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MTCHOAT. MVBMKKH *. M3.
3. GALLAHER, Editor and Proprietor
Panic if Spreading.
4 t first it wo* thought by Many that tin
ojuiid disorders were only temporary,
l would nil Ini healed in a few daya, but
f prediction has failed and the disease
i bucoine chronic, and the whole com
rend world ban become seriously affect
and ho aonooaly affected that we need
t hope for, or expect favorable symp
a for a oonsiderftye time. While the
(at prominent business men ore failing,
and the largest manufacturing establish
•ntn are being closed and thousands of
| erativt* turned out of employment, it in
tree than foolish to expect a change un
the wave reaches the shorn and re
•unds. Avarice on the part of the roon
-1 nhylocka will be carried to the extremes
oppression, and the debtor's sacrifloes
a! sufferings will be unparalleleiL Our
ople are involved; we cannot gainsay
a fact; and that their resources, upon
Irich they relied for the ability to meet
ittir indebtedness are crippled, is a fact
quail y as potent, To pay with half crops,
, half prices, tho full measure of indebt -
lnesa will take all and leave them in
abt and powerless. Cannot the wise
uaneial tuen of the country conceive of
>me other plan than that of crowding the
jrops on a depressed market, to bo sacri
oed at panic prices, leaving the planter
,ill in debt, subject to insults and further
ppression from which there can bo no
listake. Banks may fail, great mercan-
Jo houses may suspend—either to obtain
imo to meet demands or distribute their
suets among their creditors—and with
beir moiety are satisfied. But with the
•lanter no prolongation of time, no distri
tutiou of aaaeta and payment with 33 cents
m the dollar; sell all you have at reduced
wiees, and pay all you get and still remain
n debt.
, Will not the planter learn an important
fesson from the present m inis? Will they
lot in this Heaven blessed country—as to
mil and climate—make their supplies of
ood at home, and avoid indebtedness and
ive independent? We answer no! For
hey all have an incurable co’tton mania.
Lud we can say to them truthfully that
here is now in the manufactories, and in
he hands of factors, and in the mercantile
istohMshmeiits of the country, together
with the present crop, cotton and cotton
goods enough to supply the whole civi
lised world for three years to come. 80,
less than the former supplies will bo suffi
cient for the demand for several years, Ho
bog as the South confines herself to the
Bolton culture exclusively, she will bo sub
ject to every financial disaster.
To The Press.
In aeeordcuce with n series of resolu
tions paused by the Georgia l’resu Asso
ciation in Convention nt Americas, the
JUldvhugnod Committee were appointed
to take all necessary steps for the forma
tion of a National Prkm Association,
The Committee having received, through
their Chairman, a immlsT' of favorable
ivsjionses to the proposition to form sticli
Mi Association, from journalists of several
Staten ami territories, giving to the Com
mittee the aasnranee ef their hearty eo
opjajration in the movement, v.e deem the
object worthy of an effort, and the present
an auspieions moment to begin the
work, we therefore issue ft call for a Con
vention of journalists throughout, the
Union to assemble at (it. Louis, Missouri,
on Wednesday, the 28th, of November,
1873, to organize a National Press Associa
tion.
AIJ papers in the United States are re
quested to make notice of the place and
time, and every journalist is respectfully
solicited to attend.
The Georgia Press win please do us the
favor to keep a standing untie*) of the call,
until the day of meeting.
PvOBMVr L. ItoiXJERS,
Caby W. Btti.eh,
C. W. Hancock,
T. M, Pkevi.es,
J. £. Keene.
Committee.
A Oowden Dream.—lt ia hinted in
army circles in England that the expedi
tion to be sent out. to Aslmntee will in all
probability return laden with “loot”—with
treasures of gold plundered from the un
lucky savages who have called down upon
their devoted heads the wrath of the Brit
ish lion. All the information the English
have about these rumored treasures seems
to be gathered from the report of an
agent sent to Coomassio in 1817 as an en
voy, who gave glowing reports of bracelets
so heavy that the laden arms of the chiefs
had to be supported by attendant pages;
of gold and silver eanos in every direction,
of chairs inlaid with ivory and gold; of
death-dealing muskets adorned with rims
of gold, of full dress costumes of solid
goM, et*. These golden accounts of the
agents are eagerly accepted by the En
glish soldiers and sailors who are engaged
in the Ashantee expedition. Thus the
trinkets of the barbarian are coveted by
those who pretend to be civilized, and who
thus show that Ihey have the same gross
instinc ts of the savages.
In order to prevent the possibility of
such s case as that of theTiohborne claim
ant ever again recurring, it. is said that
early next session a bill will be introduced
into the British Parliament to the effect
that if any presumed heir to property
should leave the country, and through any
eccentricity or other cause purposely ab
stain from makisg his existence known,
he shall be looked upon, after the lapse of
* certain number of years, as dead in the
•yes of the law, the property to go to the
next of kin.
