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\\'KI7xt:SDAY, NOV 11, 1868.
iMI WHAT IT lIOEW FOR TH K
SOITH.
It occurs to Hie Petersburg Judex— am!
the saiU e fact strikes us more forcibly,
still, with reference to Georgia—to call at
tention to the very important relation
Lor tic by “sunshine” to labor aud capital.
For instance, says the Index , it ripens
fruits and matures vegetables in Eastern
Virginia a month or more earlier than it
doe „ j„ the vicinity of New York and
other Northern cities. It happens that
these cities are in a few hours’ communi
cation Witii Eastern Virgiuia, either by
land or water, and they are enormous con
sumers of the products of our orchards
ami gardens. Now “suusbine” enables
„„ to monopolize the market of these
Northern cities a month before the pro
ducts of their neighborhood come in com
petition with us. Tins is an immense ad
vantage, for not only do we monopolize
the market hut obtain priees greatly in
i dvauce of those whieh the same articles
will command later iu the season.
Whether this generation is wise enough
lo avail itself of this “sunshine” remains
to be seen. Hut whether it does or not,
there can he no doubt that Eastern Vir
ginia will at some future day become lit
rally anil truly a “garden spot.”
Every one sees clearly that the great
need of the late slave States is agricultural
l iboi . The great body of whites, before
the svar, were unaccustomed to working
upon farms with their own hands. The
lust three years have been spent in en
deavoring to keep up the old system of do
ing all farm work with negro labor. The
experiment has proved a failure, as it
ever has where negro labor has been em
ployed on any except the compulsory
principle. It is very clear that this state
of things cannot continue for many years
longer, and that the labor which is needed
will lie supplied by immigration which
the natural advantages of our soil and
clime will inevitably draw hither, and by
the native white labor which gritn neces
sity will force into the tillage of the
ground. We have no fears on this point
for the future, But there must unavoida
bly be an interval of uncertain duration,
in whieh all agriculture must languish,
because Southern capital and labor were
both swept away by the recent revolution ;
a revolution which left the majority of our
fanners not only p ior but heavily in debt,
and their difficulties have been increased
rather than diminished by the political
agitation whieh has followed the war.
But to return to “sunshine.” Let any
one take a map and cast his eye over that
portion of it occupied by the Southern
Stales. There they lie, basking in the
smile of the God of day. There they lie,
haying: “Come and till us, come aud
reap us.” Hut touch their soil with plow
or spade and the smile literally becomes
“golden.” That smtle cannot long be re-
Bisted. 11 woos with the potency of beauty
and of gold, and some day these broad
acres will answer it with laughing har
vests. The wheat will wave welcome
to it, and the corn will nod to it with
dancing plume, while its leaves rustle like
a sweetheart’s dress.
"Sunshine” will yet make the South
the regal, the most joyous land on earth.
Come hither, oh, ye immigrants, and
pitch your tents anywhere between the
I‘otomuc aud the Rio Grande. That sun
ny smile is uot the smile of a capricious
and coquettish girl. It means what it says.
It means corn and oil and wiue and milk;
it means silk and cotton, and llax and
hemp -all that cheers the body aud all
that clothes it.
Look at this, ye toilers for a scanty sub
sistence upon a sterile soil—look at this
one fact. Before the war about one mil
lion of laborers merely scratched the sur
face of this Southern soil, and the value of
us agricultural exports was greater than
that of any live countries in the world.
There is room here, and to spare, fo r
fifty millions of laborers. Let them come.
The great sunny South will give them a
welcome as genial as her clime, and as
hospitable as her soil. Let them come.
It is a land of railroads and rivers; of rich
and cheap farms, it is a land of beautiful
women and of men as brave and as mag
nanimous as ever confronted or forgave a
•"c. It is the home of a white race, the
most law-abiding and orderly on the face
“f God’s earth. Come, then, there is
notbiug to deter you, and, if you will hut
"ne, the political troubles which u)W
annoy the South will lie as evanescent as
die dew which will evaporate from her
'lowers and her forests in the bright smile
ot to-morrow’s sun.
iUK ELECTION IN TALBOT COVim.
Talbotton, Qa., Nov. 7, 1808.
Editors: I see that the number
' heeduien at our is estimated
"he thousand. I think there were eight
bundred or less. We tkiuk all of two
b unified voted for Seymour, and if the
'"'nig had continued, we think one huu
rt‘'i wore would have done the same.
found the Court-house at daylight in
i 1 "esfion »»f the negroes, and Messrs. Be
aune aud Higbee with them. After sun
| ■ l made several ellorts to clear the en-
ts ’ but failed. I then called on the
"‘•ill, and we succeeded in gettiug a
■ ,l 'on out. The question of Taxes came
i wd the managers decided that county
lV ' !l ' u!d be paid,when Bethune objected
‘ Was overruled by the decision of
' "bo were his equals in the law, if
' U: 'bv Ids superiors. We did not
w '‘ ,l the poll tax. My opinion is we
n; carried thecountybya large
f t . ; , "b had voted. These are the
time u some little feeling was at one
u-ed , la j“ lw! ted, and some harsh language
we 7 ’ UI l' ar t'cs, Mr. Higbee left, and
W | kl, ' utea report from him.
h v u > ,' tru the negroes were ordered
c. I,'" , U 10 the Court-house. Hig
'eft for Savannah.
‘“ours majority, 914. T. A. B.
i.ogiLo, r\? w British Cabinet.— The
u 1 and iii m era 8 Hre confident of victory,
cda* Hi.,? 1 eveul John Bright is spoken
position f!» J'fCetary. It will he a novel
! iy t ,i Bright, who has hitherto
*i|| hrin.t « eof opposition solely. He
Hrititd, ,^ rst olaSB ability to the new
is to |,o , ab ' uet . °f which Mr. Gladstone
ue the Premier.
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-tfe i|u "‘ io objects to his mother’s mar
‘ I go a step faSr and pedestrian ? Because he
31 tutnuil awtl §Hessew§et.
INDEPENDENCE.
The true policy of the .South is to assert
its agricultural, mechanical and manufac
turing independence of the world. This
can be done:
Ist. By making on our own soil every
thing we consume for the support of life.
Our fruitful fields and genial climate in
vite us to do so. Georgia can produce itß
bread, its meat, its vegetables, its fruits,
its beer and its wine Its forests are full
of game, and its coast abounds with fish
and oysters. Why should we go abroad
for food ?
2d. By giving encouragement to our
own home mechanics, and by stimulating
every form of productive iuduslry. By
encouraging our boys now growing up,
to devote themselves to the mechanical
arts; aud by giving the honors of social
and civil life, to those who prove them
selves most worthy by doing most to de
velope these arts in tbe South. The mines
and the forests aud the fields of the South
yield us the needed material for mechani
cal productions of every kind, and in suf
ficient abundance to supply the world.
3d. By developing our vast resources in
water power for the purpose of establish
ing manufactories of every grade, by
which our leading staple may be prepared
for consumption—not by rnukiug coarse
fabrics only, but by manfacturing the
finest cotton goods, in every style aud va
riety. It is hardly necessary to argue the
advantages the South enjojs for such
work. These will be enhanced greatly
when we become the cheapest food-pr»>-
ilucing portion of the land, as we are capa
ble of becoming.
The South needs nothing but good gov
ernment, and the following of a wise poli
cy, with economy ami industry ou the
part of the people, to make her indepen
dent of the world.
