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The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraphs
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1869.
'The End of tbe Warn of the Savannah
Banditti, and AVliat Is Likely to
Bollow.
The telegrams yesterday reported from Sa-
-y~r»«>i that the negro insurgents came down to
the United States troops like Capt. Scott’s coon.
- “Fourteen insurgents surrendered themselves,"
and nine were expected to “come \in." This
“coming in" sounds so much like the old-time
JaBr of the Florida Indian war, that one might
vrU suspect the existence of a cross of the cop
per-skin in the camp of the African Ogeechees.
TjYo know what it all probably means. Time
and observation have taught us the exact value
-of these concessions. In Florida, whenever the
TwfKnrm felt themselves cornered, or saw an ap
proaching catastrophe which might be fatal to fur
ther resistance, they surrendered and “came in.”
They took a breathing spell—got new blankets
nwf rifles, and in a short time were equipped for
• new raids on civilization. How far the parallel
may bold good in the case of these so-called
•‘‘Ogeechoe insurgents,” we will not undertake
to pronounce with confidence, but we have con
victions so strong that we regard the suppres
sion of the “insurrection" in this way, as a great
misfortune to that part of the State—to the
.whites and to the negroes themselves.
The “insurrection,” so-called, will now prob
ably dwindle into that worst and most incurable
of social disorders, a chronic condition of pred
atory vagrancy. In this state of affairs, while
saacts of such startling violence may be perpe
trated, os will seem to justify a resort to conclu
sive proceedings, the whole region will be kept
in such a state of unsettlement and apprehension
as to he valueless for all the great purposes of
civilization. It will still be' dominated over by
bands of black vagrants in a condition of prac
tical outlawry.
The few white proprietors of the soil will l>e
forced to abandon the country, or live in perpet
ual disquietude and terror; and the “ Ogeechee
insurgents” will occupy itas predatory squatters
—nomads and semi-barbarians—subsisting upon
the catch of the forests, swamps and tide-waters,
with an occasional act of plnnder and robbery
mid such slight efforts at agriculture as charac
terize barbarians; and lead, in fine, the same
life of sensual and savage indolence which char
acterizes the mass of the enfranchised blacks in
the British andFreuch West Indies nnd in Hayti,
This, we fear, is the moral and meaning of
the “ coming in” business, nnd we point it out,
not to annoy the white population pf those
counties with fears which may possibly, aft er nil.
prove groundless, bnt to stir up the people and
authorities of the country to the necessity of
timely vigilance and precaution against so natu
ral and great a catastrophe, which would not
only inflict a vital injury on that section, but
lend to demoralize others.
Those tide-water counties offer all the condi
tions of a savage paradise. With their mild
climate—their abundance of fish, oysters and
game—their impenetrable fastnesses—their con
tiguity to supplies of powder and all other sav-
:age necessities—their teeming abundance of
Ugldtuood, that crowning luxury of the South
ern idler, white and black, nothing will prevent
a great congregation of squatters there, from op
and down the coast, from highland and lowland,
-■which would soon establish a populous Congo in
• Georgia; and as long as they have far more priv
ileges and immunities than any white possessor
of the soil dares to claim, the problem of pre
vention strikes ns as an extremely subtile and
difficult point—a point to be dealt with deftly
and gingerly. Let the wits and the .-wisdom of
the white popnlationof the coast set themselves
about it, for we tell them, in all sincerity, that
the condition, to us looks unpromising.
The “surrender” and the “coming in” will,
no doubt, be practically accepted in satisfac
tion of all mischief done. The property de
stroyed—families driven off in terror—men
murdered and soon, will go unatoned for and
unpunished, and the practical lesson of the
-whole business to the negro will be. that it is an
easy and cheap matter to run riot over the coun
try, and upset all the securities of law and ell
the conditions of civilization.
Sew Times In Xew Orleans and the
Southwest.
We learn that a new spirit is aroused in New
Orleans and the Southwest generally. Capital-
lots from the western cities are investing in su
gar. and cotton estates and lands are coming
rapidly into request at advanced prices. The
Chicagoans have recently erected in the Crescent
city one of the largest grain elevators in the
country, under the assured fact that the surplus
grain products of the great western river bot
toms can find a far cheaper outlet to the old
world through the port of New Orleans, than by
way of any Atlantic port over two thousand
miles of railway. The western railway grain
freights have been reduced to the lowest possi
ble figure, and yet tables are published showing
a difference in favor of the rivers and New Or
leans of eight to seventeen cents a bushel. It
is believed that New Orleans, under influence
of these facts, will contest supremacy with Chi
cago, as a point for grain operations, in the
course of a few years.
The price of cotton and sugar is also attract
ing the Western farmers to-the superior results
of Southern agriculture, and it is not impossi
ble that a few years may see those grand sngar
Ami cotton estates on the Southwestern rivers
repeopled by a new and burner, but in other re
spects a far more uninteresting race of proprie
tors. The eager and grasping men of the West,
carrying with them the moral prestige of the
. most improved and elevated Radical devotion to
the negroes, will teach Sambo new lessons in
material application to the work of extracting
sugar and cotton from the rich Southwestern al-
luviums. They will not wield the whip, but they
will apply the screws remorselessly: Cuffee will
find the dolce far niente of the old plantation
followed by a far more eager and stringentdis-
-cipline.
Reconvening ol Congress.
■’Congress reconvened after its recess yesterday
morning, and will soon revive apprehension
and disquiet all over the country. Not alone
in Georgia, where we have special reason for
boding, but all over the country, wherever the
interests of trade are unfavorably affected by
political agitation and unsettlement, it is a fact
that the people deplore and dread thq meeting
• of Congress. East, North, West and South, the
sentiment is the same. The people long for re
pose, and distrust all Congressional changes in
• dread of a worse condition. The masses are
staggering under the weight of taxation and the
difficul ty of earning a subsistence. The country,
with giant strides, is moving on either hand to
the extremes of gigantic wealth and toiling and
suffering poverty, and the so-called middling
class is fast being abraded and worn down be
tween the two. The country needs quiet, assu-
. ranee, security, settlement—but the bell which
summons every new meeting of Congress is the
signal of new agitation and new disorder.
We see it stated that the programme opened
Monday night with a caucus in relation to the
repeal of the Tenure-of-offico act. The expec
tation seems to be somewhat general now that
the majority will come down and ngreo to tal;
off the Executive handcuffs.
Cotton Twenty-Five Cents per Found.
That was the report of the Macon cotton mar
ket on Monday lost at Meridian. And it meant
twenty-five cents in green backs, cash on the
nail, for a respectable article of cotton—such, for
example, as would class as good • ordinary. It
meant noften days’ waiting between the delivery
of your cotton and the receipt of the money,
with the probability of an intervening rejection
of a few bales as “below samplehut an eager
buyer—ready to take your cotton one minute
and give you a check for the money in the next.