IS'hen does an old main dbspair? When
site aayts “Don't repeat that in my pres
#ne. It seminds me of- What-you-aall
him, and it is very unpleasant, ’*riie has
give it up. But the people will wouder
vdf Mt. What-you-enll-him. did do unto
that old maid that makcs,ewf n, his sayings
so painful to, memory. Old maids rtight
to be cautiktua; their indiscreet remarks
might give a fellow a bad name.
The Christian Enquirer.
This periodical is published iu pamphlet
form quarterly, and edited by the Itov.
8, Baker, of Quitman, Ga., a copy of
which was laid on our table a few days
Hinoej and we take pleasure iu railing pub
| lie attention to this interesting Southern
; periodical. It is ably edited, and indi
| cates clearly a thorough Biblical educa
tion; and every sentence breathes a spirit
of piety anil devotion to Christianity.
! We have seen no work which contains in
i so small a space so mnch scriptural infor
mation and religious instruction.
We here give the contents of the first
number, that all may have some idea of
tho value of the work:
"The Genealogy of Christ, Modern In
fidelity; Interpretations of Exodus xxxiv,
7; Discussions, Appeals to Baptist Usage,
etc; About Enemies Bead and Ponder;
Reasons for not Resenting Reproaches;
Circular Letter; Parental Responsibility;
Church Discipline—A General View of
the Subject; Divine Provision for the Htil
vation of Winners; Marvels of Mercy; A
Word to Benevolent Capitalists; Rev. C.
D. Mallory and his Writings; Rev. liil
lington M. Sanders; Defect in onr System
of Spiritual Instruction; Church Rules;
Practical Godliness; Trains of Thought;
The Spirit, of Antichrist; A Prediction |
Verified; The Scriptures Confirmed; Sc- !
lections—Envy, Compassion; Book No- I
tiers—Leander Hull; Tho Gospel Accord-I
I ing to Matthew, the Book of Proverbs;
j Editorial—Our Quarterly, A Criticism, j
; History of Georgia, Baptists, Memento, ,
etc., etc.
Aside from the true merit of the work, j
I there is another reason why it should he !
extensively patronized. The venerable
author is, perhaps the oldest living minis
[ ter of the Baptist Church in the South,
having devoted a half a century or more
to the service of liis master, and now too
feeble to render active ministerial services,
bo proposes to devote the remainder of
his time, and employ his thoroughly culti
vated mind iu contributing to the religions
literature of the day. He lias a rich store
of knowledge that ought to he disseminat
ed through the world, Let us all contrib
ute to that effect. The oldest tree some
times yields the aweetest fruit; let us all
pluck tmd eat e’er the tree shall die.
The thoughts of this venerable man has
| always been placed above earthly objects,
i and the consequence is, ho has laid up no
| treasures on earth. He can preach no
[ more, and it is only through the press that,
j ho can bear the message of his master.
Ho is anxious now to support himself and
lie no longer o bnrtheu to liis friends. What
good man,whether in or out of the chuich,
will refuse to subscribe for liis work— the
Christian Eftquhrer.
An Extensive Wink Gboweb.— The St.
Helena corespondent of the Napa Valley
Reginter has the following: Mr. Krug has
been here over twelve y<Sirs, and is a wide
awake, enterprising man, making the
most complete nn and permanent arrangement
for carrying oa his business. He has 143
acres iu this tract, besides66o more near
by, on the hillside. His vineyard com
prises 78 acres, of which 60 nro bearing
vines, His favorite varieties are the Iteis
ling, Zinfindcl, Muscatel and Berger.
His wine collar stands right by the rail
road tracks, so that wine can he loaded
from it directly into the cars. This cellar
was begun in 1868 and finished Inst year.
Its walla are concrete —two feet in thick
ness. It is two stories high, and 90 feet
wide by 101 long. Its capacity isbetween
1100,000, and 300,000 gallons. The popu
larity of Mr. Krug's wines may be inferred
from the fact that ho has shipped al
ready this season thirteen car loads to the
Eastern States. Tho lust lot was four ear
| loads (6,000 gallons), which left on the
I 16th nit. He made 58,000 gallons, and
I thinks that he will have a very good yield
the present year, his vineyard not having
suffered so much ae others from the frost,
and he estimates his loss from that cause
at not over a quarter.
Indian Outrages—Murdkb of Guards
By their Prisoners. -St. Louis, Nor. 4.
A dispatch from Fort Gibson, Indian Ter
ritory, says tho Choctaw Indian prisoners,
in the hands of Deputy Marshals Wilson
mid Ayers, shot those gentlemen at the
Clerk agency on Sunday lost, mortally
wounding the former and badly wounding
tho latter. An Indian also shot Percy
Duval, a guard. The murderer was sub
sequently shot and mortally wounded by
Creek Indian guard.
Titr East Tennessee Road Block
aded. — Knoxville, Nov 4. —The trouble on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad is unadjusted. The men will not
allow the freight trains to move. No
freight, has been carried over the road
since Friday. Mail trains run regularly.
