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MACON, THURSDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., OCTOBER 4, 1860.
Volume XXXIV—No. 51
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Science and Invention.
MELTING ZINC BY GAS.
One of the French scientific journals gives
•n account of an interesting process of melting
zinc by gas. The melting of zinc, which is
generally performed in plumbago cruciblcs over
a coko fire, requires an elevated temperature
that is difficult to regulate. If tho tempera-, ^ ^ ^ portcd upon a horizontal frame
turc , becomes too high, it causes a loss of| , ,. , u :_j
slightvariations of temperature on the bulb.—
This difference of result, however, docs not af
fect the principle of the instrument The
compressibility of water is too minuto to bo
recorded in the simple tube, but it may be re
corded in two methods. One of these, which
is believed to be preferable to any other, is, to
have a tube or cylinder of metal, and in lieu of
a scale tube, to use a long bolt of metal, or, in
other wordsalong solid metal piston, to enter the
cylinder through a packing box, and to be press
ed into the cylinder by the external pressure
of the superincumbent water. In descending,
the piston, when pressed into the cylinder un
til the density of the isolated sea water equals
that of the sea water surrounding it, will draw
along an external scale on an index recording the
compression; and on ascending, the piston,
when pushed back hy the expansion of the iso
lated, water, will leave in its position the index
fixed by a spring acting on a toothed rack at
tho side of the scale. In this form tho action
of the instrument appears to be very simple.
apparatus for printing shawls.
Some improvements have lately been made
in the apparatus employed for printing shawls
of Mr. Davis, I am at loss to imagine. In this
city, and to tho men of his own party, Mr. Davis
can say what he pleases; and were he to stand
up, and in his peculiar, defiant and dogmatic
style, declare that black was white, there are
those, and not a few among them, who would oled hors evur git ovur thee bline staggurs?
shut their eyes and believe him. His speech on Iloapin that yu mai not shair thee saim phait
Thursday night, will plainly show, when pub- that Eskew lapius did i remain
fished, (which it will be, under his own direc- Magnancymusly yores BILL,
lion,) that he is at least, one-half Republican,
and the other half nothing.
Breckinridge and Lane Matt Meeting.
There was a large and respectable Mass Meet-
fur tlicc rescp>hun uv thee Prinse uv Whalers I with all remainders cut off for our free and con- I the bags to be provided by myself. lie begins
an his frond thee duke uv Castcelsope. when I federated Republic, before he n ill shake the on Monday. I send my team to follow and
„ n i,,. nt transniarc vn must cum an crimson steel of an assassin over any man elec- gather up the sacks of grain. On Thursday or
“ . . ", . . . I ted President by the voices of his countrymen. I Friday night I have the entire cron cut, thrash-
bnng yore chuck luck gaim and yore mterestm Such sentiments smack more of the Italian ed, winnnowed, and housed!”
phamily. Speekin uv yore phamily did yore | bandit than the open, brave American citizen.— If the proof had not been before my eyes, I
We have no boubt this single threat lost Breck- should have set all this down for romance'. But
inridge one hundred votes.
JC(re dcarpt Ce%ntjj| gari
ing of the upper wards last night, in favor of
Breckinridge and Lane. It was hoped that the
Hon. Wm. L. Yancey would address the meet
ing, but indisposition prevented his attendance. :
Hon. E Lewis Lane, Parkin Scott, Esq., and
other eminent speakers, were present and de
livered spirited addresses to the people. The
speech of tho venerable Parkin Scott, Esq., was
especially interesting. This aged and eloquent
gentleman, though long since having ceased
to take an active part in politics, has felt it
be his duty to enter the arena, and afford his
sage advice in the present crisis. The speech
MAOON^G-A.
Thursday, Oct. 4, 18GO.
From the A’etc York Century.
FARMING AND GARDENING IN
California.
After breakfast we took a ramble through the
garden and orchard. A more miscellaneous
rowth I never dreamt of than is here in an en
closure of two acres. According to my rccol-1 *“? "5*.° *"
lrctinn of Atlantic tl.nv cm™ i nUnJ alned: b 1 sh ° U , ld be , n,Uch 1«» SUrpnSClI W Wit
ness that result, and even to cat bread made of
here it was! I suggested that human ingenuity
and skill had reached their climax in this appa
ratus. But my friend insisted that there was
room for further improvement, and that an ar
rangement might be added for grinding the
grain, so that the standing wheat should be
converted into “Extra Superfine,” at the rate of
twenty-five acres a day. After the experience
of my day’s ride in this glorious valley of Al-
13jj Electric tLclegrctpl)
and other articles. According to this plan, of Mr. Scott was grave, dignified and full of ad-
impression tables and coloring tables are used,
one or more of these tables being fixed, and
one or more of them being movable. The lat-
zinc by evaporation and burning, and it also
seriously injures the quality of that which re-
or platform which rests upon rollers carried
at the extremities of levers. These levers arc
mounted eccentrically upon centres, and have
mains; the oxyd of zinc resulting from com- ^ extremities connected by finks
foictmn nuTiri'jr mochaiucailv n.inomr the metal-1 , . , . , , ^ . w
to other levers, which arc also connected by
bustion mixing mechanically among the metal
jo mass and producing what is called burnt
zinc. This accident occurring daily in zinc
foundries, aroused the attention cf M. Miroy to
tho advantages of employing gas in this oper
ation His apparatus consists of a cast iron . ^ k t0 the table> the Motion
crucmle placed upon an upright cylinder « • bcin g rcndcre d smoo th and easy by the rollers
This furnace is formed of two concentric cn . °" * b “ b | the platform ^immedm^ls The
, , , , I printing blocks arc supported on wheels which
velopesol iron plates, separated by a layer of | P _^ ;] _ =c!r „u- ftv , r
sand, or it may bo mado of fire brick. The
levers to the end of a beam. When this beam
is caused to rock by a hand lever or otherwise,
the several links and levers impart an upward
downward motion to the platform or
the motion
, , -ill bcing rendered smooth and easy by the rollers
conical furnace, where the gas is burned.— | "““e *
gas is brought in obliquely from the two sides
by two pipes, each concentric to a larger pipe,
run on rails, and are successively passed over
the coloring tables and the impression tables,
which arc severally forced up to them by means
of the anrangements refered to. Provision is
leading compressed air-the pipes being sur f acc s before the
six-tenths of an inch in diameter, and the air I ° 1 °
pipes two and eight-tenths inches. M. Miroy
estimates that the volume of air employed should
be triple that of the gas, and this proportion is
regulated by stopcocks in the pipes. Tho air
is forced into the pipes by a blower driven by
power. Tho melting by gas is more rapid and j
less costly than tho fusion by coke, especially
when a crucible has to be mounted for a sin-1
gle melting. There is also a great saving in j
the cost of crucibles.
