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THE TELEGRAPH.
MAOON, FRIDAY DECEMBER 4, 1868.
Luther Glenn, Esq., withdraws from the
candidacy for the Mayoralty of Atlanta, to
which he was nominated as a citizens’ candi
date.
The School-Day Visitor, an illustrated
magazine for young people, is published by
Daughaday & Becker,424 Walnut street, Phil
adelphia, at $1 25 a year, and it appears to
be an interesting periodical.
The Farmers’ Convention.—The Thom-
• Seville Enterprise insists that Thomas county
ah»ll send at least two of her strongest men
to the Farmers’ Convention which meets in
Macon on the 10th of December next.
Split the Difference.—The Radical or
gana are discussing very earnestly the policy
of increasing the President’s salary to $100,-
000 per annum. They say, perhaps with
truth, $25,000 is insufficient to meet the ex
penses of a court worthy the American em
pire. Suppose they compromise on $50,000
and try it awhile on that figure.
Cultivation of Tobacco in Northern
Georgia.—The Chronicle and Sentinel says
there is a growing interest manifested in the
cultivation of tobacco in Northern Georgia.
The climate and soil are found to be in no
way inferior to that of Virginia, and some
specimens showed us manufactured at Clarks
ville will compare favorably with the best
Lynchburg chewing tobacco.
A Dilemma.
The tenure-of-office bill
passed last session’ strips the President of his
constitutional prerogatives and leaves the
Country well-nigh defenceless against official
roguery and corruption. The Radicals are
now very anxious to repeal it, bnt they want
to know what people will think of them,
when they make this practical and open
confession of their own folly and reckless
ness. Pshaw—never mind that! Go ahead
and do it.
The signal triumph of the Liberal party
in England at the recent election insures the
overthrow of the Disraeli Ministry as soon
u Parliament meets. There will be a large
majority against it, and the first step will be
to declare a want of confidence. The total
number of members is 658, of which 494 be
long to England, 104 to Ireland and 60 to
Scotland. The Liberals claim 100 majority.
Mr. Gladstone and the Earl of Granville are
both Bpoken of in connection with the Pre
miership.
Georgia not to be Counted.—It is said
* scheme i3 on foot to refuse the vote of
Georgia in the Presidential election, under
fw,e preposterous allegation that the majori
ty, -am ounting to nearly one-third of the
whole woWH woe obtained by intimidation
ftnd bribery. Where no practical end is to
be gained by If, it wil1 be a singular piece
of party policy to adopt 80 extreme and au
dacious a measure. But, as willing to see
the Radical party suffer for thJ 1 * 1 “ ns » ^
they choose to do it—let them go ^head.
The responsibility is with them. LettheiT 1
illustrate their character and policy.
«THK GOOD TIKE COMING.”
In days past we have speculated upon that
interesting proposition—how long it wonld
be considered necessary by the Radical organs
to insist that the South was in each a state
of lawlessness as to be habitable only by Ku-
Elnx, rebels, martyred carpet-baggers, mur
dered negroes and snch like distressing and
distressed obj ects ? We have set forth that so
long as it was ia the interest of Radicalism to
make this exhibit of onr condition and re-
sonrees, exculpation would be futile and truth
lie buried under the Augean debris of a moun
tain’s weight of lies. Bat the very moment
the Radical leaders tipped the wink and
called for a change, the whole fabric of false
hood would disappear like a bank of fog.
Weil, the word is at length spoken—For
ney himself tips the wink—the tune is to be
changed—the slander-embargo is to be
raised and the South is to be declared hab
itable to the world in general. Hereafter no
man in this rebel-cursed country is to be
murdered more than once a day, and tavern-
keepers will cease to furnish hot breakfasts
of bowie-knives and revolvers. The public
highways are no longer to be paved with the
skulb of “murdered loyalists.’’ In short,
and we beg tbe Augusta National Republican
to make a note of the fact, tbe outrage bus
iness is to be stopped.
Forney writes an “Occasional” to the Phil
adelphia Press, in which it appears double-
leaded and supplemented by a letter in evi
dence from a loyal Tennesseean, in which the
whole terrific phantom of Southern violence
is laid, by the simplest wand of common
sense, as follows:
“He (the witness) is an advanced and intel
ligent Radical, believing in his politics as he
docs in bis religion. [That is to say, he is
one of your noisiest spouters.] Without being
a partisan in any sense, he never conceals
his sentiments. He says he has never been
disturbed or even menaced for uttering them
in trains, steamboats, 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 by this rule no community could
escape—certainly not the West, judged by
recent excitement in Kansas,” etc., etc.
Here it is—on tbe assertion of one man
from the most disordered State in the South
•Tennessee— the grand pyramid of Southern
bloody murder erected without regard to
cosit or labor by the indefatigable Forney,
in an outlay of four years, vanishes in thin
smoke on the bare suggestion that—one
Radical finds no trouble, and at any rate the
people are not to be measured by tbe crimes
of a; few outlaws.
Presto and Bravo. We are coming to the
root of the matter. “Occasional” then lays
down his programme, which, in brief, is here
after to substitute Northern immigration for
the ; costly appliances of troops and Bnreaus.
Kill off the Kuklnx before the march of an
intelligent and loyal population! This snits
us exactly—and we have only to say come
on—come on. The more the better.
Eatonton, Ga., Nov. 25,1868.
Editor* Telegraph: After the publication
of » call for a Convention of Farmers, to
meet at Macon on the 9th of December, to
consider the propriety of organizing an Im
migrant Association, there appeared a call
from the worthy President of tbe State Ag
ricultural Association for a meeting of this
body on the 10th. The object bad in view
by the meeting which authorized the action
of. Mr. Harris, of Hancock, True, of Morgan,
and myself, as a committee, was to secure a
full attendance of delegates from the several
counties of the State, to consider the subject
of immigration specially,
At the same time that we are not author
ized to change the time appointed for our
meeting, I am of the opinion that no objec
tion will be made to incorporating onr move
as a feature of the proceedings of the State
Association on the 10th, when it is hoped a
full representation of delegates will be pres
ent I will thank yon to publish this note,
that any confusion which may have arisen
from the separate calls, may be corrected in
time.
