The Greorsia, ‘Weeklv Teles;rar>h.
TELEGRAPH.
^^FRIDAT, JUNE 18, 1809.
'C!^chEo«P*ror and .the
|pf* parislaiiH.
I „ lffl speaks of axide of the Empe-
p" - '' 5 ’ gg through the Montmatre dis-
\d. j n an open barouche, without a
district was ’ ° n Tuesdfl y last ’ 1110
w-,, .^pular gathering which, for a time,
^ (revolt and barricade; bnt dispersed
varance of the military. The Pre-
^‘pdice then placarded a proclamation
F 1 n <&)& citizens to support the authori-
rf -Mention of the law and the main-
f '~ine&ce and order. The appearance of
P, Idr unprotected in this quarter of the
as an expression of their
*' inthe good will of the people, and
have excited a-very enthusiastic
g respopae. ^
I fan Stand lhe Snn *
J ««hinRton Thomas, of this county, has
lr table two stalks of cotton—highest
I sC ve n inches, with but three-eighths of
PjL diameter, with eighteen forms upon
five acres as far advanced aa this,
*1 being planted about the 13th April,
is fifty-se«n years old, and culti-
fidl ten or twelve acres of cotton with
r hands. Part of hia land 18 fertilized
Kble manure, and part is fresh. Mr.
P wn stand the sun without difficulty.
politics In Tennessee.
I the Central Radical organ, the
P ^ jjpf. of Nashville, struck the Stokes
L .Trent over bodily to Senter. Senter is
L mi the platform of a removal of politi-
rflilities, and Stokes is firm upon the po-
.liatBO respectable white man should be
j (j TO te. The war is hot between these
i, -jfjatg, but the democrats and the ladies
r coiet. not having any votes. The Banner,
I* set ms to be in good spirits and to an-
tetter times.
A Reaping Match.
I, reJ p m g match with seven varieties of
1 , Kjdtines took place at Cave Spring on
r,^ He competitors were: The iron-
Eieelsior, the wood frame Excelsior,
ITv, jhchine, Buckeye, Russell Machine,
I VotM. »nd the Ohio. The Committee of
tosnnided the first prize to the iron-clad
S* the second to the wood frame Ex-
md the third to the World.
From Thomas County.
I Thomasville Enterprise, of Wednesday,
L’.m« of very dry and warm weather.
tf»r Court was in session with several
pleases before it, among them the Me-
sum express robbery at Cairo. The people
l.:idodging jury service. The commencement
seaof Andrew Female College begin on
jth. The editor boasts of a cabbage
Lirisinc seventeen pounds, and is behind the
it Somebody advertises as found, a sett
(fftificUl teeth—a queer thing to lose.
GrifEn Xcws.
I The Middle Georgian says that at the election
k Thursday, on the question of increasing the
I? subscription to the Griffin and North Ala
ns Railroad $25,000, the vote stood 220 for
i increase and 43 against it Comparatively
r voted.
I Su> Acctoevt.—On Thursday night, the down
pin from Atlanta, due here at 9$ o’clock, run
*r (and killed a man, by name of Jack Smith,
st two miles above this place. He had been
am daring the day and started home late,
>iis supposed to have laid down on the road
|tiuunder the influence of liquor. No blame
: attach to the engineer, who made every
|.'1 to stop the train before reaching the man,
lie could not do so.
J Tbletak Female College.—By the cata-
|rtt of this institution for 18C9, which has
j wry handsomely printed by J. W. Burke
lift., we see that it numbers one hundred and
iKinty-nine pupils, in all the classes. The
er of graduates since its organization in
'•!" has been 502. We are glad to see that
Its College is still in a career of active and in-
I Rising usefulness.
J Isom Rome.—The Courier of Saturday says
I tit wheat, in consequence of the active de-
|-'a<l for flour in that market, has advanced and
|:;r commands $1.25 to $1.40.
The Courier gives a list of a party of nine,
Ipenllemen from New York who are investigat-
l.ug the agricultural and mineral resources of
lthat county with the intention of anAMh^
(rroperty.
Cbom is Stewart County.—The Enquirer,
I t Friday, saw a gentleman who had just re
lumed from a tour through Stewart. He says
I Is visited nearly every part of the county, and
I b never saw the crops more promising at this
I utson than they uosv are. He savs the plants
I fe not so large as he has seen them, but they
| **♦ very thrifty, and the lands have been so well
Spared and so generally fertilized, that he
1 Millers them in a most promising condition.
T:-Stewart county planters, he says, expect to
j isle enough com to “do them” next year.
1st Caors at the West.—Flattering accounts
( time to be received of the condition of the
in Illinois and Indiana, and the prospects
I lit‘splendid yield of wheat were never better.
lai ply increased area of land has been plan-
^-with this cereal. Heavy rains have retarded
jof corn, and in some places the
P-u has been washed out, necessitating re-
PKitg, j, nt tfi er0 £g y e t ^0 f or putting in the
| ^ >n season to secure a good crop.
_ “Decade Boll Worm”—Which we sup-
1 * # a polite term for a boll worm, which
~’’ 3 it* appearance every ten years, is an-
| by the Haynesville Examiner, of the
have made its appearance on a planta-
039 Lowndes connty, Alabama, and to be
tt8 !®8 destruction to the cotton crop.
J^w, the" celebrated German composer,
^Whed for a divorce from his second wife.
»«e sister of his first wife, from whom he
forced.
o^J^inporary says George Peabody is the
jj.y wealthy man of the present century
Cow sppreciates the purposes for which
■Whim his wealth.
op That, Hal.—The Milledgeville
draws a subject for an editorial from
'•-f.’ompta cock-fight, in which one of the
was laid out and the other had not
to crow. Quit that, Mr. Recorder.
fsBisE Laborers.—The New York Mail re-
'O'jfa 18 <^<*8° Douse has sent an agent for
G, laborers, to be let out on the
plantations.
^^■essee—The Nashville Banner says that
, J notes to the canvass in Tennessee have
sounded.
3e 7 fflnst be a cotteritaul /
® ic kex8, it is said, is going to be
M ®d to the Peerage.
8 6 I eat ‘ deal of talk on the long-
*U 4 016 ot ber day, that the Prin-
toriotm womi ern i c ^ ftnd Adolo Turinolin, a no-
tu Parisian demi-monde wore
?• hSroSS T/ lz ilettes - . 14 ’■+* evident that
d r( ^Z,.u d 018 f iemt~mondo>Jne had the
, M ? lici °Ds tongues asserted
that th« pS® 6 had got her toilette made first
^hwa to aft8 . r hearing of it order
oe copied from it.
The Crops.
