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FEIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1869.
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fell in Wilkes county on Monday, 23d
* It m July he would be good for 250, but
I to get 15° bales of cotton.
■jSt& t^ 3 ^ctnity, a few weeks ago,
* be was sure for 300—now comes down
t biles of cotton. , , ,
I r,-.E sale of unclaimed freight is adver-
r' lT Jbe Central Itnill-oi l Company for the
F^'September. Those interested will take
1 ro-' rB *
of Houston county who planted
hundred, says he will not get over sixty
* of cotton. ^
xsaJO us planting in Dougherty county,
w’k3 »B° eipooto^ one hundred and fifty,
v ks for only seventy bales of cotton.
, ifuoaisniiE Enterpbise of the 25th has
Xl from Br. B. H. Hardaway of that
•r twelve perns weighing sixteen ounces
k ’ They were of the variety of Duchess de
ileen.
Socovr estimates less than one-third off from
(often emp o{ Georgia—many say one-
Lwhiid off reduces the crop to a bale to
I.-terra: one-half off to a bale to six acres.
tiBSors-—An arch was being prepared by
Lfceen f° r *hs Gettysburg demonstration,
L, T hich it was designed to have a grand
I _pbtl procession. It fell to pieces, and was
Lrefoi* not ' n the bills.
] fa old friend below, not satisfied with forty-
I -ttbseribers the first of this week, has sent
;*wsty-twosince. Go it, oldfriond, wenever
Tallin of such work as that.
tji Krws.—The Athens (Tenn.) Post of the
L isstant says: “The long continued dry
liA<r has about ruined the corn crop in this
. while pasturage is very short It brings
| rir into active demand, and there are signs
i utility in the local wheat market There is
[shed*of the producers of this county.’
■i The Cotton Trade
NF3OTIATTONSTO TBANSWER THE IJTEEPOOI. COTTON
TRADR FROM NEW Y OKKTOTHESOUTH DIRECT.
At a meeting of the Council of the Liverpool
Chamber of Commerce on August 9, Mr. More-
head, of Mississippi, was introduced by the
Chairman as a delegate from a Convention re
cently held at Memphis, United States, to dis
cuss projects for the Internal Improvement of
the Southern States and the extension of their
commercial relations. Mr. Morehead. said he
was anxious to make a statement to the Cham-
_rij-itAS planting in Calhoun county . Mr - Morehead was then introduced to the
‘ clTU r7 . u t 4 Chamber. He stated that he had been delegated
by the Chairman of the Convention held at
Memphis to wait upon the Chamber and other
commercial bodies in England, and to lay. be
fore them some of the results of that Conven
tion. The object of the Convention, which was
attended by delegates from all the Southern
States, and from some of the Nothern and Wes
tern States, was to discuss projects for the in
ternal improvement of the Southern States end
the extension of their commerce, and he be
lieved its resolutions expressed the convictions
of the people of these States.
The products of the South were mainly ship
ped direct to Europe, but its imports came by
way of New York, which, purely as a matter of
business, was clearly a great expense and dis
advantage. He then alluded to the capabilities
of some of the Southern ports. Galveston was
the chief port of a region larger than France,
and capable of growing the finest cotton in the
Union, Sea Island only excepted. Land could
be purchased there at a much cheaper rate than
in the Northern States, and was very much more
fertile. New Orleans commanded no less than
20,000 miles of inland navigation, and he sug
gested the route by water from England, via
New Orleans, to St. Louis as a less expensive
and pleasanter means of reaching the Western
and Northwestern States than by New York.—
Norfolk might be considered the great natural
port of the Middle States, and with a central
position, splendid harbor, and railway com
munication to all parts of the Union, it was ad
mirably adapted for a direct line of steamers
between Liverpool and the Southern States.—
Several railway companies were willing to assist
such a line by taking shares; and he did net
think it improbable that the neighboring States
might assist such pioneer line with a subsidy.
The advantages of free trade, so well under
stood in this country, were gaining adherents in
the States, where a strong “ free trade V party
already existed and was vigorously in action,
and he thought he might safely say that succes
sive changes would now be made in their tariff
in the right direction. In regard to emigration
he remarked that very little of the great stream
now flowing into the States found its way into
the South. Emigrants were carried away to
the Northwestern States, where any return they
might make to Europe was obscure and doubt
ful. Emigration directed to the South would
return an unquestionable advantage to Europe,
for the emigrant, if he did not himself grow
[[i i cotton, would release those who would. The
:ua T , j " ! Southern States had every advantage in soil and
nobe a moderate supply of^old corn yet m climate, but no labor equal to their power of
production. The negro race was stationary,
and might now be expected to decline in num-
^Weeklv Teles;raT>li.
Present Prospect of Cotton Crop, bers, as all colored races appeared to do when
| from information we have received from all • placed in conflict with the whites. There was a
s daring the week, wo are compelled to! movement on foot for the introductios of Chi-
:-re that the cotton crop bids fair to be mnch
!er even than last year. All persons concur
nese laborers, but there were many who looked
with regret to the inpouring of such a popula
tion. alien in so many respects, and thought of
Ut opinion that the whole making of August the future with anxiety. Apart from the mere
The bottom crop has opened rapidly,' Lhorer, there were brilliant openings in the
. u n-v-i _ „ T, .. * I South for ' " ’ '
of the bolls being quite small. Estimates
lififfingoff in the last thirty days vary from
Ijr-shird to one-half a crop. In connties of
Georgia we suppose more cotton will be
Ijibi and ready for market by the first of
IfeMmber thin was ready last year by October
list Indications are that the crop in many
|„«r counties will all be picked by November,
| id ill in the State by December first
[bpeonrpeople will get high prices to make op
lior their loss in quantity.
men of capital and of special know-
! ledge. In conclusion, he said he should be
ICorrection — Letter from Col. IV. C.
