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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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tgtotgiaaalcrhIn a ctcfirapli.
Significant, if True.—A newspaper cor
respondent states that orders have been issued
at Washington for the erection ot barracks
for 30,000 troops around the city. «
rjr~ The Northern mails are out of joint
somewhere. We received two New York
exchanges yesterday, the first since Saturday
last
tar There were forty-one deaths in Savan
nah last week—twenty whites and twenty-
one blacks. Thera were but three cases of
cholera among the whites.
DESPOTISM OK DEMOCRACY
It is not often that we look to the latitude
of Boston fir words of wisdom and sobenu-s.
There is yet, though, amidst the political
storm that continuously howls with lury
around that funntical and run-mad city, a
spirit of patriotism and peace. Tne follow
ing remarks from the Commercial present the
contrast ot freedom and despotism in so stri
king a light, and appeal so forcibly to the
good sense and moderation of the American
people, that we transfer them to our columns,
with a hearty endorsement and commenda
tioa. That patriotic journal says .-
“The greatest danger which besets us as a
nation at the present time, is, we fear, that
’The New Yorkers are making an I our position is lost sight of by those who
effort to raise three hundred thousand dollars undertake to include the destinies of our
to defray the expenses of their famous Scv- country by remolding our Constitution,
enth Regiment to the Paris Exposition and I “Our government is not one, nor can it be,
back again. What nonsense 1 0 f brute force, or compulsion. The very mo-
^ In Indiana and Kentucky the robbers becomes necessary to hold any por-
have taken to pillaging the railroad trains. «on of the State or nation to their allegiance
The plan is to throw the train from the track by compulsion or any kind of physical force
by obstructions or displacement of a rail, up-1 * bat moment a icpublican government is at
set everything and then suddenly appear 1111
among the killed, maimed and terrified pas- “We are not to, we cannot, copy our course
sengcre and employes, pistol in hand. All *><”» ™y of the existing forms of goveni-
demonds are promptly complied with. ®ent in the world outside our own, for the
| basis of all othcis is essentially, radically dif-
Correspomleuce of tin- London Times.)
The Famine in India.
GREAT DISTRESS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
—THE INHABITANTS PERISHING BY THOU
SANDS—NINE HUNDRED DEAD BODIES
PICKED UP ONE MORNING AT
BALASORE.
Calcutta, Aug. 10,18CC.
Seventh District.—Hon. W. T. Wofford, I ferent
Representative elect of the Seventh Congress- “We are a government by compact Wc pro-
ional District of Georgia, has resigned that fess, and the wholo theory of our government
unpromising position, and Governor Jenkins rests upon the idea, that the expressed will of
has ordered a special election to be held in I the people is law, and therefore that it is in-
tho several counties of the District on the I dispensible that there should be an expres-
28th of November to designate another ex-1 sion of the popular will, in order that the
peotantof a seat in Congress.
National Express Company.—Wc learn
from the Richmond Dispatch that the stock-1 0 V d ^“ u ^ k e t ~ h ” ~\nch now en
VV.«*i >nnl I'rMsnsa I nmnunv I •
government should be carried on, and not
simply harmoniously but at all.
Say it is necessary, even under circum-
holders of the National Express Company
have appointed business committees for the
purpose of re-arranging and overhauling the
financial affairs of the Company. The Com
pany will keep up all their routes, and will
soon be at work upon a firmer basis than
ever.
viron us, as a consequence of the late rebel
lion, that physical force shall for a time hold
those in order who were lately engaged in the
rebellion, but have now laid down their arms
and acknowledge feaity to the laws of the
land and to the Constitution, against which
they raised the opposing arm; and you say
A Plea in Bar.—The St. Paul Pioneer in-1 nothing more nor less than that the experi-
aists that there is no Constitutional Amend-1 raent of a popular government has failed.—
ment before the people. The propositions I You say that there is no hope for humanity
submitted by the last Congress have not been better than the old plea of despotism—that
proposed according to the Constitution.— I t b e „, an y s ball be servants to the few, and that
Eleven States had no voice in framing them. Iu might is right ”—and governments can live
The Constitution requires that amendments I y by jig exercise. If it is necessary now*,
to it shall be proposed by all the States, that I that power shall coerce those wboss patriot-
all the States shall not only have a voice in j sin wo cannot trust, on their professed wil-
their ratification, but in framing and propos-1 imgness to obey the laws of the land, backed
ing them. If the Amendments should be I by tbe oath of allegiance, when will the time
adopted by all the States, it would lie ques-1 b e tbat physical force will not be necessary ?
tionable whether they would be legal. I \yben, if not to-day, will it be proper to take
THE FLORIDA CONNECTION COMPLETE. off the restraints of physical force, and permit
Wc learn, from an advertisement in the | t,le P eo P ,e of thc t0 cxercisc their con *
Savannnh papers, that the connecting link stitutional rights under a free government
between the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad and the based upon the consent of the governed ?
Florida roads has been completed, and the “It is said by those who now oppose the
line will be opened on Monday next, the 20tli President in his efforts to harmonize conflict-
instant Arrangements have been made in- > n » opinions and action, that this will lie done
suring direct and speedy communication by whenever the South will “give guarantees” of
thiaroute between Savannah and all stations! fidelity, and that such guarantees ought to
on the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad, be demanded. But should not the North
Florida Central Railroad, and Florida Rail- °^cr sections of the land be required to
road, including the sale of through tickets S 1 ™ guarantees for their adherence to the
between Savannah and Quincy,' Tallahassee, I Constitution as well as the South ? Are these
Monticello, Madison, Lake City and Jack-1 sections of the country now ready to abide
sonville, and between the points named and b J thc provisions of the Constitution ? “Aye,
Thomasville, Quitman and Valdosta. there ’ 3 tbe rub •” Tbe y are wiltin S to teke »
-»►. but not to give. Not only so; they now. in
Conservative Gains in Indiana.—The I the face of all their professions of loyalty, in-
Now York World says the Democratic gains I sist on changing the provisions of the Consti-
in Indiana are very heavy, as compared with I tution, and compelling others to acquiesce.
