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THE TELEGRAPH,
HJuOON, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27, 1868
« OCR SISTBR RKPUBLIC.”
Poor old chaotic Mexico! It is afflicted
with chronic revolution. It badly needs a
guardian. The news published yesterday
was alittle astonishing and would have been
startling coming from any other country.
The States of Tamaulipns and Tampico in
open revolt; Escobedo, a favorite govern
ment General, utterly defeated by, and bis
army gone over to, the rebels, and he him
self sending in bis resignation in disgust; the
forces at Victoria, under Lopez, demoralized
and disbanded—pronunciamcntos in the
highest style bombastic, winding up with
the flourish “ God and Liberty!” Snch is
the news to-day, and such has been the news
-any time these last forty years from that
nuisance of a country.
We wish it would pass into the bands of
somebody with the power and the will to
govern it. Gen. Grant might thus illustrate
his administration. It would be a poor in
vestment now, but one which would eventu
ally pay. The difficulty is in the wretched
blood of the people. There are no less tlia'a
forty-eight different castes. They are indo
lent, ignorant, as vindictive as rattlesnakes,
■and hate the whole world, including one
another. As a general rule they sleep pro
foundly from one year to another, waking
up long enough to slip a poinard between
the ribs of an enemy, or to make a robbing
"foray upon some community which has collect-
>cd a small supply of provisions and goods.
They prefer a Republic to a Monarchy on the
ground that that species of government gives
them a better opportunity to follow the life
of brigandage. The soil is more productive
than any of the Southern States, and the cli
mate more genial.
It needs a new people out and out. Grant
should send two or three of his best Generals
and take absolute possession of the entire
concern. Polk's administration made a great
mistake in not bolding on to tbc whole coun
try in 1848. Gen. Grant can, by this master
stroke of policy, find a ready solution of the
whole question of reconstruction of the South
ern States. It would be a diversion. Let him
Mad all those philanthropic Northern p #-
pie, anxious to engage in the regeneration
‘business, to Mexico for employment. If be
•could manage to get Phillips to lead his en
tire army there it would be a happy riddance
and guarantee to him a peaceable adminis
tration. But wouldn’t Mexico be a beauti
ful kettle of fish with this crowd added to the
stock now on hand ?
From South western Georgia
Cotton Prices, to Sell or Hold—What we
could do If out of Debt—Small Farms vs.
Large Plantations—Fertilizers- -Waste-
State Agricultural and Mechanical Soci
ety-Push on the Fair—White and Negro
Labor.
Messrs. Editors: As the Telegraph is the
great paper with planters, extensively subscribed
for and read by them, I beg a small space in its
columns, to commune a littlo with that class
which supports all classes.
The price of cotton.—Is it best to sell now?
This is the absorbing present question with
planters. Thirty years of experience and ob
servation have taught me that nobody knows
anything about prices of cotton. One man]
opinion is as good as another’s and nobody’s
worth much. The great law of supply and de
mand is often inoperative as to cotton. The
course of cotton trade brings our staple under the
power of moneyed combinations which often
force it down, even in face of an ascertained
short crop.
Such will always be the case as long as cotton
is moved by a system of credits, beginning and
ending with consumers and speculators. If cot
ton growers were independent, they could force
consumers to come to them to make purchases.
And then the cotton planters would have a voice
in fixing and keeping up prices.
But, unfortunately, we are always in debt-
have to anticipate and mortgage our crops; and
so we put our labor and profits into the power
and pockets of spinners, bankers and speculators.
What a glorious, rich people we would become,
if we could only hold our cotton and force man
ufacturers to send ships loaded with gold to pur
chase it!
We can do no such thing now—God grant the
day may soon come when we can. Under exist
ing circumstances, cotton planters should not
hold all their cotton at present prices. Sell half
and hold half, is the true policy.
Small Farms; Large Plantations Won’t
do.—The time for big plantations is gone. Now
that labor must be paid for, and mouths filled with
bought meat; the true policy is to make one acre
yield as much as ten did under the old regime.
Save wages and save feed for man and beast. Cul
tivate suck portions of your land as you can
thoroughly and effectually tend, and rent the
balance, with the stipulation that it shall be
cultivated in like manner. If you cannot rent
all, let some lay out and rest. By and by it will
be wanted.
Fertilizers should be used liberally, taking
care they are genuine, and every thing that will
enrich a hill of corn or cotton saved. Waste 1
Oh, what waste have we suffered on our farms.
It is no exaggeration to say, that a New Eng
land or Pennsylvania farmer would grow rich,
educate his children a | lish them in the
world, from what is wasted on one of onr large
plantations; aye, and even if he had to work
REVERDT JOHNSON ON PEACE AND our poor exhausted land.
SECURITY IN THE SOUTHERN
STATES.
We fear our Minister to the Court of St.
.Uatncsc has committed the unpardonable sin.
IHe-baeidared to give public assurance of the
♦quiet 'Condition of tbe Southern States, and
that foreign .emigrants to Texas will be as
-safe as in any. other part of the Union. Alter
that he is doomed—his official bead is no
-doubt already.predestined to fall.
•The occasion of this “outrage” was a para
‘graph in the New York-correspondence of
the London News, which, in pursuance of the
universal Radical tactics of tbe period,
aseerted the existence of a reign of terrorism
and lawlessness all over the South, and over
.Texas in particular. Says this correspondent:
'“The accounts from the South do not
change materially. In Texas, society may be
said to ‘be dissolved, at least outside one or
two of the largertowns. The only safety for
anybody is to be‘found inside the quarters
of tbe Federal tjuops, and they hold simply
the ground -Chcy encamp on. The whole
State, isiio “the hands of mobs, who murder
andihuro houses at their will; and they, too,
'■'aaf under no recognized head, or in accor-
ance with any fixed plan. This would be
more dreadful if it were much of a change,
but it is not—things were as bad as this du
ring the war, and not very much better be
fore it.”
