrast between the condition of the South and the North is, says the New Orleans Times, attracting the marked at tention of thinking men. Scores of in telligent gentlemen, who have recently returned, appear for the first time to fully realize the extent of our vast resources, and particularly the improved condition of those in the humbler walks of life. While the poor continue in the majority, their status is the true criterion of prosperity. Already have capitalists begun to scrutinize the crowds of unemployed operatives who throng Northern streets. Many of them are still in their shirt sleeves, and without the means to procure winter clothing. It is feared the soup houses will, during the severe weather, be attended by hundreds who never Before sought such assistance. The rigid economy of the Southern peo ple is beginning to produce a marked effect. Luxuries of all kinds have been almost wholly eschewed, and what were heretofore considered necessities, are selected of the cheapest and most durable fabrics. Our demand for dry goods par ticularly has been restricted to staple articles, and in consequence the dividends of Northern mill owners are materially reduced. What has benefited this section of the country impoverished the North. While the climate may be more oppres sive in summer it is far more genial in winter. We have the full use of our land twelve months in the year, while snow and ice restrict the farmer of the North to seven. Improved machinery and great enterprise has effectad much ; so far as human ingenuity can, they have overcome the obstructions of nature, but man is not omnipotent, and there is a point where human effort must cease. The cotton mills of New England might be stowed with millions of yards of fab rics, but while the consumer is unable to purchase, or forced by his necessities to do without, they are .simply dead capital. To the operative they are even worse, representing, as they do, so many hours of labor, which must be exhausted before the opportunity for employment is afforded. The winter season there pos sesses positive characteristics, while here they are negative. Fire and heavy rai ment there are absolute necessities upon which life depends; here their absence may be attended by discomfort, but no greater sacrifice. The instinct of America is progression, and it will surprise many if the experience of the approaching winter does not revolutionize the traffic of the entire country. Of the whole land, the South to-day presents the most profitable field for investment. Grant’s Last Move on the Third Term Checker-Board. Alluding to Grant’s latest third term ruse, which was so mysteriously an nounced through the Washington Asso ciated Press dispatches of Monday last — so manifestly an attempt to make a war with Spain a means of securing a renomi nation—the Cincinnati Enquirer says: “The endeavor is illy concealed and ill timed. When nearly two years ago the brutal Spaniard captured a vessel bearing the flag of the United States, butchered scores of men claiming to be citizens of this country, and for the hour certainly entitled to its protection, when the flag of the nation was assaulted. Grant was insensible to the •’Uional honor, forget ful of the 'ms of bleeding Cuba, unmindful °Jhe material inter ests of the Uniti States that were crip pled by the protracted war upon the beautiful isle of the sea. The war in Cuba has been in progress more than seven years. Grant has looked calmly on this wholesale slaughter upon that island since October, 1868. He has seen the sugar and tobacco of that gem of islands fall before the destructive hand of the insurgent, and has witnessed the conse quent loss to the people of this country with a tearless eye for nearly one hundred months. Only on the eve of a Presidential election is he moved to sympathy for the Cuban Republic or for the honor or the interests of the United States. The peo ple of this country are a humane people. They have looked with sadness upon the blood that has moistened and the torch that has blackened the sentry of the great Gulf. They sympathize with peo ple everywhere struggling for liberty. But they will not be seduced into a war whose only purpose is to promote for a third time the Presidential chances of a man the thought of whom as an occu pant of the White House makes the whole head sick and the whole hear faint.” SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1875. Indictment of Harney Richard. It will be seen by our special dispatch from Jacksonville, Florida, that a true bill has at length been obtained against Mr. Harney Richard, charged with the murder of the late State Senator Johnson of that State. It is not too much to say that the his tory of this case, thus far, furnishes the most flagrant example of unpro voked partizan malignity and the shameless prostitution of the ju dicial office and forms of law to the basest partizan purposes, that ever dis graced the annals of even Radical usur pation and misrule in our down trodden sister State. We have carefully read the reports of the testimony and judicial proceedings in the preliminary examina tion, when no effort was spared on the part of the prosecution and the presiding J udge to make out a oase of reasonable suspicion against the accused, and when it is notorious that all the testimony that could possibly be elic ited, was adduced; and we know that we e*P*frwi.he opinion of every fair-minded, unprejudiced man who heard or has read the evidence, when we say that not only was there an entire absence of credible testimony connecting Mr. Riehard in the remotest degree with the crime charged against him, but that an alibi was established in his favor by the concurrent testimony of several witnesses of unimpeachable character. That, under these circumstances, the accused should have been sent before the grand jury was a most flagrant wrong, but that he should, after the bill of in dictment had been ignored by that jury, be dragged before a second grand jury, packed and drilled to indict upon trump ed-up and perjured testimony of ignorant and prejudiced negroes, was an outrage upon decency, justice and law, which calls for the most unqualified public con demnation. It is time for the law-abiding citizens of Florida to become alarmed for their personal security when their courts of justice are converted into partizan cau cuses for purposes of intimidation and persecution of political opponents, and when the Judge on the bench, pandering to the mercenary greed and vindictive hate of an ignorant rabble, becomes the prosecutor, and leads the hungry pack in their relentless pursuit of an innocent victim. Where Shall the Next National Dem ocratic Convention he Held 1 The Cincinnati Enquirer says the next great contest which will come between the people and the money power will be at the place where the next National Democratic Convention will be held, which will nominate candidates for Presi dent and Vice President of the United States. It will be determined by the National Democratic Convention, a body which is composed of one delegate from each State. There are now, since the admission of Colorado, thirty-eight