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111 ii ■ a.tTOTf .n . •/. 11 fjLfc V. 7 ' ^ A $?5|f HI " at A*l4<nq j ehfefuo fldt Oa Sxq -rsi-iisert lo jdudt I Aos ** ti. jri/ * •. - : - " ■ ' * - f, J* lo a -r - ■■‘T-' 1S BY & REID, Proprietors. The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. ® BUSHED 1826.) I MACON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1869" >& tl " -• •-T—h-r-T • GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING to otu*7i t* tQwMm <■ n/i,' r s -ok:i Mul fetm «t I ?±d lA srrf> ibidir ml ion VOL. XLIV.---B. 15. Telegraph Building, Macon. (ilT(S OF SUBSCRIPTION : • ..fi'i-u r.r.M-» vu.„ « ■ » ,, c ;5,-Wi:kki.t Tslegsaph—six m’ths 2 00 Em'* " WKfKtY Telegraph—ono year * on «*r(KLT Telegraph—six months... li** jV 0j.f>ayatiU aheav» in arfcanee.“®S 3 00 ISO I nk ana Job Printing I’v'AiIt executed nt reasonable prices. I :n .;l with Postmaster's certificate a liV' 1, TIIK PAKSEE t etters. tlie ronntpy fa Growing Richer. 0 in n series of short,piquant letters I i Cnriosiblioy, Parsee Merchant, of Apollo 17 t Bombay, > s exposing the absurdities and ISmritie* d tbo protective system. The fol- 1.^, from letter No. 46 ia a heavy shot: XTnLoM Oreetey : I . ; now resume my conversation LvihA Boston cotton-raanufactnring sahib. I“id hiding the New York Tri- I Ruining No. 17 of yonr excellent essays, Infieeley sahib, in “F hand,—“Behold, O I y't> this wonderful paper, the pillar of state, lieMonrge of all thinkers, speakers, and wri- I Mffao dire to differ from its inspired columns, ISitdl enfolding in its sheets the sublime I Sis of political economy, whereby the conn- it fralr nn/1 tpaII nhcPrrAfl ifn | w the fact contained in this No. 17, when the Irtttn* political economist o fthe ago says that | £ country is laying up, increasing, andget- L ncher at the rote of two billion dollars an- l-jr. and that it is necessary to do this by I •sang into debt to foreigners regularly nt the I hundred million dollars yearly? - ’ | "i,w afraid,” said the Boston sahib, “if the | Saner is an exaggeration, the latter is much | sieruled. The country gets richer, will get Inter,and must get richer: but who is the loutry? England is the richest country in | it world, yet it is not England that is rich— l&utare only some 70,000 or 100,000 Englisb- | s a who own everything and are rich. The 28,- LibdOare poor, struggling,hard-working, self- |hiring dependents on the 100,000 rich people, |nd about a million out of tho mass are paupers. Ildhi* end we are drifting. The trite saying |sf Mr. Commissioner Wells, ‘that the rich grow y. -i/r ami the poor become poorer' in our coun try has become household words. They sting |i/rd tho enemies of industry, hut they can- |io! iie refuted. Now, let me see. This cbarla- aa ia the Tribune says—” •Pray,” said I, “do me tho favor to be ro- I?tctful, even if you are an opponent” I "Well, then,” said tho Boston sahib, rather |iaiply, “the groat political economist says I eat our exports are restricted to a few bulky I Hides of staples, such as cotton, tobacco, Itheese, lard, grain, petroleum, etc.; that we lln't export enough to balance our imports, and I irrefore tho balance of one hundred millions I against ns. But why don’t we export enough to |lalance the imports? If we have run our I itiler’ in raising produce for export to balance I outtrade, then, in the namo of all that is just, I iky don't we manufacture for export ? Now, I fritii Cariosibhoy,” continued the Boston _sa- IhiKquite excited, “eithe r you nro a rank im- I postoror exceedingly dull of comprehension. I I bare read thirty of your letters; almost in every lone ot them you show that we excel in manufac turing goods, bat still no ono cans to wwk fe I f oreigners. AU are intent on the'home trade, ! til tint owing in one case to the duty on the law material; in another to the duty on ma- I finery; in all, on the duty on iron, the mann- I irtnred article is so much higher here that ex- I: station of them is impossible. This clearly I iows that an obnoxious law sits like a nightmare I ts onr industry; therefore, if your statements are I cue—and no one knowsbetterthanl do that they I ire—why not relieve ns of this oppression, and I dow us to work for export, and thereby fill up lie deficiency which onr present produce ex- I ports leave ? Bat let me show you who grows I tiler and who grows poorer. Firstly. onr cities grow richer, just like Lon- I In and Paris. The slaves work outside; you ioa't see them. A single example will suffice. Onr tariff almost shuts out foreign coal. Coal fines are situated in the interior of the country, tnd coals have to bo brought to the great con suming centres by rail and canal-boats. A dozen men, or two dozen men, tbo presiding lords of tkese railways, come to the conclusion to raise ike carrying price $1 a ton. This, again, is conniTed at by tho coal-pit lords. They, too, nine the price $2 a ton, and, as they cannot do [ it without the aid of the colliers, they throw to | the Utter a sop of about ten oents a ton. The thott of it is, that we use in the Northern States [ thirteen million tons of coals annually, and we, the whole people, are squeezed out of $3 per ton (which is the lowest calculation), and which wnonnts in the aggregate to, say, $40,000,000. Now, the foreigner does not get anything of this, nnless he is a shareholder in the railways]; I hot the lion’s share is devoured by five hnndred wtlpit lords, who were already rich enough. I of coarse, growricher, and astheyalllivein I S^Atcities they bnild palatial mansions,improve rtteeta, the houses on which they own; manip ulate property to a fictitious value, demand and fri tents that aro outrageous, and double their tfflmense wealth every four or five years. They f*t their seal of bondage on every modest build- ag or great mansion that is in variety occupied I " the aping fool, wonld-be speculator, and san- I fane genius. The farm-house and appurie- I - ::: Duchess county are crumbled up by a I c*ce of paper with a seal to it, and which is I 1 a mortgage in the city of New York. To £«e men the two billions gained in the whole I '.tmtry during a whole year belongs, but the JJrtty at large is no gainer, for I fully believe ' the great West is poorer now—that is, tho I MieraUty of tho people—than thoy were twelve I lots ago. Tho abolished slavery of tho Sonth Impenetrated the freo States, and has made ^■ions the debt slave* to the great rich." Ihe Boston sahib is such a good talker that I | -art divide all he says and give it in some fn- letters. among the strong-minded. The Hon. