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WM. M. BROWNE, Editor.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 11.
THE M'.VVS.
—Cotton closed in New York yesterdav
at 33V
—Gold dosed in New York yesterday
at 35^4.
—An imperfect copy of a rare edition of
Sliikspeare recently brought $1696 in gold
in London.
The Troy Timet is one of the papers
that will not print the names of prize
fighters.
During August, 150,319 pounds of dried
fruit were skipped from Statesville, N. C.,
by the Western North Carolina Railroad.
Tin* London Spectator sums up Louis
Napoleon’s clemency by saying that he has
pardoned everybody who has done nothing.
Dr. P. Fahruev, near Hagerstown, Md.,
lias a Chester white pig, of 14 mouths,
weighing 700 pounds.
The medical faculty of Paris liave re
cently conferred the degree of doctor of
medicine upon three ladies—a French wo
man, a Russian and an American.
The scardtyof currency greatly restrict
operations in The cotton markets of Augusta,
Columbus and Macon.
The Koine City Council liave subscribed
$2,000 to aid in the survey of the Memphis
Branch Railroad.
New and extensive coal mines have l»een
discovered about fifteen miles from Helena,
Montana.
There are at the present time in London
and its suburbs about ninety Roman Catk
«»lie churches and chapels. At the beginning
of tiiis century there were only thirteen.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson indignantly
denies that she declared she wouldn’t marry
.1 Chinese. Let this denial be circulated to
repel Coolie emigration.
Raleigh, N. C., will be supplied with
water from Beaver Dam, which is three
miles west of the city, and several feet
higher than the highest point.
v raiser of poultry in Louisiana has
dug a well at the entrance of his hen-house,
and placed a tilting cover on it. His catch
averages one negro a night.
The Houston Texas Times says Hamil
ton will get three-fourths of the votes, and
thinks a Democrat could be elected if nomi
nated.
John 11. Reese has l>een appointed sub-
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for
this county, by W. B. Whitmore, Deputy
Collector of Dalton, Ga.
In reply to a paper which culled General
Sherman “the coining man,” a Georgia
journal says it “ hopes he is not coming that
way again.”
The City Councilof Griffin held a called
meeting on Thursday last, and formally sub
scribed the 025,000 stock to the new railroad
which was recently voted by the citizens.
California understands the tliree-fourths
rule. Being asked to ratify the proposed
negro-equality amendment, she returns
three-fourths of her new Legislature against
it
The farmers of Simpson county, Ken
tucky, think there will not be over half a
m>p of tobacco, owing to the drought in
many places. The corn will be quite short,
from the same cause.
Efibrts are being made in Berlin to or
ganize a line of steamers to trade between
Stettin and New York. The present pro
posal is to start with two vessels and a sub
scribed capital of 750,000 thalers.
Mrs. ( .ithurine Washington,who claimed
to be a relation of President Washington,
died at, her residence in Delhi township,
< iliio, on Saturday, aged eighty years. She
uzn born and married on the Washington
estate, in Culpepper county, Ya.
At the Sub-Treasury in New York, a
subscription of $50,000, for the benefit of
Mm. John A. Rawlins, was proposed, and
$15,000 was subscribed 011 the spot, inclu-
ding SIOOO subscribed by President Grant
by telegraph.
The Coliseum must lie taken down by
the last of October. Boston proposes to get
rid of the elephant by giving three gift con
certs, with tickets at a dollar, the building
to be the highest prize. The lnmlwv is val
ued at $15,000.
John iva—forty-three
years' service as purser in the United States
Navy, resigned, at the beginning of the war,
to enter the Confederate navy, died in Nor
folk on Thursday bust, aged 73 years. He
was a native of New Jersey.
At the meeting of the New York Board
of Aldermen recently, a series of resolutions
complimenting Mr. James G. Bennett, Jr.,
for crossing the Atlantic in the Henrietta,
and winning the ocean yacht race, and for
crossing again iu the Dauntless, were
adopted.
The presiding Judge of Coweta Court
has decided that though pleas may have
been tiled under the law existing prior to the
adoption of the present Constitution and
rule., of Court, they must be supplanted by
in w pleadings under existing laws and rules
or the case proceed e,r parte.
The Star, Enterprise, Miss., says: “The
citizens adjacent to Natchez have resorted
to man traps and bull dogs to protect their
orchards and gardens.”
A number of the best educated and
most promising young men of Lewiston,
Maine, are learning all the details of the
manufacturing business by personal labor in
the various departments of the mills in that
city.
The Covington Enterprise reports the
dc tli, at Valdosta, on the7th, of Capt. Win.
11 Lewis, of Newton county. Capt. Lewis
was only about thirty years of ago, univer
sally respected, and beloved by his comrades
in arms in the late war.
Forty-one thousand dollars lias been
subscribed and a fine estate purchased iu
Springfield street, Boston, for a home for
aged men. Additional subscriptions to the
amount of twelve thousand dollars are being
made to furnish it.
The story about six or seven men being
I '-t. a few days since, in New York bay, by
the upsetting of a yacht on which they were,
is materially amended by a subsequent- ac
eomit, which says they were all taken off the
bust, to which they held fast until relief
came.
The Charleston Xnrs of the 10th, says:
Tlii lice crop is being rapidly harvested and
generally promises well. Planters over much
of this State oxjiect to plant freely of small
grain in order to lessen the injury arising
fir m the partial failure of the corn crop.
The Chattanooga Enterprise reports
that tlie saw mills of North Georgia, that is,
tiirw rim liv water, are all stoppl'd OH ac
count of tin* low stage of the streams, and
at a lime, too, when lumber is in great de
mand in that section.
The Odd Fellows of Little Ilock, Ark.,
have organized a building association, with
a capital stock of $50,000, with shares of
The association lavs purchased a lot
titty foot front by one hundred and forty
deep, on the conn r of Markham and Scott
stn i ts, for SIO,OOO, upon which they are pre
paring to build the finest building iu the
iStflte.
rhe Wilmington Journal reports tliat
tin lit. Rev. Bishop Gilliams has been suc
cossful in securing the permanent founda
ti* -li of Sisters of Mercy for the city of Wil
mington N. C. They are expected to arrive
fr< in Chariest on atiout the 20tli of this mouth.
They will bo the first colony of Sisters ever
pi rnioneiitly established in North Carolina.
1 \ie'J ear tiler's (iuide, Richmond, says
of tin* crops in Virginia, that the Spring
promise of a beautiful corn and tobacco liar
vi st may disappihit farmers and growers;
but the enormous yield of wheat has, in a
manner, compensated for the apprehended
loss of the com crop, and will enable agri
culturists to square accounts without loss,
and possibly with gain.
Mrs. Ottemloffor is the solo proprietor
of the largest German daily newspaper in
the city of New York. Many years ago her
husband died, leaving her a large family of
children and a snndl paper. She went eur
nestJv to work at once, attending herself to
all the details of the office, aud she now con
trols a very rich and powerful journal
Tin* Supreme Court of Indiana on Tues
dav. Sept., 7, reversed the celebrated Pep
per ease, in w hich it was decided that where
a part v signed an official bond with the uu
dei standing that another party was to sign it
also, but did not do so. the bond was void
as to the partv who had signed. Hereafter
all who sign bonds must do so with a proper
understanding of tlie responsibility they m-
cur.
