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MACON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1867.
VOL. 2, NO. 12
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THE CHARITY OF REVENGE. (
KENTUCKY.
Burning of Cliaaibcrtbiirg, Pa.
Whatever may be thought of the expedi- j report op tiie senate committee on fed- general early’s btatjtment in relation
cncy of the views of ourcorrespondcnt, “Ma- : eral relations—A national conven- to it.
con,” none will question their justice. Aten- [ tion.
• It r tif aid to tin-Smith mi the terms imd with
The Committee on Federal Relations, in
JOB PRINTING.
■ VaUr attention will he given to the
,,f JOB PRINTING of every descrip
tor
c, .in-ox to Bishop Elliott.—The
u,<i*-, says:
j,. v . W. II. Harrison.—We understand
eminent divine is looked upon as
**u)iitdbr of the late lamented Right Rcv-
^' (1 SM . p iien Elliott, Bishop of this Diocese.
Asm le of the illustrious prelate could
. fjH npon one more worthy to wear it,
dm would “adorn the office” with more
^Unreal and ferveut piety. The Epis-
M 1 Church contains in her membership no
Jhctter qualified for the position, and wo
that the selection will bo made.
lR Tksnesskk !—It appears lrom Foi-
ilisimtci, read in the Senate yesterday,
nivi-rsal negro suffrago has been fixed
.. State of Tennessee by their Radical
J| lW re. If ever a people hod good cause
’ j,ire them to revolution, they are the hon-
• ai.n of the Volunteer State, whose whole
at and society have thus been radi
the motives stated by Mr. Beecher, is a 6in in
the sight of God and an insalt to oar people.
I We have been anxiously looking for some
#4 00 per | P u ^* c repudiation of bis sentiments by the
good people of New York, who, as a body,
we do not believe capable of sympathising
with them; but up to this time, while all the
papers of thnt city have published bis address,
with n single exception—the World—we
have seen not a word of protest or repudia
tion. In this, wo would fain believe they
have been unjust to themselves and to public
From General Jubal A. Early’s “Last Year of the War.”]
While at .Martinsburg, it was ascertained
bevond all doubt ^hat Hunter had been again
Whatever action may be taken by Southern
communities on the subject, in view of the
suffering condition of many of our people,
the article of “Macon”—who, by the way, is
one of our most sterling and discreet citizens
—will at least serve to show £he Northern
people that we are not without the spirit to
resent insult, nor insensible to the demands
of gentlemanly respect and courtesy. They
cannot fail to see and acknowledge the jus -
tice of his exceptions, and wc trust, for their
own sakes at least, there will yet he some
public and emphatic disavowal of the malig
nant and unchristian sentiments of their lead
ing representative on tho occasion referred to.
Charity, coming thus laden with indignity
to a whole people, may feed the stomachs of
the hungry, but it can never, as we would
have it do, sink into their hearts. It is not
distilled like the dew, but dashed upon them
itruction, the Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial says in bis dis-
of the lit instant: “The President en-
teruins no idea that the present Congress
till ncci'p* any such plan, but lie will most
Bsuredlj present it or its equivalent In his
rr *.<- to the fortieth Congress.”
t£TQov. Low, of California, has decided
U to order a special election forRcpresen-
l a; ir« in the Fortieth Congress, so that
jute will be unrepresented in the House at
•kipetial session commencing March 4.
grNow York stock and gold brokers
mob so much importance to the matter,
« many of the leading firms have sent
Ms to Washington to keep them supplied
pearly and reliable information as to the
Lgrcss made in the direction of impeach-
Rwtorl—As Ristori is to visit New Or-
and probably return through the At-
istic States, would it not be well for the
vod* of the drama in Macon to make some
fort to secure a sight of her on our own
ict i We liavo a good theatre, and could
ford to pay three dollars admission as well
< the Memphians, Wc hope to see the mat
er agitated.
f^Tlio salvation of Mobile depends, ac-
wHagto tiie Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, of
23th ult., upon the completion of a rail-
si between Mobile and Chattanooga.
Odtcnrise Savannah on the Atlantic will ex
ist! Mobile on the Gulf in advantages for the
dipntnt of cotton.
Very likely, and lienee the wisdom of Gov.
skins in refusing his sanction to the char-
jj-for a railroad Rom Chattanooga to Mo
de. or a measure hostile to the railroad in-
-■»U of liis own State.
Tun ltioiiT Name.—The New York Hcr-
4»tylcs the tariff abomination just passed
* Senate, “ a bill to blockade American
wts. n
Sale of Stocks.—On last sale day in Sa-
inah (Tuesday) Central Railroad brought
a 94 ; Southwestern 951-3 ; Atlanta and
30 a 53; City of Savannah bonds 85 ;
*tfgiu Sixes 75; Homo Insurance Compa-
11*0.
