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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER
TUESDAY - MOKNING AUGUST 10.
KcprcM-iilnt ion in Congress.
Mr. Bullock seems to lx; determined not
to allow Georgia to be represented in the
present Congress if lie cun avoid it. He in
sists that he has a right to commission the
members of the last Congress and that his
sign manual is sutheient to entitle them to
their seats, without any resort to the old
fashioned process of a popular election. He
pretends that he can apjxiint seven members
of Congress with the same ease that he can
appoint seven inspectors of guano and bone
dust, and that he can dispense with the for
mality prescribed by that antiquated instru
ment, the Constitution, which says that
“the House of Representatives shall be com
posed of memlx'rs chosen every semiol yearly
thi> j/enple of the several States."
It is an incontrovertible fact that Messrs.
Clift, Tift, Edwards, Gove, Prince and
Young were elected to the 40th Congress
and took their seats as members of that
body. There has l>een no election in Geor
gia lyr representatives in Congress since
they are supposed to have been elected, and
as the 40th Congress died on the 4th of last
March, it follows that the representative ex
istence of the above named gentlemen ex
pired on the same day.
It is an absurd assumption that members
elected to one Congress can “hold over”
until their successors are appointed, or that
the Governor of a State, by refusing to order
an election, can continue them in their seats
without any reference to the popular will.
No matter what may be the desire of the
Atlanta Convention or the action or neglect
of the Legislature, the Constitutional pro
vision is clear and precise, and neither Gov
ernor, Convention nor Legislature can alter
or annul it.
Georgia is without representation in the
present Congress. Messrs. Clift and Prince
have no more shadow of right to sit in the
House of Representatives than they have to
sit in the House of Commons, and Mr. Bul
lock's commission is just as valid a creden
tial to one body as to the other.
It may suit the peculiar purposes of Mr.
Bullock to have the State unrepresented al
together or misrepresented by liis Radical
co-laborers. He may be unwilling to risk a
popular election because lie fears, nay, he
must know, that the Radical ex-members
can never be re-elected; but there are no
reasons why the people should tamely sub
mit to this audacious invasion of their rights
--on the contrary they are the strongest
reasons why they should adopt every legal
and proper means to defeat the attempted
wrong.
Tt is the constitutional right of the voters
of Georgia to elect their representatives this
fall. Mr. Bullock has no more authority to
deny or abridge it than he has to confiscate
their pocket-books. It is therefore a very gi avc
question whether it is not the duty of the peo
ple of the State to hold elections on tin; day
provided by law, and choose fit and proper
representatives, without reference to Mr.
Bullock, should he continue to refuse to pro
vide for an election, under the ridiculous pre
tense that he can commission the members
of the 40th to sit in the 41st Congress.
ft is of great importance that every district
in the State should be represented. We have
suffered sufficiently through want of repre-
sentation and misrepresentation. Let us
now elect men of our own choice. We should
not tamely submit to lx; deprived of whatever
advantages may accrue to us from having our
members in the House of representatives,
!'<''l*o Mr-. BuUpck.ftiiiy. .in
Union, or failing to succeed in that design
in thrusting an illegal delegation upon us
who can have no claim to having been elected
by the people, simply because a majority of
them are of the same class us adventurous
and unscrupulous politicians as Mr. Bullock
himself. Mr. Bullock, we learn, makes some
quibble about the. action of the Atlanta Con
vention, or (and the Legislature of Georgia, on
tin' subject of the election, in justification of
his conduct.
It is perfectly immaterial what either body
has done or attempted to do ; because if
either has tried to transfer the elective power
from the people to Mr. Bullock, it has tried
to nullify the Constitution and cannot suc
ceed except by brute force. No power on
earth ( xcept the will of their respective con
stituents legally expressed can renew the
representative character of the so-called
members of the Fortieth Congress ; and we
believe that even the Radical majority of the
present Congress, prepared as they are to
commit any lawless or criminal act to attain
their purpose, would refuse to establish the
precedent- that a Governor can substitute his
decree for the will of the people—not that
we believe the Radicals in Congress would
hesitate to do. anything however criminal
which could advance the interests of their
party, because it was in itself unjust or viola
tive of the Federal Constitution, but because
it might at no distant day return the pois
oned chalice to their own lips.
The South and Ireland.
There are people at the North who know
what our condition is, and who have not
been deceived by all the clamor of the last
eight years. At the mass meeting in Tam
many Hall, recently, Richard O'Gorman,
Esq., said :
“ What has Ireland been socking for all
these long hundreds of years'? She asked
that her local concerns should lx* governed
by her own men upon Irish soil, and seeking
only for the interests of the Irish nation.-
| Great applause.] What does the Demo
cratic party ;i»sk for Virginia, or Texas, or
.Mississippi, or any of the Southern States,
but that in their local concerns they should
be governed by the men of Virginia, by the
men of Texas, and bv the men of Mississippi,
as we in New York have our local concerns
governed by the citizens of the State of New
York? Is not the principle in each State the
same?
The principle of the Democratic party is
diversity in union. The principle of the
Republican party is unity and empire at the
last. [A voice; 'That is so.’| And we have
listened to these taunts all those wretched
v ears past, and we have Dome them all. We
have borne more than that. We have seen
civil law trampled under foot. We have seen
the Constitution we respected violated. We
have seen a Radical revolution inaugurated
into a system. And yet through it all we
never gave up our hope in the future, for
we put our confidence—unshaken confidence
—in the gixul sense of the American people,
and we knew that that would triumph at Lust.
[Cheers. ] And we hope in it still, and every
day gives ns assurance that- our hopes shall
not be unfulfilled.”
Again:
“I tlinik the tide is turning fast. I think
the great sou is rising again. Virginia has
done well: and if I read the signs of that
election aright, it means that the days of the
carpet-baggers are numbered and their occu
pation gone.” [Applause.]
And Hon. Loon Abbett said:
“If you stand in Virginia, or Texas, or Mis
sissippi, or any of the Southern States, you
cannot have your rights; and there are thou
sands and hundreds of thousands of miles
of American soil where the rights of the cit
izens are still subject to military law. And
can vou for a moment believe that while this
is so in your native land, that if you leave it
and are* three thousand miles away from
home, that your cry, your feeble voice, will
be heard, when it cannot be heard on the
other side of the Potomac? [Applause.]
The rights of American citizens in foreign
lands will never be recognized and respected
until they are recognized and respected
at home, and they will never be recognized
and respc eted here until this present Admin
istration is swept from flower. [Apjfiause. ]
—Sehurz denounces Democracy and the
Christian religion.
The l.ate Isaac Toucey.
The telegraph announced a few days ago
that Ex-Govemor Toucey, of Connecticut,
was dead. Few remembered when they read
the announcement that one of the best,
truest, most upright, and most gifted public
men at the North was he whose death was
recorded in one line.
Mr. Toucey was a Deunx’rat of the school
to which the late Thomas Seymour, of Con
necticut, belonged, and to which Franklin
Pierce and W. B. Read, of Pennsylvania
belong. He had nothing in common with
the new political lights whose principles are
varied by the expediency of the hour, and
whose constant effort it is, not to olx-y, but
to evade, the objections of the Constitution
and of their oaths to support it.
While he held the office of Secretary of
the Navy in the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan
we had the honor to know him well, and had
ample opportunity to judge of his character.
He had marked talent, was thoroughly con
scientious in the discharge of every duty,
was a devoted supporter of the Union and
the Constitution, but he believed that the
former could not continue if the latter were
destroyed. Isaac* Toucey was the noblest
work of God—an honest man. He was not
a genial companion. He was polite, but
rarely affable. He was courteous, but
always somewhat stiff and cold in his man
ner, but those who knew him well and could
study the motives which animated his con
duct—both private and public—learned to
a Imire and respect him.
