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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1870)
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIOHALIST ! fI&nMfcMMY MORNING. MAY *5,1870 Club Rat., tor lb. Weekly CaaetUatton altot. That one may I* enabled to sub (wirTbc, and receive the benefits of alive jour nal, we offer the following liberal terms to _ 1 Copy per year - - $3 00 3 Copies per year - - - * ~s® K Copies j>er year - - - - 12 -00 10 Copies per year - - - - 20 00 We trust that every subscriber to the paper will aid us In adding to our list. CHOPS AND QUERENT NEWS. Onr subscribers and Mends In the coun try will confer a favor on us and our nu merous readers by sending us items as to crop prospects and general news In their different sections. We trust that each subscriber will consider himself a special correspondent for the Constitu tionalist, and thereby add to the Interest of the paper. COMING TO THE POINT. Au attempt was recently made at New Orleans to force negro children Into the public schools of that city. The essay was unsuccessful; but It Is reported thst trouble Will srlse in consequence. Whenever the South becomes perfectly quiet, sdd so refuses to furnish food for Radical digestion, every device Is put lu motion by the President, by such Senators as Sumner snd Morton, such Representa tives as Butler, and emissaries of carpet bag and nativeltnavery, to bring about col lisions. Palling In effecting their purpose by means of venal pressea, like Forney’s Chronicle, the poor negro Is made a tool of and thrust forward In certain juxtaposi tions with white people, violative of God’s law snd the uatura! instincts of humanity. So Ur as Senator Sumner’s bill is con cerned, tfe are perfectly willing that the issue should be made at once, If It is to l>e made at all. Wc have no fear of the ulti mate result, but deplore the terrible conse quences that will surely fellow Id Its train. The experiment has never before been tried, under similar circumstances, and, If legal enactments can “ revolutionize human na ture” at the bidding of a fanatic and a enunch, then will the Republic be entitled to claim an eminence In Infamy beyond all parallel. But It Is not possible that tour millions of negroes should, tor any length of time, be permitted to occasion so much of riot uud disgrace, at the bidding of de generate white men. If Senator Sumner desired the ultimate extirpation of the negro race he could not go about Its accompllsh nothtug can so powerfully operate to their rapid overthrow and extinction as the forcing of social equality doctrines by act of Congress. Let the white people under stand that bill and kindred pro jects are so many vile efforts to 'provoke outbreaks iu order that Congress may havo a pretext to throttle the South, and, by a how! of “ loyalty,” “rebellion,"" KuKlnx” etc., divert the awakened ludlguatlon of the Northern people from them to us. We urge upon our people redoubled efforts to remain perfectly quiet;to baffle all Radical endeavors provocative of a breach of the peace. Least of all should they threaten In advance of the overt act. If preparations shall ever become necessary to defend our soctal rights, we can go about the business the more effectually by substituting deter mined action for unnecessary menace. TIT FOR TAT. The easy victory of the American yacht Bapph> over the English yacht Cambria Is a subject of much congratulation at the North. It takes away, in a great degree, the stlug of defeat on the Thames when the Oxford wherry triumphed over the rowing boat of Yale. But what avails the superiority of American ship building, so far as speed and symmetry of pleasure vessels are concerned, if our ship yards are idle and our commercial marine almost In a State of decadence. The Oneida was no doubt a faster steamer than the Bombay; but the English merchantman cut through the Yankee man-of-war almost without knowing It. And so, the Sappho may show a clean pair of heels to John Bull's crack pleasure boats, but that will hardly make amends for the fact that Britannia still rales the waves, while America, with com mercial genius, science and skill, lags in the rear of second-class European powers. AtrfPthls abased position the United States will hold so long as a pirate bark called Radicalism remains the opprobrium of our political waters. THE GEORGIA BILL. We publish elsewhere the Butler bill as reported to the House of Representatives. It is a mere copy of the Virginia and Texas bills, with a provision for the establish ment ot a ** 101 l militia " tacked ou. It Is said that “Gen. Farnsworth intends to of fer a substitute, providing for the Imme diate admission of the State, aud declaring that the set shall not lie so construed as to prohibit the people of Georgia front elect ing amw Legislature next Fall, This Is substantially the Uinoham amendment, and will in' supported by many of the Re putlhmis said by all of the Democrat* In the liouas." . His Fahikr.