fcßatoo. Jt will twenty tn make a choice. It is a body that does not represent population or Democratic votes. In it a small minority may prevail over the wishes of the vast majority. The six New England States have only the population, and bare ly two-thirds of the Democratic vote of Pennsylvania, and yet they will have in the matter of fixing the place of the con vention six votes to Pennsylvania’s one in the oligarchical body appointed for its decision. The money power will endeavor to drag the national Democracy within the shadows of Wall street, and load them down with the fragrant reminiscences of Tammany Hall, in which building it would put the Convention, just as it didin 1868. The people of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys prefer going to Cincinnati, St. Louis or Chicago. Every Democratic National Convention has been held east of the Alleghanies with the exception of two—Cincinnati in 1856, and Chicago in 1864. We think with the Enquirer that it is time that there was a change in ibis programme. There is a majority of the people living west of the chain of moun tains to which we have referred. The East has had nine Conventions to the West's two. Have they any right to ask the tenth? In 1867 there was but a single vote’s difference between St. Louis and New York, and that vote was given by one or two members who rep resented States near St. Louis, who were influenced up by the national bank and bondholding gentlemen. Let the people of the West and South begin early to look to and consider what will be the action of their national committeemen in fixing the site of the next Democratic National Convention. Southern Scalawags and the Next President. —A Washington dispatch says the Southern Republicans who arrive in that city seem to be more interested in the question of the next Presidency than in any intermediate matter. Some of them are talking very favorably of Gov. Hayes, of Ohio, as a candidate, while it is eertain that there is a movement on foot in behalf of Chief Justice Waite. The Southerners say that the candidate must be a .Western man, and that he must be a man against whom there are no ani mosities within the party. Prominent among those engaged in this movement are Judge Settle, of North Carolina, and Judge Hugh L. Bond, of Baltimore, who have recently made a Western trip in the interest of Mr. Waite. It is claimed, says the dispatch, that this movement is not unfavorably regarded at the White House. The French Claret Crop. —The latest reports from the Medoc (France) region regarding the vintage, are very encour aging. The grape crop is said to be the largest ever produced, and the quality such as to produce a very fine wine. The weather has been propitious for manufacture, and indeed everything ap pears to be favorable to the industry. The production in the different sections, it is estimated, will average from 15 to 35 per cent, greater than last year. The only drawback apprehended by producers under the circumstances, is an over sup ply mid decline in prices. The New Policy Against the Mob mons. —President Grant has ordered the removal of the Postmaster at Ogden, Utah, who is a Mormon, but not a polyga mist. This, says a Washington dispatch, is the first step towards the removal of all Mormons holding Federal offices in Utah. The movement was opposed by Senator Sargent, of California, on the ground that the incumbent had a right to his religious belief so long as he did not practice polygamy and thereby break the tews of his country. Affairs in Georgia. The only way the Griffin boys can have fun is to carry their terriers to church. There is something morbid in scones such’ as these. ; Col. Jones, of the Macon Telegraph , is in fatuated on the subject of beggar lice for age. and yet we doubt if he has lost a meal on that account. Where, in the name of all that is unconsti tutional, was the Count Johannes B'Gor manne during the recent fairs? We know there was a screw loose somewhere. During the recent State Fair, a Savannah visitor discovered a Macon man about ten o’clock at night walking home on his all fours. “My friend,” said the humane visitor, “you’ll never get home that way. Allow me to assist you.’’ To which the Macon man indignantly responded : “Whonell’s drunk ? I’m sober’s plank fence. I was seeiu fi couldu’t make’s good a bear’s Benner’s.” The Savannah ian sat down in the sand and shed scalding tears. Some villain shot and wounded a valuab'e mule belonging to Mr, J. H. Toler, of Wil kinson county, the other night. The physician of Mr. Stephens has strong hopes that the old man eloquent will be able to take his seat in Congress at its next ses sion. Eugene Atkinson, of Morgan county, has gathered two five hundred pound baies of cotton from two acres, and expects to get another bale from the same piften. Wilkinson county hunters nightly pursue the savage opossum. Mr. James McAllum, a highly respected citizen of Twiggs county, is dead. Rev. S. P. Callaway, of West Point, has been called to the pastorate of the Baptist Church at Greenville, The Americus Republican suggests that there is too much shooting in the streets of that city at night. Two negro children were burned to death in Meriwether county in one day recently. Up to the 29th of October, Americus had received 8,890 bales of cotton, 1,514 less than during the same period last season. Mr. Robert H. Sut’aerlin, of Meriwether county, complains that, while he has an abundance of provisions, he hasn’t made cotton enough to do him. Sutherlin will keep on fooling around in this exasperating mauner until someone will bounce him out and run him for Governor. Mr. John W. Turner, formerly of this city, will shortly take charge of the tele graph office at Americus. J. W. is a light ning operator. Well, well—change is marked on every thing. Eatonton is to havo a town hall, aud Frank Leverett is going to run it. Up to last Saturday. Eatonton had receiv ed, according to the Messenger , three thous and aud eighty-eight bales of cotton. In Monroe county recently, Mr. Ike W. Thomas was married to Miss Dollie Gibson. We raised these children, and if there is a more promising young man than the groom, or a more accomplished and charming young lady than the fair bride, we have never heard of them. The Hebrews of Macon have organized a society called Cbewra Biker Cholim and Kadisha. The objects of the society are charitable. Augusta had a small slice of the earth quake which is reported by telegraph. The editors of tho newspapers came very near saying their prayers. The proprietors of the Eatonton Messen ger desire to purchase a hand-press—size 28x40. They will either pay cash or ex change a smaller one. John Duncan, colored, slew one of his own race in Sumter county recently. It was all about a crop “ divvy.” The Sunday Press, of Griffin, has been consolidated with the Star and Cultivator. Thus it is we loso a good paper and get a better one. Mr. Robert L. Bates, of Macon, is dead. Fifty acres of land in Monroe county, which’had been in cultivation tor fifty years, were made to yield one thousand bushels of corn the past season. A negro attempted to rape a