Great inconvenience is caused merchants
by the inability to receive and ship goods.
Several thousand bales of cotton have
been lying here for four days.
The Acting Mayor of Memphis Au
ra ioned for Fraud—The Death Roll.—
Memphis, Nov. 4. —At a meeting of eiti
:r.eus they adopted resolutions bringing
acting Mayor Paul A. Oioalhi liefore the
courts for imposition on widows and or
phans.
There were four yellow fever and three ;
other deaths to-day.
Memphis, November s.—The nnerss i
who were in the employ of the 1. O. O. F.
were escorted to the depot this morning
on their departure to their homes in New
Orleans, by the I. O. O. F. the Knights of
Pythias and members of the press, in pro
cession. Nearly the entire members of
both organisations participated. The city
Council meets, this afternoon, when the :
case of Ciealla will be investigated fw al
leged forgery of requisitions on the Citi-!
zens’s Relief Committee.
Tiie Criebrat •! Dupree will east, which, i
for three ycorsexciteil the attention oi the
people of Oglethorpe county, was settled
the other day by un agreement between
tin parties to Hie effect that: "After the :
payment of lees the estate will be distrib
uted between the three children of the
Ut' Mr. Dupree.”
Georgia Column.
An Augusta cow nurses* pointer puppy.
Atlanta thieves are now raiding on the
nhurchee.
Scarlet fever is troubling the Brunswick
infants.
Mullet, direct from tha fishery are t n
dant in Thoftiesville.
Fifteen thousand people were iwesent on
the 4th day of the Macon Fair ,
H. B. Spencer has been nominated lot
Mayor of Atlanta.
“Another gin house burned” is still the
cry throughout tho State.
John Killeu, of I’ulaski is to be hanged
on the 28th inst.
They have had a smash up on the Air
Line Railroad near Noreroe*.
The Thomasville Timm was a day ahead
of time last, week on account of the Fair.
One white man and five negroes escaped
from jail at Sparta last week.
The Gullet Gin, invented by a Geor
gian, took the premium at the State Fair.
The Savannah Cadet* taken the prize
for being the best drilled Company at the
State Fair.
The Atlantic paper manufactory of Sa
vannah will commence operation in a few
days.
The, report of burned gin houses
amount* to thirty-six since the 30th of
September.
Three negro women have been sent to
jail in Chatham county for imposing upon
a young negro man.
Mr. 11. M. Orme, formerly editor of the
Milledgevillo Recorder, delivered a lecture
on Phrenology recently in Sandersville.
It is suid that when a man is seen on
the streets of Columbus with a shot gun
it is known that he is out collecting.
The Smitb-Johnson correspondence is
still continuing. An effort is being made
to arrange the matter.
Mr. 11. M. Burns, formerly editor of
the Greensboro’ Herald, died in Atlanta
on Friday of last week with consumption.
The marriage record of Savannah for
the month of October foots up to fifteen
whites and thirty-six colored, in spite of
the financial panic.
The Talbotton Standard inform us that
a marriage took place in the mountains of
Talbot, a few days since, between a boy of
fourteen years af age, and a girl of eleven.
Why not enjoy life while one is young.
W. A. Morgan, residing near Davisboro’
had liis hand badly injured by a gin re
cently. These accident* are becoming nn
every-day occurrence. People should be
careful how they fool with gins.
The Thomasville Enterprise says that
“the scarcity of money in that section
| renders the payment of taxes extremely
! difficult if not doubtful,” and still the
; (treat. Eastern remains there two days.
Says the Valdosta Timm: "Eggs bound
ed last week very suddenly from fifteen to
twenty-five cents. It, is supposed that the
camp meeting a few miles in tho country
and a ‘Sociation’ in town had nothing to
do with it. Chickens—no use talking—
i can’t be had.”
The Montezuma Weekly is the name of a
new paper published at Montezuma, Oa.,
the first number of which came to us on
Saturday last, with R. G. Ozier as editor.
■ It is ably edited, and presents a very neat
appearance. The mechanical work de
serves much credit. We hope it may
prove a success, and continue a welcome
visitor on our table.
Savannah Advertiser-Republican: “The '
first shad of the season is and lias always ;
been considered as an article worth ob
taining, and, if our information is cor-!
root, it is really so. We learn that the |
first shad of the season was brought to
this city yesterday (the 3d inst.) by Mr.
Charles Sallas, who caught it in what is j
known ns Second Cove, St. John’s river, !
Florida, and sold to Mr. Passmore, the j
steward of the Marshall House, for sixty
five dollars.
Thomas county curried off a large nnm- j
her of premiums at the State Pair. The
list is us follows: Mrs. Sophronia Mitch
ell, best pair socks, 626 gold. Miss Sallie
Jones, best homespun dress, 650. R. H
Hardaway, best aero corn, 6100. Capt. E. !