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A era York Correspondence of Cincinnati Enquirer.] A BOWER IN JERSZ.X. Tenafly is one of the prettiest little towns in Jersey. It is abont sixteen miles from New York, on the Northern Railroad, and is a village of handsome residences and Inxnrions hotels. Many New York merchants live here summer and winter, going into town every day, and find it cheaper and pleasanter than keeping up an establishment in New York. There is a pretty little brown cottage nestling charmingly among firs and cedars, on a hill overlooking the town. It’s an unpretentious house, with a Mansard roof, a small verandah, and a bow window at ono side. There aro flowers dotted abont, a hammock slung to a couple of magnificent oaks on the lawn, and vines carelessly clambering over picturesque stumps. It’s so cosy and homelike, that one can't forbear wishing to pen etrate further, so we’ll march up tho steps, please, and ring the bell. Ah! here’s a pleas ant parlor, small and qnict in tone, to be sure, but full of refinement. Music books and pic tures—stereotyped but expressive. On the wall in one corner is a queer mixture of little por traits—Wendell Phillips, Horatio Seymour, Gerrit Smith, Calhonn and Clay. THE MISTRESS THEREOF, MRS. OADY STANTON. Here comes the presiding genins, a little wo man, matronly, dignified, genial, full of fun.— She wore a flowing whitle robe belted neatly about her comfortable waist, and a violet ribbon fastens her fluffy white curls, matching the shadows of her violet eyes. She’s as gracious as possible; she always is. She takes ns into a charming little library opening upon the ver anda, and seats ns by a window, from whence we can see the distant palisades, tho Orange Mountains, and ihe roofs of Newark glowing m the sun-light. So, while we stare, she talks, and a very graceful, inexaustible talker she is. Her peculiarly happy, child-like laugh is conta gions ; her sparkling glance is animating ; her anecdotal power immense. Especially brilliant is she in antithesis. She tnrns her fine eyes heaven-ward as she details her constant employ ment of thought and action. HER LITERARY LABORS. She is preparing lectures to be given this winter, she says. She’s engaged upon “Kate and Petruchio" now, and she picks up the volnme and reads ns her “points” in a rich voice, and with excellent dramatics expression. So we drift into the marriage question. Mrs. S. observes that the yoke rests lightly upon her. When she married she signified to Mr. S. that she intended to follow ont her own aims, and work in life untrammelletj by the pettier cares, and he sensibly acquiesced. She has nothing to trouble her in household matters, everything being managed by a model housekeeper, who makes the most delicious bread and butter im aginable. * HER BOYS AND GIRLS. Mrs. Stanton devotes a good deal of time to her seven children, and they evince careful training. Her five boys are manly, intelligent, thoughtful; her two daughters bright, harmo nious natures. The sixteen year old Maggie is plump, pretty, dignified, and strong-willed. Hattie, two years younger, is a sparkling little creature, with a noble bead, a perfect com plexion, and great gray eyes, shaded by long lashes. She’s as mischievous as her mother was once upon a time. A STRONG MINDED BABY. As a little girl, Mrs. Stanton worried contin ually over the laws affecting women. So pugna cious was she upon this subject that hor father’s law students delighted to tease her by pointing out to her all the laws which bore most heavily upon woman. Once, when she was rather vain glorious over some now coral trinkets, a particu larly malicious youth announced to her that if she were his wife he could take them away from her and wear them himself. So angry was she at this, that she determined to ent ont all “tho women’s laws” from the statute books, firmly believing that those belonging to her father were the only ones in existence. Feeling like a bud ding Joan of Arc, she prepared for tho sacrifice, but before tho invading scissors conld bo ap plied, she was discovered, and her heroism quenched. MRS. STANTON SICK OF TALKING WOMEN. Mrs. Stanton gets very tired of the weekly meetings of the Suffrage Association at the Twenty-Third Street Bureau. She thinks the women there talk a great deal of nonsense, and that some of them aro hunting after notoriety. To obviate tins, she proposes to exclude report ers, but Susan A. thinks this rather rash. A CORN PANIC. Marriage. ferriage is a woman’s one career, let women ! -'*l against the edict as they may; and though may be word-rebellion here and there, *°®*a leant tho truth early in their lives. ^1 women know it later in life when they ■fek of their girls; and men know it, too, u>en they have to deal with their daughters. I pfe, too, now acknowledge aloud that they | Gleamed the lesson, and Saturday Review- ** and other blame them for their lack of mod i'^ in doing so—most unreasonably, most nse- '^y, and, as far as the influence of snch cen- | S)t > may go, most perniciously. Nature Itompta the desire, the world acknowledges its ^'•laity, circumstances show that it is reason- ffe. the whole theory of creation requires it; it is required that the person most con ned should falsely repudiate it, in order that ‘ lock modesty may be maintained in which ^ human being can believe! Snch is the theo- the censors who deal heavily with onr Eng- 2 women of the present day. Onr daughters l^nld bo educated to be wives, but, forsooth! should never wish to be wooed! The very is but a remnant of the tawdry sentiment- of an age in which the mawkish insipidity * the women was the reaction from the vice of preceding it. That onr girls are inquest :• husbands, and know well in what way their --S in lif e should be laid, is a fact which none ^ dispute. Let men be taught to recognize 5 same truth as regards themselves, and we 2® cease to hear of the necessity of a new i eer for women.—From the Vicar of BuU jPton, in the November number of Lippin- K -• Magazine. ; 7 EiXT a Southern Tour.—The President has in receipt of several letters from promi- men ia the Sonth, asking that he make a ‘ ‘P trough the Southern States in the early f"* °f November. He replies that, if his pub- £ ofi-ies shall permit he will visit the Atlantio vjhoard States, but fears that bis presence will T in ’Washington daring most of No- MORE NEW YORK EDITORS TO RE BREAKFASTED. Mrs. S. intends to breakfast all the editors in turn. “When Anna Dickir^on comes back from California, all tho youthful quills are to bo in vited, NVhitelaw Beid, Theodore Tilton. Mrs. S. distrusts her own power to convert these young gentlemen, and rather leans upon the fascinating Anna. In regard to Mr. Greeley and his breakfast, she laments that bat little was accomplished. Anecdotes of Dueling. The history of dueling has its comic and its romantic aspect as well as its tragic' and its diabolical. Some of the excuses given for not fighting are droll enough. Franklin relates the following anecdote : A gentleman in a coffee- honse desired another to sit farther from