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THE telegraph.
jjaCON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1869.
Affairs lu Putnam. . : j
pnf nam county planters hope the county Trill
pjijo it much cotton ns last year. The best
^ps are those of planters who cultivated well
i intelligently, and manured .highly. . Fertili-
#|J pushed ahead the cotton and made a good
esrly crop—all persons certify to that fact. Un
geared lands have very poor crops—com crops
-’UV g 00 ^—streams nearly all dried np—very
{ e tr mills can grind—agriculture is the absorb^-
!>g subject with the people of Putnam—lands
l^ye enhanced in value—more demand than of-
r.p for sale—village of Eatonton is improving,
j very nice park is to be made of the large pub-
j; c square, and an excellent brass and string
kjud is made up of the musical talent of the
People through the country are per-
aanently and handsomely improving thoir pla-
Ps, beautifying and planting nurseries, vine-
pjii and orchards.
I’afnam County Fair.
Tho Ere cu *I T0 Committee in charge of the
^reparations for this exhibition, will rapidly
rush »h«ad with the work from this time for-
Irrd. They will have eight or ten acres well
enclosed and three buildings, besides race
course, etc- They expect a good attendance
gnel t. fine exhibition. It occurs Nov. 2d, but two
weeks befom the great State Fair at Macon.—
Exhibitors at the Fair at Macon coaid exhibit
their articles at the Fntnam Fair, and easily
transport to Macon afterwards. Putnam is a
# wako agricultural county, and we would
recommend a full attendance of ail those inter
ested in each matters.
Tlie Putnam Superior Court.
Putnam Superior Court, Hon. Philip B. Rob-
jjgon presiding, has been in session the past
week. Old business was rapidly disposed of.
Judge R. holds, in relief cases, that the loss of
negroes only can be a ground for a reduction of
debts. He does not allow any testimony as to
connection of plaintiff with the war. In cases
where the law is abused by juries in their dis-
eiefion, he grants new trials. Several import-
jnt questions were discussed—decisions not yet
rendered.
Carriages, Harness, Ac.
Jlr. CAiiVisr Witty, C3G and C33 Broadway and
1C4, ICG and 1G8 Crosby street, New York, of-
few buggies, carriages and harness on very low
terms, as will bo seen in his advertisement.
Refer to that for a schedule of prices and very
atLJactory Georgia- references. Mr. Witty
writes ns that to oxtend his trade in our section
he is determined to sell goods of the best quality
at prices which will defy competition.
“Without Comment. ”—The Savannah Nows
ttys we published the New Era’s statement that
Judge Locbrane “declares openly and unequi
vocally for President Grant,” without comment"
Think of tho audacity of reprinting such a state
ment as that "without comment!" But what
“comment” would he have ? What in the shape
of a good-bye—of regrets—of congratulations
that the Judge has located himself “openly and
unequivocally”—or of folminations upon what
ever amount of vacancy the Judge has left be
hind him! Worse still—the Savannah News
himself publishes that same paragraph “with
out a word of comment,” other than stating that
the Telegraph reprinted it “withont comment.”
We hope the Savannah Morning News will
forthwith redeem its character, by giving the
world precisely that amount of “comment,”
which he thinks a personal paragraph of this
description calls for.
No Cat in the Bao.—Wo advise the New
Era to be calm. That paper, expatiating on
our declaration that we would kill all the radi
cal doings, if wo had the power, exclaims:
This, then, lets tho cat out of the bag. The
editor of the Teleobaph would repeal tho XIVth
Article of “the Constitution as it is,” and con
sequently undo the whole work of reconstruc
tion in Georgia, because the article “destroys the
sovereignty of the States.”
There never was a cat in the bag so far as the
Telegraph is concerned. We opposed the
Fourteenth Amendment before it was adopted
and declared we never could vote for it. Wo
have submitted to all tho outrages of Congres
sional reconstruction simply because we can’t
help ourselves. We go for the admission of tho
negroes to the Legislature simply because they
are entitled to it by law, and we can’t help our
selves. But if the question of a repeal of this
whole series of unconstitutional enactments ever
comes before the American people, the New Era
need never doubt for a moment where he will
find the Teleobaph.
Peesojs afflicted with Theumatism will be in
terested in the case of Dr. J. G. Gibson, of Ea-
tonfon. The gentlemen whose name are ap
pended to his certificates are well known to ns
and perfectly reliable. Dr. Gibson is a regu
larly educated physician of the Allopathic school,
and his preparations have been much com'
mended.
A Calico Ball oame off with great eclat in
Atlanta last Thursday night. The display, the
Atlanta papers assure us, was dazzling. The
stars of tho evening came ont in all sorts of
printed stripes, and cambrics glittered like
satins. We trust the young ladies did not aban
don their calicoes when the ball was over.
The Govebnmext got back to Washington
again and resumed business last Wednesday. It
is said that notwithstanding their long absence,
the porter of the White House remembered and
recognized Gen. Grant, and the heads of depart
ments were known to the clerks.
Onr friend Yarrington, general agent of the
Telegraph, reported himself at headquarters
yesterday. The old gentleman has pervaded
the moral vineyard and gives a highly favorable
report. The people demand light, and he is
“gathering them in by scores.”
