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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
[■j^ia at tcklgStlojjtajjj)
. prescription was recently
v ^ndon over the Atlantic cable,
-E D. Pckstice, of the Louisville
' ww report** 1 seriously il! on Friday
flIA Orphans’ Home.—The Trustees
'rejected institution will notice a call
^letting in Milledgcvillc on the Sd
'‘ .Jsjin November.
-••he Savannah News and Herald,
w ••conservative course” of Frank
&ivnnnnh News
-fcjgft r ie “<
IT., .llastratfd paper. Was it conserve
jong when attempting to degrade
br slanderous pictures ?
[,-»Tao firs-* in Nashville Wednesday last
Ir, i, a vc destroyed property to the
K ( ,r a million. The “Banner” office,
r*’,t|r destroyed, together with a largo
“ ‘ 0 f stores <m Cherry, Cedar and Dead-
■'
, Tli; Grand Lodge of Free and
j Jlssons of the State of Georgia,
^ i,i its Himttnl meeting in this city the
•.•Ttfc, commeneing on Wednesday,
dial a large number of delegates are
- ———
,\ private letter, received in Browns-
jounced a severe battle near Saltillo,
J ; n j in the defeat of the Liberals under
io'aml Martinez. This victory litcral-
Kl .j geltillo in the hands of the Impe-
vlio were daily expected in Honte-
yr ll’itbin the past week George Pca-
, t jj, e American millionaire banker, has
*$00,000 to charitable and litcra-
, jtitutions. Yalo and Harvard Colleges
v j ;i cived *100,000, and the Peabody In-
:. y !t Baltimore, received an additional
$ million.
j A? Pouct.—We think the Fenian threats
■ rtsrueand invasion of Canada come with
i nr* ill-grace at a time when the Govern
uul people of the United States are ap-
to the British for clemency toward
, tondrmned Fenian prisoners. How can
f Irish at the North expect favors in answer
|» threats ?
| Bishop Rutledge.—The Tallahassc Senti
id. of Saturday, says:
| [iis with inexpressible pain that we an
see the deplorable condition of this ven
| !e “man of God.” Tito cancer in his
H lias made such fearful inroads upon
- torjnc and other organs that he is scarce
JtiMcto swallow at nil, and he is dying of
sbsolute starvation.
COMPTROLLER’S ANNUAL REPORT. and, if necessary to do so, he would bring ! Letter From Secretary Browning,
The first report of our new Comptroller : into the field a large body of troops to any Publicity lias been given to an important
General, Mr. John T. Burns, is before us. We, number requisite. This decided stand by letter from Hon. O.'IL Browning, Secretary of
hardly know which most to admire—the : the military authorities lias had the desired the Interior, which was written to some of
clear, succinct, well-written and business-like [ effect, and no apprehension now exists that his former constituents in Illinois, and which,
exposition of the financial affairs of the State. I the peace of the city will be disturbed. The it is stated, on being submitted to the Presi
with its numerous and valuable tables, or the organization denominated the “Boys in Bine,” I dent, be fully approved and desired to be
very elegant typography in which they are which consisted of the scum and turbulent of made public, with the understanding that it
presented to the public by the present State j the city, and not of the men who bad been j fullv represented his present position. The
Printers, Messrs. J. W. Burke & Co., of this enrolled heretofore in the array, have found, paper opens with a consideration of the ten
city.' Both, wc feel sure, will command the in time to save them from a retributive jus- dencies to danger in public affairs, chiefly
highest satisfaction on the part of the Legis- [ticc, that their occcpation is gone. from the centralization of power in the gen-
lature. A letter from Gen. Sherman to the Presi- eral government and the absorbtion of many
Part L or the report proper, occupies twen-1 dent cordially endorsing the Administration of tlfe powers and prerogatives of the execu
ty-eiglit pages, and embraces every mntter of policy of reconstruction, will be made public tivc and judic'ary by the legislative depart-
interest appertaining to the .office of Comp- in a few days. It is said to be a bomb-shell ment. The argument upon these premises is
troller, together with many statements and in the ranks of the revolutionists. clear and forcible, and chiefly directed against
suggestions on new questions that have arisen Notwithstanding all denials to the contra- the tendencies of the proposed constitutional
out ot the late war and recent legislation. I *7t Secretary Stanton has signified liis wish, I amendment, the writer concluding that “it is
Part II occnpics eighty-nine pages, and is |{£binet periotl %vben be " j1! retire from 1110 impossible to maintain our wise and happy
composed exclusively of statistical tables, in Hon. L. D. Campbell, Minister to Mexico, form of government without preserving the
which a vast amount of information is given, has been summoned here to receive his in- independence and sovereigsty of the States,
with regard both to the State at large and I strnctions preparatory to starting at once on I within the appropriate aid constitutional
every county that composes it. These wil I 1 '* mifsion . Fresh advices from that section spheres.”
indicate that Maximilian and the French “The States,” he says, “miy exist and per-
save them a world of I f orc ? •““"‘H? abdicate, and leave mat- form all their factions witlont the Union or
- The I ten in the hands of the Juarez government. t lie Federal Government. The Union and
amount of patient labor required in preparing It has been reserved for the very astute the Federal Government esnnot exist without
them must have been very great. Dead Duck” Forney to trace the origin and tbe states, and they must be States of cquali-
Upon the whole, the report reflects tlie P ur P 0sc = 0 t tlio attempt by the Radicalsto t y—eq ua i j n dignity, equal in rights, equal
as upon tile Publishing Douse, to which wo liccooso of tho concocting a plnn by the Presi- tail policj^S iatnrartL M
are indebted for a copy. Taken as an earnest dent to hand the State over to the rebels, and otber b!ow w j,i c h the proposed amendment
ot what the public may expect of them in the Conjjnaamen ^from |aima at the government which our fathers
discharge ot their official duties, we think ^Sld thS
the Legislature will have very little reason to [tator!
regret the appointments.
presentation. This would be of very perni
cious effect. Aggregate population is the
port before our readers.