—The New York Times , of the Btl }-* a - vs ;
“The Trustees of the College of the City of
New York resumed the discussion of the
■proposal to abolish the classics m that insti
tution, yesterday afternoon. Speeches were
delivered bv Messrs. Larremore, han.ls.
Wood and others; after which a vote was
taken, which resulted in favor of maintain
ing the classical branches in the curriculum.
Mr. Santis was the only member who voted
fox the measure. ”
The Fifteenth Amendment.
It is liy no means so certain as some sup
l>oso that the so-called Fifteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution, by which Congress
is to acquire the right to determine who
shall and who shall not vote in the several
States of the Union, will be ratified by the
requisite number of States. On the contra
ry, according to present appearances, the
projiosed amendment will lie rejected. To
be ratified as the Constitution requires by
the Legislatures of three-fourths of all the
States, it must receive the votes of twenty
eight States, and it has np to this time onlv
received the legal ratification of twelve
States, namely: of Arkansas, Connecticut,
I lorida, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts,
Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, W est \ irginia and W iscon
sin. Os these it is obvious that but for uni
versal negro suffrage illegally forced upon
the people, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana,
North Carolina and South Carolina woidd
certainly have voted to reject it, and were
the people of those States permitted to ex
ercise their constitutional rights there cun
be no doubt that they would almost unani
-1 mouslv refuse to ratify so monstrous an in
vasion of their privileges.
Three States have absolutely refused to
ratify the amendment, namely, Kentucky,
Delaware, and, we are proud to add,
Georgia,
A few members of the Indiana Legislature,
much less than a quorum of either House,
ratified it, and the Radicals with character
istic recklessness and disregard of law, pre
tend that such a ratification Is valid. Kan
sas, and, we believe, Missouri, ratified a
copy of the amendment transmitted
by telegraph, and of course their action
must count for nothing. In Ohio and Rhode
Island no perfect action has been taken, and
the chances are strongly in favor of its final
rejection. In thirteen States—namely, Ala
bama, California, Maryland, lowa, New Jer
sey, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Tennes
see, Vermont, Virginia, Mississippi and
Texas, no action has yet been taken. It is
certain that of these, California, Maryland
and New Jersey will reject it. It is nearly
certain that Oregon will do likewise, and
there is reason to hope that lowa and Min
nesota will also reject it. Vermont will of
course ratify it. In Tennessee the result is
doubtful, and poor Virginia, Mississippi and
Texas will be compelled, in order to loosen
the highwayman’s grasp upon their throat,
to sap that they consent that Congress shall
regulate the qualifications of their elections.
The Legislature of New York adopted a
resolution ratifying the amendment, but it
was never sent to the Governor for transmis
sion to the State Department, and, there
fore, New York cannot lie counted among
the ratifying Ssates. An almost similar
state of things exists, we believe, as to the
votes of the Legislatures of Nevada, New
Hampshire and Illinois.
Thus it will be seen that twelve States
have apparently ratified the amendment ac
cording to legal forms. Three States have
directly rejected it. 111 four States the vote
has been rather informal, or the result has
riot, been made known in the way proscribed
by law. In two States complete action has
not been had; and in thirteen States the
question has not lieen considered.
The question involved in this proposed
amendment is much more serious to the
South than is generally supposed. It is true
that we have had negro suffrage forced upon
us, and we are compelled by usurped power
to submit to it. But wo know and feel tlmt
the laws which establish it are unconstitu
tional, and tnat tne day may come sooner or
later when we shall enjoy our own again and
we shall be free to regulate the suffrage for
ourselves. It is highly important, therefore,
that there be no clause in the Constitution
which gives Congress the power to regulate
the suffrage for us. This is the force, this is
the intent and meaning of the XVth Amend
ment. We may say that it only establishes
in the Northern States what already exists
in the South, ane that therefore we have not
much interest in the matter. This is a great
mistake. We have a deep interest iu it. So
long as the Supreme Law does not give a
sanction to the interference of Congress, so
long is there a hope that it may yet bo au
thoritatively acceded, that the powers uot
specially delegated to the Federal Govern
ment are reserved to the States and the peo
ple thereof, and cannot be legally exercised
by any other authority.
Cholera in Fowls has prevailed to an
alarming extent this summer in portions of
Georgia. W« know of instances where
friends of ours have lost hundreds of chick
ens, turkeys and ducks by this disease, in
tin' space of three or four days. They had
all our sympathy, because the feathered in
habitants of our farm yard iu Clarke county
met a similar fate. Several remedies were
tried but proved of uo avail in a single in
stance.
We found the subjoined in an exchange
and copy it in the liojie that the prescription
it contains may be found valuable by those
whose chickens may be attacked by cholera:
A correspondent, writing to the lowa Depart
ment of Agriculture, says:
“My chickens have been dying of cholera for the
l ist two years—even turkeys’huve died of the same
disease. When the hens begin to droop and look
sleepy, give them three or four tablespoonsful of
strong alum water, and repeat the next day. Also
mix their feed (say Indian meal) with strong alum
water, feeding tw ice a day for two or three days—
afterward once a week ’’
Another gentleman, writing to the same depart
ment, says :
“Take two eggs, one tablespoonful of finely
pulverized alum, and a sufficient quauity of flour
to make a thin paste, and force the chicken or tur
key to sw allow a portion of the mixture, and there
are two chances to one that it will recover. I have
also used alum once a day iu their food as a pre
ventive when this disease is prevalent. Fowls
should never have access toswill tubs or any other
kind of sour food.”
The Nigger Question. — After the negroes
were all set free, and allowed to vote, and
appointed to office, and invited to dine with
Sumner, it was hoped that the “nigger ques
tion" was finally settled, so far as polities
were concerned, ami that it would no longer
enter as an issue into party contests. But
the hope has been disappointed. The nig
ger question is apparently unsettleable. It
will not “stay” settled. As the federal troops
list'd to say when they whipped our soldiers,
(and they always said they whipped them)
“the rebels won’t stay whipped.” So it is
with the nigger question. It is about to be
the leading issue in all the coming fall elec
tions when'the Fifteenth Amendment comes
U P for decision; anil it really seems, that do
what wo will, say w hat we will, at every turn,
we are to meet the negro in some shape or
other, until, like the Mohicans, they disap
}x ar, and even then we may expect to have
“the lust of the uiggers” to torment us.
Names of the Big Trees of California.—
Some of the high trees of California have received
such names as Washington, Graut, Sherman, Sher
idan, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, McPherson,
Andrew Johnson. Florence Nightingale, William
t'ulhn Bryant. William 11. Seward, Broderick,
Henry Ward Beecher, Abraham Lincoln, Elihu
Burritt, (ieueral Wadsworth, Longfellow, Starr
King, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Daniel
O’Connell, Edward Everett, Lafayette, James
King of William, Sir John Franklin, Dr. Kane,
Humboldt, General Sutter, General Scott, Andrew
Jackson, and Old Dowd. Two American and three
English botanists are similarly honored.
The “big trees” may be able to stand
some of these names. They are too high
up to be affected by what little folks call
them, but if they could express their feel
ings they would certainly be above being
called Beecher, Sheridan, Broderick, Burritt
and Old Dowd.
Why should we liave a far less amount of
currency now to do the business of the coun
try than was required aud used when the
South was not a party to the Union?
T*»e Health of the Emperor Napo
leon.