The declaration excited alarm among peo
ple contemplating emigration, and thereupon
Messrs. Pattou, Vickers, & Co., agents for a
Liverpool and Texas steamship company, ad
dressed a note of inquiry upon tbe subject to
the Hon. Reverdy Johnson. Mr. Johnson’s
response was as follows:
No. 4 Upper Portland Place, /
October 80. {
Sir : The letter from New York, published
in the Daily News of tbe ICtli inst., to which
yournoteof the ICth inst. calls my attention,
I have read. As its statements are calculated
to injure the interest of Texas, and as I am
satisfied that they are unfounded. I feel
bound to comply with your request. I left
the United States on tbe 1st of August, and
for years immediately preceding was a mem
ber of the Senate of the United States In
that capacity it was my duty to inform my
self of the condition of the Southern States,
and this I did from sources upon whichlknew
that full reliance could be placed; and the
knowledge thus obtained enables me to say
that the statements in the letter referred to
are unfounded. That there are acts of vio
lence in that State is no doubt true; but not
more, I believe, than occurs in either of the
•other States, or in any other countsy. I have
no doubt, therefore, that emigrants into the
State will be as safe os in any other part of
the Union
State Agricultural and Mechanical
Society.—This is a noble enterprise, and will be
particularly valuable to the State just now. And
we are pleased that Macon is moving in it, be
cause when Macon starts an enterprise it is bound
to be a success. Push it on, then, and let us have
a magnificent Fair next fall. At all times, in-
terestingand improving “a Georgia Agricultural
and Mechanical Association” will have new and
grand problems to solve.
The Adaptation of Negro Labor to the
New Order of Things.—Can small farms be
profitably worked with negro labor ? Can the
negro be taught thrift and improved modes,
of culture? Or will we, from necessity, be
forced upon white labor, and if so, the easiest
and cheapest plan to get it? These are
grave questions, that will make us prosperous
and happy, or poor and miserable, as we
cautiously and wisely grapple with, and
solve them. Then get the best practicable
talents of Georgia into your Association;
not politicians, but patriots and progressives.
Southwestern Georgia.
Why so Many Bald-headed Men and so
Few Bald-Headed Women ? Why is it that
the skulls of young men in their twenties shine
like billiard balls ? Why this spectacle of bald-
headed barbers rubbing the dry tops of bald-
headed men, recommending invigorators war
ranted to produce bushy locks in less than a
fortnight, while bald-headed spectators and
middle-aged men with wigs look on with.de
risive smiles; though all the while their wives
and daughters throng our streets covered with
crowns of beauty, and charming young actresses
toss their blond tresses in luxuriant profusion on
the stages of our theatres? Our male popula
tion will, no doubt, take a serene satisfaction in
saying that it is because men have more to worry
them than women, and have the trouble of con
triving not only how to support themselves, but
also how to supj>ort these wives and daughters.
Probably, however, that is not the reason. Wo
men, of course, have longer.and finer hair than
men, but men destroy their hair by making
ovens of their heads under their hats, anil thus
heat the top of their cranium-* until the hair dies
out for very want of air. Men should either
take off their hats oftener or ventilate them
better.
Wholesome Advice.—In common with
other Confederate sheets, the Louisville
■Courier Journal (both papers now being
united,) has decidely moderated its tone since
the election. In an article containing much
sensible advice to the South, it observes:
It must quell its turbulent spirits. One
fool does more harm than fifty knaves. It
must restain its expressions of just resent
ment. It must wait at the gate of the Union,
with the olive branch in its hands, asking
peace in the spirit of peace, and trusting to
the intelligence and humanity of the North
ern people.
These abuses of power must pass away.—
Time must and will correct them. But they
never will pass away, and time never can
correct them, if the Southern people them
selves are not patient and prayerful, relying
on the better side of human nature, not the
worse, and trusting to the goodness and
mercy of that God who gives to us to believe
that “whom he loveth he ebasteneth.”
What Railroads do for Farmers.—To
haul forty bushels of com, fifty miles on a
wagon, would cost at least $13 for team, dri
ver and expenses. A railroad would traos
port it for $4, at most Allowing on an
average of forty bushels per acre, the
crop would be worth eight dollars more per
acre, or eight per cent on $100. As the
relative advantage is about the same for
other crops, it is clear, that a railroad pass
ing through a town would add $100 per
acre to the value of the farms. A town ten
' miles square contains 64,000 acres. An in
crease of $100 per acre is equal to $0,400,000,
or enough to build 200 miles of railroad,
even if it cost $32,000 per mile. But 200 miles
of road wonid extend through 20 towns
ten miles square, and cost but $10 per acre if
taxed upon tbe land. These figures are given
merely aa an illustration. If the farmers had
taxed themselves to build all the railroads io
this country, and given them away to any
companies that would stock and run them,
the present increased value of their lands
wonid have well repaid all the outlay.
[American Agriculturalist.
Education will now be free in Spain, and
any one may open a school.
The Mormons are cultivating raisin grapes
and figs in Southern Utah.
TnE Famine in British India.—Warned
by the experience of the terrible calamity in
Orissa, the English Government is adopting en
ergetic measures to avert, or at least alleviate, the
impending famine in India. Through the meas
ures adopted, the Punjaub and the nortwestem
provinces will probably escape with compara
tively slight distress. But in Central India, em
bracing the immense district of Rajpootana, the
scarcity is already severely felt. In this re
gion, deserted villages, dying and dead cattle, a
whole population half starved and emigrating,
show that the dearth is a reality. The afflicted
districts are open to the markets, which was not
the case with Orissa; and the Government in
tends to pour large quantities of grain into the
centre hv means of the railways which are now,
happily,* everywhere available. The relief is to
assume the form of money paid for public works,
and the local anthorities'havc been instructed to
begin such works whenever they may he found
necessary. The Government promises subsist
ence to the population until work can be fur
nished.
Kersenyille, N. C., with scarcely a hundred
inhabitants, has sent North this fall nearly
$100,000 worth of dried fruit.
The total assessed value of personal property
in Iowa Is $07,339,39S. There arc but twenty-
six counties which have over one million dollars
each.
George Peabody’s benefactions arc said to
exceed $6,000,000.
