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WM. Editor.
TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12
THE NEWS.
—There are twenty-five political prisoners
in the stockade at Tyler, Texas, some of
whom have been confined for over twelve
months.
—lt is said that Carlotta Patti made one
million two hundred thousand dollars during:
her European tour, and brought it over with
her.
—The Richmond Enquirer says it is not
true that “all’s well that ends well," as
proved bv Bout-well, Cres-well, and the
dynasty of Wells in Virginia.
—The Emir of Bokhara has sent the Czar
of Russia three elephants. If the Czar ever
intends to start a “grand consolidated circus
and menagarie,” now’s his time.
Mr. Lorillard, of the yacht Meteor, has
issued a challenge for an ocean race, to take
place this autumn or next spring, the stakes
to be 84,000.
—A new' municipal Sunday regulation,
closing all the barber shops and clearing the
bootblacks off the streets of Washington, D.
C„ went into effect in that city on the 25th
ult.
—Dickens is said to quote but little from
the writings of others; but when he. does
quote, it is in a majority of cases from the
sacred Scriptures.
—The Cincinnati Enquirer claims to have
advices from all parts of Ohio, which amount
to positive •< a- ..MO
Pendleton by a large majority.
—Professor J. R. Seeley, author of “Eecei
Homo’’ and Professor of Latin in Univer
sity College, London, has been appointed to
the Regius Professorship of History in ;
Cambridge, made vacant by the resignation
of Canon Kingsley.
—A marriage on horseback is announced as
about to take place in Holmes countv, Oliio.
The ceremony is to be performed on the
second day of the county fair —an occasion
which usually attracts thousands of specta
tors.
—The steamer China, from San Francisco I
for Yokohama and Hong Kong, October 4,
carried 8337,000 in treasure, of which 8309,-
000 is for Hong Kong ; also 850 passengers,
of whom 800 were Chinese, and a large
delegation of missionaries.
—l’isk, Jr., has sued Mr. Corbin, the
President’s brother-in-law, for 8300,000 dif
ference on gold alleged to have been bought
ami sold during the lute speculation in New
York.
-—The New York Republican State Cen
tral (lomrnittee yesterday nominated General
Franz Sigel, of Westchester county, for
Secretary of State, and Horace Greeley for
State Comptroller.
—A jealous Chinaman, living in New
York, killed his wife and a man who had
been hoarding at his house, Tuesday night,
and then put an end to his own existence
with tiie same knife he had used in killing
them,
—Not long ago the workmen in a great
powder factory in England, were stopped
and searched just as they were entering the
works. Fifty-eight of them were found to
have in their possession, tobacco, pipes and
matches, and were immediately discharged.
—Specie to the amount of £139,000 has
been withdrawn from the Bank of England
for New York. Large amounts have also
been drawn from the Bank of France for the
same destination.
—Three Attorneys of the Supreme Court
of New York have been summoned to appear
before the General Term in November, to
show cause why their names should not be
stricken from the roll for conspiring to ob
tain a divorce by perjury and fraudulent
concealment.
—A violent earthquake shock was felt at
Fort Fillmore, Utah, on Friday evening, the
Bth ultimo. The State House rocked and
trembled for five seconds, and general con
sternation prevailed throughout the city.
The shock, which was the most severe which
hus been felt in the Territory siuee its set
tlement, lasted two minutes.
—Letters said to have been received in
Washington from Cuba, represent the Amer
icans in the Cuban army as anxious to leave,
being subjected to injustice and cruelty, j
They are required to take the front in bat
tle, and if captured are shot by the Span
arils, and are even assassinated by their Cu
ban comrades.
-Tlit! Little Back Liberal says that (iov
orunr Clayton has issued orders for the fnud
- ' ,of 'll" tilt* olltst:unli***rf : ''"bteilllfSS i.l
ArKansas, nun it endorses Ins action ils re
moving tin* last impediment in the way of
some of the most important railway miter
prizes in the State.
Eight of the nine soldiers under arrest
for being engaged in tho Yerger conspiracy
were, on Friday, removed to the State Pen
itentiary. Tho other prisoner is sick in
camp. So further arrests have been made.
There is good reason to believe, it is ..aid,
that New York parties were interested in the
attempted escape.
—John Bowen, the man who confessed
having displaced a rail, thereby causing the
terrible railroad disaster at Carr's Rock, bv
which twenty-seven lives were lost, was on
Saturday sentenced at Milford, Penn., to
fifteen years’ imprisonment and to pay it tine
of $510,000.
—The debt statement for the Ist will show,
it is reported, a further decrease of several
millions, though the precise amount cannot
yet be given. The receipts of Internal Rev
enue for September. reach nearly $13,-
000,000, or about three millions more than
in the corresponding month of 1868.
—Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Stewart are making
extensive preparations for opening their new
fifteen hundred thousand dollar residence on |
Fifth Avenue. They will exhibit on the oc
casion a table service of solid silver lined'
with gold and costing about eight thousand
dollars.
—William Tracey is the name of an esti
mable keeper who lias just been dismissed
from a Yorkshire insane asylum, because,
when it was Ins duty to give a patient a
warm bath, he deputed the task to two
lunatics, who boiled the man to death.
—A fearful and most destructive tornado
swept over u portion of New Hanover
county, N. C.. a few days since. A corres
pondent of the Wilmington Journal says,
although of short duration it was fully
equal to those of .South America.
—-While one of his pensioners was dying,
a clergyman in Miller county, California,
while leaning against a bureau and praying,
abstracted from the drawer “two heavy, old
fashioned silver spoons,” and carried them
away. The truly loyal people of that vicin
ity, if any there he, should procure his ap
pointment as a military commander of a
Southern State, or elect him to represent
great moral ideas in Congress.
—Dr C F Hall, the Arctic explorer has
arrivi <1 at New Bedford, Mass., in the ship
rt/i.o Gibbs. from Repulse Bay, Greenland.
He b rings with him two Esquimaux and their
daughters, and many interesting relics of
Sir John Franklin’s expedition, having made
important discoveries during his five years’
sojourn in the Arctic regions. Dr. Hall will
soon make a report of his explorations to his
friend. Mr. Henry Grinnell, which will be
given to the p thlic through the Press.
—A special dispatch from Omaha says
that reports received at headquarters from
the Pawnee Reservation state that quiet is
fa„> '!• 1 ril ‘ Sioux afters lively «l imilo,
»ith the Pawnees, tied before the arrival of
the cavalry, who persued them nearly thirty
miles. fine Pawnee was killed and several
were wounded. The Pawdees claim to have
killed and wounded half a dozen Sioux.
The public debt of Virginia is attracting
much attention in that State, it being very
large, the accumulated interest of eight
years having been added to the original
and ‘bt, through the inability of the State to
pay it The Petersburg Index insists that
West Virginia is in law and morals bound to
b >ar her proportionate share of the debt,
and it suggests that Commissioners be ap
pointed to take the subject into considera
tion and fully empowered to treat with the
new State.
—Northern advices to Aug. 5 have been
received at San Francisco, which state that
the ice in Behring’s Sea has been heavy
during the present season, and the copper of
many of the vessels in the whaling fleet
badly damaged. The Western Union Tele
graph buildings, at Plover Bay, have been
plundered and destroyed by the natives.
—At the recent distribution of honors on
the fete day of Napoleon 1.. the Emperor
promoted to the grade of officer of the Le
gion of Honor Mons. Alphonso de La Forest,
who was for thirteen years French Consul
at Philadelphia, and is at present Acting .
Consul at New York.
—Dr. Albert T. Simmons, a skillful physi
cian, went from this country in 1856 to Cuba,
where he practiced his profession very suc
cessfully until the present revolution broke
out in the island, when, having gone from
Puerto Principe to Santiago de Cuba on
professional business, he was arrested and
thrown into prison by the Spaniards on a
charge of disloyalty. Having been kept in
prison for six months, he was released, and
has now returned to the United States. He
is now in New York, and will institute an in
ternational suit against the Spanish Govern
ment for S >OO.OOO damages. It is said that
the Spanish gunboats now being built in
American waters, will be attached to await
tne trial of the case. Dr. Simmons is a na
ue Ontario county. New York, and when
a young man went to Mississippi, where he
became editor and propnetor of the Vicks
wSaEsiS 1 *- to
The Administration j n a Tight
The Washington Adimnistraiiou m u*t be
rn.we puzzled and perplexed at this moment
than even when the Congressional plan of
reconstruction was first propose The Cuban
question must be cruelly harassing, and
those unquiet patriots with their juntas and
envoys, with their New York Sun, and Mr.
Greeley, will not give them a moment’s rest.
Grant wants to recognize the belligerent
rights of the patriots. His sympathies are
all with the fiilibusters. Had not the United
States elevated him to his present position
er rather had he been now a plain citizen of
Galena, the probability is that he would be
now commanding a brigade or a regiment of
shoe and breeehesless patriots in the neigh
borhood of Los Tunas. But Spain objects
decidedly to the recognition of the fillibus
ters, Great Britain and France object, Sec
retary Fish is said to object, and then Charles
Sumner objects, and recently read a long
speech on the subject setting forth the rea
sonsjfor his objections under several clear
but rather tedious headings.
