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£ Climate Where Consumptives
(MO Said to Obtain Certain
Belief.
Did it occur to the company which
proposes to run regular steamers up
the Amazon from Para, for a distance
ot 2,500 miles from its mouth, that it
will be able to transport passengers
direct in the inland valley of Jauja,
where the consumptive will obtain res
toration of health, and a cure of a too
generally incurable disease? The
voyage, though long, may be made
almost without changing vessels, and
will be found neither tedious#tor ce«
bilitating. It will introduce travelers
into some of the most magnificent
scenery in the world. It has been
known to the natives, from time im.
memorial, that a removal of consump
tive patients, even in the stage of well
marked ulceration and cavities io the
lung, to the Valley of Jauja, at a
height of 10,000 feet above the sea,
was followed by an almost invariable
suspension of the disease. This fact
is corroborated by the experiance of
the physicians of Pern at the present
time. From the statistics of Lima,
published in 1858, it -ppoars that
nearly eighty percent, of the eases of
consumption sent to the Jauja \ alley
are cured. *
So forcibly has this fact been brought
before the Peruvian Govcrnmeut, that
it has established in the valley a mili
tary hospital for consumptive patients, >
and especially for native Indian soldiers, -
who in the capital (Lima; are s;ngu.
larly prone to phthisis. Os the whole
annual mortality of that city no less
than nearly twenty-four per cent, is
attributed to consumption. On the
sea coast of Peru, as on that of the
Gulf of Mexico, incipient tubercular
consumption is one of the commonest
of pulmonary diseases. A share of
the curative power of the Jauja alley
mav be attributed to the influence ex
erted on the uiind and nervous system
generally by its seenery and associa
tions; but, after making ail allowances
for these causes, the results, as re
ported, are truly wonderful. Rain of
four months in the year makes up for
the dry sea&on cf eight months in the
year, and serves to fertilize the land
and yields the happy inhabitants more
food than they require. An influx of
German, English and American visL
tors and settlers would drive these
people to do something more than give
up the eight dry months to amusement
and feasting. —Philadelphia Ledger.
" Bebel Outrages ” in Tennessee
—A Good Satire.
The Paduch Herald has the follow
ing upon the late terrible outrage* up
on “Ilrickman.” It puts the case none
too Ftrongly :
“A telegram has just been received
from Franklin county, from Mr. Rrick
man, who has always been a Union
man and upheld the flag (except when
io battle.) He states that a gang of
Rebels in his vicinity have sworn that
no Union man shall live among them,
and that they intend cleaning the
Union men out, whipping the militia,
etc.
A few weeks since, eight or nine
hundred of these desperadoes came to
his (Rrickman’s) house, called him to
the door, and commenced firing on
him with revolvers. He fell back to
his Henery rifle, and “being,” as his
dispatch states, “a man of the coolest
courage,” he returned their fire with a
rapidity unequaled, and “thinks he
must have wounded one of them.’’—
The Rebels were compelled to fall
back for reinforcements. *
They returned in four or five minu
ets, with four or five thousand more
of their gang, and again assaulted
hiui; but the fire of tho Henry riflfe
was so hot that they retreated behind
the smoke houac. While occupying
this fosition, they devoured eight hun
dred raw Damn, and otherwise disposed
of 92,882} pounds of middling bacon,
broko up three hundred old setting
hens, and hauled away seventeen loads
of manure—the Henry rifle incessant
ly blazing away. They also greased
their boots with six tong of lard which
was in the smoke-house, destroyed
twenty-six bugliels of turnips and ;dl
the salad, 20,000 heads of cabbage,
two hoglic-ads of tobacco, and sucked
forty barrels of eggs. They then tired
at the doors, windows, chimney, and
everything else except at Rickman,
and finally retreated, swearing that
they intended to kill Rickman “some
of these times.”
On the first approach of these Rj'bs,
the Union men (who couldn’t uphold
the flag) commenced fleeing for tbiir
lives, and as the Union women didn’t
have time to “flee,’’ they crawled into
hollow logs and cliined the loftiest
trees for safety. Two hundred and
fifty Union infants were instantly
scared to death—nine thousands othi
ers were thrown into spasms, and
some into the middle of the road.—
One fat Union woman crowded herself
into a hollow log, became wedged, and
could not get out for 22 days, during
which timo she was without food or
water. When she crawled into the
log she weighed two hundred and
eighty pounds, and when she released
herself the weighed but seventy-one
and a half pounds—she was very dry
and hungry—nothing but bones and
flabby skin. She is certainly deserv
ing of the sympathy of all good Union
men and of the Governor of the State.