1641. There is a larger vote polled, and the “A word expresses the whole matter, A
increase, save in one district (Colfax’s), is I government like that under which wc have
wholly on tbe Conservative side. Niblack,! lived, os constituted by our fathers, must live
Democrat, in the first district, is returned by I in.the affections and willingness ot the people,
8,200 majority—a gain; Kerr, Democrat, in it at all.
the second district, has increased from 1,7931 “A despotism may for a time be sustained
0 1,877; Hunter, Republican, gets less than I by compulsion, hut a democratic government
100, when his Radical predecessor had over never.”
800; Julian, in the fifth district, has his ma-1 tVe can add nothing to strengthen the
jority cut down from 7,145 to about COO.— I logic, or give forcejto tho timely appeals, of
This is an enormous gain. In the sixth dis-1 our Boston contemporary. It speaks a ter-
trict, Coburn has only 2,200 against 7,9881 riblo truth when it says that tbe principles
^ two years since. Washburn, Republican, in I and policy of the Republican party can never
the seventh district, is reported to have made be carried out in this country without a com-
a small increase. Orth, Republican, in the I plete revolution. They necessarily involve a
eight district, has only 300 against I change from democracy to despotism, and
1,467 two years since. There is no notic- I the inauguration of a form of government
able change in the other districts. We doubt that can only be upheld by the sword. Un-
if the Radicals will have seven thousand ma- der such a system, what becomes of Republi-
joritv in the Congressional vote, against twen- canism, of the will and voice of the people
ty thousand two years since. Well done, I _ the source of a „ power under the institu _
1 tions of our fathers t Take the South back
The Date of the Negro Equality Period, into the Union by force, or on terms against
Itu/liilo Hunting. For tho Georgia Telegraph. than would be required were a raifroa 1 ruo-
*A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com- . Slate. ning by the place. It is true several lines of
, i . . ., , - „ railroad have been projected ranniiurin some
mere ml writes from the plains: ; In notictng the vast mineral resources of ; doren mik ,, o{ the quatrv, and we are of „,,in-
Yesterday we bad another handsome run . iron, coal, gold, granite, marbie and lime, . ion it would amply remunerate any one of
with the Buffalo, starting tv\o large bulls ■which cause Georgia to r 11 /mmnnmna kaaSHM 1 r — :
GREAI OiS
The Cincinnati Enquirer, of last Saturday, ber will, and exacted of her in duress, how
says: The date of thc negro equality period, 8 b a Il we be a republic with the vital element
in the Northern States, maybe fixed at Oc- of Mnwni wanting? In the very nature of
tober 9,1866. In Ohio the negroes were al-1 things tlje d j sa bility will only bo submitted
lowed to vote, without distinction of color, t un j:j ^b c weaker party shall become strong
at all polls—outside of a few counties—where cnoU gb to throw it off, for no people ever
Radical Judges officiated. It was the same yet liTed vo i un tarily under despotic rule.—
in Indiana and Pennsylvania.
One correspondent writes us
Up to that point wc must exist as a purely
military government, and beyond it wc have
Xenia, Oct. 9, 1866.—Every negro voted I 0 f revolution and the shedding of
to-day that offered his ballot. fraternal blood.
Ckdakville, Greene County, O.—Forty-
five full-blown blacks voted at tbis precinct
It is not only just, but tho true policy of
to-day. The judges took their votes, declar- the North, and the imperative demand of pop
ing that under the Civil Rights Bill they ular rights, that the South should go back
were as well entitled to votes as whites.. j n t 0 the Union without a solitary badge of
Richmond, Ind., Oct. 9,1866.—The judges I degradation, and with thc freedom and con-
here allow full-blooded JX-SS stitutional rights of every citizen within her
same as whites, and justify themselves under v
the Civil Rights Bill. borders unimpaired. Any other mode of re-
The Enquirer adds; “We have no doubt construction must leave heart-burnings, hate,
that throughout Ohio and Indiana, where wounded pride, and the spirit of revenge ever
there were Radical Judges of election, with uppermost in the minds of our people, and
rare exceptions, negroes of all colors were al- only awaiting a safe opportunity to break out
lowed to vote in a fresh eruption. How can the South leve,
* and voluntarily pay tribute to a government
GOV. GEARY. which she knows only through its exactions
It is now definitely settled that Gen. John and oppression ? How can her people rally
W Geary has been chosen Governor of Penn- “^er a flag that floats aloft a perpetual ero-
"* u . . .... . . I blcm and reminder of tlieir degradation and
aylvama. He la not without experience as an d j 8 b onor y g uc h sublime philosophy is not
executive officer, and as Governor of Kansas. TO uchsafed to frail humanity, and the North
some yean ago, displayed a fair shore of abil-1 will be wise not to make its exercise a condi-
ity. He is known in the South, having been | tion of peace and brotherhood.
Military Governor of Savannah, after the fall
of that city, where his course was generally I Providing for the . Jb® /nrjif®
1 m -’ ,, ... . r ,. I of the present com crops in Middle and Up-
oceptnble to the people, barring his disease Q eor gj a has made it necessary for the far-
of “ nigger on the brain,” of which he daily uiers to obtain supplies of breadstuff* in the
manifested the worst kind of symptoms. Western market It is said that a large num-
But wo allude to Gen. Geary now more par- of the planters of Burke and other coun-
. .. , „ . .. 1 ties are sending agents for the purpose of
ticnlarly to call attention to a spe purchasing corn'tenfticient to meet their pros-
he made a few days ago at Harrisburg, in the. pectivc wants. It is believed- that in one
oharacter of Governor elect of Pennsylvania, county alone one hundred and fifty thousand
It will be found in this paper. It showa the bushels will be reqmred^
animus of tho Northern Radicals. Wc have It - 9 t he duty 'of each graduate of
only to say about it that such sentiments are the Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, female
wholly incompatible with a constitutional seminary to write an annual letter stating
union between tho people of the twosecti«*is, whether she is married or singly liow many
ii*.,- ... 1 r . , ■„ , .j children she has, and other particulars con-
and if they could have a practical illL.%trationl ern j , ier gtatU8 nnd progress. A young
in the government of this country, there can 1 lady 0 f the class of 1861 has just written to
bo no union at all, except a union 44 pinned the clas9 secretary that she is no<j married,
together by bayonets.* 1 How this Radical hut that she thinks she can see a little cloud
Governor can reconcile his evident hatred of | ***** “
There are sights to be witnessed in Calcut
ta which would lead the stranger to believe
that the city was perishing of famine and
pestilence. Since the famine has been allow
cd to attain such hideous proportions in the
rural districts, it is inundating the capital.—
All who can crawl from the interior,. from
thc afflicted subdivision of Jchanabad, in thc
rich country of Hoogbly, and the misery of
what was once the flourishing indigo district
ot Nuddea, as well as from the more wretch
ed Midnaporc and distant Orissa, flock to the
charities of Calcutta. They would receive
food at their own homes, but they hear that
they will get more in Calcutta, and clothes as
well, and so at the present moment no less
than two hundred and flftv famine stricken
wretches a day seek theunnochutters or Ben
S lee feeding’houses of the native quarter of
leutta. So late as the 9tli of July lest the
Bengal Government a second time refused to
encourage the formation of a public relief
committee, and they soon retired again to thc
bills. But thc city was being so crowded
with paupers, a pestilence was so imminent,
that the Municipal Commissioner, Sir.