Morrill.
thankful to the Chamber for any communications
which might bear upon the means of increasing
the commerce of the two countries, and thereby
strengthening the bond of mutual commercial
interest, the surest pledges for peace and mutnal
good will.
In answer to various questions asked by dif
ferent members of the Chamber, Mr. Morehead
I stated that in most of the States white labor
1 could be employed in the cotton fields through
out the year without disadvantage. He had him-
eelf, in Mississippi, employed new labor from
Canada and from Ireland for two years with
snccess, and regarded it' as a thorough test In
regard to Chinese immigration he said that the
fever for these laborers was not so great in the
Southeastern as in the Southwestern States, but
he expected that there would be from 40,000 to
Macon, August 28th, 18C9.
EH'.ort Telegraph : In your extract from a
jTuMngton exchange regarding my position as j 50,000 of’the^“‘Vo“ohes” ready for commencing
Ifcaomionar and CoPaatay a. alight error oc- j the next cotton crop with. He laid special stress
las which I beg you will correct The facts | on the advantages of the Southern States for
«k follows:
(h the 14th instant I addressed a letter to the
uumissioner of Internal Revenue, stating I
M been applied to to issue warrants against
pities for alleged violation of the revenue
tin; that being Collector, I donbted the pro-
wty of my acting in cases involving a viola-
la of theso laws, and therefore asked his
pinion.
In reply, the Commissioner says, “that while
* m»y not be in violation of law, he agrees
with me in thinking it highly improper in cases
lathing the revenue.” In cases not connected
rith the revenue, the propriety and authority of
nr acting is not donbted; and as Mr. Commis-
tioaer Bailey is absent, the necessity of some
®e to attest affidavits for United States Courts
*ud the department at Washington is snch that
I shall retain my authority to act as United
States Commissioner, except in cases of reve
nue, until the return of Mr. Bailey.
' cr J respectfully, your obedient servant.
W. C. Morejza.
Corn.
So far as the reports received at the Depart
ment of Agriculture reflect the condition of the
crop np to the middle of August, the yield
wul not prove very bountiful. In the States of
*r*rsey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Vir-
sas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Alabama,
. Florida and Texas, eleven in all, an
equally high or higher condition is reported
Ua at the same period of last season. New
kersey and Pennsylvania show a slight increase
M * c reige. Nebraska and West Virginia an in-
***•• of six per cent.. Kansas an increase of
^rtyper cent. Texas an increase of seven per '
Wt. and Florida aw increase of ten per cent
Arkansas, Lousiana and Delaware, there is a |
“miserable decrease in acreage.
.lathe great corn-prodncingg State of Illinois
j- 1 ‘yerage estimate of condition in about sixty
-ties falls fully thirty per cent below last
at the same date; Indiana, the second
in production, puts the figures nearly as
-J: Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota rate
r * t »*y to thirty per cent below last year; Ohio
JsiTper oent. below; Iowa twenty per cent;
Kentucky, and Tennessee ten per cent.
New England’States range from ten tofif-
'■saper cent.' below; New York twenty to twen-
per cent ; Maryland, Virginia, North
•‘•‘olina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee
19 per cent, and Sonth Carolina thirty per
^ below.
men of moderate capital. There was no com
parison between the advantages they offered,
and those presented by the Northwestern States.
Very few employers in the Sonthern States
paid wages, but those who did paid men ten
to thirteen dollars per month, and women and
boys abont six to four dollars less. These
rate3were exclusive of board and lodging, which
were always provided. The usual system, how
ever, was a co-operative one. The employer
provided the laborer with house and garden, as
signed him a parcel of land, and then gave him
half the crop, the laborer paying all expenses
of cultivation, or one third of the crop net, the
employer paying all expenses. Before the war
one hand could raise from 10 to 12 hales of cot
ton. Since the war four bales was the average,
the half of which would bring thfe laborer $200
gross, or 3160 net. Smart men would, of course,
make much more.
The Chairman then assured Mr. Morehead
that the Chamber would assist his project in
every way in their power.
Mr. Morehead thanked the Chamber for the
promise, and mentioned that the Convention
would reassemble nt Louisville, in Kentucky,
on the 13th of October next.
Wonderful Phenomenon.
THE BOCEY MOUNTAINS IN A SECOND TWILIGHT OF
CHBOMATIO SHADES — BUPEBSTITOONS OF THE
MOUNTAINEERS.
Cheyene Correspond*nee of (he Omaha Herald.]
Your paper having recently taken quite an in
terest in all that pertains to the growth of the
agricultural and mineral resources of Wyoming,
will not, I presume, refuse a little space to the
feeble description of a meteorogical phenome
non that is now transpiring each evening in the
skies above the Rocky Mountains in that roman
tic territory.
Since the recent solar eclipse, they have, upon
the summit of the Rocky Mountain chain, what
the inhabitants call a “second twilight," so bril
liant with colors of mist, shade and fire-lights as
to pain the eye'in its steady gaze npon them,
and to leave an impression on the mind that will
never be obliterated.