Donations for her benefit will he re
ceived by Mr. Rickman. We hope
the Governor will immediately send
some troops here for our protection,
etc.
Query.—ls Rickman could repulse
SO many of the rebel “outragers,’’
what is the use of the military bill 1 —
Why don't Old Brownlow get four or
five more “cool and courageous’’
JUckmans and garrison the State ?
AH men are liable to misfortune—
deal gently with them.
Enterprise
! ""Tsemlweekly.
L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
• THOMASVILLK, GA:
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1867.
| JtayWe niust crave the kind indul
| gence of our readers for the barren
| ness of editorial matter in to-day’s
: issue Sickness in the family of the
Editor has left him no time to resume
! the duties of the editorial pen, and as
he has heretofore labored diligently
for your edification, we feel that the
indulgence asked will be cheerfully
granted. Foßbman.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Louis Shade, who defended Wirt,
has addressed a letter to the American
people alleging Win’* innocence.
Augusta, Ga , April 9.—The fol
lowing dispatch was received from
Gover nor Jenkins this afternoon :
“Washington. April 9. Chronicle
iSf Sentinel: —l file bill in the Su
preme Court to-morrow, for the relief
of Georgia. C. J. Jenkins.”
Connecticvt Election. —The vote for
Congressmen in Connecticut, which is
the true test of public sentiment on
national politics, shows a Democratic
majority of over two thousand votes.
This amounts to a revolution. The
New Haven Register of the 4th says,
the Democrats gained forty members
in the House and tied the Radicals,
and are in a minority of only one in
the Senate. Connecticut has not had
a Democratic Governor in the last 12
years. Push on the column!
TIA-t/ l!"f llnre Come To. —The
predominant political idea at the North
now is. that Congress is the sole judge
of the constitutionality of its own ac
tion—that there is no power anywhere
in the government to review and pas's
upon it—that the will of Congress is
the supreme law of the land.
IteifThc Austrian Ministei, on fbe
sth instant, announced to Mr. Seward,
that he had been instiuetcd to ask the
good offices of the United States Go.
vert)meat in securing the safe treat
ment of Maximilian and his followers,
in case he fell into the hands of the
Liberals at Queretaro. On the Gth
instant, Mr. Seward replied, that he
had telegraped Minister Campbell to
send a swift messenger to Juarez, con
veying a request that all possible leni
ency be extended toward the expected
prisoners, and also that he had placed
a copy of his instructions in the bands
of Minister Romero, who had promised
to inform Juarez ol the wishes of the
United States Government. On the
same day Minister Campbell tele
graphed that he had forwarded the
message as instructed.
Reconstruction. —Charleston, April
9.—A conference between Gen. Sic
kles and Governors Worth and Orr,
to arrange preliminary details of re
organization in North and South Ca
rolina, resulted as follows: Detai’s of
registration will be immediately pre
pared hy direction of Gen. Sickles,
and put into operation as soon as per
sons can be found to act in the capa
city of qualified registers under the
provisions of the Supplemental Bill.
No elections tor municipal or State
officers will be held in cither of the
States until the Conventions shall have
adopted Dew constitutions. No civil
officer will ho removed who faithfully
discharges his duties. Whenever va
cancies ooour by reason of expiration
of tenure of office, death, resignation
or otherwise, they will be filled by ap
pointment to be made by the Gover
nors of those States. •
From Washington. —Washington,
April B.—ln the Supreme Court to
day the following allotment of Judges
was annonneed :
First Circuit, comprising Maine,
New Hampshire and Massachusetts—
Clifford.
Second Circuit, comprising N. York,
Vermont and Connecticut—Nelson.
Third Circuit, comprising Pennsyl
va ira, Row Jersey and Delawaro—
Giuiia.
Fourth Circuit, comprising Mary,
land, West Virginia and Virginia—
U it ASK.
Fifth Circuit, comprising Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
iana and Texas - Wayne.
Sixth Circuit, comprising Ohio.
Michigan, Kuutuoky and Tennessee—
SWAYNE.
Seventh Circuit, comprising Indi
ana, Illinois and Wisconsin—Davis.
Eighth Circuit, comprising Mimic
sota, lowa, Missouri, Kansas and Ar.
kansas—Miller.
Minth Circuit, comprising California,
Oregon and Nebraska—Fikmi.
This allotment indicates that the
Federal Courts will hold sessions in
the Districts governed by Brigadier
Generals, and that Mr. Davis will have
an early hearing.
Pensacola Municipal Election. —
The election held nt Pensacola on the
Ist inst., for municipal ofliccrs resulted
in the defeat ol‘ the negro candidate
by a handsome majority, many of the
freedmen themselves voting with their
< ld friends when they found out what
the Radicals were after. We arc per
mitted to quote the following extract
of a letter, dated
Pensacola, April 2, 1807.