Stuart Hogg, and one or two merchants,
organized a committee, and on Mon
day lost a public meeting of all classes
was held in the town hall to raise subscrip
tions. Judges, merchants, barristers, chap
lains and zemindars urged the claims of the
starving, and eulogized the charity of the
native gentlemen, who had already done so
much, with an eloquence hardly required, but
quite justified. Official reports were read,
giving statistics, which, completed to date,
show that at 22 places 17,472 poor are daily
fed, in addition to thc sick in the hospitals,
and as this number is increasing by about 250
a day, it may be said that 20,000 storvelii
are now subsisting on charity daily in Cal
cutta. A sum of £150,000 is required to grap
ple with the misery, and of this, within four
days of the meeting being held, more than
one-half has been subscribed.
The most important work the new commit
tee have to do, is to organize a system of re
lief. The natives hitherto have done as much
evil as good by feeding all who apply indis
criminately, so that the many professional
beggars and rascals of the great city nod thc
vicinity too often exclude the deserving, and
by giving tbe food at different times, so that
bands of scoundrels have been in tbe habit
of wandering from relief station to relief sta
tion, in the same day. Recently thirty-two
weak, famine stricken wretches were tram
pled to deathjn tbe rush of these lusty idlers
for food. The public dOmmittee has arrang
ed that tickets shall be given only to the de
serving, and that none but ticket holders
shall be fed, and tbat all must be fed atone
hour throughout the city. None will be al
lowed shelter from thc rain and cold night
air which kills so many in the public sleds
constructed to accommodate 10,000, and
in tbe pauper camp outside the city, ex
cept those who have tickets. As many
poor as can be induced to go will be tent
>ack to their homes to be relieved there, tnd
influx will be arrested by establishing rdief
outposts at such places as Oollabaria, tbe
ferry on the Hoogbly. by which hundrids
flock from Midnaporc and Orissa A relief
agent was sent there, and this is his tale: On
landing from the boat at sunrise, the first <b-
ject he saw was “ an elderly woman n a
ghastly state of emaciation, lying liopclesdy
doubled up on the wet ground at the road
side, where she had apparently passed tie
night. This was in the midst of a crowded
bazaar.” Further on lay another woman aid
child in the same state. Near them lay tie
ghost-like figure of a man worn to thc bone,
naked and stiff, lying in a puddle. Abou*.
to pas3 it by as a corpse, the agent discovered
one spark of life still left, found tbat there
was no doctor nearer than at Howrah, sever
al miles away, and had all these cases remov
ed into a hut.
The native police inspector and his men
looked on with stolid indifference. While
sago was being prepared for the poor wretch
es who were too far gone to cat rice the
man died, nnd from another part of the road
a woman began that piercing, shrill, oriental
wail for her boy of eight, who had just
breathed his last. It is so common lor eight
or ten to die daily in the streets of this vil
lage that no one takes notice. You will
have a more vivid idea of thc State of the
poor in Calcutta than even the fact that 20,-
000 are daily fed by charity when I say that
the number of pauper bodies buried at one
ghaut alone rose from fifty—at which it
stood lost year—to 323 in thc first nine
days of this month. On the 10th there
were 3,729 native male and female patients in
thc different hospitals of Calcutta,* of whom
887 were in-door, against 1,880 on the same
date last year, of whom only 300 were in
door.
Now, it this is the cose in Calcutta, which
has no famine or scarcity of its own, what
must be thc state of things in Orissa ?
Think of 900 dead bodies being picked up
in thc streets of Balasorc in one morning.—
Yet this happened. The last return from
Balosore shows 703 deaths in that one little
station in the week ending July 21; and if
you treble that number for the many who be
come the food of the jackal and thc vulture
in tbe lonely jungle or ditch, you will not go
beyond the sad truth.
quite close to the road. To look at them
running, you would suppose their speed was
contemptible. Their gait is ungainly, re
sembling more nearly the lope of a pig than
that of any animal I can recall. AVith their
noses close to the ground, they keep steadily
on, and only begin to run their best when
you expect to see them tire out. You change
your mind as to their speed when you try
one with your horse at his best speed. The
embarrassments of an amateur buffalo hunter
are varied, and not limited m number. As
general thing, his horse objects to the buffa-
o—dislikes bim, in short, and is with diffi
culty persuaded to face him, although he may
follow well enough. Tho moment the buf
falo turns your horse is off, and it may be
well for y*u to look out that you are not off
too. Indeed, with half a dozen bullets in
him, his awful drapery of shaggy hair, eyes
rlaring, blood dripping from liis jaws, the
Buffalo bill is. not a pleasant object for a
horse to look upon, much less to get near.—
He is fuff of fight, and shows it while lie has
power left to move a muscle.
Well, our bulls were run down and killed
by foir or five ot our party in about forty
minutes. One of them was a noble speci
men, some 12 years old, very large,
measuring nine feet in length and t-ix
height. When he turned at bay,
be was truly a grand -spectacle. With
sicli horses os the Indians have, the sport is
much finer. The horse knows the buffalo
xearly as well as his rider, and will dash up
at full speed close to his side, giving the
hunter all the time needed to put his shot in
the desired place—just behind the shoulder.
