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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER
TUESDAY "MORNING, AUGUST 17.
Hill of Injunction Against tlie
linin'** ick At Albany Hailroad
Company.
have received a copy of tlic bill of
complaint of the Atlantic Ac Gulf Railroad,
tin- Central Railroad aud Ranking Company,
the Southwestern Railroad, and others,
citizens and tax-payers of the State of
Georgia, praying an injunction hgainst
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad
and X. L. Augier, the Treasurer of the State,
restraining the Company from constructing
the proposed Albany A- Brunswick Railroad,
and restraining Mr. Angier from endorsing
any bond' purporting to Ik> issued by the
authority of an act of the General Assembly,
of March IS, 1869, in the shai»e of State aid
in the construction of the Brunswick & Al
bany Railroad, at the rate of $15,000 per
mile, in gold.
The bill sets forth at length the grounds
of complaint, showing that the construction
of the proposed road would be a breach of
faith with the complainants, and a violation
of existing contracts, that the act to aid the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company
is unconstitutional mid void, based upon
fraudulent allegations and pretenses; that
the proposed appropriation—sl a mile
in gold, equivalent to 821,00 U. S. cur
rency- is fully 84,0(X) a mile more than is
necessary to build the road; and that the
whole transaction from beginning to end is
a fraud ujion existing companies, and upon
the tax payers and bondholders of Georgia,
concocted in the interest of ‘‘persons who
are strangers to her soil, who lmve paid no
taxes into her treasury, who have no abiding
interest in her jiermanent welfare aud pros
perity, and who are seeking upon pretences
the most fraudulent to possess themselves of
a large sum of money over aud above the
expenditures which they can possibly make
in tin- construction of the road.”
Judge Schley, to whom the application
was made in the absence of Judge Sessions,
after a careful examination of the facts as
set forth in the bill, granted the Injunction,
commanding the 15. A' A. R. R. Cos. to
desist from constructing the railroad, and
commanding N. L Auger not to indorse any
bonds issued under the Act of March 18,
lHfi’J, in aid of said railroad.
Wauled, a Iviug.
Don Carlos having failed ignominiously
to make himself king, Don Ferdinand, of
Portugal, having respectfully but positively
declined the honor, the Duke of Montpen
sier, though willing enough, being unable to
satisfy all the parties concerned, the Regen
cy of Serrano being next to nothing in the
kingly way, aud the Spanish people wanting
a king at any price, the selection must be
made quickly or serious troubles are predic
ted. Serrano and Prim see the difficulty and
have resolved to overcome it. The Cortes is
summoned to meet in October for the express
purpose of electing a king. Prim is gone
to France to talk over matters with his big
neighbor next door, and arrange it so that
the selection may be agreeable. He is said
to be in favor of the Prince Napoleon, wlio
is princely enough to satisfy the monarchists,
moderate enough for the moderados, and
sufficiently red Republican to suit tho ex
tremists. He is out of employment too at
home. Indeed he is rather troublesome and
unpopular there, and it is very probable that
his room would be far more agreeable than
his company. He lias powerful connections
too. Tiie King of Italy, is his father-in-law.
The King of Portugal is his brother-in-law,
and the Kmperor of the French is his cousin
as well as “the nephew of his uncle.” It is
true that l’rinee Napoleon has never distin
guished himself in any creditable way up to
literature, a great deal of a profligate, a bad
husband, and a soldier of bad repute. The
best thing about him is that in outward ap
pearunec lie resembles tilt' great Najnileon.
With these qualifications it is thought
that he is the person to whom the famous
Spanish diplomatist Olozaga alluded when he
mysteriously stated that a candidate for the
throne, acceptable to everybody, had been
found. The advertisement, “Wanted a
King," is still inserted “every day till for
bid," so that it is not certain that Prince
Napoleon, better known us Plon-Plon, will
be the man.
Wliat .Napoleon lias Conceded.
It is not very easy for the general reader
ti> obtain a proviso idea from the cable dis
patches of the nature and extent of the Em
peror Napoleon’s concessions to the Liberal
party in I’ranee.
We have In'en at some pains to decipher
their meaning, as it will be doubtless inter
esting to our readers to know what the Em
peror has done in the way of reform.
According to the Constitution of 1852,
the representatives of the people of Franco
had no right to discuss the Emjwror’s speech,
to make any comments on the budget, to
interpellate the Ministers or to initiate any
law. The theory that “the King can do no
wrong" was pushed to the extreme limit of
“divine right.” and the legislative lardy were
simply the registers of the Imperial edicts,
whether they sanctioned or disapproved
them.
Now all this is changed. Instead of the
absolute government by a self-styled Consti
tutional Emperor, the French people will have
a striolly Constitutional government and a
limited monarchy. Their representatives
will have the power to discuss and vote upon
the budget item by item. The Ministers
will be selected from the parliamentary bod
ies. 'rin> power to initiate laws will be
shared by the Legislature and by the Em
peror. The members of the Legislature
will be allowed to put questions to and make
demands of the Government. The Council
of State will no longer have the power to
dispose of amendments to promised laws by
pocketing them 1 adore they have been sub
mitted to a vote. The Ministers shall lie
present at the parliamentary debates and
shall be responsible to the people for their
nets. The Senate shull sit in open session,
and shall have the right to impeach the
Ministers.
These are substantial reforms, and though
they may not satisfy the demands of the Lib
eral party, they are a decided step in advance
when com pared with the system adopted at
the foundation of the second Empire. It is
to In exjvoted that Napoleon’s skill and
shrewdness will regulate these concessions so
as to reconcile his power with the progressive
spirit of the opposition. He knows howto
adapt himself to circumstances, while he
seems to 1 v very liberally inclined to hold
the re: us in his own hands.
Satisfactory.^ —It is stated that the Re
publicans at New Orleans art* very well
pleased w ith General Longstareet’s appoint
ments and with his administration of the
Collect orship.— Rcchmu/r.
\\ e should think that the above is correct.
The Republicans of New Orleans must l>o
very"hard to please if they are not pleased
with General Lougstreet. He lavs done
every thing from abandoning his country and
her people and joining her enemies, down
to appointing plantation negroes to office
and associating with them, to please the Re
publicans.
Rut what do the men think of his admin
istration who fought under him at Seven
Pines, at Sharpslmrg, at Gettysburg, and
many other glorious battlefields? Are they
well pleased with his appointments?
BTinc Foist Royal Railroad.— The Earn
well Journal says:
The entire contract for building the Port
Royal Railroad Ims been let out tou Mr.
Flannegun, at the North, for two millions
und a half dollars. The work will begin at
once, and the contractor liojies to finish the
whole road by January, 1871. It will run
through some of the most fertile sections of
Barnwell District, and we congratulate our
friends along the river upon the prospect
they have of speedy railroad communication
with Augusta, Savannah and Charleston,
I ni* ersitf Education.
W* publish in another irohimrf n very tthle*
communication from the pen of a distin
guished Alumnus of the University of Geor
gia, on the subject of Collegiate Education.
While we are prepared to agree with our
esteemed correspondent to some extent as to
the necessity to modify and reform the reg
ular course of study in our colleges so as to
adapt it to the material progress of the age,
and to suit the altered circumstances of the
rising generation of our country, we are un
willing to endorse all his views or to con
demn the education afforded by onr colleges
as useless in the business of life.
We should be glad to see the student
devote leas time to the study of the
dead languages and pay more attention
to the living languages which we are
all required to speak, read and write,
and which so many who can place B.
