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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER
TUESDAY AUGUST^T""
Thanks to our Friends.
W e would offer our sincere thanks to our
friends for the many favors and proofs of
their interest and approval which we are re
ceiving from uU quarters in the shape of new
subscriptions to the Journal and Mess un
der. , i
This proves to us not only tliat our friends
are active and jealous in their efforts to sus
tain our paper, but that the pul. lie approve
and commend the course of the Journal
and Messenger under its present editorial
management.
We can only assure those who give us
these flattering evidences of their regard,
that we will neither spare money nor labor
to make the Journal and Mrhhenukk in
every way worthy of their support and pat
ronage, by making it a first-class newspaper
in all its departments, and thus return them
the best recompense which it is in our pow
er to bestow, for their welcome patronage
and acceptable approval.
J. I\. Burke A Cos., Publishers.
*• V Few Words in Conclusion.”
Our neighbor of the TtAegraph says, and
courtesy compels us to behove him, that lie
v is “in truth” ignorant of the paternity of
t he article on which he commented on Thurs
<Li.v, and which tin; Griflin Star had er
roneously attributed to him.
The article in question was published by
u ' several days ago, and was widely copied
t Uroughout the country. Our able and cour
teous cotenq>orary, the Augusta ConstUution
niade it the subject of lengthy editorial
criticism, and in conformitv a
practice ot respectable journalists, copied
•he article on which ho commented. We
replied to the comments of our Augusta
friend, and the Griffin Star copied ap
provingly a portion of our reply, crediting
the article to the Telegraph. We drew the
attention of the Star to the mistake, and then
immediately appeared the Telegraph's article,
“.Sick Parties,” which we noticed in onr
i ß sue of Friday morning.
! 1 at an editor of the experience and cn-
I Minty which the editor of the Tele/p-imh
claims for himself, should “in truth ” be ig
norant of the paternity of an article which
attracted so much attention and caused so
much comment, argues a carelessness and in
attention which it requires the positive con
fession of the editor of the Tdegraph to make
any one believe; and we fear that there arc
very many of those who know him best who
will hesitate to credit the confession, and say
t > him in the words of the satirical poet:
“Lest some suspect your tale untrue
Keep Probability in view.” «
W. would further say to our neighbor of
the Tdrtp-aph that we deny unqualifiedly
that we were either “abusive," “ill-temper
ed” or “ill-mannered,” or that our reply to
his article was “unprovoked.” Seeing that
i lie editor of the Telegraph had entirely for
gotten “the candor and courtesy” which
ought to “distinguish his demeanor to co
temporaries,” we jogged his memory, and
insisted that while ho might be selfishly
mindful of what is duo to his “own age, ex
perience ami position," wo should not per
mit him to ignore what is due to ours.
\\ ith regard to the threat with which he
doses his remarks of Saturday morning, we
would only observe that, whenever his
“leisure, inclination, or taste” jiemiit him
to “undertake personalities," we do not in
tend to oiler any obstacle to his enterprise,
nor will he find us ever disposed to dispute
"'ith him the palm of proficiency in “throw
ing dirt.”
An 11 istoriral Fill urc.
Ml countries claiming to be civilized have
their historical pictures, commemorative of
great men and groat events, after the style
of “Napoleon crossing the Alps,” and
“Washington crossing the Delaware.”
There is on exhibition now in New York
a picture of this sort which is historical and
characteristic. It is “Grant and Bonner tak
inga ride behind Dexter” and is culled “Tak
ing the lieins,” because Grant is represented
as driving. The work is said to be one of high
art. Grant’s portrait is life like, and his
countenance, expresses “supreme enjoy
ment'' as Dexter flies down the Blooming
dale road.
It may be said that there is more dignity
in the idea of Napoleon crossing the Alps in
mid-winter to conquer Italy, and iu that of
Washington crossing the Delaware to win the
independence of his country, than there is
in that of a President of the United States
tearing along a thoroughfare crowded with
b’hoys and butcher boys, in a trotting sulky.
We can hardly imagine Mr. Buchanan, Mr.
Pierce, or Mr. Fillmore, making such an ex
hibition and furnishing such a subject for an
historical picture. But we live now in an
age of progress and civilization. Horse
racing, dunning, junketing, and accepting
presents for favors to come, are the favorite
pastime, of our great men !
Humored Inijteueliuieiit of (iov.
Mullock.
We loam from persons who profess to
know whereof they speak, that a determined
purpose is expressed by a large number of
members of the House of Representatives of
our Legislature to prefer artieles of im
peachment against Governor Bulloek im
mediately alter the General Assembly meets,
and that the movement ia daily gaining
strength among the m,eml>evs. There are
said to b • many alleged grounds of impeach
ment. the principle of which are the spend
ing large sums of the public money by the
Governor without authority of law. the eon
version of the State’s funds to his own pri
vate use, and the abuse of tlie pardoning
power.
It is confidently asserted that State Treas
urer .Vugier is prepared to furnish abundant
and conclusive proof of the two first charges,
and as to the third, abuse of the pardoning
power, almost every county in the State
can prove where legally convicted criminals
i>f the deepest dye, many of whom have
confessed their guilt, have been let loose up
on society by the so-called clemency of the
Executive, until tho people have almost
abandoned oontidence iu the protection
which the law affords against evil-doers.
A C ontrast.
Forney draws the following contrast be
tween Washington and Grant, of course
making Grant vastly the superior of “the
Virginia Slaveocruct :
.-■['he President most ostentatiously ad
dicted to displaying himself on public tours,
w ith a pomp and hauteur that at the present
day would be oppressive and offensive, was
‘Washington himself. He esteemed it part
of his official duty to make formal imi>eriul
prcM/ressrs around the country, and part of the
official duty of everybody who came in his
wav to receive him with punctilious defer
ence and parade. President Gnrnts mili
tary achievements throw those ofthe last
President far into the background. His cm!
career has been marked by less pretension
but not less ability, judgment or prudence
than that of Washington.
Forney omits to mention, however, one
very remarkable point of contrast between
the two men. Beyond his bare expenses,
Washington refused to receive one dime of
compensation for his services in winning the
independence of liis country. Grant, on
the other hand, received a great number of
•limes, houses, lots, horses, carriages, cigars,
boots etc., etc. When it is related how he
surpasses Washington in republican sim
plieitv and military skill, it ought not to be
omitted how he beats him out of sight as the
recipient of valuable giftn, and at putting
money in his purse.
The Living Principles of the Con
(stitution.
We arc truly glad to sec that after all there
is no substantial difference of opinion be
tween our valued cotemporary, the Constitu
tumalist, of Augusta, and ourselves, and that
we are both anxious “with all our heart to
bury the dead issues of the past and take
care of the living principles of the Constitu
tion.” Those are the principles of which
we are anxious to take care. They are the
principles which the great Democratic party
maintained in the good old days when the
right of the general government “to coerce
a State was not a conceded doctrine in
politics, when arbitrary arrests, seizures, of
papers, searches of houses, confiscation of
property, suspension of the writ of habeas
corpus, and denial of the right of trial by
jury, were not sanctioned as acts of military
necessity. And to the party which professes
these principles now, desiring to “rescue,
maintain and perpetuate’ them, we pledger
onr hearty, earnest and undivided support,
whatever may be its name.
lire departure from these great principles,
whether in the direct approval of their vio
lation by the Radicals and their allies, or in
the acquiescence in their violation on ac
count of “military necessity” was the “cause
of all our woe,” and in the end, we really can
see no very material difference in degree of
guilt hetween the authors of the crimes wc
have enumerated and those who, having the
power to prevent them, failed to do so, on
the ground that “military necessity” re
quired that eleven States should be coerced
with subjugation. Between the avowed Re
publican Abolitionist and the acquiescing
“War Democrat,’ we can see no material
ditlerence, so far as the principles of the
party arc concerned. But wc
agree cordially w ith our cotemporary tliat
the principles still live, and must ever live,
iK'cause they are the truth, and that it is
only by the triumph of those principles—by
a return to the law of the Constitution as the
supreme law that liberty and the right of
self-government can ever lie re-estab
lished on this continent. Tt is to those
who maintain these principles alone that we
of the South can look for succor, and what
ever they may have called themselves in the
past —whether Whig, Democrat, or States’
Rights man, if they hold this faith now,
and will prove it by their works, they are
the party to which we will belong and with
which we will act, not caring one straw
about old traditions or past differences, but
looking only to the “rescue, maintenance
ami perpetuation of the “living principles
of the Constitution.” The great object is
to organize an opposition to the Radicals
which must win. That is what we and our
esteemed and courteous friend in Augusta
desire to achieve; and though we may differ
in minor details—though lie may be ready
to pardon the sin of the war Democrats and
receive them into fellowship more readily
than we would —substantially we arc agreed,
and we hope tliat shoulder to shoulder we
may light the great political contest which
is opening before us.
