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Tlie Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph..
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1869.
Slate Aid to the Maeon A Brunswick
Railroad. *
THE DANGERS FROM STATE AID AND “RAIL
ROAD RINGS” CONSIDERED.
We Rave copied on the first page of to-day's
edition of the Telegraph, a manifesto which
appears in the Savannah Republican of the Gth
instant, signed “Fair Play,” and which seems
to bpve been made the basis of an editorial in
the same paper entitled “Railroad Rings—Fede
ral and State,” both of which are a studied effort
to alarm the people of Georgia in respect to the
recent extensions of State aid to Railroads—
particularly to the Macon & Brunswick Road—
to hold up this legislation in the identical atti
tude with the gigantic plunder projects which
are perpetrated in Congress, and to predict, as
consequences, a total prostration of the credit of
the State, and such burdensome taxation as will
prove intolerable to the people and deter immi
gration and material progress.
Let ns inquire a little into the representations
of the so writers bn the State Aid question, par
ticularly with reference to the Macon and Bruns
wick Road. Let us see whether the State is like
ly, in consequence of this aid, to impair her
credit or to burden her people. We admit, as a
fundamental proposition, that Georgia should
not incnr serious danger of either result, and
that any State aid to railroads which docs it, is
unjustifiable on the 1 score of a sound public pol
icy, ‘arid merits the condemnation of the people.
Has the State of Georgia, then, incurred peril
of bankruptcy or excessive taxation from the aid
she has extended to the Brunswick Railroad?
Fair Play says:
“The people of Georgia will understand that one
million of bonds of the State are tobe given to those
firms for the construction of that Road. Tlio peo
ple will forget the conditions of that subscription,
but'the speculating firms in the construction of the
Road will keep them in view. If the Wall street
firms will shew to the people of the State that un
der the contract of the Macon and Brunswick Com
pany, they will ever have any value for their million
of bonds, it is what cannot now be made to appear.”
Now what were the State aid stipulations to
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad? Simply
these: the State, so far from giving a million of
her bonds, gives none at all. She has agreed to
endorse the bonds of that company to the amount
of ten thousand dollars a mile for every mile of
completed road, and to accept os guaranty
against loss, on account of this liability, a mort
gage lien binding the entire property of the
road. When this endorsement is made on every
additional ten miles completed, the liability in
curred by the State does not cover the value of
the iron laid on that distance, and the cost of
grading, superstructure and equipment is added
to the security. While, therefore, the State does
not expend a single dollar in money for the use
of her credit, she receives as full, ample and
perfect a guaranty against loss as she would do
were she to endorse yonr note for fifty dollars
and take a lien, as 6ecnrity, on a bale of cotton
in warehouse.
Is not that so ? Then where the danger of
loss ? If the Macon and Brunswick Railroad
fails to meet tho interest or principal of these
bonds, the State takes the whole property—
grading, superstructure, rails, bridges, station
hotises, locomotives, cars and all; and if that
ever comes to pass, we say it will be a capital
extension of the line of the State Road and
among her best property. But there is no
danger of snch a result. The security is too
valuable to admit of it, and, in fact, the entire
use and behoof of the State indorsement was
to enable the accompany to negotiate for the
single article of iron for the road.
Now we will put any man on his honor as on
enlightened and patriotic Georgian, to answer.
Did not the State of Georgia do a wise thing to
extend this aid to the Macon & Brunswick Road?
Was it not a great point gained to develop the
counties of Twiggs, Pulaski, Telfair, Appling,
etc., and is it not a reasonable judgment to say
that the additional State revenue from those
counties, in consequence of the impetus they
will receive from this road, and the accommoda
tion of those counties with an expeditious and
cheap outlet to the seaboard, were just, wise,
and statesmanlike, and sufficient reasons why
the State should loan its credit to this enter
prise to the amount and on the conditions
named.”
Now the Republican says:
“Wliena valuable country—like Southern Geor
gia—is to be opened to market, as in the case of
the Atlantic and Gulf Road, she may wisely and
justly lend her credit, or invest her money.”
We are not going to quarrel with the State
aid to that road, although it was extended on a
far more unsafe basis. In the case of that road
the State took a million dollars' worth of stock
outright, on which she has lost tho interest; and
what is the investment worth now ? According
to Aries noted in this edition of the Telegraph,
it is worth just $407,000. There’s a loss of
about the whole amount invested, and yet we
will not complain, because, as the Republican
says, there was a valuable country to be devel
oped; it was the true interest of the State
to lend a helping hand to the work, and she
ought to hate lent it on precisely the same
principles which she applied to the Macon and
Brunswick Road. Rut would these have con
tented the Republican ? We think not.
But the Republican adds another reason why
state aid, extended to such a Road as the Savan
nah and Gulf should not be given to other lines.
It is this
_ “But for the purpose of building competing
lines that can never prosper themselves, but
must destroy the prosperity of lines already es
tablished, and in which her citizens have been
induced to invest their money, it is neither safe
nor just that she should legislate. It not only
destroys investments already made, but seduces
the people to embark in new enterprises that
can never pay.”
Here, again, our friend of the Republican is
very unfortunate. The Savannah and Gulf
Road has never yet paid—we hopo it will pay,
but it has never paid so far; and what is more
to the purpose it has proven a so severely “com
peting line” to the Central that the latter has
virtually been compelled to assume tho control
of it, and thus tho state investment in that pro
perty has been subjected to the control of what
has proven to be a competing and therefore a
hostile interest. Surely, surely, tho Republican
did not mean when denouncing Railroad
“Rings” to be so unhappy in its illustrations.
The Telegraph has too much' on its hands—is
to* deeply interested in the dovelopement of tho
State of Georgia and the progress of the whole
people, to coucem itself in these mere conflicts
of private interest, exoept as they affect the
public well being. Wo wish all the Roads welL
Wo want to see them all prosper; but every
body ought to know they cannot prosper except
upon a fair, legitimate, liberal basis and policy
—consonant, harmonious and cooperative with
the substantial interests of the' State and people.
We shall be sorry to see any of them conceive
the foolish idea of running a tilt by over-grasp
ing and over-reaching so as to place themselves
in any respect in antagonism to great substantial
public interests and the wants of the people
Thai is the road to ruin and not to prosperity.
And, finally, what of all thin alarm about State
teresta—which has not its clear and independent
functions. She ought not to extend any aid ex
oept upon conditions which render loss entirely
improbable. Her security should be of the am
plest dataBMPB.’s k .