A. after their names, speak, read and write
incorrectly. But we would by no means
discard altogether the study of the ancient
classics. Although there are very few even
of those who were most proficient in their
knowledge of the writings of the great au
thors of Greece aud Rome, who after they
quit college “keep up their classics,” their
study has undoubtedly trained their intel
lects, increased and strengthened J their
power of analysis, given them a greater and
more cultivated command of language and
expression, and lias prepared their minds to
receive and comprehend more easily all other
branches of instruction. We think, how
ever, that this may be carried too far. Unless
the ntu<leut intend-: to inlnjit, literature 03 a
profession it is a waste of time to make him
what is called a critical classical scholar. To
teach a child dancing, and to exercise him
in gymnastics, will certainly improve his
deportment, promote hisliealth, and develop
his muscular power, but unless it be intend
ed to make him a dancing master or an ath
lete, it is not necessary, nay, it is unwise to
cause him to sjiend more time in the dancing
school or the gymnasium than is absolutely
requisite to attain the purposes which we
have alreaxly enumerated.
We agree with “Spectator” that instruc
tion in Mathematics, Engineering, Chemis
try, Agriculture, Mechanics, Botany, etc.,
etc., should l»o among the main objects of
University education, in order to meet ade
quately the needs of our young men in the
various vocations which they will be called to
follow in life. But we should lx; very unwill
ing to see utilitarianism pushed to the length
of excluding altogether the cultivation of
the icstlietical taste. As well might we re
fuse to adoru our houses, cultivate flowers,
buy pictures or statues, or encourage a taste
for poetry or music. None of these things
pays in the estimation of a rigid utilitarian.
All the elegant accomplishments arc worth
less in a purely material point of view; but
our esteemed friend “Spectator” would be
the last to recommend that we should lmve
no flower gardens because turnips would pay
better; that we should never buy a picture,
an engraving or a statue, because the money
they cost could lx; 1 tetter employed in pur
chasing a Brinly Plow or a Hay-rake, or
that we should consider poetry uud music a
waste of time that might be better employed
in “business.” On the contrary, we regard
.■esthetics as among the most important and
valuable branches of education, because one
of the most potent agencies by which a peo
ple attain to a high order of civilization.
The man who has a cultivated taste for the
sublime aud the beautiful, who lias a high
and discriminating appreciation of art, who
“has music in his soul,” who comprehends
the cartoons of Raphael and Lessing’s Lao
coon, will better manage a bank, a railroad
or a factory, and even throw up a better and
neater cotton bed, than he who has “no
... *...u moved by a
sense or beauty in Byron’s Cliilde Harold,
Tennyson’s Maud, or Longfellow’s Evange
line—who could find no pleasure in looking
on the transfiguration by Raphael, or the
Last Communion of St. Jerome by Domeni
cliino,” and who never heard of the Cartoons
or the Laoooon. We believe in the culture
of all “the arts which humanize mankind,”
and trust that our educational institutions,
while they avoid the enervating influences
of dillettanteism on the one hand, and the
debasing pursuit of Gradgrind “facts” on
the other, will follow the safe middle course,
uml while they instruct, will also cultivate
the minds of our youth.
The Board of Trustees of the University
of Georgia, at their last meeting adopted
a judicious reform which to a great extent
meets the objections of “Spectator.’’ The
regular curriculum, with the study of Greek
ami Latin is now only obligatory on the stu
dent during the Freshman and Sophomore
years. After that, when the foundations of
knowledge are laid and when his mind is
better formed to make the choice, he mav
select the branch or branches of learning to
which he designs to devote himself with a
view to his future career.
It is not possible that any University edu
cation can fit the student when he leaves
College to practice whatever profession or
calling he may adopt, without further special
study. At the best it can but lay the
foundation upon which the most dilli
gent anil gifted can afterwards build the
best and most enduring superstructure of
success in life, and it is our firm belief that,
other things equal, the man who has receiv
ed a collegiate education will have a marked
advantage in every profession and way of
life over him who has not received such edu
cation.
Pile Barlow-.llcUunn Imbroglio
Ended.
It will be seen from the telegraphic dis
patches of last night, from New York, that
Marshal Barlow, with his military escort,
and idl “the pride, pomp and circumstance
of glorious (?) war,” lias been relieved from
further trouble by the discharge of .Major
Pratt, by the U. S. Commissioner Osborn,
with the consent and by the advice of At
torney General Hoar.
The question suggests itself very forcibly
to the public mind, would Pratt have
been discharged because there were no
grounds for his detention, had not Judge
MeCnnn issued a writ of Jutbens corpus for
his protection, and resolved to compel obe
dience to liis writ by force? Would not
Pratt have been now on his way to Texas to
be handed over to the tender mercies of
General Reynolds and a trial by a Military
Commission?
Pratt cannot be too grateful to Judge
Met unn, and to the liappv circumstance
that he was under the protection of the pow
ful State of New York.
Tl»e Ragged Rebels of tlie A. N. V.
A JVST TRIBUTE FRoM A FOE.
The following from the address of Govern
or Chamberlin, at tlie late reunion of the
Army of the Potomac, in New York, is both
true and just to those “who fought noblvand
well. " Alluding to tlie “nigged rebels” - who
stood at Manassas, at Chancellorsvilie and
Petersburg, the Governor says :
That Army of Northern Virginia ! Who
can help looking back upon them now with
feelings half fraternal ? Ragged and reckless,
yet careful to keep their bayonets bright ami
lines of battle well dressed ; reduced to dire
extremities sometimes, yet always already for
a fight; rough and rude, vet knowing*well
bow to make n field illustrious.
Who can forget them —the brave, bronzed
faces that looked lit us for four years across
the flaming pit—men with whom in a hun
dred fierce grapples we fought with remorse
less desperation and all the terrible energy of
death, till on the one side and the other a
quarter of a million fell, and yet we never
bated except that they struck at tlie old flag ?
THE£EWE 4
—Mazzini has left Switzerland, and will
aguin take up his residence in England.
—On Sunday last a Newburgh clergyman
touched up “young scamps who are riding
to hell behind Lint homes. ”
—Henry Dickinson committed suicnTe in
West Springfield. Ohio, last Tuesday week,
by pounding his head with a mallet.
—Mr. Speaker Thomson, of Janesville, is
presented by several Republican journals in
YV iaconsin as their first choice for Governor.
General Grant paid lor flow
arc! Potters cottage, at Long Branch, is re
ported to be 84fl,«l!».
—Mr. Motley has appointed Mr Eastman,
of Queenstown. United States Consul pro
tem, at Glassgow.
—Tbe lower house of tlie Kentucky Leg
islature consists of eighty-one Democrats
uud live Republicans.
—Mr. Gladstone, the British Premier, is
again quite ill. His condition causes anxiety
among liis friends.
—Borne of tne Cubans who were sentenced
to a terrible exile on the African coast liave,
after exciting adventures, reached New
York.
-—A protest against the Chineha Islands
Coolie trade has been sent to the British
Minister by the mercantile community of
Ann <y.
—There is a female prayer-meeting in New
bnryport, Massachusetts, which was organ
ized in 1814, and has been continued regu
larly ever since.
—An lowa gill got into Omaha in the
evening; got acquainted with a young man
in the morning; went to a pic-nic in the
afternoon; and brought him home and mar
ried him liefore supper.
—An attempt was marie recently to burn
the liourding-liouse of the Young Ladies’
Seminary at Windsor, Connecticut, but the
tlames were extinguished before much dam
age was dune.
—A man and his wife, named Convnghani,
living near Floyd, lowa, were instantly killed
by lightning while in bed sleeping. Their
corpses were perfectly black from the effects
of tlie stroke. The man’s mother was ren
dered insane by the same shock.