We do not recollect a time, for years, in
which the accounts from the crops were uni
formly more favorable than at the present mo
ment Much of the wheat and oats have been
secured and the yield is very satisfactory. Com,
is getting into the critical period, and will now
need timely rains, which we trust tt will get
Cotton is backward, but very healthy—the
stands generally fair and everything promises a
resonably good crop—but the season of danger
is yet to come. All prognostications about the
comparative product at this time, would be sim
ply absurd. We can only say that the crop is
well under way, and so far has encountered
nothing to prevent a satisfactory harvest.
The reports from the fertilizers are encour-
aging. Those who prophesied great popular
disappointment and disgust are so far in error.
We have heard of planters regreting that they
did not purchase and apply fertilizers, but no
case, as y6t, of regret over their application.
The improvement from their use is, with re
markable unanimity, estimated at twenty-five
or 33J per cent A case was named to us a few
days ago, where land of the same quality,belong
ing to different proprietors, and divided by a
single fence, showed on the one side a perfect
stand, in highly flourishing condition, and on
the other a stand which had been badly killed
out by the cold, and one-third less in size than
the guanoed crop on the other side of the fence.
There is no doubt that fertilizers have saved a
good many stands of cotton this year.
Cotton States* life Insurance Com*
pany.
We again call attention to this Company, re
cently organized in our midst. It is a first-
class company,and has commenced business un
der the most favorable auspices. Its success
so far has been truly wonderful. It issued
over ONE HUNDRED POLICIES THE FIRST WBK OF
its doing business. Let us see how this com
pares with a Northern Company. Ihe Eclectic,
a first-class New York Company, began business
with strong influences and a large capital, and
from October I, to the following March, about
six months, they issued sezentij-nine policies.
It will surely be gratifying to all our citizens
to know that the Cotton Stales starts off so
well. We have some of the best men in the
community as Directors, and safe and reliable
agents in all the various towns where they have
organized, and will continue until all will have
a chance to be insured in the Cotton States.
We think the time has arrived when we
should patronize home institutions, managed
by onr own citizens, and the profits of which
will be invested in onr midst.
JTirJL
Meeting of the Board of School Com*
missioners.
The Board of School Commissioners for Bibb
connty met at the Ordinary’s Office, Saturday,
at 12 a, and agreed upon the following reso
lutions as a basis of operations for instructing the
poor children of Bibb county from and after the
1st June instant. We may remark, in reference
to the terms offered, that the Commissioners
had no option in the premises. The educational
expenses of the connty were compelled to be
reduced fifty per cent, and the Commissioners
took the most direct method to accomplish that
object. Teachers will see what is required of
them and notify the Ordinary at once, whether
they will continue to act under these resolutions
or not:
Resolved, That the teachers now authorized
to instruct poor children at the expense of the
connty, be allowed from the 1st instant five cents
per day for each pnpiL
Resolved, That no such teacher shall instruct
more than thirty scholars, at tho cost of the
connty, except by special permission of the
Board, granted at a regular meeting thereof.
Resolved, That each teacher shall make ont
his own account and qualify by affidavit that
every pupil charged for is a proper subject for
instruction at tho county expense, and that he,
the said teacher, would not be able to collect any
thing from the parent or guardian of such pu
pil towards defraying the expenses of such tui
tion.
Resolved, That no teacher shall receive a pu
pil who has left or been dismissed from the
school of another teacher, without consent of
the Board, granted at a regular meeting there
of, and any violation of this resolution the
Board will consider a reason for refusing to ap
prove t^e accounts of such teacher, and re
voking his license.
Resolved, That all teachers who accept these
terms he requested to notify the Ordinary of
such acceptance before the* expiration of the
current month, and snch notifications shall
comprehend the entire list of teachers employed.
The Quitman Banner.—The Banner makes it
self merry over our correspondent, “Traveler.”
Well, perhaps he has not traveled as far as onr
correspondent. A correspondent of the Ban
ner ontbrags the stories of the Marehalville
young vineyard, with twenty clusters to the vine.
He says he can show sixty—and we have little
donbt we coold point ont a hundred to the vine
not a mile from Macon. The performances of
a three-year old vine won’t do to predicate the
comparative grape-growing capacity of any
country upon, but we have no donbt the whole
State of Georgia is a fine natural grape region.
The Banner went fish-butchering with a seine
in the Piscola, last week, and caught three hon-
dred pounds, not including a huge alligator.
That paper chronicles the first cotton blooms,
received from Rev. James McBryde. The Ban
ner says Captain James H. Hunter, of Brooks,
is succeeding very well with sheep-growing in
Southern Georgia. We know no reason in the
World, except dogs and wolves, why wool-grow
ing should not be a magnificent business in
those splendid wire grass ranges of Southern
Georgia.
Good Reputation at Home.
Sale of Stock at Board of Trade Rooms
Yesterday.—Twenty-five shares,par value $100,
of the capital stock of the Alabama Gold Life
Insurance Company were sold at action for $120
in gold per share. This looks like home insti
tutions can and will succed, if managed by the
right men.—Mobile Register, 0th.
It is a good thing to be esteemed at home.
This is the only Southern stock we know of
worth $120 in gold.
Tlie Adkins Murder.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Friday, says:
Adkins, we know little abont. He has never,
we learn, been regarded by bis neighbors either i
as an honest or a very pure man. He has been j There certainlv must be some mistakes in the
somewhat notorious for hia connection with , eouggpondence of the Rochester Express. The
nearly all tlie^ P r otestant^:hurdies of his conn- ^rs did not and do not run to the place where
All Abont Mr. Seward as a Teacher.
Eatokton, June 11th, 1869.
Editors Telegraph—Several paragraphs have
appeared in the newspapers with regard to W.
H. Seward’s experience as a teacher in Georgia;
among the rest, part of an old advertisement.
Here is the whole of the advertisement, as pub
lished in the Journal at Milledgeville, March 2,
1819,—just half a century ago:
“ UNION ACADEMY.—The friends of science are
respectfully informed that a private academy has
lately been established in the neighborhood of Maj.