Rawlins.—The World says that Rawlins, at
tho last Cabinet meeting he attended, injured
himself seriously in getting excited over some
scheme to coerce the South. Says that paper:
At the laft session of the Cabinet, a matured
plan to coerce tho South into the support of the
extremists was presented. . General Rawlins
was the last around the board to speak. He
was there against the protest of his physicians.
It is likely that the terrific blow with which, in
emphasis of his words, his feeble fist struck the
table, cracked his heart-strings—*‘I tell you,
gentlemen, you can't do it”
On of Brigham Young’s daughters recently
fell in love with -a handsome young Gentile, and
an elopement to a land of liberty was planned.
Relays of horses were stationed along the road,
and late one night the lover prooeeded in a bug-
By to a place near the premises of Brigham,
where the lady was to meet him, and they were
to begin their flight. The old man had got wind
°f the affair, however, and just as the damsel
was about to join her waiting 1 over, several
policemen seized her, and putting her into Brig-
bam’s family carnage, which was promptly at
n&nd, she was driven back to the paternal home,
to await there the destiny that Mormonism has
m store for her.
Poos Hoes* Fabk.—We learn from Mr. W,’
“•Harrell, Manager of the Poor House Farm,
mat ho has picked and packed six bales of oot-
tou off the seventeen acres ha had planted in
ootton the heaviest of which weighed six hun-
oreu and eighty-nine pounds, and the lightest
vrin hun , dre ? He “y» he thinks he
jnu prohably get two more bales. That’s doing
Wotty «eU upon land that was eonsUexed too
Poor ip sprout pet*. —Bainbrjdfis Ann.
Trade Combination*.
Every exchange of values is in its very nature
properly the result of a compromise between the
parties—the buyer and the seller—and all com
binations which may be invented of contrived to
interfere with or prevent the most perfect liber
ty of judgment and will in the parties in making
tho trade, is unjust, inequitable and false in
principle and most be mischievous in practice.
The labor unions of all kinds are so indefensi
ble that every member of them would revolt at
the application of the system to other values. If
grocers, butchers, bakers, clothiers, etc., should
also combine in a spirit of defiance to consu
mers and demand inexorably from purchasers
such and such prices and close the shops of all
competitors who would not join these unions
and agree to the schedule, there would be no
difficulty in appreciating the tyranny and injus
tice of such a combination, and that it was at
war with every equitable principle of trade.
And equally is it the case with every com
modity which is the subject of bargain between
men. It is no fairer trade where one party,
single-handed, is forced to combat a powerful
combination, than it would be a fair fight on the
same conditions.
It is a matter of notoriety that a scheme is in
progress to indace the negroes to go into this
Union Labor organization and arraying them
selves in a solid body to demand extraordinary
advances on the current prices of labor; and
the apology for this plan of operations is fonnd
in the attitude of white Labor Unions of all
kinds throughout tho country. We admit that
the expedient is qnite as just and defensible in
tho one case as in the other; but it is indefen
sible and mischievous in both. It practically
substitutes coercion on the one side for free and
voluntary trade on both. It needlessly antago
nizes the parties, and it discourages individual
enterprise and fidelity by placing all on a dead
level and compelling the good and faithful to
carry the worthless.
We are confident that the practical effect of
Labor Unions, the world over, has been bad on
all parties. That in strikes and expenses they
have involved all the membership in great losses,
which the little additional they may have been
able to extort does not go a tithe towards rein-
bnrsing. Let the negroes avoid this trap, and
work on harmoniously with their employers.
They are entitled to drive their own bargains
and get as much as they can command in fair
negotiation, and this is the trne market value
of labor.
The War on tlie Gold Speculators,
Nobody feels any sympathy for the sharpers
who “ply their vocation” in Broad street, New
York, and win their bread by betting on the
price of gold; but some amusement may be
drawn, from their terrible discomfiture on Fri
day. Gold on that day fluctuated from 1 62 to
1 33—twenty-nine cents. The day was one of
unparalleled excitement, closing in a scene of
extraordinary discomfiture, confusion and dis
may. The dispatch says:
Transactions were so enormous that the Gold
Exchange Bank conld not settle at the regular
hour, causing great confusion. It is impossi
ble to tell at present what large firms, if any
have failed; several small firms are known to
have suspended.
At noon, in the fifteen minutes following 12
o'clock, gold fell 25|c., if we may credit the
dispatch. Such a catastrophe seems to be sus
ceptible of only one explanation—that the Gov
ernment stepped in under orders from the Sec
retary of the Treasury with its reserve of a
hundred millions, and-sprang sneb a deadfall on
the balls that they were smashed at once and left
with no other employment daring the day than
to look after the dead and wounded. Driven
from tho field, gold settled down about four
cents below previous quotations for several
days, and the market closed calm at 1 33.
This was a day long to be remembered by the
gold gamblers, and it will be interesting to note
the facts and details of the grand battue among
the gold speculators, as we get them by slow
course of mail. Who were the slaughtered,
may be perhaps inferred from the following in
the New York Sun, of Tuesday:
“An alliance of the most powerful and influ
ential firms in Wall-street, including notorious
Erie speculators, has been effected with a view
of obtaining the exclusive possession of all tho
gold in the market When this is accomplished
the conspirators can dictate their own terms,
and merchants and others, who are compelled
to buy or borrow gold, muBt necessary procure
it of this auriferous ring. It is also believed
that these schemers own all the gold deposited
in the banks. Having thus the power of control,
the operators are gradually raising the price of
gold about an eighth per cent, daily. Their
agents in the gold room buy all that is offered at
their standard bid, and only sell at a quarter
per cent, higher. At this rate they will elevate
the buying and selling price each succeeding
week about one and a half per cent In addi
tion to this method of bleeding those who of
necessity have occasion to use gold, we are told
that they threaten at no distant day to ref use to
lend at any price, and to sell only on their own
terms."
