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jjY ,|. VV. iiIJItKK & CO. §Mir»alaudfste*#!)w: J. u. UIUKE & CO., Proprietors. WM. M. BROWNE, Editor. OFFICE no. 60 SECOND STREET, MACON, OA. K \TKH OF Si HSU'RIPTIOS. Daily, per Annum fl |? “ Tliree Months. „ aoO “ One Mouth 1 00; Tm Whelm, f t Annum o 00 *. “ Bix Mouthft 6 Tn a “ Thnsc Mouth* 1 Weekly. per Annum ? «* Six Months 1 **T Death of L'rankliii Pierce. Tin- people of tlie Southern States have hc.nl with honest sorrow that Franklin Pint is dead. However many may liave diih id from him in politics, aud however much others may have disapproved his acts, all must agree that from the beginning of his public career to its close, Franklin Pii iti k w.t.~ the earnest, unyielding and con sistent friend of the South, that he fought manfully for her rights within the Union; while he had power, aud condemned the] w; r that was made upon her as unconstitu-: tional, and consequently wrong ; and after; the war was over, did everything he could do to alleviate her troubles and mitigate her suffering. While he lived he deservedly j possessed the esteem aud grateful affection of the Southern people. Now that he is dead his memory will be cherished through out our country as that of one whom neither slander, obloquy, nor personal iuterest could i turn from the path of duty and of right,! who never deserted us or withdrew his friendship, and who, in the darkest hours of our adversity, when very few in his section | dared to express sympathy with us, he, unos tentatiously, though firmly, avowed himself our friend, and risked his own safety to shield us and uphold what lie believed to be tiie truth. Franklin Pierce was a good man. He was just while he was also generous. He was ambitious without selfishness, consistent without obstinacy, dignified without liaugli tine . and genial in his bearing to all, with out undue familiarity with any. It i in the memory of ly* all how he was abused and vilified by the Republican alio li tre w at the North, on account of his manly stand in defence of the constitutional rights of the South : how he never wavered or faltered in Ids pursuit of what fie believed to be just and right, however rude and vio lent the assault of his opponents, ft will be remembered, too, that when the war excite ment was at its greatest height, and the “little bell” of the State Department was con signing hundreds of good and true men to ilme: ••him who were not even accused of any crime. Franklin Pierce opposed the war, and was at one time threatened with arrest anil imprisonment on account of alleged disloy alty to the existing Government. It is right, therefore, that the Southern people should mount his loss as that of a true, disinterested, and valued ft’ieud- Mr. Pierce was born in I Ullsburough, New Hampshire, o,u the 23(1 of November, 1804. He was the son of General Benjamin Pierce, a distinguished soldier of the Revolution. Re was. educated at Franco,stown and lian oook academics, and graduated at Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1824. He studied for the legal profession in the law office of the distinguished Senator and Cabinet officer, Levi Woodbury, and commenced the prac tice of the law in his native towq 1f127. .Jn 182 ft ly was elected to the RewHamp-, alii Vi ■ Leg i future, in which body he served for tone yr.-u . oirite.g muiii wiueii lie was Speaker of the House of Representatives. In INI!.'! he entered Congress and was a mem ber of the popular branch of the Fed eral Legislature until 1837, when lie was elected to the United States Senate, ip which he served with vim giant in tellect: of that body at that time until IS 11, w hen lie resigned his seat and returned to the active practice of the law, refusing the nomination of his party for Governor of his State, and the appointment of Attornoy (lenerul in President Polk’s Cabinet. In 1817 lie volunteered to serve in the Mexican war when his State was called on for troops, but he soon received a commission as Col onel of the IKli Regiment, and shortly after lliatof Brigadier-General in thel’uited States Army. During the Mexican vyar lie won considerable distinction as a soldier. Ife was severely wounded at the battle of Con treras. At the end of the way lie returned to New Hampshire, and though he took au active share in politics, tilled nu public po- wtion, until havingreceived the nomination' of the Baltimore Convention in 1802 for the Presidency, by a vote of 282 to 11, against Buchanan, Cass, William L. Marcy and Stephen A. Douglas, he was eleeted fourteenth President of tliej l nited States, reeeiving the vote of all the States except Massachusetts, Vermont, Ten-! lie- e and Kentucky. Shortly after his g)eet juii he jvccived a fearful blow in the death, l.y a railroad aeoident, of his only child, Benjamin Pierce, a promising boy of thirteen years of age. llis Presidential term was the beginning of the great political storm which culrni-. Hated in 1800 and led to the war of 1861 -’5. The ipiestion of slavery in' the Territories, Jtnd the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, Ware the chief bone of contention between the opposite parties, and in all these great Congressional combats Mr. Pierce was always found standing by the rights of the South and the equality of all the States, liming his administration the Consular ind Diplomatic system of the Government was reorganized, the Court of Claims was in stituted. and a retired list for the Navy was provided. I lie foreign enlistment exoite nieut also occurred during the last year of his term of office, terminating in the dis missal by the President of Mr. Crampton, the British Minister, and the British Con suls at New York, Philadelphia and Cincin nati. On the Ith of March. 1857. Mr. Pierce retired from the Presidency. JJ O traveled widely in Europe for the benefit of Mrs. Pierce s health, and returned to Concord, New Hampshire, in 1860, where he has re sided ever since, living the unostentatious life of a private citizen, honored and respect id by all who were admitted to liis acquaint ance, without distinction of party. Mr. Pierce was the 1 Uh President of the United Btati s. and thi' last of the ei-Presidents who had la-ell elected directly by the people. He died on t).. Ml, inst., after a long illness. 1 completed his sixty-fifth year. Hie Germans of many of tlie principal Gus are leaving the Radical party iu a body. At Chicago, Cincinnati and Cleveland, the ' man press and voters have joined with 11 I'cmoeraey and set up separate city 1 1 l -s. In St. Lotus there are premonitory ! "ii. and in New York, not 'otostaudiag the nomination of Sigel, the oia i.i! f eiitr;d Committee of the city ad tlu Berman citizens to separate thern *”Bes from the Radical party at the coming Gut.on. It is believed that these isolated Htovintents foreshadow a general stampede u Bermans from an organization with ? ka 1,11 - v never have been, and never can he m harmony. cl *' ! U | U ' '' BaUfomians had better keep of ■*’ “hneeticut, if they are in the habit of tlw'V! kl ” ru ’. v u P°n their persons. One State the oth^a erS f Wa £ murdertd in that •null amount tcl for ’-'^ ) - I( a very Radical Nw r 1 uail nit murder for, but in care uT the the mottu of themseiwib aoiLilß i Military Electioneering. It is well known that bribery, intimida tion, perjury, stuffing ballot-boxes, persona ■' ion and other frauds are continually prac- l>y the infamous tools of political par jties to carry elections, and that the em ployers of these tools justify themselves ba the immoral adage that “aU’s fair in love i w “ r and politics.” The authors of these | frauds, however, seldom admit their guilt i from a wholesome fear that the law mav ; overtake and punish them, and we have never heard of one who declared beforehand that he was going to carry- an election by I buying votes, intimidating voters, suborn ing men to committ perjury, violating the seal of ballot-boxes aud inserting spurious ballots, or inducing impostors to personate legally qualified electors. No one lias ever boasted of liis intention to commit an in famous crime, until General Ames informed a citizen of Mississippi that he intended “to carry the election in November against the Dent ticket if he has to march his vol unteers from precinct to precinct to effect it.” Bad as are the reconstruction acts, grossly violative as they are of the Constitution of ithe United Stated, and unjust and par tial as are their objects and provisions, I their authors had the decency to pretend to i provide for a fair expression of the popular will, and in defining the duties of the De partment Commanders and placing troops at their disposal, the announced purpose of the military part of the programme was to insure a fair election and see that every qual ified voter was permitted to express his opiu ion through the ballot box. Even Thad. Stevens and his successor, B. Butler, bold and unscrupulous as the one was and the other is, never dared to* avow that the elec- • tions under the reconstruction edicts were to be “cheats and a national degradation or that the Radical military commanders j were to lie empowered to