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The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph..
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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY OCTOBER 16, 1868.
King Prim, of Spain, will have a good
name for telegraphy and book-keeping.
A telegram received last night from Mr.
Adams, declines a visit to Macon, on account
of other engagements.
Mr. Adams at Augusta.—We learn that
Hon. John Quincy Adams has accepted
invitation to visit the city of Augusta and
address the people.
Plantation in Nortii Georgia.—Messrs.
Dabney & Cantrell advertise a sale on the 3d
proximo of a splendid plantation two miles
north of Resaca, on the State Railroad. This,
wc are assured, iB one of the best tracts of
land in Northern Georgia.
The Cotton Market.—The American cot
ton quotations indicate clearly the existence
of a formidable combination among Ameri
can buyers to break down the market. Cotton
ia 31 cents in Liverpool, 25 to 26 in New
York and 23 cents in Macon. These margins
tell their own story.
The Main Question.—Now this little
side -issue with the Democrats is disposed of
—the main question will shortly be put—who
is to have Gen. Grant? Will Forney, the
Wasbburne’s and the other ultras have him,
or will he be controlled in the interests of
the Conservative Republicans? We shall
have new Cabinets now every week until the
day of inauguration.
The Jus cits.—We have a strong simpathy
for the Jesuits. Every rascal thinks he has
a divine right to seize their pile, and will be
doing a work of piety to take it. Like the
Southerners, they ore political Pariahs and
outcasts. The world is against them. We
have an idea that the Jesuits were about the
only decent, well-behaved people in Spain,
but King Prim has got their money,as many a
rascal has taken it before.
Suits Against Banks.—We understand
that suits will be brought against the banks
named below by parties holding their notes,
for the recovery of the amounts of the same.
The cases will probably come before the Uni
ted States District Court at its coming ses
sion. The banks and number of suits against
each* are as follows:
Bank of Columbus; Union Bank, Augusta
(3) ; Insurance and Banking Company, Au
gusta (2); Bank of Commerce, Savannah (3);
Mechanics’ Bank, Augusta (2) ; Bank of the
State of Georgia, Savannah (2); City Bank,
Augusta; Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Savannah;
Planters’ Bank of the State of Georgia, Sa
vannah (2); Manufacturers’ Bank, Macon;
Merchants’ and Planters’ Savannah (2).—<Sa-
vannah News.
If, then, we are to have in Grant, as the
Republican opines, a “ President for life,” let
us make up our minds to submit with com
posure to a political revolution we cannot
help, and pray devoutly that so long an ad
ministration may at least be a “ benign” one.
Before we get through with it, the Radicals
will discover that their administration is
not much better than ours, in respect to all
great political objects. They will divide a
great deal of public plunder; but among so
many the average winnings will be small.
MACON CITY BANK.
The City Banking Company of Macon was
organized yesterday, by the election of the
following Board of Managers:
President—C. A. Nutting.
directors :
Wm. B. Johnston, Wm. S. Holt,
J. J. Gresham, John E. Jones.
This is a Bank of discount and deposit
and starts with a cash capital of $200,000,
all paid in. Indeed, half a million of stock
would have been taken on the same condi
tions, had it been offered. The Board of
Directors, i? point of character and personal
responsibility could not be improved in
Macon. The Bank commences operations
the 1st of November next, and Mr. Nutting’s
private bank will be merged in the new
company.
GOSSIP UPON COTTON GROWING.
Gossiping the other night upon the proba
bilities and possibilities of cotton-growing.
An experienced and intelligent planter in the
circle expressed the opinion that “one of these
days” more than four bales of cotton would
be raised to the acre upon our poor pine up
lands in Middle Georgia. The method he
developed was briefly this: To raise the cot
ton plants in a hot bed, so as to have them
ready to transplant, and as large as possible for
thatpurpose, so soon as frosts were gone in the
Spring. Meanwhile to lay out in squares
or hills, eight feet apart each way. and have
these hills excavated deeply and widely, and
heavily manured. By early transplanting, the
bolls would begin to open in June and, in a
favorable year, produce till November. With
two stalks to the hill and fifty matured bolls
to the stalk, his calculation was that the pro
duct would be seven thousand pounds of seed
cotton to the acre. But if one were to judge
by a cotton-patch we saw this fall, with an
average of about three hundred bolls and
blooms to the stalk, and add the condition
of five full months fruiting time, it is diffi
cult to tell what would be the product of an
acre of cotton under such conditions. We
should like to see the experiment tried.
Pennsylvania.—Our Washington corres
pondent writes:
Good reports continue to be received from
Pennsylvania. I saw and conversed with a
prominent gentleman from that State on
Monday, whose judgment last year as to the
result in Pennsylvania wa9 verified to the
letter, and who now expresses himself thor
oughly sanguine that the Democrats will
carry the election on Tuesday next. Demo
crats here are much more hopeful and confi
dent, and fiilly expect the industrious and
active campaigners in the Keystone State to
accomplish a perfect triumph.
Nine Cotton Ships in Port.—The cotton
ships are rapidly arriving and being placed
upon their berths for Liverpool. There
were in port yesterday nine ships—two
British, tho rest American—of an aggregate
tonnage of 10,716, their capacity ranging
from 8000 to 4500 bales of compressed cot
ton. More are afloat, and are daily expected
to arrive and be placed. We may remark
that our river, judging from ’existing evi
dences, will be jammed with ships, barks,
brigs and schooners during the season from
the Ogeecliee canal to Willink’s ship-yard,
many lying three abreast, to say nothing of
the occupied wharf room across the river.
[Savannah Republican.
