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SATURDAY, N( )V. I*, 1868.
Fnmu o» C\!T. Jqpi T. BHown. —Thefm-
re) oi Capl. Brown look place at Ins residence at
10 o’clock, a. m., on Thursday, about eight mile#
b» low this city, near the 8. W. Railroad. There
was a large assemblage of the citizens of the vicin
ity, and of the brothers of Macon Lodge, No. 5, of
which he had for many years been a worthy mem
ber.
the Lodge was repre-. nted by Dr. J. Emmett
Bhckshear, i’. M. and T. 1). G. M , as W. M. pro.
ten., with most of the other regular officers—alto
gether thirty menib r- of the Lodge. Kev. Bros.
K:chard Cain and J. Blakely Smith officiated as
Chaplains for the occasion. The sermon was de
li'. cred by Bro. Cain, and the other religious ser
vices !>v Bro. Smith. It was remarked by several
old Masons present that they had never witnessed
a more impressive funeral ceremony, and eyes that
w. re not used to weep dropped a parting tear to
tb memory of a deceased brother, while others,
not of the fraternity, paid a tribute of atfeetion to a
kind friend and neighbor.
Os our ancient Brother Cain, a word might be
MiL His discourse was eloquent from the troth
aid simplicity of language in which it was dcliver
cx Truth, in it' simplest garb, has its greatest
p( wer, and so it was felt and appreciated by his
audience. Had he been a man Oi early ambition
an 1 education, he would not now, in descending
tb : “vale of years,” t>.*- n the simple cultivator of a
Bn.all farm, with a iarg* dep udeut family around
him.
A committee was appoints and, consisting of Bros.
T. Hardeman, J G. 1> itz iirsl 8. 110-e, to draft
soitable resolutions as a tribute of respect to de
ceased Bro. Brown. These resolutions will appear
ii due time.
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Does it Hurt Bi ns to Stick Pins in Them.—
The world is made up of good people and bad peo
p) , and there are some who are wicked enough to
MV that it would be a very dull mid undesirable
world if all were good. Children are iff Mata re men
Hi and women, and what is true of grown people is
true of the little folks. There are some children
who are naturally -oe -od that they seem to find
It impo-sibh to do wrong, and vice ccr.su there are
home who take to wickedness as naturally as a duck
to water We well recollect a campunion of our
boyhood days who took a special delight in tor
tiring dogs and eats, and when none of that kind
oi game was to he had, he would catch flies and
bt "k them to Ills desk with pins, and laugh at their
... . Well we thought him a
vi in efforts to get awai ’ . , .
v , v i , i Mlow, and many a hearty
cry have w. had over the -litterings of the poor
flics that fell into tin hands of this wicked mou
lt- Jude, ~f our “feeiinks,” then, at discovering
1h it nil tie c tears were sip and for notliing, and that
th flies wen- not offering at all, but probably
,-ather liked tlie fun, and it may be enjoyed many a
bi arty laugh at our expense. The reader will agree
With us that the following statement of the. Jmeri
ra , Entomologist I “strange if true,” anil probably
m ire strange than true. The E ntomologisl says:
' In reality, linncv.-i, it is the confliicnient, and
not the wound made by the pin, that the insects ob
ie. ls to. Voii inav take any night flying moth and
ilily trßii'li, it with a pin to tlie object °n which
it i piniii" in the day time. It will neither flutter
nor struggle Now watch it a evening approaches.
It begins to 1 niggle nm-t violently, and most per
rons would believe it to be in extreme agony. Ihe
troth of the mutter, however, is that it now wants
to is- flying abroad, and is fluttering to get free
from th, pin It it is the pin that is hurting it,
wtn did it not flutter bv daylight when the pin
was first -tuck into its body ? The British entomol
«ig I Stephen-, tells a -lory of a dragon-fly that he
onro caught, which, upon his directing IU tail to
its mouth, by way of. vperiiuent, actually bit oli
anil at. four joint- of its abdomen, and then, hav
ing accidenlallv , . aped from him, flew away as
bri kly as ever.”
gays some one, this may be true enough as a fact,
but how did Mr. Stephens know what agony the
tail, if not tlm head, of the dragon-fly suffered ?
Perhaps, however, tlie pleasure that the head ex
perienced in eating the tail just balanced tlie pain
ttiat the tail feltln being eaten, which is fully in ac
cordance with Mr. Babbage’s theory of the “divine
rvi rage” of pleasure and pain in the universe,
which he so ably held in the “Bridgewater Treatis
es.” The pain that the chicken feels in having its
neck twisted is not th© plewnre that a
man lias in eating the chicken, auil thereby the
“moral government” of the universe is justified,
and nature feels encouraged to go to work again
with renewed confidence that slm is not misunder
stood.
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South Western Railroad.—Tho Chattahoochee
Minor (Fort Gaines) pays the following well mer
ited tribute to this corporation :
The continued prosperity of our city and the
Bunouildlll country, is owing, ni a groat, ilogruo,
to the enterprise of the South western Kaiho.ul.
This road is not only one of the best m the State,
but one of the best in the. l.’nited States. Its l resi
dent, Superintendent, and every other officer con
nected with it, are gentlemen oi rare ability; and
the systematic manner in which they carry on its
business commands the admiration anil patronage
of shippers and the traveling public. H>ey have
also a line of steamers plying tlie Chattahoochee
, iver, making close connections at his point with
the railroad. They r.m-v . otton and other freights
through this plan from Appidachicola and till ol the
interior points on the river to Savannah, cheaper
and quicker than any other lme. \\ o hope thatall
whom this may eoneeni, will hear in mind and
support this com pan v with that liberality then ru
terprise and go-a head ness so richly deserves.
No Municipal Election in Macon.—'We learn,
on good authority, that Attorney General Farrow
ha* decided that, under their present charters, no
election for Mayor and Aldermen can be held either
in Macon or Columbus, until after tlie meeting of
the next Legislature. The present officers will
therefore hold over, until their successors are ap
pointed.
Since writing the above, we have received the le
gal opinion of Messrs. Foe, Jackson and Anderson,
ivfclah coincide# with that of the Attorney General.
It Will be found elsewhere.
“ A Tax Payer,” iu the Savannah
Morn in;/ News, advocates an increase of
th* salary of the Mayor and other city
officers of Savannah.
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The total vote cast by the three States of
Pennsylvania, Gain and Indiana at the
October election reached the enormous
figure ol’ 1,512,094. The same Slates, at
the Presidential election in 1804, cast only
1,321,084 votes; so that in four years the
number has increased 188,010.
Smu Cox says that w Ih*ii he tret* hack to
Congress he shall defend General Butler,
and especially his militaiy career, and do
it in the words of the classic poet:
“ Hen Butler wa.- u soldier brave,
And a soldier bold was he :
He had for silver spoons and sieh
A par-ti-a-li-ty.”
Negotiations are pending in Chicago
between the bond-holders of the liouis
ville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad
Company and the Michigan Central Kail
road, looking to the purchase of the for
mer road, by the latter ( ompany. It is
the cntentiou of the Michigan ( eutral to
make a grand through line South.
An Editor Carte red.—Our Macon
exchanges of yesterday, chroni' le tlie hap
py union in tlie bonds ol matrimony on
Wednesday evening, of Anderson W.
Reese, Esq , our conferere of the Journal
A Alt ssenger, and Miss \ iola, daughter ot
Johu B. Ross, Esq. We beg leave to ten
der our congratulations to tide interesting
pair, with best wishes that the union thus
consummated may be all that mutual love
and confidence can make it.
By the way, we perceive that the last
editorial of our captured-.friend, previous
to fhi9 full surrender, was on the subject
«>t “independence ” ! Being about to part
with his own, we suppose his devotion to
the principle led him to say a word for
that of the South. Be this as it rnay.it
i» a sort of plea-ant dependence after all,
a.ml somehow, a c -nriitiou sought after by
every right-thinking man. May frieud I
Reese's chains set lightly upon him and
only be such as shall draw two loving
hearts more closely together. If other
wise we are confident it will be his unit.