Grant would not care one cent for Spain,
and would speedily tell John Bull and the
“frog-eating Frenchmen” to mind their
own business. He could dismiss Fish and
: give his place to the man who subscribed
the Hext highest sum, and he could induce
Sumner, by asking him to supper, and tell
ing him that he is a “great scholar," to
withhold his speech and sustain the adniin
recognizes the Cuban patriots as bel
ligerents, he knocks the legs from
under the Alabama claims, gives Eng
land a receipt in full for Sumner’s bill,
and does not receive one cent in money,
and makes the United States appear more
ridiculous and absurdly inconsequent in her
policy than Radical ingenuity has yet sue- J
ceeded in making them.
When Great Britain and France recog
nized the Confederate States as a belligerent
I power, the Confederacy had undisturbed!
possession of eleven States, far larger in ter-1
ritorial extent than the whole continent of j
j Europe. It had a government perfect in all j
j its branches. It contained a population of
: ten millions of w hite men, and it had a pow-;
rful and victorious army, led by some of;
! the greatest Captains which any age has j
produced. But in recognizing this power!
.as a belligerent, England is said to have j
j committed an act of hostility against the
j fnendly United States, for which she must
i publicly apologize and admit her error, and
in allowing an English ship-builder to fit
out a vessel, sell her to the Confederate
agents and send her to a foreign port where
her peaceful eharaeter is changed to that ot
a vessel of war, which destroys the com
raerce of the United States and scares the
whole American Navy, England is now re
| quired to pay over as money damages a bil
! lion or two in gold “coin of the realm.”
If Grant recognizes the Cespedes raga
j muffins and free negroes, constituting the
! Cuban patriots, who have no government,
hold little or no territory, have no army
j deserving the name, and have nothing but
Thomas Jordan to command it, all ground
lof complaint against Great Britain falls to
! the ground at once, for the United States
] will have committed a far more grievous act
of hostility against Spain than any that
Great Britain is alleged to have committed
against the United States.
Then, if the United States allow, (as th
newspaper accounts from Washington say
they will,) the Cuba, or the Hornet, to goto'
sea to depredate upon the Spanish com-;
meree and convoy hostile vessels into Cuban
ports, ou the ground that she is the armed
| vessel of a recognized belligerent, Mr. Sum
ner must tear up his little bill or give John !
Bull a receipt in full, with any quanity of
internal revenue stamps aunexed, and Mr.!
Motley must be instructed to withdraw the
demand for an apology, regret >
Either the United States must refuse to
recognize the patriots as a belligerent power,
and must seize and detain the Hornet as a
“pirate,” (was not that the name given bv
Seward and the North generally to the Ala
bama?) or they must abandon the Alabama
j claims. There is no escape from the dilem
ma, anil however General Grant’s predilec
tions may impel him to “pitch in” for thei
patriots, however much Mr. Fish may be |
I perplexed, and Mr. Routwell may see no oth
er outlet for escape but his “hole in the sky,”
they can do nothing but let the Alabama j
claims go the moment they order the re
lease of the Hornet as a Cuban vessel of
war. She formerly belonged to the U. S. j
Government, (the Alabama only belonged
to a British ship-builder.) She left Gar- I
dener’s Island in New York harbor for a
cruise, and now she a j .pears armed with seven
sixty-eight pounders in broadside battery,
and one one-hundred pound parrott, “with a
complete equipment of a corsair.” Wo are
told, also, that her mission is to capture:
Spanish merchantmen, attack Spanish ves
sels, destroy transports and set fire to and
sink what she cannot carry as prizes into
Mexican ports.
This was precisely what the Alabama did,
and she is called to this day a pirate, and
her gallant commander, Admiral Semmos, is
called the pirate Semmes. And yet the N.
Y. Sun informe us that she is no pirate, not
even a privateer, but “a regularly commis
sioned Cuban man of war.”
Rather Mixed.— Our reporter got his
notice of Mr. Brantley’s cotton “rather
mixed” in yesterday's paper. He said:
“Last year Mr, Brantley raised from seven
to eight bales to the acre, and sold at
twenty-one cents per pound. This year the
same quality of cotton brought thirty centsi
very readily, and the crops were equally
prosperous. Two thousand pounds of seed j
were raised to the acre.”
Tho facts of the case are tliat last year
Mr. Brantley raised two thousand pounds
of seed cotton to the acre, which readily
brought 30 cents per pound, while other
cottons sold at 21 to 21 ) v cents. This year
he makes about seven or eight bales of
this cotton, all told.
Mr. Brantley has only ft small experi
mental farm, and rather limited experience)
in cotton planting ; but he claims, and re
sells establish the justice of his claims, that
his experiments with this cotton have been j;
a marked success.
Fisk and Corbin.
The contest between Mr. Fisk and Mr.
Corbin, Grant's brother-in-law, in regard to
the late gold transactions in New York, ex
cites a good deal of attention. One differ
ence between the two in the management of
the controversy is particularly observable.
Fisk fortifies by strong affidavits all that he
savs, whereas Corbin expects the public to
rely upon his simple statements, not only
unsubstantiated by any testimony whatever,
but contradicted *by sworn witnesses of at
least as high character as his own. Cer
tainly no unprejudiced man can have read
the publications, thus fur made, without
coming to the conclusion that Corbin has
deliberately stated falsehoods, and that he
w:us as deeply involved in the criminal gold
speculations as any other financial operator
in New York, if not as deeply as any half
dozen. Do the shafts that fly so thickly
and closely around the President’s head
leave it undamaged?— Louisville Courier-
Journal.
The triangular quarrel between Mr. Fisk,
; jri Mr. Grant and Mr. Corbin is growing lively
tor the former two parsons. Whereas Mr.
Grant'denies having held any communica
tion with Mr Fisk or any of his coadjutors,
concerning the condition of the gold mar
ket, and Mr. Corbin denies having conferred
with Mr. I isk on finance “ from the com
mencement of the gold speculation until it
broke. Mr. Fisk produces a witness to
declare that he carried a letter from Mr.
Corbin, in New York, for Messrs. l i>k and
Gould, to Mr. Grant, in Pennsylvania, on
the 10th of September. It is notable that
this statement is consistent with Mr. Cor
bin’s parted denial, and it now devolves
upon Mr. Grant to reveal the purport of the j
letter which Mr. Corbin wrote, and which
Mr. Fisk and Mr. Gould were so extremely
anxiously to have safely delivered. —Nem
York World.
—The Senate and Corps Legislate of
France have been convoked to meet on the
29th of November.
Tlk President and the Gold Gam
bler*.
It is one of the most alarming proofs of
the demoralization of the times, and of the
diseased condition of the public mind, that
the President of the United States, whose
character and position should elevate him
far above all possible suspicion of dishonesty
or fraud, is now openly accused of mercenary
and corrupt interference in the recent gold
gambling operation in New York. Former
Presidents have been abused and slandered
by political opponents for j»arty purposes ; i
have been accused of abuse of power in the
interest of their party, and their use of their
official patronage has been violently con
demned ; but never until now has the Chief
Magistrate of this great Republic been
charged with using the power and money
of the Government to advance the interests
of stock operators for personal profit.
We confess that, while we are not of Gen
eral Grant’s admirers, and have seen much
in liis administration of the Government
which it has been our duty to condemn, we
are not willing to believe that he could be
induced to lend himself to the commission
of so basely criminal an act as that of which
he is cliarged by individuals and presses of
his own party. His brother-in-law appears
beyond a doubt to have lieen largely involv
ed in the gold gambling in partnership with
the notorious Fisk. It appears that after a
visit to Washington, where he saw and con
ferred with the President, he originated the
- - 1 ' <t.,M «involutions of the last fortnight;
but there is no evidence sufficiently strong
ito Implicate tiie rnxmcua ui ms gum, or
even to show that it was in consequence of
information given him by the President,
with any knowledge of his purpose, that he i
framed the scheme which he and Fisk sub
sequently attempted to carry out. It is!
incredible that General Grant, fond as he j
may be of money, or anxious as he may be i
to amass a large fortune, could have had
any knowledge of the plan which was con
cocted, much less have agreed to use the
money in the Treasury to aid in its execu
tion. To suppose him capable of such an
act, is to suppose him capable of playing for
money with marked cards, or of regulating
I his play by the signs of an accomplice who
was looking into his adversary’s hand. It is
worse, for cheating at cards only involves
! the injury done to an individual, while the
' gold gambling scheme of Corbin & Fisk, as
;it is described by the papers, involved the
| certain ruin of thousands of innocent per
| sons, without the risk of a cent on the part
lof the gamblers. For the country’s sake,—
■ for General Grant’s sake, we cannot allow
I ourselves for a moment to credit so mon
strous a charge. General Grant may have
acted imprudently in communicating to his
brother-in-law his purpose to interfere be
tween the bulls and bears of the stock
market, and he certainly was very imprudent
in permitting such an interference, however
good his motive, but that his interference
was a conspiracy, in order to put millions of
dollars in his own pocket, or in that of liis
brother-in-law, or of any body else, is a
charge which can not be believed, until posi
| tive, overwhelming proof is adduced, which
would render doubt impossible.
| It is, however, General Grant’s own fault,
J that such charges are made. Ever since he
i has occupied the Presidential chair, contrary
j to the invariable practice of all his predeces- j
( sors, and contrary to the spirit, if not the
letter, of his official obligation, he has con-
I tinually received presents of large value, —
houses, lands, horses, plate and other;
things,—and he has also rewarded the do-'
nors by appointments to the highest and;
most responsible offices in the Government.