It certainly is as glorious and exhilarating
spart as anything in hunting con be, for even
the Afresh, untrained horses, when recovered
from their first terror, enter into thc sport,
and fairly tremble with the excitement. To
day wc hod another buffalo hunt of a singular
description. Our camp is on the declivity of
hill looking South towards the Arkansas.
About half an hour before sunset, some one
near me cried out “buffalo 1” and although I
supposed it to be a joke, I looked up, and
sure enough there was a buffalo just below*
the crest of the hill, coming towards us. It
stopped, turned, looked bewildered for
moment, and began to run back. 3Ieantime
half a dozen rifles and revolvers were grasped
and by dint of heading off and wounding it.
the animal was actuully run down and shot
by half a dozen men on loot. It was a young
buffalo cow. Poor, misguided, giddy thing.
Strayed from its herd, it was, doubtless, en
deavoring to make its w*ay across the river to
which its instinct was unerringly guiding it.”
Steamer Evening Star.
FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER.
SECOND MATE SAVED—BOAT LOAD OF LADIES
LOST—SAD DETAILS OF SUFFERING.
the Southern people with his desire for broth
erhood, nnd his ideas of popular government
with the despotic programme he has marked
out against the South, we leave him to ex
plain when lie can. The truth is, these peo-
pleliarc l'i'.. since parted with both justice
and common sense.
1ST The National Intelligencer publisher
a list of ninety Generals who support the
restoration policy of tho President. Among
them arc Generals U. S. Grant, Win. T. Sher
man, Georgi B. McClellan and other names
of distinction.
From Savannah Herald, 16th.
We are permitted to make the following
extract from a letter received in this city, by
Mr. Lewis K. Smith, from a lady residing at
May Port Mills, Fla., near the mouth of the
St. Johns river:
As you have already heard of the loss of
thc steamship Evening Star, which founder
ed at 6ca, I would inform you that a boat
load of ladies, in charge of the second mate,
started from the ship and were all lost, with
the exception of the mate and two of the
ladies, both of them quite young. The boat
which they were in had got within two hun
dred yards of the beach, when it upset and
both of tbe ladies were drowned. One of the
ladies was the daughter of a wealthy farmer
in Rhode Island. Her body was found on
the beach and buried. She was about sev
enteen years of age, long, light hair, and very
handsome; she was buried among tho sand
bills. The other lady was the daughter of
a wealthy gentleman residing in New York.
When her body was also found the sharks
bad eaten her nearly all up, with the excep
tion of her clothing, by which she was iden
tified. She was buried in tbe cemetery. Dr.
Eastman gave a man ten dollars for recover
ing her remains.
“At ‘he time the ladies were drowned they
were insane, not having had anything to eat
for seven days with the exception of some
raw turnips. Neither of tho ladies was
dressed in anything but their nightgowns, as
it was five o’clock in the morning when the
vessel went down.
“The mate, whose name is Gouldsby, was
a dreadful sight to behold. The poor fel
low looks as though he had just arisen from
the dead, but he is receiving good attention,
and getting along very well.”
Life too Short for Strife.—Charles
Dickens relates the following of Douglas Jer-
rold:
Of his generosity I lmd a proof within
these two or three years, which it saddens me
to think of now. There had been estrange
ment between us—not on any personal sub
ject, and not involving angry words—and a
good many months bud passed without my
ever seeing him in the streets, when it fell out
that wc dined each with liis own private par
ty, in thc Stranger’s Room of the Club. Our
chairs were almost back to back, and I took
mine after lie was seated nnd at dinner (I am
sorry to remember,) and did not look that
way. Before we had sat long, he openly
wheeled liis chair around, stretched out both
hands, and said aloud, with a bright and lov
ing face, that I can see as I write to you, ‘Let
us be friends again. A life is not long enough
for this.’
Jcrrold was not a Christian, but bis conduct
in this cose was worthy of a Christian charac
ter. On a dying bed’ how insignificant will
appear many things nbout which wc contend
in bitterness and wrath! Life is too short,
its inevitable sorrows so many, its responsi
bilities so vast and solemn, that there is, in
deed, no time to spare iu abusing and ma
ligning one another. Let not the sun go
down on your wrath. Never close your eyes
to sleep with your heart angry towards your
brother and fellow sufferer. Sec him and be
reconciled if you can. If you caunot see him
write to him. If he is a true man and a
chrktian, he will listen. If he is not you will
liav< done right, and your soul will be bright
witb the sunshine of Heaven.
5 Georgia to resemble more, in lier j tbe companies, having these lines of railroads
s tt I b li T | o k
American Jewelers’ Asocial!,,,.
54, 56 & 58 Liberty Street
NEW YORK CITY.
natural capacities, the great State of Penn- j bl charge, to divert their main track so as to
sylvania than any other State in the Union to tbo ( uarrie& x }, ese rcm;lrka , with DepOtS, 37 & 39 NaSSnw
resembles it, and whicb, when developed, j force to the Atlanta and Decatur Railroad, „
will prove a source of unimagined wealth to , the Griffin and North Alabama Railroad, thc C/f en T *’
her people, the article of slate must not be , Borne and Selma Railroad, and the Marietta
omitted an d Jacksonville Railroads, each of these
„„ _ . , . X1 , , projected, and in some instances partially
, 1 he great Creator, in supplying this earth completed lines—for the quarries would loacl
with its internal sources of wealth, seems to ! daily, not a single 'car, but a whole train of
have been chary in selecting localities on ] ears. This would tend to thc development
which to bestow this mineral. Not to refer °? tbe Qcarric.-, the giving profitable em
ployment to hundreds and thousands, the en
hancing the value of the mineral resources of
the State, and tiie putting down the price of
the best material for roofing in the world be
low tin, and on a level with shingles, so that
it might be used not alone on costly edifices
and splendid mansions, but eventually on all
private dwellings. Quarry.