VALUABLE MARINE GOVERNOR.
shawl, extended upon the impression table, is
brought up against it, and also for adjusting
tho shawl, and bringing the desired portions of
it successively beneath the same printing sur
face. When the coloring table is fixed, a color
I roller is connected to it, and arranged so that
it will turn when the printing surface moves
I over it in the one direction, and remain at rest
when that surface moves over it in the opposite
| direction.
LUCIFER MATCHES.
, . . Lucifer matches depend altogether on phos-
An ingenious marine engine governor has fo, their inflammabaity. Their cornpo-
boon devised to prevent tho engine from run- aWon an enluIsion of phosphorus with glue,
ning off at an excessive speed, when tho rcsis- and gmn0 ^o^g ma tters. Tho stri-
tanceor the water to the screw propeller ov\ a(lcr having bcen tippcd with
paddle-wheel is suddenly removed by the pitch- that compos ; ti on, are exposed in a warm room
ing or rolling motion of the vessel in stormy unU , a sufficient quantity of the phosphorus is
weather. evaporated by slow combustion, to leave a film
Tins governor consists of n piston working of glue on thc surfacc to protect the remain-
in a cylinder, tho bottom of which communi- dcr from thc action of the atmosphere. The
cates with an opening through the side of thc usual propor tions for the compound are, phos-
vcssel, as near as possible to thc propeller or pborous f our par t Sj nitre ten, glue six, red
paddle wheel; thc pressure of water in thc | bvCi and smalt two. The principle on
bottom of the cylinder thus corresponds ex- j which the action of i uc ;f cr matches depends, is
actly with the depth of immersion of the pro- tho strong affinity of phosphorus for oxygen,
peller, and tends to raise the piston, which is of wh - ch the nitre with which it is mix , d con .
loaded on the top by an adjustable spring, ufas an abundant supp ] y . andby drawing thc
and connected by bell-crank levers and link s I Uiutch across sand-paper, sufficient heat is cx-
with a throttle valve in the steam pipe of the ljkcd by tbc j r j c tion to ignite the phosphorus,
■engine. W hen the motion of the lessel caus.s I and ^ n itrc supplies the oxygen to maintain
tho propeller to be less deeply immersed, thc | combustion .
The manufacture of lucifcr matches is cow
I ducted on a very large scale in this country and
in various parts of Europe; it requires sever
al ship loads of wood, annually, to supply the
requirements of lucifer match makers in Eu
gland. Ingenious contrivances have been in
troduced for cutting the wood up into splints
thc proper size. For this purpose—according
to one arrangement—alter thc wood has bcen
reduced to the required lengths by circular
saws, it is cut up into splints by a number of
lancet points, separated from each other as far
apart as the thickness of a match, which pass
over thc wood and divides it with great rapid!
ty. The splints aro collected into bundles of
one thousand, and each end having bcen dip-
An improved riflo gun is described in the I p,; d into melted sulphur, they arc divided in
London Mechanic'» Magazine. In this gun, the middle by a circular saw.
the inventor forms three shallow curves, sink- One of the latest improvement in chemical
ing only to about five-sixteenths of an inch be- matches is tho ‘Vesta,’ which consists of small
yond tho circular bore, and wearing off until I W ax, or stcarinc tapers, with an igniting com
they loso themselves in the circle of thc bore, position at thc end, consisting of chlorate of
To these curves there is given a very slight potass and phosphorus. These instantaneous
twist-only about one turn in sixty feet The fights are made without sulphur, and consc-
projectile has three swells or projections upon q Ucn tty the disagreeable smell of the common
it to take into thc grooves, and is formed with a lucifcr is avoided. In England, it is calculated
conoidicalhcadandatapertowardsthorcarcnd, that eight tons of phosphorus are yearly used
on which end is placed a simple ring-formed j n making matches, the number of which is
wad. 1 he projectile goes freely into thchore, stated to be some forty millions a day. Large
anil when the charge is exploded thc centre I quantities arc also made in Germany—bcing
line of the projectile is compelled by the con- manufactured there so cheaply, that fifty boxes,
bons °*" tbe case *° occupy the„centre line of each containing one hundred matches, are sold
the gun, and pass out in that position. The | f or about nine cents,
projectile can bo made as cheaply as any ordi
nary round shot or shell, bcing simply of cast I Baltimore, Sept 29, 18G0.