T. Davis, best acre oats, 650; host hog,
615; best hog sweepstake, 625, Dr. P. S.
Bower, host acre upland rice, 650; best
bushel upland rieo, 65. Joshua Carroll,
best acre euno, SSO.
'
A Macon correspondent of the Atlanta
Herald snys: “Mayor Huff informs us that
the receipts up to Saturday night were
many thousands of dollars above all the
expenditures of the fair. It is a rough
calculation to say- that at least thirty thou
sand strangers were in Macon during the
week, and that they spent here on an av
erage of five dollars apiece, or one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars in the city.
Tho hotels aud saloons made a harvest of
money, and arc, no doubt, to-day feeling
well over the result.
Tho Columbus Sun is responsible for the
following: “Mrs. Finegau, a well-known
and eccentric character, died Saturday
night in this city, aged seventy-nine years.
She was noted for the avoidance of human
beings and loving tho companionship of
brute animals. She has lived in a little
house beyond the residence of Mr. T. S.
Spear in Liu wood for thirty years, almost
solitary and alone—entirely so since the
death of her mother-surrounded by such
pets as two fierce dogs, two parrots, tamed
mice, rats and chickens. All lived in oue
house. The canines slept ou her lied, the
poultry made their roosts above, and rats
and mice tumbled around loose. With
such conipansnfi* she lass spout many years
of a blameless life. She seemed to under
stand them and. they her. A gentleman
who Iwuved the dogs to vital her last week
saw the mice playing about her feet, while
the dogs fiercely growled at his every
movement. While this was going on, he
was startled by a voice saving plainly at
liis side. Mrs. Finnegan, t want my sup
per. ’ He was reassured upon seeing the
parrot.
[From the New York Snn.J
Labor of the South.
A question of importance to the whole
country, awl one which must soon be set
tled or very inconvenient results will en
sue, is the reorganization of the labor
system in the South upon principles which
insure justice to laborers and employ
ers alike. No system which is cot just to
all parties concerned can or ongftt to ane
cced; theueccHsity of some system, simple
in detail and adapted fqg general applica
tion, is imperative.
In several of the Southern States black
lulior can be made the most poOfltablo and i
useful. The freedmen are ulready flic re,
awl it is for their interest os well us the j
interest of the whites that mutually satis- j
factory relations should bo established be
tween the two races. There is a great
deal of talk about doing away w ith colored
laborers, and encouraging white emigra
tion to develop the resources of the South,
but this is folly, for no white immigrants
can replace the negroes in those brunches
of agriculture which are peculiar to the
Southern States. White men, whatever
may be said to the contrary, cannot en
dure like tho blacks the labor required for
tho cotton, the rice and the sugar culture.
This experiment was tried over a century
ago when Gen. Oglethorpe and the trus
tees of the original colony of Georgia, iri
their zeal to show that an American col- ;
ony could be made to prosper without !
slavery, excluded negroes from their limits
and permitted the employment of free I
white laborers only. The consequence I
was that the English and German labor-1
ers imported to cultivate the land died j
like sheep; and the colonists, finding.
themselves in danger of starvation, sur
rendered their charter to the crown.
| The abolition of slavery released from
: servitude millions of ignorant unskilled ;
! laborers who were confounded by the sud-!
I den change in their condition. The j
| most extravagant ideas prevailed among !
| the majority of them. It was a common ;
! impression that release from slavery
| meant a release from toil; thousands of
! them were induced to believe that every I
1 freedman was to receive a farm and a mule
| from the United States. The carpet-bag
j gers took advantage of this unsettled eon-1
j (lition to instill iu the minds of the negro
! population sentiments of hitter hostility
I against the whites, who would naturally
be the bidders for their labor, and they
succeeded in soring seeds of dissension j
and hate bet ween the two races which have j
' already borne evil fruits. Asa natural
I consequence the freedmen have been nn- j
I profitable laborers, and the South has
been continually declining in prospor-
I ity.
The maladministration arid plunder of
i the carpet-bag government* have been I
j sufficient to produce the present impov
erished condition of the Southern States,
\ but an n;: natural and vicious labor system,
j Im* also greatly contributed to tins retro
gression of the South in material prosper-
I ity. In a very few instances colored
i men of exceptional ability have rented or I
i bought plantations and have become 1
wealthy. In some of the States num
bers of tho colored people have taken
small farms and successfully cultivated
them. But the great mass of Southern
negroes have been compelled to work
either for wages or on shares for their old
) masters, and their disposition to assert the
j privileges of their new-born independence
I has manifested itself iu ways which have
I proved disastrous to their own interest as
j well as to those of their employers. We
j urn told of planters trying to pack cotton
| with gangs of laborers,every one of whom
: brought to his work a loaded gun ar rifle,
! ready to use it on the slightest provocation;
I of other planters who, having advanced to
; their laborers the full value of a season’s
i work, have been left with their cotton
I standing ungathered in the field; and
| others yet who have had their fields de
! sorted at the most critical moment at the
I beck of some demagogue who had issued a
! call for a political meeting. Nearly every
i negro in the South goes armed; multitudes
j of them having no abiding place, their la
i bor is uncertain, and scarcely any of the
| large land holders can rely with any cer- j
! tninty upon having contracts made with
j these laborers fulfilled.