Yesterday we had a city election
under the new rule, freedmen voting
along with the whites. There was no
disturbance. The freedmen had been
i arrayed in a body, and, it is said, un
der oath taken in secret meeting, to
vote for a candidate “way down from
Maine,’’ hut the citizens hearing of
this called public meetings to explain
to them the folly and danger of thus
, separating themselves from the w hites,
and the result was a good one. The
Maine man was defeated by over a
hundred votes, several of the freed-'
men voting lor the other candidate.
The Northern men, without exception,
I am told, condemned the effort to ar
ray the blacks in a body, and they also
voted lor the Southern I-orn cand-dare.
If such mischievous efforts could be
everywhere thus defeated, our condi
tion would be far more tolerable. The
objection was not to the Northern man
as such, but to the wicked and dan
gerous policy of dividing voters bv
race. The man who works on that
line deserves unmitigated execration.
[FOR THE SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.]
FERNANDINA.
Sir. Editor: —A few observations
in connection with a recent visit to
this place, may be of some interest to
your numerous readers here in the in
terior.
Fernandina i3 rapidly recovering
from the effects of the war, and from
the immense amount of freight dis
charged by each steamer, with other
indications of prosperity, she bids lair
to become a flourishing city at no dis
taut day. Situated upon an Island,
twenty miles long, with the broad roll
ers of the Atlantic forever thundering
upon the meet beautiful bench on the
Southern const, whilst the if vigoratiwg
breeze from the ocean cools the fevered
pulse of the iuvali 1, it is bound to
become a favorite summer resort. —
Last, but not least, is the 'Turtle, the
Clams, the Oysters, the Drum and
other fish, the —the—well, 1 will sp ire
your feelings. But •if any ot your
friends wish to enjoy a pleasant trip,
instead of going North, I advise them
to go to Fernandina There they will
find the “Whitfield House,’’ under the
skillful and indefatigable supervision
of Maj. G. M. Bowen, (who has some
acquaintance in Thomas), and lean
assure them, that they will ever have
the most pleasant memory ot this beau
tiful little City by the Sea.
Scribe.
Gen. Pope-What he. Says.
15., of the Macon Tth graph, while
in Montgomery, Ala , on the “2d inst.,
called on Gen. I’opc. The so lowing
is the report he made of his visit:
In company with a friend 1 called
upon him. lie was entirely alone, re
ceived us very politely, and conversed
freely and unrestrainedly for half or
three quarters of and hour. He is a
man, apprently, forty-five years old,
about five feet eight inches high, of
free habit, weighing perhaps 160 to
170 pounds, with a handsome, agreea
ble manners. He was dressed entire
ly in civilian’s clothes, and his whole
bearing indicates that lie is a man of
intelligence, refinement and cultiva
tion. On u>y nj pressing tile hope that
lie would visit Georgia ami make the
acquaintance of her citizens, ho spoke
of having relatives in the State, and
intimated that he intended making
Atlanta his headquarters for (he sum
mer, and remarked that he “hopou”
he “would have little to do ’’ lie does
not, desire to interfere witit the civil
authorities, ami does uot design doing
so. unless it should become necessary
to carry out the laws of the United
States.
Ho spoke strongly of the necessity
of nur people conciliating the “power
of the government,” and deprecated
the evil done by many of our news
papers in their bitter denunciations ol
Congress and of the party iu power.—
Ho expressed surprise ot the short,
siglitedoess ol the South in not seek
ing to conciliate Congres, and the
branch of government iu which the
actual power lay. It was while he was
inveighing- against the course of those
papers which lutd effected evil by de
nouncing a Radical Congress, that the
interview was interrupted and ended
by the entrance of an official on busi
ness ; but I do not think lie knew of
my connection with the press.
I must say that, l was favorably im
pressed with the General, and do not
think wc could have fallen into better
hands. I have no doubt that he will
be lenient in the administration of af
fairs, mid 1 trust that our people will
not disappoint his expectations of
; having “little to do,” hut prooeod
i quitely to carry out the provisions ol
I that bill which it is the duty of Gen
[ choral Dope to enforce, for it is evi
dent that, such is tlio course that the
General expects the people to pursue.
Spocinl Orders from General
Schofield
llkadq’rs First District,'!
State of Virginia, V
Richmond, Va , April 2d, ’O7. )
extract.
Special Orders So. 1.
