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MACON FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1869.
FrandM In Florida,
An affair has just been developed in Florida
of » most extraordinary character, if anything
can be considered extraordinary in these times.
The “Omnibus Railroad Bill,” so-called, just
passed by the Legislature of that State, which
provides for a State endorsement of Railway
bonds to the extent of fourteen thousand dollars
per mile, has been discovered, after its passage,
to have been surreptitiously eliminated of its
most important stipulations for the security of
the State. The Legislative clerks argue that
the fraud must have been perpetrated after the
bill was enrolled and perhaps after it was signed.
The Floridian thinks that duplicate enrolled
sheets, with the alterations and omissions, were ) big capacity as a manager of a criminal
prepared and substituted for such sheets of the
The Trial of Turner.
H. M-» Turner was arraigned yesterday, at ten
o’clock, aJ m., before W. O. Morrill, United
States Commissioner, for examination on the
charges against him, of having in his posses
sion, and attempting to pass counterfeit na
tional bank bills. The Government was repre
sented by CoL John .Milledge, United - States
District Attorney, who made a statement that it
was the intention of Court and Attorney that a
fair and free investigation should be had—
there was no disposition to oppress the ac
cused. CoL Milledge is watchful and faithful
as an officer, and the Government may be satis
fied he will properly discharge his duties.
The accused was represented by the following
Attorneys, John B. Weems and H. W. Cowles
of this city and John A. Stephens of Atlanta.
The examination of witnesses on the part of ac
cused, was made by Col. John B. Weems, who
offioial enrollment as contained that part of the
bill designed to bo changed, while the remainder
of the enrolled sheets were retained and the
bill thus hocussed went to the State archives.—
The point sought to be attained was the applica
tion of State aid provisions to the Quincy, Tal
lahassee, Jacksonville end St. Marks road. The
original bill made it a condition precedent to
Stato aid that the road should execute an unen
cumbered lien to the State, which the road was
unable to do, as it had already executed a deed
of trust to other parties. The hocussed bill
Btruck out all in relation to this requirement. .
The carpet-baggers who have possession of
Florida are up to all the tricks known to the
most advanced radical in Albany or Harrisburg.
They have maintained a perfect carnival of
frand ever since the close of the war, and will
strip the little state of her last pin-feather be
fore they have done with her.
The Democratic Drift.—The Boston Post
says the most liberal and practical policy is. re
commended to the Democratic party by those
Who take the deepest interest in its success.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: “It is not the
time for extreme counsels to prevail, or for
the selection of ultra and uncompromising men.
The idea should be to lead men into the party,
rather than turn them out—to look to the pres
ent and the future, and not to the past.” The
Philadelphia Age, the New Hampshire Patriot,
the Providence (R. L) Herald, and other influ
ential Democratic journals, express similar sen
timents.
Natural Immigration.—A Southern corres
pondent of the New York World, after discus
sing the aspect of the immigration movement to
this section, adds: “The native increase of the
South now demands a word. The land is over
run with babies. Down the Mississippi, out in
the Southwest, up through the cotton belt, the
little creatures swarm. To see so many'of them
at every turn strikes one somewhat curiously
after the experiences of some other parts of the
country. Talk of immigration! This is a kind
of untalked-of immigration that beats them
alL”
A large crowd of whites and blacks were in
attendance and the trial has excited a general
interest CoL Morrill bore himself with pa
tience through the slow proceedings of the
Court, and showed every disposition to do jus
tice in the premises. The full proceedings, as
they occurred in the Court of examination, will
be found elsewhere.
The Cuba News received from time to time
seems to be little better than affrays between
soouting parties which amount to nothing ex
cept useless loss of life. The summer is the ap
pointed time for the rebels to push their luck,
if they intend to have any. When winter comes
the Spaniards will be down upon them with
heavy reinforcements and they will find them
selves more scant of provisions and resources
of all kinds than ever.
Proposition foe a Hioh Coubt of Nations.—
Pope Pius IX feeling profoundly the wide-spread
evil and crushing burdens imposed .upon the
nations of Christendom by their gigantic arma
ments, intends, it is announced, to lay before
the approaching (Ecumenical Council at Rome
a proposal for the general adoption of inter
national arbitration in lieu of war, and for the
establishment, by a high court of nations, of a
definite code of international law, instead of the
vague and unconnected maxims, from Yattel
and other private sources, which at present con
stitute the only approximation to the urgently
needed influence of a regulating system of rules
and precedents to be universally recognized
throughout Christendom.
Dr. Janes' Letter.
We have had this letter on-file for publication
some time and give it to our readers to-day in
fuU. Many of them are no doubt often addressed
with enquiries from abroad to which this letter
will be a more complete answer than they have
time to write. The outside world is full of cu
riosity just now about the South and about
Georgia in especial, and this interest is growing
rapidly. We think it will be in full tide next
faU.
The Doctor presents as one point the superior
income from Southern lands at $25 per acre to
that of Northern and Western lands at $200.
The Inst Hearth and Home, discussing the basis
of the valuation of lands, finds it in the interest
it will yield as nett profits. It maintains that
lands are worth a principal of which their nett
profits would represent seven per cent, interest.
Upon that basis we should like to know what
highly cultivated Southern cotton acre is
worth. Dr. Janes says he has produced 1500
pounds cotton lint to the acre, which, just now,
would be worth $465. Take the half of that
sum os the cost of cultivation and manuring,
and the acre is worth over three thousand dollars,
under the rule of the Hearth and Home. The
slightest reflection will make it clear this law of
valuation can never apply to the Sonth. Our
lands, properly treated, will yield more than a
hundred per cent, on their market value every
year, and they ought to rank as the best prop
erty on earth.
A Child Whipped to Death.—A day or two
since, says the Charleston News, a negro woman
living at Myrtle Grove, on the Combahee River,
took her child into the woods, whipped her
severely and went off. Shortly after she called
the child, and receiving no answer, went to the
spot where she was left and found her dead.
Magistrate Colcock held an inquest, and a ver
dict was given in accordance with the above
statement.
All-Powerful Lager.—Massachusetts set out
ten days ago to enforce the new Prohibitory
Law by which the sale of all spirituous and fer
mented liquors, except cider, was absolutely
prohibited. After a few day's trial such was the
excitement that the Governor was obliged to let
up and allow lager to come in. Lager has
whipped oat “the Governor and commonwealth
of Massachusetts” in a fair tusseL
Radical Papers in Georgia. — A Georgia
member of Congress, now in Washington, says
the two wings of the Georgia Republican party
are about to start drily papers. The one at At
lanta will be the organ of Gov. Bullock; that at
Augusta will be under the control of CoL Bry
ant, the new post master. Both papers will be
soon under way.