Within these bounds, we think it is policy
upon the part of the State to foster the develope-
ment and improvement of Georgia, by the loan
of her credit, under sufficient jguarantees. The
State willfl nd a rich return in an increasing pub
lic revenue and will stimulate the people to in
vest their private earnings in the cause of im
provement and progress.
Washington Correspondence oi the
Telegraph. . ..
Washington, January C, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: Congress re-assembled
yesterday, with a quorum in both Houses, and
after the usual ceremonies proceeded at once to
business.
In the Senate the only business of importance
under consideration was the late amnesty proc
lamation of the President. A resolution offered
by Senator Perry, of Michigan, requesting the
President to furnish to the Senate a copy of the
amnesty proclamation, with a statement of the
authority by which he issued it, gave several
Radical Senators an opportunity to testify their
affectionate regard for the “individual at the
other end of tho avenue.” Messrs. Howard, of
Michigan, Frelinghnysen, of New Jersey, and
Conkling, of New York, explained to the Sen
ate all the information they had derived from
tho study of tho Constitution, which lacked a
great deal of agreeing with that wliich had been
gathered by Senators Doolittle and Davis, who
supported the President’s right to grant amnes
ty to all persons engaged in the late war. The
resolution was finally adopted by a strict party
vote.
The bill introduced by Stewart, of Nevada,
relative to the reconstruction of Georgia, is in
all respects similar to those introduced previous
to the holiday recess.
In the House nothing occurred of special in
terest to your section.
In the Senate to-day the opposition to the
Grant faction, through Senator Edmonds, re
ported from the Judicary Committee,a substitute-
for the bill introduced through their influence
on the fifteenth of December last, to prevent the
holding of civil offices by military officers, and
to prevent the bolding of more than one office
at the same time. The substitute provides that
no person shall hold, nor shall he receive com
pensation or salary for performing the duties of
more than one office, or place of trust under
the Constitution and laws of the United States,
.whether military or naval. The friends of
General Grant regard the introduction of this
bill as a declaration of war on the part of cer
tain Senators, against the appointment of milita
ry officers to Cabinet positions.
On the question of paying loyal persons in the
South for property used by the military forces
of the United States during the late war, Sena
tors Willey, of West Virginia, and Rice, of Ar
kansas, argued in the affirmative; but the Senate
adjourned before the question was disposed of.
The House transacted very ltttle business to
day, and nothing of importance.
As an evidence of tho uncertainty of all ex
pectations, it may be stated that Menard (negro),
the Louisiana aspirant for Congressional honors,
has departed in disgust, deserted by his white
allies politically and financially. He was dead-
broke in every sense, and is indebted to the
charity of the Freedmen’s Bureau for railroad
transportation to his home in Louisiana.
R is stated to-night that the President will
reply to the resolution of the Senate, calling on
him for a copy of his amnesty proclamation, and
the authority by which it is issued, by submit
ting a special message defending bis constitu
tional right to grant amnesty, and quoting the
decision of the Supreme Court in the Garland
test oath case. He maintains that his constitu
tional right to grant pardon before conviction, is
unquestionable; that it has been the practice of
previous Executives, and has been sustained by
the decision of the Supreme Court and other
legal tribunals.
A paragraph, going the rounds of the South
ern press, to the effect that General Grant was
present in this city on New Year’s day and
headed the column of army officers who called
upon the President, in accordance with a long
established usage, is without any foundation in
fact. Gen. Grant left this city for Philadelphia
on Wednesday, December the 30th, and did not
return until January the 4th.
The weather is very pleasant and the city
thronged with visitors, including a heavy force
of railroad lobbyists. Kentuck.
Albany, Ga., January 8th, I860.
Messrs. Editors : A contributor to your paper
of tho 8 th inst., proposes to prevent the cotton
caterpillar by encouraging myriads of birds on
our plantations. That’s a good idea. Now, bow
shall we get the birds ?
I make a suggestion to the planters of* South
western Georgia.
Upon all the lands in Southwest Georgia, rice
grows tolerably well when cultivated on cotton
lands and worked just as tho cotton. It certain
ly grows well enough to attract birds by the mil
lion. Now, let the planters plant one row in ev
ery one hundred rows of cotton, in rice—culti
vate as the cotton, and he will have birds. The
rice will ripen in caterpillar time.
Is it not worth the trial ? A bushel of rough
rice carefully dropped at one foot distance will
plant three acres. I think I'll try it.
Brown Bones.
Some-Reflections on Georgia Railway
Interests.
From ike Savannah Republican.]
An injunction has been granted by Judge
Cole, et Macon, against the Southwestern
and Central Railroads, restraining them from
fulfilling their contracts with the city of Sa
vannah. These roads have purchased of the
city certain stooks, and this bill now forbids
the purchaaer to pay for stocks already trans
ferred to them;- : The fate of Hhis injunction
may be readily inferred. . r
* The parties enjoining our stockholders to
the Southwestern Hoad. They are also in
terested in the Macon and Brunswick Road.
Which of these roads they chiefly seek to
protect is not quite apparent. • '
It will become necessary to make the peo
ple of the State of Georgia acquainted with
the facts bearing on this case. Upon these
facts they will understand bow they are to
be affected by the enterprising speculative
firms of Wall street.
The people of Georgia will understand that
one million of bonds of tbe State are to be
given to those firms for tbe construction oi
that road. The people will forget the condi
tions of that subscription, but the speculating
firms in the construction of tbe road will keep
them in view. If tho Wall street firms will
show to the people of the State that under
the contract of the Macon and Brunswick
Company,, they wilkever have any value for
their million of bonds, it is what cannot now
be made to appear. Suppose, for instance,
that these enterprising firms build the road
for three millions of dollars, and that in con
sideration of this State subscription they
proceed to take one-third or one million in
preferred stock, one ; third in State bonds and
the remaining third million in bonds of tbe
road. With this supposition, tbe preferred
stock and the rail bonds would at once de
stroy all the prospect^ of the State for over
having any dividends or interest on its bonds»
that is to say, the people of Georgia are
doomed to plough, and raise by taxation
$70,000 a year forever, for this New York
firm.
The Southwestern and Central railroads
were built by the people of Georgia, out of
their own money. Never did tbe Legisla
ture contribute one dollar to aid these roads.
Now, the Legislature need to be asked to
subscribe to railroads which injure the ex
istiug system established by individual
money. The Legislature does not seem to
care whether its subscriptions are ever to pay
dividends or not—with a burraw, and a gut-
faw laughter, the millions of bonds are voted.