him. “Why so?” said the person thus addressed. “Because, sir, yon smell.” “That, sir, is an affront, and yon must fight me.” “I will fight yon if yon insist upon it; but 1 don't see how that will mend the matter, for if yon kill me, I shall smell too; and if I kill you, you will smell worse, if possible, than yon do at present.” Amadens Y. of Savoy sent a challenge to Hum bert II. of the same dnehy. The latter replied to the bearer of the challenge: “That the vir tue of a prince did not consist in strength of body; and that if his principal boasted of his strength, there was not a bull which was not stronger and more vigorous than he conld pos sibly be; and, therefore, if he liked, one shonld be sent to him to try." The French poet Voi- tore was a noted dnelist. bnt he would not al ways fight. On one occasion, having been chal lenged by a gentleman on whom he had exer cised his wit, ho replied: "The game is not equal—yon are big, I am little; you are brave, I am a coward; however, if yon want to kill mo, I will consider myself dead.' ’ Among the dnels which deserve to be recorded is that between the celebrated Irish barristers, John Philpot Curran and John Egan, nick-named “Bally Egan.” The latter was a man of immense size, while Cnrran was slim and short. The chances of being hit were, therefore, in favor of the former, for (as Cnrran said) it was like firing at a haystack. Cnrran, therefore, proposed to equalize the chances by chalking lines on Egan’s body, so as to mark ont his (Curran’s) size thereon, and by agreeing that no shot should count twhich took effect outside of these lines.— From the Satisfaction usual among Gentlemen, in the November number of Lippincott's Maga- A Practical Application of tlie Scrip* tares. Nicholas Wain, though a regular Quaker preacher, was a great wag, and many are the good things said by him which are stUl current in certain Philadelphia circles. He was once traveling on horseback in the interior of Penn sylvania in company with two Methodist preach ers. They discussed the points of difference in their respective sects, until they arrived at the inn where they were to pntnp for the night. At supper, Wain was seated between the two Methodists, and before them was placed a plate containing two trout Each of the circuit riders placed his fork in a fish and transferred it to his plate, after which each shut his eyes and said an andible grace before meat. The Quaker availed himself of the opportunity to transfer both of the trout to his own plate, merely re marking, when the others opened their eyes, “Your religion teaches yon to pray, bnt mine teaches me both to tcatch and pray.”-—From our Monthly Gossip, in the November number of Lippincotfs Magazine. Its Effects in the West and in New York. There is excitement and “downward tenden cy” in the grain market at'Chicago. The Mon day evening papers of that city furnish tike following particulars. The Chicago Journal says : Grain comes in more rapidly than wanted for shipment, under onr recant pecuniary derange ments, and there have been but few here who conld command money enough to buy to hold. Onr weakness has reacted on New York and sent that market down, while Liverpool has caught the same infection. Wall street gambling was the primary cause, but the proximate canse arose in Chicago. There was a good deal of short trading to-day, many being nnxions to sell and others equally willing to buy, bnt with a de cided preference for the buyer's option, which made buyer the month worth a great deM more than seller do. With reference to tho condition of the banks, under this unfavorable condition of things, the writer says : The strain on the banks of this city produced by the largo amount of grain which has accumu lated here has been heavy. The panic in New York deprived the flour and grain dealers of New York City and State of tho facilities of doing business, because they conld not get accommo dations to pay sight bills drawn on them to pay for grain shipped from here. There has been any quantity of orders here to buy grain, to be paid for by bills drawn at thirty days, and it is- useless for the banks of this city, without an in crease of capital, to attempt to famish funds for the whole of the transactions in grain from the hands of tho producer to tho consnmer in the Eastern and foreign markets. At Cincinnati the Enquirer says of wheat: Advices from other points have been of an unfavorable character, and the orders have gen erally been withdrawn. The city millers are, in most cases, limiting their purchases to immedi ate wants, as they have not much confidence in prices, and tho present rates for flour afford them no profit. Tho receipts of wheat have not been large, and the supply has not exceeded the demand, and there being more disposition to sell, concessions were in some cases granted. The prices of com aro lower. The distillers have been buying pretty freely at the interior points, and aro not in the market to any extent at present, and the demand from the local deal ers is not cqnal to the receipts. The Now York Express says; The late financial crisis in Wall street, which has demoralized speculation, is now gradually extending to the channels of legitimate business. The New York merchants complain of a steady falling off in trade, when tho fall business ought to be very active. [In Baltimore it is very fair.] Advices from different sections of tho country speak of business being unsatisfactory, while in some cases some great depression exists. The latter is particularly applicable to the grain trade at Chicago and other lake ports. Under the heavy decline in grain at the West producers are not sending their grain to market freely at present, and this is clearly seen in the decreas ing earnings of the Western railroads, while the farmer continues in debt to the Western mer chant, and the Western merchant in turn is un able to liquidate his indebtedness to the Eastern merchant. Thus it will bo seen that the de pression in the grain trade affects injuriously the great railway and mercantile interests of tho country, the ramifications of which are exten sive. The Gnir Stream and tlie Pole. The Gnlf stream enters the space around the Polo at a temperature above tho freezing point (28 degrees,) when we find warmer water (at 36 degrees) almost at the pole, and outside the heat-bearing current. The Arctic current that offsets the Gnlf Stream and flows sonth, reaching it at 35 degrees tem perature, conld not have left the pole colder than 28 degrees; for then it would have been frozen up. In its transit to the Sonth it only loses G or 7 degrees of its temperature. Is it then a thing incredible, that the Gnlf Stream, this mighty “river in the ocean,” whose caloric, “if utilized, could keep in blast a cyclopcan fur nace, capable of sending forth a stream of molten