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The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH;
MACON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1809.
Cotton Seed ns a Fertilizer.
TheCharleston Conrier says that the Pacific
Gnano Company of that city prepare a Com
pound Acid Phosphate of Lime, which, when
composted with cotton seed, will form as valu
able a fertilizer as the Soluble Pacific Guano,;
and which carf be furnished to the planter at a
much loss cost than the latter. .It is said that
the cotton crop of the South collects from the
soil and atmosphere in its growth and develop
ment and fabricates into its seed at maturity
not less than 50,000 tons of actual ammonia.—
By reason of tho bulk of tho seed, however, it
is available for fertilizing purposes only on tho
plantations, and to bo made capable of its high
est utility must bo used as hero proposed. If
thus utilized it will guarantee to the Cotton
States ample supply of tho equivalent in actual
value of Soluble Pacific Guano, at a minimum
cost, which will justify increased application
per acre, and realize corresponding benefits to
the consumer. * ‘ •
Wo think the planters can just as well com
port their cotton seed at home. Salt, lime, ash
es, ground gypsum, bone dust, and many other
ingredients added to a heap of well decomposed
cotton seed, will be found to be good enough
manure without calling in tho agency of the
mills.
Attending “ Green Line” Convention.—
The following railroad officials (says tho Atlanta
Constitution, of the 28th,) are here: Colonel
Geo. Hazlehurst, President Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad.; Captain A. J. White, President
Macon and Western; Mr. H. S. Haynes, Gen
eral Superintendent Atlantic and Gulf; Mr.
Edgar Vleit, General Freight Agent Selma,
Romo and Dalton; Mr. M. H. Smith, General
Freight Agent Louisville and Nashville; Mr.
Charles Owens, General Freight Agent Atlantic
and Gulf; Mr. E. S. Dorsey, General Freight
Agent Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta; Maj.
O. W. Anderson, General Freight Agent Nash
ville and Chattanooga, aud the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad.
The U. S. Scteeme Court.—Tho Congres
sional Radicals, it seems, propose to put the
Supreme Court decisions under revision of a
committee of Congress. That is hardly worse
than the bill limiting the jurisdiction of the
Court. Both are bad enough. Both aro in keep
ing with the usurping, unconstitutional charac
ter of Congressional legislation for years past
and will eventually bring some popular brick
bats on their heads which will astonish them.
Immigrant Laborers.—The Petersburg Index
learns that forty-nine men and some half a dozen
women and childsen, emigrants from Denmark
and Holland, passed up the South Side road on
Saturday, cn route for Chattanooga, as laborers
on the Chattanooga and Alabama railroad. One
of tho agents in clmrgo of tho party informed
us, says the Index, that he would continue to
bring on a lot of these emigrants every week as
they arrived in New York.
Robert J. Bacon* & Co.—This firm, com
posed of Robert J. Bacon, Esq., Hon. D. A.
Vason, and John A. Davis, Esq., have estab
lished a Real Estate Agency in Albany, Ga.,
whore persons can find fine farms for rent or
sale, and have all titles carefully examined.
They also are agents for the sale of commercial
fertilizers of various kinds. The character of
these gentlemen will doubtless give them a
large business.
Guano Detot in Savannah.—The Savannah
Republican notices that the Central Railroad
Company are constructing a large frame build
ing near the Ogeechee canal, which we are in
formed is to be used as a guano depot. This
will no doubt be gratifying news to numerous
citizens whose olfactory nerves have heretofore
been Bhocked by the disagreeable odor which
proceeds from the varions commercial manures.
A German and Polish Colony in Virginia.
—The Lynchburg Republican learns that Cap
tain Edgar Whitehead has recently sold a large
tract of land in Amherst county to a Polish com
pany, 'which proposes to plant upon it a colony
of three hundred German and Polish families.
Among the purchasers is a Polish count of high
distinction and ample means.
Wheat.—10,000 bushelB of spring wheat to
arrive, were sold a few days ago in St. Louis at
$1 per bushel. The wheat came from Minne
sota. It is estimated that Minnesota should
send at least 5,000,000 bushels of wheat to St.
Iionis, 1,000,000 of which can be brought for
ward before ice closes the river.
Nor Matrimonial.—The Rome Conrier com
plains that the papers represent the Fair there
as altogether a matrimonial trap, and wants to
know why ? We know of no other reasons than
that from very ancient times the Romans were
represented to have a taking way with the
women.
The Reunion op Northern Presbyterians.
A New York dispatch says that returns have
been received from more than two-thirds of the
Presbyteries, ratifying the reunion of the Pres
byterian Church by the required majority. The
two General Assemblies will meet in Pittsburg,
on the 10th of November, to count the votes
and declare the result.
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad earned
*1 ,189,759 22 in the year ending June 30,18G9,
and its operating expenses were $785,546 27 for
the same time; compared with the previous
year, this report shows an increase of $7,845 09
in gross earnings and $56,406 68 in net earnings.
Cotton.—The receipts of cotton at this point
for storage and sale have been quite heavy for
the last day or two—the receipts yesterday
amounting to 1047 bales; sales, 519; 23 cents
being the figures for middlings.
Heavy Freightage.—The Augusta papers
State that the amount of freight received at Au
gusta by the Georgia railroad is so great that
the depot will not contain it, and large quanti.
ties aro pilod under the eaves of the building,
and covered with tarpauline.
Macon Suirtinos and Sheetings.—A circu
lar from J. E. Jones, agent, gives the follow
ing prices for October 30:
Sheeting, 4-4—15 cents ; 8hirting, 7-8—13J
cents; Drills, none; Ball Thread, 65 cents per
pound; Knitting Yam, 65 cents per pound.
The National Intelligencer.—The Wash
ington Republican of Wednesday says it was
currently reported that the papers for the sale
of the National Intelligencer to Senator Spragne,
were executed yesterday afternoon.
The Atlanta Constitution learns from a pri
vate letter, from Cartersville, that a large num
ber of families from the Cherokee country are
• emigrating West. The tendency is chiefly to
Arkansas. Five or six wagons pass daily.
Cold Snap in Atlanta. — The Constitution
says there was a heavy frost Tuesday night, and
some ice Wednesday morning. Wednesday
evening, the weather slightly moderated.
The Beleigh, N. O., Standard says there h—
been an astonishing increase in the valuation at
property in that city and neighborhood within
the last few months.
Bjusham Young is said to rale ores 150,060
sableets., {fljfV
Gossip About the Situation In
Georgia.
