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SUNDAY MORNING. DEC. 20,1868
THE MAOON CONVENTION.
From an exceedingly interesting letter,
addressed to the editor of this paper, we
make the following extracts concerning
the recent industrial Convention :
“The Macon Convention did this: It
consolidated the straggling ideas, often
mere vagaries and utterly , impracticable,
which had hitherto existed on the import
ant subject of immigration. Men of sound
practical sense from every part of the State
will return home and carry the wholesome
ideas gathered and confirmed while in con
vention assembled. One venerable gentle
man, Mr. Jones, of Paulding, I believe, of
fered to be one of five hundred or one thou
sand who would pay the treasurer $lO
annually, and, if necessary, for ten years, to
establish emigration. And it was owing
to the stirring appeal of Col. Butler, from
your city, and the Hon. W. Schley, of Sa
vannah, especially, which led to it, that the
matter of immigration was so thoroughly
and practically considered. Mr. SchUey said
that he was utterly averse to return to Sa
vannah and confess that on the most vital
subject the convention had done, nothing
but refer -some valuable papers to the
committee in order to petition the Legisla
ture ; he insisted u[>oii hearing these papers?
&c., &c., which appeal resulted in the sub
ject being made the special order for the
next day. Mr. Rees, whose remarks, we
think, were very much overvalued and some
what excited, wished the people of Georgia
to hold out special inducements, such as giv
ing 80 or 50 acre homesteads free. Mr. True,
of Morgan, himself a practical farmer, who
lias come among us since the war ‘ to see for
himself what these vaunted Southern lands
and climes really were,’ emphatically op
posed Mr. Rees’ idea by saying that the
chance of work here was all he wanted to
get rich ; that the magnificent climate was
the capital on which to become so, and
that it cost him much less to keep cool here
than it did to keep warm where he came
from, (Genesee valley, New York State,)
&e. The idea of Air. Rees, providing home
steads for nothing, is a very benevolent one,
certainly, but it is not practical and remu
nerative. We must make it as much the
interest of the landholder as that of the
settler to be successful in emigration.—
When, as is now the case yearly, many
thousands of first class settlers are landing
on our shores, who bring with them their
capital, and in very many cases are pre
pared to purchase their farms outright, it
would be against our own interest not to
endeavor to bring them in preference over
all others. We would not thereby oppose
liberality on the part of the landholder;
there is no doubt that a judicious use of a
small portion of our landed estates will
work very beneficially, but a wholesale
parceling out of one-half of our lands, as
free gifts to emigrants, would not benefit
us, certainly, and it is a grave question
whether, by holding this out, we would not
obtain an inferior class of settlers. As
Col. Fulton, of Clarke, truly said, we want
no workhouse and refuge population of
Europe, and in that sentiment all good men
will join. If the poorer classes of European
emigrants come from Scandinavia and
other Northern countries, and the more
wealthy class from other countries, let us
first make propaganda among that well-to
do class and the poorer ones will not run
away in the meantime.
“ It was an anxious time before the union
of the four bodies that met at Macon was
effected. Two of them already held in
their hands the authority of the State and
the others were ambitious with the rest.
To the generous yielding of their rights
and prerogatives of Col. Lewis, the oldest
President present; of Col. Harris, of Han
cock, presiding over a body of men who
had in them the vim to do something, even
independently, and of Colonel Yancey, of
Clarke, the presiding olllccr of the most
numerous organization present, it must
mainly be ascribed that this uniou came
about; for had any one of them oppos
ed it, even had two or three joined, it
would have, nevertheless, created an an
tagonism in the State, and there would
have been two rival associations where
there is now but one, in which all the mem
bers .work to one common end. Consider
able enthusiasm was excited through the
energy of Mr. T. R. Bloom, of Macon.
Mr. Bloom made the most enthusiastic
speech and the most telling. Tiie day be
fore, he had moved that every member
present be constituted an agent to ohtaln
new members. The next day he rose and
stated that when he made that motion on
the preceding day, he meant wliat he said,
and as proof herewith, delivered to the
President one hundred and one new mem
bers from Macon, and in the other hand he
flourished aloof two hundred and two dol
lars—initiation fees. Shouts of applause
followed. On the following evening he had
secured another one hundred subscribers.