When the separation took place between
the South and the North, Mr. Toucey agreed
with Mr. Buchanan that the Constitution
gave the general Government no power to
coerce a State, and he was consequently op
posed to the war. For this ho was reviled,
abused and mistreated by the Radicals, and
they even went the length of denouncing
him as a traitor; but he continued tme to
his principles, and secluded himself almost
entirely at his home since the commence
ment of the war, caring but little for what
the Radicals might say or think about him,
sustained by tlie mens conscia recti, which
slander could not disturb.
During his long life, (Mr. Toucey was in
his 71st year at the time of his death,) he held
successively all the highest offices in the gift
of the people of his State, and was a mem
ber of two Cabinets—Attorney General in
that of President Polk, and Secretary of tlie
Navy in that of President Buchanan. He
was a lawyer of acknowleged eminence. He
was a good citizen, a true friend and a pious
Christian, and from liis entrance public
life in 1820 to the day of his death he was a
c'.insistent and earnest member of the Dem
o -ratie States Rights Party, believing that a
strict and literal construction of tlie Consti
tution was the only way to preserve the
Union as it was framed and designed by its
f< mnders.
K»M
Thankfully Received.— President Grant
and family, with a large party, visited
Brieksburg, N. J., yesterday, and were
enthusiastically received by thr; people of
the place, and entertained by the President
of the Brieksburg Land Improvement Com
pany. During liis stay the President was
presented with about fifty acres of ground.
[JT. Y. Times.
In addition to tlie above we lnive further
information that the fifty acres were “thank
fully accepted.” The man who presented
them must be a “regular brick,” and in case
Mr. Robeson or any of tlie other Secretaries
should resign or die, Brick’s chances are of
tin* best. In tlie meantime Brick may count
on a foreign mission or an assossorsliip of
Internal Revenue.
In tlie old days the President of tlie United
States did in »t receive gifts. Even fifty acres
to forget the duties of their high office or tlie
decencies of life. But they were old fogies
and most of them Democrats.
A 11 1 NT xo James Fisk, Ja.—ln Sweden
tlie railway guards are made to follow a
course of minor surgery and bandaging, iu
order to lx* able to afford provisional assist
ance in case of accidents.
We found the above among our foreign
news and copy it in the hope that it may
meet the eye of tlie versatile Fisk, and strike
him as a first rate idea. As “cases of acci
dent” occur with startling frequency on the
Erie Railroad, would it not be economical to
hire as conductors none but qualified sur
geons. The opportunities for constant and
extensive practice would be such an induce
ment to young medical men that they could
be had for tlieir victuals and clothes. It
would be comforting to the traveling public
to know that in case of being “telescoped,”
experienced men are always on hand to
straighten things.
Location tor the State Fair.
Tlie Committee appointed by tlie City
Executive Committee to submit, for the
consideration of the citizens of Macon, tlie
facts and reasons which have controlled their
selection of the Laboratory grounds and
buildings for holding the Annual Fair of the
State Agricultural Society, report:
Ist. That an expenditure of thirty thous
and dollar’s would be scarcely sufficient to
erect —on unimproved grounds—tin* im
provements and conveniences necessary to
accommodate tlie approaching industrial ex
hibition which now promises to surpass any
thiug ever witnessed in the South.
2d. The Government consents tliat we
may remove any structures, buildings, fences,
etc., that we may erect on the grounds, and
we state on the authority of Mr. Maxwell,
an architect jukl builder, that the structure s
we .contemplate erecting, can be so framed
with a view to removal if necessary, tin t it
can be done at trilling cost and trilling dam
age to the material of the structures.
3d. The li >ss of actual cash to the city by
work on tlie Laboratory grounds and build
ings, which cannot be taken away, will not
exceed twelve or fifteen hundred dollars.
The city had better sink three or five times
that amount than have imperfect prepara
tions, and thousands of our fellow-citizens
dissatisfied with the city and the Agricultu
ral Society.
4th. The Macon and Western Railroad
will run special trains, leaving the depot
every hour, if necessary, taking passengers
for ten cents. When it is remembered that
the large quantity of heavy machinery,
steam engines, cane Ixulers, gins, threshing
machines, make it extremely desirable to
avoid wagoning such articles, it must be
considered that the arrangement by which
all heavy freight can lx; delivered from the
ears right at the spot where wanted, makes
the Laboratory more convenient for freights
and passengers than any other point named.
sth. The committee of eleven- —named tin*
Executive Committee of the city—having
carefully considered every point raise ! on
this question of location, and having, to the
best of their judgment and ability, sel ?ct; and
tjic Laboratory grounds and buildings, they
appeal to their fellow-citizens to cease now
all controversy and division of sentiment
and unite in mi effort to make the exliil fition
alike a great benefit and a great lion jr to
tlieir city. In our judgment, it will tal a* the
union of all hearts and hands and prah **s to
meet the requirements of an exhibition \ »hieh
promises to lx* the most extensive ever held
in the South.
Stephen Collins, )
A. L. Maxwell, ■- Comn attee.
Dav. W. Lewis, i
llow touching is this tribute of H( m. T.
11. Benton to liis mother’s influence: * •My
mother asked me never to use toba ;eo; I
have never touched it from that time to the
present day. She asked me not to gi* in hie,
and I have never gambled. I came >t tell
who is losing in games that are being play
ed. Slie admonished me, fix), agains 1 hard
drinking, and whatever capacity for i lidur
ance I have at present, and whateve r use
fulness I may have attained through life, I
have attributed to having complied wi th her
pious and correct wishes. When [ was
seven years of age she asked me ; lot to
drink, and then I made a resolution o f total
abstinence; and that I have adherei 1 to it
through all time, I owe to my mo the r. ”
—Tobacco paid the United Styles T Veasu
rv $150,000, WO last year, F
Gen. Jordan, commander of the Cuban
forces, was formerly prominently connected
with tlie War Department. Subsequently
he became the chief of staff of Beauregard’s
rebel forces, but never entirely relinquished
his affection for the old Hag. ‘ He is au effi
cient officer of great executive and adminis
trative power, upon whose acquisition tlie
Cubans are to lx; congratulated.— New York
Sun.
It is true that General Jordan was former
ly connected with the War Department. He
was a Quartermaster or Paymaster in the
United States army stationed on the Pacific
coast until just before tlie war, when he was
ordered home to account for some specula
tions which were said to be rather irregular,
and which made it difficult for him to bal
ance his books. Tlie war intervening he
came South and became a memlxT of Gen
eral Beauregard’s staff. His services in con
nection with the War Department may have
made him prominent, but it was the same
sort of prominence which he subsequently
attained by his attack on ex-President Davis
in Harper’s Magazine, when Mr. Davis was
iu Fortress Monroe, a manacled prisoner.
Commencement at tlie University
of Georgia.
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR.
Athens, Ga., Aug. 6, 18G9.
The trains of Wednesday night, yesterday
and this morning, have borne away most of
the visitors who came here to attend Com
mencement.
Notwithstanding tlie liberality and excel
lence of the arrangements made by Mr.
Johnson, tlie obliging and able Superinten
dent of the Georgia Railroad, the crowd was
so great that the two trians per day were in
capable of accommodating all tlie passen
gers. The piles of baggage made tlie depot
look like a freight depot in the busiest com
mercial season, and the carriages, buggies,
omnibuses, wagons, carts and drays laden
with tlie hugest Saratoga trunks, bonnet
boxes and valises, together with tlie hosts
and their families come to speed the parting
guests, gave the place the appearance of a
fair which tlie quiet little Athens depot sel
dom assumes. Most of those who went off
yesterday morning looked very sleepy and
iatigued. Having danced all night and until
4 o’clock in tlie morning at Mr. B. 11. Hill's
ball, they had but little time to rest before
the omnibus ciy of “all aboard” warned
them that they must set out upon tlieir jour
ney. Every one went away praising loudly
the hospitalities of which he laid been the
recipient, and declaring that lie had rarely
passed a few days more agreeably than those
lie had just spent in Athens.
