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'• jt Two able organ of public opinion that it has ul ways been vigorous, thoughtlul and couserva ’ tivo iu tile discussion of the jsSMps ot the day, .lid lively, spa.kiiiig and .cui*Maiiiiug in its presentation of the Sewn:, lp gathering and -iblishing the latest liitotmution and (fyajuss- Ap auesuous of public policy, ,tfc.e, ,Mp>siau ■['V is fully übreitst.pf the most ol the tii%by Pdctf, $lO 00 for 12 ~ Tt*as-io4®'* o,,lfc i > mhe ■f'ur'-W'r.eai.y, News has the sme rca ' ias the Daily News,! ,f , ricp.#o 0U (or 12 iths; #3 for b months,. ' . Money for either paper can be sent by P O der, registered letter or Express, at r’s i■_ 1 The Meriting News Printing Office la'gest in the State. Every descrip- Ikri of .Printing done at the shortest notice.— Blank Books of all kinds made to order ; Book BimiiTng and Ruling; executed wghidispatcta. Rsti mates for work promptly (urnlsbed. Address all letters, J. 11 RSTIUL, P K 5-PftkesJlSg or low A, ABK AN* AS AND Da’CWM tWoEuwlio*, ter JT jjtrofenaf tmal <ff arts. W. H. Watkins. R- L. GamWe. WATKIIfS $. GAMBLE {'('{(IRNEVS AT LAW. IbouiguUu, (Ga, • / S' January 27 ly. t. % ~JkH. Polhill CAIN & BQLIIILL, \ T TO, It N E Y S AT A VV i\ s. bothweXl. Attorney at Law, Cherry Hill, near LO,UfS,YI,LL GUI June. :ird,-875, 6m_ A. F DURHAM, M- D. auU curgeun. Sparta, Cia. SUCCESSFULLY treata of the Lungs and 1 diseases c/, the Eye, and Ear, and ail fotins i)fopsey ; dis eases ot the Heart Kidneys, Bladder and Stric ture, secret diseases, long standing Ulcers.— Kemoves Tumors witnout pain Makes a speciality ol diseases peculiar to Fe males. Medicines sent io any point ou the Bail road. All correspondence confidential. Feby J 5, 1874 ly HOTELS. Laiper House, Mulberry Street, MACON GEORGIA lIIS, Proprietor- Free dm ih i? fr maud to the Depot. MARSHAL HOUSE:. : *!s AVAlimjl ; GA. 4 B. tlKJßj—proprietor. BO A RIY PE R DA Y £jj,oo> , > i', , MoCORB’S HOTEL! j (ia i G. & WlLiON—Prtiprktjf. ! BOARD PER DAV $3 00 5 I ' ! 13. H. RICHARDSON & CO. • f u&Jishers’ A^q^W, 111 StHKtil’, SaVjlv\ail, til. Are autuorizjtd to contract for advertising in our paper, i ! T. MARKW4LXEK, BF.OAD BJWRP3T, &Nbak Lcwer Mabkkt ALGIHTA.GI. Monuments, Tombstones MARBUWdRKS, 4JJG USTA, GA. Louisville* Dsug Store. E..H f W. IIUNTdiR*.:,i I). Druggist &, Apothecary. i Suscessor to HUNTER ,&. CO. Keeps oil hand a lull and well assorted slock ■ f DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, 1)YE( STAFFS, PERFUM ERY, SOAPS, COMBS. LiIT ARTICLES, LASIP t CHIMNEYS, < 'FIN EJ.. CIO AIIS 11 CHE WIN G TOBACCO ! WifilioW GLA£S and PUTTY &c. &: AVh'ek.heoilers to sell UQ ft, CASH, as c.hop Us thfly can b* bought, lit in apg town intestate. '• „• • ’‘ , " l 'Drfikiu Magi# j Hauser’s DiajrUea'and Dysen " tjy Cordial, Always on band, and for sa'o.. Also Dr. Syrup Tar, Wild : Cherry, and Htehound> W new and trainable remedy in Cough* and affections of the Lungs generpljr ,i ' IfUMPS! PUMPS!, f ,lmvo on hand the Templeton Farm Pump, Pipes and Valves, which 1 am, putting up and repuiring. ' v I have pr up a great number of these pumps in this ,and adjoining counties, which 1 war rant to work well and save a. amount of labor. .Address 8. . MURPHY,- Bethany Jefferson County, Ua. . , .A THE NEWS AND FARMER. hQUISYIIXE. JEFRERSON COUNTY. GA., NOVEMBER 2, 1875. THE RINGS the swindlers with tk,eir rings, Whisky rings! What a world of slush their nice manip ulation brings! Iley? thtey swindle, swin<Se > swindle, ’’ And so silently they steal! 1 AYhile the whisky taxes dwindle, And the people’s anger kindle, As to justice they appeal; Telling Gffttrtk. An example’s wh,at they want, Ana they would fain* piii an end to all the wicked tliat springs From the rings, From the. swindling and the stealing of the rings. ' * Hear the, clinking ojC the r’ngs, Golden rings !