the Kentucky State Senate, have made a indulging in his favorite mode of warfare,
lengthy report on a resolution referred to ' an( ] alter his return to the Valley, while we
them in favor ofa National Democratic Con- were near Washington, amongother outrages,
vention of all tho States in Louisville at an ! the private residences of Mr. Andrew Hunter,
, , m i a member of the ^ lrgima senate ; Mr. Alex-
early day. Tho resolution declared the Con- K Boteler, an ex-member of the Con
vention to be •• for the purpose of taking in- f L . der ate as well as of the United States Con-
to consideration such measures as will pro- gross, and Edmund L Lee, a distant
mote the public welfare, maintain inviolate I relative of General Lee, all in Jefferson coun—
the Constitution of our fathers, the enforce- j G, with their contents, had becu burned by
• , ,, ;. .. . bis orders, only time enough being given for
ment of constitutional law, and to bring to , the , a(lieg t0 get out of tho horfcp,
bear the whole power and influence of the j A number of towns in the So^dh, .»s well as
sentimentj at lciirt In the city of ~N*w Ywk. National Democracy on the subject of the j
■ - - ~ i President in his efforts to restore the Union, i f 1 ’ 0 * ttltra l troops and the an s ad
?' j .77 : been heralded forth in *ome of tho
now dissevered by the unconstitutional and N ortbem papers in tcrma of exultation, and
revolutionary acts of Congress.’ The Com-1 gloated over by thdr pv.r’ijiijj’ii'sthsymre
mitteo in their report discuss the political.; received by others w’tli tq/ai.y, (.nowcame
situation at length, protesting against test j to the conclusion that we had stood this
«*..*• Constitutional Amendment, ttm j fcfyLTA “eVpK
exclusion of the Southern States from repre- j j{,e Korth ; 0 j; s enormity by an example in
sentation in Congress, Ac., and conclude as . the way of retaliation,
follows: I ' I did not select tiie cases mentioned as
The most charitable construction which laying more merit or greater claims for retnl-
can be placed on the conduct of the dominant; than others, but because they had oc-
party is that they are acting on the assump- | currad within the limits of the country cov—
tion of a dissolved Union without the oblige- ; cred Ly m y command, and were brought more
tion of an oath to observe the Constitution, • immediately oiy attention. I bad often
and that Congress is the superior law giver, ! seen delicate ladies, who had been plundered,
and the States are held together by lorce.—- insulted and rendered desolate by the acts of
The great leader of that party—Stevens, of our raos t atrocious enemies, and while they
Pennsylvania—has openly avowed that the d ; d not ca n f or jt, yet in the anguished ex-
Union was dissolved, and Ins action is made : press j on of their features while narrating their
conformable with that statu of things. If this 1 misfortunes, there was a mute appeal to every
revolutionary idea is not arrested, who can j man iy sen t, mC nt of my bosom for retribution,
foresee the consequences that may follow m ■ i cou ld n0 longer withstand,
its train ? The American people are forbear-, Tim town of Chnuibcrsburg, in PennsyL
ing and hopeful; but conclusions follow po- van j a) was selected as the ona on which re-
litical events as certain as water seeks its level. ; ta ij at j on should be made, and McCausland
The most sensitive interest which is interwo- ' was ordered to proceed with his brigade and
yen in the business transactions of citizens of ; that of Johnson and a battery of artillery to
the United States at thistime is the currency (that p]ace) antl demand of the municipal
and national securities; their destruction aut i, 0 rities the sum of $100,000 in gold, or
may follow the solution of this political prob- #500.000 in Uuited States currency, as a com-
lem. If so. those who have sown the seed p ensation for the destruction of the houses
will reap the harvest In this chaotic state of name d and their contents, and in default of
affairs Kentucky insisls on a perfect Union pa y me nt to lay the town in ashes, in retalia-
of all the States, with all their rights and ^j 0 n for the burning of those houses and
privileges secured by the Constitution to each ot ], er3 ; n Virginia, as well as for the towns
State, and is determined, now as heretofore to i which had been burned in other Southern
stand firm as a rock in the ocean, bearing gt a t es _ A written demand to'that effect was
aloft the Constitution as our fathers made it. senl ^ municipal authorities, and they
And if the temple of civil liberty erected by j n f orme d what would be the result ofa fail
their noble hands and conceived by their ^ or refusal to comply with it.
colossal minds niust fall, she will be hurried j j desired to give the people of Chambers-
beneath its ruins. From the warnings we j g ur g an opportunity of saving their town by
have it is our duty to watch with a jealous ■ making compensation for part of the injury
and vigilant eye the movements of that party, j done, aud hoped that the payment of such a
It has been truthfully said “the price of lib- ; sunl W ould have the desired effect, and open
erty is eternal vigilance.” | the eyes of the people of other towns at the
It is demonstrable ^ the most casual ob- : jf or t]i to the necessity of urging upon their
server of passing political cvent9 that unless Government the adoption of a different
the encroachments of the party in power upon ; po u C y. McCausland was also directed to
the reserved powers of the States can be ar- ' proceed from Cliambersburg toward Cumber-
rested, it must eventually result in the destruc- ] a nd,in Maryland, and levy contributions '
tion of the powers and rights of the several money upon that and other towns able to
States secured by the Constitution and to j benr then , f an ,i r jf possible, to destroy the
unite in the Federal Government all power, j machinery at tiie coal pits near Cumberland,
In that event there will be created a despo- an j i be machine-shops, depots and bridges
tism on the ruins of a mighty republic, in j on tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad, as far
comparison to which that of Austna and : practicable.