South Carolina State Fair.—South Carolina
will hold a State Agricultural Fair at Columbia,
next November—precise days not named in the
telegram. The State Agricultural Society has
invited Hon. John C. Breckinridge to deliver
the address, and has appointed a Committee on
Chinese Labor. The premium lists are to
amount to four thousand dollars.
Of the new Captain-General of Cuba, a cor
respondent says: “De Rod as is a man of quite
good appearance, is somewhat short in stature,
not measuring more than five feet seven inches,
is bald headed, has a fine eye and a martial
bearing. One not knowing his antecedents
would think him amiable.
Agricultural Club.—We hope the farmers
and gardeners of Bibb county will not forget the
meeting at the City Hril to-day, for the pur
pose of organizing a Farmers’ Club.
SmPLrrriNO Distribution.—According to the
Mobile Tribune the negroes in that post-office
have hit upon an expedient to simplify distri
bution. They have chalked all the boxes white
and red in equal division, and put all the yellow
. letters in the red boxes and the white letters in
the white ones.
Death of Rev. R. K. Porter.—The Atlanta
Intelligencer announces the death of Rev. Rufus
3L Porter, Pastor of the Central Presbyterian
Church in that city, bom at Cedar Springs,
Sooth Carolina, January 1, 1827.
Also, of Mrs. V. A. Gaskill, wife of CoL
Gaakffi.
Don't Owe l’s Anything.
Wo see a correspondent, on the other side of
this paper, arguing for the Southwestern Rail
road, says, in substance, she owes the people of
Macon nothing—and he evidently manifests a
disposition to pay the debt.
Assuming all our correspondent alleges, in
regard to original investments in the road, still
is it right to say that a road which owes so con
siderable a portion of its business to the city of
Macon is under no obligations to it, because
Macou did not invest heavily in building the
road ? We hardly think that is a fair view of
the matter.
Take as an illustration any private business
enterprise whatever. It is started in Macon
and shares in it are offered to the public, but
declined. The originator, however, proceeds
with his enterprise and accumulates wealth,
through business furnished by Macon and
the surrounding community. As a question of
striotly legal claim ho might indeed say the pub
lic held none upon him. He furnished the ser
vice and they paid for it, and both were quits.
But that is not the practicable construction men
usually adopt. A successful business man does
usually feel some obligations to the community
in which his wealth has been acquired, and
manifests a sense of that obligation in a lively
interest in the general welfare. We think this
is the the sound and salutary view of the matter.
Thc» Turner Trial.
The preliminary examination of the Macon
Postmaster, Turner, for counterfeiting, takes
up much of our space to-day, and we are told
we shall not see the end of it at snndown. It is
surface plowing altogether, we fear; but some
thing may turn up to break the crust before
they get through with it. The belief is that a
very extensive business in the way of loyalty
has been going on, and Turner has held but
comparatively small stakes in the game. The
witness Swayze cuts a nice figure for the sole
editorial exponent of radicalism in Georgia,
vouching editorially for Tomer’s integrity on
the 9th instant, when he swears he had full in
formation of his frauds on the 4th; but we
have no doubt bis testimony in the trial is true
as far as it goes. He is of the sort who believes
all is fair in politics. The witnesses fo^the de
fence will appear to-morrow.
From Dougherty County.
The following paragraphs are clipped from
the Albany News of the 16th:
Corn Hunckadory.—Wednesday night’s rain
was veiy extensive, and where it fell the com
crop is made.
A New Start.—Albany is about to take a new
start. We hear of new buildings all about, and
workmen are already clearing away rubbish
and ordering material for extensive operations.
Caterpillar in Mitchell.—A planter from
Mitchell assures us that the caterpillar has ap
peared in his cotton. There is no rubbing this
out; be knows the caterpillar as well as he
knows a stalk of cotton from a thistle, and he
says it’s so. He has seen the fly in numbers,
and found, bimself, one caterpillar.
On the principle that one swallow don’t make
a summer, we hope there is no danger.
Special Providence.—It is no less strange
than true that we, of this immediate locality,
are being specially blessed. The intense heat
has dried and parched everything, and the very
atmosphere seemed ready to blaze; vegetation
was wilting, and a critical point had been reach
ed with cotton and com, and planters were
trembling in their boots. Such was the state
of things at sun-down, Wednesday evening, bnt
the eastern horizon had the appearance of a
molton sea of brass and mountains of lava, and
by eight o’clock a universal deluge came. It
rained. Com and cotton leaped for joy. Plant
ers rejoiced. All nature smiled thanks upon the
Giver.
Merrick Bames—he of the Albany House—
requests ns to return thanks for him for the
blessing, and all such favors. His garden is re
vived.
A South Carolina Codifier.—The Charles
ton Ne ws gives the following sample of the handi
work of W. J. Wrfpper, a Northern negro, em
ployed by the Legislature of that State to “di
gest, arrange and consolidate” all the statute
laws of South Carolina. It is an entry in Whip-
per’s handwriting in an assault and battery
case:
“The State of Smith Carolina,') Inditcment
**• > for
) Larceny.
The Grand Jury having been discharged and
J no bill giveing out in the above case, on motion
, of W. J. Whipper atty for the Defendant it is
A letter from , ordered that the defendant be discharged from
The Weather and Crops.
Crawfordaville,. to the Constitutionalist, says: , custody without day."
“We are very dry here, wanting rain badly. |
Cora is suffering greatly and this crop will be j
oat short, if we get no rain soon. The gardens
see bunted up.”
It is understand that as soon as the Great
retains to Europe she will take fresh
We are sorry to learn that old Father Hick
man, the Clinton mail rider, died on the 15th.
After a long drought, Atlanta had a fine rain
no rite 15 th.
At a German pionic at Indianapolis, Ind., on
Sunday last, 900 kegs of beer were sold.
The German singing societies of New York
The Obligations of thfe Southwestern
Railroad to the City of Macon.