Just as the sun is about to set, a heavy mist
gathers on the mountain, and growing dense and
denser, it shuts out entirely the last expiring
rays of that luminous body; then all is darkness
or nearly so, for almost 30 minutes; when, all
at once,’the heavens become lit np from the
horizon oil around, far up to a small circle in
the centre, with a livid glare of the most daz
zling chromatic colors, seeming as though a
tremendous bonfire was ablaze below, throwing
its glare in clear and steady flame above. This
gorgeous and fearfully beautiful scene lasts for
Texas Correspondence.
Richmond, Texas, August 23, 1800.
The great enemy of the cotton planter on this
portion of the Brazos, is here in good earnest.
A few more days, and fields will be entirely
cleaned out. Already a good many look as if
they had been singed over by fire.
The worm is ten days earlier in his visit than
he was last year. If half a crop is realized, it
will be as much as can be hoped for. Half a
crop here means half a bale to the acre. Some
acres will make more than this, but others will
fall below it. In consequence of the better cul
tivation bestowed on it this year, the crop will
average-as much to the acre as it djd last, al
though the worm has appeared earlier than he
did thpn.
Unless some means can be adopted to curtail
the devastation of the worm in this section, it
does really seem as if cotton would have to he
abandoned as a crop. Those who have been en
gaged in its cultivation here, for the last four
years, that have met their current expenses, are
few and fortunate.
From the statements of correspondents in the
Telegbaph, Georgia is at least a decade ahead
of her surrounding sisters, in agricultural sci
ence, if she is not a full quarter of a century.
As things are moving, in less than six years
the lands in her cotton belt will be worth from
fifty to a hundred dollars an acre,, although they
now sell foT but little over a tithe of this sum.
David Dixon, and a few others indued with a
similar spirit of progress, have done a great deal
more for the State in their (juiet, unostenta
tious way, than the most prominent of her poli
ticians.
There is no reason why Columbus, with the
Chattahoochee’s unsurpassed facilities for manu
facturing purposes, running at her feet, should
not be a second Lowell in a very few years,
while there is every indication that she will be.
But the idea of establishing manufactures at
every shoal and cross road in the State, does
seem a little impracticable not to say Utopian.
Some efforts have been made to establish
manufactures in Texas, but I am not inclined
to think that these efforts have been covered
with marked success.
The experiment at New Brunfels, by a colony
of those proverbially thrifty people, ‘Germans’,
was progressing satisfactorily, when the works
were much damaged by the late flood.
It is said they are soon to be rebuilt on a
grander scale than ever. But the time for es
tablishing manufactures in Texas is not yet—
At present she offers too many other fields for
profitable investment and quick returns, for
capitalists to be anxious to invest in manu
factures, whose profits must be counted some
days hence.
A gentleman who has just returned from a
trip seventy-five miles above "Waco, reports crops
of every description to be of the best kind.—
He represents that portion of the State ns being
rapidly filling up with the best sort of emi
grants, and the health of the country through
which he passed, all that could be desired.—
Crime, he says, is greatly, on the decrease
and good order prevails universally.
JBY telegraph.
From Washington.
• Washington, August 27.—The race occurs at 5
o’clock. The latest commentsof English papers
foreshadow victory for the Oxfords. The race track
was completely guarded, only umpire and press
boats allowed on the race waters.
Revenue to day $330,000.
Secretary Rawlins is better.
Yesterday's report of seizures aggregates sixty es
tablishments of various kinds throughout the coun
try, for revenue infractions.
1 It is estimated that the debt statement will show a
reduction of thr.-e millions.
Assessors throughout the country are instructed
to survey distilleries preparatory to the enforce
ment of some new regulations about to he promul
gated.
Delano telegraphs Supervisor Perry, at Raleigh,
N. C., that every box of tobacco should have all the
marks and brands required by law, in the precise
manner prescribed; but Delano don't regard slight
irregularities a ground for seizure, bat advises de
tention for explanation. Delano directs all gaugers
to nail stamps on packages of spiritB, with five-
eight ounce galvanized carpet tacks.
The Governor of Colorado, by proclamation, calls
on the citizens to exterminate the depredating In-
dians.
The fixed light at Smith’s Point, near the mouth
of the Potomac river, will be change*! on the first
of September to a revolving white light, with inter
vals of twenty-six seconds.
Washington, August 23 The Navy Department
has advices from Admiral Rowan, comaanding the
Asiastic squadron, that the Rebels hate been de
feated on land and sea. The rebellion is absolute
ly squelched.
The plate printers' strike still continues.
There is no present prospect of relief from the
fractional and small note currency famine.
Revenue to-day nearly half million.
T. C. Fairel’s and Dwyer & Co.’s, distilleries, of
New York, and Senator J. H. Henderson & Co.’s,
tobacco factory, at Keokuk, have been seized by file
officials.
There are ugly rumors of coldness between Bout-
well and Grant.
Senator Osborne, of Florida, has furnished lists
of the persons he desires removed from naval and
army employment in Honda.
Official circles discredit the reported rejection of
the Chinese treaty.
Fractional currency shipments for the week, one
hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, includ
ing ten thousand to Charleston and ten thousand
to New Orleans.
Rawlins is better, but his physicians forbid him
from attending to business.
It is stated that Delano opposes the repeal of the
income tax, prefering rather to relieve manufactur
ers for years.
The internal revenue is estimated at two hundred
millions.