A topographical survey of the battle-field
of Gettysburg is being made.
Gen. Lee has a Bible class of 150 members in
I113 college in Lexington, Va.
A PLANTATION in Mississippi which cost
$60,000 ten years ago, was sold lately for“$269.
At one time a woman could lmrdly walk
through the streets of San Francisco without
having every one pause to gaze on her; and
a child was so rare that ouce in a theatre in
the same city, where a woman bad taken her
infant, when it commenced to cry, just as the
orchestra commenced to play, a man in the
pit cried out, “ Stop those fiddlers and let
the baby cry. 'I haven’t heard such a sound
for ten years!” The audience applauded
this sentiment,,the-orchestra stopped, :and
the baby continued its performance amid
unbounded enthusiasm.
Dr. Stark, the Registrar General of Scot
land, reports that “(facbvrlorbopd is more
destructive to life than the most unwhole
some trades, or than residence in an un
wholesome house or district, where there bas
never t>een the most distant attempt at sani
tary improvement of any kind.”
DuChalllu on the Africans and the
Gorillas.
Du Chaillu addressed an audience of deaf
and dumb in New York last "Wednesday, a
report of which we find in the Herald:
M. Da Cb&illu was interpreted to the au
dience by Professor G. L. Peet, the principal
of the institution. After stating the prompt
ings which first sent him into the wilds of
Equatorial Africa, he proceeded with an ac
count of tbe country, the manners and cus
toms of the various tribes of natives, etc. In
Equatorial Africa, he said, the natives make
four kinds of drink from the palm tree. One
is made with honey and water, ripe bananas,
water, etc. The drink they like the least is
that made from the sugar cane, for it made
their heads sick. In that country he had to
beware of everything—the natives as well as
the wild beasts. Snakes of the worst kind
were abundant, scorpions and centipedes. It
was not a nice country to live in. He left
there and travelled for hundreds of miles
without meeting a human being. The forests
contained no game, and he was often days
without food. Population is sparse, and the
few people that are there fight continually
against each other, killing all young and old
indiscriminately.
The people worship idols, and the institu
tions of the country Iijngo on slavery. Their
wealth consists in the number of wives, who
are all slaves. He got friendly with King
Bangbo, who has three hundred wives. He
inquired how many children he bad, when
the King replied between CQ0 and 700, the
difference being nothing to the King. The
King died, when they sacrificed 100 victims
to attend him. No one is supposed to die a
natural death. The person dying is supposed
to be bewitched, and of course that some
body killed him, and a sacrifice is made of
numbers. He reached a range of mountains
(pointing them out on tbc map). He found
here a new race of men. When he reached
the place he heard loud shouts—the natives
crying, “the spirit is come.” The natives
surrounded him, armed to the teeth and ta-
tooed. Tbe people arc cannibals, clothed in
the skins of animals. They carried large
battle-axes and shields made of elephant
hides. The whole place was covered with
skulls erected on poles. He felt somewhat
afraid. The King did not want to see him
for three days, declaring that he (Du Chaillu)
bad come in a whirlwind, and that if it
touched him he would be swept away. It
was a curious superstition among the kings
of this country that none of them would see
him till he had been three days in the country.
The village he now found himself in was
small, with a long street, the house not over
six feet high; the walls were made of the
bark of trees. The King came to see him ac
companied by his Queen and a number of
warriors. The King at last said he was not
afraid. In the evening he invited the King
to come and receive presents; gave him beads
and clothes and a looking glass. At this tbc
King humbled, be made faces, put out his
tongue; he saw the tongue come out and he
swore the Devil was there. They soon be
came great friends with tbe King and bis
people. The canmbals were brave and great
hunters. When they kill men in battle they
eat the killed. They explained that the
women were the best eating, that they were
very tender; the girls about eighteen being
the'best. Tbe old me;;, the cannibals said,
were tough and not much good. They were
the worst kind of cannibals for they eat the
dead.
It was in this country he killed the first
gorilla he ever met When he came to New
York he had the skins of twenty gorillas.
One day while hunting he heard a great noise
and went in the direction of the sound. He
then discovered an animal not seen since tbe
days of Hannibal, the Carthagenian, in whose
day the first gorilla tbatany account has been
given of was seeD. He saw the bush move
and could hear the palpitation of hi3 own
heart at the horrible sound of the unknown
animal. Suddenly he heard the roar of the
gorilla, tbe king of the African forest, the
animal at the same time showing his terrible
teetb. His eyes were gray and deeply sunk,
and for a while he did not know but he was
face to face with the Devil. The gorilla did
not seem afraid, but advanced towards him.
thought I must kill him or he would me,
and as be came near I shot him in tbe chest
and he fell as a man would who had been simi
larly shot. He was dead at once. The go
rilla was six feet high; the arms were nine
feet two iuches in length, of great strength
and lull of hair; the chest was bare and per
fectly black; the foot was like tbnt of a gi
ant of great strength; be never had seen such
a monster. The males are very fierce, the
females are not fierce; the male sleeps under
the tree where the female rests with her
young, aDd when the male hears a noise they
prepare for the combat, no matter who may
approach. He killed one gorilla so old that
it had lost all its teeth. The female gorilla
brings forth but one young one at a time.
He had several gorillas alive, but he never
succeeded in taming one of them. The force
of a gorilla is prodigious. He saw trees
broken in two in their rage. They go in
twos and feed on berries and nuts. He
opened the stomachs of all he had killed,
and never found anything but vegetable food
in the stomach.
The lecturer then described how tbe gor-
rllla came nearest to man, the orang-outang,
or gibbon, next, and then the chimpanzee,
and pointed out from tbe diagrams the pecu
liar difference in the leDgtb of the arms ; the
peculiarity in the spinal column, etc. The
number of bones in a man und a gorriila were
the same, the same number of vetebnc, etc.
