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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