I am authorized to Bay that the several
railroads have agreed to transport delegates
to the Convention for one fare.
Very respectfully,
Henry D. Capers.
The South Carolina Phosphate Trade.
The Courier of Friday says that the schooner
W. B. Thomas, which arrived at Charleston
some days ago with machinery for the
Charleston Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany, has returned from the works on Ashley
ILer, where, after discharging her cargo,
phe received four hundred and twenty tons
of Phosphates, and has cleared for Philadel
phia, The company are now washing and
preparing Phosphates on both banks of the
river, and are thus enabled to furnish a sup
ply commensurate with the increasing de
mand.
Important Literary Enterprise.—T.
Ellwood Zell, 17 and 19 South Sixth street,
Philadelphia, sends us the first two numbers
of “ The Popular Encyclopedia and Univer
sal Dictionary of History, Biography, Geog
raphy, Science, Arts, Language, etc.” It is in
quarto form, elegantly printed on fine paper
with abundant illustrations, and the whole
work is designed to be embraced in two
large volumes. It is edited by L. Colange,
assisted by eminent scientific and literary
gentlemen, and the cost of the first edition
will bo about sixty thousand dollars. The
numbers come in eight pages, with cover, at
ten cents each. As a popular work, of refer
ence it will be very valuable.
The Macon Telegraph ia moderating in
its tone.—Atlanta New Era.
The Era is moderating, himself, and hence
he fancies a change in the Telegraph. We
try to run always on a consistent and steady
schedule of toleration and moderation, good
will, charity, peace and concord. Now, when
the Era moves up a little towards our posi
tion, it is a natural mistake to fancy we are
approaching him. It is the frequent error of
the youDg and inexperienced traveler to sup
pose a place is Approaching him when he is
only moving to the place—or that treeB, fences
and houses by tbe wayside are gliding by him
when be is in rapid motion. Galileo came
near losing his life, some time ago, foroom-
batting a similar mistake. People would in
sist that the sun moved, instead of the earth
—-just as the Era will have it that the snn of
political truth shining through the Tele
graph is moving towards him, when he is only
orawling up towards it and begins to feel its
warmth and vivifying influence. Come up
nearer and revive your torpid soul.
AN ERA OF GOOD FEELING.
The violent newspaper press of the country,
of which Forney’s Philadelphia Press is a fair
sample, find scanty material to go npon since
Presidential election. They can muster
no more 11 rebel outrages” and terrible mur
ders by the Kti KlnxKlans, that any one will
believe. We are at a loss to conjecture how
such sheets will fill up their columns hereafter.
The truth is, that everybody North and
South, is tired with this everlasting slander
and vituperation, and has determined to in
augurate an era of good feeling. There is
really no cause of quarrel now between tbe
two sections. There is no more reason for
Greeley to abuse Georgia than Ohio, and not
as much, for Georgia allows the negro to
vote and Ohio refuses him that privilege—
refused it by 75,000 majority. This is now
his pet hobby, and we suggest he turns his
batteries across tbe Ohio river, and not the
Potomac, until he reforms those intractable
people.
We do not see what these violent partizans
hope to gain by always traducing the South
ern people. We obey tbe laws, and pay our
taxes, arc doing our fall share in developing
the resources and advancing the general in-
teresls of the American Republic. The ne
gro has more privileges here than in New
York or Pennsylvania. What else do they
expect of us? They seem to have none
other than a mean and a perverse spirit.
This cannot last long. The whole nation
is weary of this quarrel, and demands its ces
sation. All cause for division and bad feeling
has passed away. It ended with the death
of slavery, and we look forward for real peace
and an era of universal good feeling at an
early day.
The Weekly Telegraph.—The occur
rence of Thanksgiving on our regular pub
lication day compelled ns to anticipate it
this week by twenty-four hours.
We are gratified at the constantly occnring
indications of the increasing popular appre
ciation of our Weekly. A few days ago, a
gentleman in Troup sent for tbe paper and
vrsa so favorably impressed with its charac
ter and promise ior usefulness, that he ob
tained us ten subscribers at the same office
in a few hours.
Another valued patron in Calhoun writes
us: “Please notify me in good time when my
subscription will expire, as I do not on any
account, wish to miss a single number. The
Tblboraph is a household fixture, and yoor
bumble servant a life-time subscriber. Your
for ft State Fair meets the approval
of all whom I have beard speak of it.”
Another snbeoriber in Athens by same
mail says: M t like your paper very much. It
is tbe beat I ever caw, and I shall al
ways take it ariong as I am able.”
ttnnb teetimeniala oatne to UB almost every
tn£ we believe subscribers will benefit
n °t otdy qs bat the.people of their neighbor-
bo °d*if they win assist in extending the
c “’ c *Utlon of tbe paper.
North Carolina.—According to the mes
sage Of Gov. Holden, just sent to the Legis
lature, the debt of North Carolina, on Oct.
1st, 1868, was $19,208,945, inclusive of bonds
issued for internal improvements, amounting
to nearly $400,000. The amount of interest
maturing on Oct. 1st was $112,000, which
has been paid in cash. The interest matur
ing dnring the present fiscal year, ending
Sept. .80, 1869, will amount to $1,032,369.
The expenses of the State Government dnr
ing the present fiscal year are estimated at
$375,230, which added to the interest falling
due will leave $1,407,826 to beprovidodfor.