—^*Old Mr HenueU, of tb< I UeiM Is fast falling In health, end he tiity be salu-4 to his fstlsr st st't inouwnt " I I A f (hr isuWss, ‘J'** ii*i|ii gimliiiisii's mint and ad>| A MODEL GOVERNOR. The Atlanta Constitution publishes three columns of charges aa<! specifications againe* Governor Bullock, emanating from Tregain** Ajwiee. A conaklereb’e portiou of this Indictment has already b*n made public? We give the concluding passages as a specimen : “ While the Governor neither gives In nor pays any State, county, city or revenue (income) tax there was collected through one iionse in the city in the space of a few ftMMM'i! Washington In favor Os parties there, on the bank here, where the State Railroad deposits are kept under circumstances that Indicated to those who presented the drafts or “ checks," thst the Governor’s personal account was exhausted or greatly over drawn, or that the State Railroad funds were suffering. One thing is certain, if he has these tens of thousands to his personal credit, he is defrauding not only the Gen eral and State Governments, but county and city. . t „ “This is them ortifleation the great Em pire State of the South’ is reduced to, of having a Governor who prates loudly of elective franchise, while he has failed to place himself in a condition to be entitled to the common privilege of the ballot by reason of not having paid even a poll tax, except one of two dollars last year, under city execution for double poll, for falling to give In. Wheredo his tens of thousands spent in Washington come from? The tax-payere would like for the committee to investigate this point.” TnE New York Election.— The Democ racy of New York, though having every thing their own way, made it possible for minority representation by allowing two Radical Judges to be elected. Many negroes voted the Democratic ticket. Some voted too often and were locked up. The Herald says: « Among the very funny Incidents which occurred In connection with the unhappy loclced-up voters was the appearance of the wife of one of them, who presented her marriage certificate, duly authenticated In « old Virginia,” as a ball bond, upon which she demanded the release of her liege lord ; but, to her bitter disappointment, she found that it had no legal effect, and probably thereupon did not realize the value of the Fifteenth Amendment ” Unexpected Perfidt.—A select com mittee at Washington has smelt out Im mense frauds in smuggling on the Mexican Border. Juarez Is at the head of the organization now snd was Its chief support during the “ Rebellion." It appears that Juabbz, with the full knowledge of the Confederate authorities, supplied the South with arms and munition of war In return for cotton, which he smuggled Into Mexico. This was done at a time when ho professed great friendship tor the United States, and while the Yankees were extending to him much aid to regain Mexico from the control of Maximilian. That’s retribution. Now let Butler embrace Wm. H. Seward who has so re- Tarts and Cheese Cakb.—The Wash ington correspondent of the Baltimore liaxette thus writes of Radical divisions and personalities: “ We are upon the eve of stirring events In the way of ‘ lovers’ quarrels.’ I firmly believe that these people cannot hold to gether much longer. There Is so much to tell—and men are getting afraid of being superseded. When all i* told, how the people will stand aghast I” Well, we have been looking for that fretful porcupine,” the people, to stand aghast, during three years. Let the mon ster leave off his damuabie farces and be gin. Good Negro Sense— The editor of the Maysvllle (Tcnn.) Republican, the only pa per In that State edited and published by a coloreiman. In a recent artlcte says of the Radicals: They are men who want office; are ma licious and want revenge; people who want to inornate the color and mans enemies, and make a break in the friendship note existing between the negro man and hit late owners. They are the demagogues, unprincipled and corruTit. politicians; men who want an army of soldiers to saddle more excuse upon our State, in order to do their dirty work under bayonet protection j In a word, ex treme Radicals. We entreat the men of our race not to be blinded and fooled.— Be free, and not the slaves of miserable guides without judgment, conscience, or honesty. An Eve-opener.—' The Northern people arc astouuded at the report of the Charles ton Agricultural and Immigration Conven tion concerning cotton manufacture. There Is a tremendous effort made by the New England party In power to prevent capital and skilled labor from entering the South. But we shall have both, sooner or later, aud then let the Puritans look out for retribution. Corruption.