EDITORIAL TRIALS.
We are very sure that if the Arcli-Eue
iny of all mankind had only had the op
portunity of giving Job a situation in a
newspaper office the patience of that pa
triarch would have been exhausted iu less
than a week. With the Baltimore Ga
zette we think he would have dwelt with
pleasure on the support and encourage
ment tendered to him by troops of friends,
and on the large amount of public confi
dence which he would doubtless have re
ceived, but these reflections would scarce
ly have offset his perplexities. There is a
certain class of people who, being very
fussy, and very narrow-minded withal,
seem to think that everything ought to be
conducted iu this world precisely accord
ding to their ideas. These people are con
stantly favoring newspapers with foolish
complaints. One is horrified at the ap
pearance of an account of a prize fight;
another objects that races should be re
ported ; auother thiuks it deplorable that
the details of au execution should be
given; another that so many scandalous
crimes should he published day after
day, and so on ad infinitum. Then there
are touchy people who find iu an article
republished from some source, a hundred
or a thousand miles off, some disagreeable
allusion to their creed, their nationality or
their profession, and their first impulse is
to indite an irate letter to the journal
which has copied the unwelcome para
graph. If newspapers accepted all the ad
vice, and listened to a 1 ! the protests they
receive, they would in a very short space
of time reduce their matter to simple ad
vertisements
But as it is impossible to consult in all
things the individual tastes or opinions of
each of several thousands of readers, jour
nalists must continue to pursue their cus
tomary ways. It would be well if the
very contracted people referred to could
understand that it is the business of a pub
lic journal to make itself, as far as its news
columns go, the rellex of the world in
which we are living. Most people want
to know all that is going on, and also the
manner in which occurrences of all sorts
take place. To present all the good and
instructive incidents that transpire, and
to ignore everything else, would he to con
vey very erroneous impressions about so
ciety here and elsewhere. A newspaper
must present, where it can do so within
the limits of decency, all the transactions
of the day, good and had. We therefore
propose to continue to do what every
newspaper in the world does, and to re
port a vast number of incidents which
disgust usas much as they do the public.
PRESIDENT GRANT.
It will he a matter of general congratu
lation, hut little surprise, if the adminis
tration of Grant does usher in an era of
good feeling” again like that which dis
tinguished i lie administration of Monroe.
He has left no irritating marks upon the
campaign, as did Seymour and Blair.
His personal characteristics are such as
will commend him to the great mass of
the people when political excitement has
died away. He has done more than any
other living man to elevate and honor the
American name. AS e all share in his
glory and his greatness. He deserves high
honor, hut has not sought it. He is equal
to any duty he ever undertakes. He will
he a President uncontrolled by partisans
and demagogues. He is no extremest.
He is ultra in nothing. He differs from
all the candidates for President that have
been before the country for many years, I
in that he is no speech-maker—is not
loud with promise or cant and, has not a j
single characteristic of the demagogue.
He seems to be the man to close up the
wounds war and rebellion have made.
His history seems to have been marked
out by Providence, as was that of Lin- j
coin, for the salvation of the country iu
its hours of peril, when among the host
of politician:) noun other seemed compe
tent to discharge the great duties that
must devolve upon the uext President.
He will uu oouui aißU|>(n>i»i poli
ticians and place hunter. He will proba
bly not please the ultra men of the party
that elected him, hut that he will be an
honest, conscientious, yet fearless and
able President there is but little doubt. In
his election our country has uew hope for
peace, prosperity and progress.
The above is copied from the New Al
bany (Ind.) Commercial, a Radical paper.
It is to he hoped the editor’s bright anti
cipations of ‘‘peace, prosperity and pro
gress,” wil he abundantly realized.
Southern Recorder. —Mr. R. M
Orme, Sr., the founder, and for nearly
li ty years a proprietor, of this old and
lime-honored Journal, offers his half in
terest in it for sale, desiring to retire to
the country aud spend the remainder of
his days in agricultural pursuits. The
junior proprietor of the Recorder would
also se’l his interest, but will retain it if a
competent man buys iuto the paper. The
Recorder is well established iu public fa
vor, and can be made a profitable invest
ment.
Newspaper Change.— Captain F. S.
Fitch has disposed of his interest iu the
Griffin Tri-weekly Star to Mr. F. E.
Bridges.
The party who are digging for gold on
Kelley Island, in Lake Erie, in compli
ance with the directions of Planchette,
have worked eight or ten feet iuto the old
limestone formation without any develop
ments.
THE FUTURE.
-peculation* About the Dominant Party and ila
Future Policy.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
Secure of the administration for four
years to come, and of a large majority in
tlie House and Senate for two years at
least, it becomes the representatives of the
dominant party to proceed to business at
the opening of Congress, and make an ef
fort to dispose of “unfinished business,”
before the incoming of tbe new adminis
tration.
It is doubtful whether any further legis
lation in behalf of tbefreedmeu specially
is needed. Beyoud providing against spe-
I cial legis atiou by the States against them
as a class, nothing can be done. They
must take their chances and seek by their
own individual euergy aud enterprise to
overcome the prejudices of the whites.
The Freedmen’s Bureau shduld be allowed
to expire under the existing law. It lias
served its purpose, and tided the emanci
pated blacksover the most serious period
of their transition from slavery to freedom.
Doubtless there will be iudividuai suller
iug of wroug and outrage among them;
but it is not iu the power of any govern
ment, exercisiug such wide authority to
wholly prevent that. Uuless we are pre
pared to police the whole South, no legis
lation cau be so effective as to wholly pre
vent wrong and outrage.
Iu brief, the attention of Congress dur
ing the winter session ought to be absorb
ed, mainly, in the consideration, the dis
cussion aud the improvement of our finan
cial condition. The public debt should be
funded, aud the rate of interest lowered.
There is no doubt that, with our apprecia
ted credit and the assurance given by the
late election, that the people of the United
States are disposed to repudiate their con
tracts, either iu letter or spirit, long bonds
could be negotiated to advantage, and a
decisive step made toward specie payment.
There should also he a stop put to the
lavish appropriation of public moneys
and lands for pet enterprises, under the
plea of national necessity or public im
provement. We are advised of several
schemes, the projectors of which are only
waiting the convening of Congress to
spring them. One of these petitions is for
aid to the extent of sixty-two millions of
dollars asahegining. To all these schemes,
to enrich a few audacious beggars, Con
gress should turn a deaf ear.
We presume there is not a Republican
who does not recognize the fact that had
the Democracy so organized in the cam
paign as to make the important issue fi
nancial rather than political, the success
of their party would have been problem
atic indeed. It was the folly of the New
York Convention rather than the wisdom
of Congress that saved the Republican par
ty from defeat. Now, if (he Republicans
want a continuation of power, their repre
sentatives must forthwith proceed to pul
the country on a more satisfactory finan
cial basis, and study economy iu the ex
penditures. There must be honesty, and
an end of extravagance. This will re
commend the Republican policy to the
people, and secure a coutinuauce of their
favor.
From tbe New York Herald.