Refreshing thunder showers here to-night.
0 r v . War material from Mexico for the rebels have
The weekly resume of European affairs alone j been landed at Bay Nipe.
is worth double the price of the Telegbaph. , ■ <— ■
Beef, by means of refrigeration, killed at i From Virginia
Indianola, has been delivered in the market of I T , . ... _ / -..
New Ormans sweet and fresh. It is said to lie ! to****®. A ugiiat 27.- T liemembereof the press,
superior to the beef daily offered in the market, • desiring to attend the Press Ball at ^hite Sulphur
because this is usually in a declining condition ! Springs on Tuesday, will receive franks over the
when killed. j Chesapeake & Ohio. Orange & Alexandria, Bich-
If it can be delivered in New Orleans in good j moud & Danville. Richmond & Petersburg, and
condition, so it can in New York and Boston, j Bichmond & York River Railroads, upon producing
and, in fact, in ad the principal cities of the t certificates from the agents of the Associated Press
princely incomes. If the latter can command | nected mth tbe editorial staff and endorsed by the
from twelve to fifteen dollars for beeves weigh- I Associated Press Agents in New York, Philadelphia?
iug six hundred pounds net, delivered at the . Washington or Richmond. The railroads between
shipping point, they will feel wonderfully inde- j here and Washington, Baltimore. Alexandria, Rich-
pendent. This will leave a handsome margin j xnoud and Lynchburg issue round trip tickets for the
for profit for those through whhse hands it must | 1)alli d fo ' r a week from tho 28th instant. Many
pass before reaching the teeth of the consumer, t ... ^
and still allow this personage to buy it at greatly j d “t>ngui a hed gentlemen notify the managers of
reduced figures. If tho new process for deliv- | tbeir intention to attend the ball,
ering beef in the market should prove a success, ; Governor Wise is here, but not in ill-health as re-
ifc will be the greatest boon to Texas that possi- ! ported in Northern papers.
bly could happen. It will no longer be a ques- j Richmond. August 28.—General Canbyhas issued
tion with stock men, * ‘What shall we do with i an or( i e j. extending the time of paving the six
our beeves?” There will be plenty of hungry . mnnthsMnterest on debts under the stay law, toSOth
mouths ready to pay for them. Par Fois. | Spptember A11 esecQtioa8 alrea dy issued are stay-
i ed until that time.
Opiuious of the Negro—from Radical
, Sources.
A correspondent of the New •• York Tribune, j
From North Carolina
WiiDnx-.TON. August 28.—The iron bridges, built
writing from South Carolina, speaks of the ne- j by W. BaUman. of Baltimore, over the northwest
groes as a race with infinite disgust. He says, au q northeast branches of the Cape Fear river, for
that not the color of their skin but the propen- , the of ooaateiiDg aU ^ad lines center-
sity of their natures, the quality of their brains, , . ‘ 1 , . JTZ a .i «
renders them unfit to be relied on in anything! ‘"S here - are completed, and the first train with a
vja xaaaonnoes them weak, unstable, faithless, j largo party of excursionists, passed over to-day.
subject to whatever influence a superior race ! The completion of this great work greatly facilitates
may attempt to exercise over them. He bitter j railroad travel, enabling passengers and freight to
ly rejects the idea of their being depended on as ; go through without delay. The entire connection
a political power by the party that enfranchised j is now ^piete, except a mile and a half of the
them. . j branch track on the Wilmington and Manchester
J. Clark Swayze, Editor of ! road, which will be finished in about ten days. It
Union of this city, in his issue of the 27th, ■ , ’ . . .
speaking of negroes, savs that they are innocent j makes W ilnnngton and W eldon, Wilmington and
of the sentiment of gratitude: which, of course, 1 Manchester and Washington, Charlotte and Ruther-
is more or less attributable to the manner of j ford railways almost one road, and marks a new
their rearing, and their want of education.— j era in tbe history of this city.
There are honorable exceptions, too, which we ,
do not wish to ignore. But enough was shown j From Louisiana.
bv this action to decide ns in the opinion that i „ . , ao T T
the colored people, as a race, are ungrateful to ! Okiea- s. . ugus • • • •; ‘
their truest Mends, and that wheS the test | controller, has been committed for contempt in re-
comes, they will combine against the white man, i fusing to ol>ey an order of the Sixth District Court?
It therefore becomes our plain duty as a Repub- ! requiring him to issue warrants to the Orleans Re-
lican, to rank the colored citizen where he j publican Puhlislung Company, for some 640,000,
belongs according to the rule of merit, and ■ f or official printing done under color of the authori-
not attempt further to shieM his weaknesses I t of the printing bill, passed by the last Legisla-
with the excuse that he has not had time to de- | ,jL e
velop. Horace Greeley, sometimes since, said 1
The base ballista are having a torch light proces
sion to-night, in honor of the Southern Club, just
returned from a successful Western tour.
that the negro had been put upon his feet, and
he must stand or fall. That is the natural solu
tion, and the one which we accept.
While we shall maintain that to the negro be- j
longs every right that is enjoyed by the white j Foreign News,
man and which rights we shall never cease to Loyms, August 27.—The Harvards lost the race
defend as a cardinal principle of Republicanism, J.
we shall feel that onr effort to destroy the bar- 1 -
rier of case between the two races, is for the ,
time, frustrated, and that, too, by those who j seconds,
i had all to gain.
nearly an hour, then steals quietly away; and
0l the States above mentioned, whose crop j the moon therefore dimmed by its fiery lustre
jjuiition is equnl to or better than last year, ■ regains its ascendency and lights up the balance
promises an increased yield of twenty 1 of the night in pale shadows as it is wont to do
•“tout., and Kansas and Artnusns an increase I in every other clime.
