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Georgia Journal & Messenger,
J. IV. HI RKE A CO., Proprietor*.
A. IV. MEESiE, I
S. UOSt'. f Editor*.
SATURDAYTdEC. 5~i"8687 '
THE LIMIT TO NEWSPAPER PERSON ALI
TIES.
We were informed last night of an elopement,
but since the practice has been commenced at
Richmond of killing editors from third story win
dows for publishing such items of news, we dont
intend to say anything about it. — Vicksburg JJeniltl.
The editor of the Herald lias, to use a
slangy, hut still very expressive phrase, a
“level” head. If Pollard had been of his
corn ct way ox thinking, he might have
escaped his tragic fate.
There is a very clearly defined limit to
the aggressions of newspapers upon pri
vate rights, and we hope tbs day is not
distant when it will cease even to bs pass
ed, except under the strongest provoca
tion, and even then with a full knowledge
f, and readiness for, any retribution that
mat- be exacted. Heretofore it has not
been the practice of Southern journals to
overstep this limit, and in consequence its
dignity and purity of tone have been
maintained. The article in the Opinion
was of a kind, and in a style very common
and much appreciated at the North, but
rather strange and new to Southern taste.
It was entirely unjustifiable, and while
we do not approve' the manner of its pun
ishment, we do not hesitate to declare our
entire sympathy with the feelings that
prompted it. J f Grant lia.J met Pollard in
the street and shot him down, having
given him due notice of his purpose, we
should not have a word of condemnation
for him. It was a brutal assault upon the
honor of liis sister’s name that fired him,
and he only avenged it in the same spirit.
As to instances like that referred to by
the Vicksburg editor, wc quite agree with
the Columbus Enquirer in not under
standing what right editors have to “ say
anything about” such matters, when
nothing but a simple elopement for Lite
purpose of getting married is involved.
It seems to us that affairs of that kind be
long to the sanctities of private life, which
the press should not expose to public gos
sip, much less aggravate by ridicule or
exaggeration. Such publicity or criticism
is often the most serious obstacle to a
family reconcilement indispensable to the
happiness of the parties most immediately
interested.
Newspaper men generally charge as
advertisements announcements of mar
riages solemnized with the consent of the
friends of the parties united. Then why
should they publish free of charge, and at
much greater length, accounts of elope
ments? It can only be because, in their
estimation, the public delight in scandal
of this kind. Either this opinion isunjust
to the public, or the public taste is vitia
ted to au extent which requires the aid of
the press in rebuking and correcting rath
er than administering to it. The press is
certainly falling from its “ high estate,” if
it has to pander to the gratification of a
perverted public taste.
A LESSON FOR MACON.
The result of the municipal election in
Augusta shows what concert of action,
zeal, and a determination to win will do
We believe every city in the State can be
carried the same way, if the same appli
ances are used. We are quite sure that
Macon can, and we have no sort of doubt
but that it will be, when the time comes.
To the citizens and property owners of
Macon, their city government is of more
importance than any other, and they- have
only to do as the people of Augusta did,
to have just such an one as they wish.
There must be but one ticket, though, and
that ticket the choice of a majority of the
people fairly expressed. It is very easy
to determine the manner of that expres
sion hereafter. \Y fiat we have to do, now,
is to resolve to tread closely in the track
of Augusta, by beginning, right away, iq
prepare for victory. If wo ploughland
plant judiciously, we will surely reap a
glorious harvest.
Mr. Jefferson Davis has at last found
his vocation. He made a had job out of it
in “founding a nation, ’ but he seems to
fare better as a popular lecturer. “The
importance of exploring Jerusalem” is tbe
present burden of his song. Likewise, -‘the
peculiai fitness of Englishmen for that
honorable task.” Being thus Orientally
inclined, he will next Ire beard of, we pre
sume, discoursing on “Dead Sea Fruits.”
Possibly, indeed, lie may follow that with
‘‘The peculiar fitness of Americans (in the
Southern States) for their enjoyment.”
After this the “Apples of Sodom” will
doubtless engage his attention : and then
“The Ten Lost Tribes.”— X. Y. Tribune.
To which the Atlanta Constitution very
appropriately adds: “Taunts like the
above can be productive of no good. They
are as unjust ss they are ungenerous.
.Since the close of the war no unkind word
spdken of bis enemies have ever fallen
from Mr. Davis’ lips. They would do well
to follow I he example he has given them.
Eschewing polities entirely, he has de
ported himself on all occasions aa a quiet
citizen, with a peculiar dignity of charac
ter; but they were not satisfied with per
secuting him only so long as he stood be
fore them the head and front of a formid
able rival power. They even pursued him
to that refuge which he has taken iu a for
eign land. Since the war he has studiously
eschewed all interference with our home
affairs further than to express the interest
he naturally feels in the fate of the people
he so much loved, and whose future weal
will ever he the earnest solicitude of his
prayers. His love of science and his lit
erary tastes eminently qualify him fo>- the
pleasures of foreign travel. And yet it
seems that curs like Greeley keep baying
at him even to the very gates of Pales
tine. I
Ewecto* JUwm.i-m ssgHgman
just from Keokuk Umi that pWe 1- fllllmr op
with lit o|*oos, uiul timt white uwn are bviuu' turned
oil and their place* supplied with colored men. A
pork pucker there rays be rui hire negroes for sHf>
a mouth, where he would have to pay white
labor MO. Os course, the laboring mau. who
voted for negro suffrage, will see the beauty of the
policy presently.
We find the above in the New Orleans
JHcayum without credit, hut presume it
originally appeared in some lowa Demo
cratic paper.
It is a very savory morsel to us, and we
have rolled it under our tongue with un>
satisfaction 1 . Very probably,
however, it is not so pleasant to the
staunch “loilists”ofthe Western Massachu
setts; who so hunger and thirst after
“ekal” rights as to iusist upon putting
the South under the control of her most
ignorant aud degraded class. We can
luncy the feelings of some of these pork
packers who voed for black suffrage,
when told that they must work us cheap
as a “nigger,” or not work at all. It was !
all very well so long as the “man and j
brother did not compete with them for i
a profitable job, but when his muscle- !
invited to make lowa his home by the '
gushing philanthrophy of these “loil” j
pork packers—bids against them in the 1
market, possibly the situation tuay not be
so pleasant. We hope all the darkies I
anywhere near the borders of “ioil” lowa
may take up their bundles and rush to be i
come citizens and pork packers. A good i
belly-full of this sort of food may bring
eveu lowa Radicals to their senses.
_ .. 4.
—The Columbus Sun says that a number j
of city lots were put up at BkerifPs sale
ou Tuesday, for payment of taxes, but ae !
tbefe were no bidden they were with
drawn.
MONDAY DEC. 7, ISGB.
FLAIV TALK AND HOME TRUTHS.
We find the following week day sermon
in the Constitutionalist of Friday. The
preacher is a correspondent signing him
self “Oeil Ouvert.” We have felt in our
own person—ala-! these many days—the
truth of what he so bluntly sets forth, and
so doubtless have thousands of other
Southern men and women. To them we
commend-his remarks. A serious consid
eration of, and an earnest resolve to fol
low them will be a most appropriate pre
lude to the duties of the coming week :
‘There is agreotspirit of inquiry abroad
among Georgian t, at present, as to how
they may mend their broken fortunes,
and it is certainly commendable for them
to se k light where there is so much dark
ness. The question, though, is whether
they have set outon the right track. They
seem very anxious to know how and
where they can procure labor, but com
paratively few of them have gone to work
with their own strong right arms, like
men who are determined to conquer Fate.
Ala?, for the effects of our early education !