9 Savannah hepubhean
Homf. News from Abroad. —The
Mayor of Macon, Ga., lately caught a
thief at midnight, robbing Ins gar
den The Mayor shot at him and brought
ueu. au * Nothing daunted, ihe
him tO . ®,. „p*iv exclaimed tHat the
negro md g ‘ j ieu ihe people could
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halted "-Cincinnati inquirer.
We are inclined to think that the
Mayor of Macon, Ga.,” will be as much
surprised to hear of the above occurrence
as we were. It is strange how much more
»om e people at a distance know about us
tu an we know about ourselves.
THE HKhOIRUE* OF THE SOUTH.
It ia the duty of the Southern people to i
stand up like men, under every reverse of |
fortune. God aud nature favor us. There
is no land ou earth, which has within it
self more abundaut resources than ours.
There is no need to go to Honduras, or any
where else. In the course of years, with
wise management, tlie population will be
ours. Heaveu intended this land for a
full and happy population ; aud only the
grossest mismanagement can prevent the
occupancy of all our fertile territory. Aud
when the people are here, settled for life,
their children horn and bred among us,
the very necessities of the case, the de
mands of our forms of industry, tlie nat
ural appetencies, induced by our staple
productious, and soil and climate, will
make them Southerners, and they will
affiliate with the original population, in
social characteristics and political procliv
ities.
We append below from the Meridian
Clarion, an article giviug the opinion of
au intelligent Englishman, respecting the
productive resources of our fair land ; and
we beg our people again to throw wide
their doors for immigrants, tiiat these rich
fields may be brought into immediate
cultivation. The Clarion says :
We are indebted to the Galveston Newti
for some choice extracts (which we have
not seen elsewhere) from a late speech of
Mr. John Everitt, of Loudon, de ivered
since his return from liis visit to the South
ern Slates. The picture which he drew of
the natural resources of the South is not
more favorable than true. He said that
her soil is overflowing with fatuess ; that
within her limits arc* to be found every
thing that can possibly contribute, if
properly developed, to the comfort and
happiness of a polished and refined peo-
ple. It is even so. The South possesses
the natural advantages enjoyed by all
other sections of the Union combined.
She is more capable of becoming a great
manulacturing country than Massachu
setts. She has fuel and water-power in
abundance, aud the taw material of the
great article which more than any other
enters into commerce, is her peculiar pro
duction. Besides, her capacity for pro
ducing breadstuff's is not surpassed by the
most lavored region. And here, too, the
fruits of tlie tropical and temperate zones
gr /W. It was no less truthfully than beau
tifully said by Mr.Everett that it is a“land,
so to speak, flowing with milk and honey.
It has broad rivers and streams; it has
glorious valleys; it has lofty mountains;
it has everything inviting to humauity.”
The great bulk of tlie soil he traveled over
was of the garden mould sort—a dark
mould from two to fourteen feet in depth.
He hart seen hundreds of thousands of
acres with a black mould fourteen feet
deep, that would hear anything in the
range of culture to auy exteut, without
manure. What would they say wheu
he told them that such land could he
bought—he believed that be had bought
some of it—at five dollars per acre ?
He also spoke highly of the mineral
wealth of the country. Besides corn,
wine, oil, cotton, tobacco aud everything
else in the way of crops, in the greatest
abundance, he had seen mountains of
Iron ore—great lumps—which looked as if
they had been run in crystals. There was
also there towering mountains of coal
coal seen under water —coal in tlie great
est abundance, aud of good quality, too.
Would they believe him ? There had
never been more than two millions of la
borers in tlie Southern States. He had
searched the records from the Mississippi
river to Washington. He had spent hours
and hours in the middle of the night
searching for facts, and there never had
been two millions of paid laborers in the
thirteen States—in a country thirteen
times the size of England. They would
thiuk that two millions of laborers would
do very little. What, was tlie result?
These thirteen States hud exported, dollar
for dollar, more in amount than the
Northern States with their teeming mil
lions—more than Russia, more than Prus
sia, more than Austria, more than Ger
many, more than France, and leaving out
the manufactures of this country, more
than England. These two millions of la
borers had exported more dollars’ worth
than any country on the face of the globe,
and they might include manufactures of
any other country except England In
fact, they might put two or tiiree of those
countries together, and then the South
would beat them. What with this small
number of laborers, labor was wanted and
was well paid. There was a wouderful
field in which humanity might go to en
joy its own industry. Tlie South was a
glorioua laud, full of pleuty.
The probable future of the South ? What
a landscape! What a panorama ! How it
stretches out over hundreds and thousands
and millions of acres of laud to be covered
with a teeming population! Wheu he
thought of the glorious views he had had
there, and then thought that that vast
country was to be peopled by large popu
lations, by busy pushing hives of men,
when he remembered that this beautiful
soil was to be cultivated, lie felt that lan
guage was utterly weak aud insignificant.
He saw, there, a country capable of taking
within its arms almost the entire human
race; what a future was that country to
have! Was there any man who could
presume to guess? The imagination fails,
and the mightiest wing of thought tires
and becomes weary, and we are glad to
get away from the theme. It would be a
garden laden with tlie richest of human
needs, a country full to overflowing with
all the requirements of human necessities.
It was to be a country gloriously great and
gloriously free, and how few years would
it reqiure to effect the change!
Mr. Everett said he was anxious to see
colonies of fifty toone hundred families go
out there atul settle in those lands. It
was of no use, however, to send men who
were not adapted. Many people go who
had better have stayed at home. Men
who understood farming, and who had a
little money—not much—were the sort
that was needed. A man with one thou
sand dollars there, could do as much as
as with ten thousand dollars in England.
Every nation grew its own doctors, lawyers
and shopkeepers fast enough. The thing
America wanted was not tiie sloughiugs
but the cuttings of tlie old country. Men
of nerve, bone, siuew. muscle aud brains.
This is the kind of talk that we like.
Mr. Everett comprelieuds our resources
and understands our wants. But let uot
the men and women of the South wait for
outside aid. Let them, improving their
opportunity, strike for themselves. Their
lines have been oast in pleasant places—if
they but knew it.
The Hlue Ridge Railroad Enterprise— Sensible
Conduct of the Democracy.
Special Dispatch to the the New York Times.
Charleston, Monday, Nov. 9.
Gov. Scott, aceompauied by Gen. Saw
yer and a deputation of prominent citi
zens, started for New York this morning
with a view of advancing the financial in
terests of the State, and enlisting North
ern capital to secure the speedy completion
of the Blue Ridge Railroad, w hich is the
missiug link in a coutiuuous railway liue
between Charleston and Cincinnati. The
Governor is much gratified at the quiet
and order that marked the election
throughout the State. After the an
nouncement of the result, a number of
prominent Democrats, including Hamp
ton, called in a body on Gov. Scott, and
declared their determination to accept
cheerfully and abide by the decision of
the people, to stand by tbe State Govern
meat iD its acts, aud to use all tbeir influ
ence in iuducing the people throughout
the State to do likewise. They expressed
heir conviction that the future prosperity
of the State depended upon a uuauimous
and hearty support of the Governuieut
and reliauce upon the ballot-box alone in
tbe future as a remedy for tbe evils of un
wise legislation. In reply, the Governor
expressed the great pleasure their visit
had given him, and his belief that this ac
tion on their part would do more to restore
unanimity among our people and place
the credit of the State where it deserves
to be than any political expression could
possibly efleet. He expressed the belief
that, owing to the small debt of tbe State,
in comparison to tbe liabilities of others,
with a successful admiuistratiou of the
State Government aud acquiesence aud
harmony among the people, South Caro
lina, by internal improvements aud other
wise, must in a short time become finan
cially one of the foremost States of tbe
Union, as she was already from her cli
mate aud geographical position one of the
most attractive. He thought that the
Blue Ridge Railroad enterprise—an eu
terprise of so much importance both to
the North aud South—could not fail to
command the attention of railroad men
and capitalists of the North, destined, as
he believed it was, to be a great connect
ing link of the line of railroad across the
continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coast.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER
From them Constitutionalist.
“WEEP .TOT FOR TIIE l>E \l>, BUT \\ EEP FOR
THE LIVIAG.”
BV H. C. B.
I, who have wished “my head were waters”.
