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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1868.
WELL TO UO.
Notwithstanding all our losses and the
“tight times’’ we have been tiding over
for two or three years past, our condition
may not untruthfully, at this present wri
ting, be described as above. VN e have had
to start from the stump, and have toiled
along with many slips, and flounders, and
backsets, but we are on tolerable lirm
ground at last, financially. We mean by
this, that what we have made this year is
in hand, and freer, than ever before, from
pre-engagements on account of incidental
debts. Wo don’t owe much, and what we
do owe we can pay without much attain
ing of pocket nerves, anil subtracting tiom
needed and useful improvements. If our
political ills were in as fair a way, we could
oount, with great hopefulness, on a rosy
future, (liven peace in politics, aud our
pockets would soon overflow. It looks as
if there was some doubt about oui being
allowed to go on as we have begun, but we
hope for the best. Nothing under thesuu
but anarchy, or the most infamous mis
goverument, can prevent our prospering.
We are a hardier, more active, more ener
getic people than ever,and we have learned
some very useful lessons we did not know
before. We are not bound, as formerly,
to do one of two things with our surplus
earnings—buy more land, or more negroes.
Our changed condition lias developed new
fields for investment —and investments, ,
too, that not only pay, but are permanent,
filling the pocket, and gladdening the eye
as well We have learned all these things
by hard, sometimes very bitter, experi
ence, but we have no cause for complaint
with the results cs put down to our credit \
for this year’s work.
What »re those results? Briefly stated,
we may say that enough grain has been .
produced in the South the present year to I
feed its whole population, either in the
shape of breadslutis or an equivalent of J
beef and bacon. Beyond tills, it is esti
mated that there will be a surplus for sale,
consisting of, say, twomilliou and a half
bales of cotton, one hundred and twenty
thousand hogsheads of sugar, together
with liberal crops of tobacco, rice, and j
considerable quantities of other marketa
ble products, all of winch, it is sup
posed, will amount to the aggregate value ;
of three hundred million dollars.
Pretty good, that. Aud we believe, too,
that the pr- ceeds of this snug sura total
will, more than that of any other planting
season, go to build up an active aud prolit
able home trade, to promoting every safe
home enterprise, and garnering up all the
constituents that give elegance aud com
fort to home life. We believe that the
country, in its natural and artificial fea
tures, will have more to show for it than
in any former year in its history, and that
our people, in their homes, their habits,
and their business pursuits, will all reflect
the blessings and advantages shining forth
from the new era upon which we seem
about to enter. So mote it be!
GEOHUIA BEFORE THE RECOASTRIt TIOV
COMMITTEE.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette, under date of the 11th
inst., gives us this bit of news touching
the progress of the trial of the criminal,
Georgia, before f lie Radical jury at Wash
ington. '
The Reconstruction Committee held a long ses
sion to-day on the subject of Georgia, uuil were
icry much divided in sentiment as to the power of
Congress to perpetuate it* guardianship over a
sovereign State. A member of the minority of the
committee states that the committee will probably
recommend that the Georgia Senators be allowed
to take their seats, aud it is believed that such a
recommendation will be controlling, as the under
standing is general, that whatever the.committee
shall recommend the same shall be approved by
tlie two Houses of Congress. The discussion in
the committee on theqnestion as to what should be
done with the carpet-baggers who had dared to ex
pel from the Georgia Legislature their colored col
leagues, was for a time quite stormy to-day, and a
great variety of propositions was submitted.
Among other tilings it was proposed that the whole
work of reconstruction in Georgia should be de
clared a failure, aDd the State be again made a mili
tary district and placed under military government
until after the 4th of March next. On this proposi
tion tlie committee adjourned over until ten o'clock
to-morrow. The loss of Mr. Stevens, as the head
of this “perpetual” committee, has destroyed, in a
great measure, its decision and harmony.
\ Good Bl ack to Move To.—A corres
pondent of the Charleston Courier, writing
from Greenville, S.C., last week, makes our
mouth water with the following descrip
tion of the manifold blessings attendant
upon a residence in that vicinage. Why
move 'o Texas, or auy where else, when
such spots are within our arms length?
The town of Greenville is np in cver>' respect to ;
the progressive age. Business is very active, large
numbers of wagons from North Carolina pour into
the town daily, bringing apples, equal in flavor and
size to any produced in the North, butter, venison,
lard, bacon, and various other kinds of produce.
While here I have, seen some of the finest droves of
hogs ever brought to our market. I was told that
droves of hogs, sheep and beeves were continually
being driven from this place to Augusta.
These is more money in the District now titan
has been since the war. A splendid corn crop was
made, and a moderate wheat crop, and more cotton
was made in the District than ever known before.
The money realized from the sales of these cow
inodies has been stored away; no one being com
pelled to pay their debts, and none have a disposi
tion to loud money, recollecting the evils of the
credit system.
UNCOLLECTED TAXES AT THE SOUTH.
The uncollected tax of the Southern States
amounts to near $.‘1,000,000, which is a lien
upon the real estate upou which it is
assessable. Os this Commissioner Rollins
says:
The further postponement of this subject can
relieve it of none of its embarrassments, and laud
holders and purchasers are alike entitled to its
early solution. Unless it is deemed wise, in view
of the difficulties suggested, and of the impover
ished condition of the South, to abate its uncol
lected portion altogether, 1 would recommend the
passage of a law allowing its assumption by the
several States within a definite period, coupled
with a reasonable premium for such assumption
and authorizing and directing the internal revenue
officers in ease of non-payment by the State, and
upon anew basis of taxation, to proceed with the
assessment and collection.
Grant’s Cabinet —A Wager.—A
Washington letter to the Baltimore Sun,
of Friday last, says: “To-day the wager
of a cool thousand dollars was made by a
niau that he could name the Cabinet of
the incoming administration. Articles
were signed aud the money deposited iu
the safe of a leading hotel. The betting
slate as made up is as follows : Secretary
of State, Edwin M. Stanton ; Secretary of
the Treasury, Senator Morton ; Secretary
of War, Geu. J. M. 8 ihofleld ; Secretary
of the Navy, Admiral Porter; Secretary
of the Interior, Senator Con ness; Post
master General, Horace Greeley ; and
Attorney General, Matt. H. Carpenter.
—A Jamaica professor predicts another
earthquake for California about these
days.
“Meal,” But Not Right
It seems to bo the settled determination of our
city “blackhawks” to let no fair (unfair wo should
have said i opportunity pass of pouncing upon those
rural lambs of their owu color who visit our town,
and ileecing them of the last dime of their hard
earnings.
Just so soon as Pomp or Dinah arrives, the load
of cotton throwu off, and there is the slightest
chance of the aforesaid green colored individual
receiving an their employers, then
straightway plots are fixed up by these city birds
of prey for a swocp upon Cuff or Zilla, with ss
view of gobbting up tlie proceeds of his or bur past
summer’s toil aud trouble.
Almost daily, we bear of ease* of this nature.
The usual modus operand* is muchly after this style
and fashion :
City Hawk (approaching Black Lamb) —“Why,
Pornpcy, my dear boy, how is you? Ise mighty
glad fur to see you lu Macon once more. Say, old
feller, how did you mek outjvid old Brown ? He’s
a mighty cult; but yu no how fur to
manage Yu want smri tings, and I reckin I
can put JKt the way of gittin’ um fur almost
nuthiir’.. How much tnunny yu got? An’ wat yu
want?
I Black Lamb, (considerably overcome by the con
descension of his well-dressed city cousin) —Wy,
Mr. Smit, I’se intirely obercum by vur condesen
shun. I)e Boss he’s just gib me sum munnv fur tu
by jist what Dinah an me may fancy. We waut sum
tings, but don’t know how furdis munnv will go ?