—A special to the Courier- Journal from Washington runs thus: “It Is said that Bullock has corrupted some of tht'Deiuocrats of the Georgia leg islature, and by the packing of the body can control It tor his plunder schemes, so that prominent Georgians now here fear the State will be made bankrupt, like North Carollua. br next Autumn, if Congress al lows the Legislature to stand." Trot out these venal Democrats. Let’s have their names! McFari.\xd,— Mrs. McFarland claimed •• first blood’’ by publishing her dtfeuse lu the Tribune, and proving that her husband wit* a brute aud a rulUau. But “ the brute" hat the honor of a second >'knock down blow” by the publics!lon of hit late wife's letters, wherein ahe coulradtcte her present story au l alludes to him m something a little higher thau the angels. TliK First Naokh——lbprescnistlve Ibvim: of the First Mississippi District, has UnittllMled • colored cadet lu West I'oiui Mot withstanding previous similar aiiiiouimaiueiils, this la the first appoint Woman Suffrage. —We understand that a number of negro women in this community have been agitating the subject of registration. Ia New York, at the re cent election, an old negresg-Insisted upon voting She told the inspector “ dat all de niggers ougliter to vote, ds women as well as <ie men, and datVwhat was dc matter.” Upon being informed that her time had not yet come, she rushed wildly Into the street, urging everybody to vote “ in fabor ob de sixteenth ’menmont.” If New York went Democratic by 75,000 majority, when negro men were allowed to vote for the first time, what will the ma jority be when black dames and demoi selles share that "inestimable privilege?” Punched —ls it not funny to read this paragraph from the New York Tribune's report of the late election: “ One or two colored politicians,suspect ed of aiding the Democrats, were watched with lynx-eyed sharpness, and one unlucky fellow who allowed himself to be humbug ged into depositing a Democratic ballot, was punched In the head for his stupidity.” What a comment upon “ the inestimable privilege of free election 1" The domestic slave of 1860 was wept over because he oc casionally got a lashing. The political slave of 1870 is punchel by the mourners. Rampant but Honest. —Col. Don Piatt says: “The Southern raters were beastly aristocrats, and whipped no end of profit from the backs of their slaves. Bui they would not steal. And what a blessed dis pensation that appears to us now.” Yes, there Is a good deal or truth in that; but more remains behind. If the Southern rulers “ whipped no cud of profit from the backs of the slaves,” the Yankees stole more than half the profit before the war, and, since the war, arc ashamed to let these honest men confront them In the Senate and the House. Hence Reconstruc tion means the Rogue’B Paradise. Foaming.—Senator Ferry has the dis tinguished honor of being abused by For ney, who calls him “a technical Republi can.” And then Forney has the Impu dence to make this insinuation: «We should be very slow to intimate that there was anything ‘venal’ in Mr. Ferry’s violent pettifogging In behalf of his rebel clients.” Indeed and Indeed you ought to be the dove*t man on earth to Intimate any such thing of anybody. Take care how you cross that Ferry, Jons W. Howard.—Senator Howard )• utterly opposed to general amnesty. He said: “ Jefferson Davis and the rebel ringleaders would come back to repatch and revivify tho lost cause. Personal pride Would never allow him to see his name on the Same list of yeas and nays with perjured traitors and enemies of his country.” Howard must be descended from that firet-class Pharisee mentioned in tteScrip tual and honest leaders of the South would damage something else beside his “ personal pride.” A Few More Left.— One of the negro voters in New York Is named W m. Reese, a youngster of 108 years. This Interesting child declares that he waited on General Washington when he was In Baltimore on his way to be inaugurated in Washing ton. As Washington was first lnau, gurated in New York and th«second time in Philadelphia, of course William knows all about him. It Is a well known fact that all negroes over one hundred years of age once waited upon Washington. Since the passage of the XVth Amendment, does Washington in the other world wait upon them? Wanted—A Law.— The Judiciary Com mittee of the Uuited States Senate regret there Is no law to punish Forney, Bul lock & Cos., and “ think it best they should be left to an eulightened and just public sentiment.’’ We disagree with the committee. Pub lic sentiment at the North has ceased to be just or enlightened, aud at the South it is politically powerless. Such men as For ney and Bullock can not be reached by public sentiment. The whippingpost would be far more effect ual. West Point Ku Klux.—Notwithstand ing the fact that nearly all the cadets at West Point ure of Radical appointment and of Northern birth, they looked with the greatest disfavor on Butler's recent at tempt to introduce a colored brother Into their classes aud messes. It is related that, wheu ono of them was asked how the col ored cadets would have been received, be n piied : “ They would not have lived two nights after they entered.” Two Great Questions.— Finance and Taxation will pretty soon be the absorbing questions of the day. The East puts the screws to the West aud the West howls ac cordingly. Now let the t*outh buy more sparingly of the West aud the howl Will increase in volume until It practically amounts to revolution. If the South would feed herself for one year, Reconstruction and Its attendant villanles would be as dead as Hector aud as damned as Judas. Indiana Moving,—All the Democratic paper* In Indlaua are full of names of Ko publicans who comF outugalnst their party ou account of their adoptlou of the Fifteenth Amendment. Sonic of them are prominent ami Influential man; aud the number of hitherto Republicans who openly Use I are their purpose to vote against the Republi can party sot-ms to be upward of 3,000 Hii.kd —Thu publisher of the Washing ton lArontd* threatens to reply to tbs hrful sguoriallou he reeelvo4 rY»m the Rouale Judiciary t'otumUtee, ||, will uo doubt give a reason for every dultai Bui,- D. Wyatt Aiken.—This gentleman, hav ing protested agsinst the policy of receiv ing immigrants as social equals, started a wasp’s nest in Charleston among the foreign-born residents. He explains that the impropriety of the whole matter should rest upon the individual who started the idea. Andwo it should. An immigration convention has no business '-fb dictate so cial laws. But Col. Aiken seems to be in a bad streak of luck ever since he unjustly lampooned Southwestern Georgia. Name Him.—ln Ms testimony, recently, hefore the Senate Judiciary Committee, Governor Bullock made certain statements in regard to Senator Pomeroy, in which he stated that Pomeroy, according to the word of a gentleman who had given him the information, would have been willing to go either one way or the other on the Georgia bill, as it might aflTect a railroad ring in which he was interested.— Speeded to the Richmond Dispatch. Give the name of the chap, man! Sorosis.—Some of the husbands of the Sorosls women at New York are mildly re ferred to the following extract from Pepys’ diary: “ Somewhat out of humor all day reflect “ ing on my wife’s neglect of things, and “ Impertinent humor got by this liberty of " being from me, which is never to be trust “cd with; for she is a fool.” Sorosis.—Since the Tribune free-lovers have been formally applauded and en dorsed by the ladies who periodically drink tea and wear pantaloons at Del monico’s, the husbands of the aforesaid strong-minded females had better prepare testimony as to their insanity. Such wo men are bound to get men into trouble, sooner or later. Fast and Loose.—The Washington Chronicle was paid $4,000 by Bullock. The Globe received SSOO, and yet did more work than the Chronicle. Balance in' favor of honest Forney, $3,500. So Forney has to give thirty-five hundred reasons tor being wfaathe Is. gCIIWATZENHEIMERSTEINER. C OUIlt Louis von Schwatzenheirnersteiner was be fore a Chicago court the other day, charged with vagrancy.— Exchange. When a fellow’s name wanders off - In that vagrant style it probably carries the owner, with it. When found he ought not to be fined. War Democrats.—The Cleveland, Ohio, Plaindealer says a majority of the men who left the Democratic party in 1861, to join the “ Union ” faction, are anxious to get back to the old fold. It is thought that a reconciliation will be effected. Biblical.—" It Is said that the colored men are sworn Upon the Bible at the Leagues to support the Radical nomina tions.”—Courier-Journal. Is that the reason Junius Henri Browne wjpes the Bible with his handkerchief be- AAA* <U •* KM-AWSmA (A lAArenn fAU his lips ? Sixty-Nine. l —William H. Seward reached his sixty-ninth birthday on the 16th inst. The following couplet is not just In every case, but It is a true bill for Billy: "God takes the good, too good on earth to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away." Tiie Whipping Post.