1. A board of officers is hereby ap
pointed to select recon mend to the
Commending General 1 r appointment,
persons to form boards of registration
throughout this District, as required
by the act of Maich 2d 1 St>7-
The persons required will be one
registering officer for each magi-terial
district (fa county or ward of a city,
and two, four or six for the county or
city at largo, according to the size of
the county or city, so a< t > form, with
the registering officers of the several
districts or wards, one, two or throe
boards of registration for the county
or city.
An officer of the army or Frecd
tnen’s Bureau will, if possible, he
selected as a member of each board,
and the other two will he selected
from the following clfcssess of persons,
viz : Ist. Officers ol the United States
armv or of Volunteers, who liave'hcen
! honorably discharged after meritorious
services during the late war 2d. Loy
al citizens of the county or city for
which they are selected. 3d. Any
other loyal citizens having the proper
qualificaiona.
These boards must be composed of
men who, not only are’now, lint always
have been, 1-iviiT to the Govern went of
the Unitod States; men of hL-b char
acter ami sound, impartial judgment,
and, as far as possible, men who have
the {onUdeuct of all classes* ol citU
ZOOS. , j f
No registering officer shall be a can
i didate ior any elective office while
holding the office of registeriu-r office
j With their recommendations lor np
| pointment, the BoarJ will report to the
I Commanding General • brief of the
tcstiiusnials and other evidence upon
whielp their selections are baaed.
The Board will report Irotn time to
time their selections for particular
counties or cit es, without waiting to
oompleto the list.
Important Order.
The following important Order
from Gencial Sweeny, removes all
doubt iu role retie* to misconstruction
ol Genera! Dope’s General Orders. —
The eo* tin ua: cv in office .of the pres,
ent municipal authorities would give
general satisfaction, and it L sincerely
to be Imped that no changes will be
made pending Registration.: #
lleaoq’rs, Dost of Augusta, j
Augusta, Ga , April 9th, 1867. J
\Gcnti»l Orders J’fo. 28.] -
It taring been reported to me that
the Mayor and City Council of this
city construe General Orders No. 1,
issued from Headquarters Third Mil.
itary District, dated Montgomery, Ala.,
April Is', 1867, to mean to t their
duties, as public officers, shall cense
on the expiration ot their term of ser
vices ; and, believing that it was not
contemptjted by the -Coalman ling
General of this Military District that
the city should be left without a civil
government, 1, therefore, by the power
vested in me as Commanding Officer
of this Dost, do hereby order said civil
authorities to continue to perform
their ofibiuJ duties until such trine as
the appointu*enia referred to in Sec
tion 4, of said General Orders No. 1.
be received and duly promulgated at
this Dost. T. W.MVUXEY,
Maj. 1 G;U Inst., Brevt. Col. U.S.A.
TEMPERANCE.
Mil S. -8. Little, President Temper.
liner. Association :.
In accordance with the resolution
passed, asking me for a copy of my
address delivered, setting forth the
object and design of the Association.
1 herewith send you so much as I dc<?tn
best for publication in this stage of
your organization. When yon shall
have permanently organized, and fully
settled as to your Bledge, and you
should desire the first part cf the ad
dress, relative to Wine, I will gladly
furnish it.
Very respectfully, yours,
N. IL Ousley.
ADDRESS.
We discountenance distilled liquors,
and promise to use all our influence to
atop drain drinking : —Because we be
lieve it wrong in toto. The making
of liquors is a perversion of the rich
bounty of God. The ruins descend
and fruitful aeasdhs bring an abund
ant harvest and man with this abund
ance pr coeds at onctj to consume it in
preparing a deadly [ oison—pajatahle
gicully to l>i desired—-to dtivo off sor
row and unite one feel rich an I im
portant, so they say; and thus the
poor, in God’s abundance, is unblest
And W Hie seasons arc un propitious,
greed of gain, with great selfishness,
gathers up the gram for like purpose,
thus robbing the poor, and their chil
dren cry for bread. See what an in
jury inflicted upon society. See the
orphaned poor in our land. What
clothed so many widows in sable
weeds ? What makes so many eliil
dten go barefoot ? What makes them
go in rags ? What nukes them go to
bed hungry? What makes them live
in ignorance ? 1 answer—draw drink
ing ! Wliut fea-Tul consequences have
followed this baneful practice I Who
does not know, it they but look at the
subject dispassionately, that one could
never be a drunkard without drinking
I am aware, however, that it does not
necessarily follow, that ail dram drink
ers make drunkards, as many men have
drank their occasional drams, and have
did perfectly sober men. We admit
that this is so, and is tin exception to
what is otherwise a general rule. It
is, however, self-evident, if dram drink
iug makes drunkards, then those wl o
drink drams ire always io danger of
becoming drunkards. And if all the
evils enumerated, ate the result of
-Irani drinking, they are in and wger ol
inflicting them. Resides this, dram
drinking unmakes men. God made
an angel of Light, lie, by sin, made
himself* Devil. God tn.de man after
his image, upright and pure, and man
by sin, made biuiself inquire and de
praved. God ill permit ng Adam to
be the father of the world, di 1 uot ac
tually extirpate.every ennobling trait
j of character or resemblance to himself
from his posterity. But the •dram
drinkers, drinking to drunkenness,
! destroy every vestige of God’s image
from themselves, by unlinking them
selves men and making ihemseNes
brutes—wallowing io tilth—in their
own vomit -doing all kinds of atro.