iron, and no great nicety is noccssary in ad- Speech of the lion. Ilenry Winter Davit.
justing tho size of the projectile to that of the This renowned champion of the old Know
gun. Tho wad is caused to clean out and lu- Nothing clubs, and former glorificr of thc Plugs,
bricatc thc gun ai; each discharge, and both spoke at thc new assembly room on Thursday
the guns and projectiles may bo used as rough- night, to a large audience of appreciative friends,
ly as ordinary guns, shot, and shell. An or- He spoke for two hours in his usual, bold, and
tbowy sixty-eight pounder, rifled on this j rebuMBt style. He k cm of those vivid and
will project a ninety pound elongated shell I .self-reliant speakers, who never admit an error,
w.tli considerable [accuracy of aim over an av- and glory most in what others blame in them,
cra^c isianco of nearly three thousand yards, I His speech on tho present occasion, was to do
_» elevation of ten degrees and a charge |' ino his position, and give a cue to his friends
[ as to their course in the coming election ; and
thc purport of it, was, that althougii Bell and
| Everett might bo their first choice, yet, should
I Lincoln and Hamlin be elected, none, no not
| the least apprehension netd be felt for thc sta
monition, and was received as thc advice of
venerable father to his children. They were
exorted to hold fast to the faith of their Cithers
—to he ever watchful and vigilant, lest thc
goodly heritage which had bcen left to them
should be wrested out of their possession—and
to unite as brothers in defence of the liberties
which it bad cost, both blood and treusure to
obtain for them.
The Part once more and for the last time.
Druid Hill, as a Public Park, has at length
been secured. The-first payment of $121,000
has been accepted—the deeds made, signed,
scaled, and recorded, and the vexed question
finally settled beyond the power, or ingenuity
of even Lloyd N. Rogers, to re-open. Wc shall
now, beyond a doubt, have a Public Park,
which can vie with any other in the country at
least It will comprise some 500 acres of land,
containing every variety of surface, soil and ver
dure, as well as every description of tree and
shrub, from the whoitleberry beach, to the
huge elm and gigantic oak; the shaven lawn
and its clumps of evergreens; the primitive for
est ; thc hill and dale, and rugged rocky clifis;
the rainlcts, lakes and water-fall, and every
phase of scene and landscape, which may tend
to please thc fancy of youth—harmonize with
the mind of mellowed manhood, and soothe the
declining years of venerable age. It is content
plated to inaugurate the Park by a general
Holiday, to be named shortly by thc city au
thorities. Its cost to the city will be $500,000,
which wifi be paid by one-fifth of the proceeds
of tho city passenger railroad. It is located ad
joining the city fine in the north-western sub
urbs, and can be- reached from every extreme
of thc city, by thc passenger railroad way, for
five cents. II.
pressure of water in the cylinder is diminished, i
and tho piston is forced down by the spring
above, closing thc throttle valve to the required
extent, and preventing thc speed of thc engine
from increasing; while, on the other hand,
when the propeller is more deeply immersed,
tho pressure in thc cylinder is increased, and I
raises the piston, opening thc throttle valve
and admitting more steam to the engino, so as
to maintain thc required speed—tho object be
ing to control the speed of thc engine before it
baa time to change sensibly instead of await
ing for a change of speed in the engine to bring
the governor into action, as in the case of the |
ordinary governor.
improved rifle oux.
of powder often pounds—being only one-ninth |
the weight of the shell.
PRESSURE OF WATER AT VARIOUS DEPTHS.
An inatrumeut has been invented for show-1
ing the pressure of water at various depths,
h\ the compression of nn isolated column ofjbilityof thc Union—that there httti wuTKnit
■ ^ l0 ,ue thod adopted is that of subjecting of honest, honorable and ipright Jlepublieans
_the pressure of a column of mercury abulb j at thc north, who were U.iion-loting men, and
would shed their blood to perpetuate it. Upon
thc slavery question, ho regarded Mr. Lincoln
as occupying the same identical position with
Henry Clay; and notwithstanding thc terrible
anathemas of thc Bell and K\ erett organs in this
city, against those of the Republicans at the
For the Tdcsrapn.
ANSWER TO A DESPONDING OFFICIAL
Muggixsville gorget.
Deer Skeesicks.—ifthairis enny other Skee-
sicks in thee cunited Staits i hoap he woant
git mad an tairhis short fur this lettur aint in
tended fur him. Yu sea Skeesicks ther is no
tcllin when a feller mai git his cote talc trod on.