Beecher—Ilenry Ward, wc mean- repSluoi 1 No matter how
We purpose, at an early day, to lay there- , sp^crsault politician and erratic though { jj e elective franchise be disposed of, whether
classical preacher edified his audience with a exercised by few or many, all classes of the
sermon on Sabbath, giving his reasons why commun j t y are represented. The interests of
j Radicalism should conquer and Democracy I a jj glasses of people in the same communitv
be vanquished A fitting text for a blasphe- ^ ^ huerwoven and commingled that they
mow divine (Q. . cannot be separated, and whoever wields the
The private employers having all united in | representative power must do it for the good
receding from their protest against the eight- or r m of all perhaps not precisdy in the
I llAIIF CTfltflm all mvinfnM in tiin I - ' I . . 1 * - ,
"Letter from Washington.
| Charlotte.—The Northern and foreign
anils are very anxious to make it appear
t ;he Mexican Empress is insane. Our
t opiuionws, that she is only a little out of
^aptr at the obstinacy of European poten
cs. And will turn out about as sensible—if
k t little more so—as the newspaper, para-
Japhisti who would write her into a lunatic
vlum.
Xcc.ro Suffrage.—The negro convention
|n Xew York appointed a committee to wait
i the leaders of tho Republican and Demo
nic parties, with the understanding that
tv wc to cast their vote for that one which
I show them most favors. This is to be
k rale in negro suffrage—the good of the
MJT and sound political principle Will
kc nu place in the picture.
| £?*Me refer our readers to the card of
• 1- doicE, Esq., Attorney at Law, New
r d city. Mr. Joice proposes to give special
a'ion to matters connected with Patents,
: -!i he will also practice in the courts of
N»te of New York. Mr. Joice once prac
' hi> profession in this city, and liis char-
I •’ for intelligence and professional ability
laderstood by our citizens.
| The National Banks.—The following
1 m* from the quarterly reports of the
■ r>= »l Banks to October 1, 1866: Total
^snd discount, $601,838,808; U. States
f'-b and securities, $94,054,750; specie on
k *8,770,835; legal tenders, $203,770,641
■a! stock, $415,278,969; surplus fund,
1,377; National circulation, $280,129,-
individual deposits, $562,510,670; U.
■ deposits, $30,420,819.
eases ok the Eve,—We invite atten-
thc card of Dr. Bolling A. Pope, Oc
New Orleans. Dr. P., is a native of
-agton in this State, was educated in
t schools, academical and profession-
ad lms the additional advantage of a
■-•!i course of instruction and clinical
c in the colleges and hospitals of Eu-
We wish him all the dboccaa that his
character and qualifications merit.
B^An old friend who, though no M. D.,
1 ' a L' dabbled in remedie’s, sends us the
’Mn" prescription for chronic diarrhoea,
: ?*ntery, designed specially for suffering
'“aaces .
Syrup Itbnbard.
° aBl * Laudanum.
I
^iiace -
^ I)osc:
*aidav.
■ - - - Spts. Ammonia.
10 to 15 drops two or three
, elestoh and Savannah Rail Road.
r' Charleston Courier learns that a bill
' '^n filed in the United States Court for
•Mrict by tho corpbnition of tlie Rog-
Wnotive Machine Works, for an in-
1 against the sale of the above road,
. ^dtotnke place in November. As
1 a owe of great public importance it is
Plumed that a hearing will be had at
,. d *. v - Tho counsel for the corpora
' ( 'm. Wrn. E. Martin. The bond-
4r * ^presented by Hon. Henry Buist
; ' ”• J - B. Campbell, and the Charleston
*®Lah Railroad by the Hon. Charles II.
L AT * Miuirrs.—Where aro they » De-
«h°nld say, at the North, as Forney,
bretijj and other Radical outsiders
r -, tn Bit affairs ot Maryland into their
,'•P'Rg. Forney pr>mises t» keep
L.^ f>r '^ r with 100,000 men from Pcnn-
i, Y Butler has 10,000 Mussachu-
^ ikees organized specially for the
>»te * ltT ® these people to do with
‘femestic affairs of Maryland ?
, ^“8 ’ ^ nt * rao to their jiuritanic ori-
' , lnsist on having a finger in every-
V ^ oase tiny had better
°f hands-off. The President
8*rti the constituted authorities
Se ° settle all State affairs, and
Iwt/^^yfind themselves ilang-
i treason bc-
Correspondence of the Georgia Telegraph.
Washington, Oct. 24,1806. _ _ ^ ^
Secretary Browning, of the Interior De-1 ^ our printers in the District are I gjjjj,, degree! but lie cannot use it so as
Dnrtment. publishes a card to-dav in which n °ra WOI i! ,, S upo 5 that . l5 . 'irgely to benefit one class witlont to
partment, puousnes a cara to-aay, in wnten Hon. Thomas Spooner, of Cincinnati, is Lnma extent benefiting all or to iniure
he gives positive assurance to the public that prominently urged is successor toMr. Rollins, ““ oppress one class ivithout, to a greiter
the President is inflexible in his opposition the present Radical incumbent The aversion or ^ extent injuring and oppressing all.—
to the odious Constitutional amendment and I l ^ ,e Secretary to displacing Mr.^Rollinslins 1 Th ere are alWhvs, even in this country where
will so continue, let what may occur. bcen OVerCome ’ and tbe chan 8* « ™ dc - the right of suffrage is most widely extend
Antagonism is brewing between the Wes- Potomac. ed large numbera who do not vote at all.
ternand New England sections. Tlie former TO THE CITT COUNCIL OF MACON in the
are unwilling that tho small New England l w ^yeanbe'seenrei”* 1 NCCd ofMacon—n ° w apportionment of representation, witen the
States of New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Macon has derived all the growth possible, from foundation of the representative asstmblies.