It is plain, even from the guarded and un
reliable bulletins which are published daily
concerning the health of the French Empe
ror, that he is dangerously ill, anil that the
utmost anxiety is felt in France anil through
out Europe lest by his death the political
structure which he lias built and upheld
may fall to pieces, and the peace of the con
tinent may lie disturbed. The panic in the
European money markets, the hasty aband
onment by the Empress of her projected
tour to Constantinople, and the efforts of the
Emperor himself to make it appear that he
is only slightly indisposed, prove that there
is good ground for the alarm.
Napoleon is considerably upwards of sixty
years of age, and the life he has led has
not oeen one to promote longevity. For
years he has suffered from a painful and
dangerous disease of the spine which the
skill of the ablest French physicians has failed
to cure, and as the weight of years and in
firmities press upon him his ailment becomes
more aggravated and more alarming.
The present condition of France, the re
cent disturbances in Paris, and in some of
the provinces, the liberal concessions which
the Emperor was obliged to make to restore
apparent tranquillity,the radical position re
cently assumed by Prince Napoleon in the
French Senate, and the refusal of that Ixidy
by a vote of 113 to 9, to sanction any further
liberal reforms, give rise to the general ap
prehension that Imperialism hangs by the
frail thread of the life of the old man who is
its founder, and that were that thread to
break, the whole structure would topple over
like a house of oaTils.
Heretofore, the Imperial Government in
France has been the will of one man. The
Ministry were servants bound to obey or
ders, jmd the representatives of the people
were clerks obliged to register and applaud
the edicts of the Emperor. This has been
modified aud liberalized to some extent, as
we have already shown and explained in
former issues of this paper. Napoleon is too
shrewd to risk his throne and all hopes of re
establishing his dynasty by an obstinate op
position t< > the popular demands. He knows,
too, that, even were 110 to succeed in main
taining himself by force, it would be vain to
expect that his sou would bo permitted
to succeed him, and that the only chance of
reconciling the French people to “tire suc
cession,” consists iu changing the character
of the government, in making it less per
sonal and more constitutional, and in con
senting to substitute the will of the people
as expressed through their representatives as
the real ruling power, for the autocracy
which he established and has hitherto main
tained with such marvellous skill and sa
gacity.
If Providence permits him to live for a few
years longer, and he consents to widen the
foundations of the government so as to make
it constitutional in fact as well as in name,
his cherished dream of founding a dynasty
may lie realized, and the Prince Imperial
may be permitted to wear the Imperial man
tle. But to do this he must sanction radical
changes in his government, and go very far
beyond the point of liberality which he has
yet reached. It is not unnatural that the
health of the Emperor should be tlio subject
of worst anxiety iu Europe at present; but
this very anxiety proves the fatal errors of
the system under which the death of any
one man can create such a panic over an en
tire Continent.
Tlie Fall Elecm>...-
Thr full drrtioitu Lavn IU-111 1 til'll Olxl. Till 1
campaign has been opened. The first con
test took place outlie Ist inst., in Califor
nia, and lm resulted in a Democratic
triumph. Although General Graut carried
the State last November, and the force of
official patronage was employed to maintain
the Radical ascendancy, tins Democrats have
elected their candidates every where, have
secured a Dcinocr die majority iu the Legis
lature, and have killed the Fifteenth Amend
ment.
In Vermont the election for State officers
took place on the 7tli. The result lias been
a Radical success, as a matter of course,
there was hardly any opposition. One of
the innumerable AVasliburues, a race as ir
repressible as mosquitoes, has carried the
State without any difficulty. No one expect
ed anything else.
The election takes place in the “ Dirigo ”
State (Maine) on the 13tli. The Radicals
here also are almost certain of success.
Chamberlain will doubtless be re-elected.
But his opponent, General Franklin Smith,
is a strong man, anil he has no little popu
larity. If the Democrats can reduce the
Radical majority below the figures of 1865,
it is as much as we have any reason to ex
pect; and there is some probability that
this can be done, since tlic Radicals are
somewhat divided among themselves on
local issues. The Legislature which is now
to be chosen will have to elect a successor to
the late Mr. Fessenden iu the United States
Senate. There is uo possible chance of
their electing a Democrat.
Iu October the battle wall be more serious
and important. Then the elections in tlie
great States of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and
the minor States of lowa and Colorado, will
come off, and there are good grounds to hope
that in the two first named States Packer
and Pendleton, the Democratic standard
bearers, will be declared the victors.
Iu November, New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illi
nois, Mississippi and Texas will express their
will. Iu New York aud New Jersey the
Democrats are more than sanguine of suc
cess—they are almost confident of it; and in
Mississippi and Texas the Radicals will as
certainly be defeated as that the sun will
rise on the day of election.
The survey of the whole field is by no
means discouraging. The Democrats are
active, zealous aud iu high spirits; and manv,
who have lava led away by the specious
promises of Radicalism, have seen their er
ror, have repented, and have returned to the
only true and safe political fold.
The Radicals are discouraged. There are
already manifest signs of dissension aud
strife among themselves. The super-loyalists
like Butler, Boutwell, and ox-Secessionist
Creswell are full of wrath and fury against
those who disapprove of the projvosition to
declare Stokes Governor of Tennessee, and
Wells Governor of Virginia, notwithstand
the immense jxipular majorities against
them. Some have seen the hand-writing on
the wall, aud are trying to escape the rage
of the people, and others, dissatisfied at the
smallness of their opportunity, as compared
with their desire, to plunder the public
money, are irreconcilably incensed against
those whose opportunities are greater.
We hope and believe that “there’s a good
time coming—wait a little longer. ”
Caldwell’s Practical Arithmetic.— lßG9.
Pp. 185, 16mo.
This is a concise method of calculation,
showing rather how than why. We like it
because it does nut treat tlie science of num
bers as if it were platinum, the most ductile
of known tliiugs. Northern authors con
sider arithmetic as without either bottom or
shore, and so teach it only through a series,
running from No. Ito No. 5. This book is
a timely rescue.
The above highly appreciative notice of a
book recently published by J. W. Burke &
Cos., is taken from the New Orleans Christian
Advocate. The book will be found, on exami
nation, to measure quite up to the standard
here set.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
Tlie Burlingame Treaty and Mr.
Russ Browne.
A great deal has been written within the
last few days about the treaty liotweon the
United States and China which was nego
tiated by Mandarin Burlingame on the part
of the Flowery Kingdom, and by Mr.
Reward on the part of the United Stab-s.
We have heard that the treaty was rejected
by the Regent of the Chinese Empire be
cause Mr. Minister Ross Browne intrigued
to defeat it. Then we heard tliat the treaty
was not rejected at all, because the Chinese
Stab* Department intends to consider the
whole batch of the Burlingame treaties with
all the nations of the earth in one lump.
Then Ross Browne telegraphs that he never
intrigued to defeat the treaty, aud imme
diately after this we are told the gratifying
news that the Chinese authorities are quite
in raptures at Mandarin Burlingame’s diplo
matic exploits in America and Europe.