eious uvts —cruel to parents, cruel ig
children, cruel to the wife of their
bosom. I leurlossly assert, that every
man who daily drinks distilled liquors,
is preparing hiui-elt, slowly but
surely, for every tiehdish act the mind
ean conceive of. And I propose to
prove this by an appeal to tacts. The
brain can only bo dissected in alcohol.
The brain i- *olt —alcohol hardens it,
and thus it becomes dissectable. Al
cohol by bejug taken into the system,
I is at once taken up by circulation, and
j poisons as it gees, until it reaches the
! brain, which it hardens and prevents
its right action ; hence, man becomes
a fool, while his bruin is saturated in
tbs alcoholic substance, and as often
as this is repeated, just so olt does his
brain become more hard, until objects
that once in ved him to noble deeds
cease to engage his thoujhts.
The moderate dram drinker loses
control over bin self, just in proportion
to the frequency aiid amount ot intoxi
cating liquors taken. If it be once a
week a life ordinarily long mi Bit not
cause him great damage, but il every
day he takes h-rge portions ot drink,
he soon loses all control of himself,
his brain soon beootues not susceptible
of an impression of any durability, or
else the solemn promises made to
wretched and suffering loved ones,
would not be so easily forgotten. Oh !
how sincerely the drunkard primuses
never to take another glass 4et he
breaks it. The evil is self-inflicted.
The brain is partially diseased, and
hence this want of conformity. Every
man who deems he jean control him-
self. and do that which diseases lus !
controlling power, (fha brain), is but
deceiving himself and yicMii g to the I
fallacy of the Devil Do veil suppose !
that a man could treat his loved ones i
of home unkind ? A os, every drinker j
blessed with loved ones, is preparing ;
hints- If to be guilty of the most hem- '
ous crime to his family. I knew a i
young timn some yenis ago, the dar- i
ling at' bis mother, and never was |
mother loved more dearly by a son
than his was. And yet that son, by
drihks, ctnelly drove his mother from j
home. Young men, y3ur 1-rain oi.ee I
■fatally diseased, and you may do the ‘
deed which may brand your itatue with
infamy as long as life lasts.
Drinking inflicts a disease upon the 1
brain, and m -dicine to relieve it be
comes as much a necessity as one with |
bilious fever; and 1 believe a dose of
Ipecacuanha or Lob<d a, the best rent
edy that can be used to prevent fids j
periodical drunkenness. The brain, |
diseased, is unable to ward off' the ac
cumulation of lilt's sorrows and dis.
appointments unless aided. Medicine :
tones up the entiiv system. The man
thus relieved is himself again. Medi
cine has done what every drunkard
’goes to the bottle t > have done. a
In the? association organizing, we
first desire to stay the tide of intem
perance, and we earnestly seek the aid
of every one. All are alixe interested
in this great work ; and being greatly
desirous of having all unite and pre
sent a solid front in opposition to this
sore and destructive evil, we have in
troduced the social element. God
saw that it was not good for man to
be alone, lie therefore made him an j
helpmate. Temperance organizations
have failed in the past for want of this
social element. W« do not propose j
to hold our meetings with close I tloois.
Wo however, expect none to be pre- j
sent after we have fully Organized, but
those who are either members or invi
ted guests— as each member shall be
privileged to ask two to be present at
our regu ar meetings. I ersona ulh
may desire to join our a.-.enciation, if
ppeaent, cuti do so, if o- t, they can h;t
it he known by petition, miff if they
be worthy the:r names will ho enrolled,
and they be enlith I to all t he. privi
leges of membership.
We aro also nn assoeiati nr for culti
vating literary tastes and pursuits. At
j our regular meetings there .-boll b : an
ad Iress, le iv in ■ the il jct ol
Ito the party selected. We hope by !
j this means to keep up a continued in- '
! tero.st in the assovi ition. 'I lie variety
1 of lecturers with their variou ■ then:- ,
j will give such variety to our meetings
! tis will greatly increase the interest.