Another manifest aspect in the Georgia Situ
ation is the strong and growing tendency among
the people to social, industrial and political har
mony. The close of the war fonnd many of bur
most \pteUigent men possessed by a theory that
“ a war of races” was not only a natural, but an
inevitable sequence of emancipation. They
maintained with great plansibility and show of
reason that tho civil and political subordination
of the blacks was 'indispensable to the security
of society against a vindictive rivalry which
would eventuate in violent conflicts and deadly
antagonism. .
These theories seemed not only reasonable,
bnt the experience of the world in every case
where the two races had not intermingled in
blood seemed to lend them a strong support. No
subject at that time, perhaps, produced a great
er degreeof uneasiness among tho people. Many
emigrated aud hundreds keptthe means of ready
escape in hand, or on deposite, in event they
should bo suddenly demanded by tho exigencies
of a social anarchy which could only find a solu
tion in the extermination of the weaker race.
Where evil forebodings did not assume so
gloomy a shape as this, they were still sufficient
todisqnietthe people. More or less dread and
apprehension were felt in all agricultural circles.
Tho family of the planter did not feel secure,
and tho planter himself hardly knew how mnch
importance to attach to that philosophical and
historical reasoning, which taught him that tho
civil and political equality of the blacks was in
compatible with peace and order.
To add to the disquiet of the times, there
were the operations of the Northern mission
aries and political adventurers called carpet
baggers, who peregrinated the country stirring
up the blacks to self-assertion by the most vio
lent speeches, often interlarded with sanguinary
and brutal counsels. There was, also, the same
people in Congress, insisting upon arming the
negroes for alleged self-defense against whites
who had been disarmed by the government
The aspect of affairs justified a apprehension
and disquiet, and called into exercise a feeling of
hatred and disgust for every white man call
ing himself radical or republican. It was even
felt and said many that all snob* were either
seeking safety in a base composition, or were
willing to sell their race for tho pitiful emolu
ments of office.
But nearly five years have passed and wo see
that the theory of race conflict is not a sound
one. We see that the colored race can exercise
all the civil and political rights belonging to tbo
whites and yet no conflict of violence necessari
ly take place. Doubtless, it is a great evil that
political power should be shared between peo
ples so divided by the band of God, and there
is danger in it; bnt this danger can be obviated
by prudence and forbearance. On tho whole,
every man looking back through these five years
feels assured that tho relations between these
races instead of getting worse, aro vastly improv
ing—that the feeling of security ba3 increased un
til it has become well nigh absolute—and that
emphatically tho whites of the South aro masters
of the situation, and have the whole future un
der God in their hands.
Now every one sees a condition which de
mands from us the exorcise of the highest at
tributes—j udgment—self-command—modera
tion—justice, liberality and forbearance—and
tbo violent, the acrimonions, and the passionate
man is the enemy of the State and society, al
though he may not mean to occupy that posi
tion.
The condition, improving rapidly as it most
undoubtedly is, still demands from tho Southern
citizen far higher attributes—moral, social and
political, than those of any other citizenship on
the earth, and it should be onr pride and glory
that we have, in the main, displayed them and
successfully brought our craft through tho most
extraordinary perils aud embarrassments. Mis
takes we have made, but they were inevitable
in so extraordinary a situation. We have but
to go on as we are moving, and our social, in
dustrial and political future will all bo, in time,
secure beyond contingency. We have conquered
our prejudices and passions—we have learned
to rale onr own spirits—we shall certainly main
tain the peace, order and security of Georgia.
Congress and the President’s Message
Leo, tho Washington correspondent of tho
Charleston Conrier, says:
On all sides we note preparations for the com
ing session of Congress. The departments are
making ready their reports. The President has
given out some hints as to his message. He
will not recommend any reduction of the tariff
or of internal taxes for tho present session.
Upon this point there will bo much opposition.
The time has come, in the judgment of tho
country, when the burden of taxation must be
reduced. The public debt must not be made to
fall upon the present generatibn, inasmuch as
it will be a lighter burden to posterity than to
ns. The people will not bear heavy taxation
without murmur much longer for the purpose
of giving the Grant Administration the credit of
hurrying the payment of the public debt. In
stead of paying it off in fifteen years, tbo peo
ple will say let it run for thirty years, or for an
ndefinito time, and at a reduced late of in
terest
Pennsylvania is coming with a project for an
increased tariff upon iron, steel, etc., etc., thus
diminishing the revenue derived from those
imports by duties amounting to prohibition. To
make up this deficiency, a tax of one cent a
pound upon the cotton product is to be pro
posed. The great Republican party, now con
trolling Congress, will soon be divided upon the
revenue and other financial questions.
In relation to the attitude of the President
upon taxation and the tariff, other writers agree
with the statements of Leo. General Grant
plumes himself upon having dug a little hole
into the mountain of national debt, and is anx
ious to make a larger and more rapid reduc
tion. In regard to protection and tariff, he has,
on several slight occasions, indicated a strong
partiality for the protective system. The cot
ton tax is perhaps not so improbable as wo
wish it were. A cent a ponnd will realize to
the tax-gatherers some ten or twelve millions of
dollars. How large a part of which may go into
the public Treasury wo are unable to say, and
it will put the planter to more than fifty mil
lions’ worth of vexation, delay and imposition,
We look forward to the gathering of Congress
with anything but pleasure. The country is
now quiet—politics in abeyance; and though ’ brother-in-laws.
Georgia is not in the Union, she is not out of it.
She is hanging somewhere in a state of be-
tweenity, like Mahomet’s coffin—just as well,
may be, for the time being, as if her position
as a State were acknowledged. But what Con
gress may do to unsettle everything, time alone
can determine. We find some sagacious men
qnite apprehensive that the State will be rough
ly dealt with.
' The Pennsylvania Election. I £.:<
After our Radical friends in Pennsylvania
had gotten over their shouts and ecstacies, and
come coolly to deliberate npon the figures in the
last Pennsylvania election, they became very
much cooler, aud some of them have the candor
to talk very much as we did about that affair.
Thus the Evening Telegram, a Radical sheet,
says:
It is a discouraging fact, too, that in nearly
every county in the State, outside of Philadel
phia, tho vote of Governor Geary falls far be
hind that polled for Hartranft in 1868. A dreary
succession of Republican losses is reported, and
the preliminary returns indicate that Geary’s
whole .majority in the State will not exceed the
Republican gain effected in Philadelphia alone,
over the vote in October, 1868, We may well
exclaim with the ancient general, “ One more
such victory, and we are undono.” Since
Grant’s majority of 28,899, in 1868, is cut down
to 4.000 or 5,000, the managing politicians can
not bo too deeply impressed with the necessity
of popular nominations hereafter.