General Grant’s popularity as the great
victorious Union champion of the war has
saved the party iu power for another
Presidential term. In the elections of
1867 the popular tide had turned against
the ruling Radicals, and nothing hut the
name of Grant aud a campaign upon the
issues of the war could have saved them
from a crushing defeat in 1868. The elec
tion of Grant and Uolfax, then, does not
involve an endorsement by the people of
the extreme measures and programme of
the ruling Radicals of the present Con
gress, hut it does iuvolve a verdict from
the people in favor of a more conservative
and conciliatory policy. General Grant
was not the choice (except as Hobson’s
choice) of the Ultra-Radical faction. They
fought hiru off as long as possible, and at
last they adopted him only from sheer
necessity. The people have elected him
in view of anew departure; they look to
him for anew policy, and it is not only
his right but his duty to take l»is position
accordingly iu his inaugural address and
iu the selection of his Cabinet, aud broad
ly and indefinitely in his first message to
Congress.
We class the election of Butler among
the general results «f this national tight,
for it is a result of a much broader scope
than his Congressional district, His re
election involves a movement on the part
of the Massachusetts Radicals to make
him the leader of the next Congress, as the
very man of all men to take the place of
“Old Thud. Stevens.” It is known that
Butler has been anything hut a worshiper
of Gen. Grant, and it is known, too, that
of all meu in the present Congress Butler
has proved the best qualified, from his pe
culiar character, to succeed “Old Thad.”
We saw this on the impeachment trial, iu
which Butler, though placed behind
Bingham and Boutwell, took the position,
from the sheer force of his indomitable
will and superior abilities, as the chief
manager of the prosecution. Sucii a man,
in view of the circumstances of his re
election, will be apt to assume tbe leader
ship in the new Congress, and to persist
in his demand at the risk of a disastrous
mutiny in the party camp like that which
which*resulted from the efforts of the old
Democratic Southern oligarchy to sup
plant Douglas in the Senate and put him
in the background.
In any event, the first question present
ed in re I ere nee to Gen. Grant is, whether
ho shall hold the Radical faction in Con
gress in check, or submit to its demands.
He has said that he will have up policy of
his own to push against the will of the
people; in which we have a sly hit at
President Johnson; but a clear under
standing of the will of the people will
still enable Grant to maintain the dignity
and the constitutional rights of his office
much more successfully than they have
been maintained by Johnson. The people
have not approved the Radical processes
of Southern reconstruction, and they ex
pect some wholesome reforms iu the enor
mous corruptions and abuses which have
marked for the last few years the collec
tions ami disbursements of the Treasury.
Iu short, having rewarded to the utmost
Gen. Grant for his great services in the
field, aud having given him their fullest
confidence as the proper man lo repair tiie
blunders of Johnson and of Congress, the
people expect him to avoid both extremes
and to give us a sound, progressive, deci
sive, and yet conciliatory and conserva
tive administration.
Meantime the Democrats, with New
York, the Empire State, as a base of ope
rations, have secured a strong position
for a reorganization of their forces for 1872.
Prom the Journal of Commerce.
General Grant is not & Radical, aud we
nave me liiguubi
that it is his purpose to separate himself
from the extremists, aud to rally around
him a strong body of the better class of
citizens, who shall draw unto them con
genial allies from all quarters, and become,
as they would deserve to he, the party of
the country. He is also extremely aux
ious to verify his party watchword, aud to
lead the country at once to peace aud re
newed prosperity. This is his purpose,
and no one can deny that it is a noble am
bition. Not himself a politician, and with
but little experience or skill iu civil life,
he does not as we think, at all realize the
difficulties iu the way of such success as
he covets. We do not say that he m ill
fail, for he has undoubted pluck, aud, be
sides four years of patronage at command,
lie will also have the* advice and practical
aid of some strong friends who do not
usually intermeddle with public affairs.
He will, of course, be first fiat’ered aud
theu roundly abused by those whose alli
ance he disdains. If riumuer is left out
iu the cold, according to the present pro
gramme, there will he heard at Wash
ington a howl of rage every lime the
wind is in the East. If the South is treat
ed kindly and justly, as General Grant
has privately promised, aud the measures
of reconstruction he has indicated, as his
choice are adopted, he will soou he classed
by the radicals of his party as “a rebel
sympathizer,” bent ou throwing away all
the fruits of the national victory. There
is a large class of politicians whose sole
test of “a righteous peace” is some form
of security for the permauteut ascendan
cy of their party at the South. There can
be no rest to the laud until that idea is
abaudoned ; and if this concession is now
made by their chosen leader, he will he
stigmatized most unsparingly as a traitor
to their cause.
MACON, GA„ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, JS6R
EFFECT ON NEGRO LABOR OF CULTIVA
TING LESS LAND.
Our planting friends will soon be look
ing forward to, aud arranging plans for
another year. We desire to briug before
them an asjiect of the labor question which
j we have not seen discussed particularly,
! and which may have not suggested itself
: to the minds of many of our readers. The
existing tendency in Southern agriculture
is to contraction in the area cultivated —
substituting small grains for hoed
when practicable, keeping up production
! to the requisite point by increasing the
| fertility of the soil. We say this is the
tendency, hut as yet we have uot approach
ed the point of contraction praciL-ed iu old
■ and densely populated couutries—the large
! amount of open land in the South com
pared with its population, still bolding
out strong Inducements to follow the old
plan. Suggest to a farmer that he should
; plant one acre instead of two aud make
the one rich enough to yield as much as
the two, and he replies, I’ll have to buy
the manure to do mat, but tbe additional
acre I will not have to purchase. I al
ready own an abundance of land. Again,
when I buy manure I am not certain it
will pay me. I may get a worthless arti
cle—or from present uncertainty about the
kinds of manure and applying them, dis
astrous failure may result. No, I’ll plant
as many acres as I can—though each one
makes but little, “rnauy a mickle makes
a muckle.” We admit the force of these
argumeuts—we know that, under the
former labor system of the South, large
numbers of men became wealthy by fol
lowing these maxims. But almost every
subject has two sides two it —let us be care
ful that we look not at only one. The war
left all the land, at the South, undestroy
ed, hut half, at least, of its productive lal
was practically annihilated. To say noth
ing of the actual decrease in the negro
population, since the war, the withdraw
al of the women aud children from the
fields, and a transfer of a considerable por
tion of the rural male population to cities
and towns, has diminished the etlective
agricultural labor of the South fully one
half. We cannot, therefore, if we would,
cultivate as formerly all our open lands.
On the contrary, we ought to bring the
number of acres cultivated below the limit
of what could be plowed and hoed with
the present available laborers, (making up
for diminished acreage by increasing fer
tility of the land, through manuring, &c.,)
in order that the demand for labor mag
be-lcss. Nothing will give the negro such
correct views of his situation aud relation
to the white race, as tlie necessity of his
seeking employment. As long as out
planters cultivate as many acres as they
possibly can, without reference to manur
ing and careful cullure, just so long will
the negro, realizing his importance, re
main an unsteady anil unreliable laborer.
[Southern Cultivator.
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN PERU.