little white girl in Early county last wesrk. Tho wretch escaped. A little negro boy was burned to death near Forsyth recently. The editor of the Forsyth Advertiser is endeavoring to digest Early Rose potatoes of the second planting. Here is something suggestive from.the Appeal: “About twelve months since a farmer living near Cuthbert was taken with the Western fever, and sold his plantation for less than $2 50 per acre, in order to make the change. The purchasers this year gathered over three hundred bushels of corn from less than fifteen acres of this ground. One of the owners of this place showed us the other day an ear of corn grown by them which measured eleven inches in circumfer ence and was over nine inches in length. Still, some of our farmers will continue to buy corn the year through, and are always talking about the glorious West.” Columbus Enquirer : The present term of the Supreme Court has made a decision, out of which will necessarily grow a great deal of litigation and comparison. The case went up from Griffin. It is too long to publish it in full. The decision declares unconstitutional the eleventh section of the homestead law. That section allowed par ties who had taken the homestead to sell it, provided the wife and husband both sign the deed, and the Ordinary of the county approved it. TLo decision declares that * such a provision in the homestead iaw is unconstitutional, and that they cannot sell except as provided in the constitution. The consti tution only provides four circumstances un der which the homestead can be sold : Ist, for taxes; 2d, for improvements made on the homestead; 3d, for labor porformed on the homestead; and 4th, for mortgages, etc., in the shape of incumbrances lifted from the homestead. Outside of these, the law now declares a sale of the homestead null and void. It almost repeals the elev enth section of the act, and places a homestead almost without tho pow er to even sell. We apprehend, how ever, that a sale of the homestead might be made, through a bill in equity, for some good reasons. As the decision now stands a number of people in our knowledge have bought property of this nature, and the title to it is not worth the paper it is written on. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good This wind will probably revive "the sinking ship, labelled “law busi ness.” We are not sufficiently posted as yet to fathom the justice of the decision, or to foretell the practical workings of the law, but if we understand the decision aright, we know it will be the production of consid erable harm to those that have bought homesteads, and may recuperate the pock ets of some that have sola. The Columbus Enquirer does not regard the last State Fair as a success. Referring to the published statement of- the receipts and expenditures, it says: Bat the reader will notice that the former was very small, (much less than formerly), and the latter did not exceed them merely because they were cut down to a figure smaller than that of some county Fairs. Less than five thou sand dollars in premiums wese distributed, while at the Fair of laßt year the pre miums for county exhibitions alone amounted to two thousand dollars, and the premiums to military companies to about nine hundred. The total receipts for tickets of admission at the Fair of last week are put down at $8,500, while ’the receipts fox only one day at the State Fair of last year were estimated to be fully equal to that. The total receipts from all sources at the late ffacon Fair are stated at $16,000, and if our memory serves us, the total receipts of the State Fair of last year W9re nearly twice at large. So it would appear that the succiss of the late Macon Fair consists in a cautious and pru dent limitation of its expenses (premiums, etc.,) to its receipts. This is not our idea of the success of such an exhibition. Any lit tle local fair may succeed in he same way, when neither its receipts ntr its expenses exceed one thousand dollars. But such an exhibition would fall far siort of what a Georgia State Fair ought to be. Colonel H. H. Jones, observing bales of beggar lice hay at the Thomaiville Fair, thus wntes : “The history and value of this for age crop deserves more than a passing notice. About ten years since it was intro duced into this region fron Florida, and soon, borne by the winds ard birds, began to spread in all directions, uitil now it nas covered the entire surface of the county. So tender and juicy is the plant, and sweet and delicate to the taste, that horses and cattle will abandon pea fielis, if any is to be found in the vicinity, and prefer it to every other description of forage. The seed, which resembles millet, though nearly black, comes up like crowfoot grass in the fields, after the cultivation of the growing crop is over. The growth is very rapid, and it soon shades the ground completely, thus protecting it from the ra> s of the sun, And is also exceedingly useful as a fertilizer. It is only recently that the farmers have become aware of the inestimable valae of thia gift of a bountiful Providence, and if properly utilized it can be made to drive out all the Northern and Western hay, which is each a grievous tax to our people. Indeed, why should a dollar be expended for forage while Indian corn can be sown for stock, and crab grass, millet, oat and this new food plant can be raised and saved with so little outlay and in such abundance? The “beggar lice” should be sown just before the last ploughing of corn, ana afterward will take care of itself. It is easily cured, sod groweluxoriaotly on alnoet any soil* Mrs. J. W. Rankin, of Macon, died sud denly in Atlanta the other day. The dwelling-house on the plantation of Judge E. Dumas, of Forsyth, was burned last Tuesday. Will Dr. Janes please keep the tally-sheet ? Here is the eighteenth since the Ist of Sep tember: The gin-house of Mr. A. M. Wright, of Newton county, together with the gin, press, engine, and eleven bales of cotton, was burned last week. There is one Macon man who hasn’t got over the Fair yet. He was bruised by a prize mule. We were in hopes that Colonel Whidby would lead the Okefenokee expedition. He wouldn’t need any folding boats or patent mosquito nets. He could simply roll up bis pantaloons and penetrate right to the foun dation of Billy’s Island. How about the Atlanta Custom House ? The Geneva Lamp, which came to us yes terday enlarged and improved, seems to have a morbid suspicion that our notice of its initial’ number was not altogether ami able. This suspicion, however, is wide of the mark. We were a li'tle hypercritical, perhaps—nothing more. The troth is the Lamp can afford to be criticized. Its origi nal matter is conceived and written in a spirit and style very rare in country week lies—a spirit'and style to wh.ch even some of the city editors might aspire—and we might say much more in this direction without ex aggerating. As to our doubt of the author ship of the salutatory, we think our young friend might well take it as a compliment. The American Grocer , of New York, a publication that should be in the hands of every Southern merchant, takes occasion to