To meet this; the Treasurer will have $50,-
034 84 on band leaving the remainder to be
raised by taxation. The stocks and bonds
held by the State amount to $13,241,100.
Buying up the National Intelligen
cer.—Movements prejudicial to Air. Forney,
as an organ-grinder, are said to be in pro
gress. A telegram from Washington says:
It has leaked ont that Thurlow Weed and
Henry J. Raymond are busy negotiating for
wbat remains of tbe old Intelligencer, with
a view to making it Grant’s organ. Weed is
to reside here and have charge of it, while
Raymond contributes from New York. For
ney’s Chronicle and the Intelligencer are
both for sale. It is understood that Gor
ham, Secretary of the Senate, wants to pur
chase the Chronicle.
tat Stock Fair Ground Associa
tlon.
It will be some assurance of an improve
ment in matters if Forney is superseded by
Raymond and Weed, neitlierof whom admit
that they are Radicals. The difficulty, how
ever, with both, is they don’t know exactly
where they stand. They theorize beautiful
ly but wind up by suppporting everything
they condemn.
Somebody expresses this opinion of Gen.
Halleck as a warrior: A puffy and baldish
instance of how much a man may not know
by reading military books, he was one of the
premature favorites of the early part of the
war, and when the galaxy of really grand
Field Marshals caught up to him, they found
him intrenched as the rankingMsjor-Gcneral.
It was as if Napoleon should storm the bridge
of Lodi, and find an old codger crawling out
of a book-case at the other end, in a Gen
eral’s uniform, saying, “ I was here already 1”
He always reminded me of an old woman,
with a recipe book, cooking campaigns with
his Jomini; keeping the country in a stew
by his Jomini; parboiling patience accord
ing to Jomini. Where Jomini ceased, Hal
leck failed to begin, and so he glided, mel
low os a frosted persimmon, into the choice
and approved fruit of generalship.
Row in Covington.—The Griffin Star
learns from a gentleman who has just re
turned from Newton county, that a serious
row occurred near Covington, on Tuesday last.
From our informant we gather the follow
ing:
It seems that a crowd of negroes armed,
were prowling around the country, stealing,
when the presiding Judge, Green, ordered
their arrest. The Sheriff with a Bailiff and
two or three others, went after them, when
Lis party was attacked by the negroes, and
the Bailiff’s head split open with an axe in
the hands of a negro, and the Sheriff and hiB
party compelled to run. The Judge ordered
the Sheriff to summon a posse andjgo after
them, and on yesterday he succeeded in ar
resting quite a number of these desperadoes.
As court is now in session, we trust the
guilty party may have a trial and get the full
benefit of the law.
WHITE LABOR.
We agree with the Athens Watchman in
an article copied to-day. When we enquire
so anxiously whether the negroes will work,
let us also press the enquiry whether the
white man will work ? It is time for our
young men to get rid of those old-field slave
ry notions that they cannot stand the Geor
gia sun-shine. Four years in the war should
teach them all better; and a little manly ex
perience at it will prove to every healthy
young white man’s satisfaction that he can
out-labor the best black field-hand on his
place ?
If you want to make negroes work and
make good crops, too, put yourself, hoe in
hand, at their head, and you will have no
C8US6 of complaint. It is melancholy to see
yonng men in Georgia idling away their
time—waiting for “situations,” or “some
thing to turn up,” when there is so much
idle and unappropriated ground to turn up,
and where every one of them might set out
at once upon a career, as a cultivator of the
soil—though upon a very limited scale—
which, in the end, if pursued with intelli
gence and energy, could not fail to place him
in an independent position. In Georgia
every yonng man can soon reach a position of
pecuniary independence if he is willing to
make the sacrifices necessary to attain it.
And now is tbe accepted time 1 Let them
neglect present opportunities, and before they
grow old in their generation they will see
strangers filling the places they should oc
cupy, growing rich by acquisitions in the
steady pnrsuit of farming and rise in landed
property which Georgia will witness in the
next ten or fifteen years. Young man, go to
fanning. _r
Single
The Trial of me Hon. Jefferson Da
vis. — The Richmond Whig, of Tuesday,
says Mr. Davis will be represented in tbe
United States Circuit Court, when bis case is
called, by Judge Ould and Hon. James Ly
ons. There will then be a further contin
uance until next term. General Samuel
Cooper, Adjutant-General/jf the Confederate
State?, is^iere, in obedience to a summons, as
a witness in this case.
A gentleman
some- thing j n the' world to get lost in his corn
fields. I strayed into one field and walked
Thirty-six Potatoes From
Vine.—The Dublin Citizen says:
We have been shown a nice lot of Irish po
tatoes—thirty-six in number, trom one vine
by Mr. James Meek, near this city. The po
tatoes are all well formed, and quite large,
tome oftbemmeainring six inches in length,
They are a long, purple potato, and most ex
cellent for the table. The moles bad, appar
ently been feasting on the hill for some time,
or the yield would have been still larger.
Lost in a Corn-field.
writing from Illinois to a friend in Boston
says:
While out hunting, two weeks ago, I was
in some corn-fields which belonged to a man
named Sullivan. He probably owns more
land than any farmer in the State. He is the
proprietor of nine townships, each six miles
square. This year he has 25,000 acres of
corn. This seems like a big story, but it is,
nevertheless, true. It was just the easiest
Eatonton, November 23,1868.
Mann. Clitby <& Reid : As the Telegraph
has an enormous circulation in Putnam, and
probably the adjoining counties, perhaps you
wiil allow me to age it as a medium for com
municating gome thoughts with regard to
our next Fair to tbe members of our Club.
And since your paper reaches thousands and
thousands of readers all over the State, who
knows but the members of other clubs may
find something in this letter calculated to ar
rest their attention, and, at least, set them to
thinking f At our last regular meeting I in
troduced some resolations looking to the
formation of a Joint Stock Fair Ground
Company, under the auspices of the Club.