The persons who may be selected to
deliver aiflresses. need n t neces-nrily
!be members of this association. Our
: motto is, intellectual improvement anil
j elevation. More par tic via rig note in
j these days of political <li!<priidati>m.
It is also a charitable association
Dersons belonging to this association,
who, by aflliutio-, bereavement, or
by any other cause, becoming no. Iy,
we propose to relieve their in e. - iii--- ,
i by voluntary contribution, an 1 igi-ist
j : n all laudable ways, to place them in |
a position whereby they may he cna
bled to assist themselves As well as
watching over each other while sTk. .
For this purpose there will he a stand- |
ing coma it tee (whose hu- ness will he
to look into the matter), of gentlemen
iflitl ladies; each attending their own
sCx.
With this noble end in view, the
moral and intellectual elevation of each
other, and the genera) good of society,
we arc organizing this association. —
Having no private end to accomplish,
nor seeking any private emolument,
we "ive ouise’v-s willingly to this no
ble work. Shall it ( rematurely die 7
Is there t no who loves Ins species,
who will for a moment hesitate ? Is
there an enterprise whose purposes are
more enmbing than those we contem
plate t Wo want the intelligence of
the com inanity. We propose to ran e
haste slowly in the organizatn no 1 the
association, hoping to have the aid and
wisdom of the many friends ol moral
uud intellectual improvement Shall
we look in vain 7 We believe not
Come then to the rescue, ami it there
be radical error in the association, let
u- root i’ ouf, and put on hot some
thing that can accomplish the gre t
work. .Many of our young men are
le h by as'ociat ion, to imbibe moder
ately, but soon, from reasons a>road\
given, they may lose control over them
selves and become drunkard- a nui
sance tr> society, and at ia-t till drunk,
ard’s graves. til not the diversified
aims of this association unite all, and
thus, with the prominent idea of stay
ing intemperance aud discountenanc
ing moderate drinking, may we not
unitedly and itjalQiisly persevere, until
all in our, midst shall bo clothed and [
!in their right minds. The demon in
temperance east out.
It may not be amiss for me to say,
if there be those who may think that
the admission of domestic wine ean
. never reform drunkards, let me say to
l such, in all candor and good will, there j
is the Knights of Jericho, an organi
zati- n which may suit your opinions
better You save the drunkards and j
we will keep any more from being
drunkards. Let us not fall out by the |
way. Each labor in cur respective '
ti-1 Is, ami our work done, a happy day
awaits us. Di-tiHories wifi no longer
blight our land with their streams of
vice and ruin. The ery es the drunk
ard's w if* will no longer be heard, and
tho ragged, barefooted ehildron of
drunkards will no more be seen. Ig
norance on account of this fell evil,
will no longer curse the land—happi
ness, contentment and social harmony,
will every where prevail, and the rays
of gospel truth, like sunbeams, will
wend their way to the hearts of all,
warming and stimulating them to deeds
of piety and love to God. So moto it be.
Lookout Mountain Sen-ol. —
W e call attention to the advertisement
j of the summer session of this institu
tion, which has now been in successful
| operation for a year. The late Prin
cipal,. Rev. U. F. Williams, having rc
' -igned, his place is to be filled by Rev. '
j Mr. Bineroft.n graduate or Dai month
I College, who couies highly recom
mended as an experienced and suc
cessful teadlier.
This school offers excellent facilities
for a thorough education at an uuu~
sually moderate eort.
Aside from educational advantages,
! ilie summit of our grttud old mountain
is a capit' 1 •place for youth to spend
the hot summer months.~C/WAinooy«
(. n ion.
Acquisition of Russian America
by tho United States.
Tho important information comes to
tis from Washington that the Presi
dent on Saturday communicated to tlie
Seu-ite, in executive session, a treaty j
negotiated with Russia, by which the I
| Liter power codes to the United States [
all h r territories in North America.
fus some seven millions of dollars. — .
This, Though nut anything like so cx- !
t .nsive or valuable us such acquisitions
as that .of Louisiana in ISUO, of Texas
in 18 15, or of New Mexico and Cali
r forma in 1848, is yet of consulcjablc
value and significance at this juncture, f
and in view of its pecular geographi
cal p siti ui. The country embraced
; i:i the transfer comprises all that por-J
tion of the continent lying north oil
latitude 5 4 degr es 49 minutes north,
: at, which the southern boundary of the ;
llus-ian-Americati possessions was fix- 1
ed by the convention of IS2I, and
I west of longitude 141 degrees west,
I with the islands affjucent, together
with a belt of rocky Pacific coast andai
number of islands laying between lati- i
tude 54 degrees 4U minutes and t 0
deg. The wnole area is about 380,000 |
square miles, t ut the strip along the
j coast from the 51th to the 64th de-|
gree of latitude is only from twenty ta
sixty miles broad, yet it curs out. per
haps one-half of the British territory
of C-duu'bia from the sen, the Russian
line extending s -mo four hundred
miles, and ceasing at Portland Inlet,
ihe greater portion of the tcrrt?-ry
lies between the 1 121 and 204ih de
gree of i mgitu o, and the O'lt'.i and
7 Ist. degr ■" of latitude.
Portland Inlet is about the fmn ■
parallel as the most northwardly por-
Ifitn oi l!r a it. ():i the north, Rus
sian America is bound--I hy Bell’
ring’s Straits an 1 tho Arctic Ocean.