That is true, and if we felt quite os sure of a
fortune as wo do that Pennsylvania ispreparing
to resume her ancient status as the keystone of
the Democratic arch, wo should begin to con
sider tho subject of investments already. The
Pennsylvania Inquirer, the ancient Radical bell
wether, has the following upon tho same subject:
Judging from the signs indicated by the elec
tion the only doubt that could be maintained in
reference to the matter, might be as to the feel
ings and opinions of the 18,000 persons who re
fused, on the present occasion, to go the polls.
They were either negligent or dissatisfied. If
the former was the case, no prognostication can
be made ns to wbat they may do hereafter.
There is no very sanguine hope about the fu
ture hero. The truth is, the Radical party,
aware of their danger both in Ohio and Pennsyl
vania, made extraordinary efforts, particularly
in the latter State. They had their best speak
ers and canvassers out, and a plenty of them. <
The Democracy, on the other hand, had few or
no speakers, and condncted the canvass, in
Pennsylvania particularly, with far less than
their accustomed zeal Wo think, with equal
effort, they would have carried the State, and
feel now that the day is their’s, whenever they
choose to display the energy and aptitude which
used to characterize the Pennsylvania Democ
racy. _ _ v
The Georgia State Fair.
The following important information was tele
graphed, through the Associated Press, to all
parts of the country, from Macon, last night:
Macon, October 29, 1869.
Parties wishing steam-power to ran machine
ry, at the Georgia State Agricultural Society, at
Macon, 16th November, will please immediately
telegraph to the Seoretary the speed they re
quire. *
General Sherman, on an application, approved
by General Terry, has ordered a largo number
of army-tents to be placed at tho servico of the
State Agricultural Society, for county agricul
tural societies, colleges and schools camping on
the ground.
The railroads on the line from Alexandria,
Va., through Lynchburg, Cleveland, Dalton,
Atlanta; and the roads on the line from Cincin
nati, through Louisville, Nashville, Chattanoo
ga, Atlanta; the roads from St Louis, Mo., by
boat to Hickman, through Nashville, Chatta
nooga and Atlanta; the roads from Memphis
through Chattanooga; the roads from Jackson,
Miss., through Selma, Rome, Atlanta; from
Montgomery, Ala., through Columbus, Ga.; the
Florida roads connecting with the Georgia roads;
the Petersburg and Weldon road; Wilmington
and Manchester; the South Carolina road; the
road from Philadelphia to Baltimore; from St.
Paul to Milwaukie—have consented to bring and
return passengers for one fare ; articles for ex
hibition half rates.
The receipts of the recent State fair of Illinois
were $20,000; of the State fair of Wisconsin,
$7500; of the State fair of Indiana, $29,089.
It will be seen that the agricultural report for
June estimates the cotton crop at 2,750,000
bales.
The insurances asserted to have been recently
effected upon the lives of members of the fami
ly of the Emperor Napoleon IU, have been cre
ating some excitement in Paris. It is semi-offi-
cially denied that the life of the Prince Imperial
has been insured, but it is also announced that
the Empress, wishing to secure a provision for
the charitable institutions founded under her
patronage, has caused her life to be insured for
a considerable sum for their benefit.
In exporting living plants, the Japanese wrap
the roots in. a mixture of earth and carrots
ground together.
The first water-power sawmill of which we
have any record, was erected at Saardam, Hol
land, in 159G.
Letter from Barbour County, Ala
Clayton, Ala., Octobor 25, 18G9.
Editors Telegraph: In my last communica
tion, which was devoted to railroad matters and
Georgia emigration, I promised to make tho
crops and business in general the subject of my
next letter. I will now proceed to make good
that promise by giving you such items as have
come under my observation.
My own views of crops and business have been
fully confirmed by the statements of our promi
nent merchants, who estimate the crops in the
vicinity as fully up to those of last year, if not
five to ten per cent, better in their yield of mar
ketable commodities. Tho natural result of this,
as may bo inferred, is to make business livelier
and better than ever before. Our traders are
selling nearly twice their usual amount of goods.
The planters, now that crops promise a good
revenue, seem inclined to bny more largely than
heretofore, and to lay in a more varied stock for
winter and spring consumption. This they haTe
been unable to do of late years, as their meanB
necessarily have been limited.
On Satnrdaay, which is the freedman’s holi
day and the white man’s day for merchandising,
our streets aro crowded with teams, carriages and
saddle-horses, while our stores are thronged
with customers. So great is the crowd, if the
weather is fair, that our ladies seldom venture
into the business portion of the town on that
day. Of course, this brisk revival of business
to the old standard, and the proposed railroad
connections, have served to stop the decline in
real estate, and led several of our townsmen,
who were about deciding to go to Texas or
Georgia with a view to improve their condition,
to postpone the change for another year at least,
that they may see tho effects of the proposed
new developments of enterprise. It is sincerely
hoped by all classes of our citizens that these
developements will give a now impetus and a
permanent growth to the business and enter
prise of our town, and it may become, in every
sense, as it is now judicially, the central point of
interest iu good old Barbour county.
We have in our midst what in some parts of
the country would be deemed a great curiosity,
a family by the name of Dent, who are in no
way related to President Grant, and who aro
not, therefore, dependent npon him for their
support from the proceeds of any pnblio office.
I can account for this strange circumstance in
only one way—they ore honest, industrious, in
telligent and respected citizens, and capable of
earning their own living, which is more than
can be said of all of General Grant’s numerous
And this reminds me that I
did see a genuine Grant-Dent iu North Carolina,
as I came from Richmond, Va., to Greensboro.
While the train was stopping at a small station,
I heard the mail agent address a little, poverty-
stricken, insignificant looking man, as Mr. Dent,
rat once inquired if he was not a relative of
General Grant; and was told that he was. Not
doubting the fact, for his general appearance
indicated it, I made assurance, doubly sure by
asking the same question of the individual him
self, who gave an affirmative reply; and also
stated, in answer to another question of mine,
that he was the postmaster of the plaoe. Happy
little Dent. Like the Rev. Petroleum V. Nasby,
P. M., he has a post-offioe situated between
two grog-shops, and is a relative of the great (?)
man, whose name is affixed (but in the hand
writing of one of his numerous secretaries who
has ^permanent residenooatthe seat of govern
ment) to his commission. Nasby’s document,
however, had the genuine signature of his
bosom friend aud confidant, Andrew Johnson;
whoj whatever else may be said of him, was not
too lazy to attend to his public duties.