Editors Telegraph : Please grant me space
in your inestimable journal to notice the ob
jections taken by the Semi-Weekly Albany
News, in its issue of the 9th inst., to toepos-
ition I assumed in an article captioned, “Rail
road Combination,” which was published in the
Daily Telegraph of the 7th inst. The News
asserts that I assumed an untenable position,
one wholly without warrant of law; that I mis
conceived the law altogether in the assumption
that the Central Railroad Company and the
Southwestern Railroad Company, either sepa
rately or combinedly, had the right to so reg
ulate their tariffs as to be able to pay tbe Com
pany a fair remuneration in dividends. Now, I
ask, by what law are these particular “fran
chises hedged, restrained and regulated” ? By
provision of their charters, or by some general
law relating to such corporations ? I dare say
by neither, for these companies, with able legal
minds to advise, have, for a long time, exercised
the right of fixing tariffs, and in many instances
these have been widely discriminating in their
operations. Suppose you, they would have
done this in violation of law, and thereby sub
ject themselves to its severe penalties? Or if
this had been done in violation of some known
regulation, suppose you that these corporations
would not have been held to a strict account be
fore the courts for the offence by those who felt
themselves aggrieved? The following extract
from the Charter of the Southwestern Railroad
Company, relates to the point in question:
Sec. 11. • • * “The Board of Directors
shall have power to fix the rate of toll upon all
produce, goods, wares, merchandise and other
effects, transported on the railroad, and also the
rate of toll charged, for each and every passen
ger passing or traveling thereon, with power to
collect the same, and shall be capable of exer
cising all such other powers and authorities for
the well governing and ordering the affairs of
said Company as to them shall seem fit for the
interests of said Company.”
This is the only section referring to the fixing
of tariffs, and I ask if anything herein can be so
construed by the News as to hedge in or restrain
the management of the road from fixing any
tariff that to them may seem necessary to pro
mote the interests of the Company ?
Again: What would the News have us under
stand by tho “mutual obligations and mutual
rights between these corporators and the peo
ple?” As my original article was confined to
the probable effect which the combination would
have upon Macon, I will narrow the question
and ask what are the “ mutual obligations and
mutual rights” between this particular corpor
ation, the Southwestern Railroad Company,
and the city of Macon, as a corporate body,
or as citizens in their individual capaci
ties? In the original construction of this rail
road, which was to become the great feeder of
Macon—this enterprise, which was manifestly
to do so much in building up and enriching
Macon, it does seem that her municipal author
ities and her citizens should have felt a sense of
obligation to lend every possible assistance in
the execution of the great work. Bat, I ask,
did they realize this obligation, and if so, did
they respond to the call made by the commis
sioners for aid in prosecuting a work which was
so greatly to benefit them ? The records an
swer.nol
When the books were opened by the Com
missioners, and subscriptions to the stock so
licited, the city of Macon, in her corporate ca
pacity, failed to subscribe a single dollar—nor
has she yet invested any of her capital in the
stock of the company. Has she pursued a sim
ilar course toward other kindred enterprises
diverging from her limits ? Not so—she has
subscribed liberally to them all. Why this dis
crimination, and that, too, against a road which
has done more to support, build up, and enrich
her than all the others combined? Was it be
cause she felt that her interests were not in
volved—because she felt no benefit would accrue
to her in the want of the success of this enter
prise ? I give her credit for more financial sa
gacity, because the truth which has since been
demonstrated, as to the benefit which has ac
crued to her from thi3 source, must have beeD
patent to her then.
The citizens in their individual capacity, sub
scribed less than $6000,00, and a large portion
of this was forfeited by the non-payment of in
stallments, and a considerable part of the re
mainder was paid by right of way, drayage and
printing, leaving only a very small amount
which was paid in money. Why was this ? I
can conceive but one answer, and that is as fol
lows : Tbe city of Macon and her individual
capitalists must have concluded that there was
no danger of the enterprise falling through, that
the Railroad would be built without their assist
ance, and they would derive the benefits that
would accrue to them by tbe construction of the
road any way; therefore as this corporation
would not probably pay them in its infancy as
large dividends as they could derive from other
investments, they would reserve their capitalfor
other enterprises which for some time to come
would pay them better. Can any more plausi
ble answer be deduced from their course ? Now
in the face of these facts, facts which the records
of the company substantiate, I ask if it be not
the highest degree of presumption, nay more,
bold, barefaced effrontery in these people to
claim exemption from discriminating tariffs on
the plea of “mutual obligations and rights ?”
Tbe sequel shoves that these people were not
sufficiently far-sighted; they suffered imme
diate interest to blind them to the probable re
sult in the future of their then selfish course.
Had they come forward and subscribed liberal
ly to the stock of the company, in the propor
tion of this liberality, would they have been
privileged a voice in the management of the
company. But having acted as they did, it re
quires a bold face indeed to talk of “mutual
rights and obligations.” What fair minded man
would regard that this company was under any
moral or equitable obligation to secure these
people against discriminating tariffs, if the in
terest of the stockholders demanded that snch
be fixed? The only obligation the company
owes Macon, is that contained in the “contract
with the railroads." That indenture, made be
tween the city of Macon on the one part and
the Central Railroad and Banking Company,
the Macon and Western Railroad Company, and
the Southwestern Railroad Company on the
other part, enteredinto on the 24th Jane, 1851,
provides that in consideration of certain priv
ileges and rights, as to these companies cross
ing the river and running tracks to a general
depot fully recited in the contract, that these
companies wonld pay an annuity of $5000 to
the city, and they further obligated themselves
in the manner set forth in the following extract
from said contract:
* And said three companies further
covenant and agree with the Mayor and Coun
cil of the city of Macon, for itself and on the be
half of all persons who, as aforesaid, fas ship
pers of produce or otherwise,) may be or become
interestedin the faithful observance of this par
ticular covenant, that from and immediately af
ter the crossing and connection herein contem-
“plated shall take place, the rates of freight be
tween Griffin and Savannah, [meaning the city
of Griffin on the Macon and Western Railroad
Company’s railroad, and the town of Oglethorpe
on the line of the road of the Souhwestern Rail
road Company,] shall be and remain always, at
least one fifth more in the respective cases than
the fates of freight between Macon and Savan
nah.
Now, theso are the only obligations and rights
which the people of Macon can justly claim from
this corporation. These have been, and will
continue to be respected, and in the latter the
people of Macon have something to relieve their
fears respecting discriminating tariffs. It will
be remembered that but little cotton produced
beyond Oglethorpe has for some time found a
market m Macon, it having been sold by the
small planter to the buyers in Eufaula, Albany,
Americas and other points, and by them shipped
through to Savannah and New York, while the
large planters have for some time been shipping
their cotton directly through. to.
Cotton {Stealing In New York.