Sometimes, iu the course of my life, I
have been tempted to believe that the
training of youth was nothing; but I
have survived to see my error. ‘Just as
the twig is bent, the tree is inclined’ —
with exceptions, of course, as there are to
nearly every ruie. We have been brought
up ill ease ami self-iudulgeuee, of which
people iu non-slave holding communities
know almost nothing. Home of us imag
ine that, since emancipation, wo have
learned to be as independent of the ser
vices of others as any Yankee oftliem all.
Not so! We still look for, and receive,
more waiting on than the Northern peo
ple dream of. True, we have much less
[ban formerly feii to our share, and, as ail
our idias are comparative, we couclude
that we have learned to do with very little,
or none.
‘lt seems to me I have tried as hard as
any Southerner to accommodate myself
to the new circumstances by which J find
myself surrounded, and yet, when thrown,
some time ago, into a c immunity of
Northern people, I found myself as com
pared with them, still helpless and de
pendent. They were paying high board,
and most of them were invalids, yet they
I scarcely thought of being waited on ex-
I cept at their meals, and perhaps for a
short time eariy in the morning. The rest
of the day, if they wanted a pitcher of
water, or anything else, they brought it
j themselves, while I was constantly wish
i iug for the offices of a servant, but, with
! the example before me, felt really ashamed
j to acknowledge it. f was struck with a re
| mark made by one of these Yankees. In
i a conversation with him, I asserted,
! ‘There is this much we Southern people
! can say for ourselves that you cannot
j claim for yourselves : We never meddle
j witli the concerns of others as you do.’
I ‘No,’ was the reply; ‘because you are too
j lazy to attend to your own.’ I wanted to
I knock him down, but not being a very
I stout mail, I concluded that ‘discretion
I was the better part of valor,’ and did not
! raise my hand. My implied proposition
is true. The Yankees are a meddlesome
race; but the answer was true also. We
Southerners are too mortal lazy to attend
to our own business.
“It may be claimed that if we are indo
lent it is the effect of climate or race, and
uotof eariy education. I had a relative
who was the owner of nearly a hundred
slaves, all of them iu a most admirable
shite oi' discipline, good field laborers,
house servants, &c.; but he taught his
children to plow aud hoe, and, above all,
to wait on themselves. He was by no
i means n stingy man ; on thr contrary', ho
was among the most benevolent, as the
poor of his neighborhood can testify ; but,
from principle, he taught his children to
be rather independent of the services of
slaves. I used to visit his house, and the
children never thought of complaining of
the food at the table, and hardly evereall
ed on a servant for what they could do
themselves. I thought it was all nonsense;
but to-day I see that Ids boys—those of
them spared by tile war—are aide to take
care of themselves, and are less hurt by
the loss of fortune than almost any people
with whom I am acquainted ; while I,
reared by parents indulgent, like other
Southerners, find the present state of af
fairs a great bore, to say the least of it.
“We hear it said, frequently, that the
present generation is too old, but the ris
ing one will learn the art of adaptation. I
see littie prospect ofThe negro is still
in our midst, ami,.salt! willing to perform <
menial services that no white man brought
here by immigration societies will submit
to, so long as land is plentiful and cheap
as at present. Children still cry out to the
little darky, bring me a gourd of water,’ or
‘push up the light wood,’ or do a thousand
things that they themselves could do just
as well, or better. Parents not only fail
to learn, themselves, but many of them
fkil to teach their offspring the lesson that
they must learn, or be forever lazy 7, thrift
less, and poverty-stricken. Mothers and
lathers cannot find the nerve to make
their children wait on themselves, so long
as they have a crust of bread to maintain
a parcel of dirty, loutish, lazy negroes
around them; and .->o long us this is the
case, just so long will Georgians and the
whole Southern people, occupying, as they
do, one of the most God-favored regions
on the globe, be far behind iu the great
race for prosperity and wealth.
“We want our lauds tilled, and true it
is that it is to the interest of the owners
of the soil that a dense population should
settle the country ; hut we have not yet
given up the idea of large plantations,
worke 1 by scores of hands, that will ena
ble! lie proprietors to live in their old ease j
and luxury. It would be very pleasant, i
gentlemen, to do this, or succeed in tbe
other plan that many dream of, stock ’
our plantations with large numbers of ■
small farmers, reutiugour lands to them, J
utid thus realizing something of English!
state and power ; yei this, too, is Utopian,
at least for the present. There is money ,
in farming here, as our people have dem
onstrated the present year; and those who
are physically able to plow aud dig, can
reap a great harvest. Some, too, will |
realize profits by siinp.y overseeing their
business closely. Those of us, however, :
who stay in town, too lazy, or sensitive,
or impatient to encounter the toil of actual j
labor, or the difficulties, trials and vexa
tions of an active superintendence of our '
farming operations, will fail miserably. |
We may write aud talk and hold immi
gration conventions, but Hercules will
help those who help themselves ”
—Mr. Q.ujip’s boy, who bad been in the
room with hismotberand the dressmaker,
astonished his father at dinner by inform
ing him that the mince pie would go
around better if he cut it “ goring,” and
did not make so much waste.
l’he hanging of Smith, near Hunts
ville, Ala., was a case of biter bitten. A
party of maskers called on him, and confi
dentially iuquired whether there ■was not
somebody about there whom he" would
ike to hang. He named two of his nelgb
ors whom he had long wished to see rise
in the world in that style. He went out
after them with his friends only to be
strung up himself.
-The Talbotton Gazette says that’nine 1
out of ten farmers of that county, have !
made more than enough corn and moat to i
do them this year.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER
LETTER FROM PHILIP POCLLAIN.
Poult ain’s System of Cotton Culture—The
Details and the Economy of the System—
Its Profitableness—The lAmit of Pro
duction.
Messrs. Editors:—My attention hav
ing beeu directed to your article in rela
tion to my Letters Patent, I beg the use of
. ur widely circulated journal for further
explanation, and for the correction of
some errors of detail, to guard against
misapprehension and false deductions.
i t must be apparent to every one that
the revolution which has been made in
our system of labor, has made necessary a
new system of cotton culture. The labor
i pon which the growth of cotton has
hcretofoie depended, does not appear to
L .-either increasing or likely to increase.
There Is no a lication that when trained
hands of this generation pass off in the
course of nature, that their places can bo
supplied from the same source. To regain
our agricultural prosperity, these condi
tions make it requisite that we should de
v:ie some improved system of culture
which will give us au increased yield from
a small area. We must cultivate less land,
and make that land profitable by making
it produce as much as our extended culti
vation formerly did.
Having, during an experience of many
y. urs, discovered that the losses in the
cotton crop were, in a great degree, owing
to ihe want of deep preparation of the soil
ii preventing the roots of the plant from
p netrating to the depth of perpetual
u nature, l adopted the method of digging
h des—-say from fifteen to twenty-four
inches deep, and two feet square ; throw*
log out the clay and tilling the hole with
surface soil. By this method I make a
si ll from 15 to 24 inches deep. Should the
si.il be poor, I manure it richly in the pre
pared hole. The quantity and the quality
of the manure demands the best judgment
of iho iuriuor.
Our plowing is not generally four inches
deep. Cotton planted with such prepara
tion can only send its roots about five
in dies deep When drouth overtakes it
tbe fibrous roots and the tap roots being
u*-ar the surface, are destroyed, or more or
le s injured, by heat, from want of moist
ure. The plant then sheds most of its
forms.
Oh the improved plan above indicated
the roots of the plant penetrate from 15 to
24 inches into the region of perpetual
moisture. No drouth can affect it. The
cotton has uninterrupted growth, aud the
whole or nearly ail the forms mature.
Cotton is an exotic. The longer the
season can be had upon it, provided the
preparation of the soil is adapted to it, the
more it. will produce. The larger (not
taller) the stock becomes the greater num
ber of blooms it will make from day to
day. The proportioned Increase at the
proper season, from day to day,is wonder
ful. It was to meet this point that I
adopted the method of transplanting iu
ordinary use by gardeners and horticul
turists, but I found it too slow and expen
sive to be applied to lieid culture. This
led me to seek anew mode.
