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TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 4, 1868.
LgRICULTURAL. PROBLEM.
'’/graph: A* you are "wisely devoting *
^•nr vs! name paper to that Important
F 3 ewhat absorbing theme, agriculture,
r 2 (rive yonr reader*, many of whom
*Ate It, a chapter on farming. Presume
.Iace, that they are entirely ignorant
ct, giro them one hundred acre* open
, five miles of your beautiful city, then
• amount of capital required, thenum-
t working animals, stock, Implement*,
r divide the farm,'what to plant, or in
.; map out what you regard as the best
1 Jr<ue on such a place—poor, tolerably
•lenty of woodland attached.
Inquirer.
^oiDg proposition comes to ns from
and wc publish it to enable some of
3 to supply the information desired.
Kjget time, we will try our own hand
Ler; but we do not profess to be
j c r practical authority on these mat-
F^give such information as we glean
W or have acquired by observation
-irv, and a very limited practical ex-
Isppened, that while receiving this
, were reading an article published in
.jrican Journal of Horticulture by Ed-
;is, which set down the result of
a similar farm in Vermont, as
Lq consists of a hundred and twenty-
L and had been let for many years,
L generally considered run out. Sales
jjee and stock amounted to $1,699 88.
of stock was enough to balance
; Expenses of all kinds, together
[.,) which I charge for my own work,
leaving a balance for profit of
This, I think, is better than money
Lyr cent, and answers the question as
1 ,r firming is profitable.”
ITermont is a fertile State—land rules
| i a farm of 125 acres is by no means
\i small farms—and yet here we see a
t farmer a little inclined to boast on
Uet product of a year’s operations—
|fd, no doubt, with a good deal of
Lee and skill and steady and faithful
I labor. We will hardly undertake
Ivith confidence what snch a man
ho on a hundred and twenty-five
jifair Georgia land with the aame dili-
hrovided he had the capital to ntilize
;ics in the best way. The difficulty
; most of our Georgia farmers is that
just now or have been without
^capital, and in this situation could
: true economy neither in growing
"jtg. It is one of the misfortunes that
j compels us to take hold of every-
t disadvantage.
: {apposing such a man had his 125
I isGeorgia, equally as good land as he
irating in Vermont, and ample resources
i fertilizers, good implements, etc. and
llput fifty acres in cottOD, cultivated and
no better than David Dickson’s
bicre field, which produced him from
Dtwo bales to the acre—say 75 bales at
ls.525—give him thirty acres in corn at
aids to the acre $750—twenty acres in
L at 25 bushels to the acre $1250—five
| insweet potatoes $250—balance pasture,
nd, small crops, and so on, not con-
:1—total crop values $10,875.
Ue have given the products of high til-
lletus give the cost of it. Twenty dol-
I to the acre for fertilizers, exclnsive of
I r.aaures, $2100. Eight prime field hands
|ntions $1600—contingents—extra labor
tr and tear-j-intcrest, etc., taxes, etc.,
-4,700—balance to the farmer 6,175.
| if any body supposes that estimate a
I oae, all we have to say is Georgia yearly
i the same or better results with good
■don.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE AMEND
MENT.
sere is a consentaneous movement in the
rn Radical press in favor of a Con-
itional amendment establishing manhood
negro) suffrage in all the States. They
the amendment will pass Congress by the
die of January, and by the 4th of March
rill have been adopted by a sufficient
iber of State Legislatures to make it part
parcel of the Constitution. So strong is
movement that the New York Times,
b, ten days ago, denounced the project
bversive of the fundamental idea of the
rnment, has, as usual, caved, and now
res in favor ot it. As an illustration of
iddlc of ideas on Constitutional ques-
whicb affects these organs, take the
fipg from the Baltimore Republican:
Republican platform declared that the ques-
sntlrage should “ be left to the States.”
£ i ere fore, will, by their action on this con-
I amendment, decide the question of suf-
*5 f *.» : tj v' >T %t • --
eo clear the sodden brains of that edi-
, cdbstitutional amendment depriving
I itei of jurisdiction in the matter of suf-
ii leaving it to the States!
: Times in its original view of the
dtion is right. It lays the axe to the
)f the tree of State independence, by
r in the Federal Government the right
iblisli tho terms of citizenship of the
, And from this power should follow,
igical sequence, tho whole duty of alle-
and protection. To harmonize the new
which will be introduced by this
nent, every right and interest of the
should bear the direct sanction of the
Government. Every title should
. from it. Every suit at law should
directly to it. All the social relations
bed by law should bear its sanction
o power which creates the citizen, in
rnments, logically controls him.
mendment, in spirit, introduces ano-
at patch into the Federal Republican
entirely inconsistent and mbarmoni-
i its grand original plan, and is ano-
lt stride in the work of consolidation,
he rage of the day. The straggle for
dependence in the South has misled
hern people into the fancy that it is
ly foe of union and nationality, and
now committing the sad blunder of
hingitfrom the system. Bat in a
■ j the old States of the Atlantic coast
n for that grand conservative feature
\y have already wellnigh destroyed.
Tl be a reaction.
vice Railroad. — Tie Brdfcswick
t f the 19th, says:
id the pleasure of aride ov«r the
Ija B o?“? wl< * railro «d on Monday
thl *1? 8tat) on No. 1, eleven miles from
bee d *y s PM* the work toga
the old * bl y d « la yed in cinsequencc\of
the ) )8 . throu K b which it pasted, all W
py . e ?&, m .‘t de ‘S rouild . We are has-
swaZ n ^ h ‘ tb ®y. now oat of %
prog?? ,tr ery 1 “ d,Ctt H‘>n la of rapS
™^ th K.^ ork y ^portion of thA
chara dy J >U1 of tbe ^ost substantial
*°f ^n“he S “ mpmfaT0r4b,J ' wI *
»n PROTESTANTISM A FAILURE t»*
The eloquence and literary and intellectual
resources of the New York press, for the
past month, seem, in a great measure, to have
been turned to the discussion of this ques
tion, and sermons pro and con are published
in all the papers.