A correspondent writes as follows to the New
York Journal of Commerce:
Complaint is often made of losses in the
weight of cotton. To-day while looking out of
my office window I saw a solution of this whole
difficulty. Opposite there is a cotton warehouse,
(and there are several others in the neighbor
hood,) and I saw the thieves stealing the cotton
as it came from the warehouse. The word steal
ing tells die whole story! All hands steal. The
cartmen, the laborers,' the samplers, and hosts
of girls and boys and men and women that are
hanging around, all steaL And the warehouse
men themselves wink at it, if they do not profit
by this wholesale stealing. If yun will spend a
few minutes at my office almost any day you
may witness all that I have detailed above. At
the same time, probably, you may see a police
man leisurely walking by ignorant of all that is
going on. A short time since I called the atten
tion of a policeman to a case of cotton stealing,
and he told me that he wonld not arrest a cotton
thief if he saw one in the act. His excuse was
that the Police Justice wonld not notice him,
and that he wonld get nothing but abuse for his
pains, and that if he persisted in doing his duty
he could not keep his place three months. This
is a dreadful condition of things. In my neigh
borhood are several places where this stolen
cotton is openly bought, and the thieves can be
seen going in and ont at all times of the day,
and their business is no secret. This city will
suffer in its business unless this thing is stopped.
It is not safe to send cotton to New York for sale.
I wonld not do so, and would advise my friends
not to do so, unless a stop could be put to this
wholesale thieving.
From Lowndes County. •
The Valdosta Times of the 14th, contains the
following:
A great many people were present at the ses
sion of court, last week. The crops are gener
ally laid by, and the farmers came to town. The
general report from them is that com and cotton
are in fine order, as well as other products.
A letter from Indian river, Florida, informs
us that the crops are poor, rain scarce, musqui-
toes, 500 pound turtles, and turtle eggs in abun
dance. Our correspondent says he captured
five turtles in one night, weighing altogether
from two to three thousand p»ounds, and wishes
we had half of them. We wish so too. ,
“The oldest inhabitant” doesn't recollect any
such hot weather as we had last week.
We hear that J. W. O'Neal, Esq., Representa
tive and a prominent lawyer of this county, has
received the appointment of Post Master at
Brunswick. The Glynn people do well, considr
ering the fate ef some of her sister counties.
A buff-colored mulatto now runs as mail-
agent on the Gulf road. Among the darkies he
is a sensation. They gather round his car, as
if he were a lion in his cage, and seem very
much elated, that a real, genuine man and
brother has got into that office.
We like his physiognomy better than that of
his predecessor, Mr. Bice. It is a farther re
move from the original monkey. We had as
soon risk our letters through his hands as a car
pet-bagger’s.
From Greene Connly.
The Greensboro Herald of Thursday has the
following:
Mercer Univeesitz.—The Commencement
Exercises of this institution opened on Monday
last, and closed on Wednesday evening. The
Commencement sermon was preached by the
Rev. Dr. Tucker, President of the University,
in hi3 usual able and eloquent style. With the
thermometer in the nineties,we hardly expected
to find a large audience, yet were most agree
ably surprised in this respect. The examina
tion of the students was thorough and search
ing, and their proficiency showed that they had
been tinder the tuition of able teachers, and had
made good use of their time. The Sophomore
Prize Declamation, which came off on Monday,
was a most interesting occasion, and the young
gentlemen who participated in it all acquitted
themselves with great credit. The first prize
was awarded to Ker. B. Tapper, of Wilkes, and
the second to John J. Brantly, of Greene—two
young men who have it in their power in the
future to prove an honor to their Alma Mater.
The original poem was delivered by Mr. B. J.
Larcomoe, of Savannah, who well deserved,
and received the praise of all who heard him.
The graduating class, fourteen in number, came
fully up to the expectations of their friends.
Last Sunday morning, while a number of
young negro boys were sporting in Mr. Porter
Daniels’ fish bond, near the city, a youth, about
nine years of age, ventured ont into the deep
water, and was drowned.
He,
Crops pi Jefferson County.—A correspond
ent, writing the Chronicle and Sentinel from
Jefferson, says: “Very dry and hot—crops
looking sick, and rapidly 'going up the spout.’
How soon have our prospects and fond anticipa
tions for a bountiful harvest been blighted?
Quite a number of water courses have ceased to
run, and the question of getting meal is exciting
interest in many localities.”
j , • vnjr, _ _ __ _
cible on board and start for Inffia to lay a line have sent 1000 Jelegates to tbe Baitjmore
ay and floes. festival.
Our Macon Telegraph failed to come to hand
again on yesterday. We suppose that Elder
Turner would not let it pass. Won’t Brother
Cliaby send oar copy, by our friends Giles and
Jeter, the courteous and efficient conductors on
the Southwestern Central road.—Columbus Sun
of Thursday morning.
We think everything will be straight in our
1 post office in a few days.
Supreme Court.
Thursday, July 15, 1869.
The Court met pursuant to adjournment, and
heard argument as follows:
No. 7. Tallapoosa Circuit—Connell vs. Vaughn
—Relief from Carroll, and No. 8, Tallapoosa
Circuit—Bonner vs. Martin—Relief from Car-
roll, were argued together by Col. L. J. Glenn,
representing Austin & Reese, for plaintiffs in
error and by Messrs. B. Oliver and H. F. Mer-
rell for defendants in error.
No. 9. Tallapoosa Circuit—Reid & Bro. vs.
A. S. Spencer—Motion for a hew trial from
Troup, was dismissed.
No. 1. Atlanta Circuit—Chandler vs, Johnson
ef. at.—Assumpsit from Fulton, was argued by
Messrs. Hammond & Mynatt for plaintiff in er
ror, and CoL L. E. Bleckley for defendant in
error.
Pending tho opening argument of Mr. Winn
in the next case—Miller vs. Swift—the Court
adjourned till 10 o’clock a. m., to-morrow.—In
telligencer.
From Grlflln.
We learn from the Star that Griffin had a good
rain Thursday afternoon, just as the Star was
giving up in despair. That paper has the fol
lowing :
Positively the last !—We noticed a bale of
cotton in the Brick Warehouse yesterday, which
is said to be positively the last of the last crop.
To the fanner who ’brings to Griffin the first
bale of new cotton, we offer as a premium, one
year’s subscription to the Star.
Cotton Bolls.—Thorough Manley sent us yes
terday a couple of limbs from a cotton stalk
with five bolls nearly grown. This looks like
business.
Stokes Flopped Over.
