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On the Threshold.
, irtstandingonthettoahold
j t Lri-'Iitcr world than thia,
, itlroagh all oar carth-bom striving
^ Sdeep sounds of far-off bliss;
!r'n»v note from harp of seraph
Won our careless ear,
j «fiu'. and wondering hsten,
know not what we hear.
V irB j then the portals open
we our loved ones go,
7“ lose them hi the brightness
%!e ve weeping watch below;
-v,«ta>w they're only folded
‘r’ir to that Heart above.
wljAb tenderer than a mother's,
pot« know, out “ God is Love.”
rat doth matter though wo weary
sanding on the threshold dim,
t< catch some heaving cadence
f., a the great celestial hymn ?
•< -rSarioiurs hand we re clasping
Indiia world of blight and sin,
. , jre we when ope the portals,
'lien to hear his " Enter in.”
MILLIE.
■rttfa Voting Widow who Ailver-
^ tisedforfl Jlnsband.
St* Haw Palladium.]
-^flatterpart of March there appeared in
’iie.Vew fork papers the following ad-
jfPfllt <
iTjimg xridoir. nineteen years of age, of
^wading in society, and having a lugs.
»a her own right, wishes to correspond
tiitaonghly educated young man of equal
1*2 in society with a view to matrimony.
Sphs exchanged. The means for resort-
|sis method to obtain a husband will be
^eciflmpliuned. Address Millie Stanton,
H N'cw York city.”
rathe persons who answered this adver-
..•/ ias a dishing young gentleman who
.mHwmore than a league from this city,
ijga bis very brief, but sufficiently ample
aksguage to’give the young widow of nine-
miiriof what sort of a fellow he was.—
t.rgfjratleman (whose name is withheld
iil request) enclosed his “picter,” and
ins > wry correct presentment of a rather
jm* mm. it seemed to make quick im-
sce on the heart of his fair correspondent,
jtiijs later the young gentleman-received
in«r to his letter. This, like his own, was
(i. but wd as follows:
"So. -. Eighth Steeet, New Yobk,>
April 2. J
‘Dcu &: Have received yours, ana an
il it m eirLrtt leisure. I am favorably im-
jsed with roar face, as shown in your photo-
(kiadsfaJ yon mine, which I hope will not
jlmejon. If. after examining my likeness,
thitl that you might leam to love me, I
! be pleised to meet you on Tuesday eve-
isenitXo.—. Eighth street. Respectfully,
“Millie.
?.S.-Inqnire for Mrs. DeFcrest, and don’t
Wore $ o'clock.”
hi rnisare was written in a delicate hand,
i showed culture, and cansed the young
who had commenced the correspon-
■riyvayof a joke to feel n little serious
2c nutter. The picture of the young wid-
Jthe likeness of an exceedingly handsome
a,whose face wore an expression which
dthat the pride of birth and fortune was
Wood that gave to it the rosy flush of
.; -froth makes it necessary for ns to
!2it the young gentleman at once fell in
rcb the face, and resolved-to go down to
'fork on the following Tuesday and have
with its owner. He therefore
N ‘‘Millie" a line announcing his inten-
t calling, and expressed the hope that she
loot disappoint him by her absence from
* it the time she had appointed for an in-
sr,
(•wen the time of the posting of this letter
visit of our gentleman to New York,
•g occurred beyond the reception of a sec-
Msive assuring him the “young widow”
be at home at the time designated. Ar-
x himself in his “best” he went to New
and at S o'clock on the Tuesday evening
tied he walked up the brtrtftt stone steps of
m ! t0 “ e front on Eighth s!#fet,and pulled
wrbefl. This was answered by a servant
®ered him mto the reeeption room; He
rfmned that Mrs. do Forrest was “in.”
*iaeh he handed the servant his card' and
its immediate delivery to the “young
• Shortly afterward the parlor door
a splendidly dressed lady entered ‘
and at once ajoproached the young man,
?®ed her pleasure at meeting him.
:-i young woman’s
itia, v'f f rosnlted in the discovery
« toe handsomest types of beauty that
Ptoman had ever beheld. Ho looked,
; 8 , , heart wa3 smitten. She
Jz.* s “ e looked she seemed to be de-
i *“ e ro’tbly form before her. After
••^sry talk abont the weather, Lent,
te.t? er8 '. young widow, suddenly
subject, said: “I suppose we may
^ about the matter which we have met
this she looked searchingly, yet
•6,**° eyes of the young gentleman,
‘moment's pause, said: “I presume
“ke to know who I am, and why I
a .life partner, wouldn’t yon?”
[bv. re plied our young gentleman, “I!
. ...ejection.” |
>^’^ rs - HcForest—the dashing young '
a Riband—began a narrative
> CecessaT y here to give at length, j
had married, how her husband i
•'travelling in Europe, how bo
St (,n a: 1 ens6 Property valued at nearly
“'•uars, how a hundred young fel-
i*i ^, her their hands and hearts, how
< to roarry a stranger if she
* suited to her mind,” how her
httl-f ?® 8ent *d to this course, and how
wonld be to make the man
. s h 0 roight enter the bonds of
''•*«? ra pidly did the strange beauty
'fit ijjlJ'rog gentleman found it difficult
fas. Ji® 6 'yord edgeways,” as the say-
■i 6^ “ontinued her story, which was
^tjjj^-aoua adventure, considering that
istlw* 5 80 young arid so beautifuX and
js'i^-r *° explain her pedigree, when
WijjL hho hallway outside said,
At the same time a gentle-
- (“?, door and entered the parlor.
\ lijj-, ho, addressing the dashing
«4,;VJ°ugo p stairs. Up to your
1 Ree - I supposed you were,
w hy I watched you.”
J ,d ° n broke the susceptible heart
» eman hihe a terrible calamity,
' •; ” "; -s greatly heightened when the
^•oath'■ leDoe ^ 40 P our ou t a volume
Nt ln lroder quite as inelegant as
Z* 06- Here was a nice fix for onr
^Wie- a . a f,6 en deman. He turned pale
a ddressing the gentleman,
me tS explain 1 '
^'lUiTr-n the stranger; ‘Til
s ? ort M 1 8 et thia unfortnn-
h®r room. ”
MACON, FRIDAY, APRIIi 30, 1869.