iron as large as the volume discharged by the Mississippi river,"—is it incredible that this current may reach the Polar region at 36 de grees? Bemembor it begins its race off Flori- ida at 86 degrees. * * * * * There certainly issues from the space aronnd tho Pole a ceaseless and mighty flow of waters to the tropics. In its course icebergs of huge proportions are carried off from tho mainland. So vast are these icy masses, and often so nu merous in floating clnsters as to defy computa tion. CapL Beechy saw a small one fall from a glacier in Spitzbergen, over four hundred thou sand tons in weight. The Great Western, in 1841, in her trans-Atlantic trip, met three hnn dred icebergs. Sir John Boss saw several agronnd in Baffin’s Bay, in water two hnndred and sixty fathoms deep; ono he computed to weigh 1,259,397,673 tons. A Danish voyager saw ono of 900,000,000 cnbit feet. Sir J. O. Boss met with some of these floating mountains twice as large ns this. And in Davis’ Straits, where there is deep water, “icebergs have been met having an area of six square miles and six hnndred feet high. The hyperborean current, which boars these monsters on its bosom, has formed by the de posit from their dissolution, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, which, were the waters of the Atlantic dried up, would probably be seen to rise from the sea-botton in the majestio propor tions of Mt. Brown and Mont Blanco. Tho singlo drift of ice, which bore on its At- lean shoulders the English ship “Besolute,” abandoned by Captain Kellett, and cast it twelve hnndred miles to the sonth, was computed to be at least three hnndred thousand square miles in area and seven feet in thickness. Snch a field of ice would weigh over 18,000,000.000 tons.— We say this was a single drift through Davis’ Straits, only one of the avenues of this current fr»m the Polo, and only a fractional part of the drift in the year. What a mighty flow of water, from tho sonth, mnst that be which, wedging itself into the space aronnd the Pole, ejects snch masses out of this spaco os quietly and easily as the stream-driven piston of the fire-engine throws out its je! d’eau! We dwell upon the might and magnitude of this icc-beoring river from the Pole, because in guaging these we gnage the energy of the recip rocal, heat-bearing “river,” from the tropics, L e., the Golf Stream. The theory of Columbus for finding a way to the East,had far less to support it, it seems to ns, than this theory of a way to the Pole.—From Putnam’s Magazine for November. A Man Killed with his own Trap Gun.—The danger of setting man-traps, whose operations will be attended with fatal results, is ifinstrated in the following occurence: On Monday last Mr. Thomas H. Field, a retired merchant, and a resident of New Bochelle, was killed instantly. It appears that Mr. Field had been annoyed by trespassers who entered his grounds almost nightly and robbed his grapery. Finding it im possible by ordinary means to stop the evil, he purchased two shot-guns, which he loaded heav ily, and then placed them in the hennery, with the muzzles protruding from loopholes. He then attached wires to the triggers, so arranged that trespassers must shoot themselves. On Monday morning Mr. Field found his grape vines prostrated by the storm of Sunday night, and he proceeded to get them into their proper position, and in bo doing came in contact with one of the wires attached to the guns. An ex plosion followed, and Mr. Field was instantly killed. puma* Arthur’s Canada holiday will expire at the end of the present week. The Howard Association, at New Orleans, having in hand about twenty thousand dollars, on excess of contributions. made by citizens of New Orleans, New York, Boston, Baltimore, St Louis, Cincinnati and other places, to relieve the sick and destitute daring the prevalence of the yellow fever, resolved last week to apply this money to the relief of suffering and distress now existing in the orphan asylums and other charitable institutions of New Orleans. Chicago talks abont a wedding with $100,000 worth of diamonds. '.“”*<*1 S' - •'••rtiFDv* •••.**’.; tow*; ■ Children at Church, f From tie Pali Mall Gazette.} “I had a happy childhood,"'writ* Henry Crabb Bobinson. “The only suffering I recol lect was the restraint imposed upon me on Sun days, especially being forced to go twice to meeting, an injurious practice, I [unsatisfied. Once I recollect being whipped by nty mother for being naughty at meeting. A saf prepara tion for a religious life!” A sad preparation indeed I How intelligent pareni themselves to nursery Sabbatarii thing not easily understood. The able children show a perversity am' latent naughtiness under the Sunc which are entirely absent duvit. time; and, except on the principal of doing evil that good may come, it would bo hard to find a single argument in support ol the system. In the first place, let ns consider Ihe effect of compulsory church-going on the moal and spirit ual nature of childhood. Children ra naturally religious; they take kindly to religion tetching when it is of a cheerful and wholesome kind; they love a little mystery, and at the same time have an unbounded hunger and thirst after dry facts. Thns devotional exercise attracts them, and Biblical narrative affords endless wonder and delight. But if anything is calculated to damp the ardor and warp tho aspirations of fresh young minds, it is the dreary formalism to which they are condemned, partly by mistaken zeal and partly by custom. The miseries of a juvenile Sabbath do not end with the church service. Most likely some naughtiness or inat tention during that sorrowful ordeal have en tailed the punishment of so many collects to be learned or Scripture questions to he answered, and what ought to he a day of rest and happi ness is tnrned into a day of fault and retribution. Supposing, however, that tho conscientious pa rents or governesses are satisfied with the morn ing’s behavior, it does not follow that the child’s paths aro to be tho paths of pleasantness throughout the rest of tho day. Behgions books, so-called, are dry reading. Luckily, some publishers have hit upon the clever expedient of giving magazines of a lay character, religions titles, by which means par ents’ minds aro set at ease, and the Sunday har den of many a youthful shoulder is made light er. Making, however, very liberal allowance for this or any other distraction, the seventh day of the week generally happens to be the saddest and the least productive of good influ ences to the best disposed children. And how does the qnestion affect the parents? The re port is not satisfactory. Fathera and mothers who think seriously on the subject of early re ligious teaching are forced to acknowledge the inadequacy of the present system. We have lately to consider the third party concerned