Island and Connecticut shou’d have as much the Cotton Trade. Herealter It will decline. If ‘ ,u< ; b ar £ ab
strength in the United States Senate os tlie there is any change, .now the all important qaes- ™ es ^ h a ar ” S tb ey n 0t permitted to vote ?—
powerful States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, tlon ar ** es > how are the prosperity and growth of I not be j n rr permitted, why are tliey coun-
Missonri and Pennsylvania. The intimations ! be . Cit f. to secur ^ d? The answer is, by the In-j ted j n fi x j n g° the ratio of representition ?—
are that this will be a biff bone of contention tr f dnctM>n of manufactures mechanic arts- Th ara not a u owe d to vote becaiso they
are that this will be n big bone ot contention whetlgaBd ffiac hinery of every kind must be set in are n 0t SU pp 0 3ed to be sufficiently instructed
at the ensuing session of Congress. j motion—and then we will hsve a largely increased j n political economy and governmental affairs
Gen. Brooks has been ordered to Fort I producing class, which will make us rich and thrlf- L 0 {*> entrusted with the elective fraichise.—
McHenry, Baltimore, where an additional I ty. 8uch Is the secret ol tho wonderful prosper!- They are computed in fixing the ratio, because
battalion of regulars has been recently sta- ‘J of Northern towns. To accomplish these de- they are part of tbe same community with
,. . I -iruble results, the introdnetion of water into the I those who do vote, having interests in com-
„ , . , I city is an absolute necessity. The river mnst be I mon with them, and their influence ought to
Governor Seymour, of New York, who has J ma d eBn bservieDt te these, as well as many other be felt in shaping the laws by which their
been to tbe West on a strictly business tour, I uge fnl purposes. But ho- can this done? The rights of life, liberty and property are to be
is announced to address the Conservatives answer la ready: Let tbe City Council get from the {determined; and, although they do not vote,
ot his District, with the view of disproving | LcglaUture^power to impose * Ux on real | their hifluence is felt and their interests are
the libel which was so
ted by the radical press of the country during I waxer worn, ana to iui ena, iri me act or the | n ; t ; e3 ta ^hich they belong in the legislative
, . , . ~ , t. j ILegUlature provide for the election of a Water I V,. ... .i;
his absence to the effect that he hail abandon-1 (Commissioner, Into whose hands,th!s Water Tax j ‘Assemblies, although their voices are not ui-
ed his party and affiliated with the Jacobin shall be paid, and. who shall give his whole time to rectly heard in determining who shall repre-
e ... . . „ I the erection and management of the Works. Do I sent them,
commumtionists. I then Issue yonr Bonds and tbe thing is
Eli P. Norton, of New York, has been ap- dope. Yon need not go North for money. There „ _ . , .
. . , ,, _ .. . . .! ... -I will be money aronnd loose this winter, hunting I fense of 3Ir. Johnson’s policy for the rjstora-
pointed by the President to the position of forjn8t8nch fionds. where the certainty and » L nn the Union showdn- that in Drisciole
Solicitor of the Court of Claims. entity ol interest being paid promptiy, is put be- Uo “ the L ~ 1 . I . ’
^ , . I jond all question. Dwelhn" Houses occupied bv I it is tbe same as that of Mr. Lincoln, vnicli
The Radicals are greatly exercised as to t heir owners, should he exempted from this tax. L h ra .i; ca i 3 attemDted to overturn at their
the probable future action of the President Real esUts is by far the most remunerative the radicals attempted to oterturn at tneir
, , r ~ »■ _ _ property in Macon, and by far the leait taxed. Cleveland Convention, called after Mr Lin-
respceting tlie status of tlie Rump Congress. UWe enormoua, k, tiit renter, can eraily coln , fl lenominat ion to the Presidency, and
The mighty Philadelphia Ledger canard liav-1 par th:s tax and not feel it Moreover, real I .... , , . , ,, . . ..
imr fallen still-born thev stiU imagine that will be permanently benefitted by water which the people tnompbanlly vindicated in
J* 1 ^ " work* and much more immediately enhanced in jjjj re-election as President, with Mr. Johnson
the President is secretly concerting a plan to va ] ue than other property. So that in every
thwart them in their fixed purpose of Po-1 respect such a tax is juat, judicious and politic.
, .. . . _ . ... lit is a tax that need not continue long. As
landmine the Southern States, disfranchising aoon u th# Canal ia bu j It> the water rents will
its people, and preventing their participation I supply the place ol thu rax.
willthe present Council act do and something
in the next Presidential election. Some of I ^ djstingnjib their incumbency ? It not, le’ui
the most prominent of their clique threaten I put one in that will. Our merchants and rae-
him v/itli the “axe” should he attempt any | c h»nic* pay tremendoua tsxeson all the goods,
" , *”7^ - I provisions and clothes they sell and consume.—
coup <Fetat to circumvent them la their revo-1 j,’ow let us make real estate bear its share of
lutionary career. I burdens. Macon.
The conference last evening between the, _ , _ _ _ _ ,
'(.rand Jfury of Crawford
his re-election^
as Vice President.
President, Gen. Grant and Gen. Canby was of
a very important character, and quite pro
tracted. Tliey fully concurred in the pro
priety, expediency and necessity of the mea
sures which had been adopted to protect the
County Court.
Transportation of Cotton
Tlio Treasury Department has just issued
additional regulations concerning the trans
portation of cotton in bond, to the following
effect:
It having been represented that much hard
ship and inconvenience are entailed upon the
smaller planters and farmers in the interior
on tlie I counties of the cotton producing districts, or
in consequence of the enforcement of recent
regulations concerning the removal of cotton
in bond, and that additional and much need
ed facilities would be offered by allowing
Knoxville, Ga., Oct 25, 1866.