carry the elections by “marcliingtheir volunteers from precinct :to precint to effect it.” Ames’ candid state ment of his mode of electioneering is a de cided novelty, and he is entitled to all the i merit of the invention. Amongst all the patent means of “guaranteeing a Republican form of government,” there is nothing at all like it in this country. In France, when Louis Napoleon was elected Emperor, some thing of the same sort was done to ‘ effect” his election. The military commanders marched their “volunteers from precinct to precinct to carry” the election, but not one of them had the audacity to declare in ad jvanoe that he intended “to carry the elec tion” against the Oavaignac ticket by any such means. The principle maybe old, but the mode of application is new beyond a doubt. Refore the invention is adopted and be joomes the approved instrument for the guar anteeing a republican form of government and the security of popular liberty, General Grant would do well perhaps to ask Mr. Attorney General Hoar whether its adoption would be useful aud profitable, and whether the same laws which forbid murder, assault and battery, robbery, and other acts of per sonal violence, do not also forbid tlie use of j bayonets aud Enfield muskets to make citi zens support a particular “ticket.” It is true that the laws guarantee to every one j accused of a crime the right to tie confronted with his accuser, be informed of tlie nature; lof the accusation, and he tried speedily by a jury of liis poinntrymen; but Ames has] already declared his contempt for such musty enactments as the writ of habeas 'nrftuti IUU * trlu ' j llr v, a,l< l has ordered his of any court which interferes with his system of arbitrary arrest. He has never been! | rebuked for this contempt c>f the judicial authority, audit may lie doubted, therefore, | whether any remonstrance will be made against his novel mode of carrying a popu lar election with a view to guarantee a j republican form of government in Missis j sippi. The people of other States, —and by the I people, we mean the men who think and I reflect, and whose patriotic attachment to ; the institutions of their country is greater than their attachment to party or desire for partisan success, —would do xyell to consider the inevitable tendency ui such utterances as flint us General Any;s, and reflect if such acts of lawless violence and usurpation are permitted in ARssissippi, how long will it be before military captains will march their volunteers from precinct to precinct, to car ry elections in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio ? A liiograpliical Sketch. The individual who aspires to be the Rad ical Governor of Texas is one Davis. He was born somewhere in Yaukeedom. Os his parents and his early career, but little is known. He arrived in Texas a short time ■ ago. His real anil personal property in the State are contained in his small carpet-bag. During the war he was toil. Since the war he has been traalj/ loii Like a great many others, he “rushed to arms” when his coun try called him. He served in the Federal army. He was a horse soldier. At one time he commanded a brigade of horse-sol diers, and flourished in Alississippi anil Louisiana. During this period he anil i his braves had several severe engage ments with unarmed men and with women and children, in which they displayed great : prowess, and frequently killed their assail ants and carried off their moveable property as trophies of success. They invariably ! spared armed men, and to avoid all diftieul ty, invariably ran away when they met any such, confining themselves exclusively to aj>- propriating to their ow n use such articles of private property, as plate, jewels, piauos, | etc., as they could conveniently carry. For occasional recreation they rilled graves, scat tering the remains of their tenants, and ; burned the residences of widow ladies. This hero —he is a General, like another distinguished gentleman from Massachu setts, of very similar tastes, aud of the same degiee of martini valor —is now the candi date of the Radicals for the office of Gov ernor of the State of Texas, and he receives the cordial support of the administration. For liis distinguished services—not a wateli, spoon, piano or trinket was left any where along his line of march, and very few unarmed men are left to tell the tale of his hand to hand encounters, while a num ber of houseless widows aud children can attest his proficiency in housebttrning—lie demands his election by force of arms, and !“goes for Reynolds for Senator." Besides, lie is a loyal man. That is a quality which, it is said, covers a multitude of sins, and if so, his loyalty must be of immense length and breadth. A Brilliant AA'hitewa.sh. —When we wish a wash of this character we wish an article that will lx- durable, and we are willing to be at a little more expense if we can get it. We have it in the following recipe: Take clear ltimjis of well burnt white lime, slaked, add to five gallons a quarter of a pound of whiting, or burnt altun pulverized, half a pound of loaf sugar, one quart and half of rice flour made into a thin and well boiled paste. IxiileJ out iu water. This may be put on cold, within doors, but hot outside. This will lie as brilliant as plaster of Paris, and retain its brilliancy for many years. [ W estern Farmer. General Toombs.— The friends of Gener al Toombs will be pleased to learn that this distinguished Georgian, although still feeble, is so far convalescent as to be in attendance upon Hancock Superior Court for the trans action of such business as will not demand too great personal effort,— ChrgnicW cfc Sen- Uinet, No More Negro Voters. M e publish in another part of our issue of this morning the greater portion of re markable article from the N. Y. Evening Post, which is one of the ablest as well as one of the staunchest adherents of extreme Republicanism, differing only from the mass of its party on the question of Free Trade versus Protection, advocating the policy of Free Trade with great ability and effect, but sustaining every other part of the Radical programme, and notably that which gave all our plantation negroes the right to vote and hold office, while the best and most enlight ened men at the South were disfranchised, and excluded from all participation in the Government except paying taxes on every thing, from their incomes down to a lx>x of lucifer matches. i _ r \> e arc sincerely glad to see that so prom inent an expounder of Radical doctrines has j found reason to doubt the wisdom of a part j | °I the Radical discipline, and has been bold and honest enough to declare that universal i negro suffrage is a ilangerous experiment— , dangerous to the welfare of society and to the safety of our “political institutions. ” The favorable testimony of an unwilling witness is always valuable, and that the! Post was unwilling to admit that the greatest j exploit of its party—giving the vote “to so! many ignorant citizens,” —is a disadvantage j to the country,” cannot be attributed to any other cause than a painful necessity to tell; the truth. All the objections which the Post makes ito the annexation of Cuba, whether by ab sorption or by purchase, were mulalo nomine, ; made by the iSoutkern States when it wa3 first proposed to give the suffrage to “a large part of the population consisting of barba rians.” The Southern people opposed tliis grant for the same reasons that the Post very wisely opposes the annexation of Cuba, aud though it quotes Mr. Reach Lawrence’s! dictum in apology for the enfranchisement of the “barbarians” as a necessary consequence of their emancipation, wo most cordially share its apprehension that it is exceedingly doubtful whether negro suffrage will secure good government and to strengthen its fears, would invite its attention to the present con dition of South Carolina. There is not a citizen in that once prosperous Common wealth who does not agree with the Post, ) that “the immediate future of the country is certainly not made more hopeful by- the ! fact that they (the negroes) form a part of the population,” and we venture to say that were the editor and proprietor of the Post a resident and a tax-payer of the city of ; Charleston lie would be thoroughly oon -1 viuced that the experiment is a cruel failure, and that good government can never be secured while “so many ignorant citizens” are allowed to control the government. AVe fully coincide with our venerable co i temporary in the opinion that “we can bet ter afford to do without Cuba than to jxissess rtt,” anil for the reason that already “a large pai't” of our “population consists of barba rians,” and we do not desire to increase it. We are happy that the results of our sad experience can so thoroughly sustain the sagacious theory of the Post, and wo trust that its opinions as to the social and political effect of acquiring more free negro voters, may lx- adopted by a majority of those who now govern the country. Mercer University. We are glad to see so many of our citi zens favoring the removal of tlie above University to our city. It is understood uiifavorxiiftTflt- , ‘ 1 