I intended to speak of your great and most
acceptable improvements in the size and gen
eral appearanoe of the Telkobath, which have
called forth the highest enoominms; bat. I.will
defer it until another time, when I shall he able
to speak at greater length than I can hope now
to do. I will only say, in conclusion, if your
stock of advertisements holds oat as well as I
know your stock of brains will, why there is no
fear that you will go back to the old size again.
„ Yours fraternally,
Sidney Herbert.
Cotton Supi»ly'and EricVs. . ^
The following article from the’ Boston .Post;
on the cotton crop of 1 which is now the
all-important subject of controversy, so far as
dollars and oents are concerned,-will be found
to be worthy the careful perusal of our readers:
In tho season of 18G7-’68 cotton touched its
lowest price during Christmas week. Last sea
son the lowest point was touched before (he
middle of November, say 22 cents for middling
in Southern markets, a fall of about 6 cents per
ponnd from the opening price of the season.—
But it bad been discovered while that decline
was in progress that the world’s consumption of
cotton had during the preceeding year so ex
ceeded the world*s supply, that tho stocks on
hand, which were 1,092,000 bales, October 1st,
186?. bad fallen to G14,000 bales October 1st
18G8. This startling reduction of nearly 500,-
000 bales in the reserve during one year, showed
that the world wanted more cotton. than could
be had at the price. Producers and consumers
accepted the teaching, and prices advanced
from 22 cents in November to 29 cents in Feb
ruary. At that price in New Orleans and cor
responding prices abroad, a check was given to
consumption. Cotton spinners and manufac
turers have generally done a losing business
since Febrnary last when working cotton at mar
ket value. Trade would not bear a prico on
cotton goods to correspond with-the higher
price of raw cotton, goods accumulated in Rtocks
at home and in the distributing markets, or
were forced off at considerable losses.
So now wo find, in contrast with last year,
that while the supply of cotton to the world
during the year ending October 1st, 1869, Las
been about 390,000 bales less than during the
preceding year, the stocks remaining on hand
October 1st, 18G8, showing that tho world did
not want any increase of supply at tho price of
that year.
Tho actual crop or ppodnetion of the United
States for 1868-9 was not more than 2.350,000
bales, and of that about Rr.,000 bales wore used
in the South, burnt, etc. The foreign export
from it was less than 1,470,000 bales. Tho
common estimate of the present crop is 2,750,-
000 bales. Wo make no estimate, but remind
old cotton men that no dry season ever failed
to exceed the largest estimate, no wet season
over failed to fall below the minimum estimate
in the actual product, reckoning the wet and dry
character from and after July 15th.
A crop of 2,750,000 bales would show an in
crease of 400,000 bales npon tho lost one, and
would afford an increaso of 300,000 bales in tho
foreign exports if wanted at the prices. The
lower range of prices during 1807-8 made con
sumption outrun supply 487,000 bales. Tho
higher range of 1868-9 has enabled a Bupply of
about 322,000 less to satisfy tho consumption.
The difference is the sum of both, say 800,000
bales.
From these facts, it seems clear that at one
price consumption extends; at another it con
tracts ; that a price somewhere between the av
erage of 1867-8 and the average of 1808 9 is nec
essary to give such an expansion to the URes of
cotton ns will appropriate the increase of sup
ply ; and that while tho planters must concede
to that point, they hold tho power to prevent the
fall to prices materially below that point, as oc
curred in 1867.
India sends very favorable reports of her cc*t-
ton crop; the most favorable for many yenrs, in
decided contrast with those a year ago. The last
crop was a partial failure, to tho acre, oven ac
cording to the small nvorage of India. In Feb
ruary, 18G9, Mr. Forbes, the Cotton Commission
er for India, appended a postscript to his report
of the crop in the several districts, in whichj af
ter referring to the losses in the culture of the
American and native varieties, he says: “ The
native plant has suffered more severely; the es
timated loss is here given »t 50 per cent., but
notwithstanding the above, owing to the increaso
in cultivation, the whole crop of these districts
will be considerably in excess of that obtained
from them last year.” The result proved that
both the unfavorable early reports and the re
port of Mr Forbes were correct. If the flatter
ing promise of this year applies to an equal
nrea, and shall be fulfilled, the supply of India
cotton may have an extraordinary increase. It
is, however, qnite too early to know anything
of the yield, or even of its probabilities, which
may be wholly changed after fruiting begins. If
the’promise of an abundant yield in India 6hall
continue to December, and the current esti
mates of our crop be sustained, the discourage
ments of English manufacturers and spinners
will give place to a hopeful renewal of activity
by lower and safer prices of the raw material.
AfTairs in Colnmbns.
Wo clip the following from the Enquirer, of
Thursday morning:
Summary.—Yesterday, as far as weather is
concerned, was one of those calm, bright, lovely
days only to be found in the queen month of
October. The atmosphere was pure, cool and
bracing, as if just from tho snowy poaks of the
mountains. In a business point of view the day
wob dull for Wednesday. Trade in mercantile
circles only moderate. Many of our merchants
looked and talked disconragingly, as if not sat
isfied with the situation. Of course it is unrea
sonable for them to expect to revel in one con
tinued whirl of business and pleasure, and they
must take the days as they come, for better or
for worse liko a man does his wife. Of one
thing we feel assured, and that is that our sec
tion is gradually enriching. Our planters are
realizing good prices for their cotton, and if we
may be allowed an opinion, the crop is consider
ably larger than last season, and though they
may not be disposed to part with thoir cash in
one day, it is in their pockets and will come to
our merchants in due time. Wo anticipate a
lively winter, and expect as soon as wo can get
a river to see our prospects materially brighten.
Then here’s hoping for luck, if it never comes.
The city remains dull iu points of local interest.
All Occupied.—Not only are all the stores
and residences in Colnmbns occupied, but it is
now difficult to obtain even a shanty on the
west bank of tho Chattahoochee. Wo have
heard it hinted that the Eagle and Phonix Com
pany has in contemplation the building of a
number of new tenements on their lots oppo
site the dam, on the other side of the river, and
trnst the report is true. A small town, with
admirable garden lots, can be laid out over
there, which will be of groat benefit to their
numerous employes.
Fell Through.—We learn that on Monday a
negro employee on the new Eagle and Phoenix
Factory foil from the third story to the ground,
by which ho was only Rlightly injured.
Ice.—We learn that ieo was seen at several
places in-the oity yesterday morning. A pas
senger from Silver Run said ho saw ice there.
We saw some at Hogan’s ice house, but didn't
think yesterday morning freezing weather.