“The Agricultural Fair will be at Ma
con, at a time hereafter to be determined by
the Executive Committee. Negotiations
are already commenced to secure for halls
and fair grounds some public buildings
excellently adapted for that purpose. A
memorial looking to the erection of in
dustrial training schools in connection
with the University of Georgia was read
and written by Col. Leroy Broun.
“ The Society meets at Atlanta on the 2d
day of February, when the standing com
mittees will report. We trust the press of
the State will keep the important objects
of this convention prominently before the
people of the State, and that we will meet
together in such a spirit of harmony and
practical sense as has never been equalled
in the Commonwealth. We fully agree
with the distinguished jurist and states
man of Georgia, Hon. Iverson Harris, that
since the establishment of our State gov
ernment, a more vital movement has not
taken place. It remains now for the sons
of Georgia to demonstrate to the world
what they can do. We trust we will see,
during the next meeting, the President
elect, Mr. Dickson. His friends say he
will not come ; if so, let him resign and en
able the convention to put a man in his
place who can afford to do something and
sacrifice a little comfort and a few dollar's
for his State.”
A Nice Job. —Diplomacy in the United
States is now called “job.” To illustrate:
Russia bargained to sell Alaska for
$7,200,000 in gold. Alaska was useless to
Russia and equally useless to the United
States. But it was a nice job for the loyal.
Russia received $7,000,000. The loyal job
bei-spocketed $200,000. For pushing this
job, Robert J. Walker had a fee of $35,-
000. Stung by attacks made upon him, he
says these attacks “originate with mem
' bers and newspapers that failed to get a
slice.” If the South wants immediate
justice from Congress, she must despair of
Providence and fee the great god Job.
PREACHING AiyD PRACTICE.
The Republican papers of the North are
ecstatic in their eulogies of Deputy Bau
r>iN, who was killed on the barricade in
Paris, sixteen years ago, while reading the
(Constitution of his country to those who
swore to support it forever. Why do they
not join Napoleon’s yelp and seek to dis
grace Baudin’s memory ? What have these
tramplers of Constitutions in common
with Baudin, the defender of Constitutions?
When shall twin monuments arise over the
earth that holds the ashes of Baudin, who
sought to act within Constitutional Lav?,
and the sod that covers the relics of Thad
deus Stevens, who dwelt outside the
Covenant ? The story of Baudin is reso
nant with warning to the present rulers of
this country. Their praise of him is a
cheap way of consoling hypocrisy.. It
would be insulting if it were not absurd.
Rather Late.— The Columbus Enquirer
says with much truth and epigram:
“The complaints oi Governor Bullock aud
the investigations of the Reconstruction Com
mittee come rather late. Governor Bullock
recognized the Legislature as a legal and regu
lar body throughout its session. He approved
most of the bills passed by it, aud vetoed a few
others. Acting in harmony with the Senate,
he filled all the Judicial and other offices left
by the constitution at his disposition ; and he
has, without question, complied with requests
and executed laws passed by the Legislature.
Congress, too, admitted Representatives from
Georgia at its session held during the Sum
mer, aud thus signified ils acceptance of the
• reconstruction ’ of the Slate. For it now to
go tiaek and deprive the State of representation
onjlhe ground qt ‘ irregularity,’ would he the
most flagrant act of had faith that has charac
terized the whole reconstruction programme.”
“ Bad faith !” Ay, that’s the rub. The
KingofPontus uever fattened upon pois
sons as our Cougressmen thrive upon bad
faith.
A New Fount of Law.— The New York
Nation admits that Judge Chase gets his
law from a well instructed head. Bimulta
taneously, complimenting Judge Under
wood, it says he “draws his law from the
recesses of a loyal and generous heart.”
As Mr. Chase decided to let Mr. Davis go,
and Underwood dissented, we have recon
struction in anew phase. Under the ruling
of the Nation, we see no good reason why
Blodoett should not aspire to the Supreme
Bench, in case he ever surmounts his inviir
cible repugnance to hold on to the public
teat, per fas et nefas. Should the Supreme
Court know him not, it may be because de
minimis non curat lex. It cannot be be
cause he lacks the recesses of Underwood’s
loyal heart.