Swing his Bacon.—A good story is told
of aAVestcrn farmer, a candidate for Congress,
wlitsc neighbor was in the habit of stealing
hishogs, and was finally caught in the net.—
Antious to secure the man’s vote and his own
joik at the same time, the .farmer went to
iin and said:
“Now I make this proposition—if you will
let Biv hogs alone in tbe future, I will not on-
ay nothing of the past, but when I kill in
till I’ll put into your cellar live barrels of
as g*od pork as I make.”
The fellow reflected a momen t nnd then re
plied:
“Welf, Squire, that’s a fair proposition,
anyhow; and, seeing as it’s you, I’D doit.—
But I vow I believe I shall lose pork by the
operation.”
The Model Lady.—Puts her children out
to nurse and tends lap dog^; lies in bed till
noon; wears paper soled shoes, and pinches
her waist; gives her piano.fits and forgets
to pay her milliner; cuts lier poor relations,
and goes to church when she lias got a new
bonnet; turns the cold shoulder to her hus :
band, and flirts with bis “friends;” never
saw a thimble, don’t know a darning needle
from a crow-bar; wonders where puddings
grow, eats bam and eggs in private, and dines
off a pigeon’s leg in public ; runs mad after
thc last new fashion; doats on Byron; adores
any fool who grins behind a moustache, and
when asked the name of her youngest child,
replies, “Don’t know, indeed, ask Betty.”
Fanny Fern.
In a row between two women nt
Washington, one called the other “ a villain
ous copperhead treasury-clerk woman.” For
ney held her bonnet.
The Sylvan Shore.—This fine steamer
will leave at her usual time. The injuries
she susi -ined were very slight and have been
thoroughly repaired.—Sar. Hep.
£5?” “He that defers his charity till ‘he is
dead, is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather
liberal of another man's than his own.”
TnE Caterpillar.—A gentleman, who is
ilanting near Tallahassee, showed us a num
ber of cotton bolls from his place, last Tues
day, that were badly eaten, as a sample of the
ravages that thc caterpillars are making in
his crop. Tbe bolls were all sizes, from the
size of a filbert to that of those nearly ma
tured and thatwvould have opened in a week
more. But, we are glad to say that this state
of things is not general, as on many places
the caterpillar has not yet been seen.
Floridian, 12tA.
pg* A despatch from Savannah announces
that Mr. George Hillman, his son and daugh
ter, Margaret, of New Orleans, were lost on
the Evening Star. Mr. Hillman was one of
thc old residents, respected and esteemed of
a wide circle of friends. Ho was at one time
one of the Port Wardens, and of late years
has been engaged in the cotton pressing busi
ness. His son had just finished bis education
in Europe, and the father had gone to bring
him home.
Funeral of Gen. Lkadbetter.—The re
mains of the late General Danville Leadket-
tcr having been brought from Canada to this
city, were interred yesterday in the new cem
etery. Tbey were followed to their last rest
ing-place by a number of his old friends and
associates, who availed themselves of the oc
casion to offer this last evidence of respect
and friendship.—Mobile Advertiter, ISfA.,
An Incident. -During his speech on last
Friday, at Carbondale, Gen. Logan branded
as a liar the man who would say that he gave
a cent to any person to go to the rebel army,
nis sister arose in the audience and cried at
the top of her voice: “ You did; you gave
your brother-in-law money to carry him to
the rebel armv !” The General did not call
her a liar.—EcanstilU Courier.
C5BTA Radical spread-eagle orator of New
York State wanted the wings of a bird to fly
to every town and county, to every village
and hamlet, in the broad land; but he wilted
when a naughty boy in the crowd sang out:
“Dry up, you old fool; you’d get shot
for a goose before you flew a mile.”
* The Bourbons residing in Venice are
preparing to depart. TIict don’t wish to live
under Victor Emmanuel.
to the Old World, or to other countries be
side our own, slate, a few years ago, was sup
posed to exist only in the States of Vermont,
New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Later
yeare have increased the number of States
possessing this valuable commodity by one—
namely, Georgia. The States of Kentucky,
Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, and
Mississippi, and the Western States, are all
supposed to be destitute of this mineral
Further investigations may discover it; but
thiB is doubtful. Besides this, in the States
which contain slate, but few localities seem
to have been assigned to it; though, where
it is found, it is found in a quantity which
seems inexhaustible.
The fact of the fewness of localities which
contain ’ slate capable of being worked
should repress thc arder of those who look
for slate quarries in every place where blue
limestone is found. In the State of Georgia,
from a strict and thorough geological survey,
only the region in the vicinity of Van Wert
believed to possess it. ,
If' Paley, in his admirable work on Natur
al Theology, had wished to select an example
to prove contrary to the assertion of the
atheist, “The world is the work of chance,'
that there is design and adaptation in the
creation to thc wants of man, he could not
have selected a better one for his purpose
than this State. Iu other words, he could
have proven from the adaptation of slate to
the various useful purposes for which it is
employed, that there was design in this adap
tation, os there is reason to believe from the
mechanism of a watch, (to use Paley’s illus.
tration ) that it was designed to keep time.
The principal use of slate is for the cover
ing of roofs. Its superiority over shingles con
sists in its being fire-proof and more durable-
Over tin its superiority is equally as great, in
that it is a greater protection against fire, be
ing thicker than tin, and when laid on the
roof, lying in double layers, more durable as
it lasts for centuries, and admits the free
circulation of air, (which tin does not,
thus rendering the upper story of a house
covered with it more pleasant in warm or
sultry weather. When cistern water is to be
used the superiority of slate for roofing over
tin or shingles is apparent. Now let us sec
thc marks of design that slate was to be used
fur roofing.
The quarryman, after removing the top
earth, comes to a bed of slate. Now did slate
exist in a solid moss of mountain proportions
it would be difficult, if not impossible, to re
duce it to a proper size for the purpose of
covering houses. But slate exists in its natu
ral state in lamina: from six inches in thick
ness to a few feet. Layer after layer may be
found, showing tbat the Creator has already
performed the most difficult part of the task
of cleaving the mineral.
But again, if the lamina: were of indefinite
lengthj and uninterrupted by scams, when
they were several feet in thickness, a great
difficulty would be encountered in breaking
them up into proper length for tiles. Here
again the Creator comes to the relief of his
children, for there are seams in the slate at
convenient distances, which totally sever
them apart in their length, or else hold them
together by a kind of flinty material easily
separated. The laborer then has only to split
one side instead of three.