Their passage was not urged, but they were
discussed to a limited extent aud laid over,
to be called up and further considered at
future meetings. The plan appears to be
quite unpopular, owing to a want of thought
among those who oppose it; Let them give
mo a patient hearing. Every man who' says
anything against it, urges that he has no
personal objection, but that the idea of try
ing to make money out of a fair will inevita
bly bring down npon us the hostility of the
people generally. But suppose the people,
or a large majority of them, take stock, wil:
they then be opposed to their own institu
tion ? And according to tbe proposed plan
the shares are put at five dollars each. What
man is there in this whole country, who feels
any interest in such things, who thinks
enough aboht them to either like or dislike
them, that is unable to take one share?
But again: only ten per cent.—only one
dollar—of each share must necessarily be
paid in, in order to obtain a charter from
the Superior Court. How are fairs got up?
Is not money indispensable in conducting
them ? Well, where is tbe money to come
from ? Is it not to be furnished by our mem
bers ? Was it not so furnished for our last
fair ? Then why not put this money loaned,
or given, in the form of subscriptions to
stock ? _ Was it not distinctly understood
that if if we had made money by the fair,
we would have distributed the surplus among
the members or hold it as assets, as property,
belonging to the Club? And did we not
try to make the concern pay? Will we not
always try to make it pay? Did not the
Hancock Club try to make its fairs pay, and
did they not succeed ? Don’t all clubs pur
sue the same course ? Could any set of effir
cient men be found so foolish, in this our
day of poverty, that they would, for a series
of years, do such an immense amount of
work and incur such heavy expense, besides
enduring an untold number of vexations in
holding Fairs, if they were sinking mouey all
the while? And they must either lose or
make. They cannot come out exactly even.
We expect to own property. We intend
to buy a piece of land and erect permanent
buildings on it. Now to whom will this
property belong ? Some members of our
club loaned tbe club money. Many others
of us gave money in various amounts, from
five to fifty dollars. This will be the case
again. A great many will contribute noth
ing but their one dollar admission fee: some
not even that. If we acquire property under
onr present Constitution and by-laws, any
member, although he may have paid only his
initiation fee of one dollar, will have just as
much interest in this property, and just as
much voice in controlling it, as he who con
tributes his hundreds. This is not right, it
is not just. As already remarked, the money
for buying the land, erecting the buildings,
etc., is to be furnished by the members of
the club. My plan is to let each man have a
vote for every five dollars he pays into the
treasury, and no more; and should dividends
be declared, let each man draw in proportion
to the stock he owns. The more I think of
it the more convinced I am that the preju
dice against a stock company is unreason
able. In Kentucky fairs are conducted on
scarcely any other plan. There, too, the as
sociations number, iu some instances, only
eight or ten members, who own all tho stock,
who manage it well, who make their exhibi
tions interesting to the last degree, who
make no secret of the fact that their fairs are
a source of profit, and who yet contrive to
render them popular, for if they were not
popular they could not be profitable. I pro
posed to our club to make the shares so small,
providing that no one man should take too
many at first, that all might have an oppor
tunity of coming in. And it does seem to me
that this is just as far as we ought to go in
yielding to a prejudice which is supposed to
exist here, but which does not exist in Ken
tucky, or at least is not strong enough to in
jure the joint stock fair ground associations.
Here is the patent fact, repeated once more.
Any fair ground association, any agricultural
or other society holding fairs will expect to
own property. This property ought to belong
to tbe men who put their hands in their
pockets and pay for it—not to those who
never contribute one cent towards its pur
chase.
The process of obtaining a charter for a
joint stock company is exceedingly simple.
Say wc wish to organize with a capital of
four thousand dollars.' We open our books,
get the amount subscribed, and ten per cent,
or only four hundred dollars actually paid in,
petition the Superior Court, the Clerk files
tbe petition ; it is published odcg a week for
a month in the nearest gazette, at tho end of
which time a charter is granted; and all this
can be done at chambers, whether Court is
in session or not. Tho man who subscribes
five dollars need pay in only fifty cents; he
who take stock to the amount of fifty dollars
pays in only five. As we heed the funds we
can call for payment of certain sums, and of
course those who fail to respond forfeit their
stock. Probably at least a year would elapse
before we. would be required to pay the last
instalment, and the drain would be distribu
ted, in driblets of a few dollars at a time,
over the whole of that period. Ou any other
plan, my impression is we would have to ap
ply to the Legislature for a charter. On any
other plan, we will have many disputes as to
the distribution of powers. On any other
plan, we are bound to fall behind in the race
with those who will organize in the way they
think best calculated to carry out their de
signs, regardless of foolish prejudices.
Your ob’dt serv’t, Wm. W. Tuhnbb.
four and a half miles before I came to the
end of the row of corn which I followed.
Fatal Accident.—As a freight train on
the Belma road was coming into Rome last
Thursday morning, a negro named Sam
Shropshire was run over by the entire train,
breaking both legs in two places, in the most
shocking manner, and almost severing them
from his body. He lived a few hours in the
moat extreme agony and expired.
The circumstances attending the accident
were as follows: from the bridge to the de
pot is down grade. After passing the bridge,
they cut the engine loose from the train, and
it was switched off on to the depot track, and
then the switch turned back, thus keeping
the remainder of the train on the main track.
Sam was walking on tho main track, and see
ing tho engine coming on the side track, sup
posed the whole train was following it, and
so felt safe in his position. The engine passed
him about the time he was knocked down.
[Rome Courier.
Burned at Sea—Loss sf {he Steam*
ship Matanzas.