Lima. Peru, S. A.,)
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1808. /
The second shock of au earthquake was
felt here at 5 o’clock on the morning of
the ltd of October, but, fortunately, it came
at au hour when most of the good people
were still asleep, aud passed away with
out doing any serious harm. It was quite
severe, however, down the whole southern
coast, aud shook down everything not
already fallen iu Arequipa, Arica, aud
other places iu the interior. September,
October and April are generally the
months for such visitations, but the last
two months have developed singular oc
currences on land aipi sea, and set the old
predictions at defiance. A strange phe
nomenon occurred at Taicahuana, on the
southern coast of Chile, in connection
with this last shock of an earthquake. A
boiling hot spring bubbled up from the
grouud, aud the water of the river Anda
lieu increased so rapidly iu heat that
shell fish were cast upon the beach, actu
ally boiled! And eggs placed in the
spring were cooked iu a moment, while
fish and clams were vomited up boiling
hot, and cooked ready for use. The sea
rose aud fell rapidly during this disturb
ance, and strange, low mutterings iu the
air aud earth were incessant. There was
not a breath of air stirring, not even
enough to move a feather; yet the tide
ran in and out witli increased violence,
and the sea rose and fell sufficiently high
to set ships all tossing about like toys on
a miniature pond, breaking their anchors,
turning them around anil around. The
steamer Guayaquil was in great danger,
turning over almost on her side, aud with
out power to turn her head to the cur
rents. The tide was so strong that the
mouth of the river was chokeit with coal
carried from a wrecked ship on the island
of Quiriquina. The vertical motion of the
earth is much more destructive and dread
ed in time of an earthquake than the lat
eral. But either shock is frightful
enough.
CROUP AND DIPTIIEHI A.
In the Journal des Commaissances de
Medicates, of Paris, Dr. Ozeuam publishes
an interesting paper on the treatment of
diptheria, attended with the formation of
adventitious membranes. The specific
which be uses is bromine, which has an
elective action ou the pharnyx, the eelum
pendulum and the larnyx; so, also, has
the bromide of potassium. Three German
experimentalists, Franz, Schmidt and
Toube, were the first to prove that bromine
introduced into the respiratory organs
caused false me mb ranees to he formed in
the larnyx of piegons. From this they
concluded, according to the homoepahtio
principle —similia simitbus curantur —that
this element would cure croup and mem
braueous diptheria, Dr. Ozeuam took the
matter allopathically, and by experiment
found that bromine first hardened the ad
ventitious membrane, and theu reduced
it to dust. This led him to conclude that
both the homeopathic principles of medi
cine coincide in certain cases ; hut, letting
this question alone, his researches have
gone further, aud show that bromine de
stroys contagion as well as cholerine and
prevents the spreading of epidem.es. This
fact, of course, became a stepping stone to
using bromine as a curative medicine, aud
nearly all the cases treated with it have
been successful. Asa preservative from
epidemic diptheria, Dr. Ozeuam adminis
ters from ten to twenty-live drops of bro
mine in the course of tlie day in sugar and
water, in Hie proportion of from tweuty
tive to fifty grains, of the latter per drop.
This liquid solution must be kepi, in
the dark, siuce ligtit would cause the for
mation of hydrobromic acid. The vial
must he kept well stopped, and its con
tents must he changed as soou as the light
amber color lias disappeared. To the
patient the solution is administered in
drops, hourly, in a table spoonful of
sugar aud water, so as to give from one to
two grammes of the former in the course
of twenty-four hours. In cases of croup,
i>r. oa-uQtii presci U/w f -*-"iirations of bro
mine, A basin with hot water is
before the patient; a large pinch of bro
mide of potassium or else common kitcheu
salt is thrown in, aud then, in the course
of five minutes, three tea-spoonfullsof the
above bromided solution are added. The
patient inhales the vapor of bromine thus
evolved through a glass fuuuel. By this
means the author has cured upward of 150
cases of croup, or diptheria, with ouiy five
failures.
The Perils of Print. —lt is not always
safe to put one’s thoughts into print, un
less one is quite certain that circumstan
ces will never arise to cause a change of
opinion. An instance of the sort is furn
ished by the New York Tribune. On the
9th of November, IS6O, Greely wrote and
printed this:
If the cotton States shall become sati-<
tied that they can do better out of the
Union than iu it, we insist on letting
them go in peace. The right to secede
may be a revolutionary one, but it exists
nevertheless.
* * * We must ever resist the right of
any State to remain in the Union and nul
lify and defy the laws thereof. To with
draw from'the Union is quite another
matter; and whenever a considerable sec
tion of our Union shall deliberately re
solve to go out, we shall resist all coercive
measures designed to keep it in. We hope
never to live in a republic whereof one
section is pinned to the other by bayonets.
It is estimated that the rain fall in the
Northern States is 40 inches; the South
ern States, 50; Minnesota, Western Cali
fornia, and Colorado, 30; Nebraska aud
Western Arizona, 15 inches. This is a
general average for a series of years.
THE WOMEN OK THE MJITIi
The following beautiful compliment to
the daughters of Mississippi is from a
recent address delivered by Geuera! Albert
Pi ke in De Soto County, Mississippi: _
“Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters of
the men of Mississippi, I cannot speak to
you. No angel has touched my lips with
the burning coals from the altar of the
sacrifices. I leave to others the fine
phrases and the empty compliments that
you would not value. What you have
done iu the past is sufficient guarantee of
your heroism and devotion in the future.
You have more than rivalled, you have
excelled, the women of Saragossa and
Verona, and tbe Hebrew matrons and
maidens who helped to defend the Holy
City of Jerusalem against the legions of
Vespasian. You will also do your duty in
the days, dark or bright, that are lo come.
You will teach these who love your fidelity
to principle amid all temptations, to prefer
honor to prosperity, aud the dangerous
truth to the safe aud profitable falsehood;
constancy and courage, and the manly
and hopeful endurance that befits a man.
You are the conquerers who take all men
captive, and whose silken fetters, stronger
than tempered steel, we are glad aud
proud to wear. Into our sou s your eyes
shine like stars, aud we bow down aud
worship, and in love fiud new strength to
undertake great enterprises or endure
great calamities, o! (lowers brought to
us by the augels from the Gardeti of Para
dise, you bloom her to bless, to encourage,
audio console. We are all your willing
slaves. Age gives no exemption from
that service; for, in the sad and sober
autumn of our days, we still covet the
liviug smile and the loving look that can
j.e our* no more. The sober autumn of
.’:.6r days! For you, the bright and glad
anticipations of the future, the dreams
that make youth’s happiness; for us the
memories of the past, of joys and sorrows
intermingled, of the hopes and loves, and
bitter disappointments and cruel losses, of
the days that are no more. Our country,
also, our own dear Southland that you
love so well, has its memories of the past,
of a glad, bright dawn and a morning full
of promise, that darkened into a day full
of gloom, and (error, and disaster. Out of
that darkness the faces of our dead look
sadly, and pityingly, and lovingly upon
us. They have not died in vain. The
Jam! they died for shall yet reap the fruit
of the great sacrifice. Our country, also,
has its hopes, that are not delusive, for the
future. To it, the sober autumn days have
not come—nor even those of life’s summer.
For it, the rosy days of spring have not
departed, though the immortelles planted
by angels bloom on many graves.”
MR. KOEUUUK ON AMERICAN AFF Vllts.
A Curious Kxpluuation.
Mr. Roebuck made an election speech
at Sheffield on the 17th ultimo, aud in the
course of it the following questions were
put aud replies given ;
Mr. Wilmot said he wished to put a
question of great importance, not omy to
Sheffield, but to the community at large.
He should like to ask Mr. Roebuck if he
diil not use his utmost endeavors in the
American conflict to bring about a war be
tween this country and the United States
[confusion] in order to promote the slave
holders' rebellion. [Cheers.]