And mine eyes “a fountain of tears” —that I might
weep
By day and night, for all my country's slaiu,
And asked, “is there no balm in Gilead for the
hurt
Os the sad daughters of my people ?” rise in strength, j
Without one tear , to bless the sacred dead,
And for tfw lining weep / There's calm in death.
But who “a wounded spirit's pau*r may bear?"
Matrons and maidens of our nation, rise
From the low mounds, long watered by your tears, j
Take off the cypress from each warrior’s grave.
And plant a laurd there! .
Walk each with step erect—press tlie thin lips
Yet closer still—keep back each bitter word
Grief's eloquence is silence ! Sing your songs,
Not in “strange land.” as Judah's daughters sang.
But by “our stream of death,” and “vale of sighs,”
Where they may echo—only in our heart*!
We arc aliens in the land that gave us birth.
Strangers aud pilgrims in our “Sunny South,”
Where all is shadow ! B'd she is ours.'
Forsake her not—be patient—’bide our time,
’Tis woman':- work “to suffer and be strong,”
When manly hearts, sore, need a woman's cheer.
So thickly strewn —or bleaching bones
That no kind sod hid from the sun or storm ;
I read tlie mystery now —"taken from ills to come f'
And later woes grow calmer in that thought.
As some strong staff seemed broken, where we
leaned.
One month ago, a mighty heart beat high,*
Tumultuous throbbing#, rending to and fro.
Alternate hope aud fear, like lightning's stroke
L’pon a giant oak —ht fell at morn:
And as the winged messenger the tidings bore,
How was the land he loved, in mourning clad !
Georgia —the inspiration of his life and lips
Felt the deep wound in her sad mother heart;
And as I saw him on her bosom laid,
After such tears upon his bier were shed,
As man might covet, but not often claim;
And loving hearts, forgot “the great man" there,
To call him “friend and brother, v and God’s mes
sengers
Brought comfort for tin* living in his death,
Because he had received “into hi# heart
God’s kingdom"—even “as a little child,”
And so “bad entered in.” After all these
Kindly* and sacred tributes to the dead,
I saw the earth received Him, and I thought,
Could aught make her cold bo#oin throb with life,
' Turns terw-h of patriot dost upon her soil!
But if unconscious of her precious charge,
The river, where his boyish footsteps strayed
Make# soothing murmur roam! his rest in 1 * place;
And trees that grew apace with liis own growth
Will shelter lovingly two sacred mounds
Where brothers rest—“divided not in death,”
Beneatli tlie sunshine of their native land,
Immortal brothers in each Southern heart!
Now as we mark sad brow upon each manly face,
And read in furtive glance, “our country’s doom,”
They “see the end from the beginning,” marvel
ling now
That faith on earth should ever seem so dim.
God's mysteries are made plain, and could they
frame
One prayer for our tried hearts, the burden thus
W ould surely read —"Even Thy will be done."
*Gen. Cobb.
WHAT THE DEAR IRE ATERES ARE WEAR
ING.
The London Queen, in its Paris corres
pondence, October “Ith, says tiie two col
ors likely to be fashionable during the
winter are both becoming to brunet) ; at
the same time they have been adopted by
blondes, simply because they do not find
them unbecoming. A woman with golden
bair is tlie ideal lype of beauty, and every
color should become her. Poppies and
corn flowers are very effective, with wav
ing corn. The two fashionable color# are
ruby of all shades, from the light rubis
balai as it is called, to the dark garnet,
named macattsa; the second favorite is yel
low. front tiie marigold shade, up to tlie
dye called Aurora, which is a very pale
tint.
I uvitations for balls, receptions, Ac., are
now gotten up on silks and satins.
The “Marie Antoinette” is the new
style of breakfast slippers for ladies It is
made of black kid, with very high, nar
row heels, is high and pointed at the hack,
and is cut with a flap upon the front of
tiie foot, which is ornamented with a strap
and buckle.
Young ladies are having indoor dresses
made of scarlet or blue merino, to be worn
with fancy over-dresses of black silk, or
white clear muslins. The over-dresses are
low and trimmed with rutiles of the same.
They are rouuded at the sides and looped
up high with bows of silk or muslin.
A Paris paper publishes the following
description of a dress for paying calls:
Rohe in plaiu violet silk trimmed below
with a wide flounce in black silk, and
finished by a wide violet blende and a
black stripe in curves. Ihe paletot with
wide facings thrown back is also edged
with curve stripes ami violet blende. The
girdle and tassels are in violet, the small
bonnet is in violet silk with black lace,
red roses and sparkling aigret.
For autumn costumes the pelerine and
scarf rival in the most varied shapes with
the paletot, which, also made with gath
ers, hanging folds aud eaught-up trim
mings, steps not in the least in the back
ground, and preserves more than ever in
tlie present fashions its earlier admirers.
Mademoiselle Batailion, of the Rue de
Chabauuis, Paris, gives the following pat
tern for an evening dress: The plain high
top of this robe with a half train and
draped douole skirt is of gray Foulard cut
squaleatthe neck, the latter being sup
plied with a chemiest of transparent mus
lin pufis aud long sleeves of the same ;
round the lower edge of the skirt goes a
flounce, 6 8 inches wide, of the same stuff
as the dress; tlie rest of the trimming con
sists of lilac silk stripes aud lilac silk but
tons. Lilac grelot (bell) fringe mark out
behind (lie lower edgeof the draped double
skirt with the square trimmed top and
hangs out iu almost a double length under
the large silk bows of the skirt trimming.
The style of this dress can also serve as a
pattern for one of the so-much admired
overskirts of muslin, grenadine or net.
Necklaces of burnished gold, with small
monogram locket attached, are very
stylish and fashionable in England.
THE MULE TR ADE.
From the Paris Kentuckian 4th.
Mr. E. B. Bishop, who buys for the
West Indies, has lately shipped about 500
head of mules.
John Lair has sold to Thomas McClin
tock the lot of medium two year olds re
cently advertised, at SIOO per head.
Pleasant Lilly lias returned from Mont
gomery, Alabama, and reports the market
better than at this time last year. He has
shipped to his partner, Wm. Hart, only
cheap mules aud horses, to be sold to the
negroes.
Wm. Bowden and Charles Clark shipped
over 100 head to Georgia last week.
Kennedy and Bedford sold 10 choice
broke mtiles to Wm. Osborn at $175 per
head.
Private reports from the East report
market over-stockedjuid dull.
A Millersburg correspondent writes us
a note which we append below :
Millkksbitkg, Oct. 30, 1808.
I send an item in the mule trade arouud
Millersburg:
Wm. Bowden has this week bought 100
mules, costing as follows: 20ofMarston,
$l4O each ; 20 of James Miller, at $l5O ; 10
of J. Miller, at $132 50; 20 of William Os
born, $142 50; and 20 of Henry Potts, of
Nicholas county, for $132 50.
Billy sends part to Pennsylvania and
part of them South. He starts* 118 head to
day. We wish him luck. Thos. McClin
tock sends 20 head South this week ; Char
ley Clark starts 20 head South to day.
BE A COOK.
I have already expressed my contempt
for one description of fashionable folly;
let me here hint another. Why areynuug
ladies often taught the use of the celestial
globe, (which is really of no use,) but
never cookery ? If l was a youug govern
ment clerk, ora barrister who had just
done “eating his dinner only in one
sense, how much rather would I marry a
girl who could give me a good omelette,
until we could afford to keep an artiste,
than one who could speak French with an
English accent, or play indifferently on a
cheap piano, or know “Maguall’s Ques
tions” by heart! Talk of romance! In
all the fiction of courtship—l menu in ail
the courtships of fiction—what is more
touching than the making of that beef
steak pudding by Tom Pinch’s si-ter!
Aud this is an attraction, remember, that
remains when beauty has departed, when
the beloved object has become an object
(to the casual observer,) aud there is not
enough of her hair left at the back of her
head to cover her frisette! O woman,
woman! take my advice, and learn to
cook ! Then shall your gentle ministra
tion be as a sweet savor in the nostrils of
your husband, and your labor be accept
able unto him, even when you have had
fourteen children. Teach all your girls to
cook, aud you shall be blessed even by the
generation that comes after you. The
teachings of the just smell sweet, aud sim
mer even in their dust. Or if moral con
siderations have no weight with you, re
fleet how infinitely preferable it is for
your daughter to be a culinary artiste aud
ruler de facto of a great household, than
to be a governess, with half her salary,
and snubbed by the servants.— “ Cook/”
in Chambers Journal.