— Delaware whips her criminals and seldom has to perform the operation q second time on the same culprit. Forney is very mad because Delaware preserves this institution. He has all the rage of a knave who has so far gone “ unwhipt of justice.” Bad Spelling. —Governor English, of Connecticut, is accused ot spelling which “ whitch,” which is not English. [/. IF. Forney. Bnt he has never written an infamous letter and received bribes. General Thomas. —Captain Hough, formerly of General Thomas’ staff, declares that the late satrap deuied having sympa thized at any time with the Southern canse. Awful.—A female child with three tongues has beeu born in lowa. Some poor devil is destined, we fear, to be trebly pun ished for his sins. Long Live the Queen !—Washington has a sign bearing the words “ Dressmaker to Her Honor thffPresidentess.” Water Your Tomato Vines. —A cor respondent of the Country Gentleman says that tomatoes want water almost as much as ducks, but as the vine is hardy and will stand almost any amount of heat and drought, few supply the water It demands. In order to make tomatoes ripen quickly, they should be watered at least once a day. The evening is the best time to water them. Sound on the Goose.— There Is a wo man in Joliet with a few emphatic ideas on the topics which agitate the bosoms of a portion of her sex, and she talks in this way: I just don't believe In these new women notions. I have raised six boys—four of them vote now. aud the others will soon be old enough. Then I will have six votes.— Now those good-for-nothing women who have fooled their time away, and never raised a single boy, come around and want every woman to vote for herself. I don’t believe In such nonsense. I have raised my six boys, and I am going to have every one vow for me. Those women who go lectur ing around the country instead of raising boys, have no business to vote any way.*— Awd when they say that they are just a* good a* I am, aud havs a right to votej themselves, If they have no boys to vote for, them, It ts not tin* If limy are as amort as I ant, why did they uot ralae koine hoy* to vote for them ? Ite it you, 1 do not in. tend to lie cheated out of ny elg votes by | any such tp**l-for nothing folks. I guess that ibs world would <***« to a pretty j pas* in a mighty short non., if the women all took to goto' around lysturtng on wlw j min's rights, Instead of raising boy* 1 “EVERY SATURDAY*"! “We have several times alluded- to this illustrated “weekly," issued by Field, Osgood * <SL Boston (and still edited, wc believe, by T. B. Aldrich), in very high terms of prake; and we now take occasion to repeat onr commendation, and to say that the last three numbers have attained to a degree of artistic excellence unequalled In this country. Cartoons are being published in it, illus trative of various celebrated scenes and personages In Charles Dickers’ novels, and of these two eminently characteristic specimens have already appeared. The first represents Mr. Pickwick comfortably seated on an elevation, with Sam Weller at his elbow pointing oat the throngs of Dickens’ chief characters as they pass be neath their view in endless panoramic dis play ; while the second, a picture of inim itable significance and force, represents Sairey Gamp and Betsy Prig engaged in one of those blissful drinking bouts where in the suspicions Sairey is wont to admon ish the gleeful but sly Betsy in the memora ble words: " Drink, fair Betsy , wot ever you do." But the great feature of Every Saturday at present is a literary one; since through its columns American readers obtain the first installments of Dickens’ “Mystery of Edwin Drood,” a novel which thus far we have read with deepest interest. The opening chapters are penned in the au thor’s best vein. His humor is especially displayed in his portrait of Mr. Sapsea a provincial broker and auctioneer, whose immense egotism and self-importance are caricatured with Inimitable wit. Mr. Sapsea is a widower. He has been in that forlorn condition for three-quarters of a year. But his beloved wife departed must be suitably remembered and suitably honored. With no little “ fever of the brow,” he composes an epitaph upon her. Before showing it to an acquaintance upon whose taste he relies, Mr. Sapsea speaks of his dear departed as she was in the days of her maidenhood. "Miss Brolity's Being,” says he, "was deeply imbued with homage to Mind. She revered Mind wlieu she launched, or as I say, precipitated on an extensive knowledge of the world. " When I made my proposal, she did me the honor to be so overshadowed with a species of awe, as to be able to articulate ouly the words, " Oh Thou X'—meaing my self. “ Her limpid blue eyes were fixed upon me, her semi-transparent hands were clasp ed together; pallor overspread her acqui line features, and though encourged to pro ceed, she never did proceed a word further To the last, (feeble action of the liver), she addressed me lu the same unfinished terms.” " I have been,” continues Mr. Sapsea, “ I have been since a solitary mourner. I have been wasting my evening conversation on the desert air. I will not say that I have re preached myeseu, uuo tiic*o hare been timoe when I have asked myself the question: What if her husband had been nemer on a level with her? If she had nQt had to look up so high, what might the stimulating ac tion have been upon her liver ?’’ And now Mr. Sapsea produces a scrap of manuscript. “ Mrs. Sapsea's monu ment,” says he, “havinghad full time to settle and dry, let me (addressing his com panion) take your opinion as a man of taste on the inscription I have drawn out for It. Take It in your own hand. “The setting out of the lines requires to be followed with the eye, as well as the contents with the mind. “ And thus the Inscription reads: Ethelinda, Reverential Wife of Mr. Thos. Sapsea ; Auctioneer, Valuer, Estate Agent. &c., Os this City, Whose knowledge of the World, Though somewhat extensive, Never brought him acquainted with A Spirit More capable of Looking up to Him. pause! And ask thyself the question, Cans’t Thou do likewise ? If not, With a blush retire!” It Is proper to remark, before closing, that Every Saturday is a purely artiitic and literary sheet; politics have been and will continue to be excluded. Just now, we understand that the proprietors are anx iously intent upon procuring Southern sub jects for illustration in their pages. Alto gether, Every Saturday is a unique publica tion ot the first class of excellence, and as such it deserves a general patronage. CORN AND COTTON. Commenting upon the cultivation of corn and cotton in this region, the New York Herald says: “ Before the war it was the great mistake ‘•of the South to be obliged to buy from " year to year the actual necessaries of life “ and rely for payment thereof upon the 11 growing staple, and when the crash came ‘‘she was like an unprovisioned garrison, ‘‘filled with brave men with empty atom ' “ achs. The South must rely more upon “ her own fields for her breadstuff's and pro “ visions and less upon thegraln and bacon “of the great West. If a lesser breadth of “cotton be plaatod the price of the staple “ will be correspondingly Increased, In con “ sequence of a diminished supply, and In “any event, provided in the meantime “ plenty of corn and grain be planted, they “ will hare plenty of food for wan and “ beast, without paying five-fold for ths "same to U»* Wool and California. The "danger of tbs Mouth In th* future lie* in "having ua> much cotton and too IRtt* " soru." Comt-Tb« celebrated Jim Fisa has for InwibwMi spring lamb, grssu p«a*, aspara gits, lobster saM, a bottle of ILHiitli and two piece* ul strswherry iknrt cake What a digsstbm I rVrom the New Orieane Picayune. Shall the Planter Buy Provision* ? At the request of several parties, we are led to offer a few wordi ofadvfoetothe agricultural community *f the South. Tim large cotton crop of this year, ana^e munerative prices obtained, may have we effect of bringing the planteMtoloserWWir ante beUum habits, and again induce an ex clusive cultivation of one Btaple. The ten dency is in that direction, notwithstanding may have been the arguments foraneK. elusive staple production nnder slavery, they now have greater force. Slave pro- dnets are always uuiMi i * days the planter found it to his individual interest to purchase the grain and Pjovis lons of the West, he will scarcely abstain from it now, unless under a strong sense of public duty, or from an unwillingness to place entire dependence in a plant so deli cate and subject to so many vicissitudes as cotton. Notwithstanding the extreme ly high price which our leading staple has returned since the war, a much larger area has been put under grain. The success. of those planters who had diversified their in dustry has stimulated others in the same direction. Comparatively little attention, however, has been paid to the production m ® at food. The devastation of the war sadly de pleted the supply of live stock of every de- and the deficiency has not been made up since; so that to-day we find meats relatively dearer even than cotton itself. Pork, which sold, in 1860, for slo and sl6 per bbl., now commands about S3O 50a31, and will go much higher. Lard, which formerly brought lOall cents per lh., now sells at 19 cents. Beef has ad vanced more than 100 per cent. Many of our planters are inclined, to view these high prices as the result of a combination of speculative influences, and hope to see a speedy reduction at any time. In this they are sadly mistaken. There may be an ef fective local combination occasionally, but the general increased value of meat food is due to the same cause as the advance on cotton; that is, the demand outstripping the supply. The returns of the Agricul tural Bureau show that the number of