The consequence of such a condition of
affairs could not be otherwise than disas
trous. The agricultural lands of the South
are not worth to-day one half what they
were worth iu 1860, and this depreciation
iu the value of real estate, amounting to
| more than one thousand millions of dol
j lars, is due almost entirely to two causes: j
First, tho exorbitant taxation of tho thiev
ing carpet-bog governments which have
been so tenderly nourished by Grants Ad- j
ministration and second, the unsettled
condition of the labor market.
It is very’ necessary, therefore, that some
means should be devised for restoring
better relations between capital and labor
in the South than now exists. Mr, Wm. j
McKinley of Milledgeville, Ga., in a
speech recently delivered before the Geor
gia State Agricultural Society, recommends
as a remedy for prevailing evils the adopt
tion of tiie English copy-hold land tenure,
or cottage allotment tenure, or both, mod
ified to suit American facts and laws, to be
applied to free negro tenants throughout
the entire cotton and rice country. He
argues that if the bind holders should fur
nish the negroes with good homes and i
i long leases, where parents could teach
their children to work, the race would be :
regenerated, and the rising generation of j
colored youth, now greatly pewne to poli
tics and vagrancy, could be reclaimed
from idleness and made valuable members
of the community.
Mr. McKinley’S speech is Utopian in
some respects; be l oks ultimately to the
establishment of a vast feudal community,
extending all over the cotton regions,
where the whites shall be forever masters
and the blacks their happy, faithful, and
well-regulated dependents. There is no
probability of any such community ever
existing iu this country; but there is an un
deniable necessity for a reform in the re
lations between laborers and their em
pteyers in the South, and suggestions Hl
that of Mr. McKinley are worth consider
ing in this connection. But so long as the
carpet-baggers maintain their pernicious
aseeu , nev over the Southern negro little
change for the better can be hoped for.
This, however, will not always endure.
ME. BEECHER OS RICHES
In Ctlrlng b* not like the Pump wtateh 1
■forced to Give, but like the < Mud
which freely Yield* th* W<4-
comt MoUl trre.
After the Choir had sung the 243d liynm,
beginning,
Lord, what a heaven at uniting grace
Rhine* in the beauties of thy face,
Mr. Beecher prayed that men might be
come rich in charity, tlnrt the whole world
might grow in true human Christian grace,
find that the churches might no longer
despoil each other, hut work together in
the labor of elevating mankind; and then
preached from the 17th, 18th, and 19th
verses of Ist Timothy, 6th chapter:
Charge them that arc rich in tills world that
they be not high minded, nor trust m ooverlain
riches, but in tiwi living God, who glveth us rich
ly all tiling* to enjoy.
That thnv do good, that tin y lie rich in good
works, ready to distribute, willing to communi
cate.
Laying up in store for themselves a good foun
dation for the time to come that they may iay
hold on eternal life.
“Tliis, ” said Mr. Beecher, “may prop
erly tie milled Paul’s gospel to rich men.
fn n commercial nge like ours, in a com
mercial community such as this is, where
the pursuit* of wealth is to so great an ex
tent the all-absorbing object of life, this
message is worthy of consideration. It is
wonderM how ufi the Bible maxims justi
fy themselves, how the wisdom of the Old
Testament in economic affairs stands pre
eminent. In the New there is is no
serious contrariety, but the teachings of
the Old are repeated with the emphasis of
homelike illustration whereby tho spiritu
uality is deepened.
Although Paul had suffered great indig
nities, although he had even been expelled
from his own land, he never allowed liis
mind to he cankered; he never fell into
the lnibit,so common and so contemptible,
of reviling rich men because they were,
rich. He, treated all classes of men with
dignified politeness. Even among the
heathen he was
A GENTLEMAN,
because he was a Christian; an illustrious
example of how a man may he clear and
faithful in the exposition of his sentiments
without being acrimonious. You see he
did not advise that rich men should be
shunned. ‘Charge them that they be not
highmiuded,’ was his admonition. He
merely wished to have them warned against
one of the dangers into which rich men
most, commonly fall. When men begin to
prosper they begin to feel themselves and
to arrogate to themselves a strength and a
power which belong to what they have,
not to what they are. How easy it is to
become parseproud! It is not pride in
the wealth of affection that puffs ns up;
not pride in the wealth of character, but
pride in outward riches. It is not wrong
to strive for riches. I honor those who
have become wealthy while maintaining
their manly independence of character.
The way to wealth is by the way to the
economic virtues, industry, fidelity, fru
gality, truth and honor. These conduct a
man to wealth, and when he has achieved
it. he should receive praise for his success.