It may be true that the result of the roving
mission of Burlingame and his attendant
mandarins will he “the dawn of anew era”
for China that, when he returns to Pekin
with his carpet-bag choke full of treaties, the
Regent will make haste to sign them, that
thenceforth China will become one of the
most liberal, progressive and social nations
on earth, aud that our distinguished ex
fellow-citizen who has so nobly won his buk|
tons will obtain a lucrative contract for life
elliug the China wall anil converting
material into factories after the
those of Lowell and Natick. But we confess
that wo are uot so sanguine, and that we
fear that even the wonderful genius of Bur
lingame is uot sufficient to break down so
suddenly a system of exclusivism and hatred
of foreigners which has been the founda
tion of government iu China for centuries,
aud that at heart the Chinese authorities
would be more inclined to favor a policy of
reaction rather than one of progress. The
revolution is too sudden. Burlingame’s
representations of Prince Ivurg’s liberalism
are too rosy to be believed without hesita
tion; and when Mr. Ross Browne expresses
his apprehensions that the Chinese authori
ties are humbugging the “outside barba
rians,” we must say that wo are not willing
to attribute altogether Browne’s judgment
to jealousy of tlie Massachusetts mandarin,
but rather to the intelligent observation of
one who has the capacity and has had the
opportunity to form a well founded opinion
of the disposition and habits of the Pekiu
government.
The Chinese have within the last twenty
years made many concessions to the civiliza
tion of tlie nineteenth century, every one of
which lias been wrung from them by force.
They have frequently attempted to evade
their obligations and return to their tra
ditionary policy of exclusion, and have only
yielded when a British or French tieet has
demanded the maintenance of their prom
ises. They make promises with surprising
facility, but they have always regarded them
as pie-crusts, made to be broken, and if at
any time since the representatives of foreign
powers have been permitted to reside at
Pekin, the protecting naval squadrons had
been withdrawn, there is good reason to be
liove that they would have manifested their
love of progress and their respect for mod
ern civilization by treating tlie distinguished
diplomatists as they did the correspondent
of the London Times,
Mr. Ross Browne’s testimony as to the
Chinese is quite as good and as worthy of
credit as that of Mr. Burlingame. It is
better, because it is disinterested. He lias
oot pocketed a dollar of tlie money of the
Pekin Treasury, -mu,., iuh, rt
celestial dignitary. He docs not wear a
single purely ornamental button, or any
orthers than those which American gentle
men ordinarily wear upon their clothes. He
believes that the liberal promises which
Burlingame is authorized to make are illuso
ry, and that it is unwise to rely on them as
honestly made. Burlingame asserts the
contrary, and as the whole history of the
past sustains Browne’s opinion, we do not
see why such an outcry should have been
made against him because he has said what
he believes.
Time, the intercourse produced by com
merce, the fear that bad faith will be prompt
ly punished, anil the presence of “ gun-lioat
diplomacy ” to aid that of envoys extraordi
nary, will sooner or later break down the old
Chinese system and bring about the “new
era,” but it is stupid to believe that Bur
lingame's treaties, whether ratified by retail
or by wholesale, will produce so complete a
revolution as that of which Burlingame’s
sanguine admirers would desire to persuade
us.
Mr. Browne’s letters may not have been
exactly diplomatic, but they express his
honest convictions. Up to this time the
“ gnu-boat diplomacy ” has alone succeeded.
By all means let us try the Burlingame trea
ties, but let us not abandon the gun-boats
until the mandarin’s “liberal declarations ’’
have been more accurately tested.
Correspondence Journal and Messenger.
Letter front Americus.
Americus, Ga., )
September 11, 1869. j
Mr. Editor : Oil yesterday I had just fin
ished the perusal of a long article iu your
paper in relation to that execrable scamp,
J. B. Donaldson, when Mrs. Susannah Gas
kins, (a widow with three children,) came
into my office to ask for charity. She stated
that a man by the name of J. B. Donaldson
came to her house iu tills place some time
ago, and after staying with her for some
time, persuaded her to sell out everything
and move to Atlanta, as she would doubtless
get better and more employment there than
in Americus. Mrs. G. sold her plunder and
placed the proceeds in the hands of D. for
safe keeping until their arrival iu Atlanta.
A few moments after getting the money,
Donaldson left, and Mrs. G. has uot seen
him since. After boaring her story I re.a and
the article in question to her, when Mrs. G
immediately and excitingly exclaimed, “He
is the very scripture-quoting sccuudrel who
fooled me ! Oh, that 1 had him here now,
I would tear his liver out!”
Donaldson seems to have quite a penchant
for taking in poor widows, and if you think
this note will afford those others whom he
has fooled auv consolation, yon can publish
it. Respectfully, Jack Brown.
Banks and Banking. —We publish in an
other column a very good article from the
New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, which is
applicable to most of the commercial cities
of the South as well as to New Orleans, and
which the gentlemen who control our bank
ing institutious would do well to study.
We print it in no unfriendly spirit to
wards the bauks or their managers. Tlie
present tightness of money, and dullness in
the cotton market in consequence of the
absence of money to move it, are facts, the
existence of which cannot lie denied; aud
we think that if the views of the writer of
the article to which we refer were adopted,
to some extent at least, our merchants aud
cotton buyers would not be embarrassed and
cramped as they are.
M ♦ M ——
The Capacity of the Negro fob Self-
Government. The New York World of the
7tli, has the following iu proof of negro
capacity for self-government:
By Saturday’s dispatches, Havtian ex
change is 950 for 1; by Monday's dispatches,
1,000 for 1. So much for liegro capacity
for self-government. These Culls have
been seventy-odd years at the experiment,
and the eud of it is that a Havtian dollar is
worth just exactly one Federal mitt.
The New York Herald says that “the Rad
icals are going to hell. ” Perhaps Satan will
lock the gate to keep them out.
Letter from the Mountains.
FROM OTR OWN COI'.UUSItHEDENT.
Wauialla, S. €., Sept. 1, 1860.
Mr. Eilitor: “Remote, unfriended, soli
tary, slow,” says Goldsmith, aud so says
your correspondent in this quaint Dutch
town, which is so near and yet so far from
Macon —u«ar iu point of actual distance, far
iu its inaccessibility. Walhalla. as yon
know, is at the foot of the Blue Ridge, anil
is the present terminus of the railroad of
that name. It was founded, lam informed,
by Mr. Wagener, of Charleston.and was set
tled almost exclusively by Dutch, who gave
it tlie name it- liears, which, they say, moans
Paradise.
The country is just now suffering from
severe and protracted drought, so I cannot
say that its name is appropriate. In trav
eling from Athens, Ga., to this point via
Anderson, 1 have seen the poorest crops, I
presume, that are now growing in the world.
It is not possible for corn and cotton to look
worse, and to present a more hopeless and
disheartening prospect than in the country
between Athens and here, especially in Hart
county. There they told me in Hartwell
that no rain had fallen sufficient to run in
the street in ten weeks and a half. Most of
the corn has tasseled out three* or four feet
high without any appearance of an ear. I
have seen plenty of stalks tasseliug not
more than six inches from the ground, and
have noticed the same thing on the moun
tain above this place.
Less rain has fallen, I am told, in the
mountains this summer than any since 1845.
[What the people live on is a mystery—you
i travel for miles, inquiring at each house for
jeorn or oats for vour horse, and offering any
‘"price, always receiving the same reply, “We
anything for our own stock but pas
turage.” In Audersou some people were
offering to buy corn, to be delivered after
Christmas, for two dollars a bushel. It is
now worth nearly that.