He has been ridiculed, and censured by I
friends and foes for this unfortunate depar
ture from the rigid rule of former Presidents, j
until the public mind lias received the im
pression that patronage was purchaseable,
and that without gifts no office was attaina-!
• Wla W■>,! Kn / 1 - r si I
i to receive one cent beyond his official salary j
-as established by law; had he returned the
J presents offered to him, and had he forbid
den his friends and admirers to thus expose
, him to censure and misapprehension, no one
j would have dared to utter the terrible j
| charge which is now freely circulated, and
which, innocent though he may be, and, we |
believe is, will forever damage his character
and impair his usefulness; for the President
jof the United States, like Carsar's wife, 1
: should not only be blameless, but be above i
j suspicion. The times are certainly evil when |
■ such things can be “without our special;
wonder.”
From Old Houston.
Pery, Goroy, Ocktobur 6, 1800 & 69.
Mister editor: Az i havent saw nothin
from this 'ere place in yore papir fur sum
j time past, i take mi seet bi the winder this
j pleazant ocktobur mornin 2 rite yu a fu
lines, 2 let you no how weuns is gettin along.
: The Stait of the conditions of Old Houston
is rayther juberus now. Az yu liav heerd
our stapil crop of cottin iz cut short hi the
dri wether, whiteli iz verry bail on farmers,
wiiitch is verry bad on the stokeepers, be
case tha kant pa al tliear sto ackounts, whitek
,is bad on al uther klassis us peepil whitch
we all hate verry mutch, the corn craps iz
knot es good as tha would hav bin es tha had
bin better, the hogs is dvin us the kolera
and niggers and cornsumpshun. the Free
Niggers is duing purty well at woikpikkin
cottin, but es we kuld maik cm june, as our
kassaickal nalmr kal more sez, rolens bolens,
tha wood doo bettir. the Wirnmin wont j
work none es tha can help it—except tliear
jaws a eatin and a jawin at ever nigger that
passis.
The most interestinest item of nuse is
that our nu post offis keaper has come last
Saturday waz the fust time he opined the
male, k he got everything mixt up hoky
poky sow that every body got out even
body clses male and things & when he
koodent find nothin nobody wanted He
Let us go in and luk for our own male, as
i waz lookin fur a letter & koodent find it,
i thot may be tlin had sent it wrong k rote
somebody elses name on the back, So i got
1 k looked, butt it warent mine,
the rale rode ecksitement haint dide Out
yet, thar kan be no dout in annv intelligant
miud that it will bee bilt-ef itt' ever iz, and
then when wee git-thecharter far the Streat
j bass kars two run up bi the fee-mail kal
ligc, two eonnekt-with the kannal runnin up
A down the branch, what the irslimen dug
last-yere, pery will 1 to luk like bizneaa,
In addislmm too that our distingeuished
folle’r sitizen mr Dasliier keaps a batto run
nin regularly on the big injun,
yours kc k so on
cue clucks
r. S. Rufus (kolerd), our enterprisin ta
ler, haz on hand sum nu stile insurance agt
4 lawyers caps, the bear shoad kail sune A
git one, prize 25 sents, let us hav piece.
C. C.
tj
In Bad Taste.
’ The following paragraph is going the
' round of the newspapers in various shapes:
“John C. Breckinridge, having been re
cently addressed as ‘General’ by a Judge in
a Kentucky Court, Breckinridge suggested
that hereafter all military titles be disregard
ed in the court room. The Judge said he
acquiesced with pleasure.”
We do not believe such an incident ever
transpired; but if so, nothing could have
been in worse taste, coming from General
Breckinridge, and we regret and deprecate
the construction that may be placed upon it.
It looks like a disposition to repudiate his
title as a Confederate General, by which he
lias rendered his name illustrious, and which
' was the noblest commission he ever held in
liis life. The Southern people have accept
ed the political consequences of the disas
trous termination of the war; but no matter
what a small number of trading politicians
among us have done or may do, they neither
regret nor are ashamed, in conseienes or
principle, of anything connected with their
great and glorious effort to defend their
liberties, their property and their civiliza
tion from wanton attack and calamitous sub
version. A Confederate General who fought
at Shiloh, Chieamauga, Murfreesboro. Cold
Harbor and on a dozen other great battle
fields where Southern valor shone as con
spicuous as mid-day, should not tarnish his
brilliant reputation by indulging in any ser
vile sentiment or act which may be possibly
interpreted into an attempt to conciliate the
present dominating influences in the coun
try at the expense of the past. — Montgomery
Advertiser.
—A new and dangerous counterfeit 810
greenback has just appeared in Cincinnati.
Ohio.
Literal ? Note*.
John Stuart Mill, the famous political
economist, and for a short time a prominent
member for the city of Westminster, in the
British Parliament, has long been known to
favor the new fang-led doctrined of Women’s
Rights. In a small volume entitled “The
Sutyedton of Women,” published by D. Ap
pleton & Cos., he makes a full exposition of
his views on the subject. Like everything
from Mr. Mill’s pen, the book is well and
forcibly written, and is well worth reading,
even by those who are the most decidedly
opposed to the unnatural doctrine, which
amounts, in our opinion, to robbing women
;of their greatest grace and most attractive:
charm, by taking them out of the sphere of
their sex, and imposing upon them duties
and responsibilities for which nature never
fitted them.
Mr. Mill makes no particular reference to
female suffrage. He does not so much allude
;to this or that ‘ ‘right” which society now
denies to women, as to the general in j ustiee
of the position which she has been compelled
to occupy. He does not demand for her any
! special privileges so much as he exposes the
prevalent ignorance of woman’s nature and
the mass of prejudices by which her liberty
is restrained. He refuses resolutely to admit
the old argument, that woman’s sphere must
he confined to its present limits on account
of her physical inferiority, because he main
tains that that inferiority is the consequence
and not the cause of the constraints which
society has placed upon her action. So long
as she continues subject ana lmenui ~
so long is it, he holds, impossible to decide
whether or not she is naturally physically
inferior.
He says:
"One thing wa may be certain of, that what is
contrary to woman’s nature to do, they never will;
be made to do by simpiy giving their nature free
play. The anxiety of mankind to interfere in be-;
1 half of nature, for fear lest nature should not sue- ]
ceed in effecting its purpose, is an altogether un |
necessary solicitude. What women by nature can
not do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from
doing. What they can do, hut not so well as the
men who are their competitors, competition suf
flees to excuse them from ; since nobody asks for
proteciive duties and bounties in favor of women ;
it is only asked that the present bounties and pro
tective duties in favor of men should be recalled
If women have a greater natural inclination for
some things thau for others, there is no need of
laws or social inculcation to make the majority of
them do the former in preference to the latter.
Whatever women’s services arc most wanted for,
the tree play of competition will hold out the
j-trongest inducements to them to undertake.
I And, us the words imply, they are most wanted for
; the things for which tnej are most lit; by the ap
portionment of which to them, the collective
! faculties of the two sexes can be applied on the
whole with the greatest sum of valuable result.” j
Mr. Mill's book applies more particularly
to England than to this country ; but the
general principles which it contains apply to
all countries. The argument is forcible,
even where it is not convincing. He does
not attempt to decide the question of what
rights should be accorded to women—he
only seeks to set forth the fact that in his
opinion, they are unjustly and ignorantly !
deprived of liberties which are imposed upon
| them through a false conception of their na
ture and capabilities. He evidently seeks
more to clear a field for inquiry than to settle
J the question.
j Madame Fifty Millions is the title of a
I novel by the Countess Dash, translated by
i somebody who knows very little of the art
of rendering the genius and idiomatic force;
iof one language in another, and published I
jby D. Appleton & Cos. The novel is the
| story of the life of the Mancinis, the nieces
;of the famous Cardinal Mazarin, one of
; whom was said to have inherited fifty mil
lions, and is highly sensational even where
the incidents are historically true.
The Appletons’ House are also issuing, in
! rapid succession, a very neatly executed and!
surprisingly cheap paper covered edition of
I the inimitable works of Thackeray.
It is many years since we read them.
Those which are now before us recall pleas
! ant daysof the past when the “ Yellow-plush |
papers,” “The Book of Snobs,” and a
“Shabby-genteel Story,” made the English
i •‘PUilimr woi'lil lull<»ll r lV\ 4Ua mnn ni ■ i
tion they fill the place of new novels. We
greet them as old friends, though they ap
pear in cheap clothes.
Found Bead, by the author of Carlyon's
Year, Harper & Brothers, publishers, is a f
decidedly sensational novel, but it is a well
written story, of which,the plot is natural;
and well developed, displaying more talent
and skill than any of the author’s previous;
works.
i Harpers’ Handbook for Traveler’s in Eu
rope, (for 1869,) by W. Pembroke Fetridge,
is an admirable book of its kind, and must |
be a sine qwi non to every American travel
j iug in Europe. Less ponderous, cheaper,
more condensed than the famous Red Mur
ray’s handbooks, and it is quite as accurate.