■ten per cent. I _ Now, what causes these chromatic twilights ?
^ increase on acconnt of condition in the |nt this season last year, and l nave never seen
where it is reported. Bat it is more than j so grand and so thrilling twilights, and these
that the estimates, except as to the
are all too high. The drought of the
>--t few weeks has told seriously upon the crop
‘j'tywhere. Its ruinoos effects have not, of
been taken into aocount in making the
25 f° the department. Illinois and Indiana
2*®sd nearly af onrth of the com crop of the
J 3atty. In these States the heavy rains of
retarded its growth, and, even though
jp escape the drought, there will be a deficit
•• from twenty to f thirty per cent In Ohio,
2> Missouri,’ Kentucky and Tennessee,which
traced one-third of the crop of the country,
" Will be a decrease of from ten to twenty
L . tent. Any slight comparison of these esti-
coupled witn the probable effects of the
t\I "! ea ther, must lead to the conclusion that
J? Yield of last year will not nearly be reached.
for season has been and is unpropitious
great national crop, the farmers have
Sf e . red a bountiful harvest of other grains,
!!? need 1)6 no fear of a famine in the
—Philadelphia Press, BtMj
have only occurred since the great solar eclipse
of the 7th inst. What does it mean ? What
does it portend ? How does it originate ? ;
Old Sarshay—the learned Ute chief—stands
in silence each night gazing at this wonderful
phenomenon, and when asked what he thinks
abont it, replies, slowly and sadly: “Ugh! the
Great Spirit is mad: He blows fire.' Hi3
wigwam is in trouble ! White man and red man
better feel afraid, for tho Great Spirit is mad—
he is heap angry 1”
If it be true, as one of the professors of the
Cincinnati observatory says, that immense vol
umes of hydrogen gas were thrown ont from
the center of the sun to the snrface, during the
recent solar eclipse, how long will it be before
the oxygen will be thrown ont, and the carbon
become the ruling and destroying element ?
I-give these particnlars by request, and there
are numbers of people in this city who, on last
Sabbath and Monday nights, witnessed with me
this wonderful phenomenon on' the snmmit of
the Rocky Mountain chain, 8,262 feet above the.
level of the sea. The Cheyenne and Laramie
papers will indorse this description. -
;J* ril ° PE AN Beer Cowsumees.—A Munich Pro-
oeruT collected some onrious statistics con-
ia EotnJJ 16 beer . “ maaU ? consumed : A Gentleman accustomed to the signature of
P 6 ' i total quantity manufactured he ! a g rm j n which he was a partner, having n sign
“ad l;iii t “ 6 r PTp dl 8 1 °? s “g° re of five thou-1 R baptismal register of one of his children, en-
!ian htres (English quarts,) more tered it as ths.son of Smith, Jones Jfc.Co.
^ "hole ftssfan nav^ The ave^Je’ number ! CoVLn if ** ? aid ?!,* tedionslAdy visitor. “Her
? Stow consumed ner inhahi(«t Y?,™ “I! stags are too long t" As a matter of course at
is horrible—but a lady
a grocery kept
», - woman, sajtf •Tfeir tomatdes'are air red as
Jtit -jT 1 ? owns that he is personally responsible I her own oheeks ; her indigo as bine as her .own
hires a day, or 2,100 litres per annum eyes, and her pepper as hot as her own temper. ’-
In the same paper we find the following from
“A Teacher
Mb. Swatze : Yours, inclosing a slip cut from
the Macon Telegbaph, was duly received. The
idea of provoking a controversy through the
newspapers even occurred to me when I sent
yon my letter of a recent date, or I should have
hesitated before allowing it to leave my hands.
As it is, self-respect constrains me from making
any reply to the article yon inclosed, signed
“Niggers.” It is simply a brutal assault upon
tbe most self-sacrificing set of beings that ever
lived, proving beyond all argument the utter in
gratitude of at least the author of it, and from
my knowledge of the race I am quite satisfied
that he makes no false claims when he writes
himself a “nigger." The spirit of the whole
thing is so revolting that I think a just and fair
answer to it is itself. What Teacher can read,
it withont feeling, not only its great ingratitude,
but its insult? What contributor of Charity at
the North can read it withont feeling humiliated?
What active worker in this Missionary cause,
such as Howard, Lewis, and Rust can read it
and not feel that their services are poorly re-
paid? '
Gen. A. A. Lawton, of Savannah, at the Ag
ricultural meeting at Greenbrier Springs, was
next called upon, who made a feeling response
and paid a merited tribute to Virginia. None
of her own sous, he said, looks at the past with
more pride and to her her futnre with more ap
prehension. Virginia, has. during the past ten
years, produced more noble men than any like
people ever did in the same time, as was shown
at or near the conclusion of the war. He hoped
all here would attend the Fair soon to be held
and vindicate the Empire State; that Virginia
and Georgia were full of sympathy for each oth
er, though the products of their soil were differ
ent, and that they both would find, perhaps, that
the concentration of their forces at present on
internal and material interests would be better
for themselves and the country, and that there
was'some private, comfort stfll left, although the
wings of ambition had been severely clipped.