On the west bank of the Savannah river,
aj: Brown’s Ferry, lives our old friend, James
Stowers, famous as one of those imprisoned
by the United States Government at the
Dry Tortugas, for supposed complicity in
the murder of three United States soldiers, at
•the Ferry' in 1805. He seemed better off’ for
Ayoviaions than most of his neighbors,
Kid supplied me abundantly. He was ro-
Teaseil from the Tortugas at the same time
with Dr. Mudil and many others. His ac
count of his eoufinemeut, anil particularly
his reminiscences of Mudd anil Arnold, were
very interesting. He spoke with gratitude
of the kindness displayed by the people of
Athens iu telegraphing to President John
son to stop his execution, and mentioned
your name, Mr. Editor, as one who hail been
of great service in saving his life by those
means. He stoops greatly, and his lungs
are injured from long confinement of his
wrists iu iron fetters. But the most serious
trouble these people of Carolina suffer from
is not a failure of crops. Their worst difficulty
is their State Government. They are com
pletely under the control and iu the power
of the negroes.
The State stands four hundred thousand
blacks against three hundred thousand
whites. In their Legislature sit upwards of
sixty perfectly black uegroes, and iu the
lower and middle counties they fill every
office with one of themselves, or a white man
who is worse. In the upper counties, where
the whites largely outnumber them, they
still find means to exercise authority, by
sending election committees, composed
partly of negroes, with power to send for
persons and papers. One of these commit
tees was sitting iu the town of Anderson the
day I arrived, investigating election frauds
•In a Congressional election many months
after the election, anil that, too, iu a district
where their man was elected aud lias his
seat iu Congress. Tlxo committee receive
each three dollars per day anil mileage.
They have increased the taxes to au extent
that to Georgia ears sound incredible. A
gentleman in Anderson informed me that
his taxes since tlie war anil prior to tlie in
auguration of tin* Scott government amount
ed to about thirty-five dollars per annum;
now it is one hundred aud twenty-five dol
lars. In some quarters the negroes do not
hesitate to say that they intend to abolish
the poll tax, and make tlie property pay the
expenses of the government. They certain
ly have tlie numerical strength to abolish the
-white race if a l-fv"**** - *'-• «unr.fm,.n
emiKi iii, it. orrcL ia an outline of the con
dition of things here, anil there is no hope
of relief uutil the expiration of nearly two
years, when the next general State election
is held. It is doubtful whether they will be
able to do anything even then. It is a cure for
Georgians, sick of Radical office-holders, to
come here. If you know any who think the
lot of the white man in Georgia is a hard one,
you have only to send them to this State.
Depend upon it, they will return home
wiser but not sadder men. F. Swain.
—— ► < -» n
Correspondence Journal and Messenger.
Down South, September 9, 1868.
Mr. Editor: Your correspondent being a
retired newspaper man, you will indulge him
in a little suppressed praise concerning the pa
per over which it is an honor to preside. The
Journal and Messenger is an old acquaint
ance, and as such has gradually grown to be
a very dear friend. It is natural to be proud
of its handsome appearance, and to rejoice
iu its unmistakable evidences of prosperity.
Unlike the now old men who made its ac
quaintance in their youth, it renews its youth
iu mind, matter and form; while they, alas!
can find no elixir wherewith to rejuvinate
either. The looks and success of its news
papers, are the two conclusive proofs of the
progress of a city iu all the essentials of ma
terial, mental and leesthetic enjoyment and
prosperity; and hence I know, at this great
distance, that Macon is on the high road of
successful development.
While we, of your sister State, rejoice in
your well directed and lately successful ef
forts to put the carpet-baggers aud scalawags
under, we are still sighing for the same
healthful political reaction. No doubt it will
come. Any party persisting in proscription
and persecution commits a political feio de.se.
Wonderful is the hopefulness of the mar
ket reporters respecting the cotton crop.
The September annual report gives credence
to the great destruction of this staple
throughout Georgia, but has reason to hope
that Florida lias been exempted from the
visitation of crop disasters. The hope is
“but the baseless fabric of a vision.” Though
neither a prophet, nor the son of a prophet,
1 predicted that thu cotton crops, the pro
duct of free-uegro labor in the South, would
diminish every year, from the year of eman
cipation, forever. Labor, which cannot be
obtained when you want it, aud directed and
worked as you want it, with vigor, indus
try and continuitv, is not worth much to any
country. By tlic adaptation of fertilizers,
and the muscle of small farmers and their
white help, the production of cotton may be
brought up to 3,000,000 bales in years of
propitious seasons. But this result will hap
pen, not because free negroes will increase
and work better, but because small white
farmers will multiply greatly. To lie a prae
tieid farmer will come to In' regarded a nota
ble occupation, but, to be liotli a practical
and scientific farmer, will come to be sought
after as the noblest calling.
We ought to import laboring population
into the Southern States, but it should be
so homogeneous that our dominant popula
tion will act on it as a rapid solvent.
European immigrants are from our own
blood —their people are our people, and
heir God our God. One fatal experiment
in “doing something” for the heathen, by
taking them into our households and treat
ing them as a part of them, ought to suffice
us. The Chinese mania has its root in self
ishness, and selfishness only. Let this sin
Ih* so far eiudied, at least, as to prohibit the
importation of those “outside barbarians,”
except to supply deficiencies of laborers on
great public works. Political wisdom would
say, better learn your daughters to keep
house and cook, and your sons to curry a
horse and plow, than to stuff your kitchens,
houses, stables and farms with either Afri
cans or Asiatics. Political wisdom would
say, for the greatest good to the greatest
number, better cut up your thousand-acre
plantations into farms, and invite your
German, French, English, Irish, Scotch,
YV elsh, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Swiss,
Sandwich, Norwegian, Polish and Russian
brothers and sisters to come and occupy,
and by their skill and industry, combined
with yours, bring our beloved South out of
the wilderness. But selfishness says none
of this—alas! for short-sighted humanity.
But enough. Zing.
There was a dance at tlie late reunion at
Gettysburg. They should have had the ne
gro minstrels there. The performer with the
“bones” would have found a plenty of instru
ments at hand.
Correspondence of the Journal and Messenger.
Letter from Countj.
Clinton, Ga., Sept. 7 186:1..
Mr. Eilitor: I never see any news from
Clinton in the Jocßsal a\l> Messenger—
the “Old Reliable." This may he because
there is nothing in Clinton worth writing
about, or it may he l>ecause the people in
Clinton won’t write. The latter reason shall
he valid no longer. Here goes for some dot
tings from “our special correspondent in
Clinton.”
The metropolis of Joues County, the cen
tre towards which gravitate the rustic villa
ges, Blountsvillo, Grahall, Fortville. etc,, is
not a very Lirge place, comparatively shak
ing. It does not contain, I suppose, one
fourth the inhabitants that New York has,
ami is not near its large its Atlanta. It is
connected with Macon, and thereby with the
rest of the world, by two roads; and it is au
old proverb about here, that, no matter
which road you travel, you'll wish you had
taken the other. The distance to Macon is
twelve miles in a direct line; but if all the
hills were rolled out level, the length of the
route would pass the comprehension of man.
The hills must be huge. The route of the
Macon and Augusta Railroad was first sur
veyed through this place, but it was moved
about live miles below here on account of a
hill almost in sight of town, which the Chief
Engineer said lie couldn’t pass! If all the
hills in the liockv Mountains were like that
hill, the Pacific Railroad never would have
been built.
