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PUBLISHED DAILY Jnd WEEKLY B\
SAMUEL BARD,
I* r o i» r i c t. o r .
ATLANTA. GEORGIA,
Wednesday, March 15, <871.
FjK PHBsIDENT IN' 1FW,
JOHN T. HOFFMAN,
OF NEW YORK.
(Subject to the decision of the National Democratic
Convention.)
To tbc Public.
The Weekly True Georgian wili be \ romptly
printed as heretofore, on Alabama street, oppo
site Richards’ Book Store, on evi-ry Tuesday.
My management ot the Daily and Weekly
Intelligence!! will, in co respect, iuteileie
with its regular publication.
Samuel Bard.
X Hint to All.
The motto of the South should be “ Wisdom
justice and moderation.”
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Our Ittarkct and Finance Report*.
Our market and finance reports are corrected
daily. Business men and o hers may rely od
the correctness of tbi3 department ot the Intel
ligencer.
The South western liailroad of Georgia
has our thanks for courtesies ; and in that con
nection we arc glad of an opportunity to men
tion the marked ability oi the gentlemen con
nected with its different departments.
Tit auk«.
The press throughout the State, have our
most cordial thanks, for kind notices of ocr
management of this journal. We shall work to
win golden opinions from all.
Let Vm Act Upon It.
Our Democratic friends should not forget,
that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
They should also remember that m; delation
and prudence is necessary to success in 1872
Our Coiir.e Approved.
The Northern Democracy are giving their
cordial approval of the political policy pursued
by us for the canvass of 1872. On any other
line we will lose the Dcxt Prrsident, We must
remember that we have Lad a long and bloody
war, and that we must now look to the luturc
and leave the past. We are for future success.
So are four-fifths ot the Southern Democracy.
Dead issues can Gave no place in these columns.
Let the grand old Democratic column move for
ward, with vigilance and prudence plainly in
scribed upon all her banners.
Ilot.tn at tbc Core.
The Ttadical8 from Maine to California are ii
a state of sad bewilderment. They are abou
to evaporate. We know of no nostrum that c u
save them. They are rotten at the core. An in
curable form of ulceration has set in. Delta’
and overthrow is written on all their door posts
That they are about in the act of “ perishing by
the way side,” no sane man will question.
The concern can never be reconstructed. In
1872 tbe gallant Democracy under the lead ol
such a man as lloilman will sweep the nation.
Forney.
Will somebody or anybody be good enough
to call on President Grant, and procure an office
of some kind lor poor old Colonel John W.
Forney, late editor ot the Washington Chroni
cle ? It was cruel in the President not to have
made him Governor ot the District. John has
lied without stint against the South, and it will
be agreeable to him to receive a reward of some
sort, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour.
The President should be promptly advised that
“ better late than never” will answer. The
matter must he attended to ai once.
tSF - Governor lloilman suggests, “ that, as
our present money consists ol $400,000,000 of
Government notes, the Treasury, having a sur
plus income of gold, shall save such surplus, or
a part of it, until it shall have coin enough
wherewith to redeem the circulating notes, and
thus restore our money to a specie value. This
is the method by w’hicli the banks, when they
have suspended, get back to specie payments.
He expresses the opinion that if the Treasury
will, lor only one year, save its surplus gold in
come, w T hich amounts to over $00,000,000, the
legal tender notes will at the end of that period
have risen to the value of specie, and can there
after be maintained at specie value.’
The Governor has a sound head, and is the
pilot who can save the country from shipwreck
and ruin. lie is the coming man with tL<
masses, aud, it he lives, will be elected Presidcm
in 1872. Mark the prediction.
Don't AVaut to See It.
The New Era says: “Thedistinction betweei
democratic Kepublicanism and republican De
mocracy is not such a difference as involves ;
political issue; aud we are not disposed to rnak
an issue out ot it
“A rose by any other namo will smell as sweet," Ac.
Well, none so blind as those who don’t wrant
to see. To call such a thing as Kepublicanism.
as now taught by Radicalism, and enforced by
the bayonet, “Democratic,” is a willtul miscon
Btruement of the plain sense and meaning ol tht
latter term. You might as well call black white,
or sin virtue, or attempt to mix lire aud water
into one element, as to attempt a blending of
Radicalism aud Democracy. Democracy, how
ever, founded upon true Republican principles
per sc, is a great and incontrovertible truth, aud
upon this unadulterated principle, the hopes ol
of our people rest for final triumph over mist use
and political vice. Besides, we doubt greatly
whether the Radical “rose” will smell sweeta
year hence, unless the Era then cannot ap;> e
ciate any “distinction” between a living and a
defunct thing.
Let our worthy neighbor try to do better next
time. We still have hopes of a reform iu that
quarter.
Iuternal Improvement.
The Richmond Enquirer gives some excellen’
advice to the politicians oi Virginia, as follows :
“The renewal ol business prospenty in t-iri
State is the chiei duty of those who believe thai
it needs renewal. Every suggestion that prom
ises practical value is entitled to the best con
sideration. Every patriot in Virginia owes n
to his country to propose the best that occurs u
his mind. Something ol practical value muff
be done, or great evils that cannot be corrected
will come. The first and the largest interest in
the Commonwealth—upon which all ethei.-
are dependent— is the agricultural interest
Start that forward and all others will move
^ apace. Keep that depressed and all will suffer
incurable decline.”
This sound and excellent advice is as appli
cable to Georgia as it is to Virginia. Let ns
profit by it in our case. The vapid mouthings
ot impracticable men, whose energies find an
outlet only in sharp tongue warlare, ami wl .
goucii their political lancets into all sorts <
healing sores, only that they may show the
leged virtues ot plasters and nostrums manu
factured by themselves, and hawked about a
public meetings like the patent medicines of
charletans, these counsellors are not the kind
that a struggling and impoverished peoph
should follow in order to regain their former
and even greater, preponderance in the Union.
We want peace, quiet, strenuous and devote •
efforts at recuperation, and a broad and chari
table spirit in all things, not incessant agitation
at impolitic periods, when nothing is to be
gained but distrusted our best chances for the
luture are thwarted and imperilled by incon
siderate manifestations. We want practice, not
theory, and the gas of professional politicians,
no matter how fine it is, will never insure us
permanent material or spiritual prosperity.
Words or Wisdom .
Says the Louisville Courier-Journal: “ The
cue tor the Southern people, the weapon for the
Southern States, is peace, quiet, order, freedom
trom excitement, rest hum passion and contro
versy, social and political repose, based in a
genial, not a vengeful spirit.”
These are words ol prudence, and we heartily
indorse their excellent and well-advised spirit.
Ke-IIecouslruction.
Extreme Radicals, like Morton, arc b- y plan
ning Echemes lor tne re-reconstruction ol Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Nor.h Carolina, and in
Let every Southern Slate that has had the temer
ity end manhood to assert the inalienable right to
free ballot, and who voted the downfall of Radi
cal corruption and autocracy by overwhelming
Democratic majorities. But “ truth is mighty
and will prevail.” Never have a free people al
lowed themselves to be shackled tor any great
length ol time by usurpers and successful dema
gogues, but, rising in the majesty of law and
thrice armed by the justness of their cause,
have hurled their oppressors from their high
p aces, filling the vacated places by friends ol
.he people, and honest conservators of justice
and law. Hence, trusting in the good sense of
the American people, and the quiet yet irresist-
ablc power of a great nation’s will, we see little
cause for permanent disquietude at the vain
machinations and unprincipled devices oi
e,.Lemeral politicians, whose race is rapidly
near a merited ana inglorious end.