5S8&fetf ' tution, and that many of its friends desire its removal to some populous centre or rail-; road town. Macon greatly needs an educational in terest, such as this University would fur nish, and Macon is willing aud able to hold; out such inducements as will make it to the interest of Mercer to accejit a home among us. At least $20,000 are sent out of Macon annually for the education of her sons. If this amount were kept at home and invested in building for College purposes, in five years we would have comfortable quarters; for tlie University. The wealth of the city would ho Increased that amount. The location of the Institution here would bring, at a moderate calculation, one liun ] ilred and twenty-five students, each of whom i would spend on au average SSOO a year, ] making anjaggregate of more than $00,0(10 per annum. So that the increase in our cir culation alone from the students would amount to more than SBO,OOO annually Having tw r o Colleges, a male and female, very many citizens would remove to Alacon aud purchase homes on account of the edu cational facilities offered, aud thus would the population increase, while the value of property would l>e enhanced. There is no investment which wo can make that will pay so largely as this. Asa financial arrangement there is no doubt but it would pay to the wealth of the city one hundred per cent. AY ill not tlie City Coun cil call a meeting and let the citizens authorize them to give $50,000 for this pur jiose. A Very Long Train. It is reported that George Francis Train, 1 the exterminator of England, the terror of Victoria, the annihilator of time aud space, and the author of a variety of metrical com jxisitions which he calls epigrams—proposes to occupy liis leisure moments from now to 1872 in demonstrating that the individuali ty of the citizen has been destroyed—killed outright—and that] tlie clergyman, the ; lawyer, the politician and the editor are the perjietrators of the murder. It must not be supposed that Train will confine his demonstration during that rather protracted term to one community or sec tion of the universe. He knows his super-1 human power, and mercifully weakens it by the widest diffusion. Radiating from the classic centre, Omaha, lie means to penetrate to the remotest corners of the earth, and tell the individuals of the world’s imputation that their individuality has been slaughtered | and who slaughtered it. It is highly probable that he will devote a few of his leisure moments to a visit to the State Fair, and that some day we shall see him jump upon a lager beer barrel, and give us a demonstration informing us thzt he is on his w ay to Pekiu to introduce street rail ways and warn the Pekinites against lawyers, dix-tors, clergymen, politieiaus and editors. He lias contracted to reduce Loudon to ashes, overturn the British throne, and “wear the green" in Windsor Castle within sixty davs, and a man who had undertaken so big a job might seem to have no leisure moments for metaphysical demonstrations. But Train is not to be measured by an ordi nary standard. He is a bon - of artesian jiro portions, aud if the clergy, lawyers, doctors, politicians aud editors would only destroy liis individuality, they would do mankind and Train an inestimable service. It is proper to add that after 1872 Train expects to have no leisure moments. He intends to be President of the United States, and make “demonstrations" of a very ex traordinary character. A correspondent of the Albany Argus offers to bet any sum from SI,OOO to SIO,OOO that the New York Democratic State ticket will be elected by 50,000 majority. —Dr. Thomas Anderson, once a leading .physician and influential citizen of A’icks burg, died recently at yiemphie, aged eighty •years, MACON. GA.. TUE&)AY. OCTOBER 19, lSt>9. The Other Worlds. SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF OBSERVATIONS OF THE LATE ECLIPSE CONFLAGRATION IN THE SEN BILLOWS OF FLAME SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MILES HIGH, ETC. A lecture was delivered last week in Brook lyn, New York, by Professor Eaton, in which 1 a very interesting account was given of the scientific observations of the recent eclipse, made by a number of astronomers at Bur lington, lowa. After describiug the arrival : party of observers, with their appur tenances, boxes, intruments, etc., at the chosen spot, and the processes of adjusting the four great instruments employed, pre paratory to the event, the lecturer con tinued: 1 The location chosen was a height of 173 feet above the Mississippi River; the skies ; were clear almost to the horizon. All that l was wanted to complete preliminaries was j ! the use of a star for thirty minutes, to aid in ; the adjustment of the telescopes. Throngh !out the day preceding the eclipse, the object ’ was to get every telescope focused on the jln due time the bride, the Gueen of i Night, moved to her appointed place and ■ arrayed herself in gorgeous attire. All eyes were strained to the utmost, aud in tliree' , minutes the eclipse of 1869 was gone for -1 ever. No painter could portray, no pen describe ■the grandness of that scene. The largest i telescope w.as from the Philadelphia High School, to take photographs. Next in im . portanee was that wonderful modem insfcru ment, the spectroscope. The former was moved by a clock, the Litter by a screw. A ' flash of light was enough for a picture. Now ,aa to the objects, to be seen. The observers were especially to search for the new inter i Mercurial planet. Leverrier suspected its existence, and searches had been continued since 1839. Another object was to scrutin ize the corona, or bridal veil. Another, to ! examine the wonderful protuberances, or j rosy flames, which shoot out from the sun in all directions. The observations made were very accurate and successful. After alluding to the use of the spectroscope, in analyzing light from various sources, Professor E. i spoke of the processes of obtaining sun pic-! tures, the calculation being to take one every j second. The spring which declared the pic ture complete simultaneously closed an elec tric current, thereby recording the instant I of time. To show the exceeding accuracy required, the speaker observed that every observer has his “personal equation,” which means the time consumed iu comprehending a fact, in other words the interval of time that j passes between seeing an object, and when the observer makes up his mind that he sees ! it. The corona was seen to consist of a i thin sheet of flame—pure white light, reach ing out about the diameter of the sun ; on the top, brilliant rays darting out into space. The suddenness with which it appeared is astonishing. It burst like a blaze of glory behind the moon. Rose colored flames ap peared next, like a prairie on fire. One protuberance resembled the antlers of an elk ; another, and the grandest iu measure ment, proved to be no less than 75,000 miles in height—a mountain of flame, its base 150,000 miles long. Attention was riveted by the sight. Another was like a huge; caterpillar creeping along the edge of the sun’s disc, supposed to be a miglity sheet of fire. \\ hat are these protuberances ? The spec ! troseope uliowstliat one ray indicates liydro ] gen gas, another iron, Ac. These facts go to show that the corona is not what it was suspected to be—reflected light. On the' contrary it is certainly incandescent gas, all aglow with its own light. Our telescopes, until within two years, led us all astray. The so-called nebulse of the heavens, instead 1 of being distant groups of worlds, were in- ' candescent gas, as shown by the spectroscope: A star once brilliant, but afterwards extin guished, disclosed not only a heated ball, but burning gas. AVe cun now see what the sun’s veil is made of. AVe can analyze the j sun. We have sixteen different lights, re presenting as many metals, most of which would be identified. He was happy to say ftoLwMiV” ‘fotlltertiftff.ijc of “old had boon . The physical phenomenon of the eclijise formed the next topic. The thermometer fell during its continuance with extraordi nary rapidity. Had it continued to fall twenty-four hours at the same rate—had there been another Joshua to have length ened the period—the earth would have frozen two feet deep. Animals in the pas- 1 ture prepared for sleep, and fowls went to roost, but soon came down looking very much ashamed ; they had been sold. One of the most surprising things was a shower i of meteors which various observers mistook for a flight of thistle-down. The effect on the mind, of all the jilieno inena attending the eclipse, would never be effaced. It seemed as though some terrible and awful danger was impending. He was; impressed and bewildered, intoxicated by the excitement of all surrounding circum-; stances. In tlie year 1901, there would be another j total eclipse. Some of those present would be still living. The speaker begged all such ! to go and see it. He had traveled through Europe; but excepting the crater of Ve suvius, he had rather lose all than that grand sight of three minutes ou Burling ton Heights. Ail Unjust Order. Jeffersonville, Ga., ] October 11, 1869. ) Editor Journal and Messenger: You will find inclosed an order issued by the Superin tendent of the Central Railroad Company, which is proscriptive in its effect—iu fact! ruinous to those who do business away from the line of road. As the people who live iu this section of the country, and who get but one mail a w'eek, are forced to pay stor age, or kc-ej) a runner flying to and from the depot daily, we feel that as we have been supporting the company until they are opu ! lent, so we at least ljaye the fight of a noti- j fication of an arrival before we are taxed. It is time that something be done to relieve the people from such burdens. Jeffersonville. NOTICE ! Superintendent’s Office, j Central Railroad of Georgia, - Savannah, September *2O, 1809. ) Ou and after October Ist, Goods remaining at the Stations on this Rond for three days after re ceipt thereat, w ill he subject to Storaire as per Tariff in Agent's office. Consignees of Guano are requested to remove the same as soon a.