The habits of the Macon cotton market have not
reached the refinements of the great cotton
marts, bnt are decidely old-fashioned—straight
np and down—so simple and natural that there
is no room for mistake.
But the twenty-five cents for cotton meant a
great deal more than this. It was, in fact, an
other grand practical concession of the suprem
acy of the American staple. When the war
left ns high and dry on the sands of poverty,
withont a cent to bless onrselves with, and in
debt a plehty, the question was—can we make
cotton at all with this free Sambo, who is strut
ting aliout now, feeling himself so rich and so
great; pulling up his shirt collar, and outdoing
a French Marquis with his chatter about de
ladies and de gemmen ob color ? Will he ever
quit marbles and seven-up, and take to the hoe
again?
The case, for a time, looked desperate : but
when our colored friend gradually settled down
to his work, a still more awkward and moment
ous problem startled us. It was: whether
or no we had not lost the market under the
new competition which four years of almost
total retirement from the business had su
perinduced, and the disadvantages of free la
bor? That was the idea of the English and
French dealers and manufacturers. That idea
was echoed in New York—proclaimed on the
floors of Congress by Sprague and others—and
it was an idea which sunk with a more chill and
depressing weight into the sagacious Southern
mind than even the material disasters of the war.
The whole question of the Southern future
hung upon it, and we read with well-founded
alarm, the triumphant vaticinations of the eager
and liberal promoters of French and English co
lonial cotton culture. If their expectations were
fulfilled, the Southern financial Sampson was
hopelessly denuded of his locks and our indus
trial futuro as dark to Ike most sagacious eye as
his blinded optics.
To-day, twenty-five cents for cotton filially
solves the problem. It is the rendition of the
verdict by a jury of foreign purchasers, nnd it
fixes the agricultural future of the South—re
establishes the value of onr lands, and assures
ns of ultimate wealth nnd prosperity. It deter
mines the fact that the world must still look for
its main supplies of this staple to the great cot
ton belt of America, and that fact settled, all
other conclusions follow of course.
We have secured a great business beyond suc
cessful competition, and there is hardly any
reasonable peenniary result which we may not
safely count upon for onrselves and onr section.
It remains for us to take just advantage of
ottr position !>y increasing and improving our
crops: and they will he largely increased and
improved. Manures end improved culture trill
every year develope such advances in production
and quality, that the point of competition will
every fear be increasingly distanced, and every
year, we have no doubt, (occasional disturbing
causes excepted) there will be a steady increase
in the profits of "cotton culture. W’e don’t mean
that it will always bring twenty-five cents or
more: bnt we do mean that, in respect to all its
outside relations and bearings, it trill, in the
general, offer a steadily increasing advantage,
and that it will distance, as a profitable branch
of agriculture, any other crop in the world.
It is in this view of the case that the Tele
graph is anxious that the South and Georgia
shall take hold of this grand destiny with a firm,
sagacious, indomitable, heroic grasp—and un
fold the sooner the grand futuro of agricultu
ral deliceranee and libertyThe avenue of our
escape from political bondage lies through finan
cial recuperation by a thoroughly restored and
rejuvenated agriculture. Give us wealth and
we shall have Power ! The grannies of New
England radicalism can no more hold us in
bondage by their party twaddle when we grow
rich, than thfy can hold Hercules with cobwebs.
The American political world adores the rna-
erial—it worships the golden calf: and already
we see that even the Radical papers are begin
ning to discover that, after all, the Southern
whites are not so rude, ignorant, vicious, degra
ded. silly, weak, vulgar and barbarous as has
been represented since the war. That is simply
and only a tribute to a growing recuperation. It
homage to the cotton crop and the assets it
represents; nnd when the grand yearly sum to
tal of these assets shall soar upwards from three
to four, five, six. seven linndred millions, oh,
what a respectable, Christian, enlightened, Arise
and polished people we shall become! They
will allow us to vote. They will remove the dis
abilities. They will cease to reconstruct us.
Hcrringp, codfish, hay nnd ice will admit us to
an eqnality. Push on the cotton crop.
Macon and Western Railroad.
An election of officers of this company was
held yesterday, with the following result:
President—A. J. "White.
Directors—Jno. B. Ross, T. G. Holt, YY. C.
Bedding, Peter Solomon, L. N. "Whittle, L. D.
Mowry, Edward Padelford, Andrew Low, J. C.
Levy, Charles Moran, "Wm. D. Thompson, Adam
Norris.
We have also received the twenty-third annual
report of the President, which we will notice to
morrow.
MINOR TOPICS.
A vigorous war is being waged upon the franking
privilege. It is certainly greatly abused. The law
originally contemplated the allowing of members of
Congress to send their letters and speeches and such
public documents as they might deem necessary, to
their constituents, free of postage. But of late
years they abuse it by allowing their franks to be
used by a large class of men who get their living by
their wits; who flood the country with lottery
schemes, quack nostrum advertisements, humbug
patents, etc. Members sell the privilege to these
gentrr sometimes for the low sum of two dollars.
The names are lithographed and the wrappers then
printel. Fully an eighth of our postal matter is now
carried free in this way. The law should be revoked
in tote. It is one of the most crying abuses under
the sun. Recently the New York Mercantile Jour
nal issued a specimen sheet of 80,000 copies to send
to the country and didn’t want to pay the postage.
In order to avoid this, it inserted a speech of Mr.
Lynch, of Maine, and he franked the whole lot.
The Rome Courier informs ub that tho deaf and
dumb asylum at Cave Spring now has 53 inmates.
It is supported by an annuity from tho State of
§12,000. “Tho asylum is a beautiful building, con
veniently and comfortably located,” and is under
the ccntrol of YY. O. Conner, principal, Jas. S. Davis
and Jas. Fisher, teachers.
Ox Friday night last, YY. H. Hulsey ana a new
board of aldermen wero inaugurated mayor and
cotmtilmen of Atlanta. Tkoy were elected soveral
months ago by a very small minority of the voters
of that city; hut we believe the retiring officers had
been elected by a still smaller vote.
New Year is a great day in New York. But the
one just passed was characterized by sleet, snow,
hail, rain, wind, frost, ice, and everything else dis
agreeable, except tkundor, lightning, a visit from
Ku-Klnx Kians, and Radical speeches. Even the
Tribune was published that day. It gives us the
following “ specimen brick" of a New York Now
Year’s call: “Passing into the parlor, they (the
young gentlemen calling) are each introduced to the
Madame and daughters, to a cousin from the coun
try, and propably to some young lady friend whose
family are * not receiving calls.’ - After the intro
ductions are concluded, which occupy several min
utes, everybody seems embarrassed. Pretty nearly
the following dialogue then takes place:
“ Madame. The gentlemen have a very unpleasant
day for making calls. I should hardly think they
would venture out.