William Alexander, Mr. William Walker and CoL
William E. Adams, in Putnam county, on a site ob
tained from Francis Ward, EBq., not for from Gar
ner’s Ferry, and will go into operation tho I9th of
April. The academy edifice, which wiU.be ready for
the reception of students by that day, will be spa
cious and commodious, adopted to the accommoda
tion of eighty to one hundred scholars, in two
schools. The Rector, Mr. Wm. H. Seward, is late
from Union College, New York, from which institu
tion he comes highly recommended as a young gen
tleman of good moral character, and distinguished
industry and literary acquirements. He will teach the
Latin and Greek languages, theoretical and practi
cal Mathematics, Logic,Rhetoric, Natural and Moral
Pnilosophy, Chemistry, Geography, English Gram
mar ana such other branches as are usually taught
in Northern colleges. The common branches of
education, spelling, reading, writing, etc., will, of
course, be taught in this institution. Tho price of
instruction wifi be $15, $20 or $30. according to the
branches taught. Board may be bad in respectable
families at a sum not exceeding $125. From the
respectability and acknowledged healthiness of the
neighborhood, the cheapness of board and tuition
and tho qualifications of the Rector, the trustees
feel warranted in recommending this infant estab
lishment to the attention of the public. Persons
disposed to send their cbiidren, will enter them
without delay with the Treasurer, Maj. William Al
exander, designating tho studies they wish them to
pursue in order that tho requisite aid may bo pro
cured for Mr. Seward—it being understood, also,
that if any students are excluded for want of room
they must be from among those last entered. Com
munications directed through the medium of the
post office in Eatonton, to Wm. H. Seward, Rector
of Union Academy, or to William Turner, Secreta
ry, or to William Alexander, Treasurer of the Board
of Trustees, of Union Academy, the postage being
duly paid, will receive prompt attention.
“By order of the Board of Trustees.
“ William Tubseb, Secretary.”
“P. S. In the article of boarding are included
lodging, washing, candles, etc., (for which extra
charges are made at some schools.) The retired
situation of Union Academy, removed from scenes
of dissipation and vice, is alike favorable to the
studies and morals of the students. The public
are also informed that it is the design of tho trus
tees to introduce into the institution a system of
striot discipline equally removed from pernicious
relaxation, on the one hand, and rigid severity ou
the other. Arrangements have been made for secur
ing the aid of a female teacher, well qualified to
conduct the female department.”
Besides the above advertisement, the writer
of this communication has in his possession the
records of union academy,
in which are found the following entrances con
cerning Mr. Seward:
“Tuesday, April 27, 1819.—The Board con
vened for the purpose of discharging the duties
required by the 4th section, 2d article of the
Constitution. Messrs. Walker, President; Tur
ner, Secretary, and Ellis.
“The Board found that the Academy had com
menced its operations on Monday, the I9th
inst, under the instruction of Mr. Wm. H. Sew
ard, the Rector, and Miss Martha Spalding, his
Assistant, and that the number of students was
—males about 34: females 31.”
******
“Saturday, May 22, 1819.—The Board met
pursuant to adjournment. Present, Messrs.
Walker, President; Turner, Secretary; Alex
ander, Treasurer, and Williams.
* * • •
“Mr. Seward, having represented to the Board
that circumstances of a private and family na
ture render necessary his return to New York,
and having recommended Mr. Philo D. Wood
ruff, from New York, as a gentleman well qual
ified to take charge of the institution.
Resolved, Provided no cause to the contrary
arise daring the succeeding week, that Mr. Sew
ard he relieved from the obligation of his con
tract with the Trustees as rector of Union Acad
emy, and that Mr. Woodruff be employed for
the term of one year, subject to the conditions
expressed in the constitution and regulations—
Mr. Seward attending with Mr. Woodruff ns
much as convenient daring the succeeding week,
for the purpose of making him acquainted with
the students, regulations, discipline, etc., of the
institution.
The following extract from the diary of Wil
liam Turner, the forementioned Secretary, may
not be uninteresting. It is concerning Mr. Sew
ard's last visit to Georgia:
“ Thursday, 21 May, 1846.—Had a call about
dark from Mr. Woodruff, of Greensboro’, and
Gov. Seward, of New York. A dozen years or
more since I saw Mr. Woodruff according to his
account; about twenty-six years since I saw Mr.
Seward.
“W. is getting fleshy and putting on the ap
pearance of an old man. S. very sprightly and
quick-spoken in 1819, is now grave and slow of
speech. His head, then red, is now dark and
getting grey.
“ He dwelt in impressive discourse, and rath
er affecting recollections. They (S. andW.)
had visited the site of old Union Academy—had
seen the friends with whom they boarded when
they taught school in this neighborhood (Phila
delphia, Putnam county), had seen a few of
their former pupils; but time had worked
many changes—many old friends were gone—
scenes formerly frequented had changed."
“ Friday, May 22.—Called at Major Alexan
der’s to see Messrs. S. and W. before they left.
Gov. S. and Major A. had gone to see D. Gate-
Wood. Conversation, after return, short but
interesting. W. and myself had been to see
old Allen Bartlett.”
“ S. was more cheerful. His wife, for many
years in miserable health, and incurring great
expense with the doctors, at last relieved by
rest, oompany, conversation, diet, air, exercise,
and travel, prudently regulated according to
strength, constitution, etc.”
seward’s opinion of webb and obeelet.
“Webb, editor of Courier, and family aristo
cratic. Greeley, editor of Tribune, plebeian.
Frequent controversy between the editors—no
social intercourse. Greeley favored hydropa
thy, Webb ridiculed this new ism, added to all
his other isms. Mrs. Webb in very bad health,
and failing to get relief from other, at lost tried
the water cure, and found great relief. Webb
is at a loss what to say, after casting so much
ridicule on Greeley.” * * * *
44 Gov. S. had formerly traveled in different
directions—had long wished to come South—
had just done so, having, I think, come through
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, down the Mississippi to
New Orleans, thence, probably, through Missis
sippi and Alabama to Greensboro, in this State. ”
FIXED LINE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH.
“He had considered Delaware and Maryland
as a kind of nentral ground between the North
and South. People had looked to a kind of
fixed line (Mason and Dixon's) between North
and South. He thought the line receded on
coming South. The people this side of Louisiana
are more like Northern people than he expected.
He owed a debt of gratitude to the people of
this neighborhood, which he had long wished to
pay—alluding to his teaching school in the
neighborhood of Union Academy, in 1819—and
requesting to bo affectionately remembered to
old friends and patrons whom he could not now
see.”
“Seward is a member of the Episcopal
Important Railway movement in Au
gusta.
PORT ROYAL, MACON AND AUGUSTA AND MANCHES
TER AND AUGUSTA ROADS.
•
From the Chronicle <t' Sentinel.]
Yesterday will be hailed as Red Letter day in
the history of Augusta, and will mark the be
ginning of a new era in its prosperity.
Early in the morning there was a*meeting of
all parties in interest to discuss propositions
made by Moses, Taylor & Co., of New York, to
equip and build a railroad from Port Royal to
Augusta, to be completed, if possible, within
twelve months, and to make a connecting line of
sea going steamers to New York, upon certain
stipulations. These propositions were accepted
under conditions which subsequently have been
in great part complied with.
we regard the building of this road as now
beyond contingency,and firmly believe that with
in a calender year the steam horse will give us
a direct short connection (the distance being
only one hundred and ten miles) with the best
harbor on the Southern Atlantic coast, and not
inferior to any of the harbors of the North
American continent.