- discharged from cars, and are hereby nolitied that in cunsid eration of the low rate of' freight charged on that article, it is understood that this Roadi- relieved from all liability for loss or damage, should either occur after unloading at Station. William Rogers, General Superintendent. The Tobacco Trade of Atroinia. —The actual number of hogsheads of tobacco in spected at Farmvilie during the year ending! 30th ult., was only 233, or 167 hogsheads less than the rough estimate used in our sta tistics a few days ago. The total in the State is, therefore, 47,400 hogsheads, instead of 47,567, reducing the increase over the in spections of the preceding year to 189 hogs heads. The quantity of loose tobacco sold iu Farmville in 1868-9 was 3,450,924 pounds, | an increase of 1,206,724 pounds over 1867-8. The actual stock in Farmville on Ist inst.. was 46 hogsheads, of w hich only 9 were un inspected.—Richmond U hig, 9 th. Fiendish. —The Cincinnati Commercial says that “Nat Turner’s insurrection in Southampton county, A’a., in 1831 or 1832, “ought to have succeeded,” and if it had, “his monument to-day would not lx* unfin ished, as A\ T asliington’s is.” Nat. Turner’s insurrection, it will lx* remembered, brief as it was. resulted in killing white men, women and children, and contemplated the murder of every white person iu the country. This, remarks the Lynchburg News, is a specimen of Radical malignity towards the Southern people which needs no comment. Let us re member it.’—Mobile Register. Bullock and ms Train.— Bullock’s desire to get into decent company, and liis jvartial success on the Press Excursion, has embold ened him to make another attempt. He . took the regular sleeping ear on the night train on the State Road, and attached it to a train he had prepared for the Georgia dele gates to the Louisville Convention. AA’ines. cigars and eatables were prepared, all at the expense of the State. AVe are glad to know that several delegates jumped the concern at Marietta. Bullock’s audacity is only equalled by the conduct of some men. that have here tofore enjoyed the reputation of having 1 sense sufficient to preserve their self-respect. V [Ojivmbus Sun, r Htiilrtid Meeting. tiw-roN, October 9. 1869. Iu accordance yth a resolution passed hv the stock-holders'f the Camilla and Cuth , bert Railroad, atjheir meeting on the fourth Saturday in Sepimber last, they came to gether at eleven ! clock, a. m. , to-day, at the Court House in Siis. place, for the purpose of effecting an fganization of the Compa ny. Major W. 1 Williams, the temporary i President, keinJ absent, the meeting was organized by cal ng E. B. Bums, of Mitchell county, to the c lir. The first bnsi; sss in order was the report of the committe appointed at the last meet ing to solicit su (©options of stock for said road, which enliuraging report was made bv CoL T. \Y. If uniting, the efficient aud energetic ehairu .nos said committee, in a manner satisfae >ry to all present, showing that tlie people i Baker county are alive to the importance rt the enterprise, and deter j mined to build tV- road, by coming up and placing upon tip books, opposite their names, such uiaiuuts as they ure able to pay when called upon for the same, —no fictitious or extrajagant subscriptions bt*iug made, every dotlr upon the books being available at uny\n;e. Major Maxwell, En gineer of the Scuta Georgia aud Florida Railroad, being ■ *nt, was called upon after the reading cho ie report of the com mittee, to state h's vrws as to the probable cost of building the oad from the town of Camilla, Mitchell cpiptv, to the town of Newton, in Baker j cunty, which lie did in an able and satisfactory manner, convincing the people that, with even small subscrip tions from roadrould be built, the distance being ojfly'ajoout eight miles on an air line—after which, the books were opened, and an invitation extended to those de siring to snbscribf to the road, which invita tion was in the space of ten or fifteen minutes timtv-thm thousand dollars of good paying, 'a iseriptnins were raised, swelling the aixount of stock to near sixty thousand dollar!,find insuring the success of the road. Mr. .Hmiuel M. l’apat, Capt. AY. L. Walthour, Col. VV. M. McLendon and Capt. C. T. Lyon, oimtractors upon the South Georgia and Flonda Railroad, being present, (subscribed libeilly, aud assured the people that with a sliglt effort upon their part the road was oertaitly a success. The stockholders then went into an elec tion of a Board of.Directors voting by ballot. Air. Jos-ph Scallay, Gen. A. H. Col quit, Major V. D. Williams, of Baker eountv, and Capt. AY. L. Walthour, Col. VV. AI. McLendon, Capt. 0. T. Lyons and Jas. L. Seward, of rkomasville, having received a majority of the i votes cast, were declared tli«» duly elected Directors. The following resolution was then offered and adopted : Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be publisi&d in the Macon Journal and Mebsenoeb and the Savannah Republi can. Tlie meeting then adjourned. E. B. Btjrnes, President. A. L. Hames, Secretary. After the adjournment of the meeting of the Stockholders the Board of Directors held a meeting, and a majority being present a temporary organization was effected by call ing W. M. McLendon to the chair. The Board then proceeded to the election of James L. Seward, of Thomasville, Presi dent, and Captaih !W. L. Walthonr, Seere . tary and Treasurer, and A. L. Humes, As sistant Secretary and Treasurer. The fol lowing resolutions were then adopted : Resolved, Thai the Assistant Secretary 'notify General A. H. Colqnit, Major W. D. W illiams ami James L. Seward, the absent directors, of their election, and of the next .meeting of the Board to l>e held in Camilla, on Tuesday, the 20th day of the present month. Resolved, That the Secretary of the meet ing of the Stockholders publish their pro ceedings of this meeting, in connection with .that of the Directors, in the Macon Journal and Messenger anil Savannah Republican. Resolved, That this meeting now ad journ to Tuesday, the 20th instant. \V r . M. McLendon, Chairman. Conespomlenee Journal and Messenger. From Jones Comity. ' Mr. Wim elm ,sPkr. somewhat 1 letter than we all supposed a short time ago. Some of the farmers will make two-thirds of a crop of cotton, and some 1 few even more. The average will bo, all over the county, more than half a crop. . fertilizers h ave been fairly tried, and the planters say li it had not been for them, the j cotton would have fallen far short of what it is. Some planted the Dickson seed, and others the Peeler, and each claims that the kind he planted is the best. I suppose it is another case of tweedledum tweedledee. Every energy is being strained now to get the cotton picked, and if the weather is not | had, it will be nearly, if not quite, all out by the Ist of November. The planters do not owe so much as they did last year for pro visions advanced, etc., and they intend to hold their cotton till they can get good prices for it. The corn crop has been good !in some parts of the county and bad in others; it will he about two-tliirds of a crop Last Tuesday was sale day. About 500 acres of land twelve miles al >ove here sold for 81100; another lot of 1260 acres, worth fully I six or seven dollars an acre sold for 82000. This last was owing to some cause not un derstood by the public. Laud in this county, if tolerably fenced, is worth, on an average, six or seven dollars jx-r acre. Allow me to call the attention of your Masonic correspondent to a mistake in his article “Eureka,” in your issue of the sth ' ! instant. He ought to read his Family Record more closely, so as not to mix the sayings and doings of his “ancient and distin guished” brethren. It was not Brother Pythagoras who first gave vent to the cele ibrated exclamation, “ Eureka it was said ; by Brother Archimedes, who was afterwards ! slain by a soldier in the army of W.'. M.'. Marcellas, T,'. I.'. M.