Mr. Roebuck : Sir, if you will allow me,
1 will go through that matter completely.
The American rebellion brokeout, and all
I did was—and I had the sanction of as
targe a meeting In Sheffield [Cheers] as
ever was met together—all I asked was
that we should acknowledge the Southern
States as sovereign and indeoemletßStates.
[“Hear, hear,” and oheers.J Now, I will
tell you distinctly, J will make frank a
breast of it, and you shall not mistake me.
My belief is that the American people by
aud-by will be so numerous that they
will be all-powerful among mankind. I
have ever found—l beg you to listen and
think upon what I say -I have ever found
that persous of despotic power—that is of
uncontrolled power—do not use that pow
er as they ought to do. My object was to
prevent the United States from having
that immense uncontrolled power, and I
said • “Here is the opportunity ; we can
take it with perfect safety.” No war
would have followed—there the gentle
man makes a mistake “Here is au op
portunity to acknowledge these States,
just as America acknowledged Hungary
when she wasin rebellion against Austria ;
we have the sanction of American exam
ple ; acknowledge the existence of those
States.” The moment that acknowledg
ment had come, away would have gone
the blockade of the shores of America.
There would have been an end to the
American civil war—very much, I believe,
to the benefit of the several States them
selves —and if thathad been done I believe
that mankind would have received an im
mense benefit. Gentlemen, if you will
permit me I will tell you a story. After
that meeting in Paradise Square I went
back to Loudon, anil in a day or two it
was a necessity of the case—for a member
of Parliament there is often that necessity
—to wait upon the Prime Minister. I
waited upon Lord Palmerston. The mo
ment I got into his room—he was stand
ing writing at his desk as he always did—
he turned round and put out his hand and
said, “Roebuck, Roebuck, what a devilish
good speech you made at Sheffield.”
[Cheers and laughter.] I said : ‘‘My lord,
I am greatly obliged to you, and flattered
for the kind phrase you liaye used about
my speech”—though it was rather a hard
one! you know [laughter]—“l am very
much flattered.” “Flattered?” he said ;
“why, i am entirely of your opinion, hut
I date not officially say so.” (Now, that
struck me, according to the old woman’s
phrase, all of a heap, that a man in power
should say to me openly and without dis
guise that he was entirely of my opinion,
and lead the people of England directly
the opposite way. That, said I, is modern
political morality. [Laughter.] 1 did
my work with the gay and pleasant old
lord, and bowed my way out of his room.
Advantage* or Imported Stock.
Editors Southern Cultivator: I see an ar
tide in your September uumber on (’lies- !
ter Pigs, Devon Cattle, etc. In 1855 I
crossed my hogs with Irish Grazier and j
Suffolk. The result was, at fifteen months
oid, my hogs, after ordinary treatment,
weighed from 175 to 200 pounds. I re
member on one occasion I only fed two
weeks after their taking run of pasture.
From my absence duriug four years of
war, and carelessness of overseers, my
male hog was killed, and other stock,
such as the country could afford, were suf
fered to mix. With the same treatment,
at 18 to 22 months old, after fattening in a
close pen nine weeks, my hogs averaged
in 1806, 151 pounds—in 1867,131 pounds. I
know in the nine weeks eacli year, they
ate twelve bushels or corn to the head,
which would have bought more meat than
they made. Why this, Mr. Editor?
Simply from the fact that they were of a
U7tii/>h would not fatten until fully 1
grown, or two years old. I have now a
Chester pig five months old. My only'
fears are he will choke to death from fat.
My opinion is we should get the best
breeds of stock the country can produce,
and to my mind the Chester excels any I
have ever seen. They fatten freely at any
age, and have the largest hone to build
on to carry flesh, which combination of
qualities is uncommon. My experience
iu liog-raising, is to reduc-6 our stock,
push our pigs, giving the sows while
suckling every possible attention—giving
the pigs, to twelve mouths oid, what they
can eat, and then kill them. No hog two
years old ever paid for what it ate, unless
fed on slops—l mean in this country,
where they are fed from the crib
I fear, Mr. Editor, our friend Capell,
over in Mississippi, is like a man I knew,
who bought a very fine milk cow. She
soou failed—from four dropped down to
one and a half gallons milk. He said fine
stock was an imposition. Stating ttie
failure iu his cow’s milk, a friend asked,
‘‘what do you feed yourcow on?” “Why,
shucks and chaff—just what I give the oth
ers.” Many others depend on careless
hands to feed. I believe iu breeds in
everything, and more attention should he
given in that way.
Open to Conviction.
The Darkes’ to be Thrown- Overboard.—
5Ye understand that since the simial defeat sustain
ed in Georgia on Tuesday last by the hosts of
Radicalism, a meeting of white leaders of the party
has been held and an association formed, the object
of which is to be the exclusion of the colored peo
ple from politics, and the formation of a white Re
publican party in Georgia; these men being satis
fied that universal suffrage will not work, and that
j fehe measure only brings odium upon themselves
I and party. — Siw. News, ( Jth.
SEWARD AND WEBB.
F.valiaritir* and Taste* of » Couple of VntagunU
lical Politicians.
G. A. Townsend, in a recent letter from
Washington, says of Seward and Webb:
Seward is a luxurious character If he
travels any where lie wauts a whole ship.
He buys seven million’s worth of manifest
destiny for a morning’s shopping, and
gives Uiarenee or any old “chum” a mes
sengership, to England, or Turkey, or In
dia. if they wish to go over to the Hal
Mabille. Nothing short of a locomotive
and a drawing-room #ar will keep dignity
with his silver ticket. At the Govern
ment printing oflice lie has astatTofsworn
printers who set up his diplomatic copy
and spare his eyes the pain of reading
manuscript, a princeof the blood was he.
Marshal Murray sees that he gets the real
Oporto vintages, and that his Burgundy
has eomestaight from the vaults at Beauve
or Dijon. Here he finds flavor and cheer
fulness for all those mark Tapley speeches
and dispatches, which used to assure us
that we were happy and that he would
lookout for us. Certainly no man iu the
Government has a softer thing than Mr.
Seward, anil I often think with admira
tion, when Payne or Powell stabbed the
Secretary, how admirable were bis tactics
in dropping off the bed, roliiug under it
aud curling himself up like a roccoon ora
hedge-hog. Iu playing possum, he is a
geuius. With a broken jaw, he yet con
tinued to use his quill, and we have never
heard a moan out of him from that day
t° thi9. Johnson tried to rope in Seward’s
disloeat and Jaw, on his Douglas trip, as a
{Kilitical argument, but. the Secretary
talked mnoli that me people it
would get well before he were twice niar
lied. Personally, Mr. Seward makes no
reference to the escape from assassination.
He says that Pavne was an unmannerly
fellow, but lie asked that the latter’s life
he spared ; for Seward would have wished
to give the fellow a good dinner, warm
him up with a pint of Asti and philoso- i
phize with him upon the idiosyncracy of I
breaking a great statesman’s cranium, j
The egotism of Seward Is delightful. He I
can show you his linger prints in every
monument of the State Get him down |
to a good square talk about himself, and 1
he will magnify himself, l>y bis misty j
generalizations, iike a wind-mill in a fog.
Altogether, lie is Epicurus come again. |
Only tender partridges disappear from his I
plate. Thereisa poem of Tenuysou which |
is a very little like him, referring, I be- !
lieve to a man who said the earth was
beautiful, and “ with a lack-luster, dead
blue eye revolved his rounded periods.’’