‘ i Ob, vhat pockets full of money their manipulation brings! How each swindler %r.d stjelij, As his future he foretells, And each bloated rascal gloats O’er his swag, All the pockets., cf their coats Stuffed with bopds and coupons and i svitk notes, . Like a bag! Oh, as rich as any king. Is the. happy man who joins a whisky ing! llow he. flings, As vain things, Cash apd what money brings,, le he jubilantly sings i Of the rieimess and thp*rarenxss Of the rings Of tlie gre.itness and the glory of the rings*! Mark, the vengeance on-, the rings, Whisky rings ! What a tale of terror, now, the exigen cy brings! llow the frightened wretches slide, And in vaine they try to hide ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek and shriek. Qjft of tune; Clothed, with curses as with garments, ■ for their wraths must find a vent; ; Each one threatening in his fury, tbpfifh about the President; Pleading guilt} - , guilty, guilty, Wishing that his blood was spilt, he ! Sees bis fate and tries to face it, | Knowing nothing cap, era.se it, Bpt it comes, apd* comes right soon ; Oh. the rings! JFiiat a tale their capture brings Of despair! TERRIFIC BALLOON A* CENSION PARING, ApppNAITT fl* IN A BLAZE OF FLUE. [Buwling Greeu (lvy.) Pantagrapli J To make the Fair successful,. inviting.; and attractive as possible,.thp directors ami managers of‘the McLean county Fair last week advertised ajit'and balloon ascenpipp, 'lJhe (services of Prof. S. D, Atchison, a daring aeronaut of Cincin nati,, and Mr. G. C. Grady as manager, With a largo and hapdsonie' balloon,equal to tiie dimensions of an ordinary cottage house, were procured. Thursday''was, the day, and four o'clock iii the after noon the hour, for the grand sensation. The bold and dauntless aeronaut step ped gracefully fpr#ard and grasped the. trapeze. Ife was cocii. c ivlu VCollected and full of : nerve, as though enjoying the commonest-every-day pastime. Ilis appearance *wss quite attractive, • He is apparently young in years, and.ha's the macular, wiry elasticity of the tri umphant athlete, And form and mould That would have done credit to the an tiqiie WfftStlers when the Olympic games were in their palmiest splendors, and when a laurel wreath won there was next in honor to a victorious battle y(pp on the field. As he grasped, the trap-! •eze, by order of Mr. Grady the stays were cut, and up, up shot the airship straight as an arrow, swift and graceful, in feathcryljghfnpss. As he ascended, the guy-ropes were dropped, and on he spend amid tumultuous and deafening applause of the people, to whom he .waived his hand from,a, distance be yond where the clouds and thunder make their home. Higher and higher went tiie balloon, amid the unrestrained admiration and ethusiasm of the people.. When lie had reached an altitude of. nearly half a mile, dense smoke wa? seen 'issuingTfpm the balloon, curling toward the blue skies, when, horror of horrors ! the balloon wasdisco\e.-cd to be on,fire,! as some thought it was before it ascend ed. Tongues of red flame would pierce through and dart, from its sides. She was soon enveloped in empire and flame, and instantly collapsed. The sceue now beggared description. Down, with the velocity of the eaglet stretched upon the wing, down came the aeronaut in a ball of tire and smoke. The sight was sickening and painful. The shouts of enthusiasm were changed into wild wails of despair. Every cheek was blanqed 'with terror. Women shrieked.‘and screamed and fainted away ; children uttered piercing cries, and ran to fro; old ifl,groans and stifled sol's, turned away them gaze, only to look again.and.find,terrible reality all too real; horses champed snapped their reins and ran riderless and impurseed in all directing; men on horses galfopcji with the sp/ijpfl of. Mamelukes to where tfiq ,ecj*i} . was falling^. Downward, still-downward, with ac* rowy swiftness came the.,.interpid aero ■naut, a sea,of fire hissing ans roaring above his head, and clouds of smoke enveloping him. Nearer and nearer lie approaches, his face to the fire his feet to the earth. On he comes, till his feet strike plumb against a projecting green I lmb of a tree larger than a man’s leg, which was stripped from the body s,s though it had bp£p a blade of fodder 1 upon a corn stalk, do great vms-the force of the concussion, A second more and his feet struck the ground with such force as to make qmte an excavation. 