The Tennessee papers sayStokeshas “flopped
over” in favor of universal enfranchisement. At
Washington last Tuesday he said:
‘If elected Governor, as I expect to be, I will
enfranchise every man on God’s green earth
who will come np and ask for it.” And turning
to Gov. Senter said: ■ “ Enfranchise every man
in the State, and no man will give it a more
hearty endorsement than I will, aye, sir, I say
amen. I am the first man in tho State belong
ing to the Republican party, who ever advocated
extending the franchise. The boys who wore
the grey, owe me n debt of gratitude for forcing
Senter and Brownlow to come out in favor of
giving them their votes. ”
Health of New York.—There were six hun
dred and forty-three deaths in New York last
week, an increase of one hundred over the pre
vious week. A letter from that city says :
The Health Board admit that there were three
cases of cholera, but declined to say whether it
was cholera morbus, or of the Asiatio type. It
is no secret that a great many sudden deaths
have occurred within the few days past, from
complaints strongly resembling the latter, and
to these the largely increased mortality official
ly announced is by many persons attributed.
If tho Board of Health would return to the for
mer practice of publishing the diseases, as well
as the total number of deaths, the publio mind,
in cases of this kind, would be less anxious than
it is when left, as now, to grope in the dark.
Radical Disruption.—The Washington cor
respondent of the Baltimore Gazette writes:
“ The disruption of the Radical party is ac
knowledged at least by all those presses who
live npon government pap. This is a very hope
ful omen. But it is alleged that recent events
show equally tho disintegration and surrender
of the Democratic party. ‘A rose by any other
name wonld smell as sweet.’ I see, however,
through other spectacles, and can disoem no
sign of decomposition in that ever-to-be revered
and venerable constitutional party. To make a
long story short, the recent extraordinary de
velopments of public opinion are looked upon
by the discomfited radicals as moro.indications
of a political chaos, ont of which a new party is
to spring into life with new-born issues, divested
of nil reference to the negro question.”
From Randolph County.—The Cuthbert Ap
peal of Thursday says:
The weather has been too hot to lie down,
too hot to walk, too hot to work, too hot to
quarrel, eat, or drink anything without ioe in it.
Crops are giving way seriously, and the cry is
water, water, water. God grant the supply
may come in season.
The Empire State of the South
Every One!
A. FULL DESCRIPTION AND A GENEROUS OFFER.
From the ifew York Tribune.]
Sir—I desire, through your extensively circu
lated and ably conducted journal, to give to the
great number of inquirers that have written to
me, and to your good people generally, some
points of information which they seek, and
which I hope will prove interesting to them.
There is a class of correspondents who oome
among us with the view of misrepresenting ns,
thereby inflaming the wounds of our suffering
country. There is another class, who come to
irritate and insult. There is a third class, who
come as carpet-baggers and money sharks.
These classes of men are not calculated to de
velop the resources of any country. Georgia,
once happy, is still proud and resolute, and,
with her varied and boundless resources, has
recaperated in a measure from the desolation,
ruins and ashes of war, and is yet the Empire
State of the South. Our doors are vnde open.
We invite your farmers, mechanics, artisans,
and men of every honest craft, with their wives
and little ones, to come here and live with ns,
and mind their own business, identify them
selves fully with our interests, and make it their
home. Gome with your money, your muscle
and your energy, and help ns, and Georgia will
soon become, not only the Empire State of the
Union, bnt the garden spot or the world. Such
men we welcome—they will thrive and prosper,
and build up themselves and the country. The
people of Georgia, as a people, are all right.
The wounds created by the late disastrous war
are fast healing, and our hearts are in the right
place. There is no portion of the United
States where honest labor meets with better
recompense than here—no such place to recu
perate a lost fortune, as our Southern histoiy
since the war amply demonstrates.
Lands are worth more intrinsically here than
either North or West Here in Georgia, and es
pecially in Middle Georgia, we have a soil and
climate capable of every variety of production.
Lands in Middle Georgia now selling at $10 to
$25 per acre will yield more net profits to labor
than Northern or Western lands selling at $75 to
$200 per acre. There is no country on the earth
where an honest man with his family can live
better, enjoy better health, or make money fast
er. We can make everything here that can pos
sibly be made North, East, or West, and just as
much of it, with the exception of ice/ We can
make everything here that can possibly be
made Sonth of us, and just as much of it, with
the exception of the tropical products proper.—
The soil and climate of Middle Georgia peculiar
ly adapt it to a greater variety of production
than any other locality on the earth. We can
produce any and everything profitably and to a
great degree of perfection with the two excep
tions just mentioned. We can make of very
many products two full crops a year on the same
land. This is true of Irish potatoes, tobacco,
and many other products. We can make a fall
crop of wheat, or rye, or barley, or oats, and
then a full crop of com afterward on the same
land the same year. We can then ship our
new flour to New York, or Boston, before the
Northern wheat harvest begins, and thns obtain
the best prices. What other climate and soil
and locality under the sun yield so generously
to the labor of man ? On ail the lands in Mid
dle Georgia, several species of clover grow spon
taneously, and cover the earth with a carpet of
green through the Spring, summer, and fall
months. The Lespidesa Striata orJapan clover,
the white clover, and other species of clover are
everywhere in profusion. The Luzerne or
French clover thrives here as well as.it does in
France. The perennial or large red clover does
as well here as elsewhere, if the soil be natural
ly or artificially rich enough. This point has
never been fully tested until since the late disas
trous war. The following extracts from letters
received from friends who have visited my
places this Spring, fully attest the fact. B. E.
Spencer writes:
“I have resided in this (Greene) county for-
about forty years, but have never before seen a
practical .test of the growth of the different
grasses for hay in this section of country till I
walked through your fields, and being a native
of the State of Connecticut, and having lived
with a practical farmer of that State some seven
or eight years of my life, who cultivated all
these grasses, except the blue grass, I had the
opportunity of seeing and examining the grasses
in all their stages from toe time they came np
till they were cut and made into hay. My re
cent visit to your plantation, lying on*toe waters
of Fishing Creek, in this county, where I had
the pleasure of seeing red clover, bine grass,
herds grass and orchard grass, fully convinces
me that they can be grown as successfully here,
especially on your lands and those contiguous,
as in any of the Northern or Eastern States.
Your field of clover, which I understand was
sown in March, 1868, 1 found to be fully hip
high, just commencing to bloom, and nearly
ready for cutting. I would judge from its ap
pearance that the field would yield toe present
cutting from one and a half to two tuns per
acre. In your two other fields, mixed with
clover, herds grass, blue grass, and orchard
grass, sown in November of last year, 1868,1
found growing beautifully. They will do to cut
this season, the first year, and will yield an
abundant crop. I therefore give it as my
opinion that all kinds of grasses suitable for
hay or pasturage, not only mature earlier in the
season in this climate, by one month at least,
but they grow higher, and will yield more hay
to the acre and moTe pasture through toe year.