The Journal Pyrenes Orientates relates the
following incident: Borne days back five
young men of the neighborhood of La Ma-
nese, went to bathe in a pool of small extent,
but nearly 20 feet deep, and fed by a moun
tain torrent. The first to plunge in, Hippo-
lyte Berre, swam safely across and was seated
on the opposite bank where he sat watching a
companion named Coll,who had followed him.
The latter, who had been deaf and dumb
since a very serious illness, brought on five
* years back by a disappointment in love, bad
reached the middle of the water, where be
was seen to struggle convulsively and then
, disappear beneath the surface. Serre plunged
in to his assistance, and seizing him when he
came up, succeeded in bringing him to to
brink, where be was helped out by the others.
Coll bad no sooner recovered his senses than
he exclaimed, “Mon Dieu ! Bainte Vierge du
Coral! Hippolyte, you have saved me!”
The shock had in fact restored to him his
speech, of which a commotion had previously
deprived him.
' THE ELECTION.
“What’s done can’t be helped—it’s no use
crying. Better luck next time.” This pro
found philosophy was gleaned in our boy
hood from one of Capt. Marryatt’s novels,
and we have never seen a day or a case call
ing more urgently for its practical applica
tion than this present day and the great case
of Seymour vs. Grant which has just been
tried in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio.—
The case has been long and ably argued, but
we question whether the points were all well
taken, or the advocates had in every in
stance just ideas of the character and consti
tution of the tribunal. In the better days
of the Republic, it used to be said
that the Democrats were heavy on tac
tics, and could carry an election with the
odds against them by mere skill in manage
ment. We reckon, so far as the Democracy
of the present day are concerned, taken as a
whole, tactics is a lost art, or there is some
thing in the condition of the party which
forbids their practical application. At any
rate, the case seems to have gone against us,
and as the inquiry into “ causes,” though a
very fertile, is still a profitless theme, let us
take the philosophy ot Jacob Faithful, at the
head of this article, and console ourselves
with its common sense suggestions. And we
might as well set about it at once, if we may
credit the New York Tribune and its echo,
the Augusta Republican, for they both declare
we shall have in Gen. Grant a President for
a very long time. We copy what they say:
THE COTTON CHOP Or 1868.
The Washington correspondent of tho New York
Tribune says that “Intimate friends of Chief Jnstice
Chase say that ho has reeently spokenvery freely ns
regard to the pending election. He thinks that Grant
will carry all the States, with the exception of aix or
eight: and that after he becomes President the coun
try will surely prosper. In bis opinion Grant will
make a prudent ana honest officer* will assume no
powers that do not belong to him, and will, by his
management of the affairs ofthe country, make a re-
election in 1872 an easy matter. Mr. Chase adds that
the present political campaign clearly demonstrates
the fact that the Democratic party of the North can
not remain united with the Democratic party of the
South and hope for success, The leaders might agree,
but the masses never.” .... , -
Who is there, that does not In the innermost depths
of his heart believe every word of the above ?
Our honest conviction is, that Presidential elections
are too frequent. No sooner is a candidate elected
than the losing party commence pulling the wires for
the next election—thus keeping the country in a con-
tinuou? turmoil,
Finally, we saV. elect Grant, and our word for it,
■e shall have Peace throughout the length _and
breath of the land. And, under the benign adminis-
tration ofthe second Washington, the American peo
ple will, as one inan.demand his
so long as be may live!
i continuance in office,
HON. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
A number of our leading citizens having
dispatched Mr. Adams, at Columbia, inviting
him to visit Macon, it is possible an answer
may be received in time for this edition of
the Telegraph. The very wise and con
servative counsels of Mr. Adams, at Colum
bia, have attracted universal notice and high
appreciation. We are anxious that he should
see Middle Georgia—make the acquaintance
of our people, and let U3 hear from his own
lips the honest suggestions of his well-
poised intellect and patriotic heart. Mr.
Adams has not merely intellectual endow
ments of the highest order and rare
cultivation, but he is one of those ex
traordinary statesmen who deal with the peo
ple in perfect candor and dare to utter
truths, however unpleasant. We can have
no wiser or safer counselor than he. A
public man who in these times can divest
himself of prejudice and passion, and speak
without fear or reserve, is almost 3 miracle.
Heat, bigotry, violence, unfairness, and dis
ingenuousness have in these days come to be
couriered so essential components to speech
or essay upon political topics, that candor,
fairness and sincerity are thought by many
to have no proper place in political dis
cussion.
We have come now to an era in Southern
political history, in which we must dispense
with passion and passionate counsellors, or
find ourselves plunged into a sea of troubles.
We must learn to bring to the solution of
our public difficulties the same temper and
judgment which we apply to those of every
other character; and make the best possible
disposition of the means allotted us to work
out the best result.
let the south stand firm.
It is important for the South, no matter
what the general result may be, that she
should vindicate the supremacy of the white
race by casting her electoral votes for Bey*
mour. Let us show the North the folly of
attempting to control these States by negro
suffrage.
How to Bide a Velocipede.
The New York Sun of Saturday says:
The velocipede seems destined to come
into use in this city, though it will not soon
attain here the vogue it has reached in France.
Our streets are too narrow and too crowded,
and we have few broad, smooth avenues af
fording the opportunity of employing it ex
tensively as a means of exercise and health,
still, it is so attractive and fascinating, devel
oping so much strength and skill, and af
fording so great amusement to the rider, that
its votaries and students must become nu
merous.