In the gorriila, chimpanzee and all the ape
family the band was longer than the foot,
which was reversed in man. The gorilla, etc.,
have the same number of teeth as man, but
there was a great difference in the amount of
brain between them, etc. The lecturer closed
his subject with a brief address to his audi
ence, the mutes, who seemed to pay the great
est attention to the interpreter, every move
ment of whose fingers and hands they followed
with great earnestness, displaying on their
countenances a consciousness and a knowl
edge of every word that fell from the lectu
rer’s lips.
A High Day In Wall Street.
Friday was another “excited” day in Wall
street, chiefly on operations in Erie, which
fluctuated violently between 48 1-2 and 61
There has been some sharp transactions in
Erie, which are thus explained by the Sun
Astounding Railroad Speculations.—f
For some weeks past the directors of the Erie
Railway Company have been secretly issuing
millions upon millions of dollars worth of
new stock, and selling it for whatever price
they could get. A number of other stock
gamblers have been buying this stock, with a
view to obtain the control of the company,
and make their own men directors in place of
the present board. As, however, the new
issues kept coming on the market, the price
of the shares kept sinking lower and lower,
until on Friday last they touched $35 each
The buying party, in the meanwhile, many of
them being Englishmen, had sent their pur
chased stock to England as fast as they could
but their friends there, when they found out
th at there was no limit to the quantity manu
factured by the printing press got alarmed and
telegraphed to their brokers here to sell at any
price, shipping the stock h ack at the same
time by steamer. The brokers on this side,
thinking to turn an honest penny, and know
nig that they would receive plenty of the
stock in ten days, the period required by the
steamer to cross the Atlantic, undertook to
sell ahead, borrowing in the meanwhile, to
make their deliveries. But suddenly the
speculators who had been selling the new
stock, having plenty of money, turned about
and bought up'all the stock actually here;
and as the steamer cannot arrive with the
stock from Eugland for a week to come, they
have compelled the foolish brokers, who have
made sales at forty and thereabouts, to buy
in at 46 and 60 to meet their contracts. The
amount lost and won by individuals in this
way within three days past is estimated at
sums ranging from $150,000 to $500,000,
But the public will have, we presume, as lit
tlo sympntby with the losers as with the win
ners.
The Private Relations and For<
tunes of Hon. Thad. Stevens.
Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, in his private rela
tions with men, illustrated to a very large
extent tbe nobility of human character. Had
he acted upon ideas which constitute the
practice of most men nowadays, he would at
the date of his decease been almost a modern
Croesus. When Baron Rothschild heard that
the fortune of a deceased rival amounted to
but fifty millions, he expressed surprise, saying
that he thought he was in easy circumstances.
Regarded in this light, Mr. Thaddeus Stevens
was a very poor man, for his fortune was less
than a quarter of a million dollars. He
owed nobody at the date of bis decease, and
he had in the Bank of Lancaster, as we are
informed by Mr. Boughter, his personal
friend, about twenty thousand dollars. He
had little or nothing in public securities.
His plain and simple mansion at Lancaster
cannot be valued at above half a dozen thou
sand dollars. The sum and substance of his
means were in his furnace at Gettysburg.
Though it in former days, as he used to say,
was an absorbent of his income professionally,
yet in latter ones it has been profitable, the
ore bed being superior, and the method of
blasting being charcoal. Hence the Confed
erate force did him much damage in its raid,
not so much in the value of what was actual
ly destroyed as the destruction of work at the
fernace at a period of great demand for supe
rior sorts of iron for machine purposes. A
few thousand dollars probably covered the
actual losses in property inflicted by the
rebel raid in question.
A Mr. Benjamin Franklin is exciting great
attention in England by an ingenious steam
engine of his invention. The engine is ex
tremely simple- piston, crank, steam chest,
etc., being dispensed with. It depends en
tirely on centrifugal force; friction is almost
entirely overcome, and it will produce 1500
revolutions per minute with one-fourth the
steam usually required, although the same
amount of horae power is developed.
TnE Falls of Idaho are said to bo four
hundred yards wide. The rapids form a se
ries of cascades ranging from twenty to sixiy
feet in height. The Falls proper leap two
hundred and tea feet in one unbroken mass.
The contour of the Falls is not unlike that
of a regular horseshoe. From this it win »>e
seen th&t Idaho Falls almost equal Ni
agnra Falls in sublimity and grandeur.
The steel and iron rails now being laid on
the Hartford, New Haven and Springfield
road, Bre put together by splices, the same
as used in foreign countries, the expense be
ing about double that of putting them to
gether in the old way. To equip the road
entire, thirteen thousaad tons'of rails will do
required, at a cost of $125 a ton. Three
years will be required to finish the improve
ment. , ,
Even Tom Hood is almost inexcusable for
such a description of music as this: “Heaven
reward the man wno first hit upon the very
original notion of sawing the inBide of a cat
with the tail of a horse.”
Madame Parefa Rosa, the illustrious
prima donna, has concluded her California
engagement, and she is now giving concerts
to Brigham Young and his saints in Salt
Lake City. She will commence a Western
and Southern concert tour in St. Louis about
the middle of December, nnd will reach New
York city early in the spring.
Boots, the tragedian, bad a broken nose.
A lady once remarked to him: “I like your
acting, Mr. Booth, but to be frank with you,
I can’t get over your nose!” “No wonder,
madam,” replied the tragedian, “the bridge
‘ is gone 1”
Carriage Roads.
The present autumn has brought more
than the average quantity of rain. As a con
sequence, our roads, which differ little from
the adjacentsoil, have become, in many quar
ters, almost impassable. Thickly settled and
populous districts possess trifling advantages
over those newly settled. The work done
upon roads in the country is commonly de
signed only for the week or the season. No
systematic plans are adopted for the con
struction of road beds, however gradually,
which shall in time meet the requirements of
convenience and comfort. Our cities, cer
tainly the smaller ones, keep their streets at
a single remove from a blockade. Our cons
ins across the water excel us in nothing more
than in their carriage roads. In the rural
districts of Great Britain the highways are
kept in admirable repair; are solid, well gra
ded, and always clean. The distance that
can be pleasantly traveled over them, sur
prises one accustomed to our roughness and
mire.