At the call meeting of the Stockholders of the
M. & A., Railroad it was unanimously agreed
to _ push the road to completion. The propo
sition, which met with decidedopposition on the
part of the corporation of Augusta, as well as a
large number of individual stockholders, was in
a spirit of compromise modified so as to give
the Macon and Augusta Railroad Company and,
these failing, the City Council of Augusta, the
right to redeem the additional stock issue of five
hundred thousand dollars, within twelve months
after the completion of the work, at a slight ad-
tho feature, and, all parties being a unit as to tho
yance. This struck at the objectionable part of
importance of the early completion of the enter
prise, the proposition passed unanimously. IVe
will, therefore, have this road completed within
a year, opening up to ns a short, friendly con
nection with Southwestern Georgia and close
connection with the Gulf of Mexico.
Further: We have the responsible assurances
of Baltimore interest, now controlling a continu
ous line from. Baltimore to Wilmington, and
the owners of the bonded debt of the Wilming
ton and Manchester Road, that the road will be
extended from Manchester to Augusta during
tho coming year.
On Saturday next the trains of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad will enter the
city of Augusta for the first time.
By the first day of July, 1870, there will con
centrate in the city of Augusta, the Georgia
Railroad, the Augusta and Charleston, or South
Carolina Railroad, and the Augusta and Savan
nah Road, all of which are now in operation.—
The Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta Road are
within a mile of being completed. The Macon
and Augusta Road more than half bnilt; the
Port Royal and Augnsto, more than half the
distance graded; and the Wilmington and Au
gusta Railroad.
The completion of these roads will give us
close connection with tho best harbors on the
South Atlantic coast—Norfolk, Wilmington,
Charleston, Port Royal and Savannah.
The Xew Crisis.
ty, from all of which he has been at some time
or other expelled. While at Columbia Court,
last March, we had exhibited to ns the letter
which he wrote to Miss Adams from Atlanta.
It was of such a character that no decent man
would have written. It contained not only a
libel upon the young lady, hut was, in itself,
wicked and sensual to a degree that could hard
ly have been expected from so old a man. This
letter was well calculated, not only to arouse
the indignation of the young lady's friends, but
must have excited the* enmity of his _ own im
mediate family. The real cause of his sudden
taking off, when ascertained, will, Ve are quite
sure, he found entirely disconnected with his
official or political conduct. “Murderwill out,'"
and, when the troth is known, those who are or
have been suspected of the crime will be shown
to be clearly innocent'
Consequence of Having a Poor Well-bucket.
The Newnan Herald of Friday says:
On last Friday night the residence of Mr. S.
J. Elder, of this comity, was burned. The fire
was discovered about midnight and would have
been extinguished, if the bottom of the well-
buckethadnot dropped but after only a small
quantity of water had been drawn. Everything
of value in the house was saved. No insurance
on the building. Ihe fire is supposed to have
originated from a candle left burning by the
servants in the cook-room, adjoining the house.
Mr. Seward taught in Putnam. In 1846, the
nearest railroad depot was Greensborough, in
Greene county, some fifteen or sixteen miles
from the site of “Old Union.” Now the cars
run to Eatonton, ten miles from the old acade
my. Then as to Mr. Seward’s account of his
reception on Ms arrival—he certainly said noth
ing of this matter to Ms old acquaintance, Mr.
Turner, or the fact would have been recorded
in the diary, now in the hands of your corres
pondent A number of letters passed between
Mr. Seward and Mr. William Turner, after tho
former retained to Auburn, and still no hint of
his being rudely treated in Greensborough, or
any where else, is to be found. But this com
munication is already too long, and if anything
further is to be said, it must be in another
article. H-
Destroying the Cotton Worm.—The Goliad
(Texas) Guard is informed by Mr. T. J. Tally
that he has been very successful, so far. in des
troying the cotton worm, or rather the miller
which produces the worm. We give his method:
Mr. T. has constructed a large number of
shallow pans, of abont two feet in diameter, and
not more than one inch in depth. These he fills
with coal tar, and in the centre he places a small
block of wood that reaches above the ter. On
this block of wood Mr. T. places a glass lantern
of his own construction—any kind of glass lan
tern will do—wMch is lighted between sundown
and dark. The light attracts the miller, wMch,
A young lady of Staunton, Va., keeps a list' striking against the glass of thelantem,is thrown
of her ">"1* acquaintances in her pocket diary,! into the tar, when, of course, its power for mis-
and calls it her devotional Mm book. chief is done.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The opening of the great Pacifio Railway,
wMch brings California for the first time really
into the Union, and makes our country one, is
but the vignette to a new and grander civiliza
tion.
One of the marked features of our modem
life for the past decade is the wonderful capaci
ty we have acquired for dealing with large facts
and in large figures. We are not frightened any
more by the immensity of any project. No
question can assume proportions that will make
us afraid to confront and handle it. We count
our national debt by billions. We grant Gov
ernment land by millions of acres. We build
railroad and telegraph lines by thousands of
miles. Every manufacturer or patentor lays
himself ont to supply the demands of millions of
consumers. Our commercial schemes and com
binations embrace the topography of the conti
nent, and often do not stop with that.
Now we are at the threshold of an era before
which all our former history will dwindle and
grow pale. Settlement and population have
made amazing strides since tho inauguration of
our republican government, but, after all, our
steps have been timid and baiting compared
with what is to come. For a longtime wo eyed
wistfully the advent of the few sMps winch
brought over their little thousands of emigrants
from Germany and England. Later still we
took fright in the Know-Nothing spasm, and the
national colic continued with intermittent spells
for years. Only eight years ago we took up
arms to settle the question of the status of a
few millions of black slaves, now, by the grace
of God and force of arms, citizens.
And now, even wMle recovering from the
throes of the terrible convulsion of civil war,
see the prospect before us! We have tapped
tho fountain of peoples—Asia, the matrix of
nations. We, who for a century gingerly and
cautiously received to our bosom the slow-mov
ing surplus of the few millions of Europe, are
now face to face with the hundreds of millions
of Asia.
Asia, whose vast eruptions of population have
made the water-marks on the shores of time
and fasMoned history, is apparently about to
repeat her great historic throes. She stands
ready to pour forth again her hordes, like the
sands of th8 sea or the leaves of the forest.—
Will they come, as so often before, bristling
with battle-axe and spear, or in peace ? Will
they carry the sword or the spade ? Will they
come to build up or to destroy ?
If, as we boast, onr civilization is superior to
theirs, the answer is for us—the matter is with
in our own control.
The world debouches continually from Para
dise. The old Garden of Eden hasbeen the na
vel of the world’s life. Heretofore the surges of
population have been marked with blood. Every
new wave has been war. Will it be so now?
We confront to-day, something, as far as num
bers go, stronger and greater than ourselves.