—The Coroner stopped a funeral proces
sion in Pittsburg, at the request of the offi
cers of a life insurance company, who had
risks of 827JKH) uu the deceased. The com
pany suspected foul play, and are having the
matter investigated.
—A womau presented herself at the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, the other day, with
a recommendation claimed to have been re
ceived from Abraham Lincoln in the spirit
world, and demanded an appointment on the
strength of it.
—Advices from onr Indian frontier are fa
vorable to prospects for a continued quiet, at
least until after the Winter season com
mences ; and, in the mean time, the Quaker
Commissioners will have ample opportunity
to carry out their efforts to establish perma
nent peace.
—Ex-Senator R. M. T. Hunter, has writ
ten to the Conservative State Executive Com
mittee of Virginia, urging, in any event, the
postponement of the election of United
States Senators until after the meeting of
Congress, when, it is expected, all disabili
ties will be removed.
—The Internal Revenue Department has
decided that Base Ball Clubs art' subject to
taxation, and accordingly they will in future
be compelled to take out licenses at the rate
of 810 per annum for their exhibitions, and
pay a tax of 2} 2 per cent on their gross re
ceipts, while the Treasurers of Clubs will be
required to make monthly income returns.
—The Richmond Enquirer says : Due at
tention has not been given to the fact that
in the late election in this State out of a
Radical vote of 100,000 some 88,000 votes
were east in favor of the test oath and the
disabling clause of the Underwood Consti
tution. It did not succeed, hut this does
not modify the atrocious character of the at
tempt.
—Mr. Charles C. Little, the founder and
senior partner of the firm of Little, Brown
A Cos., of Boston, died recently at liis house
in Cambridge. He has been sick for some
months, and had but recently returned from
the South. He was born at Kennebunk,
Me., on the 25th of July, 1771), and was
consequently a few days over 70 at the time
of his death.
-—Referring to the condition of affairs in
connection with the Administration, the
Providence Herald aptly says: “Really Grant
knows but little of what is going on, and
cares less. He is a cipher. He has got rich
liiiliH-JKag
horses to the obscurity for which lie is so ad
mirably qualified.”
—The Boston Courier is sorry to learn that
ex-Senator Yates, of Illinois, lias become a
complete social outcast and wreck, and that
his name figures solely now- in the police re
ports. Yates was in polities a Radical of the
straitest aud meanest sect of the political
Pharisees. He went lor impeachment of
Andy Johnson and all that.
—A great many papers are again printing,
as a fresh piece of news, an account of the
cure of a cancer upon a Mr. Mason, of Mil
waukee. lhe fact is that since the item
commenced its travels, some dozen years
ago, Mr. Mason has died of the same cancer
that was cured. The paper from which the
article was quoted, has not been in existence
since 1800.
—A New York paper says that the ecclesi
astical authorities of the Roman Catholic
Church have resolved upon the organization
of anew diocese in the .State of Massachu
setts. The Alltany Argus says it is more
than probable that tlie mitre of this new
diocese will be ottered to the Rev. William
Quinn, the well known pastor of St. Peter’s
Church in that city.
—ln Missouri the Legislature has made a
contract to give the soldiers an engraving
printed on paper, which will cost six cents—
hut for which the contractors will receive
thirty-four cents—-as a testimonial of their
bravery and service. While Missouri is re
warding the soldiers with sliinplaster daubs,
Grant is removing them from offices to make
room for members of his family.
—President Grant has bought a cottage at
Long Branch. It will probably says the New
York Post, fix the roving thoughts of our
peripatetic Chief Magistrate for the summer
njxm one quiet cot in a tranquil spot, with a
pleasant view of the changing .sea. It will
make Long Branch for the United .States,
with a slight difference, wliat Thackeray
said Dublin was for Europe, the say-batli
ingest, fast-drivingest. whisky-drinkingest,
(and cigar-sinokingest) place in the hemi
sphere.
—The New York papers record the total
wreck of the steamship Cleopatra, hound
from Montreal to London, and lost at sea
Sunday night; the steamship Germania,
which left New York, August 3, and was lost
oft' Cape Race; and the steamship Jacinto,
from Now York to Savannah, which went
ashore on Body s Island early Monday morn
ing. There are very few details as - yet of
these disasters, but‘it is gratifying to" learn
that in every instance the entire crews and
all the passengers were saved.
—During a recent fortnight the telegraph
wires between Chicago and Davenport had
spells of refusing to transmit the current.
The whole line was carefully searched over to
find at La Salle a long iron rod that a miner
placed against the wires upon leaving work
every night. Upon lieing charged never to
repeat the caper, he was utterly amazed at
the power of his rod over the wires, and
thought the telegraph was a “mighty quare
thing to be shtopped by the likes *o’ that
rod.”
—"P 10 . Chicago druggist who gave a man
aconite in place of brandy, thereby causing
tlie death of the latter, has, after a mild cen
sure by a Coroner’s jury, been set free. This
druggist, whose blunder cost a man his life,
was a short time since, it is stated, a porter
in some store. He gathered a little capital,
and gave up sweeping the sidewalk and the
office for the more lucrative and delicate
busines of putting up prescriptions. He is
said to have had no preliminary education in
pharmacy, and hence his unpardonable
blunder was the legitimate result of igno
rance.
—Treasurer Spinner continues to receive
letters from all parts of the country, inform
ing him of the cirenlation of the new coun
terfeit ten-dollar notes. The Washington
dispatch to the Evening Post says that a let
ter has been received in Washington from
North Carolina stating that the various sec
tions of that State are Hooded with the new
counterfeit notes.
—Henry Ahqnali, King of Winnebah, on
the west coast of Africa, is announced as
agent for tlie West African Herald, a news
paper edited and printed by natives.
—Hon. John Young, of Montreal, lias suc
ceeded in organizing in Copenhagen, Deu
mark, a company to lay a submarine cable
from Northern Eurojie to America, via the
Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland.
—lt is stated with a good deal of positive
ness by those who are conversant with tlie
political opinions of the natives of New
foundland that they entertain a deep and
widespread desire for annexation to the
United States,
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MES££|s T GPR.
—
For the Journal and Messenger.
Defects ftt the PrrttntVjljfin of
University Education.
NEED OF PRACTICAL REFORM.
Athens, Ga., Ajigust 5, 18f>9._
Jfi . Edik#: To a uie«jt©. ►ker-enin Attn-os
during Commencement week Fhe first im
pressions are decidedly satisfactory. One is
impressed, in the first place, by tlie vastness
of tiie .crow d—-by lie- solemnity and dignity
with which ihexnj rpi.se-> qf/U jtninincemieiit j
are conducted in the Chapel—and then the
execiiant weintvirjn • ■.\,t i-.)/ y• cm gentle
men of tic- I'i.iv. .-dry \ ’ > selected to
speak i* -general wqdii ti« mselvis*,-and the
very considerable ability that is displayed by
most of them, make very pleasant impres
sions upon the wind. 'Surrounded by all
this, one comes to the conclusion that the
University of Georgia is undoubtedly an in
stitution of learning.
But after all tho noise and tumnlt is over
and the people all gone, and the Chapel is
closed for the Summer vacation, and we
drop back into the dull routine of every day
life, grave doubts arise in our minds us to
the necessity for any such an institution as the
present University of Georgia. We say to
ourselves —what good does it do after all?
Whom does it educate, and what doe ? it teach
them? Os course von know these questions
are answered in the catalogue, but that is
not satisfactory.
The Board of Visitors, in their report of
what they saw and heard at the final exami
nation liefore commencement, stated that
the kind of instruction the, graduates lnul
received was calculated to fit them for liter
ary and professional life —and that was all it
did do. The question is, does it do even that ?