Tlie Board of Trustees before adjourning
adopted tlie recommendation of the Faculty
changing tlie old course of education in the
University. The principal change consists
iu only making it obligatory for the student
to follow the regular curriculum during tlie
two first years of his course, and leaving him
at liberty after that time to elect such branch
of study as lie may think best suited to liis
future career in life, subject to such regula
tions as the Faculty may adopt. It is also
permitted to the student to study two modern
languages instead of Latin and Greek, and
members of the law school who are graduates
of the University may attend the classes of
modern languages and rhetoric free of charge.
These, I believe, are the chief points in
which tlie Trustees have altered the old sys
tem, and it seems to bo tlie general opinion
that tlie change will work for good.
The Alumni Association at their regular
meeting, on Tuesday morning, agreed in fu
ture to dme together during commencement,
and to endeavor severally to infuse* fresh life
into the society, and procure the attendance
of a large number of members. The follow
ing are the minutes of their meeting :
At the annual meeting of the Alumni So
ciety of the University of Georgia, July fid,
1869, the following orators were elected for
the next commencement, viz:
Hon. John G. Shorter, Orator.
Rev. J. L. M. Curry, First Alternate.
John C. Rutherford, Second Alternate.
Messrs. Mitchell, Jackson and Vason were
appointed a committee to memorialize tlie
Trustees for an appropriation to aid in fur
nishing an Alumni dinner at the next meet
committtce of armngefaeiitH rot* saVdinbmT.
On motion of Colonel DAY. Lewis the fol
lowing Alumni were appointed Delegates
to the Georgia Teachers’ Convention to meet
ill Atlanta on the 11th inst., viz:
Col. D. NY. Lewis, Chairman.
John C. Whitner, of Atlanta,
Julies S. Brown, of Atlanta,
Thus. R. Glenn, of Atlanta,
N. J. Hammond, of Atlanta,
W. R. Hammond, of Atlanta,
A, 1). Candler, of Atlanta,
W. J. Vason, of Atlanta,
H. B. Van Epps, of Atlanta
O. E. Mitchell, of Atlanta,
W. S. Hemphill, of Atlanta.
General Toombs left yesterday for liis home
at Washington, Wilkes county, whence early
next week he will set out for a trip to Lake
Superior. He is much fatigued by liis recent
professional labors, and needs rest and recre
ation.
Bishop Beckwith starts this week on a
short visit, to tlie North, and several other
members of tlie Board of Trustees and vis
itors, contemplate trips to the Falls of Tal
lulah and Toccoa, or a visit to tlie Indian
Spring in Meriwether county.
Col. Magill, the indefatigable and efficient
agent of the Cotton States Life Insurance
Company, was here during the week, and
received, I am informed, several applications
for policies in that excellent company. The
high character of those who are connected
with the institution, and the fact that it is a
Southern company, commend it to tlie favor
and support of Southern men. Too long
have we been sending our money North to
fill tlie coffers of Northern companies. Now
we can get better terms in a Southern com
pany of which we are fully informed, and if
we insure our lives, as every prudent man
should, we have the opportunity to do so in
our own State and among our own people.
The weather is unusually warm and sultry,
with indications of more rain. The crops
are looking much better. Cotton is growing
rapidly. Bottom corn looks well, but upland
corn is lost beyond all hope of recovery.
Many are cutting it down for forage.
Tlie .Beauties of Protective Tariffs.
From the New York Evening Post.
We need for expenditure about three hun
dred millions of dollars. We agree to raise
from customs 150 million dollars. To ob
tain tliis sum, about 58 millions more than
England raises from six articles, we tax more
than 4,000 different articles of imports. But
we actually get 75 millions of dollars revenue
from the following six articles: Coffee, tea,
sugar, wiue and spirits, tobacco and liquors.
To obtain the other 65 millions only, there
fore, we see fit to lay duties on nearly four
thousand articles; and charges a duty as
high as 150 per cent, on some goods; to get
these $75,000,000, we tax no less than one
thousand million dollars of consumable com
modities annually, and thereby enhance tlieir
price on the average 50 percent. We raised,
for instance, a revenue of not quite £1,000,000
from 100,000 tons of imported pig iron. But
we consumed 1,600,000 tons of home-made
irou besides in 1868, on all of which the price
w;ts raised to the amount of the duty on
foreign irou. Thus the tariff compelled the
people to pay the domestic pig irou makers
it bonus of $14,500,000, gold, during that
y«j?*
V e did not raise one dollar of revenue
from woolen blankets for the Lust three
years, jus there is a heavy duty on this article;
nevertheless, the duty compelled tlie people
to pay the manufacturers forty cents in
currency a pound, for what can be bought
in England for twenty-four cents currency.
The extraordinary number of articles of
import taxed, compel us to keep a custom
house staff' that outnumbers tlie armies with
which we formerly fought and conquered the
savage Indians. We put temptations in the
way of these public servants which have
bred corruption among them. We offer a
premium for smuggling and fjiLse swejiriug;
the New Orleans sugar scandal at this mo
ment. and the New .York silk scandals of liust
winter will testifv to this.
We tax tlie poor man’s clotliing, glass,
crockery, bedding, fuel and gas; we tax tlie
woolen socks of the baby 100 pur cent., and
the brass coffin nail 45 per cent. And all tlie
misery, vice, corruption and fraud caused
by these bad laws are perpetuated to raise
seventy-fix e million dollars revenue from sev
eral thousand articles, when the same sum
could lx* got from only ten articles. But then
the simpler system would not enrich five or
six thousand monopolists, who, under tlie
name of “protection to American industry,”
impose these grievous wrongs on the people.
—Rev. Dr. Spaulding, who is 76 years of
age, is the oldest bring missionary of tlie
American Board. He has been engaged in
his holy work in Ceylon since 1819.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
For the Journal and Messenger.
County Agricultural Societies.
Macon, Ga., August 7, 1869
Dear Sir: In reply to your inquiries of
the 27th ultimo, I have to say —that in order
to be known as auxiliary to the State Agri
cultural Society, your County Society must
organize with a written Constitution and
send the names of your officers and members
to this office. Your Society will then be en
titled to send ten delegates to two annual
conventions of the State Agricultural Society,
for one fare on the railroads, and to a copy
of the transactions of these conventions, ft
is contemplated, and will doubtless be so de
termined by the Executive, to liave annnallv
two conventions of the Society—one in Feb
ruary and the other at the* Annual Fair.
These conventions will lx* composed of mem
lx-rs of the Society, who lxx'ome so by pay
ing two dollars, and of delegates appointed
as above.
In the last convention there were ten del
egates from each Society. To become indi
vidual members you pay two dollars annually.
This entitles you to a card, or certificate of.
membership, which certificate entitles the
holder to exhibit at the Annual Fair any
number of articles and animals, without
charge; to go into and out of the grounds
and buildings at all times without hindrance
or expense; to encamp on the grounds and
to attend and participate in the meeting held
during the Fair.