The English Vote.— Tfie Liberals have
a majority of 172,000 in England. In
Scotland there was a majority of 20 per
cent, on the total vote. Os 1,278,000 votes,
the Liberal majority is 232,000. The lead
ing question was “Justice to Ireland.” It
has been handsomely decided in favor of
Erin’s claims. There may, pap day, be a
popular vote in this country of equal sig
nificance.
The Difference. —Delaware whips her
thieves. Massachusetts whips her young
women. The thieves are thrashed at the
pillory and the young women at the public
schools. We do not propose to interfere
with either, but note that while Massachu
setts howls at the barbarism bf Delaware,
Delaware silently regards the barbarism of
Massachusetts.
(Correspondence of the New York World.
Congress and its Purposes—The Course of
Legislation this Winter.
THE HEAT. PURPOSE Off CONGRESS.
Washington, December 12.
This Congress is evidently to be the John
the Baptist of the Coming Man. Prepare
the way of Grant, make straight the patli
of his feet, is the announcement and the
purpose of the period. It is plain that the
double desire to please and to guartl Grant
influences all measures offered or likely to
lie offered. For instance, Georgia is to lie
recast, Virginia to be put in the ujqulds of
inceptive Statehood, apd Mississippi
are to be stimulated into speedy reorgani
zation. The Southern question is to be so
fixed this session as to require from the new
administration only the exception of such
acts of the Fortieth Congress as the Forty
first Congress will not repeal. Nothing is
to be left to the option of the next Execu
tive. The laws are to be literally obvious
and unmistakable. The possibility of fafr
ness or humanity in their execution is to
be prevented in advance. The Congress is
to fix the future beyond contingency, if
may be. The motives to this exactness and
Radical thoroughness proceed from the
fact that this Congress has the requisite
two-thirds to override a veto and the next
will not, as well as from the consideration
that the present body take a pi-idp jn im
pressing as much of their policy and acts
as possible upon the future. Hence, most
of their propositions are perspective, as will
be seen. The purged and purified Legisla
ture of Georgia is to meet next 4Pl’il, in
Atlanta, The election in Virginia is to be
held in May. Aliy laws towards towards
the speedier reconstruction of Texas and
Mississippi, will be ordered to take practi
cal effect next Summer. Messrs. Edmunds
and BroQmal), jn trie Senate and House, re
spectively, propose to declare now that the
bonds, &c., to be paid hereal'tor, ffi'all be
paid ill coin.
Undoubtedly, too, some amendment pro
posing universal manhood suffrage will be
pushed through the Republican Congress
and the Republican Legislatures this Win
ter, of which the effect will tell iu all subse
quent elections. The naturalization of for
eigners for the future is to be castrated of
its traditional simplicity this session.
Thus the design of these and similar pro
positions is to sow to-day what must spring
up to-morrow. The neift administration
will be met on the threshold with a pro
gramme of proceedings cut and dried by a
Legislature, which will have then ceased to
be.* Nothing is to be kept to be done by
the Forty-first Congress which can be done
by the Fortieth. Nothing is to await the
signature of the new President which can
challenge the veto of the present Executive,
a veto which can be overcome at once.
This is for the security of the future. These
are the irreversible guarantees. This com
prehends the design of cornering the Presi
dent elect. The Radicals desire to work
with him, but they are resolved to able to
work without him, if need be. In this way
will the majority of the next Congress be
as potential as the two-thirds’ power of
this. The Fortieth Congress will pass the
laws. The Forty-first Congress will refuse
to repeal them.
But there are other hopes and intentions.
Grant is to be girded and guarded. But
General Grant is to be deferred to and
pleased in all things not affecting those
truly loyal principles and great moralities
of which the Republican party are the ex
clusive custodians and practitioners. Two
events of the session, already hardly begun,
mark the desire to conciliate the incoming
Executive in non-essentials.
now THE RADICALS LOOK UPON GRANT.
Do the Radicals trustor fear Gen. Grant?