The J5un and Times of the same date has
these paragraphs:
River News.—To 11 a. m. yesterday the river
had risen twenty-six inches.. By twelve it had
fallen one inch, showing rains in up country
had been heavy but brief. The stream is fall
ing so rapidly that the boats will hardly venture
to this point. ’
Business Increasing.—The Mobile and Girard
road has a freight train running every day, and
the one between here and Hurtville is to be
doubled. Two trains were expected late last
afternoon with over four hundred bales of cot
ton. •
Institute for Colored Ministers.
Wo stated some time ago, that at the instance
of Rev. E. W. Warren, a course of instruction
had been established in Macon for the benefit
of colprod preachers. Mr. Warren has issued
the following programme of the course :
Deqember 1st and 2d, Rev. G. R. McCall,
Hawkinsville—Church Organization. '.V:
December 3d and 4th, Dr. D„ Shaver, Atlan
ta—Church Discipline.
December Gth and 7tb, Dr. G. F. Cooper,
Americus—Christian Experience.
December 8th aud 9th, Rev. W. 0. Wilkes,
Montezuma—Holy Living.
December 10th and 11th, Dr. S. G. Hillyer,
Forsyth—Scripture History and Interpetration.
December 13th and 14th, Dr, S. Landrum,
Savannah—Composition of Sermons.
December 17th and 18th, Dr. J. H. DeVotie,
Columbus—Ministerial Qualifications. •
• December 20th and 21st, Dr. H. H. Tucker,
Peufield—Christian Doctrines.
The remaining days of the month will be de
voted to reviewing the snbjeots already discuss
ed, and to giving information upon minor points
in Christian duty and deportment.
The catechetical method of instruction will
be adopted.
The whole will be under the supervision of
Rev. E. W. Warren, Pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Macon.
A Quaker gentleman riding in a carriage with
a fashionable lady decked with a profusion of
jewelry, heard her complain of the cold. Shiv
ering in her lace bonnet and shawl, as light as
a cob-web, she exclaimed: “ What shall I do to
get warm ?,” “I really don’t know, ” replied the
Quaker, solemnly, “unless thee should put on
another breastpin.”
A ROMAN DINNER.
SdnSe bfThe Customs of Eating: and Drink.
U; : . - inx in the Old™ Time.
Prom ihe'JVeiterh'Monthlv]
The ordinary Roman dinner-party was not
large; tho rale was that the guests should not
be less than three, the number of the Graces,
nor more than nine, the number of the Muses.
The tables wefe made of rare woods, finely
carved, and sometimes entirely of precious
metals. Table-cloths were unknown. Those
who dined used neither knives nor forks, but
helped themselves with their fingers; never
theless, as soups could not be eaten in this
primitive way. necessity^ tho mother, of in r
vention, devised spoons. To handle % a hot
dinner without burning the fingers, required
as much dexterity as the juggler displays in
playing with heated pokers. Gentlemen
with tender digits and impressible appetites
wore metallic finger tips, liko timbles, which
enabled them to put a finger into the_ hot,,
test pie with impunity. After each dish they
prepared themselves for the next course
by dipping their fingers into ewers of water,
carried around by servants, and drying them
on napkins, each guest bringing his own
napkin with him. Wealthy porsons are said
to have used a very costly kind of asbestos
napkin, which, when soiled, they threw into
the fire; tho fire cleansed it without con
suming it Refined epicures some times wiped
their hands on tho long hair of the cup
bearers, a custom that is very common in
the Orient, and recalls tho offico performed by
Magdalen to tho feet of Jesus. Tho Romans
began the day with an early breakfast of bread,
seasoned with salt and eaten with olives, dried
grapes, or cheese. At noon they took a warm
lunch of eggs, fish, etc., together with their
favorite beverago, called calda, a sort of punch
composed of water aud wine, seasoned with
spices and sweatened with honey. This drink
was to the Romans what tea and coffee are to
us. Tho wine in the mixture, being consider
ably diluted, possessed only very mildly intoxi-
oatinc properties, so that it could bo used quite
freely witiumt unpleasant effects; auaOmtpcr's
description of a tea-party, where
‘-The bubbling and loud hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups
That cheer bnt not inebriate wait on each,”
would correspond very well to a calda-party of
Roman ladies nineteen centuries ago. Several
calda-nrns of bronze have been found at Pom
peii. The principal meal (culled coma) was
eaten about 4 o'clock, and lasted several hours.
People, like the elder Pliny, who dined only
throe hours, were considered remarkably frugal
and time-saving. In Pompeii there are numer
ous paintings of feasts, which give considerable
information as the bill of fare. In the centre
of the table, for example, is a large dish con
taining four peacocks, so arrangnd as to form a
stately dome with their tails; here and there
are lobsters, each holding something in their
clawa; one has a blue egg, another an oyster, a
third a stuffed rat, a fourth has a little basket
of grasshoppers, or some similar appetizing del
icacy. There aro nlso four plates of fish, seve
ral pheasants, hares and squirrels, each holding
its head between its paws; besides peaches,
melons, and other friuts, a variety of vegetables,
fantastic forms of pastry, and different kinds of
wine. In order to equip the table as magnifi
cently as possible, many articles were provided,
not because they were agreeable to the palate,
bnt because they added to tho splendor and cost
liness of the banquet. Dishes, too, which would
jjxcito in us the most intense disgust were held
m high esteem. A man is represented as drink
ing from a cow's horn, pierced at the smaller end
so ns to allow a thin stream of wine to flow in
to the month as ho holds it up at arm’s length—
a method of imbibing still practicedby the com
mon people of Southern Italy. Other cups were
fashioned, by the whimsical fancy of the potter,
into the head of a pig, a ram, a stag, or some
other animal: many of them are of cheap ma
terial (clay,) but all show by their excellent
workmanship that they were made by good art
ists. One advantage of such a drinking vessel,
in tho eyes of a veteran tippler, would be, that
owing to its peculiar shape, it could not stand
upright, and when once filled, must be emptied
before it could be set down again npon the
table. Among the Greeks it was not customary
to invite women to dinner parties, although the
Sybarites did so, and according to Plutarch,
used to send the invitations a year beforehand,
in order to give the ladies ample time to dress
for the occasion. But among the Romans wo
men wore not only admitted to banquets, as is
evident from several Pompeiian paintings, bnt,
if wo may believe what contemporary poets say
of them, were also especially proud of thoir
drinking; and Shakspeare is true to Roman
customs when he makes Cleopatra boast of such
triumphs over Antony:
“Ere the ninth hour I drank him to bis bed;
Then put my tires and mantle on him, whilst
I wore his sword Phillipan."
Winter Plowing.
We do not profess to be well versed in farm
work—in fact, our experience in that lino has
been anything but successful; yet we may do
83 did the preacher—say to our readers, “not to
do as we did, but to do what wo tell them to do.”