The members of the Society first, and next
tlie members of County Agricultural Socie
ties, will lie entitled to the Public Di**u
ments and other books and seeds now in this
office for distribution. The immense gather
ing of Grangers here at the Fair, from all
sections of the Union, who must depend
upon the hotels of the city and neighbor
ing towns and cities for accommodation,
make it incumbent upon Georgians, espe
cially upon the farmers and planters, to
come with tents and camp, equipage and
supplies, and locate on the grounds, h’ltri
will be supplied at cost. The
this arrangement in giving the planters su
perior facilities and opjxirtunities in inspect
ing every department of tlie exhibition, and
for social intercourse and interchange of
views, with those of his own occupation,
will fully compensate him for all inconve
nience.
I send you copies of Premium Lists and
hope you will return to this office tlie name
of your Society, with list of officers and
members, and that they will appear on tlie
ground in good time armed and equipped
as the law directs.
A premium of a ten dolbir cup will be
awarded tlie clubwhich shall appear Jon tlie
ground with the best tent aftd equipage and
supplies produced jit home; this cup is to be
awarded by the County Club to the most de
serving exhibitor at the Annual County
Fair.
I suggest to planters to come prepared to
purchase agricultural implements. The ex
hibition in this department promises to be
without parallel.
Mr. Brinley, of tlie Kentucky Plow, lias
given me notice that he will give a set of his
plows as a premium to the exhibition of the
best biig of cotton. If you have that bag
down in Laurens, you had as well bring it
along with you.
Very respectfully,
D. W. Lewis, Secretary.
To Messrs. John M. Stubbs anil others of the
Committee of Laurens County Agricultu
ral Society.
Papers of the State will please copy.
Georgia Agricultural Society.
Agricultural Office, |
August 6th, 1869. \
The Exeuutive Committee met, Mr. Max
well in the eliaii*.
Present—Messrs. Obear, Greer. Anderson,
Collins, Gustin, Maxwell, Winship.
Absent Messrs. Whittle, Mcßumey,
Plant, Nutting. Dr. Culvert and Mr.
Crockett, were invited to take seats in the
meeting.
Minutes of the List meeting read and
approved.
Committee on Grounds, oil motion, was
allowed further time.
Committee on “Trotting Park,” on ab
sence of chairman, by motion was granted
further time.
Committee on Signs reported that they
had liuislied tlieir work. On motion tlie
report was received and the Committee dis
cluugeiL ..
for the remainder of the evening.
Mr. Obear moved that a Committee of three
be appointed, consisting of Messrs. Maxwell,
Lewis and Collins, to prepare a statement of
facts, to be presented to the citizens of Ma
con, in regard to the Laboratory grounds,
tlie object being to set forth the reasons and
facts which controlled the Committee in de
termining to hold tlie Fail* at these grounds
and buildings.
Bills passed—C. Burke, 820.
On motion, tlie Committee adjourned un
til to-morrow morning at 11 o’clock, when
they will meet again.
Good for Old Upson.
Barnes villi:, August 7, 1869.
Mr. Fil'd yr: —l yesterday saw the first
open boll of cotton, picked this season. It
Mas gathered by Mr. Willis Morris, (son of
our old and lamented friend, Conductor
Jim Morris,) on liis place in Upson county,
about eight miles from here, on tlie otli inst.
Mr. Morris speaks of liis crop as most prom
ising, and I would not be surprised if lie
hail the “ lii*st bale ” of tlie new crop in mar
ket from Middle Georgia.
From every section of Pike, Upson and
Monroe counties the accounts of crop pros
pects are most cheering ; and should August
prove propitious, the yield will be the best
of any year since tlie war closed.
Com is about made, and the crop, in tlie
opinion of old farmers, will be tlie largest
nuide in twenty years.
Farmers wear smiling faces, and many of
them speak of a bale of cotton to tlie acre ;
while souk* low “ set their pegs” even higher,
but these latter count on the extra yield from
the Peeler, Dixon, and other choice seed
planted. Some of these gentlemen, from all
I can hear, have some brag fields, and if they
do not take the prize at the forthcoming
Fair, will push tlieir competitors closely.
Absentee.
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The Fifteenth Amendment.
From the Harrisburg Puliiot.
The Radical j tapers publish strangely in
correct lists of the States which have ratified
or assumed to ratify tlie Fifteenth Amend
ment. What object is to be gained by re
peatedly asserting that Tennessee, Minneso
ta, and other States which have taken no
action, have fully accepted the amendment,
passscs conjecture. Tlie action taken, thus
far is as follows:
Alabama, said to be ratified.
Arkansas, ratified March 15.
Connecticut, ratified May 13.
Delaware, rejected.
Florida, ratified in Juno.
Georgia, rejected.
Illinois, ratified March 5.
Indiana, assumed to ratify May 14. No
quorum present.
Kansas, assumed to ratify May 27. The
second section was imperfect.
Louisiana, ratified March 1.
Maine, ratified March 9.
Massachusetts, ratified March 12.
Michigan, ratified March 5.
Missouri, assumed to ratify March 1. Did
not act upon the second section.
Nebraska, assumed to ratify. Certificate
on file at the State Department is infoj tnal
and insufficient.
Nevada, ratified March L
New Hampshire, ratified July 1.
New York, ratified April 14.
North Carolina, ratified March 5. #
Pennsylvania, ratified March 26.
Rhode Island, the Senate ratified May 27.
Tlie amendment will probably be rejected,
because the Rhode Island Radicals believe
that under it they can no longer disfran
chise tlieir Irish Catholic laborers.
South Carolina, ratified March 10.
West Virginia, ratified March 3.
Wisconsin, ratified March 5.
This makes only twenty-one States that
can possibly be claimed for the amendment
thus far; and of these, only seventeen liave
legally ratified it. The assent of eleven
more States will lie necessary to force negro
suffrage upon an unwilling people.
Bad Report from the Cotton. —Reports
received from different sections of our coun
try cause us to fear that it will be necessary
to “change our time” iu regard to tlio pros
pect. A relial tie gentleman, who has just re
turned from Florida, informs us that there Ls
no doubt of the presence of the genuine cot
ton caterpillar in at least one planlatic n vis
ited by him near Tallahassee. Col. Malone,
of this city, informs us that he lias recurved
a letter from his overseer in Baker oovmty,
informing him that there is no doubt of the
caterpillar lx*mg iu that section. Hinee the
wet weather set in, we learn that the rust is
making its appearance to a sc/mewhat alarm
ing extent in some sections.
[Anyericus Courier.
Bullock, Blodgett and the Beat.
HARD swearing.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist, Aug. sth.
Superior Court. —This court convened
yesterday morning, pursuant to adjourdment
o# Saturday, Judge Gibson presiding.
The case iu equity of Bullock, Biixlgctt.
Bryant, 15< files. Brayton, Conley, Prince and
llice rs. E. H. Pnghe, as to the ownership
of the material of the Daily Press office, was
called. The comphiinants were represented
by Judge J. S. Hook and Maj. J. P. Carr,
and the respondent by Messrs Barnes A Cum
ming. The respondent filed a plea looking
to a determination of the issue at the present
term of the court before a jury. After a full
argument of this point by the counsel on
each side, his Honor decided that the case
was not triable at the present (tlie first) term
and dismissed the jury empannclled.
Proceedings were tneu had upon a motion
to dissolve the injunction granted the com
plainants by Judge Gibson, in May last, re
straining the use of the material of the Daily-
Press office. The bill tilt'd, by complainants
and the answer thereto by the respondent
were read. The bill was fortified (if they
may be classed jus fortifications) by the sep
arate affidavits of the complainants, affirm
ing the justice of their claim, and the utter
dishonesty and fraud practiced upon them
in their corporate capacity as “The Georgia
Printing Company,” by their co-partner and
business manager. In proof that absurd
ities often creep into tlie most carefully pre
pared documents, tlie affidavit of Poster
Blodgett, in meeting the declaration of the
answer of the respondent, that tlie National
Republican was originated for politicid pur
poses, this affiant actually spurned the im
putation, so far as he was concerned, except
iu the dissemination of political truth. This
portion of the affidavit provoked very aud
ible smiles from tlie listeners, who evidently
sympathized with the ridiculous position in
which its declaration sought to place truth.