To use perfectly plain language, the regular
course of study at Athens is fit to make ex
cellent preachers and teachers, aud after that,
it is difficult to conceive what it is fit for.
In other words, if the graduate intends to
teach or preach he can go right at it—but if
he intends to be a lawyer or a doctor, amer
chant or a planter, in fact anything else ex
cept priest or pedagogue, he lias got it all to
learn yet. The diploma he has does not
represent a single thing that will be of any
service to him outside of these two profes
sions.
Take, for instance, the class just graduated,
and put them in a telegraph office—it is
doubtful if the whole forty-four could send
a message over the wires. Put them in a
bank or a merchant’s counting rixmi, and
they would most prolxibly be at a loss to
understand a single entry in the hooks. Put
them on a plantation, and how many of them
would know how to throw up a cotton bed?
How much do they know about the profit
able management of railroads or factories—
or, indeed, of anything else pertaining to
business? They have got their diplomas,
and the Chancellor's blessing, and not one
of them knows how to do anything that any
body will pay him for doing. Paterfamilias
very naturally makes anxious inquiry, with
an eye to the amount of money he has spent,
what liis boy has been doing. Tlie answer
is, he has been training his mind. The
University does not pretend to make busi
ness men of its students, it simply under
takes to strengthen anil systematize their
intellects, so as to fit them to learn these
vulgar everyday duties after leaving college.
Very good—its all very well training their
minds, but is it the right kind of training?
The question is, don’t you have to aid the
boy of some of this training before you can
make anything out of him? What has the
study of Latin and Greek got to do with
training the mind, any more than the study
of French and German? And why will not
the latter accomplish the object as well as
the former?
What particular virtue is there in the Car
toons of Raphael or Lessing’s Laocoou in
training the mind; and if lectures upon
these by the distinguished Chancellor do
not train the mind, what do they do? The
time wasted upon these might be given to
the practical teaching of Natural Philosophy
and Mathematics, and Chemistry, and I dare
say we would perceive equally as much
mental development. Yet we meet Latin
and Greek at every corner in the catalogue,
and the head of the University takes as his
specialty the aforesaid Cartoons, whilst
nothing more than the mere theory of the
sciences is attempted to be taught.
What do the graduates expect to do now
that they are out of College ? It is foolish
to think that they are rich enough to culti
vate in idleness a sort of dillettante learning
in furtherance of the kind of education they
have been receiving. If they are. then no
‘j?iietrinAhv; iliJpTeuT , f ‘W>%ork
and make their bread. Nine out of ten of
their fathers are broke, and have got hut lit
tle to give them. They must now come in
to competition with the shrewd, systematic,
industrious men of their own age, who have
been learning how to do business, while they
have been learning how to read Greek, and
the result is, another four years must now
be spent in getting another education—the
knowledge of how to make a living.
These remarks are not applicable alone to
the University of Georgia. They apply to all
tho so-called learned colleges with regular
curricula. Indeed, the University of Georgia
is not only one of tlie very best of its kind,
but it is less obnoxious to those criticisms
than almost any others of its kind. The
venerable Dr. Lipscomb who presides over
it is not only a ripe scholar, a polished gen
tleman and a good teacher of what he knows,
but he is something far better than all this—
he is an eloquent and useful minister of the
Gospel. There can be no objection to him
personally. The trouble is he does not know
those things which the rising generation of
men need to be taught. The Professors who
assist him are all accomplished teachers, but
with two or three exceptions the same remark
applies. The difficulty is not in the men it
is m the system. The University of Georgia,
like all other of the learned colleges is for
tlie most part a relic of the middle ages.
The instruction is the same priestly lore that
was taught iu the monasteries 500 years ago.
Since that time the world lias built new hab
itations for itself, mental and bodily. Steam
and electricity civilize faster than the car
toons of Raphael or the plays of Euripides.
He who teaches the youth of this age to
think that its civilization is to be measured
by that of Greece or Rome, does them harm,
and is ignorant of the age in which he lives.
The world, rushing onward in the race of
progress, has long ago passed the Universi
ties, with their dusty cloisters and their
monkish learning. It will soon say to those
who issue from their classic portals': You be
long to a former age. The languages you
know are dead, the ideas you believe are
dead—in fact, my dear sir, you were bom
five hundred years too late to be of any ser
vice, Spectator.
H ♦ M T
Correspondence of tbe Journal and Messenger
Letter from Decatur County.
Baixuridoe, Ga., )
August 12, 1864). [
J)cnr Crruer'U: After reaching home from
quite an extended tour through Georgia, I
propose to give you the result of my obser
vations. I find, all above Augusta, that
cotton is distressingly small, and com very
poor, as far as Athens; above that point I
can say nothing concerning crops.
I rom Athens to Macon, it is the same
“sad song.” From Macon to Florida, corn
is better and cotton very poor. I scarcely
saw a field of cotton from Macon to this
point that did not have tlie rust, and conse
quently cut off l>y one-half. All the cotton
from Macou to this place lias shed all the
forms, not bo Us.
The first six or eight days of August were
tlie most disastrous to cotton that I have
ever known. Up to tlie first of August I
never saw better cotton in Southwestern
Georgia. The almost unprecedented Avet
weather for the few succeeding days has
given nearly every field the rust, and* made
almost aU tlie cotton shed the greater num
ber of the nnmutured forms.
My humble opinion of the cotton crop of
this entire section, which but a few (lavs ago
bid so fair, is that not much more than one
half a crop will be gathered.
Between the wholesale shedding, which is
not to come, but a mournful realitv; tlie
rust, which is universal, and dries np
everything not fully matured; the cat
erpillar, which will eat off all that the rust
and rain may leave (for every honest man ivill
admit the first crop is already hero) what
assurance on earth can any man have for
more than half a crop? Wherever stiUoilin
and guano have been used, these disasters
have not l>een as great; but is the difference
equal to the expenditure?
My opinion is, that the crops will fall far
short of last year where I have traveled,
ihese are solid, senous facts, polish them as
we may.
In my next I will give you a few facts upon
the caterpillar. Tam O’Shanter.
The British Parliament Avas prorogued
on the 11 th inst. by royal commission, and
the Queen's message was read, in which it
was stated that the negotiations with the
United States Government had been Bus
pended bv mutual consent. [The Queen’s
speech will be found in another column.]
For the Journal and Messenger,
better from Ha in bridge.
Bainbridoe, Georgia, )
August 13, 1839. \
Editor Journal and Messenger • The first
new cotton was brought to our market on
Wednesday last, tli? lltli inst.. and pro
duced quite a stir among our merchants as
all longed to possess it. There were two
bales of it, one raised in Mitchell county, by
W. K. Rrown; theothqrin Miller, by j. H.
Pearce. It was thirdly sold to Messrs! T. B.
Huunewell A Cos., for 40 cents per pound,
mud mm shipped by them immediately to
Savannah by Express.
The cotton is‘opening very Lust, and soon
we expect to see our streets lined with it.
Business is looking up, aud the hitherto
gloomy visages o t our merchants, owing to
that tact, have become correspondingly
cheerful. They anticipate many improve
ments to our city during the coming lull and
winter.
Our railroad prospects continue to be of
the most encouraging nature. The people
of Thomasviile are making considerable
noise over the contemplated road from Tal
lahassee to this place, anti are trying their
sophistry on the Directory at Tallahassee to
have the road run to their village. How
ever, the Directory can’t exactly see it, when
by coming here the State of Georgia endorses
their 1 Kinds, or rather the bonds of the
B. (J. A (J. R. R, which will be extended to
; the tune of $12,000 per mile to the Florida
line, which is a much more healthy consid
eration than poor Thomasviile could possibly
otter. Oak Citv.