My invention of the method of trans
planting consists, or arises from the shape
and nature of my cup. The cup is the
f rust rum of atone open at both ends—say
four inches long, four inches broad at bot
tom, and three inches broad at top. These
cups are to be placed iu hot beds—say a
bed in each acre, Ii Steen feet long and five
Jeet broad. The large end of the cup rests
upon the bottom of the bed, and the small
end up. They should be filled with rich
earth, woods earth preferable, aud such
cups planted with eignt or ten seed, from
four to eight weeks before the usual plant
ing time. Care should be taken to “heat”
the seed to insure quick germination. At
the prop®/ time, after tbe seed lias c sue
up the planter “thins” his crop “to a
s.and,” according to hi* judgment, easily
and quickly, with the fingers, by simply
pulling up the surplus plants of weaser
growth. To injure perfect success, the
hot beds should be closely made and cov
ered with glass. The cups, soon after the
cotton germinates, is tilled with the tap
and fibrous roots of the plant, which pre
serves them from injury. Whilst the
plants are in the hot bed it is often neces
sary to water them, but this is easily and
quickly done with a watering pot. When
mere is no longer danger from spring
frosts the planter transplants the contents
of each cup into the place prepared for it
by drawing the cup over the plant. At
tention should be had to airing the plants
when the weather is warm and favorable
to open culture.
Now, as to thr. limit of production, which
seems to have taxed your credulity so
sorely ; There are 1,351 holes or hiils in
a i acre of ground, prepared according to
my method, say eight feet from row to
row aud four feet in the drill (and not
eight feet, as you have erroneously stated
;t . Tbe general estimate is that 100 full
grown pods or howls will make a pound of
seed cotton. Two-thirds of the weight of
seed cotton is due to the seed, or, in other
words, there can bo gotten one-third
w. ight of lint cotton from any given num
ber of pounds of seed cotton. Now, with
lfi-GI hilis to the acre, the yield will be as
follows:
Ao. hills, y u . /Kid.i Lbi. send U>s. lint
or bowls. Cotton. Cotton.
1,861 100 1,301 453
200 2,722 HO7
300 -1,0*3 T3.il
“ 400 4,+14 1,851
! “ 500 0,805 3,208
“ 500 8,1(56 2,722
Now the best hill that I ever made,
with the best cluster seed from, two stalks,
was nearly seven hundred po*fe, 'Those,
ail my neighbors have seen. as. well as all
of my experiments. This, in my judg
ment, makes the limit of production. But,
my dear sirs, nobody assumes that the
standard of perfection reached by experi
ment can he taken as au uver&ge. No one
has been misled by the perfection iu wheat
culture attained by the experiments of the
Athens club last season. Nevertheless
these standards mark the limit of produc
tion, to which we may approximate a gen
eral average.
I am no prepared to-say how much cot
ton can lh; made as an average per acre by
my plan. With the best seed I am eou
virced thr.t an average of front 400 to 500
poiis can bo had to the hill or hole, under
favorable circumstances, when distance
enough i3 allowed for an expansive
growth. I feel assured that from five to
six thousand pounds of seed cotton can be
made u> the acre upon my plan.
It is impossible for me to state accurate
ly the cost of cuHivalidh per aero by my
method, at this time. I think it much
more profitable than our old plau and
would i>e glad to see it thoroughly tested
by a number of persons, and wili cheer
fully, for this purposes, accord to them
the use for one year of my Patent upon
application to me (394, Euiaw place, Bal
timore). The sources from which I look
to profit over the old system are as fol
low, :
Three or four acres in cotton would be
j sufficient to the ban and.
One-fourth the horse power only, will
| be required for a given production” of cot
ton. One-fifth of the fencing, only, will
! he required. Much labor in cultivation
| will be dispensed with, except in picking.
The cotton seed made to each hill will eu
| v ‘idi the same hill from year to year, as the
| H0!l is °nly deprived of the iint, and there
is but little loss by evaporation.
The preparation for the second year
i upon the same ground will be much de
! inasmuch as so deep preparation
i V* Die soil remains, in a great degree un
impaired. I pon hill sides it saves a <"reat
i dea ! much of which is lo»t,°aml
i avoids t.i@ effects of washing rains.
i he glass tin each acre is somewhat ex
pensive, but not near so expensive as the
cost of extra horses and extra feed, which
would be required by our old plans. When
t ‘’ a “’ d for , the glass hot bed is stock in
trade, and will last ior a number of years
Ins cups of earthen or jug ware will
; last tor fi ‘ty years, and are also stock it
trine, requiring no food nor extra care
1 hey can be made at. any Pottery at a
cost of not exceeding SIS per thousand I
am under the impression that in a short
time they cun lie uad at cheaper rates
I Probably of a material that will make
! t heir cost insignihcaut.
| , TU* principle will prouably be intro-
I duced into iobaccoculture, and is admira
j b| y a(J fP, led t 0 Wants of Horticultur
ists, while market gardeners, who aim at
[ the earliest vegetables for market will
rind it A profitable investment. '
I hail king you, geu lie men, for your kind
ly notice, I am yours, very respectfully,
Philip Poullain.
Salk Dav. I here seemed to be a per
fect mania for selling things last Tuesday.
Land, wagons, horses, town lots, dry
goods, etc., were all offered at public out- j
cry. The Carter estate, consisting of 1500 !
acres, sold for $3 78 per acre, and was I
bought by the legatees. The B. L. Powell
place, consisting of 176 acres, sold for
sBll. A spring wagon brought $52 50, and !
a sorry looking horse, $99 50. There is !
great talk about the scarcity of money, j
hut it is evident that our Talbot county j
people have enough to buy what they :
want. — Talbotton Gazette, id. *
TIIK PRACTICAL SENSE OF BILES OF TA
IILIC ETIQUETTE,
Among the rules of social etiquette,
many of which are undoubtedly tr fling,
a good number will be found to oe based
on a sound common sense. Consider, for j
example, that rule of the dinner table, do
notask twice for soup. This appears at
first sight both silly and arbitrary. It is,
however, a very sensible ordinance, and
iH to be.justified by the laws of health aud
the general comfort and convenience. The
oup, being a fluid substance, can easily
be absorbed in snail quantities, and, thus
taken,;-is a good preparative for the solidi
lies of the dinner. If, however, the
stomach is deluged with it, the appetite
and digestion becomes weakened, aud
tiiere is neither the inclination to eat nor
tiie power to digest the more substantial
food essential to the due nutrition of the
body.
As for the convenience or comfort of the
single plate rule, no one can deny it who
has looked upon an array of hungry
gua.stn whose eager appetite for thecoining
roast is compelled to an impatient delay
by some social monster capable of asking
for soup twice. The cook, iu the mean
time, is, of course, thrown out iu his cal
culations, and the dish, when it does come
at last, is either spoiled by overcooking, or
cold from being withdrawn so long from
the fire. The guests thus are not only
tired in temper, by a protracted expecta
tion, but baulked of their anticipated en
joyment. The advantage of not putting
the knife iu the mouth will be obvious,
we suppose, to all who are conscious that
one can cut and the other is capable of
iit-ing cut. There is ari excellent chemical
reason for that other table rule which for
bids the use of a knife of steel with the
fish, the ordinary sauces of wh ch com
bine with that metal ami produce a com
position neither wholesome nor appe
tizing. —Harper's Bazar.
Webster Revised*. —The Yale College
Courier has some new definitions:
“ Professor One who makes an avow
al of his belief in scripture ; especially an
officer in a college or university, whose
business it is to instruct students iu a par
ticular brunch of learning. [“Obsolete.”j
A person who is skilled iu breaking
horses. One who is an adept in slight of
hand performances. A teacher of the art
<>f self-defence. A teacher of the art of
French cookery—example, Professor Blot.