I believe that you can safely count on two
field crops during toe season beside a crop of
rowen.”
Profs.JS. P. Sanford and W. G. Woodfin of
Mercer University write: “We saw every
where on your lots a good stand of clover, and
luxuriant and vigorous growth, and we plucked
some bunches which had grown to the height of
4C4 inches. We are pleased also to notice that
your herds grass and timothy are not at all in
ferior to your clover. Your experiment, when
known, must greatly enhance toe value of land
in Middle Georgia; for it demonstrates the fact
that in addition to com, wheat, oats, barley and
cotton, too grasses and clover can be grown
hero as successfully as in the Norther and West
ern States.” “With pure and delicious water
and a salubrious climate, subject to no extremes
of heat and cold, and in which consumption, epi
demics and malignant disorders are unknown,
we see no reason why our lands should not, in
the early future, be settled by the inhabitants
of the more bleak and inhospitable North.”.
Dr. H. H. Tucker, President of Mercer Univer
sity, writes: “I have seen several fields of clo
ver on the plantation of Dr. Thomas P. James,
in Greene county, Georgia, and consider the
growth fully equal to toe best I ever saw in any
of the Northern States. From this and other
experiments that have come under my observa
tion, I have no doubt that any of toe grasses
can be raised with complete success and with
great profit in Middle Georgia.”
On rioh uplands blue grass, meadow oat grass,
orchard grass, vernal grass grow during toe
Winter. If these are kept inclosed during the
Summer months horses, mules, cattle and sheep
will keep fat and require ho other food. With
out toe costly covering of a bam, or any shelter,
and with nothing given them save a little salt,
they will do their own mowing and stock raising.
I have now cattle and sheep well grown and fat,
that have never been under a shelter, and have
never been given any food outside of grazing
save a little sdt. Our woodland, which has ever
been unproductive capital, can be laid down in
these Winter pastures. Bermuda grass thrives
here wonderfully well and makes the best pasture
in toe world, no grass giving an equal amount of
grazing; grows tall enough on good lands to
mow, and makes an abundant and valuable hay.
There is no region on toe globe which affords a
better prospect of more rapid fortune in stock
raising and wool growing than in Georgia, cli
mate, markets and facilities for Summer ■ and
Winter grazing all considered. There is no
reason why toe wool crop of Georgia should not
be larger toon it3 cotton crop ever was.
There is no better fruit region. The Middle
Georgia peach is tbe richest and best flavored
in too world. All varieties of fruits and mel
ons do well here. Much attention has been
paid to native seedlings, and we have .a number
of varieties of late keeping winter apples and
pears. I have seen pears and apples on the ta
ble of different years 1 growth. The fruit busi
ness in melons, apples, pears, peaches, straw
berries, grapes, vegetables, etc., offers an invit
ing field for enterprise. Their are great facili
ties offeredin transportation of toe same to New
York and other Northern cities.
Our virgin forests teem with the finest tim
ber in the world, consisting of white oak, red
oak, white hiokory, poplar, chesnnt, gam, ash,
beech, birch, maple, walnut, yellow pine, etc.,
inviting workers of wood of all descriptions.
Middle Georgia is decidedly the best climate
for ootton. The season is sufficiently long for
it to perfect, and it is not subject to tbe many
disasters and calamities of inseots, etc., which
are incident to a climate Boutb of ns. Our good
lands will yield from 300 to 400 pounds of lint
per aore. With high cultivation and manuring
I have made 1500 pounds of lint per acre.
has bestowed noon the people of the Sonth the
finest soil olim&te under th$ sun. Qspsble
of the neatest variety of products we have been
blinded by King Ootton to the neglect of\ our
best interests, and have failed to develop the
varied products and extensive resources which
nature has placed within our reach.
We need the right kind of men to diversify
and dignify labor, and to give to the earth wise
and proper culture, and that care and attention
to diversified products which would make us the
most independent as well as the most luxurious
and happy people on earth. We need men to
develop our resources and hidden stores of
wealth. We need every daes, from the hum
blest day laborer to toe aristocratio capitalist.
Our doors are wide open.
I have not referred to the mineral and manu
facturing resources of Georgia. Our bill* and
valleys teem with ores aim precious metals.
Georgia has waterpower, and available, to move
the machinery of the world.
Onr climate is mild and salubrious, and the
locality of the clay belt of Middle Georgia the
most healthy on the continent. Here we are
comparatively free from toe malarial fevers in
cident to miasmatic districts and to toe pine-
land or seaboard belt south and west of us, and
from toe consumption, scrofula, rheumatism,
inflammatory and typhoid fevers peculiar to a
Northern climate ana toe mountainous regions
whioh lie north of us. We have no siokly sea
son, and (I speak as a physician) the best cli
mate for a consumptive patient in the world. I
firmly believe that long residence here will
eradicate from the system this consumptive
diathesis or habit of body. The liability of our
white people to die of consumption is abont one
in 3,200 per annum, whereas it is in Massachu
setts one in 250. We live in a medium tem
perature. The vicissitudes of toe seasons are
neither great nor sudden. We glide gently from
one to toe other. The transitions in toe weath
er are regular. The physical constitutions of
our families are not enfeebled by extremes of
heat or cold, wet or dry.
It is safe and healthful to visit and remain in
the clay belt of Middle Georgia at any time and
at all seasons of the year. We have no sickly
season. We can never have toe yellow fever,
nor Asiatic cholera, nor malignant types of dis
ease. It is toe healthiest climate on toe conti
nent. The thermometer in summer very rarely
ranges as high as 90 degrees Farenheit. We
have snow to fall once in about five years, and
then rarely more than one inch in depth.
Middle Georgia is emphatically the country
for the white man, toe descendant of Japheth,
Noah’s youngest son and son of blessing and
promise. Here it is he con be blessed, andhere
it is he can, in the language of prophecy, be en
larged. He can labor here night and day if his
physical nature would endure it without endan
gering his health. We have not only the best
Boil and climate combined, bnt we have toe pur
est air to breathe, and toe purest and most de
licious free-stone water and plenty of it to drink.
What better country could we wish? In this
particular, in Middle Georgia, Providence has
lavishly bestowed upon ns all that heart could
desire.
I think the clay belt of Middle Georgia, em
braced in the counties of Greene, Wilkes, Han
cock, Oglethoipe, Morgan, Newton and others
in toe same belt, to be toe most desirable sec
tion of toe State, everything ^considered, and
when folly developed under the skillful hand of
a wise and judicious culture and improvement
will become toe garden spot of the world.