But how often are we rendered tumid, vain,
| and foolish liy the possession of large prop
erties! When wealth shoots a man above
liis fellow, and he looks upon liimsef with
pride and says, ‘What n great man am I,’
: lie is simply foolish; but when he wraps
himself tip within himself and refuse* to
distribute and to communicate as the apos
tle advises, lie is worse than foolish.
“Take off the outer skin that covers
I the bulb of the tulip and vou find a whiter
one beneath. Relieve this and there is
another. Keep on peeling skin after skin
from the bulb and at hist you Come to the
; heart, the germ, the new life of the plant,
the essential tulip. Men are undergoing
1 the same kind of
FEELING.
“Strip one and you find a pretty good
layer of manliness at the bottom. On the
; other hand, there or* plenty who cannot
: afford to be stripped; the outer coat is nil
! there is to them. Take away their bonds,
their gold and silver, their lands, and all
I the other emblems and symbol* of wealth
-oil that the tearing hands of misfortune
| eon remove—and there is nothing left.
Such men can’t stand stirjiping long.
They lack the essential virtue of munli-
I ness wound round with the thread of no
I bleness, and are poor indeed. Tell one
| such that there is something better than
I mere wealth; tell him not to trust in that,
but in the living God, and he will say:
‘Will he endorse my note? Is lie good on
j ’Change? I believe in substance. I want
j something under my feet, then I know
: where I am.’
"You don’t know where yon are. Your
possession of wealth is as if.duringja storm,
I you should run into a litte bay, and an
chor your craft and go to sleep in fancied
security, and wake and find yourself in
, the muil. Men are often left highland dry
when the tide runs out. Nothing is more
fugitive than riches. In my quarter of a
century of pasturage here how many men
have I seen go down from affluence to
poverty! No, not in uncertain riches, but
'in the living God that gircth us richly all
things to enjoy,’ should we place onr
trust. Let, the rich man use liis wealth to
lay the foundation for the life to come.
There ismeritoriousness in good works. You
will not get to Heaven because you ore
rich or because you are poor. When you
reach the gates you will not be asked
‘How much are you worth?’ but ‘Are
you
one op god’s friends?”
“Certain habits go through life with
men and make the foundation for the fu
ture. Grace does not crush out tender
ness. It is worth while to sow rightly here
in order that we map reap well hereafter.
It does me good to think of a rich man
who bo* been a minister of mercy to hi*
kind, and to wonder wlat errands of
bountiful mercy God may send him on
hereafter.
“Christ did not denounce wealth. There
are many who have been wrongly taught
that He did—-that He held riches to be in
compatible with goodness—that wealth
should be equalized. But, through the
whole history of the Jews you find the
promise that industry, fidelity and honor
should be rewarded with increase of corn,
and oil, and entile. The whole weight of
the old dispensation rested on this—that
these virtues should bring wealth. Jesus
did not reverse these teachings. Paul
does not say ‘renounce,’ but ‘give.’ ‘I
charge those that are rich to administer
their riches rightly—to distribute.’ ‘I
charge them to put their trust in the living
God; to be ready to communicate’—not
like hard-working pumps, which must be
forced to give; but like the cloud that
seeks the parched earth and fresiy sheds
the welcome moisture.
“I tis nobler to be noli than to be poor,
and harder too. Poverty is not the best
school. To know how to handle wealth
aud wield power, it* complex agent, to be
the richest thing in all youx riches, is
something to be proud, of. I score the
idea that the best man is most like a skele
ton. It is honorable to be honorably
poor, and'in the presence of true men we
forget tlieir poverty. But it is honorable
to be rich, and with your wealth raise up
strong men to help the world along with
j arm, aud pen, and voice. It should he
{ one of the greatest of the young man’s
: ambitions to achieve honest wealth, but a
1 greater one to use it well. It is a good
I thing to be content in poverty, but if God
I has called you to wealth, go and Stand firm
! in yoar integrity, and remember that fbr
i everything you receive you will one day be
; called to account. But rich or poor, may
| you so live that when you stand before
| the Master and make your report to Him
IHe shall say to yon, ‘Well done, thou
I good and faithful servant. ’ ”
Monet Stringency Bautmok. —Bah
! i!more, Od. 31. —The financial crisis has
I come closely home to Baltimore during
i the past week. The monetary stringency,
; which had previously been restricted in its
; effect, has at last borne with a heavy
I weight upon legitimate business men and
I manufacturers, and to-night they are is
! bcipating a very gloomy Saturday. The
I trouble is especia’iy felt in the oyster trade
which should now lie employing 10,000
\ dre Igers shuckers and packers, instead of
which boats are lying idle at the wharves
I and the packinghouses are not employed,
j T ic. paralysis thus produced extends all
j through the counties Bird-ring on the
! Chesapeake, the chief industry of which
lis catching oysters. The manufacturing
I establishments of this city are either quiet
I or only muring with half their ordinary
force. The Bi Itimore and Ohio railroad
has discharged one third of its force of 3,-
000 men, and the Knab and Gaehle piano
1 factories are as silent as a church yard.