•* Nice young man (who has Madame on bis list).
Very, indeed. Have you received many calls ?
'‘•Madame. O, yeB, quite a good many. I have not
kept a list. Aramanda, my dear, you have kept a
list. ■>
Daughter. O, Ma, I attempted to; hut there
have been so many. I think wo have had a hun
dred.
“ Madam*. Full as many as that, I am sure. Gen
tlemen, will you walk into tho back parlor and par
take of refreshments?
11 The znadamo now conducts them to tho table, and
points out the various decanters. A glass of sher
ry (or whisky, alas that our ladies think this not a
miss!) and tho young gentlemen depart, wishing
madame and her family and guests a * Happy New
Year.’ That is tho common way of making New
Year calls.”
It seems the poor, persecuted young man, John
H. Surratt, is to undergo new troubles. The blood
hounds who hung Ida mother, are still thirsting for
liia blood. A dispatch from Washington says :—
“During tho past few days several witnesses for
the United States have been before the Grand Jury,
at tho instance of the District Attorney, for tho
purpose of giving evidence on which to base a new
indictment against John H. Surratt. Among those
examined were Bronze Stabler, and the colored wo
man Susan Ann Jackson.”
“A pates in” New York, (The World,) “remarking
upon” personal matters, “observes of one” of our
Legislators: “The Honorable Taliaferro Pago is a
gamboge legislator in Georgia who obtains shoes
by surreptitious means, and rises in them to a ques
tion of privilege, when the swindled shoemaker
attempts to call him to account." As “gamboge” is
a concrete vegetable juice, or inspissated sap, used
chiofly as a pigment, and when taken internally is a
strong and harsh cathartic and emetic, that member
“is certainly more phenomenal” than anything in
existence.
At a recent banquet in New York to Prof. Morse,
Mr. Orton made a “few remarks,” in which he took
strong grounds against tho proposed policy of tho
government taking charge of all the telegraphic
lines in the United States. He counted upon all the
papers in the country opposing the scheme—of
which lie need not be so sure. “During the current
year.” he said, “the telegraph will deliver to the
press of the United States more than 350,000,000
words of press matter, (applause) which divided by
20. the unit of messages on tho Continent of Eu
rope, which will make more messages than are
transmitted by all the lines of Europe, including
Great Britain, during this current year, their com
pensation for that service being in the neighborhood
of §18.000,000, and ours for this specific service to
the press being about §300,000. (Applause.) I
submit whether such a service demands government
interference.”
To some of Mr. W. DeForrest’s ideas of Southern
society we emphatically demur. There are no peo
ple who abhor and detest the common ‘ ‘ rake ” more,
and none who hold tho person of tho-,female so sa
cred as the Southerner. Bo great is our reverence
for our females, that we object to their doing other
than tho lightest kind of work. No gentleman even
in modern to circumstances will permit his wife to
cook a meal, whilst rich and poor white families will
spend their last dollar before seeing them at the
wash tub. This they have scrupulously learned to
believe is the position of the negro. The abolition
of slavery has not in the least changed the practice.
It was the fear of this which inspired the Southern
soldier in the late war, upon every battle-field, to
deeds of unheard of valor. Protection to women
and children was tlieir constant rallying cry.
Dick Bi'steek, a Federal Alabama Judge, is no
ticed in a telegraphic dispatch from Washington, as
being upon trial. He lias figured extensively in the
reconstruction of that State. The charges against
him comprise “malfeasance in office,” (a polite term
for stealing) intoxication, conspiracy with subordi
nate officers to defraud suitors, and general corrup
tion and incompetency to discharge the duties of his
office. The Alabamians are prosecuting him with an
air width gives assurance that he ivill be convicted
upon etch count.
The New Y’ork Times says five hundred thousand
men are upon the muster-rolls of tho noble army of
office-seekers under fl rant’s administration. “About
alf of them probably think, and will claim, that
they were the first to nominate General Grant for
President; tho other half will be prepared to prove
that nothing but tlieir efforts saved the town, tiro
county and the State in which they live from voting
against him. They have all spent time, money and
strength in securing his election, and they all agree
that such efforts and such sacrifices can only be fitly
requital by an office—not a big one. perhaps they
will bo modest enough to say, but ono that will give
them a comfortable support, and enable them to lay
up a little something for a rainy day. And certifi
cates of such service, ilnly attested by local com
mittees. by leaders of the party, by members of
Congress, and other men of credit and renown, are
now in circulation for fresh signatures, in every
town and village, and at every cross-roads hamlet
throughout the country,”
The Spanish Government has at last resolved
upon vigorous measures in regard to tho rebellion in
Cuba. A dispatch from Madrid informs us that ten
thousand troops arc to he sent to the island to aid
in quelling what we have often been told was a very
small affair. A curious fact about the latest news
from Havana is. fifteen hundred negroes have join
ed the Government forces, whose snceess will guar
antee the perpetuation of the slavery of their race
indefinitely.
The poor remains of Black Kettle's tribe, most cru
elly and mercilessly massacred by General Custer—
fifty-throe souls in alL mostly women and children,
have arrived at Fort Dodge. “The kind Quarter
master" issued “blankets to keep them warm," and
had “a horse killed, and also a large dog, for them
to eat. which they thought very nice.” This is a sad
tale, which ought to touch any man’s heart.
A Grand Combination bx the Erie Rail-
boad.—Railway combinations seem to be the
order of the day every where. The Erie Rail
road on the 30th of December last, effected
perpetual lease of the Columbus, Chicago, and
Indiana Central Railroad, which connects with
the Atlantic and Great "Western at Urbana,
Ohio, and will lay a third rail over all its tracks,
amounting to 715 miles. The Erie thus se
cures a through broad-gauge line to Chicago
and Indianapolis, and will try to get in posses
sion of a route from Indianapolis to St Louis.
The amount paid is not known, bnt is in the
neighborhood of 820,000,000. The Western
papers say that the movement created a great
excitement in railroad circles, and will probably
lead to the building of a new and independent
line of road from Indianapolis to the East.
Annexation of West Florida.—Governor
Smith, says the Montgomery Advertiser, has
appointed J. L. Pennington, A. J. Walker, and
C. A. Miller, Commissioners to Florida, to ne
gotiate for the annexation of tho western part
of tho State to Alabama. They will probably
start for Tallahassee next week.