An Australian paper says : “Horses are
sold in Gripp’s Land at tenpeuce a
piece, or seven for five shillings-’’
MONDAY, NOV. 16, 1868.
WIIAT WILL GENERAL GRANT DO 1
The papers, North and South, are specu
lating as to what Gen. Grant’s policy will
be wheu he becomes President. For our
selves, we can see no good reason to hope
that it will be otherwise than radical, but
tru#t that we may be mi-taken. “Tyrone
Powers,” the taleuted and generally well
informed correspondent of the Chronicle
and Sentinel, has the following, touching
the matter :
And uow for Grant. The all but uni
versal impression here is that he will stand
conservative. 1 hear, on very good author
ity, that he has already quarreled with
Washburue ; and, if -o, the rupture is sig
nificant. Washburne is the ntau who got
Grant his commission as captain, aud af
terward shielded him from removal wheu
that step was agitated oil account of al
leged drunkeuess. The relations between
the two have been exceedingly intimate,
aud, were uot my information such as can
hardly be gaiusayed, I would be loth to
credit a disruption One aeeouut is that
Washburne sought to make Grant feel
that he (Washburue) w’as his good geuius.
and had procured his election —something
that Grant at once resented. Auotber
story is that Washburue, who is a bitter
Radical, aud aspires, since Steven’s death,
to the leadership of the ultras, sought to
mould the administration iu accordance
with his own views, and that Grant re
fused point blank to follow a revolutiona
ry lead. Which account is coriect it is
hard to say—probably the latter; but,
whatever the cause of schism, there has
been a rupture, and Grant is represented
as so fearfully incensed at Washburne
that at the very mention of his name he
griuds lus teeth. Like most men of me
diocre calibre, the President elect is mor
bidly suspicious of auybody seeming to
exercise an influence over him, aud a
statement reaches here from Washington
totheeffect that Le is stubbornly determin
ed to follow nobody’s decrees but his own.
Men here wiio know him, say lie is bull
headed to the last degree, aud if so, we are
likely to have lively times in the next
Congress. It is a remarkablecircumstance,
which is becoming more aud more un
mistakably evident as the full returns
come in, that many thousands throughout
the North who voted for Grant for Presi
dent voted the Democratic ticket lor Con
gress. The consequence is that there will
be a very heavy Democratic vote iu the
next House —so heavy, indeed, that if
Grant chooses to set himself iu opposition
to tlie ultra Radicals, it will ouly be nec
essary for him to form a coalitiou between
the Democrats and about twenty of the
more moderate Republicans to give him
the support of a majority in tlie House.—
With such a coalition, tiie Senate could
be brought to terms by cutting offsupplies.
Whether Grant will seek such a coalition
is, of course, uot certain, but it is thought
not at all improbable that he will.
Tiiat Big Stock.—We thought the two first
stocks gotten out by those go-ahead merchant#,
Messrs. J. B. Ross & Son, heavy ones, at the time
we saw them, but since going over the one they
hare now in store, we find that we were mistaken
in regard to their being heavy. If they were heavy,
in the opinion of those who saw them, then all we
have to say is that their present stock is a huge aud
mammoth one—a mountain to molehills.
Finding their supplies running low, Major Wm.
H. Ross, the junior of the house, took a flying trip
to New York some two or three weeks ago. What
he did there is seen in the piles upon piles of goods
they have uow in store, and are constantly receiv
ing.
As the advertisement elsewhere specifies, the
present stock comprises everything in tlie shape
of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Gro
ceries, Hardware, Iron, Steel, and many other
articles they usually have for sale. Purchasing
these goods at reasonable rates, the figures at
which they are offering them, present a good mar
gin for profits to those buying to sell again. To
the country merchant and planter this stock offers
great Inducements, and those, visiting Macon to
purchase anything in the above lines, should by all
means pay a visit to the extensive establish
ment of J. B. Ross & Son, corner of Second and
Cherry streets.
A Tobacco Thief Comes to Grief. —A color
ed “citizen,” who gave the name of Edward
Williams, got himself in “limbo” on Saturday,
after the following fashion.
A# Mr. Murphy, of the house of R. B. Clayton
A Cos., aud Mr. Perry, one of the clerks of Sey
mour, Tinsley & Cos., were standing talking in
front of the store of the latter firm, the man Wil
liams came up and eyed a half box of tobacco,
which was near the door, very suspiciously, but no
notice was taken of it. Having finished their con
versation, Murphy went on to his place of business,
a few doors lower down on the same street, and
Perry went into the store. A few minutes later,
Murphy saw the same negro passing his store, with
the identical box of tobacco, which lie recognized.
He immediately accosted him, and asked him
where he got the tobacco, whereupon the “citizen”
fled. Murphy ran after him and caught him, but
the “nig” showed fight White blood was too
much for the newly enfranchised, however, and at
length Mr. Murphy got him down, and held him
until a colored man named Edward Pearson, who
had witnessed the whole affair, ran up with a
police officer and caused Williams' arrest. He was
subsequently taken before Geo. M. Logan,Esq., and
committed for trial.
We regret to learn that Mr. Murphy had one of
his hands severely injured in his scuffle with the
negro, and received several bruises and hurts else
where.
Tiie Meteoric Display.—There was a very fine
meteoric display in this latitude, between 2 o’clock
and daylight Saturday morning. The writer of this
paragraph being a man of steady habits, keeping
good hours, was so unfortunate as not to see it, but
a gentleman who came from Atlanta, arriving here
at 2 o’clock, was more fortunate, and tells us that
the display was quite brilliant for sometime.
These meteoric displays occur only in about eve
ry thirty-three years, and are generally seen at the
same date for three successive years. The most
magnificent display ever seen during the present
generation, was in 1833. The 13th of November oj
that year,and the two preceding years, was the date
of these brilliant exhibitions, and the same day of
tlie same month in 1860 and 1567 was similarly
marked.
The first of these brilliant displays (in 1831) was
witnessed in it- fullest splendor ou the coasts of
Spain, and in the country bordering on the Ohio
river. Avery flue description of the second display
is furnished by an English naval officer, Captain
Hammond, who beheld it in the Red Sea, off Mocha.
He says;
“ From 1 o’clock, A. M, until after daylight
there was a very unusual phenomenon in the
heavens. It appeared like meteors bursting in
every direction. The sky at the time was clear, the
stars and moon bright, with streaks of light and
thin white clouds interspersed in the sky. On
landing in the morning, I inquired of the Arabs if
they had noticed the above. They said they had
been observing it most of the night. I asked them
if ever the like had appeared before. The oldest of
them replied that it had not.” The area over
which this display was seen,extended from the Red
Sea westward to the Atlantic, aud from Switzerland
to the Mauritius.
Wilt tho impoolng v/f Hioec aiaprnjß Ol SllOOt^-
iu£ stars ever known, occurred on the 18th of No
vember, 1833. It extended from latitude6l degrees
in tbe Atlantic to 100 degrees in Central Mexico,
and from the latitude of the great lakes of North
America to the West Indies. “From the appear
ance presented, it might he regarded as a grand and
portentous display of nature’s fireworks. Seldom
lias a scene of greater or more awful sublimity been
exhibited than at the Falls of Niagara on this
memorable occasion, the two leading powers in
nature, fire and water, engaging as it were in an
emulative display of their grandeur. The awful
roar of the Cataract filled the mind of the spectator
with an infinitely heightened sense of sublimity,
when its waters were lighted up by the glare of the
meteoric torrent in the sky. In many parts of the
country the people were terror-stricken, imagining
that the end of the world was come; whilst those
whose education and vigor of mind prevented them
from yielding to such terrors, were, nevertheless,
vividly reminded of the grand description in the
Book of Revelations: “ The stars of heaven fel
unto the earth, even as a fig-tree easteth her un
timely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”
The most probable theory in relation to these
meteors is that they are cometary trains, having
the eccentricity and pereodicity of comets,through
the orbit of one of which trains the earth passes
about every 33 years in the month of November.