Wei Skeesicks cs i wus goin on fur too sai yoar
letter uv lass weak cairn juley to han althoc it
maid me cs mad as awl distress too sea it print
ed in thee kolums uv thee Telegraf, but i xpcct
too hav rephenge sum dai. Bi thee wai hue
tole that Estev! Lapius has kaira too a orful
cend bi thee saim destructiv weppun that thee
fiUistines slewed samsun with—thee jor-boan
uv a mucl, wusint it Skeesicks ? Pore Eskew
lapius! yuve bin killed a grait menny times
befour bi walkin wind mills, but this time i
spose youve gin cout forever and evur ainicn,
es thee prcccliers sai. What vollerums of lit-
tericliure an bow menny hunderd yards uv
poitry (resemblin Lord Barroons Don Jones)
thee wurld has lorst bi yoar suddint an extem-
peranious demies.
in yoar letter yeu sai that bein out uv cm
ploiment yu “kontcmplait establishin thee
klassicand amusin gaim uv chuck luck.” ime
trewly glad too purscev such a industrus sper-
rit purvading yore manly brest, but let me
warn you too shun the athlctick nn intcrcstin
gaim us Forrar—sum people kail it pharrow,
an sum fario, but thee rite wai is Forrar.—
yew mai not be aquanctid with thee gaim an
thairfour i shal prescum too enform yu. it is
a gaim whair a man sets behind a taible cov-
ured with a groan saddul blackit—thco taible
not tlice man—an thee man pulls kcards out-
cn uv a sidliss pouder bocks. It is a very
amusin gaim fur sum folkcs pertickcrly thee
man whot pulls the kcards outen thee bocks,
but Skeesicks it aint got no charms fur me ser-
tin an shure, for in konsequens uv plaing at
thee gaim wun summer i had to go bair-foot-
id awl ncckst wintur.
Sinse i lass rote too yew wcchavauguninizcd
a flyin Distillery korpse an our kannons are
cummin per (per is dutsh fur on bored) thee
stcemship Horsfli. As i wus kaptin uv thee
lait file infunsy korc, thee memburs uv thee dis
tillery kumpany tendured me thee kummand
uv thair boddy whitch i in a very indignunt
mannur cckscptid. we dril accordin to Scots
tick tacks (if tliair is enny othur man bi thee
naim uv Scot in thee wurld i wish him too dis
tinctly undurstan that i doant niccn him. Yu
sea Skeesicks corsliun is necessary) an yu ort
too just bee hear when i revcw the tropes—;
ude think i wus thee Gazoon uv Tirkey ur
thee Kazar uv Rushar, fur when i pas up an
down tlice lines every man taiks his bat oph—
too scratch his bed. we ar goin to challingc
thee Shcecargo Coosarks just as soon as the
of water on thc short end of an inverted glass
syphon, containing eight ounces of water nine
ty-nine parts in the bulb and one part in tho
lu • * h'ri* is divided into one hundred degrees,
SO that each degree is of the whole 1-1,000th
part, and thc pressure of each thirty inches
f . Ur ^ couses a cotnpresaigo of rather ' North for a similar declaration. The speaker
thxc* ( ' f lai1 u? 0 ^ v ® rec in water, and abouj J was roundly applauded for tho utterance of this
>urt in of a degree in sea water. The j opinion. How the friends of thc sage of Ash-
'* “""i* 1 .-to the etfeet of j land, in thc South, can swallow this assertion
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,
Or KENTUCKY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOSEPH LAI£E,
OF OREGON.
Electors for the State at Large.
I Ion. G. J. MCDONALD, of Cobb.
IIox. II - R. JACKSON, of Chatham.
Electors for the Districts.
1st Dish—PETER CONE, of Bulloch.
2nd « W. M. SLAUGHTER, of Dough’ty.
3rd “ O. C. GIBSON, of Spaulding.
4th “ HUGH BUCHANAN, of Coweta.
5th “ LEWIS TUMLIX, of Cass.
Cth « II. STRICKLAND, of Forsyth.
7th “ W. A. LOFTON, of Jasper.
8th “ W. M. McINTOSH, of Elbert.
the (lour before it leaves the machine, than our
grandfathers would be, could they rise from their
graves and see what is now to be seen in a Cal
ifornia harvest field.
lection of Atlantic fruits, they come one after
another, and soon disappear. But there is no
disappearing in California. When a fruit conies,
it holds on till you arc tired of it In this gar
den, for instance, is the following bill of fare :
July 28th, strawberries, raspberries, currants,
gooseberries, apples pears, peaches, plums, nee-1 ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE OF WALES-
tannos, apricots—all m the greatest perfection. _ . . ,
Some cherries, even, wesp suit hanging on tho J Washington, Oct. 3. The Prince arrived
trees. And in all these fruits, not a worm or a here this afternoon. There was no demonstra-
suspicion of a worm ! Thc curculiois entirely I tion, but a large crowd was at the depot. He
unknown here. A fruit dealer, who had been | w&8 convcycd to the White House in the Pres;
ARRIVAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN.
Farther Point, October 2.—The steamship
North American for Quebec was boarded off
Farther Point to-day, she brings Liverpool
dates to thc 20th.
Lirerpool Cotton Market, generally unchang
ed and quiet Manchester advices favorable.
Consols 94i*.
in the business at San Francisco for some years,
handling thc products of all parts of California,
| assured me he had never a solitary worm in any
sort of fruit
After seeing quite a number of gardens or or
chards in this country, lam fully convinced
that California excels any land in the world in
the variety and abundance of the necessaries
and luxuries of life which the labor of one man
can produce, The whole country is full of gar
dens and orchards. Every farmhouse has its
orchards, large or small ; and there is no failure
1 of the crops. Ten years ago, a [decent apple
would sell for three dollars, and other fruits in
proportion. Already, fruits will hardly pay for
thc marketing, unless in large quantities. In
three or four years more, judging from the pres-
| ent abundance, and from the immense orchards
not yet in bearing, there will be a surplus suffi
cient to cover the entire surface'of the land to the
depth of a foot—more or less.
dent’s closed carriage.
RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO MISS R.
A , OF MACON.