\ For the reason why he said it, ride any classical dictionary. Clinton is “all serene,” notwithstanding! the troubles going on in the rest of the world. The lute gold panic, w hich turned Wall street topsy-turvy, had not a particle jof effect on as. Our moneyed men were too ! keen to he c aught By all the Grants and i Boutwells in Christendom. What a contrast i is til is with the condition of tilings at Vien na, in the State of Dooly. I am told that millions of dollars changed hands in a few hours at the Dooly Exchange; that some of the “money kings” of Vienna, who could | “dangle a million on the point of their pens,’’arc now Bankrupt; that hundreds of them committed suicide, in desperation at the loss of their property, etc., eh-. I haLod! the glory 7 of Dooly has departed : henceforth let her children learn wisdom of the Clintonians in the management of their finances. Several thousand of the people of Clinton !expect to attend the Fair in Macon. Can’t the street overseer of Macon offer to send the corporation carts to Walnut Creek to meet us? and can’t Fitzpatrick be induced to come with them and extend to us the hos pitalities of the city? Surely this is “a lib eral proposition,” as much so as the one made by the Bull-Ox. If the Executive Committee don't act in the matter immedi ately, we’ll accuse them of too much partial | tv for his Steer-thin. P. D. G. Thi: Wool Industry of the United States was the subject of an address recently deliv ! ereil by Mr. Erastns B. Bigelow, President of the National Association of Wool Manu facturers, before the exhibition of the Amer ican Institute, held in New York city. The annual value of goods composed wholly or partially of wool, manufactured in the United States, is estimated by -Mr. Bigelow to reach 8175,000,000. Nearly four-fifthsof the wool used is grown in the United States, and the remaining fifth is composed of coarse carpet wools, not grown in this country at all, of worsted combing wools, and fine clothing wools, grown here in limited quantities. The consumption of woolen goods in the United States w as estimated at 8240,000,000; thus allowing 8:15,000,000 as the amount paid to foreign manufacturers. The in crease of wool-growing during the last nine years has l>een very large, expanding from t)0,511,84d pounds ;n 1860 to 177,000,000 in 1868. The present excess of the production of wool in goods over the consumption was attributed by Mr. Bigelow to the rebellion, which made cotton scarce, and turned cot ton mills into woolen mills. The Result of English Cotton Growing. As an illustration of modern philanthropy, it is-stated, on English authority, “that over thirteen hundred thousand Hindoos and three hundred thousand Egyptians have per : ished within die last five years from starva tion consequent upon the forced cultiyatign Qi cotton instead ot bread,' 1 1 Cuba and the United States. There seems to be a general feeling that while the United States are bound to act fairly towards Spain, in the matter of Cuba, it would be a piece of good luck for us if events should so fall out as to enable us, by fair play, to acquire the island. AVe have on several occasions explained why, on financial grounds, we can better afford to do without Cuba, than possess it. But there are political reasons, also, uot less strong, and indeed stronger, why Americans, desirous to see their form of government unchanged, and their politics at least no more debased than now, should, whatever may lie their sympathy with the Cubans, oppose any scheme which looks to the annex ation of the island to the Union. We have already, in the Southern States, a large population of very ignorant people, to whom, for their own protection, it lias been thought necessary to give the vote. However that experiment may turn out, even those who most vehemently urged it will acknowledge that it is au experiment ; and no one probably denies that it is a dis advantage to the country to have as part of its population so many ignorant citizens, unaccustomed to, and unacquainted with the forms of free government, and to a great extent unaware of the importance of the j vote they are to east. . That is to say, we should lie far better oft', ; our political institutions would be safer, if the millions of blacks in the Southern States were as well educated aud had had as long a training iu the management of free govern ment as the whites of the Northern States. We do not by this mean to say that the blacks in the Southern States ought not ,to possess the franchise. It is, probably, as William Beach Lawrence, au eminent Dem -1 ocratie statesman, pointed out shortly after the close of the war the only way, under the circumstances, to enable them to protect themselves, and au iuqxirtant means to secure peace iu the Southern States. That it will secure also good government for the present, appears doubtful. There is reason to fear that the more ignorant of the blacks there, like the more ignorant of the whites here, will become the sjxirt and tools of political demagogues ; and the immedi ate future of the country is certainly not made more hopeful by the fact that they form a part of our population. Now, if this is so, should we not make a grave blunder to take into our Union, even if wo could get it for nothing, anew state, in Cuba, an island a large part of whose population consists of barbarians, not very . long ago imported from Africa, and of tlie lowest class of Chinese ? Can we with safety or comfort to ourselves adopt this population as a part of ourselves ? It may lie, as must people say, that Cuba’s “mani fest destiny” is to be a state of the Union ; but have we not the right, aud is it not our duty to ourselves and our country to keep I her out as long as possible ? Should we not, in all that we do in relation to Cuba, insist that if the island is to he free from Spain, it l it shall become au independent state.” Alay we not rightly prefer to see Cuba remain under the Spanish flag, in preference to having it under the American Hag ?— N. Y. Evening Post. San I'lamlMO Curiosities. Tlie city is traversed by horse railroads, and you are supplied with little slips of pasteboard by the conductors, having four i coupons attached. The price of these is twenty-five cents iu specie, aud no single fares taken. The conductor has a little brass 1 box attached to a small pair of shears, and the end of your pasteboard having the coupon attached is put in the box, and one or more of the coupons is clipped and drops in the box, to betaken thence by the cashier of the company, who holds the keys of these boxes. * * * You will find beets weighing 75 pounds, and cabbages 150 pounds; white bunches of grapes can be found weighing 10 pounds. One of the great sights in the city is the Chinese Theatre, located in what is called China Town. It occupies tliree months to :go through one play, and I think they per ; form every night in the week. It is con tinued in chapters or instalments like a New York ledger story. The actors are a jolly set of fellows, and when tired of acting, sit down and go to smoking opium. There are HV ,the allowed to wear their hats and smoke pipe; or cigar to their hearts’ content. And such music, or rather such discordant drumming on various instruments whereof I never saw the like it is impossible to describe. The China Town is a miniature edition of Canton. Its streets are all hung with Chinese lanterns, and the shops and other buildings are the same as in China. I passed into a ; kind of banking house. A Chinaman was | seated at a table, and liis countrymen were continually dropping iu with small amounts of gold and silver, which were entered on a i species of pass-book. Some of tlie amounts i were entered in red ink, some iu blue, and some in black. This banker was expert at figures, anil could run up a column in a ; second, making a Chinese character in red at the bottom thereof. I then visited a Chinese gambling house, and this was on Sunday evening. Some eight or ten Chinamen were sitting around a table; the presiding deity held a black stick, and as fast as money was put up, with great dexterity he raked it in. Care of Boots and Shoes.