That day came on Friday, and this, we con
jecture was the ring which had, at last, on Fri
day, succeeded in getting things all their own
way—producing artificial scarcity and a panic
and foroing up gold with such stupendous
strides, that Mr. Secretary Boutwell probably
telegraphed the New York Snb-Treasurer to GO
IN—which he did, and with such bolcjpess and
vigor—probably throwing enormous sums on
the market, that the whole fabric of the ring
came down upon their own heads with a crash
and they were smashed out, so terribly and fa
tally that they will not be soon in condition or
in pluck to repeat their experiments.
Da. Hunter's Letter upon Chbonio Bbon-
ana—Our readers will find in another col
umn an able and interesting letter npon chronic
Bronchitis, from the pen of Dr. J. A. Hunter,
of New Orleans, the eminent specialist for
Throat and Lung diseases. Dr. Hunter’s com
munications upon the subject of this class of
ailments, with which so many are afflicted, to
gether with testimonials from residents of At
lanta and Macon, are already familiar to our
readers and speak for themselves. The follow
ing is from the New Orleans Times:
The successful result of Dr. Hunter’s praotice
daring his residence here has elicited compli
mentary cards from some of our oldest and most
respectable residents. Setting aside the cura
bility of consumption after it has become thor
oughly established, none can doubt or deny the
importance of coring those diseases of the nose
and throat which almost invariably result iff it,
and also its detection and treatment in its early
stages. There are thousands in onr midst suf
fering from these minor affeodons, which if
neglected, will as certainly end in consumption
as the tide of the Mississippi will flow on in
its course to the Gulf.
A “Brntal Soldiery.”
There was a military encampment last week
near Springfield, Mass., in which license took
the place of discipline, and a mad revel prevail
ed for a week. There is a law prohibiting the
sale of liquor in Massachusetts; yet, says a
Boston paper, Springfield was “filled with
drunken men in uniform. Ladies of respectabil
ity were insulted. Disreputable women were
queens of the camp. Sentinels left their poets
to join in distant carousals." The police were
compelled to use their clubs on the militia.—
The drill was farcical, and the State money was
squandered in a disgraceful frolic.
All this occurred in Massachusetts, where
E ublio sentiment is supposed to require a liquor
iw so stringent that wider its benign influences
an orgy like that at Camp Clafiin was possible,
in fact called for. The very reaction from Pu
ritan fanaticism would turn this gathering of
Puritan descendants into an unseemly revel,
whose influences must be demoralizing in the ex
treme. Where was the faithful Butler, Com
mander-in-chief of the Bay State Militia, that
he was not on hand with a second New Orleans
order against the men and women who “plied
their vocation” nefariously among his troops t
That is pretty heavy to come from so .radical
a sheet — the Raw Tosh Qommeraial ja—rtaet
v - Steel Ralls. ' -
. The New York State Engineer, in his report,
lengthily discusses the subject of railway tracks,
and famishes data which seem to settle, the
question of the superiority of steel rails.' The
problem which railroad managers are now pay
ing more attention to than formerly is, howto
secure a permanent road-bed that will resist the
effects of weight and speed.' The report says :
‘‘American railway managers, instead of of
fering anything like oost for good iron rails,
have made themselves-notorious by establish
ing as standard a brand’of rails known all over
the world as “American rails," which are con-
Anna Among the Mormons.
Visit of Miss Anna Dickinson to Salt Lake
City — Her Impressions of Polygamy —
Naughty Men and Slavish Women—She is
Ashamed of Her Sex and Wants to Die—
Women Must Ride Astride Hereafter,. »(>. S -.
From thr Francisco Chronicle, Sspt.7.1
The audience.that attended Miss Dickinson’s
lecture at the Metropolitan Theatre, on Sunday
evening, was in marked contrast to that of .the
evening before at Platt’s Hall. With the. excep.
tion of the upper gallery, the house was crowd
ed with an intelligentand appreciative audience,
whom, as Miss Dickinson afterwards said, “it
was a pleasure to lecture to.” _ :
most impure, least worked, least durable Bev. J. Dickinson, the lecturer made her
-4“.-“ "“S'Kfil,;*!
though American made, rail? are usually better,
and although the more enlightened managers
willingly pay higher prices to home makers, yet
the general tendency has been to reduce prices
to the lowest possible point irrespective of
quality. No specification is made, no test in
stituted, no care taken, except to find the lowest
bidder, and ho may use all old rails, cut up and
laid oa the rail pile, without breaking down, re
heating or admixture, if he can only make them
stick together till delivered. This is what the
railmakcr is hired to do, and Be does it openly,
but under protest. A leading railway President
and reformer, Mr. Hinckley, of the Philadel
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railway, says:
‘There is great fear on my part that railway
companies will themselves tempt steelmakers to
send a poor article, by buying the cheapest—
first cost only considered—as they did with the
iron-masters. It rests with railroad men to
keep steel rails good by bnying no poor ones.’ ”
The lines of heavy traffic are gradually giving
up iron rails for steel ones. Daring the last two
years importations of the latter have greatly in
creased, and four large establishments in this
countiy have already turned out 7,000 tons of
steel rails for onr roads. Tho total quantity
now in use in this country is between 40,000 and
50,000 tons laid on about thirty different roads.