It is strongly bound in morocco, with a flap
like a pocket-book, and contains pockets for
maps and passports. It is the best Travel
| er's Handbook we have seen.
Those enterprising and capable publish
ers, Messrs. Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger,
Philadelphia, sends us “Laura, the History'
of a Blighted Life," by L. 0. H., which is a
well written story of every day life—the
scene of which is in France and this country.
The book is more than readable—it is inter
esting.
The same publishers sends us “Plain Edu
cational Talh with Barents and Teachers ,”
by Albert X. Raub. This is a series of well
arranged lectures on educational matters,
which show thought and mastery of his
subject, and cannot fail to interest and in
\ struct those to whom they are addressed,
namely, parents and teachers.
We have a number of other books on our
table, which we have not had the time to
examine carefully. We propose shortly to
notice them as in our opinion they deserve.
Aiii'aculoiis Escape.
A CARRIAGE CONTAINING FOUR PERSONS TORN
TO FRAGMENTS BY A RAILROAD TRAIN.
From the Nashville Banner, Oet 7.
One of the most wonderful and unprece
dented escapes from a horrible death that
was probably ever recorded, occurred at 4
o’clock Tuesday afternoon, on the Louisville
and Memphis Railroad. While the train was
rushing at full speed, within a short distance!
of Russellville, Ivy., and near the crossing of
a country road, a carriage, drawn by two
mules, and containing four persons, sudden
ly appeared upon the tract Tko oagkiMt
was horrified at the sight. He shuddered as
he blew “down brakes,” and reversed hisi
; engine. The carriage seemed to stand still,
while the train swept on, threatening to
carry with it destruction and death. No
thing could stay its swift course.
There was a crash. The carriage was torn
into fragments. Two of the inmates, a lady
and gentleman, were carried a distance of
i one hundred and fifty yards on the cow
catcher, and dropped into a cow gap. The
other two, a gentleman and lady, rode on
the cow-catcher, to which they clung with
the tenacity of desperation for the distance
of one hundred yards beyond, when the
train was finally'checked' and they were 1
taken off. Had not the two first fallen into 1
the gap. they would have inevitably been 1
crushed underneath the wheels of the train. 1
The escape seems providential and rniracu
lous. (
The frame of the carriage, having first
come in contact with the locomotive, broke
the fore of the collision, and they were
dropped, as it were, on the cow-catcher as
the train passed on. This is the only way
in which their escape can be accounted.
Strange to say, they were only slightly
bruised.
W hen the carriage was struck it was tom
loose from the mnles, which had just passed
over the track sufficiently far to miss the
train. The animals, becoming frightened,
ran away toward Russellville. The two gen
tlemen and ladies were cousins, and were on
their way to that place when they were
overtaken by what might have proved a ter
rible catastrophe.
A Xew Agricultural Paper.
By reference to oar advertising columns, it will
be seen that Messrs. J. W. Burke cc Cos. will com
mence publishing, on the 15th day of November, a
paper of thirty-two page?. to be called the Southern
Farm and Home. Every farmer in the South should
send in his subscription price, (only two dollars,,
in advance), so as to take it from the commence
ment.
An English druggist proposes that, in ad
dition to the word “poison,” the labels on
the bottles or packages containing poison,
should have printed on their margins the
appropriate antidotes for each class of
poison,
iTATE NEWS.
Savaubatu .
The Savomah papers publish a card
from lorty-lkee colored men who desire to
make it knorn to the public that they will
no longer at with the Radical partv. but
will vote thi Conservative ticket for Mayor
and Aldernuii at she municipal election to
day.
The KepuJican warns the public against
two Y’ankees one calling himself W. D. W est
lake, and th« other J. Bergman, who arrived
at the Pulasii House on the 29th ultimo,
with a very large and heavy trunk which
taxed the egiaeity of two stalwart porters to •
the utmost -xtent to carry up-stairs to the
: room w hich they engaged. They then pro
ceeded to ejrry out a plan which they had
formed to swindle the merchants and busi
ness men if Savannah. They propose to
get up a la%;e advertising sheet, in which the
business cJrds of the merchants and business
men were to be inserted for a consideration,
which advertising sheet they engaged to post
up at three thousand railroad stations. They
also went to the job office of Mr. Purse,
and contracted with him to print the adver
| tising sheets for them. It also appears that
they had an empty trunk at- the railroad de
pot, to which they were gradually transfer
ring the contents of the trunk at the Pulaski
House. They succeeded in bleeding the
merchant* to the amount of some three
hundred dollars for inserting their business
cards in their advertising sheet. Yesterday
some gentleman thought he “smelt a mice,”
and went to Mr. Purse and ascertained that
these Y’ankees had only contracted for the
printing of tiro hundred of their advertising
sheets. The swindlers, finding that their
rascality was about to be disclosed, left for
parts unknown, with all the money collected
,»nd paying their hotel bill, or pay
ing the ffruni at ifie "railroatl depot to
| Charleston.
The Radical candidate for Mayor, Charles
H. Hopkins, requested that a separate ballot
box be set apart for the colored voters at the
municipal election. The communication
was referred to the Board of Magistrates, j
who desposed of the request by saying that
‘‘there would be no distinction on account of
color.”
The British bark Kentville, cleared for
Liverpool on Friday, with a cargo of upland 1
cotton consisting of 2,300 bales, the weight
of the same being 1,078,859 pounds, and the
value 8290,028 70. This is the first foreign
clearance of the season.
D. Walsh, one of the Radical candidates
for Mayor, withdrew his name on Saturday.
Atlanta.
The Constitution of Friday, publishes letters
from State Treasurer Angier and H. Potash
Farrow, Attorney General. The Treasurer
denies being interested in the result of the
Mitchell suit, unless the State fails ; and the
Attorney General demands inquiry into his
official acts.
Tito Constitution gives an extended account
of the doings of a mad cow, on Joy street,
Thursday afternoon. She took possession
of the side-walk, slinging the dogs right and
left, hooking at trees and gate-posts, or any
thing else offering an obstacle to her pro
gress. An unfortunate baby, left in its car
riage by its cowardly nurse, was pitched
away, carriage and all, several feet by a toss
I from the cow’s horns, but fortunately was
rescued without injury. A Grecian bend,
whose proprietor happily escaped by a gate
way, was carried in triumph upon the vic
tor's horn, while a stalwart darkey, armed
with a spade, was knocked half way across
the street, in a courageous attempt to stop
the onward course of the rolickiug boviue.
The Intelligencer says that moles are bring
ing prices in that mai-ket; that there are no
good vacant stores in the city, and a number
are occupied that are not completed ; that a
velocipede rink will pe opened in the city
soon, and that a balcony is being added to
the Calhoun House.
The Constitution says the Rev. C. W.
Howard has discovered coal in twenty miles
of the State road, in Upper Georgia ; also,
immeasurable iron.
The Era says Mr. Bullock, the so-called!
Governor, accompanied by liis family, lias!
gone to attend the Southern Commercial j
Convention to be held at Louisville to-day.
Augusta
The Chronicle and Sentinel notices the ar
rival of Mr. Robinson, of Brooklyn, the
purchaser of the Twiggs plantation, near
that city, to take possession of his pur
chase, for which he has paid 821,000. Mr. j
R. states that ha has cast his lot in this
MfeSiih. 4 * The
Augusta, to George Harrison, of Troy, New
York, for 83,500 cash, is also reported.
From the same paper we learn that the
Cox lands sold in Morgan county, on the
sth inst., brought an average of 85 33 per
acre, which is considered remarkably low.
The Constitutionalist, says the Augusta!
Quartette Club have determined to be rep
resented in the singing festival at the State
Fair.
The Agricultural Society of Richmond j
County met at the City Hall on Saturday,
and appointed twenty-nine delegates to the
State Fair.
Columbus.
The Sun says it will take a week’s heavy
rain to make the river navigable.
A beer saloon with waiter girls, has been
| established in Columbus.
At the Columbus Board of Trade Wednes
day night, it was thought, by representing
fully the immense amount of coal that would
lie consumed in Columbus, that through
freight arrangements could be made so that
coal could be sold there at eight dollars per
j ton, and that if this could be done the Eagle
and Phenix manufactory and other large
establishments, and the citizens generally,
would use it in preference to wood.
Private letters received at Columbus from
Florida state that the work of building a
railroad from Quincy to Chattahoochee, a
distance of twenty-two miles, has already
been commenced, and will probably be fin
ished in a few months.
The Montgomery and West Point road
have placed three new and beautiful engines
on their road.
LaUrnnge.
The Reporter is reliably informed that a
Base Ball Tournament will be held during
the Fair at Macon.
The same paper reports that on Tuesday
last, the Troup County Agricultural Society
had a meeting at the Court House in La-
Grange, which was addressed by Col. D. W.
Lewis, the Secretary of the State Agriculto-
Society.
The citizens of Merriwetker have formed
an Agricultural Club, which was organized
at Greenville on Tuesday last.
Dalton.