Mrs. Stowe’s Byron Scandal.
A more indecent, revolting, or unfominine
production than Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s article in the Atlantic Monthly on
Lord Byron, it has never been our ill for
tune to read. \\ itli the ostensible purpose
of vindicating the character of Lady Byron
against the charge of harshness and vindic
tiveness towards her husband, Mrs. Stowe
publishes a foul charge against the estimable
sister of the poet, for which she lavs no
authority, even by her own account, than
the statement of Lady Byron, made at a
time when extreme old age and failure of
reason made any statement of hers on any
subject utterly valueless, much more a com
munication of the nature of that made to
Mrs. Stowe, which no uorson in lii« tumsw
could have made to a comparative stranger
as Mrs. Stowe was to Lady Byron, and
which, when made, no one who was not
possessed by an indecent love of publicity
or thirst for malevolent gossip would have
published.
Iu the first place Lord Byron’s sister was
a lady remarkable for her piety, gentleness
of character, and virtue. She was devotedly
attached to her brothe,r and when he was
assailed on all hands and held up to public
execration as a monster of vice, did not join
the assailants, but stood by her brother. She
refused also to approve the conduct of Lady
Byron by taking sides with her against her
brother. But it is well known that no one
felt more deeply or sorrowfully than she did
Byron’s many outrages against the laws of
society and religion, and nobody strove
harder to redeem him and make him return
to the right way. But in addition to the
atrocious violence to the truth of history
which is committed by accusing this gentle
lady, a quarter of a century or more after
her death, of an infamous crime. Mrs.
Stowe’s article contains a number of other
historical blunders, and a confusion of dates
and names, which prove the incredibility of
the whole tale.
We do not seek to defend Lord Byron or
to ooudenni liis wife. She was deeply
w ronged ami cruelly treated. But she does
not increase the amount of popular sympa
thy which was her due by such disclosures
as those which she is said to have
made to Mrs. Stowe, nor does Mrs. Stowe
improve her reputation even as a sensational
romam ist by publishing such a slander on
her own sex, and thus defiling the long closed
grave of an innocent and amiable lady.
Tljp w hole thing, whether it be the repeti
tion of a crazy dotard’s ravings, or whether it
be an invention made public when no living
witness can be produced to refute it, is disgus
ting to any decent reader, and far worse than
discreditable to its authors and publishers.
We rajoiee to see the whole press condemn
the article in unmeasured language.
Georgia Masonic Mutual llife In
surance Company.
The present number in Class A. is 4,240.
We have reason to believe that in a few
weeks, or months at most, this number will
be increased to ,>,(H)O. Me receive assurances
from our agents that the great scarcity of
money prevents an increase now, but as soon
as money comes in new members w ill soon
be found to fill up the list. Many that have
proven defaulters say they will apply for re
instatement as soon as they get in funds.
With our present number, however 4,240
—the insurance is lower than in any Insu
rance Company we know of, especially to
men above 35 years of age.
M e caution our friends to beware of anv
l.ife Insurance Agent who cries out against
the Georgia Masonic Company. Be sure of
one thing—he is doing so because he has an
to grind He may have his specious
arguments, and make out he is a great friend
to Masonry, but mark him, lie iso pi!,! agent
to break down your company, if he can.
Break the force of his arguments as well as
you can by presenting facts as to what this
Company has done, and use your influence
among, your friends, who are not Masons to
insure iu a company whose agents do not
abuse your company. Try this plan aw hile
and you will learn Life Insurance Agents to
respect your Company.
The Savannah and Charleston ulkoad.
—We are informed that eight hundred men
are now at work upon this important railroad,
that the Savannah River bridge is already
building, and that ere long the hands will be
working simultaneously on both ends of the
road. The track has already lieen laid, we
believe, to a point some miles beyond Gra
hamville, and there is good reason for think
ing that the road will be open throughout
before the New Year comes in.— Char. Neics.
—Parties in Buffalo are charged with the
perpetration of a stupendous patent rights
swindle, by which farmers along the line of
the frontier and in the interior have lost I
over #250,000.
Notices of New Books.
We find upon our table for notice, thefol
lowing new publications recently issued from
the prolific press of Harper & Brothers,
New York: «,
“Rhetoric, a Text Book,” by the Itev. E C. Ha
vea.
“The Wedding Day in all Ages,” by Edward J.
Wood.
“Sights and Sensations in France; Germany and
Switzerland,” by Edward Gould Bulium.
“Famous Loudon Merchants,” by H. R. Fox
Bourne
“Five Acres Enough,” by R. B. Roosevelt.
“The Malay Archipelago,” by Alfred Russell Wal
lace.
“He Knew He was Right,” by Anthony Trollope.
“Old I'estauient History“New Testament His
tory,” by William Smith, D. D.
“For Her Sake,” by F. IV. Robinson.
“l'lie Dodge Club;" “Cord and Creese,” by James
De Mille.
“Tne Sacristan's Household,” by the author of
Mabel’s “Pi ogress;” “Hetty,” bv Henry Kings
ley.
“My Daughter Eliinor;” “Hard Cash;” “Love
me Little, Love ine Long;” “Griffith Gaunt;”
“It is Never Too Late to Mend,” by Charles
Kcadc.
“Adventures of Philip;”. “The Newcomes;”
“Vanity Fair;” “The Virginians;” by Tliacke
rav.
Dr. Haven’s Rhetoric is a valuable addition
to the text books now iu use in our schools
and colleges. He treats the subject clearly
and concisely, assists the student by plain
suggestions tersely expressed, gives none but
practical rules, uses as few words as possible
to convey his thoughts, and while he goes
over all the ground which properly belongs
to Rhetoric, avoids the mistake which nearly
all the accepted authorities on Rhetoric have
committed, except Archbishop Whately, that
of being too diffuse, and encumbering their
book with a superabundance of definitions,
illustrations and examples.
Dr. Haven ilivids his book into two parts.
The first discusses “Words and the Material
f Expression’’—the primary elements of
composition; the second “Figures of Speech
and Thought,” explaining a more complex
class of the elements of expression; the third
illustrate* tbe ..a.. ,fC Ilit-Ae
elements in what is called Style, and in oral
and written compositions; the fourth treats
of Invention as an art, showing how material
may be acquired and employed; and the fifth
lays down the general principles of Elocu
tion. He does not embarrass his book by
the treatises on Taste and on Logic, which
so often encumber similar works, but con
fines himself exclusively to the domain of
Rhetoric proper.
We should have liked the book better had
his definitions been more forcible find had
he not selected liis examples and illustrations
from the speeches anil writings of New Eng
gland celebrities; but on the whole the book
is a good one, and is one which our young
men need very much.