“Smit,” with the greatest pleasure imaginable,
proceeds to count over Pomp’s pile. But, does he
return it to his country friend ? “Not much as we
knows of,” to use a can't phase. With his list fast
upon Pomp’s money, he calls upon that lnuocent
*o follow him, which, forsooth, the aforesaid indi
vidual is bound to do, or see his money fart fading
from his sight, as the hawk darts suddenly around
the corner of tlie nearest alley.
It may be, Pomp has been along “that road be
fore,” and keeps steps to-the time of the “Rogue’s
March.” Well, that only causes the Ilawk to change
his tactics a little, aud instead of bolting the whole
pilo, he takes him into some place where cheap
goods are sold cheap, and Hawk being paymaster,
our innocent mutton gets about half of his money
back, in tin- rtiape of goods for which he has little
or no use—for a “sockdologer” of the commonest
sort of whiskey thrown in free, gratis, aud for
nothing, slightly obscures Pomp's otherwise good
eyesight and common sense.
11 may be that CulL disdaining the laying out of
his loose change in “rags,” either for himself or
“de old woman,” wants to invest in smoked hog
meat. Straightway the friendly (?) offices of some
Joseph, who happens to be Near, are tendered. The
meat is weighed, and priced at current rates. Joe
tips Jones county the wink, aud without saying
whether they will take it, the trio march forth.
After a short time, Jones county returns to the i
meat merchant’s store, and asks, “whero is ray
meat?” Merchant replies, “You did not take it;
and 1 sold it. Have some more of the same sort, i
how much do vou wish ?’’
Then it leaks out that the country lamb handed
the City Hawk six hundred dollars to pay for eleven
or twelve dollars worth of meat, and the upshot of
the ma.ter is, greeny goes home with the boases’
wagon, minus meat and a month or two'* wages.
Supposing tlie affair is mentioned to an officer,
and he jugs the aforesaid Joseph. He is brought
before His Honor, the Mayor, the next morning.
The testimany is simply no testimony at all—but
hearsay—Greeny, the only witness, being miles
away—and Joseph emerges from tlie trial with
w holer garments—but with not as pure a reputation
—than he who left his in the hands of one of the
Egyptians of the female persuasion a few years
agotie. Friends, aud “countrymen those are
facts. _
THE RADICALS STILL MAKING PEACE IN
ARKANSAS.
Memphis, Dec. 14.—The troubles iu
Arkansas continue. The Liberty arrived
here this morning with a uumber of fami
lien who had fled from Augusta They
confirm former statements in regard to the
depredations of the militia. The steamer
Desarc put her passengers off a few m ies
beiow Augusta, the officers teariug to trust
the steamer within their reach, aud re
turned here.
The agents of the White River Line
have been instructed to hold all freight for
Augusta and points above, to prevent
seizure by tlie militia.
The Avalanche's Little Rock special to
night says, the outrages committed by the
militia are so flagrant as lo provoke the
condemnation ofall parties favoring peace
and order. The Republican, (Radical
organ) says this morning, that this thing
of martial law is not only unconstitutional
hut oppressive, inasmuch as the circum
stances of our condition are not of such an
alarming character as to justify a resort to
such arbitrary, unconstitutional and ex
traordinary measures as setting aside tlie
whole body,of the civil law, aud we hope
the Legislature w ill pass a law prohibiting
the further exercise of this power. The
Governor’s report to the Legislature to
day, shows Upiiatn’s forces to be only one
bundled and fifty. He had taken fifteen
prisoners at Augusta, and says he will kill
them and burn the town if attacked by the
rebels. In the soutii-east the force is two
hundred and fifty colored men. Martial
la v has been proclaimed in Conway, be
cause private letters represented half the
population as Kuklux. He decline* to
publish tlie names of tlie writers. — Tele -
gram in Sashville Banner, loth.
No Aspirant.— Blodgett is out in a card
addressed to the Radical members of Con
gress from Georgia, in which he declares
lie will never run for the Senate unless
nominated ! Very likely*. He also de
clares as follows;
“My only ambition ami desire i* that tlie law*
shall be so' enforced iu Georgia that myself and
familv, and others who, like myself, have support
ed tlie reconstruction policy of Congress, cau live
in our native State a- private citizens in safety and
with peace and quiet.”
The Savannah Republican enquires,
who about Augusta is disturbing the
“safety, peace aud quiet” of Blodgett, his
wife and little ones? If called on for an
explanation and the Lets, we think this
little driveling mouutebank would be
driven to tlie wall. Joshua Hill is a good
Republican and Reconstructionist; if Con
gress wishes to know how far Blodgett is
in danger, let it ask him.
A special correspondent of the New York
Sun says: “ Senator Trumbull has called
his Judiciary Committee together to act
oil Senator Hill's case. There is uo doubt,
from the Conservative character of that
Committee, that they will report on Mon
day or Tuesday in favor of admitting him
to a seat. This will he resisted by Sena
tors Coukling, Thayer and others, aud an
-attempt made to overhaul the Georgia
Legislature and Constitution. Mr. Hill
is here, and incessant in his importunities
with Senators to get admitted. His Dem
ocratic colleague, elected in the same cum
binati m of Demborats, is not here, but is
waiting to see the effect of Hill’s work.”
Robinson Crusoe’s Island. —Some
months since we noticed the return of
some shipwrecked Japanese by the Ha
waiian bark Eagle. These Japanese were
discovered on St. Peter’s Island, which is
live hundred miles south of Yokohoma,
by Captain Nye, of the William Rotcb,
and by him taken away and finally put on
board the Eagle and Ohio. This island
is u barren place, without fresh water, hut
io II of ala bit ross and oilier sea birds. 1 1 is
rather a fatal island for Japanese naviga
tors, several of their vessels having been
lost there, and weary imprisonment of
months and years endured by the survi
vors. Captain Nye had gone on shore to
procure bird's eggs, and was just shoving
off when he saw iu the distance these Jap
anese coming down the beach. They ap
proached him with supplicating gestures
ami low obeisance, and when assured that
they couldgoon board theshipthey exhib
ited great joy aud gratitude. They had
been eighteen months on the island, sub
sisting on fish, birds and eggs. These and
other former shipwrecked men have con
structed five cave houses in the rock. In
their house the captain found hundreds
ofegg shells filled with water, caught from
the rains and preserved in these frail con
tainers. Captain Menjerou of the Japanese
navy, whom some ol our readers may re
member by reason of his visit to Honolulu,
was a shipwrecked tenant of this same
island for many months.
[Hawaiian Gasette.
THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 1888.
HOW SHALL WOMEN BE TRIED I
The women of the Revolution school
who go to mass meetings and clamor for
tlie ballot, while their husbands go with
out dinner aud nurse the children, have
found anew sensation. They make tlie
case of one Hester Vaughn, a servant gij'l
who has been killing tier illegitimate baby
in Peuusylvaaia, and has been sentenced
to be hanged therefor (by an unfeeling
male jury of course) a point lor a furious
attack upon tlie present jury system. They
demand that woman shall be tried hy bee
peers. They say men are tried by men,
and that women should have the same
privilege—meaning, of course, that when
a woman does what Hester Vaughn has
done, her case shall be adjudged by twelve
maids and matrons, instead of the same
nutnber of “horrid men.”
Th-:re may tie some force, and, if they
like, wo will say justice, iu the piea. We
| tell all such, though, that there will be
more women hung and locked up, when
j tried by women, than there are now.
j Women are proverbially harsher iu their
J judgments of each otiier than the sternest
j men dare be; and female public opinion
; is invariably more inflexible iu its decrees
; than that of men. If a w raiaa slips from
| the path of virtue, no matter how sort*
j her temptation, nor how strong the attack,
who clan:or for her crucifixion like her
more virtuous sisters? If site adds the
| ctime of infanticide to that of iucnnti
; neu e, what Woman’s voice is ever raised
i to stay the hand of punishment, or still
j the tongue of condemnation ? To an er
ring sister women’s ears and hearts are
alike closed.