But the day of reckoning, demanded by far
mers and planters, is near by.
When slaves were property tbe whole tax
able property of the State was $700,000,000.
At ten cents on the one hundred dollars, suffi
cient revenue was raised to pay the expenses
of the State, including interest on a debt of
five or six millions of dollars.
Now, the whole taxable property of tbe
State amounts only to $170,000,000. This
requires that tbe rate of taxation should be
raised from ten cents on tbe hundred dollars
Mforty or fifty cents. Add to this the inter
est on five more millions, appropriated by
tbe State, or to be appropriated, and cur
farmers may speedily expect to pay one dol
lar on every hundred. It may be sufficient
to say that this would produce bankruptcy,
as it cannot be made out of land. The State
of Georgia would thus prevent all future em
igration, for no one would seek to settle
here. And all these evils are to spring out
of State aid to build roads which will have
little to carry.
An inquest will surely be made presently
into the ruinous condition of public affairs.
Those of us who are compelled to work our
lands, under peculiar difficulties, will demand
to know why we are to be made hewers of
wood to speculative combinations which are
destined to Kill out tbe life of our people.
Meanwhile, we return the cry against
odious monopolies and moneyed power,
which is so industriously raised against roads
which have ever worked for tbe public at
barely remunerating rates. As the process of
injunction has been commenced by these
speculative combinations, we shall, in defence
of the unsuspecting people of Georgia, try
our hand at the same process, under the con
viction that honesty is the best policy, and
the most successful. We shall examine the
objects and purposes of State aid to railroads
hereafter. This inquiry will lead to the con
dition of tbe Gulf Road, and by what unwise
policy it comes to pas3 that neither private,
nor corporate, nor State stockholders can ever
expect, under such policy, to have any re
turns tor investments. Fair Play.
The Closing Year.
BY GEOROE D. PRENTICE.
The memorial Concert.
The concert for the benefit of the Memorial
Association of Georgia, given by n party of dis
tinguished lady and gentleman amateurs of this
State, came off last night at Masonic Hall. The
building was thronged with a largo and fashion
able audience, and one, too, which appeared to
thoroughly appreciate tho excellent music and
the noble cause for wliich it was given. The
weather was fine and propitious, and our citizens
came out in numbers unprecedented in this
place.
The concert opened with the “Galop di Bra-
oonra,” by Miss Levy and Mr. Schmidt, bril
liantly exeented. It was followed by a song,
“Dearest, I think of thee,” sung with great
sweetness by Mrs. Hines. Mr. Maas next gave
a magnificent tenor solo, which was received
with much; applause. An instrumental duett
by Messers Schmidt and Wiegand was loudly
applauded. Mrs. Ogden next appeared, and
sang “Ill Corsato.” Her voice, a powerful so
prano, was displayed to great advantage, and
the manner in which she sang so touched the
audience that the applause was tremendous at
the conclusion. -La Seperazione,” a gem
from Rossini, was sung by Miss Howard in a
most exquisite manner. But the gem of the
evening was a vocal duo from Lucia, by Mrs.
Ogden and Mrs. Bacon, the contralto and sopra
no voices of the Ldies blending melodiously
and in sweet harmony. Wo cannot, at this lato
hour, particularize further with reference to tho
performance, but it fully deserved all the ap
plause with which it was so often greeted.—
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, 9th.
Senator Sprague’s Purchases in Florida.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Union says:
We are informed that the celebrated Dunger-
ness estate, the gem of Cumberlin Island; in
view of Femandina, was purchased by Senator
Sprague, of Rhode Island, on his late visit to
this State.
The estate of Dungemess comprises
aid and its beggaring effect on the State of Geor- j: 6,000 acres; the mansion will be fixed up for
gia ? Wo don’t believe the State has so far in
curred any liability in behalf of Railroads on
which she has lost, or is likely to lose, except it
may be in the case of the Savannah and Gulf.
Bat she ought to exercise a wise caution in ex
tending such aid. She should not promote any
road which is not clearly necessary—which is
not plainly demanded by public and popular in- 1 $10 an acre.
a winter residence, mid the land reserved for
gardens, parks, drives, and hunting grounds.—
Senator Sprague has also purchased, on the same
island, a fine plantation of 8,000 acres, which
will be devoted to the cultivation of Ramie, an
article now in great demand both in Europe and
in this country. We understand that the above
lands are of a good qualify, with a valuable
growth of live-oak. The price paid for it was
Tide of Emigration.
The revolution in the labor system of the
South, whilst it has operated to the prostra
tion of certain interests temporarily, has
turned a tide of emigration to the Southern
States that must ultimately prove of immense
advantage.
The fertile savannas of Georgia have been
hitherto lying waste in rich tracks of the
choicest yellow pine land along the borders
of the Altamaha, Oconee, Ohoopie, Ogeechee,
Ocmulgee, Cannonchie, Pendleton river and
other streams that are navigable. These lands
are valuable not only for tbe timber, but in
demand for tbe turpentine manufactured, as
$5,000 worth of turpentine can be extracted
from trees growing on an area of 1,000 acres.
The land, when cleared, is of the richest
quality, and well adapted for the raising of
cotton, rice or corn, and for agricultural pur
poses a wide field is open to the industri
ous settler that offers every inducement to
occupation of this fertile portion of our
UnioD. The peculiar value of the land ar
rises from the fact that it isheavily timbered,
and, as the scarcity of timber is already felt
in more populous regions, and commands a
high price, the primeval growth of these
American forests offers a new field of sup
ply. A moderate estimate has been made of
the actual value of timber growing on
one tbonsand acres of an entire tract.
At tbe minimum estimate there are at
least ten trees upon every acre, containing
each one thousand feet of good merchantable
lumber to the acre. The value of this tim
ber, as it stands, is not less than two dol
lars and a half per thousand feet, giving for
the value of the standing timber in one acre,
twenty-five dollars, on one thousand acres
twenty-five thousand dollars. The immense
profit may be estimated from the investment
of -capital in this form of security, when it is
understood that heavily timbered Georgia
land has been sold at five dollars by the acre
to foreign capitalists, who nre not slow to ap
preciate the value of tho investment
It is not amiss here to state that of all the
pine timber that is brought to the New York
market none is more highly esteemed than
the Georgia pine. For tracts of this land,
held as a speculation, by those who do not
care to sell, anticipating increased value, so
much as $10 per acre has been refused, but
no difficulty is experienced in any portion
of the South, in purchasing at this period
choice land at a much lower figure. There
was never a better opportunity ior enterpris
ing capitalists of the North to benefit them
selves pecuniarily in unfolding tbe rich re
sources of these fertile tracts. All that the
South now requires is tho presence of well
organized labor, directed by capital, to re
sume that prosperity which formerly charac
terized this section of our Union.—Turf,
Field and Farm.