The answer of the respondent was backed
by his own affidavit supported by those of
Thos. P. Beard and Win Hale, two colored
stockholders in the Loyal Georgian, who
have suffered somewhat iu pocket from their
faith in Bryant and Prince, who managed
the pecuniary matters of that concern, and
who transferred its materials as a part and
parcel of tlie stock in trade of the “ Georgia
Printing Company.” Taking in view the
allegations of tlie parties to this issue, we
are of opinion that the whole matter was
conceived in iniquity and bom of fraud.
They undertook, by swapping knives with
each other, to keep up a respectable appear
ance, until they could get some of their
number into a position to gather their re
ward from the public crib. When the har
vest ripened fully, the laborers fell out con
cerning tlieir respective shares, and hence
the present issue.
Capt. Barnes opened the argument on tlie
motion for a dissolution of the injunction,
and was followed by* Maj. J. P. Carr, these
arguments consuming the entire afternoon
session of the court in their delivery. The
case will be resumed this morning, when
Maj. J. B. C umming aud Judge Hook will
deliver their arguments.
From the Constitutionalist, 6th.
The Georgia Printing Company Case.
Tlie arguments of Judge Hook and Maj.
Cumming, before Judge Gibson, yesterday*,
in this cjuse, occupied the attention of tlie
Court until 4 o’clock, p. m. The opposing
counsel dived into tlie depths of tlie case
with great earnestness, and each labored
with the skill and ingenuity for which they
are distinguished. The effort of Maj. Cum
ming was of about four hours’ duration, and
exhibited tlie most faithful study of the case,
and elicited particular expression of compli
ment from those who heard him. At tlie
conclusion of the argument of this gentle
man, the Judge called for tlie voluminous
documentary exhibits in the case, upon
which, we opine, he will be obliged to ex
pend considerable thought before lie e;in
arrive at an equitable solution of the offen
sive mixture.
We publish in full, this morning, the doc
uments upon which the ease came up. The
reader will readily discover that it is a case
of pot calling kettle black, with equal chances
of smutting on either side. It would appear
that Pnghe put in the greater quantity of
available stock, for which lie was generously
awarded a comparatively infinitesimal share
of stock. But lie was allowed to manage
matters and recover somewhat of the ciinit-h
Bullock, Bowles A Cos. Such strong swear
ing pro and can lias seldom been produced in
a Georgia court, and will afford a subject of
careful study* for our next grand jury.
The Bcllock-Pughe Embroglio. — The
revelations in tlie matter of tlie Georgia
Publishing Company, so-called, sire calcula
ted to make the men who made Bullock
Governor blush through their foreheads of
brass and their hides of triple rhinoceros
skin. Anil this is what tlie Yankees call
“a truly Republican form of government.”
[Constitutionalist.
Fourteen Years Asleep.
DEATH OF THE REMARKABLE SLEEPING WOMAN
IN KENTUCKY.
Miss Susan Caroline Godsey, tlie sleeping
wonder, died at lier mother’s home, some
eight miles .from Hickman, Kentucky, on
Wednesday, the 14tli instant.
Tlie history of Miss Godsey is well known
to tlie public, a statement of her wonderful
condition having been published extensively
by tlie press of tlie United States. At the
time of her death, Miss Godsey was about
twenty-six year’s of age, and liad been asleep,
as described, about fourteen years. The ex
istence of this wonderful case of coma, or
preternatural disposition to sleep, has been
doubted by many, but the hurt is indisputa
ble. Indeed, some twelve months ago, Miss
Godsey was taken to Nashville and other
places for exhibition, but we understand
many even of the physicians of Nashville
looked upon the case with suspicion. The
history of the case is briefly: When about
twelve years of jxge she was taken with a se
vere chill, and treated accordingly by lier
physician. As the fever which followed lier
chill subsided, slie fell in it deep sleep, in
which condition slie has remained ever since,
except at intervals.
It was her custom at first to awake regu
larly twice in every twenty-four hours, and
singularly, within a few minutes of the
sjime hours each day; but of later years she
awoke oftener, so much so that many con
sidered it an indication of her final recovery.
She would remain awake five, ten, or per
laips fifteen minutes, :md gradually drop off
to sleep agttin. When asleep it was utterly
impossible to arouse lier. She never com
plained of any bodily pain, though when
asleep she was very nervous at times, and
appeared to suffer considerably by the vio
lent twitching and .jerking of her muscles
and limbs, and her hands clenched tightly as
if enduring severe pain, but when awake slie
did not appear to suffer except from drowsy,
gaping inclination, and persistent effort to
cleanse lier throat of phlegm. She gener
ally passed into sleep through violent par
oxysm, which would last perhaps five
minutes, and slie would then sleep awhile as
calmly and quietly as an infant. Miss God
sey was of medium size, and lier limbs and
muscles were well-proportioned and devel
oped, and grew considerably after her afflic
tion.
Miss Godsey, on the day she died, in
dulged in a little prophesying which we give
as related for wliat it is worth. She said
“the suu would be a total eclipse on the 7tli
of August,” (this is remarkable, because
parties assert that she could have had no
knowledge that this was according to calcu
lation,) “and that the sun would never shine
as bright after that day. That this would
indicate the end of the world, which was
speedily approaching.”
A M.vn Buried Alive —No Attempt to
Rescue Him.— From C. J. Hanks, Route
Mail Agent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad,
we learn that tbe well being sunk :it Monu
ment Station by the Company, caved in on
Saturday last w hile two men were working
in it, burying one, while the other escaped
by seizing a rope, and was drawn up. It
seems that the workmen had sunk the well
160 feet, and were going through a stratum
of sand ; owing to the scarcity of timber the
curbing Lad been neglected for thirty feet
above, and being thus insecure, without a
moment’s warning the well caved in, bury
ing one man under several feet of earth aiid
sand. The workmen above could distinctly
hear his cries for help, and distinguished
the words: “Don’t leave me.” Yet, in
credible as it may seem, his companions made
no attempt to release him, alleging as an ex
cuse thut they were afraid of further caving
in of tlie welL More horrible still, after liis
cries had ceased, anil it was evident that life
had fled, these inhuman monsters filled up
the Well, forever entombing a human being
whom they might have rescued, or have at
least obeyed the common dictates of hu
manity and have attempted to save.
[Leavenworth, (Kansas) Times, July 29.
Ctesarisin in the United States.
From the Journal of Commerce.
Among the most odious of the many bur
dens under which the Liberals of Franee,
with a fortitude and patriotic arder which,
in spite of some extravagances, justly com
mand the cordial applause of more fortunate
nations, have been struggling on towards free
government, is one in whose pains Americans
oug lit i Krculiarly to sympathize; for in its
most odious form we bear it ourselves. In
the reeeut elections for the Corps Legislatif.
as in those which preceded them, the impe
rial government,except in a few constituency s
where it would fare better by not having
them, has, to the scandal of all who respect
the popular light of suffrage, put forward
and urged its official candidates; and the
French Liberal journals have published for
the merited scorn of nu n who have convic
tions and const i nees of tin ir owr, and who
desire to see a like manhood in their fellows,
the confidentialcireulai s in w hieli the Minister
of the Interior instructed every prefect and
each of every prefect’s subordinates to be a
hearty admirer and zealous supporter of the
chosen of the Emperor. Who among us is
such a stranger to our political contests as
not to see that this has been often paralleled
among us? Our Federal administration has
also its official candidates, whom its hosts of
subordinates, from the supervisor to the spy,
from the collector of the port to the watch
man at his custom house, are commanded to
push officiously upon the choice, or against
the choice, of the electors.