Captain O. P. Hazard, of the steamship
Matanzas, a telegraphic account of the burn
ing of which vessel appeared a couple of
days ago, has furnished the following details
of the disaster:
On November 12, at 6 A. m., we left Savan
nah, Georgia, with cargo of cotton and rice,
bound for New York; weather fine and
pleasant, with light winds from north north
east ; at 8 A. M., passed Tybee lighthouse; 8-
50 a. m., passed sea buoy; ll A. m., passed
Day ends with fresh northeast winds and mod
erate head sea. November 13—Nothing trans
pired mucli of note. November 14-Began with
moderate north-northeast winds and heavy
sea. Between the hours of 9 and 11 a. m., thirty
miles southwest of Cape Hatteras, exchanged
signals with steamships Herman Livingston
and General Meade, also two steamers un
known, bound south; 2:30 p. u., made Cape
Hatteras, bearing northwest one half west,
about fourteen miles distant; 4:15 p. m., Cape
Hatteras bore west, fifteen fathoms of water,
when Mr. Berryman, the chief engineer, re
ported to me that we would have to stop the
ship for five or six hours to repair tubes in
boilers. I then put ship’s head to tbe east
ward and ran for one hour, working steam
down. Then I made all sail; hove ship
to, stopped engine, when the engineer
hauled tires and blowed down boilers. At
10 p. m., engineer reported to me that he was
all ready to start again. I Sounded in forty-
fire fathoms water. Started Bhip and steered
north northwest and took in all sail; wind
northeast with high sea. 12 midnight
sounded and was about to haul on my course,
when an explosion took place and immedi
ately commenced to blow off steam and stop
engine. November 15,12:10 A. m.,—I imme
diately went to ascertain the cause, when I
was met by the chief engineer, who told me
that some of the tubes of the boiler had ex
ploded and would have to lay to to repair.
In a few minutes afterward an alarm was
given that the Ehip was on fire forward be
tween decks, caused by the flames from the
fire room, which penetrated through the bulk
heads to the cotton between decks. Called all
bands, manned the fire pumps and commenced
playing on the burning cotton. The fire spread
so rapidly we found it impossible to cbeck it.
Then I ordered to boats to be cleared away
ready for lowering. In fifteen minutes from
the time the alarm of fire was given the ship
was in one mass of flames about the engine-
room and forward hatch. The boats were at
once lowered and ship abandoned, I judge
in latitude 35 deg. 23 min. north, longitude
75 deg. 63 min. west, Cape Hatteras bearing
southwest one-half west, twenty-three miles
distant, first and second officers and my
self taking charge of the three boats; the
fourth boat were driven from by the fire. We
divided the crew and laid by the burning
ship until daylight, when there was nothing
visible but her bull, wben we commenced
pulling into westward. Shortly afterwards
a sail was reported from tbe second officer’s
boat to be in sight, which proved to be a
schooner standing for us. At 7 a. m. the cap
tain took us on'board. The vessel proved to
be the English schooner Frank, of Sidney, C.
B., Capt. D. McEacbam, from Turk’s Island,
bound for Halifax. He kindly received us
on hoard and bore away for Hampton Roads,
and wo offer our sincere thanks for his kind
and humane treatment. November 16,7 a
m.—Arrived off Fortress Monroe. We were
kindly received on board tbe sreamerMystic,
commanded by Capt. Schermerhorn, to whom
we also tender thanks for landing ns safely
in Norfolk, Va.
A REMARKABLE STORY.
A Widow Harried to Ler own Brother,
whom she had never seen.
Episcopal Convention of th3 Eastern
Shore—Election of a Bishop.—The clergy
and laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church
of the Eastern Shore of Maryland assembled
in Convention in Christ Church, in Easton,
on Thursday last, and elected Bishop Lay, of
Arkansas, Bishop of the Diocese of “Easton.”
• There is a wine cellar in London extending
eleven acres underground.
Homicide in Randolph. — We take the
following from the Cuthbert Appeal:
A sad spectacle was presented on Saturday
last, of a stalwart representative of the “new
estate in tho realm,” who lay stretched in
the Court-house in the rigid embrace of
death, a victim to pork proclivities.
The name of this unfortunate was Basil,
and it appears that several youths, among
the number young Harebuck, while hunting
at night came upon the deceased in the
woods, about 2 1-2 miles south of this place,
engaged in butchering a slaughtered hog.
Upon being accosted he threw tbe carcass
npon bis shoulders and gave leg bail.
Before be conld escape, however, yonng
Harebuck exclaimed, “Don’t attempt to get
away; we know you,” at the same time col
laring him.
The unfortunate thief then turned upon
his antagonist with a batcher knife, and at
tacked him savagely,' cutting through his
coat in several places and grazing the skin of
his neck. Instantly drawing a small single
barrel Derringer, the yonng man then, in
self-defence, shot bis assailant through tbe
body, and be fell dead npon his face witb
the murderous weapon still firmly clenched
in his grasp.
The yoaDg man reported the case prompt
ly, and a jury of inquest was summoned,
who rendered a verdict of death from a
pistol shot in the hands of Harebuck.
One opinion only exists in the commnnity
concerning this homicide, and that is that it
was a clear case of self defonce, and the
robber met tfie fate which his own folly and
recklessness provoked.
A few more snch cases of summary punish
ment in the very act, and tbe wholesale pil
lage which .now renders all property insecure
will be abated. Where no tew can be en
forced the property holder must/of necessity,
be “a law onto himself.”
From <>>e Detroit Free Frees. Nor. 21.]