This train is of such immense length that it takes it
two or three years to pass any given point, and
consequently, the eartli passes its orbit for as many
years in succession. This will account for the great
numbers that may be seen about the 13th of No
vember for two or three successive years. Moving
rapidly near the earth, and within its atmosphere,
they are inflamed by tbe rapid condensation of the
air—lienee their luminosity. They might be seen
in the early part of the night, but for the fact that
the earth is not turned towards their path until
towards morning.
(Correspondence Boston Advertiser.]
THE LAST LOTTERY.
All About lilt* Draw ins of the Pax-hall Houx- at
St. Louia Hon It »u an* how it wa# not Done.
St. Louis Oc ober 27, 186S.
Os all tlie Lottery bubbles ever blown
in tliis Western country—anti the air at
times have been filled with them—the
hugest and thiuest was that which hurst
here a few days since, after attracting
tlie unwary for months, uuder the name
of tlie Pasotaa 1 House Association. The
Pascball House stands ou Fifth street, op
posite the Southern Hotel. Origiually it
was a Catholic Convent; but having lately
passed into the hands of laymen—most
worldly laymen, at that—it was dechris
tianized into a hotel, in which character
it played a short and losing engagement,
and then retiring for a season, reappeared
as the attractive feature in a gambling
troupe. They say that the owner of the
house having become heavily involved
was encouraged, by tlie success of the
Crosby enterprise, to seek by like means
swift relief from his embarrassments. So,
joining with him certain other spirits like
unto himself— men possessed of unsalable
realty, on which they were willing, nat
urally, to realize many times its value
the proprietor of the Paschall soon organ
ized and presented to tlie ever-gullible
public a scheme divided into one bundled
thousand shares, price $5 per share, with
five hundred prizes, of which four hundred
and ninety odd were sewing machines,
pianos, and Attleborough jewelry. The
remaining four or five comprissed the
realty, to wit: The Paschall House, a
“dwelling” at St. Louis, a “residence” at
Memphis, aud an “estate” somewhere
else The value of these prizes was placed
at $500,000. Five millions would have
been a more attractive figure, and but a
cipher farther from the truth. Still, if oue
must lie, perhaps there’s merit in lying
within reasonable bounds. And now,
through the medium of our local press,the
public were made aware, by columns of
advertisements and endless locals and
semi-editorials, of the sure fortune await
ing the purchaser of tickets.
The word “lottery” has a pleasant
sound to Western ears. Especially seduc
tive is it to members of that large com
munity who live by tlie river—either on
it or along it —whose leisure is consecrated
to keno and poker, and whose only creed
is, “I believe in luck” —particularly wheu
aided by judicious sleight of hand. To
this large class the Paschall had become
known while it was a hotel. Many a cap
tain and clerk had enjoyed and paid for
its hospitality. And here was a possibili
ty of winning it, bar-room, liquor closets,
and all! Froma possibility to a probabil
ity, aud tbeuce to a certainty, the rise was
easy to an ardent minded boatman—it be
ing simply a question of more or less
tickets.
To conviuce the public that everything
was fair and above board, tlie managers
referred, by permission, to a host of well
knowu citizens, headed by our Mayor,
Mr. Thomas, who henceforth plays the
role of patron saint to the enterprise—
taking charge of title deeds to the realty,
of bills of sale of furniture, and even of
the keys of the Paschall. At length the
day of drawing, more than once postpon
ed, arrives and in the presence of a vast
concourse of spectators at the Fair Grounds
the rites began—Mayor Thomas officiating
in person at the wheels. When the draw
ing is about to open, one of the managers
—they well named—announced to tiie
crowd that but sixty-eight thousand tick
ets having been disposed of, the thirty
two thousand remaining in the hands of
the Association would now he put in the
wheel; whereupon, in they are poured,
and the drawing forthwith begins, despite
cries from suspicious spectators to “turn
that wheel again !” 'The result was that
the “Association” drew the first,-second
and third prizes—or, in figures, $370,000
out of the $500,000 —which clearly shows
that fortune was opposed to letting the
realty go out of the family. As to the
outsiders, they were deluged with the
flood of sewing machines and cheap jew
elry that the beneficent wheel poured
forth. It is to be hoped tiiat no one was
dissatisfied with the result, though one
can hardly help sympathizing with those
disconsolate boatmen, who doubtless find
it hard to draw from a dollar bracelet that
comfort which they had hoped to enjoy
iu a tavern of their own. Yesterday after
noon tiie it; epressibie, Paschall House
was sold at p* blic aucti< n by tlie Associa
tion and was bought for SIOO,OOO by its
original proprietor. »Tbe pecuniary suc
cess of tlie first scheme ought to encourage
a repetition. If conducted on the same
plan, it would uot require many “ draw
ings” and subsequent action sales to place
the enterprising manager on a thoroughly
solvent basis
But there’s a funny phase to all this.
After having stood before the public for
months in loco parentis towards his lottery,
lending it the sanction of his approval,
our worthy Mayor, the day after the draw
ing, awakes to the consciousness that there
is a Missouri statute which the Paschall
House Association has been openly vio
lating, in letter and spirit, from first to
last. Then with a naivete singularly re
freshing to the municipal head of a great
city, old Dogberry sends an official com
munication to the Police Commissioners
—-with whom, by the way, he is forever in
hot water—calling their attention to the
law in question, censuring them for hav
ing suffered the lottery to continue its
illegal existence, and closing with a re
minder that they had best look sharp for
the future. Scarcely had the Commis
sioners rallied from the shock of this
severe reproof, when a second communi
cation is received, which utterly out-Dog
berrys Dogberry. It is to this effect, that
although all lotteries and schemes in the
nature of lotteries are illegal and to be
abated, yet in the case of the —(naming a
certain “distribution” scheme in this
city, notoriously disreputable) insomuch
as many tickets therein have been sold,
and as the lottery cannot be broken up
without loss to the proprietors—therefore,
this shall be excepted from the general
destruction. The Mayor is thoroughly
honest, but his sense of the ridiculous
needs cultivating badly.
A CLEAR CASE OF LUCK.
“Well,” said Johu, “the way of it was
this: You know a good deal what I was
after when you went away; and my
chance of getting it then seemed about as
far oft' as the Presidency. It was a clear
case of luck, I tell you, and a little more.
Old Mitraille had alw’ays liked me pretty
well, though I w r as hardly the man he
would have chosen for a son-in-law ; and
I kept his private books, you know. You
know all about the unbounded gold specu
lation in 1862 and 1803; well, hesomehow
got into it—steady, old hard headed
banker as he is. Almost everybody went
into it more or less.
“The old man had rather missed it once
or twice, and got hit pretty hard, though
no one but myself knew anything about
it—so hard, in fact, that I was a little
alarmed for the result.”
“I got it into my head about that time
that I would like to run down to Wash
ington and take a look at the forts and
camps. Somehow it always galled me a
good deal that I could not take my part
with the rest., and I wanted to have aiook
at the thing, anyhow. So I called at the
house to see Lucille, and get a short fur
lough, and I succeeded well. That i», I
did not see as miw* ,jf xjuciileaa I wanted,
s>,uv tue oid geutleman gave me leave of
absence readily, and added :
“Suppose something may happen while
you are dare, eh ? You send me telegram
quick.”
“Yes,” I replied, “but you know the
War Department don’t allow a fellow to
send over the wires just what he wants
to.”
“ ‘Oh, never mind ail dat,’ said Mitraille,
‘just you send something good or bad, no
matter, just the words. I understand
mighty quick, ha ! ha! Never you mind
the War Department.’ ”
“And so,” continued John, “off I went
without a very clear idea of w hat was ex
pected, or how I was to do it.”
“And now the rest of it sounds tremen
dously like a page from Munchausen, but
it is all a clear, historical fact, Mitraille
wrote a letter which got to Washington
about as soon as I did, urging me to keep
my ears and eyes open, and promising if
I sent him anything of importance he
would h»lve with me on the profits. I
saw by that how terribly nervous he was
getting, and concluded that affairs must
be even worse wdth him than I knew' of.