These facts are patent. They are to be
| deplored to a certain extent, but are very
natural, and subserve many useful pur
poses We are not called to pronounce
judgment upon them, here, nor shull we
doit. We seek only to show how the.*
unsexed agitators would defeat their own
object. We have no reason to believe that
they will ever be successful, but if they
are, woe t i the erring. Feeling and not
judgment, their own passions and not the
law’s commands, will make up their ver
dicts. Better, far, leave the matter where
it is. Men. in this country, as a general
tiling, while honoring woman, and at all
times tenderly caring for her, honor the
law aud their duty as citizens and conser
vators of public morals, fuliy as much.
They will see toil that while worn n have
justice, there shall stiil be such a iiing a.
justice left to be meted out to them when
necessary. They often err from too much
sympathy with female criminals b*->\iusi
of their sex, but strike an average and
their judgments are generally just. Let
these women have the ballot, if they can
get it, but when tlie law lays it* band
upon them, let them a*k for a jury of men,
if they wish to be let down lightly. 1 hat
is our honest advice.
NORTHERN -PEACE ANII *E< CHITA'."
The execution of the Express robbers
at New Albany, Indiana, by an armed
aud masked mob, who shot the .Sheriff for
trying to do bis duty, is a most apposite
com men tary upon thejusticeand propriety
of the Radical howl over the insecurity of
life aud that genera! lawlessness charged
upon tlie South. We are curious to hear
how it will be gotten over and explained
away. No such shockingoccurrence
our annals, notwithstanding the provoca
tion we have iiad to take the law in our
own hands, during tlie last tiiree years.
This contempt for law has its birthplace
and securest citadel in that section, and
among those people whose daily business
it is to charge cs with every crime that
springs from a defiance of all moral, legal
and social restraints. Their charges are
stunningly answered by their own bloody
work.
It may be very impertinent, p rhaps
“disloyal,”—and of course calculated to
do harm—to a-k the question, but we
would really like to know what would
probably be the length, and depth, aud
strength of tlie howl, if these white men
were “ioyal” blacks, and their execution
ers “rebel” whites.
N. B. We are still in favor of “giving
Grant a chance," and of “p ace” and
“moderation,” notwithstanding our
querry.
■ **>♦
A SPECIMEN PET KAMI) LET LOOSE UA A
RADICAL JIUGE.
We published a telegram yesterday,
announcing a decision by Judge L'nder
wood, of the United Sta.es Circuit Court
for Virginia and whose practical effect
would be the turning loose upon society of
every criminal in that State who had been
tried before a Court, any member of which
was disqualified from holding office by the
Fourteenth Article. We publish, to-day,
taken from the Richmond Dispatch, tlie
particulars of tiie crime of the person, a
negro woman, wbo lias been set at liberty
by this infamous Judge. It may tie well
to mention that of the Court that tried her
only one memb r was proven to be dis
qualified, a quorum of tiie full bench be
ing fully competent. Says the Dispatch :
3-U.LV ANDERSON'S CHIME.
Tlie particulars of Sally Anderson's crime may
not be remembered by our readers. In March last
she set fire to and burned to the ground tiie line
suburban residence of Mr. Richard Magruder, at
Fulton Hill, merely because Mrs. Magruder had
given her a reprimand for her bad conduct towards a
negro woman wiio had caught her stealing. The
house was occupied at the time. But Sally Ander
son’s soul is blackened by a stiil worse and more
fiendish act. She made a deliberate attempt to burn
Mrs. Magruder's infant hy first placing it on a
feather bed and kindling a tire beneath it. By the
merest accident the flames were discovered, and tlie
helples* babe rescued ere it became a charred vic
tim of the enraged negro’s malice.
Os these crimes Sally Anderson was on a fair trial
convicted; but the Court, desirous of giving her
every opportunity to defend herself, granted a mo
tion for a new' trial; which was had with the same
result. She was then sentenced to be hung, but
the day of execution was long delayed on account
of her delicate condition.
A HU H CORPORATION—PROFITS OF TELE
GRAPHING.
The Herald, of‘the 12tli, in an article
strongly favoring the consolidation of all
the telegraph lines in the country with
the Post Office Department, the whole to
be under Government control, tells us
something of a well-to-do corporation in
which we would like to have some stock—
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
It says :
The Western Union Telegraph Company com
menced with a capital of three hundred and sixty
thousand dollars, at a hundred dollars a share,
upon which the subscribers paid only twenty-five
dollars a share. Its capital now is over foriy-oue
millions. The stock has been watered irom time
to time for the purpose of enriching tue managers
and stockholders. Qf course this watering process
knocked down the market price of the stock from
two hundred and fifty ( the highest point it ever
reached), in 1802 aud 1804, to thirty-five, which is
the present value. But then the stock has been
doubled and quadrupled over and over again In tho
hands of the holders, thus piling up millions upon
millions iu a roannernn paralleled in the history of
j business enterprises.
Large Receipts of Cotton.—The re
-1 ceipts of cotton yesterday amounted to
4,1 --3 bales, being more than the combined
receipts during the same time at Charles
ton, Augusta and Mobile, and within 500
bales of the day’s receipts at New Orleans.
| — Sav. News, 16tA.
—Paris doctors are puzzled by anew dis
ease, writer’s palsy, which they ascribe to
1 the use of steel pens.
MACON, GA., TUHHH.V. DECEMBER IWW-
PLAN FOR THE CROP OF lt»«t».
Prudent farmers doubtless are begining
to estimate what they can aff.mi to pay for
ii«sct year, and to . rin their pTitns tor an
other cron If the wisdom which ex|H»-
riem-e taught them in tlie lesson of 18G6-7
| is not forgotten, they will first ofall deter
mine to grow more largely than they have
| yet done of provision crops- Notwitli
; standing their resolve last year to rely up
! on their own productions for supplies of
graiu during the season about to close,yet
I it is notorious that many of them calcula
Led wide of the mark and were forced to
I look elsewhere for the supplies they could
; have easily produced at home. We fear
| that the same foll y will tie repeated tlie
coming year in their desire to raise cotton,
stimulated by the fair prices which it j*
now commanding; and that from this
spirit will grow ilic extravagant follies
which utterly wrecked so many fortunes
and hopes in the years 1866-7. In 1865
cotton sold at from 85 tn4fl cents per pound
The consequence was that planters were
induced to furnish laborers with their pro
vision* and pay the year round in 1806,
from $lO to sls, and even as high as slß.a
month. The crop f tiled, prices went down,
a high tax was imposed upon cotton, and
the money invested in the foolish adven
ture was forever lost. Htill untaught, tlie
desperate endeavor was repeated by niauy I
in tlie same way in 1807, anil no other re
course was left the unfortunate victims of
of their owu miscalculations but bank
ruptcy.
Planting the present year ha* een eon
dueled on a prudent system. Labor has
been employed by a lotting to tlie laborer
a share of tlie crop, or wages itt money at
rates more nearly approximating its value,
and this joined lo the wise economy of
diversifying crops, and to the repeal of the
tax, wi 1 leave every yne in a better con
dition at the close of the year than at tlie
commencement. The laborers are being
promptly paid for their services ; accounts
with merchants are being settled, aud m
a majority of cases, farmers will have a
balance to their credits for next year’s op
era! i, us. But tliis will avail them noth
ing, if they repeat the experiment of sow
ing the wild oa's of which they reaped so
bountifully in 1866-7.
'1 hey cannot attbrd to pay higher rules
for labor and take tlie doubtful chances o!
a cotton crop next year, than they have
done the closing season. No reliable cal
culation can be made in reference to tlie
yield of cotton with lie present disorgan
ized system. The result is test entirely de
pendent upon the caprices of the season to
admit of a safe estimate. Besides, there
are times that require extraordinary ef
forts to reclaim the crop from grass, which
experience lias shown cannot be relied
upon with the sy-tein of voluntary labor
with freedmen. if the season i.* entirely
favorable, these t(Torts are not required;
otherwise they are, and without them the
crop is lost.