Icoret not, in foreign lands,
To spend my life in worthless show;
I covet not from foreign hands,
The fairest gifts they can hetow.
From thee one rose hnd to receive,
Would glad me more than ruby glare;
The palest lllly thou couldst give,
I value more than pearls most rare.
Sweeter to catch thy lightest sigh.
And know that it was breathed for me,
Than at my feet as mine see lie,
The fruits of every Eastern tree.
Better to wear the chains of love,
Which thou around my neck dost twine,
Than hear admiring crowds approve
Upon my neck thc diamonds shine.
I’d rather in a desert dwell,
_ With none bnt Heaven and thee to love,
Thau WoM mi heart to wealth's cold spell.
And hear each worluii *
A TRIP TO SOUTH-WESTERN GEORGIA.
We returned on Tuesday evening last from a
trip to this section of our rapidly growing State.
We stopped at various thriving little vallagcs
which have sprang up within thc past few years
on tho fine of the South-Western Rail Road, i a - ... .. .....
. ■ . ^ I JJr. b. Iirvitea tile to taken ride with him up
and were pleased to notice the various eviden- tbe va ii cy) j n the direction of “San Hoza”—an
ces of improvement which were going on. important place that I had never heard or known
We found the city of Albany a thriving little of, simply because I knew not the Spanish pro
place, containing about 2000 inhabitants. Wo I nunciation of San Jose. M e traveled on a road
. . ., - , . , , level as a floor, almost in a straight line, with
were surprised at the number of substantuil and thc Bay on the right and the raou ° tains on the
beautifully finished buildings at this place I i c q. Beyond the Bay arc the hills of San Fran-
which would compare favorably with the boast- cisco and San Mateo counties, stretching onward
ed palatial business and dwelling houses of our l 'fi lost in the haze. On either side of the road I The entire failure of the Cotton crop, says
larger cities. We of course stooped at Bying- th . e . land covered with waving grain. Per- Mr Ashworth, should it ever occur would ut-
7 • rai * , I ceiving no limit to its extent, I pronounced it I terh* destroy, and perhaps forever, all the manu
ton s where we found a sutticiencj of the good grain field I ever saw. factoring prosperity we possess. Figures can
things of life, and comfortab!e and clean bed- “How much farther docs it extend V' I in- give but a faint idea of the present actual value
din" and bed chambers. | Qun-cd. of the Cotton manufactures as a branch of Brit-
While there the town was in a high state of 1 “ About fort y miles.” | ish industry; but we will mention that the to-
exciteuicnt, caused by thc return of a man named
To please thee is my life’s best pleasnre.
To grieve thee would be life's worst harm;
But, with my life my loro I'll mcasnre.
For naught but death can break thc charm.
Macon, Oct. 1st. DON QUIXOTE,
And as wide throughout f” I tal value of thc Cotton manufactures amounts
“Nearly so. Theaverage width ofthe valley to about sixty-six millions sterling yearly, and
\'.uason and a negro belonging to a citizen of ; s greater. But there is a border of marsh land I deducting the value of the raw Cotton, which
Albany, who were arrested at Memphis, Ten- untilled. Running among the hills, however, is about twenty-six millions, there remains in
ncssce on their way to Ohio. Thc majority of ! ’ re several lateral vallies sowed with grain, the country an annual sum of about forty mii-
r f ... which, added to the main valley, would make a lions sterling, which is distributed among the
i citizens were in fa o • -.ip g ra j n field fifty miles long by four iu width.’’ work-people as wages, amongst the manufactur-
of this man, by hanging him, which purpose! “Two hundred square miles! If my arith- ers as profits, and amongst the various other
was deferred to a more fitting occasion, and metic serves me, that is nearly 130,000 acres, branches of industry which mainly depend upon
may be abandoned altogether. Thelar^e num- j ^ h‘4 proportion of that is wheat ?” | it for their existence.
her of slaves in and about Albany renders it n one ' half: The ba,ance is barle >', „ T p n r T) . .
"V | and oats. Hearing in Large Cuurciiks.—ilus is now
exceedingly dangerous for such characters as “I suppose it is cut by machinery ? To ga-1 made as easy as in the smallest by thc success
the above to remain In that vicinity, and al ther such an harvest by hand would appear tui- of an experiment just completed in Trinity
though we are in favor of law and order we possible.” Church, in this city. It consists of a paraboloi-
must admit those who advocated Ivnch law inK..‘T ou quit , < ! ri S ht v on ® now-a days dal reflector of sound placedat the back of the
* * l ’inL’C aF tlin aimnK 1 nee aP iltn aIh'i-iI a I niilmf aP ll'lnoll f 11 CnDGk'Pr C TV1 All f Vl 1C m.
this instance had reason on their side. The
health of South-Western Georgia is remarkably
good for the season. The crops aro tolerable.
Business is very dull and money scarce. Our
thaaks arc due to A. J. Macartliy, Esq.
Judge J. C. Brown and others for courtesies
shown us during our sojourn iu Albany.
After leaving Albany, we went to Fort
Gaines, a beautiful little town situated on
high bluff on the Chattahoochee river, popula
ted by intelligent and enterprising citizens. The
South-Western Road has within a few weeks
past been extended to this place, which has
given an impetus to every branch of business.