General Lawton wound up with the’ unusually
practical advice of a northern poet, who tells us
how we must ’“learn to labor and to wait."-’'
six seconds.
Time ot race, twenty-two minuteB forty andahtdf
The Oxfords won by three lengths. The
Harvards were six seconds behind.
Lisbon, August- 28.—Brazillian advices eay the
Allies were in movement on Villa Rica. Paraguay
an advices say the Allies are not strong enough to
attack Lopez on the Cordilleras.
Pabis, August 23,—An investigation has been or
dered to discover the authors of the false rumors.
London, August 28.—Tho Times, commenting on
the race, says the Americana’ inferiority was in steer
ing, but not enough to account for the distance.—
The Americans must acknowledge our style of row
ing the best. The comments of the press are gen
erally complimentary to the Harvards.
From Cuba.
Havana, August 27.—A battalion of volunteers
composed of six companies of whites and two of
blacks have organized for the field. Volunteer regi
ments will be formed as reserves to take the place
of those who take the field.
Robbers in attempting to pillage the Saving
Bank were arrested.
The Insurgents who attacked the town of Banas,
in Central District, were repulsed.
The School* of Prussia.
The best schools in Europe are found in
Bavaria, in Saxony and in Prussia, and ths best
in these countries are found in Munich, in
Dresden and in Berlin. In these cities the
schools are conducted with primary reference
to mental development,’ and, as a means to this
end, the subjects of stndy are so classified and
taught as to lead to the acquisition of knowledge
in a scientific manner.- I notice,-as I go about
to the different school-rooms of a large educa
tional institution, that they are all well supplied
with the means of illustrating every topio that
is taught. In one school-room in which botany
is studied, I saw the plants for analysis, all
growing in pots, which were arranged on shelves
abont the room. In another room, where
zoology is taught, the. students were supplied
with specimens of the objects they are required
to study, and these specimens are so arranged
that they are always before the student as he
studies, or near him to be used as illustrations
as he recites. The teachers do not require rales
to be committed to memory at first, and then
all mental operations to be performed in a
blind obedience to the rale, but they require
the rale, or general principle, to be derived
from an observation which the pnpil is led to
make for himself.
In the study of language the pupil is led to
the principles of construction by a study of con
structions he has himself been led by lus teach
er to make, and language is in no case to be
used by the pnpil until he possesses the ideas
and thoughts which the language expresses.—
The teacher of geometry first teaches by object
lessons the principles upon which geometrical
reasoning depends. Then the pupil is led to
'the solution of problems by means of his own
reasoning, in which he himself makes an ap
plication of the principles he himself has
learned. The papU is trained to observe by
observing, to reason by reasoning, find to do by
doing. In the principal German schools I have
visited, the teachers have for the primary ob
ject of their thought, as they teach, the wants
of the human mind. Tho German mind is natu
rally metaphysical. There is, accordingly, in
all plans of German education, a thorough class
ification of subjects of stndy. The schools are
graded and the different grades are related to
one another in accordance with the plans of
study. In Bavaria, Saxony and Prussia there
are schools called Volks schools or people’s
schools in which the common branches of learn
ing are taught, and which all the German youths
are required by law to attend, from the age of
seven to ten years in some States, and from
six to thirteen years in others.
The law is popular with all classes, and is
rigidly enforced. The common people, as well as
the upper classes all give a cordial support
to the common schools. -At 8 o’clock in the
morning the streets of the city are filled with
pupils of the primary schools and students of
the higher grades, each with his satchel of books
tied to his back, marching cheerfully to his ap
pointed place for study. After 8 o’clock no
children of school age are to be found away from
their classes. Each parish of a town must have
at least one primary or elementary school, and
most towns in ad’dition to these elementary
schools, have at least one upper burgher school,
as it is called.
The German children at school all appear
neatly dressed, and, what I am sorry to say, is
not always true in my own country, these chil
dren are trained to good manners. When a
stranger enters a school-room the children all
rise and remain standing until the stranger is
seated, or until they are invited to be seated,
and when the visitor leaves the children all rise
and remain standing until he has closed the door
behind him. This practice is observed in all
the grades of schools, from the first primary up
to the senior class in the university.
If a parent is not able to clothe his child prop
erly for school, then he is clothed at the public
expense. The children of the rich are found
sitting on the same seat with those of the poor,
and the noble do not hesitate to allow their chil
dren to receive their elementary training in the
same classes in which the children of the hum
ble are trained, and the boy who has the most
brains, and explains his lesson best, is the best
fellow while his young school days last, whatev
er distinctions may be made in after life. After
leaving the common schools the German youth
can enter upon the duties of active life, or they
may enter the trade school, where they remain
three years, and prepare for the various trades
they may choose to follow. Then he can follow
his trade, or he can enter the industrial school,
and in two years graduate an architect, an engi
neer, a chemist, etc., or, if he wishes, he can
pass from the industrial school to the polytech
nic, school, and prepare to take a high position
in the mechanic arts. The student may leave
the common school also and enter the ;
Siam, where Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Rheto
ric, History and Chemistry aro taught. From
the gymnasium the student can take up the study
of a profession, or he can go thence to the uni
versity, where he can fit himself to take the
highest position in the profession he chooses,
and where he can know all the subjects of his
study as sciences.