If anything is going to prove Protestantism
either wholly or in part a failure, in oar
judgment, it will be forgetfulness of that de
claration of the great Founder of Christianity,
“ My kingdom is not of this world.”
That great author and expounder of the
Christian Bystem lived in a time of flagrant
political and social abuse. He foun d His own
people under a foreign and heathen yoke—
oppressed by arbitrary decrees and strange
laws and customs. Such was the rigor of
this foreign domination, that he himself was
brought into the world in a shelter for beasts
at a roadside caravansery, where his mother
had been overtaken with the pains of labor
in the very effort to comply with the arbitrary
requisitions of a foreign absolutist.
He grew up to see his national brotherhood
despised, trampled on and denied every po
litical right Her august temples of religion
were defiled by the haughty tread of the
heathen conqueror. He saw the ancient spirit
of his nation crushed and cowed under an
overbearing despotism. The descendants of
the heroes of Joshua, David and Gideon
were forced to use all the timorous and sub
tile arts of the enslaved to maintain even a
tolerable existence. The magnificent Empire
of Solomon—the pride and wonder of the
earth—had shrunk to the dimensions of a
few conquered provinces.
Had this great Israelite no sympathy with
his kindred—his race and nation—no sense
of their wrongs and injuries—no repugnance
to their oppressors ? Had he no word to re
vive the manhood and arouse the national
spirit of his countrymen? Not a discourse
upon human rights—manhood suffrage—re
sistance to tyranny and so on ?
Ah, what a false priest, measured by the
modern standard. How deaf, dumb and
blind to all the woes of his suffering country 1
And his disciples were no better, by the
same rule—not one of them. One was even
a Tax Collector under this foreign autocracy,
and all paid taxes to it with the consent and
advice of their master. In short, they were
as unfaithful a set of preachers, according to
the prevalent ideas, especially of our North
ern brethren, as were ever tolerated in any
community.
But that was hardly worse than their ap
parent blindness to the outbreaking moral
delinquencies of the time. Polygamy, slave
ry, intemperance, and almost every other so
cial abuse ran riot, and yet, so far as we have
been able to observe, they never called a
convention, introduced a resolution, or made
a set speech against any one of these abuses.
They were simply preachers of repentance
and righteousness, and seem never to have
conceived the idea of going outside the direct
line of their calling and bringing new and
extraordinary human agencies and contri
vances to the grand business of political and
social reform.
We don’t believe one of them could have
commanded half a salary, at this day, as a
preacher, in New York. He would have
been pronounced a base and cowardly recre
ant to all his high responsibilities to his
country and to society. He would have been
sneered at and ridiculed as altogether behind
the age and unworthy the splendid civiliza
tion of the 19th century.
It is clear to us that if Christ and his apos
tles entertained true conceptions of the
sphere of the Chnrch and the Christian min
istry, the Northern idea that it is their duty
to lead in party politics—direct government
and legislation through Conferences and
Presbyteries, and organize and carry on ex
ternal agencies of reform in general, is alto
gether wide of the track. And we believe
that wherein Protestantism will fail of doing
what it might do for the good of the world,
will be found to lie in these entangling al
liances and complications with worldly mat
ters—which are well calculated to destroy
the influence of the clergy with the people,
and distract congregations and religious con
nections which might otherwise be harmo
nious,
The voice of Revelation is clear, potential
and decisive, and as its faithful exponent the
Preacher is a man of authority. But when
he gets beyond this into the range of poli
tics and social reform questions, he is on de
batable ground, and his hearers feel that
they are as wise and as authoritative as their
self-assigned teacher.
Then begin strifes and contentions and di
visions and quarrels, till discord reigns where
there might otherwise be religious unity.
That more of these evil consequences have
not been apparent, is due simply to tbe grand
sectional division and exasperation of the
country. People on each side have been
pretty much of one mind. Bnt as tbe future
unfolds and subdivisions arise, political
preaching must involve increasing evils and
embarrassments and, in onr opinion, (for
which we shall charge nothing,) it will well-
nigfa burst up Protestanism or a good part of
it, unless the practice is abandoned,
The churches must get back to their sim
ple and noble mission of inculcating relig
ious truth as revealed in tbe word of God.
The preachers are poor politicians—in gene
ral, they have not studied the subject, and
tbe attempt to put a “Thus saith the Lord”
endorsement to their theories will diminish
tbe respect and confidence in their profession
and doctrine.
We have somewhere read of a missionary
who struck a death-blow to faith in revelation
by being a bad anatomist. He was detail
ing to an Indian chief the story of the crea
tion, and when he came to the origin of wo
man he added, as a striking proof that Eve
was formed from the rib, the jset that, ever
since that time, men had been born with one
rib the les*. The chief hereupon summoned
a man and woman, and told the missionary
to count their ribs. Tho missionary finding
them the same in number was non-plussed,
and the chief dismissed him with the remark,
that he was tired of lies so barefaced
that they could be detected by so simple
an experiment.
It will be bad business to prise the faith
of the people in tbe preachers upon tbe pre
valent protestant politics in the North. They
acgoi *opio«.