The Wedding Day in all ages and coun
tries is rather an anecilotical chronicle of the
modes in which marriages have been made
from the time of the primitive Jews to the
present day, than a history of marriages or
an essay upon the religious, social and do
mestic character of the married state. The
author fulfils the promise given in the title.
He describes marriages in all ages and coun
tries, —how Cecrops introduced marriage
among the Athenians; how in Boeotia the
uxletree of the bride’s carriage was burned
on arrival at the bridegroom’s house as a
symbol that the bride was not to return, (a
custom which we are glad has become obso
lete and could only have been invented by
some Boeotian chariot maker); how the an
cient Sythians would not marry a girl unless
the gentle creature had previously killed an
enemy; how among the Medes “reciprocal
polygamy was in use,” so that a man was not
perfectly married, or as Brigham Young has
it “pretty much married,” until he liail seven
wives, nor a woman unless she had five hus
bands; how the Persian used to hire persons
to marry their deceased relations, which was
economical, if not otherwise satisfactory;
how in China the Old Man of the Moon si
supposed to perform the marriage ceremony
exclusively; how in the Eastern Archipelago
there resides a tribe of people called “head
hunters,” who cannot marry until they have
cut off the heads of several of their friends
and neighbors, by way of making room for
their probable offspring, a custom which
must detract from the festivity of the occa
sion; and* how among the Maroons of Ja
maica when a girl became marriageable her
parents killed a hog and gave a dinner, which
was a practical though unpoetical way of
announcing an interesting fact. The book
is very entertaining and displays an amount
of research very much, in onr opinion, out
of proportion to the subject or the result
obtained.
ttnrr fwytXflTirrfrs irt rvurt'T, i-ttrrrmtnt /
and Switzerland, is an amusin'; little book,
evidently written hastily and somewhat care
lessly, giving glimpses at the champagne
country of France, and at the manufacture
of champagne wine; at the gambling estab
lishments and their votaries of Germany; at
the grand scenery of the Bernese Ooeriand;
at the peculiarities r of Life in Paris; at the
Catacombs, and at French peasant life. Mr.
Buffum was a journalist of some fame, at
tached to the New York and San Francisco
Press, and died in Paris a few months ago.
The book contains nothing new, but the re
hash of what is old is very palatable.
Famous London Merchants, is a little vol
volume, designed exclusively for young peo
ple, giving an account of the growth and
power of commerce* and of the exploits and
character of those commercial men of Lon
don who have made their names immortal.
It contains biographical sketches of Sir
Richard Whittington, better known as Dick
Whittington, exploding the familiar tradi
tion about his cat; of Sir Thomas Gresham,
the founder of British trade with the Nether
lands, and of the Royal Exchange of London;
of Sir Edward Osborne; of Sir William Her
rick, the favorite of James I; of Sir Thomas
Sinytlie, the founder of the East India Com
pany, and its first Governor; of Sir Henry
Garwav; of Sir Dudley North, Thomas Guy,
William Beckford—the great West Indies
planter—Henry Thornton, Nathan Meyer
Rothschild, Samuel Gurney, and last, though
not least, of George Peabody. Mr. Bourne’s
book, which is written with manifest care and
historical accuracy, is well calculated to
instruct the young readers for whom it is de
signed.
Fire Acres Enough, is a burlesque upon
the lxiok called Ten Acres Enough, de
tailing with all the extravagance and exag
geration of a farce always broad and some
times coarse, the disappointments, troubles,
losses and perplexities of the unsophisticated
fit who seeks happiness and comfort in rural
life with which he is utterly mine piainted.
The Mi/at/ Arc&gelago, is a very valuable,
well written and interesting work, giving a
graphical and ethnological description of
the Malay Islands, together with profusely
illustrated sketches of the botany, natural
history, manufactures, character and cus
toms of this region and its inhabitants. Mr.
Wallace is evidently an enthusiastic natural
ist, having collected, during his Eastern
travels, 125,000 specimens of natural history.
The adventures and dangers which he met
with during his visits to these islands, and
which he describes with becoming simplicity,
art' very exciting. The lxiok •will amply re
pay perusal.
The Ohl Testament History and the New
Testament History are designed by their
learned author to supply a good class-book
for Sunday schools—a manual of biblical his
tory which may take its place by the side of
the histories of Greece and Rome in our
schools,and compare with them in complete
ness of information, accuracy of detail and
“scholar-like” treatment of the subject
The e excellent volumes deserve a place in
every school. Besides giving the liistorv
recorded in the Old Testament and the New,
they contain much of other matter relating
to the geography of the Holy Land, the an
tiquities of the Jews, and the principal tacts
contained iu the history of the East during
what is known as the Hellenistic age. They
are reprints from the London edition of Dr.
Smith’s works, and are designed to complete
his series of histories for “ students,”
He Knew He 11 7b Right is already fa
miliar to the readers of Harper’s Weekly in
which it appeared during the past year and
a part of this. It is one of Mr. Trollope’s
best novels, if it is not the !>est of all bis works
of fiction.
Os the novels, which are new, id l of
which are very readable, Hetty, by Kings
ley ; For Her Sake, by F. W. Robin
son, My Daughter EUinnr, and the Sa
cristan's Household, are the liest. King
ley s novels, of which Sfrelton is perhaps the
ablest, while it displays most glaringly the
author’s defects both of style and plot, are
always worth reading. They may In* said to
be a series of masterly outline sketches, none
of which are finished. Corel and Creese, by
the author of the Hodge Family in Italy—
which, by the way, is a ludicrous account of
the adventures of a vulgar and illiterate
]tarty of Yankee tourists in Italy—is fuller
of unnatural and imjxxssihle incidents than
any other book we h ivj ever r\i 1. The a i
tlior seems to have taxed his imagination to
its utmost capacity to throw into his pages
the greatest jumble of sensations, in which
his readers cannot find one atom of proba
bility, but must close the book in a sort of
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waking nightmare, struggling to escape from
the creese of the Malay pirates, the horrors
of a desert island, murders, drowning, skele
ton, and all sorts of terrors. Mr. DcMille’s
humor iu the Dodge Family was barely pass
abk>. Ills tragedy in Cord and Greete is
less of a success.
-Vy Daughter Khutor, is a story of Ameri
can life by au American pen, by no means
sensational, on the contrary, rather tame,
but the characters are well drawn and natu
ral, made to dress and talk very much like
other people, and uie not as is em often the
case in novels of native production, mere
caricatures of the sensations of some for
eign writer, like Bml reieMilfk “adaptations
from the French.” My Daughter Edinor is
far above the average of modem novels.
7he Sacrist*in s liousehoiti, is a storv of
German life, told by an Englishwoman who
is supposed to be the wife of Adolphus Trol
lope. .She has written several novels which
are readable, ami this is of the same order.
The other works on our list for notice to
day, are cheap illustrated editions of some
of the best works of those master of fic
tion, \\ illiam Makepeace Thackeray, and
Usuries lieade. They are beautifully print
ed and on good paper. Their illustrations are
executed with spirit, and the price brings
them within the reach of almost every
household.
New Reviews and Magazines.- -We are in
receipt of the July number of the Edinburgh,
11 est Munster and North British Reviews, from
the Leonard Scott Publishing Cos., New
York. We have also received the Septem
ber number of the Galaxy, from Sheluon k
Cos., The Old Guard, for August, from
\an Evrie, Horton & Cos, New York, and
Scott's Monthly, from Phillips & Crew, At
lanta.
The Edinburgh contains a second masterly
critique upon Lecky’s “History of European
morals”—one of the most remarkable literary
productions of the age; a valuable paper on
“Shakspearian Glossaries,” iu which partic
ular reference is mode ra ti>« i— r t
or oiiakspeare by the late Rev. Alex.