remark as follows : “We have received a very neat little book prepared by Mr. B. H. Richardson, the able city editor of the Sa vannah Morning News, describing the principal attractions of the Forest City, its suburban resorts and points of local inter est. Savannah may fairly compete with St. Augnstine as an agreeable watering place for Northern tourists and invalids, and we would strongly recommend it to those con templating a journey South. Avery fair dea of its many attractions may be derived from a perusal of Mr. Richardson’s little pamphlet, which is written in a pleasant, lively style.” Negroes have been serving on juries in Bibb county since 1869. The Hiuesville Gazette enthusiastically re marks that “Southern Georgia is the best country in the worid, anyhow.” Rev. W. C. Wilkes, formerly President of Monroe Female College, will take charge of the Gainesville College. He is a ripe scholar and a wise disciplinarian. We hope the Commissioner of Agriculture has his pencil ready. Here is the nine teenth since tho Ist of September: The gin-house of Judge F. C. Furman, of Bald win county, was accidentally burno I on Fri day last, together with about seven bales of cotton. The twentieth is the mill and gin of Mrs. Robinson, near Covington, which, together with six bales of cotton and a forty-saw gin, were burned last week. The steamer Clyde is up the Altamaha river waiting for a heavy dew to fall. The river is very low. Milledgeville had a piece of the earthquake the other day. The Hiuesville Gazette says that the acre age of oats in that section will be larger than ever before. Reports of this character are calculated to offset, in a measure, the election news. Coving tou has received more than three thousand bales of cotton this season. A party of men in Habersham county went to the house of a revenue iuformer the other day, and bounced him aud his around in quite a lively style. Mr. C. C. Mitchell, of Milledgeville, is dead. Judge Lochrane has been doing a rushing law business lately. Rev. J. C. Branch, pastor of St. Paul Church in Columbus, has been appointed to take charge of the church at Santa Rosa, California. Mr. D. D. Johnson, general agent of the Georgia Home Insurance Company, of Co lumbus, was found dead in his bed in Perry on the Ist inst. The Atlanta Constitution doesn’t take the responsibility of its cotton man’s articles this season. This is well. Mr. Wm. Copeland, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Henry county, is dead. Confidence meu are worrying the mer chants of Griffin. The Griffin Banking Company was taken* in by one of them for two hundred dollars. Messrs. J. D. Alexander and Eugene P. Speer have become editors and proprietors of the Griffin News, Judge Pitt Brown re tiring. They are both good newspaper men, full of energy and enterprise, and withal as genial as the day is long. The Athens Watchman says that Mr. Mal com, near Mars Hill, assisted by his son 13 years old, made this year upwards of 300 bushels of wheat, a large quantity of oats, abundance of corn and meat to do his family. Besides this, he has made on 12 acres of ground ten baies of cotton, aver aging 500 pounds each. The whole crop is worth upwards of $1,500. Mr. Malcom be lieves in the good old doctrine, that land must be fed if it remains productive—hence, he saves all the fertilizers he can—returning to the land all the straw, chaff, cotton seed aud other refuse. He also “plows deep while sluggards sleep.” Griffin came very near having a miscege nation sensation the other day. A white girl wanted to marry a negro so bad that she swore she was a negro also. The cotton crop of Northeast Georgia will be larger this season than ever. Dr. Yancey, of Covington, tried to butt a gate-post down the other night. He didn’t succeed. Covington Star: Mr. F. P. Reynolds has made this year, with three plows,*27 bales of cotton, nearly 400 bushels of corn, and 160 bushels of wheat, besides a large crop of peas. He made 150 bushels of peas from one bushel pilanted. Mr. Reynolds is one of the most energetic and industrious young farmers in onr county, and his example is worthy of emulation. If any one has beat him we would like to hear of it, for ten thousand such farmers in this section would make it truly the garden spot -of the “Em pire State.” Macon Telegraph: Some mischievous or disaffected person or persons have been busy for several days past in sowing broad cast over the State reports to the prejudice of the commercial standing of a large num ber of our most prominent merchants, nor have at least two of our banking institutions escaped animadversion. Yesterday the writer made it his special business to call upon these gentlemen and ascertain by direct question ing and investigation, the true condition of affairs. Nearly all of their number were seen, and we can safely assert that, save in two instances, the above rumors are without the slightest foundation, and simply lies manufactured out of whole cloth. And even in the case of the exceptions referred to, there has been no failure or closing of doors, the extensions asked for having been granted, and the parties still actively en gaged in business, and resolved by diligence and personal sacrifices to make good their obligations. This statement is made by authority, and can be relied upon abso lutely. In Ellijay they feed cows with whole cab bages. The earthquake took in Sandersville in its route, and those who felt the shock are per fectly happy. Col. D. E. Butler made one of his old fashioned speeches at the Sandersville Fair As usual, he talked right out in meeting. Several persons have been arrested for stealing cotton from the Eagle and Phoenix Mills, of Columbus. Another. A little negro child was burned to death in Washington county last week. Between thd colored children and the gin houses, we are having some right serious conflagrations. Another nigger ball in Columbus was wound up by a cutting scrape. We shall begin to believe after a while that little pleasantries of this kind are not confined to religious assemblies. The Columbus Enquirer claims credit for its article on through cotton. Some people are so forward. After awhile DeVotie will claim the cotton. Montezuma came near having a destruc tive fire the other day. Mr. Thomas Brown, of Macon county, caught an alligator six feet long in a gill net the other day, Mr. P. G. Hyatt, of Gilmer county, was set upon and robbed while on his way home from Rome a few nights ago. Mr. C, A. Nutting has resigned the Presi dency of the City Bank of Macon, and Mr. John J. Gresham has been elected to fill the vacancy. The resignation of Mr. Nutting was accepted by the Board of Directors with considerable reluctance. We regret to learn that Mr. Joseph Clisby, editor of the Macon Telegraph, was thrown from his carriage the other day, and some what injured. The injury, however, was not at all serious. Mr. H. C. Stevenson, business manager of the Augusta Constitutionalist, who has been extremely ill for several days, is convales cent. The Griffin, Monticello and Madison Rail road, or what there is cl it, was sold to Judge Lochrane the other day for five j thousand