In the gymnasia the students are required to
study and recite thirty-two hours per week, and
before graduating to pass over a course of study
which requires nine years to complete. The
German teachers, as a class are better prepared
for their work than the teachers of any other
country. They are encouraged to fit themselves
for a high excellence in their profession by the
preference which is always given to teachers
who have a professional training, and by the
honor which is everywhere accorded to teach
ing as a profession. In Germany the boys are
always educated apart from the girls, and a
male teacher is always placed over a class of
boys, and usually a female teacher over a class
of girls. In the graded schools of the cities the
teacher continues over the same class from the
time it enters the school until its graduation.—
The plan requires every teacher to be qualified
to teach all the topics found in the whole course
of study. Teachers of one State are encouraged
by the Government to visit the schools of other
States, so that any improvement made in the
schools in one section may be rapidly intro
duced into the other sections. Teachers are
also encouraged to hold conventions for mutual
improvement.—Dresden Correspondence of the
.Springfield Republican,
Bainbbidge, up to 2Gth, had received 41 bales
cotton. This is expected to increase to 75 bales
by September 1st. ; -
Mr. R. C. Smith, wife, and two children were
thrown from a buggy, near Bainbridge, on the
21st inst. Mr. Smith badly injured. Wife and
children not Seriously.—Bainbridge Southern
Sun, 26th.
The Philadelphia Telegraph, one of the most
zealous of Radical organs, says
It would be a great relief to him (Grant) if
great thunder shower should play the mischief
with the Grant and the Dent families, leaving
the President and his wife solitary and alone in
the world, the last of their race.
A letter received here to-day from a Repub
lican of position in Westchester, Penn., says:
“I see no reason to doubt Packer’s election.—
Geary’s unpopularity is enough to defeat him.
The Republican State Committee have already
put their foot in it by asking Attorney General
Brewster to resign because he is obnoxious to
Forney & Co. Brewster has declined in a short
letter.’'—Washington Special Dispatch Courier-
Journal, 26th.
Lob Tunis with his convoy.
A schooner after safely landing arms for the Reb
els was captured in the bay of Saviile by the Spanish
who were hunting arms in the mountains adjacent
to the bay.
General News.
San Francisco, August 27.—The burning of the
enow sheds was evidently the work of incendiarism.
The damage stopped the trains three days.
St. Loris, August 27 —Colonel Lake, proprietor
of Lake's Circus, was shot dead to-night by a per
son whom Lake ejected from the canvass. The
murderer escaped.
St. Lone. August 28—Judge Chase writes to gen
tlemen here: “lam out of all future contests and
no one need be jealous of me hereafter."
Philadelphia, August 28.—Tbe Tax Receiver's
office, adjacent to the Central Police Station, has
been pillaged of 630,000- No clue to the perpetra
tors or money.
New, York, August 28.—Tho work on the Spanish
gunboats continues.' The Government's serveillance
A Clergyman who performed the mr.rri.. 0 .
ceremony in church is said , to have read the ! i 3 unrelaxed. 3Iarahal Barlow has in formed the
hymn for the choir, beginning with (lie words : ; builders that r.o attempt must bo made to send
“Mistaken souls, who dream of Heaven." ! tlicm to tea.
i wag, speaking of the embarkation cf troops, j San Francisco, August 23—Tbe Supreme Court
said, “Notwithstanding many of them leave ! 0 f Nevada decides that telegraphs are a branch of
blooming wives behind, they go away in trans- ; commerce and under the control of Congress.
gajpjrwsr fiw sfa*i ' ■ * * V; | ; . ).» a v, ...
"Wouldn’t you cMl this the calf of-the leg?” i . “G. is so very close,” it was observed, “he
asked John, pointing to one of bis nether limbs, j will squabble about a single farthing. ” “Well,”
“No,” replied Pat, “I should say it was the leg ; remarked W., “I have always thought that the
of a calf. ’ less one squabbles, about the better.”
Cotton is arriving in Quitman almost daily,
and we learn that planters are making rapid
Havana, August 28.—Col. Ben&g&a lias arrived at , headway picking. Tbe past ten days have been
extremely warm, and caused cotton to open
rapidly.—Quitman Banner, 21th.
“If you can’t keep awake,” said a preacher
to one of his hearers, “when you feel drowsy
why don’t you take a pinch of snuff?” The
shrewd reply was, “the snuff should be put
into the Sermon.”
Some tasteful individual very correctly re
marks that thebest lip salve in creation is akiss
The remedy should be used with great care,
however, as it is apt to bring on an affection of
the heart.
“That’s a tarnation tall horse,” said Laidlaw.
“Yes; I guess yon can’t account for it,” said
Jonathan. “No; how?” said Laidlaw. “He
belongs to'Hnmmins, the livery man,” replied
Jonathan, “and his tallness comes through his
having been regularly higher’d (hired) every day
for the last seven years.”
Mr. G. was a most inveterate punster. Lying
very ill of the cholera, his nurse proposed to
prepare a young, tender chicken. “Hadn't you
better have an. old hen ?’ ’ said G., in a low whis
per, (he was too ill to speak loader,) “for she
would be more apt to lug on my stomach.” G.
fell back exhausted and the nurse fainted.
A Story is told of two Yorkshiremen who
traveled together three days in a stage-coach
without a word ever passing between them.
On the fourth day. one of them at length ven
tured to remark that' it was a fine morning.
“And who said it wam’t ?” was the reply.