Prorogation of Parliament-—Tlie
Queen’s Speech.
London, August 11.
Parliament was prorogued to-dav by Royal
Commission. The following message from
the Queen was read by the Commission:
“We are commanded by the Queen to dis
pense with your further attendance in Par
liament.
“Her Majesty announces to you with pleas
ure that she continues to receive from foreign
powers the strongest assurances of their
friendly disposition; that her confidence in
the preservation of peace has been continued
and confirmed during the present year.
“The negotiations in which her Majesty
was engaged with the United States have by
mutual consent been suspended. Her
Majesty earnestly hopes this delay may tend
to maintain relations between too two coun
tries on a durable basis of friendship.
“The Queen has a lively satisfaction in ac
knowledging the untiring zeal and assiduity
with which you have prosecuted the ardu
ous labors of the year. In the act for put
ting an end to the establishment of the Irish
Chinch, you have carefully kept in view sev
eral considerations which, at the opening of
the session, were commended to your notice.
It is the hope of the Queen that this impor
tant measure may hereafter be remembered
as conclusive proof of the paramount anxie
ty of Parliament to pay reasonable regard in
legislating for each of the three kingdoms to
the special circumstances by which it may
be distinguished, and to deal on principles
of impartial justice with all interests and all
portions of the nation. The Queen firmly
trusts that act may promote the work of
peace in Ireland and help to unite all classes
of its people in that fraternal concord with
their English and Scottish fellow-subjects,
which must ever form the chief source of
strength in her Majesty’s extended empire.
“The Queen congratulates you on having
brought your protracted labors, on the sub
ject of bankruptcy and imprisonment for
debt, to a legislative conclusion which is re
garded with just satisfaction by the trading
classes and the general public.
“The law framed for the fetter govern
ment of the endowed schools of England,
will render the resources of those establish
ments more accessible to the community,
and more efficient in their important pur
pose.
“In the removal of the duty on corn, the
Queen seas new evidences of your desire to
extend industry aud commerce, aud enlarge
to the uttermost these supplies of food which
our insular position in a peculiar degree en
courages and requires.
“The Queen trusts the measures for the
purchase and management of the telegraphs
by the State may be found to facilitate the
great commercial and social object of rapid,
easy and certain communication, and prove
no unworthy sequel to tho system of cheap
postage which lias passed with such advan
tage into so many countries of the civilized
world.
Queen thanks you for the liberal 'sifppfies
which you lmve granted for the service of
the year, aud for the measures by which, you
liave enabled her Majesty to liquidate the
charge of the Abysiuiau expedition.”
Sons.
We have not up to this time said anything
respecting the new dress of the Journal and
Messenger— we supposed the elegant ap
pearance of tho paper needed no special
mention—it spoke for itself. But we have a
word to say for the firm to whose handiwork
we are indebted for our splendid outfit. The
name of tho late Jaines Conner is well known
to American printers, and his sons are main
taining his reputation in the art of type
founding. They have supplied us with
fonts of type of superior quality, of the
finest finish, promising great durability—
the several sorts of which run so evenly that
we have had to order but few extra sorts—
less, indeed, than we have ever known in
ease of fonts of similar extent. Printers
will understand the economy of this feature.
We are greatly pleased with the material
furnished us by Messrs. Conners—it is satis
factory in every respect—and we recommend
the firm to our friends needing printing ma
terial.
Negro Honesty. —Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe in a recent number of that really ex
cellent weekly, the Hearth and Home, pub
lished an article giving her experience of ne
gro character, and describing the race as re
markably honest, self-denying, and virtuous.
No doubt Mrs. Stowe’s convictions were sin
cere, but they differ very widely from those
of persons whose experience of the negro is
greater and more intimate than hers can be.
At the present term of the Superior Court
of a county in Northern Georgia, a negjp
was tried for burglary, which was at one
time a capital felony and is now punishable
by imprisonment in the Penitentiary for
twenty years. The accused was defended by
able counsel, who made an impassioned
speech to the jury which he thought had
produced a visible effect upon their minds.
The jury retired. Shortly after one of the
number missed his hat. He went in search
of it. It was nowhere to be found. At last
suspicion fell on the accused negro who was
seated near his counsel and close to tin; jury
box. Search was made and it was found in
possession of the burglar. The jury brought
in a verdict of guilty. We give the facts as
they were related to us by the negro’s coun
sel and by the Sheriff of the county where
the trial took place.
The President’s Radical Sympathies.—
The Radical organs announce with great sat
isfaction that President Grant ‘ ‘ heartily
sustains the Wells party in Virginia and the
Stokes party in Tennessee,” and that his
“ sympathies are altogether with the Repub
licans of Mississippi.”
As it is an accomplished fact that the Wells
party' in A irginia and the Stokes party in
Tennessee have been routed horse foot and
dragoons by the people, and as there is every
reason to hope that the Radicals in Missis
sippi will meet a similar fate, we do not
see much cause for the Radical rejoicing, or
for any alarm on the part of the people that
the party “ which the President heartily sus
kfi'is ” will give them much trouble.
The indecent interference of Messrs. Bout
well and Cresweil in Tennessee with the
President's consent, increased Senter’s ma
jority. It is safe to believe that the Presi
dent’s sympathies in Mississippi will produce
a like effect. The fact Is the people every
where want peace and they know that peace
is unattainable if the Radicals are allowed to
rule.
Cuban News. —The news from Cuba is like
the little joker, “now you see it and now you
don’t.” One account savs that the Span
iards have utterly routed the rebels, and al
most caught Jorilan, killing, wounding and
capturing immense numbers of patriots, and
untold quantities of army stores, and another
tells ns that Jordan’s strategy has resulted in
the total defeat of the Spaniards, and the
triumph of the insurgents, who are now mas
ters of the situation. As lx>th accounts re
fer to the same engagement, and as they
cannot be both true, we are left in practical
ignorance of the facts. War bulletins are
proverbially false, but those from Cuba are
more sliamelessly so than any we have yet
seen.
-—General Thomas Jorilan, now of Cuba,
is stated to owe the best government the
world ever saw $20,000 as back account of
his pay-mastership before he went into the
Confederacy in 1861,
Forei.ijp. Aim |
—lt is denial Tfdm Madrid that
tious have luVu openr-d with the United
States for the version of Culm.
— The Freueli Jour aid Oifi- iel of July 2d, I
rofclriniH.' the completion of the French |
Awnunc Cable, says that this new means of j
communication between France and the |
United States w ill henceforth render their !
relations more frequent and more intimate. |
and assist in .strengthening the bonds of !
friendship which unite the two countries.
The isl end of Monteci isto—made so fa- .
"mr»n*-frr Alexander PHfifßPSfi-tta ttafinns**. 1
“Count Montccristo" —Inis been purchased j
by the Italian Government from an ling- j
lishman by the name of Watson Taylor, for j
100.600 francs. l!i former years the island
of Monteeristo was the retreat of the monks
of St. Basil and later one of the hermits of
the order of the (J.iimadolensl At other
times it became also the refuge of pirates.
—Lord Derby is said to have written a
very handsome letter to Mr. Gladstone re
garding his new book on Homer, just pub
lished. Besides the acknowledgment of the
intrinsic merits of the “Juveutna Mu mil,”
the ex-Premier expresses frankly his admira
tion and wonder how in the course of the
last two veal’s his indefatigable successor
should have found time for its composition.