dollars. Mi*B Floretta Mason, daughter of Mr. Timothy Mason, of Pulaski county, a charm ing young lady about fifteen years of age, was thrown from a horse on Tuesday, aud instantly killed. The colored people are getting mightv sensitive lately. One of them fell down and remained insensible for a considerable period, in Fort Valley the other day, simply because another moke smote him behind the ear with a brick. It was not always thus. Ward, one of the song and dance men of Duprez & Benedict’s Minstrels, was arrested in Atlanta and fined ten dollars for saying to a friend, “Good-bye, God bless you!” An efficient policeman standing near thought it was profanity, and so it was— in Atlanta. The Montezuma Weekly has plunged boldly and successfully into the second year of its existence. Here’s luck to you, young man. We find the following obituary iu the Milledgeville Spirti of the South : “Mr. I. P. Baxter, a butcher of this place, slaughtered a cow on last Friday, and in her stomach found nearly a pouud of ten-penny and horse-shoe nails, au escutcheon from a stock lock, a small piece of an iron hoop, a five cent nickie piece, a watch key, aud a kev check marked W. A. Carey, Crawfords ville, Georgia. It is very evident from the above that the cow eat ’ Mr. Carey at some period of which we have no knowledge. It will doubtless be a matter of melancholy gratification to bis friends to learn of his whereabouts. His disappearance, doubt less, up to this time has remained a mystery to his friends.” On the night of the earthquake the best ’possum dogs iu Baldwin county couldn’t be induced to pursue their accustomed prey. The Americus Republican says that the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Church convenes iu Griffin on the 2d of De cember next. The South Georgia Confer ence convenes in Americußon the 15tli of December. Bishop Doggett will preside at this Conference. The earthquake played a slight—very slight—engagement in Griffin. Father Stephen A. Batty, a native born Georgian, is in Americas for the purpose of purchasing a house of worship for the Catholics of that place. Don’t come tooling around us with any more of your curiosities. Here is one that we don’t care to see beat. The Butler Her ald is informed by Mr. W. W. Foy, who lives on Mr. A. M. Walker’s place, near Car sonville, that he has a collard head which is four feet and a half in diameter, and in the middle of that collard head one of his hens has built a nest and has laid in it six or eight times. Mr. Foy and Mr. Walker have both seen this and assert it to be a positive fact. The Americus Republican says that Aleck Crawford, colored, in the employ ot Mr. Jesse Aycock, of Sumter county, a<tempted to take the life of his employer a few days ago. While conversing with Mr. A. on business, the negro became offended at some remark made by that gentleman, and taking up an axe lying near by made an as sault on him. In warding off the blows Mr. A. was struck on the left arm, which was broken about three inches below the elbow. A warrant was issued, tho negro arrested and taken beforo Judge Williams, who sent him to jail to await trial before tho next term of the Superior Court. Mr. Thomas Joiner, of Taylor county, has four hundred bushels of home-made corn for sale. Wo learn from the Thomasville Enterprise that Captain F. W. Hopkins, machinist in the machine shops of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, Savannah,exhibited a case of tools, ratchet drill, surface gage, square and ma chinist hammers of his own make, at the late Fair, which would do credit to “Wm. Brice”or anyother millionaire manufacturer. This young gentleman possesses talents that would have graced wliat are called the “professions,” but ho sensibly and nobly de clined to join the mighty throng of half idlo non-producers, and chose to be of intrinsic worth to his fellow men. Here is ono from the Fort Valley Mirror: “General Longstreet is going to koep tavern in Georgia. Glad ho has got inn to busi ness.” The Griffin News says the farmers in that section aro discharging their obligations to the merchants with commendable prompt ness. It is no harm,we presume, to put in the fol lowing little piece of gossip about two per sons with whom some of our readers are slightly acquainted. It is Irom the Tbom asville Erderprise: “Col. Thompson, of the Savannah News, was the most popular indi vidual from abroad who attended onr Fair. He was in request everywhere, and on all occasions., Everybody had business with him, and when Mr. J. H. Estill arrived everybody wanted to see him. So much for the popularity of the News in this sec tion.” The Americus Republican learns from re liable authority that a white man by the name of John Clark, formerly a resident of that county, shot and killed a negro, Joe Richardson, in Lee county on Monday last. It seems that the negro wont to the resi dence of Clark aDd called him out for the purpose of raising a difficulty. In tho dis pute that took place between them the ne gro callod Clark a d—d liar, when tho latter shot him, the wound proving fatal. Augusta Chronicle: Last Monday night, about ten o’clock, as a well-known citizen ot Augusta was riding along the Columbia road, near Bedford, a bright light suddenly illuminated the roadway in front of him for a few moments. The moon was not shining at the time and almost complete darkness prevailed immediately before the light ap peared. The gentleman at first thought that someone had struck a match and lighted a torch, but could see no one in the vicinity. On reaching his destination be was told that the house had been shaken by an earthquake, and at once concluded that the light he had noticed was an electrical phenomenon connected with the shock. Early the same evening a very large and brilliant meteor passed over the plantation from north to south. Its nucleus was as large as a bushel basket, and it left a long, shining path behind it. The electrical light was also seen in Greene and Lincoln coun ties. Irwinton Southerner: Mr. O. G. McCoy, of Jeffersonville, is seventy-three years of age, and lately performed a feat which would have severely tested the endurance of a young man. On Saturday, the 16th day of October, he labored as a carpenter on the storehouse of Mr. R. J. Smith, at Cool Springs, which was burned that night, and after finishing his day’s work rode home, a distance oi fifteen miles. On ar riving at home he found that the corpse of a little great-grand-child had arrived to bo interred in the cemetery at Jeffersonville. It was necessary that a messenger be dis patched to a daughter, who resides twenty five miles from Jeffersonville. He unhesi tatingly mounted his horse and went to the place and back to Jeffersonville, a distanco of fifty miles, and reached the latter place before day Sunday morning, having worked ten hours at a laborious occupation and rode sixty-five miles, performing the whole in a little less than twenty-four hours—and strange to say, although seventy-three years of age, he did not complain of any ex traordinary fatigue, and has since pursued his ordinary occupation. The horse he rode was twenty years of