Let the “Red Hot**” Read Tills.
The Paducah Kentuckian, whose conserva
tism is of the soundest, and whose common-
sense is of the strong, practical sort, in an
article on the political situation, makes these
very shrewd comments:
Well, we are asked what are the chances for
the Democracy to elect in 1872? We unhesi
tatingly give it sis our best judgment that they
have no chance, unless they organize and bring
forward their most available man. It the elec
tion is to be carried against Grant, it mu.-t be
done as the election of Harrison against Van
Buran was carried in 1840. The old political
hacks must be thrown overboard.
This i3 the issue in a nutshell. We can go
into the contest with living issues, represented
by living men, and win ; or with dead issues,
represented by dead men, and be wiped out.
A Card (rum Filch.
The business of the btar Office has increased
so much in the last twelve months as to make
:t necessary for me to procure assistance in the
editorial and business management of the es
tablishment. Rather than employ assistance
on salary, I have concluded to sell an interest,
which I have done, to Col. J. D. Alexander, a
gentleman well and favorably known in this
community, who will, in connection with my
self, devote his entire time and energies to the
business. The firm style is Fitch A; Alexan
der, and we shall both do our best to make the
Star a reliable,-valuable and useful paper.
Several improvements are in contemplation,
of which we wiil duly inform our readers.
F. S. Fitch.
We trust the new arrangement may be
crowned with abundant success. We also re
joice in the prosperity ot the lraiernity through
out the State.
To Hie Fsibiic.
I have associated with me in the publication
of The Daily and Weekly Sun Messrs. Wm. H.
Moore, Pascal J. Moran and Samuel P. Wells,
all practical printers. A. M. Speights.
Atlanta, March 4tb, 1871.
We wish our friend Speights and his new as
sociates, every possible success. The Sun must
shine on all. May its ravs never grow dim.
Dr. Samuel Bard lx is taken charge of the
Atlanta Intelligencer. He has a good
deal of vim and enterprise in him, and prom
ises to make The Intelligencer a first clas:
newspaper. He supports Governor Hoffman
as the next Democratic candidate lor President.
[Nashville Union and American.
[gsp Dr. Samuel Bard lia3 taken charge of the
Atlanta Intelligencer. The Doctor is a
pungent writer and an enterprising journalist
The True Georgian will be continued as here
tofore.—Athens (Ga.) Bannejr.
The New York World.
We print to-day a long and interesting arti
cle from the New York World ot March 6th,iD
review of the True Georgian’s review oi the
recent speech ot that distinguished and able
Georgian, Hon. Linton Stephens. We bespeak
a general and caretui perusal of the World’s
well-written article.
Hon. B. It. lliuion.
We notice that the name ol Senator B. B.
Hinton is being frequently mentioned for the
esponsible office of President of the Senate ol
our next General Assembly. He is a gentleman
of fine administrative abilities, and il elected
would ably fill the position.
Married, at the Methodist Church in Cov
ington, on yesterday, by the Rev. C. A. Evans,
Pastor ot Trinity Church, Atlanta, Mr. W. A.
IfExirniLL, ot the Atlanta Constitution, and
Mrs. E. B. Lucilie, of Covington.
The above notice of happy consummations
should have appeared in our columns yesterday
morning.
Our kindest wishes follow Mr. Hemphill and
his bride into the new lile of hope and expec
tation opening out belore them.
The Political Coniesi in Connecticut.
The political campaign iu Connecticut has
been unusually quiet, and the issues to be deci
ded are mostly national. The administration of
Governor English has been satisfactory. The Con
necticut Republicans do not endorse the actioi
ot their brethren in Congress, and are averse to
lire proposed re-reconstructiou of the South, the
m f :imou3 military election system and the San
Domingo business. The New Haven Register
says: “ The only hope ol the liepublicans is
that the negro vote will give them the State.
They know, and the more honest admit, that
so tar as the white electors are concerned, the
Republican party is in a worse position to-day,
than it was one year ago. It has been losing
ground all the time, as was conclusively shown
in the Congresssional election last year. The
Dcmociats will certainly carry the second and
lourth Congressional districts, and me first and
third w:.. oe hotiy contested. It our friends
will work earnestly and taithfully, we can
promise them the most decided victory they
have gained in Connecticut in the past twenty
years.
Su»ner has been prevailed on to smother his
wrath tor a season, aud postpone the delivery
ol his contemplated speech attacking President
Grant.
Gov. Sam’l Bard has bought out the
Atlanta Intelligencer, and announces him-
eff as publisher and chief editor. Judge
\\ hitaker has run that establishment lor nearly
twenty years, with slight interruption. He has
ever l eta a courteous, polite and diguified edi
tor, nud a liberal proprietor. We part with
him with regret, and wish him a quiet, easy and
sun-shiny passage lor the remainder ol his
voyage ol life. Dr. Bard is a vigorous, energetic
editor, and we. venture he wnl matte the old
t ntellioi:ncer “ get up and git I” Success to
him.— G rifjUn Star.
Contested Senatorial Election.—In the
roli call of Senators for the Forty-Second Con-
giess, at it its first session, on Saturday, the
name oi Vance, trom .North Carolina, was not
mentioned. The credentials of Goldthwaile,
I Alabama, Blodgett, oi Georgia, and Hamil-
on, oi Texas, were referred to the Judiciary
Committee. The questions involved in the
Blodgett case are the same as ttxosc which "have
already been adversely adjudicated upon by
.his committee, under the contest instituted
ov Farrow and Whitelev trom the same State.
Jared Irwin Whitaker, after an extended
connection with the Atlanta Intelligencer,
withdraws, ex-Gov. 8am. Bard, oi .the Weekly
rue Georgian, so . plug in and assuming the
mmagemtl; luc Intelligencer needs great
improvement. Bara fioists John T. Hoffman’s
name its President lor 1872.—A;*. Advertiser.
Greeley is taking pams to brand as lies some
of the stories about his chirography. Next,
he’ll probablv deuy that when Senator Revels
wrote him asking about the best mode of culti
vating strawber. .es, ha advised him to plant
Ltui with his corn, “ dropping two or three
si raw berry seeds in each hill, and letting the
vines climb up on the cornstalks. In this way
they need no poling, and lru.it can be shaken
off in the fall and pickled for winter use.”
The Fifth Annual Ball ol the Hibernian Be
nevolent Society will be given at the Skating
Rink in this city, on the evening of the 17th in
stant It will be one ol the grandest affairs of
the season, and the attendance will be large.
Mr. T. Burke is on the committee of arrange
ments, aud Air. W. J. Mann on invitations. We
look for a good time among our lriends, and
shall have something more to say about it be
fore the event transpires.