Generations have aided in bringing tbe
roads to their present perfection. The Gov
eruments have on important routes directed
the engineering and construction. The re
sult is a great advantage to all classes. Those
who own or use vehicles know the conveni
ence and the economy.
We can not soon hope to rival these sub
stantial and excellent roads. The contrast,
however, indicates our great deficiency, and
the marked failure of our present policy.
Certainly in our cities and in the older und
richer rural districts, we can now afford to
do something for permanence. A system can
be udopted by which something more can
be done than to keep the roadways just fit
for use. Instead of simply casting up the
mire from the gutters and the sand from
neighboring pits, the foundation can bo laid
for a good “roadbed, and something begun
toward a permanent superstructure. Indeed
it may often be found to be cheapest to build
at once in miry bottoms, roads after the
McAdam or some like method.
Here, in Central New York, there are
weeks and months every year when travel by
carriage in the richest farming districts is
little les3 than torture. One cannot drive
out of our own city in any direction for half
a dozen miles without testing the depth of
the mire. The most traveled roadsarc often
the worst.
Improvement cannot be made all at once ;
but it can be commenced. The makeshift
policy can be abandoned. Permanence can
be adopted, as an element quite deserving to
be considered. Rapidly as railroads are in
creasing, neighborhood communication can
not be regarded as of less value than a con
nection with the outer world. Land will
sell better, and surely homes wilt be more de
sirable along roads which may, at all seasons,
be traveled with rapidity and comfort.—
Utica Herald.
A coBRH^roNDENT who was at the recent
fire io Benne i?« t»i^ house, at Fort Washing
ton. rtqmisWU* *•• -ns inguisbed journalist
a*. anxioii-dv enisau ■ i »■ vingtbefiles of the
precious Hrtwlil from »•»»- noeatened destruc
tion. “Mon.” Wai ' •• w lere be voloom
shx ? Br og in v-.l • in-xx. or ah be ruined.”
“Father,” and y.m-is -I • mi-s. “put on your
breeches, or y-u w>l ill rheumatism."
“James,” cried VI r Bemo n, “ -bun the whole
house be*‘-in-! Ah «it6' in-files. If ah don’t
gat voloom ->xx, a'*11 die i’l ilie flames wi’a
brankcu mart” P un-w r.-instantly taken
to find volume s x, wnii Vm-cess
THE GOLDEN WEDDING.
BT SIDKKT LAKIEB.
From the Montgomery Capital City Record.]
A rainbow span of fifty years.
Painted upon a cloud of tears.
In bine for hopes and red for rears,
Finds end in a golden hour to-day.
Ah. you to onr childhood the legend told.
"At the end of the rainbow lies the gold,”
And now in oar thrilling hearts we hold
The gold that never will pass away.
Gold crushed from the quarts of a crystal life.
Gold hammered with the blows of human strife.
Gold burnt in the lore of man and wife,
Till it is pure as the very flame:
Gold that the miser will not hare.
Gold that is good beyond tbe grave.
Gold that the patient and the brave
Amass, neglecting praise and blame.
O golden hour, that caps tbe time
like '
Since, heart to heart like rhyme to rhyme.
Yon stood and listened to tbe chime
Of inner bells by spirit rung.
That tinkled many a secret sweet
Concerning how two sonls should meet,
And whisper of Time’s flying feet
With a most piquant silver tongue.
O golden day—a golden crown
For the kingly heads that bowed not down
To win a smile or ’scape a frown.
Except the smile and frown of Heaven.
Dear heads, still dark with raven hair;
Dear hearts, still white in spite of care:
Dear eyes, still black and bright and fair
As any eyes to mortal given I
Old parents of a restless race.
You miss full many a bonny face
That would have smiled a filial grace
Around your Golden Wedding wine.
But God is good and God is great.
I|is will be done, if soon or late.
Your doad stand happy in you Gate
And call you blessed while they shine.
How they Vote In Tennessee.
Who are the
Voting and Who are the Ruling
Classes.
So, drop the tear and dry the eyes.
Your rainbow glitters in thoakies.
Here’s golden wine: young, old, arise:
With cups as full as our souls, we say:
“Two hearts, that wrought with smiles through tears
This rainbow span of fifty years.
Behold how true, true love appears, .,.
True gold for your Golden Wedding day 1”
Something Stranger than Fiction.
From the Erie {Nero York) Dispatch.
The funeral of Mr. George Warren was to
have taken place on the 10th, according to tbe
published announcement, but we are pleased
to state that the gentleman is in a fair way of
enjoying life for years yet. On Saturday lust,
at 11 o’clock, A. M., in thecity of Mradville.
George Warren, to all appearances, breathed
his last. He was prepared for burial, and the
remains were to be sent to this city for inter
ment. His sister, who was present at tbe
time ot his supposed demise, arrived here on
Saturday night, and made preparation to
receive the melancholy cortege. On Mon
day a hearse and carriage went to the de
pot, but the object of their search was not
there, and they received word that the fu
neral party had missed the train. The hearse
went to the depot again yesterday, but in
stead of the corpse there came a dispatch
stating that Mr. Warren showed signs of life.
A dispatch, received at a late hour last even
ing, stated that he had been removed from
his coffin and was sitting up in bed. What
must be the feelings ot his friends at thus
having restored to them one who was mourn
ed as dead, beyond the possibility of a doubt ?
He lay in tbe death-like trance state for
about forty-eight hours before exhibiting
signs of animation, and it was almost a provi
dential circumstance that the interment was
set fora place some distance from where the
supposed death occurred. The disease that
prostrated him was typhoid fever, and the
contemplated interment at Erie was probably
the means of averting that horrors—uncon •
ciously burying a living human being.
It is stated that in the immediate vicinity
of Centralia there were 2,052 acres planted
in fruit, as follows: In strawberries, 217 acres;
there are 157,275 peach trees planted, 41,875
apple trees, 11,880 pear trees, 5,229 cherry
trees, 70,690 grape vines, mostly Catawba,
and 70.800 raspberry bu3hes. In this com
pilation no newly-planted grounds are inclu
ded.