age. Augusta Chronicle: Yesterday afternoon at half-past three o’clock an interesting op eration was performed in the amphitheatre at the Medical College, before the clas*, by the Professor of Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy. An enormous fibro cellular tu mor, twenty-five inches in length, twenty eight inches in circumference around the largest part, and weighing eighteen pounds, was taken from a negro man named John Thomas, aged thirty-five years. Thomas was born in Beaufo’rt, S. C., but since the war he has lived in Burke county, Georgia. He has carried the tumor from birth, but up to last June its circumference was small. It has always been the same length, however. Last June it com menced to grow and rapidly attained its present proportions. Attached to the left breast, it hung down below the knee and had to be carried in a bag. The burden became intolerable and the negro deter mined to have it taken off. He was brought to the city and put in charge of the profes sors of the Medical College. The patient was placed on the table, and put under the influence of ether. The scalpel was not used, but the operation was performed with the ecraseur. The patient appeared to suf fer considerably at first, but after getting thoroughly under the influence of ether seemed to experience no pain. The tumor was excavated in a few minutes. The pa tient was all right after the operation, and was evidently delighted to be rid of his un pleasant companion. His body is literally covered with small tumors from the size of a shot to that of a pigeon egg. His photo graph was taken before the operation was performed. Atlanta Herald : Another one of those sad and fatal accidents, the like of which we are almost daily called upon to chronicle, oc curred about 9 o’clock yesterday morning, at the Atlanta Paper Hills, situated about five miles from the city, and the property of Col. James Ormond. The name of the un fortunate man was William White, and had been employed about the mills for six or seven years. His apartments were on the upper floor, where he was engaged in finish ing ofl papier. A few days ago the superin tendent employed anew hand to work on the lower, or ground floor, and among his other duties was that of sharpening the knives with which the rags are cut. White went below yesterday to show the man how the ESTABLISHED 1850. operation was performed, and taking an old piece of bagging improvised an apron by ty ing it around bis body, and another string around his lower hmba to prevent the waste from the grinding stone from soiling his clothing. The shaft which turns the stone lies very near the ground, and revolves with much force and great rapidity. After hold ing the knife to the stone a 'minute, White stepped over the shaft, and stood astride of it. The bagging apron became connected with the revolving shaft and whirling and throwing him to the ground and winding him around tightly. He was so securely lashed to the shaft that his head struck the ground with such forco as to kill him in stantly, literally crushing almost the entire skull into a shapeless mass. Before the ma chinery could be stopped he had made a number of revolutions, and his head and body had scooped out a large portion of the solid earth in passing between it and the shaft. Augusta Chronicle: Last Monday night Mr. S. W. Howland, the Superintendent of the Grauiteviile Factory, left his office in the factory building at the usual hour, eight o’clock, and followed a path which it was well known he always moved aloug at night, towards his residence across tho street. As he was thus walking quietly, without any app’ eheusion of danger, he was firea upon by an assassin hid behind a tree. Mr. How land, who was struck in the head and shoulder by several number three shot, fell, and the would-be murderer, supposing that he had accomplished his work—that the victim was dead—tied. A citizen of Grauiteviile, who heard the shot and ran immediately to the spot, found Mr. Howland leaning against a tree, bleeding profusely. He assisted him to his resi dence, and a physician was sent for, bv whom the wounds wore dressed. The in juries, while not of a dangerous nature, were very painful. Mr. Howland will be confined for several days. Mr. Hickman, the Fresident of the Graniteville Manu facturing Company, was naturally deeply indignant when ho heard of the outrage. He has offered a reward of five hundred dollars for the approhensiou of the assassin. The latter may depend upon receiving a full measure of punishment when he is caught. Mr. Howlaud is a very worthy gentle man, much liked by the operatives in the factory, all of whom sympathize with him ami are indiguant at tho out rage. Since writing the above wo learn that Mr. Howland’s life was only saved by an ac cident. Tho assassin had placed himself behind a tree near Henderson’s store, in front of which Howland would have to pass, aud where the full blaze of light would be thrown upon him. If the shot had been fired when Mr. Howland was in front of the store it would probably have proved falal. But just before Mr. Howlaud reached the spot a clerk went to the window of the store to put up the shutters aud the assassin was afraid to fire, knowing that he would be seen by the clsrk when ho moved off alter the deed was committed. He therefore had to wait until Howland reached tho bridge across the canal, thirty paces off. Florida Affairs. Dr. J. Hume Simons, of St. Augustine, doesn’t seem to admire the manner in which the newspapers have handled Archibald. This is to bo regretted for several reasons. They are having oyster roasts iu St. Au gustine. Marion county has a population of 11,000, including a good newspaper. A Marion county orange, not fully ripe, weighs a pound and a quarter. Anew locomotive will bo placed on the St. John’s Bailway on the first of January. A cuttle-fish was captured in St. Augus tine the other day. Archibald and his Radical cabal liavo at last coerced the grand jury of Nassau county into finding an indictment against Harney Richard for the murder of Johnson. Jackson county has tlio journeyman thief of the State—a negro who stole his own shirt. He is in jail. A Mellonville negro beat his wife the other day. Whereupon her friends came near making marmalade of him. The quarrel between Harris, of the Ocala Banner , and Perry, of the Cedar,Key Journal, is gradually toning down. Key West flourishes under a Cuban Mayor. John R. Scott is going around bossing colored camp-meetings. Tampa can get a telegraph line for twolve hundred dollars, and she is feeling in her pockots to see what she thinks about it. It is estimated that on Friday and Saturday of last week, the merchants of Lake City purchased, from tho small farmers in that section fully seventy five thousand pounds of cotton in seed, of the Sea Island variety. The gay gambolierhath put in an appear ance in Jacksonville. Ho precedes his gudg eons, however, only by a few days. Alluding to the fact that the authorities of Tallahassee are warning off all suspicious characters, the Union expresses a well grounded fear that if this rule is rigidly enforced the Legislature will