The anexation of that narrow strip of Florida
intervening between the greater part of the
southern boundary of Alabama and the Gulf,
has been a favorite idea of Alabama for a gen
oration, bnt we hardly see how any practical re
suit can come out of it. Florida will certainly
bo unwilling to alienate the territory, without
a very substantial consideration.
If there ever was any reason for Breckinridge, Bit
dell, George Saunders, and other Confederates, re
maining in exile, there is certainly none now. The
President's last amnesty proclamation relieves every
one, from Mr. Davis down. No respectable court
would now entertain an indictment against any of
them. There never was any good reason for these
men to stay away, as no one really wanted them
prosecuted. Wo hope the nation will soon forget its
animosity towards the noble Mr. Breckinridge and
that he will oueo more assume his position among
her statesmen. He is too great, too good, and too
noble for the private station.
Gen. Lonostreet has written a letter which, wo
are told, “is intended to give instruction to the dis
orderly elements of the South, in advance of the
new policy which is probably to be pursued by
Grant’s administration." It would he hard to dear
ly define these “disorderly elements” whidi tho
General has undertaken to advise. In tho course of
tho document ho says “that interest, and duty, and
honor demand that we should place ourselves in a
condition to support the laws of Congress. When
wo have done so, we shall have abundantly of help
from the Executive, and from the other members of
the Government."
The New York Tribune treats the Ogeechee insur
rection incredulously. "Remembering how easily,
it says, from time immemorial, excited Southerners
have been able to manufacture negro insurrections
ont of petty disturbances, which, at the North,
woidd pass without comment, save in the police
court, and how sure they always are that the ne
groes are to blame for everything, and that tho
whites are a poor, oppressed, long-suffering race,
we are less concerned about the reports from faa-
vannah than tho gravity of tho disturbances charged
might otherwise warrant.” This was on the 31st,
and the Tribune lias no doubt been put in posses
sion of ample facts since, to have a different opinion
now.
Gen. Rosecranz, United States minister plenipo
tentiary, envoy extraordinary (and a good many more
such high sounding, bombastic titles) to Mexico,
•tood at full length and officially before Juarez on
December 11th. He congratulated tho President
upon killing Maximillian, running the French out of
thocountryr, re-establishing a Government in accord
with the genius of the Western Hemisphere, talked
of “ this, our sister Republic”—hoped it would flour
ish : talked of the friendly feeling of tho United
States. Rosecranz through, Juarez “made a fow
remarks,” complimented the minister, touched
lightly on “tho late straggles of Mexico” to “recon
quer its autonomy in order to consolidate its institu
tions.” “ The Mexican Government has tho earnest
wish and trust that, far from being changed, the
friendly relations that happily exist between tho two
countries may be cultivated and developed. Beside
tho similarity of their political principles, their
neighborhood ought to facilitate tho spread of com
merce and of all useful enterprise, and bind the peo
ple in peace.” Daring all this time Rosecranz had in
lus mind a picture now in a shop window at Browns
ville, Texas. It represents Uncle Bam lying on his
back taking an iced drink in Alaska. Ho is at full
length, with the exception of his legs which are
slightly bent, with his feet against a rickety fence
called “Mexico.” Underneath tho picture is written,
I will have to stretch my legs directly.”
Fnas in New Haven.—The repair shops of the
New Haven and New Y'ork Railroads were des
troyed by fire at 11 o’clock last Friday night.
They are still burning. Loss about 81 OO.OX).
The Methodist Advocate.—We have the first
number of the Methodist Advocate, a religious
paper established in the interest of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church of the United States by
I. Hitchcock and J. M. Walden, and conducted
by Rev. E. Q. Fuller. It is neatly printed on a
sheet twenty-four by thirty-six, and professos to
hold out the olive branch to its co-religionists of
the Southern Methodist Church.
The discussion of whisky frauds is interminable
The Government is cheated ont of three-fourths of
its revenue upon this trade, by tho distillers and the
manipulators of ardent spirits. Everybody knows
this, and yet nobody can suggest an adequate reme
dy. The Government commenced by a tax of two
dollars, but reduced it on tho ground that distillers
would pay fifty cents rather than run the risk of
fraud. But matters wero not at all mended by this
policy. There is a powerful ring of whisky men
themselves, at Washington trying to get the tax
put hack to two dollars for the plain reason that it
will allow them to more successfully swindle the
Government.
The failure of the banking house of Tucker &
Co., at Louisville, created great excitement in that
city. It had enjoyed unlimited confidence for twen-
ty years, and no one expected it to collapse. The
creditors who had their money and faith in the con
cern, wero paid off in full the other morning, bv a
The Alabama press contains awful tales from the
Brazilian colony which went thence a few years ago,
chiefly from Marengo county. The poor immigrants
have certainly seen a hard time, and are now re
duced to tho utmost poverty. They arc all anxions
to get back, but have no meanB with which to do so.
We hope the Legislature of Alabama will mako an
appropriation to pay their passage home.
The “Chivalrous Southron."
A FAVORABLE VIEW BT A “ LOTAl” OFFICER—-HIS
GENEBOS2TT, OOTJBTESr, AND HOHOB—SOUTHERN
STUDENTS.
John W. D© Forest of the United States army,
in the January “Harper” thus discourses of
the “chivalrous southron,” as he terms it: “It
seems to me tho central trait of the ‘chivalrous
southron’ is an intense respect for virility. He
will forgive almost any vice in a man who is
manly; he will admire vices which are but ex
aggerations of the masculine. If you will fight
tokillyour antagonists, if you can govern or
influence the common herd, if you can ride a
dangerous horse over a rough country, if you
are a good shot or an expert swordsman, if you
stand by your own opinions unflinchingly, if you
do your level best on whisky, if you are a devil
of a fellow with women, if, in short, you
show vigorous masculine attributes, he will
grant you his respect. I doubt whether a
man who leaves behind him numerous irregu
lar claimants to his name is regarded with
disfavor at the South. He will be condemned
theoretically; it may be considered proper to
shoot him, if he disturbs the peace of respecta
ble families; but he will be looked upon as a
nobler representative of his sex than Coelebs. It
may bo taken for granted that a people which
so highly prize virility, looks upon man as tho
lord <>f creation, and has the old-fashioned ideas
as to what is the proper sphere of1 woman.. " If
tho high-toned gentleman continues to be influ-
ential at tho South, it will be a long time before
the ‘strong-minded’ obtain much of a footing
there; a long time befoap they will establish fe
male suffrage. Next to' our supposed passion
for putting the negro on an equality with the
white, there is nothing in Northern life so ab
horrent to the Southerners, of both sexes, as
the movement in favor of ‘woman’s rights.
; I "V I ; •; ? GENEROSITY.