Editors of the Telegraph :—As tlie Legis-1 bonds for securing payment of the tax upon
, _ r . <1 * A !ai t »I V - . . I .1 .i:_«f nnlt.n, ..f 4l«A nninf nf /Ineti no_
. .. . . , lature of our State will be called upon to act delivery of the cotton at the point of destina-
{ , p 1 ,. ry . ’. _ upon the County Court Bill—either to repeal l i° n . to bc . tak ® n b y the collector of the re-
by the Radical malcontents. The most effec- amcnd thel J aw creatin g the Court—it is | ceiving distnct, instead of the collectorof
tivc measures have been adopted with that proper for that body to have the views of the the d' 8tnct whence the cotton is shipped, as
view, and the municipal authorities of Balti- people, as expressed in primary meetings and provided by regulations, senes 2, Iso. o,
mare who connive at the attemuted innova- trough their Grand Juries; and as I have »*“ ed f £,“ m °® ce under date of July 31,
. , . . .. , not seen the Presentments ot the Grand Jury 18^0. The following additional regulat on
tion upon the quiet of the community, have L f Crawford in a „ y paperi i ^nd veu an ex- u P° n the sub J ect hav ° ado P 1 ted f “ r 8 f
been fully apprised through Gen. Canby of tracti w Uh a request that you will publish curing the payment of the tax, and as afford-
the programme of prevention. the same. The following is the Presentment * n ?, tb< r mea9 ures of reuei sought tor:
* „ r .. , Ilinnn th« cnhiorA- Parties desirous of bnngmg cotton to sea-
Radical Congressmen are arriving here U ^, n v f e S " bj f D t nrove the Countv Court as . porU or other places for shipment from other
daily, and, after hovering around lor a time, I necess j ty ^“SvVeHe^foS rJSi“o ^eta will be allowed to do so upon eve-
they pass off, to be succeeded by others of the mnch good wbcn p f 0 perly administered, we c “ tlD 8 and delivering to the collector of the
same faith. They arc doubtless taking the do think that its needs amendment. In this district where such seaport or place ls situa-
bcarings in the political horizon, to see how connection, we earnestly invite the serious at- “ 1
far they may navigate without standing upon conditioned lor the payment of the tax upon
tho lee shore. They nil breathe the same in- We fw> , £ stined in in that it is unDcces all cotton for which permits may bo granted
tense and unflagging opposition to every thing Larv. and it is too great a drain upon the tbe “se 3 * 0183 tl,e district m which such
that savors of peace an.l restoration. They tim*e of the countrf. Wc entirely dissent I
.re .11 deeply inlwrtcd i. keeping ^“eome 0 ^ •?> *-***!£•
unhappy antagonizing estrangement between , . - ftb . r „ nnt ,
From the K. O. Picayune.
Industrial Scarcity and Over-Crow
ded Cities.
While the press tlirou^uout the South de
plores the scarcity ot labor for agricultural
and mechanical purposes in the rural dis
tricts, our cities are becoming crowded, tur
gid, plethoric, congested with population.—
The accession is in some degree natural and
healthful: but we much fear, indeed we feel
sure, that in great part it is a morbid accu
mulation of mere surplusage. For the su
preme want of tbe country, aside trom polit
ical considerations, is productive industry.—
Nevertheless, thousands rush into the cities
without employment of anv kind, and are
confronted with a diminishing prospect of
obtaining it. While the rural districts which
they abandon offer tbe only certain resources
and opportunities of producing the element
ary needs of life and laymg the foundations
of maDly independence and competence.—
There the very fields and forests seem to cry
aloud in prayer and protest to those who de
sert them and fly to woo the perilous chances
of the cities. Can we wonder that the black
people withdraw in such numbers front the
rural districts, and flock to the great centres
of population, when so many whites, with
not a whit more rational inducement, daily
set them the example ? It may not be easy to
conceive a just and reasonable incitement to
such a course; but when wo see multitudes
pursuing it, we find no difficulty in explain
ing why it is, that tlie country becomes more
and more shrunken, and the cities more and
more tumid—tbe shrinking and the tumidity
being correlative symptoms of the same dis
ease.
Of course, we behold in the legitimate
growth of our own city a subject of pride
and congratulation. And unquestionably,
favored as it remarkably is by so many nat
ural, social and other advantages, much of its
increase of population, within the last two
years, is entirely legitimato, and m«y be safe
ly reckoned as a substantial addition to its
permanent magnitude and prosperity. But
there is also a noticeable redundancy beyond
that point, and a regrettable indication of a
continued increase of this redundancy. And
we join cordially with the advice which a re
spected Mobile cotemporary gives to ycung
men, and to all men, without money and with
out business, who are prone to seek profes
sional or clerical occupations in oar crowd
ed cities where all the berths in those
lines of employment aro already taken.
Unfortunately, there is not the same surfeit
ol mechanical and skilled labor. The cities
no more superabound with labor of tlm sort
than the rural districts superabound with ag
ricultural labor. On both hands the dearth
is painfully sensible. And this recalls a sub
ject of sad reflection in regard to one of the
great defects of the education of the Southern
people, and not of their’s only, but ot that of
the whole American people. This defect is
the neglect of bringing up the mass of the
young men to wbat are denominated “trades,”
or to scientific knowledge and practical skill
in agriculture. At a meeting of the Social
8cience Association, in New England, not
long since, the most pointed testimony was
given to the injurious consequences which re
sulted, from this source, to industry and com
merce, even in the Eastern States, which
have so long enjoyed a high repute for me
chanical skill and industrial enterprise and
thrift. It was admitted to be impossible to
obtain from tbe American population the
necessary skilled labor to carry on, and to
profitably enlarge in response to the demands
of the country, the existing establishments ot
various manufactures whether of textile, me-
talic or wooden fabrics. Europeans had to
be imported to supply the deficiency. There
was no want of Americans in point of number,
but the lack among them of slow and careful
training needed for important and delicate
work would have rendered them an insuffi-
cint resource if they had numbered ten times
thirty millions. It is to be feared that tbe
same species of deficiency, aggravated, per
haps, would be found in tbe South, in case
manufacturing enterprises should multiply
greatly. The evil is one which, though ad
mitting of immediate mitigations, only time
can completely remedy. A profound change
in the general education of the people—
which has heretofore proceeded too much on
the principle that Americans were all born
aristocrats, above the thought of manual la
bor, and destined to be philosophers, schol
ars, authors, professors, speculators—anything
but useful producers—is the great thing need
ful.
IIow the High Tariff Works.