We must grapple with a religion five centuries
older and counting in its folds many millions
more people than Christianity.
Buddhism is the second oldest of the religions
of the world—the result of the religious convic
tions of hundreds of millions of men, many of
them learned, o:n;cientious and Mghly cultured
for twenty-throe centuries. So far it has held
its own quarter of the globe to itself. Nowit
meets the Cross.
We come in contact with a language that was
a science when the hinds and serfs of England
talked thicker than the imported negroes of
Guinea. We tap CMna and Japan, and the preg
nant islands of Polynesia. The CMnese lan
guage alone is spoken by more people than any
two or three others in the world. Four hun
dred millions of the population of the earth use
it. Long centuries ago they had their gram
mars, their literature, their types and lyceum
systems, and all the accessories of a high state
of ctvilization.
The flood-gates of this vast current of the life
and experience of ages, of wMch we know noth
ing, we have voluntarily let down. Can we
stem the current ? Can we control and ride
upon it? or will it bury us beneath its restless
waves ?
It is a question once more of race and re
ligion. In race we are weaker, and on onr re
ligion we must rely for victory, if victory comes
to us. If we cannot go into this struggle in
some better shape, and more Christian and hu
mane mind than we approached the slavery
question—the conflict of the black and wMte
race—we are lost. If the Christianity of the
age cannot assert itself stronger than it did in
the slavery issue, our case is hopeless.
Of the four great world-religions—Brahmin-
ism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Mohamedan-
ism—Buddhism is the strongest, and, next to
Brahminism, the oldest; and withit, in a world-
struggle, Christianity, the younger faith, must
grapple now. Now comes the test of its vitality
and life-power—the power to move and con
quer. The conquest of the disintegrating and
skeptical Roman republic was an easy thing, and
the absorption of the Scandinavian hordes a tri
fling matter compared with the portentous crisis
wMch impends to day. Yerily the ends of the
age3 seem to be falling upon us.
Weather and Crops—At this date, Wednes
day the 9th inst., we are having old fasMoned
June weather, hot and thirsty as a powder horn,
and decidedly on the dry order.
Partial showers fell in this vicinity abont a
week since, but as a general tMng com and cot
ton begin to need rain, the former very much.
In tiie cotton crop a marked change for the
better is observable, though lice still infests the
weed, and it is smaller than ever known to be at
this stage of the season.
Com also bids fair to tassel very low, though
its color is good and plenteous rains may ensure
a tolerable yield. All should now unite in sup
plicating the Giver of all good for the latter,
rain, which is so much needed.—Cuthbert Ap
peal, 0th.
Nine convicts left Augusta yesterday morn
ing to work on theMaoon & Brunswick Rail
road.
A Fine Wheat Crop.
From the Atlanta Constitution.] .
Yesterday, in company with Dr. Avery, Col.
T. C. Howard, and S. A. Echols, Esq., we vis
ited the farm of R. M. Herndon, Esq., one mile
from Decatur, to witness the operation of Wal
ter A. Wood’s Reaper. The wheat was fully
ripe for cutting, about three feet Mgh, weii
meshed, and of the variety known as the little
amber. The stalk is purple. There is about
thirty acres of the little amber. The Reaper
worked by skilled labor, and is a decided success.
Wood’s Reaper cuts the grain rapidly, smoothly
and cleanly, and will average fifteen acres per
day. In some places the ground was marred by
washes, yet it did not incommode the action of
the Reaper.
Mr. Herndon has twenty acres in the big
wMte wheat, from three feet and a half to four
feet Mgh, not yet ready for cutting. The ground
is an old field, exhausted and turned ont many
years ago. In fact it is the oldest piece of cul-
tivated land in DeKalb connty. In the fall V
1867, Mr. Herndon broke the ground up (then
in sedge) with an Eddy plow and four oxen, to
the depth of twelve indies. After thoroughly
pulverizing the soil, he planted corn in 1868, and
made a fine crop. In the fall of 1868, he again
pulverized tho soil and sewed Ms wheat in drills
about six inches apart. At the same time he
applied in the drill abont one hundred and twen
ty-five pounds of Peruvian gnano per acre. Hie
wheat grew generally very rank and headed out
well.
The wheat was not soaked, consequently there
is a slight sprinkling of smut heads in it, but no
rust. It matured earlier than the rest of Ms
neighbors’, and Mr. H. thinks the true mode of
preventing rust is to use fertilizers and cause it
to mature earlier. The yield will be an average
of eighteen bushels per acre. Mr. Herndon is
a plain and practical fanner. He has been the
pioneer in demonstrating that deep ploughing
and thorough pulverization of the soil, and the
use of improved agricultural implements will
pay. His land (formerly thrown away as worn
out) is rapidly augmenting in fertility, and in
the course of a few years, under his sMUfal man
agement, will produce at least 'fifty bushels of
wheat to the acre. We can see no reason why
all our old fields cannot be made to produce as
much.
Beecher ou Church Authority.
The Rev. Henry Ward ventillated Ms opin
ions on Church Authority in a sermon preached
last month, as follows:
I have no overweening attachment to the
church as a physical organization. I ant rather
under than over the line on that snbject I be-
live that the church is useful; but I do not be
lieve that any particular church on the face of
the globe is ordained of God. I do not believe
one church is any better than another so far as
ordinance is concerned. >1 do not believe there
is any pattern whatsoever laid down in the. New
Testament according to which churches should
be organized. I believe that churches stand on
the same ground that common schools and lite
rary institutions do. They are fonnd to be use
ful, and to promote man’s growth, and so they
are right
I believe that ordinances, eternal forms, are
matters of utter indifference. Baptism is bap
tism, whether it be affusion, or sprinkling, or
immersion. The Lord’s Sapper, if it be admin
istered by a pope, is good enough; if it be ad
ministered by a cardinal, it is good enough; if
it be administered by a priest or a minister, it
is good enongh; if it be administered by the
father in the family, it is good enough; and if
there is no ono else to administer it, and your
administer it to yourself, it is just as good. The
Lord’s Supper belongs to every man that be
longs to the Lord Jesu3 Christ; and he has just
as much right to administer it to himself as to
have it administered to him by a priest
In regard to churches, ordinances, and gov
ernments, I take the broadest ground and say
that they are useful, but that there is not one of
them tliat is obligatory, as having warrant in
Scripture; and no man dan come to us saying,
“Thus saith the Lord," in respect to them.
Do you suppose that is the wedding, when the
young man and Ms blushing bride stand up and
exchange vows ? The wedding took place when
their two hearts rushed together as one, and
when they clasped each other, and said, “Thine
for life; mine for life.”
Driviu’ the Last Nall.
Pig-Tail X Roads, June 1st, ateen 69.