From tbc New York World, Harch 9th,]
The Southern
The True. Georgian, an able an i discredt
journal published at Atlanta, which carries the
name of John T. Hoffman at the head of its
editorial columns tor President in 1^72, “sub
ject,to the decision of the National Democratic
Convention,” makes a protest, perhaps a trifle
too earnest tor the occasion, against the views
recently pnt forth by Judge Linton Stephens,
brother of Alexander H. Stephens, on tbe va
lidity of the reconstruction acts and the bind
ing force of the recent amendments to tbe Fed
eral Constitution, both of which Judge Ste
phens denies. For our part we will complain
ot nobody for making such dentals, lor all Dem
ocrats alike denied their validity while the
measures were in progress and denial seemed of
any avail. If Judge Stephens, or any other
Democrat, wishes to reopen those questions
and discuss them anew, we have no objection,
provided the disputants are willing to be bound
by the action of the convention in 1872, and will
defer to the Judgment ot the party as to the ex
pediency ot again presenting these subjects as a
party issue. It is our present impress on that if
that issue is pressed in the convention, it will
not be by tne delegates from any Northern
State, and we trust that discussion and reflec
tion may bring the whole party to practical
unanimity before the convention meets. We
are glad that Judge Stephens has so boldly pro
mulgated his views, as the strong expressions of
dissent which they provoke may in time enable
us to form an opinion as to how far he repre
sents the public sentiment ot the South. It il
shall become apparent within the ensuing rear
that a majority of the Southern Democrats do
not wish to reopen the negro question, it is cer
tain that the Northern Democracy will not in
troduce it into the National Convention in op
position to their wishes. We call attention to
the passages in our extracts from the True
Georgian, which we print in italics:
“We beg leave to state that, in our opinion,
Mr. Stephens’ assertion that the reconstruction
acts of Congress, and other 1 amendments to the
Constitution, aie not binding upon the people of
these States, being, in effect, null and void, is
contrary to the best interests of our people, and
does not express the pronounced policy of the great
rr rjority.
“Furthermore, we deny that any one has a
reasonable right to affirm that the opinions ol
any man, concerning the validity ot constitu
tional laws, and more than simply the views ol
a private individual.
“ The resignation of Judge Stephens la3t year,
as chairman of the Slate Democratic Executive
Committee (a step which had its origin in the in
compatibility of this gentleman's extreme views
with the pronounced moderate policy of the major
ity of leading Democrats) shows exclusively, we
think, that he is, on many important points, not in
accord with the dominant spirit now animating the
ranks of the Georgia Democracy."
“ Neither Air. Stephens nor Mr. Blair has any
right to assume the championship ot ihe Demo
cratic party oi the Union or, to harbor the be
lief "that they are the recognized mouthpieces
of the party, and are invested with the exclus
ive privilege of expounding its doctrines and
proclaiming its policy upon important national
ssues.
“ We do not know that they claim this high
privilege, but the enemies ot public peace aud
of civii liberty, and especially the corrupt and
malicious haters of the Southern people, allow
no tavorabie opportunity to pass, in which they
can hold up to the public gaze the sayings and
doings of these gen lemen, and to impress upon
their written or spoken fulminations the great
official seal of the National Democratic partv,
in order to damage that party in tho minds o!
sober, dispassionate thinkers, and to manufac
ture offensive weapons out ot tbe-e addresses,
ior the use of Radicalism ”
Whatwemo.«t desire to get at is ihe actua 1
state ot public sentiment in the Bouth. Tlu
Northern Democracy are disposed to treat their
Southern brethren with deference. They do
uot wiah to go into the National Conveniion to
overrule the judgment oi the Southern Demo
crats. They trust that a free expression and
comparison of views in the South will bring
that section to practical unanimity on the late
issues; and we are not sorry that Judge
Stephens has reopened the discussion, since it
wiit at least enable us to form a more correct
estimate of the prevailing tone of Southern sen
timent. We make a further extract from the
article in the True Georgian, asking especial at
tention the italicized statement with which it
closes:
“The issues of the late terrible war are dead
issues. Circumstances over which we had no
control have forced our people to abandon them;
nor does such an abandonment imply our sanc
tion of illegal, unscrupulous, and tyrannical
abuse of power on the part of the dominant
party.
“The effect of the reconstruction policy of our
government is before us and upon us; why,
i hen, should we waste breatn in deploring it,
when we have not the power ‘o remove the
primal cause?
“The record of the National Democracy
against flagrant political outrages upon the
rights of tbe people is clear; but to leave the
dead past to bury its dead is by no means to in
dorse the Radical leaders who created the vic
tims ior the grave. The party ol the people and
progress, of peace and order, in other words, ihe
Democracy of Urn Union, cannot afford to look
behind, grieving over that which cannot now
be recalled, while before them lies the broad
field of the future, full of grave responsibilities,
great issues, and imperative demands upon
shrewd, consistent and patriotic action.
“Our duty is at the front, where new and
more brilliant victories are to be gained, to make
amends for past defects and defeats. Then let
us meet the absorbing and all-important ques
tions now at hand, like men ; let every Demo
crat and well-wisher of his country strive lor
success in this direction, and in this direction
only. By tins method we will secure the unity
ol pain.. ism, the welfare ot the South, the paci
fic bn ot im: cou’ try, the downfall ot Radical-
c.n, and the ptrpeiuity of the Union.
“Finally, we would respectiully suggest, as the
great and decisive battle is to be fought on
Northern soil, that the South follow the leader
ship and policy ot the Northern Democracy.
Let our prudent Northern brethren perfect a sound,
far-sighted national platform, and we can assure
the active co operation oj the thoughtful and moder
ate masses of the South. We can safely say that
four-fifths of the Southern Democracy will cordially
indorse the spirit of this article, and contribute their
aid to the consummation of the principles and policy
herein enunciated.”
We do not care to participate actively in this
discussion at its present stage, preferring to leave
Southern public opinion to its own spontaneous
development, and having full confidence in the
result. We will make no attempt to convince
or ptrsuade anybody, but will merely call atten
tion to the present state of the question.
First. The reconstruction acts are no longer
in iorce, having expired by their own limitation.
There is therelore no room either to resist their
enforcement or agitate for their repeal.
Second. The State constitutions formed under
the pressure and coercion ol the reconstruction
acts, are amendable by the people of each State,
like all other State constitutions. The lreedom
to make a new constitution is as fully possessed
by each of the Southern as it is by each of the
Northern States; but constitutional changes in a
State cannot properly become a question ol na
tional politics, or a topic in the national platlorm
oi the Democratic party.
Third. Tne new amendments to the Federal
Constitution have no substance or importance
except in those two particulars : (1) slavery,
(2) negro suffrage. If, as a matter ot fact, all
the States acquiesce in the abolition oi slavery,
and no State contemplates the exclusion of the
negroes from the elective franchise, it is of no
practical consequence whether the new Consti
tutional amendments are valid or not. Now. so
far as we are aware, neither Judge Stephens,
nor Senator Blair, nor anybody, eitfier South or
North, proposes to establish slavery. It is clear, I
then, that the enforcement oi the XlUtn |
Amendment cannot be a party issue, nor, in
any sense, a question ot practical politics.