Dice; a sprightly notice of “Foster’s Life of
Walter Savage Landor,” in which a number
of anecdotes is given, showing the almost
ferocious eccentricity of the gifted but re
pulsive author of the “Imaginary Conversa
tions;” and a charitable review of Robert
Browning’s extraordinary poem, “The Ring
and the Book,” besides other articles.
The best paper in the Westminster is that
on the relations of “Labour and Capital.”
The rest of the table of contents may be
valuable and we doubt not is instructive, but
it is too heavy for the heated term.
The contents of the present number of the
North British are the most readable and most
interesting of all three Reviews. They are:
Dr. Hanna’s Life of Christ ; Henry Crabb;
Robinson’s Diary; A Review of Lecky’s
History of European Morals; Geological
Time; Danish Literature; Memoir qf Sir
William Hamilton; The Early History of
Man; Walter Savage Landor, and The Irish
Clmrcli Measure.
The Galaxy continues Charles Reade’s
“Put Yourself in his Place,” and Mrs. Ed
wards’ “Susan Fielding,” and contains a
number of other mediocre papers of average
interest, of which Grant Whites’ “The Un
sociableness of Society,” anil Justin Mc-
Carthy’s “The Irish Church Dethroned” are
the least mediocre and most above the aver
age in interest.
The Old Guard has a full and varied as
sortment of entertaining matter, original and
selected, and commends itself to Southern
support by its unflinching defence of the
South and of her rights.
Scott's Monthly contains a reproduction of
one of Dr. Lipscomb’s admirable letters
from the Old World to the Senior Class of
the University of Georgia, besides a great
variety of other matter of less interest, in
t’.ie shape of tales, poems, “prose idyls,” Ac.,
most of which may well serve to pass a leis
ure hour agreeably.
For the Journ and and Messenger.
Tl»e Mineral Spring of New nan.
Mr. Editor: Allow us to invite the atten
tion of your readers, especially those seek
ing a pleasant, healthy retreat, those hot,
sweltering days, to the delight ful town —nay,
we may as well give it its rightful name,
“City of Newnan,” for can it not boast of its
“Board of Council,” numerous stores,
churches, private residences, excellent col
lege, and schools?
The “regular mail train” leaves Atlanta at
8 o’clock in the morning, and an “accommo
dation” in the evening, for this point, ear'll
day. The Mineral Spring, being a late dis
covery, was unknown to us until our atten-
W-liiritru Y»!tn attracted til It. l>v n notion In tin*
papers. Desirous of testing its virtues, we
took passage on the accommodation train.
We reached the city about six, when we were
received and escorted to our boarding place
by no less a personage than the Mayor—a
man every way worthy of his high post of
honor. W r e found our hostess a fine looking,
agreeable lady, with a houseful of as agreea
ble inmates as has ever been onr good for
tune to see collected under one roof.
The “spring” is situated at the base of a
high bluff, on the front of which has been
erected a large comfortable shed, for the con
venience of visitors. Each evening pretty
and gaily attired ladies, escorted by atten
tive be mx, may be seen either wending their
way to the spring, or already there, imbibing
copious draughts of the “health-restoring”
water. The water is highly impregnated
wth the different “salts of iron,” which
properties are readily recognized, (strongest
in cloudy weather and early morn.) They
are thought to possess others, which never
having been strictly analyzed, are not as yet
determined. Numbers of wonderful cures
are said to have been perfected, and many
who came helpless invalids, were fully re
stored. This we have from reliable authori
ty. On the other hand, there are those in
whom, from their difference of constitutions,
uo such happy results are produced. There
fore, it lays no claim to be a “cure-all.” W’e
would then advise all to prove its virtues by
giving it a fair trial.
There arc said to be at present nearly two
hundred “visitors.” The two hotels not be
ing large enough to accommodate so many,
they are scattered over various parts of the
city, in private families, who have very con
siderately made arrangements for their stay.
The citizens of Newnan we found to lie
intelligent and social, and exceedingly
agreeable to strangers. It is really a pretty
place, and much larger than one would sup
pose at first sight. We were prevented from
seeing as much of it as we would have liked,
so cannot do its attractions justice. We no
ticed it was capable of improvement, though
from some cause there appears to be lurt
little going on. We take it to be a very
moral place, too, for its size; as to onr
knowledge there is but one licensed bar
room. A novelty, in the way of a “pie-nic
by moonlight,” is advertised to come off on
the 28th inst. We regret that circumstances
will prevent us from enjoying the treat, but
advise all who can to avail themselves of the
opportunity, and promise them they will
not regret their visit. Yours, etc.,
S. E. E.
Corre»i»oiiilence of the Journal aiul Messenger.
Letter from Greene County.
Woodvjlle, Greene Cos.. Ga., )
August 20th, 1809. j
Mr. Kdiior: The prospect for anything
like a full crop of cotton in this bailiwick is
growing “small by degrees and beautifully
less.” Your correspondent is no prophet,
nor the son of one, but lie ventures to assert
what any one can see, that the crop here will
fall oil’ from one-third to one-half what it
reasonably promised ten days ago. The
mischief lias been done within a week and is
irremediable under any ordinary circum
stances. Everything on the cotton stalk ex
cept leaves and grown IxjlLs is dead, and
they appear to be drying up. Squares iu
clusters are hanging on the prolific cotton,
dry and yellow. Many planters in this, and
in Oglethorpe, the adjoining county, express
the opinion that their crops are cut oil’ ontv
half. The fact is, that the plants will make
just what grown 1 Kills they now- have, except
in the case of very young cotton, and that,
you know, depends upon the Full. Various
speculations are indulged iu by people as to
the cause of this sudden and mysterious
blight. Some say it is the extreme cold
followed by extreme heat without rain, and
one disgusted individual declared to your
correspondent that it was “that infernal
eclipse. ”
Let it be what it may, one thing is cer
tain, the effect is most disastrous, and the
end is not yet reached. The premature
opening of the bolls, the stoppage of growth,
and the injury to the staple, are some of the
consiqnences yet to come.
It is possible that a succession of light
showers might arrest this blight on the late
cotton, but as far as the forward crop is con
cerned “there is not rain enough in the
sweet heavens” to save it. Truly yours,
F. Swain.
—Miss Yiuuie Ream has arrived at Rome,
with her cast of the late Mr. Lincoln, which
is to l>e done into marble under her super
vision.
Correspondence Journal and Messenger.
Letter from Dougherty County.
chop pkospects—health —eatlkoyd injunc
tion —POLITICS, Ere.
Albany, Ga.. August IS, ISC>O.
From all 1 can learn, the crops throughout
this section arc very promising for an abund
ant yield.
Corn is now rolling at 81. JO per linshel. I
heard an intelligent farmer say, yesterday,
that within ten days it would fail to old cents
per bushel. Many complaints arc made of
the ravages of the caterpillar, the de
struction from rust and other diseases,
but I notice that every farmer I meet boasts
of the excellence of his crop and the promise
of an abundant yield. Cotton is beginning
to open rapidly, anil next week our planters
will begin the work of harvesting iu earnest;
you may therefore take it for granted that
“a crop has been made. ”
HEALTH.
Our good natured Sexton complains of
famine, caused by a terrible dearth iu his line
of business. Our city and section are re
markably healthy. Twenty years ago, when
our farms were ln ing cleared and freshly
cultivated, the country was comparatively
inundated with sickness, but now a change
for the better prevails. We occasionally
have a few mild cases of bilious fever.