There is no business at a'l doing, except
I in the foreign trade, winch continues brisk
I on account of standing engagements now
being flTfod. The ban ks are so conservative
1 that b.isfnesH can find no relief from them
j and there is a strong feeling growing that
i if they do not abandon their hoarding
| policy effort will lie made to force them
| oct of it by applications in the court of
j bankruptcy.
j INCREASE OF THE Df.UT. —TW teiegfapii
reports that there will be no sales of gold
or purchases of bonds by the Treasury De
| pnrtment during November. An explana
tion of this change in the policy of the
j Grant administration may probably he
I found in the following statement contained
in the Washington correspondence of the
New York Timex (administration organ),
under date of October 27:
“The debt statement of the Treasury
j Department for October will show a con
siderable increase, very likely not less than
; $3,000,000 or $4,009,000. This has been
| anticipated at the Treasury Department
i since the first of the mouth. Though the pub
lic revenues from custom receipts aud in
| temal taxation have fallen below the expec
tation loss than was feared, they have, nev
| ertheless, declined so uracil as to render any
decrease of the debt absolutely impossible
I It is not unlikely that the debt statement
: for November may also exhibit an increase
from the causes that have operated during
the present month. Psrhaps, on the whole
I this result may bo beneficial, as it will
| serve as a warning to Congress to prune
| the appropiutiou bills very closely, to keep
I the public expenditures for the next fiscal
1 year below the revenues of the Govern
! ment.”
The SurBNMF. Court. Washington,
Nov. 4.—The United States Supreme
Court to-day decided the case of the State
of South Carolina, ex. ret. Wagner,against
Stoll, County Treasurer from the Su
preme Court of the State, involving the
question of the validity of the issues of
the bank, framed iu 1812, provided that
its issues should lie receivable for taxes,
but thb County Treasurer now refused to
receive them ou the ground that they were
issued in aid of the rebellion, and were,
therefore, not tender. The court below
sustained the objection, and the judgment
was for the Treasurer. On a former argu
ment of the case in this coart, that judg
ment was affirmed, but upon a reargument
hud at this term, there is a change of opin
ion, and tho judgment is now reversed—
the sumo judge writing the opinion—the
court holding that as the faith of the State
was pledged for these bills the holders
were entitled to rely upon*that credit ami
to its protection. The credit of the State
eould not be withdrawn without an open
and clear declaration to that effect, and
such a declaration was not matte until 1868
by the repeal of the charter, which watt
too lute to render the bills no tender in the
present case.
()ne other ease was decided by’ the de
c'.ion in this. Justice Hunt delivered the
opinion. Justice Bradley dissented.
The Claflin's.— New York November
3.—The statement of the affairs of H. B.
Clfflin & Cos., as submitted to a meeting
of the friends of the firm, which included
tlieir largest creditors, held this afternoon,
was in follows: Good asset of all kinds,
622,508,000; total indebtedness, domestic
and foreign, 615,584,000; surplus, 60,924,-
000. It was agreed that no assistance
should be aaked of the Associated Banks
on the Clearing House, and tlieir friends
and creditors present at the meeefing,
unanimously tendered to H. B. Clatlin &
Cos. an extension, averaging four and a
half months, maturing in monthly pay
ments which was promptly accepted. The
business of the firm will proceed as usnal.
In this statement is not included the per
sonal assets of any member of the firm, it
merely embraces the amounts employed in
their business.
The Fashionable Scant Effect. —The
extremest phase of the fashionable scant
effect was reached Sunday by a lady who
walked up Fifth avenue in a navy blue
eninel’s-hair dress. Not a pucker of a
visible seam, or a particle of t riming broke
np the beautiful surface of that woman.
She was an unbending level, and how she
got into that straight-jacket of a dress I
couldn’t imagine till I took a rear view of
her, and found she was buttoned up be
hind from neck to hem. Two unobtrusive
box-plates lurked in a shy way each side
the opening; otherwise that garment
looked like a bloated pantaloon-leg. And
walk—well she couldn’t walk very well,
and in case of fire that woman would be
fried in her own fat.— Mrs. Hurnham's
Letter to St. Louis Repullicm*.
A rnoMDiRXT CiT’aaN Shot Down- *t a :
Stkanoek. —Pittsburgh Oct. 29. — Napoleon I
Duchesne, was dangerously shot about nine j
o’clock to-night in a low drive called the i
Sailors' Home, No, 77 Third avenue, by a I
man with whom he had some won’s. The I
stranger represented himself as a police !
officer and told Duchesne he had a warrant i
for his arrest, Duchesne started up the !
dive steps to hunt for a policeman. The
stranger ran past him and when near the i
top turned and fired, a ball entering the j
forehead and penetrating the brain to the ;
depth of an inch. It was not extracted !
and may result fatally. Tho assmlaot ran j
and was aot wrested!.