There is nothing in the XLVth Amendment
worth fighting about if the XYth is accepted ;
the dislranchising clause being repcalable by a
mere act oi Congress, which is iavored Dy so
many Republicans that it wiil easily pass as
soon as the Democrats are a majority in the two
Houses. It, therelore. none ot the States
wtsncs to take a way suffrage from the negroes,
tntre is no practical reason lor contesting the
validity oi any ot the amendments. Practical
ly, therelore, the whole question is narrowed to
this single point: whether the South wishes to
go into the next Presidential election with the
abolition of negro suffrage as a Democratic
issue. On this point we are quite willing to
have a free expression of Southern opinion. In
the North the question is oi no importance, our
negroes being so lew that their votes are a*
mere dust iu tne balance.
None ot ihe new amendments prohibits the
States irotn requiring a property qualification,
or an educational qualification for voters. Every
State is free to adopt either or both; and il
(which we doubt) there is a majority in any
State who wish to exclude the negroes, they can
accomplish nearly all they desire without rais
ing any question under the XIYtn or the XVth
Amendment.
State News,
Savannah is selling out her hand fire en
gines.
Store houses in Marietta are in great de
mand.
An interest in the Macon Telegraph and Ales-
senger is tor sale.
The Rome Courier say3 the health of that
city is excellent.
Augusta has somebody mean enough to pilfer
hyacinths from the cemetery.
The Baptist Church at Lagrange is to be thor
oughly repaired and painted.
The wheat crop in the Cherokee region is not
as promising this season as it was last.
The Central Georgian says that five negro ku
klux were captured hear Sandersvilie last week.
LaGrange ladies are in the habit of sending
handsome boqueis fo spring flowers to the boys
in the Reporter office.
A handsome monument to the memory oi the
late Dr. Tomlinson Fort ha3 just been erected
in Alilledgeville cemetery.
The Chapman Bisters.—Bishop and these
fair burlesquers, now playing in Charleston,
will be in Augusta next week.
We learn that "Mr. William T. Crane, of
Towns county, has^entered upon the discharge
of the duties of postmaster at Athens, vice H.
C. Flourney, removed.
The citizens of Savannah have contributed
a fund of $540 75 to the family ol Charles L.
Schenck, a brave fireman who lost his life at a
recent fire in that city.
They tell on tbe three hundred delegates,
that assembled in Agricultural Convention iu
Macon, that three-fourths ot them visited that
place for the purpose ot buying corn.
Shad Season. -^The Savannah Republican
says the catch so tar this season has been very
good, and the fishefmen have no cause ot com
plaint, either at the number of fish caught or
the prices realized.
While Mr. Nelson and his driver were pass
ing over a stream near Certersville, the bridge
broke down, and "both men and horses were
precipitated the stream below and
drowned. ^
G'lbert AI. Anderson tried to commit suicide
the other day in Columbus, with a strip of tin
rolled up in the shape ot a pistol barrel. A
glass tumbler, loaded with benzine, would have
been more effectual.
Air. Hart P. Smith, Alaster of Transportation
on the Southwestern railroad, was thrown from
a light spring wagon on Saturday last, by which
ae sustained very-^aiciul injuries in the loot and
ankle of his right leg.
The negroes who attempted robbery near
Alilledgeville, not long since, have been tried
and convicted in Baldwin- Superior Court,
and sentenced to four years in the peDe
tentiary.
A clever, pious old man, named Gober, from
Clark county, whtrhad lived three score and ten
years, died suddenly in the Alelhodist Church,
at Rehobothville, in Alorgan county, on last
Sunday. He prayed a fervent prayer, at the
conclusion of which he sank down and died
with scarcely a struggle.
Alex Stanford, and Phillip Alunro and his
wife, all colored, who went to Liberia with the
party of emigrants who lelt Columbus in the
spring ot 1868, arrived there tbe other day,
doubtless fully satisfied with their Liberian ex
perience.
Sparta is growing.
The Knights oi Jericho are flourishing in
Sparta.
People have been shooting at each other lately
in Augusta. «
A Georgia editor offers a half million dollars
ior the largest club ot subscribers to his pa
per. _
Honorable W. "W. Paine,* late member ol
Congress from this District, is recreating in New
York.
The young lady pupils at the Wesleyan Fe
male College, m Macon, who blew out the gas
and went to bed the other night, are nearly re
covered.
Newnan has the scarlet fever slightly.
The Davenports are playing at Macon.
Cartersville is to have a skating carnival soon.
The Augusta city hall park is being disman
tled ol its trees.
The house of a freedman in Kelleyville was
fired and aestroyed, on last Wednesday night.
Bishop Beckwith will hold services at the
court-house, in Newnan, on Tuesday, the 14th
instant.
The farmers around Columbus are killing city
flows becuusij they love country air, and have a
taste lor plantation fodder.
The Augusta Chronicle aud Sentinel Publish
ing Company have associated in their business
Dr. G. Phillips oi this State.
The editor of the Thomasville Enterprise has
been presented with two hams, and the grocers
there think of suspending business.
The Agricultural Club oi Alonroe county are
to meet on Saturday to take into consideration
the question ol Swedish labor, which is exciting
much interest in that part of the State.
Eel culture in the fountains at Augusta, has
been abandoned on account of their makiDg
excursions through the city water pipes. Gold
fish take their place.
Rail Culbertson, formerly of Columbus, was
killed by becoming entangled in the machinery
of the-Union Iron Works, at Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, on the 11th ot February,
A gentleman in Albany has a gourd that was
plucked by his great grand father, Wm. Davis,
in the colony ot Virginia in 1754. When plucked
it measured three feet in length, but during the
war of 1812 about tight inches of the handle was
broken off.
A beaver was caught in a trap, near Colum
bus, the other day.
There are thirty machines operating in the
Columbus Hosiery Manufactory.
Americus has a female physician.
The Muscogee Alanufacturing Company of
Columbus, has $165,001) invested in its business.
The editor of the Hawkinsville Dispatch has
been presented with a bottle of champagne.
There is no truth in the report that he said it
was the best cider he had ever tasted.
The Dramatic Society of Sandersvilie put
“ Our Gal ” on the stage last week.
A fire in the store ol Bostwick & Matthews,
on College Avenue, Athens, last Saturday,
caused a loss of $2,500.
Arrangements hive been completed for the
building ot a branch road lrom Fort Valley, run
ning through Perry, and terminating at or near
Haynes viile.
In the Skating Carnival at Macon, last Mon-
day, the Telegraph says, Air. Flanders, who
won the first prize, placed his wreath “ on the
lair brow oi Miss Gnssie Alitchell, of Atlanta,
and never was a trophy more gallantly won or
gracefully worn.”
Augusta is said to be infested by thieves.
North Carolina Agaiu.1
Ho’ leu, tbe impeached Governor of North
Han l: ia, ts at iV i- inigtou on a visit to the
President. Holden is distressed about the con
dition ot the South in general, and North Caro
lina in particular. He says that this condition
is growing worse from day to day, and that it
will continue to grow worse from day to day
if something is not done to improve it, till a
general reign of anarchy is introduced. “There
is neither safety,” says Holden, “for life or
property.” He wants troops sent to his State.
The strong arm of the military he regards as
the sovereign remedy for all political ills, and
be wants the President to interpose the strong
arm of the military to prevent North Carolina
from going to perdition. This, in short, is the
object of his visit to Washington..