Despite that hill, the wind blows this way
occasionally, and thus we get an odor of the
outside world. Recently we have caught a
sniff of the Beecher-Stowe putrefaction, and
ugh! it smells bad. Some of the press won
der how a woman of Mrs. Stowe’s intellect
could have given enough credence to the
scandal to publish it; but we of the South
who remember the total absence of truth in
the work that mafic her famous, are not as
tonished that she should publish anything
to gain notoriety. Perhaps, too, she has the
same complaint with which her illustrious
brother is affected, the love of money.
I have l>eeu seeing visions of late. Mo
tliought I saw our State of Georgia likened
unto a man, of which the Press was the head.
I looked again, and saw the nose standing
out prominently towards Atlanta. Then
there came an illustrious individual, once
known by the initials “S. k Q.,” whose
name is now lost. He rubbed the nose gently,
inserted underneath it the end of a curious
glass vessel, whereon was the mysterious la
bel “Piper Heidsick,” and the (State of
Georgia was pulled around by the nose! But,
ah! that nose was not entirely covered by
liis hands, large as they were. It reddened,
sniffled, and sneezed; and now we who know
how our present Governor was elected, and
by whom the ballot box was manipulated,
would like to hear a regular snort. And
right here let me propose a health to Gen.
Wright of the Chronicle ifc Sentinel.
Yours visionary, P. D. G.
Tl»e Law of Hanks.
WHAT IS TIMELY NOTICE OF THE WORTHLESSNESS
OF A CHECK.
The Boston Advertiser, in its roi>ort of the
proceedings of the Massachusetts Supreme
Court for August 28, gives the following
case:
Merchants’ National Bank vs. National
Eagle Bank. —This was an action of contract
in which the Merchants’ Bank sought to re
cover the value of a check drawn on their
bank by a person named Williams, payable
to the order of Hubbard Brothers. It was de
posited by Hubbard Brothers in the Eagle
Bank, and that bank received the amount of
the check out of the funds of the Merchants’
Bank in their settlement with the clearing
house. The check was deposited at tire
Eagle Bank on the 15th of June, 18(!7, but
was not and could not bo sent to the clearing
house until the 18th, the 16th being Sun
day, and the bank not doing business on the
17th. On the 18th the Eagle Bank sent this
check to the clearing house in their bundle
against the Merchants’ Bank, and were
allowed the amount in their settlement with
the clearing house. Four checks drawn by
Williams, including the cheek in this suit,
were found at the Merchants’ Bank not to be
dlKl fib it >j< ».•* la'V. lwifovn Qpj f\ oVluclt
they were delivered by the paying teller to a
messenger with directions to return them to
the banks depositing them at the chairing
house as not good and collect the amounts.
The messenger being delayed did not reach
the Eagle Bank with the cheek until after
one o’clock. The teller at that bank declined
to pay it on the ground that it was not re
turned until after one o’clock, as required by
the clearing house rules.
At the trial in the court below, the evi
dence for the plaintiffs having been put in,
the counsel for the defendants asked the
Court (Ames, C. J.) to rule that the plain
tiff's had not made out their ease, but the
Court refused so to rule, but ruled that if the
check was delivered to the messenger before
1 o’clock, with time sufficient in the absence
of accident or mistake to reach the deposit
ing bank, it would be a compliance with the
vote of the clearing house. But, irrespec
tive of this, the Court ruled that it could lie
a defence only to the extent of the injury
occasioned by the delay.
The defendants thereupon declined to
offer evidence, but consented to a verdict for
the plaintiff's, objection being taken to the
rulings of the Court. The case was reported
to the Supreme Court, and that Court has
now given judgment on the verdict for the
plaintiffs.
Germany.
TIIE CATHOLIC HIERARCHICAL CONVENTION.
It is •well known on the Continent, find
also in England, tluit the Hierarchical Con
vention of the Catholic bishops of Germany,
in Fulda, Bavaria, is likely to have a very
important and decided influence on the re
lation which the German Catholic Church
generally will hold towards the Ecumenical
Council in Koine.
A large number of the religious faculty of
Germany, headed by Professor Dollinger, of
Munich, the author of the series of articles
recently published in the AUyemeine Zeitung,
of Augsburg, entitled “The Council at the
Civilta,” are openly in favor of the assump
tion by the German episcopacy of a liberal,
independent stand before the Council on all
such temporal political points as may
come up before the assembled prelates. Al
though the I’ulda Convention is held with
closed doors and its proceedings kept secret,
enough is already known to make it certain
that the bishops take a stand against the
jMisition of the great body of the German
clergy, and advocate the necessity of an
entire submission to the decisions of the
Council in all things, holding such a course
to lie absolutely necessary' for and in separa
ble from the maintenauee of the Catholic
belief in the doctrine/>f the infallibility of
the Holy Father, thel’upe, when presiding
in a General Council of the Church.
Among the prelates present in the Conven
tion were the Right Reverend Cristophe Flo
rentius, Bishop of Fulda; the Most Reverend
Doctor Paulus Melchers, Archbishop of
Cologne; the Right Reverend Doctor Hein
rich Forster, Prince Bishop of Breslau; the
Right Reverend Baran von Ketteler, Bishop
of Mayence; with the Bishops of Pander
horn, Freres, Ernland, Helldesheim, Osna
bruck, Augsburg, Eichstadt, Wurtzburg and
Kotteuburg; the A icur General of Freiburg;
the A icar Apostolic of Dresden, with several
other Church dignitaries of equal note.
It is also understood that it was resolved
in the Convention that the bishops should
in future use their authority to enforce a
strict ecclesiastical discipline and obedience
throughout the members of the German
priesthood.
The Austrian archbishops and bishops kept
aloof from the Fulda Convention. They
will hold a separate conference in Salzburg.
Moiie Fractional Currency.—Superin
tendent McCartee, of the Printing Bureau
of the Treasury Department, has ordered
the several engraving companies interested
in furnishing fractional currency to the
Government to increase their present sup
ply, so that iu the future, if his orders are
obeyed, he will receive nearly $300,000 j>er
month. He has olficial information from
the West to the effect that the merchants
and other commercial men of that section
are now compelled, owing to the scarcity of
currency, to take any tiling offered to them
which represents fractional values of green
backs, and consequently are forced to re
ceive and pass counterfeit stamps. One gen
tle man, writing to him privately, says: “AA'e
are compelled to take what we can get, or
go without the necessary change for our
small sales, and consequently we artt daiiv
guilty of receiving and passing counterfeit
money. Iu fact we never look at bills less
than one dollar in denomination.”
[ Washington Express,
Our Hanks and Their Hus in ess.
From the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin.
When s<x*rcty confers ujwm a corporation
exclusive power to conduct any particular
1 nisi ness, it is with the distinct understand
ing that so far as it may not lie incompatible
with the direct interests of the corjx»ration,
it shall be so managed as to give the most
general accommodation possible to sill the 1
members of that society which confers the '
privilege. Thus, a strivt railroad, ineorpo- I
rated by the representatives of all the peo
ple, must accommodate all the people equal
ly. The application of this principle to
banking houses is subject to the same con
ditions. it is very true that there are in the
South few or no State banks which issue
tlieii* own notes. They may be, therefore,
raider no obligation to make return for the
exclusive privilege of furnishing circulation
to the several communities which legalized
them, but they are still banks of discount
and should therefore distribute their accom
modations as equally and as generally as
possible.