In the United States Federal Court, Judge
Erskine presiding, at Savannah, on the sixth,
tbe case of Geo. W. Hatch, of New York,
against the Bank, of Commerce, of Savannah,
was heard and decided. The plaintiff sued
tbe bank for $25,000, which amount he held
in its bills. The testimony was, that he, on
the 24th of last May, presented that number
of its bills to G. B. Lamar, President, and
afterwards to J. C. Terrill, Cashier, both of
whom refused to redeem (hem. Under the
charge of the Court tbe jmy fonnd a verdict
for the plaintiff, for the sum of $25,000, with
& penalty of twenty-five per cent., and in
terest on the principal from the 24th of May,
1867.
H. Rives Pollard, killed the other day at
Richmond, was a brother of, E. A. Pollard,
who wrote “The Lost Cause.” They used to
be associated with John M. Daniels in editing
the Richmond Examiner, and were writers
on the Junius order—a very dangerous style.
The editor of the Savannah Republican
has been presented by a young friend resid
ing on Batter’s Island, near Darien, with a
twig some two feet in length, to which were
suspended twenty folly ripe oranges of the
largest size, and the stem of three more that
dropped in the process of transportation.
Ws cordially invite the Pennsylvania land
buyers, now’on their way from Richmond to
Atlanta, to our city, and to the country
around us. Southwest Georgia is the country
they are looking for.
Western papers assure us that the pro
jected Railroad between Memphis, Okalona
and Selma will be built. Gen. Forrest is its
President. It will be the most direct route
between this portion of Georgia and the
former city.
The semi-cracked John W. Forney, is still
calling loudly for more troops to be sent in
to the Southern States. “Let Democratic
violence go unchecked and unpunished in
the South, (he frantically exclaims) and at
the next election the rebel ruffians of New
Orleans and Georgia will have made their
example so contsgious that not a Union citi
zen can live, much less vote, in the South.”
The Pennsylvania Lunatic Asylum must be
full.
The Report of Gen. Thomas, pn the con
dition of affairs in his department was
received in the nick of time by the Radical
press. They had about run out of material,
of which this document furnished the
greatest abundance. Gen. Thomas ii
Radical, and this “report” reads like a letter
from a special correspondent of the Tribune.
He finds most to complain of in Tennessee.
But we do not understand why it is so many
outrages are committed in that State and still
it is under more absolute Radical rule than
is Massachusetts. It is convincing proof to
any outsider that there is something wrong
in that kind of government. .
Still another Washburae has turned up,
It is Charles A., United States Minister to
the one-horse Republic of Paraguay. That
country, as we all know, has been at war for
along time with Brazil. Lopez, its President,
detested this branch of the numerous Wash
burns family, hobnobbing and carrying on
unlawful proceedings with his enemy. For
his disgraceful conduct Lopez very properly
kicked him out of his front door. He comes
home with a terrible blubber and ask no less
a thing than for us to declare war against
Paraguay on his account! The request is
modest enough to say the least of it.
The insurrectionists in Cuba keep up
considerable noise, if nothing else. We get
all our news from them through the govern
ment, which, like Seward used to his, rep
resents the disturbance as a very small affair,
which will be “put down in thirty days.”
They are at least holding a portion of the
Island, whether they have a just cause or not.
Northern invalids are now on their an
nual winter pilgrimage to the extreme South
ern States. Many of them are stopping at
various points in Georgia, but a large per
cent are going into Florida. These unfortu
nate people are generally afflicted with con
sumption in its various stages, and they are
seeking ths balmy Southern air during the
winter months. Our climate will no doubt
prolong their lives. It would be cruel tosay
it .will not cure them.
As soon as W. H. Rozar, an employe of
the State Road and a Radical member of the
Convention, was killed by being knocked off
his train while it was passing a bridge, a
story went forth that the deed was done by
tbe Ku-Klux Elan. The Atlanta Era cha
racterizes this report as false in every par
ticular.
Hill and Miller pat in an appearance. A
committee with power to travel, and “to send
for persons and papers” may also ber&iBed to
investigate the Camilla riot business. »
Grn. Butler has written a wheedling and
cajoling letter to the Louisville Courier-
Journal, professing great friendship for the
South and intimating that he would like for
us to forgive him. This reminds us of John
Bell and President Johnson, when they used
to be violent political enemies in Tennessee.
Upon one occasion John Bell was at a prayer
meeting, the leader of which was bis friend.
He fervently prayed for special forgiveness
for various persons, and finally exclaimed:
(l O, Lord, if it is in thy power forgive Andy
Johnson.” “Stop 1 stop 1” said Mr. Bell, vio
lently rising to his feet, “that would exhaust
tbe plan of salvation.”
The Paraguay Washburn, our Minister
who was summarily dismissed by President
Lopez, comes home with very muddy skirts.
Benitez, the Paraguayan Minister for For
eign Affairs, charges Washburn with corres
ponding with ‘Caxias and forwarding im
portant information to him under the seal of
the Portuguese Consul, and supports his
charges by tbe affidavits of Dr. Carreyas and
Minister Berges. Another more serious
charge is that he carried drawings of the
Paraguayan camp to Caxias and received
from Benigno Lopez, one of the alleged con
spirators, $16,000, and afterwards $140,000
in currency and a promise of $500,000 in con
sideration of this act^ and also in considera
tion of hfs binding himself to recognize of
ficially the new government of Paraguay in
the event of the success of the allies.