beeves, swine and sheep is enormously re duced below the proper ratio to the popu lation. Cereals have been selling at en hanced values, which has discouraged stock raising, until the meat question has become one of serious import, not only to the South, but the whole country. The American people are particularly fond of animal food, and while population has gone on increasing, the production of meat has been almost stationary. It will take sev eral years to reduce their relative cost, even should every means be resorted to in order to increase the supply. Under these circumstances it behooves the Southern planters to at once apply themselves to the work of stock raising. There is every advantage with them, former suppositions to the contrary notwithstand ing. a The experience of the late war demon strated that as fine bacon can be put up in the Southern States as any that comes from the West. The progress of science has re moved all climatic difficulties In the way Os packing on an extensive scale. The re frigerating process has prolonged the pack Ing season throughout the entire year. In a warehouse where the temperature is at. a very small cost reduced to any desired point, packing may be as thoroughly done beneath the equator, as in the frozen re gions of Alaska. But a short time since it was deemed necessary to drive.the beef cat tle of Texas up to Chicago, in order that they might be safely packed. To-day the finest beef la being put up on tho very borders of Mexico. In fact we deem the time as not far distant when Missouri, In diana and Illinois will find formidable pork packing competitors in Louisiana and Texas. The upper portion of our own State and Western Texas must soon produce hogs in abundance; but it is not our design to en courage hog raising in particular localities. We desire to see it almost universal over the Cotton States. A pound of good ba con will cost the planter this Summer twenty cents. It will take exactly one pound of his best cotton in exchange.— There are few who will not agree with us that the former can be more easily and cheaply raised than the latter. If the cot ton crop should be increased, prices will fall in proportion; but we may depend upon it that the cost of provisions will be long in finding theold level. Letour coun try friends bear in mind that a couple of litter of pigs costs them all the cotton that a good hand can produce on the best allu vial soil. Bullock and Jenkins.— Comptroller Burns’ report for 1866 shows that notwith standing in 1864 Sherman’s men had de stroyed all the blanks necessary in the Governor’s office, yet Governor Jenkins had all the blanks furnished for $669. Oh the other hand, Governor Bullock, according to Comptroller Bell’s report of January 12, 1869, not only ordered from the State Printer $663 worth of similar blanks, but also ordered, within about two months from his own printing office, about $6,000 worth of other job printing —more printing, we reckon, than was done In ten years before for the Executive office. The following record of warrants will show a few particulars of this grab game. They can be found in Bell’s report of Jan uary 12, 1869: , Sept. 2, E. H. Pughe, for printing binding, etc $2,407 Oct. 2, E. H. Pughe, for printing com missions, warrants, etc 1,521 Oct. 2, E. H. Pughe, for binding ledg er, warrant hook, etc 105 Nov. 12, E.H. Pughe, for job printing, advertising, books for Executive Department, etc 2,135 Total.. $6468 RECAPITULATION, i Gov. Jenkins’ printing for ten j mionths $1,070 l Gov. Bullock’s printing for five I months 14,204 46 The Bible question has taken this shape | in the Illinois Constitutional Convention: , “ The Bible shall never be excluded from, nor its use compelled In, the public schools of the State, nor shall sectarian doctrines be taught therein." A single tree in Kentucky has been the gallows of four victims of lynch law during the last twelve months. , Koskoo—Tbit medicine is rapidly gaining the confidence of tbs people, and tbs numer ous testlinonUL ol lu virtue*, given by prai.ti- Honor* of medicine, leave no doubt that It U a *tf« and reliable remedy for Impurity of tbe blood, liver disease, the. The lest Medical Journal contain* an article Iroui Prof. K. I. Newton, M 1),, Proaldtnl of ibe IC. Madlaal College, city of Now fork, ib*t • pea It* la high term* of lu euratlv# prop erties, and glva* • special NfMMmda'loit ol KoskOo to (be prai'lltiouera of medicine. Tbl* it, W* believe, (be first in*lane* where tlK'b medicine* have been officially audortod by (he Furaliy of any ul ike Me4ls*i editor** end i. it,, !• creel unfit upon the *t>ijl of fee, tew* reuce, It* enwpoitltdef, end •l*o nnl* Mgo*. Kuo ’• In Ik* v«n of *ll other medicine* ol Ike /fUeenl d#y • •ior/dk flatly Journal, DM (ebkMw