Russia may be esteemed a blessing. The evils j Qn the 29th of July, McCausland crossed
existing and anticipated being thus present-, tbe p 0 tomac near Clear Spring, above Wil
ed, the question arises, what fil the remedy. {ii ams p 0 rt, and I moved *ixh Rodes’ and
and how shall we escape the cvil9 foreboded? j Ramseur’s divisions and Vaughn’s cavalry to
That question baffles tho wisest statesmen of j tbe latter place, while Imbodcn demonstrated
this age. j with liis and Jackson’s cavalry towards Har-
■^our Committee present as the best reme- j per’s Ferry, in order to withdraw attention
dy to unite all the elements of opposition j f r0 m McCausland. Breckinridge remained
into one party, and make a last and final ap- j at Martinsburg and continued the destruction
peal to the ballot box. If the lovers of lib-1 0 f t i ie railroad. Vaughn drove a force of
erty can forget and sink into oblivion the J cava lry from Williamsport and went into
Mr. Barmim’s Balcony Band. Labor-Saving Implements
• T i h ?> fol - 10 " ‘ ng excel!ent hik is from the Mu- ; One of the preat needs of the day in aprieul
sical Review, which appeared in the good me, especially in the Southern States, is the in
old days of the New York Museum, at the : troductioa or labor-saving implements, “*
corner of Broadway and Ann street manual labor that has been deKtmverf
prawn*- ,
Liir .-i.tr.ift.il tty a contemptible minority.—
S .,r„olLttni»B«mcomefortl, c » tt.l l>, th, f»n of tbe.wm,
J I And again, so long as the spirit of vmdic-
ssaips^- I tiveness is thus clierished by leading men at
Referring to the new scheme of recon-^ t j J0 nn( j pa t r0 nized by the people,
bow can it be expected that wc of the South
should forget the past and bury its animosi
ties in forgiveness ? It cannot bo done. The
obligation to amnesty and good will is mu
tual, and until mutually' recognized and
practically illustrated, there never can bo a
union in spirit and harmony of sentiment and
action. Tiie North must cease to vituperate,
even to chido, for so long ns 6he does either
she demonstrates that a feeling of brother
bood is not in her heart The dispensation
of alms to a starving multitude from a sense
of duty, will not relievo her from the crime
and guilt of perpetuating linman animosities
and reopening wounds which, ns a generous
and Christian people, she is bound by the
highest obligations recognized among men,
to bind up and heal forever.
Mr. Beecher’s Charity.
Messrs. Editors.—I have been waiting
with anxious hope that some one of the many
who arc more used than myself to write on
public affairs, would take some due notire
of the proceedings of the meeting in the City
of New York, addressed by Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher and others, on the 25th of
January last.
As no one else seems disposed to write, al
low me through tiie columns of your paper,
to suggest to the Honorable Mayor and Al
dermen of the City of Macon, that they pre
pare to take very decided, though sober and
discreet action, upon the offer of aid to our
destitute poor, which in all probability will
soon come to them from the City of New
York. Would it be amiss in them at that
time, in Council assembled, to prepare a pre
amble and resolutions in substance as follows ;
Whereat, at a meeting in the city of New
York at the Cooper Institute, on Friday
evening, 25th January last, held for the pur
pose of raising lunds for the relief of destitu
tion at the South, caused by the war, the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, standing ap
parently as tiie representative of the Christi
anity of the North, is reported to have used
the foliowi ng language, to-wit:
“The South has been punished, and is
punished still for the crime, the great weak
ness—the sin of slaveliolding—than which I
believe no sin can be more massive, more ug
ly, more infernal, (Applause) guilty of a sin,
than which none could be more atrocious.
past, merge personal considerations in the
personal good, ignore past politics and party
names and past issues, and by the adoption of
the principles on which ail the opposing ele
ments may unite in one grand and active po
litical party, having a common purpose, this
swelling tide of despotism may be rolled back
and its projectors scattered to the winds.
To effect that object concert and co-opera
tion are indispensable; that can be effected
only by a grand council of representative
men in national convention assembled.—
Therefore, the Committee recommend the
adoption of the resolution submitted for their
consideration.
The Lungunge or Animals.
A whimsical French writer pretends that
he has discovered that every animal, bird,
and even insect, to which voice is given has
its language; and that if great pains be taken
lie lias no doubt but that men could learn to |.out his orders, and tho greater part of the
interpret these languages, and even converse
with the brute creation in his own tongue.—
He cites the fact that nearly every animal,
bird or insect when Buffering lias a peculiar j HHHPPRRM
The South guilty as the holder, the North cr y denoting tbu fact “ Who,” says lie, “ever lapse of time which has occurred, nnd the re
guilty ns the abettor. God has cast down to
Hagerstown, where lie captured and destroyed
a train of cars loaded with supplies. One of
Rodes’ brigades was crossed over at Wil
iianisport, and subsequently withdrawn. On
the 30tli, McCausland being well under way,
I moved back to Martinsburg, and on the
31st tho wholeinfantry force was moved to
Bunker Hill, where he remained on tho 1st,
2d, nnd 3d of August.
On tiie 3d of August McCausland reached
Chambersburg, and made the demand as di
rected, reading to such of the authorities as
presented themselves the paper sent by me.
The demand was not complied with, the peo
ple stating they were not afraid of having
their town burned, and that a Federal force
was approaching. The policy pursued by our
army on former occasions had been so lenient
that they did not suppose the threat was in
earnest this time, and they hoped for speedy
relief.
McCausland, however, proceeded to carry
town was laid in ashes. For this act I alone
am responsible, as the officers engaged in it
were simply executing my orders, and bad no
discretion left them. Notwithstanding the
Nothing To Do.
i#TCol. Leon Yen Zinken, tho former
timmler of tho celobratod 80th Louisiana,
J Juring tho Utter part of tho war com-, . . , ...