The only artistic velocipedes consist of
two wheels—the one directly behind the other
—and connected together by a light iron
frame-work. The fore wheel is usually a
little the higher of the two. Where great
■peed is aimed at its diameter may be made
as great as four feet, while that of the hind
wheel should hardly exceed two feet and eight
or ten inches. In most of those that have
been seen in this city, the two wheels have
been pretty nearly equal, with a diameter of
about two feet and four inches.
“The propelling force is applied through
treadles, which are fixed to the fore wheel.—
The rider drives himself by the alternate ac
tion of bis feet upon these treadles. The mo
tion of the feet is not unlike that in rapid
walking. The rider sits upon a little saddle
just over the fore part of the hind wheel He
guides his velocipede by taming the fore
wheel to either side. This is done by means
of a stiff iron rod which rises from the axle,
and has a cross bar at the top that is held by
both bands of the rider.
“The first art of the velocipede is to keep
your balance. This is not unlike the same
operation in skating. It can only be ac
quired by practice. The more rapid the
motion, the easier it is to keep the machine
upright. In velocipede contests in Paris
prizes have been given to the slowest riders.
“With wheels of small diameter, the rider
stops himself by putting his foot to the
ground. With high wheels he checkes his
speed with a break, and descends to the
earth by inclining to one side till the foot
touches. In mounting with high wheels a
skilful practitioner starts his velocipede with
a push, and then springs into the saddle.”
Speculators are traversing the country
and buying up all the apples they can.
Estimate, 1,@00,000 Bales—Remunerative
Price, 30 Cents.
To the Editors of the Telegraph:
It is time that the cotton crop should be
correctly and accurately estimated, upon data
certain, true and fixed, that the great interest
involved may not be sacrificed. This I pro
pose to do, upon evidence now not open to
dispute, and from facts and figures which
cannot be controverted.
Northern counting house estimates, based
upon the statements of letter-writers and
speculators interested in deceiving and de
pressing prices, placing the crop at 2,500,000
bales, are grossly erroneous. I shall demon
strate that the present crop, on the contrary,
cannot exceed 1,800,000 bales, and, therefore,
that the price, to be remunerative, should be
30 cents, and that the producers have it in
their power to get it, if they act with only
ordinary intelligence.
The manufacturers and speculators of Eu
rope and the North always wage an “irre
pressible conflict” against the planters—the
old contest of capital against labor—de
pressing prices until they get the crop into
their own hands,
Let us examine each branch of the subject
separately, truthfully and logically, and eluci
date it so clearly that “He who runs can
read, and the way-faring man, though a fool,
cannot err therein.”
1st. the estimate, osly 1,800,000 bales.
To establish this estimate to be correct,
beyond the power of refutation, we will show
the damage done to this crop from the boll-
worm, and more especially the caterpillar,
by comparing the incoming with the crop of
1846—which two crops correspond in all
particulars.
It is necessary, right here, to fix the data
beyond cavil. Every intelligent planter
knows that, then as now, the caterpillar de
vastated the cotton crop' from salt water to
Columbus, Ga., and Montgomery, Ala., in
land, all along that line of latitude, and on
the seaboard ofthe Carolinas and beyond the
Mississippi, extending up the river bottoms
to a much higher latitude. The time of their
advent in August, 1846, their continuance,
the belt they covered, and the extent of their
damage were almost identical with that of
this year. There were great natural causes,
then as now, which must and have produced
like effects, and it is impossible for it to be
otherwise. This is the great truth, founded
on God’s laws, upon which the estimate
rests.
Now we can accurately estimate the damage
to the crop of 1846, frojh the bollworm and
caterpillar, by comparingit with the average,
as resulting from the two preceding and the
two succeeding years, to-wit:
comparative statement.
bales.
1844-5 2,394.503
and do not wish to see them plundered of
what little they have to live on in this milita
ry despotism. Last year the planters, blind
to truth, deceived by false estimates from the
North and England, sold 2,480,893 bales, at
an average of 15 cts., on the outside, which,
in the hands of speculators and manufactur
ers, averaged, say 25 cts., cr $50 per bale
profit to them—a grand total of loss to the
Southern planters on the crop of last year of
$121,544,650.
SECONDLY—THE REMUNERATIVE PRICE, 30c.
What will the American crop of only 1,800,
000 bales command ? I say, legitimately, 30c.
per pound, and will proceed to prove it:
Last year Europe consumed of American cot
ton 1,600,009
The United States » - 900,000
2,500.000
They require as much or more this year, and
will pay 30c. for it before they will do with
out it.
England had last rear and must have- .1,200,000
-France, Germany and Northern Europe......... 400.000
1845-6.
1847-8
1843-9.
.7,100.537
.2347.634
.2,728,506
9,571,180
The aggregate, or grand total, of the four
crops,two before and two after the caterpilllar
year of 1846, being, as above, 9,571,180 bales,
it follows that the average for 1840 should be
2,392,705 bales. But that crop was cut short
by the caterpillar, almost precisely as the
present crop has been. Now by comparing
the actual crop of 1846-7 with the average of
the four years, as already shown, the damage
done by the caterpillar to that crop will be a
fixed fact” in figures and in truth :
Average—four crops..
:ual c
Damage by the caterpillar - 611,144
This, bear in mind, then, is a result, past
and gone into statistical history, which may
not be disputed; showing the extent of
damage done by the caterpillar, in identical
similar conditions to this year’s ravages, to a
given and known average of four years.—
These facts and principles being true, we
have only to estimate what ought to be tbe
present crop, as compared with last year’s,
the actual damage done to it by tbe cater
pillar—as based on reasons already given—
and the result will show this year’s crop not
to exceed, but to be about 1,800,000 bales.—
To a just and clear comprehension of fhis
truth, no intelligent planter or gentleman,
but well knows, “other things being equal,”
the crop of this year could not possibly ex
ceed that of last year. Two controlling
elements of production place this beyond
all dispute: First, tbe less extent of land
planted in cotton this year; and second, the
less effective labor of the freedmen. These
are facts well attested by all planters, and all
the statements by Departmental Commanders,
Bureau Agents and letter writers to the
contrary, are dangerously erroneous, as time
will establish.