The principal cities of Middle Georgia are
Augusta, Atlanta, Macon, Athens and Columbus.
In all of them business is active and thriving,
and rents high. Atlanta, which was a heap of
ruins, has been rebuilt, as if by magic, and with
a population of 30,000 or 35,000 is now doing
double toe business she did before toe war.
There are four male colleges, well endowed
with able faculties, and quite a number of fe
male collegiate institutions in Middle Georgia,
all well patronized and in a flourishing condi
tion.
Middle Georgia is a network of railroads
radiating in every direction, thereby giving us
every facility for purposes of marketing and
transportation.
• We have a law of Georgia exempting from
taxation for the next five years, all capital
brought into the State and invested in. mach
inery and manufactures. An Ret has recently
passed establishing a Bureau of Immigration,
POLITICS AND RELIGION AMONO Tw a
In a very interesting discourse
and religion among the negroes, the CoWl
Sun makes the following curious
Every man at all acquainted wUhthskfii
and characteristic of the negroes during*
days of slavery, knows that negro preach
• greatest set of acoSSfiA
infested the country. They were theW ^
all of the stealing and deviltry Rener»ll»^ ,, ®
the slave class, and were invariably
pests in the community. There were
exceptions among this class then, and th,. ^
that may be truthfully said of them now
have a greater influence over the minds Jrf
tions of their hearers now than before
pation, and this power has been used
oontinue to be used to the iniorv lwiT;*®
negro and the white man. The
Bum’’ and the carpet-bag missionaril,^ 91 '
stirred np to its very depths the fanaHr^
the negro character, and the negro
now have more time and occasion to
toe credulity, superstition and pocket* J ???
auditories. Perhaps not a family in t ®*®
m unity has failed to have its domesti« ° Dfc
interrupted or broken up by the --
meetings that' ' - - --
and by day in this place. We have tat«£
occasion to examine into this matte-
have never known a people so uttert* **
upon the subject of meetings as tho nJL
this city and th^ surrounding country
We have been informed by fiegro«\i
selves, that pains and penalties are infliet*i '
on those who do not attend meeting Jr, ”?■
or who are absent from the regularnieS; •'
the various religious societies that hawl? 801
up under toe care of the church. EnS?
ments are made upon toe time of tho^i*
have agreed to labor, and Sunday is hriSuS
for religious exercises. We were Cffe
one society has ordered its members in
work on Monday, that cooking, washing V
will not save souls. Such member* M
this command are fined and locked np ip , j
room. If our city readers will put themself
to toe trouble of enquiry among their son*
they will be surprised to learn even stroi«
facte than those we have detailed, WUnf
stimulus of a share in the crop, and the
of the only thing worse than a bad negro prent
er, Bureau Agents, have caused country nesrS
to labor more faithfully and to better obyr*
their obligations, the same cannot be siHvI
those in the cities and towns. The facilities*
pilfering and living on others are so great is £
towns and cities that negroes will not labor m
perform their duties when a rousing ahonfc
meeting offers them opportunity for indnlciL;,
toe extravagance and excitement which deft; I
them. Crowded together in these assemble*
they soon learn to become the slaves in
thing of the pastor, who plays upon their pi
Not long since in retiring home from a tij|
to toe country, at a station within twenty nil
of toe city, a reverend colored divine, who k>|
been filling an appointment in that neiefcborf
hood, got aboard the train. We recognitedjj
as the head of the Loyal League, and one ij
had been dit missed from a town pulpit /
drunkenness and immorality generally. Uul
had found hearers and admirers in the ruralfi
tricte. In one hand he carried a loaded misbt
in toe other a hickory club and cotton nmbrshl
His pockets were stuffed with June ep ‘
the amount of-a peck at least, and kind
who had accompanied him to the depot, 1
in to him strings of chickens and bags of jk
When the conductor came to take his fare, J
production of a plethoric wallet filled withh
tional currency, showed that his ministntiiieij
the day previous had been appreciated t
warded. We subsequently learned thatr
had gathered to hear him from a radios oft
miles, and that all along the route they <
and went, toe gardens, orchards and tm
ear patches of the planters looked on Jfa
as though a swarm of locusts had passed tint
the country.
Since that time, in that same neighboitiwl
a greater than he has arisen, a regular Ynil
Doctor and Preacher, a healer of diseaseuilf
performer of miracles. Among the min
performed by this rascal, is telling the irtei
for a compensation, whether his empl
going to settle fairly with him in the falL
quite sure that if things go on as they are:
with an appropriation of $10,(XX). The rail- _ „ „
roads have reduced toe fare to two cents per : progressing, tho negro, as a laborer aid citi
mile for excursionists and those seeking homes j must be demoralized and destroyed. Will ii
in our State, and one cent per mile to actual, be better to have Chinamen with their “Ji
settlers. The principal hotels have agreed on j houses in yards and on plantations, than fa
reduced rates for this class of persons who hold j cal and crazy negroes ranting, roaring and
proper certificates.
Good improved farms can be bought from
$10 to $25 per acre, according to locality, pro
duction, etc. Lands can be bought with im
provements for less than this, bnt they are not
the cheapest. Good horses and mules are
worth from $150 to $200, cows $30 to $50, and
sheep $2 to $3 pier head. It is too late in the
season to begin farming operations this year.
Now is a beautiful and pleasant time to come
on and prospect for another year or for a home.
Memphis Chinese Labor ConvenUs
Memphis, July 14.—The Chinese Labor (
vention met this morning at 10 o'clock,
attendance was large, being chiefly comp
of planters and land owners of the neighoos
States and surrounding country. Reports n
submitted from toe Finance Committee, hit
ing a Joint Stock Emigration Society, ri
i officers at the principal cities, promiahj j
Expenses fortheroundtrip from New York city I! welcome and protection to all emigrants!
do not think will exceed $100. By steamer from j China and elsewhere. From the Transport!
New York to Charleston or Savannah will be toe i Committee: That emigrants can be broagk j
cheapest route. Thus we invite you to come, i Memphis in lots of 500 and over, from tbe if
Many have already done so, and are more than ! cific States, by rail, for $50 each; from Hs
satisfied—they are delighted. Our people are Kong to Sanfrancisco, for $80 to 100 in p"
bing by night and by day over the whole cous~
warm-hearted, intelligent and hospitable. All
classes of persons who come here with proper
motives will be kindly received and well treated.
Mr. Editor, I feel a great deal of solicitude
upon this subject, and with your consent will be
a little more specific, and in so doing do not
design to advertise my lands or toe lands of any
one. Y'our people are pent up, and wish to
come here, and we invite them. I hold in my
possession a volume of letters to that effect.