Ult of the post of Columbus, has n8 . Outmost necessitythcse men who have hated
Sd the editorial charge of tho New Orleans I us . r *- vl,ed desp.teiully used ns,
Ul. a paper printed in tho German lan-1 l ’ at we n t la T now ; >n Christian revenge repay
* 1 1 | them with bread, with clothing, with com-
— — passionato relief in their sufferings, their sick-
HPTIio New York Herald’s Washington J ness and their trials. The bread they would
' il -aya a council of general officers ot j not give to our boys in prison, theirown lips
iray has been called by General Grant in i now crave; the rations they took from our
I ‘-(-■ni'ton to confer upon matters concern* ■ boys, leaving them naked nnd halt clad in
’•bearmy, and particularly in reference to , tho chill winter, to shiver and to die, they
-'•lining garrisons in tho Southern 8tetes. J now need themselves.” J j'ng birds bo^songs^’"celebrating sonic ^;rcat) nient, and it is cqnhlly sure that the retention
And whereas, tills language, publicly ut- I event of their tribe? or nightingale’s notes j ot those who have something to do is extreme-
doubts that a dog or a cat suffers pain when j suit of the war, I _nm perfectly satisfied with
they give tongue to those peculiar cries famil-1 niy conduct on tills occasion, and see no rea
iferiiaiit. Andagmi^rimxWPt the growl of! son to regret it.
these unimuls denote anger as plainly as do !
the oaths and exclamations of men ? The;
peculiar whine of the dog when ho meets a j
understood
by any one who has owned one of those faith- The many thousand workingmen who by
ful animals, and may not the caterwauling of their votes last fall endorsed the present
an amorous Thomas while watching his in- ! Congress, now have thanks to the poHcy of
amorata from the tiles by night be love songs j that body, ample time to reflect on tho wisdom
which are as intelligible to her cars as the ; °f their course. It is certain that at least onc-
serenadcs of men to some fair one behind a third, if indeed not a larger proportion of the
lattice ? May not the carolings of the mre.k- j class so voted, are now out of employ
Hf* It is, positive fact that the Px«ild«nt tj|i( .' lv ' [ "q pabliely ep- be songs of love addressed t.'i.i-V.T/.VJt More^j ^problematical. The exj •hmati..m ,d the
‘Wiled Messrs. Ashley, Colfax and others, j ’ , truin'tiMV never mill- wondorlul things than this have been discov- fact tlmt employers are daily discharging
•' next Presidential State dinner. He ft*"** as wc knou nc er pub- ^ nature ^ ut n)an in , lis egotism claims ( those m their lure is found in two circum
'ktiihcd the Semte anti intends to in-1 IC ^ 18sent t0 throughi the public that he alone can convey liis ideas to Ins tel- _ Firaj^theJ'Sonthtni S&tes ate not
P* House, in alphabetical order.
licly rebuked, is sent to us through the public
press as the exponent of the spirit, in which
those funds wero raised,
fcuw to tor Indigent.—Tho appro- ‘ And whereas, our mute acceptance of the
* -* a bill of the lost General Assembly of I benefaction would place ns in a false post-
State contains the following section : j tion ** a sccmil,g forgetfulness of the respect
** 93. And be it further enacted, That I *?• to antl for wbom wc
*s.:u of one hundred thousand dollars, or i are appointed to act: Therefore,
lB di thereof as, in the opinion of the I Resolved, That we arc compelled, by a dc-
*'faor, shall be absolutely necessary, be | cent rcS pectfor ourselves and for our suffering
. : i ]j:irilm-eettni to give hreiul _ w ] 10 notwithstanding their destitution,
S«^?d d SledSd b iSo f f tt •: - -cr forget their manhood, to decline al,
, < *.*ho, bv reason of their extreme pover- [ offers of aid which come to us associated with
^1 inability to labor, need the same ; to such sentiments as those above quoted.
: Abated 'under such rules and rcgula- 2. Resolved, That in tints declining what
L* m the Governor may prescribe. No is offered with insult, we would not be under-
,7“’ to lie or becomo a beneficiary of this stood us declining such aid to our suffering
*ko are able to labor for bread" or pur- poor as may he offered in the spirit of genuine
T'tLe mine: Provided, That no part ottlic j benevolence; and that we deplore thencces-
T ’tall he exf,, tided until the G .vernor sity of seeming to disesteem the more chris-
^ Weome ifttisfied that u Buffi vney of thm spirit ot Horace Greeley, Esq., and of
7'ill not be contributed from voluntary Gen. Anderson, wbo both addressed the same
•^3. audience, and of seeming to ignore the kind-
iiiinu.j ... I ]y sympathy of many who no doubt united
in the intended charity of that evening.
3. Resolved, That if the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher would exert liis acknowledged abili
ties in pcisuading tho>e who plundered our
churches, our homes and our store-rooms of
their goid, silver, jewels, apjinre! and food to
restore what they stole, or to render its
equivalent in money or in goods, there would
he no need for these charitable efforts to re-
^KUJcdgevillo Federal Union, common
' ta the above, says that “in accordance :
J ■!* above, his Excellency has appointed
Tliwcatt, Esq., Distributing Agent, j
e !iia is mod a circular :•> tbc Justices of
^•tsrior Courts, requiring them to make
‘‘ ,ko the Governor of the number of each :
! '"-'ueliciarics in their respective con;i-
or by tbc first of April next."
lieve our poor.