—Boots and shoes, if taken care of properly, will usually last two or three times longer than they usually do, aud at the same time fit the feet! more satisfactorily, and keep them dry and more comfortable in wet and cold weather, i The upper leather should be kept soft aud pliable, while the soles need to be hard, I tough, and impervious to water. The first tiling to be done with any pair of new shoes for farm use, is to set each one on a platter or an old dinner plate, and pour on boiled linseed oil, sufficient to fill the vessel to the upper edge of the soles. Allow the leather lto absorb as much oil as it will for eight hours. Linseed oil should not be applied to the upper leather, as it will soon become dry, rendering the leather hard and tough, i But if the soles be saturated with this oil, | it will exclude the dampness and enlarge the ! pegs, so that the sole will never get loostf ; from tlie upper leather. If the shoes be I sewed, tlie linseed oil will preserve the thread from rotting. Now, wet tlie upper leather thoroughly when the boots or shoes are to be put on the feet, so that those parts which are tight may render a trifle, and thus adapt the form of the shoe to the foot far more sat isfactorily than when the upper leather is not wet. Keep them on the feet until the leather is nearly dry. Then give the upper leather a thorough greasing with equal parts of Lard and tallow, or with tallow aud neat’s foot oil. If shoes be treated in this manner, and a row of round-headed shoe nails be driven around the edge of the soles, they will wear like copper, and always set easy to the foot. Boots and shoes should lie treated as suggested, and worn a little sev eral months before they are put to daily ser vice. This is the true way to save your shoe money, —Hearth and Home. Little children who sing “I want to bo an ‘Angel,’” should understand that to be an ungel in this world is tlie greatest misfor tune which can overtake anyliody. A writer in The (Boston; Daily Advertiser , in discuss ing the Byron scandal, justly observes : “According to Mrs. Stowe, Lady Byron was not a woman, but an angel, and 1 can well conceive that, in this world, an angel would be an extremely trying companion, either as a wife, a mother, or a friend.” Young gentlemen aliout to engage iu the perilous business of courtship should jkmi der lor twenty-four hours over this valuable statement before proceeding upon the deli cate quest, and should not read Air. Coven try Patmore’s poem, “An Angel in ‘the House.’ ” Perhaps, after all, what Tom Hood called the “pure womanly” is the best. \Ve think so, hut no woman need write to us to prove the contrary. If there is any objection to be made we withdaaw our opinion.— 'Tribune. Baggage Smashers. —How is it that one can travel all over Europe aud uot have his trunks injured, and yet. in a trip to New York and hack, liis trunks will - Is- almost battered to pieces ? It is simply because the ixirters and baggage-masters arc not carefuL Baggage is tumbled about here and there, and nothing short of a sheet iron trunk can stand it. This is outrageous and inexcusa ble. If some public spirited individual will make a tour, and make it a point to thrash i every porter who dumps his trunk down, or at least break his head when he breaks the tourist’s trunk, th evil may in time lie prac tically abated. The want of civility is the great characteristic of baggage men as a class. Their patience is solely tried, but so is the traveler's. Next to being knocked down to see one's trunk burst open by Vicing thrown out carelessly is the most disagreea ble. | —What is society, after all,[but a mature of mister-ies and misg-eriee ? Iniportunt to the Public. We find in the Savannah Republican a let ter from Dr. Means, which we insert below for the benefit of alt concerned: Oxford, Ga. , October 4, 1569. Col. Snenl, Editor S.'rrtrnnah Republican : Will you tie kind enough to give the in closed extract from the laws of Georgia, , passed by the Legislature at its List session, in relation to fertilizers, a place in your col umns, as the business season for the sale of those articles in your city is approaching, and many of those interested may not have hail an opportunity to inform themselves of the action of that body in the premises. A'erv trulv aud respectfully, vonrs, etc., A. Means, Inspector for the Port of Savannah, Ga. [Extract.] Section 1. “The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact that the second section of said Act [viz: ‘An Act to protect the planters of the State from imposition iu the sale of Fertilisers,’l -hall read, ‘lnspect and Analyze Fertilizers, etc. Also that section fourth of said Act shall be amended to read as follows: The Inspector shall be allowed a fee of fifty cents, when inspected and analyzed iu quantities of tifly tons or more and the fee of twenty-live dollars for inspecting and analyzing in quantities, less than fifty tons, to be l«uJ by the person procuring tlie inspection Section J. “That ;dl Fertilizers imported into this State, shall be inspected and analyzed at the [tort of entry. In which tlie same may be received ; and that all Fertilizers manufactured iu the State shall be inspected and analyzed in the county in which the sense are manufactured, and said Fertil izers shall not be removed from the mill or fae ! tory until analyzed." The Hog Crop, We are indebted to Messrs. Geo. Bain A Go. for a copy of Henry Mill ward .V Go's circular, dated Chicago, October Ist, which gives interesting information in relation to the hog erop of the present season. The circular is based upon letters addressed to many different jxiints in Illinois, theunsyvers to which establish that the general erop is about the same this year as last. Illinois reports from eleven [mints that the crop is the same as last year; from seven points that it is larger; in Indiana eleven jxiints aliout the same, eight jioiuts larger, and nineteen points smaller; lowa four points about the same, four points larger, and twenty-four points smaller; in Missonri and Kansas five points about the same, five points larger, aud one jioiut smaller. As to prices now offered Ito farmers by pickers, we learn that in Illi ! nois a few contracts are being made at 8 to 10c. per pound; in Indiana at 7 to 10e., the latter price net: in lowa no contracts, but farmers are asking 8 e. gross; in Missouri a few contracts have been made at 7 a He. gross, the latter price for hogs delivered nt points w ithin forty miles west of Alexandria. Messrs. Mill ward A Go. conclude that, with “such prospects, the sole security of the packers must lie in insisting upon such pri ces that, while they afford the farmer ample remuneration for liis labor, they may pro mise the packer some profit,” but they un accountably neglect to furnish a formula by which such a compromise can he effected. Tins is the more to be regretted, as the solv ing of the question, “How can farmers and packers both get rich at the same time ?” would be a beginning of tlie solution of the conflicting interests of producers and distri buters generally.— St. Louis Republican. n »( Robinson Crusoe's Island. The Island of Juan Fernandez, about four hundred miles from tlie coast of Chili, is the seat now of a German colony. LaffkVinter tlie Island was ceded by the Chilian Government to a j company of Germans, led by Robert Wehr mun, a Saxon engineer. He and liis society have now taken possession of the island and purpose to make it their home. They num ber some sixty or seventy individuals, and have taken with them cows and other cattle, swine, fowls, and all kinds of agricultural implements, with lxiats and fishing appara tus, aud tools for tlie various mechanical trades. It is said that Wehrman left Ger many eleven years ago, and, after passing some time in England, was engaged on rail ways in South America. While there he conceived the idea that he lias now carried 1 into effect. This is a repetition on a larger scale of the experiment of Pitcairn V: Island, without, of course, tlie criminal preface that stained the history of the crew of the Boun ty. The world will watch the career of this )fp:M S VkilfiiiV n! itnifsylupatfly natu rally attracted by the experiment itself, no! more engaging sjiot could have been chosen in which to make it than that which is cher ished in so many hearts as Robinson Cru soe's Island. >(♦>( Chinese Servants. Since the advent! among us of the Orientals with their chop sticks and cues seems almost an assured fact, at least but a question of time, it may prove of interest to the many liouse-keepers in onr community, to whom good domestics are as rare as angels’ visits, to learn the verdict of, those who have tried the Chinese iu their various capacities as house servants. The Sau Francisco Tunes, of a recent (late, tints speaks of them: “Confessedly, the finest servants known are tlie Chinese servants in their native country. As cooks they iu'e unsurpassed. AVe are aware of one cook in this State who graduated in tlie kitchen of Jardine Matheson’s Hong Kong establish ment, who lias received iHib per month for the past five years. The house boys are quick and thorough with their work; perfect as waiters; excellent in every branch of their duty. Tlie (onus, or nurses, are a proverb of fidelity. To each child a nurse is assign ed; it sleeps with her, and she will scarcely jiermit it to leave her sight. Patient, and affectionate, she tends her little charge till it passes the age of uursehood.” ><■♦»« It is rather difficult to see why a United States marine, whose legitimate business it is to go down to the sea in ships, should be put, upon horticultural duty. George AY. Paulas, a marine at Washington, on apply ing for his discharge, claimed tliirty-five cents per diem extra jiay, for reason that for thirty-eight months the Commandant liiul kept him at w ork in tlie garden of the Com mandant aforesaid. Panins considered that during this time lie had been “detailed for extra duty,” and that he should be paid for doing it. The disbursing officer did not see it in that light; but Paulas, in a state of high indignation, insisted upon the whole of his demand or nothing; and he also re fused to take his discharge. Moreover, ho proceeded forthwith to jmt himself into the hands of a lawyer; and will try the question of marine gardening in the Courts. [A. Y. Tribune. Masonry in Spain.