In tinj, the title may be applied to any
jackass who has the boldness to assume it.
“ Doctor of Divinity A title conferred
on a peason of profound learning, who
ha-i written some work on theology, or by
study and research has contributed largely
to the fund of Bible knowledge. “ Obso
lete. 7 ’! A title affixed to the name of a
Christian minister having the same force
as Reverend prefixed. One of the hono
rary degrees conferred indiscriminately
by colleges ou Ministers of the Gospel.
“ Honorable”—Formerly an epithet of
respect or distinction given to a member
of Congress or a State Senator. The term
is now applied to any one elected to a pub
lic office, or to a person who distinguishes
himself iu prize fighting, embezzling,
gambling, etc.; also applied to any case
where th© word dishonorable would be
more correctly used.
A Strange Story. —A maniac named
Jacques Coustadt died in New Orleans on
Tuesday, the 24th Distant. The Picayune
gi\ os his history as follows ;
lii the death ot an insane man whose
family resides iu the Second district, we
note one of the most remarkable instances
of remorse that has eooie under our ob
servation.
About ten years ago a rather pretty, and
somewhat famous flower-girl, residing iu
tin; Third district, was brutally murdered.
The number oi her friends aud her repu
tation for beauty made the tragedy the
sensation of tue day, aud, for a time, it
was almost tbe entire topic of con verna
tion. The police were set to work, and
with some difficulty the murderer was
arrested, tried and convicted.
On the day the sentence of death was
passed, lie suddenly became a raving
maniac. Many at first believed tbe in
sanity a mere ruse. He was remauded to
the Parish Prison, where he lay for
mouths. At length a board of physicians
was called to examine him, and they pro
nounced his aberration a genuine case.
The mutter was brought before the
court, where it was decided the spirit of
the iaw could not he carried out by exe
cuting au insane person, and the prisoner
was turned over U* his friends. Monday
last be died, raving fearfully, and shriek
ing in iiis dying agony minute particulars
of the bloody deed.
. Desperate Encounter Between a
Weasel and a Snake.— The following
; singular occurrence, says the Bridgeport
| (Coon.) Standard, is narrated by an eye
; witness as having transpired some time
j last summer on the farm of Mr. Wm. H.
. Bibb ins, in Fairfield. The narrator was
i spreading hay in a field, when bis atten
| lion was attracted to a clump of tali grass
; at some little distance, from which a
weasel was constantly springing up into
: the air. Approaching cautiously nearer,
| he discovered the cause of this” singular
| conduct. On a iittle mound of hay a large
j copperhead snake, at least three feet long,
was coiled up, and with head erect, dart
ing tongue, and exposed fangs, was watch
ing the weasel, who was making a series
of springs at the reptile, evidently with
the intention of seizing it by the throat.
The suake dodged and tbe weasel con
tinued iiis attack till at length by a sud
den spring he caught the snake by the
throat, and a furious struggle ensued.
The weasel held on, and the snake wound
himself around the body of the animal,
aimost entirely covering it, and seemed
about to crush it to death, who'll, his wea
seßhip let go his tlie snake’s
throat, and “(topped,” in t ,*ue weasel
style, out of the convoluted embrace of
his enemy, springing at least two feet into
the air. Ihe snake tiien crawled under
tbe mound of hay, and in a few moments
the weasel re-appeared aud crawled alter
him, aud from the tossing of the hay a
desperate fight seemed to I,e going on be
neath it. It ceased in a short tune, aud
the weasel came out dragging the snake
after him, dead, with his throat bitten
open. The weasel drag- ;ed the snake into
a neighboring fence, a n d they both dis
appeared.
China and Jafa’ +, —The schedule for
1869 of Lie days ot and eparture aud arrival
of tbe steamers run iiug from New York
to Shanghai, via As pinwall, Panama, San
r rancisco, sokohc>ma and Hong Hong,
has just been publ ashed. The time taken
up in traversing t he different portions of
the route is estimated as follows: New
\°rk to buu b us owseo, j San Frau-
Cisco to Yokoho ma, 26 days; Yokohoma
to Hong Kong, 6 days; Hong Kong to
Shanghai, 1 day A margin of four days
between the arrival and the departure'is
also allowed at San Francisco, and of two
days at Yokohoma. A tr&veler will, there
fore he able to pass from New York to
lokoboma, in 25days. Tiffs schedule is
is intended for the winter months; during
the summer the trip can be made iu 48
days. When the Pacific Railroad is in
operation, the time will be shortened to
29 hays. At present, by takiug the over
iauil route, part stage and part rail, the
mails irom Yokohoma can be transported
iu 28 days in wic ter and 35 in summer.
i To CruE a Cold. —The following is
! from Hall’s Journal of Health: ‘‘The
moment a man is satisfied that he has
i taken a cold let him do three things.
\ First, eat nothing; second, go to bed,
I cover up, in a warm room; third, drink
j as much cold water as lie cau, or as he
wants, or as much herb tea as he cam, and
j and in three oases out of four lie will be
| well iu thirty-six hours. To neglect a
I cold for forty-eight hours after the cough
! commences is to place yourself beyond
| cure, until the cough has run its course
iof about a fortnight. Warmth anii ab
stinence are safe, certain cures, when ap
plied early. Warmth keeps the por ?s of
the skill open and relieves It, while absti
nence outs off tbe supply of material for
phlegm, wbieh would otherwise be coughed
up.
Contrast. —The Chicago Times notes
and annotates as follows:
In Jefferson’s administration, sixty-six
years ago, “There were only 2622 persona
in the service of the United States, and
their otal salaries were* not above $1,063,-
000 a year.
Mr, Grant’s administration will com
nience with nearly sixty thousand Federal
otnce-bolders, whose aggregate salaries
amount to more than $30,000,000 a year,
besides stealings. The first “pressure”
that will be brought bo bear upon bis ad
ministration wi 1 be for an increase in the
number of office-holders, and iu the
amount of their salaries.
—Rev. W. H. Ajelson, an Episcopal
clergyman of Hartford, Ct., backed by
Bishop Williams, will refuse communion
for six months to any of his congregation
going to see Offenbach’s open ittas
MURDER AND ROBBERY NEAR GRIFFIN.
On Wednesday last one of tbe most (ear
ful outrages was perpetrated in our midst.
At about ten o'clock, p. M., four ruffians,
disguised as negroes entered the dwelling i
of Mr. Ben Pi. Serey, two mile* from
Griffin, and shot him through the body, j
then searched the premises for plunder;!
they obtained two gold watches, aud a
considerable sum of money, in specie. ;
They then took Miss Tyson into the peach
orchard, and choked her to make her tell
where Other valuables could bo found.
From some alarm they turned Miss Tyson
loose and decamped.
Mr. Serey, at last account, was alive,
but there is no chance for his recovery.
Miss Tyson is his niece. Mr. S. is pne of
our oldest and most respectable citizens,
and Miss. Tyson is a young lady above re
proach. The object of these villains was
plunder. They realized several hundred
dollais—took tiffs old man's life—grossly
mai-treated Miss. Tyson, aud are yet at
large. 'The evident object of these scoun
drels was to get the money arising from
the sale of liie Tyson property,ou Tuesday
last, hut Mr. Serey hud not received it,
and the assassins only got what he had oil
] hand. From what has been learned, it is
| evident that this baud of four robbers,
were composed of two or three negroes,
lead ou by one or two white men disguised
as negroes, and we have no doubt that
there is one or more wtdl organized clans
with headquarters at Griffin, directed by
white men whose business is to steal from
tlie citizens at wholesale and retail, and
where stealing cannot be effected, to rob,
plunder and murder (Jr if tin Star, 4 th
inst.
SUGAR LANE yh. THE LOTION STALK.
An experiment made tiffs year by Mr.