1 l,e iiy stantly feU sejpseless, and was by all to hayebpen kllleil outright. lie was boppe. ftwa under the burning balloop, wlpcb was destroyed. Restoratives apd proper medical appli ances were* resorted to, and spp.n, the pprilo.uA vbyager through njy and fire was brought to consciousness. I lis left thigh, between the knee and hip-joint, was shattered to splinters; his other leg was bruised and hurt; his light hand was badly lacerated, and ableeding and painful abrasion appeared on the left temple. Besides these, iiii, breast was mashed in, add it was IhSjnSt 'that he sustained fatal internal injuries. He manifested the utmost coolness aud for titude, and was taken to tlie Lucas Hotel of that town, where he was kindly cared for. He was still alive when we left Cajhofih oil Friday, though little hopes were entertained for his recovery., P. S.—Just before going to press, we received special dispatch from Cal houn stating that Prof. Atchison, idji, likely survive. A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION WHAT ARE WE DRIFT ING TO? Editor CgL^iVAroit.— Being engaged in two occupations, my time is, so completely occupied, that 1 have always to, write in a hurry—l shall condense as much a^ ; possible. The negroes were set free and turned loose among us without any prelimi nary training for fr,efidpm. We had con tented that the negro left fiee to.dir,ect and control himself, could not liva to any advantage in a Temperate Zpne, where long winters prevail', and subsis tence must necessarily be dug out of, the earth by patient, persevering toil, backened, by judgement and, economy. Of the truth of this proposition, I am npw. as fujly convinced as ever. But he is hear with us and free at tliat.— But those who know nothing about Sam bo, may prate as much as they please about his excellent qualities; they are at a safe d/staupe from, him, and know i nothing of the subject that they, pretend to discuss so sapiently ; but one thing is certain—l speak most emphatically— we must control the negro or ruin is in evitable, both to them and to us. Tlie sooner we understand, this, the better it will be for the welfare of our country. I do not menu by this startling declara tion, that we should deprive them of a solitary right that legitimately belongs to them as freeman; but tbe general laws of Nature declares iu divers ways too clearly to be misunderstood, that “knowledge is power,” and that within the grand circle that it sweeps, are to be found wisdom,, peape, safety, apd pros perity,, Yhis law, also, declares jujit as clearly, that ignprapee. enthroned,, is a power for evil! Knowledge to, the white race, aud must have full sway aud scope, in all the grand departments of business, or else prosperity an,l prog ress will ever be a mere phantasm of the coveted goal that will never be reached. The negroes are the best laborers that we have or can get ; but they 1 are liable to undergo great changes in* the - future, unless we control them and keep' them,fn',tbp.right channel. If left to float at will, they will zing-zang in every direction; along the cross anti complex currents of a boundless swamp. As tor White laborers, it is nonsense.to, talk about them where land is cheap and farming very unprofitable. They ato bnly adapted to sections where land is scarce and rich. For a short tig-e after the negroes were (sgt iree) they were hired mostly for wages,, and working under the control and direotion bf the whites, botli racei bid fair to prb3per; blit a great change has come o’er the spirit of our dream. — In the mind of the negro a grfcatdeal of idle time is the sine qua non of happfi ness. He can grasp the present; but all. the powers of his intellect combined into Que'jirlghty (?) focus, fail to illumi nate thejdafrk t'utureoije 1119 thin advahee 'of h;s nose : never did, any 1 ever will, bating a few, . Since being set free, he has taxed his limited intellect to the ut most to discoveyscc'eplay,by which,he can give a large portion of Fus,tim9 to. fishing, hunting, meetings, visiting, cold weather and general idleness ; but how to make money, accumulate property, and to secure the solid comforts of life, are questiou with him of minor impor tance. They settle down finally upon,the plan of renting land, ayd. Raying said rent in cotton. This is now the negroes’ plan, originated by themselves, and i$ fast bringing hpth races to temporal ruin, as I williclearly show. The white man argues thus : “a half loaf is better than none -/''the