STATEMENT.
1867-8, total crop made - 2,430,893 bales
On hand. Northern and southern ports. 80,000
Supply —.2,510,893 bales
Nearly all of last year’s crop went forward
to the North, and to Europe, owing to high
prices in the Spring, and the necessities of
the planters.
This year’s crop could not, under any ex
isting circumstances, of the quantity of land
planted and labor still more demoralized in
volved, equal, much less exceed, that of last
year, had not the caterpillar come with its
ravages.
But great,disturbing and damaging causes
did come—known to all Southern planters and
intelligent men—wide-spread and universal
overall the cotton States proper; and “like
causes produced like effects.” The chief and
most destructive of all is the caterpillar. But
long drought—then a long wet 9pell and boll-
worm did their share.
These fatal, destructive agents were fully
equal to those of 1846 and ’47.
Now, we have -already seen by facts and
statistics that tbe damage done to the crop
of 1846-7—on the average of 2,392,795 bales,
by the caterpillar was 614,144 bales, reducing
and cutting it down to an actual crop of
1,778,650 bales. All that is past, and gone
into history.
Now, if in 1846 the four year’s average crop
should have been 2,392,795 bales, but was
cut short by tbe caterpillar 614,144 bales,
how much will tbe crop, that is the average
crop for 1868, to wit: that of the year pre
vious, 1867-8, to wit: 2,430,893 bales, be cut
short from like causes ?
Why, it is perfectly clear; it is a mere
matter of the “Single Rnle of Three.” This
year’s crop will be cut short 623,920 bales.
STATEMENT
Average crop for 1868—as based on the crop
_ of 1867 - 2,420.893
Loss by caterpillar damago- - .... 623,922
Result.... - - 1,806,971
Now, it is respectfully submitted, that
these facts, figures and logic cannot be con
troverted, and my only object in placing
them before the planters and the cotton in
terest, is because 1 love “my native South,’*
1.600.000
This is nearly all the crop of 1868. To take
that much, and they must have it, will leave
only 200,000 bales to the United States.—
Europe demands and will have this amount
to mix with her short staple Asiatic inferior
cottons, and she will pay 30c. for it.
Now the Southern and Northern mills or
factories demand for home consumption this
year fully 1000,000.
Is It not clear, that if the United States re
tains—keeps back—that amount, that En
gland and Europe can get only 800,000 balefjj
in the face of their demand for 1,600,000 ?
Now, the contest has been heretofore be*
tween the North and Europe combined, as
speculators and manufacturers, representing
capital, against the South, as producers, rep
resenting lalor. Their identity of pursuits
united them, as against the cotton producer.
Can the cotton interest maintain itself and
demand and command and get 30 cents per
pound for the present crop? Nothing is
clearer, if planters would act wisely.
HOW CAN IT BE DONE?
Refuse to sell a bale of cotton—get ad
vances on ycur crops, thereby pay your debt3,
and ship to Europe directly, through Savan
nah and other Southern ports. We have a
supply of only 1,800,000 bales; of it, Europe
demands 1,600,000 bales and the United States
1,000,000 this year. Both cannot be accom
modated. There are 700,000 bales short of
the demand. Let them fight over it—make
the contest between the capitalists and manu
facturers of Europe and the same class in
America. Get advances, refuse to sell, and
hold your cotton in Liverpool. This is easily
done. In all towns and cities in the South
liberal advances are niade on shipments direct
to Europe.
We have used some repetition to make this
matter of demand, supply and price, clear to
planters. If they chonse to give away their
crops, as they did last year, they can do so;
but, if they prefer thirty cents for it, they can
get it. Let Georgia, Alabama, portions of
South Carolina, Tennessee, and the far off
Mississippi, forward their cotton to Savannah,
Ga., to be forwarded directly to Europe, and
this result can assuredly bo accomplished.—
The false Northern and European estimate of
2,500,000 bales fixes a false—a too low price
for cotton now. Time and facts will soon
correct these errors, if cotton is shipped and
held, and when a true and fair estimate shall
be made, fair prices will follow.
In the interest of the oppressed planting
interest of the South, these views are respect
fully submitted, before this crop is sacrificed
at prices not remunerative, in the condition
and relation they bear to all other interests.
Respectfully, W. Toney.
Evfaula, Ala., Oct. 10, 1863.
P. S. Large receipts, in October and No
vember,of a caterpillar year, in excess of other
years, is no evidence of a large crop; but the
reverse, for tbe caterpillar stripping the stalks
ot all the leaves in August and September, a
burning sun soon opens all the bolls, to the
top. That is so now. The crop will be gath
ered by November 1st. Many have already
gathered all. A short crop, and all open is
soon in the ports. W. Toney.
She Public Debt*—Reform Weeded
The Hon. Robert J. Walker has been look
ing into tbe public debt, and he finds that
the annual expenditures of the Federal Gov
ernment have been increased “over forty-six
millions of dollars ($46,056,559) by an aug
mentation to that extent of the yearly inter
est (in currency) of the public debt since 30th
April, 1865.” He admits that there may have
been possibly “a small reduction of the pub
lic debt last month, but this reduction, if
made, will be in debts bearing mainly no in
terest, or in war claims withheld, whilst the
debt bearing coin interest will be aug
mented."