Tho population is now cstiiintc-1 at
about seventy thou-ind, of which
some forty t> fifty thousand are Jodi,
arm and Esquimaux, tho remainder
being Russians, Creoles, Kodiuks, &c.
The principal sctt'eincnt is New Arch
angel, said to contain 1,000 inhabi- |
tunts, on the island of J-asanow or
Sitka. The other chi-f islands are !
Prince of Wales, Kodiak, Num.-aka
and St. Lawrence, forming, with nu.
nicrous tho Aleution Archi, 1
pelago. There are also the settle
ments of Michaelovski on Norton i
Sound, S -uwarolY on Kviohack river, j
Fort St Nicholson Al-a-ki river, St. |
George Factory on Dril lev Island, and
a factory on Sx. Paul Island. A great
portion of the ouptry, however, may ,
be e niMdered uninhabitable, hut tin
southern find coast portions ot it arc
considered valuable f.r tire lur tr.ide
aid fisheries. It will afford us com
mercial advantages upon the P-cific,
and a strategic position in a naval
sense, which may bo made available
for nftny purposes. It will also give
us possession ot a large extent of
country through which the overland
telegraph is carried.
If lus treaty is ratified, as moat
probably it. will be, the British an. ,
thorities will be sandwiched in Britisli
Columbia by the* possessions of the
Unite-1 States on the north and on the
south of them. Hence the announce
incut of the negotiation of this treaty
is said to have caused a lively sensa
tion ro Washington. What may be
its ultimate effects on British power iu
the extreme northern region in ques-i
tion is an interesting subject for spec
ulation. The thought naturally sug
gests itself that it may lead to luither
•a •-j.iisitions there oa tire part ol the
United States, in time, through simi
lar p*ac ful negotiations with Great
Britain Piv interest and c -nveoience
of both parties naturrily working to
that end. It is t at Russia
cedes her American teriilory for the
sumo reason that induced Napoleon to
sell L u-ittiia. that is having
in Europe, in the event ot a war. she
would probably lose this territory.
Bus, apart from that, tlue cession to
tli - United States at this time is Bio
fruit, in part, of the extremely fr end
ly r lutions which have been maintain
ed between our own and the govern
ment of the Czar. — S’’ imare .Sun.
Potato liaising. —ln a circular is.
sued by A. 11. llovey, seedsman of
Chicago, agen- for the Goodrich Seed
ling Potato**, tho loUtwingdirection-,
sai-l to bo .based on actual practice’,
arc given is to the best method ot
raising large crops of potatoes:
In the fall plow deeply and subsoil
plow, in all eighteen or twenty inches
in depth.
In the early spring, pfr, w and sub
soil across the winter furrows, harrow
ami roll.
Marl: out, as for corn, three feet
•part each way, opening the furrow
eight inches deen.
.At the intersection drop a whole
potato, the largest you have, and
spread upon it a (about forty
bushels per acre) of a compost made
of eight parts of wood-as’lie.-i, four of
bone phosphate of lime, four of tine
ground plaster, twe of finely slaked
lime, and one of salt; or, if preferred
three ounces of artificial fcrtaligcr per
hill. Then ccrver, roll and spread 1,.
DV6 pounds ol good artificial fertilizer
per acre.
As soon as tho young plants appdar,
run the cultivator ci--se to and her
tween, but not over them, in' each di
rection. Afterward, and before the
weeds pome up, cultivate both ways,
with ivnoxe.i horse hoc —so arranged
as to cut as shallow aYposssible, and
keep the surface entirely flat. Repeat
tlirs, at short intervals, three times
then hand-hoc three times, still keep
ing a flit surface. Allow no hilling
at any time, nor any weeds to grow.
As soon as the tops are dead, dig
in clear, dry weather with heavy five
tined digging forks; spread, under
cover, to dry, and store in a cool,
dark, dry, airy cellar, spreading half
a pint ot freshly slaked lime in powder
on each bu liel of potatoes.