All this means that North Carolina has passed
out of the control ot Holden’s blood-stained
myrmidons, and Holden himself is in some
danger of being called to account for his own
villainies. It is he who wants the protection of
the military arm; it is tor his sake, and that of
the Radical party that he wants the State ol
Norm Carolina wrenched irom the hands of its
people, and remanded to military rule. Il lelt
to themselves, the people ot that State are cer
tain to vote against Radicalism at the next elec
tion ; and this is the catastrophe that Holden
wants averted.—[3'. Y. World.
The World’s estimate of Holden is correct in
every particular. He is a first-class villain.
Piling tv me Taxes.
The Nejv York Sun (Radical) denounces
without stint the Boutwell financial policy,
which, in short, is to screw as much money out
of the people as be knows how, without reler-
ence to their ability to pay. That paper says :
“ What with national. State ana municipal
taxes, and the exactions of banks, railroads
and other monopolies, the laud is already licked
bare. In the last year more people have bor
rowed the money to pay their taxes than ever
before since the United States have existed;
and we tell the Secretary that he is about
at the end of his tether by a higher law than
Congress can enact. * * * As to
Air. Boutwell’s proposition—that the public
credit is the basis ot all transactions—the pyra
mid stands exactly on ihe other end. Without
privaie credit there can be no public credit.
Every banker knows that paper is only injured
by adding bad indorsers. Public credit in a
community oi bankrupts may be something in
telligible to Air. Boutwell, but we conless it is
beyond our powers ol understanding. With
the mania for high taxes this passion tor
multiplying the denominations ot our national
securities is not inconsistent. Aiuauwhile busi
ness is declining, industry ot every kind is
strangled, and the farmers borrow the money
to pay their taxes. The country is rapidly ap
proaching such a paralysis as it has not dreamed
of since 1837.”
The Radical officials and Congressmen have
no feeling tor the great body ot the people who
pay the taxes. The ioilowing table shows the
aggregate amount appropriated by the last Con
gress to meet the current expenses oi the Gov
ernment lor tbe fiscal year ending June 30,1872.
It will be seen that the appropriations tor 1872
are in excess ot those lor the current fiscal year :
Indian $ 5,729 360 22
Fortifications 1,477,500 00
Rivers and harbors 4,605,500 00
Alilitary Academy 310,069 50
Consular and diplomatic 1,469,134 00
Pensions 29,059,000 00
Postofi-ce 21,151,413 00
Army 27,7x9,580 90
Deficiency 10,569,559 75
Sundry civil 22,583,500 66
Navai 19,841,306 25
Legislative, executive and judi
cial 19,207,749 24
Total appropriations, 1872, $163,414,681 62
Total appropriations, 1871,.... 157,851,131 64
Here is an increase of nearly four and a halt
millions, which tne tax-payers have to furnish.
The country groans under the weight ot taxes,
and the party in power, instead ot reducing the
expenditures, has increased them. The parti
sans ol the Administration have made a great
boast ot the reduction oi the public debt, but no
effort has been made to afford an adequate re
bel lor the tax-payers.—Nashville Union and
American.
“ Tilings Grow No Better.”
In South Carolina things grow no better.
Governor Scott, in asking lor assistance, says
tue Ku-Klux nave a regular organization, with
staff aud line ofiiceis and graduations ol rank,
and act as a regular military force; and he de
clares that the Legislature had to have the roads
to the capital picketed, .while they were sitting
recently, to prevent themselves from being
“ gobbled up.” This is all horrible, but we
have no hesitation in saying that it is the not
unnatural consequence of the caricature on
government that has existed in that State ior
the past lour years. Nothing can well justify
mob law, but when a civilized community finds
itself subjected to ti e rule of its most ignorant
members, aided or managed by knavish adven
turers, all rational men know that mob law is
not unlikely to result. Society in the Sonth is
in an unnatural state, aud it is kept in an un
natural state by a policy of proscription which
has long since ceased to have any excuse. The
proper men to legislate for the South are those
in whom the comma any has most confidence,
and as long as they are prevented we shall have
trouble. The weak point of the complaints
that come from some of tfie States about Ku-
Klux is that those who make them have all
along declared that proscription was neces
sary to their protection. It now appears, how
ever, that it is no protection at all.—The (N. Y.)
Nation.
fW Col. Carey W. Styles, the active editor
of the Albany News, is a candidate lor the po
sition of Clerk ol the next House ot Georgia
Representatives. Col. S.’s assiduous labors and
yeoman service in behalf ol the party, entitles
his claims to their consideration. We hope he
will be elected.—Se<iport (Ga.) Appeal.
The Atlanta Lntelligencer.—This old
Democratic daily paper has passed into the pos
session ot Dr. Sam Bard, who proposes to en
large and greatiy improve it, ami to make it an
exceedingly “red hot” Democratic paper. He
floats the name of Hon. John T. Hoffman, oi
New York, lor President in 1872. We wiah it
great success under its new management; while
to Juuge Whittaker we extend our kindest
wishes lor his success and prosperity m what
ever new enterprise he undertakes.—Covington,
Georgia, Enterprise.
Planters throughout the South are
engaged in working their ianda preparatory to
putting in a cotton crop, bat the amount to be
placed in the ground is yet quite uncertain.
There will be oi necessity great economy used;
and the purchase ol manure and provisions
has, up to this time, been on a very restricted
scaie. Tne present position ol prices will test
tbe capacity of the South to raise cotton at low
figures.
Tidbit*.
South Memphis has mad dogs.
New York nas Bermuda tomatoes at $4 per
peck.
Alias Nellie Grant, like the General, drives
splendidly.
Rhode Island is going to have a State Normal
school.
Memphis has 75 Browns, 130 Smiths, and 170
Millers.
Von Aloitke can speak every dialect and lan
guage of Europe.
iir. J. C. Kern wili remain Ambassador of
Switzerland in Paris.
The French aunually make $15,000,000 worth
ol flowers for America.
Norwich, Conn., has 4,427 children between
the ages oi lour and sixteen.
Galveston has sent to New York for the
Frencb relief fund, $1,346 90.
Robert Browning sells a poem for $100 and
gives the money to suffering France.
San Francisco is becoming a dangerous rival
of Chicago in the divorce business.
Nevada county, Calitornia, has seventy-nine
quartz mills, with 742 stamps.
Milwaukie had $49,175 worth of real estate
translers in two weeks.
Columbus, Georgia, has 520 young ideas learn
ing how to shoot in the public schools.
Davenport, Iowa, has packed 2,400 hogs this
season. Cincinnati, about 450,000.
The Cincinnati Public Library employs four
librarians, aL an aggregate salary ol $5,500.
The contract ior the new AlonoDgaheia bridge
nas just been awarded, at a cost ol $319,320.
Ninety-seven public schools is the largest
number attained by any one county in Cali
tornia.
The recent storm of sleet killed the.prospects
of peaches and cherries in the Southern part of
Iowa.
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., is supposed to have writ
ten seventy-five miles ot printed matter. And
yet he is not happy—nor his readers.
With a view to promote newspaper produc
tion, the Governor ot Peru has exempted print
ers trom serving on the National Guard.