But the parallelism is not quite perfect.
Napoleon's official candidates- were for seats
in the Legislature of his own realm, a leg
islature without whose co-operation and con
fidence he could not carry on his govern
ment; the official candidates of the Federal
administration are for places in a political
organism of whose co-operation and control
the Federal government is independent, and
with whose constitutional workings it has no
more excuse for meddling than Napoleon
would have for dictating the votes of the
House of Commons. The French official
candidates were set up to oppose a by no
means insignificant faction who woidd snatch
from the Emperor the authority which the
solemn act of the French people lias irrevo
cably conferred upon him; the interference
of the Federal administration is that of men
upon whom the nation has conferred a tem
porary power for a term during which no one
dreams of taking it away, and who are mis
using that power to obtain an influence in
counsels they have no right to share. And,
worst of all, while the French liberals have
borne the insulting oppression because there
was no alternative but sanguinary and prob
ably vain revolt, the American people submit
voluntarily to the despotism that thus impu
dently wears the transparent disguise of free
suffrage, though all their laws condemn the
usurpation and their power is ample to give
it, without violence or risk, a signal over
throw.
We have said that this system of Federal
interference in State elections is the contri
vance by which moil who lawfully hold a
temporary but undisputed authority, aim to
snatch, in defiance of public condemnation,
another instalment of power —the machina
tion of those who have been made trustees
of a vast national fund for the national lame
nt; *aml who administer it for the controll
ing end of keeping the administration in
their own hands. But this, which, if proved
to the satisfaction of a Court of equity, would
work the prompt removal of the trustee of
a thousand-dollar bequest—is not the worst
of the malversation. This machinery of
Federal patronage is moved by those who
hold high Federal office at the bidding of an
oligarchy numbering, perhaps, not more
than a dozen or so, of which they may be
members, or only hired servants who often
take tlieir pay in the irredeemable paper of
vain hope.
These oligarchs—not one of whom could
with all his adroitness obtain at the hands
of the people tlie high office whose powers,
without leave of the people he and his con
federates wield—constitute, if we look rather
at the powers than the names or shows of
things, the essence of the party. They are
the men who direct the irresistible currents
of popular sentiment to turn their own mill
wheels. They have indeed tlic-ir hosts of
retainers, some secured by the petty rewards
of place and perquisite, others urged on by
the frothy intoxication of a delusive banner
cry ; but it is the masters themselves who
dictate in all important points the lists of
-Ai ■> ■ i . 1.. it ,
winch are so bold in their avowals on topics
where all are agreed, so dark and ambiguous
wherever there is a conflict of sentiments or
interests among those whose support the
contrivers would attract. And thus it gen
erally happens that the honest elector who
has spent his time, his labor and his anxious
cure to insure some great triumph of princi
ple, finds in the end that he has only de
throned one clique ol' secret despots to estab
lish another.
It was ardently hoped, and confidently ex
pected by many, that General Grant, having
been prudently accepted, rather than origin
ally chosen, by the Republican oligarchy,
and having, it might be thought, a soldier’s
love of glory and a soldier’s straightforward
idea of duty, would have the sagacity and
firmness to consult duty, honor and personal
interest together by directing tin* machinery
of government with the single aim of mak
ing it accomplish its legitimate work. In
several important points, however, he has
allowed himself to be badly advised and h;us
administered his trust not for the country,
nor yet for himself, but for the oligarchy.
The worst of preceding administrations could
hardly have contrived a more corrupt abuse
of its power than that plan of interference
in the approaching State election of Tennes
see, on the heralding of which we comment
ed not long ago, and the final adoption of
which by the President in full council was
more lately announced in our Washington
correspondence. The chief magistrate, sum
moning to his side his monitor of constitu
tional right and duty, the respective heads
of the army and navy, the manager of the
Treasury, the warden of the broad national
domain, the authoritative spokesman of the
republic, the assembled representatives of the
whole executive power of the nation—it is
now declared, lias solemnly enlisted the Uni
ted States under the banner of Stokes.
Henceforth the Federal officers are in
Tennessee, not for the prompt doing of the
people’s errands, nor for the firm and impar
tial collection of the revenue, but to pro
mote ’ the cause of Stokes, or rather of the
oligarchy who are Stokes’ masters. It may
lie that among the intelligent electors of
Tennessee there are many who are prepared
to acquiesce in this impudent and fraudulent
assault upon the liberties of their State. It
may be that factious hate has risen to such a
frenzy there that men are glad to be ridden
by any one who will ride them over their
enemies. Tennessee is a Southern State,
and in the Southern States of lute years the
law of Federal dictation has come to be a
second constitution. We have just seen the
victorious party in another Southern State
addressing their thanksgiving for the tri
umph to the divinity at Washington, and
can almost hear them say with Virgil’s shep
herd—
“O Melibree, dens liaoc nobis otia fecit—
Nain milii semper crit dens.”
But it is not in Southern States alone that
these usurpations are practiced. Like en
croachments are ready for every State whose
electors choose to tolerate them. Step by
step—and the steps arc long and rapid—adul
terations of the Constitution, the bold grasp
ing of Congress at unlawful power, and the
fraudulent abuse of executive trusts, are con
verting—and unless resistance is prompt and
general, will soon have converted—this nicely
balanced system of States into a consolidated
mass, which nothing short of miracle can
prevent from flying into chaotic fragments.
“Henceforth,” said Mr. Morton, in his
speech at Gettysburg (and nothing less than
capitals were adequate to express the great
ness of his faith), “disunion is impossible. ”
Never was there, a greater mistake. Destroy
those guaranties of ,State autonomy without
which the Union could never have been
formed, a needlessly apprehensive jealousy
for which Ims all but torn that Union asun
der—and in the war of discordant sectional
interests and pretensions, the iutenqx>runee
of the majority, the rage of the scorned mi
nority, disunion will become inevitable.
Weather, Crops and Health. —Ruin,
rain; every day we have rain, and on Mon
day had what is called here, a ‘Tight-wood
knot floater." The planters are coming in
daily, and not one can give a favorable re
port as to their prospect for a good cotton
crop. Wet weather is damaging, but not to
compare to the damage that is and has been
done by the rust. On some plantations, we
hear that the cotton stalk is now dead. Cot
ton is all speculation, as much so to the
grower as to the man who buys it. A few
weeks back, the prospect of our section was
good for a cotton crop, now many say that
it is not so good as at tins time last year.
Health of the county still good. —D ia-son
Journal.
—Cotton has begun to open in Jefferson
county, Miss,
the news.
—The tax on tobacco has killed ten out of j
the fourteen manufactories in Danville, Ya. j
- Four children were killed by falling |
bricks, at the Philadelphia fire.
—The Lebanon Chronicle asserts that silver
ore lias been found in Laclede county. Mo.
-—William B. Astor is going to complete the
Washington National Monument, which is a
very clever way of building his own.
—The crops in Northern Texas are better
this season than they have been known for
twenty years.
—There is an over-shot water wheel in
Troy sixty feet in diameter. It is saul to I**
the largest in the world.
Henrietta Nichols, the oldest colored
woman in Maryland, died hist week, aged 110
years.
—Geometry, in the Chinese language, is
the science of “The so much,” or, in other
words, “What it is.”
—A St. Louis lady sues a dentist for
§SOOO for putting in her false teeth im
properly.
—A Chinese giant, eight and oik -half feet
high, arrived in New York a few days since.
He is projierly named Chang-lli.
—Any one who hunts with a gun or dog
in North Carolina on Sunday is liable to a
fine of fifty dollars.