Mr. Editur TelMgraf: A solom event has
tuck plase at my hous,—a important occa
sion has been did—at sixteen minnits and ate
seconds atter ate erclock—mi hen-hous was com
pleted and the last nail driv. Hit wemt a silver
nail—sich we haint got—but a comum 10 penny.
We gaumed the heduv it with assefidity and tide
Meriny’s nu injun-rubber garter 2 it, and put
the nail fur annf in to drive, and then we all
got round.
Hit was a serous time. Old Ring hould, the
hogs granted and the hors Mt snorted. Me-
riny and me and all the little Hugginses we wus
effected. We didn’t have no telly graf nor no
meetin-houscarryinon, bntthe snout snpperatin
(2 uze a perlight word) and eye slobberin wus
monstrous.
We all stood sum tyme ’out bein abel 2 speke.
At last, Meriny she spoak up, she did, and she
sez, sezshe, “Hunny,—boo-hoo-hoo-hoo—take
the claw-hammer,” (hit’s the nisest;) and little
Benny he com runnin np jest then and axed his
mammy what hurt her, andtoal her he’d givher
a pese *uv his bred if she'd quit cryin.
Meriny went on—and meashure how hi you
raze it—bo-hoo-hoo, and how hard you pitch it
down; bo-hooooo, and see zackly what time er
da it tis when the hammer tetches; and bo-
wooooo, drive the last nail in our hen house and
see when Mt gits driv.
Then she cride, and Prissy cride, and Nansy
And she cride, and i don’t no hoo cood a hoap
from criin, sich was the sollumness uv the seen.
i drad back mi hand i did—bat i wus a gittin
sorter nervous like and i Mt the nail slaunch-
wize and it break, and one peas went fliin orf
sin-n-n-g. They all bellerd agin. This time
little Bennie, he jined in and l was prond uv
Mm and i told the old domon, i did, sez i, that
child’s a gwine to be a progide. little as it tis
hit feels the importense of this seen—and we
all cride agin. [We arterwords found ont the
peas uv nail hit Benny, the rezen he cride.]
Trectly i got anuther nail—pinted it with
more assifidity and now com the diliket pint
We did’nt now wMch wus the most proporest
plase to drive it—in the same hole whar tother
one wus brook off, or driv it furder on. We
did’nt hav no books as toald whar to drive it—
least wise Merimy said thar wont nuthin about
it in Mersevs Cluster and Prissy sed the letter
riter did’nt hav nnthin uv the pint and thems all
the books we got
So we all hilt a counsil no war and cride again.
Finely we all made sum little specks on the
horde and named em'arterus. Whar the old
nail had been driv wus named me—a leetle fur
der on was Meriny’s speck and nier this wa wus
Nansy Ann’s speck & So 4th. Well, we all tode
a mark and him as spit the fnrdest the nail wus
to be drive in thnr speck.
Arter anuther big beller we spit and Prissy got
it Well, i stack the nail in then, at her speck,
and drawd back to drive it when the old doman
she cotch mi arm, she did, and sez she hunny
wate—less cri agin, fore you drive it So we
cride our bellys full that time and then the orfnl
nail wus driv.
i hav sense heom that cordin 2 the books i
ort 2 hav turnd mi hanchiker bottom side up
and wiped mi ize on the lower left hand corner.
Dont make no differense though, i reckin, os I
haddent no hanchiker and had to wipe mi ize
on the part uv my shirt furdist from the coller.
Has Mr. Bil Arp passed the buck of Ms bein?
ef not will Mm ur sum nther french gentleman
tell me kin my hen hous “ be opperated in win
ter ” Yournses
Jezebel Huggins, Jr.
P—S Forgot 2 say i red some home-maid
poertry on clectin my family 2 drive the nail—
reckin yon dont want Mt J. Huggins, Jr.
Food Prospects in England.
The Pall Mall Gazette, in reviewing this sub
ject, finds that there has been a gradual reduc
tion of prices for some time bach, and it thinks
that the tendency is likely to oontinue. The
glowing wheat generally presents a favorable
appearance in France, and when bread is plenti
ful in France it is cheap in Europe. Xh Eng
land, also, the appearance of the fields is en
couraging, and there is now the promise of
abundant grain as well as green crops. Farther,
the great sums paid for Hungarian wheat during
the last two or three years have given an appar
ently enduring stimulus to Hungarian agricul
ture, so that the deliveries of wheat from Hun-
The Arrests in Warns County.
Warbknton, Ga., June 8, 1869.
Editors Chronicle, and Scntind : Chap Norris,
the notorious scalawag sheriff of thia county,
who ran away from here several months since
when no man was pursuing, returned yesterday
with a body-guard of one hundred and twenty-
five of Uncle Sam's soldiers, wMch, in addition
to the force already here, gives us a garrison of
nearly three hundred. Norris brought orders to
the commanding officer from General Terry to
recognize Mm as sheriff of the county, and to
render Mm all the assistance he needed, wMch
means to have every man arrested whom Norris
disliked. This miserable creature commenced
Ms work of infamy at once, wMch did not sur
prise any one who knew his character, by mak
ing arrests of personal enemies—men who had
despised him for his meanness and rascality.
The first arrest made by the military, at the
instance of Norris, was that of John Raley, who
was appointed temporary Sheriff by the Ordina
ry, to fill the place of Norris. The following
citizens were afterward arrested: E. E. Cody,
Ed. Cody, Zip Cody. H. Martin and A. L. Hart
ley, editor of the Clipper, all of whom are re
spected and law-abiding citizens. They are now
in jail with a heavy guard of soldiers around it.
It is sdspected that Norris will have other ar
rests made. The excitement is very great, and
our people are excited and indignant. There is
no telling what the result may be if this tMng is
snffdred to go on. Counsel our people to be
patient and forbearing under their wrongs. Vi
olence and resistance are to be avoided, but God
forbid that onr people shonld be exasperated to
desperation. The worst consequence might
ensue. W.
garymay be expected to continue luge. The
extention of railway communication in Russia
must favor the exporation of wheat from that
country, while the contemplated abolition of
the Is. duty now levied on com imported into
the United Kingdom must have the effect of:
rendering foreign supplies generally Is. per ;
quarter cheaper. Everything, then, promises t
a continuance of cheap bread. The editor adds :
that, of course, a war with the United States j
would very much alter the aspect of affairs, as 1
last year the importation of food from America
amounted to one-fifth of the total importations.
Tlie Fence Question.
From the Columbus Enquirer.]
The Maoon Telegraph, in an article wMch
we copy elsewhere, calls for an expression of
the views of the press of the State on the ques
tion of abolishing the fences around cultivated
fields, and requiring all persons to fence in their
stock instead of their crops.