The Alt tcan Diamond region, which but a
short time since was a “ howling wilderness,” is
now successfully reclaimed by newspapers.
A railroad is projected from the London
marble quarry, Virginia, to Leesburg, or some
other point on the Washington and Ohio
Railroad.
Yale has challenged Harvard for the annual
boat race, aud demands an immediate answer,
which the stunned Harvards say is unpre
cedented.
Out ot two thousand cigar-makers in San
Francisco, nineteen hundred are Chinese; of
seventy-two cigar factories, Chinese own
twenty-eight.
The peach prospects in Delaware was never
better than at present, promising an abundant
yield of iruit, the continued cold weather hav
ing kept the buds trom swelling.
The Lutherans are about to add a $200,000
edifice to tue number of church buildings iu
Philadelphia.
The region about two hundred miles south ol
Los ADgeies, Caltiorma, abounds iu opal and
agate.
The Louisville Aledical College turned out
one hundred and nine embryo Gaiens at its last
commencement.
Governor Walker, of Virginia, being interview
ed by a woman who desired to know his position
on a certain question, asked her what she
thought ji tne matter herself, and being an
swered that she was on the tence, graciously re
plied : “ Aladam, 1 wish no more agreeable po
sition that sitting by yonr side.”
The Emperor ot Germany is a practical
printei. As ait the Prussian Royal family are
obliged to have some trade, he chose to be a
primer, and worked at the case ior three
years.*
Ben Butler, having drawn a back seat in the
House, persuaded a new and inexperienced col
ored member, who had been mote lortunate, to
exchange with him yesterday. That’s his
old trick—keeping himseif to the front at the
expense oi me “nigger.”
Am ingenious ‘or recording the votes
of public assemoLes is on exhibition m the Al
bany lobby, New York: “ By pulling a knob
iasteneu under a momoer’s desk it communi
cates with a dial at tbe clerk’s desk, through the
meaus ot a wire, aud a number is snown similar
to tne indicator used at hotels, and at the same
time the memoer’s name is recorded on a printed
slip. By means oi such a machine the entire
vote oi the ASsemb y could be recorded in oue-
fouiih of a inmate.”
aL Bouts noges that Lester Wallack is going
to build a new tneatre in their city, but fears it
is too good to be true.
The people in Delaware county, Iowa, are
making preparations tor a grand raid on the
woivee that miest that region.
Louisville has a specimen of Colorado bullion
9 inches long, wide, and 2f deep. It weighs
48 pounds, ana is worth $050.
The Charleston (8. C.) News says of Ihe new
custom house: “ L'nuer tne influence of the
late appropriation by Congress, new energy has
been miused into the work on this mag
nificent edifice, and aiieady the front on East
Bay is approaching completion. Four
out ot the six massive columns on this
portico are already in position, and the othe
two arc atmosi ready to be raised.
From the Rural Southerner for March.]
LETTER FROA1 FARAIER FOGY.
Farmer Fogy writes a Letter t !’nr.-teent
Grant—Why he and the President are
not acquainted—He wishes to consult
the President on Agricultural Affairs
Georgia an Emfire State—He solicits
an Agricultural College and seeks an
OFFICE FOR HIMSELF.
At Home, February 22end, 1871.
Mr. Grant, President, Washington Capitul :
Deer Sub—As President ol the United States,
wun of whom Georgia is which, I wish to write
a fu lines to your exelency. I feel now that I
kan do this sens Mr. Miller iz in az Senatur.
Your exelency came near bejgg ackwainted
with nte wuus. I wuzin WashiDgtun last April
and my frend, Guveruer (ov Idaho) Bard, (you
know ’im don’t you?) wanted to take me to call
on your exelency. But uniortuuitiy, I had on a
gray coniedrit sute oi bote aDd britches which
Mrs. Fogy spun and wove for me during the
war, and the latter was sorter holey, to boot. If
I bad have asked the Guvner, he would have
lent me a pare of insn, 1 reckun, but they mite
not have fitted me, so I didn’t go to see you, but
took a photograt ov you, which red under the
pickture: ‘ Ulysheze S, Grant, President ov
Us, nominated by Samuel Bard.” I liuv nu
close now tho’, and next time I go to Washing-
tun, when you see a pare ot mtxt gray aud blue
britches, a pee green pijia tale kote, with a Ru
ral Southerner in the pocket, it will be me that’s
inside ot ’em.
My objeck in riting to your exelency iz to dis
cuss agricultural affairs in Georgia, the Empire
Well, times ar so hard that I faltered when ]
started to rite Empire State. Wuns we wuz
proud ov our State, iur she wuz wealthy, buti-
tnl and gloryus to live in. But my neart iz
bowed down iu the dust; my hand iz uusteily,
and tears dim my old eyes when I think ov iter
desolashan and her sorrow; oi our happy
homes whoze ashes have been shattered by the
east, north and west winds; ov his grave over
yonder hill, ov biz vakant chair at the fireside
and table, and tho greet iu all our hearts.
When I ride by whare stood my good Da-
bur’s house, up the road thare, aud hear hiz
widder singin irum the door ov the kitchen—all
the house that wuz left her to live in—while her
two little boys ar workin, to get the patches redy
to plant the korn, whislin az they dig, I allers
ieei a lump ov angwish big az my fist rising to
my throat, just back ov the God bless ’ems that
steal out from my tongue. But thare it iz in
’em, btgger’n Stone Mountain, that looks down
on ’em, and more glorious than all ov offishul
power; the same noble spirit that wuz hiz; that
wuz in all ov our luved lost; that made our
State what she wuz in her pride. It stirs ’em
to take kare ov hiz luved wun witldered, aud
their mother, and when I look at’em tliesccund
time, I tern like givin a shout so loud tnat it
would fall onto your ears away up.iu Waslung-
tun,
“ There is life in the old land yet; ”
the noblest, truest and the best; aye, sur, so
true that inuskit and bayonet and sword, nor
Wheeler’s cavalry, nor even the unholy toren
that laid waste the homes ot our birth, and the
shelter of deer agid parents, and wives and lit
tle wuns, kouldn’t destroy it; and hands aud
hearts are bravely toiling and enduring, hoping
to make old Georgia again materiaiJy, what she
ailers iz at heart—God bless her—an Empire
State.
But, your excellency, no matter how hard we
wurk, sumhow it’s mity hard times in Georgia.
We han’t keep soul and body together. But
we must look ahed az well az around, tho’ I
hope we may not liav to judge the tuture by
the present, agrikuliorally speaking. In my
viziuns ov ten yeers house, 1 kan see.klover
kovexing that red washed hillside in frunt ov
my hous, and a bran-spankin new rockaway
instid ol that skaklin old kaboos behind old
Pete mule at the gate, tho’ it’s a better lookin
kritter than Pete that will be in lrunt ov the
rockaway. I golly! yon kouidn’t ge3s hoa
poor folks ar in my naborhood. Why, sur, it’s
mity fu ov us that’s able to by a hors or a mule,
and two on one farm iz a rareity. I hav seen a
mule and a steer hitched together plowin, and
I hav heerd ov a teller wku wuzn’t able to by
yoke or harness, and had his oxes taie drawed
thru the dashboard ov hiz waggin, and tied in
a not behind, to pull the waggin by.