It will be found, sa*s the N. Y. Express,
that more than 90 per cent, of our criminals
confess that the source of their crimes was
too much intoxication.
—The Ottawa Statesman knows of a
woman who set ninety thousand ems of min
ion, distributed her own type, and corrected
her own proof, inside of six days.
—The Council summoned to meet at Home
in December will, it appears, take into con
sideration, among other things, church
music.
—The Texas papers generally unite in the
statement that no damage of any conse
quence to the cotton crop has been done by
the worms, the rains, or the recent flood.
—M. Yieuxtemps, the well-known violinist,
has recently become the owner of one of the
famous Guaraerius violins in the Plowden
collection, having purchased it for the sum
of £Bl5.
—Recently a lady at Marbledale, Conn.,
on going to make up the Inal where her little
girl slept the night before, found a black
snake, about three feet long, coiled up in the
1 khl.
—There is a speck of war looming up be
tween Turkey and Egypt. The Sublime
Porte has recounted its grievances in a letter
to the Egyptian Viceroy, concluding with an
ultimatum.
—Thomas E. Montgomery, the Baltimore
druggist who compounded the medicine
which caused the death of a child in that city
on Saturday week, has been held to bail in
§I,OOO for the action of the Grand Jury.
—Postmaster General Creswell's forthcom
ing report will not show much reduction of
the deficit of the previous year as yet; but
his estimates indicate that he proposes to
make the department almost self-sustaining.
—Prince Mettemicli is accredited with the
invention of a definition which is just now
going the round of the Continental papers.
He defines a velocipedestrian to lie a fool
u[k>ii rollers.
—Crop reports from Western New York
are favorable. It is expected that the wheat
yield will be a third larger than usual, and
should the weather hold fair long enough an
enormous hay crop is expected.
—The latest undergraduate joke at Yale
College was the transfer, by midnight, of a
florist's sign—“New Haven Nursery”—to a
conspicuous position on a flourishing young
ladies’ seminary.
—An exhibition in Hamilton, Ontario,
came to a sudden close the other day. A
fifteen foot snake got out of its cage. He
happened to be lively. He imparted the
faculty to all who were in the vicinity.
—A large Newfoundland dog was attacked
and so stung by l>ees, in Richland county.
()hio, recently, that he died the next day.
He was tied at the time, and the family to
which lie belonged was away from home.
—The first bale of new cotton was received
at New Orleans from Texas, on the 3d in
stant. This is seven days earlier than last
season, when the first bale was received at
New Orleans from Texas on the 10th of Au
gust.
—The Kiowa, Comanche and Arapahoe
Indians in the Southwest are behaving in
quite an orderly manner under the new
Special Commission sojourning with them.
—A fatal disease has been prevailing for
some time among the horses in the neigh
borhood of McMinnville, Tenn. It apj**urs
in the form of “scours,” and no veterinary
skill has been able to stay its progress, or
ave the life of the animal attacked.
—The Columbus Sun reports that an old
colored man, familiarly known in Girard and
Columbus as “Uncle Nelson,” died in Girard
on Thursday night. He was highly respect
ed for his piety and integrity, by l>oth white
and black.
-—The fat men’s clam-bake is to take place
at Gregory’s Point, Norwalk, Conn., on the
20th of August. Every man weighing 200
pounds and over is entitled to la* present
from any part of the world. The tuts will
meet at South Norwalk, at 10 o’clock, a. m.,
on that day.
- —Wine in tlie wine-growing regions of
California is cheaper than milk. In Ana
heim and Los Angelos common wine is but
thirty cents a gallon; milk costs fifty. In
Toulumme county a large skilled wine raiser
offers four thousand five hundred gallons of
excellent wine at twenty-five cents per
gallon. In the same regions milk is forty
cents.
-—A new issue of all denomination of
greenbacks, from one to the one thousand
dollar note, is to be made in consequence of
the spurious issue of the ten dollar green
back, or legal tender nob's. The plates for
these notes are now being engraved at tin*
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The
designs are entirely new,
—Louisa Dowdal, a girl thirteen years old,
residing at Norwich Town, Connecticut, dis
covered, as she was getting out of her bed
the other morning, a spotted adder—one of
the most poisonous of the snake creation
on the floor of the room. With great cool
ness and courage, she hurried down stairs
for an ax, and came back and killed the
snake before it hail time to strike at her.
—The Lexington Gazette of August 4tli
says: “General Breckinridge informs us
that he has determined to settle again per
manently in Lexington and resume the prac
tice of law, This will be gratifying news to
the hosts of personal friends of General
Breckinridge in this section, where he was
known and admired and loved long before
he had acquired a national reputation. We
are glad to learn that he has already received
retainers in several important suits.”
—A full-blooded Indian, armed with a
tomahawk, and who had taken enough “fire
water” to awakep his savage propensities
without stupefying him, arrested in St.
Louis on Monday while rushing about wildly
brandishing the favorite weapon of Ida race
and endeavoring to tomahawk persons near
him.
—An effort is being made in Canada to
unite all the Jriah Catholic societies of the
Provinces into mo* grajjil Irish Catholic St.
Patrick’s Society, for the pnrjx,se of promo
tinggood-willamonglrishmen. The principal
efforts of the society would be directed toward
the relieving of Irish immigrants, and repre
senting, when necessary, the Irish interests
in the Dominion.
—The Germans continue their enforce
ment of the Sunqay law ir] Pittsburg. They
have held a meeting to select men to look
out for the different street railroads, and one
of the speakers said : “The sole purpose
the society wishes to reach is the extremest
observance of the Sabbath, so that all classes
of citizens would l>e equally compelled to
bear its advantages and disadvantages.” The
courts arc already full of eases grooving out
of violations of the law.
—“Old granny Silfuse,” a white Laly re
siding in Brock’s Gap, Rockingham county,
Virginia, now in her ninety-fourth year, is
one of the most active and industrious
women in the county, She yet does the
work of an ordinary yonug woman , indeed,
does more, for she lias been willing, old as
she is, in eases of necessity, to go into the
harvest field and assist in securing the crops.
She can spin, knit, sew and do all the ordi
nary' work of one of the industrious women
of the olden time, who thought jt no dis
credit to earn her bread by the sweat of her
brow, as the Bible has it.
—Almost every railroad accident arising
fiOfg collision causes great loss of life by
“telescoping,” that is by the passenger cars
sliding into each other like she sections of a
spy-glass. This is caused by the slightly dif
ferent levels on which the platforms run, so
that when the rapid motion of the train is
checked the l»ottom_franie-work of one ear is
foreud over tlie frame-work of the next, and
goes crashing through the body of the coach.
The platforms being an extension of the bot
tom frame-work of the cars, it is asserted, ate
too rigid, and, when collisions occur, offer
too great resistance, so that the weakest jior
tion, where the passengers are seated, is ob
liged to give way. It is, therefore
ed that if the platforms were to v’*, t,
to lie less firmly united to the
they would yield to the force of the „ W " rk
and the liody of the car would be i, r . ' °
“A m>m “ Danville, Ya., fio
who never rode m a car, is called *•
vative old human miracle.” * °a«er.
—lt is reported that some of th,. t
shoe “ Imsses” arc considering a pr , ' '• v, n
to run their factories by Chinese lalxir ''' 3
—The laboring men ‘of Nevada are , , nt
a formal pronnnciamr nto against tin- • 0
Chinamtn.
The linpcrirdist acknowledges <
Grunt to have l>een a regular 7u, n '
that journal from its inception. l! ' r
—There are eighteen negro, s e l« t l
the Virginia Legislature —four in t ! '. s
ami fourteen in the House.