We gave onr opinion, at some length, on this
question, a year or two ago, when it was agita
ted it Alabama. We then contended that the
change could not well be made at that time, and
we do not think that it can at present. The pro
posed change of fencing would have to be made
by everybody at tho same time, and a good
many people are not now able to take the time
to make it. Should it be ordered to be made
during any particular winter (say next winter,)
it would so seriously interfere with planting ope
rations as materially to curtail the crops of next
year, and only a limited number of planters are
yet in a condition allowing them to curtail their
crops without reducing their working force.
Could every fanner or planter find in one
compact body such a piece of pasture land as
would afford*a sufficient range for his cattle,
hogs, etc.—yielding plenty of forage, mast and
water—the saving in fencing would be great.
But how many—especially of planters owning
only a Georgia land “ lot ” or two—have their
grounds naturally laid off as favorably and con
veniently as this ? Not many, we imagine. Most
of them would have to enclose a number of
patches in different parts of their grounds, and
this would still require a great deal of fencing.
The saving would not be such an item as one
might suppose from the general statement of
the preposition, without considering it in its de
tails.
To planters requiring nearly all their grounds
for cultivation, and to people living in the cities
who have covra running at large, the change
would be a very expensive and inconvenient
one. It would rather prove, in many cases, an
obstacle to the raising and keeping of stock,
instead of an indneement, which is more needed
at this time.
This plan was tried, a year or two ago, in a
large and rich section of Alabama, by authority
of a special act of the Legislature. The section
is favorably adapted to such an enterprise, on
account of its riyer boundaries and its excel
lence as a grazing region. Bat we noticed, a
short time since, that the planters in this large
scope of country had either abandoned the
plan, or were about to apply to the Legislature
for a repeal of the act authorizing them to
adopt it
When this country becomes more tMckly set
tled—so that the open “ranges” for stock are
not greatly better than most planters can pro
vide by fencing in small portions of their lands
for their cattle, etc.,—the plan proposed by the
Telegraph can be tried with less inconvenience
and more compensating benefits. But is really
seems to us that at present the plan now in use
is best' suited to the condition of the country
and the necessities of the people.
The Port Royal Railroad to be Built.—
We are informed, upon the best authority, that
’contracts were executed yesterday, wMch will
ensure the completion, within the next twelve
months, of the railroad between this city and
Port Royal—an enterprise wMch, when finished,
will do so much toward increasing the wealth
and prosperity of Augusta. For some time past
the President of this corporation has been earn
estly at work, both in the North and South, en
deavoring to secure that aid for Ms road which
would allow him to push it rapidly forward to
to completion, and we are rejoiced to be able to
announce that at last his efforts have been
crowned with complete success.
The wealthy and widely known firm of New
York capitalists has contracted to build the road
from this city to Port Royal—a distance of one
hundred and ten miles—within the next twelve
months, for the sum of seven hundred thousand
dollars, to be paid to them in the stock of the
Company. The road, after it gets out of the
city of Augusta, passes over the most favorable
country for railroad purposes in the world, and
we have not doubt, that if Taylor & Co., have
really taken hold of the work, the end of the
twelve months will finish its completion.
[Chronicle and Sentinel.
First New Flour.—Mr. Jeremiah Cartledge
yesterday exMbitedto us, says the Columbus
Sun, a sample of floor ground from wheat ent
this spring from Ms place near Columbus. It
was the first flour ground here from new wheat;
was ground at the Palace Mills, and appeared to
be of very good quality.
The wheat crops in this vicinity are generally
represented to be better than usual, though
there is some complaint of the number of heads
without grain.
Muscogee County Tax.
The amount of money paid by the people of
this county for taxes, the present year, is heavy
beyond precedent Already Mr. 'Willett, the
Collector, has received over seventy thousand
dollars, and thinks he will be able to collect
abont six thousand more—making seventy-six
thousand dollars paid to the State and county
by old Muscogee. Of this amount $27,626.36
go to the State, and $48,363.63 are retained for
county purposes. The tax was levied at the
rate of $11 on the $1,000—$4 for the State and
$7 for the county—and, supposing it to repre
sent the property of the connty, as it does in
fact, except a small amount of poll tax and
professions, it will be seen that the aggregate
value of the taxable property of our county is
$6,909,000. A large portion of the property,
as stated above, is owned in Columbus, and, in
addition to their proportion of the above tax,
the people of this city pay more than as much
more for city purposes. So, between the upper
and the nether mill stones, our fellow-citizens
are very thoroughly ground. We suppose coun
ty assessments will not be so high again for
several years, unless great calamities befall the
county buildings and bridges.—Enquirer.
The Pacific Railroad.—The New York Times
publishes a letter dated “Sherman, Wyoming
Territory, at the smmmit of Black Hills, eight
thousand two hundred and fifty-eight feet above
the sea level, Monday, June 7—7 v. a., which
^The Pullman dining-car International, the
pioneer of its class over the Pacific Railroad, is
passing the summit, accompanied by two Pull
man palace sleeping-cars, form a part of a
through train to Sacramento. Among the pass
engers from the east are Mr. Wait, the proprie
tor of the Brevoort House, New York; Mr.
Swinton of New York, and Mr. Simonton, of the
New York Associated Press, with Ms wife and
son ; one hundred and forty-six passengers in
alL The dming-c&r seats forty-eight at table at
once; ■ is compact but pleasant; has a kitchen
and ice-box and a provision cellar beneath. Din
ner is now being served, moving across the wil
derness at the rate of thirty miles an hoar, over-
an excellent road, in cars free from dust and
well ventilated, with deliciously soft mountain
air, the party partaking of. as. luxurious a meal
as any first-class hotel can afford. The vote is
unanimous that no railroad travel in America
or Europe equals tMs in comfort or pleasure
for men, women and children.
The four-oared boat in which the Harvard
crew will row their international races, arrived
from Greenpoint, L. L, on Saturday. iWs a
cedar shell, fifty-two feet long, eighteen inches
wide amidsMps and three inohes deep.
For the Daily Telegraph.
*****
RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED SO g.r.IJW XT., or
AUGUSTA.
Three moons agoae I met and loved
A fair-hair’d, winsome girl, who seem’d
Fore’er to be a messenger
Of joy and love. A harp, a lute.
Attuned to softest melody,
Was not more sweet, more strangely sweet,
Than was the soft, sool-stiring tones,
Whose cadence one sweet April eve
Fell on my ear, and filled my soul
With love.
And I had said “I dare
Not let my hungry, begging heart
Go out to her. Heris never feels;
Her soul thrill* not at sixains that move
That hidden wire within my own.”
But I had err’d. Freeh aa it were
From Eden's emerald bowers, love,
Tender, patient, pure, had folded
Long ago his rosy wings, and
Shrouded, lay deep in that feeling
Heart. Love for the beautiful
Of earth. Love for the truth, and for
The tears that spring from sorrow's
Never-failing well; a sweet and
Gentle sympathy, bathing all
Who, making idols, find them day.