The North Georgia Citizen learns that tho
work on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Rail
road is progressing rapidly. The Company
expect to run the first train through from ;
Selma to Dalton by the first of January.
Mr. Wm. Downs, a conductor of a freight
train on the above road, met with a very
serious accident at Kingston on the first
instant. He was standing at the door of his
cab, and a passing car on a side track, which
he did not see, knocked him off, striking him
on the head, injuring him severely, if not
fatally, about the head and back.
A meeting of citizens was held at the
Court-house on Saturday night last, to con- j:
sider the subject of building anew academy
.Miscellaneous.
The Thomasville Enterprise says the Sher
iff’s sales there on the first Tuesday of the!
month, indicate advancement in the price i
of city property as well as demand for store 1
houses. There is not a vacant store to be
had in the town and still there is room wan
ted.
The Newnan Herald contains an account
of a difficulty which took place on the plan
tation of our friend Jas. P. Askew, in this
county, which resulted in the serious wound
ing of two of the party engaged in it—a Mr.
N. S. Gosa and his son. The difficulty grew
out of a dispute about a crop on rented land.
The Rome Courier gives the following:
Corn retailing from store, 81 25 per bushel.
Meal 81 35 per bushel. Flour 84 to 450
per hundred. Bacon 24c per pound. Butter
50c per pound. Eggs 35c per doz. Green
apples, 82 50 per bushel. Sweet and Irish
potatoes, SI 75 to $2 00 per bushel.
The Athens Banner learns that the dwell
ing on Dr. Price's plantation, near High
Shoals, in which was stored about 8,000
pounds of ungiuned cotton and a quantity
of wheat and bacon, was consumed by fire i
on Saturday, the 2d instant. The fire is sup- !
posed to have been the work of an incen
diary.
The W ashington Gazette is pleased to an
nounce the rapid convalescence of General
Robert Tooaibs from his recent severe ill
ness. On Sunday night he was so very low
as to cause serious anxiety to his friends.
I)r. Steiner, of Augusta, was telegraphed
for, but the disease was so rapid in its work
ings, that the crisis was over and the Gen
eral already on the mend, before the Doctor
arrived on Monday. Since that time he has
been steadily improving, and we sincerely
congratulate his many friends upon the
happy prospect of his recovery.
The Sparta Journal notices the arrest of
two supposed criminals on Monday last.
They are believed to be John M. Tidwell
and' Alexander Mobley, who had escaped
from Merriwether conntv, and for whom a
reward had been offered dv the Governor,
'letting of Executive Committee
State Agricultural Society.
OrncE weorola State Agricultural Society, i
Macon, October 7, 1869. j
At a called meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the State Agricultural Society in this
city to be held to-day, there were present the fol
lowing members: Messrs. J. H. Fitten, Joseph B
Jones, of Burke; Dr. J. S. Hamilton, of Clarke;
Josiah Wilsman, of Crawford; Samuel ,1. Gustin,
of Bibb; James A. Miller, of Houston: James A.
Nlsbet, of Dude; George S. Obear, of Bibb; W.
J. Russell, of Clarke; J. D. Smith, of Houston;
Col. T J. Smith, of Washington; Capt. B. A.
True, of Morgan; Col. John S. Thomas, of Bald
win; Mr. D. tv. Vischer, of Houston.
The Chairman of the Committee, Mr. C. W.
Howard, being absent, and Mr. Yancey, the Presi
dent of the Society being present, he was unani
mously requested to serve the Committee as its
Chairman, and consented to do so.
The Secretary being called upon for business to
lay before Committee, stated that the Premium
List in several features needs revision.
Mr. Jones, of Burke, then moved that tlis pre
miums for Devon cattle be made equal to the pre
miums of other cattle, which was agreed to.
Mr. White makes the premium for Devon cattle
, read as follows :
For the best Devon bull, three years old or
upwards, Silver Pitcher 820 00
For the second best Devon bull, three years
old or uuwards, Silver Cup 10 00
For the best bull, two years old or upwards,
Pitcher 15 00
For the best bull, one to two years old. Cup 10 00
For the best cow, three vears old or up
wards, Cup 10 00
For the second best cow, three years old or
upwards, Plate 5 00
For the best heifer, two to three years old,
! Cup os 19 00
For tne best.heifer, one to two years old,
Plate or * 5 00
Mr. Yancey moved the addition of tlio following
premiums to the list. Agreed:
For the best sample of leaf tobacco of five
pounds, Plate or $ 5 00
FINE ARTS.
For the best painting in oil, the subject
by the author 10 00
Mr. N isbet moved the following additional pre-!
mium, in resolution, as follows:
Whereas, There is danger that the planting in
terests may suffer from the combination of capital
In the f -rm of ‘-cotton rings,” the obj ct of which
is to reduce the price of cotton in the hands of the i
planter, that speculators may protit by his loss;
Therefore,
Resolved, That a premium of one hundred dol
lars be offered for best essay on the policy planter
should adopt to protect themselves thej
combinations of speculators and capitalists—Pre
mium SIOO.
Mr. Yisclier moved the following additional pre
mium in the class of Premiums for horses of all
work —agreed to.
For the best gelding 10 00
Mr. Vischer moved that anew class of premiums
be adopted, to-wit: For Georgia horses of all
work—and that the premiums offered for horses of
all work, open to the world, be adopted as the
premiums for Georgia horses of all wo.k—agreed
to
GEORGIA HORSES FOR ALL WORK.
For the best stallion over 4 years —Pitcher.. 20 00
For 2d “ “ “ “years—Cup 10 00
For the best stallion over 3 and 4 years 10 00
For 2d “ “ “ “ “years 500
For the best stallion over 2 and 3years 5 00
For the best horse colt over 6 months 5 00
For the best biood marc, with colt 20 00,
For 2d “ “ “ “ colt 10 001
For the best mare 4 years old and over 10 00
For 2d best mate 4 years old and over 5 Oo j
For the best brood mare, with mule colt 10 00,
For the best filly 3 years old 10 Ot)
For ihe best tilly 2years old 8 00:
For the best filly l year old. 5 00
For the best gelding * 10 00
On motion of Mr. Jones the premiums for fifth
class (matched and single horses) was amended 60
as to strike out the word gelding, Which makes the
prer. ium list read as follow's:
1. For the best pair of matched horses, raised in
Georgia 20 00
2. For the best tingle harness horse, raised in j
Georg.a 15 00
3. F«»i the best saddle horse,raised in Georgia 15 o>-
4. For the best heavy draft hor=>e, raised in Geor
gia 15 Ui)
The subject of the appointment of Judges being
under consideration, on motion the subject was
postponed till the session at night, and upon the
invitation of the Mayor, the Committee agreed to
j visit the Fair Ground at 3 o’clock.
‘ NIGHT SESSION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE )
October 7, 18(>9. \
On motion of Mr. Russell os Clarke, the follow- 1
! ing premiums were added to the list on M mufac- 1
;turers :
jFor the best bale of sheeting or shirting,
made from Nos. 30 to 40—open to the
world 10 00
For the best bale of yarn, No. 20—open to the
world 10 00
On motion of Mr. Thomas, of Baldwin, the pre
miums for velocipedistand gymnast were stricken
circular of Secretary. The revised list of premi
ums offerod by the Secretary now stands as fol
lows :
1. For the best barrel of sorghm of ribbon
and green cane raised in Georgia- 25 00
2. For the best barrel of syrup of same cane
raised in Georgia \ 10 00.
3 For greatest yield of syrup per acre of
same cane if) 00
4 For the greatest yield of sugar per acre.. 10 00
5. For the best barrel of sugar from the sor-
China or Afric an sugar millet 25 00
6. For the best barrel of syrup from same
cane 10 00
7. Fur the targes: yield per acre of sugar
from same cane . 10 00
8 For the largest yield of syrup of same
cane per acre ", io 00;
9. For the best gin for ginning upland long 10 00 j
and short staple cotton 10 00 \
10 For the best Dynamometer, to be tested
with the plows on the ground, premium.. 10 00;
11...F0r the best large thoroughbred tilley, j
3"years old 8 00 :
12. For the best Knight in a Tournament,.. 20 00
13. For the second best Knight 10 001
14. For the most interesting collection of
minerals anti fossils found in any one coun
ty-exhibited lay an individual or county Ag
ricultural Society 10 00
15 For the best collection of minerals and fos
sils or either 10 00 1
16 For the greatest varieties of wood from any
one county, the samples to be in sections
sawed vertically to the grain, showing the
annular rings of each tree, the sample to
have a bark on it 10 00
On motion of Mr. Smith, of Washington, the
following additional class premiums on horses was
adopted—open to the world.
For the fastest trotting single harness horse
—open to the world 25 00
For the fastest pair of trotting harness horses
—open to the world 10 00
For the best single harness horse 10 00
For the best pair harness horses 10 00
The Secretary asked the committee to consider j
if any special privilege could be granted to county
societies tenting on the ground. Whereupon the
| following resolution, on motion of Mr. True, was!
agreed to:
Resolved, That the Society will furnish one tent •
to each Agricultural Society camping on the
grounds All Individuals so tenting to pay two
dollars, except members of the State Agricultural
Society.