J. Ennis, of this city, conclusively proves
that syrup and sugar can be made m this
vicinity cheaper than they can he bought
by planters, and that it will he to the ins
terest of all cultivators of the soil to plant
some sugar cane. Mr. Ennis planted
three-fourths of an acre in the “ribbon
caue ” ou his place about three miles from
Columbus, ou the Taibottou road ; and he
lias made from Lie cane produced on tiffs
little patch out) hundred and twenty gal
ions of syrup, besides having seed cane
enough left for planting next year. Four
and a hu f stalks of euue produced one
gallon of juice. Wc have received from
Mr. Ennis a jug of the syrup, which is
certaiuly equal to any that we have ever
lusted. It is very thick, of light color,
aud us very superior flavor. That sugar
could easil> have been made from it is evi
denced by the fact that the syrup contains
it abundantly ill line particles.
We need not go into figures to show the
profit of cane culture wuerc even half sucii
* yield as tiffs cau be obtained, or to de
monstrate that it can he made vastly more
profitable than the culture of cotton. Ev
ery planter can make the calculation for
himself. Mr. Ennis says that the expen-e
of gathering the caue aud reducing it to
syrup is less than tiiatof picking, ginning
aud packing au amount of cotton of equal
value.— Columbus Enquirer, dd.
TIIE THICKER Y UF “RELIEF."
The judicial action of nearly ail of Gov.
Bullock's appointee* as Superior Judges,
before whom tiie question has been car
ried, on the point of the constitutionality
of the “Relief” measures of tlie Radical
party, is a practical confession of liie
knavery by which the adoption of the
new Constitution was seemed. Os five
Judges appointed by the Radical Cov
er aor, only one holds these measures con
stitutional Even I’airo t, the ffresident
of the Convention that framed the Con
stitution, is reported as having, in his
capacity a* a Superior Court Judge, deci
ded both ;the ‘ Relief” aua tlie‘'Home
stead” acts unconstitutional.
It would be a severe reflection on the
intelligence of these men to say [hat they
did not kuow these measures to he uncon
stitutional when they provided for them,
and persuaded thousands of white men
in upper Georgia that they had only to
ratify the new Constitution to secure their
benefits. They well knew the cruel disap
pointment that was to be tilt- result, but
they had determined to resort to any
measure of fraud to obtain the ratification
of ihe Coustitutiou. And now, after the
Ci mnffssiou of tiffs great and confessed
fraud, the party to which these men be
long is charging the Democrats with
frauds on Lie day of th Presidential elec
tion ! Faugh '. Columbus Enquirer, and.
THE CONUiUM POWER.
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, is reported
to have given tue opinion, that Congress,
under the Constitutional grant "to regu
late commerce,” can assume, control over,
in short, can govern all the Railroads
of the country.
The Tel.‘graph Compaulea, others as
sert, are amenable to the samo Congres
sional Power.
The Insurance Business has already
been taken control of, by Congress,—in
an act of the Inst winter.
The Banking Power has been already
monopolized uv Congress.
The Militia Power, (Conscription,) it is
settled by precedent, is in Congress, des
pite the States.
Sword, Purse, Ac., &e., these are already
concentrated there.
The Senate assumes, and divides, the
Appointing Power, with the President,
under the Ofli ial Tenure Act.
This Government of curs, which was
ouce a beautiful Republic of States, as
fou-uded by Washington, Madison, and
Franklin, lias thus become a Consolida
tion, not Monarchical, as yet,—for, in or
der to put down Johnson, Congress stole
all powers from the Executive, —hut Oli
garchic, the very worst sort of a Govern
ment, Sin and satan ever devised. (4en.
Gram, even as a despot, would he infinite
ly preferable to tiie Oligarchy of Butler &
Cos. for the North, or the Carpet-Baggers
for the South, representing nobody, not
even themselves,—as they are the chattel
property of others.— X. Y. Express.
The Perpetual Session of Congress.
—There is a movement ou foot tor tlie re
peal of the act providing for a perpetual
session of Congress. The act, it will he
remembered, was passed Jauuary 22, 1868,
and provides that in addition to the pres
ent regular time of the meeting of Con
gress, there shall be a meeting of the For
tieth Congress of tiie United States, aud
of each successive Congress thereafter,
at twelve o’clock M. on the 4th day of
March, tlie day on which Lie term begins
for which tlie Congress is elected, thus, in
effect, making the session of Congress con
tinuous tiie whole year round. When, it
was adopted it had a special object iu view
—namely, to watch Andrew Johnson, that
terrible Executive officer, lest duriugsoine
interval of Congressional repose, he might
perpetrate some bold act that would upset
reconstruction and destroy the Radical
party. That danger having passed, lead
ing Radicals consider there is no longer
any necessity for exhausting vigilance,
and go iu for a iittle rest hereafter, it is
probable the act will be repealed this win
ter.— Washington Dispatch to Xew York
Herald.
J ii K Hal.es on Tuesday. —Many curi
ous instances illustrating the excitements
and uncertainties of a public auction
transpired on that occasion.
For no reason whatever, save the bye
play of circumstances, and the headlong
impulses of rival parties, asiDgle lot of
land, about eight miles from our city,
containing 202.} acres, sold for the fabulous
figure of $4.400. We opine the magical
and dangerous word oreettf,however, might
solve the riddle. With that, as we
thought, exploded margin for operations
remaining, men go it blind.
Per contra, the desirable residence and
farm of Mrs. Moye, within three miles of
town, brought but $3,000, and other valu
able real estates sold at ruinous prices.,
Items of personal property commanded
fair rates, and mules were in demand.—
Cuthbert Appeal, 4 th.
A Wall-Street Speculator.—James
Fisk, Sr., of Brattleboro’, Vt., the father
of the notorious Wall-street speculator in
Erie stocks, is in a lunatic asylum ; and it
is predicted ttjat his son, the financial
genius of Wall street, will sometime or
other bring up in a similar place. He and
his father began life as a couple of Yankee
dry goods peddlers, driving their teams
from town to town; finally young Fisk
got into the dry goods store of Jordan,
Marsh <fc Cos., <u Boston from which lie
went with a fortune of $200,000 to Wall
street as a stock speculator, getting control
of the Erie railroad as a lever to work with.
He would issue great quantities of new
stock for speculation, and make great
“corners" by this menus and looking up
currency. He has won a fortune of mil
lions for himself, atvd ruined the market
value of the road. He is about forty vears
old, and immensely fat —Hartford times.
—Fort La Fayette, the Yankee Basfile
during the war, is cow a mass of ruins \
from fire. It will coat the United States
$250,000.
AX ISRAELITE PLEAUINU FOR SI.YDAY.
An Important Movement.
A contributor to the Israelite, published i
at Cincinnati, begins his communication |
as follows:
“In order, then, ttiat we may have a day j
of rest, a real Sabbath, which can be oh- j
served by alt. Israel, we propose to adopt j
that day which is set apart by hundreds .
of millions, nay, the whole civilized |
world, for physical rest anti the worship |
of God. Let our prayers and thariksgiv- j
ings with theirs ascend to His throne on
the same day, the Sunday.”
The writer who makes this proposition, 1
so repugnant to the ears of a people for
many centuries jealous of the slightest i
variation from the established customs, j
declares that he has been “selected as the
spokesman of a party, respectable in nuin- !
ber, respectable in intellect, fully persuad- j
ed of the correctness of their views, and j
fully determined to discuss the subject in j
all its bearings.” The selection is mani
festly a fortunate one, for the temper of ■
the article and its logic are remarkable for
candor, clearness and moderation.
The old Hebrew word “Shabbas,” which
lies at the bottom of this controversy, is
declared to mean simply rest. Cease from
labor and devote to the service of God
this is the literal and spiritual meaning of
the word Shabbas or Sabbath. * * How
does the fourth commandment read?