A most extraordinary case of sudden blind
ness is reported as happening at Dayton. Ohio,
on Thursday last. The wife of Mr. Jones
retired to bed in her usual health. Dnriug
the night she awoke her husband, stating
that she bad dreamed she was blind. Find
ing that it was “only a dream,” she soon
went to sleep again, when the dream wa3 re
peated. Upon lighting the gas it was dis
covered that she was totally blind, 1 and all
efforts thus far to restore her sight have
proved unavailing. Two cousins of the lady
are said to have gone blind in a similar man
ner.
A skating club proposes a champion medal
to John Allen for back-sliding.—Button Post, „
The London streets, placed in a single
straight line, would reach trom Liverpool to
New York. It takes 860,000 street lamps to
illuminate London.
In almost all the cities and towns of Spain
the statues of saints and the crucifixes placed
at the corners of the streets, and lighted
during the night by a lamp, have been re
moved.
In Colorado the cattle require no care
and expense, save that of herding, the whole
year round. During the summer mouths tiie
grass is rich and abundant, and is converted
into hav by the mere action of the elements,
anil remains good during the winter months.
The very finest beef cattle that go into the
Denver market are’those which have been
out grazing the whole- year, and have never
in their lives seen the inside of any shelter.
Election being over T Mr. Greeley—that
raw-bead-aud-bloody -bones coijurer of the
canvass—annonnees that “outrages” at the
South are over, too. The coincidence is a3
remarkable as anything in fiction can he.
[Boston Post.
A hotel keeper in Schaffenhausen has in
a frame a bill that Louis Napoleon left un
iaid 89 years ago, and the fellow is such an
ntense Republican that he prefers the con
sciousness of being even a cheated creditor
of the Emperor to the money.
A cigar making machine is tbe latest pat
ented novelty. It is capable, with ordinary
labor, of doing tbe work of six or eight hands,
turning out about 2,000 cigars a day. It per
forms all the operations of cutting the leaf,
bunching, binding, wrapping, heading, and
completing, by a continuous process.
The tailors in the city of Piris number
1,720, and manufacture about $18,000,000 of
clothing every year. Thisstatement dues not
include the manufacture of children’s clothes,
nor military uniforms, which together are
valued at about $23 000,080: The trudo gives
employment to 42,000 work people, of whom
8,000 are womeu.
A Lawyer Nonplussed.—“You say that
you know a horse from a jackass when you
see them?” asked a counsel of a rather dull
looking witness. “Oh, yeas—just so,”
drawled out the intended victim, gazing in
tently at his legal tormentor, “I know tbe
difference, and I would never take you for a
horse.”
The estimated cost of conveying a ton of
merchandise a mile on the ocean is trom half
a cent to one nnd a half cents; on the lakes
two cents; on the rivers two and three-
fourth cents; on the cauals two to five cents,
and on railroads trom three cents to three
and a halt cents.
All furs of lower grade than sable are
cheaper this season than last. Mink has
fallen twenty-five por cent. Dealers say they
are selling ready-made sets of mink for leso
money than tjie skin9 cost them, y
A wresnling match between a young man
2G years of age and a young girl of 21, came
off in New York on Monday evening. The
female proved the victor in five minutes.
A German named Knox, in Chicago, was
frightened into giving a bill of sale of his
store and stock,to-a counterfeit collector ot
revenue, and then fleeing the State under the
belief that his ignorance of the revenue laws
had exposed his property to confiscation.
If it were not for political rascality and
oppression, what good cheer would even now
be enjoyed by the Southern people. In Lou
isiana the orange trees are now, in places,
bending beneath the load of yellow fruit, the
rank sugar cane covers fields like yonng for
ests, and sugar-making is progressing every
where. Tbo yield of.the sugar-cane is gen
erally excellent.
N. D. Crawford, of Jackson county, Mich
igan, made a bet of twenty five dollars that
he could husk seventy- five bushels of corn
in one day, between sunrise and sunset. On
the 26th ult. the trial came off, and liebueked
one hundred bushels in eight hours.”
“Remember who you are talking to, sir!”
said an indignant parent to a fractious boy ;
“I am your father, sir 1” “Well, who’s to
blame tor that ?” said young impertinence;
’tain’t me!”
A young gentleman, speaking of a young
beauty’s fashionable yellowish hair, called it
pure gold. :* It -ought to be,” quoth C ,
fufr looks like twenty-four carrots.’!
“No man in England thinks of blacking
his own boots,” said an Englishman to Mr.
Lincoln. “ Whose boots does he black ?” Mr.
Lincoln quietly asked.
Tns ten cities of France containing the
largest populations are: Paris, 1,825,274;
Ly>ms, 833 954 ; Marseilles, 300.131; Bor-
de ix, 164;24l; l.ille, 154,779; Toulou-e, 126,
636;' Niin"e*. 111,956; Rouen, 100,671; 81.
Etienne, 96,620; Strasbourg, 84,167.
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.]
Jasper, Trnn., November 5, 1868. •
AT TH$ POLLS.
The 8d of November was a beautiful, day,
sun. shining out warm and clear, and not a
cloud visible from horizon to horizon. The
polls were to open at teD o’clock. Not long
before that time a considerable crowd of va
rious colors had assembled in the streets, and
more were visible coming from north, east,
south and west. Yonder comes an old, gray-
headed white man—in politics he goes under
the genuine name of rebel, for he sympathized
with the South in her futile struggle. He
approaches a little crowd of disfranchised,
and is saluted with, “ Well, Uncle Billy, how
are you going to vote f” This interrogatory
was a “ goak,” for every one knew that the
old man couldn’t vote. But he answers: “Oh,
of course, I can't vote at all, but if I could
put one in for Grant, I would sure. We want
peace. Grant is a good man, and as good a
Democrat as I want, and he will be elected.
People have confidence in him. .The Radicals
have disfranchised me, but if I could I would
vote for their man.”
Here comes an ex-Federal soldier, looking
mad enough to fight the war over again.
To the question, “What’s the matter, you
look angry ?” he replies:
“Matter enough. I can’t get a certificate
to vote. I have been trying for a week.”