To us who suffer from misgovernment,
involving questions vastly more important
than that of increasing or diminishing tbe
public debt, this discussion is not a matter
of absorbing interest. It is quite secondary,
and not far from immaterial. Mr. Walker,
however, dovetails the financial question with
tbe policy of reconstruction in a manner
altogether appropriate and just. We extract
the following from his letter to a Philadel
phian:
That there is an increased yearly expendi
ture, exceeding forty-six millions of dollars
since April 30,1865, to meet tbe augmented
interest (as cuiTencv) of the public debt is
certain. This is the true test of our financial
condition, and to me it seems certain that
nothing but a total change of policy will save
us from national bankruptcy. This change
of policy must be based upon a vast decrease*
of our annual expenditures, as recommended
in my financial letter of November last.—
We must abolish the Freedmen’s Bureau;
we must recall the army from the South,
and reduce it to a moderate peace estab
lishment. Wo must terminate there the
joint rule of the negro and the bayonet
and (slavery and secession having been for
ever abandoned) permit the Southern States,
in obedience to the Federal Constitution, to
govern themselves as before the rebellion.
The fact of this vast increase of the annual
interest of the public debt is not a disputed
question. It rests on transcripts from the
books of tbe Treasury, and cannot be de
nied. Even if - we take the SOth of Novem
ber last, tbe date of the last annual report of
the Secretary of the Treasury, we find the
increased annual interest (as currency) of the
public debt $26,574,329 from the 30th of No
vember la3t, 1867, to the 81st of August,
1868, being an augmentation at the rate of
three millions of dollars a month, or thirty-
six millions of dollars a year.”—Richmond
Dispatch.
Party Rancour and Scurrility.
Geneva, Ga., October 9,1868.
Editors Telegraph : My “ wanderings” of
late have been confined to a section of coun
try through which the Telegraph is well cir
culated; and my observation enables me to
say that its earnest, but mild and unabusive
tone is doing good. And it were, indeed
time for the press of the entire country to as
sume a more conciliatory aspect. The ban
dogs of one party have been encouraged to
worry and tear those of the other until the
people have become fired with something akin
to political madness—the result of which may
be—traditional hatred! This species of po
litical artifice has not originated since party
interests have become so contending, but was
practiced early to a certain extent; but now,
when greater issues are involved in the prin
ciples of the contending parties, we find it
flourishing! Political calnmny has been re
duced to an art almost like that of logic, and
practiced until bitter abase and party defam.
ation are considered readier means of strength
than earnest, able and manly appeals to the
judgment of the people. This is the politics
of Satan—the one grand, evil formula by
which so many things are regulated in this
world, and from which may arise questions of
graver nature than those which now threaten
the peace and prosperity ot the country.—
The history of France, for centuries past,
teaches us that vindictive, abusive language
and contemptible nicknames are not treated
lightly or soon forgotten. These malignant
editorials and speeches are too common in
our own party and cau result du no possible
good; on the contrary, they injure us, and
the leaders of the opposing party are politic
enough to encourage the opprobrious lan
guage and contemptible epithets employed
by some of the leading Democratic organs in
telling what they term “plain truths.” These
silly terms of reproach are often ridiculous
enough in their origin, but in these distracted
times it may happen that even a political
nickname will answer a purpose,while neither
those upon whom the odium rests, nor those
who cast it, can define the hateful appella
tion. We have ample proof, even from our
own experience, that the baser the term ap
plied to a party the more certain' does it be
come its rallying cry—even constitute its
glory! The nickname frondeurs became a
password of insurrection in France, and
Cardinal de Retz affirms was “encouraged
and gloried in” by the party to whom it was
applied. The contemptuous term of sans cul
ottes, applied to the poor, during a revolu
tion, in France, provoked that of aristocrats,
which became a signal for plunder and
slaughter. The Hollanders, for many years,
prided, themselves upon the disgraceful by -
name of les Gneux, as did the protestants of
France upon the contemptible one of Ruege-
nots, and the non-conformists in England
upon the mocking one of Puritans; and “each
party,” says Swift, “ has perpetuated its an
ger by the inglorious names given them.”—
What terrible sufferings did not Italy endure
under those fatal party-names of Guelphs and
Ghibellines; alternately the victora and the
vanquished, the beautifnl land of Italy drank
the blood of her children.” Leavitt.
Putting His Mark on Her.
One of the real old Mayo gentry, six feet
four inches high, stout in proportion, rug
ged as one of his own mountain balls, and
proud as a Breton, had attained the age of
forty, and was still unmarried. He was a
constant visitor at the house of three ladies,
not overburdened with money or blood, but
the youngest of whom was possessed of
beauty and skill in retort. Every one said
it would be a match; bat years rolled
away, and the decisive words were not spo
ken, though other suitors were warned off
by significant hints from the formidable but
undecided Mr. Blake. One evening he called
in, returning from the fair at Castlebar, and
he found the ladies were having a few
friends in an impromptu dance. There were
some officers lately arrived from India, whose
regiment was at Castlebar, and a certain
Capt. Graham and Mr. Blake’s lady, as she
was generally styled, fast locked in that half
embrace, the schottische permits. The Cap
tain was an adept at “houldiug up,” which
Irish and a great many other ladies consider
a partner’s bounded duty.
Blake’s idea of waltzing was as prejudiced
as Byron’s, and he had an ugly scowl on his
brow that would have frightened many men
as the lady passed him with a alight nodi
however, the Captain only pressed his part
ner the closer.
“I am sure you will like the Captain,‘for
dear Isabel’s sake; and we rely on you to
make it pleasant for him while here,” said
the eldest sister.