The Lehigh and Susquehanna Road is built en
tirely of steel. The President of one road re
ports that twenty-five miles of steel rails were
laid on tho most trying parts of his line four
years ago, and that none had been removed on
account of' wear and defect. Eight other com
panies report similar results. On the Hudson
River Road, out of 11,000 tons of steel rails in
use, some of which had been laid three years,
eleven rails had broken. In a discussion among
English engineers, one case was cited where one
steel rail had outlasted twenty-three iron ones.
When steel rails have broken it was ascertained
in many cases that tfie use of phosphorus had
injured the steel; in others that the steel had
been imperfectly rolled. The breakage in those
instances could of course, have been prevented
by tho exercise of more care in the manufac
ture. In concluding, the report says:
“ There is a growing feeling among engineers
and steelmakers, that the compound rail, made
wholly or partly of steel, will prove more safe
and economical than any solid rail, and that the
defects of the old compound iron rail, largely
used in this State some years since, may be
avoided, since these defects were chiefly due to
the nature of the material. The experiments in
this direction will be watched with great inter
est by railway managers, for if the same dura
bility of track can be obtained with a steel cap
as with an all steel rail, the first cost will be
greatly decreased. A rail made in two or three
continuous parts, breaking joints, is also a prac
tical insurance against disaster from broken
rails.” _
The New York Gold and Stock Panic.
The Western press dispatches give the follow
ing report of scenes in Wall street cn Wednes
day:
The scenes and excitement on the stock ex
change and in the gold room to-day bring vivid
ly to tho minds of old speculators the stirring
times in Wall street during the palmy days of
the rebellion. In the morning the chief events
were a panic in railroad shares, depression in
governments, demoralization of foreign ex
change, stringency in money and the gold mar
ket. Amid the surrounding depression the
principal contra of all motion early in the day
was the lower hall of the stock exchange, which
presented a tumultuous assemblage of excited
and anxious brokers, yelling in the most frantic
manner, all eager to sell stocks and save them
selves from being wiped ont along with their
customers’ margin. The slaughter of the public
by tho large decline of tho day was great, and
has completely wiped from the surface of Wall
street an array of small speculators on the bull
side of the market.
As the day wore on the excitement and activ
ity in the stock market died ont, and compara
tive quiet and dullness reigned on stock ex
change. Throughout the afternoon, in thb long
room, stock experienced fitful rallies and there
was considerable recovery from the lower prices
of tho morning, more especially in Vanderbilt’s
stock, bat an unsettled feeling prevailed and
purchases went largely to recover short con
tracts, the bull element being , severely crippled
by heavy losses consequent in the decline of
the past few days. Brokers are beginning to be
alarmed for their remaining margins, and as to
the difficulty of carrying stocks, in view of the
money stringency and the increasing want of
confidence. In the afternoon, the excitement
was transferred to the gold room, and here re
curred the scenes which equalled those conse
quent on the recent illness of the Emperor
Napoleon.
In the morning the panic on Stock Exchange
induced a perfect flood of short sales which only
caused a. decline of per cent. After the
bears stopped selling tho market was firm and
recovered the decline, where it remained till in
the afternoon. The extraordinary firmness of
of gold premium in the face of enormous short
sales of the morning, and the panic on stock ex
change, alarmed some of the prominent beats,
who began to cover their short contracts, when
the market fairly bounded upwards. The im
petus given to the market dv the attempt of
some bears to cover, started the upward move
ment with such rapidity that a crowd of brokers
and speculators, rushing into the gold room,
soon jammed both the room itself and passages
leading to it with a frantic crowd, almost breath
less with anxiety.
The price advanced sharply from 137J- to
140$, and at the latter, price bids were on the
floor at one time for one hundred and sixty mil
lions of gold. The excitement was increased
by the report that Sickles had presented an
ultimatum to the Spanish Government on the
Cnba question. In the money market the strin
gency is equal to anything ever known. In
Wall street seven per dent, gold was tho rate.
There was a large and excited crowd in front of
tho stock exchange, bnying and selling money
in the shape for turning stock. The rate was
one-fourth to one-half per cent, on several rnns
of stock, but on the high price stock one per
cent, was the rate.
Letter ebom Gen. Lee.—The two hundred
and thirty-fourth annual gathering at Salisbury
Beach, Mass., took place last Thursday evening.
As in former years, it was a great success, not
less than 15,000 persons being present, among
them many of distinction. Letters apologetic
were read from several gentlemen. - The follow
ing is a copy of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s:
“Lexington, Vjl., September 2, 1869.
Dear Sir : Yonr letter of the 19th ulh, invi
ting me to attend the Saulsbury Beach festival
on the 15th instant, would have received an
earlier answer had I been here on its arrival.
Having been absent during the greater part of
the college vacation, I have jnst returned to
prepare for the resumption of studies, which
will take place on tho 16th instant. It will,
therefore, not be within my power to attend
your celebration, as my presence will be re
quired at Washington College at that time.