“It was not that Yankee generosity which
sends pundits to convert, Hottentots* founds
school systems, hospitals, sanitary commissions,
and endows colleges with millions. It was the
old-fashioned sort, the generosity of the Arab
and of the feudal noble, feeding every bej
who came to the door, : setting bounteous tables
and keeping full wine-cellars. It was the pro
fuseness not of philanthropy, but of good fel
lowship. Even before tho war, thero were sin
gle States in the North which gave more to the
missionary, educational and charitable organize
tions than the entire South.
“But the Southerner was more than lavish;
he was good-natured and easy in his business
transactions; he had such a contempt for small
sums that he would not use pennies; he paid
looselyat long credits, and was careless in his
collections. ,
COUETESY.
“I shall never forget the grace and kindness
of a man who must yet be remembered in Char
leston as one of its most finished social orna
ments. I was at a supper of the Literary Club;
we were standing or sitting around a table which
would have pleased Brillat Savarin; all the
“Keeping the Babe for his Mother.”
Among my beautiful memories.
Of a summer beside the sea.
Is one of a fair young mother,
With her baby on her knee.
How proud she was of her treasure.
How solemn and sweet her joy!
You had bnt to glance at her features.
As she bent and kissed her bov.
| • The Bnth Paper Min,
] From the Charleston Oauritr.l
1 ‘.tta&ssss
Oh! oft in that beautiful summer.
That summer beside the sea,
I prayed for that fair young mother.
And the baby on her knee.
For, pale as the snows of winter,
Ana fragile as flowers of spring,
It seemed as I gazed on the darling.
I could hear the rustling wing—
The rustling wing of the angel.
That beareth the babies away,
To that distant yet beautiful heaven,
"Where life is eternal daV.
And watching the boy and his mother,
And hoping amid my fearB,
I prayed that the Father would spare him,
For many beautiful years.
But, alas! ere the flowers of summer
Ilad faded and failed from sight,
There were tears in the eyes of that mother,
One gloomy and sorrowCul night.
No longer she’s proud of her treasure;
Gone is her solemn, sweet joy,
Alas! one glance at her features,
1 ’ Will tell she has buried her bov.
j some city of Georgia, which is ho beautitaiu?'
cated in Richmond county, on the n— c “
bank of the Savannah S Sd whtaS ^
as f« back as seventy years’ ^
and black population of over 20,000, our
were induced to respond to the
tion of Major Willis^(hjg, T^SSt S?“*
temal arrangements and forrou^L ,?*
Bath Paper Mil], of which Companyfe ia
presiding officer, and to the snSul mLSf
ment of which h© devotes his invaluable^?!'
nence and remarkable energy. YYith him^
took our seats mthe accommodation train, which
was to leave at half-past one o’elock. At £
isns ab ?^ t * Vea ' b ? Conductor &
worth, the whistle blew and the train started
onr party haying received the best wishes of thT,
accomplished Railroad Agent, Mr. J. E. Mart!!
| and our passports vised by the handsome as v~li
| as graceful Mr. James Meredith, whose W
! we will state, en passant, invariably stons
front of a Church. For a brief period, the*
we bid adieu to host I. S. Nickerson, of th»
Planters, and his “Bowers,” Messrs. Goldstei!
and Hooper.
0!i! friend of that beautiful summer.
That summer beside tho sea.
Oh! gentle and sorrowing mother,
‘ My heart is aching for thee.
Too well do I know the anguish.
Of- losing one’s beautiful bov— ■■■■--■
- Too well do I know how it shadows
The light of our dearest joy.
. Oh! my lips are yearning to whisper.
Of Gfod and his Blessed Son,
Who are keeping the baby in heaven
Till thy earthly work is‘done
Keeping thy beautiful darling,
From sorrow and sin so free—
Till by and by thou shalt hold him.
Once more upon thy knee.
After a ride of six miles we steamed and whi^
tied, and whistled and steamed into the village n(
Bath, alighting at the Mill. Then began thl
•grand rounds,” the President and Superintend"
ent taking us at the offset into
APARTMENT NO. I.
This we found to be a room about sixty-feet
square, and designated as the selecting an,
thrashing room. Here can be seen a number of
wlnte female operatives engaged in the duties
of selecting and assorting the raw material pre
paratory to its first movement in the process o'
paper malting. After a thorough survey of tu
I room we were then conducted to
Caster’s Indian, Captives.
CONnUCT CF THE SQUAWS — DEMEANOR OF THE
WOUNDED.
Field Correspondence of the N.- Y. Herald.]
During the first few days of the captivity of
the squaws of Black Kettle’s band of Cheyennes
there was considerable anxiety felt by them.
They all expected they were to be killed in re
taliation for the atrocities committed by their
band. At first the wounded, ones refused to go
to the hospital, fearing they were the first sin
gled out for vengeance. The soldiers talking to
each other not in tones the most gentle and eu
phonious, and in a language they did not under
stand, they construed it into a controversy as to
when and how they were to be disposed of. In
constant dread of what disposition was to be made
of them, several of the squaws visited General
. . Sheridan’s interpreter, Mr. Curtis, and asked
others were well-known citizens, revered and him whether they were all to killed. "When as-
respectable; I was tho youngest and the only sured that the white man did not Mil women t
stranger. I had dropped out of the conversation
APARTMENT NO. It,
where we witnes the modus operandi of the cut.
ting and dressing machinery, rope cutters and
devils. In this space the material is weighed i-
appropriate scales, then deposited in boileis be-
low, in.'i’* • i. • )
APAJITMENT NO. HI*
This boiler room is sixty by twenty feet, and
there are within two large boileis of the capaci
ty of five thousand and twenty-five hundred
pounds, severally. In this apartment the stool
of the mill, after having undergone tho ebulli
tion proqgjfh, Ls retained for what is termed the
cooking order.
APARTMENT NO. IV.
The visitor is, by the hum of machinery, no
tified that he is in the midst of the driviuj
power of the milk It is here, in a room seven?
tv-five by forty-five feet, that four washers and
four beaters, with an ability of two hundred and
fifty pounds each, are kept continually in mo.
tion. From tins apartment we move into an
adjoinining one, known to ns as
APARTMENT NO V,
and where we perceive six drainers of aW
> miiea >vnen as-, paolve feet square. Here, too, is a large felt
■ .. not Mil women and j c i ea nsing construction, where the felt clothes ol
tSili! £ - <“•*
situation. He did not know me; it was the first f^M^of g^itnde^fOT < the X Mnd | , apartment no yi,
time that we had ever met; but he instantly came! treatment they have been receiving. This feel- water wheels are passing off the stuffs
and withdrawn a little aside, when Col. John
Alston observed me and divined my Stranded
were one. Well, this hospitable act toward a j in the hospital several very young boys and girls | stance then passes from felts to driers; thi-
^l?ii C a Stran ®’ er .!.5 v?— r'yI 81 !!! 0 ! badly _ wounded, but from not a single one of J partially prepared paper is transferred to tii,
a wall-flower, was characteristic of the man, and,; them has come^the slightest audible” indication I on to the' cuttereTiute
m mineral, of his caste. I - • „ ., . , m, , ,
Sew Jlclhml ol Killing Hogs.