THE oppression op tiie consumer—IMMENSE
PROFITS LIGHT FROM MASSACHUSETTS.
A writer in the Northampton Gazette tells
the public some ugly facts about the cause of
tlie high prices which are felt so oppressively
by all classes in the community, except the
manufacturers, who make great dividends.
Ho says:
A woolen manufacturer of Massachusetts
said in Boston in 1865, “Before the war it co t
me $3 50 a yard to make cloth, and I sold it
at $4. Now it costs me $4 per yard, and I
sell it at $8.” Ex unodisee omnes. This man
probably made a pilgrimage to Washington
last winter to clamor for more “protection”
to the woolen interest. If he did not, the
wool-growers in Brattlcboro assembled re
cently resolved that they ought to have “such
a tariff as will sustain them against the com
petition of foreign wools produced by cheap
labor, cheap lands! and.cheap capital.” They
also took efficient measures to have this reso
lution carried into effect. That is right.
Let us have this additional tariff, by all means.
Labor is a prodigious element in wool-prow-
ing, and land is scarce and dear in the United
States, so contracted and so densely popula
ted compared with the Old World! Besides,
it will help “protect” the aforesaid manufac
turer. An additional five cents a pound on
wool will furnish him the wherewith to “pull
the wool ” over the eyes of consumers, and
get $10 a yard for his cloth, instead of $8.
Of the huge profits of manufacturing cor
porations, he says:
Look at the dividends of manufacturing
companies for a yenr pnstj Doubtless a salu
tary fear of taxation or of tempting competi
tion has kept many from coming to light.—
But of those made public, twenty per cent, is
about. the .minimum, while one hundred
per cent, is quite ns coniiuom. a majority
ranges between these two rates.
A company not a thousand miles from
Nortlmmton lias just declared “a dividend of
one hundred per cent, on a year’s profits,
besides reserving enough surplus to enlarge
their mill.” Out of whom do these profits
come ? Out of consumers overburdened by
taxation of every description. How is it pos
sible to make such profits in a business long
established and extensively pursued in the
Middle and Eastern States ? Because a tariff
virtually prohibitory, excludes competition,
and home monopolists have only to assemble
from time to time, fix tlieir own prices, swear
not to undersell each other, and their fortunes
are made. . Consumers may help themselves
if they can. The old pretense that “protec
tion” cheapens products by inspiring home
industry and fostering competition is ex
ploded by combinations.
He rightly adds:
A long suffering public will begin by and
by to ask troublesome questions. It will
want to know why “protection” is not ex
tended to all interests. It may ask, v “Why
not protect operatives as well as capitalists—
millions as well as hundreds ? Why not pro
tect labor by a prohibitory tariff on emigra
tion, so that it can command $4 per day in
stead of $2 ?” When it comes to this tbe sys
tem is doomed.
. — . - „ , „ the jurisdiction of the Countv Court, mnst i .. , „
the co-operative departments of the Govern- be charged under §5054 of the Code, by a I an J one dur,n " i . continuance, andas-
ment. Among other threatened means of Grand Jury. The section referred to says I Besso1 ? " 1 ,c car : ^ u . not to f? ran further
warfare, thev make no disguise of a purpose that <no person shall be held to answer for a
capital or otherwise infamous crime,\unless
intended to be removed and in transitu at
to reject all Presidential appointments, re-, ,
,, ... ,17,, upon a presentment or indictment of a Grand
gnrdleas of the capacity, fitness and suitable- j[, ry/ $r 0Wf we hold that i nfainoug crimc
ness of the several nominees. means next under capital—one that may sub-
Thc conservatives in the several depart- | ject the oflender to the Penitentiary—a felo-
ments feel quite indignant at having their ny ‘ ... , ..
pretcnsions for promotion ignored completely, or8j not 6Ubjec ti n fj the offender to the penal-
whilst the advantages of position all innre I ty of the Penitentiary or death, may be tried
to the benefit of the radicals, who were ap by a Petit Jury, without the charge of a
pointed bv radical influences and exert all Grand Jury, and we earnestly urge upon the
tlie capacity they possess to strengthen and ^ gl8lature the amendment” A.
sustain the enemies of the administration.— jggfThe Washington (Wilkes Co.) Gazette
The President is assuredly unaware of this, i says: A heavy frost occurred here on Wed-
os he bos emphatically declared that he will j nesdny night last, the first of this season,
not hug any viper to liis bosom,—whilst un- The thermometer, on Thursday morning,
willing to practice a general proscription for stood at 33 degrees, and ice was found in
political opinion, lie is yet anxious to give some places. Cotton and all tender vegita-
appomtments, preferment and promotion to tion is killed,
his known friends. ■ jj
Tbe revolutionary aspect in 3Iarylaml is
monopolizing public opinion. It ia now,
however, confidently believed that in view of
the ample precaution of tho authorities, tbe
so-called “Boys in blue” and their aiders and
abettors will find it well, upon a sober, sec
ond thought, to back down from their mur
derous designs. Potomac.
Washington, Oct 25,1866.
The revolutionary cabal is Maryland who
had concerted measures, and enrolled them
selves in an avowed organization to resist the
State authorities in the execution of the laws,
were unfortunatc(so far as consummating their
hellish purpose) in giving eucIi early publici
ty ^to their rebellious scheme, those vested
with the execution of the laws and preserva
tion of peace and order, being forewarned,
and fully equal to meet any emergency.
At the instance of Gen. Grant, Gen. Canby,
in command of the 3Iilitary Distnct which
embraces 3Iarylnnd, visited Baltimore yester
day, and hail a conference with the ilayor,
aud frankly stated to that official, that lie
was fully empowered and instructed to main-
nin the peace of the District at all hazards,
England took fnglit some time ago at
the announcement, mede by somebody who
was thonght to know, that all the coal in the
island within a thousand feet of the surface
would be exhausted in a couple of genera
tions. But fresh veins of coal have recently
been discovered in Shropshire, and the em
pire once more breathes freely.