Neither; they simply are indifferent con
cerning him. They do him fulsome lip
service. Mr. Frelinghnyfsen, knowing that
the place which now knows him will soon
know him no more forever, discounts the
future, and bids for the Attorney General
ship, by caressing Grant with one hand
while he flagellates Johnson with the other.
Mr. Washburn, with the odor of place
strong upon him, praises the man lie made,
with honeyed words. Meanwhile Schenck
and Kelly entrench for the future; and
Edmunds and Sumner propose to enact now
everything which Geu. Grant was elected
to assure. If General Grant is a man of
might there will be trouble. No one ever
entered the White House yet without shed
ding his partisan prejudices. Power con
serves. It does not take a week for a man
to learn that he is President of America,
aud not of the Republican or Democratic
party. Remember how Mr. Johnson began
as a hangman and quickly became a con
stitutionalist. The possibility at least of
Gen. Grant turning out to realize the pnr
]>ort of his oath and the power of his office,
is contemplated in the legislation which
precedes his advent. The antecedent pro
bably, however, is that there will be no
hostility.- Gen. Grant will hardly choose
to be otherwise than in accord with the
men that made him. This is the sentiment
here. Democrats in Congress expect to
treat the incoming administration solely on
its merits. They have no favors to ask or
overtures to make. There are a few Con
servatives who appear to see an intention
on the part of the next administration to
be milij in policy, and to yet have the Radi
cals cohere by allowing them all the pa
tronage. Any such sapiency deep as this
may be fails to strike hardpan. The his
tory of the present administration has been:
Democracy in policy, Radicals iu office.
The anomaly will not be repeated. The
Radicals feel sure of Grant because they
believe he is made of the stuff which does
uot break, but bends. The Democracy, at
least the best of them, propose to carry no
commercial tactics into the next four
years.
A Georgian View of State Sovereignty.
To the Ediior oj Ihe Hound Table:
Sir : Your correspondent from Michigan,
Mr. Henry Elmer, whose letter you pub
lished in The Hound lable of November 21,
seems to be somewhat disturbed in his com
fortable assurance that the question of
State Sovereignty had been by the war per
manently settled. He appears a little vex
ed, too, with myself and the South general
ly, since he finds that after all the argu
ments which for four years lie hurled
against us, from the throats of rifled guns,
we still lack “ clear convictions on this sub
ject”—are not satisfied with his proofs that
Georgia never was a State, and, in fact, are
in some degree dubious as to whether she
be not still a State. If doubtless evinces,
to his mind, great perverseness on our part,
not to see the truth after all his aforesaid
nguments. He had hoped, hesiys, “for
clear convictions on this subject, and a
frank acceptance of the principle of the
unity of the people of the United States."
He here repeats, by iuuendo, if not direct
ly, the complaint, often made, of the impeni
tence of the Southern people.
I would submit for his consideration
these questions: Does he admit that t.he-
Southeru people honestly believed, m 1801,
that the States were sovereign ? If he does,
then, Does he think it possible to convince
the mind of an error, or force its assent to
a truth, by such instrumentalities as can
non shot? If not. What has occurred
since 1861 to convince Southern men that
they were wrong ii their belief that the
States were, at that time, sovereign commu
nities? If he can suggest nothing beside
the war, will he please excuse us for not
having “clear convictions” that we were
then wrong, and for not being very penitent
for a crime of which we are not conscious ?
Further, Has there been any alteration in
the structure of the Government touching
State Sovereignty, in the manner author
ized by the Constitution, since 1801? If
not, then, if we believed the States to be
sovereign at that time, why should we not
hold tljem stjl) tq be so, unless it be true
that they have been subverted by the
usurped power of the General Government,
and that usurpation has been confirmed bv
the “force of events?” And if Mr. Elmer
deny the usurpation, which he does, liow
can he reasonably expect the “c.ear con
victions ” of which he speaks ? His asser
tion, that the question has been settled by
the war, will iiQt avail; for the war could
not IpgqUy change the structure of the Gov
ernment. If, then, tip; Government lias not
been altered in the constitutional way, nor
yet by usurpation, nor by the war, why,
Georgia is still a State; for we are well as
sured that she was a State in 18(51.