.^-•teiL difficulty the young widow
;„T^ en 1116 gentleman returned
a to* woman was
& to P««ve£^! tM ? watch ^ *o be kept
stn^o her fr ^ m having similar in-
("’^'•“saad 8 ^ 0ur y? un 8 gentleman
it it on™ l f ”d° ns > and was shown the
k ^i never ! home > “ d rows
'-‘tuiqji t caught in the matrimonial
trip again.
Greeley on Jndge Schley anil Negro
OiDce-HoIders in Georgia.
Mr. Greeley has seen the decision of Judge
Schley in' the Savannah quo warranto case, and
he is sorely distressed thereat He weeps and
writhes through nearly a column of the Tribune
over our “ Don Quixote” of a Judge, and the
poor, much abused negro carpet-bagger whom
be decided to bo without legal right to the clerk
ship of Chatham Superior Court. The lugubri
ous serio-comic diatribe may amuse our readers,
aud we annex it entire.—Sa tannah Republican.
Con a negro hold office in Georgia?—Mr. Jus
tice Schley, pronounced sly, is the Don Quixote
of Georgia—a knight who reveres the dark ages,
but cannot endure a black skin. Hia hatred to
the colored people is so implacable as to mis
lead his judgment and betray his innocence. He
accordingly seized upon the first opportunity to
show his hostility and violate the trust reposed
in him as a Justice of the Superior Court. But
he does one thing at least that is admirable. He
boldly meets the issue declaring the question to
be “Can a negro hold office in Georgia ?” Not
so worthy of our respect, however, are the
solemn sophistries of this Georgia Judge, nor
the -wicked judgment that follows the special
pleading of a lawyer who sits an advocate upon
the bench.
It seems that one Richard W. White, owing to
no fanlt of his own, was bom not quite white,
was elected or appointed Clerk of the Superior
Court of Chatham county, in the State of Geor
gia. Not having the fear of Judge Schley before
bis eyes, he entered upon the discharge of the
duties of his office, and for ought that appears
or is alleged to the contrary, performed these
duties to the satisfaction of those whom ho
served. But Wm. J. Clements, who is pre
sumed to be a shade lighter in complexion than
Mr. White, was not pleased. He wanted the
office himself, and was agonized in soul because
ho could not get it As sly as Judge Schley him
self, and more intrepid than office seekers usu
ally are, he could not be turned aside by the
mere fact that another man held the place, and
was not disposed to leave it. Inspired by the
action of the Georgia Legislature, he resolved
upon deeds as noble, and accordingly made the
astounding discovery that a very vulgar frac
tion of Mr. ^Vhite’s ancestry was included in
that class of whom it was said of old, “Cursed
be Canaan”—in other words, that he is a nigger,
“a p erson of color having one-eighth negro blood
in his veins.”
This fact is brought to the notice of Mr. Jus
tice Schley upon a writ of quo warranto, and,
without denying the allegation, Mr. White de
murs to the complaint on the ground of its in
sufficiency in law. But Judge Schley is big
with the idea, and goes to work to keep the
nigger out of office with almost as much elab
oration as we could expect from the accom
plished authoress of “Beulah” and “St. Elmo.”
Ignoring the proclamation of emancipation,
which, at the North at least, is believed to have
had some effect in its day, he assumes that up
to 1805 the negro in Georgia was a chattel, with
no political rights of any imaginable nature,
bearing In his name and race every political
disability. In that year, ho tells us, the State
Convention gave freedom to the negro, and
even went so far as to enable him to sne and
testify in the courts, acquire and hold property
and to marry. This creature with no “imagin
able” political rights, was even allowed, in the
deep wisdom of Georgia legislators, to marry.
Fortunate negroes! Wise legislators! The
voice of Georgia says men and women may
marry without offence to the law!
Bnt the wisdom of Georgia has found another
vent. The Fourteenth Amendment, in guaran
teeing to negroes all the privileges and immuni-
tiss of citizens of the United States, Judge Schley
decides, does not convey the right to hold office.
The Dred Scott decision is invoked to show that
a person may be a citizen—“that is, a member
of the community who form the sovereignty”—
without the right to vote or hold office ; and
other cases of a like character are cited to prove
what the Judge says he would otherwise “con
cede.” The point on which the wicked judg
ment hinges is that citizenship does not include
the rights and immunities of all citizens, where
as the grant is of all the immunities and privil
eges of citizens. It is the conclusion of this
learned judge that citizenship, ipso facto or ex
ti termini, does not confer the right to hold
office.
Ex ti termini we take to mean, according to
our liberal way of translating the Latin of
Southern Judges, “frota the end of a club,” and
everybody knows that the bludgeon has been
and still is a favorite way, down South, of con
ferring rights and immunities upon the negroes.
Judge Schley Would no doubt be pleased to con
tinue this method with those whom be calls “the
lowest class of natural persons.” The lowest
class of natural persona, he tells us, ‘‘rested
under every disability before the Constitution
was adopted,” and hence he is averse to con
ferring upon them now “all the immunities and
privileges of citizens of the United States.” He
appears to have visions of “a Congo, an Ebo, a
Hottentot fresh from his jnngles,” taking a
place by his side on the bench or at the polls,
and it is Schley not the nigger that writhes.
The DemidotTs—Romance in Real Life*
Prince Paul Demidoff’s mansion and house
hold effects in Hue Jean Goujon, Paris, are ad
vertised for sale. The catalogue speaks of an
tique Flemish tapestry, woven after cartoons by
the great masters of the sixteenth century, cu
riously wrought gold ornaments, swords, pis
tols and fowling-pieces, services of Venetian
and Bohemian glass, Aubusson and Smyrna car
pets, and a collection of jewels which, apart
from their intrinsic worth, are valuable from
their associations with historical personages.
Prince Paul Demidoff’s marriage was one of the
events of the brilliant season of 1867: It was
solemnized in-the Greek Church in Paris. The
Emperor and Empress of Russia, for family
reasons, took, perhaps, a deeper interest in it
than anybody else. A heavy cloud seemed to
rest on the bride and bridegroom. Imperial
presents and congratulations were powerless to
remove it. A romantic story was told of hopes
rudely crushed for State reasons.