On our way to Fort Gaines, a gentleman, with
heavy head of steam aboard attempted to jump
from the cars, while they were in rapid motion,
and came very near losing his life by tho foolish
act His head came in violent contact with
imrd «Uy smk-inirmpnt which for a time seri
ously interfered With that valuable part of man’s
structure. Wo are glad to learn, however, that
he sustained no serious injury, and after ex
hausting his head of steam, was able to resume
his usual duties.
We were well pleased with our trip, and
should have enjoyed ourself hugely, but for
slight indisposition caused by the use of tho
limestone water in that section of the State.
U. S. CENSUS OF TALBOT COUNTY.
Whites, 6,222
Free persons of Color, IS
Slaves, .. .8,036
Deaths for the year ending June 1, I860,. 169
Paupers, 28
Academies, 15
District Schools,
Private “
Collegiate Institutes, 2
Female Colleges,
Teachers, * 28
Students, 749
Missionary Baptist Churches,
Primitive “ “
Episcopal “
Presbyterian “
Methodist Episcopal “
Value of Real Estate, $2,378,245
Personal “ ... 8,940,182
Blind—2 whites, 5 blacks,
Idiots—4 whites, 5 blacks, 9
Deaf and Dumb—blacks, 3
Insane—white,
Marriages for the past year, 51
I tender my thanks to the'people of Talbot
county for their kindness and hospitality.
S. T. Viele, U. S. Assist Dept.
Marshal for Talbot Co., Ga.
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TALBOTTON COURT.
We clip thc following from the Upson Pilot,
of Saturday:
I On Wednesday Joe, a slave, the property of
tlion vnlft rmi cimn strriincre drillon fin march in 1 u: 1 1 * ,i.. iaiu
then yule sea sum strainge drillen an marchin,
uch as standing orn beds bi battalyuns, bi
scctshuns bloc yuro nocs, bisingil file open yure
mouth and shet your eyes «£c ic. Wood yu
bcleavc Skeesicks, that in this cnlitened aige a
him to be hung on Friday the 19th of October.
Tho case was fully made out by the State, and
went to thc Jury without argument, and only
with the evidence and thc charge of his Honor.
This is the same negro that certain sensation
papers, some time ago, reported was bun
jewry cood beefoun that wood divoarse a woo- burnt by a mob to the discredit of our lawabid-
raun from bur husbun jus bekorse tlice inno-
nt man tride too throw his mcen wife down
well, yu mai bcleavc it ur not but its soc
bore as yure born and ime divoarsed from mi
old woomun, ur rothcr slies divoarsed from me.
its trpw i cant git marrid agin, an ime (betwean
yew an me) devulish glad i cant Thee sitty
orthorytis hear ar makinexteiisivpreparashuns
ing and law enforcing connnuntiy.
On Tuesday, James Ramsey, of Columbus, ad
dressed the *‘Jieree Democracie.” and fuhnined
a Southern Confederacy into the ears ofthe peo
ple in case of Lincoln’s election. He said some
thing too about playing Brutus in the closing
scene of our nation’s death, but we reckon this
was only a mero rhetorical flourish—for from
what we know of Mr. Ramsey’s goodness of
heart, we think we may warrant a fee simple
thinks of the cradle, much less of the obsolete I pulpit, of which the speaker’s mouth is thc fo-
sicklc, of sacred memory. To reap the grain in I cus. A stream of sound about ten feet in diam-
this valley, in thc old style, would require all I etcr is thus thrown to the most remote point of
the force in California.” I the church, and by its side flow fills thc whole
I suggested to my friend that an estimate of body ofthe building, The structure is quite
the amount, of labor required to gather this ornamental and in harmony with^the general
grain crop, without the aid of machinery, would architecture of the building. All great public
be interesting in its relation to trade and com- buildings, whether for singing or speaking, may
merce. He made a calculation on this wise. have a similar arrangement adapted to their use
Let us suppose the work is to be done with I Tho one in Trinity Church was put up under
the cradlo. A cradler will cut a swarth eight the supervision of Professor Ilackley, of Colum-
feet wide. An army of 3,000 men, moving j bia College, in this city,
abreast, would be required to sweep the whole
valley. They would travel about three miles a i DAVE TODD ON THE STUMP,
day, and thus accomplish the fifty miles in sev- „ , . , r ,
enteen days; or it would require 1,000 men At WoosU T*, on Tuesday evening Mr. Todd
two months to do the work. A reaping-ma- n , lad< ; a spccch in wh'eh lie indulged in some °f
chine, with four horses and two men, will cut ‘ ha ‘ bumo , r eccentric as it is is Dave
as much as five cradlers. Todd’s and nobody clses. Speaking of the peO-
“Then there must be two hundred of these P Ic ° f **• Western Reserve he says:
machines at work in the valley to harvest the , M y frl ® nds and fel,ow Democrats—We can
crop in two months’” have no Democrats, or very few, on the Wes-
“I presume there is nearly that number.- tcrn Re f c l I T c ' ? nd 1 wil 1 1 , t . c11 y° u l . hc , rea f on - G °
The season for harvesting is prolon-cd almost toan >' tab1 ? ther<? > P ubl,c ^ private, I care not
I & vl
ing uninjured in the field long after maturity, d ° wn to? Anything for which you, my
mi • , .. •',1 fpl nw MAmnminft froinns. rniiM stfiv tnn rrnr-
indefinitely in California; the ent
tain omi oiuiui aitvns me gram to remain stand-
black clouds in the west Often the grain, af
ter cutting, is allowed to remain for weeks un
disturbed, awaiting the thresher; mostly, how
ever, it is bound in sheaves, and thrown into
small heaps.”