—At the funeral of the late General Escalante, in Spain, the em blems of Masonry were for the first time ex hibited in that country. We have long known that there were num bers of the Great Brotherhood, comprising the very first men of the nation; yet such was always the tyranny of the government that they were obliged to meet in garrets and cellars with darkened windows and with doors doubly tiled. Even thus they were not safe from the espionage of the police of Isabella, ever on the alert to jjut down any manifestation of freedom of action, even on the part of a charitable institution. —Norfolk Journal. “Blessed be the man who invented sleep, ” exclaimed Sauelio l’auza. Accursed be the man, cry we, who invented squeaky boots. They murder sleep. Tlieydistract thought. They shake the nerves. They acidulate the temper. They are a nuisance—a horror a bugbear. One jiair of squeaky boots will destroy the mental equilibrium of a house full of well-intentioned people, and we be lieve that all piety and reverence, and devo tional contemplation, will lie banished from the hearts of the largest Church congrega tion by the sudden attemjit of a luau thus I shod to make his way among them. AVill no legislator cause a law to be enacted against the wearing of squeaky boots ? -Ifeut York Express. Virginia Tobacco Crop Not Damaged.— A letter from Dr. Bagby, written from Lib erty, Virginia, on the 30th ult., to his jmjx-r at Grange Court House, savs : “It rained heavily while I was in Lynchburg, and this rain was followed by one or two frosts which awakem-d the liveliest fears among the jilan ters and manufacturers of tobacco. Fortu nately these fears proved groundless, and now there is almost a certainty of a splendid crop - the quality of the tobacco, owing to the drought, Ix-ing superior, and the quan tity large.” —The Providence Journal reports the dis covery of a coal bed beneath that city. It was discovered by sinking a well for water in the yard of the Cove Foundry. The drill passed through a lied of coal four teen feet thick, at the depth of one hundred and nineteen feet, and a second bed of coal of six feet in thickness at a depth of one hundred and thirty-four feet, with no inter vening slate. This coal can be mined and raised to the surface at an expense td less 1 than two dollars per ton, Tlie ( ouiniercial Convention. RECEPTION OF EX-PRESIDKXT FIELMORK. From tlie Louisville Courier-Journal, Oct 12. The event of yesterday was the reception of Ex-President Fillmore in the large east room of the Court-house. At eleven o’ekx-k a large crowd had assembled, though it was uot until lndi-pust eleven that Mr. Fillmore appeared. Nearly the entire committee of reception preceded him by several minutes, and all eyes were strained toward the door to catch the first glimpse of the venerable statesman. When he at length entered, es corted by Mayor Bunco and several gentle men of tlie committee, lie was greeted by a tremendous burst of enthusiasm. HOW THE EX-FRESH iF.NT LOOKED. Air. Fillmore is rather tall, and of a hand some, portly figure. His head is massive, and his smooth, fleshy, good-humored face, his bright, uufaded eye, and his general physique, show him to lx' one of the Ix'.-t preserved of our statesmen. His hair is white as driven snow, and his handsome and venerable appearance is remarked by every one. He wears a jilain. bbiek suit, with light kid gloves. His air is that of a 'polished gentleman, aud lie is a man who probably never left an unfavorable first im pression upon the mind of any one. THE WELCOMING SPEECH. The address of welcome was delivered by F. T. l’ox, Jr., of tins City Council. At the time he commenced speaking there was some confusion incident to the pressing forward of the crowd to catch all that should pass, but when this subsided the sjieaker could be heard very distinctly. The greeting was very cordial, and seemed to be fully appre ciated by Air. Fillmore. ADDRESS OF MU. FOX. Sir: Upon me has fallen the pleasingiluty ! of offering you, through her metropolis, tin* greeting of the Commonwealth of Ken tucky, and of extending to you the liospi tality and liberality of the city of loitts ville. Aud now in her name, and by her authority, 1 welcome you to her hospitality, aud extend to you her freedom. Keuiem i Ix'riug that in every position of life, from the lowest to the very highest known to Un- American people, your career has been illustrative of law and of order, ami that your dignified retirement from public life has Ix'en devoted solely to the culture of the arts of peace; mindful, also, that in all your official life your jirofound intellect lias thoroughly understood and frankly ac knowledged the cheeks and buHances of our peculiar government, and that your great heart has embraced in its patriotic love every section and every section’s interest of this country, which, even now , in its early youth, well-nigh demands a world for its home. Remembering these things, the city of liouisville, aud, through her, the Common wealth of Kentucky, honor themselves in honoring you. Welovo and admire you as the last of that regime ill our country's his tory which began with Washington aud ended with your honored and illustrious successor, whose death we mourn to-day. Whatever fears tlie least sanguine of us may have entertained regarding this iuqxir tant movement, which to-morrow will take the form and complexion of a great commer cial convention, your presence lias dissipated them all. If your presence is auspicious to it, your sanction gives it the fiat of fate. Lasting benefits to our entire country, we I fondly hope, will flow from it, us w aters from tlie ruck of Horeli when struck by the “potent rod of Abraham s sou. ’ This con vention is the mission of commerce, aud the influence of commerce is benefit to all and pence with all. Again 1 bid you welcome to the freedom aud hospitalities of the city of Louisville, unworthy as they are, they ure the heartfelt tokens of an homage which we do now and always will pay’ you. ! Citizens of Louisville and of Kentucky : Permit me to introduce to you the guest of the city of Louisville, Millard Fillmore, i the hero of law, of order aud of jxjaee—of [icuee universal to our entire country. A burst of applause followed upon the in troduction, and as Mr. Fillmore was about to respond, another rather emphatic demon stration of popular sentiment greeted him. REPLY OF MIL FILLMORE. Mr. Mayor, aud HsulUmen of Louisville: J Ins reception is an honor aud a pleasure which 1 had no reason to expeet. Were 1 a j eallilidiit. . f,,r uonie liiiyh iuffitii-xl office, or did 1 come with the prestige of political ! power, 1 might account for this assembly here to day. Nearly twenty years have elapsed since I have taken part in political matters. 1 belong to no jmrty, but Ido be long to my country (applause,)and I cannot express to you the gratification 1 feel to-day at seeing in prospect a deliberative body, gathered from every State in the Union tlie Union restored that patriotic anil glorious Union which lias been endangered, , but 1 trust not lost, (applause.) Fifteen years ago I visited your city for the first mid lost time. Hail I been placed in it to-day unawares, I could not have recog nized it. True, here is the grand old river flowing along its edge; here is the great natural obstruction of the fulls, which lias placed it with the great commercial cities of the country, but now, when I see your splen did houses and your beautiful streets, all seems to be changed. It would seem as though magic had passed over it. How you could be so jirosperous through all the vicis situdes of the jiast ten years, is unaccount able, but T congratulate you on your good fortune and your prosperity. Kentucky, if there lx- a State in the Union, except that which gave me birth, is the State, of all others, I have learned to honor. [Applause, j 1 kncAi your illustrious citizen, who did honor to liis State, as he did to all the Union, and who now sleeps within your borders. I need not say 1 allude to Henry Clay. |Aj>- plnuse. ] He was my early, hist, devoted friend, and I was his; and 1 can never revert to liis memory without reverence and re ; speet. I beg your pardon, gentlemen, I came here with no prepared address. The time has lung past since I liave attempted such a thing, i came here simply to* thank you for this unexpected reception and honor, and to express the hope that you may con tinue to be prosperous, and that our coun try maybe one and united forever. |Aj>- |danse, j Pardon me, therefore, for not ad ding to this address, and for contenting my self w ith simply thanking you for this Hon or. [Applause.] AA'lien Mr. Fillmore had concluded, Mayor Bunee announced that the distinguished gentleman would lx; pleased to greet, per sonally, all who might desire to sjieak with Him. There was a great rush to grasp him by tlu* limiil and exchange compliments, and from that moment until the time allotted for the reception had expired there was no luck of cordial welcome ou every hand. Wiikiii tub Sum do km mot Set. The fol lowing graphic passage is from the descrip tion of a scene witnessed by a