Does it say on this or that particular day,
specifying it by name, Saturday, thou
shalt rest and it shall he your Sabbath
henceforward and forevermore? No. Such
are the commandments of man, hut not
of the Almighty.
The selection of Saturday by Moses is
explained as being most suitable and con
veniem for the Hebrews at that era. The
institution, it is presumed, answered all
purposes throughout the past until within
the last half century when it became ob
solete. During this period they have been
virtually without any .Sabbath or day of
rest. Those who most bitterly oppose the
reformation are scarcely observing even
the day which they recognize as Sabbath,
l'he remit is that they are becoming lax,
and so fast tending to utter rreligion,
apostacy and the total destruction of the
Jewish faith. Even now their offspring
display perfect indifference to religion.
The question is accordingly asked :
“Do you not perceive the influence of
nineteen centuries on the observance and
forms of our religion ? And can all the
past, present and future exert no influence
upou you? You cannot stand still and be
passive even if you desire to lie so The
irresistible movement of progress, the law
of nature and nature’s God, will propel
you on to ttiat inevitable necessity which
we so earnestly beseech you to adopt. Any
day we set apart as a day of rest, to wor
ship God in spirit and in truth, is accept
able to Him. We soiect Sunday, because
in tlie fear of God, with reverence for His
great name, and an eye to llis 'glory, it is
more convenient, observed an it is by mil
lions, because it can lie hallowed, while
ours, as at present arranged, is an utter
impossibility.”
Having further argued thin matter, the
writer attacks with vigor tlie iotolierant
and persecuting temper which lias been
displayed by his fellow religionists. It
created the t.'hrUtlau Church. Jesus was
a Jew, a great man, a second Moses, who
desired to purify the faitti and correct tlie
vices of their church aud people, nothing
more nor less. “ Hut as a prophet is never
appreciated in his own country, lie was
crucified and made a martyr of, and his
disciples made him a God. ‘The blood of
tlie martyrs is the seed of tlie church ’
Wc sowed tlie wind and we reaped the
whirlwind. Our vices, follies, irreiigion
and cruelty created that church which has
been our scourge and oppressor through
out c(>untle-s ages.”
It is proposed to cull a grand religious
council, who can settle this Sabbath ques
tion definitely; either adopting Sunday
for ail or dividing those wishing Sunday
and those retaining .Saturday as the Hub
j bath.
i'hese views will na'urally create excite
ment, and probably lead to no immediate
results; but they indicate the dissemina
tion of a spirit of inquiry which must
eventually break down the wall of parti
tiou between the Israelites and other reli
gionists.
A TEXAS LOVAt. TOlilT OX A BUST.
The judge, whose exploits are chronicled
below is a military appointee, and the one
whom Gen. Reynold provides with a mil
itary escort on circuit. The Branham In
quirer thus describes the conduct of his
honor at Brenbam, including his entrance
and liis exit:
On Saturday night’s tr.-,iii arrived the
j >dge, slightly fainting. On Sunday, and
especially at night, the judge became beast
ly drunk, using language to good citizens
unbecoming liis position—which alone
saved him from a sound pummeiing. On
Monday morning reports were rile of toe
departure of thejudge. Shortly, however,
it was ascertained that he had departed
for tlie country in company with a freed
man, iu search of buttermilk. Jurors and
witnesses were pouring into town. Dur
ing Lite evening the judge returned, and
after imbibing, attempted to reach tlie
court house, iu which he finally succeeded.
Af'ercoouiug the steps of tlie courtyard
and climbing up tlie steps, lie succeeded
in reaching tlie bench. The court was
called and then adjourned until four
o’clock the following day. The judge was
certuiiily the muddiest man ami exhibits
the appearance of having been, wallowing
witli tlie hogs. By the assistance of an
attorney iie w as enabled to reach the hotel
amid the laugh and jeers of thousands,
who witnessed this strange precedence.
The wet evening, 4 o'clock I*. M., found
tlie judge in no better condition, cut he
finally managed to reach the stand, shorn
of tlie extra mud Court was called, the
grand jury organized ; with but Jit tie or
no change, court adjourned, and tile judge
called at the bar, took another smile, and
reached liis hotel. During the night he
became no better.
On \\ edtiesdity morning about day. in a
bar room, he announced liis intention of
going down on the train. When asked
what lie would do with tlie court, he said
let it go lo h—ll. Then judge what will
you do about tile grand jury now sitting,
lie remarked let them sit till they hatch.
Ibe train conveyed the judge on his
homeward trip.
Tlie above is a plain, unvarnished state
ment of (acts as we hear and have seen,
aud needs nocommeut at our hands. The
judge is a military appointee.
One ok Gov. Smith’s Radical Ap
pointees.—A negro, named Harry Bryan,
who keeps an eating room at Wetumpka,
and who wears good eiothes and plastered
hair on Sunday, sings loud psalms, and
runs the Loyal League at Wetumpka just
above his saloon, was arrested on Monday
for stealing a cart load of dry goods and
groceries from the merchants ol that
place. Bryan is one of Governor Smith’s
appointees to office. He is one of the in
speetors of the State Prison, and his duty
is to guard the temporal and spiritual wel
fare of tiie convicts. Os course the Rudi
cals knew their man when thev recom
mended him for office. He had been a
shining Radical light, and was worthy of
the higtiest ainoug the subordinate p aces
portioned out by tbe car ,et- baggers ainoug
the colored elect.— Mont. Mail, 2 d.
Captured.— On Tuesday last three ne
groes were captured in Cheraw, charged
with the crime of entering thestoreof W.
i k. J. Reid, of that place. They wen
\ brought over to Marlborough jail, on Tues
day night, where they are now safely en
-eonsed, awaiting their trial. About two.
weeks siuce these villains, with others,
broke into the store of Mr. Reid and stole,
about S7OO worth of clothing and other
goods, and there being suindent cause,
these uegroos were arrested. There are
others at laige supposed to belong to tbe
same gang, and one of tbe leaders, named
Henderson, is known to bo lying in the
woods between Bennettsvilieand Cheraw.
We hope the arrest of these negroes will
soon lead to the arrest of the whole gang,
and they receive their reward.
[liennettsvil/c Journal, 27 th ult.
The Tidal Wave in New Zealand.—
A letter from New Zealand, dated Octo
ber 28, gives particulars of a tidal wave>
which was observed at different points on
the coast about that date, at Wellington.
The tide kept rising and falling two or
three times an iiour, from low water to
extreme high water. At Osmaru the tide
rose aml fell fifteeu feet in fifteen minutes,
and at Lyttleton It receded suddenly to
six feet below extreme low water level,
and then came in with such a rush that it
tore all the shipping away from the
wharves, and caused tremendous confu
sion and considerable damage. These
demonstrations were followed by sharp
earthquake shocks.
A. M. Matthews, an employe of the j
Muscogee railroad, was fatally crushed (
between two cars on Thursday.
GKX. MB AWE’S REPORT.
From this lengthy document, just pub
lished, we make tlie following extracts:
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF GEORGIA. j
The Convention in Georgia, alter being
iu session several mouths, iu March adop
ted a Const! ration, which, together with
a State ticket, was submitted to tlie people
iu April, and ratified by a very handsome
majority of the registered vole ; all I jar "
ties taking part iu the election. 1 his Con
stitution, with some modification, was
adopted by Congress, and the Legislature
which convened iu July making these
modifications and otherwise complying
with the requirements of the Reconstruc
tion law, Hie State, together with Ala
bama and Florida, was by uctof Congress,
formally admitted t > representation.
'There is one point in regard to the admis
sion of tlie State of G orgia to which I
feel called upon to make special allusion.