Now the city of New Orleans, like other
cities, is sustained by all the industrial en
terprises which are established within its
limits. There are factors, merchants, me
chanics, hotel keepers, and there are those
who conduct the shipping business and the
transfer of commodities by drays and wag
ons. Then there are those who buy and
sell provisions, lish and fruit, and in various
other modes contribute to the comfort and
economy of our citizens. It is the duty of
our moneyed institutions to aid by discounts,
as far as consistent with safety and interest,
each and all of these industrial enterprises.
We do not say that an equal discount should
be extended to each, but that a discount aud
accommodation proportionate to the interest
invested in each should be recognized ami
awarded. We fear that our moneyed insti
tutions are rather inclined to deal in ex
change payable abroad than in notes dis
counted and payable at their counters.
This brokerage is very tempting, and the
time sometimes extended until it materially
interferes with domestic accommodations.
It may l>e the case that a bill payable in New
York may find sale with a bank, when do
mestic paper made over the same names
would be placed on file. There is no city in
the world iu which the customers of a bank
need more snp]>ort during a part of the year
than New Orleans. Many merchants and
mechanics who do a thriving business in the
fall and winter, do not pay rent by summer
sales. In some cases to withhold aid from
these dealers may be to throw them into the
hands of street- brokers, and so lay the foun
dation of bankruptcy. All these minor in
dustries should be nursed by the banking in
terests. Even if they do not lock up so
much money 1 in exchange, the banking ac
counts and deposits of these small dealers
may be worth more in a series of years than
the margin of exchange realized by their
bankers, and this especially if a few losses on
protested bills bo deducted from the account.
The prosperity of a city depends greatly on
its small dealers, and all wise banking houses
will see to and protect them.
There are some of our banking houses who
do not object to keep small accounts, and
who rejoice rather in the number of their
customers than in the excessive amount of
their discounts. Such institutions will, we
think, in the end have chosen a safe and
profitable line of business, and will at the
same time do a great deal to build up the city,
and also to increase the business of their
own customers. Now that the planters have
not to purchase labor, and when a few good
crops shall have made them more independ
ent of advances, we may hope that our banks
will classify their customers and assign to
each something like a proportion of their
discounts. They should do this even if they
should buy a little less exchange. They
should, moreover, help these interests to
tide over the dull time of the summer, and
give them a fair send-off when the crops and
customers come in. With some such adjust
ment of relative accommodation, the limited
capital which the war has left us may be
made to go a great way farther, and certainly
give more general satisfaction.
Death of Hon. John Hell.
Front the Nashville Banner, 11th —[Abridged. J
The Hon. John Bell died at two o’clock
yesterday morning, at Cumberland Iron
Works, after a long illness. The preutes
statesman Tennessee has ever given to the
“•'““Lv L.u> I from among hk.* His
health had been declining rapidly ever since
the elosq of the M ar, and friends and rela
tives were not altogether unprepared for the
sad announcement which reached tlm city
yesterday noon.
John Bell was born near this city, in the
neighborhood of Mill Creek, on the 18th of
February, 17'.)7, and would have been seven
ty-three years of age if he had lived to his
next birth day. He Mas the son of a farmer
in moderate circumstances, who was, how
ever, able to give him a good education at
Cumberland College, -subsequently the Uni
versity of Nashville. Choosing the law as
his profession, he was admitted to the bar
in 1816, settled at Franklin, Williamson
county, and was elected to the State Senate
in 1.317, when only twenty years old. In
1826 he became a candidate for Congress
against Felix Grundy, and after a most ani
mated and excited canvass of twelve months,
Mr. Bell was elected in 1827 by one thous
and majority. By successive elections, he
continued a member of the House of Repre
sentatives for fourteen years. He was elect
ed to the Speakership of tin? House of Rep
resentatives in 1834. In June of that year
Mr. Stevenson resigned the chair npon
being nominated Minister to Great Britain,
and Mr. Bell Mas elected to succeed him, in
opposition to James K. Polk, who was tin
candidate of the Administration aud the
Democratic party.
In 1841, Mr. Bell accepted the War De
partment in Harrison’s Cabinet. With the
rest of the Cabinet, Mr. Webster excepted,
lie resigned office on the separation of
President Tyler from tin- Whig party, in
the autumn of that year. Mr. Bell remained
in voluntary retirement until called by the
people of his country in 1847 to represent
them -u the State S- uate, in which year, on
tlie . eurence of a vacancy, he Mas elected
to the United States Senate, to which he
was re-elected in 1853, to serve till March -4,
1859.
On the 10th of May, 1860, Mr. Bell re
reived the nomination of the National
Union party at Baltimore, for President of
the United States, in the momentous can
vass immediately preceding the late war,
which resulted in the election of Abraham
Lincoln. No public man in all the border
States exerted himself more than Air. Bell
to avert the disaster of civil war between
the sections, which so soon succeeded the
election of Air. Lincoln.
When the war excitement in Tennessee
was at its highest, together with other in
fluential citizens of the State, he signed an
address to the people of Tennessee to unite
in a conference with her sister States yet in
the Union to devise plans for the preserva
tion of the peace of the land. He had la
bored faithfully and devotedly to avert the
necessity for separation, and in person, earn
nestlv besought Air. Lincoln not to misun
derstand the vote of Tennessee, in the elec
tion of the Union ticket of the Dth of Feb
ruary, 18(11, and he left Washington in the
confident belief that a pacific policy would
lie pursued by the Administration. This ex
pectation was not realized. Other and less
prudent counsels prevailed, and the whole
country pv;ts soon involved in war.
Air. Bell remained in Nashville until the
war broke out and left the city upon the fall
of Fort Donnelson. He remained a short
time at Alurfreesboro, and from thence went
to Alabama. The summer of 1862 was spent
at Blonntsville and Blount Springs in that
State. From this point Air. Bell accompa
nied his family to Black Creek Falls, near
the Georgia State line. He remained with
his friends near Flat Shoals in Georgia until
after Sherman’s movement through that
State, wlien he came to Aladisou, Georgia,
and there remained until peace was declared,
when he returned to Nashville. He remained
in this city some months, much enfeebled by
disease, and went to the Cuudierland Iron
Works, at which place he breathed his last,
surrounded by family and friends, with
whose grief is mingled that of his country
men, who had so loved and trusted and hon
ored him throughout his illustrious and use
ful public life.
Columbus Cotton Market.—The receipts
were quite large by wagons, and heavier
than any day of the season by railroads,
lor want of currency, and competition, 28
cents was the ruling price of middlings, and
some was even sold at 28 cents. This anom
alous market will be removed by Monday,
on which day large amounts of currency arc
expected and there will be competition.
Many bales were sold on the faith of p*y
mout next week. All Southern markka are
similarly affected. —Columbus Sun, 12th.
Why should we first take up, as Boutwell
does, the debt bearing no interest, like the
greenbacks, leaving unredeemed the bonds
which bear a heavy interest?
jlCii RICI I /I’l |{ A ,
Application of Manures in ii->.
and Broadcast.