“But you are an honorably discharged
Union soldier, and entitled to one by the
law?”
“Yes, very true; the law may give me one,
but the Commissioner won’t. Like a fool, I
went and told some of my friends that I was
going to vote for Seymour, and he has found
it out, and now he won’t give me a certifi
cate. He says he ain’t bound to give certi
ficates only on quarterly days. But just look
at them negroes coming out of his office,
with their ballots in one hand and cer
tificates in the other. If I would vote as
they do, of course I could get one.”
“Won’t any of the negroes vote for Sey
mour ?”
“No, not one. An old darkey who lives
up iu the country said he would, but I see
him now with a crowd of Radicals, and it’s
a gone case.”
An ex-iebel soldier is observed going out
of town—“ Halloo 1 ain’t you going to stay
and vote?”
“No, I guess I won’t vote to-day.” No
wonder, for be bas not the white piece of
paper needful.
Hefe comes a burly “American citizen of
African descent.”
“Well, Uncle, ain’t you going to vote for
Colfax?"
“Colfax! No, I ain’t. I’se going to vote
for Grant. ’Spose I’d vote for Colfax agin
Grant? No, sir; I votes for Grant every time.
I don’t know nothing about ole Colfax.”
“I’ll give you a suit of clothes if yon will
vote for Colfax.’’
“No, I won’t vote for him for forty suits.
I’ve said all the time that I would vote for
Grant, and you can’t get me to vote for old
Colfax,” and the stubborn gentleman walks
off, evidently under the impression that an
attempt to get him to vote the rebel ticket
bas failed. An hour after he voted for “ old
Colfax.”
At precisely 10 o’clock the polls open and
the voting commences. The officers, judges
and clerks are all Radicals, for the commis
sioner of registration appoints them, and he
sees to it that no one but an (> out-and-outer”
has anything to do with tbe election. A
negro comes in who has never voted before.
He puts bis hat under his arm and acts tim
id and confused. One of tbe judges motions
him up and hands him a ballot. He takes
it with a nervous grasp and looks around as
if he did not know what t» do with it.
Hand it to that man there,” says one of
the judges, and tbe voter did.soj without
ever looking at it, and walks oat. Had it
been a comic song or the Sermon on the
Mount, it would have been all the same to
him. A very dark looking white man comes
up and wants to kuow if be is black enough
to vote. “Not quite,” say the judges, and
the black white man laughs and walks out
A young colored man who prohabty never
exercised the right of suffrage before, walks
up and ask3 for “a paper.” A ballot is
banded him, and he is told to give it to the
m»a with tbe cigar-box. He hands it to the
officer "with the cigar-box,” who proclaims:
Will Smith - voted.”
“What did you say, sir ?”
“Oli, I just told the clerk your name, you
can go now.”
Out yonder is a group of two—a dis
franchised white man and aa enfranchised
black man. The white man is trying to get
his African brother to vote for Seymour,
Listen: “You know the rebels are just as
good friends as you have got; now come.”
“No, thar ain’t no use talxing. I ain’t go
ing to vote for old Stillmore, and have my
name sent up to Washington City in everlast
ing disgracement. I votes for Mr. Grant
every time,”
The white man goes off in quest of softer
material, and the black man goes to the polls
and votes for “Mr Grant.”
Says an ex-rebel captain to me: “Do you
see that black boy over there ? He was raised
by me, anil is'one of the best servants I ever
had. He was in the war with me from first
to last, and accompanied me home after the
surrender. Many times when our regiment
would go into battle, he would take a gun
and go along by my side. But lately be got
into tbe League, and now votes the straight
Radical ticket. I asked him if he wanted to
come to the election; he said th&t he did,
and I told him to come. I have never said a
word to him as to how he intended to vote.
Two other negroes on my place said they
didn’t want to come, and could make it pay
better by staying at home. I told them they
were sensible, and that’s sli I have ever said
about politics to auy of the negroes upon my
place. I would, not influence their vote if I
could.”
Here come a crowd of newly enfranchised
frpm the commissioner’s office. Each one
holds a ballot in one band and a certificate in
the other, so as not to get them “ mixed.”
Let’s follow them up and see if any there be
who will vote for Seymour. No, they all
seem to have Grant ballote. They walk tip
to the ballot box and hand in their ballots
kovaiosi
**AXftZS.
PICTURESQUE PEN-PICTURE or A bttt.
*HB KANSAS PA^-
LO HUNT ON
RAILROAD.
I At one o’clock this train
™ ill mo.
on the lookout for the first shZ 0ne
the buffalo, whose appearance ? of
lously awaited. When about
&&X-
Fest of Hays, the cry “buffaloes bnff
loes ! was heard, and amid a
rush for platform and window, ffi? 1
exclamations that arose from everv \T
great numbers of huge, hairy mL»t’
were seen galloping with unwieldly^ 13
,ment from the line of track on
side. As the train rolled they strung 1
here and there, many of them with ii to 1
yards’ distance. Great was the evif
ment on the train. Madly impa-;
yeUing and shouting, the men rushed?
the platform and bagge car, got ij
another’s way, discharging their ivetn^
here and there at random. Not * f
narrowly escaped being victims h
prudent and headlong carelessness" n
side entrances to the bagea^e car „
blocked up, and within, those 0 uS?
obtain a shot, were frantically Win, !?
those in front of them. Men who hi
never before held a rifle in their hanri
discharged their arms, not thinking
taking aim. Some who had fo *
dne by one. There! That tall black man ffill 'Hf e I 0 / s too f ar distant from
16 certainly going to vote the Democratic 1J - c * ■ ^ — -
ticket; he staffs the Grant ticket iu his
pocket, and hands a closely folded piece of
paper to the officer, and into the ballot-box
it goes.
“ Why, Bill, you voted your certificate,",
says one of the crowd.
“No, here’s my ’stifleato,” says Bill, pulling
the hadot out of his pocket.
“No, that’s your ticket,” says the officer,
who puts his long, slender finger into the
htillot-box and grapples out the certificate
and puts in the ballot.