“What are those square structures in thc dis
tance, looking like piles of white marble?”
“They are stacks of grain, in sacks. It is the
invariable custom to pile it up in that way in
thc field, just where it is threshed. It stays there
uncovered, in perfect security from weather,
sometimes for a month or six weeks, till the
press of work is over, and thc teams are at lei-
There is" no time lost from bad weather, and I feUow Democratic freinds, could stay the crav^
there is^no desperate hurrying in consequence of I °f^ un o er - “ ,ot a 01 Nothing of
But, after a long pharisaic grace, you look at
thc feast and you find—perhaps I had better read
the bill of fare:
Pickled cucumbers, yellow.
Pickled beans, short.
Sage cheese, in small cubes.
A plate of leather-colored butter.
Four biscuits as big as a bull’s eye watch, and
red with saleratus.
Three small slices of bread.
Grace said, we sit down to meat To meat,
did I say? To a dry, puritanic, fast-davrefresh-
sure to haul it away.' InVfbrtoight hencoyou I “ cnt ’ such as thc - V ofl ’ er - vou u P on the ‘Western
will see the whole valley dotted over with such Rescrve - , .
piles.” Do you think you could raise Democrats upon
I was almost ashamed, Mr. Century, to own s , uch „ tbin dist J 1 tcl1 J' ou ao - A Democrat on
that I had never seen a reaping-machine or a the Western Reserve would starve. He Wants
threshing-machine. But what Sm one know of something substantial for his stomach—not
the outer world brought up inside the walls of I P lck ' cs and sour biscuit You can t raise
a city! Seldom, in the whole course of my ' Democrats on such i.uo. < h ula/<■/ 1L rail
life, have I spent an hour with more satisfac
tion than on this occasion in watching thc ope-1 [From tlie St. Louis Democrat of Monday.]
ration of these machines. Let me say to city DREADFUL CATASTROPHE INST. LOUIS,
readers as ignorant as myself, that a trip to the „ , „ ,, „ .... „
country for the purpose of witnessing the opera- Ttcenty-Uco Frame Buildings Burncd-Ocer
tions of the harvest-field, will pay them much F J? r "J Fanu l^ - Vade Homeless—A Child
better than a journey for pleasure in any other Burned to Death.
direction. Ataboutl2m.Saturday,twogracelessjuvc-
Mile after mile we traveled along thisbcauti-| niles entered the stable of Daniel Sullivan, on
ful valley of grain, till the uniformity of the | the alley between Twenty-third and Twenty
scncc was growing tiresome. Then came an- j fourth streets, and between Wash-street and
other novelty—a huge building, a sort of man-1 Carr, there lighted their cigars, throwing the
ufacturing establishment, drawn by fifteen or still burning match among some loose straw,
twenty horses—ripping and tearing through a and then left. The stable was almost instantly
grain field—gathering up the grain and disp03- in flames Alarm was at once given, but on
ing of it in some mysterious 'manner, amid a the arrival of the engines water was found to be
cloud of dust and din, and clangor becoming a scarce, while the flames had spread, and were
great cotton mill. still spreading with appalling rapidity. The
“What in the name of Babel have we licie?” I adjoining buildings were frame, and consisted
I inquired. mainly of twenty-two small tenements, owned
‘Ah! That is what they call a ‘Combined by’a poor class of teamsters. All the buildin:
Reaper and Thresher.’ It not only gathers the standing on the alley, and those fronting <
grain but also threshes and fans it at one opera Carr and Twenty-third-streets, together with
tion. You see the straw and chaff flying out the residences on tho north side of Carr-strect,
like smoko from a locomotive, while thc man on were .destroyed. The wooden structures were
thc platform is sewing up sacks and tossing very old and highly combustible, a strong wind
them overboard. It keeps him busy ns j*ou was blowing, and only a part of thc force of en-
see, removing the sacks from thc hopper when gines on the ground could be supplied with wa-
full, substituting nn empty sack, and sewing up | ter. The total loss is estimated at $10,000, on
SECOND DISPATCH.
FURTHER BY THE NORTH AMERICAN.
Further Point, October 2.—The Cotton re
ports by thc American areas follows:
Liverpool Cotton Marlet.—Sales on specu
lation 15,000 hales, and for export 7,500.—
The market generally unchanged.
Friday, Sept. 21.—Eight thousand bales
sold to speculators and exporters, and the mar
ket quiet. The authorised quotations arc:
Fair Orleans, 7$d. Middling Mobiles,. C.jd
Middling do Cfd. Fair Uplands 7d.
Fair Mobiles 7Jd. Middling do. G£d.
Stock on hand in Liverpool 955,000 bales, of
which 760,000 arc American. Thc advices
from Manchester arc favorable.
London, Friday, Sept. 21.—Consols 93£ to
93|.
GENERAL NEWS.
Paris, 21st September.—Considerable un
easiness is felt in Paris in apprehension of a
collision between thc French troops at Rome
and the Garibaldians. The hopes of avoiding
still more serious complications were based on
the possible flight of the Pope to Spain. This
course was probably urged on the Holy Father
by the sacred College.
Austria and France, in case thc Papal troops
evacuate Sardinia, will occupy Rome.
Thc London Times says thc papal army no
longer exists, for the forty thousand men be
sieged at Ancona, may be already Garibaldi’s
prisoners: . >r*
The London Herald says that the Papal
army is defeated but not dishonored. Lamo •
ricicre was evidently outnumbered.