GENERAL JAMES WATSON WEBB.
One of Seward’s oldest friends, a gentle
man singularly like him in appetite and
refinement, is James Watson Webb, Sew
ard’s Minister to Brazil. He is the bravest
piece of modern chivalry that ever lived
out of a slave State. Fighting and writing
are equally agreeable to him. He was
shot in the knee by T. F. Marshal’, at
Wilmington, Delaware in the month of
June, 1842, and it being contrary to the
laws of New York to send or accept a
challenge, Webb was committed to prison
for two years. Air. Seward was at that
time Governor, and he had expressed
himself strongly against duelling and in
favor of punishing its abettors ; but Webb
had been his oracle. He went hack on
the principle, and pardoned the General
forthwith, for which lie luid himself open
to great censure.
Webb was the original challenger of
poor Cilley, whom Graves afterward
killed at Marlboro, near Uiis city, and
while Cilley was standing up against des
tiny, Webb and his possee were hunting
him up with rilles to force him to try au
other shot with a fresh man.
Beyond this bail episode and a good
deal of characteristic wrangling, street
fighting, etc., Webb is a splendid piece of
Quixotism. He mashed the head of James
G. Bennett most dreadfully once, follow
ing him into a broker’s shop, where Ben
nett fell on his knees and begged to be
spared. The General caned him with a
dignified equanimity anil apologized with
the toe of ins boot. Air. Bennett, who is
the most enterprising reporter in either
hemisphei e, stopped ou the way to a pump
to write a description of the outrage, and
it was an episode in the early history of
the Herald, as everybody who wanted to
“lick” Bennet bought a copy, and this
immediately trebled the circulation.
General Webb, being a high liver, has
not probably accumulated a great deal of
money, hut he is the most luxuriously
Ducal journalist that exists. At Rio
Janeiro, I am told, he sets a sumptuous
table, displays a hospitality that takes
your breath, lights such cigars as Alohain
med in heaven keeps for his private
smokiug, and makes you leel a9 if you
were come to the alabaster lamps of the
Prince of Como, who gives away gold
snuff-boxes as if they were Confederate
money. as a husband, General Webb
is married to a sweet little lady, and,
though a sexagenarian his family increas
es annually, aud every princely scion is
more beautiful than the last. Asa diplo
mat he is firm as a rock, considers the
army of the United States as his private
six-shooter, aud the navy there of as his
ducking gun. King Pedro hears him
come as Louis XI. heard the iron-shod
foot of Nemours. In person lie is stately
and portly together, florid and benignant
of face, with beautifully luxuriant white
hair, and in all his impassibility of tem
perament you recognize the type of char
acter that made Bayard and Ihigueselin
Gaston de Foix,a man iu mail, restive
under law, a Wallenstein among authors,
without a purse, but with a sword and a
head.
PAfSHEMiKR POSTAGE.-NEW SCHEME. I
Mr. Raphael Brandon (says All the Year I
Hound) is the author of anew scheme of j
railway organization, it is simply an
adaptation of Sir Rowland Hill’s post
otlice scheme to railway passenger traffic. !
He proposes to treat a passenger like a let- !
ter, and send him anywhere over the i
kingdom, regard less of distance, at a fixed !
minimum charge. A three penny shall j
take you, third class, any journey in one j
direction, you like to go, whether from !
Ludgate liiil to Suydenham, or from John i
O’Groate’a to Land’s Hud. If you prefer 1
second class, you will take a six penny I
stamp; if you will luxuriate in first class, I
your postage will amount to one shilling. I
This sounds as mad as tiie penny postage )
innovation sounded at first, but Mr. Bran- j
duo quietly proceeds to argue in his pam- |
phlet that it would pay everybody, share
holders, the public and the Government,
besides giving renewed impetus to ir 'os
try of all sorts. The sum proposed tTj’be
charged for passenger postage looks ridi
culously small. In reality it is not so
much less than the average fare at pres
ent paid for the average journey as might j
be supposed. In 1806, in round numbers,
3,600,000 passenger trains ran over 71,000,-
000 miles, carrying 352,000,000 passengers.
The trallic produced £14,824,862. This
gives an average of nearly 21 miles and 73
passengers for each train, which is ahout
3] passengers per mile, giving an average
of for fare, at present paid, per average
journey, of 14d. only. Now, says Mr.
Brandon, give me an universal 3d. fare
every when , and I will promise you six
times the tratlic, which will give the
united railway interest an excess of £4,-
000,000 of receipts, with very little, if any,
addition to the expense of carrying an in
creased number of pas-engers. But that
is merely supposing each person paid but
3d. It is calculated, however, that of the
increased numberof travelers one-seveuth
would ride first edass at a is., and two
sevenths second class at 6d. This would
raise the annual return to £32,000,060 for
passenger traffic, instead of £14,750,000, as
at present. Does someone say that the
analogy between carrying a passenger and
carrying a letter is false, because a letter is
but half an ounce, and a passenger is
really a meaty hundred,weight ? Which is,
by far, the most expensive part of the pos
tal system? Ihe transit of a letter or its
delivery? Its delivery. Granted, then,
that the transit of a passenger is something
more expensive than that of a letter, the
passenger saves the most costly part of the
postal outlay, because he delivers himself;
the balance is, therefore, on the passen
ger’s side, for the additional expense of
transit is nothing to the saving in distri
bution and delivery.
Ear The following is attributed to the
en of a distinguished candidate for the
rst office in the gift of the people:
Into the pure and crystal cup
A gill I poured of ancient rye,
And as with this I mixed it up
The water smiled—and so did I.
MTPPKRNONG URAPK AND \\ INK.
Editors Southern Cultivator— l see
some of our Northern grape growers are
much exercised on the subject of making
wiue from the above named grape, liecause
yooil wiue cannot be umde from it with
out usjng either sugar or brandy as a pre
servative. All the reply we have to make
is, neither can, or i 9,t/ood wine madefrom
any of the Northern varieties without the
Bu S ar in some form, or hraudy.
’* bat mean those large piles of boxes aud
casks piled up about the wine establish
ments, marked sugar candy, as we are in
formed from credible sources? Do they
use sugar candy land doubtless the candy
might frequeutly beomitted) for manuring
the vines, or w hat do they use it for?
Now the truth lies just here —no good
wine is ever made either North or South.
. without adding sugar or brandy Even
that old celebrated wine called'Madeira,
had from 20 to 25 percent of brandy added
to it. Tbe Scuppernong will make as good
wiue without sugar or baudy as tbe
t atawba, Isabella, Concord, Crevelling,
lona, or even Herbemont’s .Madeira—tbe
latter being the best of tbe lot. We have
tested all of them within the last ten
years, and mauy others also. All make a
sour, weak, astringeut wine, which will
keep souud—that is, it will not run into
vinegar, if properly treated; but who
wants lo drink such vile slut!', or who
will purchase it ? It has very little claim
to be called aood wine.
In reply to theitiquiriesof “Hiberuious,”
we would advi-.e the plan ting of the Hart
ford Prolific, Perkins, Concord, Soupjier
nong and Thomas Grape vines b> form un
arbor, ripening in succession horn July to
October. Th«* tScupi>erii<>iig i* a large
white grape, ripeniug in Sepieoib r. The
I h> mas grape is a seedling from the Scup-
Pernong and ripens earlier, we are in
formed, and of black color. The Flowers
is also a seedling from the Seupperuoiig—
ripens near a month later. The berry is
smaller and sweeter, and the clusters
larger than its paiem.