From tlie Rural Southerner
It is supposed by a majority of f ar ,
that by depositing manures broadcast •
lost* a great deal of their strength.
thev consider manure as direct food•
and that such should W placed wifi!,'! .’ %
reach of the same. If so, it would 1, . j”
to spend immense sums of money •
uures containing ammonia, or price ‘
cial manures only by the quantity ~f .
they contain, while abundance of ■ <
is presented to the soil and plants ), v • , .'
mosphero: consequently no artificial*-.,'
tion of such would Ik* necessary. It, ,
is the mystery: Ammonia, as mvII ;
salts in manures, has a strong tend, V
dissolve substances in the soil,
digestible for the plants. Am .. ,;j
enough vegetable food for plants to
century to come, had it be n diss, . !
thus see that the principle on whiei, w,
work, is to dissolve the soil; audit
doing this, wish to obtain the gn t ,.„. .
we must, like dissolving anythin ~g, . '
gle the dissolving power a.-,'much u> ~ V
with the body we wish to dissolve
Now we ean distribute our manures v ;.i
out fear of loss. Examine, f, )r uist , .
corn-field, where manures laid been j
broadcast, and after having ,l .
form, then dig up the ground careful],
roots are least expected, and see jj - ! - ,
cubic inch of the soil can be found an
numerous small roots.
If corn or cotton be plant* and
where manure has been applied in liilb
plants will throw forth roots ven rupidh <
the distance tho manure was applied
while abundantly supplied, make
growth, providing a frame fora heavy erni
When this store of food is , -
plant ceases growing, and as no furtl, Mi .
l*ly is left, will make but little or no er.
all. 1 1
The soil has a peculiar property of r,
ing all vegetable so ..1, and of v.:
call deprive her but the plant. But , j u .
property only consists with the soil ;<. a r ,!
tain point of saturation. Has the soil
■sinned this point, all vegatable food ran,
ly be earned off, either by heavy ruins or In
a high degree of heat—as vapor. If we
posit manure in hills, the surroundim -
will soon lu*oome saturated, and the Baku,
of the manure left to the action of ruin m. i
heat, while M’hen broadcast, it dissolves tie
soil, unites with it a composition which in tii
ing but the plant can carry off.
Ha rl<*y.
We have thought for some time that w -
would inquire of our readers why it was that
this splendid crop has been so generally
overlooked l>y s,ur farmers. We have
other idea but that neglect <4 this valiiM
blc grain lnus arisen more from oversight and
failure to investigate, than tr, , lu p,(
We do not now recollect ever to have kn. ,
au individual, who, after giving bar In ;1 j
trial, relinquished its cultivation
appointment iu tho results. First, let
look at the profit. An acre properly pre
pared for this crop, will realize almost cer
tainly fifty bushels of chain grain. This ha
been worth tin- past, season, we believe, free
two dollars and a half to three dollars
bushel. This beats cotton. The Bariev
coming off very early in May, is just iu tin;
for either a sweet potato or late Irish jNitat
or corn crop. From either of these, a
- large yield from the same land may b
exjiected. We have never known any stub
ble to send off these crops like barley stui
bio. Then this crop yields a valuable siiav
for any purpose that straw can be applied t
and the cash fur the grain comes in to ant
pate the returns from lute summer and wu
ter crops, a convenience of great moment t
small farmers. Besides this, barley suv.n
it should be by the 15th of the pr -i-nt
month, furnishes lor the cow or the hog a
most excellent winter pasture; and In tin
time green food is most needed, vmir Inal. >
patch has a growth of eight or ten in
and Mould do liest by grazing in mod-1 u.
We have on a trial test, in friendly riv;n •
with a neighltor, made winter lmtt- r mi /»
and green barley that our friends neisted
was colored artificially. As green food for
hogs, Barley is truly an admirably resource,
as we Ix-lieve it is tin- only grain known to•
agriculture which will not sometimes sen
stock. Wo are aware that it requires i
niggardly preparation, both in tilth and in..
nure, to get. an acre of land ready to prink;
a creditable crop of barley; but one mi.
acre is a gain of an acre of the Best, low l -i,
soil to the man that secures it a low l:n
acre with nearly all the benefits and few
the drawbacks to the bottom land. Tb
we repeut, for quick profit—a large -loir
crop—for good M'inter pasture for p
nent improvement to the soil ami In .
remunerating price, commend us to tin- b
Icy crop. The land should Be well and il
ly broken, heavily manured and seed .;
the rati* of 8 pecks to the acre -cei l
never less than six pecks. We hop - t
article will reach our subscribers in tii
that some of them will make a ventun
our recommendation, and be prop;! 1
next season to give tlie country tin l«
of their experience.
White Wa.di for iliii ie and Shed-.
The Scientific' American says, “t ib a-■
water-tight Barrel or other siiitaßl <m i
put into it half bushel of lino . Si d.' i’
jMjnring water over it, ladling hot, un i
sufficient quantity to cover if five it'
deep,and stir it Briskly till thoroughly
When thi! lime has Been slaked, di
in water, and add two pound-, of snlpb t
zinc, and one of common salt. Tic ■
cause the wash to harden, and pr< v b •'
cracking, which gives an unseemly fi'j
since to the work. If deiirahle a b
cream color may lie eommnnioatid to tl
above wash, by adding three pound of
low ochre, or si good pearl or lead obr
the addition of lamp or ivory Black •
fawn color add four pounds of umber i
ish of American—the latter is the cli'-ap
one pound of Indistn red, and om U ' un
common lampblack. When applied ’
■outside of out houses and tofenee . il
dered more durable By adding -woct u
or some mucilage from flax- ' ••'!; a l,l
pint to the gallon will suffice.’
The following lias been highly c"W!!
for an incombustible and dura! 1 • \> ;
roofs and outside walls of building- " ‘
a sufficient quantity of good stuiie line
slake it carefully in a close l>ox, or i
bed, to prevent the esoajxi of sb ■' >
ter slaking, pass it through a
every six quarts of this lime, add on- :
of rock or Turk’s Island salt, and "t
of M'ater. The mixture should !»■ I"
skimmed clean. To every five e
this, ailil by slom - degrees, thro
a pound of jxvtash, and four-quart
sand. Coloring matter may he aid and. *.
ply it with a common paint Bni-b
Green Manuring*
Plowing under green crops ; *r
has been found very protita- ■ ■
jioor in organic matter. The pm* -
its fertilizing action may be tlm- >
The green plants decay and evoive
acid, which is absorbed by water,
solution of carbonic acid disolve
j tortious of mineral matter, which ■■
lubtofat water alone, and thus in
mineral matter capable of assn:. ..*•
plants. When deep-rooted phin-- * -
ver, are used, considerable prop"-
plant food are brought np from
and thus add to the richness of th
soil. Many plants have Ite. n as. .
ent countries for this pur]x>se. am"- -. .
may be named sparry, white m e
nijis, white lupine, and raj**, m
the well known use of clover, rj '
wheat
Cure for Polson Oak. —A eon* *
of the S. F. Alla gives this as a t
Poison Oak:
“Simplv bathe the ]iar.> p
hot-water, as hot can lie home, m *!
the temjieratnre till it can no ’
without burning. Press as< 8 - r
the parts, so as to absorb t >•
avoid rubbing; then apply a r 1 , T
solution of strong navy, or plap ■ •
bacco on the poisoned places, a * ~
The solution is best when tin- • p V:.
I have tried this and have »* ‘ 1 ■
very nearly so, iu two day* * 1
the most.
—lowa lias recently taken
returns from all but five ‘o t j
population of 1,011,95-- ~wn cm'
two years 20,000 dwelling* have W*
ia the State.