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I 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. •;> 'V- - ■ "V -- J 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 T. C. jli 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 : ; . f . ...... SELECT IUE FOLLOWING: , .M+itm 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. ’■ /.• .S'-t mUxiS-A :.-.v tiouioui) ei.ua ■ 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 hands pack a halo of cotton that we supposed to weigh 5U0 pounds. T '.VibbbWt" ' HEtNRx J, MAKoaALL. Tin oh. 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. " 'b <• *'■■■ '■"< : < • •* i •/ ^ •! "criTv/n'e; ->s»: ori* (-ktdwq a tot ■. . — io MMtaitoJ etft d&otrajj »fe» L-;?sa V.i . • ! f . h iq v'.' . • . L'n'tufr.i v’lI c ,'nTa-,;v.cf*AODq*'/nil No. 2 CAST IRON SCREW, Pin 7 1-2 Feet Long, 6 inch Diameter and 2 inch Pitch. PRICE, 7 0 T.C.Nisbit—DearSir: Ihavebeen using your Cast Iron Screw Press, 2 inch pitch, for two seasons I* 2 inch. FORT VALLEY. JUNE. 1868. ri _h.v. mule-power lovef*. bat J. A. MADDOX. no hesitation in recommending it as a simple, compact and durable press, 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. . IRON FRAME, Price ...... .....— 155 00 WOOD WORK, complete — .: —.—..._ 30 00 These Screws are long enough for a nine foot Cotton Box, as the entire length of the Sorew cm be used: but when a lODger Screw is required it can be famished up to 12 feet. j - • . GO< tsKs. GIN GEA EIGHT FEET GIN GEAR. PINION AND BOLTS., NINE FEET GIN GEAR TEN FEET GIN GEAR ——— PORTABLE HORSE-POWER. ADAPTED TO GINING. Mtatlw Can© Mill JPrices «£ *J EIGHTEEN INCH MILL... SIXTEEN INCH MILL. FIFTEEN INCH MILL. ELEVEN INCHMILL 46 00 •hmmM 9 (0 loo *• ■ %«• 80 •• »» ♦V 80 ** »* 70 - II *• 60 *1 M a.t " 40 *• *» *» •a • > KETTLE PRICES: ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY GALLONS. ONE HUNDRED GALLONS..... EIGHTY GALLONS ...... TTY GALLONS 25 Horse Steam Engine, price, 20 Horse Steam Engine, price, Boilers to Natch the above Engines, Circular Saw Mill, - - $100# ‘8 m SEND FOB A CIROULAB. T. C. INTTSBET. J ulyJ0-2taw Awlm WM. HENRY WOODS, COTTON FACTOR AND GENERAL COMISSION MERCHANT, Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA. y^GENT FOR REESE’S SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO. It prepared.** ail.Uaet to wdractaJApal* on OcnstgwmMp for sale in Savannah, or for iMpmeol W Ms eoRDQiOwMrtl'te ‘Re#’VhMt.-Ml m Lr- ! < >4i ^ ; . . ’J* a juu hlmys jtr