I beg that you will present my thanks to
the committee for their cordial invitation,
and express to them my hope that the
festival this year may be attended by even
more than the customary representatives,
and be marked by greater enjoyment than has
been experienced by the tens of thousands who
have joined in its celebration for more than one
hundred years.
With my grateful acknowledgments to yon
for yonr find sentiment, I am, with much re
spect, your obedient servant, R. E. Lee.”
Saltpetre Solution tor Seed Wheat.—Cap
tain James W. Phillips, a highly successful
wheat grower near Pedlar Mills, in Amherst,
Virginia, informs me'that he has found, by re
peated experiments through a long course of
years on the same and in different fields, and
on several varieties Of wheat, that soaking his
seed wheat over night in a solution made of
two pounds of saltpetre to eight gallons of water
is a sore preventive of rust. On taking his
Beed ont of the brine he rolls it in freshly-slaok-
ed lime if he has it, if not, in dry ashes, and
sows it that morning, plowing and harrowing
it in that day. He attributes the efficacy of the
preparation entirely to the saltpetre, which, he
says, also increases the crop and hast— A
maturity a week or tea day*.—An OUtP
verb of the day. Live to work and work ear
nestly. And I know full well that the matter of
labor is not commended in this world as it ought
to be, particularly where one tries to reform it.
Take the world easily and let it move on its des
tined course. Think you that God will do all
the work and let us lay idle here below? Out
here, on these California plains, are oases and
patches of vegetation, manzanita wood and bar
ren, profitless herbage. There are placeB, np
and down all the Pacific coast, where God has
made beautiful gardens and perfect paradises
Without the baud of man being used at all in
them. But for that reason man must not be
idle and wait. We must all work, more or less,
each in his place. “Stand still and see the sal
vation of God,” may do very well for those who
have worked, who have lived with profit. But
“stand by and see the salvation of God,” is
blasphemy for the man who lets his hands hang
idle at his sides and does nothing. And why,
my friends here to-night, should we think we
must not work to help mankind and our fellow
creatures generally ? As I trod tho streets of
this new Sodom, the thoroughfares of this City
of the Plains, this oasis in a desert, and as I
saw the faces of the men and women of the
city, and saw the brutality and debasement of
their natures that was stamped on them, and as
I saw little children growing np amid all the
wickedness of this great city, I stood still and
cried out, with my heart if not with my lips,
“Qh, God! inspire ns all, that we may work for
the reform and good of our fellow creatures and
the amelioration of such things as these!”
SODOM.
It was at tho close of a lovely day in June—
one of those grand evenings on the Plains—that
I saw them stretching their golden expanse
away ns far as the eye could reach, and saw that
sapphire sea reflecting the sapphire sky above,
and, away off from the city, those grand moun
tains with the ever-gleaming, brilliant snow
shining above them all; while; amid all this
glowing scene lay that plague spot, Salt Lako
City, a foul blot on nature’s face, a whitened
sepulchre without; and within, what ? A beau
tiful town, indeed, it is, with its broad, cool,
clean streets; with its little streams of water in
all their mountain freshness and icy coldness,
so pure and clear that, paradoxical as it ipay
seem to yon, one can stoop down and get a most
refreshing drink of tho purest water from the
gutter itself. With its picturesque scenery, its
beautiful buildings, its little adobe huts and all,
it is a beautiful city in the desert, a lovely and
pleasant spot to come and feast one’s eyes with
after a journey across the arid wastes. “By
their fruits yo shall know them,” said the Mas
ter of old, and by its fruits ye shall know Mor-
monism, and whether what you see at Salt Lake
City is any better or any worse than what is to
be seen any day in San Francisco or New York.
True, no gambling, no riots, but order and quiet
day and night. There are no churches save one,
and what a one is that. The children you see
playing in the streets are debased, wretched,
unhealthy looking, bearing in iheir counte
nances the impress of tho most brutal passions
of men.
A M0EM0N FAMILY—MB. AND THE MBS. SMITHS.
I called at a house there and sat down in the
parlor, and in came a man and woman. “Miss
Dickinson, my wife Mrs. Smith,” and in came
another, “my wife Mrs. Smith”—(laughter)—
and so on through a whole lot of them, all “my
wife Mrs. Smithand not one of these women
came in as the happy wife or mother, or as the
mistress of that home, but all slunk in with a
debased, servile air, looking like tolerated slaves
rather than anything else. One of them told
me that she had six children, another that she
had twelve, and another that she had fifteen—
(laughter)—and half of all them were dead, and
I looked at the other half, and when I saw the
wretched.unhealthy, creatures, I cried, “My
God, the hand of death is on them too.”
■ . . f] buigham’s theater. J|
I went to the theatre. I went, expecting to
be disgusted, but I was more than that. There
were women all around me, and I would, see one
man hero and another there, and each bending
over ten or fifteen women, and I was told that
they were his wives; and as I looked around
and saw these women and their degradation,
such a sense and feeling of shame and despair
came over me that I cried “ O God, let me die
where I stand!” and then the second thought
came, and I said, ‘,‘Oh no, let me not die, but
give me strength to withstand and battle against
this.”
NAUGHTY GENTILE YISITOBS.