The length, breadth and thickness have all
to be provided tor by the artisan. He has
before him a piece of slate, for example, ten
feet long, six feet wide and three feet thick:
how shall he get that piece into tiling or roof
ing slate, two feet long, one foot
wide .and a quarter of an inch thick ?
The first business of the quarrymar,
is to provide for the width of the slate. He
takes a steel chisel, and with smart blows of
a hard hammer, he gouges out a straight
groove on one end of thc block in the direc
tion of its thickness, nnd then with a few
more such blows in the centre of the groove
the slate is seen to crack in a straight line,
and finally splits the entire length of the
piece. Thus the width of roofing slate is ob
tained. The next point to be gained is to
get “blocks,” as they are termed, of proper
thickness to bo rived. This is accomplished
still more easily by a few blows with the same
chisel and hammer—the block ot slate split
ting into boards of an inch or two inches in
thickness, more easily than any timber is split.
With the same chisel the proper length is given
to the “blocks.” If the reader has understood
the description, ho will be prepared to ander-
stand how these “ blocks” are converted into
roofing slate. All that is required for this pur
posc is a very thin chisel about two inches wide
which splits the blocks in the same manner
and with as much ease as shingles are rived.
But we are not through with the marks of
design in this mineral. The slate is reduced
to tiles of proper shape for laying on the roof ;
it must be perforated with holes to admit of
being fastened on the roof with nails. Were
slate of the nature of glass, this object could
not be accomplished, for if it should be at
tempted to punch a hole through a pane of
glass, the glass would be broken and shivered.
Not so with slate, for you may punch an hun
dred holes through a single tile of slate with
out danger ot fracturing the tile—there being
left by the operation ot punching a clear
round hole suitable for the nail. And yet,
though so brittle, when the roof is completed
the slaters will walk, without danger to tbe
roof, over its entire surface.
To give some idea of the extent of this
mineral in the vicinity of the place before re
ferred to, it will be necessary to compare the
extent of the quarries there with those known
to exist in other portions of thc United States
where slate is found. The Eagle Slate Com
pany, of New York, boast that they have a
quarry of 80 acres, but tho Slate Company of
Georgia have ascertained from a strict and
thorough geological survey that they have 90
acres of slate.
Thc great drawback to thc development of
these quarries in the State has been their
distance from any lino ot railroad already
built, and the vast expense incident to the
first opening of any slate quarry. Van Wert
is distant about 13 miles from Cartersville,
Bartow county—the nearest point to the rail
road, and as slate is about half as heavy again
to the square as shingles, and must be hnuled
in wagons to the railroad, nn advance of $2 50
per square has to be charged on slate more
Pretty Cute for a Darkey.—Old Tony,
like other darkies, was much pleased with
the fancy of riding a “hoss” of his own. Ac
cordingly he scraped together all his earn
ings to the amount of fifty dollars, which he
paid for a very worthless pony. Many per
sons told him be was badly cheated; and it
was playfully proposed that he should have
th
the seller before the bureau. At this Tony
looked very solemn, and at length answered ;
“No, sar, if Mr. A. cheat me, maybe I can
cheat him back; but if dem bureaus gits de
money, de devil can’t screw it out of dem.”—
Nashville Gazette.
Health of Milledgeville.—The South
ern Recorder of this week says:
.Never before in the history of our little city
and county has there been so much fever oi a
bilious, intermittent and remittent type,
coupled with chills and fever.. Fortunately,
it is not of a dangerous character, and is
(asily managed by our Physicians. We hope
as cold weather increases the disease will de
crease.
Of Rosewood Pianos and Me'odeons, Fine fta n
inns. Engravings, Silver Ware, Goldin,il? 11
Watches, and Etorant Jewelry
i ‘■—ond Pins,Diamond Iti££ Golan *'''
Coral, Florentine. Mosaic ,T,.i ac
iva. and Cameo Ladim'^
•old Pens, with Gold and Silver’
T™ »nd SilfjT
Lava
Gol tBuu ou
Extension Holders, Sleeve
Buttons, Sets of Studs,
Vest and Neck
_ Chains,
Plain and Chased Gold Chains, &c„ &c., val„«}.
$1,000,000 FOR ONE DOLUr,
which they need not pay until it is known .
drawn and its value. n ***t#
THE AMERICAN JEWELERS’ ASSOCIATE
call your attention to tho fact of its being thni 1 ®-'
and most popular Jcwciry Association in the
States. Tho business is and always has bo-n
ted .in the most candid and honorable manner ,
rapidly, increasing trade is a sure guarantee ofu.
preciation of our patrons for this method ofol.ti W*
nch, elegant and costly goods. Tho snddcn"i, ' 0t
tion of trade in Europe, owjng to the late ftlH?**
\\ ar nnd recent disastrous financial crisis in Kn Ju.'f
has caused tho faiiuro of a large number of i,vH
Houses in London and Paris, obliging then to.'"
their goods at a great sacrifice, in some instant, r 1
than one-third th© cost of manufacturing. VVek**
atcly purchased very largely of these Bank™!;
Goods, at such extremely low prices, that we 1
ford to send away Finer Goods, and give better rt**'
ces to draw the most valuable prizes than anv oit 1 '
establishment doing a similar business. OCR iffl
IS TO PLEASE, and we respectfully solicit yonr, ,
s wc.arc confident of giving the utmost
During the past year wo have forward ,
number of the most valuable prises to all parts ofiii
country. Those who patronize us will receive thi. f.n
value of their money, as no article on our li,,'
worth less than Ono Dollar, retail, and there ari«
Blanks. Parties dealing with us may depend on W
ing prompt returns, and thonrticlc ■' ■ -
ing prompt returns, and thonrticlc drawn will he in
mediately sent to any address by return mail ™
A first rate joke took place recently
in a court room up North. A woman was
testifying in behalf of her son, anti swore that
“he had worked on a farm ever since he was
born.” The lawyer who cross examined her
said:
“You assert your son, worked on a farm
ever since he was born I”
“I do.”
“What did he do the first year ?”
“He milked 1”
The lawyer evaporated.