It is rather singular that Mr. Gladstone’s
“JuventusMuiUli,”andMr. Buskin's “Queen
of the Air,” should have appeared simul
taneously.
The present liberal Government of Portu
gal is expected to shortly bring forward a
measure for altering the penal code referring
to religious liberty and securing to the non-
Cathoiie Portuguese the freedom winch otil
er European States enjoy. The acquittal by
the Criminal Court of Oporto of the British
merchant who had been condemned by a
lesser authority to six years’ removal from
the country for preaching Protestantism, is
hailed with congratulations by the whole
Portuguese press.
—The Journal Ojficiel contains a commu
itbjue on the ease of Mr. Worrell, the Amer
ieanjwlio claims compensation for his false|im
prisonment in June. The official organ denies
everything alleged by the journals except the
fact of the arrest. It denies that "this for
eigner” was ill-used or had his money taken
from him. But, inasmuch as the note con
cludes by the admission that a “judicial in
quiry is going on, the result of which it is
not intended to prejudge, - ’ public judgment
in the matter must necessarily be suspended.
—lt is stated in the French papers that
the departure of the Viceroy of Egypt from
Eaux Bonnes, in the Pyrenees, was sudden
and unexpected, and the Palrie declares it
was owing to unfavorable news which His
Highness received a few days ago in a dis
patch from Cairo. Since he left Egypt, it
explains, the most extraordinary rumors
have been spread among the people, and in
some places have occasioned an amount of
agitation that if prolonged might prove dan
gerous. The Viceroy lues, therefore, adds
the Palrie, been urged to return, in order to
show himself to his subjects, and has adopt
ed that course.
—Prince Nicholas Comnenas lees just died
at Constantinople, at the age of 72. This
Prince, a descendant from a branch of that
great family which took refuge in Corsica in
the sixteenth century, was for some time at
tached to the French Embassy at the Porte,
under the restoration. He published nu
merous pamplilets in favor of the Greek
cause, the triumph of which he believed to
lie impossible without the 00-operation of
France acting independently of the other
Powers. The illustrious house of the Coin
neni, which has furnished six Emperors at
Constantinople, now counts but a very few
representatives.
—The Thames Tunnel has been finally
closed as a public footway. This undertak
ing, which at the time of its design was con
sidered a masterpiece of science, and which
formed a communication under the river
Thames between Koftherhithe and Wapping,
was, after numerous difficulties, finally ac
complished and opened on the 2fid of March,
1843, having been commenced by Sir 1. S.
Brunei in 1824. The total cost of the tunnel
was £GOO,I)(K), but the East London Railway
Company recently purchased it for a little
over a third of that sum. The company w ill
run their trains through the tunnel, their
line bringing the inhabitants of Wapping,
Shad well, etc., within easy distance of South
wark park.
—From tin; time of Peter the Great, up to
about a month ago, the priestly character
has been hereditary in Russia, and the Le
vitical caste sofornied has increased in nnm
with its families' nearly 700,000! This he
reditary character the Czar has abolished. A
ukase prepared in silence, and unexpectedly
published, entirely changes an institution
which has hitherto been the mainstay of au
tocracy. Vested interests are carefully re
spected. If born of priests arid deacons the
children of the clergy will henceforth have
the social position of gentry, while those of
parents who are lower in the hierarchy are
placed on an equality with the upper grade
of the mercantile class. They are to con
tinue also to have the benefit of the charita
ble and educational establishments hitherto
maintained for the clergy.
■ —A fearful occurrence has take place at a
menagerie which wasexhibitiug at a country
town in France. It appears that the man
charged with the commissariat department
neglected to purchase sufficient food, and
there was nothing left for the lion, who con
sequently showed temper. Unfortunately,
the wife of the proprietor, who had a little
child in her arms, ventured too near the
cage, and the beast made a grab at her and
seized her; in trying to extricate herself, the
unhappy mother leaned forward, and the
lion, leaving hold of the woman s gown,
snatched her child from her arms, and drew
it into his den. What followed is not diffi
cult to imagine-—the agony of the mother,
who beheld her offspring crunched up be
fore her eyes without any means of rescue.
When the father heard w hat had happened,
he snatched up his gnu, and with one shot
stretched the lion dead. The shock was too
much for the }>oor woman; she went mud,
and before night was trying to bite every one
who approached her. The owner of the me
nagerie decamped the next morning with his
beasts, having some mysterious dread of the
authorities, who would certainly find it diffi
cult to decide on what count to draw up an
indictment.
—ln the House of Commons, on the stli
inst., Mr. Otway, in reply to a question from
Mr. Bowring, said in consequence of a rec
ommendation of the official committee the
government had declined to fill the vacancy
in the British Consulship at Chicago.
—Mr. Stansfielil moved the second read
ing of the Canadian Loan hill, which pro
posed to guarantee a loan of £300,001) for
the purchase of the territory and rights of
the Hudson Bay- Company.
• —\ iseount Milton asked if the government
could inform the House what progress had
l>een made in the Han Juan boundary nego
tiations, and what the expense of holding
possession of the island had been. Mr.
Otway replied that as differences still existed
with the United States on the question, her
Majesty’s government was unable to furnish
any information, or lay any corres}>ondence
on the table,
—The Vienna Prchte states that|Baron
Benst intends to publish all the offieiciid dis
patches with Prussia to justify the assertions
in his late sjieech.
—The latest accounts from the Rhine as
to the state of the vineyards are on the whole
favorable. The blossom, though full, was
late on account of the coldness of June, hut
the subsequent warm weather has produced
a good effect. The grapes are beginning to
form, and a fair yield may be expected.
—A war had broken out in tlitr Samoan
Islands over a choice of a king. One battle
had taken place between the rival factions,
in which seventy men were killed. The
British consul’s flag had 1 >een torn down, but
no Europeans had been hurt.
—Dispatches from Bombay reported that
the nephew of Sheer Ali, Ameer of Calxjol,
had rebelled on account of certain new ar my
regulations. He was captured with his two
brothers ands nt to British territorv.
—Francis Pulzky, Secretary to Kossuth,
and formerly European correspondent of the
New York Tribune, has had liis estates re
stored in Hungary, and is right hand man to
the Hungarian minister, Dealt.
—Latest advices from South America re
port the volcano of Coteqraxi, on the side of
which the city of Quito is situated, to l>e in
action.
—Workmen at St. Roche, Lower Clunada,
are agitating a public mooting to consider
the Ijest means for stopping the present ex
odus of French Canadians to the United
States.
*■ —The Paris Pair if says that the reforms
about to l>e granted bv ‘the Emperor Napo
leon are even more liberal than the message
of the 12th July indicated.
—Louis 11, of Bavaria, recently gave him
self a special treat—a performance of the
Opera, “Lohengrin.” for himself alone. The
theatre was splendidly lighted, the musicians
were in white cravats and swallow tails and
the King sat in solitary state in the audito
rium, ami enjoyed himself,
of the Richmond “Acade
my of Medicine’' on flu* Best
Method of Counteracting tlie in
fluence* «f ti>e -Malarial Unison,
by .). 11. llcCaw, M. IE, Professor
of Practice of Medicine, Medical
t oilette of Virginia,Chairman of
Special Committee.
Your committee propose to examine this
subject, not so much in its medical relations
as in its bearings upon the present social and
political condition of the Southern Slates,
especially of Virginia, in whose welfare we
are all so deeply interested.
The fertile lands of Eastern Virginia,
within easy reach of all the Atlantic cities,
watered by large navigable rivers, with a
climate mud favorable for the highest agri
cultural prosperity, are now, owing to the
exigencies and sad results of the lute war,
selling at prices which ought to encourage
emigration from all parts of the world. This
lovely country still remains unnoticed, or is
quickly passed by. because of the appre
hended danger from the malarial infiueuees
which arc known there to exist, frighteuiug
off the enterprising settler, who finds every
thing else to tempt him to make his home
in this attractive region.