Macon.
lows, and never dreams of investigating any ; admitted to the Union on an oquality—and
theory which might upset his boasted pre-1 second, the country is in a state of alarm
eminence, although he has an enormous ! owing to the revolutionary measures of the
amonnt of data always within liis reach.”— 1 dominant party. The Southern States, if they
“I ask,” continues M. do Canardon, “ifa were represented in Congress, would be to-
Frenchiuan who first hears German or English ‘ day, wliat they always were,our best customers
am easily convince himself that ho ever could , J*t it cannot lie expected that capitalists will
come to understand those tongues which money in States whoso future may be
Bound so harsh, so guttural to his ears? Yet suc « as will characterize that of any laud
to a Dutchman or an Englishman those ugly governed by narrow-minded and unscrupu-
sounda are familiar and musical.” Ioi^ rulers.
mt _ Then, again, it will be readily seen that
Death of an Old Mason.-TIic Ralcigli no nation is likely to tl.rivc where one branch
Standard announces the death of William T. Bwerrnnent is constantly and uncon-
Bain, which occurred in that place on last st.tut.o„ally eg, a atmg to destroy the author-
Tuesday**>&>+*!* 21
G,»d Masonic LJgo of Norfb Carolina. I to ! ““ «* attempted revolutions fa to will
jj.ua rr. * remit in a revolution by lorce, and conse-
was well ami wide y known, and was muen .
" , ,7‘ qnently hesitate to expend their monev. This
resiiectcd lor ins numerous virtues. f s seen to-day in our own land where Con-
RT Among the anested persons in New gress is continually attempting legislation
▼Sicity last year are rcUcd thirteen
Mr. Barnum was sitting in his office in the
Museum, when he heard a knock at tbe
door.
“Come in,” said he.
The door opened, and a trombone entered.
Mr. Barnum Jstared. Tfeo - trombone) was
followed by an arm, and the arm by a body,
the body belonging to no less a person than
Air. Eli Fant.
“Air. Barnum?" said Air. Fant, inquiringly.
“That’s my name,” said that gentleman.
“Good morning,” said Air. Fant.
“Good morning,” said Mr. Barnum.
“Isee that you have a band on you balco-
cony.” began Mr. Fant.
“Yes,” said Air. Barnum.
“And I came to see if I could get a situa
tion as trombone.”
“I presume you can,” said Mr. Barnum, “if
wc can agree upon terms.”
“During what hours shall I play,” asked
Mr. Fant
“They usually play,” said Mr. Barnum,
“from tiro to three in the atternoon, and six
to eight iD the evening.”
“ What is the place worth ?” said AEr. Faut.
“ Five dollars a week ?” said Mr. Barnum
inquiringly.
“ Very well,” said Mr. Fant, with great
satisfaction. He had not expected more
than three or four.
“ You can begin to-day if you like,,” said
Air. Barnum; “ the payments are weekly.”
“ Very well," said Air. Font.
In accordance with thi3 agreement, Mr.
Fant’s trombone did duty for a week for Bar
num, and very hard, too, did Air. Fant blow
away on bis trombone. At tbe end of the
week he called on Air. Barnum for his week’s
salary.
“ I will make out a bill it you like r ” said
Mr. Barnum.
“ 11 you please," said Air. Fant
After a Jittle turning over of leaves and
comparing of books, Mr. Barnum banded him
the bill. He read it over once, twice, three
times, looking every time more and more
mystified. At last he said r
“ Air. Barnum, you have made a little mis
take here, I believe ?”
Eh ?” said Air. Barnum, “ not that I am
aware of.”
“ Yes,” said Air. Fant, smiling.
He couldn’t help smiling to think how
Air. Barnum would laugh when he learned
where the mistake woo.
“ It’s rather a funny mistake. I don’t see
how you came to make it. The bill reads:
Air. Eli Fant to P. T. Barnum. Dr.
“ ‘To privilege of playing a trombone in
bis museum for the week ending Alay 15,
1858, |8.’”
“Well,” said Mr. Barnum* “I believe it was
five dollars, wasn’t it ?”
“Ye-es.” said Air. Fant, perplexed. “I be
lieve it was. But I didn’t look at it in that
light.”
"In what light did you look at it ?” said
Mr Barnum.
“W-h-y,” said Air. Fant, still more per
plexed, "I thought you paid me five dollar
not I you.”
“Ob, no,” said Air. Barnum. “This is the
state of the case i There ate quite a number
of persons in this city who wish to practice
such instruments, but cannot do it at home
on account of disturbing the neighbors. So
I left them a standing up pW;e in the balco
ny, and each gentleman who copies licie
brings what instrument ho likes, and prac
tices whatever he wants to, without disturb
ing anybody; that is, anybody we care any
thing about.”
The office door opened, and the trombone
went out, followed by Air. Fant, while Air.
Burning proceeded to make out bis bills
against the other instruments. Mr. Fant has
since given np the trombone.
manual labor that has been destroyed or lost, or
cannot be controlled, must be substituted in a
measure by hcree power and steam power. The
necessity lor such substitution will command a
supply in time, but the sooner the better. Evciy
day we are suffering lor tbe want of them. Mil
lions of wealth are lying in idleaess, because we
want the power to utilize them.
One attempt in this direction is tbe sulky plow,
which seems now to have worked satisfactorily,
and which is a great improvement on the imple-
; wents heretofore used in the cultivation of cotn,
i cotton, aud other hoed crops. This implement,
! in the hands of one man, floes the work of two
l ordinary cultivators; aud this one man, instead
! of dragging nil day over uneven ground, tugging
t at the handles of his plow, sits pleasantly in a
I sulky, guiding his horses with his hands, and with
i his leet controlling the movement of the imple
ment. From a lull description of this cultivator
we make the following extract:
“Those who have used the cultivator will heart
ily agreed with us that the world is well nnd
thoroughly done by tho use of the adjustable
shanks Jand reversible shovels, whereby any reas
onable quantity of earth ean be thrown either to
or from the corn; that the shanks are so attached
to the irame that tho shovels can be adjusted to run
close togethcrordistantlromeach other; aud that
w hile tbe front shovels can be adjustei to throw
the earth eithar to or irom the corn, the rear shov
els can be arranged to operate the reverse, plowing
either deep or shallow, as may be desired. The
driver ean easily and readily guide and turn the
cultivator by the use ot his feet, having both ofhis
hands free to manage his team. By pressing on
the stirrup with either tho right or lelt foot, the
machine will turn either to the right or left as the
case may be; and when neither loot is used, the
cultivator will follow the direction of the team.” -
We learn that this implement has been very suc
cessfully used in the cultivation ol cera andcotton,
and can no doubt be as well adapted to the work
ing of tobacco, potatoes, and all crops laid oil in
rows.