The following parties have recently drawn vidnzW.
rizes from the American Jewelers’ Associate m!
ive kindly allowed the use of their names • ’
. Charles J. Hunter, Esq., Treasury lJenartm™,
Washington, D. C., Piano, value $3(10: Miss Amu?
Yates. 52 St. Mark’s Place. N. Y., Sewing mS:
value $75; Brig. Gen.L. L.llanson, IT.S. Vol« v'Vl
yille, Tcnn., Silver Tea Set. value $150;
Hunter, 03 Front Street, Harrisburg, l’a., Scwin- u,
ohinn volno T.wint _l\,l
Quartermaster, Louisville, Ivy., Gold Wnteh”\X
$150: Win. S. Haines. 147 King Street, Charleston. V
L'tllnn tviVl • Alnvimlo I .L- ' ““
TnE Right Spirit.—The Brunswick Cour
ier informs us that the municipal authorities
of that place, with thc expressed consent of
the people, have increased their subscription !
to the capital stock of thc Brunswick road to
C., Silver Watch, value $50; Alexander John!™'
Ksq., Editor Muskatcur Pioneer, Muskntcur, jlimf
Ladies’ Enameled Watch, value S150: Samuel
Ksq„ President Colorado and Mining Oompzny,
Francisco, Cal., Melodeon, valuo $200; Aarons
Long, Esq., Principal Elkhart Collegiate Institute
Elkhart, N. J., Diamond Pin. value $2u0 : R u’
Longstreet, Montgomery, Ala., Music Box, valne«r>
llev. Isaac Van Duzar, Albany. N. Y„ Geld Lined
Dining Set, value $300; Miss Clara Lucuguer, b»v-
ton, Ohio. Pianoforte, value $400, and Diamond Fie
value 8175.
Many names could be placed on tho List, l™t* t
Publish no names without permission. Our patrens
are desired to send United States Currency when iti<
convenient,
PARTIAL LIST OF ARTICLES
three hundred thousand dollars, and could
have made it fire hundred thousand it it had
been necessary.
A lady whose husband has deserted
her says: “May two hundred and forty-
seven nightmares trot quarter races over his
stomach every night.”
This probably will be a relief to wbat he
has endured.
A Paris letter announces the arrival
in that city, in a destitute condition of Lami-
rande, the defaulting cashier of the Poictiers
branch oi the bank of France. The 480,000
francs which he took on leaving the bank he
squandered and lost while in this country.
Death of an Eminent Irishman.—The
Irish papers report the death of Mr. John B.
Dillon, who was well known in 1848 as a
leading member of “ the Young Ireland par
ty.”
Death at Richmond.—Thc Richmond
Times announces the death of Mr. James
Cnskie, one of thc oldest and most enterpris
ing merchants of that city, and for a Ion
‘me President of the Bank of Virginia
Yankee Robinson received a baby
African elephant by the steamship Borussia
last week. The infant is only thirty-eight
inches high.
Thc Texas Legislature has appointed
joint Committe to proceed to New Orleans
and remove the remains of Gen. Albert Sid
ney Johnson tc Austin.
B3F“Thc suit in New York to determine
who has the exclusive right to play “ Our
American Cousin” has at last been settled in
favor of Laura Keene.
A railroad is proposed to run on the
west side of the Hudson, between New York
and Albany. The list of directors contains
names of great financial strength.
C3F” The population of the Sandwich Is
lands has been reduced by licentiousness and
dissipation, in fifteen years, from 140,000 to
70,000.
Thc infant daughter of General Tom
Thumb died from inflammation of the brain,
at Norwich, England, on the 26th of Sell
tember.
BT* In Detroit, Midi., ’a woman named
Cliurcbill recently placed a scaled can of to
matoes upon the stove, nnd was killed by an
explosion.
pST* A ltyge number of church organiza
tions in Virginia have presented claims to
thc Government for damages done their
property by Federal troops during thc war.
The estimate of the tobacco crop of
Virginia' and North Carolina the present
season is 40,000 hogsheads.
DISTRIBUTIONS.
Wo would call attention to tho opinion of one of tho
loading papers of Canada on this subject.
Most of our readers have no doubt read some of thc
numerous advertisements of IGift Enterprises, (lift
Consorts, Ac., which appear from time to time in tho
pnblio prints, offering most tempting bargains to those
who will patronize them. In most cases these are
g enuine hnmbngs. But there are a few rospoctablc
rms who do busines* in this manner, and they do it
uiuto nuw uu uuoiiiv.'s iu tuts uiuum.1 • nhu iuvj uv tv
as a means of increasing thoir wholesale business, and
not to make money. From such firms, it is true, hand
some and valuable articles are procured for a very
small sum, and what is more important, no one is over
cheated. Every person gets good valuo for his dollar;
because, as wc have stated, it is intended to act as an
advertisement to increase their ordinary business.
Wo have seea numbers of prises sent out in this
way by Shekx>.x, Watson* & Covi-any, of Nassau
Street, N. Y„ and there is no doubt tbat some of the
articles are worth eight or ton times the money paid
for thorn, while wo havo not seen or hoard of a single
article which was not fully worth the dollar which it
cost. But this is only ono of the exceptions of this
rule, for as a general thing the parties engaged in this
business are nothing but mover swindlers.
(Saturday Bender, Montreal,
SOLD FOR ONE DOLLAR EACH
Without regard to value, and not to lie paid
for until you know what you arc
to receive :
15 Elegant Rosewood Pianos, worth
from', $300to$*>i
IS Elegant Mclodeons, Rosewood Cases... 175 to Z-
50 F'irst Class Sewing Machines tuto it
75 F'ineOil Paintings 30 to Mi
150 F'iue Steel Engravings, framed 2" to
50 Music Boxes 25 to V
150 Revolving Patent Castors, silver 20 to
50 Silver F'ruit and Cake Baskets 20 to
400 Sets Tea nnd Table Spoons 20to -S
150 Gold Hunting Case Watches, warrant
ed - 50 to 15!