There passed through this city yesterday,
en route to Chicago, a lady whose history is
one of the most remarkable ever brought to
public notice. It has been well said that
truth is stranger than fiction, and the details
of this lady’s history abundantly verify the
adage. For reasons which all will see the
propriety of, we withhold her name, merely
relating the facts as they were communicated
to our reporter by one who had heard her
“strange, true story” from her own lips. In
1838 her parents emigrated to this country
from England, leaving behind them an only
son some ten years of age, who had engaged
as cabin-boy on a merchant vessel in the East
India trade—they landing in New York,
when, a few months later, the subject of this
sketch was born. While she was yet a
helpless infant both her parents died,
and she was sent to the Foundling’s Home,
where she remained sometime, wben she was
finally adopted by a lady and gentleman who
then resided in Elmira, N. Y. Of course she
knew nothing of her sailor brother, and she
grew up iu tbe belief that she was really tbe
child of her foster parents. At the age of
18 she married an industrious young mechan
ic, and set out for the great West. After
traveling in various States, they finally set
tled in Missouri, where they continued pros
perous and happy until the storm of war
buret upon the country. Then her husband,
in common with the thousands of bis mis
guided countrymen, enlisted in tbe service
of the rebellion, and was assigned to Gen.
Price’s army. He served faithfully during
the first eighteen months of the war, but was
finally killed in one of the.Southwestem en
gagements. From tbe breaking out of tbe
war, the lady of whom we write bad lo3t all
trace of her foster parents, owing to the dis
turbed condition of that portion of the coun
try in which she resided, and after her hus
band’s death she removed to St. Louis, where
she sought to maintain herself by sewing. In
1863 she again married, and her husband em
barked in business in St. Louis. This last
marriage was a thoroughly happy one.
and in the course of time two children
were born unto them. The husband
gradually extended his business operation,
so that much of his time was necessa
rily Bpent in traveling about the coun
try, and during one of his business tours he
visited Chicago, where he became acquaint
ed with a lady and gentleman, who, by a
fortunate chain of circumstances, he ascer
tained were the long-lost foster parents of
his wife. Delighted at the discovery he had
made, and pleased no’ doubt with anticipa
tions of the joyful surprise he should give
his wife, the husband at once concluded his
business with tbe intention of returning to
St. Louis, and bringing her to Chicago for
the purpose of reuniting her with her friends,
without having first prepared cither party
for such an event On the night of his con
templated departure for home, while con -
versing with Mr. and Mrs. , it happened
that he was led into a recital of his adven
tures about the world, and before the narra
tive was finished his listeners knew that their
adopted daughter had married her own
brother, who, before she wa? born, had
sailed for East India. Horrified beyond ex-,
pression, the wretched man fled from the
house, and from that hoar no tidings of him
have ever reached his friends.
This was in March last, and a few weeks
later tbe wretched sister-wife was rendered
comparatively poor by tbe destruction of a
large portion of the property left in her hands,
by fire.
Although written to by her stricken friends,
the letters never reached her, and a few weeks
since she started for Elmira, her early home.
Upon her arrival here she learned the address
or her foster parents, with whom she at once
communicated, giving them fall details of her
experience since she had first bade them fare
well, upon setting ont for her Western home.
Their answer to her letter contained a state
ment of the terrible discovery of the identity
of her husband and brother, together with an
affectionate invitatidn to home to them with
her children and share their home.
Heart-broken, and nearly craned by the
strange denouement of her happy married life,
_ . POPES »>v -
Labor,
We have for many yean past earnestly en
deavored to impress upon tbe young men 'of
our country the vast importance of labor,
both manual and intellectual;*hot merely as
a necessity to support life, but as tbe only
means of developing and perfecting that ex
alted manhood to which it is the duty of all
to aspire.
What was once a duty has now becojpe a
necessity with thousands whose prospects a
few years ago warranted the belief that they
might get through the world, in some shape,
without work! The events of the war hate
behind in the world, but will absolutely go
under, ‘it wiil not pay to sit under*China
trees and curse tbe lazy freedmen. Many of
our people have tried this for the past three
or four years, and find they get poorer every
day, while those who went to work are pros
pering.
But many young men say they cannot find
anything to dd—by which they mean that
the learned professions are crowded, and
mercantile pursuits and public offices. If
they could get into a lucrative practice as a
lawyer or doctor, or a fat Salary as a minister,
or a nice office of some sort, or a high salary
as a clerk, they think they would like to go
to work! Ab, there’s the rub 1 They desire
to begin at the top of tbe ladder. They are
not willing to commence as all have done
who have achieved success—at the ground.
There’s the trouble.
We know young men who have been offered
places as clerks, etc., who have indignantly
declined, acceptnig because the salary was too
small 1 A gentlemap who had made a hun
dred thousand dollfitv (or some other large
sum) before the war, informed us the other
day that he would have heen glad to have
gotten as much per year when he commensed
as young men now refuse to take per month 1
Many of our readers know. George W. Wil
liams, the eminent merchant and banker of
Charleston, who had amassed millions before
the war. It has been but a few years since
he swept out a grocery store on “Cat Alley”
for his food and raiment! We might multi
ply thousands of instances, all going to show
that tbe man who achieves success must “be
gin foot and spell up 1”
But the learned professions and mercantile
pursuits are not the only avenues to wealth
and respectability. There is that noblest and
most sadly neglected of all callings—the one
to which God trained Adam—tilling the
earth. The world needs thousands and
millions more farmers. We have here in
Georgia unnumbered thousands of acres of
productive lands lying-idle. Mr. Bancroft,
has demonstrated that onr poor hill sides can
be made to yield three bales of cotton to the
acre—which will bring three hnndred dollars
at present prices! What other avocation pays
better I No other occupation is so healthful
and independent—none more honorable and
useful. Look around yon, among onr inde
pendent farmers and planters through the
country. Did you ever inquire into their early
history ? Have yon any idea as to the num
ber who commenced life as plow boys, over
seers, etc. ? The road is open to you. You
may do likewise.