have to con vene out of town. Isaac Newton, of Mellonville, journalist, etc., indignantly denies that his name is Isaac Walton, and threatens to prove that he has a character if the mistake is per sisted in. Jacksonville will shortly have an oraugo marmalade foundry in operation. It will be under the management of Thos. Ritchie & Cos. The Jacksonville Press is informed by a gentl man who has just returned from a tour among the orange groves of the upper St. John’s that he saw an orange tree in the grove of Mrs. Stephens, at Welaka, that yielded her an income of ninety dollars last season, the fruit being sold at a wharf within a half mile of her residence. Mrs. Stephens’s grove contains about a dozen trees of nearly the same productiveness as the one men tioned. Suppose that these twelve trees are put at an average of one-third of the above figure, this little property will show an in come of one dollar a day—enough, with economy, to purchase all the supplies not raised by a small family living in the coun try. Truly this is the country for the poor man as well as the rich. The Press thus speaks out: "The Radical pet of the Governor and other carpet-bag gers, LeCain, who is plastered all over with indictments found by the grand jury of Marion county for the various offenses of forgery, embezzlement and other grades of crime, has been released, as is stated, by the Sheriff of Marion county, for the pur pose of aiding and assisting in the organiza tion of the Radical party. It is also be lieved that the rascal knows too much of the former workings of that party to stand the test of a judicial inquiry, and that for prudential reasons his escape has been connived at. Be this as it may, we hope and believe that the action of the Sheriff and others con cerned, will be thoroughly ventilated by the Legislature at their meeting in January, and that the guilty aiders and abettors will be brought to summary account for their heinous misdeeds. If these infamous and unparalleled evasions of justice are to be allowed, we shall not be a bit surprised, as we stated in our last issue, to see the peni tentiary convicts marched from Ch.attah.oo chee next year to vote for the Radical candi dates. The present carpet-bag ring will not hesitate to use means as desperate as illegal to sustain their waning fortunes. According to the Ocala Banner, itself rather a tender-footed official paper, the whole dark transaction recks with infamy and savors of the vilest turpitude. What can bo the material of a party reduced to the necessity of using such men and such means to promote their villainous purposes V Is it not time for all men who have a spark of honor or honesty, either to ignore such leaders, or abandon such an organization ? The time has come for all those who yet believe in the ascen dancy of virtue, and the suppression of vice, to unite in one strong, unanimous, deter mined effort to overthrow our common ene mies, and to re-establish the era of sound laws and good government.” Pensacola Gazette : Oar readers remem ber that the ship “Wester;/ Empire” was caught in the great storm three days after clearing from Pensacola, was dismasted, water-logged aDd abandoned about one hundred and fifty miles from here, and that seven of her crew were drowned in endeav oring to land on the Florida coast, near Apalachicola. The abandoned ship has been found, after making a voyage of more than five hundred miles without a hand at her helm. Caught in the reflux current, which must have set out southwest from the Bight of Florida after the storm which drove a surcharge of water up into the angle formed by the peninsular coast line, the masterless ship drifted within the influence of the Gulf stream, was swept through the StraitH of Florida and on to ward the Atlantic, until she was discovered thirty miles north of Jupiter Inlet, swinging to an anchor. When we reported the dis aster it was Btated that in order to enable the hoisting out of the boats both anchors were let go to act as a drag to bring the ship’s head to the wind. The length of chain allowed was thirty-five fathoms. Thus the ship has piloted herself remarkably well in navigating round tne dangerous coast of Florida, with its keys and reefs, in never less than two hundred and ten feet of water, until her anchor finally reached bottom and brought her to in one of the most frequent ed of ocean pathways. But for her anchors swinging overboard the ship would proba bly have gone on with the stream to the coasts of Europe. The Union baa been shown by Mr. Miles Prioe three sprigs from the same tree. One supports a roll grown orange, another is covered with blossoms, and the third has a small orange about the size of a marble upon it. This is certainly a freak of vegeta ble natnre. The Montioello Constitution gives em phatic notice thus early that Jefferson coun ty will have a fair in 187 G. And we predict it will be a grand success. In Monticeilo the negro women dress themselves in men’s apparel and go round serenading aud stealing—stealing and giv ing odor. Monticeilo has a debating society. The Lake City Reporter says that bunches of the banana (and elegant specimens of this luscious fruit they are) are shipped from Lake City to Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North and South Carolina by every night’s train. Columbia county has this season raised some of the largest and finest flavored bunches of the banana we over saw exhibited anywhere. Monticeilo is bragging on tomatoes in November. The Lake City Reporter, among the best of our Florida exchanges, comes to us this week greatly enlarged and improved. Speaking of the Thomasville Fair, Col. Jones, of the Macon Telegraph, says of the furniture display of Mr. L. J. Brush, of Ellaville: This is au honor to Florida. Mr. Brush has a bedstead made of a great variety of native woods, a single post being composed of nino species, all fitted to gether with exquisite skill. We here practically demonstrate that we need not go beyond our own doors in quest of the handsomest materials for every description of cabinet work. Some of the woods used were oak, red cedar, sweet gum, poplar, ash, waluut, pride of India, persimmon, dogwood, cypress, rod bay, etc. Several of these are susceptible of the highest polish. It may not be uninteresting also to learn that the prices of Mr. Brush’s native furniture are far lower than for the same articles when purchased from abroad. Thus tho Floridian: The Sentinel says : “Au energetic Northern man succeeded last winter in getting up a Board of Trade.” That is so; but does that paper remember how that “energetic Northern man (Jndge liippey) was denounced in its columns as the vilest of men? Does the Sentinel not know that Mr. Millor went to Minnesota as the agent of tho Board of Trade and has just returned with one hundred and eighty-one immigrants ? If so, why does it denounce the Board of Trade as having “subsided like tho froth of champagne ?” Did any one connected with the Sentinel ever belong to the Board of Trade? Has it not always, either directly or indirectly, sought to deter immigration by covert or direot insinuation that the lives