100 Diamond Kings, cluster and single
stone. 75 to Si
175 Gold Watches...., 85 to 15)
300 Ladies’ Watches 00 to 1®
500 Silver Watches .*. 20 to
Diamond Pins, Brooches and Ear Drops, Ladies'
Mosaic. Lava nnd Cameo : Sets of Studs, Vest ud
Neck Chains, Plain and Chased Gold Rings, (told
Thimble*, Lockets, New Stylo Belt Buckles, Gold
Pens and Pencils. F’ancy Work Boxes, Gold Pens with
Gold and Silver Extension Holders, and a large u-
sortment of F’ine Silver Ware and Jcwciry of even
description, of the best mako and latest style.-.
pt~F~ A chance to obtain any of the abort
Articles for ONE DOLLAR, by purchasing!
sealed envelope for 25 cents.
45. F'ive Scaled Envelopes will be sent for 81; De
veu for $2; Thirty for $5; Sixty-five for $10: One
Hundred for $15.-
Auents wanted Everywhere.
Unequalled inducements offered to Ladies mid
Gents who will act ns such. Our descriptive circnlan
will be sent on application.
Distributions arc made in the following manner-
Certificates naming each article and its value an
; ilaccd in sealed envelopes, which arowe'lraiici-
Onc of theso envelopes containing the Cc.tifiesteor
Order for some article, will be delivered M our office,
or sent by mail to any address, without regzrdti
choice, on receipt of 25 cents.
On receiving thc Certificate thc purchaser will.w
wliat nrticlo it draws and its value, and can then sad
One Dollar, and receive the article named, orcu
choose any other one article on our list of thc sue
value.
Purchasers of our Sealed Envelopes may, in tbs
manner, obtain an article worth from one to live hun
dred dollars. *
Long Letters are unnecessary. Have thc kinams
to writo plain directions, and in choosing different st
rides from those drawn, mention the style desired.
Orders for Sealed Envelopes must in cvciye«
be accompanied with the cosh, with the name of tic
person sending, and Town, County uid State plzizl.'
written.
Letters should be addressed to tho Manager?,
follows: >
SHERMAN, WATSON & CO.,
37 A 39 Nassau St., New York City.
octlS-w3m
Piano Forte for Sale!
QNE 7)4 Octave Chickering Grand Piano
Forte—nearly new—very handsome and ex
cellent tone Apply to
MRS. M. A. NORTH, or
C. A NUTTING.
octlS—lw*
NEW GEORGIA
Seven per cent. Mortgage Bonds
^^LWAYS on hand, and for sale by
NUTTING, POWELL &C0.
octlS—lw*
Do You Want the Trade of
South-west Georgia ?
C. E., Jan. 13,1866.)
MARRIED,
In Americas, on Wednesday the I7th October,
Instant, by Rev. Charles R. Jewett, MR. THOM
AS A. GRAHAM, formerly of Nashville, Tennes
see, and MISS OLIVIA B. t eldest daughter of C. R.
Hancock, Esq., editor of the Sumter Republican.
On the 10th inst, at the residence of Gen. S. P.
My rick, in Midway, by the Rev. Dr. Lipscomb, Dr.
JOHN IV. MYRICK to MISS LVDA J. DOW
DELL.
The Great Acclimating Tonic.
Wherever HOSTETTER’3 STOMACH BITTERS, the
celebrated American prevention of Climatic Diseases,
have been introduced into unhealthy regions, their ef
fects in sustain!og the health, vigor and animal spirits
of those whose pursuits subjected them to extraordina
ry risks from exposure and privation, have been won-
dcrful. In the army the superiority of this article over
every other invigorating and alterative medicine has
become so manifest where used, that it is relied npon,
exclusively, as a protection against Bilious Fever, Fever
and Ague, and Bowel Complaints of every kind. The
soldiers say it is the only stimulant which produces and
keeps up a healthy habit of body in unwholesome loca
tions. For the unacclimated pioneer and settler it is
the most reliable of all safeguards against sickness.—
Throughout the United States it is considered the most
healthful and agreeable of all tonics, and altogether un
equaled as a remedy for DyspepsiA. The medicinal in
gredients are all vegetable, and are held in solution by
the most wholesome stimulant known—the Essence of
Bve.
“ Hostetler s Bitters ” are manufac' ured at Pittsburg.
Penn., and no less Ilian S0,00t)dozen buttles are sold an
nually by druggists.
F so advertise in the “Dawson Weekly
— nal.” This journal has been publish™ “ ‘
tbe present year, but with a degree of »uc«"
heretofore unknown to country journalism-^
ing seenred in eight months the largest suMOT
tion list known to newspapers in that secnoa
This is a fact well kcown to successful merchznft
who make it a business and realize fortuues m*
The undersigned will call on the raercb»nt*ij
Macon this week in behalf of the “Journal-
is also connected with a strong company KJ 0
ding up a first class Journal at Cutbbcrt, G*-,
“TIIE CUTiiBERT APPEAL.'
A very large number of the first issue to lj*
tributed promiscuously next week, oflunos i
splendid opportunity to business men. T . v
octlS—2t EI.AM CHBI&TU^
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
H AVING failed in seeurinf a store, I will^
(for a few days only) to th# trade, »
bnt good stock of
Boots and Shoes,
AT NORTHERN COST.
GOODS can be seen at the store of WM. IR*- 11 -
No. 64^ Ciiciry Street _
MORGAN a £HA«.
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Valuable Cotton Farm for Sale;
$00 cleared;
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ten ind In ,ln« condition tO m■ -
of cnltivation, and in tine condition to m*^,
crop next year; Gin House and Screw in 4- ,^
der and all necessary buildings on tne p
Also, as good water as any in the countr • -j
will sell all the Corn and Stock on the 1 • Th B
wanted ; also, seed from 100 bales cott'' • ^
land lies on PachitlerCreek, 4miies8ou-- ;
:an, Calhoun county, known as the uru...
fr. McCraken, on the place, will s\i;'W“* ;l j
A. Jones, at Wooten's Station. S- "
W R Phillips, Macon, Ga., will sell
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,place.
"’WM. A- • ;N
| *W. R. PHILLUo^^
TRACT BUCHUgiv«^
KELMBOLD’S EX1
and vi_'or to tho frame and b! ■ - to .{—s*
cheek. Debility is accompanied }-y J ;■■; ..jv
ng symptons, and if m
ousumption, in
real mentis subm'
oileptle or IPS ei • •