On motion of Col. Thomas, of Baldwin:
Resolved, That the exhibitors dissatisfied with
the award of any committee shall have the privi
lege of appeal to a special committee, appointed
by the President for the purpose.
The letter of invitation to the Executive Com
mittee to visit the Annual Fair of the Putnam
County Agricultural Society being submitted, the
following gentlemen were appointed a delegation
for the purpose : Mr. Smith, of Washington; Mr.
Gustin, of Bibb; Mr. B. T. Harris, Mr. D. W.
Lewi?, and L'apt. B. H. True, of Morgan.
Ttie following gentlemen were appointed mem
bers of the ExeeutiveC'omn ittee of the State Atrri
eultnral Society, to till vacancies : Colonel Juniu.-
i Wingfield, of Putnam ; John Melllheney, of Mus
cogee; A. V. Brumby, of Fulton.
On motion o! Mr. Nisbet:
Resolved, That the appointment of Judges be
made by the Presid at, and any three members of
this Committee, not exhibitors, to be selected by
the President—Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Fitten aud Mr
Nisbet.
On motion, Dr. Holloman, of Crawford, was
added to the committee to regulate the establish
ment of booth? on the ground.
On motion of Mr. Nisbet:
Resolved, That W. K. deGruffenried, Col. W. C.
Morrill, S. I. Gu-tin, Wm. F. Holt, C. A. Nutting
A. O. Bacon. E. Winship. B. A Wise, A. L. Max
well, B H. True, Wm. M. Brown, L N. Whittle
and T. C. Nesbit be requested to receive and wel
come our invited guests
On motion of Captain B. H. True:
Resolved, That Mr. J. V. Grier, of the citv of
Macon, be appointed forage master for the Fair
Grounds, with the exclusive righ.tosell hay and
grain within the enclosure, subject to such regula
tions as may be presented by a sub-committee ap
pointed by the chair. Messrs. Obear, Gustiu and
True wer - appointed the committee.
By Mr. Yancey :
Resolved. That having carefully inspected the
Fair Grounds and Buildings, the Committee feel
fully assured that they will be placed in suitable
condition in ample time for the exhibition.
By Mr. True :
Resolved, That two Auctioneers be appointed to
confer with exhibitors for the sale of all imple
ments, goods to be brought on the ground for that
purpose, and to sell the same. Auctioneers ap
pointed are Messrs. Geo. M. Logan, of Bibb and
Isaac Reese, of Morgan.
By Mr. Nisbet:
Resolved, That the Secretary “be instructed to
make arrangements, by public renting or by eon
tracts, for Resta wants on the Fair Grounds.
Resolved further, 'lhat the Secretary make ar
rangements for the board and lodgings of the Com
mittee on the grounds during the Fair.
By Mr. Nisbet: The policy of this Committee
in extending invitations through our Secretary
has been to bring to our Fair all men who sincere
ly sympathize in our objects and aims. We neither
on the one haod expect to entice distinguished
men from distant States by what we have to ex
hi lit, or on the other was it our design to - be ob
sequious Their presence here is desired that they
may see how quiet and peaceable, and how earnest
and active our people are in building up their ma
terial Interests. And especially do we desire the
presence of persons from the States North and
M of us, who are representative men, as guar
antees and encouragement for exhibitors to come !
from their sections aud show us improved models ■
of Agricultural Implements, and Machinery, and i
their thorough-bred stock. ,
Resolved, That our Fair Grounds are open to all I
men of all section?, and we hereby give assurance
to ail who attend that a cordial welcome awaits
them.
Resolved. That we earnestly hope the Press of
cur Slate will recognize the correctness of the
foregoing principles, and will give to our enter
prise their support and co-operation
By Mr. Yancey:
Resolved, That the Secretary be iostructed to
express to the Governor the appreciation of this
committee for his ofler to send the cars of the W.
& A. R. R. for iuvited guests to Lynchburg, and
that the offer is and that he have similar
instructions to mske like expressions to Superin
tendents or Presidents of other roads who may
make offer of their cars on liberal terms to bring
invited guests from any direction. And that the
gentleruau named in the resolution appointing the
Committee of Reception be authorized to make any
and all arrangements they may doera necessary, to
make these offers available.
By Dr. Holloman:
Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to
arrange anil publish all orders of the day for the
business of the Society, for the speeches and lec
tures and class, and for the other exercises and en
tertainments expected and proposed to come oil'
during the Fair.
On motion, the Committee adjourned to meet in
Macon, Wednesday, the 12th November.
David \V. Lewis, Secretary.
Ben* C. Yancey, Chairman.
Mercer University.
We are indebted to Mr. Williams, the Secretary,
for the following report of proceedings taken by a
number of prominent citizens of Macon, in regard
to the removal of the Mercer University to this
place. We reserve comment for lack of space in
this issue:
Councij. Chamber. 1
Macon, Ga., October 9, 1869. )
In pursuance of an invitation of a committee of
the friends of Mercer University, a number of the
citizens of the city convened this afternoon in the
Council Chamber, to consult together as to the pro
priety of making some effort to secure the removal
of that institution to this city.
The meeting was organized by calling Dr. D. W.
11 *“ «nA appointment of W.
D. Williams as Secretary.
On motion, Rev. Mr. Warren was invited to ex
plain the object of the meeting, which he did,
stating that the subject of the removal of Mercer
University was under consideration by the trustees
and denomination having the control of it, and
that in all probability the institution would be
removed to some locality other than the one it now
occupies, and in view of that event he took occa
sion to urge the propriety of this meeting insti
tuting some measures lo secure its location in the
j city 01 Macon. He referred lo the fact of tile fa
voiable situation of the city for the seat of a lit
eraiy institution of a high order —it being
near the centre of the territory of the State,
and the centre, likewise, of the intelligence anu
i agricultural wealth of the State. He aUo point
ed out some of the advantages that would rnsu.
to the city and community from the location
j 111 re of Mercer University. Leaving out of consid
eration all the moral and educational advantages to
he derived from the presence here of a college of
high character, lie ulluckd hrieliy to the matt rial
advantages, and instanced the fact that about, fort)
)Oung men from the city of Macon are now being
educated at the various colleges of tins State and
in other Stales, at an annual expense of tive hun
dred dollars each, making the sum of twenty iliou
sand dollars paid by the citizens of the place outside
of the city for education; while, if the University
were located here, it would attract at least one
j hundred and fifty young men from abroad, which,
at an average ot live hundred dollars each, would
I uring into the city seventy-five thousand dollars,
j the roeatiou of suchan institution here would tend
to induce citizens of w< alth and others to move in,
and contribute to the growth and prosperity of the
j city. These advantages w ould he enhanced bv the
! professional schools, as those of Medicine, Law,
1 Agriculture, and Engineering, to he incorporated
jia the University as departments.
The particular advantages • hieh would ire de
rived from the removal of Mercer University to
i tins city would he that it is already an organized
mstiuition of high reputation, with an endow
ment now of one Hundred and twenty-five thous
and dollars, and the prospective increase of tne
sum, by agencies now at work, to two hundred
thousand in a short time; that it is an institution
under the patronage of a denomination numbering
one hundred thou-aud, and second to no other ill
the Btaie for wealth and inliuence. He notici and the
f ict that although the institution was denomma
tioual, it was not sectarian.
On motion, the Chairman appointed tiie follow
| iug gentlemen as a committee to consider and
; report to the meeting, some proper action in refer
ence to the subject, to-wit: Col W. J. Lawton,
Dr. E. L Struliecker, E. VVinship, Esq., Capt. O.
A. Bacon, W. T. Lightloot, Esq.
Wlnle the committee was out making up th, ir
report, the meeting was briefly addressed in favor
of tne proposed object by His Honor Mayor Obear.
The committee having returneft, ‘ reported
I through its Chairman, Col. Lawton, the following
preamble and resolutions, which were adopted
| unanimously:
t Whereas, The location of a Literary Institution
of a high order in our city is now being agitated;
and believing that such an institution would con
tribute very greatly to the material, moral and ed
ucational interests of our town, and that the good
order, quiet and high moral character of our peo
ple point out Macon us presenting superior advan
tages for the location of a seat of learning for
young men ; therefore,
Hemjlved, That we will.cordially co-operate with
the friends of this movement in accomplishing so
| desirable an end.
? for tIX
i believing that it will be remunerative, even con
sidered m a financial sense.
Resolved, That, as the buildings for this purpose
should be ample and at the same time a credit to
the liberality and enterprise of our city and peo
I pie, we believe our citizens will sustain the
( ity Council in making a liberal subscription to
; secure the location of the Mercer University in
Macon
As the Committee, at whose invitation we have
met, desired our advice, therefore,
j Resolved, 'That we recommend to the Committee 1
to adopt such measures as in their judgment will
best secure the amount necessary, and that they
pursue this matter at once and with energy.
Resolved , That the Chairman of this meeting
!appoint a committee of three citizens to confer
with the Mayor and Council of the City of Macon,
for the purpose of securing from the city such an
appropriation as will secure the location of the
! college here.
The following gentlemen were appointed a com
mittee to confer with the Mayor and Council under
resolution six: Col. W J. Lawton, Dr. E. L. Stro-'
hecker, Dr. J. E. Blackshear.