Typhoid is unknown. The prevailing epi
demic is chill and fever. This you will
have in the mountains. It visits* all sec
tions, and respects all alike. One thing,
however, is noticeable, all our diseases are of
much milder form, and yield more readily
to treatment than iu the up-country. I can
not account for this, unless it is that the
nearer you approach the Gulf in a pine
region, the milder becomes the form of dis
ease. We have been taught to regard Florida
as a grave-yard. Yet the United States
census shows-that, according to population,
there is less mortality in Florida than any
in the. ITutm VV** are wit.K «
dry, pine atmosphere. If health cannot lie
found in siu*h a climate, where will you go to
find it? 1 have noticed the thermometer for
the past ten years, and strange as it may ap
pear, it does not range as high in Albany as
it does iu Augusta, Ga., or Nashville, Tenn.
This I know and speak without the fear of
contradiction.
KAIL BO AD INJUNCTION.
I noticed in your issue a few days since,
that a bill of injunction had been filed against
the Brunswick and Albany Road, alleging
that it interfered with the rights of certain
other corporations. I think tires hoe pinches
the Central and Southwestern roads more
than any other. The truth is, Savannah
and the Central road seriously feel the effects
of the rival of Brunswick and of the Bruns
wick and Albany road. This road is a part
°f the Southern Pacific, and is the nearest
route from ocean to ocean, and will be the
line over which most of the freight and
travel must necessarily pass. Hence, Sa
vannah may well view, with an eve of jeal
ousy the expansive and accessible harbor of
Brunswick. \\ e are not surprised at the in
junction; the only impediment is, it did not
go far enough! The parties filing the bill
should have included with them the North
ern Pacific road, so as to have enjoined the
whole of the Southern Pacific road from
Brunswick, Georgia, to San Diego, Califor
nia. I here would have been as much rea
son and common sense in one as in the other.
The people complain that they have borne
the intolerable burthens of the Central road
1< mg enough. They arc now taking a remedy
in their own hands, and they will regard
with profound contempt, any action that
will serve to check tin* onward progress or
prosperity, or development of the Southern
or Southwestern sections of the State.
This road will be built in spite of all ef
forts to check it, and its enemies may as
well realize it as one of the fixed facts of "the
day. YVe now have to travel a day and a
night, a distance of three hundred miles to
reach the coast. When this route is com
pleted we will be able to make the trip in six
hours. I apprehend this injunction will do
Savannah no good. It is already creating a
damaging prejudice against her. I heard
yesterday one of our largest and most influ
ential planters say, “that before he would
ship his cotton by the Central road to Sa
vannah, he would ship it by river via Appa
lachicola to New York. This I may say is
the growing sentiment. Would it* not be
well for the Central Road to file an injunction
against 1- lint River? The Central proposes
to run a road from Tennille to Atlanta di
rect. Don’t you know they intend to do no
such thing? Their only object in this “raw
head anil bloody bones” story is to get con
trol <.r me iiiwnii and Western itoan. iuacon
and Brunswick had better let them run their
direct route, rather than control the Macon
and Western Road.
At the last session of the Legislature, Sa
vannah met Brunswick iu open and honor
able combat, face to face. The conflict for
a while was terrible, and the result was felt
with doubt and apprehension; steel bent
against steel, while the leaders of the con
tending forces marshaled their hosts in re
newal of the contest. The heart of “oppres
sion” throbbed with anxiety for the result,
while “despotism” gloomily looked on with
rage and terror, and felt that a blow had
been struck which suddenly loosened the
foundation of liis throne. The battle for the
oppressed is won, and the leaders shout the
cry of victory, while the artillery, with peal
after peal, re-echos the cry—Savannah “falls
back,” and is now skirmishing her hosts,
while Brunswick is making a flank movement
which will capture her citadel, her fortress,
and all her dogs of war. Then—“ Lay ou
Macduff, and damned be he who first cries
hold, enough.”
POLITICS.
The negroes have called a District Con
vention, to meet in this city on Saturday
next, to nominate a candidate for the Senate,
made vacant by the resignation of the recent
incumbent, who was elected by the negroes,
Radicals, scalawags, carpet-baggers, non
residents, non-voters, and the mischief knows
who all. lam not advised yet who will be
the nominee; a large number are aspirants
for the office of Senator—l said “office,”
but I believe it is not an office. The new
Constitution, made by the negroes and scal
awags, says that “Tlii* officers of the Senate
shall be a President and Secretary.” In a
military view, the others are privates. Should
a Sambo be elected to the position of Sena
tor, could he take his seat ? I think not.
The Legislature has declared negroes ineli
gible to seats in the Legislature.
They will hardly recover their decision.
The Supreme Court has decided negroes eli
gible to office, but this is not an office under
the Constitution, which they themselves
made. Then, if it is not an office, they can
not lie admitted under the decision of the
Legislature, which is the only power that
can decide the question. This convention
would do well to take the advice of a sensible
negro who remarked, “that they had better
let polities alone and attend to "their home
affairs, for if all the negroes in the country
were crammed and jammed together in one,
he would not have sense enough to attend
to legislative matters.” A. J. M.
Putnam fount v Fair.
Board of Directors Putnam County )
Fair Company, [-
Eatonton, Ga,, August 18, 18f>9. )
To the Editor of the Journal and Messenger.
Dear Sir : Encouraged by the success of
our industrial exhibition last year, and stimu
lated to further exertions by the manifest
benefit which this first Fair in Georgia,
“since the war,” has conferred in giving a
new impetus to the important departments
of Agriculture and the Mechanic Aits, we
have perfected an organization to be char
tered, with the view to holding these Fairs
annually at Eatonton. The exhibition for
this year will commence on the 2d of No
vember, under more favorable auspices than
last year. Our premium list embraces all
departments of industrial and domestic life.
PemiAiient buildings are now iu process of
construction, which, when completed, will
give every facility desired for the exhibition
of agricultural products, machinery, and
farm implements of all kinds, domestic
manufactures and artistic productions. We
would respectfully request tiiat you call at
tention to the time and place of holding this
Fair. The Premium List will soon be pub
lished, in advance of which we w ould assure
the public that rewards of v;due will be con
ferred in all the departments of industrial
life. It is not our design to interfere with
the “State Fair,” bat to aid this creation of
our more modest enterprise in every way
possible. Hence we have fixed the time
for holding our Fair, so that exhibitors
and visitors may go directly from ours to
Macon.
Very truly and respectfully yours,
Henry D- Capers, Secretary.
HCottun Tax.—We would caution parties
having paid the cotton tax to the U. S.
Agent parting with claims to its control,
without a valuable consideration.
We are informed that there arc parties in
some of the Southern cites buying up these
claims at almost nothing.
THE NEWS.
—The editor of tlu* Dawson Journal Ims
had a sack of meal made from new corn.
—A tract of land in Marion county recent
ly sold for fifteen dollars in gold per acre.
—The Arch Street Methodist Church, of
Philadelphia, is building a wliith marble
Church, at an expense of 8200,000.
—The miners' strike is now spreading
throughout the entire coal regions of Penn
sylvania.
—Ex-President Pierce, who is still at live
Beach, N. H., is said to be in excellent
health.
—Mrs. Gifford, living in the part of Mari
on county, lowa, died from the effects of
fright at the eclipse.
Charles White, the lion tamer, traveling
with Thayer’s menagerie, was eaten by the
lions, in a small town in Michigan.
—The Memphis Sun insists that Andrew
Johnson is the strongest man in West Ten
nessee for United States Senator.
—General 11. E. Lee, George Peabodv
and W. W. Corcoran, Esqs., were photo
graphed in a group the other day at the
Wwb- Sulphur Springs, Ya.
—The Superintendent of the Stab' Hoad
lia-s made another monthly payment into the
Treasury, of 825,000, from the earnings of
the road.
—The trial of Rostock for killing Malonev.
in Atlanta, some wo weeks sinee, has been
concluded, and Bostock discharged on the
payment of costs.