Still we doubt. Wo are not so certain as
your correspondent seems to be that there
has been nib usurpatiqjj. We are not fully
satisfied that the General Government has
not, in the exercise of power not obtained
from its charter, converted the States into
Provinces, and become itself absolute ruler
of. the vast territory known in geography
as the United States. There can be no
doubt of its present de facto supremacy
over pertain conquered States, and of the
acquiescence qf those tßaf.es in ils unre
stricted rule. But when }t shall assume a
supremacy over the State of Neyv York', or
lay its hands with violence upon the State
of Michigan, eycn, it is, possible that there
will be a questioning qf its ggid supremacy,
and an inquiry of when and vyliere and how
it obtained such authority. It may be sus
tained in its assumption, or claim, if that
term be preferred—possibly not. Under
certain conditions it might deem it prudent
to test its title to absolutism by a constitu
tional amendment, and thus remove all
doubt on the subject. In short, sir, al
though vye qf tljp Hoi]tri see and feel in the
Government at Washington pit absolute
power, which has stripped certain States of
their robes of sovereignty, we are satisfied
that such unlimited authority was not
legally acquired ; and it is yet too new to
impress us ljrtqly jyith a belief in its per
manence.
Hence we propose to await, in silence,
future developments. It is not the purpose
of the Southern peoqlp, if one may venture
to speak for all, to firm test the qipestiqi) of
State Sovereignty further,either with words
or weapons. They have said and done all
they have to say or do on that question,
and a repetition would now avail nothing.
But we propose to stand aside, if our
Northern friends will allow us, and leave
tljem to determine whether the present
usurpation shall be confirmed and made
perpetual. We would prefer that they
should settle back upon the old Federal
system established by the fathers—a gov
ern U)gnt of compromise and consent. If,
however, they dcpjde upon consolidation
and a central government, with up limited
powers, then we shall, of necessity, enter
the .unending contest of parties and sec
tions lor the possession and control of that
government. We nil all" Pf?t remain the
ruled, if it be possible to place oursejyes
among the rulers.
C. N. Featherston.
Rome, Ga., Novqjnbcr 28,18G8.
[From the Baltimore Gazette.
'The Farce of Jury Trials.
Two verdicts have lately been rendered,
the one in Richmond and the other hi
Albany, which are calculated to shake the
confidence of those who believe in that
much vaunted institution —trial by jury.
Avery unpopular man in Richmond was
shot down -opou the street.. The police
seem to have known at once where the shot
came from, and went to the room from
which it was fired. 'j’hc public had for
days looked for an attack upon Pollard by
one of the Grant family, and in the room
from which the former was shot, Grant was
found with a double-barrelled gun, one
barrel of which had been discharged.
There was not a man, woman or child
who was not fully satisfied that Grant had
assassinated Pollard. The evidence ad
duced, though incomplete iu its character,
pointed, conclusively to Gi’nnt, and to him
only, as the murderer. Nevertheless,
twelve men were found to sit on the iu
qnest and declare that the crime was com
mitted by some one to the jury unknown.
A more.disgraeelul verdict has seldom ever
been rendered, except in the other case to
which reference lias been made.
A Mr. Cole, who had, as he said, been
deeply injured by a friend named Hiscock,
met the latter in Albany and blew his
brains ont. Whatever wrong fiad been
done to Cole had been committed many
months previously, and he, with full knowl
edge of all the circumstances, had never
sought to take vengeance on the trans
gressor. When he did meet him, however,
he coolly shot him. The defense set up for
Cole Was that he was insane and had been
so for some time. This plea conld not be
sustained. But the jury was determined,
apparently, to acquit the -criminal, and
found that although he was sane when he
drew the pistol and sane just after he fired
it, he was an insane man at the moment he
touched the trigger. If the verdicts to
which we have called attention were only
absurd, they might be allowed to pass un
noticed, but as they are far worse than that
it behooves the whole country to join with
one voice in denouncing them. Wher#
juries can, without danger of incurring
public rebuke and scorn, so grossly palter
with justice and common sense, no man
can have any reasonable assurance of safe
ty for property or life. Too general a sanc
tion has already been given here to the doc
trine that whenever a woman is wronged,
or is supposed to be wronged, somebody is
to be shot down like a dog. It is time this
barbarous custom was abolished. There
are cases in which individuals are really
maddened by grief and anger and are not
responsible for their acts. But in most of
these murders there lias been no decent
pretext on which to base the plea of in
sanity, and in many the women involved
have been just as blameable and as culpa
ble as the parties who have been called to
account so summarily. If there is to be an
end to these atrocities let the public stig
matize properly the verdicts rendered lately
in Albany and Richmond.