in the attendance of children at church, namely, the clergyman. Except very young curates whoso nervousness forbids them bestowing any heed to their congregation what ever, we fancy few clergymen conld not get on better without the consciousness of a juvenile auditory. They foeF compelled to take ac count of these young listeners now and then and yet cannot preach a sermon that shonld be, from beginning to end, within the compass of a child’s mind. The painful conclusion is brought home to many a good man’s mind after the long morning service, that the little ones of his flock have come unwillingly, and have gone away nn- edified. Now, it seems to us that a very simple and practical remedy is at hand for all this dis comfort on the one hand, and dissatisfaction on the other. In some parishes a monthly service for children is performed, lasting about an hour, and in every way adapted to a youthful congre gation. Why cannot this custom be extended ? It would be easy to give short service on alter nate Sunday afternoons so as to provide for all the young in the district. Such an arrangement might prove especially saintary ameug the poor. Many a working man would give nj questiona ble amusements for the sake of taling his chil dren to church, and, if the servicawere simpli fied, children would go to chnrch vith gladness. Again the association of children if all classes under sneh circumstances conld live bnt a hu manizing effect npon their minds, thns knitting rich and poor by the common tie of Christian fellowship and love. A few easy prayers and hymns, and a short discourse illuirative of the history and Old Testament and of tho ethics of the New, would he all sufficient fo» the service; bnt we have not space to dwell ujpn this point. We are chiefly concerned with th< existence of an absurd theory, which proposis to bnild up faith, hope and charity on a superstructure of indifference, disgust and self-de(eption. Mistakes in the Best Regulated • Families. A colored friend of ours has given us the facts concerning a family jar happening in this city, which are worth publishing. We - give them in his own language: “Yon see, dis man, Sam, was married to Judy in larst February. Well, you see, he was mighty good for a mouth or so long dar. He live next door to us, he did, and one day his wife too^h come over dar an’ say, ‘Looiy here, John, yawl seems mighty onsoiable ;’ an’ my darter say ‘snttinly we is, cause you see your'husband aint de rite kind o’ nigger for we all to be soshatin wid. ‘What the matter wid him ?’ she say. And Sally say, ‘He too fond o’ makin’ ’miration ’bout wimin folks, he is.’ Well, Judy, took’n got mighty mad, she did, an’ when I look for her she was gone. Well, sir, tho nextnite ’twas rainin’ mighty fas’, ’twas, an’ was a bring ing of my wife home from church, an’ ’twas rainin'mighty fas','and de fns thing I know I felt a lick side my head which fairly made me sick, and like to buss me open. • My wife say to me, 'Dat’s a 'oman war Httin’ you / ah" i lu>ard a voic*, which said, ‘Yon nasty "black nigger,what ’tnnvMn* a wnlliati wnmon TATYfV llPTA • T The Ka-KIox in Hancock County— Rescue of Oxford. On Wednesday night laBt, letween the hours of 11 and 12 o’clock, a band of armed men— disguised—abont sixty in nranber—entered our town—sought the jail first, and then the resi dence of the Sheriff and jai/or of Hancock coun ty, for tho avowed purpose of taking possession of the person of James Oxford, a prisoner in the county jail—they firel went to the jail and demanded the key of Mr. Harbin, who was in charge of the guard on duty around the jail.— Being told that Mr. Bogars had the key at his residence, they peremptorily demanded that he (Mr. Harbin) shonld conduct them to Mr. Bogers’ residence, and forced him to obey. On arriving at Mr. Bogers’ house, they surrounded it, and called for the Sheriff. Mr. Bogers opened his front door and found several pistols presented towards the door, and asked the par ties what they wanted, when they quietly in formed him that thoy had come for the jail key. Mr. Bogers remonstrated, bnt to no effect They demanded it in unmeasured terms, assur ing him that they wonld hare it, regardless of consequences, admitting at the time, that they knew it was his duty to refuse it, bnt insisting that he mnst go with them lo the jail. Mr. B. finding himself overwhelmed by numbers, told them where the key was, rather than have them search his house and distress his sick family. When they had got tho key, they surrounded Mr. Bogers, and in that position marched to the jail; when at the jail door they told Mi-. Bogers that they had come to relieve him of one of his prisoners, (Oxford,) and that they wonld not molest any other prisoner, or any civil person whatever—bnt assuring him that they would make such disposition of Oxford as shonld for ever relieve Hancock connty and its citizens of his presence—intimating that they were going to kill him as soon as they got ont of the town. They opened the door, took Oxford out and re tired in the direction of Sandersville, or the shoals of Ogechee; and thns ended the first visitof the Kn Klux to Sparta. The Sheriff is wholly blameless, as resistance wonld have been foolish. No Mackerel.—The Cape Ann Advertiser brings bad news. It says: There have been but two arrivals from the Bay the present week, the vessels bringing moderate fares. They report mackerel very scarce—none having been caught for the past three weeks. There are some vessels which have beendn the Bay all the season that have less than one hnndred barrels. A portion of the fleet have done well, bnt the aggregate catch will be far less than was anticipated, unless the fall catch improves. The market for both Bay and Shore mackerel is quite firm, and tho small stock in first bands causes prices to rule high.— Shore was selling for $23 50 and $24, and Bay at $21 50 and $22. More “ big tree groves” have been discovered in California. They are giant red-woods of tho species famous in Calaveras and Mariposa!, and are foond on the head-waters of the Tulare and San Joaquin Bivers. One of these groves is said to oontain trees measuring over.one hun dred in circumference, and even these are re ported to be excelled by those in other groves. The New York Association for the Prevention of Gambling has just issued an appeal to the public for material aid \rith which to prosecute its work. During the past year it has succeeded in effectually closing more than three hundred gambling h&nnts, besides reporting over one thonsand venturesome clerks to their employers. In all but a tithe of the cases so reported, em ployees were retained in their positions under pledges that they wonld avoid gambling in the future. say, ‘ Yoi fool, ’oman; dis aint me.’ An’ she say, * Yox lie, ’tis yon, I know ’tis yon, canse ’taint nob»dy else.’ Well, sir, dat ’oman would a beat mo \o death ef I had a let her. An’ den my wife sh\ thought there was snmpin wrong, an’ she cotch me by de collar, an' was gwine to beat me, too, when Sam he took’n cum up, an’ he say, * Lock a here, what’s all dis?’ an’ when ho found out what was de matter, he say, ‘Look a here, Jndy, dat aint me, dis is me.’ An’ she say, she did, ‘well, 'fore God, when I fust see dat nigger I thought it was youand den I say, * No, its him, an’ nojr I find out 'taint neither of yawL’ She beg my pardon, she did; bnt dat was arter she had dene beat me so dat it made my head ache for tw> days; and dat make me say what I do say, Mistakes will happen in de best onregulated families and darefore folks better keep dere tijngne, and let udder folks GeorHa Claims. We clip the following from the editorial col umns of the New Yorl Evening Post of Tuesday: Those merchants r.bd citizens of tho Northern States to whom resiients of Georgia were in- dobted before or soon after the war will be in terested in the statement, which comes to us from a lawyer in that State, that the last Legis lature passed a speciil act of limitation, under which all debts, of whitever character, contract ed in Georgia before June 1, 1865, will be for ever barred, unless action is begun npon them before January 1, 1870. It will be seeD that no notes or bonds or ac counts, against residents of Georgia, bearing date hefore June, 18G5, can be collected in that State hereafter, however often they may have been renewed, or however indisputable the claim they represent, unless they are actually put into the courts for collection before the end of this calendar year. It is to be presumed that the intention of the Georgia Legislature in this act was not to plnnder creditors, bnt to hasten the adjustment of old claims, and to give embar- rased debtors a chance to begin business free from old scores. We, therefore, only promote this laudable purpose by pointing ont to North ern merchants the necessity of prosecuting their claims in Georgia without delay. A Aloflicr to Her Daughter on Mar- , rlage. Yon are now, my beloved child, abont to leave those arms which have hitherto cherished yon, and directed your every step, and at length con ducted yon to a safe, happy and honorable pro tection, in the very bosom of love and honor. Yon mnst now be no longer the flighty, incon siderate, haughty, passionate girl, bnt ever, with reverence and delight, have the merit of your husband in view. Beflect how vast the sum of your obligation to the man who confers npon yon independence, distinction, and, above all, felicity. Moderate, then, my beloved child, your private expenses, and proportion your gen eral expenditure to the standard of his fortnne, or rather his wishes. I fear not that, with yonr education and principles, you can ever forget the more sacred duties, so soon to be yonr sphere of action. Bemember the solemnity of your vows, the dignity of yonr character, the sanctity of yonr condition. You are amenable to society for yonr example, to yonr husband for his honor and happiness, and to heaven itself for those rich talents entrusted to yonr care and improvement; and though, in the maze of pleasure or the whirl of passion, the dnties of the heart may be forgotten, remember, my dar ling child, there is a record which will one day appear in terrible evidence against us for our least omission.—Moore's Rural New Yorker. An Incident in the Early History of Greenbacks. Texts of Scripture have often been inscribed npon coins. One of tho most remarkable is on a copper coin issued by the papal government, on which are the words, V<v vobis divitibus— “Woe to you who are rich! ” When the green backs were first issued by the United States, Mr. Chase, then Secretary of the Treasury, con sulted, among others, the president of one of the Philadelphia banks in regard to placing some motto npon them—such, for example, as has since been impressed upon the five-oent pieoes—“ In God we trust.” After mentioning several scriptural texts that had occurred to him, the Secretary asked onr .banker’s opinion. “ Perhaps,” was the reply, “the most appropri ate wonld be: ‘ Silver and gold have I none; but snch as I have give I thee l*" The project was abandoned.—From Our Monthly Gossip, in the November number of Lippincott's Maga zine. Bad Bedfellow.—Exceedingly bad! No to bacco user is fit for a bed companion. He is giving forth pestilential vapors from all the pores of his skin. He is an embodiment of per petual miasma. The immediate atmosphere sur rounding him is inevitably impregnated and polluted with the constant effluvia which ema nates from his whole surface. He becomes a perfect walking distillery of the deadly essence, sending forth its fames and vapors into the sur rounding atmosphere. His month is the mill which grinds ont the seeds, and his whole body the distillery for the essence. Put a chewer or smoker into a vapor bath, with no tobacoo in the room, and in a short time the whole room will be strongly scented with tobacco effluvia that emanates from his body. Put him into a warm bath, and get up a perspi ration ; then put that water npon flies or ver min or plants, and it will instantly destroy them. —Health Reformer; Does the Health Beformer insist npon bed fellows blest with living vermin? The probable effect of. emancipation in pro ducing the ultimate extinction of the black race in America is foreshadowed in an elaborate medical report recently presented to the State Medical Society of Kentucky, in relation to the' relative fecundity of women of different nations and conditions. In support of the assertion that labor tends to increase fecundity, and in dolence and luxury the reverse, many historical illustrations were adduced, among which were numerous statistics from various parts of' the Southern States, showing that in a given popula tion, where three children were bom daring slavery, one, or less than one, is bom now, and that at least fifty per cent, of the children of the freed people die during the first year of infancy. It is added that the immorality of the emanci pated slaves has even more to do with their in creased sterility than other causes. Weekly Resume ol I oreigu Affairs, public, another defends a centralized, republic. PREPARED FOR THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH. ^ & ^p^lio ! ! ! In the best OSSO ft Great Barrain.