It is our opinion that there are more enemies
to the cotton plant than there were ten years
ago, that it is more difficult to cultivate a crop,
and there must be a reason for it. We cannot
deny the fact that our land is older aud that the
labor system is deranged, and that many causes
are at work to make farming more complicated,
more perplexing and more difficult; still, there
seems to bo a “something” in tho land that pro
duces more insects, more grass, makes it more
difficult to plow, and more troublsome general
ly. Now, vftiat is it ? We would be glad to
know the views of planters on the subject. We
imagine one reason to be, that wherein in slave
ry times the plow was started as soon as the
cotton crop was gathered, turning over tho land,
subsoiling, putting it in condition to be benefit-
ted by the winter’s frost and freezes, that this
time is now taken up by the laborers in making
contracts, in deciding whether they will work
the next year, and if they come to the conclu
sion to work, then they must think over the dif
ferent propositions that have been made them,
for at least one month, and have a week more
to move, etc., etc., and it is.rarely you see work
regularly going on before tho first of February,
sometimes later, and the best plowing that
should be given to tho land is lost.
Now, there is some truth in this—we have
seen it, and there is a remedy for this, as well
as for many other evils—what is it ? It can be
known and practiced by a concert of action on
the part of land-owners. Consider yourselves
as principal in the business, and dictate terms
to tho laborer. Lot this begging of them to
work for yon cease, and do not interfere with
your neighbor’s business nor his hired man or
woman. Demand a year’s work, and let that
year bo from the first of January to the 24th of
December, and get back into the old custom of
breaking up laud in winter, and our word for
it, it will pay.—Dawson Journal.
UP IS A BALLOON.
THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE.
The TjTork Assuming; Shapc-Tho Caisson FrietrifnI Experience orprorYn*
Shore* C * Peat Tower on the Brooklyn in the Sa*ln£w
tie Mu York ITerohl, 260,) SZ FnUrprhc. October l«j-
Yesterday the East River Bridge Company en- <j ay afternoon ^nerharw nna f ***
lor tne construction of the caisson upon which na a t The balloon fillet . 101 *ro.
is to rest the foundation of the toC on the
tbe ow-saou will successful attempts, Mr. Heidlj, who t° nB -
vveiKht of stractrire not less have accompanied Prof. La Moratain ^ 10
than 3,000 tons Mr. AViluam C: Kingsley, of H ge d to get out of the car. Mr Hearl£'\ ob -
thefirmof Kingsley and . Keeney, has been ap- the eatables, instruments of obsemtfn 1 ^
pointed by the executive committee General Su- tiBSU e paper used to ascertain
penntendentof the work/ The upper slip of descending force of the baUoon. bnufe 4
theFnltoa Ferry Company is the location de- could transfer the articles named, those
ctded upon for . central pint,of the tower, hold of the car let go, and tee
It will extend to within ten feet of the second with a rapidity that carried it to an altitn^
ferry slip, while on the ophite end it will en- two miles in a few minutes. A perfect “fV 1
croach upon the coal yard of Marston& Powers, wind was blowing at tne time,
T k C Ch n nge S f the bn ?S e will be after, rain and sleet commenced faffil °3
about $2.,0,000. Operations are to be com- i* Mountain says that it became 3u?’ ”4
mencod at once. The Wood work at the old tensely cold. The cloud he entered 4
docks and piers will be torn np, and everything swimming mass of snowflakes, intersDenma 0 ,
dovra to low.water mark .will be removed. The . rain, which formed a frost-work on tC’ nl
bottom of thonverjnU.be excavated todepth netting of the balloon. The earth wLfW
of twenty-two feet below high tide. The space view iras «*tto
toLe cleared and levelled is 170 feet long by By tearing up his hankerchief andthr, • J
102 feet, extending out info the river. Divers out shreds ho became conscious that J ?
mil bei employed to remove the obstructions at’ passing upward with woderful ranidit. ^
the bottom, and blasting will have to be resorted along with the current of air eastS . a ? d
t0 - . . lake. Fearing that he might he earrierl°-4 e I
The. caisson is. like a large scow, or flat-bot- the lake, and without a pound of balW. “ Inl °
tomed boat, turned upside down; nothing more. late his descent, he reached for tho regB '
rhen, if one imagines its being sunk to the bot- with the intention of lowering him«elf
tom of the river on a level space prepared for l y . To his surprise, the valve woaM 15*" aal '
it that the water is forced out of the boat, or. The rain and sleet accumulating on ,v‘ ( opea -
“air chamber,” as it isi called, by means of com- the balloon, had frozen the valve so tX ° P . of
pressed air; that workmen are sent down into' resist the the pressure from below. '
the chamber in a shaft cat through the top of whole strength to the task he gave a
the caisson (bottom of the boat) who, with the on the rope, pulling out the iron stud™ Jw ^ j"
aid of calcram lights, dig out the material be-, ing the ropo to the valve, the rope falling a
neath them, which is hoisted up to the world in the car. The balloon wasmomtino nnf. ^
above; that they continue excavating until the than ever. It had passed the storm clondlvJ
proper depth is reached, the caisson sinking, was a mile below, and the heavens abo
and, of course, on a perfect level as the work as clear and the sun shone as brightly as nt
progresses, and that the “air chamber” is last day in June. But the air was very ccld
o£ all filled ud with cement, a general idea can Mountain was benumbed with cold , .
be formed ofthe way m which the. lounaation or j tainea u height of over three H ^ ‘ U
the tower will be laid. • The balloon could not buret, for when tbo
Experiments which have been mnde on tho pansion became too great the gas conld el
quicksand bed of the East river while ercava- f rom the flue or valve below, which w™ el 1 *
ting a dry dock, prove its bearing power to be bnt he was fearful of being carried into
ten tons per square foot. By Mr. Roebiing’s the lake without having made prenaratioi-1*
plan, it is proposed to rest npon this bed a weight such an event. Mounting thehoon overt’.?
of only four tons per square foot. The weight he reached for his knife onlv to find that
of each tower is to be somewhat over seventy- 1 left it on the ground. Clinging to the re™
five tons. j ydth one hand, with the other and his teeth
To distribute this vast weight so that no part; ter some exertion, he succeeded in teatS,.
of the pressure on the base shall be over four rent in the baloou from the bottom ten or f'
tons per foot, it has been decided that the area teen feet upward. Then serving the odd
of the foundation shall be 170 feet long by 102 side the same way, he descended to the C£
feet broad. This area will be composed of huge watch the progress. During this operatiob
timbers resting on the sand and bearing tie ! ends of the fingers of both hands had lecomT
masonry work of the tower upon it The tim- ; frozen.' For a few moments the balloon W
ber will be .twenty feet thick, and the vast mass j ascending; then, as the gas escaped, it reached
of twenty feet by 170 by 102 will be securely . its equipoise, and a moment after it commenced
bolted into one solid frame, so that the weight; to gradually descend to the earth. Every ia.