—Pile Massachusetts State Temperance
Convention nnff in Boston, on the 17th, and
adopted au address and resolutions firmly
upholding the present prohibitory law.
—They have organized “a Swiss Guard”
in San Francisco, and the usual ceremony of
presenting banners, with accustomed speech
making, has ju and taken place.
—A conspiracy among disaffected former
employes to burn all the bridges on the
Central Pacific Railroad east of the Sierra
ATiUintikinu <^oom-ai■ A, M vU
measures have been taken to prevent it.
—The Charleston papers state that the
traveling agents of two Northern liouor
houses were arrested in that city last week,
on the charge of selling good* without first
paving for a license.
—The Knoxville Whig thinks that Scn
ter’s majority of sixty-rive thousand will de
ter the administration or Congress from tak
ing any action in regard to the late election
in this State.
—An official proclamation has been made
of the Convention between the United
States and France, securing in tlieir re
spective territories a guarantee of property
in trade marks, to take effect in October anil
continue in force for ten years.
—Professor Cox, State Geologist of In
diana, lias made a coal survey of the State.
He finds six hundred square miles of block
coal in beds of varying thickness; an im
mense quantity of bituminous coal; and salt
water springs of great strength and value.
—A few days ago Mr. Thomas G. Simms,
late Postmaster of Atlanta, was arrested In-
United States Deputy Marshal Chamberlain,
on the charge of embezzling money order
funds during the latter part of his adminis
tration. The investigation commenced on
Friday before Commissioner W. B. Smith.
—The Covington Enterprise says : Crops
have suffered in Newton county severely
within the past two mouths for want of rain".
Except in a few favored localities of small
extent, corn is hopelessly cut off, in many
cases so entirely as to yield less than tin
amount planted. Cotton"is not so thorough
ly destroyed as corn, but scarcely half a crop
can be realized in the county.
—The Greensboro Herald, of Thursday,
says: “During the past week, we have met
many of our most extensive planters from
different sections of the country, all concur
in the belief that the cotton crop will fall
considerably short of their expectations two
weeks sinee. Some are complaining of rust,
others of the boll-worm. At present the in
dications are, that the county will not
average more than half a crop at best. The
corn crop is by no means to be considered
good.”
—The Americas Courier says of the crops
in Marion and Webster counties : “Cotton
generally is not making. Very few blooms
could be seen even in large * fields. The
ground is also well sprinkled with forms
which have fallen off Very little fruit on
the cotton of many fields, and where the
rust has taken good hold, the cotton has
ceased to bear. 1 lit- crop is necessarily
largely cut off! Not more than two-tliirds
of a crop on an average can be made. This
is our conclusion from observations in Sum
bjL- C'-awford, Webster, Marion
ana Lee. ilie corn crop, on an average,
is only medium. On some farms the corn
is excellent, on others it is poor. The sec
tion of country over which we have passed
will not make more com than will be needed
to support the plantations. The surplus one
farmer lias will he needed to supply anotli
er’s deficiency.”
—Natchez is to have a cotton seed oil
manufactory and another bank.
—The taxable property of Boston has in
creased since last year, $55,937,000.
—Thirteen buildings were destroyed by
fire at New Brighton, recently, involving a
loss of 8100,000.
.—The Governor GeneiSd of Canada has
met with a reception at Prince Edward
Island.
—The expenditures of the New Dominion
for July exceed the Revenue receipts bv
8260,861.
—Last Friday the Iron Mountain Railroad
was finished to Belmont, 195 miles from St.
Louis. This comes below the ice blockade.
—Dr. S. P. Breckinridge (cousin to the
General) is the selected English orator for
the Humboldt centennary at Louisville.
—Marshal MacMahon will probably suc
ceed Marshal Niel, deceased, as French Min
ister of War.
—lt is estimated that there are eleven
hundred murderers at Large in Tennessee.
Rents in consequence are lower.
—The Rev. Paul Bagiev’s petition for the
release of the American Fenians has been
sent to the Queen.
—lt has lieen thought advisable in Aus
tria, owing to the present aspect of affairs,
not to reduce the army.
—The N. Y. World says that more than
two-thirds of the members of Assembly at
Albany last winter had the reputation of
selling their votes to the highest bidder.
—The French citizens of San Francisco
celebrated the 15th as the centennial anni
versary of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte,
in a becoming manner.
- ('•'ii- Polignac is quietly pursuing his sci
entific investigations in Paris, cherishing the
kindest feelings towards Ids Confederate
companions in arms and the peojde of the
South.
—E. O. Haile, extensively known as a hu
morous contributor to the press under the
name of “A. Head,” died at Austin, Texas,
ou the 15th inst.
—Gen. Forrest lias commenced tearing up
the railroad track leading from Uniontown
to Newbem, with a view of using the mate
rial in the construction of the Selma and
Memphis Railroad.
—The Levant Herald reports that two
Armenian prelates who had been detained
uiree years m .vnystui,. i,...... j,< ... „ , t
through the intercession of the British gov
ernment.
—The Hon. J. S. Black, fully recovered
from his recent severe railway accident, is at
Washington, arguing a heavy Texas railway
case before Judge Swayne, of the Supreme
Court.
—The Tallapoosa, witli General Sheiman,
Vice-Admiral Porter and Secretary Robeson,
arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the
lfitli. The party was received with the usual
honors.
—Richmond, Indiana, has just passed an
ordinance commanding that “in case of the
death of any policeman he shall immediately
deliver his emblems and other insignia of
office to the Mayor. ”
—A train on the Sonthside Railroad was
thrown off the track 12 miles from Peters
burg, recently, instantly killing R, G. Hob
son, the conductor, and Rev. Wm. Myers, a
colored preacher.
—The steamer Havana was burned to the
water’s edge at Parlor Grove, twelve miles
below Cincinnati, on the 16th, just after she
had landed a pic-nie party. The loss is esti
mated at .$12,000. Fortunately no one was
injured.
—Coroner Flynn held an inquest in the case
of William J. Nagle, the Fenian. The evi
dence taken by the Coroner showed that the
deceased was evidently insane when he com
mitted the rash act, and a verdict to that
effect was rendered.
—The Washington Insurance Company
on Broad way and Muidenlane was robbed on
Friday or Saturday of $128,000 in bonds,
stocks and money. All but SIO,OOO of the
property was returned yesterday, as it was of
no use to the thieves.
—Col. McChesney, now in Bt. Joseph,
claims to have succeeded in extracting oxy
gen from water, making then-from a non
explosive fluid which produces a light clearer
aud more brilliant than the best of gas, at
one-tifth its cost and one-tliird the cost of
coal oil.
Nine ltensous lor .Making Fools of
Ourselves.
From the N. Y. World.
Mr. Greeley's tenth paper on Political
Economy de.sc.mtod on the disadvantages of
distant and enlargisl markets for agricultu
ral products. It was to have been expected,
therefori—such is the way facts lie in liis
mind—t hat his eleventh paper would descant
on the advantages of distant and enlarged
markets for manufacturing products. The
poor farmer is always left by the protection
ist as the poor Indian is left in the proposed
turkey trade. The manufacturer always gets
the tnrkev side of the bargain.
Nobody on earth with anything to sell
could be persuaded of his disadvantage in
having au enlarged market, yet that is what
Mr. Greeley endeavors to stuff American
farmers with. It must be admitted, how
ever, that liis protection doctrines embod
ied in our present tariff have administered
au equal dose to our manufacturers and
ruined exports by making our competition
with foreign manufacturers in foreign mar
kets for the most port hopelessly ruqx'ssilile.