Nor can any calculations as to high
prices be trusted. Os one tiling all are
convinced, it is that the South no longer
enjoys such a monopoly of the production
of cotton, as to enable her to regulate tlie
supply. India produces three time* a*
much cotton as site did iu 1851. Tb< in
creuse In Lgypl Lu- been still larger. That
country furnished E giaod in 1 L >1 with
41 .(Wi) Odd pou ml*. In 1865 with 177,-
otNl.ti.Mt; and and lutitle*-, with the exception
of fluctuations which attend all progres
sive movement*. lie-increase v, 1 1 continue
at a corrt-spondpig ratio until the immense
capacities <.f that country for growiug cot
ton are fully developed.
Our cotton growers cannot be dill'*-rent ;
to facts so significant as these. They can
not pay fabulous prices for labor to pro
duce an article of un> ertaiu yield aud still
more uncertain price.
But another enemy is to tie encountered
in the prot able restore'kin of tlie oppres
ive tax wiiieh absorbed the profits of tlie
cotton crop the past two years. Disk’ wn
that tins tax, which operated so destruc
tively to liie interests of ail pursuits, and
both races in the MoiPh, was repealed by a
very desperate effort after much deiay hy
the Radical rulers who opposed ii. Iu u
s| toot .ll iMivsrei by Ben -*•*••!* *».r
Ohio, at Cincinnati, on the lOrfe of Ociotier, j
tile repeal of the tax on cotton is depreca
ted ns tiie work of Democrats, and “soft
headed Republicans,” and the intimatioo
isgtveuout that it will certainly tie restored -
by tlie next Congress. Go \Vade, more
limn any ot he tnuii, the mantle of Thail.
(Stevens has fallen, and hi* utterance* are
not to be disregards- I Based upon his
declaration, it is our firm belief that this
ruinous tax will be revived.
These consideration- should enter into
tlie plans which our farmer- are forming
for the coming season. —Jackson ClurifM.
A CHAPTER ON PLANCHETTE.
A “Reformed Biunehetti-t” make* the
following revelations iu Harper's Maga
zine :
I have little more to sav, and surely j
nothing further to confess. J have truth- i
fully given ray experience, aud if it he of
use to any of mv fellows, that knowledge
i* guerdon sufficient. A reformed Pian
ehettist, I cat better, drink better, and i
sleep better than when pursuing my evil j
practices. My cofiMknm i- more at rest,
and I no longer have troubled dreams, i
Let this encourage those who are still uo- 1
der tlie dominion of the destroyer to
emancipate themselves.
It is useless to tell me that there is any
thing in Blanchette, or that by it* aid 1
every man may become his own medium ; 1
I’ve been there. \Vh n you can pat a ter
rapit; on tlie back and get him to respond
in Coptic with his tail, ’twi 1 lie time to
persuade rue that a block of wood cun tie
“charged” sufficiently to write sentences.
Mine was charged (it stands charged
against nrt, 1 believe, to this day.) bu> it
would only write when I moved it, and
then it wrote precisely what I dictated.
That persons write “unconsciously” I do
not believe. As well tell me that a man
might pick pockets without kuowingit.
Nor am I at all prepared to believe tlie as
sertions of those who declare that “they
do not move the l> ard.” I know what
operators will do in such cases; I know
the distortion, the disregard of truth,
which association with tiiis immoral
board superinduces.
I have seen charming young ladies,
whose word I would lake on anything
else iu life, (even if they protested they
wtre uot engaged,) who would not lib if
you asked them if their curls were false,
or if the red of their lips was natural, sit
up with both hands on Piauchette—forti
fied iu falsehood by the contact —and lie
like lawyers. Bring me any two profess
ors of the art—young ladies, for men are
not to be believed under any circum
stances—not too far gone to be sensible to
some moral compunction, who will put
one hand on Planchette and the other on
the Bible—establishing a soit of galvanic
connection between the negative aud
positive poles of truth, so to speak—and
swear (as Elia says the custom of resorting
to an oath in extreme cases has introduced
into the laxer sort of minds the notion of
two kinds of truth) til it they do not write
tiie messages they promulgate, and I will
discuss whether they do or not seriously.
Until then I do not recant one single ex
prtssion, but stand firm by these confes
sions.
Foul Flay—Body or a Dead Man Found Near j
tub City.— On Sunday morning, while some little '
boys weri skating on ‘Proctor’s Creek, two and a j
half miles beyond the Rolling Mill, on the Mason i
and Turner’s Ferry road, they discovered under j
the ice the bodv of a dead man, witli the hair of
the dead projecting above the icc. Affrighted with ]
the spectacle the little fellows ran to the house us ]
Mr. Starnes, and reported what they itad seen. An :
investigation of the mystery at onee was hud, when
the body was recognized by several neighborhood !
acquaintances as that of Mr. lliram Province. Mr. !
Thomas Kyle, the Coroner, was sent for, and about
sundown an inquest was held. j
The strangest part of this tragedy is as follows: j
On the 26th of November last, Mr. Province, iu j
company with Mr. Newton Aw try, left Mr. Weav- |
er's wagon at Proctor's Creek, one and a half miles
from Hie place where the body was found. That
dav they were both in Atlanta. Mr. Province hav
ing sold his horse for $75, took passage on \V eav
er’s wagon for home—the wagon was driven by a
sou of Mr. Weaver, aged about 14 years, who states
that at the above mentioned creek Awtryand Prov
ince left the wagon together. Since then, although
search had been diligently made, nothing had been
seen or beard of Mr. Province until Sunday morn
ing, when his body was accidentally discovered by
the little boys at play on the ice.
Awtry, we understand, is now in jail, where lie
has been some time, under a charge of stealing
money. —Atlanta Constitution, lUh
—The erection of a cotton factory is in
contemplation by our Griffin neighbors.
—The bridge spanning Broadway, near
Fulton street, is being removed.
\ the wife a
;ri;At * jttw poxst nr wihttikk.)
>V%r T ■mifetVee VrWrtlltSAl and ti-adtii
"i<i all who com'' before it,
ti woman loatus Eden,
p Such a» sin; alone r«»loi'« it.
Far larger life ami wiser aim*
The farmer is her debtor,
Who holds to Ids another’* heart
Must needs be worse or better. ‘
Through her liis civic service show*
1- A purer toned ambition ;
No double consciousness divide*
The man a.id politician.
|n party's doubtful ways he trusts,
J Her instinct# to determine;
ft tlie loud pollsthe thought of her
Recalls Christ’s Mountain Sermon.
* ********
4nd If tlieliushaud or the wife
In home’s strong light discovers
■ki' li slight defaults a* failed to meet
fbe blinded eyes of lovers :
fby need we care to ask ? who dreams
. Without their thorns of roses,
‘»r wonders that the truest steel
The readiest spark discloses.
I tr still in mutual sufferance 11**
The secret of true living;
Lie scarce is love that never know*
The sweetness of forgiving.
I.NDEH THE O AK.
Whf goes little Maude Pi the wood to-day,
Wrapped jn licr mantle of •liver and gray,
Trippbig along o’er ttet tailing leaves.
’NeatiLUis golden crown* which the autumn
weaves?
_ No» a mingled shower of red and gold
Flecks her mantle iu every fold.
Why goes little Maude to the wood to-day,
In U<f cloak of red and gold and gray *
Now -lie stays in her buried walk
’Neajh the shade of a giant branching oak.
The iimshine kisses tier cheek so fair.
And kdwjs I® her ringlets of floating hair
An rttron rattle* upon her bead,
'Mid a shower of leaves the oak bough* shed.
A nisible squirrel with shining eye
Watyiii * her from a stump hard by.
Now her dark eye brighten*, aud one small hand
Fasteus anew the golden band.
Whip! bind* her dark hair's shining flow
Away from a throat and ueek of snow.
The red lip* part in a happy smile.
Tin- sitpiil foot beats to tin?tune meanwhile,
A-she hum* a auatcii from an old, old •ung.