A correspondent of the Detroit Free Press,
writing from Cincinnati under date of Decem
ber 14th, says:
Although I have visit ed the principal slaught
er-houses of this city, and spent much time in
witnessing the modus operandi of hog Mlling, I
cannot give you more than a general outline of
the programme. We will take the mammoth
slaughter-house of Richard Beresford & Co.,
Deer Creek road, for instance, as here a “poker”
passes through more hands, and is “done for"
more scientifically than at any other establish
ment. Let ns suppose the case of an individual
hog:
Arriving by rail in the city, after a long jour
ney from the interior, he is met nt the depot by
an agent, who, with the assistance of numerous
boys, driveshim to tho slaughter yard. Herehe
is driven into a pen, and when his turn comes,
is scared, whipped and kicked up a long ascend-
ingplatform. Here he halts for a fewmoments,'
but has not time to form acquaintance with his
brother porkers before he is hurried into a nar
rower room. Here he becomes frightened, for
on all sides he sees blood streaming, and hears
the death gurgles of his. comrades. Bnt he has
no time for thought (if a hog can think,) for he
feels a pair of clasps around one of his hind
legs, he hears a man yell “lift,” and up he goes
in the air, suspended by a crane. He gets a
swing and turns about once or twice, until he
comes opposite a'tall, fierce-Iooking man, known
as tho “sticker,” his clothes a perfect clot of
gore and his arms bare to the elbows. Catching
tho hog by the left fore leg, he places a long,
keen knife at the throat and ont comes the dark
current of blood. That man takes the matter very
coolly, for every ten seconds, for eight hours and
a half a day, he performs the same operation.
Another swing and our porker makes a circle of
fifteen feet, and stops before a burly negro. At
this point ho is called dead. With a surge and
a lift Ms leg is loosened from the clasps and
down an inclined plane he goes into a vat sixty
feet long and eight wide. The water here is
kept at the right temperature by means of steam
pipes running through it. He is gushed along
from one “ scalder” to another, until at the end
of the first four minutes ho arrives at the hands
of tho “ Bhavers,” who hand him up on a table
in eight seconds, and all his bristles and hair
worth shaving are off and deposited in a barrel,
and he is slung along to the “scrapers.” A few
quick passes and ono side is scraped^ perfectly
clean, and with an overturn he goes’ into the
hands of the next to have the other side cleaned.
Then he passes down to the “gutter,” who,
with a twist, elevates him by the hind legs, and
before I can write it Ms entrails are flung on a
table, and onr porker swings on to the next op
erator, who, with the pipe of a rubber hoso,
washes him outside and in. Then he receives
another swing and fetehes np in the “ hanging
room,” whero he remains a few hours to cool.
At this establishment the common rate of
slaughter is thirteen hundred per day. From
the time a hog first reaches the establishment
until he is barreled np for market, he passes
through forty-eight different hands. I have
merely described the Mlling, gutting and hang
ing up; wre I to follow the hend, feet and en
trails, which all take different directions from
the table of tho “gutter,” this would prove a
wearisome article indeed! Escorted by W. W.
Beresford, the young and gentlemanly clerk of
tjps establishment, I consumed about ono hour
in making tho round of the house, tarrying but
a moment before each object of interest. Of
course all the animals slaughtered here are not
the property of the proprietors, and consequent
ly are not packed- Every honse keeps an agent
at the various depots, and when a train of hogs
arrives he searches out their owner, and offers
from fifty to seventy-five cents per head for tho
privilege of slaughtering them—the house to re
tain nothing but the fat on the intestines and the
hair and bristles, and to deliver the carcass at
any of the city packing-houses. I expressed
some surprise at this statement, but was told
that it was looked upon as aprofitable “lay,”and
excited considerable competition between the
various houses.
At the “ Cincinnati Slaughter-House ” the an
imals are knocked on the head with a hammer.
Hanging them np and cutting their throats is
.bnt a recent invention, and it is claimed that it
adds to the whiteness and purity of the meat.
fellow to cut his throat because he could not
meet a note wMch was coming due. I have
known another to put Ms wife and cMldren into
a buggy and drive with them into the sea, drown
ing the whole party. I do not assert positively
—I only give it as my strong impression-—that
such tragedies wero more common in Dixie than
in Yankeeland. The honor of Southern stu
dents is not college honor as it is understood at
the North, and perhaps in Europe; it comes
much nearer to the honor of good citizens, and
the honor of the gentleman of society. The
pupils are not leagued against the teachers for
the purpose of passing fraudulent examinations,
by the trickeries of stealing the prepared lists
of questions, carrying furtive copies of lessons
into tho, recitation-rooms, mutual posting, and
purchased compositions. >
'A professor of the Charleston Medical College
assures me that he has never detected such a
cheat in tMrty years of tuition. A professor of
the university at Columbia, S. C., told a friend
of mine that he had known but one suefi in
stance, and that, in that case, the two criminals
were forced to leave by their classmates. Tho
‘chivalrous southron’ undergraduate at least,
wMle surrounded by Ms native moral atmos
phere, considers himself a gentleman first and
a student afterward. "When one remembers the
strength of college esprit de carps, these facts
exMbit an individual self-respect and" upright
ness which is astonishing, and wMch must, I
suspect, fill th8 faculties of Yale and Harvard
with envy." ils:.J
A friend sends us for republieation, a conk
pliment recently paid the Southern people by
littlo red card sticking on the.outside of tho door. ; Tribune. YVe have already printed it
upon which was the word “c-l-o-s-e-u !” i He should read the Telegraph.
in general, of his caste. 1 0 f their suffering, yet the expression of their
honor. • face, the wild glance* of their eyes, betray that
“Notwithstanding Ms thoughtless lavishness, j they do suffer. During such painful operations
there was a Mgh sense of honor in the ‘ cMval-! J 8 probing and cleaning out their wounds, plac-
rous southron. ’ He did not mean to defraud! big the thumb on one temple and stretching the
any one. I have known an expensive, generous i band across the forehead, fixing the second
r SHobson’sChoice.”—'The Radical 2*ro-
grainme Under Grant*
Don Piatt writes as follows I to the Cincinnati
Commercial:. , ,-. j . ...-
A few days before the "late adjournment I sat
by a prominent member of Congress; and leader
of our organization, discussing the probabilities
of Grant’s administration.