3Ionn Frost.—There was another frost
yesterday morniDg, heavier than the previ
ous morning. We presume that in some lo
calities it nipped tender vegetation, though
the season was and is a very dry one.
At Union Springs, on Wednesday morning,
there was frost enough to kill the potato vines,
ifcc.— Columbus Eng., 26th.
The contemplated Episcopal Conven
tion ot the Diocese of North Carolina in No
vember is indefinitely postponed. Its object
was to provide an a—istant for Bishop Atkin
son, but bis health is too good to need one.
Frost.—Tbe Union Springs (Ala.) Times
says there was a genuine, old fashioned white
frost at that place and vicinity Wednesday
morning, which kiileil tLe potato vines anil
other vegetation.
fg~ A great many anecdotes arc related of
personal bravery. We would like to see that
man who would deliberately allow a woman
to catch him making mouths at her baby.
permits upon any Lind when the tax upon
the quantity alrca-.ly permitted amounts to
one-half the sum named therein, until certi
ficates of payment of the tax on the whole
or a portion of the cotton transported under
former permits are received from the receiv
ing collector, when additional permits may
be granted i hut in no case must the tax upon
tho quantity under permit and accounted for
exceed one-half the penal sum of the bond.
Thus, if the bond is given in a sum securing
the tax upon five hundred bales of four
hundred pounds each, when this limit is
reached no further'permit should be grant
ed except upon the receipt of delivery and
payment as hereinafter provided. Immedi
ately upon the execution of this bond, the
Collector to whom it 19 delivered will trans
mit it, retaining a copy thereof in his office,
to the Assessor ot the district whence it is
intended to remove the cotton, who will
thereupon be authorized to grant permits for
the removal of the cotton upon application
being made by xlie principal or his agent.—
Upon receiving this application tlie Assessor
will grant permits. The circular concludes
with instructions to the Assessor and Col
lector, and it is stated that if the cotton has
not been weighed before removal by a duly ap
pointed weigher, the amount of tax named
in the permit will be based upon the weight
as certified by the owner or proprietor of the
gin house. In order to arrive at the true
amount of tax to bo paid on the cotton re
moved under these conditions, it must be
marked upon its arrival in the receiving dis
trict by the officer appointed fpr that pur
pose, to whom a fee ot twenjf-five cents per
>ale will lie paid for this service, and upon
whose certificate of tho weight the tax shall
be collected.
These regulations are to be considered ad
ditional to, and os not superceding those
contained in Series 2, No. 5, or the additional
regulations published under date of Septem
ber 25, 1866.
ConNs.—This'pleasant weather is wnrniiDg
up the corns on toes of many unfortunates.—
'Ve give herewith, what is said to be a
cure lor those troublesome customers. Scrape
a piece of common chalk and put a pinch to
tlie soft com, and bind a linen rag upon it.—
Repeat the application during a few days and
you will find the corn come off like a'shell,
and perfectly cured. Tlie cure is simple and
efficacious.
“Go Away, Wliitc Oomun, Yon
Can’t Come In.”
A convention ot colored people was held
last week, at Albany, New York, for the pur
pose of suggesting and adopting measures,to
place the colored people of that State on
social and political equality with the whites.
At this meeting a Miss Susan B. Anthony,
one of the strong-minded white women of
the Empire State, desired to participate in
the proceedings. The question was, shall
she be admitted. The reporter of the New
York Herald says of the debate :
“On tlie coming up of the question, last
evening, as to the admission of 3Iiss Susan
B. Anthony to a full participation in the
counsels of the body, Mr. Peyton Harris, of
Buffalo, who is a plump, jolly, rotund, gray
headed colored individual, possessed ofcon
sidcrablc imitative power, but tew ideas and
less language, arose and said, amid shouts of
laughter, ‘3Ir. speaker, I. ns one of the vice-
presidents of this great convention *>f color
ed folks of the great State of New York, the
Empire State of the world, can not go for
the admission of the lady into the body
of this convention. (Cheers and immoder
ate laughter.) Now, gemmen, you all am
aware that I hab a great affection for the la
dies, both black and white, but we must not
do anything here to disgrace our perceedings,
which I am of opinion we shall do if we ad
mit any white trash into this meeting.’—
[Great sensation, and cries of *3Ir. Harris,
time am up.’]
“3Ir. Harris (to the President, feelingly)—
‘3Iy time ain’t up yet. I was to have ten
minutes, and shall not retire from this posi
tion until my ten minutes am expired.’
“The President—‘You ate right, 3Ir. Har
ris.’
“3Ir. Harris [From the Presidents stand]
‘3Ir Speaker, I was going to observe when I
was disturbed by those gemmen down there,
who will never stand upon the platform upon
which I now stand upon, and whence I take
a sensible view of them, and measure them
for all they are worth, that I was opposed to
the admission of 3Iiss Anthony to these here
deliberations. She may be a very good wo
man, a very talented woman, a very spicy
woman, a very eloquent 7/oman, a very freind-
ly woman to our cause, but she can’t come in
here, and I raise my voice against it from this
elevated place—[sensation]—as one of the
presiding officers ol this meeting.’
“Whereupon 3Ir. Harris subsided to be fol
lowed by 3Ir. 3Iyers, who 6aid: ‘3Ir. Presi
dent, I am in toto in favor of the unqualified
immediate, unquestioned and everlasting ad
mission of women to this and all other con
ventions of our people. This is not all; I
want women, both white and black, to unite
with us and help save our cause and the
country. We must not deny to others wbat
has always been denied us. I am in favor of
the admission of Indians and Indianesscs, if
they can help to forward our cause. I am
opposed to the last gentleman who spoke,
and I want to tell him that negroes never go
backward. I never knew only two to run
away, and they were Ward and Logan, one
of whom is upon that elevation there as one
of the Vice Presidents of this Convention.—
3Iiss Anthony mnst be let in. That’s my
voice and vote.”
A large number of similar ludicrous
speeches were made, and in consequence Miss
Anthony was kept out.
Silver Palace Car.
