About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1869)
/■ Ar A -v. m 0LISHED 1826.} ut*s or srascairraW: ^-f'.r.nc year.. $10 0 six months ..... 5 0 XtO**„rerio'ls One Dollar per month. * ,!l f ff rttiv Tr.LKr.KA ph-otio year.. 4 0 :* ?t £ Wtuttv Tslsgpaph-sjx m’ths 2 0 l5 .v>«ufTn.*eR*'H—one year.. 3 0 n isutiiKAPa—sjx months..... 1 0 '^PtnSole <ifaw ■» advance.-** U svncl .Xol> Printing |0 V -xccutol at reasonable prices. a f)J . jjjjii w ith Postmaster’* certificate: 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,