On motion, the Chairman was requested to
appoint, at his leisure, a committee of live citi
zens to act in concert with the committee < f the
friends of Mercer University, who called this
meeting.
The following resolution, offered by Col. Lawton,
was adopted :
Resolved That when this meeting adjourn it do
so subject to the call of the Chairman, if in liis
opinion another meeting be necessary.
On motion, the daily papers of the city wore re
quested to publish the proceedings of this meet
in &
1 he meeting then aajourned.
D. W. Hammond, Chairman.
vV D. Williams, Secretary.
, Industry will Prosper.
We mentioned the other day the fact of our
having met a little fellow on Second street who
was roasting pea-nuts upon the side-walk and sell
ing them to the passers by, and expressed the hope
that he would succeed in his business operations.
The little fellow told us that his sales the first day
amounted to nine dollars and thirty-five cents,
and he would have aold a heap more if his stock
' had not given out. There are plenty more just
such chances to make money if people would only
avail themselves of them and attend steadily to
their business. Very- few hard working laboring
men or mechanics conld boast of doing a better
day’s business than our little pea-nut vendor, and
yet many of our young men find fault because
they cannot find anyihing to do. Let them try
something if they hope for success.
Liver Complaint I'ured by Nirmlionn' Regulator
The symptoms of liver complaint are uneasiness
and pain ia the side. Sometimes the pain is in the
shoulder, and is mistaken for rheumatism. The
stomach is effected with loss of appetite and sick
ness, bowels in general costive, sometimes alter
nate, with lax. The head is troubled with pain,
and dull, heavy sensation, considerable loss of
memory, accompanied witli painful sensation of
having left undone something which ought to have
been done Often complaining of weakness, de
bility, and low spirits; sometimes some of the
above symptoms atteud the disease, and at other
times very few of them, hut the liver is generally
the organ most involved. Cure the liver with
Simmons' Regulator, and all will be well.
“ A l fteful Remedy.”
The “Female Regulator” advertised in another
| column comes very highly recommended by physi
cians and druggists. It is a remedy of long stand
ing, and has stood the test of time, and has now
become fully established with those having ex
perienced its good results and benefits, as purely a
scientific preparation, and one, too, which has
alleviated the sufferings of thousands of females a
and kept them in sound and perfect health, when :
but for its timely use they might have found pre-.
mature graves. We hope the advertisement will .
receive the consideration it so justly deserves. ]
d&w
Boston's Commercial College.
W e know of no institution that deserves a
larger amount of patronage from parents aud
guardians than this. Young gentlemen who may
be placed under the charge of Professor Euston
may be sure of acquiring a splendid mercantile
education, the value of which we arc sure cannot
be over-estimated. The references given by this
talented gentleman embrace the very best men in
this city, all of whom are personally acquainted
with his splendid acquirements as a tea? her.
Every hotel in this city contains evidences of his
extraordinary professional talents, and one ex
quisite gem of penmanship that adorns the read
ing room of Brown’s Hotel, commemorative of
the distinguished Stonewall Jackson, we have
never seen equalled anywhere. R'ad Proftssor
Easton’s advertisement in our to-day's issue.
Moke Suits Against the Gold Exchange
Bank. —Robert B.iile has commenced an
action in the Supreme Court against the
New York Gold Exchange Bank and others,
alleging the present state of the bank and its
failure to fulfill its obligations to the plaintiff
among other brokers, the danger of loss to
the plaintiff from its action and its insolven- <
cv, and praying for a receiver. Judge Car- :
dozo refused to appoint any receiver other :
than the one already appointed, but, after :
some discussion, reappointed Mr. Brown re- ,
ceiver in the suit, as he had been previouslv i
appointed,
MASONIC.
For the Journal and Messenger.
,'las.onic Forethought.
Every well informed member of the Ma
sonic Fraternity is aware of the fact that his
-connection with the craft gives him cer
tain peculiar advantages that he never could
have enjoyed had liis name not been enroll
ed among the brethren; and of late years
these advantages have become too promin
ent to escape observation. One of them
lias become so very important, that it de
mands, and should receive, a thorough and
impartial examination at the hands of all
who call themselves “just and upright Ma-.
sons,” and having received all the informa
tion upon this topic that they can obtain,
. they should lose no time in availing them
selves of the privileges lying within their
reach. YVe allude to the great and alt im
portant subject of Masonic Life Insurance!
From their earliest Masonic instructions.
. members arc taught to lead lives of honest
industry, to labor diligently, not only for
their own support, but for those endeared to
them by the ties of relationship, who, it may
be, are entirely dependent upon them for sup
port. So long as the brother lives and lias
|good health, his wife and children, his aged
parents, and it may be, other relatives near
and dear to him, are all creditably supported.
They lack for nothing, and their wants
whatever they may be, are cheerfully sup
i plied. This is all very pleasant, but > uppose
The brother happens to be removed from liis
i scene of usefulness by death, what is the iu
jevitable result? The neat, pretty home, has
ito be given up to strangers, a life of coni
i sortable enjoyment is replaced by grasping
: poverty and incessant labor at anything but
1 remunerative prices; one by one, the many
articles of absolute necessity it may be, have
Ito be disposed of, and a life of absolute
wretchedness takes the place of comfort and
happiness. YVliat would have been the
j thoughts of our worthy Masonic brother on
Iris dying bed, could he only have foreseen
the natural results of his own neglect and
improvidence!
This is no fancy sketch—far from it—it is
one, alas! of too frequent occurrence. Life
is uncertain. The man who enjoys vigorous,
robust health to-day, may to-morrow lie in
; the narrow house provided for all the living,
and while in the enjoyment of health, rea
son and happiness, the future should be
j thought of. Well might St. Paul say in his
affectionate letter to Timothy: “But if any
i provide not for his own and specially for those
of his own house, he hath denied the faith,
- and is worse than an infidel.” In illustration
of the uncertainty of human life and the
| disastrous consequences resulting from a
neglect of duty, permit us to tell “an ow’er
true tale.” that we hope may have due weight
i with all our brethren who, as yet, may not
have made suitable provision for those they
love, in the event of their death:
Some few months ago, quite late in the
evening, we sat conversing with a Masonic
brother, who occupied the qiosition of
Express Agent for the Southern Express
j Company. He had a lovely, interesting
: wife, rather delicate in health, however, and
two sweet little children of whom he was
very proud. He told us how long and earn
j estly lie had labored to procure a permanent
home for those he loved. His house was
completed and well stocked with furniture,
j and his position enabled him to transport
: merchandise upon his own account each and
|every trip, in away that enabled him to
make money very rapidly. He had just
■started a little store that promised to be a
complete success, and everything, to use his
own expression, “ worked like a clock.” In
speaking upon the subject, he said, “of
course, starting from a mere nothing as 1
did, I have had to encounter some pretty
tough obstacles; my little property is heavi
jly mortgaged, and a great deal of my busi
ness is at sixes and sevens, but what of tlm* V
In a year or two, with God’s blessing, I sin and
!be perfectly independent of the world, and
my wife and dear little children will bo well
provided for. Meanwhile, he continued,
“I’ve been thinking about that Masonic
Life Insurance Company. There I can
place iUriiu,ioit confidence. It Is in tile
hands of brothers that I can trust, and in
the event of my sudden death, that i don't
anticipate by any means, because 1 am one
of the healthiest of men living, they will lie
amply provided for. When I come dow .
the road to-morrow afternoon, 1 mean to
take out a policy for ten thousand dollars,
and 1 have already been speaking to my wife
about it. The money I mean to have paid
into her hands. Good-night.”
We grasped our brother’s hand "Masoni.-al
ly, and for the last time. When the train of
! cars came in the next day they brought news
of a sad accident. The Express car had
struck upon a broken chair and been over
turned. When it was opened Brother W -,
the Express Agent, was found lying inside,
[dead! The heavy iron safe had, on being
overturned, fallen upon his skull and hail
crushed it. He hud apparently died without
a struggle, and without pain.
The bereaved widow it is needless to say,
was nearly distracted at her loss. From a
life of comparative ease and comfort, she
sank at once into extreme poverty, their
little property passed at once into the hands
of those who held mortgages upon it, their
little children are being educated by the
Fraternity, but the loving, kind, affectionate
and gentle wife could not sustain the blow.
Invalid as she was, she soon sank under it,
and before the season had passed away sin
had gone to rejoin her husband in another
and better world —“there the wicked cense
from troubling, and there the weary be at
rest.”
Had our deceased brother but attended to
the business that engaged his attention but
one day earlier, his widow and children
would to-day, probably, be living in com
parative comfort in a house of their own,
with none to molest them or make them
afraid. As it was, the life time of his or
; phan children will scarce suffice to repair his
neglect.
Another important fact should not be lost
sight of. Many worthy brothers are labor
ing incessantly day by day—straining every
nerve—actually destroying their own health
and comfort, and for what? That in the
event of their death they may he able to
leave something comfortable to those they
love. Life has its strange vicissitudes. The
earnings of years may be swept away by one
fire, and then, all lias to be done over again.
Precipitated to the bottom of the hill, tin re
is no other way than to crawl gradually up
ward; and the effort is a most tiresome one,
as all know who have been obliged to try it.