A henpecked gentleman determined to
sup with a party of friends against the will
of his wife. He was resolved that he would
and she that he should not go. He- did }
not go*. His friends missed him;, and, |
just tor fun, invaded his residence, where :
they found him and his wife sitting in
their chairs fast asleep. He had given her i
an opiate that he might slip away, and she
had given him. one that he might uot. 1
They are eclipsing the government at
j Chicago in putting silver coin into oircla
tion. The Cnieago Tribune of Saturday
annourccv that at least one bank in that
; city is paving out silver at par on thd
: checks of its depositors in all cases where
{the request for silver is made. The First
: National Bank of Chicago received ou
1 Saturday from the United States Mint at
[Philadelphia the sum of thirty-two thou
sand dollars in silver half dollars, this be
ing the first instalment of eoih received in
return for shipment of eighty thousand
ilo’lars silver bullion made by the bank to
: the mint last week. Other remittances of
! hn'f dollare will be received from fhe mint
I from time to time, aud unless the currency
j price of gold should go np (in other words
! unless the gold value of greenbacks should
I decline again below the gold value of silver
h- f dollars) this silver will be steadily
paid out on checks at par with green
! backs. The bullion from which it was
coined was from one of the smelting and
refining works at Chicago, which is pro
ducing alxmt two hnudred thousand dollars
per month, all of which will be coined tot
circulation.
A. TANARUS, Stewakt on the Panic. —The
great merchant prince of New l'ork is evi
; dently not afraid of the present eomifter
| rial panic but on the contrary, state*
! that his business is better than it was be
; fore the panic. He says: "We don’towe
! anybody anything. That’s more than
I most others can say. We’ve plenty of
! money. This panic does not effect my
| business; ou the contra!/, I make money
I after every panic. In 1837 I coined
i money; in 1867 I made mints of money,
• and now I am making a cent or two.”
The CroAB Makers is New Yoke.— The
! Cuban cigar makers held an excited meet
| ing in New Y’ork, on Friday night, to
consider the proposed reduction of their
wages to the rate of a year ago. The men
; engaged in cigar making are said to re
t ceivc small wages for mnch work, and a
reduction would come hard with them,
; and so they propose to strike.
Hie death of Dr. Walter Briscoe in
Paris is announced. He is represented
; a* an American of a spdrtive turn of mind,
; eighty years old, and as having left a for
tune of half a million.
I Ksyton’n New York Store open sgeiir Si f/tr? ’
: man, with prices lower than since Ihe' War. Call
i ami be satisfied.
iniMEUAtEois im tftmtMitxTS.
rIAN, SWANN & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
COMMISSION MERCIIA N TS*
96 Bay 3t., Savannah. Ga., and Cotton Exchange,
101 Pearl St, Xew York,
Will make liberal < ab ftdran*f*# on cotton ship
! meuts to either our Savannah or New York house
| Will bnv aud sell future* <m liberal terms.
I oe4-3in INMAN, HWANN & CO.
Wv TL BCUHL H. P. RICHMOND.
WM. H. STAKE & CO.,
Wtiolrgalc Grocers,
Commission Merchants and Cotton Factors
Comer of Bay ami Lincoln Streets,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,,
Age ut s For
E. FRANK COE'3 BONE SUPERPHOSPHATE,
Magnolin Isiglti Draft C otton Glint,
PRINCETON FACTOTY YARNS.
A It HO W TIES.
Careful A'tention Given to
Sales or Shipment of Cotton
—AXt-
ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE.
\ £S~Liberal ADVANCES made on Consignments,
aUgltJ-oln. *
GREAT BARGAINS
FOR CASH i
The undersigned offeers fob sale
every description of
ME BCIIANDIHE
! st extremely low prices for CASH.
A large lot of choice brands of GEORGIA
j FLOUR.
A splendid lot of EAGLE and PHCENIX
| JEANS. Ail wool tilling.
And would say in all earnestness to those \fti&
are indebted to him that payment* must be
| made.
| Cotton wffl be reserved at Übecai prices in pay-*
i ment of accounts.
j oct4-tf 8. D ET)MON DBON.
J.N. LIGHTFOOT.
COTTON factor
—A3TD
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
100 Bay St., Savannah, Ga.
Agent for the sale at
! MEBItrMAirS AMMONIA TED HONES.
Liberal cash advances made on cotydgnmentfa
I for sale ki Savannah, won shiumenhi to reliable
correspondents in Liverpod, New York or Phila
| ftt-lphia, oct4-3m
CJEO. APPLET
DEALER IN
CLOTHING,
hats, o-vi h,
Gent's Furnishing Goods,
BOY'S CLOTHING,
TRUNKS, VALISES,
Boots ancl Sl*oes,
Ho. IG2 Bryan Street, Market Square*
CADES BItESS'.IVS HOTEL,
havannal> Gn.
anc2-tf
Anew supply of Dixie Turuplows at ! *
lohk TimwtN'S-