Nevertheless, I began to be a trifle excited
myself, and though I had a sort of horror
of speculation, especially gold gambling,
I commenced to look around me pretty
sharply for items. Among other adven
turers, I fell in with old Sam Gorham, of
Cincinnati, one of our correspondents,
and a nephew of his, a queer, spoon of a
fellow, and we went around sight-seeing
together.
“Nothing would do for either uncle or
nephew but a continual succession of
cocktails, and I had to leave them in their
rooms soon after dinner, somewhat the
worse for wear, while I continued my
search for information under difficulties.
“J didn’t find out anything in particu-
ular all that night or the next forenoon,
but I saw the sights pretty effectually, j
ami about noon I went into my friends’
room to wake them up. I found the
nephew lolling disconsolately in a chair,
and the uncle in bed with a high fever,
the natural result of his foolishness the
day before. The hopeful youth began the
story of his tribulation by stating that he
had expected his aunt there that day, but
had received a letter from her saying that
she had been delayed and could not come
at once.
“I asked him what the doctor had said
about his uncle.
‘•‘Oh, the old mau’s right sick, and I
reckon I’d better telegraph to aunt Sally
to come on, right off.’
‘‘On the plea of a splitting headache he
begged me to send his message, and I
thought I would send one at the same
time to Mitraille &Cos Well, his tele
gram, save the direction, read : ‘Don’t
wait for anything. Uncle Sam is very
sick indeed.’
‘•While mine was simply :
“ ‘Nothing stirring. Having a good
time.’
"Now, how on earth the two little af
fairs got interchanged is a mystery to me
to tliis day. Perhaps I did it ; I don’t
know ; but twisted they certainly were,
and somehow both of them passed the
censors. When Mitraille opened his, he
straightway imagined that something had
gone to smash' in Washington, and that I
had taken a neat way of giving him a
hint, and he rushed out and bought all
the gold his credit would cover.
"He wrote me an account of his transac
tions, whose magnitude almost turned my
hair gray: aud while he thauked me for
my hint, he begged me tube sure that my
information was correct. I thought at
tirst he was crazy, aud then I became
pretty near crazy, myself, thinking what
might be the consequences of the mistake.
Tlie tirst thing I did—this was the next
day, you Jbuow —was to rush iuto Riggs’
and ask the latest gold prices.
"Guess my delight when I found them
fairly jumping upward. It was wonderful.
Still I was terribly nervous, for all sorts of
rumors were afloat, and I knew that gold
would fall as quick as it could rise. The
feeling grew on me until, pretty nearly
half demented, I went iuto the telegraph
otlice at Willard’s aud dashed off—
‘“lt’s all a sell, aud a big one.’
‘‘Well, the old gentlemuu took that as
lie had the other one, and not only sold
out, but went short to the full extent of
his line. It was the luckiest thibg in the
world, for sure enough, within forty-eight
hours things did go down with a crash.
I began to feel superstitious; there was
something uncanny about it; and I pack
ed my kit aud made fast for New York.
I did not attempt an explanation, but I
steadily resisted all the old gentleman’s
entreaties to go on with it any further. I
even managed to persuade him to close up
his gold account and quit it. I had Lu
cille to help me in that.
“The net figure was a very handsome
one, I tell you, and there was little trouble
about making the other arrangements
after my bank account was made up. My
honored father-in-law has the blindest
faith in my judgment; but I told Lucille
all about it What’s more, I don’t and
won’t speculate, and I won’t do business
for any firm that does. It’s all a clear
case of luck.”
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
Macon, Nov. lltli, 1808.
Gentlemen In compliance with your request,
we have carefully considered the question whether
an election for Municipal Officers can properly be
held on the 2d Saturday in December next. Our
opinion is that it cannot.
The Charter of the city, limits the right of suff
rage to white male citizens, twenty-one years of age,
who have resided within the corporate limits six
months prior to the election. The new Constitu
tion declares (Sec. 2, Art, 2.,) that in all elections
by the people “every male person, born in the
l. nited States, and every male person who lias been
naturalized, or who has legally declared his inten
tion to become a citizen of the United States,
twenty-one years old or upwards, who shall have
resided thirty days in the county in which he otters
to vote, and who shall have paid, all taxes, etc.
shall be deemed an elector.”
The question arises—how far does this provision
of the Constitution apply to Municipal elections V
It is a question not entirely free from difficulty,
but we are disposed to think it establishes the right
of universal manhood suffrage, in city as well as
State elections. Our minds are led to this conclu
sion by a comparison of this provision with the
-Ith Section of the 11th Article of the Constitution,
and because any other construction would not be
in barinonv with the general spirit and design of
the whole instrument. But we think it obvious
that legislation was intended, and is indispensable,
to give effect to the right thus established. For
instance, if an election is held, what rule is to
govern in respect to residence ? The Constitution
says the voter shall have resided thirty days in the
county in which he oilers to vote. But how long
must he have to reside in the city ? There is no
answer—the Constitution is silent on this point, and
yet it cannot be supposed for a moment that no
qualification as to residence was intended to be re
quired in city elections. Such a thing would be
contrary to all precedent and utterly absurd.
Again, the charter of the city provides (in effect)
that before any person, otherwise qualified, shall
be entitled to vote, he shall report his name to the
Clerk of Council before the opening of the polls,
in order that he may be enrolled among the tax
paying citizens. Is this provision of the charter to
be enforced as to the newly made voters ? There
is nothing in the Constitution to vindicate what
was the view of the Convention on the subject. It
was one of the details left to the Legislature to reg
ulate, and that body has not spoken. If this re
quirement of the charter is insisted on—and if an
election is held, it could not properly be dispensed
with—it would undoubtedly have the effect to ex
clude from the polls, a very large number of colored
citizens, who would otherwise be entitled to vote.
This would be productive of dissatisfaction. And in
the absence of a registry of voters, (for which the
Legislature has failed to provide,) there is reason
to fear that unavoidable injustice, would in some
instances occur. And this brings us to the only
other obstacle in the way of an election we
propose to notice, and that is the omission of
the Legislature to provide for a registration. The
Convention clothed the Legislature with ample
power (Sec. 6, Article 2, of the Constitution) on
this subject. And it was doubtless done with spe
cial reference to the necessity of a registration in
order to give effect to the provisions of the Consti
tution relative to suffrage in city elections. It is
manifest that there could be no fair or proper elec
tion, until provisions is made to ascertain who are
the persons embraced in the provision of the Con
stitution under consideration. We cannot suppose
that the Convention intended that an election
should be held without the necessary machinery to
prevent imposition and fraud, without a registra
tion of voters, the authorities,would be powerless
to protect the city against either. We are warran
ted in the assertion that the Legislature took the
same view of this subject—for in the only instances
in which that body undertook to give effect to the
suffrage clauses of the .Constitution in Municipal
elections—to-wit: in the cases of Savannah and
Augusta, it made provision for a registration.
Now the city has no authority on this subject, and
must await the action of the General Assembly,
Tlie view we take of the question under discus
sion, to-wit: that this t'Ulwa of *K« CaOitulluii
« jjropru) vu/ora execute itself, is by no
means a novel one. It is in entire accord with the
decisions of the Courts, and the opinions of the
most eminent lawyers on questions of an analogous
nature. For instance, the Federal Constitution
provides that fugitives from justice shall, on de
mand of the Executive of the State from which
they have fled, be delivered up to be removed to
the State having jurisdiction of the crime. Under
this provision the Governor of Pennsylvania made
a demand on the Governor of Virginia for the sur
render of a fugitive. The Governor of Virginia re
fused to comply with the demand, for the reason,
amonsrst others, that Congress had not passed any
statute to execute this provision of the Constitu
tion. He was sustained in this position by the
opinion of the Attorney General of that State ; and
Congress, to whom the President communicated
the reply of the Governor and the opinion of the
Attorney General, impliedly sanctioned their
soundness by providing the necessary legislation on
the subject. 80, in reference to the fugitive slave
clause of the old Federal Constitution, the Supreme
Court of the United Siates, Judge Story delivering
the opinion, held that whilst it established the
right of the owner to his slave, it was inoperative
until Congress provided the necessary machinery
to carry it into effect. In Ist Barbour’s Reports,
p. 345, Judge Edwards, of the Supreme Court of
New York, in a very able opinion, recognizes and
enforces the same principle. We might cite other
authorities, but deem these sufficient.