of the tower above can never deflect in the.: slant increased its downward speed. The Pro-
slightest degree at any point. ; fessor says that he heard the cloth teario", the
The board unanimously hold that 300 feet rents enlarging, until, with a crash that sound&l
high of a masonry structure could be safely and like a death-knell, the cloth gave way to the
unyieldingly erected on such a timber founds- ■ pressure, opening a seam on both sideB from
tion as proposed by Mr. Roebling, and that the the bottom to the top.
superstructure thereon, if properly built, would ; Tho gas escaped instantly, leaving not 1 (XV)
easily bear tho weight of the bridge and all the • cubic feet, while the air rushed in, filling nptbe
weight that could do put on the bridge. j vacuum, the balloon acting as a parachnte. The
The bridge company have purchased about Professor gives it as his opinion that at the
four million feet, board measure, of yellow height of two miles there was not a foot of gas
Georgia pine, the greater part of which is now in the balloon. The cloth, bellying out, forced
on hand. Before the contract with the builders a strong resistance to the atmosphere and re-
was made, proposals to construct the caisson i tarded the descent. He remembers distinctly
were invited from all the ship builders in this j passing through a cloud, and the sensation on
vicinity, and their bid proved to be the lowest, j regaining sight of the earth. He has an almost
A more than ordinary depth of water in front of ; indistinct recollection of approaching the earth's
the yard was required—not less than 23 feet, I surface. A. dull moaning, like the surgiegof
as, when launched, the caisson will draw fully 1 waves, greeted his ears, the flapping of the cloth
17 feet of water. It is to bo 170 feet long, 102 became louder, and a moment after he became
feet wide—as already stated—and 15 feet deep, : unconscious. On regaining his senses he found
with a top 5 feet thick and sides of a thick- himself lying in a wood, and his balloon wu
ness tapering from 9 feet at the top to a foot some yards distant. Several persons who had
below. The time required to build it will be seeu the balloon descend had come to the scene
about four months. As soon as it has been set and were standing near; they afterward assisted
afloat it will sink to within eighteen inches of him. His arms and legB were badly braised usd
the surface of the water; and when the proper ■ himself stnnned, but no bones were broken not
time arrives it will be towed down to the ferry | internal injury sustained. Tho spot where he
aud placed in a position ready for being sub
merged. This is to.be accomplished by building
on the top of the caisson successive layers of
timber and concrete to a height of twenty feet.
The weight of the caisson, with this twenty feet
fell is seven miles from Bay City.
Joiner and Bryant’s Outrage Mill.
Unlike the “Mills of the God”—which n
. _ . - , . said to “grind slowly”—the “outrage” mills d
of timber and cement above the “air chamber,’ j pbji; p Joiner and J. E. Bryant, Bullock, Blodg.
will be 11,000 tons. • j ett and Swayze, grind swiftly.
The material excavated is hoisted from the ! There is nothing more certain than that Oar
“air chamber through two water-shafts by , infernal teachings will fail to guard the negn
means of dredges, and as it is raised the caisson } against himself, and that without some more
sinks, being uniform undermined round the four : potent restraining influences the race must pci*
edges and throughout its whole extent. As the • jgjj from its own savsge brutality. Nearly il!
caisson thus gradually sinks^the mason work, ! colored males above fifteen years old now cany
enclodd in a coffer dam, is in progress on the ; murderous weapons in their pockets, and mar-
top ofthe timber, thus adding the necessary j j^j-ous instincts in their hearts, and hut for two
weight. Access is had to the “air chamber” by reflSon3 t h e jr passions would more frequently
means of two air shafts three feet in diameter. find g^ate diabolism in the blood of the whites.
The depth to which it will be probably necessa- The 8Uper j or intelligence of the whites allay*
ry to go into the bed of the river, will be abont 1 savage devil that possesses them, and offers
fifty-five feet below high water mark, so that all fewer escnse3 f or violence; and secondly, they
the timber of the foundation will be enclosed in ■ j a i>or under a wholesome fear of assailingsupc*
the snnd and other material through which an 8 yu ^ power. The whites make allow-
excavation has been made. ance for their ignorance, and refrain from pro
vocation, while among themselves ignorance
and brutish impulse seldom stop short of brutish
violence. Hence they are destroying each oth
er, and if left to themselves, would soon relapse
into their native barbarity and slaughter them
selves. —
We are led to these reflections by the fre
quent occurrence of murders and crimes of
Southern Oak Bark Supply.
The Boston Advertiser of the 23d has
lengthy and important article under the above
heading. From it we take the following, em
bracing facts that warrant attention and investi
gation: -• — — ••
The oak forests of Virginia, North and South -* —- .,,
Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama are - lesser grade among the_ negroes, and especu-j
largely in excess of the wants of the leather i by two eases of snooting in our own coceij
trade of those States, and, therefore, as the for
ests are felled, the bark is suffered to go to
waste for the want of a market. The extent of
the oak along and contignous to the shores of , , D o- , .
the navigable waters of the Potomac, Rappa- wife; the pistol was fired and the wife was sna
hannock, York and James rivers, and Kanawha , through the thighl Again, on Thursday nl t.
canal in Virginia, and nlong the Roanoke and ! last, a colored man.-vriioworksonCapt. b*nce»
Cape Fear rivers, sounds and inlets of North
Carolina, and in the country contiguous to the
Yadkin, Greater and Little Pedee, and Savan
nah rivers, and along the navigable streams
within the last week. On Saturday last aug?
words passed between two colored gentry; o*
drew a pistol npon the other, who beiDg rattu
cowardly by nature, sought refuge behind ta
UlBtf ۥ wJUlCU AUuU) HU I nBVI*
place, came to the show, and after tbe W
concluded to spend the balance of the u ; £- ;
with his wife, who lives on Col. McLarin’s p' aK -
— at. -*■ - A— -«■ H A— —Ifex'a JjQliS
t o jgt&totthMBr*
stretching back from the Atlantic' and Gulf deep j he found a gay colored Lothario “pillowa?