negro is .fres any how, so if he pays his .rent, Ldon’t care how he works, or what hs does, or how it's done.. The negro,on his part reason* thus: my rent must be paid in cotton, so.I will plant the myst of my crop in that aiftiqle, that wfic-h the rent has been paid, I may have empsgh.leftr.to fill my, pockets with then calico, flour, whisky, tobacco, nnil,e and buggy will be mine,..and I shall bq elevated to the highest plane of my ambitious .aspi rations. The negroes have no more judgeinent ebout the proportion of cory. and cotton they should plant than chil dren. Remember, whites, that the ne groes are among us. They must live. If they starve, so will you., bqn’t flatter yourself for a moment, that the negro race can starve in your midst without dragging you down in tlie fall! Tlie course that has been pursued, has fur nished the world with more cotton than i,t needs, and luvn raised the price of all the necessaries of life, plunging the whites into bankruptcy an/1 ruin ! And has brought the negroes to the’ brink of starvation. We may toil day and night to make cotton, but tlie more we make, tlie lower the price and the higher are provisions : upon this line we may work until we become walking skeletons,. and, remain all tlie while miserably poor and lmlf-starved ! —while all the world out side of us, is laughing at our folly, and grossing fat and saucy upon tlie unremu moraied, sweat that issues fromourevery pore.. But to, the negro again. We dp. not control -him—he controls us. He idles away one third of every year, counting from Christmas to Christinas ; and his sorry farming is equivalent to another third. He makes no manure; an/i but little more than a half a crop upon tlie land that lie pretends to cultivate.— Soon the land will be so poor that he can not support himself and pay rent — whatthenl 1 You will take the land from him and let it rest, or sow it in grain.— Bp£, what will become of the negro? lie w.ilj, be compelled to emigrate to Af rica or thp, \N(estor they will go about in gangs like prowling wolves, plunde ring the eo mtry and killing the whites ! You may call all this sensational, or the riiere phantasm of a sensitive brain; but consider if you please the signs of the present tiinp,. an l the causes now in full operation, in connection with their legitimate effects. The seasons for the last two or three years preced ing this, were almost perfect; yet star vation is now at our doors! I have seen nearly all the renters in a neighborhood,, gaUier abound one farmer, that happen ed to be so, fortunate as to have a little money, corn and meat, yjfering V> gath er his whole crop in one day for a little something to keep soul and body togeth- er! When, you see a dozen buzzards gathered, arogjid on,e dead snake, or as many Qtpws, or hear the black birds chattering in the cracks of your corn- ' crib,, know. ve,. that starvation, i* not far off! And. wliat is the cause of all this? Va rious reasons, have been assigned ; but the real cause is, the negroes have tiie, agriculture of the South pretty much in their own hands, and they are just about as well qualified to manage it,.as so, many childi en. If we give them-a farm, upon their own hook, they can’t run it, unless we advance to them; if we do that, they can not pay back, unless wc unsettle them, and leave them right where we found them. Many a white man has brought himself to grief, oil ac-. count of allowing the negro the pleas ure of running a farm, af his—wpite man's—expense ; vainly supposing that Sambo could support himself, pay rent and debts, and do it all by skinning only a half crop out of the land. Well, what is the remedy? Is it to be fpUiul in sowing more grain, or planting more corn,.or making less cotton? AU these are generally pointed out by the savant3 of the South as constituting an effectual remedy : but they are not the remedy,, only the would be effects of a proper remedy applied. The true rem edy is—and there is no other—for the whites to take the great business of ag riculture into their own hands; then the reins will be held strong aud steady, and the “world's backbone’’ kept in the proper position. A course.will be pur sued, adapted to secure the permanent welfare of both races for the present