Os “Love me little aud love m long
Ah ! little Maude, with floating hair.
And the red, red ii;**, and the face so fair,
We read your heart iu that speaking *v>
in Uisi .lushing cheek and impatient sigh.
In that restless foot, and soft «ung tunc.
And low word* murmured. “Why don’t he
corns ?”
We know why you wait’oeath the oak to*lav,
Wrapped in y mr mantle of silver gray.
WORK FOR THE HON I’ll.
The goi.il farmer—out with those quali
ties which, as Mr. Dickson very justly re
mark*, would have made him a great
general, if bred to the profession of arms
—will eki*e up fuliy during tins mouth
tlie work of the year. He will begin next
year with uo incumbrance* of tlie present
one hanging about his neck and clogging
tiis movements. On tiie contrary if there
must tie debtor arid creditor, lie w.il have
ills work no far advanced as to make the
new year in debt lo theold. Not only will
bin f'rnps be all gathered, housed, prepared
for market, <ke., his fall o»ts, wheat, doc ,
-own, hut it is turning plows wi 1 have n-en
busy, burying in tiie soil stubble, weeds,
grass, , that they may be sultieieutly
decayed by spring to furnish food prompt
ly to tiie growing crops. His compost
heap will also be large, and so arranged as
to prevent washing and leaching from
rains, or “lire-fangiug” from over dryness.
Will Ist filling bis barn* with corn and
rC*| OxJ -1 “r ami buy. Joe,, for Itis homes,
call I? aiuf .»< dfT he will not have forgotten
'hatTtf* land will jn«t as certainly need
f mdnext year hh tlie nude that plows it.
and tha! it is just as bad jsdiey to plow
poor land witli a fat mule, as to plow rich
land witii a j/oor mule. We take it for
granted that the farmers who take the
Cultivator net upon the-e principles, hut
should any of our readers, from his ne
gro*-*. turning politicians, or any oilier
equally tincontrolahie c use, have fallen
behind in his work, we would urge tifion
him, by all means, to secure extn Labor,
and finish up the year’s work with the
close of the year, and take a good “run
ning start" with the next crop. Winter
ii-js now fairly set In —the fields and pas
tures furnish i t.stitlicient feed tor stock,
and they will require feeding and atten
tion. Do not dela too long giving them
tlie necessary attention. As soon as tlie
postures h“ojn to fail, commence at once
to feed at tiie barn, that your cattle may
begin tlie witter strong and thrifty—give
them shelter and dry beds to sleep on.
Remember that tlie qualities < f our do
mesticauima ewhieh rend rthem valuable
lo us, are chiefly those which l ave been
imparted to them hy the cate and protec
tion of mat), and ’which, in their wild
state, they possess in a very inferior de
gree. If We treat them as w ild animals,
leaving them to shift for themselves, ex
posed to tiie weather, <kc., &>■., we may
reasonably expect them to regain rapidly
those qualities which characterize them
in their wild state. We shall never have
tine stock in the South, until we re cognize
and act upon tlt is* principle. Importing
fine stallions, bulls, rams, boars, <kc., will
never accomplish much, when the treat
ment of our stock is such a* to force them
back as rapidly as possible into the wild
state.
Mr. Charles Dickens, in a recent num
ber of his paper, AH (he Year Hound,
says: “The part of the holding of a farm
er or land owner which pays best for cul
tivation, is the small estate within the
ring fence of his skull. Let him begin
with the right tillage of his brains, and it
shall be well with his grains, roots, herb
age and forage, sheep and cattle; they
shall thrive and he shall thrive. ‘Prac
tice with science’ is now the adopted mot
to of the Royal Agricultural Society.”
We fully endorse that sentiment, and
would urge upon our readers to do a little
“ head work” during the long wintereve
tiings of this closing month of the year.
Every one has made some experiments
this year; let. the farm-note books be care
fully scanned, and see if any useful results
have been developed. As it takes a tchole
year to make an experiment in farming,
surely we ought to extrac from it ali the
good we possibly can. It will not do to
‘jump to conclusions ” Where so many
things are to lie taken into consideration,
as is the case in the growth of plants, the
utmost caution, the nicest balancing of
judgment, must he practiced the matter
must be .ooked at iu every light; the ac
cidental unessential circumstances thrown
aside—just as the gold miner washes away
the light clay and sand—in order that the
subtile, penetrating glance of intellect
may search out and reveal every grain of
truth even as tiie quicksilver does the
, grains of gold. Ami let every grain of
! truth when discovered, be at once placed
Ii„ the Farmer’s Cabinet— the Southern
I Cultivator—So. Cultivator for December.
A negro in Natches, Miss., bought his
goods at the store of a Radical, aud pui
cliased. among other things, ten pounds
of sugar, because it was sold one cent per
pound less than at other stores. He after
wards boasted of how cheap he had bought
I he sugar to another merchant, who asked
him to bring him the ten pounds of sugar,
which being done, it was found to weigh
scant eight pounds, whereupon the crowd
commenced to laugh at the negro for
allowing himself to be cheated. The old
fellow studied for a moment and then
said, “guess he didn’t ciieat dis child
much, for while he was getting de sugar I
stole two pairs of dese shoes,’’ and he
brought them forth from his pocket.
A few days since a son of Dr. H. W.
Hill, of Rowan county, North Carolina,
aged about seventeen years, charged a
musket tor the purpose of tiring at a flock
of wild geese, but hiving unfortunately
overcharged the piece, the concussion pro
duced by its discharge Was so great as to
disengage the barrel of the gun from the
l stock, which, striking the young man
i upon the f..rehead, inflicted a mortal
, wound. Two of the wild geese were
‘ killed by the shot.
s- i.A.Nni.NG COMMITTEE* OF THE UNITED
STATUS HEN \TK.
Tlie Committee to wiiieh was referred
the commutation of tin* appointment of
the Standing Cos mm it teen of the (Senate,
(submitted their report as follows. :
Foreign Relations—Messrs. Sumner,
(Chairman, jFesuti den, Cameron, Harlau,
Morton, Patterson, N. JL, Bayard.
Finance Messrs, Sherman, (Chair
man,) Morgan, Williams, Catteli, Hender
son, Morrill, of Vt., Warner.
Appropriations—Messrs Morrill of Me.,
(Chairman,) Grimes. Howe, Wilson, Cole, j
Conk Hug BOekaiew.
Commerce—Messrs, Chandler, (Chair- ■
man,) Morgan, Corbett, Morrill, of Vt., !
Kellogg, Spencer, Vickers
Manufactures—Messrs. Sprague,(Chair*
man.) Yates, Abbott, Robertson, Dixon, j
Agriculture—Messrs. Cameron, (Chair* J
inau,) Catteli, Tiptou, Welch, McCreery. !
Military Affairs —M* -srs. Wilson, j
(Chairman,) Sprague, Cameron, Morion, j
Thayer, Abbott, Doolittle
Naval Affairs—Messrs. i»rimes, (( hair
inan,)Anth >ny, ragin, Nye, Frelinghuy
sen, Drake Hendricks. i
Judiciary—Messrs. Trumbull. (Chair
man,) (stewart, Frelinghuy.-en, Edmunds,
Conkling, Rice, Headrick*
Pos.toflioes and Post Roads —Messrs.
Ramsey (Chairman.) Couness, Pomeroy,
Van Winkle. McDonald, Welch, Dixoi:,
Public Lauds —Messrs. I’oiueri y, (Chair
man,) Stewart, Williams, Tiptou, Osborne,
Warner, Hendricks
Private Land Claim* — Messrs. Williams,
(Chairman,) Ferry, .Sawyer, Kellogg, Nor
ton.
Indian Affairs—Messrs Henderson,
(Chairman,) Morrill of Mainp, Ross, Cor
beif, 'Thayer, Bucitatew, Doolittle.
Pens ons—Messrs. Van Winkle, (Chair
man,) Edmunds, Fowler. Tipton,Hpencer,
rtawyer, Davis.