A California Wonder.
THE DEAD SEA OF MONO.
The Austin (Nev.) HeveiUe, of November
28, has the following:
There are many things in the Great
Basin, or along its rim, which excite the
interest of travelers. A correspondent
asks us to tell him “whether Mono Lake is
actually the ‘ dead sea ’ it is reported to
be? lam told that its bitter waters arc
fatal to all living things. If you can, will
you please say something about that singu
lar body of water?” We gather from the
“ Report on the Mineral Resources of the
States and Territories West of the Rocky
Mountains,” that Moqo Lake lies ten miles
Southwest of the dividing line between
California and Nevada, and is. about four
teen miles wide and nine long. It has
never been sounded, but a trial said to
have been made with a line 300 feet long
failed to I'eaoh the bottom. By chemical
analysis a gallon of water, weighing eight
pounds, was found to contain 1,200 grains
of solid matter, consisting principally of
chloride of sodium, carbonate of soda, sul
phate of soda, borax and silica.
These substances render the water so
acrid aud nauseating that it is unlit for
drinking or even bathing. Leather im
mersed in it is soon destroyed by ils coro
sive properties, aud no animal, not even a
fish or a frog, can exist in the water for
more than a short time. The only thing
able to live.within or upon the waters of
this lake is a species of fly, which, spring
ing from the larvae bred iu its bosom, after
an ephemeral life, dies, and, collecting on
the surface, is drifted to the shore, where
the remains collect in vast quantities, and
arefednponby the ducks or gathered by
the Indians, w.t.h whom they arc a staple
article of food Nestling under the eastern*
watershed of the Sierra, Mono Lake re
ceives several considerable tributaries;
and, although destitute of any outlet, such
is the aridity of the atmosphere that it is
always kept at-nearly uniform level by the
process of evaporation. So dense and
sluggish is the water rendered through
super-saturation with various salts and
other foreign matters, that only the strong
est winds raise a ripple oil its surface.
As the Sierra in this neighborhood reach
es nearly its greatest altitude, the scenery
about Mono Lake is varied and majestic,
some parts of It being at. the same time
marked by a most cheerless and desolate
aspect. The bitter and fatal waters of this
lake render it literally a dead sea, and all
ils surroundings—wild, gloomy and fore
boding—are suggestive of sterility and
death. The decomposing sectiQU of the
water is shown by its effect upon the bo
dies ot a companv of Indians, twenty or
thirty in number, who, while seeking to
escape frqii) t lie if vyhife pursuers, took re
fuge in the lake, where they were shot by
their enemies, who left them in the water.
In the course of a few weeks not a vestige
of their bodies was to lie seen, even the
bones having been decomposed by tnis pow
erful solvent. Mineral curiosities abound
in tiie neighborhood of Mono Lake, among
which are numberless deposits in the shape
of tiny pine trees.
A Crack in a Hog Trough-
The following from a recent number of
the Prairie Farmer is almost equal to
Franklin’s story of the whistle :
A fc\y days ago a frit*fid sect ipo word
Unit every day lp- 1 gave neatly twenty pails
of buttermilk to a lot of sl|qat.s, and they
scarcely improved at all. Thinks I, this is
a breed of hogs worth seeing. They must
be of the sheet iron kind. Sol called on
him, heard him repeat the mournful story,"
and then visited the sty, in order to get a
better view of the miraculous swine. I
went into the pen, and, on close examina
tion, ionint a e|-a«;k in I'm Irqqgii through
which nlost of the contents rail avGiy'under
the floor. Thinks I, here is the type of the
failures of our agricultural brethren.
W hen |. sin; q fijiuijeji subsqriliiiig kp: a
half dozen political' and 'injseeltnneous
papes, and spending all Ijis liiqe in reading
theip, \yhjle Ip; fiqesp’t road q. single agri
cultural or horticultural journal, thinks I,
to myself, poor man, you have got a large
and wide crack in your hog trough.