Thc Chronicle says: Thc result of thc re
cent battle is to transfer to the King of Sardi
nia, thc whole Roman territory except Rome,
Vilerboand Civita Vccchia.
Bill is reported that the Pope’s manifesto an
nouncing his departure from Rome was already
prepared. There was no pontifical battalion
outside of Ancona. Thc Neapolitan fleet had
opened fire on Ancona.
One Day L.atcr.
ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
Cape Race, Oct. 2.—The steamer Canada
was boarded of this place this afternoon with
Liverpool dates to Saturday thc 22nd ultimo.
She reports thc sales of cotton on thc day of
sailing, at 7,000 bales to speculators, and 2,000
bales to raportewr Market (Jiliot; and prices
firm. Consols quoted at 93£ @ 93J-.
ARRIVAL OF THE GLASGOW.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
New York, Oct 1.—By the steamship Glas
gow, which arrived to-day, we have Liverpool
dates to thc 19th ultimo. Thc general news is
important
In England thc weather was unfavorable for
thc crops.
The Great Eastern was gridironed at Milford,
preparatory to her second trans-Atlantic trip.
Gen. Lamoriciere defeated with great loss the
Sardinians at Spoletla.
It was reported that the Emperor Napclean
was fired on by an insane man at To.ulon, but
his aim was diverted by the by-standers.
[We have no commercial news as yet—Ed.
FURTHER BY THE GLASGOW.
[second despatch.]
New York, Oct 1.—Thc Glasgow was board
ed off Cape Race.
Liverpool Cotton Market.—She reports the
sales in the. T.ivernnnl mwtoAjnl ttemlajT nn.l
i ueaday, seventy thousand bales, with an un
changed market. Sales of Vednesdaj’ ten thou
sand bales. Market firm.
Consols 93} to 93|.
Thc Sardinians defeated Lamoriciere. [Which
makes a material difference to them.—Editor
Telegraph.]
LATEST FROM HONDURAS.
Walker has been shot and decently buried.
Rudler sentenced to four years imprisonment.
AN ENGLISH CAPTAIN ASSAULTED.
New Orleans, Sept. 29.—The Captain of
the English war steamer, the Gladiator, was
assaulted and knocked dewn in thc St. Charles
Hotel barroom. [Thc Gladiator is the steam
ship which brought thc news to New Orleans
that Gen. Wm. Walker had bcen shot by the
order of thc Honduras government.]
the full one.
“I never heard of such a thing! Is it a pe
culiar institution in California':”
“By no means. It has been in use some years
the Atlantic States. There are two of the
which there was little or no insurance.
The indigent occupants of these tenements
lost all their household goods, aud were turned
houseless into thc streets. We hare seldom re
corded a fire in which there occurred a great-
machines at work in this neighborhood, one of cr amount of personal suffering and hardship,
"■bicli was built in San Francisco, the other in f During the swift progress of the flames, the
ew York. The native is preferred, because of wifeofDaniel O’Brien, a tenant of Michael Hart
ts comparative lightness, requiring only four- inger, threw her infant of three months out of
teen horses while the other requires twenty." the burning building upon a feather bed on the
“Pray how many acres will this monster con- pavement. In thc hurry and confusion of thc
ume in a daymoment another bed was thrown over the child,
“From twenty to twenty-five. It is one of and before the parent could get to her darling,
iracles of our age. I will tell you how both beds had caught fire and the child was suf-
ings aro managed with it: Suppose I have located and burned to death. When this disas-
one hundred acres of wheat ripe for harvest ter was disclosed, the agony of the father and
1 he proprietor of this machine agrees to reap mother were heart-rending and the spectators
ami thresh it for six or eight dollars per acre, * shrunk from the scene in dismay.
COTTON MARKETS.
Savannah, Oct. 2.—Sales to-day, 1000 bales,
with a good demand and prices unchanged.
The steamship’s Cuyler and Augusta arrived
to-day from New York.
John Thompson, a young man from Fcrnan-
dina, Fla., committed suicide here to-day.
New Yorn, Oct 1.—Sales of three thousand
bales. Market firm.
New Orleans, Sept 29.—Cotton Market
quiet Middlings } to § advance. Sales of thc
week 33,000 bales. Receipts last week, 46,000
against 46,000 same time last year.
Mohile, Sept. 28.—Sales of Cotton for the
week, 46,250 bales. Middlings selling at 10|-
cents. Receipts last week, 14,000 bales against
17,000 same date last year.
New York, Sept. 28.—Sales of Cotton to
day 2,000 bales^ Thc market was firm. Flour
declined 5 cents; sales of 19,000 barrels; South
ern unchanged. Wheat declined 2@4 cents;
sales of 180,000 bushels. Com advancing;
sales of G2‘000 bushels; Mixed at G6}@68 cents.
Spirits of Turpentine firm, at 40@43 cents.—
Rosin firm, at 4G(gA7J cents. Rice firm, at 4}
@4} cents.
FLORIDA ELECTION.
Fernandina, Fla., Oct. 3.—Milton, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of this State, re
ceived one hundred majority over Hopkins, Bell
candidate for Governor, in this place. Hilton,
the Democratic candidate for Con[ ress received
a majority over Allen, Bell candidate for same
office, of one hundred and fifty-five.
M the Baldwin precinct, Duval county, the
Breckinridge candidates have a majority.
Dawson, for thc Senate, and Barnes for rep
resentative to the State Legislature elected by
a large majority.