The order of Gen. Howard, doting the
Freedman’s Bureau on the 1st day of Janua
ry, is published to-day. Even the New York
Tribune rejoices at its termination. “ In its
day,” says the Tribune, “ this Bureau has
done much good service, but we hail the
near approach of the time when our newly
enfranchised citizens are to take their place
with the rest of our population, and secure
under the protection of a government that
guarantees equal -rights to all, make their
stuggle with the rest for success in life as
their own exertions and merit shall win.”
At the dinner given him by the Bar of
New York, Mr. Evarts said, Judges were
“the crown and summit of the legal pro
fession.” “All men,” be said, “worship the
able and the upright Judge. All men read
the memory of the upright Judge, and by
the same rule all men abhor the UDjust Judge,
and curse his memory to tbe latest generation.
It is but a feeble image to speak of the purity
of the Judge outshining the parity of his
ermine. He seems to me rather to come up
to the splendor of the white-armed nymph
whose limbs outshone the splendor of the
zone which encircled her.”
A family man in Obion county, Tennessee
—very much of one we should say—has re
cently been furnished with triplets, all femi
nine, and be has named them Faith, Hope,
and Charity. It is a good thing—even though
in small packages—to have the leading Chris-
are born of inconsideration and ignorance. | tian graces under one roof
Congress meets next Monday week. We
wish it was next Monday year. There used
They will mislead the people and country so j
injuriously and so plainly that every man j
will be compelled to see it, and tbe conclns-. ... , .
. F . , . . ■ ’ f ... . to be a member of it who voted steadily for
ion of the whole business will not add to . . J .
..... . . i ever motion to adjourn on the ground, as he
the prestige of the American political pulpit I ./ * • • j ° „
v 6 „ j said, “the country is m no danger when Con-
The Democracy of Ohio ere to assemble in j greso is not in session.” An early effort will
Convention, at Columbus, on the 8th of doubtless be made to reconstruct the recon-
January. The organization of the party is | structed State of Georgia. It is said some
■till most perfeciandcomplete. ! such motion will be put in when Senators
The President of the United States has
control of almost one hundred and fifty
thousand office holders and offices. This is
a vast power to be lodged in the hands of
one man. There are not many foreign auto
crats who possess more.
Cuba is oppressed and tyranized over by
Spain. She draws no less than thirty-three
millions annually in revenues from that rich
island. Four-fifths of its population are ne
groes. It is very doubtful if that country
would be benefited by annexation to the
United States. The act would carry with it
the freeing of the slaves, and judging from
the fate of other West Indies wherein ne
groes have been set free, the idea is discour
aging.
The New York and Erie Railroad is, per
haps, the most prolific source of rascality in
the world. We now see that all the stock-
gamblers in New York, together with its
bench and bar are engaged in a general and
promiscuous row about its stock. They ac
cuse one another with all sorts of cheating
and swindling, and no doubt both are right.
The Romans and Selm&ens are to celebrate
the completion of thsir railroad. It begins
on the 9th of December with an excursion of
the latter to the former—big dinner by Borne
to Selma—speeches—ball—then Rome goes
to Selma—big dinner by Selma to Rome—
speeches—ball—result: all hands satisfied that
they are bound to be a great center of com
merce and civilization.
Providence, Rhode Island, is about to en
joy a sensation. It is a notable will case.
There is, of course, an old bachelor in it—
a rich old bachelor—very rich—a real dead
millionaire. There is also a pretty woman
in it—a young woman—a pretty young
doctress. Old man approached three-score
and ten—grew sick—spent a fortune on doc
tors and patent medicine vendors—grew
sicker—consulted pretty young doctress—
doctress consulted plancbette—spirits said
old man must linger—he lingered—got better
—spirits very kind—check for $10,000—
chatted with pretty doctress under grape
arbor—sang with pretty doctress on veran
dah—got well—check for $40,000—loved
pretty young doctress—promenades—car
riage drives—spring and flowers—summer
and watering places—autumn and fireside
talk—winter and check for $15,000—too
much of a fall—old man got sick, ticker,
sickest—made a will, died—eager relations—
drawer broken open—will read—pretty young
doctress sole legatee—old man crazy—deoisa-
vittelnon—lawyers at work—dilly dally, big
fees—dilly dally, bigger fees—dilly dally, no
body will get a cent—lawyers all. We have
not only detailed the Providence lawsuit, but
decided the case.
The New York Tribune says “Every
river in the South, except the Tennessee and
the Cumberland, runs towards England.”
Some one Bbould send a map to the Tribune
office with every stream, from the Ghatt&hoo
chee to our Western, frontier, printed in red
ink—the Mississippi in the most flaming
kind of red ink.
Liverpool made up some cotton statistics
just before the late rise. The crop df Egypt
this year is put down at 642,500 four hun
dred-pound bales, very little of which will
reach Manchester in time to be included in
the receipts for 1868. The imports into the
United Kingdom, np to September 80th,
have decreased 147,546 bales over the cor
responding period last year; the receipts in
the nine months of 1867 being 2,211,026
bales, and 2,073,512 bales in 1868. The de
liveries from the United States have increased
to 1,090,746 bales to Septembr 80, over 1,047,-
014 hales in 1867, and 098,920 bales in 1866,
for the corresponding periods. The receipts
from Mexico and China appear to have ceased
altogether this year; the crop in British In
dia has greatly declined, and all the other
countries where cotton is produced have lost
ground, except Brazil, which more than held
her own. All of which are valuable statis
tics to Georgia planters with cotton now on
hand.