In connection with them were mentioned tho
death of the Grand Duke Nicholas, which by
opening to a second son the succession to an
Imperial throne, imposed on him the necessity
of espousing the elder brother’s fiancee. "What
ever amount of truth or untruth there was in
this sad tale, there could have been only one
feeling abont the bride, and that was of deep
pity. She was beautiful, tender-hearted, and
weighed down with grief and utterly indifferent
to the favors fortune seemed never tired in
heaping npon her. Few saw her at the wedding
who did not perceive that her days were count
ed. The union celebrated under these sad
auspices was not destined to last long. The
young Princess Demidoff died in the midst of
the gaieties of a Viennese season, shortly after
the birth of her only child, who happens to be
a boy. Her husband was, up to the period of
her death, a man of pleasure. But that event
completely revolutionized him, and he resolved
thenceforth to devote his whole fortune and
energies to training his child as an apostle of
hnmanitaranism, and ministering to the tempo
ral and spiritual wants of the working classes.
Paris being the centre of the intellectual world,
he has selected it as the basis of his operations.
Already an establishment, where the Prince and
his son live, has been founded in the Faubourg
St. Antoine,which supplies work to two hundred
seamstresses, and affords them a shelter when
engaged in it There is a lecture room attached
to the institution, where clergvmen of every de
nomination are admitted to lecture. English,
French and Russian ladies direct, with the as
sistance of skilled workwomen, the ateliers. It
is in contemplation to add a creche to this es
tablishment for the children of the women em
ployed in it. The little Prince, whom some la
dies of my acquiantance describe as the loveli
est little fellow they ever saw, will be brought
up among his father’s proteges, and be thus
practically taught the principle of equality.
Prince Paul Demidoff is intimately associated
with some ministers of the Baptist persuasion,
at whose prayer meetings he frequently takes
a prominent part.
From the Albany Hex«».]
Colonel Lockett hires exclusively by the year,
and pays in greenbacks at the end of each quar
ter. He classifies laborers and hires according
ly, stipulating the wages for first, second and
third classes, and adds thereto one ration—4
lbs. of bacon and one peck of meal to the laborer,
per week. He ignores the co-partnership or
share plan altogether, and the peace, good order,
contentment and success of bis plan demonstrate
it as the true policy.
_ When he has contracted with a laborer, he
simplifies the contract by reducing the amount
agreed upon to per diem pay. Thus, if he
agrees to pay a first-class hand $175 for the
year's work, he runs the working days through
it, and the laborer learns that he "is to get 56
cents per day, or $3.38'every Saturday. This
simplification is not only necessary to enable
the simple-minded laborer to keep his own ac
counts, but is necessary to enable the manager
to keep a correct time book, for the time is still
further divided into hours aud half hours, and
and the laborer knows that he is docked by the
manager for every hour and even half honr
he loses during working hours.
This system stimulates a determination on the
part of first class hands to retain that high dis
tinction, and operates as an incentive to lower
classes to merit promotion; while the docking,
or, as they call it, “ducking,” inspires a whole
some fear of falling short of the $3 38 at the close
of the week.
The ration is furnished only to the regularly
hired laborers, but provisions are kept on th*e
place and furnished them for the non-laboring
members of their families at an advance on
cost, just sufficient to cover expenses and inter
est on the money expended therefor.
Comfortable bouses are provided for their
families free of charge, and garden spots are
allotted to them.
At the end of each quarter the pay rolls and
money are ready, and every laborer is paid the
last cent that is due. No store accounts or other
indebtedness are rung in In payment, but what
is due is paid up in money, and a whole day is
allowedthem to frolic and spend it as they choose.
They are permitted to use the mules and wagons
and go whither soever they please. Of course
they all go to town—except, perhaps, a few of
the more provident and thrifty—have a good
time, spend their money-, aud rejoice in the
privilege.
Whenever a laborer disobeys the manager’s
orders, or fails in any way to do his duty, and
there is a conflict between him and the manager,
he has the right of appeal to Colonel Lockett,
who is the final judge, and who is as scrupulous
and pgid in meting out justice as the most im
partial judge that ever wore the ermine. This
every laborer in Ms employment knows full well
and he knows too that when the decision bids
bim go, it is irreversible and that he must go.
_ The rules work harmoniously, preserve dis
cipline, encourage industry and promote con
tentment and happiness. The burthens of the
field are borne with cheerfulness, work is per
formed with a quick step and light heart, and
employer and employee reciprocate care for
each other’s interest and due regard for each
other’s welfare.
Visit of American Ollicers to the Mi-
lroilo of Japan.
Admiral Rowan, Commander of the Asiatic
Squadron, has forwarded to the Navy Depart
ment the following account of a visit of American
officers to the Mikado of Japan:
The United States officials were conducted to
the Mikado's palace by a mounted escort and a
body of infantry. Guards were stationed at
each of the cross streets of the route, and crowds
of curious bnt orderly people lined the streets,
while a large police force was scattered along
the route to perservo order.
After describing the ronte and entrances to
the Kikado’s palace, where the party were pre
sented to the First Councilor of the Empire, who
told them that tho Mikado would soon be ready
to receive them. In the meantime the Court
band commenced to play a singularly weird and
doleful strain, more like a funeral strain or
miserere than anything-else. The Mikado then
entered the audience chamber, and in a short
time it was announced to the United States Min
ister that the Mikado wonld receive him. On
reaching him and beginning Ms speech, the Mi
kado rose to his feet.
Commander Carter says: “While the light in
the room was not very good, the day being over
cast and gloomy, I could not see anything in
the face of the Mikado indicative of either much
energy of mind or character. Still for one so
ycrtmg, (he is said to be bnt seventeen,) be con
ducted himself with becoming dignity. He was
dressed id d robe of wMte silk, and petticoat
and trowsers Ot crimson, and wore on Ms head
a curious head-dress of fine wire. After the
minister had read hfa speech, he presented each
of ns by name. The afitfiene'e Was quite short,
bnt everything passed off satisfactorily.
From the castle the party dr'cri'e' to the tempo
rary Foreign Office, where, later in' the after
noon, the Minister of Foreign Affairs proposed
the health of the President of the United States,
of the Queen of Great Britain, and of the King
of Prussia. The health of the Mikado was after
ward proposed and drank.
This was the first, and, so far, the only audi
ence an American has ever had with the Mikado
of Japan.