The Steam Plow is an implement which gives
hope of still greater help in our land cultivation.
After all the attempts to make steam available in
this respect onr American inventors have failed,
and an Englishman seems likely to bear off the
honors of success. Mr. John Fowler, of Leeds,
England, has brought his steam plow to such per
fection that a large number of them are said to be
now in actual use in that country, and many in
Egyptian cotton fields in the valley of the Nile,
and elsewhere. We are happy to hear, too, that
their quality is about to be tested on our Southern
plantations. A correspondent of the New Orleans
Crescent says, in a late number: “It will no doubt
highly interest your readers to learn that a steam
plow, shipped iu one of the last Liverpool steam
ers, and consigned to Longstreet, Owen & Co , is
at the present moment being shipped on our levee.
We earnestly call the attention of our agricul
turists to this importation, which is likely to prove,
the forerunner of the introduction of an imple
ment in the highest degree calculated to save hu
man and animal labor, and to change and improve
our system of cultivation. It must be surprising
to everybody who sees the general introduction ot
machinery and of steam as motive power, all over
the world aud in all conditions ot life, that the
hard, expensive, yet simple work of cultivating
the soil is still left to the slow process of manual
labor and to the simple implements used centuries
ago. One ot the many reasons which explain this
great anomaly Is the fact the first experiments in
steam plowing, chiefly made in this country, were
based on the principle of working a set of plows
or cultivators directly by a locomotive moving
over the field. The power, and thereiore the ex
pense, for moving the huge steam horse itself, lar
exceeded the power required lor actual cultivation;
and so steam plowing was for seme time aban
doned as a pretty but a hopeless idea.
“ But the employment of steel ropes for moving
a set of plows, the engines being stationary or
moviDg along the headlands of the fields, attend
the prospects for its introduction. Mr. John
Fowler, ef Leeds, Eng’and, introduced Vis patent
steam plows not only in England, where some 500
or GOO sets are at present in motion, but chiefly,
too, in oio of the first cotton-gro wing countries
(next to ours) in the world. -Many hundreds ol
liis powerlul engine* are worked by Arabs and Be
donins, at the present moment preparing tha
soli of tbe Nile Valley for this year’s cottoh
crop.”
Tbe .Liverpool Cotton Trade.
To the Editors of tht Nett* York Journal of
Commerce :
I have not noticed in your valuable journal
any allusion to an important change which
is now being discussed in England, with re
gard to.tbc terms of payment for cotton pur
chases ill Liverpool.
An interesting correspondence was recent
ly furnished to the London Times (see copy
of 7th instant) by Thomas Cooke, Esq., the
manager of the Aranchester and Liverpool
District Bank, of Alanchester, from which it
appears that the East India and China Asso
ciation and the American Oil amber of Com
merce on the one side, and tbe Alanchester
Chamber and the Spinners’ Association on
the other, had agreed that instead of cotton
being sold for bankers’ biiis • three months
date, with an allowance for prompt cash at
the unvarying rate of o per cent,., which is
now the rule, the terms should be “ cash in
ten days, less one and one-quarter percent,
discount,’’ with the option of paying bank
ers’ bills' made equal to cash at the minimum
rate of the Bank of England.
Opposition to the proposed change sprang
up from au unexpected quarter, viz: the Liv
erpool brokers, and Mr. Cooke, whose bank
for a long time past has refused to issue three
months’ bills for cotton purposes, thereby in
curring considerable odium and ill-will from
his customers, urges that the reform should
go further, and that the terms of payment
for cotton should be made to be absolute cash
in ten days, which you arc aware is the rule
in New York, and he promises that no exer
tion shall be spared by his bank, supported,
as it is, by powerful aid in London, to reduce .
the cotton business iu England to a cash ba
sis. Air. Cooke asserts that these three
months’cotton bills are generally accommo
dation bills simply; and tlmt any doubt
about the truth ot this assertion would at
once be removed by an inspection of can
celled bills which his own bank had from,
time to time drawn upon its London agents,
the endorsements upon which often included
twQlve or fourteen names, thus showing that
during the first two or three weeks of tlieir
currency, while they were available for cotton
payments, they had"passed from band to hand
in place of bank notes; and it is urged that
the use of these bills illegitimately props up
the price of cotton and fosters speculation.
On the 8tli ult. the Committee ot the Cot
ton Spinners’ Association met at Manchester
to consider this question, and resolved as
follows:
“That the Cotton Spinners’ Association is
prepared to consider the terms of payment
for cotton bought in. Liverpool, which may
be hereafter proposed to it by the American
Chamber of Commerce and the East India,
and China Association, and that a copy ol.
this resolution be sent to those two Associa
tions.”