The object of this report is to combat this
apprehension by showing : Ist. That- the
fevers of Eastern Virginia are not of a ma
lignant type. 2d. That by a proper culti
vation, with an increasing population, this
district will become gradually healthy at all
periods of the year. fid. That during this
transition state the new settler muv, by a
proper course of treatment, protect himself
to a great degree from climatic influences,
and enjoy an average of health greater than
he might expect in either of the extremes of
our wide-spread confederacy.
Your committee speak confidently, from
an experience of many years, on the first
point. The malarial levers of Eastern Vir
ginia very rarely assume the malignant type
of more tropical climes. They are mild, re
mittent or intermittent in their character,
easily curable by simple treatment, and sel
dom leaving behind dangerous complications.
The medical profession of the whole region
will support us in this statement. So mild
are these fevers that the fanners and mana
gers on the plantations often dispense with
the aid of the physician, and depend on
their own simple practice for a cure.
Second. All experience shows that the ma
larial poison always disappears before an
improved and careful system of culture and
an increasing and industrious population.
Divide these plantations into small farms,
lime the soil well, and drain it ; introduce a
regular rotation of crops, and soon the much
dreaded malaria would l>e driven away into
the low and swampy districts, and a country
which now, in its present neglected and
half-cultivated state, is a terror to the uew
comer, would become almost entirely heal
thy.
That this is emphatically true is shown by
the statistics of Eastern Virginia from 1840
to ISGI. During this jieriod of time the
agricultural prosperity of this country reach
ed its maximum. Under the lead of Edmund
ftulfin, the fanners had limed or marled
their lands. Ditching and sub-draining had
taken off tli«* superfluous water, and an im
proved method of cultivation had trans
formed the whole face of the country, so
that the English traveler would elmost im
agine himself back again on his own beauti
ful island, where science, industry and capi
tal had exhausted themselves for centuries
in developing the soil to its highest degree
of productiveness.
Four years of wasting war have passed over
our State. Trampled under foot by half a
million of soldiers; the land-ow ner fighting
desperately in a sinking cause; the laborer
fleeing from his old home in search of that
happy land where there would be all play
and uo work—these influences have thrown
the country back temporarily into its origin
al condition, when malaria reigned supreme,
and tlu> white man, unacelimated, feared to
venture his life amid the green swamps and
rich low grounds of our great rivers.
The experienced farmer well knows that
these, difficulties are surely and safely over
come. Already, under many adverse cir
cumstances, the fall diseases are bt'coming
less frequent and more easily managed. We
may with truth say that even now the emi
grant will find himself in the enjoyment of
better health than if he followed the great
tide which pours its immense volume to
wards the Western States. A few years of
patient toil will again restore our land to
more than its prestinc state of salubrity, und
we will see it again smiling in the sunshine
PMS? history of medical science anil
observation on this point has showed beyond
doubt that it is in our power to protect the
human constitution from the effects of ma
laria even in its malignant form.
Twenty-five years ago the medical staff on
duty with the British-African squadron prac
ticed the preventative method upon those
who were exposed to the deadly fevers of
that climate with great success.
Since that period this same treatment has
been successfully adopted by tlie French aud
English forces serving in China, the great
Anglo-Indian army in the jungles of tlie
East, the allied troops in the Crimea, and,
coining down to our own day, the same pro
phylactic practice has protected the Federal
army in the valleys of tin.' Chickahominy
and the James, and the Confederate troops
on duty in the rice lauds of Georgia and the
Carol! nas.
In civil practice these views have been re
peatedly proved to be true. So that now the
Panama Company successfully carry on their
line of railway across that famous nest of
malaria. Ohagres and Panama fever have
sunk into o<imperative insignificance, and the
employe and the traveler alike ignore the
danger of infection, feeling safe under the
protecting power of quinine.
The experience of all observers unite in
giving to the salts of quinia the first place
as a prophylactic against malaria. The sul
phate oi quinia in small doses, dissolved in
wine, was used on the African coast, and
this remedy still continues to lie regarded as
the most reliable medical agent to prevent
the invasion of tin; poison.
AN e might occupy your time liy giving
many prescriptions which have been found
useful in this respect, all haring the quinine
as a common l*ase, hut modified by individ
ual experience or prejudice. The practice
also admits of considerable modification, de
pending upon constitutional peculiarities
and epidemic variations.
We will only offer fqr your consideration
a few of the best combinations which our
own experience for many years has proved
to he trustworthy:
I. Anti-tin tb trial and Tunic PUL —R. Qui
nia Sulpli., 100 grs.; Cinchona Sulpli., ICO
grs.; Ferr. Preparata (Quevennes), 50 grs,;
Oleo, Piper Nigr., qs. To make 100 pills.
One every night and morning from July Ist
to frost.
11. Anti-Ihlioux rtml A nli-mahtrial Pill. —
R. Podophylin, 15 grains; Quinia Sulpli.,
1IH) grs.; Acid Arsenious, 2 grains; Ferr.
Sulpli. Dessic, 50 grs.; Oleo, Piper Nigr.,
qs. To make 100 pills. One night and
morning.
Finally, when the exjxisure to the climate
is great, in the swampy and rank portions
of the country, or when the occupation is
one necessarily causing great exposure to
morning dews or night fogs, or where the
person is entirely unaccliniated, we offer with
much confidence this formula, which com
bines all the great anti-jx-riodics known to
man from the earliest era to our day, lxdiev
ing that by the persistent use of this contin
uation a large proportion of those exposed
to malaria will be entirely protected, and all
will so moderate its force as to render it easily
and speedily cured.
R. Podophylin, 10 grs.; gelsemine, 8 grs.;
acid arsen, 2 grs.; strychnia sulpli., 2 grs.;
quinia sulpli., 100 grs.; ferr. (quevennes.) 50
grs.; oleo, piper nigr., qs.—to make 100 pills.
One night and morning from July Ist to frost.
It is hardly necessary to say that these
formula will require attention in most indi
vidual cases. Some persons cannot l»ear the
I administration of arsenic for any length of
j time. Others may require more or less of
the purgative ingredient. Our object is to
give such a proscription as would lx* adapted
to the average number of eases.
* A pill very similar to this has been
beautifully put up by the sugar-coated
method, at very moderate prices, by Messrs.
Bullock A Crenshaw, of Philadelphia, who
are always reliable in their preparations.
These pills liave been very successful, hut
recent experience has shown that the gej.se
lnine (a derivitive from the indigenous yeb
low jessamine of the Southern States) is
there introduced in too large a proportion,
producing its peculiar symptoms of oonfnsion
of intellect and double vision, very analogous
to the cinchonism which follows the admin
istration of large doses of quinine. In this
prescription, therefore, we have diminished
the quantity. For children who cannot take
pills we would suggest this prescription,
which is, by the addition of tannic acid,
made almost tasteless.
R. Quinia sulphat, •Jilr.; acitli tanniei,
sgr.; syrup simp, f., .'Mr.; aq. {., 3oz. M.
sig. Dose : A teaspoonful night and moru
ing.
We will remark, in conclusion, that a
proper attention to simple , 1
w ill aid very much in this Voi t Bl "
malaria. ’ llWi t with
During the sickly season ulv -
i«f? out in the early morn witW ?
your pill; and, if possible, gq :l ,• k
or tea with a little simple food * ::
Never bathe in the rivers (lurin' tl
of the day, or at any time f,, r ’’ ! '
few minutes.