On the 10th. of January the Mikado visited
two of Ms men-of-war, botlf of wMch were at
anchor close to the Monocacy. He took no pains
to conceal himself, but on- the contrary seemed
anxious to be seen. The Japanese flag was hoist
ed on the Monocacy, and a salute of twenty
gans fired, which was returned while the Mikado
was on board of Ms vessel by an American flag
being hoisted and twenty-one guns fired from
that vesseL
Mysterious Murder In Atlnnta—Xo Clue
to tlie Perpetrator.
On Saturday night a negro brought word to
police headquarters that a man had been found
dead at or near Gardner’s place, on Pryor street
Policemen Holland and Lanier proceeded to the
spot and discovered the body of an Italian, who
hadbeen stabbed under the ribs on the leftside.
On Ms person was found about $200, a pair of
scissors, a pistol and a knife.
He was recognized as the leader of a band of
Italian musicians who came up here from Macon
on Wednesday last, composed of two girls, (the
daughters of the leader,) and five boys. The
deceased was named Louige Leone, and come
from Marscolone, county of Basacilota. in Italy,
and was about forty years of age. TMs band
was observed going in the direction of the spot
where the mnrder occurred, on Saturday, aud
shooting was heard in that neighborhood about
two o’clock in the afternoon.
A boot was found near the body of the de
ceased belonging to a member of the band.
Coroner "William Kile summoned, a jury this
morning and investigated the matter. Nothing
was elicited to warrant the arrest of any parties.
The owner of the boot explained the circum
stance of its being near the body to the satis
faction of the jury. His foot was sore, and he
pulled it off. From the testimony adduced, it
appears that the band went there 'for the pur
pose of gathering flowers, cut one another’s
hair, etc. Leone was left by them sitting at
the foot of a tree, they going in search of flow
ers. They could not see him,, because they
were in a valley with a house and a MU between
them and the point where he sat. They were
horrified and amazed to find Mm ^tiUed. They
assert that he was not depressed in mind, and
drank nothing intoxicating.
Thev do not believe that he committed sui
cide, and the murder is to them a mysterious
affair. What is strange is that his money was
undisturbed. Who the perpetrator is, or what
the moving cause of this horrid murder was, re
mains enveloped, as yet, in deep mvBtery. Mr.
F. Corra acted as interpreter for the Coroner’s
inquest. The State was represented by Capt
E. F. HoweU, and the defense by Ms Honor,
W. H. Hulsey. The jury rendered a verdict
that the deceased came to his death at the hands
of some party or parties to them unknown.—
Constitution.
Mixed Packed Cotton.
From tha Cuthbert Appeal.}
'■ The receipts of the great staple have wel
(nigh tapered down to nothing, and now in past
ing the statistical accounts of the crop, wMcl
‘ has been thrown into the great marts of thi
’ country, it may be weU to consider the numerou 1
i complaints relative to staple and preparation
i Prominent among these is the charge of mix*
j or false packing, wMch is becoming painfuly
; prevalent. The former may be, and frequenfr
j i s the resnlt of inadvertence or neglect, durife
the gathering season. The pickers are intfr-
| rupted by a faU of rain wMch stains the ofn
i fleece, and when the harvest is resumedio
j pains are taken to separate the inferior froinpe
! good. Thrown into one common heap, it pit-
! es peU meU through the gin, and often is press*’
Mow to Get Rid of Bermuda Grass.
From the Southern Cultivator.]
'Editors Southern Cultivator: The note of “J.
W., Tallahassee, Fla.,” containing inquiry of W.
B., Athens, Ga., “how he got rid of Bermuda
grass, is before me.
t toipriry I reply, that the only effectu
al method which I have ever practiced is to
sow the land covered with Bermuda grass in fall
oats. As soon as the oats are cut, sow imme
diately cow peas, at the rate of one bushel per
acre. These wifi be ready to cut or turn under
about the last of September. As soon as either
is done, sow again in oats, rye, or wheat, and
a gam sow in peas as soon as the crop is off. In
two years the grass wiU be destroyed, qx^ «n-
feebled as to make it easj' to cquIj****
I „ 0 „ TMs plan is much Letter than to attempt to
into the bale in alternate layers, widely dissimin get clesr.of it-by 'planting the land in a hoed
i lar in quaUty from each other.
! In resampling these, discrepancies are de»
j tected, and the package is pronounced “mixed
i packed,” and thrown back npon the seUeror
j planter.
| It is easy thus to see how tMs defect may c-
i cur, and yet the producer be free from to :d
| and intentional deception. He, however, y
' Ms carelessness subjects himself to suspicii i,
and heavy reclamations, and pecumary fori i-
tures.
In the other case, wnere the cheat is int l-
tional, and sand, water, billets of wood, roc 3,
the contents of old matrasses, refuse lint £ d
other foreign substances are introduced into ,e
center of the bale, to enhance its weight a d
consequent value, the imposition is denomil -
ted false packing.
The planter should know that ibis villia j
will inevitably be detected, even when the ar -
cle passes into the hands of the spinner and s
tom into shreds. In all cases the original ma::
or brand of the plantation is carefully preser •
ed, and the fraud can be traced up to'its sourt
without any difficulty.
The stigma attached to such deliberate swii
dling, is of course deep and ineffaceable.
We were not a little amused at the followint
recently received from the lips of a cotton fac
tor in Savannah:
“An old man, not a thousand miles from thi)
city, to eke out the weight of Ms lone bale]
| placed in its centre the half of a condemned
! grindstone. •
j “In process of time the package found its
j way to the adjacent market town, was sold, sent
I to Savannah, and thence sMpped to Liverpool
j and transferred to the factory. Here, of course,
i the fraud was discovered, and the bale anil
] its contents immediately returned to the Amen
cropbecause it costs nothing to exterminate in
tMs way, for crops of grain and peas more than
pay for the labor of the two plowings given the
ground each year. The first plowing is the
only troublesome one. The grains smother the
grass in the early summer and the peas effectu
ally does it the latter part of the summer and
early fall, so that between the two crops the
Bermuda has no chance. TMs is no mere the
ory. I am now cultivating a piece of land prof
itably and easily wMch was matted with Bermu
da and wMch was killed out in the manner above
described. If it be desired to improve the land
while getting clear of the grass, this could be
very rapidly done by sowing rye instead of oats
or wheat, and turning the whole under at the
time of sowing peas—say when the rye is in
bloom. Then again, turn the pea vines in
abont frost. I know of no better way to im
prove land, if a man can afford to give up the
crops.