I came out to Salt Lake City with tho best
men in the country—men whom the country de
lights to honor and reverence—and, as we all
knew we were coming to Salt Lake City, we
naturally talked a great deal abont it, and what
do you think was the tenor of these men’s con
versation? “Why, after I had listened for some
time, I thought I should pray for deafness or
cotton to put in my ears. They thought Mor
monism a fine institution; it must be a jolly
place where a man can have a dozen or two of
wives and yet be respectable. It must be jolly
to live in a place where divorces can be had for
five dollars, and where, if you get tired of your
wife, you can tack on a pretty little Mormon and
no one can say a word to yon. Nice conversa
tion for respectable men, and all of them mar
ried but two, and they were the best behaved of
the lot. “Oh, it was only a joke.” Well, sup
pose it was a joke. Suppose a lot of respect
able married women were to talk in the cars
andsay, “Oh! it’s a fine institution, get divorced
any time yon want to for $5. When you get
tired of your husband yon get rid of him, shove
him to one side and get the best looking young
Mormon you find.” Now, what would people
think who heard them speaking that way, even
if “it was all a joke ?” Why, they would think
them women who were lost to all sense of dig
nity and honor.
EASTEBN SPEECHM AKEKS. |
When I got to Salt Lake City they were sere
nading. It wasn’t me they were doing it to—
(laughter)—but they were serenading some of
the big-wigs that had come along; and then
those “respectable” men got out and made
speeches. Such speeches! They didn’t know
I was listening to them, but we women hear a
great deal more, and are sharp enough to be
awake a great deal oftener, when anything is
going on, than we get credit for. I was at my
window listening to them, and there I heard one
honorable Congressman and well-known. Re
presentative stand up and pledge himself, and
pledged his companions, to do their utmost to
support and care for the interests of these peo
ple.
at bbigham’s ^abzbnacle—a well-known cler
gyman AMONG THE M0BM0NS,
I went into the Tabernacle, and I expected to
be disgusted there, too, and I was. There,seated
in the midst of a lot of “elders,” was a reverend
gentleman, a well-known and ranch talked-of
divine with a white necktie—the Rev. Thomas
Todd—and while I was there this most reverend
gentleman stood np and he made a speech, and
he told a little story in which, if he didn’t di
rectly illustrate it, at any rate he gave the-in
ference that Mormons were just as eligible for
heaven as any one else. And all this was just a
type of how the world outside treat of Hormon-
ism and gloss over its abuses.
SHAMEFUL INDIFFERENCE OF CONGRESS.
Congress has no time; its committees have
no time. But they have time to scamper across
the Continent, and spend public money in see
ing sights and doing nothing. And there are
the newspapers, they have no time ; their col
umns are filled with any trash or stuff,- but not
a word on this. And in the pulpits, day after
day, tiie clergymen who fill them speak on re
ligion and reform, bat not a word do they say
on this. And the women of the land, they know
it; they know how their sex are debased and
degraded in this second Sodom, and with all the
influence and'power that women possess, if they
only chooso to use it, they do nothing; they sit
in elegance.and comfort, and they say not a
word.
slavery of mormon women.
I.asked why, and. simultaneously with, the
question came the answer and I saw why. In
this seoond Sodom—this Salt'Lake City—is
sanctioned - openly what is tolerated in San
Francisco and New York. The.ideais nothing
more than this: that woman is man’s property
all over the world, his to hold and to keep, she
to be humble and to serve and he to be indas-
iis j putable lord and inaster. I stand here to say
V *o junto-night, to yem man wk> ijuWti to bus,
, * • *>C‘ ; *>,'* >. *’. •
that a woman is jnst as individual and responsi
ble and capable of action for herself as a man.
I stand here to enter my protest as a woman
againstsnch a blasphemy as this: “That a
woman is made for a man,” “that she is his
property, goods, and chattels,” “that beside
him she is nothing—a myth.” That is what is
being thundered from every pulpit in every city,
what every newspaper in the i land says and
every man, Woman is to abject. herself and
debase herself, and humble herself, and lose all
her individuality, and if she rebels society will
only increase her misery. Men want to control
in everything, they want to bathe masters of
aU.i > They have always had the muscle and the
force, and now they want to revive the old bru
tality. the old serfdom and slavery that charac
terizes barijarons and Uncivilized peopm.' : 1
■ /inside of a habem.
In Salt Lake City I went to the honse of a
Mormon elder. I was told before hand he had
two wives, and that they had both lived togeth
er some fifteen years, and were perfectly happy
and contented—they lived together in their
house and were perfectly contented with their
lot, and would not change it if they could. I
was not a man. I did not believe a word of it,
and so I went to see for myself. I went into
their house, and it was a magnificent one. Here
in San Francisco it would be a fine house, and
there in Salt Lake it was a slendid one. Mag
nificent furniture, fine rooms, fine gardens, and
numerous servants. I and my friend sat down
in the parlor and in came one of this man’s
wives. She was a fine, good-looking, healthy
Englishwoman, who.could not speak ten words
of grammatical English to saveherlife. I talked
■freely to her; there was no hindrance, to that.
I asked her how long she had been married.—•
“Seventeen years.” “Married here?” “No.”