Gather and compost the dry top*,
for application next autumn; then
plow and sunsotl as before, tor next
year’s crop.
1 ho following arc the advantages of
this system of culflvation :
No possible efft're failure of tho
crop; no rot in healthy varieties; the
largest yield the soil and variety are
capable ot; the largest proportion of
large potatoes; no degeneracy of vari
eties, but continued improvement; no
necessity for rotation of c ops ; the po
tato can be thus grown almost indefi
nitely oti the same land, and with,
uerhaps, af long intervals, a seeding
to clover to maintain tho supply ot
vegatable fibre in the s 71; no loss by
late spring frosts; if the early growth
is cut oil, the dormant eyes will grow
and the crop be saved ; the greaces;
economy of culture and harvesting;
the highest table quality of potatoes.
It’ the materials for this compost
cannot be obtained, top dress heavily
in the fall, after plowing, with barn
manure, but never use it in the season
of planting. It may increase the crop,
but tends to engender disease, espe
cially in wet seasons.
Religious Notice.
Ii -v A. Van llimmu, of Kufania, Ala , will
preafli in tli • ilonwi of Worship, on
V \>ren April 14th.
Life Assurance!
rfflllK ff, S-t.ft. nr.rl only mode of
S ' a p;- ii .; X!' OM i:, for
g-it.'s t-..... . <ion I Ayo-at of the K<|uitahle
«
i.. ;;o\vi! f
Is tie of t Imi h’zJtoii.
Ap 1 ‘5 il >tel.
. O. B. THIGPIN.
\S I'cok. TlflCl’l.VS engagement with
me i-in f.<piM''!, I lake great pieiiMun- in
let•oiih.iom lilt ' nit) to any coiinuimiry hh a Hr>t
rla . At to. iimi arc•ontpli-he<l
A. .IKb'FKUS, Artist.
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DISSOLUTION
'1 IIM C opurt'irerKhipH heretofore existing hr
-1 tween the ihhUo-tumvl. in tife Practice of
M.-Ht ine and l>nvg Unwin****, under the *tjl©
ot Kl>ll> A. Di WHT, and 14JvID, D* WITT
•V ( A vSKLS. are llii* day fiiwolvedi JGt. J
It. Itcid and S .1. C'iihsclm having pun huKed
the ink-rent of Di W K in the Drug
ltu-iuegrt. Wishing all account* cfcwicd :»t
once, persons indebted will lind our hooka ill
the hands of Messrs. Hammond & I)a> ; ia, for
collection.
.1 K II KID,
W b\ DkWITT.
S. J. CASSEIJS.
Tiik mule!signed will continue the Drug
Husiness, Tit the store formerly occupied by
Ueid aV DeWitt. .1. K.’ IIKID,
S. J. CaSSKLS.
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I . s. tUAIAU:
Tax jSTotice.
I AM assessintf the Income Tax lor
also returns of Legacies und Successions,
with apjdit .tlions for License. Penalty for
not making r. larns of k ’.-.D-s hy Kjwcutor*,
Ouardian Trusters or Adminisfrators, one
Thousand Dollars. Penalty for not making
Income la-tuns —assessment on the b«r-<i in
formation to he obtained, mul ti ft v iht cent,
added.
I will he at Ihwfon, Monday, *d2d April.
Duncanville, Wedu* day -’llh April.
(Ilasyow Saturday,‘drtn April.
Wypva. (>i lilcm kono«\, Tu - lay. 30th April.
*lo!kii (i chy s. on lt.iinhridife Uou4, for Her*
enteentb an I Kight. nth D; trie’s, on Thar*
dav, IH1» of Mav 1 will call but once-
T S HOPKIXS,
A -> t. A • r Div. Ist Dis t Ua.
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LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
Educational Inst itutions.
Rn .C. I - . I*. IU X ROFT, I*ri»r|» , l.
tiik m miskr ur ssiev
Will 1,,-ill M W I .'.til. «u».l - W OCTOBER
i»t, i st-r,
11 -ant - -4 T - v I(10.011 - tymliU L-Ul
i,ii eutt-rinu an 1 ii.-tt lilt- VI of .Inly
llntiviny Mu-ie amt Lau.-tuae* exlm.
Ifc-W* a.O W..- UIIK tin a.-■ I ->.i r*..«-n*bi*
terms.
For circular*, tvith fall p irth aUr*, ad4r*M
Krr. f. t . < orp'-nrer. f>np'l,
CIIAITANUIKIA, ’ftslf
Ap im
Take Notice.
ONE Kill (in l--ft la-' S irntiHT hr Cmth
'I a- >• ! >!-■• I « :!t l-e *>i 1 for rr*
K-IIN I IIOPOKINS
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