The town authorities of Pestb, Hungary,
have recently determined that hard swearing
brought a recent earthquake upon them. Ac
cordingly, the said sapient authorities declare
that every one, without respect of person,
who is heard to swear, is to be fined twenty-
five florins and to receive twenty stripes; and
everybody who hears another swear is re
quested to deliver up such wicked earth
quake-causer'to the police.. We should be
lieve all this, if the town of Yuba Dam, in
California, had not entirely escaped the re
cent quskes in that State.
Burlinoamb—that same Burlingame who
is well remembered by old Southern members
of Congress—has recently had his show, the
Chinese Embassy, before the Queen at Wind
sor. He only gave one exhibition. Every
body was admitted on the dead-head sys
tem. There was no immediate pay, but
Burly expects to make a good thing out of
if by and by.
A Radical Appeal for IVoiiMehi
Emigration to tbe South.
We copy below, the letter of John W.
Forney to the Philadelphia Press, which was
a topic of some editorial comment in tbe
Daily Telegraph of yesterday:
Letter from “Oeeasiosat.”]
Washington, November 21,1888.—I have
jast had a long and somewhat remarkable
interview with the writer of the subjoined
communication, and I print it because it con
firms many patriotic hopes and dispels many
grave apprehensions. The writer has resided
in the South nearly three yean, and is at the
head of a flourishing foundry and machine
shop in one of the prosperous Tennessee
towns. He is an advanced and intelligent
Radical, believing in his politics as he does
in his religion. Without being a partisan in
any sense, ha never conceals his sentiments.
He says he has never been disturbed or even
menaced for uttering them in. trains, steam-,
boats, hotels and the streets. He insists, as
you will perceive, that the Southern people
should not be condemned for the outrages of
their own ruffians, and declares that by this
rule no community could escape, certainly
not the West, judged by the recent excite
ments in Kansas. But without recapitula
ting his argument, let ns look at his remedy.
Here, at least, all is clear. However men
may differ as to the disease, there can be none
as to the cure.
That cure is emigration. Why should not
the South be the ravorite home of the emi
grant—not only the German, the Norwegian,
the Irishman, the Scotchman, and the Eng
lishman, but, above all; tbe Northern manu
facturer and mechanic ? My correspondent
disposes of the cry as to the safety of these
Northern men in the South by saying that
every emigrant must run some risks. Look
at the Western engineers, surveyors, tourists,
and travelers—look at the men, women and
children who brave the rigors of the winter
and the barbarities of the savages in the
Rocky Mountains! He asks whether any
such dangers ever beset the men who go into
the South—even into Texas ?
Besides, in the South there are not only
hundreds of thousands of acres of land to be
had for almost nothing, but there are open
highways, a civilized people (let us hope,)
and a thousand other advantages unknown
to the new and far-off West. Before the war
capital and labor sought the South eagerly.
The daring Commodore Stockton spent an
immense fortune in trying to develop the gold
mines of North Carolina. Virginia was the
centre of at least one great enterprise that
attracted millions of foreign money. Heavy
outlays were made in the iron and coalmines
of Tennessee and Alabama. Northern men
flocked in by hundreds, almost by thousands,
to take advantage of the fine opening for
skilled workmen. Bnt the war came and
stopped all, ruining many and driving away
more.
All this is over. A better state of things
has succeeded. The wealth of the soil has
been reinforced by the wealth of a great moral
victory. The gold mines of North Carolina,
the coal and iron mines of Virginia, Tenn
essee, Alabama and Georgia, the magnificent
plan of connecting the Chesapeake with the
great internal rivers of the South—all these
await capital and courage. But the South
proffers other opportunities. Look at the
hundreds of thousands of swamp lands to be
drained by the agencies of science; at the
thousands of alluvial acres in Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia (all near the Eastern
markets,) and at the town sites without num
ber! Look at Mississippi, South Carolina,
Louisiana, Texas, with their cotton and sugar
fieldB, marl beds, grazing landB, noble rivers,
and equal climates!
What is needed iB immigration—not those
who come among us to be taught, from for
eign lands, but the teachers, the leaders, and
the captains of men.
Let these teachers and leaders start from
the North to tho South, and all others will
follow.
General Grant’s election is a far better help
than a Congressional appropriation, however
large; better than the military; better even
than reconstruction; for without it all these
things would have failed—money, military
and moral suasion. Without it, Washington
City would have become a ruin, and the
South a desolation. No Union man could
have lived here, and none would have been
permitted to live in the South except as a
subservient slave. Patriots like Holt and
Stanton would have been expelled, and such
a paper as the Washington Chronicle would
not have been worth the iron and lead of its
presses and its types. The capital would
have been removed before the 4th of March.
1869, either in retaliation to Southern threats
or as a matter of comfort and safety to Con
gress, and property here would have gone
down fifty cents on the dollar. The noble
projects of men like Corcoran and H. D.
Cooke would have been nipped in the bud,
and “Ichabod” written on our marble pal
aces. Let doubters compare what has been
threatened, since Grant’s election, with what
would have been accomplished after Grant’s
defeat.
Now, God and the people be thanked, all
is saved. Washington City is a type of the
whole. Her future and that of the South is
secure, unless madness seizes upon her peo
ple. This is the gateway to the emancipated
South. There is, in fact, no other present per
manent entrance for the commerce of the
Eastern States. ' JH
Congress will meet Monday two weeks—
the last session of a Congress which will close
out the final chapter of an Administration
worse than accidental.. It will be a session of
absorbing interest and enormous powers, not,
perhaps, in what it may actually do, but in
what it may outline and suggest.
To the District of Columbia—to Washing
ton—this session of Congress is especially
important. Grant’s election saves the District
from ruin. Now let the District, its people
and politicians, lead the South to a long ca
reer of prosperity. Let our people save them
selves and help the South at the same time.