One very cold night a jolly old fellow who
had been drinking too freely at a tavern
started for home in a gig, and on the way
was upset and left by the side of the road.
Some persons passing a short time after dis
covered him holding hi3 feet up to the moon
and ejaculating to some invisible persoD,
“Pile on the wood, it’s a miserable cold fire.”
Price of Advertising a Column.—The Cin
cinnati Commercial charges for one column, a
year, $4,160.—Ohio State Journal.
The Journal is mistaken. The Commercial
charges $4,160 for one column twice per week
for one year—that is one column, one hundred
and four insertions. As we publish, the Com-:
mercial every day of the year, one column for a
year, three hundred and sixty-fiye insertions,
at tho same rate would bo $14,C0b.—Cincinnati
Commercial.
Tis midnight’s holy hour-—and since now
Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o’er
Tbe still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds
The bell’s deep tones are swelling; ’tis the knell
Of the departed year. No funeral train
Is sweeping past! yet, or the stream and wood,
With melancholy light, the moonbeamB rest,
Like a pale, spotless shroud. The air is Btirr’d.
As*by a mourner’s sigh ; and yon cloud,
That floats so still and placidly through Heaven,
The spirits of the seasons seem to stand—
Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn’s solemn
form,
And Winter, with his agod locks, and breathe
In mournful cadences, that come abroad
Like the fair wind-harp's wild and tonening wail,
A melancholy dirge o’er the dead year,
Gone from the earth forever. “Tis a time •
For memory and for tears. Within the deep
Still chambers of the heart, a spectre dim.
Whose notes are like tho wizard voico of Time,
Hc-ard from the tomb of ages, points its cold
And solemn finger to the beautiful
And holy visions that have pass’d away,
And left no shadow of their loveliness
On the dead waste of life. The spectre lifts
The coffin-lid of hope, and joy, and love,
And bending mournfully above tbe pale,
Sweet forms that- slumber there, scatters dead
flowers
O’er what has pass’d to nothingness. The year
Has gone, and with it many a glorious throng
Of happy dreams. Its mark is on each brow,
Its shadow in each heart In its swift coarse
It waived its spectre o’er the beautiful,
And they are not. It laid its pallid hand
Upon the strong man. and tbe haughty form
Is fallen, and the flashing eye is dim.
It trod the hall of revelry, where throng’d
Tho bright and joyous, and the tearful wap
Of stricken ones is heard, where erst the song
And reckless shout resounded. It pass’d o’er
The battle plain, where sword and spear and
shield > .
Flash'd in the fight of midday—and tho strength
Of serried hosts is shiver’d, and the grass,
Green from tho soil of carnage, wave above ,
11 The crush'd and mouldering skeleton. It came.
And f$ded like a wreath of mist at eve ? 1
i• Yet, ere it melted in the viewless air, ‘ 1 ; .
It heralded its millions to their home - '
In the dim land of dreams. Remorseless Time—
Fierce spirit of tho glass and scythe—what power
I dan stay him in his silent course, or melt
His iron heart ot pity ? On, still on
1 Ho presses, and forever, That proud bird,
Tho condor of the Andes, that can-soar
Through Heaven's unfathomed depths, or brave
The fury of tho northern hurricane.
And bathe his plumage in the thunder's homo,
Furls his broad wings at nightfall ,and sinks down
To rest upon the mountain-crag—but Time
Knows not the weight of sleep or weariness,
And night’s deep darkness has no chain to bind
His rushing pinion. Revolutions sweep
O’er earth, like troubled visions o’er the breast
Of dreaming sorrow; cities rise and sink,
Like bubble* on the water; fiery isles
Spring, blazing, from tho ocean, and go back
To their mysterious caverns; mountains rear
To Heaven their bold and blacken’d cliffs, and
bow
Their tall heads to the plain; new empires rise,
Gathering the strength of hoary centuries,
And rush down like the Alpine avalanche,
Startling the nations; and the very stars,
Yon bright and burning blazonry of God,
Glitter awhile in their eternal depths,
And, like the PleiaJ, loveliest of their train.
Shoot from their gbrious spheres, and pass away,
To darklo in the tnckless void; yet Time—
Time, the tomb-buider, holds his firce career,
Dark, stern. aU-pitless, and pauses not
Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path
To sit and muse, file other conquerors,
Upon the fearful run ho has wrought.
Financial Condition of the Country.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Express writes:
Letters from the West state that the strin
gency in commercial circles there is greater
than it has been tince 1857—that the coun
try is overstocked with goods, and that the
farmers refuse to send their grain to market
in consequence of the decline in prices since
1867.
At the South tbe aspect is rather more
cheerful. The high price of cotton will put
$250,000,000, for that product alone, into the
pockets of the “ reconstructed ” of that sec
tion, to say nothing of large amounts for to
bacco in Virginia, North Carolina, Mary
land, Missouri nnd' Kentucky, and for wheat
and corn in the same Statra and in Georgia
and Tennessee. The whole value of the sur
plus crops of the South this year cannot be
ess than $300,000,000, of which probably
$100,000,000 are paid to the negroes in the
shape of wages, and $51,000,000 more in the
shape of food. i
Another year of equal prosperity would put
the South in a comparatively sound condition,
although, of course, there are and must be for
many years, numerous cases of individual suf
fering—as of persons in advanced life, totally
ruined by the war, their houses and lurniture
destroyed, and all their investments of money
completely worthless. When we consider that
the accumulated wealth ot two hundred years
haTe been destroyed at tbe Soutb, we cannot
cease to wonder that her recuperation should
be as rapid as it is. ,
Of the immense inportation of foreign
goods, cloths, silks, velvets, laces, jewelry,
wines, and other cottly merchandize, the
South now takes comparatively little. Her
consumption is mainly confined to the nec -
essaries of life, and will be for some years.
Hence her recovery frim losses will be more
rapid. The Southern people, with few ex
ceptions, never were a luxurious people, in
the sense that the Nay Yorkers and Paris
ians are. They cherished for the most part
the homely virtues of their ancestors, and
lived well upon the produce ot their fields,
their forests and theii rivers—content witq
roomy houses, wood fires, and old fashioned
furniture. Hence in tleir present depressed
condition, they are mrre contented than a
stranger would suppost it possible for them
to be. We hear of few suicides there, and
the number of insane persons in Virginia is
only half the number in Maine, regard being
had to population.