The New York Daily News gives the fol
lowing description of one of the “Silver Pal
ace Cars” now in use on the Pittsburg, For
Wayne and Chicago Railroad:
The interior of the cars is of solid and ven
eered walnut, handsomely paneled. They
are of the ordinary size of railraad cars, but
there the similarity ceases. Encli car has
eight sections of elegant seats, which at night
are converted into luxuriant beds. The up
per berths are drawn up and their lmndsotne
veneered panels, witlt the bright silver and
frosted ornaments make a beautiful finish to
the roof. The backs and fronts of tbe seats
arc ornamented witli silver bands, and the
arms with silver ornaments. The sections
arc divided by solid German silver columns,
heavily plated. The seats are covered with
a beautiful article of moquette, and the floor
with body Brussels, ot elegant pattern. The
short curtains which cover the single berths
are ot satin damask, and the long curtains,
which hang in the aisle, are ot silk rep. Tbe
windows are double, one being of plain and
the other of cut glass. This gives not only
greater privacy, but greater warmth. During
the day, the cut glass of tlie window can be
shoved up, and the traveler can sec what is
going on without. Each alternate panel is a
mirror, and the intervening ones are hand
somely ornamented with a heavy carved wal
nut design, The cars arc lighted by four
very heavy silver mounted lamps. The ceil
ing is covered with fine linen, ornamented
with a Chinese design. At each end of the
car is a stateroom or bridal chamber, fitted
up most luxuriously, with cut glass windows,
satin curtains, wash stand, water closet, and
every convenience attached. During the day
these are converted into a sitting room, with
lounges, etc. Opposite each stateroom are
sofas, which are also convertible into beds.—
There is a movable tabic in each section, at
which parties can spread a lunch, read, write,
or play at euchre. Linen closets, extra water
closets and wash stands complete the arrange
ment of the car. These cars weigh 36,000
pounds each, and cost $22,000.
The California Climate.—3Ir. Edwin
Forrest, tbe actor, writes from California,
Sept. 18, to a friend in New York :
Horrors of the Dry Tortugas—A. Stain on
the American Character.
From (he Riohmond Times.
On the Dry Tortugas, the most desolate and
barren island nlmost known, there languish
in illegal imprisonment several hundred State
prisoners. Sent thither by military commis
sions—tribunals that have been denounced
by the United States Supreme Court as un
known to and unwarranted by law, and from
whose commitments that Court has released
all political prisoners confined In Northern
penitentiaries—these men are now undergo
ing, and have undergone, torture at the hands
of brutal officials (disgraces to the uniform of
a soldier) that make life intolerable, and
which would, if exposed, rouse tho horror-
and indignation of the civilized world. Con
fined on this desolate spot, with no means of
communication with their friends, many of
them entirely innocent of charges for which
those military courts, “so-called,” have con
demned them, they are exposed to cruelties
and punishments at the bauds of brutal ser
geants and commissioned officers, administered
at their caprice and whim, for comparisons
of which we would have to go back to tho
Dark Ages, or search the records of the In
quisition.
A short time since we saw a letter from an
intelligent State prisoner, confined upon the
Dry Tortugas, a man of voracity and charac
ter, giving an account of the inhuman and
barbarous punishments inflicted, not only on
the poor Confederate prisoners confined there,
but on tlie Federal soldiers of the garrison.
The recital the writer gave of the facts, of
which he had been an eye-witness, was sicken
ing, and made one blush for humanity. It
was a tale of woe that would have melted a
heart of stone—the atrocities committed there
by United States officers and under the Uni
ted States flag, flaunting in idle mockery as
the guardian of liberty, the protector of hu
man rights. He gave the names of the suffer
ers, the dates when the tortures were inflicted,
the names of the brutes in human shape who
nrrWad and executed them. It seems that
the devilish tyranny ot tncjou.w wreaked
itself alike on United States soldiers and Con
federate prisoners.
In August last, while a party of prisoners
were unloading a vessel, some of the crew
gave them liquor, and one of the poor unfor
tunates became helplessly drunk. In tbb
condition he was tied up by the thumbs by
order ot the officer of the day and kept sus
pended for hours, tlie cords cutting the flesh
to the bones, and until the poor wretch, to all
all appearances,wasevidently dying. Then the
commandant, a Brig.-Genera), accidentally
passing and observed the man’s condition,
ordered him to be taken down; and he was
conveyed to the hospital with one of his
hands disabled for life. He had been sus
pended this way for hours. Could the Rus
sian punishment of tbe knout be worse than
this ? Was the thumbscrew applied to Dr.
31udd to extort from him the names of bis
accomplices in his attempt to escape se
verer ?
But another case which the writer of the
lettersaw, and we have done with this shock
ing recitai; for though we could quote other
instances of barbarity that would startle tho
demons in hell, we shrink from the melan
choly record. It was that of a United States
soldier, who, for some trivial offence, some
petty neglect of his equipment, was tied up
by the thumbs for hours. 3Iaimed, with the
tendons of his arms stretched and displaced,
his hands useless and incapacitated, lie wa&
ordered to pick up a forty-pound ball and
carry it for a certain number of hours in
the broiling sun. His hands relused their
duty—they could clasp nothing, much less
lift a forty-Dound shot, and the poor fellow
said he could not. Be was then ordered to
be tied, taken to the end of the garrison
wharf, and there, bound hand and foot,
with a rope around his neck, he wa9 thrown
into the water, to be ducked until he prom
ised to carry the ball. The severest punish
ment known in the British Navy, when Bri
tannia’s marine was noted for its barbarous
punishments, was “keel-hauling.” to which
the terrible “cat” was mercy, and “keel
hauling”—dragging a man under tho vessel
—was identically the same punishment this
poor wretch of a soldier was subjected to by
his’ officers at Tortugas. He was allowed to
sink several moments, and then, being drawn
up, he was asked if lie would carry the ball.
His mouth and throat being filled- with wa
ter he could not at once reply, and wa9again
allowed to sink. A second time he wasdravrn
up, and, making some gesture of assent to
the interrogatory of his brutal torturer, he
was taken out.