And then, if you don’t fancy farming,
there is the mechanic arts, which open up a
vast field of intelligent, skilled labor—useful,
honorable and profitable labor. “ Ah, bnt
the girls would laugh at me if I should turn
mechanic.” Would they, though ? Well, if
they should, you will have the consolation of
knowing that the good opinion of such is
not worth having. The time is coming, and
now is, when all such silly nonsense most be
abandoned. The silly girls who laugh at
you (if any such there be) will yet be com
pelled to learn to do something themselves.
The once too common practice of decrying
honest labor has “ played ont,” and those
who indu’ged in it in former times must now
go to work or suffer.
The idea that one pursuit is more honor?
al>]p Ilian nnothor is c. dcllltUOD and Snare.
All honest and useful pursuits are alike hon
orable—some are more pleasant or more
profitable than others. Some of the bright
est intellects and some of the world’s great
est benefactors have been trained in the work
shop. The writer saw the President of the
United States at work as a tailor in his hum
ble little shop in Greenville a few years ago,
and we believe the President elect was “run
ning” a tanyard in Illinois when the war
broke out I
Let ns have no more sneering at honest,
useful labor—but let it all be reserved for
vicious, soul-destroying and body-enervating
idleness. Let all yield cheerful obedience to
God’s great law: “In tbe sweat of tby faee
shalt thou eat. bread,” and let all.labor dili
gently either with hand or brain, and all
traces of war’s desolation will speedily van
ish, and we shall enter upon a race of pros
perity which will astonish the whole world.
[Athene Watchman.
Jn a long anl interesting article-upon this
spending a® nSf’wIth om o^the^osU^
telhgeat gentlemen and successful planters in
Jefferson county, to whom wepfopotS
our usual questions on this subject asto man
agement success, etc, allof w4h he aeSX
to take pleasure in answering. He manam*
“i^ °" 8: h,b l«ge tracts of lands, h/fT
Vided off into small farms, upon each of these
SZra 6 H a f comf ° rtabte settlement for hU
tenants. He furnishes each tenant with as
many mules or horses as may be necessarr h?
the cultivation of the land, puts inT7e£j
bushels of corn and twelve hundred pound?
of fodder for each mule and -
the tenant to furnish the
requires
The tenant is held responsible 6 for^the
condition of the mules until the crop i!
laid by, when he returns the mules to
owner, or retains them at his own expensed
feeding. The expense for blacksmith work
etc, « equally paid by owner and tenant At
gathering time the crop is housed, one-h^f
retained by the'tenant, the other carried and
put into the barn of the ow D er of the land
The cotton is picked out, carried to tbe ein
house on the premises, ginned and divided'
each bearing bis part of expense in gimW
etc. Each tenant is required to cultivate hu
crop well.
The tenants are encouraged in raisins hop*,
poultry-in fact, everything that they mar
need. While the landlord does not assume
to be overseer of the crops, as in days gone
by, he visits the different farms occasionally
and by nia advice and counsel aids his teu-
ants in planting their crops and in cultivating
tbe same. s
Our informant remarked that ofccasionallv
he met with a hand that could not be relied
upon, and with such an one he did the best
he could until his time was out, if a tenant,
or if a hireling, after giving him a fair trial
supplied his place with a better. He stated
that his net profits were much larger than
under the old system of slavery; (and he was
then a very successful farmer) that he had
less care upon his mind and what he made
was his own. His tenants were happy and
contented, and were doing well for them
selves. This conversation occurred about
the first of October, and he told ns that even
then all bis lands, hundreds of acres, were
taken for the next year.
We have met with other gentlemen who
were pursuing very much the same line of
policy, and with like results; but we give
this one as covering the whole ground. As
before remarked, we believe this to be the
plan for the management of freedmen, and
commend it to the consideration of farmers
generally.
The negroes were good workers when
slaves, and we believe can be made so as
freedmen. There are thousands among them
who are too lazy to work, and who will con
gregate about cities and towns until they find
their way into the Penitentiary or something
of that sort. But we find lazy,, good-for-
nothing men among all nations and kindreds
—men who have been free all their lives, and
yet at thirty or forty years, though stout and
healthy, have not accumulated enough to give
them a decent burial.
reunited to her earliest sad dearest friends.
Laconics in Politics.
The Hon. Hr. Strader, who was elected in
the Cincinnati district of Ohio, over Eggles
ton, the Republican candidate, is a successful
business man and a man universally loved and
respected by all classes; but the peculiarity
of his political career is that his speeches usu
ally consist of a single proverb and are even
briefer than those of Gen. Grant. Some
times, bn very important occasions, he strings
together two or three proverbs. On the eve
ning of the reception of Gen. Blair in Cin
cinnati, a tremendous asatmblage bad gather
ed, when Mr. Strader was called on for a
speech. He appeared and spoke as follows:
‘Boys, this crowd indicates a healthy com
munity. Good seeds bringforth good fruits.”
(Great and long continued cheering and re
peated cries of “Go on 1 go on 1”). “Boys,
good seeds bring forth good fruits.”. (Im
mense cheering.) This was the extent of his
speech.
On tbe evening of tbe October election,
when the returns were coming ia, giving
sorer and surer indications of his victory, he
was called out amid overwhelming enthusi
asm, and spoke as follows: “ Boys, we have
met the enemy, and they are ours.” (Great
cheering, and cries—“Go onl”) : “Boys,
hang out your banners on the outward wall.
The cry is, still they come.” (Loud laugh
ter and cheering, and cries of “ Go on 1 go
on!) “ Boys, never mind the weather when
the wind don’t blow.” (Great cheering.)
With this he retired. Hia speeches have be
come by-words, and have created an en
thusiasm for him which, with his general
popularity, insured hia election in a district
which has been represented by a Republican.