In its best days there was very little money
in circulation in the South. Now there is
still less. Iu the comnercial panic which
seems to be approaching, the South will,
therefore, suffer more than the North from
any contraction of the currency that may
precede the restoration to prosperity. In the
South there are no real estate speculations,
even in the environs of tb'e cities; no artificial
values given to town lot9 or embryo Palmy
ras or Babylons. Festina lente is eminently
the rule there, so far as real estate is concern
ed. They are not h gregarious people, but
love elbow room above everything. Cities
they regard as necessary evils, and as such
not to be encouraged unduly beyond mode
rate dimensions. For the greater tho city
the greater the evil.
It is very evident thatbusineisatthe North
is overdone; that there are too many non
producers there—too many merchants, too
many traders, too many agents, too many
lawyers, too many doctors, too many persons,
in short, who stand merely as intermediaries
between the producer and the consumer.—
One of the New York journals estimates that
there are 200,000 people out of work within
sight of the spire of Trinity Church. Within
an equal distance of the State House at Bos
ton there are doubtless 50,000 more, and
another 50,000 in the interior of New Eng
land. Most of these unfortunate persons are
anxious for employment, bat cannot obtain
it. Even the high tariff, which so enriches
the great manufacturers, does not put a mor
sel of bread or an ounce of meat into their
mouths.
What visible outlet to all this surplus labor
is afforded, unless at the South ? Tho West,
for the present, is pretty well filled up with
laborers of all descriptions, and thousands
there are out of work. The Soutb, then, is
the only vacant field easily accessible On this
continent for the unemploy ed masses of the
North. ' '
The Macon Telegraph takes gracefully the
handsome compliment below paid it by tho
Griffin “Star.” We endorse the compliment of
the “Star,” with the slight qualification, that if
it is not the best, itiis certainly one of the besj
papers in the State. It has some contemporaries
in Savannah with which it is an honor to he
compared. It deserves success, and without
doubt commands it. See prospectus in another
column.—South Georgia Times.
Short, Sweet, and to the Point. — Our
sprightly contemporary, the GrfHn Star, in his
last number of Friday, pays the Telegraph the
following compliment:
The Telegraph is, in our humble opinion, the
best paper in the Staie—edited with greater abi
lity mid taste. We do not beheve there isa better
paper in the South, and wo heartily recommend
it to our friends. . ■ v
Thank yop, brother Star. May you ever be one
of the fixed luminaries, and shine with a grow
ing lustre to the end of time.
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Tbe Secretary to ;the People ot Georgia.
The several Conventions of Planters and Fanners
assembled in Macon, on the 10th and 11th nits.,
finally united under the existing organization of the
State Agricultural Society, formed in 1846, and lib
erally chartered in 1853; and when so united, took a
wide and comprehensive view of all the questions
most vital to the agricultural interest. Iam directed
by tho resolution of the meeting to call yonr atten
tion to one or two important features in its action.
Without preliminaries, then, I ask you to look at
tho proceedings of this meeting, nnd answer, under
a solemn sense of your duty to yourselves and yonr
country, if the questions raised and the objects con
templated by this meeting are not of sufficient mo
ment to. enlist the. effort and sympathy of every
man arid woman in Georgia. I'd ono can answer
No. Admitting then, as ypa must, the importance
of the movement, can von stand idle ? Can you,
in derogation of all your past history, stand con
fessed delinquents ? Every consideration forbids.
What, shall you do ? The meeting at Macon
points the way. It is to organize. Let the people
of every county hold public meetings at once, organ
ize Planters’s ClubB, or Agricultural Societies. Let
those immediatelv identified with agriculture—let
tho tillers of tho soil begin the work, and all trades
and occupations dependent upon tho prosperity of
the agriculturist will unite with you m active aid
and support. At the same meeting which organizes
your Plantere’ Clubs, appoint full delegations of
yonr intelligent, practical, successful fanners to at
tend the meeting of the Stato Agricultural Society,
which is to meet in Atlanta on the first Tuesday in
February next. [See Appendix.]
At this meeting, questions the most vital to yonr
welfare are to be considered. Among them are snch
as the following;
Is it not important that tho Legislature should es
tablish a land office in connection with a commission
er of immigration, which office shall fnrnish all per
sons wishing topurchase and settle with full inform
ation of the location, value, and properties of lands
that are for sale?
Is it not important that tho Legislature should
make an annual appropriation to the Btate.Agricul-
tural Society sufficient to enable it to establish a De
partment of Agriculture, as-a, means of collecting
all facts arid information of general interest, for
annual publication—of aiding the society in defray
ing tho expenses of its annual meetings and fairs—
in collecting for such meetings whatever is valuable,
curious and interesting in natural history—in scien
tific progress ? Other States and nations, the most
advanced in all culture and refinement, encourage,
by material aid, such organizations. Why should
not Georgia? The policy of the present Legisla
ture, in many features, has been wise and liberal.
It is only necessary for you to consider what legisla
tion yonr interests require, and to give proper ex
pression of your 110018 and demands, and your
claims will bo admitted—granted.
There are other questions, not Icbs important,
which must bo answered, not by legislation, but by
intense thought and reflection, the result of this
thought and reflection reduced to practical applica
tion and each man’s final conclusion interchanged
freely, in common council, for the benefit of all.—
The people of the cotton belt must answer whether
or not the free negro is now the best laborer availa
ble for tho cotton field, or whether, as some think,
“he must- slide,” die out, and give place to another.
They must answer whether any laborer, white or
black, can labor through the seasons necessary to
prodneo, and gather a cotton and com crop in this
climate, and have tho leisure and preserve the apti
tude requisite to any degree of mental and social
culture.
If it is tho interests of the cotton grower to save
tho negro, then what is tho best system of manage
ment—npon what terms best to employ them—for
wages in money or for part of tho crop. Is it advi
sable to tenant them on separate farms ? What re
straints and penalties can be legally imposed in
your contracts with them to compel the fulfillment
on their part. On all these points, every man needs
every other man’s experience and advice. Able com
mittees have been appointed to make reports in Feb
ruary ; the meeting cannot fail in interest. It was
never more important than now, that all should con
tribute something to the general fund of knowledge.