The fact is we actually know nothing of Gen.
Grant,” said the M. C.; “he was nominated be
cause of his availability as a candidate, and a
belief, gathered up from" Ms record," that he was
reliable. It was Hobson’s choice with us we were
forced to accept Mm or defeat”
■ “ Under these circumstances would it not be
well to move slowly and feel our way a little ?
I asked. *7" f > "*. \
I Certainly, if it were possible-: but-1 do not
see how wo can put the brakes on—a Presidont
is a President—and. I have been here long
enough to "know that the first two years we give
to registering Ms edicts, and the next two to se
curing our own re-elections. This is th© history
of partisan legislation.”
“But tho Tenure-of-office Act makes a great
difference in the relations existing between Con
gress and the Executive.”
“Certainly; and the Civil Service bill will
make yet more of a change. Bnt you will see
that that tho one will not be passed, and the
other will bo repealed at once.” . ,
" ‘ Do you really think so ?’’
‘Yes, I do. I find a largo number of men,
who give me as a reason that they want the re
sponsibility of selecting honest and efficient
agents thrown upon tho President; : it is not
well, therefore, to have Ms hands tied. The
reasons really animating them are joined in a
desire to flatter General Grant, and in the other
and more powerful motive to be found iu the
fact that if the Senate has to be consulted in the
election and dismissal of officers, each member
will have less freedom, in the bestowal of pat
ronage.”
"‘And wo are to have the same fearful rush of
hunj'ry office-seekera that have disgraced us of
‘Well, yes. We were hungry office-seekers
before we came to Congress, and we hold our
places through the consent of other hungry of
fice-seekers, who look to us for support, u we
cannot satisfy them, they will turn on us.’
“So, there is no hops of getting out of ibis
demoralized condition of' the service, and re
turning to the constitutional purity of the
fathers ?”
“The ■ constitutional purity of the fathers, as
you pall it, was well enough. But we have learn
ed since then that'a Government is not made up
of paper constitutions, and cannot rise above the
virtue and intelligence of the people really mak
ing it, no more than a fountain can rise" above
its head. We representatives are not the rep
resentatives of the learning, nor the morality of
tho land. We are simply the representatives of
the people, and come to our places through their
accredited agents—the politicians of the caucus.
Look at Butler if you want an illustration. He
is a man of large brain—wonderfully cultivated
and yet he moves a repeal of tteslaw because he
is driven to it. He holds his place through the
patronage claimed for Ms district. He stoops
to flatter Grant, for if left to the Senate it will
be used against him.”
I can not tell the name of the gentleman talk
ing with me in the above,, for it would do him
an injury. But he ia one of the few hero who
really seek, through hard study, to be considered
statesmen, and not politicians; and yon may
count them upon your fingers.
finger on the temple opposite they close
their eyes and patiently" submit to such oper
ations as the teachings of surgery require.
One little girl about six years of age has a bullet
hole through her body, on the left side, and yet
she sits up and makes no complaints. AU the
wounded squaws and children rode in on their
ponies, refusing to have anything to do with
ambulances. Another singular feature in the
wounded is the peculiarly offensive odor of the
sloughing wounds.
The well sqnaws are still encamped with the
cavalry, and seem to be contented with their lot.
The male cMldren amuse themselves throwing
reeds, as if they ■ were spears, at different ob-'
jects! thus displaying "the cultivation of' their'
expanding merit as future warriors.
Among the tropMes brought in was a hand
some lodge, wMch belongs to General Custer.
To-day this was unloaded from the wagon, and
having sent for several sqnaws, the General had
the lodge put up in true Indian style. TMs is
part of the duties of the squaws, and in a very
v minutes they displayed their proficiency to
extent wMch surprised every one. The
lodge is of skins and perfectly wMtc. It is not
at ml surprising that the loss* of their lodges is
looked upon by the.savages as so great a calami
ty. The number of skins, the proper training
o*f them, fitting and stitching them together,
constitute evidentiya labor and expensesof con
siderable magnitude. In setting np a lodge
the sqnaws get aronnd with the lodge poles in
their hands; these they lock at the lower ex
tremities, and set them iu position, forming the
skeleton of the lodge. The lodge skin, one end
attached to a pole, is laid in in 'upright posi
tion against the lodge poles already up; the
sMn is then unrolled and wrapped aronnd the
outside, over tho lodge poles. The ends are
then fastened with thongs, leaving-an apperture
about three feet Mgh for an entrance, and at
the top for the egress of smoke.
The captives, sick and well, have not lost
appetite or flesh since in our. hands. Theii:
parities for stowing away food are truly amaz
ing. Hard tack to them is a great luxury, and
old and young, sick and well devour it with all
the relish of the choicest and richest cake. j
From the Plains.
St. Louis. January 2.—General Sherman
has received a letter from General Sheridan,
dated Fort Cobb, December 10, noting Ms ar
rival at that post. The day previous, with
General Custer’s Seventh Cavalry, and ten com
panies of the Ninteenth Kansas Calvary—in afi,
about 15,000 men. Sheridan spent one day on
Cnster’s battle field, and found the bodies of
Major Elliot and sixteen Indians; also the
bodies of ill's. Blinn and child, wMte, captured
in the Indian camp. Mrs. Blinn had been
shot, through the forehead, and the cMldls
brains dashed ont against a tree. / General
Sheridan followed an Indian trail down the
YYacMta sixteen miles, when he came to
camp of Kiowas, who met him with a letter from
General Hazen, wnich declared them to be
friendly.
Sheridan required the Indians to accompany
Mm to Fort Cobb, but discovered while travel
ing to that point, that they were sending their
families to the "WacMta Mountains. Suspicious
that they were attempting to deceive him, he
took Salana and Lone "Wolf and notifed them
that he would hold them as hostages, and if all
the Kiowas did not come toFort Cobb, he would
hang them. Sheridan says the Indians realize
now for the first time that winter will not com-
pell ns to make a truce with them, nnd adds the
Kiowas have been engaged in war all tho time,
and have been playing fast and loose.
They have attempted to browbeat Gen. Hazen
since he came to Fort Cobb, but I will take the
starch but of them before I leave them. The
Cheyennes, Arapahoes, and one band of Caman-
ches, with fifty lodges of the Kiowas aro now at
the YYacMta Mountains. Sheridan, after con
sultation with Gen. Hazen, proposes when the
Kiowas come in to punish those who aro known
to have been concerned in personal acts of mur
der. ; He will send Black Kettle’s sister out to
Cheyennes and Arapahoes, and command them
to submit to like treatment. If they refuse to
come in, he will carry on tho war against them
in the YYacMta Mountains. He will leave with
Gen. Hazen a sufficient force to control the ln-
dians now at Fort Cobb and such others as may
come in there. . • "
'loop Skirls no Ulore.