They can do it.
Imagine for a moment what a Western
population would do holding the National
Capital in their midst, and looking out upon
such a future as this city looks out upon in
the Empire of the South 1 And especially
if upon their wisdom depends whether the
capital should stay with them or be carried
away.
But I have said enough on this important
subject. Tbe letter of my correspondent is
a thoughtful supplement to these hurried
words, and deserves a careful perusal.
Occasional.
Wbat can be done to bring peace to the
country, and quiet and prosperity to the
South ?
Military power may hold turbnlent elements
in check, and temporarily protect the few
localities that need protection. But that
does not throw light npon tbe mind, nor cul
tivate the germs of loyalty among a preju
diced and misguided people. The South has
been educated into false theories and bitter
prejudices, which have borne their fruit in
rebellion. The practical question of the
present time is: How can those theories be
changed, and thore prejudices removed ? How
shall loyalty be brought to take root and
grow vigorously oh Southern soil ?
Happily there is to this very simple and
plain answer, viz: by sending to the South
a constant and healthful tide of loyal emigra
tion. The same instrumentality that so
rapidly creates loyal states in the West will
strengthen loyalty in the South. Without
the little emigration that we have had the
first steps toward reconstruction could hard
ly have been taken successfully. Let it be
increased, as it may be, a hundred fold; and
we need no other cure for our national
troubles.
Not a tithe of tbe lands in the South are
really oocupiedf Let Northern men buy
these lands sad settle upon them, and in nine
cases out of ten they will have done much
better for themselves than if they had gone
to the far West The South needs capital,
manufactures, and all kinds of skilled labor.
The North from her abundance can supply
these wants, and mutual benefit will be the
result.
The vast mineral wealth of the South lies
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almost wholly undeveloped, while Nortiwre
men are besought to come with theie skill
and capital 'and lake it at fabulously low
prices. Why will not our Northern people
muster tbe courage to come and see for them
selves tbe inviting field that is open before
them t The larger portion of the Smith is
aa quiet to-day as their own quiet homes in
the North. And then they should remember
that emigration carries safety with it.
If onr people would but dismiss their fears
and go to the South as they now go to the
West, they would meet h cordial welcome
from thousands of Northern people already
there, all the loyal Southern people, and a
large ehare of those who took side with the
rebellion; while the insignificant Ku Ktux
Klans would disappear like the mists of the
morning.
Northern and Southern people living side
by ride, and mingling in business intercourse,
would soon forget the prejudices that now
divide them. Reciprocal benefits will pro
duce reciprocal good feeling. Free schools
and loyal newspapers will follow Northern
emigration as naturally as effect follows
cause; and with such agencies e&n any one
doubt that loyalty will have a healthful
growth?
Many in the North are now standing aloof
and waiting for the worst portions of the
South to reform themselves. They might as
well wait for the river to run by. Where
evil counsels are left to an entire control of
the field, they will continue to produce their
evil fruits. If they wish a different state of
things, they must help produce it
Let the loyal masses of the North dismisa
their fears and take hold of this business with
the vigor they now show in developing the
resources of the West, and they will make
fortunes for themselves, the whole South will
thapk them, and our national troubles will
be at an end. An immigration that brings
with it capital, industry, loyalty and free
schools, is better than “an army with banners.”
If the National Government would spend in
encouraging emigration and industrial enter
prises in the South a tithe of the money it is
now compelled to speud in military restraint,
we should have peace and prosperity in all
our borders.
The Pacific Railroad is carrying a line of
safe travel across the continent. The indus
trial enterprise of the people will soon save
the nation the vast expense of Indian wars.
So emigration end industrial enterprises in
the South would soon save the nation the ex
pense of a standing army to take care of the
KuKlux Klans.
Is not this view of the aubject worthy the
consideration of our rulers and statesmen,
and also of every loyal editor ? J. W. N.
Professor Iffewton, of New Haven,
on tbe Celestial Display.
From the Ifew Haven Journal, Nov. 16.]
The meteoric display which took place last
Saturday morning was a very beautiful and bril
liant astronomic exhibition. As Professor Ly
man was not well enough to make observations
at the scientific School, a few of the students,
merely for their own gratification, watched the
heavens until two o’clock in the morning, and
made an imperfect ebunt of the meteors that
were to be seen. They counted only six hun
dred. Professor Newton, with a corps of assist
ants, took observations from the top of the Al
umni Building, and succeeded in making quite
a satisfactory record of what took place in the
visible firmament. They occupied their places,
ready for observation, soon after 11 o’clock, but
it was not .until after midnight that the earth
reached such a position that the meteors could
be seen. It was then found that the shower
was in full activity. How long it had been in
progress cannot be told until intelligence is re
ceived from those who made observations at
other points of the globe. During the first hour,
from twelve to one o’clock, Professor Newton
and his assistants counted seven hundred and
fifty-seven meteors.- The number increased
through the night, until dawn prevented their
being seen, when nearly 1500 an hour were
counted. The shower was in full activity when
the daylight prevented further operations, and
how much longer it lasted can not be known,
until those who took observations further west,
shall report. The total number counted was
about 7000, and it is estimated that the number
that appeared in the six hours during which the
heavens were'watched, was about 10,000. The
first meteor 6een was at 12 o’clock. The shower
proceeded from the usual place in Leo. Pro
fessor Newton says, “the shower was in full ac
tion as early as we could sec it—that is, at 12
o’clock—and it showed no signs of cessation
even into the dawn. We could see signs even
in the Btrong twilight. The increase of num
bers toward morning was due to the height of the
radiant. Last year there were hardly any meteors,
only for an hour or two before sunrise, when
they came pell-mell. This year the flow was
very steady and much longer. When it com
menced or at what time it ended we cannot tell.