Let those who have been successful in the manage
ment of the freedmen’s labor, give the Convention
in February written statements in detail of their
system. Let those who have failed in the manage
ment of this labor state in detail what was their Bys
tem, and whv they have failed. Let the Convention
be furnished with copies of the contracts under
which you operated, accompanied by financial state
ment of tho expenses and profits of the- operation.
In this manner, extraordinary interest may bo im
parted to the proceedings of this meeting and great
good accomplished.
The Agricultural society, by the terms of its Char
ter, is dosigned to encourage all improvement in
mechanical arts, manufactures, mining, etc. All
Societies, or Associations organized for such pur
poses, are requested to send delegations to tho Con
vention.
An appeal is here made to individuals who, in any
part of tho State, havo given careful reflection to
tho situation of affairs—who havo studied closely
how the freedman’s labor is to be managed so as to
make his labor profitable to the employer, and at
the same time make liim a contented and happy la
borer—and who have put the result of their reflec
tions into successful practice—to come to this meet
ing in February, and in written essay give the whole
country the benefit of their counsel and experience.
If you cannot attend, send in yonr papers.
An appeal is hero made to tho Christian States
man and Philanthropist, who has considered the
status of the freedman in all his relations, to gov
ernment, citizenship, society—his wants socially,
religiously, mentally—who has considered what aro
the duties of the superior race—who has possibly
conceived some measure or policy which it may bo
tho duty of the former to adopt—to come forward
with written essay and give the country the ben
efit of their suggestions. If you cannot attend,
send in your paper.
An appeal is here made to every press in tho State
to puplisli this notice, and to give the aid of the ede
itorial pen, not once, but repeatedly, in urging the
people to action. There is not a press in the State,
some portion of whose readers would not be reached
by any other. Then let eveiy press publish, and
every editor write, and again write, as if tho work
and duty was exclusively his own. •
Certainly these times invite ns to combined effort.
Can any one doubt that the salntaiy solution of the
new labor problem that is upon us demands the uni
ted effort and wisdom of all hearts, heads and hands?
Can any donbt that the present remunerative prices
of all agricultural products is almost enough to en-
tico the crowded idleness of our thoroughfares to tho
delightful labor of the field? Can any donbt that
the present impulse in favor of high culture, and in
creased—more extended culture, if quickened and
widened and deepened, will go far,not only to increase
onr wealth and happiness as individuals and as a
;eoplo, but also to diminish the crime and profligacy
hat is everywhere—in high as well as Iowplaces ?
Let, then, our mass-meeting in February, make
its utterance full and distinct on all questions. Let
tho Legislature give tho required, needful legisla
tion. Let organized effort everywhere speak. Let
tho press teem with article after article, with thought
after thought in tho good cause. Let individual
effort and enterprise, wherever successful in solving
the difficulties of these times, come forth and make
itself heard. And when all have been heard, and
all truth and wisdom havo been combined, and fully
and distinctly uttered, and carefully heeded, who
will doubt that onr South will yet become what it
once was, the rest place to live in the wohld.
By order of the Convention. —
D. W. Lewis, Secretary.
Macon, Dec. 19th, 1868.
form of,constitution fob county agricultural
. , society.
The undersigned, citizens of -— county, affixing
their names to the subjoined Constitution, and by
wing annually two dollars for membership, or ten
illara for life membereliip, do form themselves
into an organization to ho known as the County
Agricultural Society—tho objects of which will be
encouragement of all improvement in agriculture,
and of all the kindred arts and sciences which tend
to inereaso tho profits and pleasures of agricultural
labor, and render home, lifo on the farm attractive
Tho ofiicers shall bo a President, elected by bal
lot by tho members present at tho clo30 of each
annual meeting: one Vice President from each
military district in tho county; a Secretary' and a
Treasurer—all elected In the same manner at the
samo time. r ’■
These officers shall constitute an Executive Com
mittee, who shall have the power to fix the timo and
place of holding the annual meetings and fairs, and
to prescribe the rules and regulations to bo observed
in tho management of tho same.
It shall also be tho duty of this committee to en
courage tho monthly meetings of tho Society, espe
cially during tho period of preparation for and the
tillage of tho crops; and to bring before such meet
ings those topics and questions for colloqnitl de
bate, best calculated to keep up the work and the
spirit of improvement. It shall further he tho duty
or this committee and of its individual members, to
procure, from timo to time, written essays and ad
dresses on appropriate subjects from persona dis
tinguished for their success in agriculture, or for
their learning in the kindred arts and sciences.
The Secretary shall keep a full and perfect record
of the proceedingc of the Society. ,
Tho Treasurer ehall make, whenever called upon
by tho Society or Executive Committee, a full ex-
liibitpf the financial affairs of the Society, and be
The Amenities or the
From tKtfaOrange Reporter.]
The recent lecture of our abla and ^
contemporary, the Maoon TiaroBAML'in^S
to the amenities of the press, haa-created —
For ike Telegraph]
Reverie.
Tis the midnight hour,'and I am watching the
departure of the Old Year and the advent of the
New. Oh, with what lingering fondness and re
gret I cling to it, for it takes all my buriedjoys
away without leaving me that sweet, bright, joy- treated M last week in a spirit of levity—not ti,'*
ous maiden, sunny faced Hope, to cheer me and we do not hold in high estimation the onini '
point to a happy future. I watched the old year’s °f the Teleobahh on meat all subjects. The Re*
departure, the year that has left me fatherless, P 01 *®* agrees with the Telegraph, in the main,
and thus doubly orphaned- for our mother went G f eg press, ‘g£a& n “^
to claim her reward, the crown of righteousness,' ’ them at all times if it were possible. No
ten weary years ago. } has more aympatHes in common with the press
I ushered in the passing year with a psalm of *ban this journal; none desires the elevation
toantegiving to my Heavenly Fatter for having * Lvo fclfSS&mS »
spared the precious earthly one; tremblingly, for . nifying a noble vocation i but oases have arisen
in my heart was the living dread that when it. within the past few years when we have had to
had lived out its brief existence, if I was spared, i ( * e8C ® n ^ to personalities the more effectually to
•haw™
bless me. Now, I can almost see the shadowy contemptible efforts to degrade the white raw
form glide into my room, and the silvery curls j °* tte South to a just public scorn and condem-
encircling tte holy, bowed head like a halo of ’ ? ati 9?- We could not combat their principles-'
, . , ., ,. ! for they had none any more than the hi eh wav.