YYith skating dresses no hooped skirts sj
worn; in fact crinoline, so far as the s!
-cages are concerned which have been sol
worn, may bo said to have been nbandoiY
women of any pretensions to fasMon. Si
costumes are Worn entirely withont hoops- 21
even trained dresses are supported- by crinok’
so restricted in its dimensions as to seen »
destitute' of it also.
The great difference just now, between
ionable and unfasMonable appearance,
derided presence and apparent absence of
ed skirts. Tho street cars display them
to the same extent as ever. Old-fasMonrip
pie, who live in the country, and conld
coaxed to put them on for years after the-■ 3
troduction, cannot now be pursunded to i«"
them off: and the public city balls which »
each other in such quick succession, and »R -
goal of the shop-girl’s and sewing-girl's “
tion, show little diminution in voliunhio'
of display. Ladies in Stewart’s, however, i
ping ont of their carriages at Dehnonicos
private parties, or fasMonable women at
occupy about a third the space they ‘
formerly, and are relieved from all the
of gathering their skirks about them. Tao L
of their scant flounces reveals the slight i
instep pf the dainty Md boot, and it reqnr--'.
effort to-keep them in place, or from
entangled in the clumsy toes of unaccnS^-
boots. The manufacturers of hooped akir'- 'j
themselves done a very foolish thing, a;--'
by hastened the downfall of ttes singmU f ‘
fashion and fortune. In the face of 1
tendency to narrow skirts and restricted
generally, they insisted on establishing ^
large and arbitrary standards wMch la die?
not accept—the avowed reason for ft* **'
being that small hoops were so economics;
they did not give suffeient work to th* ’- r '
maker. rtutn
The fasMonable hoop, worn with touk-
ceremony, is very small—imperceptible. n>‘*
and is used only as a support to tho flounce ^
dersMrts. which give just the necessary
sionto the lengthened drapery of ,th*
dress.—Correspondent New fork Taste.
Sharp Practice.—A colored woman from
Providence, who arrived in Boston on Friday,
took a hack at the Providence depot and was
driven all about town before the haclonan dis
covered that she was visiting her colored breth
ren and attempting to borrow thro© dollars.—
The hackman demanded Ms pay. bhe said she
had no money. The hackman then asked her
where she was going, and upon saying “New-
buryport,” he drove her to an express station.
There he left her baggage to be sent to New-
buryport by express, receiving from the express
company §5, which was to be collected on the
goods at Newbnryport. Then giving the woman
§2 to purchase her ticket, the hackman drove off
with his 83 in Mgh glee.—A’. Y. Commercial,
Dec. 29.
A “wabm meal" in Mexico consists of two
hard biscuits dipped in pepper-sauoe. Simple,
but not calculated to become popular.
There k a cab strike at present at Toronto,
Canada.
Atlanta Kailroadt Conventio 11 '
The Intelligencer of yesterday, says:
Pursuant to a call from Col. E. HufteA
perintendent of the YYestem k Atlantic
the following gentlemen were reportec! p
at the Reading Room of the National B
terday afternoon: M. S. Wilkes, - - ?
Memphis k Charleston Railroad; b. j*.
son, Ass’t Superintendrnt Georgia Ksuna
Hulbert, Superintendent YYestem
Railroad; E. B. YYalker, Master Trans
YYestem k Atlantic Railroad; Il ■ ’ p
ral Agent Macon & YVestern Railro. 1 • ,
Cram, Superintendent Montgomery , :
Point Railroad; L. P.
Atlanta k YYest Point Railroad; G. Jo. ,
perintendent Mobiie & Montgomery
Col "White, President Misassippi .
Railroad; C. L. Fitch, General Tran^,
and Passenger Agent Mobile k Ohio I
Bokum for State of Tennessee.
A sailor in attempting to kis8apn*it:
a violent box on the ear.
claimed, “just my luck: always
coral reefs,”
In Italy, twenty monumental 0 ■
projected. fjj
Iowa in said to have a cattle dise® 86
lent type.
A “down-east” Yankee has
a rat exterminator, oonsiatmgof a son . j
der-snuff. The annual jerks Ms head
i third tn.eete?
toward me and begged leave to wait on me. It tag they manifest by shaking hands with the i prepared by the beaters, and wMch is finalixl
was not the deed so much as the mannerwMch' surgeon whenever he visits them. Tho most re- i ern ptied into a chest of a diameter of abort I
was so exquisitely ingratiating. There was an j markable instances of fortitnde are exMbited > twcnt ? feet *
empressenunt in his expression which seemed to 1 in the cases of the wounded Indian children.! apartment no. vn,1
_, -eight years old, the rest taking "up I known to papeT-m'akers.as tube rollers; thence I
young lady; and I^feltjit that ^monienWis if I j arms and joining in the fight. There aro now j to couch rollers; thence on to felts; the sub I
i flit-1
sizes of sheets as ordered. The stands then re- j
ceive the paper in sheets,, and tten after. bein'. I
pressed, counted and tied up, i;eady for deliv I
ery. The dimensions of the room are one toi-r
dred and twenty' by forty-five feet.
This "mill was constructed in'1858: destroye.:|
by fire in 1863, and rehniltin 1864. It supplies
outside of this and the adjoining State—Geer I
gia, a number of newspaper offices in the YYes-1
tern States. The offiee of the Memphis Appeal
and' the -Nashville newspaper offices are largtf
consumers. Up to the time of the null’s de l
struct ion by conflagration, a period of ten years. I
the former company received upwards of ■•SlK'.-l
000 from the office of the Charleston Courier, ill
return for paper, both news and wrapping, liitll
much pleasure we chronicle the fact tint the |
President is constantly in receipt of orders tux.
different sections of the North and YVest Ti-
mill Ls now in thorough, order, with a workkj
capacity of at least three thousand pounds p- |
diem.
Across the road, in a Easterly direction fro
the milL about three hundred yards distant, u
in full view of that manufactory, with itse
virons of ten or a dozen cottages there sto.
the fine and truly comfortable residence, s
many visitors can testify, of President Craio.!
is on an eminence, commanding as it does.”:: I
entire view of the manufactory.
. To tlie President of th© Bath Paper Mill Ooaj
pany.; the' CasMer, Mr. F. H. Gordon, r.ni::
Superintendent, Mr. B. O"Hannon, we nckmrJ
edge many obligations. The latter two gc-nL-1
men unremitting in their attention to tlieir a:|
ties, and in their several positions gire i
creased assurance of their Value in an imth
tion where they* have been so long a time n£|
trious attaches.
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