-The next great national bad ^ of oQ6 of th@ SoQth r6pub _ question, after the Irish Church bill is settled, t j n E ur0 p 6) a oontinent so densely popn- wfflho.theIrikhI[and Tenure bill. The press hited, where each SUte is surrounded by power- begins already to devote numberless leaders to • fn i neighbors, republics are but chimeras! the present system of Irish land tenure, which, ! experience of a thonsand years baa demon- really, for centuries has prevented tho growth • 8trated tho fact> that R monarchical form of and development of Ireland. According to this I government is the best for Europe. Switzer, method the tenant cannot rent the property for ^nd, the only BepubUo, owes her exceptional a certain number of years, bnt he is nt any mo- 1 K epu bli 0 an form of government partly to her ment liable to be turned out of the farm. Should geographical position, partly to the guaranty of he have made any improvements, tho expendi- j ^ p ower3 whlo h signed the treaty of Vienna, ture will bo lost to him, for ho is entitled to no i Turkey.—The great powers have entirely compensation. To conclude'from remarks of j from tho Turco-Egyptian quarrel, several members of the Cabinet, the Govern-;j leaviE u to ^ Saltan aud hia vassal to come ment is at least willing to put a stop to this cry- > to aQ understanding. It is intimated that the inginjustice.. Lora Clarendon has, for exam- ; busines3 ia to be -left in “statu quo” until the pie, declared it was the greatest evil that & prop- > Rtt j val of the Empress of the FranehinCoa- ^Aoiaor possessed now the power of driving atantin l when Umail Pasha ^ arbitrarily a tenant from his estate, thus appro- ! appearance there too. Eugenie may then find priating to himself the profit of his labor ana •: a ? v expenditure. ! fices to restore peace between the two Mahome- Tho Fenian lying at King’s cormty hospital. tan rulers, in London, and identified as Martin at last, sue- In Italy, Austria and Bussia there has abso- enrnbed to his wounds on the 15th of October. ; lately nothing transpired deserving any notice Six thonsand people, among them tho relations ' in these columns. Jarno. of the deceased, wearing green neck-ties, fol- • —-—• , r.r * • The Louisville Convention. lowed the hearse. Meetings advocating the release of the Fenian ! We have in tho Louisville papers fall reports - • . ,3. -r,,,'. "...it: v - 0 _a of the proceedings of two days in the Oommer- pnsoners, were held in Dublin, Cork, Ennis and ; ^ C( £ vention g eld ^ ^ £ ty . But our ^ Templemore. The Times in a leader comment- . ^ only enable us to give the substance of ing oh the numerous assemblies in favor of the its action. Fenians, is strongly opposed to any pardon. Official figures at the Treasury Department estimate that the ootton crop this year will be worth $240,000,000, while the total value of ex ports of the South-is set down st $328,500,000. These fignreB show that the South is rapidly re covering from the disasters of the late war, and that in a few years she will gain her former po sition of commercial and financial importance in the country. Additional nows has been received respecting the African traveler, Dr. Livingstone. He had been seen by an Arab on the Tanganyika Sea. Dr.' Livingstone was wandering westwards, en deavoring, probably, to reach Congo. In Zan zibar they did not doubt of his being safe. France.—Prince Carl, of Boumania, was re ceived by the Emperor. The deputies Gambetta, Baspail and Esqui- ros, considering tho 2Gth of October as the legal day for the reassembling of tho Corps Legisla te, intend to repair on that day to the Palace of tho Chamber of Deputies. “Le Bappel" assures his readers that the deputies of the Left on the 2Gth of October will proceed to the “Bureau dn Corps Legislatif’ to sign a protest there, declaring that they consid er themselves released of their oath of allegi ance, as the Emperor has violated the Consti tution. A wide-spread riot occurred among the labor ers of the Orleans Bailway Society in the de partment Abeyron. On the night of the 7th, after some skirmishes daring the day, they set the magazines and bnildings of the company on fire. In the morning the riot had assumed most alarming proportions. But a military forcehad in the meantime made its appearance on the spot, and in the following encounter ten of the rioters were killed instantly, besides many wonnded. Then the mob dispersed. Father Hyacinthe has left for the United States to pass there several months. To furnish the Empress with the necessary funds for her pilgrimage to the Orient, Napoleon drew ten millions of francs on the Bank of Eng land on account of his deposit there in case of “sudden emergencies.” In the fashionable world there was much said of a costume which Eugenie had had made to wear while crossing the sea. It is said to be the transformation of a naval officer’s uniform into the female garb. Germany.—The budget for 1870 was laid be fore the Landtag, which has beon in session since the 6th instant. It shows a deficit of 5,400,000 Thalers to be covered, according to the govern mental bill, by an increase of 25 per cent of the excise and income tax. A report, not yet confirmed though, was cir culating that a treaty between North Germany and the Kingdom of Wuertemberg hadbeen con cluded, allowing North German citizens to serve their military term in the ‘Wuertemhergian ar my, and Wuertembergers in the North German army. Shonld this prove correct it may be con sidered as another link in the chain that will finally unite Sonth and North into one national empire. Another good omen for the future of the Em pire is the announcement that more amicable relations between Vienna and Berlin will be established very soon, as it tends to show that Austria does not wish to interfere any more with the progress of German unity. This news is coincident with the report of a serious inten tion on the part of the representatives of the people of Baden to apply for the reception of the Grand Dnehy in the North German Confed eration. Shonld the application really be made to King William, the President of the. Union, it is probable that he will, for the present, decline the offer, awaiting the time when Bavaria, the largest Southern Kingdom, will apply for ad mission into the Northern Empire. GeorgeLewine, the Berlin agent of the bank rupt “Albert Life Insurance,” has been arrest ed on a charge of fraudulent bankruptcy. The city of Dresden has suffered a great loss by the destruction of the theatre, one of the finest in Germany. By the carelessness of two subordinate employes, some pieces of linen sa turated with benzine, caught fire, and in a few hours the magnificent building, with frescoes, It was ono of the best attended Conventions of the kind ever held in the. Sonth. The con gregation of so many intelligent bnsiness men and talented gentlemen of all professions at tests an increasing interest in matters relating to the advancement and development of the South; and though this body may not practical ly have accomplished much, the interest thus attested furnishes ground for hope that the movement will continue until results of much good are worked ont. It is stated that Georgia had a larger repre sentation than any other State, Kentucky not