Mr. Blake was standing with his back to
the fire, and drawing from his pocket a small
branding iron, used for putting initials on the
horn3 of cattle by the purchaser, he gave the
turf a quiet poke, and left the lettered end in
the hot ashes.
“Your honor’s lost her,” whispsred Pat
Casey, the old servant of the house, as he
handed negus round; “the Captain’s less
tadious than your honor in love-making.”
“Well, Blake, you’re done,” said Mr.
Browne. “Waited too long my boy; and the
captain there will carry off the finest girl in
Mayo.”
“By heaven, then, he shall find my mark
on her 1” cried Blake; and, as the waltzers
passed, he drew the brand from the fire and
clapped the red-hot letters on the shoulders
of Miss Mabel, just above the low dress. Of
course there was a deal of screaming and fuss,
but the lady recovered sufficiently to become
Airs. Blake,' and I hear, never regretted the
event which at last compelled her lover to
speak his mind.
A friend of mine told me, some time since,
that he had been staying with the Blakee, and
he could aver that Mrs. Blake still wore high
dresses on all occasions.
Trick of a Danseuse.
Long Funeral Procession.—-The pro
cession which followed the remains of Air.
Thomas Brassil, Sunday afternoon, from the
Catholic Church to the Cemetery was over a
mile iD length. In the line were sixty-three
vehicles, and belling them were numbers of
persons walking. Mr. B. was an Irishman
by birth, and had resided in Columbus some
twenty years. His age was about forty-five.
The large concourse which followed his
body to the grave showed the esteem , in
which he was held. The procession was one
of the longest and most imposing ever , seen
ia Columbus.—8un. - - -
Some two mouths ago, an attorney’s clerk
was passing through one of the arcades in
Paris, when a modest young lady passed by
and dropped a portfolio. The clerk imme
diately picked it up but failed to overtake
its fair owner. In the evening he examined
its contents, and found several letters from
mama, in the country, requesting daughter
Heloise to shorten her visit with her aunt in
Paris, to return home, and prepare to enjoy
the fortune reverting to her on attaining her
majority, and seek a suitable husband among
her local admirers. Here was a fortune that
would enable him to set up in business for
himself, and a wife to'be proud of. That
evening he called on the aunt, restored the
portfolio, asked her permission to visit,
wooed the niece, won her heart, and ulti
mately the wedding day was fixed. The
“fortunate” lover presented Heloise with jew
elry, laces, etc., without end.
Gustave gave a farewell banquet last week
to his bachelor friends, and they agreed to
visit,the same evening, one of the public balls.
To his astonishment, and without her seeing
him, Gustave beheld his Heloise surrounded
by a crowd of persons, before whom she was
executing her professional immodest dance.
Gustave has demanded the restoration of
his valuable presents, which Heloise cannot
give, as they nave long been sold, and the po
lice, on looking over their note books, found
this was not the first occasion Heloise had
lost her “ portfolio” which had been picked
up by a simpleton.,
Web Lotta was serenaded at her hotel la St.
Lonis, half a dozen politicians appeared at various
windows and endeavored to return thank*/
ACanny Scotchman’s Experiment In Slave-
holding.
The Boston press has recently produced a
book called “Ten Months in Brazil,” and the
Courier gives us the following extract where
in is duly set forth the result of a very intel
ligent and benevolent Scotchman’s experi
ment in raising the black to a level with the
white race:
Dr. Gunning left a high position in the
Medical College at Edinburgh, sixteen years
ago, and came to Brazil for the improvement
ot his health. Here, in a short time, his
skill as a physician, and some profitable in
vestments in the mines, secured him an am
ple fortune’. Had his constitution permitted
him to return to England, he would doubt
less have found full scope for his benevo
lence among the poor whites there; but as he
was obliged to remain in Brazil, he naturally
turned his attention to . the prevailing color.
In short, as an individual, he resolved to> de
vote his time, talents and property to the ex
periment which nations have tried in vain.
He would raise the black to the level ot the
white race, by a practical trial of a theory
not new, but variously attempted—that of
“giving the black man a fair chance.”
With this object steadily in view, he pur
chased some thirty-five or forty negroes. He
bought a tract of land nearly two miles square,
on the railroad which was then building,
about six years ago, and on it the pretty cot
tage at which we were so hospitably enter
tained now stands.
In its neighborhood he built comfoitahle
huts for his negroes, and gave to each as large
a garden spot as he required. At that time
tiie planters and other slave owners were gain
ing enormously by the labor of their negroes
upon the railroad, so that tho value of a slave
was soon cleared. The good doctor asked
himself the question, “If a planter can clear
a negro, why cannot a negro clear himself?”
A woman’s answer, “Because—’’would have
been more to the purpose than his own. At
any rate, the negroes did not clear themselves,
and they remain on hand to this day.
The doctor commenced a perfect system
of book-keeping. Each colored gentleman
had his name at the head of a page, with
Dr. on the left and Cr. on the right; Dr. to
his first cost, and interest on the same, and
subsequent expenses, for food, clothing, etc.,
Cr. by cash, received for his individual labor.
When tbe amount balanced he was to be free.
But none of the accounts ever came to be
balanced.
The negro is often not so much of a fool as
his white apologist. He would have no ob
jection to freedom if it could be had for
nothing, for the days of idleness before him
area tempting luxury. But;these fellows
had the sense |to see that with such a mas
ter as Dr. Gunning, freedom would not be
worth working for. The result was,that they
were nearly half the time drunk, or sick in
tbe hospital, and when they did work they
worked so unprofitably that the railroad
company dispensed with their services.