When the Legislature was convened by
the Provisional Governor and the Gover
nor elect, the question aro.-e whether, as
Military Commander, I was called to in
quire into the eligibility of trie members,
either under the United States laws, or
the Constitution of Georgia. The Con
vention of Georgia, in its ordinance call
ing an election, directed that all returns
should be sent to the Military Commander
of the District, who was requester) to issue
the necessary certificates of election. In
carrying out this request of tlie Conveii
tiou, 1 deemed tiiat my duty simply re
quired that I should give tlie member
having the greater number of votes the
ordinary certificate of election, aud that
it would he for eacii House to decide on
j tlie eligibility of those members whose
! seats were on any grounds contested;
while J admitted, as District Commander
I executing tlie law. I was to see that no
i one ineligible to office under tlie fourteenth
| article of the Conslitutiouai amendment
| should be allowed to take office, I did not
j see that, in tlie case of a parliamentary
body, I was called on to decide on the
qualifications ot ttie members. In this
view I was sustained by a telegram sent
to me for my Information from the War
Depart men', which had been sent to tlie
Governor of Louisiana and tiie Military
Commander of the Fifth District, and
which I quote:
Washington, June 30, 1808.
To Gov. Warmoulh, New Orleans:
We think that persons disqualified un
der tlie fourteenth article of the amend
i rnent to tlie Constitution of the United
States are oot eligitde to your Legislature.
This is to tie determined by the resfiective
Houses, and no oath can lie imposed except
the oath prescribed by the State Constitu
tion.
[Signed] James Wiuok,
Coin'll of the Judiciary (join.
Geo. F. Boetwell,
J. F. Farnsworth,
H. E. Payne,
Reconstruction Committee
It will be seen by tiie above telegram,
that tiie distinguished gentlemen whose
names were attached, were of tiie opinion
ttiat no one ineligible to office under the
fourteenth article could take a seat iu the
Legislature; second, that tiie respective
Houses were to judge of tiie question ;
tiiird, that no oath testing this eligibility
could or should toe prescribed iu advance
of the meeting of the Legislature. These
views being in accordance with my ow n,
I acted on them, aud was present at the
organization of the two Houses of the
Georgia Legislature, of tiie members de
clared in uiy order as having the highest
number of votes there being administered
only tlie oath prescribed by tlie State Con
stitution. After these Houses were organ
ized, the Provisional Governor informing
me officially of their organization, hut
that as far as he could learn no steps had
been taken to test the question of tiie eli
gibility of members under the fourteenth
article; f replied to the Governor that
until the Stale was adun.ted to represen
tation, the Legislature aud all tiie officers
were only provisional, and subject to the
paramount authority of tlie Di-trict Com
mander; and that in ti<e ex -rci.se of this
(>ower 1 should consider all acts of tlie
Legislature null and void until satisfacto
ry evidence was presented to me that each
House had purged itselfof ineligible mem
bers under tlie fourteenth article, provi
ded there were any such in either House,
and I desired the Provisional Gov
ernor to communicate these views to
each House. On the receipt of tins letter
i each House iff once ordered an investiga
tion, and inquired into the qualifications
of each member, and duly reported thi9
fact through tlie Provisional Governor,
slating, at the same time, that neither
House had found auy member ineligible.
T iie Provi- ::d Governor, on transmit
ting these communications, expressed the
opinion, founded on evidence presented to
him, that several mem hem in both Houses
were ineligible, and called on me to exer
cise my power and require said members
to vacate their seats. (Jn reflecting upon
tliis subject, I could not see how ] was to
take the individual judgment of the Pro
visional Governor, in tlie face of a solemn
act of a parliamentary body, especially as
from the testimony presented I did not in
: several cases agree with tlie judgment of
tiie Provisional Governor. The question
tiou was simply whether, in the construc
tion of a law, and in considering tlie facts
of individual eases, 1 should make myself
tlie judge, or take the opinion of the Pro
visional Governor, in tlie face of the offi
cial information that a parliamentary body
bad gravely and formally, through a com
mittee, examined, reported and acted on
these eases. My judgment was decidedly
that I had fulfilled my duty in compelling
tiie House to take the action they had,
and that having thus acted, I h td neither
authority, nor was it politic or expedient
to overrule their action and set up my in
dividual judgment iu opposition. By an
inspection of tiie telegrams sent July Its,
and tiie reply of tlie Gem ial-in-Uhb f
July 2k, it will lie seen that my views aud
action were approved. I allude thus in
extenso to tsis subject, becair-e His Kxcel
iency tlie Governor of Georgia, in a pub
iic speech recently delivered at A bion, N.
Y,, was pleased to attribute do r-iiureof
Georgia to be properly reem - u a.-u-d to
my action in tailing to purge da* Legisla
ture of his political opponents < having
advised me, when he urgeit so . .i.-rion,
that liis friends had been reii-v. of (heir
disability by Congress.
THE GEORGIA FINANCIAL 1H! i h FETIES.
One of the first questions tiiat pieseuted
itself to mv actiou was the financial diffi
culties iu the Georgia Convention. I
found that my predecessor had indorsed
tlie requisition of tlie Secretary of tlie Con
vention, aud directed its payment out of
the Treasury, aud that the Treasurer had
refused payiuenton the ground dial money
could only he paid out of the State Treas
ury on warrants drawn by the Governor.
Finding this to he tlie sta'te of tlie ease, I
applied to his Excellency, Charles J. Jen
kins, and requested, iu view of the neces
sities of the Jaw of Congress authorizing
I this Convention, aud its levying a tax for
the paymeut of its expenses, tiiat he would
draw tlie necessary warrant for tlie sum
required for their-immediate and pressing
expenses. The Governor, in reply, de
clined to draw auy warrant except iiuder
appropriation by law, aud informed me
very distinctly tiiat he did not acknowl
edge and would not he hound bv tiie Re
construction acis of Congress, "which, iu
his judgment, were unconstitutional, null
and void. On receipt of this communica
tion there was no alternative but tlie re
moval of Governor Jenkins, which was
accordingly done, and Brevet Brigadier
General Thomas H. Huger assigned totlie
duty in his place. Subsequently I was
compelled to remove tbe State Treasurer
and Comptroller, assigning to these posi
tions Captains Rockwell and Wheaton,
of the army. I considered it judicious pol- ;
icy to avail myself of tlie authority grant- |
ed in the Reconstruction Jaws to detail
officers of the army to perform the duties,
as in liiis way I gave evidence to tlie peo
ple of the State and of thecountry that my i
only object in making the removals was !
the execution of the law, and that the
same was free from any personal or polit
ical bias. It affords me gratification to (
say that I believe the effect of these
changes was most beneficial, aud that the
administration of General Huger and his
associates who continued in office till the
State was admitted to representation, was
in every way creditable to them and satis
factory to the people of ail parties iu tiie j
Stale.
THE CAMILLA OUTRAGE.
Soon after announcing the position of
the military, the outrage at Camilla, in
Georgia, was committed, where, as I iiave
stated in a special report, the evidence
would seem to show that the authors of
the outrage was civil officers, who, under
the guise of enforcing the law and sup
pressing disorder, had permitted a wanton
sacrifice of life and blood. At the same
time the report stated that the opposite
parlies (for the affair was a political one)
hud by their want of judgment and their
itisistance on abstract rights, in the face
of the remonstrances of the law- officers
given those officers the opportunity of
acting as they did. Immediately on this
outrage being reported, an officer was dis
patched to the scene, who madea thorough
investigation and report. I found, from
tlie report, that tiie affair lasted but one
day, aud that there wag no occasion to
employ troops for the preservation of order
or tiie protection of the people. Being
satisfied tiiat the matter had been, and, so
far as the detection and punishment of the
criminals was concerned, should continue
to he, in the bauds of tlie civil authorities,
I transmitted the report ol the investiga
tion, together witli the evidence collected,
to his Excellency, the Governor of Geor
gia-
LECiU
Kanhionahlr Little fruiterer* aist FeolUh Mother*.