of North ern men, especially if Republicans, wore not safe, and that tho whitos were possessed of a spirit of demoniac hate agaiust all Republicans of whatever color ? Lake City Reporter : The peculiar adapta tion of the soil aud climate of Columbia, Bradford, Suwannee, Hamilton, Baker and Alachua counties, constituting the interior section of East Florida, is now an establish ed fact, admitted even by those who, al though residing a dogroo or so southward, were unwilling, until circumstauces forced them, to concede to us tho success of orange culture. Tho experienced, who are unbias ed by the ownership of property on the batiks of the famed St. Jolin’s and its tributaries, readily aver the unsurpassed advantages we of East Florida’s interior posaoss ifor tho pre-eminent success of tho or ango as a reliable and remunerative crop, and fruit of every doscriptiou. The soil of our section, valuable in its variety of chemical properties, producing with tho slightest cultivation astonishing crops and blessed with natural strength and elasticity, is one in which tho orange luxuriates. The climate iu its evenness of temperature, not subject to the suddeu transition from mod erate heat to cold, so unpropitious for and destructive to the orange, renderß this a. peculiarly a: tractive and auspicious location for the establishment of groves. We are informod by the South Goorgia Journal, published at Sanford. Orange county, that thoso ougaged in tho roariug of groves in that locality protect their young trees from tho winter cold. This is an unknown thing in our section. Our little trees uot only go through tho winter without injury, but start off actively upon the earli est opening of spring, hardy and prosper ous. We can only attribute the difference in the climato in our favor (although San ford is nearly three degreos south of ns), to the fact that whilo wo are blessed with an even temperature, the section contiguous to the St. John’s river, two or three degrees south, is naturally warmer, and an unusual spell of cold weather results in injury to the orange treos, especially to the younger plants. As ovidenco of the plausibility of our remarks, wo cito tho fact of tho prepa ration for establishing groves in Columbia county by several residing on the St. John’s river. South Carolina Affairs. Two hundrod and fifty cords of pine wood were destroyed on Friday last by lire, about two miles from Oreenville. It belonged to Gen. Sullivan. Loss estimated at $375. Tho revival services at the Baptist Church in Qreeuvillo last week were largely at tended. An inquest was held on Sunday afternoon on tho body of an infant colored child, four months old, three miles above Greenville, and the verdict of the iury was that sho came to her death by being accidentally smothered by her mother. Mr. J. J. Rowe, one of the wardens of Marlboro, has resigned. Mr. J. W. Mosely, of Orangeburg, was thrown from his buggy last week, and sus tained some injuries. Mr. T. A. Garwin killed on Thursday last, near Farker’s ferry, on Edisto river, a large black bear, weighing over 250 pounds. Tho Aiken Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, will give a grand ball at the Academy on Thursday evening, Novembor 11. Henry Bacot, who stole Mr. George Rob ertson’s horse, was brought from Columbia Sunday by Sheriff Ruff, of Winnsboro. A baud of Gypsies passed through Aiken on Wednesday on their way to Edge field. There were on Saturday six hundred and sixty-two bales of cotton in the depot of Winnsboro awaiting shipment. Mr. John A. Weldon’s gin house in Winns boro, with sixteen bales of cotton, were destroyed by fire on Wednesday night last. Mr. Weldon had left the gin house only about one hour previous to the discovery of the fire. In connection with the gin was a mill, both run by water, and had been built only a short time. Mr. Weldon’s loss will roach two thousand dollars. The Greenville Daily News, of the 2d inst., reports the sale at public outcry of thirteen parcels of land, ranging from fifty to“one hundred acres each, in Greenville district, at an average of about eiyld and a half dollars per acre. One plantation, con taining one thousand five hundred and eleven acres, also was knocked off at sher iff’s sale for $6,400, and another of two hun dred and twenty-two acres for $1,265. The A ugusta Constitutionalist says that at 6 o’clock Tuesday afternoon smoke and fire was dicovered breaking out from the South Carolina freight warehouse at Aiken, 8. C. In a few minutes tho wholo building was in flames, and in one hour it was reduced to ashes. It contained three bales of cotton, two or three barrels of kerosene, a box of bacon, and some smaller articles of freight of no great value. Nothing was saved. There was some cotton on the platform and cars on the track near by, all of which were hauled off and saved. Total loss about $2,000. No insurance. Origin of the fire unknown. A Lady’s Toilet, Tempo George IV. At ten, after her “dish of Bohea,” as it was called, generally taken before rising, the lady arranged herself in a muslin peignoir, or wrapper, and had a regular reception of her friends, while, with her hair disheveled, she was submitted for the first time in the day to the hands of her hair-dresser; for usually she dressed four or five times a day. Her hair, dragged off her face, covered with powder, plastered with pomatum, and frizzled in stiff curls, was raised, by means of gauze, feathers and flowers, into an edifice often equal to her height. Four ells of gauze have been contained in some of these erections, with butterflies, birds, and feathers introduced—the last of tho most preposterous height of, it is record ed, about a hard. After an hour’s plas tering and frizzing, the hair dresser’s task was over, and a weary one it was, though enlivened by the animated con versation of the visitors. The remainder of the toilet was finished, the most im portant of which was the arrangement of the patches—a point of great interest. These were made of black silk, gummed and cut into stars, crescent and other forms. Patches had originated in Franc© under Louis XV., with a view to show off the whiteness of the complexion, but they were never worn by women of dark skins. Great was the art in plac ing these patches near the eye, the cor ner of the mouth, the forehead and the temple. A lady of the world would wear seven or eight, and each had its special designation. She never went without a box of patches to replace any that might accidentally fall off; and these littie boxes, generally of Battersea enamel, finely painted by some eminent artist, had usually a tiny looking-glass inserted within the lid, to help her repair the ac cident. Nor was the rouge pot forgotten, rouge at that time being an indispensa ble adjunct to the toilet—so indispensa ble that when Marie Antoinette came over to France to marry Louis XVI., and begged to dispense with wearing it, a family conclave was held at Versailles on the subject, followed by a formal order from the King to put it on—a command which she had no alternative but to obey. —London Society. Some men noted for their means ar© also noted for their meanness.