Mr. Greeley gives a batch of nine reasons
“why manufacturers need protection, which,
in this hot weather, will prove refreshing to
the most wearied reader whose wits have not
deliquesced:
“Now. I novel-made any iron, nor had any
other than a public, general interest in mak
ing any, while I have bought and used many
thousands of dollars worth, in the shape of
power-presses, engines, boilers, building
plates, &c. It is my interest, you say, to
have cheap iron. Certainly; but I buy iron,
not (ultimately and really) with money, but
with the product of my labor —that is, with
newspapers; and 1 can better afford to pay
87(1 per ton for iron made by men wlio can
and do buy American newspapers than take
it for 850 of those who rarely see and never
buy one of my products. The money price of
the American iron may be higher, but its
real cost to me is less than that of the Brit
ilun. And «-**“'• ia tl»«t »'l' th. iv.lt
body of American farmers and other pro
ducers of exchangeable wealth.”
p The price of the farmer’s product is regu
lated by the prices in London and l’aris.
H - call get for corn, butter, cheese and pork
as much in those cities (and even a little
more, if he chooses to wait for the n turns
and exchange gold into greenbacks.) as he
obtains for the same products cither in New
York or Philadelphia. Take a 4(H) lb. bale
of cotton, worth here, at 27 cents paper,
8108. The Liverpool price is Id 1 „ jh-iu-c,
which, allowing 20 per cent, for all charges,
would net 884 gold per bale, or 8113 curren
cy, at 35. Thus, the cotton planter gets 85
a" bale less in New York than if he took his
risk in the market and in gold premiums.
It is the same with cheese, pork and grain.
So Mr. Greeley’s ease is not “that of the
great body of American farmers,” whose
products are ruled in their prices by the ca
ble quotations.
Far different is Mr. Greeley's case as a
manufacturer of Tribunes. Me hope the
iron-smelters understand liis beautiful argu
ment in their behalf, as they may easily do
by turning it upside down and end for end.
Let them all combine and each agree to pro
duce annually at least ten tons of pig-iron,
using its fuel Tribune issues (with H. G.’s
essays in, of course,) at four cents a copy.
The “mowy price'' of Tribune fuel “may lie
higher,” but its “real cos!" to the smelters,
whose monopoly it so persistently upholds,
would undoubtedly bo “less” than even Nova
Scotia coal. The pig-iron thus produced
could ho turned into power-presses, and used
to print more Tribunes on, with more H. G.
essays in them, for the benefit of monopo
lists and for the oppression of the people,
and these Tribunes could be burned again
for the production of still cheaper and more
ethereal pig, which, if it could squeal, would
say : “We are not the product of dull and
earthy matter only; we have been fused by
the product of a great mind,and are a fitting
monument to the economical genius whose
fire inspired us.”
Mr. Greeley’s reason number one, which
we have wasted too much time upon, may be
summed up as follows: A few hundred
American manufacturers read and buy Tri
bunes, which the foreign manufacturers do
not; hence, several millions of American
people must pay 60 per cent, more for iron
than it is worth. When foreign manufac
turers learn to read his paper, we may hope
to have a lower tariff
Mr. Greeley’s reason number two, “why
manufacturers need protection,” is this:
England and France are disgustingly rich,
and keep so by a sort of manufacturing
peerage which lias run in their families for a
cheap money with which we cannot
campete; therefore, thirty-eight millions of
people must pay over to a few hundreds of
their number lUO per cent, more than need
be on everything they wear or use. But
wait “for a century or more,” and we will
beat them all hollow, except in iron-making,
“which we can never make for so few dol
lars as it may be produced for somewhere
else. ”
Reason number three: Foreigners have the
advantage over us of an abundance of skilled
artisans; but let not thirty-eight millions of
people take that advantage by buying their
better wares cheaper; rather let them wait
till the United States are as densely popu
lated as Western Europe, or shrink to the
size of its territory, then they shall have
plenty of cheap woollen blankets, padlocks,
and wood-scrcws.
Reason number four: Perfidious Albion,
not satisfied with her enormous wealth, has
actually made railway and canal communica
tions all over her island, and brings her ores
cheaply to the coal bed; and, since the whole
length of this English Liliput is but four
hundred and odd miles, she can do it very
cheaply; but our distances are continental
and enormous. Wait until we can “shorten
and cheapen these routes;” “give us time;”
and then you shall have cheap iron, instead
of paying, as now, twenty-three millions a
year to one set of men, and twenty millions a
year to another set of men to make coal and
iron dear.
Reason number five: France and England
have tht l impertinence to possess l>etter
taste in styles and fashions of textile fabrics
than American manufacturers; therefore,
pay the latter for tlieir bad taste. And ou
this point Mr. Greeley offers no hope of
amelioration to the thirty-eight millions
whom he would see dressed no better than
himself.
Reason number six: Our people will pre
fer foreign fabrics when they arc the best to
be had; they arc not patriotic enough to in
sist upon homespun. Wait until American
human nature changes, and it Ls willing to
spend more toil than need be to satisfy any
want, then we may import anything we
please.
Reason number seven: One American mer
chant was incapable of seeing tin l merit of
Dr. Crosby’s fish-hooks, and had not sense
> nougli to recognize as his own the fish-hooks
he had just sold him; therefore, thirty-eight
millions of people ought to pay twice as
much for their fianncLs as they are worth.
Reason number eight: Our own dear man
ufacturers do not all know their own inter
est; instead of jobbing their goods by the
100 pieces, they should liave peddled tlieir
are short of clothes, and some of whom are
in rugs, and then advertise, like the Waltham
Watch Company, in my newspaper—
Two dollars a year lor the weekly Tribune,
Olt, let my people go;
—until which no free trade is possible.
Reason number nine, and, thank good
ness, the last. Americans are very fond of
guzzling stul called French cliampagne, but
which turns out to be a pure American ben
zine. This is downright fraud, and “fear
fully demoralizing. ” Wait until we catch
all the roguu alive and put them in jail,
meanwhile ‘protecting” ourselves against
pure and cleup liquor from abroad, and then
we may luct- cheap drink, clothing, iron and
frcc-tr.ale. “Secure our own markets to our
owu fabricate” by a tariff which puts their
goods up t> swindling prices at home and
incapacities them for exporting to or com
peting in ny other markets of the world:—
this, Mr. Irecley tells us, is “beneficent to
our county aud all her people, aud con
ducive to lie steady progress and diffusion
of industiul art throughout the world.”
And this » his political economy!
- Large Wheat Crop.
(JorrtT-pldence of tbe Journal and Messenger.
Mr. TJtor : I see iu your paper of July
27, a bo* made on the wheat crop of Jajncs
1). WootU, Pleasant Hill, Talbot couutv.
W e sav f J udge W oodall what Henry ( lay
said of lmself the Lust time he ran for the
Prcsidejy: "Beat again.” James Bowden,
of Redlme District, Merriweatlier county,
runninihree plows on his farm, raised and
thresh*| out nine hundred and thirty-six
bushel Juf wheat, making an average of
about l| j bushels per acre. “Come, Judge
WoodaJ you mast try Redbone again next
year. J'U are quite a clever fellow, but you
cannotluite shine iu the wheat line this
year.” * ours, to,, Run Bone.
Avgi 16, 1869,
Literary, Scientific and Art News.
—The New York Fall Trade sale of liook.s
stationery and stereotype plates will take
place early in September.
Volumes XI and XII, of Mr. Fronde’s
“England” are now in press. Tliev com
prise the events beginning with the fall of
Moisey, and ending with the death of Queen
Elizabeth. 1
—A correspondent of the London Sjss-ta
tor, describing the gn at bronze foundry of
Munich, pronounces Crawford’s “Beetho
ven,” now in the Boston Music Hall, “the
grandest statue of Germany’s greatest man.”
—Mr. Park Godwin, of the N. Y. Evening
Post, has jnst returned from Paris, where ho
has been engaged for over a year in prepar
ing material for the remainder of bus History
of France.