excepted. This, too, is gratifying and encour aging. A great many propositions were introduced in reference to the Southern Pacific railroad line, Direct Trade with Europe, the Carrenoy, Immigration, the Mississippi Levees, Manufac tures, Tennessee Biver Improvement, etc., all of which were referred to committees. On Thursday, the Committee on Immigration made a report, which contemplates the continu ance of the several State organizations for the encouragement of immigration; also an appoint ment by this Convention of a “general agent of immigration,” and that it be recommended to the States to give him their appointment and provide funds for carrying ont the plans agreed npon. The report also contemplates the estab lishment of lines of direct transportation be tween the Sonthem and European ports to ao- commodato immigration and trade. It nomi nates CoL M. F. Maury as the general agent The report and resolutions were adopted. The Committee on the Tennessee Biver Im provement made a report, embodying a memo rial to Congress. The memorial describes the peculiarities of the Tennessee Biver, claims it as a stream of national interest, and asks Con gress to undertake its improvement so as to ob tain uninterrupted navigation from its month to Knoxville. The estimates of the cost of these improvements, made at various times by Gov ernment engineers, range from $1,500,000 to $4,000,000. The memorial claims that the im provements, when made, will be permanent, and that the navigation of the river will then be of great advantage to the trade of nearly all the States. The report was unanimously adopted. Columbus Enquirer. In a private garden in San Francisco is a stone reservoir, abont eight feet in length by four or five in width and two or three feet deep, lined with cement and supplied with water from the Spring Valley Water Works. Abont two dozen gold fish from the Society Islands were placed there several months ago. These fish have been regnlariy fed, and but little notice was taken of them until a few days ago, when it was observed, accidentally, that the colony had been increased by an innumerable quantity of young goldfish, now abont an inch in length. The little ones are in good wiggling condition and bid fair, in time, to rival the brilliant hues of their finny progenitors. It is said that Bothschild and the Archbishop of Paris met at a public dinner some time since, - and arrived at the same moment at the door. Neither wished to enter first. Finally the Aroh- bishop cried ont; “ M. Bothschild, yon are the son of Moses; I am the servant of Jesus; von have the precedence of age. The Old Testa ment is more venerable than the New." And the banker went in first. Parker Pillsbury, among the Sonth Caro lina niggers, has had an awful waking np. He had supposed, no doubt, that they were “poor, but respectable ;” but he has found them little better than the barbarians of Dahomey—lazy, filthy, whisky-drinking, ignorant almost beyond belief and horribly demoralized in every way. Pillsbury, however, has . set a good example to all his fellow negro worshippers of the Wendell Phillips coterie, in going down Sonth to Bee for himself how far the ballot has elevated “the national freedmen,” for even Sumner would learn something to his advantage*in a Sonthem excursion in search of knowledge.—Herald. The Independence Beige warns tourists who intend visiting Suez to avoid the sea on Novem ber 5th, as the position of the moon on that day foretells severe atmospheric convulsions, which may cause serious disasters, especially to ships. The effect will be felt more or less all over the world. i 1 V ~ . r On and after the 19th instant, the time by railway between San Francisco and New York, Philadelphia and Washington will be reduced from seven to six days. Whenever expedient another reduction of from twelve to twenty hoars can easily be made. The number of United States soldiers bailed in the Federal cemeteries in Virginia, excluding violins, etc., was reduced to ashes. The theatre j mon< j and Manchester. had been erected in the most noble architectural . Vick, aged 108 years, living in Davidson proportions, from 1837 to 1841, after plans connty, Tenn., was in NashvilieFriday last to drawn by Prof. Semper. Beside the chief en- collect her pension. The papers say she is hale, trance stood the statues of Goethe, Schiller, j h ^>_“ d 88 88 * «“• -• ‘ „ Glnct Mozart, b 7 MM, tan, to. wards the Elbe stood Moliere and Aristophanes; Quebec, on going to and returning from the and on the opposite side, Shakespeare and En- (Ecumenical Council, shall be defrayed from ripides by Hachneh Loss $1,000,000. . the imperial exchequer. ripiuea uy ’ 1 t Four Jews are now English baronets—Si* Spun.—The spirit of knight-errantry is not, Francis Goldsmith, Sir Moses Montedore, flit yet extinct in the descendants of “ Illustrious Anthony Bothchilda and Sir David Salomons— Don Quixote.” The Eepublican Hidalgos, after a 11 of whom have been made snch within the having gathered their forces, have given the ^f 68 ”'. ... . . signal to a bloody crusade in favor of a phan- nni.ort tv signal to a bloody crusane m xavoroi a pnan- Q en . Bobert E. Lee, have published in Bieh- tom republic against the Monarchists. mond papers an appeal for aid to remove the Severe encounters in Aragon, Castile, Cats- Confederate dead from Gettysburg to Hoilywood Ionia and Andalusia, the most important and Cemetery. most populous provinces, are daily reported. It *? proposedto organize , roffing-i^com- ^ r .. i. 4- 4 n pany in Knoxville. Tennessee, with a capital of The troops, the Government bulletins tell ns— $250 000. have hitherto always remained masters of the ^ Texans complain of pork being five cents field. Bnt the extension of the skirmishes in- a pound when they can get beef at two oents s dicates that the movement is backed by a mass pound. of the people. Deputies even bead the rising The Atlantio iron works at Norfolk have oon- . - ; -_rLX,,4. onvnrnment bill anmAnd tracted to build five iron steamboats—one for bands; and when the government bi^ suspend- Norfolk ^ fonr for Augusta, Ga. ing all constitutional liberties for the time of the a status of Hr. Peabody is to be erected st insurrection, had passed the Cortes, the Re pub- Borne, by order of the Pope. lican members declined to take any further part There wfll be 50 000 square feet of marble in in the proceedings of that body. There ia Again ^ y among the BepnbUoan party . - difference, insigmfiomit now, buUwhiob, should Gffl , Kakks Bnd K »than Appleton era to ss- viotory smile on the Bepnbhoan arms, will very ^ B t the Suet opening. likely split that party again into two hostile Euosnxe wean the engagement ring ef tbs camps. One part is in favor of a federative re- Empress Josephine, * y : • % 4 * \ y • A i t » •Vi •rV “ rW* M *. v» ) t ■ <*r