and, future. It is generally admitted that the whites must have,poetical su premacy, or the country, ruined, lie not deceived; it is just' as necessary that the whites should have agricultural supremacy, to save the country from riiin. Finally, ail sorry hands must be hired for wages. Renters must be able to support themselves; must be directed in pitching their crops- and' working thCidmu-it be compelled to make ma nure and keep up fences. The land they work must not be allowed, at least, to become any p6q^„. The vagrancy must be rigidly enforced aguiut both blacks and whites ; drones must be kicked out of tiie hive and put 011 the under an overseer.— Ri'jkl ecqtyQWy, vuist 'be the order of the d s ty r . Living upon the credit system must stop ; it is badj. ccjv/, bad policy to allow the prpsynjt. to steal both principal and interest from,.the future. .More grain and [less cotf oa. Barnyard manure an u*t. receive-nupije,.attention, aud guano less. The lovwpi'ice of cotton and high price of provisions furnish an argument that will convince farmers ,by aspdtbv, that they have been pursuing a wroipg course. The tyrant nkcessit,y, i* tliQ only aigu., meat that the Southern, farmers will listen ,to. This old tyrant is now march ing.every where through the South, aijd, I,discovera growing disposition iip-our people to pull off their hats and make him a bow. I now hear much talk about sowing more grain, planting more corn, and less cotton, and msj lf log. more ma il are, &0., &c. Many- -of the whites have a little farm of their awn that they are trying to make rich; but outside of this, they rent the balance of their land, to the lid ter slcelter r.qgw,wh<> is fast wear ing it out.! I again ask the question, if this course is pursued much longer, what will become of Sambo? I am not: by enemy, but a better friend to . him than he is practically to himself. lie must be compelled in soino way to im prove .the land \he tills ; .or else after a while, we shall be coinpolle 1 to ship him or to do worse. ITlicn the black mau shall hqve worn out the land allotted ,to hini, he will not be allowed to fall back upon the white man’s few “bale acres," that lie has nursed as carefully as his own children. Let a wise course he pursued in due time, and sopai,qur country will resemble a garden; pr<(,visions will be cheap and cotton bring a remunerative price ; our wives will be’ happy and our chil dren merry , Sambo wifi again look sleek and oily, and will Tjdiistle audi jjijg, as he was wont t0,d0,, in tlie good old days of yore ; but in order to reach this happy state-, the white, man must h/jhi the reins, both poiitieal and agricultural—and not the negro. JAS-. 11. OLIPIIAXT. Stellaville, (la., s e P f 1875. w - • PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. Statistics , of the Order — A Reform movement liayiyurateiL Thy Njiticnal Grange is now in ses sion in Louisville. A correspondent writing in regard to. tlie meeting, gives some statistics of tin, Grder, as fol lows : • At present,, in, the Order there is a total of forty-two State ajyl Territorial Granges, and more, tlipje twenty-four thousand sub-Grangee* <*n/opri.sing a membership of about one-, million four hundred and fifty thousand! gcus.eyis. This is an increase of two thousand Granges, and in the neighborhood of; one hundred and thirty thousand mem bers, over 1874. The work o‘‘the Or der in the future will consist more in consolidating and strengthening those Granges already in existence than in organizing new ones, inasmuch as the territory in this country is pretty well covered. The following is a list of the number of Granges in each State in 1875, as copied from tlie official re turns : Alnb.tm, I IT.‘I I Mississippi...... 663 Arkansas 03u h Mi550uri..........203/ California 26-i Montana 26 Colorado 611 Nebraska 62n Cotinectkut. ... 11l Nevada'. 15 Dakota.. 56 Ne,v Hampshire.. 64 Deleware . ..... 2 1 New Jersey |)J Florida 14, New York.. 3is ! Georgia 705 North Carolina .. 535 • 16 Ohio 12115 Illinois. —.....1581) Oieo-m ]ss Indiana .....2033 • Pennsdvauin. .. 591 I Ipifieu 'lJqtfttory. 14 South Carolina.. 350 lowa .20 4 i Tennessee....,.,,. 1991 I ly* usas 1391 Tops 1990 I Kentucky 1 <iwi Vermont 207 j Louisian .114 Virginia 663 31 iip'*. .. 