glory, his beautiful eyes smile npon me ; his ; man who crastis vour thrrmt srS
One by one the shadows glide in, for tte last th® 11 °fi i en For two years wo have hail in
—my sweet early wedded life and motherhood; • dation, backed by the military and threaten^
and when my preious old fatter wrote me he had j ’with tte direst political punishment—not upon
been deserted by tte last birdling of tte parent ptipcjpto, but by mere brute force. These press-
-7.1.7-----' — respect they entertained for tte pei
his bidding I came, and tried to make him a P^ e of Georgia. Towards them we could not oh-
home, until tte Redeemer called him awav to his ^S rve WmI amenities of professional men.
r“ d » r
him, and where were already placed those gone > litical degredation, tte otter our life. "We coSd
before to make a heavenly home for him. the highwayman our money to save onr
Ah, I hear the soft tread of tte angel throng-' PShH S® couW ^ssassins of onr
„ . .. . . ... , . political life our self-respect or treat them with
su eet pa tient face of the angel mother; she the usnal civilities of editorial courtesy: hence
has lost tte suffering look, and on her angelic ' we denounced them personally, collectively and
face is the expression of tte victory won, through professionally, and will always do so when we
much tribulation. ; Lave to combat them.
mu . . , _ _ .. I But towards our brethren of the press, crener-
Inen comes the angel sister. Her beautiful j ally, wo shall always observe those amenities
face—so beautiful in life—with its wondrously which should exist between gentlemen, however
lustrous eyes, radiant smile-bears the extatic mnc ^ ^ e y differ from us upon principle.
11 t >«■« ~
from earth to heaven nnd she exclaimed, “ Oh,
Death, where is tty sting!”
estlv, candidly and fairly as much as he who en
tirely agrees with us. "VYe admire a man -who
adheres to his principles, honestly entertained.
Placing tte conduct of the press upon such a
basis, tte members thereof should bo courteous
i to each otter at all times. Self-respect demands
And here is tte golden-haired, angel child.
She comes to me and clasps her dear arms
around my neck and says, ‘ ‘My little mamma, 1 as much. "Witt such a press in existence, en-
kiss mo.” And there is tte revered form of tte j tirely free from tte unclean birds which have
dear old pastor, who gazes at tte clinging child | cursed journalism in tte South for tte past two
and sadly whispers to me. “remember God takes ' 01 ^ e . e P 16 Telegraph
... j would be entirely applicable in all cases; but as
aV ifT> our I ^°^ s °k> no ^ uffike them to yonr- 1 long as these carrion creatures hover over our
8e “* * I land, they ought to be denounced in deserved
One by one, they glide in, tte silver-haired terms, and we shall not hesitate to do so on all
old patriarch, tte joyous little children, tte sad- fitting occasions. They are mere vultures swoop-
der faced ones who had reached their prime, 1down upon us because of our helpless con-
. . , „ , . dition, who take advantage of the power of onr
and whoso souls were refined, even before they enemies to back them with tte military, toforce
left this sin-tainted earth, according to tte wis- us to unmanly terms of surrender of our prind-
the kaeper of the Society’s funds.
Tho President shall have the power to call a spe
cial meeting of the Committee or the Society when,
in his opinion, the interest of the Society requires it.
All papers in tho State please copy.
Contracts fob Labor.—The Columbus Sun
says: . . '/v,. '
Fanners tell us ‘hat freedmen are contracting
the present year. Men are getting from sixty-
fiye to one hundred dollars a year; women, forty
to sixty dollars. The “share” plan is in general
disfavor. Negroes work well when thus em
ployed, but they run . the stock too severely, in
order to have Saturday as a holiday. Field hands
are in demand in some quarters. Women are
not commonly desired.
pies.
For tte Macon Telegraph wo have great re
spect, and hopo it will not construe the little
sqnib we made in regard to its lecture in disre
spect towards it. We like its dignity and ability;
but as we aro not of its temperament, it will not
imagine for a moment that we would seriously
treat it in any otter manner than as a high-toned
journal.
That lecture, friend Reporter, arose not upon
our own motion, but it grew out of a suggestion
from an eminent source in this State; and we
are glad it accomplished its object by directing
the attention of the Georgia press universally to
a growing evil which threatens seriously to im
pair its influence.
The exception taken by tte Reporter, we no
ticed a few days ago: and with all respect to
tte better judgment of that paper, we cannot
imagine any case in which the Editor or the
gentleman should lose his composure or suffer
himself to be betrayed into a resort to a vocabu
lary unbecoming his social and moral position.
If a man bo so unfortunate as to encounter bear,
blackguard or ruffian, he will defend himself and
assail his adversary all tte better for keeping
cool. But enough! We see no reason in the
political condition, or in the relative articles of
the Georgia newspapers, as they stand, why a
very high degree of harmony and esprit du corps
should not be maintained, and we have no donbt
onr friend of tte LaGrange Reporter, notwith
standing tte exception he takes to our doctrines,
will contribute tte weight of his influence and
acknowledged ability to this desirable result.
Affairs in Moniieello, Jasper county.
Steam Colton Factor?/—Sate Mill—Lumber Op
erations— Wagon Factory—Carpenters TPiuit-
cd—No Tailor—Field Hands Scarce— Wreck
of the Little River Factory.
Monticello, January 8, 1869.
Editors Telegraph:—There is now a steam
factory in full operation here. The operatives
are all white. The building is large and sub
stantial, and was erected without a single piece
of sawed lumber or a single mortised hole in it,
for which tte enterprising proprietor, Mr. S. C.
Talmadge, deserves much credit.
They are now prepared to saw a great deal of
lumber, and will soon be ready to turn off fine
wagons complete—equal, if not superior, to tte
Northern made, for they have an abundance of
white oak and otter kinds of timber. Notwith
standing tte facilities for furnishing lumber to
tte people of Monticello, they are deficient in
carpenters.
There is a great desire to erect and repair
houses in Monticello, and some good, steady
workmen could realize good wages by coming
here, and no mistake. Rents and provisions
are comparatively cheap.
Again, there is not a tailor in tte place.
Great demand for one, and also for a shoemaker.
The citizens are complaining of their wants and
necessities, and it is hoped that some industri
ous, reliable mechanics will see this opening,
and avail themselves of it.'
There is also a great (leiqand for field hands in
Jasper. In fact tte difficulty in procuring them
is becoming alarming. At sal? day there were
at least twenty farmers looking for hands. Not
if tte numerous idle freedmen around Maccc
will come to Jasper, they can get employment
and good pay. ... , m, , • * - • •;
It was a sad and deplorable scene as I crossed
Little River to witness tte wreck and desolation
of property, where once stood, in flourishing
operation, the Little River Factory, now nothing
but eight deserted and shattered dwellings stand.