As to individual meteors, they were not quite as
bright as last year, but, owing to the absence of
tbe moon, they appeared much brighter. They
seemed more brilliant in the first hour than they
were afterward, because their course approached
the peipendicular, hiding their trains. Last
year there was a moon when the shower took
place. The largest number counted in any five
minutes was 214. A single individual counted
in five minutes 60 or 70. One counted 78. The
average number seen was not often more th&n-
ten or eleven a minute by a single person. The
color of the meteors was of a greenish tinge.
One had a redish ball as it approached a termi
nation. As the dawn approached, those that
were seen against the strong twilight had a
beautiful redish color. There were some that
had a red color in them, and some with rose and
red colors mixed with the green. The nucleus
was rather reddish. The stream of meteors was
much broader than when we cut through it last
year and the year before—at least two or three
times broader—but it was not so thickly filled as
it was last year at the densest part.” We also
learned that the stream where we pass
it last year was 20,000 miles wide, and where
we cut through this year it was at least 120,000
miles wide, which accounts for the meteors not
being thicker, and the shower, so to speak
heavier.
It is supposed, as we understand it, that this
group of meteors is led by a comit, which passed
the earth’s orbit in January, 1866, which occur
rence many will recollect who saw this dashing
ball of fire in the skies. In 1865 the meteors
were seen very much as they were Friday
night. They were the advance guard or picket
line of the innumerable army. The stream has
now been passing our orbit a little over two
years and ten months. It passes at the rate of
twenty-five miles a second, or between 800,000,-
000,000 and 900,000,000,000 of miles in a year.
The size of it may, perhaps, be imagined from
this. The shower in 1866-7 was very similar.
We pass through the stream, not straight across,
but at an angle.
Professor Newton thus speaks of some of the
more brilliant meteors that he saw:
“At just before five o’clock, a star went down
to the left of Pliades, with a flash that made
every one look around. It lighted up every
thing. The time it was seen was at forty-five
minutes past four o’clock. The train remained
visible for several minutes in this case. At six
teen minutes after one o’clock a bright one went
down vertically two degrees to the right of -Ju
piter, leaving a very bright- tiain. The upper
part of the train floated to the right, and the low
er to the left, forming a letter S, which gradually
elongated until it assumed ea entirely horizontal
form, and it was still faintly visible when the
clock struck two. The cloudy train was twenty
miles long at that time. As usual, the upper
and lower parts of the trains curved so as to
look like the letter S. In some instances three,
fourandfive,werevisibleatonce. One gentleman
saw sixty that did not belong to the group. At
seven minutes past five there was a bright star
went down just south of Gemini. The center
part of the train floated south, and the upper
and lower parts floated north. It was very beau
tiful. At twenty minutes past twelve a brilliant
one passed between Gamma Pegnsi and Alpha
Andromede, nearly through onr zenith. It
made a long train, which looked exceedingly
brilliant The whole train was nearly forty de
grees long.”
The night was
ing the occasion one
making observations.
The meteor which Professor Newton saw at
fifty-seven minutes past four, A. M_ Professor
Twining, of Yale College, saw in New York,
and by a comparison of the two observations,
Professor Newton calculates that this meteor fell
from a height of eighty-five, to within sixty
miles of the eartk’inrntt.
1866.
—was
M13
T.lSi
1867.
23,660
16,001
11.136
7*52
7.3(1
6,016
3.512
2,771
9.316
32,514
m
&<»
2.418
1,420
835
11,966
22,658
13,719
i beautifully dear and stilt mak-
one of the most admirable for
A Frenchman recently drank eighty four
cups of coffee on a wager.
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Sranoanrt OF Ccmom, JUeasvNd
ny tin 8oiiMiueiM»llmE>H>i(>»fttMW»
tation During zee Tear* 1866, 1867 an» cy*F
the 23d of Koran ram, 1888,—We are much in
debted to Mr. J, N. Bass, an intelligent and ae>
completed Clerk In the Southwestern Mfrdad
ottee, in this city, lor the following valuable and
interesting statement of cotton received for tssns-
portsttonfor the time above specified. It will
particularly interest bnsineas men and those en
gaged exclusively In the cotton business:
Jansary
February...——
March
April...—..——
May..— 3,332
June— ———. 5,085
Jwly.—— 2,4,0
Aafost 2,820
September 3,415
October- 17,167
November— 19.900
Deomnber— ....19,788
Total J .106,264 199,990 155,106
Notwithstanding the feet that the source* from
which the Southwestern ro»d has received cotton
this sesson, have been multiplied the present year,
and that cotton from the Interior of Alabama has
passed over this road to Savannah, still tho de
crease of receipts for 1868, as compared with those
of 1866-67 is very heavy Indeed. It wUl be seen
from tbe above table, that the receipts of cotton
by tbe Southwestern road from points along its
line and from other roads connecting with It, from
the 1st of September to tbe 28d of November, 1886,
amount to only 48,312 bales; and should 5000
more be received this month—* liberal estimate—
we shall have 53,312 bales as tbe total receipts for
September, October and November—showing a.
felling of! in receipts this year, as compared with
those of last, of 81,277 bales.
Taking into consideration the facta that cotton
came forward early and rapidly the preeent year,
and that the receipts of the Southwestern road
cover a much larger extent of country thi* year
than they did last, the above heavy decrease tells
“trumpet-tongued” of the small crop of cotton
that has been raised this year.