Revolutionary Claims— Messrs. Nye,
Chairman,) Chandler, Poo , Patterson, of
Tennessee, HauDiiury.
Claims—Messrs. Howe, (Chairman,)
Willey, Frelingiiuysen, Howard, Cole,
Robertson, Davis.
District, of Columbia—Messrs. Harlan,
(Chairman,) Sumner, Patterson, of N. H.,
Rice, Harris, Patterson of Tenn . Vickers.
Patents and tiie Patent Gtlice —Messrs.
Willey, (Chairman,) Thayer, Ferry,
Osborn, Norton.
Public Buildings and Grounds—Messrs
Fessenden, (Chairman,) Trumbull, Ferry,
Davis, Whyte.
Territories—Messrs. Yates, (Chairman,)
Nye, TTugin, Fowler, McDonald, McCree
ry, Nort n.
Pacific Kail Road M'-.-rs. Howard,
(Chairman,) Sherman, Morgan, Conuess,
Ramsay, Stewart, Wilson Harlan, Drake.
To Audit and Control toe Contingent
Expense* of the -• -cut. Messrs, (.'ragin,
'Chairman,' Morrill, of Vt. Buckafew.
I Bill* ■ i >« ,t-r. Chair
man ,) sumner, Norton.
Miner ami .Mining —Mc—os. Con ness,
'Chairman, i <.’handier, Anthony, Yates,
Ross, Kaulsbury, Whyte.
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES.
On Printing—Me-.i n Anthony, (Chair
man,) Harris, Whyte.
On Enrol!* J Bills—M --*srs. Jto-r, (Chair
man,) Patterson of N. H., Dixon.
On tin- Library—Morgan, (Chair
man,) Howe, F- r-c-fii hoi.
On lb-!reochineii! Edmunds,
(Chairman.) William-, Patterson, of New
Hampshire, Bu.-kaiew.
To Keviscaod F ix the Pay of tlieOflioers
of the Two Houses—Me**is. Fessenden,
(Chairman,) Sherman, Buck tiew.
(Select Committee to Inquire whether
Improper or Corrapt Menus have been
used, or attempted to be ti-< !, to Influence
tlie Vote- of Members of tiie Semite in the
Trial of the I mpeacliment of the President
—Me-srs. Buekalew, (Chairman,) Morrill,
of Maine, Chandler, Stewart. Thayer.
Commit tee on 'Railroads—Mesa:#. Sher
rr an, (Chairman, Chandler, Sumner,
Buekalew, Ramsey, Slewar , Vickers.
Committee on Revision of the Laws of
tiie United States—Messrs. Cockling,
tChairman,) Sumner. Cole, Poole, Bayard.
PUKBIDEN I I AL PIE i A .
* r* — .....
H hat Pretiocoti Kite Been Pfoot --Statement* of*
Uoituß forreaponient-Only tine Pre#f*
deu(.
The New York correspondent of a Bos
ton paper says:
“ The fact that General Grant passed a
Sabbath at W -t Point and lid not attend
church, though tiie po-t chaplain officia
ted near him. lias been commented on by
the pre-.«generally. It is -la ewhat a sin
gular fact that, a* far as it i- known, no
President of the Unit I States, since the
days of Washington, has been a commu
nicant in a church. John Adams \va* the
representative of the liiieral community
of his day. Jefferson wa* styled a free
thinker. An attempt was made, •when
Jefferson was a young m * > to make the
Epi- -opal Church the estab.i-ued religion
of Virginia. John Belaud, a traveling
Baptist minister, preached a -ermon in
the presence > Jefferson on w .at lie called
tiie ‘ incestuous c mnection of ihe church
and state.’ Tiiis sermon c inverted Jeffer
son to that doctrine, ri is p r- -tent oppo
sition to a state religion caused him to be
stigmatized as an iu idel. Mrs. Madison
was a communicant at the Episcopal
Church Her husband wa not. Monroe
was a member of an Episcopal parish, hut
not a communicant. John Quincy
Adams, although a m-mberof a Unitarian
parisli in Massachusetts, held a pew in the
.Second Presbyterian Church in Washing
ton. ot which lie was a trustee, and there
he.worshipped until his d<-ath. In a vio
lent snow storm I saw him walking to
church, one Sunday, with the snow up to
his loms, and he wasoue of tiie seven per
sons who composed tiie congregation that
morning. He never communed ru the
church.
General Jackson was a regular attend
ant on Sunday morning. He worshiped
in tlie Second Presbyterian Church until
iiis quarrel with tlie pastor about Mrs.
Hester. He then left for tlie Four-and-a
half street church, and took his Cabinet
with him. He always came early and
entered his pew, which was on the right
side of the church as lie entered. Earnest
and devout attention lie gave to the ser
mon. It was his custom, at tlie close of
the sermon, to rise in his pew aud make a
very courteous bo.v to tire minister, aud
then walk out, the audience waiting in
their pews till he bad reu'-hed the vesti
bule. Van Boren’s home church at Kin
derhook was reformed Dutch. At Wash
ington, when lie Went to church, lie at
tended 8t John’s (.Episco al) in tlie morn
ing. Mrs. Polk was a devout and Chris
tian woman, belonging to the Presbyteri
rian Church.
“Mr. Polk accompanied his.family eve
ry Sunday morning to the Four-and-a-half
street church. Mrs. Polk usually attended
tiie Second Presbyterian Church in tlie
afternoon, where she held a pew. Tlie
President seldom accompanied her at the
second service.
"General Taylor was not a professor of
religiou. When he attended church he
sat in the President’s pew at St. John’s.
President Pierce was a member of the Con
gregational Society, in Concord, N. H., ;
but not of the church. He was very reg- j
ular in his attendance at the Presbyterian ;
church on F street, nearthe Wliite House. )
Tliis was iiis religious home during his
long senatorial life. He was not a mem
ber of the church. He came to worship
usually on foot aud unattended. His pew
was on the side, about two-thirds of the
way from the door. He usually walked
up the aisle with a cat like step, went to
the extreme end of the pew, curled him
self up in the corner, and seldom moved
till the service closed He rarely spoke to
any owe, and hastened from the church to
the White House. Mis. Lincoln was a
communicant at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian church. Mr. Lincoln was
not. Hut he was a regular attendant at
worship. Johnson seems to have no re
ligious home, bur rather inclined to the
Lutheran. Gen. Grant, is not a professor
of religion. He is a trustee of the Nation
al Methodist church at Washington, and
is a frequent attendant on the preaching
of that church
Case of the Counterfeiters.— This
case lias been again postponedforaiear
iug, at the instance of \V. G. Dickson, U.
8. Marshal, until Friday morning next,
at 10o’clock. , ~ ,
Frank McAnany, one of the couple ar
rested, has turned State’s evidence, aud
will appear as witness in the case.
Marshal Dickson left last evening for
Savannah, to advise with District Attor
ney Fitch, in regard to the case.
u y [Augusta Republican, 161/*.
REM ARK ABLE PHENOMENA IN FIELD AND
FOREST.
Public attention has been so much ab
aorbed by the remarkable political revoht
! tmtis of the si«pe, that natural phenomena
which otherwise would have excited at
tention aud investigation, have almoeten
tirely escaped the notice of tiie pres*.
Within a very few ye irs past, a botanical
| stranger hai appeared in our State, and
quietly taken pcs«ession of more of our
lands than tiie “trooiv mil” have yet been
able to seize, and with the promiseof more
real and permanent advantage to the im
poverished soil of the country than car
goes of costly fertilizers would confer.