18.1 Wa-h njrton Try 66 Maryland,.' 157 1 Wear Vii-iuia... 293 Massachusetts... 99 V\ sin.. 513 Michigan 604 ~ ' Minnesota 546 Total 23,923 1 lie totiil number of Granges in ex* istencc in 1871 was twenty-one thous iti.d one hundred,ap(l,eighty-three. 'ijie rccepts of tlie National Grange for 1878 were two hundred aud twenty nine thousand s x hundred and thirty three dollars, and the expenditures cue hundred :i;ul eighty thousand nine | hundred adi ninety-flye dollars. It is estimated that the Batrons liayp eigli | teen, million dollars cash capital inypst je l in* thyir various enterprises, which, i include railroad and, steamboat lines, I banks,fire and life insurance companies, j cotton gins and mills, packing houses, I flouring mills, elevators, grain ware houses, machinery manufactories, ship | ping associations, foundries, tanneries, j cheese factories, etc. I The correspondent says : Among the rank and tile a powerful j reform movement has been initiated, j whose objects are as follows: Limita , tion of the power of tlie higher Granges, j reduction of dues atyl fees, and the re turn to members .of all dangerous sur pluses; abolition of the higher degrees, or their throwing open to all members ; simplification of tlie ritual. There-are some men in the Order, like the Grand Master, Adams, and Master Allen, of Miss mri, wiio desire to make tlie most of their class privileges, and to coerce into silence and submission all people aiul papers wily, do.net thjnand say precisely what they wish. "They have set themselves againat the people,,and will be smashed. The Order is Anti- American in its Constitution. Thus the National Grange was first of some Government clerk*.at Washing ton, and, as the Order widened, the same little ring kept, itself in the place to which.it had elected.itself. The last dodge (was, when too many elective and representative! members began, to gpt into,the National Grange, to, create,, a Senate (Seveutii ( lifgree bf Ceres).—,. Thus wficu t a member of the ring was re pci,ii'atel and retired from ( th* National Grange, instead of stepping down and out, he stepped up and. beeonTng a ! member of the Senate, without whose (approval the action of tiie National j Grange was void. TJiis wa* coming it | adittlC-itoo strong even, for the simple 1 and,long suljferiug A-pipricsu j':ujmer. and ■now the reformers insist*,that all de [ grees above the fourth (tiie equivalent | of Master Mason) be abolished,tir.thrpwn [open, so that :>iiy member of the Cadet' will be eligible pi any office and can at tend apy of its deliberations. This they will surely carry.. Last year the State Granges almost unanlinousljvrejected a very cheeky amendment proposing to make certain founders members of the NatioqalGrange for life ; and so strong is , the.- feeling that Master Allen, of Missouri, the hottest advocate or Gran ger aristocracy, has been instructed by liis Grange to vote for Grange reform. The dues and fees will also lie reduced, and the surplus returned, so that the National Grange will have no dangerous funds 011 lnnd. No simplification, of the ritual is expected presen, but ul timately there ayU be but one degree in the Order, t he feature of secrecy—which | shuts out the Catholics, Baptists, Qua le t.s, and all who arc conscientiously opposed to membership in secret socie | tics—removed, and thu Grange practi i cally resolved Into, a series of indepen ! dent country co-operative organizations, J having a State Grange* merely for con sultation and uniformity, aud a Nation? i al Grange, wholly inexpensive, and lim ! ited in its functions to being a mere ! bureau of record. Indeed, plans for in i'dependent and simplified Granges have | already been made public in Michigan. THE BOOMERANG, I 1 '.lnteresting Fiicts About the Singular IVeagon Us' and by the Natives of Aus traliai A traveler tdb-us something of the singular weapon used by the natives of Australia,, the boomerang. lie saw them used by the natives. They ranged from twq, feet to thirty-eight inches in length, and were of various shapes, all curved a little l*iul looking, as he de scribes them, something like a wooden .new moon. They were made of a dark, ; heavy lyqpil an i weighed from one to. three pounds. In thickness