“Married in England?” ‘No.” “Where were
you married, then?” “In SL Joseph." Her
husband began to fidget, and sent her out to get
a piece of gold, or quartz, or somothing of that
kind. I understood it all. She came back, and
couldn’t find it, of course. I .knew that. I tried
to commence where we had broken off, and her
husband immediately wanted something on the
top of the house. When she got back again, I
tried to commence again where wo had left off,
and ho broke in, “Miss Dickinson came to eat
strawberries and cream; now, Maria, go off and
see if they are ready.” I understood it alL—
Yes, every word of it.. By and by in came an
other sad-looking but handsome woman. I
looked at her; said I at once, “Madam, you
are the second wife,” and so it turned out She,
also, was an English woman, and the two of
them were the handsomest women I saw at Salt
Lako. But she appeared sad and worn. There
was no “joyous happiness of married life” about
her. There was a piano in the room, and in
came the little girl of the honse, and at once
the father said something abont music, and was
evidently very proud of his daughter’s capabili
ties in that line. So I asked her to play, and
she did, and made a horrid din, and, under
cover of tho noise and din, I had my
conversation with • the wife. She had not
understood their doctrines. I asked her: “Did
you know when you married yonr husband that
he conld, if he would, marry another woman ?”
“No.” “Did he not tell you so at the time ?”
“No, ho did not. Our missionaries and preach
ers when they go out never preach that.” “So
you knew nothing of it?” “Nothing at all.”
“But when you came here and saw it was so,
were you not greatly disappointed and cha
grined !” “No, I was not; I was sure my hus
band would never marry again.” “Buthe did,”
said I. “Yes,” she answered, and a sad, har
rowed look came over her countenance. “Yes,
only a year after he married again.” “And do
you like that ? do you liko him to have more
wives than one?” “Oh, yes, I do! I wish he
had six or seven.” I saw through it all in a
minnte. I understood the state of that woman’s
mind at once. But I was not surprised,
looked blank and I went back on the old tack.
I commenced and questioned her abont her
English life, and I painted the picture of the
little cottage at home and the courtship, and at
last the marriage to one whole-souled, honest
husband; and how they would live together,
and how she would wait at the door of their
home and watch for his coming in the evening;
and I asked her if she conld not be happy there.
And she put her handsome hand to her face
and bowed her head and cried, “Oh, my God!
couldn’t I!” And then it was plain, it was
easy to see, how that woman really thought and
felt. . .
SIDE-SADDLES DENOUNCED.
Miss DioMnson’8 lecture was a very long one.
She spoke for almost two hours, and the resume
we have given above is not one-tenth of what
she said. She gave a description of her tour to
theYosemito valley, and commented very se
verely on tho “ridiculous side-saddle mode of
riding” that society had imposed onher sex, and
said sho knew what she was talking about. She
had tried both ways and she could ride with
ease in the masculine style. The side-saddle
style was very typical of the mode in which
women go through the world; it is a one-sided
style all through; one side worn out and one
side cramped and dulled from want of use. She
concluded her lecture at 10:10 o’clock, ainid
loud applause. _
The State Faib.—This exhibition promises
to be a grand affair. A superb site has been
chosen, immediately on the Macon and Western
Railroad, about two and a half miles from the
city, and the Executive Committee are hard at
work preparing it for the fortheoming'ocoasiqn.
A large amount of money will be expended, and
everything done to make the fair a glorious suc
cess. And there is equal activity among the
people. The planters, manufacturers, mechan
ics, stock-raisers, and housewives all over the
State are getting ready their various contribu
tions, and the number promises to be greater
than ever before displayed in the State. Wheth
er as regards her centrality and convenience of 4 ac-
cess, the extensive and elegant accommodations
of her hotels and the hospitality of her citizens
generally, Macon is par excellence the place for
the Fair. There is no other point in the State
that equals it in any of these respects, and the
Society, at its very next meeting, should abolish
the migratory feature and locate the Fairs per
manently at Macon,. There is neither Thyme
nor reason in keeping it afloat, while' something
is due to the public, convenience as well as to
the enterprising citizens of Maoon, who have
spent their money, and given their labor on so
liberal a scale in behalf of the’ industrial inter
ests of the State. Five hundred miles is too far
for a citizen to travel in order to reach the Cap
itol or Annual Fair in his own State.—-jSseannaA
Republican.
Geneeal Bobebt Williams, who is much
talked of as the' candidate for United States
Senator from reconstructed Virginia, is best
known to to the general public os the officer
who married^ the beautiful widow of the late
Stephen A. Douglas. It would indeed be pas
sing strange if the lady should chance to find
herself a second time the wife of an United
States Senator. ■ : ■_
Cotton on the Rives.—A well informed com
mission merchant states there are now from
three to five thousand bales of cotton on the
river, waiting for a rise in the titer to be trans
ported to this oity. Both ihe oom and cotton
crops on the river lands bate proved successes.
, ' [Columbus Sun.
iKjt 'rritotororit od) I: fi.tiaf'jxo • i A- ; ; /li Vilf xaHbl jifift ’
JSTBAR PASSBKraBR DBPO 7o»
Under the head of “Divoree Extraordinary,”
the Weston (Platte county) Landmark, of the
10th instant, omitting the names of the parties,
gives the following: “We have just learned
that an old gentleman ■ aged 94 years, .mid his
wife aged eighty-seven, residents of Pettis
Township, after living together for seventy
years, concluded the other day to dissolve their
marital relation. They made an equal division
of their property and went their several ways.