I have a two-horse subsoil plow, made with a
plate ten inches or a foot broad and some eigh
teen inches long, bolted to side of beam with the
front edge curved'a little backward and sharp
ened, and a piece screwed to one side below,
forming the share or point.
It is so constructed that it works as easy in
matted Bermuda as in any other land. The
foot runs under the sod and lifts it like a mole,
and the front cuts it into slices. After this plow
has done its work, a common scooter will plow
in the small grain. All subsequent plowings
can be done with any plow. Having learned
how to manage Bermuda, it has ceased to be a
terror to me, and desirable qualities have been
developed. Among these, I have found that
red clover grows better with it than with any
I other grass in tMs climate, and both make the
- (best cutting for milk cows I ever bad. This I
can sMpper at Savannah. It happened just jhave tried for the last six or seven years. Ber-
j then, that the merchant in question, who was nuuda and clover, on good land, grow to about
j waggishly inclined, had received an order from !the same height and make a splendid growth
, the identical old vagabond, who was the owner ifor soiling purposes.
j of the cotton, for a barrel of sugar. Concealing ! * -
j the circumstance, he carefully inserted the ol - Incidents of the Nevada Fire.
1 grindstone into the midst of the barrel, and for J Among the terrible incidents of the fire in the
i warded the same to its destination. Some weeks
after receiving the sugar, the old lady of the
I house, on filling her box encountered the stone.
) ‘ 'Calling her husband to her side, amid many an-
| athemas against the perfidy of all dealers in groj
! ceries, they proceeded to remove the offending
! substance. Judge of their mutual astomshment
when the old dame exclaimed: ‘Law sake?,
> here is our old grindstone what I used to rub ray
scissors upon. How on arth did.it git into tins
1 here barrel ?’ The old man muttered curses,
i loud and deep, but responded nary word. He
] was beaten as Ms own game.”
| We do most heartily wish that this bo iho
luck of all who resort to such means, to add to
I their cotton pile. Every honest producer should
j strivr to expose and bring to justice those who,
! by acts like these, bring reproach and discredit
i upon an honorable vocation.
-»>■
The Story of the Escaped Lion Con
tinued—lie is Killed at Last.
• Mr. Geo. Coleman, a young man of twenty-
; three or twenty-four years of age, living three
’ miles from Prairie Station, was informed one
; day last week by a servant girl that she had jnst
• seen a “bear as big as a cow in the edge of the
| woods,” a short distance from Mr. Coleman’s
i place. Her excited manner at once aroused Ms
' curiosity, and arming himself with his Spencer
j rifle loaded with twelve balls (a piece that he
1 used in the late war,) he started out in search
1 of the monster. He was accompanied by a ser-
■ vant and a large and very fierce bull dog.
I Arrived at the spot, a'brief survey soon dis
covered to Mm the object of Ms search in the
> shape of a genuine lion. The lion, at the sight
, of the men, sprang into the branches of a dead
tree and there waited further developments.
Mr. Coleman, who is described as very cool
and darih", did not allow Mm to wait long, for,
: elevating his rifle, he at once discharged several
loads at Mm. which caused the beast to spring
’ from Ms position on Ms foe. Quick ns thought
i Mr. Coleman continued firing till he had ex-
: hausted all Ms charges—the second shot, as he
afterwards discovered, passing clear through
. the body of the beast without disabling Mm.
! And now came the tug of war. Tho lion, in
furiated with Ms wound, and with glaring eyes,
. reached the ground near Mr. Coleman at tho
, first leap, and made a second spring in a mo
ment afterwards. NotMng but the courage of
Ms dog here saved Mr. Coleman from instant
destruction. The noble animal threw himself
on the king of beasts ere he reached Ms victim,
I shd seizing Mm by the nose, though knocked
about a3 a feather, fought him so tenaciously
■ that tho Hon abandoned Ms purpose, and by a
single bound, seated Mmself on the lower limb
of a treef some twelve feet from the ground.
i At this moment', Mri Coleman’s servant handed
! him a donble-bcrreled-gun wMch he had brought
along: with tMs he advanced to almost immedi
ately under the beast, took an aim that was to
seal Ms own fate for life Or death, and fired both
barrels, bringing the Hon dying to the ground.
• On measurement, the best was found to be
nearly nine feet in length, and to weigh one
hundred and eighty pounds. He had a wMte
spot on Ms breast, was of a tawney cdlor, and
showed all the marks of an American lion: Dr.
Hard, of Monroe, who is considerably skilled in
natural history, says he is no doubt of- this spe
cies, and has Ms head for preservation.
Our readers are assured there is no hUmbflg
about the affair. The only way we can account'
for the presence of a lion in tMs country is to;
identify this one with the animal that escaped-
from the menagerie at Forrest, Miss., a short
time since. Both are described as males, and
of a ferocious temper. — Columbus, (Miss.,)
Index.
The Loss of the nermann.
The loss of the Pacific Mail SteamsMp Her
mann, with two hundred lives, has been alluded
to in our dispatches. Captain Newell states
that when the vessel was abont seventy-five
miles from Yokohama, he discovered breakers
ahead and ordered the helm “hard a port”
The sMp at once answered the movement of the
helm, bnt was caught by a tremedous roller and
thrown with great violence upon the rocks, strik
ing first forward and then aft, when raised by
the following swell. Successive seas, breaking
npon the sMp with great violence forced her
over the reef, the water filling the sMp mean
while, rapidly. Three boats were lowered and
filled with passengers, but the heavy sea soon
swamped them all.
Abont midmght one of the funnels fell for
ward npon the hurricane deck, causing loss of
life to a number of peoplr: collected there. Be
fore the chimney fell the foremast had gone.
The sea reaching the hurricane deck, broke up
the whole of it forward, but the after portion
floated off almost entire, and remained in this
way alongside, and seemed to save forty or fifty
people. Some of the people were washed off—
some tried to save themselves on pieces of the
floating wreck. The boats being mostly life
boats, although swamped, still flooated, and
were washed into the small bay by the serf, and
those persons who clung to them were saved.