they vary from half an inch agd taper to a point at Cach end. One of the natives picked up the piece, of woo*', and, poising it an :instant, threw it, giving it a rotary mo tion. For the first hundred feet or more •it went straight ahead, Then it tacked ! o trfut left and arose slightly, still rota ting rapid I} - . It kept this latter course for a hundred feet more perhaps,, but soon veered the* left, again,, describing a, broader curve, and a moment latter fell to tlie earth six or eight feet in front of the thrower, having described nearly a circle in the air. Another native then took tlie same boomerang and cast it, holding it with the same grip. It took the same course, but made broader curves, and as it came round the black caught it handsomely in,his right hand. Another nat'.yethen threw it aud lodged it on the- ground aborg twenty feet be. hind him, after it had described a circle of 2DO, yards or, upwards. After him they all tried, it and but one failed to bring the. weapon back to the spot where they stood. Carn boo, a native then selected from tlio: iipnp of boome rangs another one*, apd east it with a sort of jerk. It, flew for forty or fifty ,yards, whirling ljke ati p. Then it da”'-, ed into the air. mounting fully 100 feet, and Cain;! over our heads, wlier.e iu„ seernpd, tin hang stationery, for a mo ment, then settled slowly. still whirling, till he caught it,_ Two others of the blacks then did the same thing. Meanwhile 1 had shaved a little of the wood from the convex side of one of the boomerangs. This was now ol'-. feretl to them, to throw. One took it withpnfi noticing what 1 1 done, por ed it, but stopped short., but with a con temptous glance at my improvement threw it down and exclaimed: “Hale bu lgory !’’ (no good). The others then looked at it cautiously, but it was also a.bale badger to them. No one could be induced to,throw it. Meyers asked them,why.they did not use it, but they could not give a delicate answer. It was plain they did not like the way it. prised, when held in the hand, yet 1 could not distinguish any difference whatever, between this and tiie other weapon *. liurleigh then .walked to a distanceof two hundred feet or more from tin; baleks and bid Carboo to .throw at him. The native looked at him a moment, rather curiously, then comprehending what was wanted, he selected onaof tiie heaviest of the missiles, and tnrning. half around, threw it with great force in a direction almost opposite from that where Burleigh stood. The weapon sped smartly for sixty or seventy feet, then tacked in an instant and flew di rectly at Burleigh, and had he not most expeditiously ducked, he would have re ceived a hard thump, if nothing worse. It struck the ground twenty or thirty paces .beyond.. This feat brought out a broad grin and .something like a chuckle from tiie whole °f them. Carboo even intimated that he would like to try it i smother, cast, but Burleigh expressed himself fully satisfied. Mr.—— (an other of our party), however, offered to “take a shot,” but not at too short a range. We were standing in front of I one of the'Storehouses., Carboo placetl I I in front of the do r, and stood I !with his back to him, .with ’s hand - )>ttt his shoulder. None of us knew Iwjsat sorb of a manceuvre he had in mind, not even Myers., Standing m this posi tion, the black.- threw the boomerang Straight alien l. Immediately it curved jn the air. Tjicn it disappeared jarouud the corner of the building, and before he had time to guess what was meant it came around the other end (having passed completely around the storehouse) and gave him a sound slap pu.the back, which made his eyes snap. A VntoisiA widow, having recently contracted a marriage engagement, fur nished the bridegroom with the follow ing ni<iue certificate, which she evident ly thought necessary iu order to enable him to get the license. fVe suppress the names : “This is to certify that i hereby give Tom leaf to get li cense to marry me, 1 be ng full grone, and of age, forty-five years old, my pa rents being w| ling lb.- to marry. Lu* cindy —r , daughter of , Nov -34, in7or FORK ALE. A first-class second hand 50 saw OO P TON GIN, iii perfect order, will be sold at a bargain. Apply ar, tins Olliee. tt. NO. 30.