Mr. Campbell and his party, in the north of Norway, from a cliff' 1,000 feet above the sea: The ocean stretched away in silent vastness at onr feet; the sound of its waves scarcely ranched our airy lookout; away in the north the huge old sun swung low along the horizon, like the slow beat of the jienduliim in the tall clock of our grand-father's parlor corner. We all stood silent, looking at our watches. When Ixith hands came together at twelve, midnight, the full orb tiling triumphantly above the wave—a bridge of gold running due north -panned the water ls-tween us and him. There he shone in silent majesty, which knew no sitting. We involuntarily took off our hats; no w ord was said. Com bine, if von can, the most brilliant sunrise anil sunset you ever saw, and its beauties will pale before the gorgeous coloring which now lit up ocean, heaven and mountain. In half an hour the sun had swung up percep tibly on his beat, the colors changed to those of morning, a fresh breeze rippled over the flood, one songster after another piped up in the grove behind us—we had slid into another day. At a provincial theatre in Ireland, where Macready was personating Virginia*, in pre paring the scene in which the body of JJ ■«- i tutu* is brought on the stage, the manager called to Pat, his property man, for the bier. Pat being of a “heavy” temperament, re sponded Pi the call by saying that he would fetch it ••immaditly.” Pat next made his appearance with a full, foaming pot of the right sort, and was received with a thous and and one curses for his stupidity. “The bier, yon blockhead,” thundered the man ager. “And isn't it here '!" exclaimed Pat, presenting the mug. “Not that, you jack ass ! I mean the barrow for Deutaiu*” “Then why don’t you call things liy their right name ?” muttered Pat. “Who would sup pose you meant the barrow when you called for beer.” Is the Nashville municipal election, on 1 Saturday, the Conservatives made a clean sweep, electing all their candidates liy large . majorities. It is considered singular that i the negroes deserted the Bwlpwlrt m this 1 eta&w lot the first tune. VOL. XL NO. 29 Tlie “Model*’ Again. “ Hannibal,” the special corn -li the Augusta Chronic a , - the “model” iu a recent letter, after wise: Your readers will recollect t tl Legislature created au “(hit. 1 t to visit Warren and otln r . ’ that Committee never M-ii i ;!: - After the adjournment ot' tl- I. the Outrage Committee met I ' :■ b • sound adjourned. Govern": - U J them 8800, and the Tret- nv ot i • i mittee, J. G. AY. Mills, pr, - . v for $716.50, which the Trea-cr. r>■ > nay. as the Committee I, ~M„ , i by tin- Legislature. 1!i,;i..,-„ the money to par them from tin- S: : i Road. The Sts: R. ,1 is j 1: aged. Not a day mm w of sonn kind. ’This is owiti tot rience of its employes H complain of freight King (let;.tin it tanoogn, and upon invert : .• that tlie agent there is off, U a\: ; to his careless son and some in li - bert has recivved more credit . titled, except- in the case ot », i frauds. Muclisof the credit for hi l speeches is dvt© to his private N man named, Peterson, loitn .lv mi , . here. Btiilffa’k is running tin own in teres i\ There too j.. .; and under-stlmt’l’J’t's at the 6 V. the State Road mjli. v paid 83 -.ot and the Georgia lmq‘l over dUr tw, explained soon. ‘ Blodgett is working hib bert and steji into liis shoe - of coal and iron, “gold” w in pockets! Chaj> Norn like hungry curs, are stauo y v • , tewing eyes, expecting to o, of the crumbs. Look out In . ~.t i q State Road. I cannot, in this letter, - iv n subject. Farrow and An; ■. i . jiaper duel, and we trust to hao , a developments from them in a It is rumored that in the en gett becoming Superintend.m oi t Road, ho and Bryant will i Republican will get nil tlie St I; ing, leaving the Er,i and the / in the cold. The Er i poor ihi; l of the demi-monde ehuracter The / daily, having become steel and to enn it ii ms. Bullock, who is pecuniarily i : the Ojieru House, has I , THKI-10U8PoUTZLVNTU.lt 111 :;U lo |.. su PiISTOUUICE TO THE Ol’t t. V it. himself on Treasurer Atipier. win building now Occupied by the Po i,, Hi. had Illness «>i |.\-1T , , t Pierce. Concord, N. H., Oct. 8. Tie- I lies.-, of ex-Presideut IV mild form about live week- -i.i at 11 ton Beach, It w.. - be a dangerous illness, but he low \ rapidly, and in a few- days was taken home iu Concord. His fanu! p Dr. Charles P. Cage, was miuiii he found the ex-President uifi e i doiuina! dropsy, attended wild symptoms. Prompt treatm • r i relieving tho patient. About t o \. since hiccups set ill seriously, and at intervals for about ten days lie .1 cal difficulty hud been in .on i when it get in tie t rd not seem to respond to dnnv. t: i This physical condition, joiie-d wit itv to take much nourishment, Pierce to commence siukiii;;. and h tinned to fail gradually until and it. I conscious to the last, and ha.l strength to converse iq) t<«' .Hi . : of his decease. He coiner I In. during his tickncss u] ion pubh . . .al matters, mid expivs .1 adt > ami anxiety for lie- wellai of I He talked freely of the pubh whom he had been a -oeiated t life, and spoke personally of 1 Cabinet members, and of statesmen and representative n. ent parts of flu- country. A jproached his waning strength did n j mit him to converse, but to all app his bodily pain had left him. lie lay qun 11;, upon liis bed, a calm, happy, and n n uieVnwlo,, b out.'. about five o’eloclt lie look..; room for the last time, liis ey. i, moment upon those in utt ndam .• u; and then, ns calmly and w. . : l would siuk to its rest, he do-. 1 j. i his last sleep, ami passed a wav. II the residence of Mr. Willard Will: i Main street, where he had m 1. while in Concord, for many y. President Pierce formerly South Congregational Church in < hut a few years since he joined S’ I Episcopal Church, of which h> muuicunt. He. left a hands.;. , , which, it is understood, is devised I I'aiut. 1 AVe presented to our readei agoan account of a method by v paint could be jircjiared in a v : without any special upporatu.* and ity much superior to that ordin : ed by the regular manufacturin' mi nts. AYc now learn thui this | discovered in France, has been te Germany on a very large calc, iu I eminent and privute estabhslimi that all the advantages claim I : inventor have been more than ri i.,/ view of the importance of the pre, may be pardoned for repeating m terms the method of applying it, w! suits simply in mixing any of tl. materials for painting, cspceialli oxide of zinc, red lead and lump;a v i water, so as to form a thick broth. This, while still dilated : pa fine sieves, so os to remove the leu i rlrs and foreign substances, and a of drying oil is then jxiiu-cd into stirred round and round for ; enn time, during which the paint I actual chemical union with tin oij, .u the water. A pasty mass will sunn <p which falls at the bottom, and tin to lx: drawn off by decanting' • , I The jmste is then to be taken me n. much like, butter to remove Ini - : until all the water is eliminated will be left a prejiansl paint, in a . form to be further diluted with ■■ of turpentine, whenever it rnav I The proportion of water to In first Jiroeess varies with the m •! to about, 100 parts bv weight - 300 to 400 parts of whiten. d< z,i 150 to 200 of the gray; 150 Pi i , lend; 50 to 60 of red lead, and i lampblack may lie used. As i the entire separation of tin- water i mass, this is an actual oombin il. oil and paint, in the nature of a In ; Some substances, such its o'-hre. pi p n of CO] |„-r, ep*., when treated in 1 . way, do not part with t> , > them together as we mav, mixture of the substance viith oil , j The cases arc very difieri*i ti stances first mentioned. In tin of this process a single wo;; m t i hours, without any oth v m > tub and wooden sputuk:, h . pounds of irreproachable oil cm This is not a mere labo to bntaproeessthatcan In* p> one without the prere«pn-ite training or skill. J. mijil 1,1. i est nflinity for the oil, and forms , i it, which throws of! tin ,o as the metallic .to : Is* at first ttsi'd with wut r aim, P rather Is* moistened with a i water, to which about ten o liol or whisky has 1 N <*n add'd. 1 1 black and the aleoholic 1 i<; ,nl stirred until the mixture luma ture of fresh snuff, and in t lie easily mixed with the vat . through a sieve prelimliao; tionof the oil. —Philui jih / /. Abp. Sweet Potatoes Pi o, i Tie* novel question whether are fruit, or grain, came up in tin- ; Revenue office. The qne-t i Virginia, where th potato'-- 1 used to manufacture w hisky. If :; • regarded as fruit, tin product ot ■ by small factors would be exrn] :. Ii , I Pi l>e grain, the full tax won id b ■ ■ commissioner ilecided that for tli * ■ i of distillation the vegetable was gr Heaping the Conn - Tin 1, „ as the City Council of Chari** action, worthy of the materia 1 t ■ it. At their last meeting t • decision of Judge Mo- - by offices held by their favori new offices with the sane du creased salaries, and electing tli i . i officers to them. Th whole p..* > sent to jail for contempt of . ur .. i*l it would not Le amiss to keep t . n tli.te un til they all agree to quit the {jute,