Ons of, the most fashionable .young ladies at
Nahant wears a hat which cost only two eentej
and the trimmings she had in the house. She
is unmarried. ' • - •
I WM. HENRY WOODS,' - nLiinjir-ttinj*-,
COTTON FACTOR AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT^
Bay Street, ^^^('SAVANNAH, GA.
J^GEXT FOR REESE'S SOLUBLE PACrFfC GUANO. Is prepared at all times to wSrsaee nhen.tr w i >
on Consignment! for sale In SaTannah. or for shipment to his oorroipondenta in New York and
Liverpool. * .v 1 ; id . anri3-»«„« ’ '
T. C. NISBET’S
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JVTBAR PASSBKTGE3R ZDTDDPO^bKTw
CAST IRON SCREW, NO. 1.
9-12 FEET 7 INCHES DIAMETER AND 3 INCH FITCH.
Price,
SB 8 5 OCX
3 inches,
FROM THE NUMBER OF .TESTIMONIALS, TO THE VALUE OF EACH OF THESE SCREWS. I
SELECT tHE FOLLOWING:
DOUBLE BRIDGE. UPSON COUNTY. JUNE 27,18®. *
Yonrs of the 17th came to hand on yesterday and contents noticed. The Cast Iron Screw I bought of yon'
last fall gives entire satisfaction. I commenced packing my crop without weighing in the cotton, thinking -
that 500 pounds was being put in; but when I came to sell my cotton the bags weighed from 600 to 805 pounds.
I sold the cotton to Swatts Sc Brown, at Baruesville, and anyone doubting the weight can be fnrniibed the
receipts from the above parties. I have been farming all my life, and have nsed many different Screws, but
this one is the best I ever saw. In packing my crop I never nsed but one mule. I take pleasure in recom
mending the Screw to planters generally. D. W. W0MBLE.
Reference cj Ihoee 11 »■>«? the above Sereir ;
W. T. Basset, Houston county. I Henkt Faklsv. Baldwin county..,
Joel Walker. Houston county. I John Pascal, Putnam county. ■ *<* v* •»
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*Wrought Iron Screw,Np. L ; -
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4 inch Wrought Iron, 3 inch Pitch Screw. PRICE, - - - $90 00.
MILLEDGEVILLE. JUNE 17. 1869.
Dear Sib:—I amusing one of your 4 inch Cotton Press Screws, 3 inch pitch, with levers, adapted to
male-power. I, however, never use male-power but ran it down by hand. I am satisfied that it will do
more work in the same time, and with much more ease, than the old wood screw, and thatit is ten times
as durable. You will allow tue, at the same time, to recommend your horse-power as a valuable gower to
gin cotton.
Yours respectfully,
JOHN
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V PERRY, JUNE 21,18®” ,
Dear Sir I am using one of yoir 4in. Wrought Iron Screws, 3in. pitch, and it is all you represent it to be.. . *
Ipaek with hand-power levers, and have put 600 pounds in a bale with six hands. I like tne press so well
that I want you to get me up another and shall be in Maoon about tho 1st of August.
JAMES W. ROUNDTREE. -j >
Reference of some of those usinj the four inch Press, threepitch: ■ •
W. C. Carlis. Bibb county.
Thos.H.Joxfs, Twiggs county.
J. P. Bond, Twiggs county.
OKS, Wl
Garret Smith, Houston county.
John W. Wooltolk, Houston county.
William Adkins, Dooly county.
N. Tucker, Laurens county.
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J. W. Sessions, Washington county.
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WROUGHT IRON SCREW, NO. 2. Jg
PRICE, - £80 OO. g
1 inch.
m „ ,, • CLINTON. Ga.; 1868.
T. C. N isbet. Esq.I can safely say your Press is all, and perhaps more, than you claim it to he.
It is the cheapest, easiest and most convenient packing apparatus I have seen. I have seen two
hands pack a bale of cotton that we supposed to weigh 5(0 pounds.
HENRY J. MARSHALL.
MACON. 6l, 1866.
T. C. Nisbet. Esq.I am well pleased with your Press. I have packed with six hands a bale of
cotton weighing six hundred and forty pounds in thirty minutes.
REFERENCES
Johs Kino, Houston county.
W. A. Atwood, Putnam county.
Bexj. Babbon, Jasper county.
R. F. WOOLFOLK. VA inoh
Wit. Scarborough. Monroe county. O • ... *
Thos. Barcon. Talbot county.
J. A. Spivey, Macon county. \ • ■ >>-
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No. 2 CAST IRON SCREW,
Pin 7 1-2 Feet Long, 6 inch Diameter and 2 inch Pitch.
PRICE, £70.
.2 inch.
fort valley june. is®
T.C. Nisbet—DearSir; Ihavebeen u3ingyour Cast Iron 8crewPress,2 inch pitch, for two seasons? I hav*
no hesitation in recommending it as a simple, compact and durable press. I have mule-power lever* bat
press altogether by hand. . J. A. MADDOX.
Reference to a few of those using the abort Press.•
Stephes E. Bassett, Houston county. | '
H. J. Clark, Houston county.
The above Screws are all warranted for one season. The price does not include Frame and Box. but a
draft to build from will be furnished. ’
WOOD WORK, complete 30 Jo
These Screws are long enough for a nine foot Cotton Box, as the entire length of the Serowcan'be used -
hut when alonger Screw is required it can be furnished up to 12 feet.
Johs Teal, Quitman county.
A. Dawson, Wilkinson eouaty.
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