A more remarkable divoree case is seldom
heard of.”
One Good Crop.—Amid the general desola
tion produced by the cry of poor crops, it is
gratifying to learn that the persimmon crop was
never better, and “possums” will be plentiful
next winter. One happy reflection anyhow.—
Persimmon beer will do when there’s nothing
else.—Columbus Sun.
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Some Yankee has invented an arrangement
to prevent heavy trunks from being injured by
careless handling. It is simply an India rubber
bail on each of the eight corners. Strange it
was never thought of before. We can imagine
the fiendish look of rage and disappointment
which passes over the countenance of the bag
gage-smashing porter who, for the first time,
sees one of. these contrivances. The malig
nant chuckle with which he used to drop a lady s
travelling trunk from his shoulder to the floor—
in full view of the agonized but helpless owner
—is “played out” It is stated that a 'trunk
filled with books, if protected by this means,
may fall from a height of twenty feet without
injury. ' *■ ****
Henry McDaniel, a colored preacher, pub
lishes a card of thanks to the white people of
Iuka, Miss., for having subscribed a sufficient
sum of money to pay bis church out of debt
He states that not a dollar WM subscribed by
Ihe Radicals, " ;T
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CAST IRON SCREW, NO. 1.
9-12:FJB£T 7 INCHES DIAMETER AND S INCH PITCH;
S’ 1 .: ^ S85 OO/
finches.
PROM THE NUMBER OF TESTIMONIALS. TO THE VALUE OF EACH OF THESE SCREWS, I
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wLtlvt WUA M DOUBLE BRIDGE. UPSON COUNTY. JUNE 27, 1868.
Yours of the 17th came to hand on yesterday and contents noticed. Tho Cost Iron Sereyr I bought of you
last fall gives entire satisfaction. I commenced packing my crop without weighing in the cotton.Jthinkin*
that 500 pounds was being put in; but when I came to sell my cotton the ba*s weighed from 600 to 805 pounds.
I sold tho cotton to Swatts A Brown, at Barnesville, and anyone doubting the weight can be tarnished the
receipts from the above parties. I have been farming nil my life, and have used many different Screws, but
this one is tho best I ever saw. In packing my crop! never used but one mule. I takepleasnre in recom
mending the Screw to planters generally. D. W. WOMBLE.
Reference of those using the above Scrcfts: : ■
"W. T. Basset, Houston county. 'I Henry Ea»l*y, Baldwin county. ’
Joel Walker. Houston county. 1 John Pascal. Putnam eoitnty.
"W^rough.t Iron Screw, No. 1.
4 inch Wrought Iron, 3 inch Pitch Screw. PRICE, - -
MILLEDGEVILLE. JUNE IT. 1889. 2
Dear Sir:—I amusing one of your 4 inch Cotton Press Screws. 3 inch pitch, with levers, adapted to
mule-power. I, however, never use mule-power but run 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 that it is ten times
as durable. You will allow me. at the same time, to recommend your hone-power as a j8§Sg. t0
gin cotton.
Yours respectfully,
_ < . PERRY, JUNE 21,1868.
Dear Sir:—I am using one of yonr din. Wrought Iron Screws, 3in. pitch, and it is allyou represent it tob^
I paok with hand-power levers, and have pnt6W pounds in a bale with six hands. I like the press so, well
that I want you to got me up another and shall be in Macon about the 1st of August.
. a" ■ . JAMBS W* KOUfilDiAaJlt
Reference of tome of those using the four inch Press, three pitch ••
Garret Smith, Houston county. 1 W. C. Cablis, Bibb county.
John W. Woolfolk, Houston county. J Thos. H. Jones, Twiggs county, i
William Adkins, Dooly county. |, J.P. Bond, Twiggs county. WT r
N. Tucker, Laurens county. I J.W.bESsioxs, Washington conuty.
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WROUGHT IRON SCREW, NO. 2.
1, 11-2 AND 2 INCH PITCH,
PRICE, - - - - #80 ooir
CLINTON. Ga., 1868.
T. 0. Nisbrt. Esq.:—I can safely say your Press is all, and perhaps more, than you claim it to be.
It is the cheapest, easiest and most convenient packing apparatus I have seen. IhaTeseentwo
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HEtNRx J, MAKoaALL.
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T. C* Nisbet, Esq.:—I am well pleased with your Press,
cotton weighing six hi
MACON. Ga.. 1868.
I have packed with six hands a bale of
rnndred and forty pounds in thirty minutes. „ _
R. F. WOOLFOLK. . 1
REFERENCES: .
John King, Houston county. | Wm. Scarborough. Monroe eonnty. '
W. A. Atwood, Putnam county. Thos. Barron, Talbot county. • . •
Bknj. Barron, Jasper county. | J.A. Spivey, Macon county.
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T.C.Nisbit—DearSir: Ihavebeen using your Cast Iron Screw Press, 2 inch pitch, for two seasons
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FORT VALLEY. JUNE. 1868.
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press altogether by hand.
Reference to a feu> of those using the oboes Press
Stephen E. Bassstt, Houston county. I John Teal. Quitman county, 4
H. J. Clark, Houston county. . I A. Dawson, Wilkinson conaty.
The above Screws are all warranted for one season. The price does not include Frame and Bdx. bnt %
draft to build from will be tarnished. .
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