into the oak forests of Georgia, Florida and i there where no head save his should to, ®
Alabama are nndoiihtedlv more than sufficient straightway went in on his muscle. The«»
Alabama, are undoubtedly more than , sufficient
to supply the wants' of the leather trade of the
entire country for a generation to come. The
straightway i , - ,
seeing that her lover was likely to get the won
of it, handed him her husband’s pistol, wfc®
into ti»
turn trips to the Northern and Eastern States in
all the ports along the coast of the Gulf and At
lantic States,) will satisfy them that bark can
be transported from tbe forests along tbe navi
gable waters of the Gulf and Atlantic States to
the ports along the coast of New England,
cheaper than hemlock bark can be transported
from along the Northern frontier of New Eng
land and New York, and from the'Canadian bor-
“Mb. Hood Can’t do His-self Justice.”—By
the way, I am just reminded of an incident that
transpired on the day that General Hood con
cluded to defer bis visit to the ton of onr thriv
ing little city. A colored man who had stuck
to the rebel army through thick and thin, was
in high hopes of being able to march into the
city and pay his respects to a lady who belonged
to the upper crust of the colored society: and
when he discovered that the besieging army
was retreating, ho dete.mined to break through
the linos and throw himself upon the mercy of
the cruel Yankees. Ho presented himself to
General Thomas, hat in hand,, and standing
very straight.
“Where are are you from ?” enquired the
General.
“I’se just from the army, sah."
“What army?"
• “Mr. Hood r s army, sah."
“Where is Mr. Hood now ?”
“He’s leavin’, sah, he’s leavin’.”
i “Ah! I thought Mr. Hood, as you call him,
was coming into Nashville.”
“No, sah; Mr. Hood thinks he can’t do his-
self justice in Nashville.”—Naslmlle Corre
spondence Cincinnati Gazette.
The Isthmus Canal.—The prospeots of this
grand enterprise seem to be brightening. The
great trouble has been in the obstinacy of Co
lombia, which is not able to dig the canal and is
unwilling that anybody else should do it on fair
terms. She is modifying her views, we are glad
to leant, and a renewal of negotiations would
probably result more auspiciously. The Now
York Herald’s Fac'ama correspondent, writing
on the 15th inst., says :
1 Friends of tho Isthmus canal scheme are be
ginning to look forward more hopefully than
they have lately been doing. It is generally be
lieved that, the Legislative Assembly will insruet
their Senators and Representatives to the Con
gress at Bogota to vote in favor of granting any
reasonable privileges or concessions that might
be asked by those anxious to carry the matter
through. The President and every one inter
ested in the prosperity of the State is moat anx
ious to have it accomplished, and will lend all
aid and assistance thereto.
bark of these forest oaks can all be floated to he used instantly, sending a ball square wtot
the harbors along the Coast without incurring a | stomach of the outraged husband, who, tM?
dollar’s expense in transit by rail. A little re- not yet dead, is not expected to recover.
fleotion on tbe part of the tanners of the North- rants were issued yesterday for thewifeanflt--
era and Eastern States, as to the extent of the i friend, and we suppose both have been*
shipping interest of the country employed ;in! rested., a lbj
our West India and Southern coasting trade j These cases, we dare say, will appear !
(which is constantly seeking freights on the re- ; next “outrage” report of Philip and s'®.
• • B * leagues to Bryant, Swayze, etc.—Albany i* 10.
Steel Rails.
The boldest movement of which we ha rt T 8 )
heard, in connection with the substitution p
steel for iron rails, is stated to be in conleoP^
tion by the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranei-
Railway Company, which is credited T
design of laying steel rails throughout the vwn
der by rail to the localities of the leather trade j of its great main line from Paris to Sw»» ?
near the coast of the States of New England. i a distance of no less than 600 miles. stee j
The great superiority of the tanning proper- ! Ksh railway companies are even
tieB of the southern oak bark over that of north-, rails to some extent, and more panic j {
era latitudes is too well understood to require • yards in which a considerable amount gtefj
comment. The oak along the northern border ing has to be performed. On the 114 ^
of the States through to the Pacific is almost, Sheffield and Linconshire system
worthless for tanning purposes, but gradually ; tion was made with great care, recenUji ^
increases in the value and extent of its astrin- steel rails which had been laid « ow ? ^
gent properties as it approaches the tropics.— ; Woodhead tunnel. One of the eianuu
The reverse is the case with the hemlock, al-' Mr. Zerah Colburn, who is no mean ;
most worthless for tanning purposes south of upon the locomotive and railway j
the 40th parallel, and richest in these proper- ! ally. A heavy traffie-is. wefi nigh com
ties in the forests beyond our northern frontier. ■ passing through the tunnel, but alter_ ^
The properties of Southern oak bark for tan-1 rails had sustained the burden of un * reC j h
ning purposes should not be estimated from the wear and tear for several months, now
character of the leather manufactured by the 1 ble deterioration was observable m toem.^ ^
careless, unskillful manufacturers, whose chief \ The only point .which tells in favor ^
help consists of the heedless negroes, brought ■ maintenance of a large demand lor- Bt>
np to the business while in bondage, and who j the consideration that upon a jj |
grind their bark in mills of the most primitive 1 line, now in
oharacter, and who use none of the modem im-; America and i
provements for extracting its properties. Used j for many years to come, whatever aevemr^ i
and manufactured by the skill which enterprise i it may ultimately acquire, and “JJ?* aBS *ti-
and competion has developed in the very heart iron rails would naturally be regarded ^
or oentre of the leather trade of the Northern ; ing every useful purpose for the P re *
States, where the highest perfection in the art: same remark would, probably, also
has been reaohed, its superior properties will be 10,000 miles of new line about to be 1 ^
made apparent and fully appreciated. j by the Indian Government, end also ^
pp __—; extent of tight and cheap tines, yhicb, ^
AFinanciauPanicPredicted.-Atelegraphic j be
dispatch from New York to the Louisville Con- j tiurty.or forty years in Australia.
tier Journal, dated the 25th instant, Bays that! mo gt of
“ fears are entertained that a stringency in : the , Lamp Chiunies. P' wg taTei bj^
money rnarkbt may be engineered at any mo- readers have been , mp chiw®^)
meat The drain of greenbacks from -gy, SioR^ |
KOI
Jjj al
parties ready at any
scarcity of money by refusing to lend.”
A stringency, it seems to us, has been pre- <*“ i mv: jn glass ^ i
Tailing in the money market in New York for cheaper. They ar ®. ^ ...
some time past. It must, in our humble judo- j f ^tunngand made
meat, be more than a “ .tringency” which ^1 ? J ^ by their
bring about the predicted panic. — Atlanta In- belLHKe^c^nd, one of whioh will oo^
telligencer. “ ' *
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Portland, Maine, eoet the irvitera one f
and fifty dollars mere than they r«oai'
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