In floods of love and tendemees.
Sweat, stranger Friend, me thinks that,in
Those everlasting walks of Bands
And blessed Spirit s, none more pure ’
Will ever trace the margin of
The Jasper Sea—ho purer feet
Be wet with Hermotfa dews, or be
“Sandalled with immortality.”
Macon, June 12,1869. • i
Among tlie Fijia.
A writer in the Overland Monthly contributes
some interesting facts in regard to the Fiji .Is
land. The writer was a British Consul there.—
We quote:
A few days after my arrival, my worthy coun
trymen, accompanied by several “prominent”
Americans of long residence in the group, called
upon me to say that they welcomed me among
them, and hoped that I would duly proteot
them from the aggressions of the natives; but
they wished me clearly to understand that they
“wanted no consul to interfere in their family
arrangements." I was politely given to under
stand that the purchase of women from the Fi
jians was one of the ordinary trading operations
of the wMte men. The price of a smart looking
girl from fifteen to twenty years old, with a
figure and well rounded limbs, was from one to
five muskets (of the English tower, or the Ameri
can Springfield patterns). The girls thus pur
chased were attached to the wMte men’s house
holds as servants, or “housekeepers,” but were
in reality so many wives. And these were the
“family arrangement” with wMch these worthy
pioneers intimated they “wanted no consul to
interfere.” In fact, these runaway sailors, es
caped convicts from Sydney, and half savage.
white men, had brought themselves to the level
of the man-eating Fijians, polygamy—and now
gave me formal notice that their “peculiar in
stitutions” should not come within range of the
consular supervision. , . .
The idea that I would intefere with tMs ‘‘pe
culiar institution” had arisen fron the fact that
the commanders of British vessels of war who
had occasionally visited Fiji, had denounced
this traffic. The same- worthy Englishman,
whose note to me is inserted in an earlier col
umn, with cool impudence, declared to Admi
ral Erskin, who was remonstrating with Mm
upon the impropriety of Ms mode of life, that,
with reference to his “housekeepers” Ms con-
duqfc was perhaps open to some slight objec
tions, though on all other points Ms conscience
was clear, and at ease; he had, in fact, been
gradually reducing the number, of Ms women,
as he fonnd himself growing old, and the relief
he had felt since he had got rid of a dozen
or two would, even without a higher motive, be
sufficient to induce Mm to persevere in his
good intentions. Every wMte man in Fiji, in
deed, lived with his harem of from ten women
to the Mghest number he could manage to pur
chase, and it was the one thing with wMch he
would not brook interference:
But these pioneers of civilization have an
other little amusement of their own. I have
known a party of three or four to buy a hogshead
of rum or brandy from a vessel, and deliberate
ly set themselves to drink it out before even
quitting the neighborhood of the cask. Some
of these men have been drunk for three months,
without an interval of sobriety. As they drew
off the spirit, water was put into the cask; and
by the time the contents became pure water
they became sober. This is what they techni
cally termed “tapering off,” and they alleged
that it prevented delirinm tremens resulting
from these prolonged “sprees.” While in the
state of helpless intoxication to wMch thye
came in the second or third day, their “house
keepers” provided for the maintenance of their
families, and otherwise looked after them per
sonally. And sometimes it was the duty of the
“housekeeper” to pour the spirits down the
throats of their “noble lords,” as they lay
stretched out on their mats! A woman who
felt herself aggrieved also sometimes made these
drinking bouts the opportunity to run away;
but when the white man became sober, at the
end of three months, the present of a musket
to the cMef of her tribe invariably brought her
back.
The wMte men in Fiji all produced large fam
ilies. One of them used to boast that he had at,
at least eighty sons and daughters; up to that
number he had been able to keep an account of
them—but there he had lost Ms “reckoning.”
And many others there were who counted their
forties and fifties. These offspring of the wMte
men and native women were called' half-castes,
and generally possessed all the enetyy of their
father’s, with all the cunning of their mother’s
race; indeed the vices of their parents seemed
united in them without inheriting any of their
virtues, (if any they had to transmit). Many of
these half-castes had grown up to be able-bodied,
smart young fellows, and following in the foot
steps of their progenitors; purchased all the
“housekeepers’’ they could find muskets for,
and had their periodical drinking “ jollifica
tions.” < '
For some time there had been a rivalry be
tween them and a “select party” of wMtas as to
their prowess with the clnb. There happened to
be a good muster of both parties in Levuka
about tMs time; all drank together, then took
to quarreling, then to blows, and ultimately to
the much vaunted club. One was damaged
on his head, another on the leg,' another on nis
arms and every one was more or less mauled in
the face. Both parties came to the consulate
for protection against the otiier. The whites
charged their half-caste offspring with being
“niggers,” and, the half-castes retorted that the
whites were “outcasts,’’ without home or coun
try, and only with much difficulty I prevented
renewal of the battle in the consulate.
The Fiji group numbers two hundred and
eleven islands, of wMch eighty only are inhab
ited. Two only are really large—Viti Leva and
Vanua Leva. The former is nearly round, with
a circumference of abont three hundred miles,
wMle the latter is about sixty miles long by
twenty-five in average width. The akin of the
pure Fijian is dark, rough, harsh. His hair,
naturally black and copious, is bushy, frizzled,
almostwiry; indeed, it seemed something be
tween hair and wool. His beard, of the same
texture, is equally profuse and bushy, and is Ms
greatest pride. His stature is large, Ms muscu
lar development is perfect, his nmbs are well
rounded, Ms figure indicates activity and hardi
hood ; Ms eye is restless, Ms manner suspicions,
Ms temper quick, Ms movements light and
graceful. The soil of Fiji is so very ririi that I
have with my own hands planted kidney-seed
cotton at seven o’clock one morning, and at
seven the next morning the plant was up, with
two full-blown leaves, and incredible as this may
appear, it happens every day In Fiji. In three
months from the planting the cotton crop is
ready for picking; and, by a little management
and care, three crops a year may easily be gath
ered from the same plants. The cotton is fine
and has a long staple. Sugar-cane grows in the
same luxuriant manner. I have seen cane from
twelve to fifteen feet long, and from eight to ton
inches in circumfrence, and this is no uncom
mon growth. Coffee also grows well, and gives
a good aroma. In fact, every tropical produc
tion can bo produced in quantity end quality
per given area equal to, if not surpassing, the
same area in any other country. But the greet
drawback is, the Fijians are still cannibals.
Isham Ridgell. a Mghly respected colored
citizen of Clarendon District, died M Manning
on Saturday last. He was well attended ana
cared for during Ms illness by ths wMte citi
zens of Manning, a large number of whom ac
companied bis remains to their final resting