The planter is now using them in clearing
and planting bis own grounds, and crediting
them with their daily labor. In this way he
promises himself that they will eventually
earn their freedom. His neighbors say that
the work would be done in a cheaper and
better manner if he gave them their freedom
at once, and then hired the slaves of others.
In tbe meantime, the Doctor submits qui
etly to the robbery of his hen-roosts, the
stealing of his fruits and vegetables, the sur
reptitious milking of his cows, and the other
annoyances, great and small, which the pres
ence of these vagabonds entails upon him.
His corn is gathered early, but it is not gath
ered for him, and his crop of green coffee is
large for others, while that ot ripe coffee is
small for himself. The black lilies “ toil not
neither do they spin,” and the slaves are hard
masters, “reaping where they have not sown.”
When our excellent friend first made his
investment, he was very inconsiderate in tbe
explanation of his plans to tbe negroes. One
morning, after instructing them in the mys
teries of book-keeping, he added that, in case
ot his death at any time, they would be free
at once. On the same night he was attacked
in his bed by a negro with an iron bar, and
seriously beaten over the head. Fortunately
the generous Scotchman’s head was harder
than his heart, and the only result of the
blow was an enlargement of the organ of
caution.
follows:' “Of the maim*. 7c
Divine Worship.” conducting
Sec. 3. Bowing at the name of Je, no •
cepting in repeating the Creed £2? el
bowing toward the oommum^tabi/ 111 ^ *
so far as may be enjoined bv the p, t’ eit *Pi
king the sign of the cross, «ceptb u 0 ’? 11 -
the elevation of either the elements^? 1 ’ 1 ' 1
holy communion, occasional na 8
churches, except as provided by tbe 8 R g i, ia
and the use of incense in and dur? abtlCs
conducting of divine service are decJd
on the fact tSf’thS^emoriS'hadT' 3
“ New York, and
cast throughout the country, and L„ °, ad '
SiSSE? 0 "* “"■pxfS?
floor on the subject of £san
Judge Cunningham. He said P ^° Eedbr
question was detailed, the house 2L 1 '
debate the matter with all due *22* to
the distinctive rites of both the low f wu- for
church branch of the Episcopalian
The memorials and the proposed
to the canon were referred to'the Comm
on Canons.
Rev. James A Harrold offered anotw
olution instructing the Committee on r es *
to consider the subject of a depar&° :s
the established usage by omittinsX
tion of the services already prescribed £
The Rev. Dr. Cowper Meade, of Conn. ■
cut, got the floor and moved- ° aa «ti-
Whereas, The restoration’ of the ,
the Church is an obiect of vase
i object of vast imnS C *
as without unity it will be impossible
Perfectly to fulfill her mission to theworld'
Whereas, In the opinion of many thesim-.,-
the times indicats thereis a strong and inS.
ing tendency amoDg the churches of the W -
nous denominations of Christians in Chri *'
endom, to see such unity restored • thmsT
Resolved, That, the Hohs, Afe
curriug, a joint committee of both hn-L
constituting the general convention,
convention shall consist of an eoual nlv
of Bishops, Presbyteries and eSEKS?
pointed an organ of communication
other branches of the churches and the A r
fenmt Christian bodies desiring conferee I
on the subject, the said committee to been
tit ed a commission of the Protestant Episc*
pal Church in the United States of America
on unity.
. “f- Buggies withdrew a resolution with a
*5“" object offered by him on Saturday
and Dr. Aleade’s passed unanimously. *’
When the Conference assembled in Hills
boro’ some years since, on the last day of the
session, a lad, whose father had entertained
some half a dozen preachers, entered the
room where the ministers were seated in a
terrible state of excitement.
“What’s the matter, Isaac P asked one
“you seem excited.”
“Excited! I ain’t excited; I am mad all
over.”
“What are you mad about, Isaac ? Don't
you know it’s wrong to suffer yourself to be
come angered ?”
“Wrong or not wrong, it’s enough to make
anybody but a preacher mad. Here’s every
chicken on the place eat up, except tbe old
rooster, and jus: now he happened to get a
glimpse of you fellows, and sung out: “And
must this fee-ble bod y die-e, and dropped
over stone dead.”
A man in the streets of Paris offers to sell
for a trifling sum to the passers-by, portraits
(securd from view by an envelope) of three
persons whom, he says to the spectators, “you
know, love and esteem. If dissatisfied with
the portraits you can have tbe money return
ed, with a bonus of twenty francs." The
purchaser finds the portraits are those of the
Emperor, Empress and Prince Imperial,
and as it is a penal offence to speak disre
spectfully of either of those persons, there are
very few claimants ofthe twenty francs.
Three Citizens Killed—-20 NegroesEUIit
and Wounded,
The Episcopal Convention
New York, October 12.—In the Protestant
Episcopal Convention, this a. m., the Com
mittee on a new diocese reported in favor of
dividing the diocese of Maryland. The re
port was accepted.