That stranger Ls tlie Lcspedeza Striata
(genus trifolium), a luxuriant clover sup-
| pi* dto I. a native of China Japan,
it suddenly and myst riousiy appeared in
portions of this State, and is believed to
liave simultaneously sprung up ail ovpf
Hie .State. In theold fields and worn and
exit; u.-ted ianda of the up country, even
to tiie very spurs of the Blue Ridge, it ex
tends, springing up spontaneously, anil
covering the soil with a rieli grow tli, tis-.
teen inch's iir height, choking the weeds
and grass, affording excellent pasturage,
especially for sheep. Like the- red clover
(trifoliumpratense), and unlike some of
the grasses, it is easily managed, and when
turned under witii the plough, renews tiie
soil, furnishing the pabulum required by
more profitable crop*. Twenty years ago,
tlie planners in tlie up country applied
money arid labor on a large si ale to l lie cul
ture of the red clovtr.witli tiie double pur
pose of se uring pasturage and improving
their lands. Their experiments failed i all
tliepr efforts were fruitless ami were filially
abandoned, with the reluctant conviction
that there was something In the soil dr '
climate fa*al to the clover. Taking fresh
courage, however, from the appearance
and spread of the Chinese clover, they |
have renewed their efforts with tiie red |
clover, and met with the most gratifying
success.
The experience of twenty years ago
having been uniformly unsuccessful,
would have doubtless discouraged any
further attempts iu the same direction for
generations to come, but for the mysteri
ous appearance of this !>otauicai volunteer.
How or whence it came, uo oue can tell.
To ascribe, its introduction to the straw
packings of uujsitred goods, or the
deposits of migratory birds, is by uo
means satisfactory, as such explanation
would not account for its simultaneous ap
pearance in places remote from trade, and
which are unvisited by strangers of the
feathered tribe, and where it covers au
immense area, and iu quantities which
preclude the supposition of auy deposit of
**<-ed in tlie niaiiuer suggested Ly such the
ories. Botanists, horticulturists and sci
entific observers generally, confess them
selves at fault in ali their attempts to solve
the mystery. The fact is so conceeded ;
tiie ciover covers the land, arid is welcom
ed everywhere; r has suggested aud in
duced the renewed aud now successful
culture of other varieties, so important to
the stock raistr, tlie dairy farm, and the
owners of tliiu aud feeble soils ; but how
; or whence it came, and why it appears
and flourishes spontaneously in a country
where twenty years ago uone of the family
could be induced to live, withal the en
couragement which money, labor aud
skill could afford, remains a phenomenon
which bailies the curious ami learned alike.
Another fact, equally inexplicable, is
the fatality now abending the chestnut.
These trees, which have always thrived
in the mountain districts, .subject only to
tiie universal law of decadence, iu which,
however, nature always provides for her
own renewal by following tlie decay of
one tree with the springing up of another
of vigorous growth,) are now dying out
in acres; miles of forest you ug trees and
old trees alike die. without uuy visible
cause. The chestnut crop is too important
to be lost without concern. It furnishes
passtime, pleasure and pay, aud tlie only
labor is the luxury of harvesting.
The tree* are valuable, ami their loss
will Le felt, and yet their loss stems inevi
table and sweeping. Nature seems the
same as when they flourished, aud yet
they can tio linger draw from the bosom
of mother earth the nourishment on wiiieh
Uieir lit** d.q**-i*o- *-;-| —s r r On /‘i- -
exhausted that peculiar aliment vitally
essential to their growth, and they die---
apparently without cuu~e aud without
hope. Other trees may glow up aud the
forest stiil be there, but no chestnuts grow
iu the place where the chestnuts used
to be.
Probably these phenomena will have to
remain just what they now are, facts
acknowledged and curious, aud even
wonderful, and yet unexplained. Nature
moves in cycles, aud write* her annals in
intervals of time in which a certain suc
cession of events or pheuon;ana are com
pleted, and then returns again aud again,
uniformly and continually in tiie same
order. Iu cycles the seasons come back
again, and that w hich hath been, how
ever, long deterred, is that which -hall be.
Periodical spaces <d tone, markt and by pecu
liar occurrences in the beavensand on the
earth, are forever recurring, aud man is
obliged to admit that ihe volume of nature
pre-ents mysteries as inexplicable lo hu
man reason as auy contained in the book
of God. The ponderous machinery of the
universe rollson, unimpaired in its general
harmony by the meteoTs flight, the tor
nado’s rush, or volcanic convulsions ; and
nature avoids tlie samene-s and tameness
of monotony, by giving to the student a
volume whose every page unfolds some
new wonder, present- some new picture of
loveliness to be admired, or some new field
of thought to iie explored. Perhaps the
cycle theory must ior the present remain
the only solution of the remarkable incur
sion of (lie Chinese clover, and of the
equally remarkable mortality now attend
ing tlie chestnut forests of the Blue Ridge.
—Charleston Courier.
NEWSPAPER PRINTING IN COLORS.
An improvement upon the ordinary flat
head cylinder press was exhibited yester
day at the office of Messrs. French A
Wheat, No. 15 Park row, by wiiieh it is
feasible to print in seven or more colors at
one revolution of the press. .Small cylin
ders are made to revolve upon a segment
of tlie periphery of the main cylinder of
the press. Attached to tlie face of each of
these small cylinders is a portion of the
metal plate of the picture which is to be
printed, each section of the plate being so
nicely adjusted in iis place as to make the
picture perfect on tiie paper when it passes
from tlie press, aud each cylinder repre
senting a distinct color. Tlie specimens
of the work shown yesterday were novel
enough, and give promise of usefulness for
the invention.
The proprietors do not claim for it that j
it will supercede the process of printing in j
colors by baud. On the contrary, the in- j
ventiou, even when it shall have been
thoroughly perfected, can only be made
available for printing " cuts” and plates” j
in large quantities. It would prove too
expensive for ordinary small jobs, but j
could he used advantageously, for instance,
on weekly papers of vast circulation, and
would, doubtless, prove greatly attractive j
to their patrons. A short time since a pa
per in Boston issued an edition with col
ored engravings to its subscribers. The
entire quantity printed—4o,ooo—had to be
run through sixteen hand presses, once i
for each color, requiring the setviees of a j
man to each press night aud day for two
weeks. Under the new process as good j
work can be done by the single press iu
forty eight hours.—A'. Y. Times.
The Cotton Worm.—We have received
a communication from A. T. P., in refer
ence to a plan published in the Courier
j some time ago, by which these destructive
insects could be killed. The writer states
! that a large planter on Edisto adopted the !
i plan proposed, viz: burning the stalks,
and that his cotton was nevertheless de- 1
stroyed by the caterpillar. Os course we
do not vouch for Tie eihoacy of the burn- 1
| ing of the stalks, but we suggest that it ,
have a fair trial. Let the roots and stalks
be burnt, and let everybody in the neigh
borhood pursue this plan. There can ,
hardly be a fair trial unless everybody in
the neighborhood burn their cotton fields,
and we suggest that this be done. Good j
; may result—harm cannot. — Charleston
Courier, loth.
., •
Bankruptcy.—Petition to be admitted
to take the oenetit of the bankrupt act was
yesterday filed by James 15. Cargill and
John 8. Cargill, of Columbus; B. A
\ Thornton, Attorney.
A pe’itiou for tinal discharge was filed
j by E. Kerniker & ( 0., of Columbus. |
[Savannuh Sews, Itith.
VOL. LX., NO. 40,
MKHCAXTILK IfiEXClp.
V\ lierr they Get their OeHcat- lnß>rn>siion.
(From th» New York tost. i
Fash country merchant or sbop-fcWper
wlio, with a capita of five thousand dol
lars and an unlimited quantity of enersrv,
does a of a hundred * thousand' a
year, finds It necessary to buy nwn* goon
than he can pay for inuoetitrtteJv m ear .
ami comes to Isew 'i'r.i k ottering to ''few
art. Claflin, or to anybody who will trust:
him, Iti«« notes or three, sx or eighteen
months for the silks an I ca-icoes, h* needs,
it is, thetjifore, indi-pct -aide u i in
character-forindustryap-: integrity ht-uld
be naimpeacbabie; and to tl > ottic • of
rex oiti go ibe city mere!
tie errant? the cent
\vfW|hh|{.s credit. Her t tit
Fetef.Bl»ith, of Yuba Dam,:- liatup
f «hftr, isftbirty-fiv ■ . »,r ,rr;eij,
und Iras two chihirer. ; b.n }.<■' .aged
in tint trade seven year- an dieved
to t>e hoi.eel; hasa vtorkioir cu; : . oi *•->,-
000. owns a homestead worth sl,gt>Q, and
has “great expectations” that his wife’s
uncJe Billy, who is old and | ..rah tie, v , .
soon visit his ancestors, leaving to p.-ter'-
wife the nice little sum offlQ.CMiin United
States bonds. Suiitti s ciedit >■ thc-t-.-
fore, pronounced to be “good,” and Mr.