’Tis indeed mournful to look at. The water
power is first rate, offering a fine opportunity
for tte investment of capital. Sherman’s army
passed along hero, and its blighting track is still
visibl* npon every hand. Traveller.
Remarkable Temperance Lecture.—Goethe
tells tte following story, whioh amusingly illus
trates tte capacity for drink of the Rhineland
ers : . :; . J . Lttok ', ^ t • ■
The Bishop of Mayenne once delivered a ser
mon against drunkenness, and, after painting
in tte strongest colors tte evils of over-indul
gence, concluded as follows: "But the abuse of
wine does not exclude its use. for it is written
that wine rejoices tte heart of man. Frobably
there is no one in my congregation who cannot
drink four bottles of wine without feeling any
disturbance of his s mses; bnt if any man at
the seventh or eighth bo trie so forgets himself
as to abuse and strike his wife and children.
.. 1 • o n. mu . and treat his best friends as enemies, let him
r.Erp’SLTs
bulk. It certainly could be divided here justly,
in proportion to the money advanced.
The actual profit made on fertilizers by onr
commission merchants is exceedingly Small on
cash transactions, and pays little more than tte
handling and storegB. Fanners will therefore
save bnt little by this arrangement. The main
point is to assure ttemselves of tte plenty and
value of what they buy, and for these they
shonld require tte amplest quantity.
dom of tho Heavenly King. They move about
tte long deserted rooms, so full of holy mem
ories, from which tte smiles and prattle of in
fants have so long been absent, and which tte
perfume of flowers has not filled; for tte hands
that were wont to gather them are now attuning
their golden haips for tte music of the angel’s
song. ‘
.1 feel tte soft touch of their hands, their kiss
upon my cheek, and their voices of sweetest
melody in my ear. Listen to my mother’s voice
as my fatter takes her hand and comes with
her. My child, my suffering child be patient
unto the end. I hear my name called. This
time it is an earthly voicedto tell me that the
gentle, suffering spirit of a poor afflicted little
child, ha^ justpassed away from earth to heaven.
How it deepens my sadness, I loved tte little
child because I had been kind to her, and she
had in her suffering body what seems to be now
so rarely found, a grateful heart, and her patient
fortitude endeared tte gentle child to me, for, I
too, have been a sufferer, long weary years.—
Another tie severed here—to my early home.
Alas how few already! Will the home to which
I expect to go ever bring forth one floweret of
joy, to cheer my dead heart and waken it to life
again? Will one ray of sunlight pierce the clouds
of/gloom and misery that have been enshroud
ing my life, and overshadowing it so many wea
ry years of despair and hopelessness ? Oh! if
tte hand of tte New Year should weave flowery
garlands for me will tte cry of my heart still be
that of onr Southland's sweetest poet:
•But tho flowers of the Future though fragrant and
and fair,
With the Past’s withered leaflets may never com
pare.
For dear is each dead leaf, and dearer each thorn.
In the wreathes which tho brows of our past years
have worn.” • :
The midnight hour has chimed, my dear one’s
voice has implored God’s blessing for tte New
Year The shadows have departed for the last
time in my sweet, early home on tte eve of a
new year, and oh! how inexpressibly sad I feel
—although I have passed many happy, joyous
hours in tte bright, hospitable land to which we
are going, and many dear friends are waiting
longingly for our returmttere. I sadly feel tte
desire of tte Shunumite’s heart to “dwell among
mine own people,” will often find on echo in my
heart there.
I love that beautiful old country, with its love
ly hills and lovelier vales—its grand old cathe
drals and magnificent ruins—its sunny slopes
and winding rivers—its hospitable homes and
true hearts dwelling in them.
But oh, this is tte home of holy memories
—of buried hopes—and tte dust of ttpse whose
hearts were so true, is mouldering here; tte
rooms in which I suffered so much and was so
lovingly tended, will echo with' stranger-voices,
and' stranger-feet will tread where angel foot
steps pressed before, and we, too, will be as a
dream of tte Past—a memory.
Tremblingly I await tte future, imploring
that, with tte dawning year, God’s tenderest
angel—sweet Hope—tte inheritance of human
hearts which “He gives not to His very angels
hut only unto us,” will open tte door of my
heart and let me welcome her sweet face again.
The Purchase of Fertilizers in Georgia.—
The Valdosta Times makes tte following valu
able suggestion:
We have a suggestion to make to our planters
in regard to tte purchase of fertilizers. It is
well known that there has been much fraud and
deception in this important article of commerce.
What by manipulations and adulterations, the
people havo been deceive^ to their cost. To
remedy this, the Legislature has appointed a
chemist to analyze nil the fertilizers introduced.
This is a wise movement, and they have made
a good selection in Dr. Means. ■ But why should
not all tte planters of tte county, or adjoining
counties, unite and purchase together. Make a
joint stock company 1 and purchase a cargo, or
all that is wanted. They should also arrange to
make tte purchase through a reliable, uninter
ested agent. All of which can be done. One
of tte most unaccountable things we havo met
is tte difficulty to get farmers to combine for
tteir own interest. Through tte agency of the
Lowndes county Society,tte idea suggested
could be carried out effectively. We make tte
suggestion with little hope that it will be heeded.
^ !ft may be added that a farmer purchasing a
ton, or five, of his 3avannah agent, would
hardly expect but that he would make a profit,
wheroas the farmer might purchase as cheaply
of tte agent of the Peruvian Government, as of
The French Emperor has subscribed five
thousand francs for a monument to be erected
at Trieste, to Marimillian-
the sixth bottle. Yet, if after drinking eight, or
over ten or twelve bottles) he can still take his
Christian neighbor lovingly by the hand, ana
obey tho orders of his spiritual and temporal
supporters, let tom thankfully drink bis modest
draught. He must be careful, however, as to
taking any more, for it is seldom that Provi
dence gives any one the special grace to drini
sixteen bottles at a sitting, as it has enabled nw
its unworthy servant, to do, without either
neglecting my duties or losing my temper. ”
The Darien Shjf Canal.—The F.nglish Gov
ernment is said to have sent an agent to-Bogota
A movement has been inaugurated in New
York for the removal of tho present police mag- to watch Mr. Cushing, and see that the United
istrates of that city, and tte appointment of States does not get too much advantage in th*
better men in tteir stead. Darien ship canal negotiations.
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