We have thoroughly tested the Texas
Mustang grape, and find it entirely worth
less. It is the most rampant grower I
ever saw, but the fruit, is so acid that a
tnan can hardly ever speak a pleasant
word after tasting it. It is the most acid
fruit I ever saw or tasted. The berries are
jet black ami oblate in form —grow singly
or in very small clusters.
The last we have heard of Dioscorea
Batatas was, that the Chinese had got
hold of the lower ends of them and were
pulling them through
J. Van Burkn.
Clarkesville, Ga , Sept. 13, 1868.
A Couple Makrikd by a Woman in
a Ihkatre.—A wedding took place in
San Francisco recently, somewhat novel
in its character, vide the following ac
count, copied from the Alta California:
Maguire’s Opera House, iu its palmiest
days, never contained a greater throng
than on last evening. They convened to
listen to a poem ami a lecture, and to wit
ness the nuptial rite, (he leading spirit
being a lady, and that lady Laura Cuppy.
The fairer portion of creation outnum
bered the sterner. The first part of the
programme consisted of the leading of u
poem ou “The Beautiful Land.” Next
followed au erudite hut brief essay on
“ Radicalism,” in which the lords of crea
tioni got some hard hits. Madame Cuppy
invited the audience to remain and wit
ness, if they so desired, the marriage cere
mony, which would be performed by her
self, she being, as teaciier in u religious
organization, clothed, legally and legiti
mately, with the right to carry out the
rite.
Inasmuch as this was what the crowd
was there for, nobody left the theatre.
Thereupon a young and fine looking
couple advanced from behind the scenes,
and at this most novel hymeuiai altar
were they nailed (we hope for life) by a
female. The ceremony was brief and im
pressive. “You do solemnly swear,
Abigail, in the presence,” etc., “ to take,”
etc., our readers know the formula l»etter
than we (a bachelor) can give it. At the
conclusion of this very novel entertain
ment the parties letired beyond the scenes,
the groom not forgetting to drop a liberal
amount of coin in the purse of tbe fair
functionary who had made himself and
his so happy.
A LITERAL TURN OF MIND.
We hear of a very polite and impressive
gentleman who said to a youth in the
street, “Boy, may I inquire where Robin
son’s store Is?” “Certainly,Sir,”said the
boy, very respectfu ly. “Well, Sir,” said
the gentleman, after waiting awhile,
“where is it?” “1 have not the least idea,
your honor,” said the urchin.
There was another boy who was accos
ted by an ascetic middle aged lady, with,
“hoy, I want to go to Dover street.”
“Well, ma’am ; why don’t you go there,
then ?” replied the boy.
One day on Lake George, a party of
gentlemen strolling among the beautiful
islands of the lake with rather bad luck,
espied a little fellow with a red shirt and
au old straw hat, dangling a line over the
side of a boat. “Hello! boy,” said one of
them, “what are you doing?” “Fishin’,”
came the answer. “Well, of course,”
said the gentleman, “but what do you
catch ?” Here the hoy became indignant
at so much questioning, and replied,
“Fish, you fool, whatdo you ’spose ?”
“Did any of you ever see an elephant’s
skin ?” inquired a teaciier of au infant
class. “1 have,” shouted a six-year old
from the foot of the class, “Where?”
asked the teacher. “On the elephant’s
back,” said the boy, laughing.
Sometimes tins sort of wit degenerates
or rises, as the case may he, into punning,
as when Flora pointed pensively to the
heavy masses of clouds in the sky, saying,
“I wonder where those clouds are going ?”
and her brother replied, “I think they are
going to thunder.” Also, as in the follow
ing dialogue :—“Hello, there! how do you
sell wood?” “By the cord.” “How long
lias it been cut ?” “Four feet.” “I mean
how long has it been since you cut it ?”
“No longer than it is now.” And also as
when Patrick O’Flynn was seen with bis
collar and bosom sadly begrimtried, and
was indignantly asked by his officer, “Pat
rick O’Flynn, how long do you wear a
shirt?” and he replied very promptly,
“Twenty-eight inches, rtir.”
Awfcl Doings Down in Flokiua.—The recon
structed government of Florida is in a bad wav.
Governor Heed lias bees impeached of high crimes
and misdemeanors, including lying and cmbezzle
ment, bribery and corruption, usurpation of pow
er, &t\, and Lieutenant Governor Gleason has is
sued a proclamation that, in consequence of these
proceedings, he has easumed the functions of the
Executive. Hut the Governor in a counterblast
announces that he is still and will be the Governor
until set aside by the courts, and before one of tin:
courts accordingly the imbroglio has been carried
up. These high and mighty officials of Florida,
Legislature, Governor and Lieutenant Governor,
if we are not mistaken, are all of the order of radi
cals and carpet-baggers; and this squabble into
which they have fallen, it is apparent, 1- all about
the spoils and the division thereof. We guess,
too, that a detachment of United Btab - troops
will at last be required to settle the dispute, which
seems to be the Alpha and Omega of the Congres
sional system of Southern restoration. We shall
look, however, for something better from Presi
dent Grant.— Xew York Herald, Hth.
The National Debt Statement. —Mr. McCul
loch gives us a more flattering statement of the
public debt this month than for several months
past. Hut no correct idea can l»: formed either of
the condition of the Treasury or the modification
of tin; national indebtedness from a single month's
statement. It is necessary to take a longer period
to understand whether the debt is being increased
or reduced. The revenue eomes in irregularly and
the expenditures are greater at one time than an
other. Consequently we can only judge correctly
by taking the year’s exhibit of the national finan
ces. W e find, then, that tin; debt was, on Novem
ber 1, 1867, $2,49i,504,450, and on November 1,
IVW, $,527,129,552, which make the increase of the
national debt for the last year amount to $35,625,-
102. It may be said that this increase arises from
the bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Company,
but it is nevertheless a positive augmentation of
the debt, and that in time of peace and when the
income of the Treasury amounts to nearly four
hundred millions a year. No comment is necessa
ry; the figures speak for themselves, and show
how recklessly extravagant the government has
become and how wretchedly our national finances
are managed.—A? Y. Herald.
Good for Gekrit Smith.— Gerrit
Smith is out in a long letter, dated the 7th
instant, addressed to General Grant. In
. regard to the South Mr. Smith says : “ I
cannot forbear saying that no* small
ground of my rejoicing in your election is
I your charitable judgment and generous
| treatment of ti e South. Warmly did I
approve the easy terms on which you al
lowed General Lee to surrender. Your
subsequent report of the temper of the
South, after a too hasty tour through it,
showed that you were capable of forming
a charitable judgment of even a recent
foe.”
VOL. LX., NO 37
THIS PREKIIMKV* 111 hk ai
Rr|i»rt of General Howard
Special Ilispstch to the Cincinnati (, a/ , ti .
j Washington, Nov. 6.—Tbe an mi ,i ,
rrt or General O. <>. Howard O n
*,p lier the Freednien's Hur.au, fVZ
i»“ w!L D ?h y< i^ !r 2u,h ’ is, ‘ s '
; lhe tM,cr,Marv «f War. a full
' pe?m?2lnn aunot DOW '** but
' VeU to i >ri,,t -M.m.unry of
he Origin , tOD! * kl ‘ ~ri’ r " Os
greg de el*,"* rec «>"»‘e..dat.oi 1 8. | | 1( . ag
?wfwe”r?„no^:"“ ' r ,l "’
School ftunL t ‘ >a ~luml,iM •• • ■ -
Kes;ular appropriation tond’.''"' sh’-i !