“You’d better hold on to your ’Btificate,
you may need it again,” says a fellow African,
as he comes near making the same mistake
himself.
the instructions aboutloadine~weroGn a
ulous objects of despair, as they
bewildered, after having vainly triedVo
thrust in their cartridge at the mud.
Leland, with unusual alacrity, clambered
to the roof of one of the cars, and tW
blazed harmlessly away with a pocket
revolver at the fleeing herd. Several
crowded forward into the tender and
from thence kept up a steady fi re . ’jfor-
an was seen wrangling about the posses"
sion of a buffalo—who, unharmed
making good time over the plain,’with
His Honor, Judge Sweeney, and offering
to bet tour dollars and a half that it was
hi3 bullet, not that of the Judge, which
had brought down the game. ’
Meantime, many a gigantic monster
was seen to falter, while those vet un
touched, galloped rapidly awav". The
rattling of bullets was heard from win
dow and platform, and the screams of
the ladies were drowned in the yelling
and shooting of the men. The train was
soon slacked up, and many, not waiting
for it to stop, leaped out and gave chase.
So deceptive was the distance that the
pursued did not seem to gain, and it was
not until many an one had given out
from sheer exhaustion that it was seen to
attempt to overtake was fruitless. Still
the firing went on, and bullets flew in ev
ery direction. Some few took effect; the
most failed. The party were soon scat
tered over the plain, heedless of the ad
monition they had received to beware ot
Indians, and intent only upon the sport
It was ludicrous to witness the. excitement,
and yet the beholder and hunter shared
alike the common feeling. The burly
figures of Atmore and Day were beheld
running nimbly for a while, after the fu
gitive animals, and then gradually fal
tering, until, after having vainly chased
for a mile or more, yielding to fatigue
and. excess of avoirdupois, and sinking,
utterly fagged, upon the carpet-like plain,
gazing mournfully upon the rapidly dis
appearing herd. Lighter weights kept
up a longer chase, and only ceased pur
suit when out of sight, in depressions of
the seemingly level plain.
To the northward was seen a vast col
lection of animals, covering several
miles of ground, feeding peacefully, heed
less of the firing whose sound did not
reach them. Toward this herd several of
the wounded animals made their way.
They were pursued by others of the party,
and one of them fell about a mile from
the train, having received a well-sent
ball. Within a few moments the body
was surrounded by a score of excited men,
who with axe and knife soon tad the
quarters, tongue, skin, tail and horns
separated. With these they returned,
and then set out for fresh victories. The
train meanwhile moved off with a por
tion of the party, in search of fresh herds
further on. From the summit ot one of
the enbankments thrown up by the side
of the track the sight was a grand one.
So clear was the atmosphere, and so de
ceptive the prospect from the absence o.
tree or break in the surface with which
to measure the distance, that the immense
herd feeding to the northward on the
slopes of the bluffs seemed scarcely acme
off though four .times that distance away.
Several of the party were anxious to get
a shot at this drove, but, being unable to
persuade those who had already haa
enough of chasing buffaloes on toot, o
accompany them, they were dissuade ,
when dryly told by Curry that if
.wished to get hack, they should a
started early in the morning.
To thejsouth and east the hunters wm
strewn, singly, in twos and threes, *
deavoringto steal a march on the.®
mals, who were divided into droves
4Wvm tli-roa trt q /ln7Pn 8D0
.“No, you won’t,” says a sour looking Union
man, who was a Union man during the war,
but now is so much of a Seymour m»n that
he can’t pet a certificate, ‘“do you won’t, for
you are black enough to vote without it.”
What’s that loud talking about down-
stairs ? May be we are going to have a riot.
Listen!
“I know it’s' so, I do,’’ says a stout African
with stout lungs well developed; “1 know
it’s so.”
: “You know what’s so V'
“Why, that a man wo* shipwrecked in de
ocean, and swum fourteen thousand miles be
fore be got to land. I know it’s so, ’canse the
New York Ledger says so.”
His auditors are convinced, and the dis
pute ceases.
At three o’clock the voting is about
through with, and the Degrees leave for their
homes, singly and is groups. They manifest
no desire, like their white brethren, to stay
and hear the returns. At fhW o’clock the
polls close. The vote is counted, and stands:
Grant 225, Seymour 4. St. (^aib.
from three to a dozen each, and
ceased fleeing whim at a safe d 15
The sport was pursued with varying -
cess. In some cases two or three s ^
sufficed to bring down a monster o
animal. But the buffalo never gives p
until lie is dead, and many, after “ avl
run the gauntlet of a dozen' repeating »
fles, galloped miles over the P^ 1D » •
fell lifeless too far distant from thesiaye
to secure his trophy. The legs oi so •
were broken with bullets, and y®» •
ran off at a great speed, sticking the
tillated stump into the soil with e .
step. The game was pursued "
utmost recklessness ana disregard o
ger, and when the day’s adventures .
afterwards considered, all felt th
that no accident had occurred,
afternoon advanced, the hunters ^ ,
return to the rendezvous at the raiiro
where they awaited tbe return °f the tra
it was nearly five o’clock when this r
peared in sight. It had proceeded
some eight or ten miles, where- was
countered another immense drove, g 1 ? 1 ,=
i ji a ...™w ot ani®* 15
hard by the track. A number ot ami
were killed before they could remov
out
were smeu utuoie '-y—; , , v-pn
of range. One great fcull, who ha
wounded from the train, was p “
some distance, and finally brought
bv Mr. Day. In the baggag^ ™
deposited the quarters of no less
thirteen buffaloes. It was co P
that no less than forty had. been __
the most of them falling a long
away. ' . ,
On tbe 1st of Septembw
metres had been excavated at the ph
nearly twenty-fir* la tb e
pleted. About two pilllloM too-
rate at which the work
pletion is expected ty? w bo
A WoNTOoMEBT Cwajty* Ohio.fo*^ wrW
wished to.give a lot for » church and^ A j_
ground, had the deed made out , « god
mighty. His hairs and assigns forever,
tbe deed is so recorded.