These things, and many similar ones, are
perpetrated daily in this cn’lighted nineteenth
century on the poor unfortunates at the Dry
Tortugas. While Exeter Hall is moaning
over the sufferings ot the negro slave—while
Plymouth Church and other political radical
associations are weeping over the outrages on
the freedmen by unrepentant “Rebels”—these
horrors are being perpetrated on white men,
by United States officers, under the United
States flag, on that barren island off the coast
of Florida. We call upon tlie United States
authorities to investigate these matters, and
to send to the Dry Tortugas a commission of
honorable soldiers, officers who are gentlemen,
to examine into and report upon the cruelties
and barbarities practiced upon those helpless
prisoners, and those unfortunate soldiers.—
Were not our informant a man of veracity
and an eye-witness of what he relates in his
letter, we could scarcely credit tlie details
that lie sent us. In the name of humanity let
these brutal wretches he called to account.
Chemistrt op a Cup of Tea.—The cup of
tea we drink, according to chemical analysis,
contains volatile oil, chloropliyl, wax, rosin,
“Here I am still enjoying the salubrious i gum, tannin, tlieiue, extractine, npotheme, al
air ot the mountains, on horseback and afoot,
and bathing in waters from the hot and cold
springs which pour tlieir affluent streams on
every band.
3Iy health is greatly improved, and my
lameness is scarcely perceptible. In u few
weeks more I shall return to San Francisco
to finish my engagement which was interrup
ted by my late indisposition. 3ry present
intention is not to return to the East until
next spring, for it would be too great a risk
to encounter the rigors of a winter there,
which might prove disastrous to the restora
tion of perfect health. You are aware that
the rynter in San Francisco is much more
mild and agreeable than the summer, and af
ter my professional engagement there I shall
visit Sacramento and some few other towns,
and then go to Los Angelos, where I shall en
joy a climate quite equal to that of the trop
ics. I am determined to come back to you in
perfect health. How I should like to take a
tramp with you int j tbe mountains this bless
ed day. I can give you no reasonable idea of
the beauty of the weather here. The skies
are cloudless, save with the rare and rosiest
hudows, not a drop of rain, and yet no
drought, no aridity; the trees are fresh and
green, and the air as exhilerating as cham
pagne.”
S3?” Woman’s Aoe.—How long Eve, the
first woman, lived, we do not know. It is a
curious fact that, in sacred history, the age,
death and bural of but one woman, Sarah
the wife of Abraham, is distinctly noted.—
Woman’s age, ever since, appears to have
been a subject for history or discussion.
A Curious Coinage Pr.oposED.—Compared
with tho coins of other nationalities, the Am
erican coins are sadly deficient in taste and
workmanship of designs. Why it should be
so we cannot explain; nor can we sec why we
should copy after semi-barbaric China in our
improvement upon coinage—provided “im
provement ” is the proper word to apply to a
project which is, according to a Philadelphia
paper, under consideration by the government
with a probability of adoption. Designs
have been submitted lor one, two and three
cent coins, ivhicli are to be made of nickel, or
a composition of which that metal is a chief
part.
Tlie proposed improvement consists in hav
ing a raised star in tlie centre ot the coin, the
nucleus of which is represented by a hole ex
tending through the coin. The one cent,
piece is to have one perforated star, tho two
cent, piece two stars, three cent, piece three
stars.’ Thus, by holding the coin up to the
light, or by simpiy passing the finger over the
surface, so as to touch the holes, tlie denomi
nation of tlie coin will be known. The same
principle is proposed to be applied to lialf-
dimcs and dimes, which are to be made of
better metal than tlie coins of less value, and
will be respectively distinguished by one and
two perforated stars.
bumen, sulphur, phosphorus, chloride of po
tassium, oxid of iron, carbonate, sulphate,
and phosphate of lime, carbonate «jl'magnes
ia, manganese and silica—twenty different
articles. The peculiar flavor of the tea de
pends on the volatile oil, which is lighter
than water, and ha9 a lemon yellowy color,
and the smell ot tea. Liebig » of the opinion
that tea is not only Rn astringent and dilu-
tent, but possesses nutritive properties of no
mean kind. A great deal of profound chem
istry is connected with the subject of tlieine
as it exists in tea, and cnftcinc in coffee; both
of the same property, or substance, contained
in dissimilar vegetable productions—the
leaves of one tree and the berries oF the
other. Tea and coffee act upon the nerves
and upon the brain, and have a quickening
and refreshing influence ; but take in excess,
result in excitement prejudicial to sleep and
rest. Green tea is considered more injurious
to persons of a highly nervous temperamont
than the black.— Chemical Ketcs.
Anotiikr 3Ieans of Killing 3Ien.—Won
ders will never cense, and the Prussians will
now have to keep a sharp lookout, for Herr
Lemibuck. (?) the well known chemist of Vi
enna, lias just found means to envelope an
electric spark in a small glass tube, which is
rowerful enough to stun, if not kill a man.—
This new engine of destruction explodes at a
very slight touch, and is covered with a
slight coating of salt of conical form, which
perforates tho skin. Several experiments
have already been made on animals with per
fect success. All of them fell senseless to the
ground at the slightest touch of these fulmin
ating operations.
John Wilkes Booth.—The La Crosse
(Wis.) Democrat, of which “Brick” Pomeroy
is editor, has the following paragraph.:
The papers now are having much to say
about Booth, whether ho he dead or not.—
John Wilkes Booth was alive on the 13tli day
of July, 18C6. The man who was not Booth,
but another person murdered in order to ob
tain the reward offered for his capture.—
Time will unravel n ball of mystery now con
nected with this affair, nnci show up tlio
beauties of Stanton’s detective system, Again
we repeat earnestly and certainly that John
Wilkes Booth never was taken to Washing
ton cither wounded or deed, and that he was
alive in July, ot' this year.
We regret to learn that lion. Mere
dith P. Gentry is lying.- at the residence of a
kinsman near this city in an illness from
which it is feared that he will not recover.—
Hash. Union.