—The New York Express says: There is
authority for stating that at a meeting of
prominent New Yorkers at Saratoga, recent
ly, Wm. B. Astor expressed his intention to
complete the Washington National Monu
ment at liis own expense.
—An author's protective association has
been formed in the city of New York, ami
incorporated by the Legislature, with Hor
ace Greeley for Honorary Counsellor, and
Mary Kyle Dallas for Secretary-Treasurer
for the printing and publishing of books]
pamphlets and periodicals.
—Before leaving Washington Secretary
Robeson addressed a letter to Rev. Admiral
H. Dtvis, recently in command of the
South Atlantic squadron, directing him to
proceed to the Isthmus of Panama, and make
a survey thereof from Aspinwall to Panama,
preparatory to perfecting plans for a ship
canal across the isthmus.
—M. Bordior, a French historian, having
undertaken to prove that such a person as
William Tell actually existed, has been ef
fectually demolished by M. Rilliet, the
learned author of “Origines do la Confedcr
tion Suisse, who shows beyond a periulven
turo that the mythical hero of Switzerland is
nothing but a myth.
—The Piritto ncwsptqicr says that the
works for cutting through Mount Uenis are
advancing so rapidly, as is shown by the
monthly account of the progress accomplish
ed, that the tunnel will Ik- completed in
1870, and may be opened for traffic at the
beginning of 1871, when the retaining walls
shall have b«*en terminated.
—We learn that Mr. .lames Jackson Janes
the well-known cl itic and collector of the
“Junes Gallery of Old Masters," now owned
by tlie Yale School of Fine Arts has com
pleted a work which has long been needed
on the art galleries of Europe. He had in"
tended publishing it first in Europe, where
he had been for some years, but Ims simv
changed his mind, and it will lie issued from
the Riverside Press in September next.
—When Mrs. Stowe was in England she
made the acquaintance of Lady Byron, who
g ive her a full and circumstantial account of
her wedded life and her separation from Lord
Byron. The Countess Guiccioli gives her
version of the all.dr in Recollections of Lord
Byron. Now that the mistress has spoken
the wife should lie heard, and in the Septem
ber number of the Atlantic Monthly, Mrs.
Stowe will tell the True Story of Lad v My
ron’s Life.
The University of Edinburg lms autho
rized the establishment of separate classes
for female medical students, an arrangement
not found necessary either in France or
America, but agreeable to British habits.
This concession is due mainly to the energy
and perseverance of Miss S. Jex-Bkike, who
refused to la* driven out of Great Britain to
pursue her studies, and after suffering de
feat upon defeat, at last persuaded the Sen
ate of the University to open its lecture
room to womens.
—An interesting assembly has just taken
place at Vienna. The Association for tlm
Improvement of the position of women re
cently opened a class of telegraphy, and
nineteen of the pupils were to undergo an
examination. The director of u telegraphic
company was present, and after the young
women had given proof of their theoretical
and practical knowledge of the working of
the apparatus, the mode of keeping accounts,
etc., he rose and announced that all the can
didates might at once enter his service.
—The spectroscope has taught us that the
sun’s atmosphere is totally unlike ours, con
turning bodies in the state of vapor, which
on our earth are solid. Among tin' most
prominent of these constituents are sodium
vapor and iron vujmr. It is obvious from
this that the temperature of the sun must he
very high, and tlie old theory of Hersehel,
which has iiiitortuuatcly been repeated over
and over again in our astronomical school-
Ixx.kn, <lll.l in to the cll'cct that the Still Is a
dark, cold body, surrounded by a luminous
phosphorescent atmosphere, is exploded.
We now know that the sun is a hot, incand
escent, molten mass, its temperature being
so high that we can with difficulty form u
conception of it.
—The Faculty of the new University of
California, so far as selected, consists of
John LeConte, M, D., Acting President and
Professor of Physics and Industrial Me
chanics; Robert A. Fisher, A. M„ Professor
of Chemistry, Mining and Metallurgy; Jo
seph LeConte, M. D., Professor of Geology,
Natural History, and Botany; Martin iv’l
h*gg, A. M., Professor of Ancient laniguagi s;
Paul Roda, Professor of Modern Languages;
Ezra S. Carr, M. 14., Professor of Agricul
ture, Agricultural Chemistry, and Horticul
ture; William Swinton, A. M., Professor of
English Language and Literature, includ
ing Rhetoric and Logic.
The Tamil of Sidney Johnston.
“Town Talk,’ of the New Orleans Times,
gives us the following ; the epitaph is indeed
really beautiful and appropriate:
A lady correspondent, in a recent stroll
through the St. Louis cemetery in this city,
visited the grave of General Alliert Sidney
Johnston, uml found a written epitaph
pasted upon a rough Ward attached to the
tomb. In her note to T- TANARUS., our fair cor
respondent says she was affected to tears
upon reading it, and took the trouble to
copy it, verbatim. She begs us to find out
tin* author, and she should be gratified in
that desire, if it were possible for T. T. to
do so. Here is the beautiful epitaph:
IN MKMOKIAM.
Behiml tli e stone is laid
For a season,
AI.BEItT Sidney Johnston,
A General in the auny of the Confederate tela! m,
V\ ho tell at Miiiloh, Tennessee,
Ou the sixth day of April,
A. D. eighteen bundled and sixiy two;
A man tried in many high offices
And critical enterprises,
And found faithful in all.
His life was one long sacrifice of interest to con
science ;
And even that life, on a woful Sabbath,
Did he yield u holocaust at his country’s need.
Not wholly Uudirstood was he whilehc lived ;
But, iu his death, his greatne s stands confessed
In a people's tears.
Resolute, moderate, ciear of envy, jet not wanting
In that liner ambition which makes men great and
pure.
In his honor impregnable ;
In his simpicity suhluue.
No country e’er had a truer.son—no cause anobler
champion;
No people u nobler defender —no principle a purer
victim
Than the dead soldier
Who sleeps here!
_ " rT,c Cause fill which he pClishl'd is lost —
I he people for whom he fought are crushed—
... . hopes in which he trusted are shattered—
Ihe flag he loved guides no more the charging
. lines;
But his fame, consigned to the keeping of that
time which,
Happily, is not so much the tomb of Virtue as its
shrine,|
fSliall in the years to come, fire modest worth to
noble ends.
In honor, now, our great captain rests :
A bereaved people mourn him.
llirce commonwealths proudly claim him;
And history shall cherish him
Among those choicer spiiits, who, holding their
conscience unmixed with hlauie.
Have been, in all conjunctures, true to themselves,
their country and tlieir God.
Chief Justice Chase Favoiiino a New -
Pahtv.— lt is said that just after the result
of the A irginia election became known Chief
Justice Chase wrote a confidential letter to a
prominent politician in Tennessee, an old
friend of his, wherein he expressed much
gratification at the defeat of the bitter-enders
in \ irginia, and rejoiced over the success of
the conservatives. The Chief Justice ex
pressed the hope that results similar to that
in T irginia would be produced iu Tennessee.
Mississippi and Texas, and strongly hinted
that in his opinion the Republican party had
served its day, and the time was at hand
when anew conservative party should In*
formed which would embrace the moderate
men of all existing parties. This letter was
kept very quiet for some time, but after tlm
Tennessee election the geptleman to whom
it was addressed seemed to consider the seal
of secrecy removed and showed it around
quite freely. He refused, however, to give
i to the press.— Herald.
■ A man named John, a former employe
of the Erie Railroad, has made a confession
in which he declares himself the author of
the terrible disaster at Carr’s Rock, in Af rih
1868, whereby twenty or thirty persons lost
their lives. He says he displaced a rail
thereby causing the accident.