This is a matter of considerable interest to ’
the trade in this country, and it is for that
reason that I venture to trouble you with this
communication. A. P. Y.
edit ors, Jorty—one reporters, 793 punters,
ninety-four "artists, forty-four actors. SSC
scholars, ninety-one engravers, 122 lawyers,
139 physicians^ seventy-eight teachers. 795
merchants, twenty-two telegraph operators,
173 musicians, and thirty-eight officers of the
United States.
jcgr - A lady in Ohio, traveling in a railroad
cur, “with one of her feet out of the window,”
had her leg torn off In crossing a bridge.—
8erved her right.
Executive and the Supreme Court. People
do not know where this will end, and there
fore, very wisely reduce their expenditures.
The persons, therefore, who regard the dis
tress and inconvenience experienced by those
who have been ejected from employment, will
please to recollect that the present financial
trouble has been caused solely by the policy
of the Radicals.—N. Y. Erpraw.
Ex-Governor Lubbock
auctioneer in Houston, Texas.
A Change of Products for the South—•
A Louisiana correspondent of the New Or
leans Crescent advises thcpeopleof the South
to abandon cotton cultivation and go to rais-
g cereals. He says:
“ So I suggest our making the trial of
abandoning the culture of cotton for market
altogether, and commence raising what we
need and live at home. Our corn is but a
spring crop, and we require labor but a short
time to produce it, and with that we jean sup
ply ourselves with pork, and we have beef
with us in abundance, t.nd we can produce
all the wheat wc want, and with a little at
tention wc can famish a large surplus. So
that we could ship flour to the Western
States, and sell it for the present price there
and realize a good profit.
Aluch better than for us to continue the
culture of cotton under all our difficulties in
producing and getting it to market. I have
closely noticed theproduceof our soil in this
latitude for over twenty years, and am well
satisfied we can produce everything we need.
And since our system for raising our great sta
ple (for which we supplied ourselves with all
we required) has been taken from us, and all
other attempts have proved failures, or nearly
so, then why not abandon its culture and
turn our attention to what we really need ? I
have frequently raised seventy bushels of corn
to the acre. Oats do well, nnd wheat mid
dling well; but two degrees north of New
Orleans i3 no better wheat growing countty.
Broomcorn canpot be raised better in any
country, I have gathered three crops from one
plnnting, and the 3eed well ripened each
time.” .
Duel at West Point, Ga.—We learn
that an affair of honor came off at West Point,
Ga., early on Saturday morning last, between
AInjor Baker, of Lowndes county, and a
Air. Austell, of Alobile, in which the former
as seriously if not mortally wounded in the
side. The latter was unhurt; but we are in
formed that the second of Mr. Austell was
struck in the thigh, by a shot from AInjor
Baker, whose aim was deranged while in the
act of falling. The weapons used were small 6oIdiers to the plant o t ion uu der charge of an
pistols at five paces. We have been unable '_ rebd officer, an K d the negroes, who had
to leant the cause of lie meeting The par- more sense than the t ether persons concerned,
ties were brought to this city by the freight took cxcep tions to > Mng killed bv United
train Saturday night, and AInjor Baker is j Statc3 golfers under;,J a rd)d officer. Dav
now at the Exchange notel. receiving ali ne- before yesterday a youi 1£ r fellow rode up and
cessary tredica! attention. The whole affair ! doKn King street. Char q*to n an hour or two
as kep*. a profound secret, and is still j j n f u n Confederate un iform,’coat, trowsers,
shrouded m mystery.—Montgomery Mail, 5. ca n and a ll, with at leas t lour dozen brass
The Camel Exferimknt-A few years since ! , b . utt ° ns oa lli3 P e ^. oa ' Two colored order-
j lies from Gen. Scott s hea. dquarters were beat-
rrying orders down
town. They now carry tl ie i r muskets where-
ever they go. Both the as he sailants have been
arrested by the Commissioiun-jej. 0 f Frefedmen.
The AIeanino of the Vote on the Re
ference of Stevens’ Bill.—The New
York Times, Raymond’s paper, has the fol
lowing interesting statement:
Mr. Bingham made the motion to refer,
some days ago, declaring he did it because
he was for adhering to the amendment, and
he desired to test the sense of the House on
that point. Mr. Stevens has done everything
in his power to prevent this result. He has
modified ln3 bill to suit the demand of the
extreme men, and has accepted all the amend
ments offered by members which he thought
likely to give the bill additional votes. He
accepted Spalding’s amendment to declare
martial law, changed the preamble to the bill,
modified it still further at the suggestion of
Air. Paine, and finally accepted a long
amendment which Air. Shellabarger had pre- j
pared alter consultation, and which was, ir i
fact, a substitute lor the whole bill. If,’ e
finally made an urgent appeal to Mr. Binjg-
liara to withdraw his motion to withdrt -.w,
and allow the bill to bo amended Ini tlie
House before sending it to the committee.—
Air. Bingham refused, because lie wishsM to
know distinctly whether the House v ,-ould
adhere to the Constitutional Amundm, ent or
not. The affirmative vote was comp; jsed of
fifty-one Republicans and thirty-sevf -n Dem
ocrats. The nays were all Republicans,
mostly the extreme men in the Hoituse. The
vote gives a pretty good test of th x 'e division
of the House. The committee w : qil) probably
try to put the bill in shape for frjhure action:
but the committee itself is divided oil the
subject, and the reference is it* generally re
garded as a defeat of the cntii J- e Radical" pro
ject of reconstruction fbrethe present season.