Still, your excellency, we must look ahed ov
these hard times; doing so, it’s plain that the
agrikulture ov our State must be improved. It’s
plain that we kant “ fite it out on this line ”
much longer. Tne boys who ar growing up
now, must larm it different lrom the way we
old’unshaz; and to teech ’em how to do it,
your excellency, we need a agrikuitural koliege ;
and thare, sur, you hav got what i am writing
to you fur.
We need a kollege to teeech our yung men
how to larm. We need it, sur, aud must hav
it; and it iz to you that I kum to make known
this dezire and necessity, and that Kongress-
hunal aid ort to be extended to it. Here ar
thousands ov boys, the hope of the kountry,
who, it edukated fur the wurk, will develop tbt
nattural health ov the soil, making it pay iarge
revenu into the naskunal treasury box. Aud
it is no mor’n just that the rich of the East the
North and the West shall aid the guveiment in
this, lor millions ot dollars ov what they hav,
wuz made at the expens ov the ruinashun ot
our good old Empire Stale.
Well, then, I want to be President of the kol
lege. Now, that’s a squar way of popping the
question, I recon. I urn sorry that I ain’t able
to akkumpauy it with^some slight mementose
ov my esteme fur your exelency ; but times iz
so hard sur, I ain’t able to send anything. But
I beleve I am the man fur President ol tne Akaa-
amy ov Agriculture, Kemistry and Science, witb
its two hundred akers of land adjoimn.
In tne fust place, your exeelency, I never
wnz President ot enytliing. I did run wans,
when I was yung, fur Presydent oi Tallulah | hB remai
Fire Company, but got beet wus’n you beet
Horasho Seemore iur the same offis. I also
undertook to be Presydent ov my latnily, but
Mrs. Fogy vetode that in snort order, and since
then I hav been in a sorter ov vice-presydent’s
place. I atnt got but wun offis, and never did
bav’, which is Secretary of the DeKalb Kounty
Ekonomical Agricultural Klub. I hav’nt heerd
ov but two men who wuz iikely to be run, be
sides me, lor the Presidensy. Wun waz Mr. H.
I. Kimball, and the uther wuz General Bob
Tooms. I went rite away to Mr. Kimball, and
asked him ii he was going to run agm me.
‘No, sur; but I’d like to build the Koilege fur
you, and will give a thousand dollars to’ards it.”
I told him U I got to be Presydent 1 would give
him the job, providm the job wuz as good as the
Hi Kimball House.
I then went lur Mr. Tooms. He didn’t want
the offis; told me to ask you to please not ap-
piut him. But, your exelency, il we want eny
war speeches made lur our Kollege, Mr. Tooms
iz the man. Why, sur, he made a speech in
1861 that made me so rautanKerous lur a fite
agin the Yauky nashnn, that I beliussed mysell,
runnin home fur my gun to jine a kumpany;
but Mrs. Fogy, as I eed before, wuz presy dent,
and most prepositively retuzed to let me go.
Oh, if me aud General Tooms had hav just been
lhar together, Sherman mont not have uurnt my
house. And il ever we have got a field at grass
at our Kollege to exterminate, all we will have
to do will be to git the General to make wun ov
ms blood and thunder speeches agin that ene
my, az he used to make agin Yankees, and by
jingo, our students would clean it out so fast
’twould make your head swim to look at ’em.
Even il it wuz Bermuda grass, they wouid do
it; and Colonel Ho ward sez it will take
six eleiauts to pu 1 a thumb lancet through sum
Bermuda grass round here
Mrs. Fogy wants to know, if I get to be
presy dent, n she won’t dc presydentess. A man
in our kounty wuz elected squire.
“Mother,” sed wun ov ins boys to hiz wife,
“dad iz squire, well aint we all squires too ? ”
‘‘No ' suet up your dratted mouths; aint no
body squires but me and yer dad.”
Your obejient petitioner,
F. Fogy.
MARY’S GIRLHOOD,
DiNTE ROSSETTI,
This is that blessed Mary, pre-alert
Goa’s Virgin. Gone is a great wW!e I g IJ 4 she
Dwelt young in Nazareth ot Galilee
Unto Got‘s will she moiutt devout respect.
Profound simplicity of intellect,
Aud supremo patience. From her mother’s knes
F aithiul and hopeful; wise in charity : u
Strong in grave peace ; in pity circumspect.
So held she through her girlhood; ns it were
An angel-watered lilly, that near God
Grow^acd is quiet. Till, one dawn at home
She woke in her white bed, aud had no ie.tr ’
At all—yet wept till sunshine, and felt awed •
Because the lumess of tue ti ae had come. ’
Ladies’ Uuitget,
A paper has this advertisement: Two sisters
want washing.
A Wisconsin eirl walks fourteen miles a day
to ieach school.
Missouri women can now hold property inde
pendent or their husbands’ liabilities.
Munich women have voted to Kaiser Wil
helm a laurel wreath ot gold and to Von-
Moitke a statue.
Miss Lizzie Attghy is lecturing anti masonic-
ally in Dakota.
In Germany the opera begins at six in the
evening, and it is the lashion lor young ladies
to attend unescorted.
The vVoman’s Journal, in speaking of Vinnie
Ream and her statue ot Lincoln, says that flat
tery and petting, and the granuLg to curls what
is only due to brains, can do woman no real
good.'
Mrs. Gardiner, in a letter to an Indiana paper,
makes tne declaration that women carry a con
cealed weapon that can, if properly* used, “sway
tne destinies o' all mankind.” Mrs. G. neglects
to name ihe thing, but prooably means a
womau’s tongue.
“ A wife ” writes to advise the woman-wo
men in Washington to get, each ot them, a
batiy to take care ot, and that by the most ex
peditious means. 8>he believes their “ insane
tolly ” can only De cured in this way.
A Biughampom Y.) woman complains
that during the first y eat of her married iue her
husband called her “ my dear,” the second year
“ Mrs. A,” and tne third year “ old sorrel top,”
which was two much For her to bear.
It is the queerest thing in the world what
Charlotte Smith, of liockport, Massachusetts,
can want ot her runaway husband, whom she
describes in an advertisement at “a little man,
badly crippled in one leg, one leg shorter than
the other, ialse teeth, aud bald head.”
There is in Massachusetts a sixteen year old
girl who is teaching a first-class district school,
who never had a day’s schooling in her liie.
dhe was taken trom tne poor bouse by a hard
family, and got her education by laying flat on
her back and study iug by the light oi the kitch
en range when the iamtly had ail gono to bed.
An eloquent divine of Sheboygan county,
Wisconsin, has won and wedded a femaie in
the Slate prison, aud the local paper announces
that “the triends ot the brtue was opposed to
the alliance.” SSuch aristocratic class-distinc
tions are surely out of place iu a republic.
Mrs. Livermore says in a letter to the Wo
man's Journal, that in trying to get irom Kan
sas City to Leavenworth she was misled by
three men. She adds: “fthali I ever trust
men again ? Wo.-t likely. It is an amiable weak
ness bora with women and reciprocated by
men, winch tew ever outgrow. And, after all,
it is be3i so, uotwimstanding all the misleading
and betrayal this blind faith causes.”