John Cunningham, of Pennsylvania, pre
sented a memorial, as follows: That uniform
ity in the manner of worshiping Almighty
God is one of the chief reasons for the use of
a liturgy; that it was the object of the
C lurch of England, and afterwards of the
Protestant Episcopal Chnrch in the United
States of America, as appears by the preface
to their respective Books of Common Prayer,
to establish a form of worship which might
most tend to the preservation of peace and
unity in the church, the procuring of rever
ence, and the exciting of piety and devotion
in the worship of God, and finally the cut
ting off of occasion from them that seek oc
casion of evil or quarrel against her liturgy;
that in order to attain these ends the church
in these United States made at its organiza
tion in this country many important amend
ments in the English Book of Common
Prayer, intending to simplify her worship,
and to promulgate Christianity and the
truths of the Gospel to mankind in tbe clear
est, plainest, most affecting and majestic
manner. That of late many ministers, for
getful of the object of the fathers of said
church, in this country, have introduced
changes in the previously long established
manner of conducting Divine worship and of
performing her rites and ceremonies novel
to our people and not contemplated by the
book of common prayer and the canons,
which do not tend to the preservation of
peace and unity in this church, nor to the
procuring of reverence and the exciting
of piety and devotion in the worship
of God, and especially not from them
who seek occasion for cavil or quarrel against
his liturgy. That by reason of said changes
tbe worship in the churches in this diocese,
and of other dioceses is no longer uniform,
and great scandal and disunion have been
promoted thereby. That your memorialists
deplore the introduction of said changes in
the manner of worshipping God, and they
indulge the fervent hope that the same may
cease from among us; that leaving your hon
orable body to particularize the practices to
which we allude, your memorialists respect
fully express their disapproval of all devia
tions, manifestly on tbe increase, from the
proscribed ritual of our Church, and of all
acts, intentional postures, unaccustomed gar
ments and personal or Church decorations,
and all conduct in the celebration of Divine
worship which tend to make the same re
semble the Church of Rome.
Section l. No ministerial garments shall
be worn during worship, or when present or
presiding at any rite or ceremony of this
church, excepting surplices, state-bands or
gowns, which shall be used as heretofore on
occasion of worship, and at the direction of
the ministry may be used at rites and cere
monies, and no eclesiastical garments shall
be worn on occasions of Divine worship, or
church services by choirs or other assistants
therein provided. This section shall not be
construed to relate to Episcopal vestments.
Sec. 2. Candle-sticks, crucifixes or super
altars, so called, made of wood or metal or
other substances, shall not be used or
suffered to stand or hang over any commun
ion table, as a part of the furniture or decora
tion thereof.
We pray that canons may be passed which
may establish uniformity in Divine worship in
all our churches,'and tend.to renew and pre
serve that simplicity and absence of unneces
sary ceremonial, which the early Protestant
Episcopal Church in this country sought to
obtain.,
judge Cunningham said he had prepared
a canon for the consideration of the common
canons, to which he proposed it should be
referred. The new canon wOqld read as
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From the New Orleans Crescent, October 6(1.]
On Wednesday last a serious difficulty oc
curred on the Texas road, a short distance
from the town ot Shreveport, resulting ia
the death of three white pien and nineteen
negroes. The following facts we have
gathered from various persons who bate
arrived here since last Saturday night:
A driver of a wagon being intoxicated,
fired his revolver in the air, and immediately
afterwards was seized by a party of negroes,
who happened to be in the immediate vicin
ity, and carried to a grove near by, where be
wa3 bound with ropes to a tree. Upon the
suggestion of a few clear-headed negroes of
the party, in a few minutes the man was re
leased. At this moment a few negroes from
an adjoining plantation came up, and with
out a word of provocation fired upon, and
killed Air. James Brownlee and Alessrs. Og
den and Thompson, citizens of Caddo parish.
Upon hearing of this state of affairs, the cit
izens of Shreveport turned out en masse, and
proceeded to the scene of the outrage. About
nineteen negroes, supposed to have been ring
leaders in tbe affair, were killed, having first
from their quarters fired upon the citizens
as they came down the road. When tbe
Right Way left Shreveport last Thursday,
everything was quiet
A colored servant, sweeping out a
bachelor’s room, found a sixpence on tue
carpet, which he carried to the owner.
“You may keep it for your honesty 5313
A short time after, he missed bis gold
pencil case, and inquired of his servant it n
had seen it.
“Yes, sir,” was the reply.
“And what did you do with it ?”
“Kept it for my honesty, sir!"
The bachelor disappeared.
The most remarkable known case of
heavy drinking is that of a hoary-heaaea
man of education and fortune, residing »
the city of New York, who confesses to tax
ing “fifty drinks a day” of whisky—t®
drinks to a bottle, and five bottles to a gallon.
One gallon of liquor, he says, goes down n*
old throat every day in the year. Before
is fit to eat his breakfast in the morning, “
has to drink twelve glasses of whisky, oro
bottle and one-fifth.
Business'for the United States Dis
trict Court.—We learn that fifty-eight
have been entered upon the docket otw
United States District Court, to be tried a,
the coming session.
In addition to these there will be a * -
large number of cases growing out _ot
suits commenced aghinst the stockholders
the old Savannah banks, as mentioned by
a few days ago. Ninety-three suits have al
ready been reported, and there are ,°«’
more which have not yet been returned, f *
fore the Court the same course of proceed* ?
will probably be followed as in the cs3 ® ,
the suits against the banks, that is, all
the suits against the banks, that L, — .
into one common cause. This will be a b
case, and the amount involved—half
lion of dollars—will.make it interesting-
Savannah News.
The following ia a Prussian remedy
the sting of a bee: “Beat an onion ..
hard body to extract the juice, to
add a pinch 6f salt. Apply the ,: oB
the sting, and the pain and mflamm
will cease.”
Bev. T.K. Beechxbregards pulpit exchJB?*
i very absurd. Doctors do not exchange p»
and prescriptions. Teachers do not swsp sc “
Lawyers do not show courtesy by changes or ^
and client. He thinks he can shew good *
his brethern far better by what and how hep
than by blowing his trumpet In their P° "
Tan editor ot the principal jNew Tori* P**^
•have given Instructions, long since w
general agentof the Associated
make Us cable dispatches to the as
mure newsy—to give thsihet ansd th
few words as psssible.
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