TnE Negro Troubles o* x the Coast.—
Radical Version.—The ft stowing is the ac
count Sent to the New Yo''. rk Tribune of the
trouble with the negroes o% the Chevcs plant
ation, near Savannah : ■
"Washington, Feb. l.- J «'_From a private let
ter to a prominent offip'- n ^ a i ] n this city, from a
source entitled to full/ ,r C redence, it seems there
is another side to the ™chevcs Plantation out
rages in South Caro j; na than that presented
by the Associated T ,:> ress report. The follow
ing is taken from letter above referred to:
“The trouble o ^n the Savannah River was
easily settled by Gs Vfc. Pcott, the Commission
er of Frcedmen. S- t tome officer sent a squad of
the Federal Government imported a lot of. . ,
camels for trial on the bare and parched ‘ cn m °? e w 1 e cu *
plains of the West. During the past year
hat remains of them have been running
regularly as a freight train between Virginia
City and Austin, Nevada. They carry about
six hundred pounds, being double what a
mule will carry; not requiring shoes, water
only at long intervals, laying down to res
Brick Pomeroy’s EriTArrr.—The editor
ot the LaCrosse Democrat says that when
Butler is dead and “ gone to his brimstone
diet,” we will paint a picture of two spoons on
his .tomb-stone and write underneath :
“ Here rots in earth as roasts in hell*tile
greatest disgrace America' was ever cursed
with, ‘Ben. Brute Butler,’the coward, traitor,
thief, robber, and woman insulter, who, by
his betrayals, tlieft and disregard o'f honor
and manhood, workbu on a weak-minded
ni-- to give him a commission in our army
that he might be protected in bis robberies.
When he sptJhe, honest men doubted—when
he commandted brave men w-jro murdered-—
when lie wy»s in power, women wept and vir
tue failed ]to protect—when he rated, inno -
cence suffered—when lie traveled, people but
toned in /their watches—when he dined, peo
ple eve/d their spoons—when he passed,
churches, the silver ware disappeared—when
he dieoi, no one mourned the deat h of the
brute (and robber who came from no one
know ,4 where, as a rotting carcass is left to
putriffy beside tome clear stream.
“ I'leing without honor—Geueral without a
vict'hry—man without a lather—corpse with
out f a. mourner—memory without an admirer
—’’Spoon Thief Butler.”
y The California. Wine Crop.—The San
Francisco Bulletin gives the following statis
tics of wine-growing in California: There are
half a dozen wine producing counties which
have not reported. Thirty counties which
do report, produced last year au aggregate of
1,132,730 gallons. According to estimates
presented at the session of the wine growers’
convention, the total wine yield of the State
for 1S50 was about 2,000,000 gallon*. It ap
pears from the foregoing statement that
twelve mining companies figure as producers
of nearly 300,000 gallons. Perhaps full re
turns would show that their product - xceed
ed this figure. The interior countie?, inclu
ding those either partly or wholly mineral,
are fast rivalling valley and coast counties us
wine producers, and bid, fair to eventually
surpass them. Of course a large majority of
the vines reported are not bearing; when
they shall be, in two or three years hence, the
wine product will be increased to 4,000,000
or 5,000,000 gallons. The value of tiie entire
fruit crop of 18CG, excluding the value of
wines and liquors made therefrom, we pre
sume is returned at $2,533,530. But this
must be at least $500,000 within the truth.
BrunswTck.—Notwithstanding the hard
times, the bad times, and our many difficul
ties, political and otherwise, our “embryo”
cit* begins to show signs of vitality and
business activity. Three foreign ships,
Norwegian and English, arc loading for
European ports, and one vessel coastwise.—
Ten more foreign ships are on the way for
square timber and deals, and several smaller
sail from New York and other ports North
for lumber. Several have been already load
ed and cleared for Europe, South America,
the West Indiesand the North, and the busi
ness season is just beginning to be active, and
promises to continue through the summer.—
This is one of the great ad vantages of Bruns
wick, that work can be carried on here
throughout the summer as healthfully as well
as in winter, there being no fresh water to
breed malaria, and the sea breezes cooling
pleasantly the atmosuhere.
We also learn that there is a bill before
Congress to appropriate money for the erec
tion of a light house on St. Simons, and that
the Inspector of the District has been direct
ed to look to the buoys. But as two or three
months may elapse before the Government
authorities will be able to do anything, and
as there is a large amount of shipping bound
direct to this port, let us put our shoulders
to the wheel and do what we can to insure
for our harbor safe ingress or egress. Wo
Beautiful and True.-’ oI .j n ] a t e article
in Frazer’s Alagazine this b . r j P f h nt beautiful
B... HHU . R „ and true passage occurs Education does „ D . M. .
with loads on their backs, finding abundant not commence with the alp' 1 hnbet—it begins j mav no ^ b e able to do much, but we can do
feet on the scanty herbage of the desert, they with a mother’s love; with 1,^1 father’s smile of j s0)1 'iething to benefit the commerce ot the
are admirably fitted for the purpose; they approbation, ora sign of rep^-proof; with a sis f place. The work on the Alacon aud Bruim-
kcep healthy, will breed when taken care of ter’s gentle forbearance; wi, u h a handful of j \ V ick Railroad is going on, and we can with
nnd not overworked, and can carry such flowersin a green and daint osy meadow; with I rc . lson congratulate our citizens upon the
Cour-
sucli is the force of habit and prejudice tlmt kindly tones and words to
now an , n0 pains are taken to perpetuate them, and benevolence; to deeds ot vir
they are gradually dying out. source of all good—God hiq'
rnf \ature; to acts of! day of the progress made by her sou in aritu-
tuc. and to the ; metic, exultinuly said, “He was in the mort.
W“ cl£
he q
ter;
fication table."