Captain Newell speaks very highly of the oon-
duct of the Japanese on board. When the ship
struck, these brave men, suddenly roused from
sleep by the awful crash, seemed to comprehend
their situation in a moment. No stampede; no
disorder. From the first they were quiet and
cool, retaining wonderfully their presence of
mind, and calmly awaiting the commands of
their leader.—Charleston Courier.
gold mines, wo copy from the Nevada News:
Three brothers, Bichard, George, and James
Bickell, aged respectively tMrty-three, thirty-
one, and twenty-seven years, were working in
the Crown Point. Not long after the fire was
discovered, and the deadly smoke was pouring
out through the Crown Point shaft, Richard
and George grouped their way to the cage and
rung the bell to come up. "When they arrived
at the surface, George was discovered insensi
ble, leaning over Ms brother and bolding Mm
as with a death grip, which it was quito impos
sible to disebgage. Bichard had Ms head torn
almost completely off, and Ms left arm was
hanging by a little strip of skin to the shoulder.
He had doubtless become insensible, and sink
ing down npon the cage, was dragged against
the shaft timbers at the sides. George still
lives, bnt is insensible, and suffering from as
phyxia, produced by the inhalation of the terri
ble smoke, so foully charged with deadly car
bonic acid gas.
Many of the miners hate families at Gold
Hill, who have passed the day in unutterable
anguish, hurrying from shaft to shaft, giving-
vent to their agony in wailings that brought
tears to the eyes of hundreds unused to weep-
tog.
. The origin of the fire is not positively known,
but all believe it originated from a miner’s can
dle, left sticking in the drift timbers.
Tebbobism axd Incesdiabisji in Virginia.—
A Northampton county correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, says:
About three weeks ago Dr. P. A. Fitzhugh,
N. S. West, and five other of our most useful
citizens, received letters (anonymously) that
they were to be burned out. Since that time
the doctor has had Ms com houses, bam, three
horses, Ms carriage, and oat crop burned up.
Mr. West has had Ms dwelling house burned
ddwn. A few days ago another letter came out,
threatening to bum the property of five other
gentlemen. It is supposed the threats come
from what is known here as the “Urnon league,”
and nearly all the parties thus threatened are
persons who were called on by the sheriff about
three weeks ago to arrest a negro for breaking
open a meat house, and who belongs to the
letgue. The sheriff is one of the parties to he
burned out. Really, we are in a deplorable
situation, and what is worse, I see no light
ahead.
The case of William S. Maflfl, of Hannibal,
for violation of tho revenue laws was concluded
on Saturday at St. Louis in the United States
District Court, the jury returning a verdict in
favor of the Government for $13,050.
Firing the Northern Heart.
The New York World says the Senate Com-
mitttee on Foreign Relations have a list of five
hundred and twenty-seven summary executions
reported to Have been made by the Spanish au
thorities on’ the Island of Cuba within the last
three and ft half months. This list is to be
most diligeiitly scanned—first, to see if it is
entirely correct; second, to see if any Ameri
cans are included in it. The list produces great
excitement, and even if Americans are not
found in it, ingenuity is aiding indignation to
discover if the cruelty can not be made the ob
ject of representation of some sort or other.
The rumors regarding contemplated expeditions
from the States to Cuba are not incorrect. A
fbree of formidable dimensions is prepared. A
prominent Western General of volunteers is in
command' already, and attention is being di
verted from the real port of embarkation by the
publication of false places as intended.
ThfcFlokHTiir Rome.
The Courier Of Satuiday says-:
The Mgh water here has been slowly subsid
ing since about midnight last Wednesday. The
water did not come into the streets except for a
short distant in South street, near the depot,
and no material damage has be en done in Borne.
We loam from Capt. Elliot^ who came up the
Coosa from Gadsden, on Thursday; that at least
three-fourths of the river bottoms'- were -sub
merged— nearly all these grounds" had been
planted. The com was up two or three inches,
the cotton just coming up and the wheat about
half-leg Mgh.
The extent of damage done will depend very
much upon the weather that may follow. If it
shall be moderately cool for a few days, and
then a moderate rain, to prevent the ground
from baking and to wash the mad from the
growing plants, very little loss will result from
tMs flood. But if it turns off hot and dry, very
serious damage will be done.
An Intelligent Bog.
Naponach writes to the CMeago Journal:
Mr. Ohanning Moore, residing at Richmond,
Staten Island, has a Newfoundland dog, wMch,
at times, manifests almost human intelligence:-
The morning stage from New Dorp leaves the
New York papers at the gates of the various
subscribers on the road. Mr. Moore’s dog al
ways watches for the sheet and carries it mto
the house. The other morning the paper, as it
was thrown by the driver, caught in some bush
es. After making several ineffectual attempts
to reach and pull down the sheet, the dog start
ed after the stage, caught the paper dropped bv
thd driver at the next house and ran home with
it as fast as he could go.
Why Do Not Onr Teeth Last Onr Life
time?
That they are made as perfect, if the right
materials are furnished, there cannot be a
doubt.
But are the necessary elements furnished to
children as they are the young of other animals ?
And do we not subject our teeth to deleterious
influences from which animals that obey their
natural instincts are exempt?
The forming yonng of other animals, while
dependent on the mother, get lime, and phos
phorus, and potash, and silex, and all the other
elements of wMch teeth are composed, from
the blood or milk of the mother, and she gets
tions.
But where can the child in its forming state
get these necessary elements, whose mother
lives principally on starch, and butter, and su
gar neither of wMch contain a particle of lime,
phosphorus, potash or silex? Nature performs
no miracles. She makes teeth as glass is made,
by combining the elements wMch compose
them according to her own chemical principles.
And tMs illustration is more forcible because
the composition of the enamel of the teeth and
of glass is very nearly identical; both at least
requiring the combination of silex with some
alkaline principle. •
If, then, the mother of an unborn or nursing
infant lives on wMte bread and butter, pastry
and confectionery, wMch contain no silex, and
very little of the the other elements wMch
compose the teeth, nothing short of a miracle
can give her a child with good teeth, and espe
cially with teeth well enameled.
But what article of food will make good teeth?
Good milk will make good teeth, for it makes
them for calves. Good meat makes good teeth,
for it makes them for lions and wolves. Good
vegetables and fruits will make good teeth, for
they make them for monkeys.