The principle of construction, therefore, which
we apply to the clauses of our Constitution under
consideration, is an old and familiar one, and we
think quite decisive of the question submitted by
you for our determination.
Our conclusion is, that you should bring these
matters to the attention of the General Assembly
at its next session, and await tbeir action.
Very respectfully,
Washington Poe,
James Jackson,
Clifford Anderson.
To the Mayor and Council of the City of Macon,
CONVENTION.
To Planter*. Manufarturera and Mechanics.
The old Cotton Planters’ Convention
convened, after the war, in Macon, on the
6th of September, 1866, met again, in
Miliedgevilie, in Noveml»er, 1866, and
changed its name to “ Agricultural aud
Manufacturing Association of the Slate of
Georgia,” with a view of enlarging its
operations, and inviting tlie co operation
of every industrial interest of the Estate.
By resolution, this new Assoeia ion was
to have met at Miliedgeville, simultane
ously with the Legislature, in November,
1867. Owiug to the political changes in
the State, aud exci'.eiueut of the public
mind, it was deemed advisable to postpone
said contemplated Convention till a lime
more opportune for useful deliberation.
Deeming that period to have arrived, I
hereby call a Convention of that A» SO( *t a *
tiou, to meet iu the city of Macon, at 10
o’clock, a. m., on tiie 10th day of December
proximo.
Planters, Farmers, Manufacturers iu
•Cotton, Wool, Iron, Wood aud Mechan
ics, aud every industrial interest of the
State, are earnestly invited to send to that
Convention intelligent Representatives, to
deliberate for ttie advancement and devel
opment of the industrial interests of the
State.
The Committee recently appointed iu
the city of Macon, to make provision for
holding an Agricultural and Industrial
Fair iu that city, at a future day, are re
speetfully requested to provide a Hall for
the Convention.
The newspaper Press of the State, I feel
assured, will manilest its characteristic
liberality, in behalt of the material inter
ests of the State, by publishing this call,
and keeping it before the people till day of
meeting. Ben. C. Yancey,
Pres. Agricultural aad Manf’g Ass’n
of tiie State of Georgia
Athens, Ga., Nov. 13, IS6B.
TEEMS USED ON CHANUE.
For the benefit of those of our readers
who do not understand tiie technical
terms used, we will explain them. An
option is either “seller’s” or “buyer’s,”
and the difference in their value is regu
lated by the length of theoptiou, and the
state of the market at the time the trade
is made. A sells 5,000 bushels of wheat to
Bat a price named, “seller’s” option this
week, the “first” or “last half” of the
month of “all theyear.” B may purchase
thesameamount frouiC, “buyer’soption,”
lor any of the period mentioned. The
seller may’deliver at any time he pleases
during the life of tiie contract, on a seller’s
option, provided he gives so many hours
notice, anil the buyer on buyer's option,
provided he gives an equal warning.
“Privileges” are when A gives B so
much per bushel for the privilege of de
livering grain at a certain price during a
certain time. If during this time the
grain should be worth more than the fig
ure agreed upon, A does not make any de
livery. He simply loses the money paid
for the privilege. This is called a "put.”
On the other hand he may pay B for the
privilege of “calling” for acertain amount
of grain at a certain price, he does not
call, hut loses the amount paid him for the
privilege. This is termed a "call.” A
large number of privilege transactions are
made every day iu grain aud stocks ; but
they have no recognition aslegimate busi
ness transactions, either in New York,
Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago.
A “ corner ” is the result of over selling
on tiie part of the “shorts.” As the time
approaches for them to fill their contracts,
it is discovered that there is a scarcity,
either natural or artificial, of the article
sold “ short,” and, in tiie eagerness of the
“ siiorts ” to fill, an unhealthy and extra
ordinary demand arises, which naturally
advances the price.
In nearly all instances these “corners”
are the result of a deliberate plan on the
part of the “ longs ” —those who have
purchased for delivery in the future. They
buy all the “cash ” or “spot” grain offer
ing, and create a scarcity.
As the “shorts” are by their contracts
obliged “ to fill,” they'are not necessitated
to pay the price demanded by the combi
nation, which is always composed of the
“ longs.” It often happens that the
"corners” prove disastrous to the “longs,”
as well as the “ shorts,” as they are left
with a load which they cannot get rid of,
except at a great loss. Generally speak
ing, there are few “ corners ” which turn
out favorably for their engineers, but as
there is a fascination and excitement
about tiie business, there will always be
found those who will embark iu them, so
long as “short selling” shall be counte
nanced.
How Presidents are Elected.
The modus operandi of electing a Pres
ident, after the Presidential electors have
beeu chosen, may not be familiar to all,
so we condense from the Philadelphia
Ledger an account of the process. The
Constitution provides that the electors
chosen in such manner as the Legislature
of each State may prescribe, shall meet in
their respective States and vote by built t
for President and Vice President. At the
meetings, known as “electoral colleges,”
the electors are required to make lists of
the persons they vote fer, and the num
ber of votes cast for each, which lists they
are required to sign and certify, and trans
mit sealed to the President of the United
States, at the seat of government. That
officer is required to open these certificates
in the presence of the Senate and the
uotes are then to he counted, and the per
son having the greatest number of electo
ral votes for President, if such number be
a majority of the whole number of electors
appointed, is declared to be the President;
and so of the Vice-President.
An act of Congress of March Ist, 1792,
which fixed a uniform time for holding
the Presidential election throughout the
country, also piovided for further details.
It requires the executive authority of each
State to cause three certified lists of the
electors chosen by said State, to be made
out and delivered to the electors on or be
fore the first Wednesday of December
next after the election; and that said
electors shall meet and give their votes on
the said first Wednesday in December, at
such place as the Legislature of the State
shall direct. In this State Albany is the
place designated. The electors vote by
ballot, and are required to make three cer
tified lists, which shall be signed by all
the electors, with a certified list of tin
electors attached to each. These are then
to besea'ed up in three separate package*,
and a further certificate indorsed on Hit
envelope of each, signed by all the elect
ors, stating that the package contains a
list of the votes of such State for President
and Vice-President. The electors are then
required to appoint and commission a per
son to take charge of and deliver one of
the said certified packages to the President
of the Senate at the seat of government,
on or before the first Wednesday in Janu
ary next ensuing. They are further re
quired to forthwith forward another of
said certificates by the postoffice to the
President of the Senate, and the third is
to be delivered to the judge of the district
in which the electors are assembled.
These and other minute provinions are
made to guaid against the possible loss or
failure of a certificate. In order to have
certainty m io ihecounting of the votes so
forwarded, Congress is required to be in
session on the second Wednesday of Feb
ruary succeeding every meeting of the
electors, on which day the certificates are
to be opened in the presence of both
Houses, and the result declared as already
stated.— Buffalo Courier.
What an Acre Can Do.— A friend of
Mr. E. Bancroft’s, of Athens, informs the
local of the Chronicle & Sentinel , that Mr.
8., on the Bth of September, had gathered
five thousand lbs. of cotton from one acre
which he devoted to experiment, and that
every one who had seen this acre were
unanimous in the opinion that there could
not be has than one thousand pounds to
gather, whatever the vicissitudesof the sea
son might be. Thesameauthority informs
us that Mr. Bancroft has at the same estate
gathered one bale to the acre for every
acre planted on his farm of some thirty
acres.
The Money Panic Explained.— The
threatening money panic in New York on
Wednesday last was the result (so say the
Washington Treasury officials) not of any
direct influence of the Presidential election
on financial questions, but of speculators
being loaded with contracts which they
had been struggling to carry till the Pres
idential election, hoping for a sudden rise
in stocks. The election over, these stocks
had to be thrown upon the market, and
the large amount depressed prices and
threatened a crash. Such is understood in
Washington to be the secret of the panic
At least 700 negroes voted for Seymour
and Blair, in Wilkes county, at the late
election.