Superior Lemon Pie.—Mrs. James Mun-
roe Alden, of Auburn, New York, treated our
palate, when returning fron. the State Fair,
with some of the best lemon pie we have ever
met with. As tho proof of the padding is
always in the eating, and not in chewing the
string of the pudding bag, we solicited a re
cipe for the readers of the Times, which is as
follows:
Grate off the outside of a lemon and squeeze
the juice into the same dish, then chop the
remainder very fine; beat the yonlks of two
eggs, mix a tablcspoonful of corn starch with
a tablespoonful of cold water and unite it
with the' above ingredients, and a teacup of
hot water and a tablespoonful of batter. Put
the whole quantity upon a quick fire aud stir
gently until it is thoroughly cooked. , Have
your crust slightly baked, add your prepared
lemon after being cooked. Set the whole
into the oven and let it remain fifteen or
twenty minutes to complete tbe baking of tbe
crust. Bat the whites of two eggs, add
twelve teaspoonfuls of pulverized eager, put
this frosting upon the pie, and let it stay in
the oven owl slightly browned.
A Rim> Winter Predicted.—Our experienced
weather >rognoeticators predict a hard winter.
The various sigh* have already aaade themselves
apparent. The fin and moat Important ot them, a
snowstorm yesterday, so soon after a similar vlsit-
jn a few nights previously. For several Weeks
it the sad and dismal “ chirps” of hM* high In,
■ icould be distinctly heard on saltenights.
.thtnd tribe are now passing soutewwdln
flocks. Dnring the day some eeaae
Others teat flyaSmoat tnceseantiyarei „
' by tee naked*?*. FteSfcsof
the wretched woman hastened to accept the wUdgeeiahave also been seen fljteg to the »°teh-
offer, an'd this morning will doubtless seeker SwSrth* niSbabf
lj — 3 iA 11 A » A a A_ lllilillwWliSP |AWU*U»
A Sampson or tbe 18tb Century.
In Dr, Alfred Booth’s Reminiseenses of
Springfield, Mass., occur the following ac-
county of Deacon Hitchcock: “Born in
1722, in the North Main street region, he re
moved while a young man into the east part
of the town, now known as South Wilbraham,
married in 1743, and was the first deacon ot
the church there, continuing in office many
years. He is well remembered by the Hon.
Oliver B. Morris, as occupying the deacon’s
seat at meetings, bis white”®' 1 ' ^ufcs girsug
him a venerable appearance. During a long
life he was of wonderful strength, agiiitv and
endurance, and had he lived in the palmy
days of Greece, he would have been a
worthy competitor in the games of those
days. It is related of him that on one
occasion, a man riding by the field where he
was at work and boosting of the speed of his
horse, was chall&nged by the deacon, who
said he could run to Springfield quicker on
foot than the horse with his rider could. The
test resulted in the triumph of the deacon,
distance ten miles, time not stated. He wonld
lift a cart load of hay by getting his shoulders
under the axle, in a stooping posture, and
throw an empty cart over with one hand by
taking hold at the end of the axle-tree. When
loading grain in a cart he would take a bag
by the teeth, and with a swing and the aid of
a push from the knee, throw it into the cart
He had double teeth in front, aftd would held
a ten-penny nail by them and break it oft
with his fingers. He used to say be did not
know a man he conld not whip or run away
from. The day he was seventy years old, he
remarked to bis wife that when they were
first married he was wont to amuse her by
taking down his hat with his toes, and added,
‘I wonder if I could do it now 1’ Thereupon
he jumped from the floor, took off his hat
with his ’ toes, came down on bis feet like a
cat, hung np the hat on the nail, turned to
the table, asked a blessing, and ate of the
repast then ready.”
A Radical Office-Holder In Georgia
A correspondent of the New York Times,
good Republican authority, describes an im
portant Radical functionary in thiswise:
A friend who recently visited a county in
Southern Georgia, (McIntosh, I believe,)
where the offices of Ordinary and Sheriff are
filled by negroes, gave me a very amusing ac
count of the calibre and conversation of
these officials. Remember that the Ordinary
is a very responsible judicial officer, whose
special charge it is to take cars of the estates
of widows and orphans, and to attend to all
mattere relating to wills, administration, &c.,
and very often to decide very knotty points
of law. My informant told me that he never
met a more stupid or more entirely illiterate
negro them the one who filled that high office
in the county to which I refer. He could not
speak intelligible English. He spoke the
Gull&h dialect of the ooast. which cannot be
comprehended by any outsider.
His Honor wanted on one occasion to count
seven in payment of some debt, which he
did as follows: “Here’s wan. (anglice, heres
one,) and here’s tarn, (here’s tother, meaning
two,) and here’s wan on top o’narra, (here s
one on top of another, meaning three,) and
here’s one wid the fats all tied togarra,
(here’s one with the feet all tied together,
meaning four, to be added to the three al
ready enumerated, and expressed by a figure
derived from the sale of chickens, in which
it is the bsbit to tie four chickens by the feet.)
Jeftrrson Davis.—Tho case of Jefferson
Davis, the President of the late Confederacy,
was called for trial at the Circuit Court in
Richmond yesterday. On motion of the
counsel for the Government, it was postponed
until the next term of tbe court.
It is dear that Davis will never be tried,
and also that if he should be brought to tnal
he would be acquitted. Is it not time that
the ceremony ot calling his case and putting
it off should cease I What ia the use of keep
ing up 8 formality so destitute of meaning ?
Why not enter a nolle proeegui and dismiss
the defendant to the judgment of histwy-
New York Sun, JITte. 2ith.
Notes to br Withdrawn-—GeneralF.
Spinner, Treasurer df ’ tbe United Statee,^
issued a circular to national banks ahd
nated depositaries, directing
from Jm^htendernoteaOnl.anVjgJ
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unfit far clreulsttao
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