Of the 48,312 bales received by this road since
the first of September last, 10,585 bales bate been
brought to Macon for storage and sale. Nearly all
the balance was turned over to tbe Central road
for through shipment to Savannah and points be
yond.
Sport With the Pen.—The world does not
look at worthy people, but for what they are
worth. The difference is far greater than the
judgment is creditable. It is simply patting pock
et before principle; bullion before brain; shell
before substance. Nevertheless the world has
hitherto done about as it pleased in this and aome
other matters, and firing at it is not likely-to do
any good. Some day worth will be taken at its
real value. Until then we must all beset our souls
with patience; and a very good aet it la.
Toung writers are wont to mistake excitement
for inspiration. An augmented circulation of the
blood doesn’t necessarily increase the quality or
power of the brain. The worst things that were
ever committed to paper were the offspring of
transcient excitation. The best way fora man
who has got anything in his head is to try and get
it out whan he is cool, sensible and balanced. If.
this snggestlon were followed, 90 per cent of the
trash which the world is unfortunately called upon
to endure, would be unknown. Lesson—Don’t
get excited.
Be good natured. It ia by far tbe best natnre
that Is cultivated. As a matter of feet any other
sort is hardly worth cultivating at all. It is the
golden passport of many a man and woman to the
best graces of society. Good natnre is always
current. It goes well everywhere and at all times.
If is the home of the healthy, the happy and the
wise; and equally adorns both sexes. People are
sought because of its possession. It is a grace of
itself. Good nature is all nature rolled together.
Suppose, reader, if you don’t know anything about
It yon try it. It won’t hurt aninfent, and given
dignity and strength to a giant.
A good thing is generally worth all the struggle
it costs; a had one is to be rejected, let the strug
gle be what it may. On a good thing there is no
discount; on a bad one there is nothing but dis
count. Those who have tried both will endorse
what we say.
Peeple whose nosea are always Inverted endure
a great deal of unnecessary trouble. Tbe world
isn't changed for tbe better by this reversal of the
order of nature. Wrongs are not righted by bit
terness, nor Is sourness the way to sunshine. As
a general thing, if the nose is iu the right place all
else is well balanced.
Politeness to a lady is never thrown away. If
the seed doesn’t take growth at once, it neverthe
less starts in time. Let those who iBveat bear this
in mind and be patient.
Centa make dollars. This fact does not appear
to be generally recognized by the world. “Whnt’a
a cent?” is asked with a sneering, contemptuous
lip. Our reply ia—very much; in truth about
everything. Does if not involve the whole ques
tion of finance? Is it not the point which leads
to or from a fortune, just as fidelity or felslty to
principle Is followed. Centa make dollars; dol
lars make fortunes. Attention to little matters
makes up the total of a good and successful Ufa.
Show ns a man or woman who despises little mat
ters and we see one who is sure in time to be n
failure, and generally the time is soon reached.
People of purpose are the sort yen know;, and
you like to know them, you know. They are
earnest, straightforward folks, mind their own
business, and generally have a good and healthy
share to manage. They are always pleasant aa
neighbors, useful as citizens, reliable as friends,
and act up to the golden rule about as near is they
make ’em. Whatever they undertake is generally
accomplished; ct least the supposed requisite
effort is not wanting. People of purpose should
be encouraged. Their example is worth imitating.
People innocent of the virtue should take home a
sample.
Am Amphibious Hobsjl—A few days since aa a
gentleman was riding along the Ocmulgee river,
two or three miles above the city,-his hone got
loose from him, and, strange to say, plunged into
the stream. He waa a fine animal of great muscu
lar power. Procuring a batteau near at hand he
paddled after him. The hone swam te the other
bank, bat as soon as he struck it, whieh was at a
short distance below' opposite tbe point of start
ing, be, instead of going ashore, started back.
Gaining his original bank, he immediately turned
and recrossed, the current constantly drifting Mm
down, his owner following and doing his best to
catch him. The eccentric animal passed tire city
is this sfyle, and drifted fer below it before he
allowed himself to be caught. He seemed to like
the water like a Newfoundland dog, and while his
hand was in taking a bath was determined to take
a good one.
Thanksgiving a Macon.—Thursday waa a dull
day. It passed off aa heavy as lead. The churches
were attended by small congregations. We be
lieve no formal politico-religions discourses were
pronounced. Our ministers do not run upon that
line, to their credit be it said. They always take
their texts from the Bible, instead of their favorite
newspaper, and preach the Word. They know
nothing bnt Christ and Him crucified. Hence
there is genuine, pure religion in Macon. There
was an old rascal here the other day from a North
ern church, looking around for a situation to de
liver dull political speeches from the pulpit. He
beautifully felled. It ia reasonable to suppose he
does not now look upon ua with the least degree
of allowance, and regards us as nothing leas than
barbarous. The silly goose forgot that • e.i,
brought up to the dirty brine of tbe ocean will
perish In fresh water.
The most distinguishing feature about our
Thanksgiving day was the good dinners hr about
every house in town. A good many people In the
habit of anbslating upon Short ration* ere no doubt
in favor or Thantaglvlng oocslrg; oBeoer. This
subscriber” cam testify that tMrequtreacata of
the day, pt least to the dinner ftfsiturei i
not neglected by totoe hosts of tbe r
FAt turkeys, wfih cranberry uauoe, i
oysters in every atyia, ibrf that '
atop the oorkV were vtoyfodtionthle Wfcaecm tm
XModaqr- A Fast dgy wasts a “bine *
Mkgredto lt Wood* Whae