There is a somewhat amusing perplexity in
society in regard to the two most prominent
styles ot drtas—the dignified aud elegant Gre
cian, with severe outlines and heavy "folds, and
the airy flatteiing style,gay with ruffles, flounces
and furbelows. Both seem equally attractive,
but are so aisunct in impression that they re
quire a totally distinct manner, carnage ol the
person, and arrangement ot the leatures. Both
cannot rule iu the same wardrobe, without infi
nite trouble on Lbe partoi the wardrobe's owner.
Auer acquiring through hard study the grave,
indifleient, somewhat abstacted manner befit
ting the majestic simplicity ol the Grecian style,
it is not easy to slip on the in«tant into a ravish
ing sprightnness, with the ruffled gown. Which
mode is to reign pie eminent, nobody can tell.
Fashion has taken one sensible and effective
step during the last two years—a step to which
most physical retormers seem surprisingly in
different. Women no longer iace themselves
into deformity in their ancient idiotic manner,
but are content to leave to their waists their ele-
gant natural outlines. A pinched waist is now
an exception iu society, and one which is in
variably sneered at. Anomer reiorm which
is sadly needed, it is probably useless to hope
tor, stout old John Knox and tbe voice ot him
being laid away forever. Never have evening
dresses been made up in a more outrageously
decollelte style than now. Dresses have been
worn this winter which would appropriately
have graced South cea Islanders than modest
American women. It is time that maids aud
matrons understood that a lovely figure is none
the L ss lovely lor being delicately vaiied, aud
that the admiration excited by its ridiculous ex
posure is the poorest ot compliments. There is
not even a man ol the world who does not leel
a mild contempt lor a woman after seeing her
in this sort ol garb.
John Dye, a cheeriui old Indian, has a grave
for himself which he executed several years
ago. He accomplished the work with his own
hands, excavating the earth to a proper depth,
laying a stone slab on the botiom and wailing
it up the sides with brick. A smaller slab is la-
tended to cover the grave, and, what is singular,
Air. Dye has scooped out ol the nether stone a
hollow for his uody to lie in, with an elevation,
in which them js another hollow ior Sis head.
It is his desire tnat when he dies he shall be
dressed in certain specified clothing, ana Shat a
blanket shall Le raid in the tomb, upon winch
aie to be laid. Another blanket is
to he spread over him, and the large slab ot
stone placed ou the tomb, and the earth filled
in above, it will he seen tnat he does away
with the use o! a coffin entirely, and he further
requests that no our.al service be used or ser
mon preached, and that no monument be erected
to his memory. Recently a heavy rain caved
in tne earth above the tomb, aud Mr. Dye set
about repairs with a vigor that was surprising,
i’o prevent a recurrence of the accident he has
wailed the grave up to the surface ol the earth
and c^retuily covered it wun boards and sod.—
flie grave is on his farm and within a few feet
of the railroad.
The Southern States, ten y^irs ago, with-
® ction of their
Indelible Writing.—As early as 1317 Ga
briel Tigere patented a method ot maniacturing
“writing paper irom which it would be extreme
ly difficult, d not impossible, afterward to ex
tract or uiscnarge any writing from such paper.”
This paper Was impregnated during the sizing
process with ferrocyanide of potassium. Mr.
Win. Stone’s patent ot 1851 was an effort to sup
ply the deficiencies oi this method. He added
a eolution of the iodide ot potassium and starch
to the ferro, or ferrideyanide ot potassium. This
method has been iuliy carried out into practice,
but it faffs to give the complete security desired.
Tbe chemical delects ot figere’s may be stated
thus : although admiiable in tne protection it
affords against tne application of acid-;, it is
powerless against the uicaching poweis ol such
substances as chloride ot lime in solution, and
the ink may also be removed by the application
of either of the caustic alkalies. Ia Stone’s
method, although by the application ot bleach
ing agents containing chloride, ihe paper is
stamed by the blue compound termed iodide oi
staich, this is removed tor use by the applica
tion ol an alk&h.
drew trom the Union by the
representatives in Oongress in the following or
der : South Carolina, 1869, December 20th ;
Mississippi, 1861, January 9th, Florida, Jan-
uaiy loin, Alabama, January 11th, Georgia,
January 18th, Louisiana, January 26th, Texas,
February 1st, Arkansas, March 22d, Virginia,
April 17l1i, Tennessee, May 6th, North Carolina,
May 6th. The order in which they were re-ad
mitted is as follows: Tennessee, 1866, Decem
ber 3d; Arkansas, 1868, June 23d; Florida, 1868,
July 1st; Louisiana, 1868, July 18th; ttouth
Carolina, 1868, July 20ih; North Carolina, 1868,
July 20tii; Alabama, 1868, July 22d; Virginia,
1870, February 1st; Mississippi, 1870, February
23; Texas, 1870, Alarch 30th, and Georgia, 1871,
February 13th. From these dates it will ap
pear that Tennessee was not represented in
Congress lor five years, six months, and eleven
days; North Carolina for seven years and two
months; Arkansas lor seven years, tnree montus
aud one day; Florida lor seven years, five
months and twenty-one days; Louisiana lor
seven years, five months and twenty-two days ;
Alabama tor seven years, six months and eleven
days; south Carolina lor seven years and seven
months; Virginia lor eight year.,, nine months
and fourteen days; Ali^sissippi tor nine years,
one month .and iourteen aays; Texas ior nine
years and two months, and Georgia for ten
years and twenty-five days. Excluding Ten
nessee, which may be considered as a loyal
State, the average time during which the re
maining ten states were unrepresented was
eight years and two months. Including Ten
nessee, the average time was seven years and
eleven months.
A Newspaper Change.—Coi. Jared I. Whit
aker, who has been publishing "the Atlanta In
telligencer lor so long a time, has at last
reurtd from that position and Governor Samuel
Bard steps in and takes his place.
The Intelligencer already begins to smell
ot brimstone. Success to Governor Bard.
| Middle Georgian, 10th.
Hints About Flowers.—House plants ought
to be sumuiaieu gently once or twice a week.
t-Cain water, so refreshing to summer llowcrd,
always eoiiiains ammonia, whicn aisu auounds
in ail liquid manures. It you take an ounce
oi puivtTized caroonate of ammonia, dissolved
in one gallon ot water, it will make spring
water even more stimulating to your plants
than rain water. It you water your plants
once in two weeks with guano water (one taole-
spoonlul to a pail of water), they will grow
more tnriity. Chicken manure dissolved in
water is excellem.
ll.wcqs keep the soil in your flower pots
loose. A common nair pin used daily will stir
the earth sufficiently.
“Have you no pen and ink ?” said a doctor
to a poor woman whose child he was tending.
“No,” said the poor woman. “Well, I have
lost my pencil; give me a piece ot chalk,” and
the doctor chalked a prescription on the door,
telling her to give it to her son when he awoke.
“Take it, my boy, take it,” said the poor woman,
lilting tne door irom it hinges and carrying it to
the poor boy, when he opened his eyes. “1
don’t know how you are to do it, I am sure, but
the doctor says it’s goou, ami y ou oaii better
tiy iL”
Madison elects her Mayor ia April.