[better to the Chicago Tribtjtie, iki.J
Which reminds me to say that iu these
cold, blowy, snow\ days, I am pained to
see the efforts of foolish parents to fr eze
their little gir s. It is an outrage. Girls
should he dressed just as comfortably as
hoys On the contrary, tlie poor little
shivering things are sent opt into the
streets, with their heads comfortably pro
tected,’ thick sliawis around tlieirshould
ers which comparatively need no protec
tion, their skirls standing out at an angle
of forty-five degrees, and their poor little
drum-stick legs as unprotected fr m tiie
blasts as the legs of a turkey banging in a
meat stall. And thus we pack off tuese
little girls to school, with their big h -ads
(A) lie crammed full ot learning, at the ex
pense of their legs, which, at i> tender age,
are of more importance than their iieacis.
4a a general rule, parents should devote
their entire attention to their little girls’
leg-", and let their heads alone. The heads
will’take care of themselves indue time.
Tiie legs are helpless and need looking
after. By taking care of the heads little
girls acquire a knowledge, such as it is, of
music, elrawing, ail tiie modern languages,
Hiotany, the use of the globe, embroidery,
poetry, and in general a little ot nothing;
and, ov neglecting at the same time their
legs’ tliey acquire colds, coughs, headaches,
weak hacks, pipe-stem legs, hollow chests,
neuralgias and other complaints, which
either send them to Heaven before they
ought to go, to he made into premature
angles or, if they live to grow up, makes
them drag through a miserable, unhappy,
and uuheaiiUy file.
And all this time you take your great,
i-trapping, tough hulks of boys, who are
never cold and are twice as strong and
1 hardy a« your girls, aud wrap them up,
i and fit them out in thick woollen Housers
| aud drawers and heavy top boots. The
1 result is they grow up to he tough, strong
1 men, and these little wretched, artificial
1 feminine creatutes don’t giow up at aii, or
i jf they do, they develop into a sort of hu
i uiau curiosity, far better for j reservation
j in a case of butterflies than for contact
i w ith tlie sharp edges of the world.
If I bad absolute power granted me, I
would call together every mother in this
S city, and I would whisper in their ears:
! “Take those gills of yours and clothe
them properly. You have no business to
embitter their future lives with the misery
: of poor health, aud some of you, I notice,
are murdering your children, it is tfiere
fore ordered that within twenty-four
hours, every one of these bleeped !i(tie girls
shall have nice, loose, warm, woollen gar
ments, her legs protected thoroughly, und
her feet shod with thick comfortably
i shoes, through which dampness will not
j penetrate.” And after the twenty-four
! hours, if I found a little girl running about
iu any other condition, by the Eternal, I
would hang the mother for murder or
malicious intent to kill.
This is what I would do if I had absolute
| power. How much would we ail do,
IK
That if stands in the way of ail of us. It
is tlie skeleton iu each of our closets. And
on account of that little monosyllable we
never reach our ideals. Tnere is no IK in
nature. Tiie clouds fulfill their missiou
in Hie glow of the sunset, in tlie gentle
rains oi the sumrher. in the snow which
covers up and kindly care- for tlie germs
of the fl >wers, which will blossom next
spring, and in the .fringing of the storm
which sweeps over the ocean. The little
brooks fu riil their mission from the time
they are born in the bubble of a spring,
till they mature In sail-whitened rivers,
aud die in tlie arms of the ocean. The
Cowers completely fulfill their sweet and
beautiful eriauds, and a Lird’s melodious
life i9 as rounded aud perfect as a star.
Only humanity is full of uurest, never
contented with itself, always aspiring to
heights it cauuot reach, never content to
look round on its own level, aud see how
much there is that is beautiful. If weaie
foreA’er looking at tlie stars, how shali we
see ail the git at. beauty tiie good God has
spread out at our feet? You can nev<-r
reach the star, aud thus you lose both tiiat
and tiie flower. I- it not utterly useless to
torment ourselves with this skeleton of an
ik? Have we not other skeletons iu our
closets from w iiieh we can never free our
selves—secret- which must go down under
the flowers with us—realities which con
stitute tlie real ego, and which we cover
up with a conventional mask when we go
iutc the world, without troubling ourselves
v. ith this conditional ik ? There are sym
pathy, solace and rest aii about us, if we
only have tlie disposition to find them.
Lotos grows upon every stream, as well
as the Nile, and nepenthe i- right before
us, if we only knew how to find it. Jt is
as easy to live in beautiful tilings and fiud
the great compensations of nature, as to
dwell in the cerulean miseries of life. The
great Mother Nature lias rest and consola
tion for us if we approach her in the proper
spirit.
Type setting M achine.— The Raleigh
(X. (2.) Sentinel says Mr. F. G. Foster, of
that county, has just obtained a patent for
a type-setting machine. It is composed,
essentially, of a key board, type boxes, a
series of conductors or conveyors, fingers
and a “ stick ;” this is minus a “ typo.”
The machine can beset to auy font of let
ter, so that only one of tiie machines is
needed by any ordinary printing office for
its different kinds of work. The full
working machine is about thirty eight
inches wide by forty deep and thirty-two
iiigb, and can he constructed at a cost not
exceeding one hundred dollars. Tnere is
attached to tlie machine, when desired, a
permanent adjustable galley, which, with
its attachments, can be used by theopera
tor without change of position, to strike
off any number of proofs required, thereby
makiug it a most convenient letter writer
or form printer, for any office Thisaddi
tiona! arrangement will increase its cost.
The Real. Source. —The papers are
harping on the periodical—we had almost
said perennial—subject of “The Murder
Mania.” Wheuever one or two or more
murders than usually make up the
monthly record occur, we are sure to have
long articles on “Murderous Insanity,”
"Mania,” and attempts are made to argue
the pres'alenee of tins kind of crime iuto
a result of some kind of scientific mystery.
This is ail nonsense. Tlie murder mania,
so-called, is to be traced to a very com
monplace and matter-of-fact source—ar
dent spirits. Stop the mania for alcoholic
stimulation, and you stop this mania, as it
is erroneously called, E.ght of every ten
murders may he traced directly to the in
spiration of “mm,” and generally take
place in or near places in which tlie fiery
poison is soid ; tiie other two w ill he found
to have the destroying liquid har.giug
around them in s me indirect but influen
tial way. — New York Express.
Personal.— Senator Sprague, of Rhode
i Island, is now on a visit to our city, a
! guest of ttie Planters' Hotel. As the Hon.
j Senator is one of the largest manufacturers
'in flie United States, lie will doubtless be
1 attracted by, and appreciate at their real
vaiu6, the immeuse water power afforded
by tbe Falls of tbe Savannah, and our
other great facilities for tbe pr titabie pur
suit of ibis branch of industry. We
should like to see such capitalists take
hold in our midst. It would lie a goodly
sighttoseetheone hundred and fifty thou
sand bales of cotton which find iis natu
ral outlet through our market converted
into fabrics, instead of leaving as raw ma
terial. —Auyusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
Land Advancing.— Several laud sales
have occurred in this and neighboring
counties during the past week. The large
estate of tbe late Jesse Jackson brought a
little over ten dollars per acre. A. A.
Willett sold his place ut niueteeu dollars
per acre. Other sales have been made,
some .as high as twenty two dollars per
acre. This movement in lauds indicates
better times ahead. Even at these prices,
land is tlie best investment that can be
made.— Sumter Pepublican, 4 th.
Scene in Virginia. —Sable gentleman,
in tlie voice of Steutor— "Taloes !” Coffee
colored dame—" Hush dat racket; you dis
tract de wdiole neighborhood.”* Sable
gentleman—“ You kin bear me, kin you !”
Coffee colored dame—“ Hear you! I kin
bear you a mile ! Sable gentleman—
“ Thank God for dat! Thank God! l’s
hollering to be beard. With which cry
be touched up bis lean horse and moved
on