A RIVAL TO NIAUARA E*LLs.
[From the Oregon Statesman. I
Snake River is the South fork of u
Columbia, having the alternate n ».„2 .
Lewis River. The valley of the h? ° f
lies along an almost direct line from
South Pass of the Rocky mountains ,
in early days it furnished the most’nr
ticable route over laud to the Pacific* T
Its descent over the elevated nUiL ,
Idaho, about 400 miles from wfieuee °[
take 9 its rise iu the Rocky mount*;.
Snake river forms thegreatSliosi l ont.F a | 1 i !t '
The river here runs through a narrow
rocky gorge, which widens and terminal!’
abruptly iu precipitate dills, the summit r
which is about one hundred feet abo\- e ii°
level of the rapids, and so steep that tl *
traveler can only‘descend at one point
an old Indiau trail, its numerous wind
ings making it übout a mile in lenirti,
Following this trail slowly and eart-fu i..‘
tiie tourist will in due time find himsir
standing upon the bank of tiie river on
level with the rapid*, and overlooking tt *
falls. The width of the river at this hojiu
has been variously estimated—uv thought
it at least two hundred yards. The rated
here form a series of cascades, rangin*
from thirty to sixty feet each in heigh?
aud just below them the river, in au urn
brokeu mass, leaps two hundred aud tei
feet iuto the bottomless pit below. 1
The course of the river at this poiut is
almost due east aud west; the cou tour 0 |
the falls is that of an ii regular horse shoe
aud their width, following the course of
the water, is at least four hundred yards
Although the river is not quite as wine at
this point as the Niagara river, the fad s
are higher aud quite as beautiful. ih e
most complete view of the river attoveand
below the rapids, cliffs, and surrounding
scenery, is obtained from Lookout Point
Lookout Point is a narrow cape of rocks
projecting from tire mam bluflaboutihr,*
hundred yards lower down on the river
than the falls, so narrow that two person*
cannot walk abreast. Hlauding upon this
poiut, we will endeavor to name the
prominent places of interest. The fl rBl
object which attracts our attention i*
Eagle Rock, a perpendicular pill ar 0 f
rock, about ltM) feet iu height, rising from
the main cataract. On the topmost peak
of this rock an American eagle lias built
bis eyrie, a fitting home for our natioual
bird—long may he live to occupy ht»
unique and romantic abode! Just above
aud about the centre of tiie cataract, is
Ballard Island, a small rocky island cov
ered with cedar and juniper trees.
Several similar islands, to the right and
left of the large one or Ballard Island, add
to the beauty aud picturesqueness of the
scene. The Two Seutiuels— two huge
rocky pillars—are one on the north, the
other on the south side, overlooking the
falls and reminding one of grim sentinels
guarding their object. Lower down the
river, aud from a higher staud point, oue
can observe a fine panoramic view of the
whole—the falls, foaming rapids, Eagle
Rock, the Two (Sentinels, the huge pillars
of perpetual spray rising from the bottom
and near the centre of the cataract, hut
extending as it rises to either side, and
made beautiful by the many-colored ram
bows which shed a halo of glory upon the
whole scene. Still lower down the river
is Prospect Gulch. Several gentlemen of
the purty, actuated by the spirit of adven
ture, determined to attempt, through tiie
gulch, to reach the river below the falls
They lowered themselves fifty feet on tiie
rope down the perpendicular sides of the
rocky cliff Reaching firm ground, they
managed with hut little difficulty, to
scramble down about five hundred feet to
tiie banks of the river.
Arriving there they found that their
troubles had just Inguu; they were six
hundred yards from the falls, to reach
which their path lay around aud over
some huge boulders of slipperv rock, w ind
ing along the foot of the steep hanks, and
then through the foaming and boiling
waters, the heavy swells of which re
minded them strikingly of the breakers
from the sea-shore. Finally they reached
a point about thirty feet from the falls.
Their journey here came to an abrupt ter
mination by the shelving of the rocks into
deepwater. The wind struck this |x>iiit
with such violence that they feared to
trust themselves iu an erect posture. On
their knees, they held with their hands to
the overhanging brush to prevent being
blown into the river. We think that one
cannot fully comprehend the immensity
of the sheet of water aud the sublimity of
the scene, until lie can gaze upward as we
did. This point is the Cave of the Winds.
The (Shoshone Falls, as a whole, will com
pare favorably with Niagara. Those of
our party who have seen both places pro
nounce the former superior iu many re
spects. In beauty and wildness of scene
ry, the Shoshone cannot lie surpassed.
Niagara excels iu magnitude only.
Is the Treasury in League niih the Slock Uauiblera
'lhe New York Evening I’ost comments
upon Secretary McCulloch’s vascillating
policy witii reference to Wall street and
the money market in terms of unmeasured
severity, charging him with collusion
with the speculators, etc. It says:
“The most striking instances of this
were the dispatch of Friday to tiie Associ
ated Press asserting that the Secretary
would do nothing to relieve the pressure
for mouey, and the dispatch of Saturday
promising the immediate issue of $10,600,-
000 three per cent, certificates. The pub
lication of the one was immediately fol
lowed by a large fall in prices, that of tiie
other by a large advance.
What we desire, however, local/ partic
ular attention to is the fact that both these
dispatches were known to certain hankers
in this city some time before they were
made public, and immense sales and pur
chases were made just at the rigiit time to
secure the full benefit of tiie coining
announcements, by houses which have
before been supposed to have private in
formation, in advance of the operations of
tiie Treasury.
The (Secretary of the Treasury lias such
absolute power over the money market,iu
a time of panic, that by a mete rejxirt of
his intentions, as was shown repeatedly
last week, tiie nominal values of the spec
ulative shares sold in the New York Stock
I xchange may in- affected by not less
than from twenty to fifty millions <>f
dollars.
1 lie possession of such a power is, in
itself, a great public scandal, and an inju
ry to tiie public morals. For if it were
held by the purest man on rarth, it could
in illier he exercised nor withheld from
i xercise without arousing suspicion aud
disturbing confidence.
But if the power is exercised, directly iu
the interest of a hand of sneculators, and
for the plunder of the public, tiie offence
is intolerable. Whatever may he Mr. Mc-
Culloch’s purity of purpose, it is plain that
Ilia power over the markets is used by bis
reputed friends to build up their private
fortunes by deceiving tiie public.”
“When Rogues Fall Out,” &c.—Ho
it seems that the two Radical factions in
Florida are now accusing each other of
having destroyed the State arms in course
of transportation to Tallahassee. When
ibe deed was first committed, it was her
alded as another great “rebel outrage
calling for the Interposition nr Congo*"
and the military. The following is the
dispatch sent North on the 6th inst., and
published in the Northern papers under
the head of “Destruction of State arms by
the Rebels in Florida:”
“Another high-handed Mississippi pi
ratical outrage has been perpetrated in
Florida. Lt. Gov. Gleason telegraphs your
correspondent from Tallahassee to-day
that the arms of the State, purchased by
Gov. Reed, were seized and destroyed on
the cars last night, fifty miles east <>f that
city, by a band of Kuklux villians.”
There are hundreds of other “rebel
and “Kuklux” outrages in the South
that will be fastened u|>ori the Radical
party whenever family quarrels shall con
strain them to teii the truth on one an
other.
And wiio ever heard of a pistol being
presented at the head of a high State offi
cial in tlie South, to compel him to tie*
liver a commission, until the carpet-bag
gers iu Florida “tried it on ?” This i-*
Yankee mode of civilizing the South, with
a vengeance.— Columbus Enquirer.
A New Market. —The local editor of
the Savannah News is in ecstacies in anti
cipation of the building of anew market
house. He says:
The present one is entitely inadequate
to the wants of the city, and is old aim
worn out. We hail with joy the prosper
of anew building.
Once when Father Taylor, in preach*
iug to his audience of seamen, found mm*
self entangled suddenly in a thicket of ac
cumulated clauses, he extricated hinise
by exclaiming, “I have lost track cn tD
nominative to my verb, but my brethren,
one thing I know —I am bound for “
Kingdom of Heaven /” That was oratory
superior to rhetoric ! It was getting
wine of eloquence by crushing the grai
of style.