—San Francisco lias anew V) , n , n „
journalism—an illustrated daily . „' n
the Illustrated Sun Francis, ~ ; ““l
—ln 1860 th« re were bat 402
railroad in the United States I; g '
that there are at least 4.000 mil, al ''*
—The Massachusetts Democratic“s, ,
Convention will lie he 111 ill Worcester
‘24th instant.
—Some of the Vermont potato
have harvested one crop of tlo | \ o ' '
this year and have n second r, : „| v j", \
- Miss Brad, lon. the sensation .
whose mind became seriously art,,- ' ”
months ago. has partially recovered" ! “
—The y, lit v. fe\ , ,
worse tlinn that of New Orion-- ~ '
taken the Chiiu sc type.
—ln twenty-five yew
the Jesuit Society has nion th“
In 1844 there were 4.188 mcmK ,v , , ‘V 1
register for 1869 slums thirv arc - s ,
The week o f prayer, appointed 1 v tl
Bishops to l>eobserved throughout the M •
odist Episcopal Church South, wi11,,, ,'
next Friday. August 18th.
—A numlter of Jew ish Rahhisin f;
and Austria have resolved to prepare '
cyclopaedia of the Tab
tate the study of that work.
—A new bug. about the size of a sn-,11,
and of the color of silver, has made its
peanuice in the wheat fields of the w, .in,
part of low a, and is doing consider;,!,],
age.
—All is not gold that glitters -in.VntiMrv
orany other business. A man di.-d
days ago ni Person county, North Cm
from having his teeth plugged with
onous foil or compound.
—The New J, rusah m M
that the Hon. John Bigelow, tin , i
tor of the Times, is a sincere and .
New Churchman otherwise. Sw-<d,
gian.
—Mr. Philip Woodson, died at Hunt.-vill.
Ala, August 4th. of paralysis. 11, v
79th year. He founded tin I! •
oerat in 1823. A native of Virginia. hew
a democrat of the States Rights 5e11,,,,!
—Piuich has its little joke that the ,ah],,
plunged into the ocean from the Lh, :
Franco. It has now connected itself with tie
heart of America, which may well thrill wit
satisfaction.
—The North German (
that in the University of Berlin, at the pi,',
cut moment, “ there an* no less than -iitv
American students, mosth soi
tors from the Southern States of the 1 in.-i
A certain locomotivi - ' i
Central Railroad has a bloody record. ]•
has killed three or four men duriim tie j :
year, and killed another man and two l r.,.
and maimed a boy Wedni*s(hiy.
—A colored boy in Maury countv. T
ucsscc, killed u rattle-snake last we, k wi.
had forty-five rattles. For wis-ks j>r,
it is said, he terrified the whole country v.
his noise at liiglft.
—“Liabilities heavy and assets nothing
This is thusturtliiig intelligence w hich i., t -
the i>eople interested in the exploded IV
Fire and Marine Insurance Conipaio T
much care cannot be exercised in select-
Insurance Companies to do busiu, with.
—Letters from England go to show tie •
tin* man killed on the railroad tln-i- .an i •
is supposed to have had something t -
with the Oi-ean Rank robbery in New V
city, had no connection whatever with ti
a flair.
—On the complaint hook of the Si. I
city engineer is tin* following cpi t
curiosity; “ Herr Ins/lector Sir: l- r . ‘
cili ]>a«i 1 dose in di*r Seitvolk | sidewall,
der Franklin Ebenue Streets vor mein I!
ant I vaut him fix quick, at vonst; ais me
\IH Hi illit tI <' I l\ HMD i
now [ gjts dockterbill zu hay,”
—The prospect for abundant crops th 5
out Texas were never more flattering. * 1
will J><- light in stime few sections, hut cot;
is doing well everywhere. If there are in
worms, tlie yield will be very large. In th,
district north and west of Jefferson, fr
which it derives its immense trade, the i-r- -]--
are fijn-j- than they have been for years.
—The Montgomery papers make meat
of flu! heaviest contract ever entered iut<
the South. Tin*parties engaged are all 8
em men. The contract is made t.v M.
Wallace, for cars for the South and .V
Road with Raoul, Sons A Wadi,V
works, at Independence, Louisiana. '1
stock consists of 200 box cars; I'K* flat <•
10 first class and 10 second class pa- en
gjii's; 10 mail and baggage cars , 10 crank
!}0 pnh* eur». These cars will cost ~i
§300,000.
I'nris Fashion^.
From Le Foflet.
We are fast approaching that ■
the year when preparations are in.
leaving town ; and the most useful in'
tiou we can give our readers, on th<
of dress, will be some hints as to un
likely to be fashionable for traveling
side toilette. Traveling dress is n mill;, n
of some material which will stum,
change of weather, and not easily nan
such as foulard, or a mixture of u
silk, or alpaca—and the colors should
rather a neutral tint. Nothing is prettier t
a gray, or a gray sjieckled, or buff, 'll
generally made with a found skirt witj.
flounces, and a fitting casaque, I n
tunic ajth a sash, making a poult 1» i
An immense number of white do
being prepared for the watering \ -
wlijte oyer blue, umi/.c, ccrisc, m- •
They arc open up the side, so a.i t
colored petticoat, and trimmed 11
the opening, as well as at tlie beta i
skirt, with narrow fiounci edged v;t
enciennes or guipure. The skirts of t.
are made long, the body is ojieu, an ■
in front under a bow of ribbon t
color as the under-skirt. A small
nmntalet, trimmed to match, just le 1 ■
waist by the sash, complete- this pc
lette,
It appears that white will be
-it was last summer white -■ •
with satin stripe* ; sultane, plain" l
pique ; muslin, spotted or plain. , r
although flounces are very muck IU “ '
there are some dresses exti 'in. ; !
simple, trimmed m< rely with
satin ribbon placed on fla‘, t!r '
the <*i*irt being edged with a fring
pique may l»e trimmed ait h i- 1:
braid, embroidery, or insert;
over a colored ribbon ; spotted in _
have merely a trimming of th*‘ ,: -
hemmed. Guipure, narrow tulle,
lepejennps life sujtable ti'iiamm-'
npisliiM tqpl preaudits. ,
Costumes, tlie under-shirt <
cln eked material, ui " very V
upjier skirt of the same colors, i
of spots ; or, perhaps, one strip l >
other spotted. Some ladii ~pe l'-
tames of two contrasting colors
very pejdpni that >i combin.
duces to el< pant a toilet!
entirely of one shi-'i* •
sometimes marie to serve t\o> p- ; i
the following manner : A cost
of a short skirt, more or less tnr -
with a jntninr or tamnryo, and u < *'-
To cop vert this into a long do -•>•
made of tin- same material, h. . *
match; this is hastened on at bv .
der tlie jxuiier, leaving the to r • .
just as it was. If wished to «* '. y ,
ing dress, a low Ualy can I; ““ v -
bodies are very fashionable,
tumes apd tlie long drew* »
Sashes have by h<> mcai ' “ v
though their make alters t 1 and"
time to time. It would b 1U1 1’” :
scribe the immense variety ot ~t •
they are marie. Some are en.
the ends with flowers; others
there are the oßoi.i;ui f : ‘ .
sashes, tied at the side, wlu< p- ‘ , ...
lie favorites at the seaside tin-' . ’
as the black ribbons worke.i 1 ..
bouquets. Very prettv little
made to match these sashes. y ;i v
omit to mention that-yelvet aia ■
trimmings principally iu vogiu •"
eut time.
- it j Si^ ll
Rust in Cones. —Rev. . 1 '
of Marshallville, was in our eflir e . r
and reports that all tie cotton ~..;
is more or less affected by " 'j. one
the crop will I>e cut off at
and i>erhapa oue-half in sonw •