There are difficulties which must be met, and
with your assistance and that of your people
the work can be done. Our best and most de
sirable lands are generally arranged on toe old
plantation system. The improvements are usu
ally located about toe center. The plantations
mast be divided up into small farms of 100 or
200 acres and houses placed on them. A sys
tem of mixed husbandry ana a better mode of
culture must be adopted. AVe must have skill
ful and intelligent labor. Our people are awake
Tye Kim Orr, a Chinaman, two years it f
country, now residing in Louisiana,
the convention. He stated that over HI
Chinese were now laboring in the West In*
and among many much distress prevails b
they were not selected with proper care
being effective dock hands, laborers ani f
sans. Many were vicious criminals who 1
been sent on plantations to work at labor. T
are not familar with agriculture. Men cane*
ly be procured through proper agents fn*l
interior of China. In Cuba they are p»Uj
dollars per month, farm hands are paid eii>
to twenty dollars per year. In China,
living is cheap, they receive 150 pound
which is equal to two dollars.
Women work in the fields of China,
ten is a lover of strong drink. Compare
few are opinm eaters. It is a luxury thi'f
rich and city people can afford to indnlgf*
Of fifty now living in Donaldsonville, Lm
to all the improvements in husbandry, but we i one is a whisky lover. They are all easily
are in a majority of cases unable to adopt them.
We are comparatively poor. How is this to be
done ?
As my name has been mentioned in your pa
per, in such connection as to elicit a large num
ber of letters from your good people, I will in
stance my places, and propose a plan. I have
two places in Greene county, Georgia, one con
taining 1,680 acres, the other 1,350. There are
no better places in toe State, and convenient to
everything, and perfeotly healthy, and none
more desirable. These places should be divided
up into small farms, and honses placed on them,
for good Northern farmers, with their families.
How is this to be done ? It must be done in the
same way, with toe aid of yoor people. You
have large capitalists, who wish to invest their
money profitably and safely. Let them loan
their money to good, enterprising Northern
farmers and mechanics, etc., to come on, buy
our lands, and settle them, and grow rich on
them. The capitalist can take a mortgage or
lien on the land and improvements, until paid
for, with interest. This would be a safe trans
action.
Will any of your moneyed men do this ?. We
are comparatively poor. I speak as a repre
sentative man. Some have more and some less
land than I have. I have open lands for 75 to
100 laborers. I will divide up my places into
small farms, and will sell, lease, or farm on
Chinese Labor in Calitorma.-'A
ton dispatch to the New York I* n
Congressmen and others who bavo W* J
ited toe Pacifio coast have a great <W*‘,
about the Chinese immigration, ana * ,
be called the Chinese question, ana t4e j
doubt that it will be the basis of n> s “l;
at toe next session of Congress. j
man, of Pennsylvania, has gone to «*.
slope expressly for the purpose of sK‘
subject, and several other R6prt' sen *‘ F
small I arms, ana will sell, lease, or lam on : Senators have also given the
shares. I will furnish land, teams, and feed | q 011 '-, A g? ntleman w bo has j . , , [P #l
them—farming implements and seed, the farm, j Franoisoo Rpeaks in tbo^S.^ ^ j
aged, being patient, industrious, docilaS
able and obedient
Mr. Koolimanshop arrived at noon e
dressed toe Convention, stating that W’*
has directly and indirectly brought
Chinese to California, where 60,000 are 5
gaged as mechanics and on railroad «
They are paid from 90 cents to $1 j®* 1
per day. As laborers they can be ink
come from San Francisco here at about
month, but can bo obtained much chW
China; and under a five year eontr»
could be had for $10 to $12 per
K. says they are not at all times reliihX-
security is exacted, and will take 9en*'
others if higher wages are offered theta
The Convention adjourned until t-w"
at ten o’clock.
ers feeding themselves, and give one-third; or,
they furnishing the teams and feed them, and
seed, and board themselves. I will take one*
third. The parties will have to help me put up
houses. I expect to have saw-mills in operation
by the 1st of August. Parties or colonies de
siring to settle South can send on men to look
at all toe points, and, if pleased, can make ar
rangements, and their families can come on next
fall or winter. I do not mean by this to adver
tise my places. .My point is to strike upon some
feasible plan of immigration. I prefer live Y an-
kees to the masses of Europe. Ido not object to
anykindof immigration of therigbt stamp. Ire-
side with my family on one of my plaoes, and if
Northern capitalists wonld go in with or assist
me, I would put up machinery snd buildings for
wood manufactures of every description. The
suitable timber is here. Extensive towns snd
neighborhoods of real live “Yanks’’ might be
built np in toe best and healthiest country in
the world, convenient to everything. We have
the country—you toe men and means. Middle
Georgia presents an inviting field. Her doom
are open wide to immigration. There is now
no slavery, toe war is fully over, and we have a
common country. We need your Northern men,
with their money and skilled labor.
the Chinese as laborers, mechaW^ J
vante generally. He instances the
factory, where Chinese labor ttas .1
very satisfactory results. It is
shrewd business men that unless , i
wages on the Pacific slope can be n rT(l
whole section will be bankrupt in
Miners cannot afford to pay four or *
per day to work their mines, for fLjs
most of toe plaoers are not as i |
they were formerly. Chinese l flb0 Jki A
same work just as well tor on ®T ,jlJ
sum, and hence they are employed: J
same thing is true of nearly evert I
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Virginia.—Gen. Oanby will P*"
m til gate the official result of the rece
in Virginia in about fifteen daj«, ®
not settled as to the time when toe
of toe new State officers will take P*
Constitution recently adopted
inauguration of the Governor shaU ^
of January aucoeeding his elects® >
dinanoe of the Convention which
Constitution provides that the “"L,
elected thereunder shall be
—,. mediately. One of the first ssssss**^
They wish j the attention of the new LegteW^JV
llai
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to come. It is to their interest, to our interest j consideration of the m*#eni*i-“"7 oat
My design has been to write the truth, and bring j ilia expected, wijQ.be adopted with
about practical, beneficial results. I am.no pol- position. .'
itieian,and wMy^tervdte, but am proud bf! ^ ^ ■>joar»»i
to the'value of their lands for Other profitable
and noble ptsr/wesx Tbe author of otHr bete^
Our greatest drawback has been that ootton my country, and wish, the car of Improvement 1 -Op *****
has heretofore blinded the eyes of the plantenj to move onward and upward. wfcaaftwifl epamatfroas wps* 1 *
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