Xow, if a man has bis life insured for a sum
that ensures a competency to his family in
the event of his death, he can bike better
care of his health, and need not suffer from
exposure. If lie chooses to do so, lie cui
indulge in many little privileges that he
could not otherwise feel permitted to enjoy,
and life become doubly attractive to him!
He feels, besides, better satisfied with lii.s
position, and, in tact, can do twice as much
as though his brain was constantly harrassed
by thoughts of the future.
Delays are dangerous. We hope that eve
ry Masonic brother, as an act of simple jus
tice to himself, his family and his Lodge,
will obtain from Rev. J. W. Burke, the
Secretary of the Georgia Masonic Mutual
Life Insurance Company, Macon, Georgia,
a copy of the By-Laws which govern this
valuable organization, and a Circular, de
scriptive of its peculiar advantages. They
will be sent to any address, upon an appli
cation enclosing a single three cent stamp,
and after being read carefully, we hope that
all of our brethren who claim to be governed
by the dictates of prudence, may resolve to
provide for the future welfare of those near
and dear to them without further delay.
They will thus be placed in a position of
comparative independence, and whatever
may happen to them afterwards, they will,
day by day, lie cheered and consoled by the
thought, that whenever or wherever death
overtakes them, those they love dearer than
life, are amply protected from the severe
blasts of adversity.
One word in conclusion. Having insured
; your life against all possible contingencies,
' act on the square with the Company with
which you insure. They are pledged to
provide for those near and dear to you, to
the full amount of your insurance, and, on.
, your part, see that all your dues and assess
ments are paid, without an hour’s delay,
after yon are notified by the Secretary. Be
. as true to their interests as they are to yours,
remembering your Masonic obligations for
bid you to do otherwise. And the Company
will always be as strong and as solvent as it
is to-day, able and willing to fulfil promptly
ail the obligations it has assumed.
Having perused this article, give a single
thought to the wife you have sworn to love,
cherish, honor and support; think of the
children Heaven has bestowed upon you,
that you so earnestly desire to rear and edu
cate for a life of future usefulness. Ask
yourself what their oosition might be. with
out some permanent provision having Ix-en
made for them in the event of your death,
and after due reflection, act decisively, before
it is forever too late, and thus place the wife c
and children you love dearer than life, in a
position where poverty cannot assail them 1
yhen you may have gone hence forever,
Ad R icui/fj
soils;
Sand may contain, in sm;i ;
silica, oxyue of iron and . . '
Limestone, or calcareous mat*
tain, in small quantities, inn.
na, oxyde of iron, potash -
acid, sulphuric acid.
Clay may contain, in .
silica, altunnina, pot ;.],, ;
phoric acid, sulphuric acid.
Organic matter, or dec \
animal matter, may co;.t ; .
vegetable remains, animal i,
quantities; and when w.-ll
mineral constituents of {. ,!*
! of vegetables or crops; ,
'soda, phosphoric arid, . , .
: rine.
i Soils arc classified, . .
iponderance of one or tie
pounds, as vegetable ...
dy soils, caleareoii.- - ~, ,
-loamy soils. The 1.
vegetable moulds a; 1 , \
Towing:
Vegetable moulds .
taiuing a large proportion ~f \
ter, or sufficient v.acu - ' - ,
them a preponderance.
Os this class tlicr. are tw,
ties, namely: fertile in. >’e :
igy soils. By a larue prop,.,',' !,'. 1
matter is me ant d\ .. .-
aggregate soil. About six p-V„
found in nrdiuarv . nltiv
mould the pivport: n F • r
alsmt nine per . nt (1 f (j ;i .
Beat or bo, v , jmi f
m seventy |>. . cent
matter, ami in tin- .-en.ln , .
productive. Hence thequantit. ’
matter in soil is no criti ri n
The superior quantity ol'v. ,”
garden mould, docs not make u
tihty over the soils ..i the tielil
the superior labor and alt. tit
I given to them.
The vegetable mould in e .aVi ,
! thoroughly worked and ,
!other elements of the .
: greater fertility.
1 In boggy lands it is the ,
iblo matter which renders tin •
tive. To r< ndt i
to get rid of a part of it,
ditions, which can be done i\.
j burning it, and try the ; .i
Clay soils in their . .
distinguished by then cold .J,
and are known as heavy -nil
iCe.ssful cultivation can only l,
■by the expenditure of a iV;;:
labor, strength and capital, h,
number we notice*l tin p
property of clay, and i
usefulness. But soils e n-i
w holly of clay are
that little can he atvoiupljo,
until they are thoroughly drain. .
vegetable matter incorj n
and lime put upon them. l!v if
they can be brought into a h if-,,,
duetive condition. Lira i- th,-
hie and effective agent ine.mv. rt;
ive clay soils into pro.hr : n,
its potent agency, together with
mechanical working, they can 1. i.,
fertile and productive l.
Journal.
Good and Bad Fa mu -(ink.
There is no fact in agriculture .
| established than that it will m
'poor stock, when it is p>, ,ii t.
us abetter quality. A i'< ,
rage for Durham, Alderney. i>. \
'breeds of cattle prevailed verv .
throughout the couuti-y. l uliub..
were paid for superior aiiinm,
breeds, and there appeal< and tu lu
poid of something like a reform
ter of stoek raising. Like soi
movements in agriculture, tin \
provement lias subsided, and
- relapsed into their fen
Should this be? Tin
ferior eow is precisely tin same
better one. A good hors.- will
mand a better price in tie in 11.-i
valuable to its owner for In-, m
than a poor one. The eo-.t of
same. Why not th u rai»
There are breeds of swine tlial
and fatten upon much /- , ti..
ukuriui- 1k... U...U utlu-in. Win ,
these improved binds?
The same may be said of .li i
and in fact, every ksiul of fan
yet we find thousands of farm, i j
of these incoiitrov. rtible f„
themselves in steady hostilii
ments having for their object:
mi nt of domestic farm animal
to inferior stock with a pert
surprising. In many ea - th.
matter is their
first investment. Fiftc n
seems to be a large price >
months’ old Chester ( -
when commoner animals,
fifth the price, but all i vp
in the long run the beat
Were it possible to over. ;
sition to make the first. ;iti.
lie room for indulgence <>! tin- !,-
farm stock generally woui.l inn :
actor. This will be accompli
farmers realize fully the 1 .-t
pay to keep poor stoek.
Farm.
Nail in the Foot. To i
terrible effects of riinnin an
of man or horse, take p a h I
them, apply to the wound,
bandage. They cure it i
new the application t .. .
but one application tisua -
I have cured both man and I
hours, when they were appa
point of having the loekq.i...
remembered and practiced, in
valuable lives.
In working butter, the 1.. -
come in direct contact inti.
1 Gather it with a wooden liu'n
- tray or butter bowl, turn oil' ti.
1 and wash with fresh sprii.g "
around tile whole eireuiae r
channels lowest, at either ■ -ici.
buttermilk can readily ran
grind it down against tin t:
manner of tempering mortar, im
you will be likely to injure ■
*-.•*•>■«-
— We have more faith i. ha
lime as manure, tlian small. <>
bushels per acre will often
character of the soil that t:
feets will be observed for - 11 • ' j
We should prefer to use th- h.
mcr fallow for wheat, a thi
time to attend to it. but it m
to any crop.— Amu-it an i <
—We often hear of farms I
but instead of wearing oat. .
prove if properly manag. and. I I
farms which have been imd>: • I
centuries, have been c.m-ia-.:! I
English farmers ay that ■
not keep his land from wear.— I
farmer. I
A Y'ery ingenious and ii
lieving the hunger of trie, a-.- ,
adopted on the leading iin ’ |
At certain stations on tin . i
officials, all of whom are dr<- ,
inquire if you will dine or :p,
may Ik?. If you answer in ’
the fact is immediately ' I .
tion where the meals are
the number of your comp u '■ •'
it. On arriving at tli a
into your hands, it contain? ■■
with soup and wine. You u
minutes to eat, which you do "■ 1 - ’■>
on its way. The dinner i? 1 :
You eat at your leisure, and
moderate price of sixty ca- 1 • r
rangeinent. Y’our box n t
and you proceed on your war.
Mb. Shirley Brooks tell ii I
bit 1
which followed it. When tic- ■■ ■
I
to ornt I
that city erect I
force. But! I
easily climbed, and it was o--‘- ■ ■ IS
one to make the ascent and * B
flowers and foliage. Iho I
a money reward to any nw I
complish the task. A: A
ll< «
dertook the job and p ! i •••-_ ¥’
applied for the rev. urd, b , j
refused to pay it- on the : ,
: servants of the Queen, it * | ja
-
in honor of the I’rinee. b ]|
tie- lieu of the t xp }
sailors drank it and went u, | j]
during the night b.■: r<- ti. I
royal guest, all the omai. / .p
by the same strong
had carried it aloft. Mote'’”” c
der, decide Uy not
limn, was left sticking i .nthoritiea
could get at it. Die . ‘ i,’: uce did.
Hull could only hope :l - d mficureinfeii
observe the bareness and J
the Wilbcrti uve column as he v m