Stay within doors after dark nuk
rity drives you out, uud then a
clothing and good shoes.
. r I he diet of those inhabitin " *
stricts should be simple ainl !?\ '•
sisting mainly of fresh vegetal.l* '
fruit. The use of coffee ;| > :1 }., UI ‘ ir
tea, should be preferred alwu\ s ; V
any of the alcoholic drink's p,
wines of this country or the FAn,.
or red wines when p‘mv are y, | ‘
and generally wholesome. M lh v ,
digeuous tonics, such as tin- ,p ",
silkweed, and the Iwinesct, lm ,,i. ~ '
advantage as adjuncts.
Above all. never fail to take ,
and morning from the first of b
until Jack Frost, with his w, i, , lu
icy face, assures ns that the nn>,
natc foe has lssui permanently
from his stronghold. Then the wh,. '
try becomes salubrious, the gi,,./
summer bathes us in its balmy
and wo joyfully throw our pil ’
until the campaign opens f,, r ,
At a meeting of th Rielim al
of Medicine, held August r.tli im
port of the Committee on Mal.-iria
imously adopted, and ordered to ~l,i
in the daily papers as n eontrilmt;' i
part of the Academy to further t
efforts now making for the m, -
of immigration into Eastern Vii
the advancement of tlie material wi
the Commonwealth.
Aun e i Sm m, p
John N. Upsiu k, Secretary.
*We select the pill form of prep:.nip,.,
by tlie sugar-coated process t| K . Im ,i
perfectly protected from mlullenu
persons prefer this mode of adui\n\s\r»qj.
An Illinois Farmer,
JOHN T. ALEXANDER, THE CATTLE klv
I’KIiHONNKL, IHISSESSIOSS, j; r ,•
From the Genesee (111. \ Kepiddi,.
Me ilequently see accounts in tin
of men who arc noted for their >vu
cuts, and whatever they may Ene
plislusl above the average of men p-
We see notices of miners and f an
California, in Texas, and in other s- •
who have done big things. \\,
of men who have grown rich in m
taring and real estate sjieeulation.,
East aud elsewhere. Scans' a pa.,,
di.es not puff sound « sly for sonn- w
feat in some direction.
Wo do not recollect to have seen u:
tice in the pajH*rs of one of tlie great,
the country has produced. We m.- i
T. Alexander, of Morgan «*<mntv. «li
mcnoed business for himself w ith hit
tal or other advantages ulnae tlie an
mi'll. He is a plain, homespun funui
good looking, free and easy in m
without the least j (article of style m «
acts.
It is interesting to watch the uim
of such a man at Springfield nr t i
uuioug the popinjays and self-cnnstit
leaders of society who arc greatly. lei ■
their ow n conceit. Mr. Alexander li
farming in Illinois a good many n.,
has been very suceessfuL His tan
comprise about fio.oon ueres. nn>sih
improvement. This is alsmt one t.
anil a half, ulioiit nine miles square,
goial land. He has now 5.1KH1 i ;
ing coni, and from 1,500 to 2.OHU
grass.
lie is now feeding about 10,000 L.
cattle, and buys and ships East fr.nut
from 1,000 to 2,000 head each week. II
risi'ii to this greut proniineiii'e In In
talent, energy anil integrity. JI is I
each and every year amounts to milli
dollars, ami is entirely legitimate, add.
his own wealth and tlu* common w.:
the State.
Me may, ut sonic other time, give, i
detail, a history of Mr. Alexander, .
operations—not Unit lie needs any
tice, but as an example to the runny, >
and do likewise, instead of going into st
and offices t<> avoid soiling their tin;'.-:
the notion that fanning is not so genteel,
proti table.
W e may do so for another reason, an.! I
t j lat i i lt , „„ V. U
older jteojde, nowadays, get their lioli
tliings generally from tlie new spap.
papers, for some reason or other j
the force of cireumstauees more tin
thing else—have much to say of hi
turers, lawyers, preachers, banket ..n
professional and trullickiug eliamet.
very little to say of farming and I
M e think it profitable to present, as
set to about ten thousand politico
other characters who occupy the coli:
news, one such man as John T. Ale
The Southern Historical Sorim
We rejoice to see that active strj
been taken to organize a society at tb ->
whose object it shall be to collect,
preserve, and finally publish the la*
documents connected with the l et.
the Revolution. By faithfully earn
this object we can alone defend «.
against the slanderous and false puli
purporting to he “historiesof tlx eh
which have issued from Northern j
and from the still more luircliuhx aim
less trash of such writers as Pollard. 1
the names of the gentlemen who lac
appointed officers of the society, v
reasonably hope that the work will i
and ably done, and that the truth of
will lx*, vindicated. AA’e do nut want
tial history of the great struggle a
iug ourselves and belittling our op|
We want the truth. If we can -
this we shall have the principles inn
the contest fully illustrated, and w<
lletter justification of the action
South.
The following is a list of the office! -
Southern Historical Society:
Rev. B. M. Palmer, D.D., Preside!.'
Braxton Bragg, Vice-President
Jones, M. D., Secretary and To a-in
Advisory Committee — President.
President and Secretary cx-offici"
Tlios. J. Semmes, Gen. Harry 1 k
Dickison Bruns, M. D., and U S. I
A ice-Presidcnts of States Gen. it
Lee, Virginia; Hon. S. Teakle W u
hiud; Gen. D. H. Hill. North ( m
Wade Hampton, South Carolim
Alexander H. Stephens, Georgia; A
Semmes, Alabama; Gov. Ldiain *'
Tennessee; Gov. B. Humphreys. Mi-
Col. Ashlxd Smith, Texas; Gen. 1 1
inridge, Kentucky; Gen. Trust* n T
souri; Hon. A. H. Garland. Ao-u-
S. K. Mallory, Florida; AV. W. <
District of Columbia.
Information Wanted.
We have received the followim
dated from a Western city, Augu-'
“AA’ill you please semi me sola*
your paper containing real estate a
merits; or if more convenient, J*■
this to some reliable real estate a
may put themselves in coniiuuiuca.i
me. .
“I have to go South for my c
think I should like to buy a small ph '
where in your neighlrorlmod, if
AVe have written to our eorr»-r
giving him all the information in "in
sion, and we send him a copy ' ■
sal and Messenger containing a ■
tisemeuts such as he wants to r* I* *
have but two advertisements fr ■
estate men.” There are also m
two “real estate advertisements
farm in North Georgia, the ~Tllt' |.
Southwestern Georgia. ANe nrak*
lie mention of our eorrespindeii' -
to call the attention of parties
for salt* to the importance of nuiKH-’-
tlie fact through the columns "f *
extensive circulation, such as to*
and Messenger Is. There are m*'..
ries made concerning lands m t- 1
and we shall take pleasure in l irilI '‘
interests of parties having them ‘
answering all inquirers tbroug»
rising columns.
A Good Project*
We learn tluit OoL Carev AY. $0
tor of the Albany News, intents **
a weekly paper to lx* called tie* .
Friend,” expressly for the free* m'_ ~, .
as he seeures a subscription list * ■
Bcribers at $1 each. , ,y
The idea is wise and |
negr<x*s have l**eii hitherto j ], v
oeived by vile Radical sheets <' lt , r
without mi*uns or character » " * >
is to cheat and Iramboozie tnou {
will tell them the truth. P° ul :,!.
their real interest, expose 11
purposes of their preteiulei ((1 _.
give them sound, practical j,ieh 1 .{
them in the new condition * ben* 3
have been suddenly raised, * 1
to the negroes ufid to the 1