Merchant lets him have a thousand dol-
lars worth of calico, taj»e amis ooi e jtton.
to be paid for at the end of six or mi c
months. Or, it may be that Mr- i- Kit is
not known to have any trio: ey,» set et that
which ttia wife Poliis in I,* r own name:
that lie Is extravagant aiul immoral, and
so, of count*, may not he teemiin eim.-d :
j a buyer on tnrrc -t:»>Ui w r.lJwHSctrj* po
: litely bowed out of the warehouse, to gee! 9- >
credit where the secrets or ina “record”
are not known.
But In what way is information con
cerning traders in distant places obtained,
and how do we know that the Ollive of
Record or Mercantile Agency contains a
true anti trustworthy register of the char
acters and property of our country cous
ins? There are two ways of compiling
the register—a thorough one, such as that
adopted by Broadway & Cos. and Done
Brown; and another, much used by the
inferior offices of Ketchum & Chest ham
and Kiilbim <st Sprat. In cacti village or
hamlet, however small, there are, of
course, a back smith, a liquor-de-der, and
an attorney, and these are the men who
furnish the material for compiling the
records of second or third-class cilices.—
The attorney is appointed co respondent,
receiving as wages Harper’s M <c zine or
the Ledger, xvith the promise of any legal
business which may arise, and gives his
opinion, with a medley of the go-ip ob
tained at the smithery and tavern. This
statement of facts i-sent to New York,
and on it depends the reputation of the
shop-keeper and the amount of credit that
he may command. But the better elm-sos
agencies are conducted by their proprietors
with liberality, and aim at eonif >rfab! -
ness, intelligent clerks being employed
aud paid handsomely.
Instead ot depending on the letters of
“shysters.” the superintendents sc and edu
cated men of skill to every village, and to
each of even the most retired cross-road- :
and application ia generally at first tu-ide
to store-keepers personally, who scidoru
refuse to give accounts of them . -.
which are afterward veryified or modified
by bank presidents, county clerks, men i>f
kuown wealth, etc. By th.s means a re
cord is made up _>s accurately as it is hu
manly possible to make anything.
To conduct a first class agency properly,
a large number of cierks are neee-.-ary ;
reporters, canvas-ers, recorders, copyis s,
reader-, etc., being numbered by score
and hundreds, whose salaries ra. p - fr : .
twelve to sixty dollars a week, g
to proficiency ; while the picayune imita
tors ordinarily pay live to eigh t dollars to
their penmen, or a little mote to those who
write from b a. M til! 11 p. m,, and 'if* not
too often fall asleep over their work. >u!»-
scrihers to these agencies pay from seven
ty-live to three bundled dollars'a ytc.r,
according to the number of "inquiries ’
each may make. Prominent merem-t !>,
asCiafliuor s-tewart, may have private
“agencies” of their own, wnere ii- of
their customers, with i iographieai sketch
vypate WOjffpwso ww* min>"i sihip -----
the names of bogus firms th v.h
are likely to go up iirb-t balloon, and of
young men of promise who i,pv r p-sy.
TRUTH sTRA.X4.KK IHV\ I K , 1..\
The wonders of tiie magnetic teieg r..; b
were evidently foresh„<' >w ' n .re <
turiesagoin the following singul-r set n .
Strader gives an a< e
corresfiundence between two in -
the help of a certain loadstone, widen had
such virtues in it that if it touched two
seveial needles, when one of the needle
touciied began io move, theother, though
at ever so great a distance, moved at ttie
same time, and iu tUe same manner. lie
tells us that the two friends being »-,,cl of
them possessed of one of these
made a kind of dial plate, Inscribing it
with tiie lour and twenty lein iu
same manner as the hours of Die uay au,
marked upon the ordina y didl plate.
They then fixed one of the needle - on each
of these plates in such a manner tha* i?
•could move round without !iup‘-diajeut,s:>
as totou ii any of the four and twenty let
ters. Upon their separating f; n < ,ean
other into distant coumrit-, t y t,' i
to withdraw themselves punctn *t!y inb
their closets at a cei tain hour of the -. v.
nd to converse wilhoneanother by means
of this, their invention. ordi . .
when they were some hundred mil- -un
der, each of hem shut hiiusoh up in his
closet at the time apj>oiuied, and fiumeci
a.ely cast bis eye upon his dial plate if
he had a mind to write anything in Id
friend, he directed his needle to every let
ter that formed the words which he had
occasion for, making a little pause at the
end of every word or sentence, to avoid
confusion. The friend, iu the oieauw hiie,
saw his own sympathetic needle moving
of itself to every letter which that of hi
correspond -nt pointed at. By this no art
they talked together across a whole conti
neat, and conveyed their thoughts to one
another iu an instant over cities or moun
tains, seas or deserts. — World.
LARUE AXU S.M ALL t ARMS.
Bometime ago the Richmond Dhq-aMt
contained a very judicious estimate ot this
questiou, which we regarded at .ire time
as incontrovertible.
Some thinkers are apt to “run in the
ground,” as the phrase is, anew tiling,
and tliis matter of small farms iso:.; •
them. But what Die Dispatch said <-
them is true. In iilustiation of this, w .
have recently seen an extract from a pr i
vate letter contained iu the Ncwb. ru
Journal of Commerce, which is to the
point. The writer says :
"I traveled for two weeks with Dr. R.
I\ Ashe (formerly of Wilmington, N C.,
now of the city ot Stockton,) through the
great agricultural region of the San Joa
quin Valley. Dr. Ashe is the second
largest farmer in California. His crop of
1 grain this, or rather next season, win D
! about 7,000 bushels, if the season is a i .n -
I one.
"I was on one of iris farms, Tin :n re
in extent, upon which lie had fiv- n h
employed iu plowing aud poilin ; iu ■-* v 1.
He told me lie would u-t employ over
seven laborers until iiarv.st, and expected
to raise 20,000 bushels grain on that arm.
All this struck me as very strange—2,MUiO
-bushels grain and only seven men to do
I the labor; but when 1 looked at his gang
plows pulled by six or eigb. horse-, hi
sowing machine on a two-horse wagon,
scattering the seed sixty b et Wide, aud so
adjusted as to sow forty-five, xi.\;y, or
seventy five pounds to the acre, one man
being able to sow fifty or sixty a re p.
day; and then to his reaping machine,
that goes through his fields taking tin
heads ofi'them, leaving toe straw Vi.
ing, the machines being accompanied by
wagons of huge dimensions, and tiiakim
alt opening twenty or lweuty-li\e
wide, throwing the grain f. ’ and
upon wagons, which deposited it ; .
received in some c uveniout pi... i- . -iy
! far the thrasher, which mes alouu,
1 worked liy either horse or steam power,
which thrashes and bags ft-a hi T”"> t.,
, 1,500 bn-liels per day ; lw as do longer
astonished. Seven tee i bundled acres
! this farm will be seeded an-•■> wUi giam;
4tH) acres will be a volunteer crop/
Here we see that a large iaiai is cue
vated by comparatively it v bauds, cy lie
aid of labor saving maebims, and, i, •
doubt, all the latest improved a-., ultur.u
1 implements. —Petersburg Express.
—Piiiladelphia is eight and a half mil*
1 lions better off in real estate than last year.