Good com, oats, barley, wheat, rye, and, in
deed, everything that grows, will make good
teeth, if eaten in their natural state, no ele
ments being taken out; for every one of them
does make teeth for horses, cows, sheep or some
other ammal. But starch, sugar, lard, or butter
will not make good teeth. You tried them all
with your child’s first teeth, and failed*; and
your neighbors have tried them, and indeed all
Christendom has tried them, and the result is
that a man or woman at forty, with good, sound
teeth, is a very rare exception,
Self-Bade—A Glance at the Successful
Newspaper Men oi New York.
The New York correspondent of the Cincin
nati Gazette writes:
It is a curious fact that nearly all the success
ful newspaper men in New York are what may
properly be called “self-made.” Henry J. Ray
mond, who made the Times, and is in the front
rank of journalists, worked Mmself up from the
lowest round in the ladder. In 1843 he wrote
letters for the Cincinnati Chronicle, for which
he received abont $2 each. He made a living
at that time cMefly by corresponding for out of
town papers. The Times would now sell for
$2,250,000, and Raymond is still at its head.
Horace Greeley started the Tribune without
capital. It is now one of the most valuable
pieces of newspaper property here, and Greeley
is still at its head. The Tribune association
have, I understand, declared a dividend of 30
per cent. Its shares are worth $70,000, the par
value of wMch was $l,00a
The Herald was started by Jas. Gordon Ben
nett, his- capital being brains and industry.
Bennett is now worth millions, and Ms paper
yields a cleaT profit of ^400,000 per annum.
Manton Marble took the World when it was
an experiment. He had HO money; the paper
was not paying, bnt be was aided by capitalists.
He built up the paper, made it profitable and is
now solo proprietor. It yields a handsome an
nual income.
Charles A. Dana was for several years man
aging editor of the Tribune. He was subse
quently editor of the CMeago Repnblican, bnt
did not succeed. He came back to New York,
and, in company with others, bought the Sun,
wMch, under his management, is already a great
success. The circulation of the Sun, on the
first of January, 18G9, was 31,000. It is now
52,000, and growing rapidly. The Sun is a two
cent paper. The profits on the circulation are
verjr small, of course, but it gets plenty of ad
vertising at 25 to 50 cents per line. The New
York people advertise liberally and pay big
prices. Hence, the Sun, wMch could not be
published in Cincinnati, is here very profitable.
Business men believe in advertising, and to this
in large part is duo the extraordinary growth of
the city.
The Messrs. Brooks, of the Express, are also
self-made men. I believe they started the Ex
press, and are still managing it. 1 do not know
who started the Post; but AY. C. Bryant has
been identified with it if not from the beginning,
at least for a great many years. His capital
was made np of brains. It is a very profitable
paper. The old proprietors of the Journal of
Commerce are dead. It pays largely. Bonner,
of the Ledger, is worthy of remark in this con
nection, although he does not run a daily paper.
He went into the Ledger from the ease, and now
publishes one of the best and most profitable
weekly papers in the world, and competes suc
cessfully with Vanderbilt in the horse line.
Mendelssohn and the Maid.
How charming it sounds to hear of Felix
seated at the piano, extemporizing ono day in
Ms apartment at Borne, when suddenly a splen
did contralto voice repeated a theme out of Ms
Fantasis. His friends, too, listened. It was a
voice that had often met their ear in- all its mel
ody ; the young maid of the landlady was in
the habit of singing popular Italian airs daring
her-work. On that day, however, Mendelssohn
started np in surprise. “She sang my theme
quite correctly!” exclaimed he. They opened
the window; she was seated on the stairs, sing
ing while packing all sorts of fruit into a large
basket. “Oh! if I could only once hear her
sing near.” “Call her in, then.” “The ques
tion is, will she come ?”
The painters were bolder than the musician,
and, after a short and playful negotiation, they
persuaded her to come into the room. She
was neither handsome nor graceful, and rather
shy, but said she was willing to sing her song3.
They hurried her to the piano, while the joyous
companions grouped themselves in a circle, and
the rare contralto voice rose before them like a
calm moon. Mendelssohn accompanied her ex
tempore as she sang. It must have been a rich
picture aud a rich enjoyment. From that mo
ment, Mendelssohn provided for the musical
education of the girl in the most self-sacrificing
manner, and the simple maid of the Piazza
d’Espagna became an excellent singer. How
often must she have remembered with deep
gratitude the youthful benefactor, whose hand
had led her out of obscurity into the bright,
warm tight—Beminiscences of Mendelssohn.
Rome, Selma and Dalton Railroad.
The Courier says the annual meeting of this
corporation took place on Friday last, and elect
ed the following:
President—Franklin H. Delano, of New
York.
Directors—U. A. Murdock, Wm. Paton, Isaac
H. Knox, Jno. T. Agnew, O. C. F. Dambmann,
David Crawford, of New York; A. G. Mabry, J.
"W. Lapsley, of Seim; Levi W. Lawler, of Mo
bile, Daniel S. Printup, of Borne.
The following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That we deem it to be vitally im
portant to the interest of tMs company and the
country generally, that the city of Selma should
be connected by railway, early as practicable,
with the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile and Pensa
cola, and to that end recommend to the Presi
dent and Directors of this company, to render
all the aid in their power to the construction of
roads to those points.
English ooach builders are beginieg to an
nounce that they are prepared to build light car
riages on wheels imported from America. They
seem to have discovered at last that the Amer
icans are half a century ahead of them in the
matter of carriage building.
VOL. XLIIL—NO. 24
Farm Yard Manure—WYhat is the Best
Methdof Applying it.
‘Within the past few years a new method of
applying manure for hoed crops has been fre
quently and strcngly advocated in the columns
of the Country Gentleman both by its editors
and correspondents. TMs new method recom
mends that the winter-made manure be kept
through the summer till some time in autumn,
and then carted on the green sward and evenly
spread, there to remain upon the surface of the
land till plowed in in the spring; and it has
been stated that ono cord of manure so applied
■will give as great a yield of com as two or three
cords upon the land just before the com is
Jte.Maetice -Of manr_gt^d .farmers
substantiate the correctness of the above state
ment.