Total
It Bbou and lie explained that the refugees
«M»d freedmen’s fund above specified j.
obtained from rents and sales of old nr....
ofur’ifft*' that t,H> iiur,au bus sl.’.,
nlfiL t r - ° u . ha,ul - Tlu ‘ school fund, SO
t h!led, is obtained from sales of Confede
rate property, and tbe Bureau Inis $7 v M |
hluUlf! The unexpended
in Tr 1 t0 ,n ,t> C ‘*? ht ° f ,Jlt * bureau are
m and oMh» Cen for carrying it on to the
eud ot the year, and for sustaining ti e
educational and claim division work an
other year. The Burt an expires by law
at New ears, and those two branch. >
eover all its operations after that dale.
I he claim division acts as agent for co!-
ored soldiers, preparing their claims for
settlement without fees. During the ..
it lias settled 1,9H5 such claims, and it has
?’ffl,“ ore ,‘ n Process of settlement. It
has also paid over to colored claimants m
bounty fuud, and *12,557,363 from tin n lV
bounty aud prize momy fund, and |,al of
those two funds the sum of Si 41.; 00 Vt .,
on deposit the Treasur. Department* .
be paid over as soon as claimants ,S„t
themselves aud are identified. Then
has passed through this division from ' l.e
treasury during the year the sum 1
$3,440,n0n m checks and certificates f.„
the settlement of colore.l soldiers’ and
sailors claims. These figures of w., r k for
this year indicate what will be one ot u,,
two features of the work for next v .a,
The educational branch istheoi.lv „ t |„ r
one that will exist after New Year’s I K
repoits show that in some acetous the
whites have co-operated with the ellort
.nl.bUo,a" 1 but ,ui *ny parts great
hostihty st,|i cxisu. On the whole, the
exhibit for the year is satisfactory, us in.
dealing good prog, css. The number ot
day and night schools reported is l,s;il
with 12,1195 teachers, aud 104.3:27 pupils
which is a considerable increase from lust
year. Tbe freedmen own 41s school
buildings, aud during the year they have
paid $1(11,131 in tuition. The total cost of
school work for the year was $12,000,000,
.and which Hit* freedmen themselves imre
($360,000.) benevolent societies, S7OO non •
and bureau, $940,000. It also deserves
mention that fifteen normal schools and
colleges, all made permanent institutions
by charter, have been founded, and are
already sending out teachers to carry on
the work of education, and co-operate in
the labors of the future.
The work done by tbe bureau in other
directions during the past year will he
shown when the annual report of General
Howard is made public. His recommen
dations for the Secretary’s consideration
are that a special appropriation he placed
in the bunds of the military commanders
of Virginia and Mississippi to continue
for another year the hospitals at Rich
mond and Y’icksburg ; that an appropria
tion be asked for the hospital in Wash
ington, where there are many sick persons
whose support and treatment is not prop
erly chargeable to the Corporation ; that
the hospital at New Orleans be continued
under the charge of the department com
mander ; that Congress make a grant of
land to aid public schools of every grade
in Washington; and, finally, in view of
the early closing of the bureau, it is pro
posed, unless Congress otherwise directs,
to trausfer, at a nominal price, all the
school buildings now in the possession of
the bureau to the corporate bodies aud
trustees who now are there, provided that
they guarantee the continued use aud oc
cupation of the same for school purjHises.
KT.EOANT i'KESKNTS TO La Oil s.—The
habit of making expensive presents to
ladies, in the shape of jewelry, &c., is be
coming somewhat common in “good so
ciety.”
No expensive present from a gentleman
who is not a relation should be accepted by
a lady, unless it consists of fiowers. If a
gentleman feels disposed to compliment a
lady at tbe expense of his bank account,
the compliment should he in such a form
that it may pass away, fade and he forgot
ten, like other compliments. We refer,
of course, to presents between parties not
engaged to he married to each other.
It is not unlre.pient occurrence, now,
for a lady to receive a prettily enclosed
package containing a piece of jewelry, or
even a “Bet,” from a gentleman who has
no claim upon her attention or no partic
ular right to her smiles. Even married
ladies are not free from this impertinence,
and the custom lias been gaining ground
so rapidly that some of them hardly know
whether to be insulted or pleased. One
lady of our acquaintance received a very
beautiful set of jewelry by express from a
“friend” not many weeks ago. Hhe n.,
turned it to the express company, saying
that as a receipt must have been given for
so valuable a parcel, the Company must
know the name of the sender. Hhe re:
quested that it be returned to him accord
ingly.
Ine most Important objection to the
new custom is that under the old rule -o
ciety had a protection against corruption
which it would not have if ladies c one to
regard it as respectable to wear jewelry.,
giveri to them by stringers. Ila gentle
man is at liberty to make valuable pre
ents to whom he likes, his influence to
wards evil is in proportion to his wealth.
•
Fight Between Wasps and Hats
A couple of farm servants on a plantation
in the southern part of Alabama, who had
been asleep in a loft of a large barn were
awakened one morning recently, by a
great com motion in the hay mow beneath
them, ami on looking down saw a scene
which is probably without a parallel
Swarming in through an open window
was a perfect cloud of wasps, who wire
attacking a young army of rats, whose
squealinghad aroused the two farm hands.
The rats stood upon their hind legs, in a
perfect paroxysm of rage and fear, and
guashed their teetli at the wasps, who
stung them remorselessly. The bodies of
the rats were terribly swollen by the poi
son of the insects ; and in their rage and
fury they turned and hit each other. 'The
hay loft was strown with the dead bodies
of the rats, until at last the survivors lied
from the scene and left the wasps masters
of the situation.— Exchanye paper
Howto Manage Female Mi tinkhs
Speaking of the recent mutiny of women
employed at the cigar manufactory at
Madrid, the Kpoca gives the following
humorous description of the line of action
pursued by a certain director of one of
these establishments in a similar emer
gency :
The women having quit work, left the
manufactory in a body, and with menac
ing gestures and angry shouts hastened
toward the office of the director. The
tumult reached the ears of the latter, lie
asked what it meant.
“The hands have mutinied, and have
come to demand what?” “Justice from
your excellency. The whole of them insist
upon coining in to see you, and they de
clare they will come in by force if you
won’t admit them otherwise.”
It was a difficult dilemma. The director
reflected. At length he exclaimed:
“Good ! Go and tell them I am ready to
receive them.”
“Yes, sir,”
“But as there are so many of them, I
cannot see them all. They must delegate
three of their number for the interview .
The messenger was about to retire with
the decision, when the director cried after
him :
“Wait a minute. The three delegates
must be the three oldest ami ugliest ot the
lot.”. . „ ,
Strange to say to say. Bie director ne\er
received the deputation.
Maine has a population of 700,000. She
has 4 ’ towns, each with a population of
three or more thousand. Portland has
35 000 • Bangor 20,000; Lewiston 10,000.
No other town reaches 10,000.