Tljie great mass Of farmers are proverbially
conservative—slow to adopt any innovations in
their long established farm practices—content
in the matters “to let well enough alctae;” but,
cautious as they are, when satisfied of the worth
of a real improvement in any branch of farm
culture over the old method, they have the good
sense to adopt the new one. I will give anil-
lustration of this:
There has been in successful operation at
Sandy Spring, Maryland, for twenty or more
years, a farmers’ dub at wMch agricultural
questions are proposed and discussed, and at the
close of the discussion a vote is token. A rec
ord is kept of the doings of their clnb meetings.
In 1852 the question was asked, “What is the
best way of using bam-yard manure ?” An
swer: “Plowitunder tMs fallfornext spring’s
com crop.” “Should it be left spread on the
surface, or plowed under directly?” Club
equally divided. But in August of the next
year, the majority favored hauling out manure
on the sod now and leaving it spread to plow
tinder in the spring for com. On this impor
tant question the majority in favor of leaving
bam-yard manure spread on the surface in
creased from year to year, so that in 1859 six
teen out of seventeen fanners present preferred
surface manuring.
Now it seems to me that the experience of
these Maryland farmers does much towards
settling this important question relative to the
application of manures tor the com crop; and
in*my view there are many other advantages
connected with this system, and only one ob
jection—that of plowing in the spring.
Let the yinter-piad§ manure remain in the
barn-cellar or under cover if possible, and It
hogs could be kept upon it, the better. The
manure, straw, etc., in the yard should be put
in large heaps (and if covered with mtick or
loam, all the better,) to be carted on the newly
inverted sod in autumn, wMch should be done
soon after the land is ploughed. The manure
should be evenly spread and worked into the
soil with the cultivator or harrow. By such a
course there would be no breaking up of grass
land in the spring, no carting of heavy green
manure over muddy roads and deep-ratted fields
in early spring; there would be little or no loss
of manure by evaporation or leaching; the fer
tilizing qualities of the manure would become
pretty equally distributed through the soil, so
that every little rootlet would get its share of.
ready-prepared food. The plants on such a
prepared soil, from their first appearance above
it, exMbit wide, dark-green, rick-looking leaves
—the reverse of the yellow, sickly-lookmg com
in an adjoining field, where all the manure was
buried eight or ten inches beneath the sod. By
ploughing and manuring (for the com crop) in
the autumn, all that is necessary to prepare the
land in the spring is to give it a thorough culti
vation with an implement (not a spike-toothed
harrow) that will penetrate and pulverize the
soil from four to six inches deep.
But here some may ask, “Will there not be
much loss by the leaching out of the fertilizing
ingredients of the manure from October tiU
May ?” If the soil contains a fair proportion of
fine loam, and a small per centage of clay, there
wonld be no loss of manure. TMs important
fact has been fully demonstrated by many care
fully-conducted experiments by Professors Way,
Liebig, and many other scientific investigators.
To sum up the matter in a few words, it was
found that the clay or aluminous portions of
soils possess the power of chemically combining
with .not only the gaseous compounds of decom
posing animal matters, but also with the alkalies,
ammonia, potash, soda, magnesia, eto. TMs,
said Professor Way, is a very wonderful proper
ty of soil, and appears to be an express provi
sion of nature. “A power,” he remarks, “is
here found to reside in soils by virtue of wMch
not only i3 rain unable to wash oat of them those
soluble ingredients forming a necessary condi
tion of vegetation, but even these compounds,
when introduced artificially by manures, are
laid hold of and fixed in the soil to the absolute
exclusion of any loss either by rain or evapora
tion.” That the views thus expressed are sub
stantially correct, I think we have the most
abundant proof. That bountiful provision of
nature which treasures up in the sou, unwasted,
for unlimited periods of time, the fertilizing in
gredients so necessary to the growth and ma
turity of vegetable life, marks unmistakably the
wisdom and benificence of the Creator.
[Levi BarlweU, in the Country Gentleman.
Effect of Trees on Climate.
The ground on wMch stands Ismailia, a town
of 8,000 inhabitants, on the Suez Canal route,
aud the headquarters of M. de Lesseps was but
a few years since a dry, sandy desert, on wMch
rain was never known to fall. All is now trans
formed. The old, dried-up basin of Lake Tim-
sah has been again filled with water from the
Nile by a fresh Water canal. Trees, shrubs, and
plants of all descriptions grow rapidly wherever
the soil is irrigated, and the artificial oasis
widens fast. “Accompanying,” writes a corres
pondent, “tMs extraordinary transformation
of the aspect of the place, there has been a cor-
respoding change in the climate.
At the present time Ismailia, during eight
months of the year, is probably the healthiest
spot in Northern Egypt The mean tempera
ture for the tour months, June to September, is
94 degrees; the following tour months 74 deg.;
and the four winter months 45 deg. “Until
two years ago rain was unknown; but in the
twelvemonth ending April last there were ac
tually fourteen days on wMch rain fell, and no
later than Sunday last there fell a tremendous
shower of rain, a phenomenon wMch the oldest
Arab had never previously witnessed.” Rain
ceases to f* on a country deprived of its
forests, or only falls in violent storms. Here
we see rain returning to the desert on restoring
the trees.
Dancing A Quadrille.
It is described thusly by a young man who
tried it:
“We both bowed to both of us—then to ’toth-
er—then the fiddle tanked, and the things start
ed—grabbed her female hand—she squeezed
mine—we both slung to each other, but she
slung the most, because I think she loved me
for a little while; then we changed base dear
across the room, jumped up and down ever so
many times, passed each other twice times, then
my dear and me dosed a doe and hop-scotched
home again (from a foreign shore) then we two
forwarded four—2 ladies changed, we crossed
ovdr, turned around twice, shasshayed side
ways, I backed to places, she dittoed; side cou
ples to the left, side couples this way, side cou-'
pies ’tother way, side couples turn gentlemen,
side couples turn ladies, ladies turn side couples,
gentlemen turn side couples, head couples turn
side couples—turn head couples—all hands
around—back again—first feller take opposite
.) ■
do the same as you did, and back again to places
—light gentleman balance to heavy lady —heavy
lady duplicate—promenade all—gals get in the
center—fellers catch hold of each others hands
—bob np and down, arms over ladie s water
falls—ladies stoop—jump np and down—each
feller takes his sal back to places. Right gen
tleman spin right lady—left lady spin left gent-:
tleman—all twist each other*—do it again over—
repeat once more—keep it up—aH ton around
—all tom the other, backwa:
couple swing ’tother coupte. crow over,