When I see a farmer attending all the
political conventions, and knowing every
man in town that votes his ticket, and yet,
to save njs neqk, coijhji.’t vl.q Iq {Resi
dent of liis County Agricultural Society, or
where the fair was held last year, I “ unani
mously” come to the conclusion that the
poor soul has got a crack in his hog trough.
When I see a farmer Inlying guano, lint
wasting ashes and hen manure, trying all
softs of experitqen.is except intelligent hard
work and'ecoiioiny, getting‘tiie choicest of
seeds regard less of cost, then planting them
reggrdjess of cultivation, growing the
variety oi' iunit called Soqr Tati Bpedliilg,
and sweetening it vyitii sugar, pound for
pound, keeping the frqijt tjelds rich while
the back lots are growing up w’tit thistles,
briers and elders, contributing to the Chock
taw Indian fund and never givings, cent to
any agricultural society; such a man, I will
give a written guarantee, lias got a crack
in his hog trough, and iu his head also.
W lien I see a farmer allowing loose boards
all over his yard, fence down, hinges off the
gate, manure iu the barnyard, I come to
the conclusion that lie has got a large crack
in his hog trough.
AV ben i see a farmer spending his time
traveling in a carriage, when he has to sell
all his corn to pay the hired help, and his
hogs are so lean that they have to lean
against the fence to squeal, I rather lean to
the conclusion that- somebody that stays at
home will have a lien oil tiie farm, and that,
some days the bottom will come entirely
out of his hog trough.
Robinson Crusoe’s Island.— Some few
months since we noticed the return of some
shipwrecked Japanese by the Hawaiian
bark Eagle. These Japanese were discov
ered on St. Peter’s Island, which is five
hundred miles South of Yokohoma, by
Captain Nye, of the William Rotch, and by
him taken away an'! fianally put on board
the Eagle and Qhio. This island is a bar
ren place, Without fresh water, but full of
alabatross and other sea birds. It is rather
a fatal island for Japanese navigators,
several of their vessels having been lost
there, and weary imprisonment for months
and years endured by the survivors. Capt.
Nye had gone on shore to procure bird’s
eggs, and was just shoving off when he
saw in the distance these Japanese coming
down the beach. They approached him
with supplicating gestures and low obeis
ance, and when assured that they could go
ou broad the ship, they exhibited great jov
and gratitude. They had been eighteen
months on the island, subsisting on llsh,
birds and eggs. These and other former
shipwrecked men have constructed five
cave houses in the rock. In their house the
captain found hundreds of egg shells filled
with water, caught from the rains aucl pre
served in these frail containers. Capt.Men
jerou, of the Japanese navy, whom many of
our readers may remember by reason of his
visit to Honolulu, was a shipwrecked ten
ant of this same island for many years.
[.Hawaiian Gazette.
Liszt was born in 1809, and has from his
childhood been acknowledged as the leading
pianist of the world. Ol late year.: he has been
widely known as an orchestral composer. In
1865 lie took holy orders in the Roman Catholic
Church, entering a convent in Rome. The
rules of his order were not, however, strictly
enforced in his c.»se, and his career as u musi
cian was only temporarily interrupted by .his
religious vows.
After a long drought there fell a torrent of
rain, during which oue farmer said to another:
“This is a Providential rim. I hope it will
bring up everything out of the grouud.” To
this the other replied, with a dubious shake of
the head' “ I can’t say as I agree with you
there, neighbor. 1 have buried three wives iu
the ground. I shall mortally hate to see them
ail come up again.”
'Tis Over.
My heart is chilled and my pulse is low,
But often and often will memory go,
Like a blind child lost in a waste of snow,
Back to the days when I loved yon so,
The beautiful long ago.
I sit here dreaming through and through
The blissful moments I shared with you—
The sweet, sweet days when our love was new,
When I was trustful and you were true—
The beautiful days, but few.
Blest or wretched, fettered or fiee,
Why should I care how your life may be,
Or whether you wauder by land or sea i
I only know you are dead to me,
Ever and hopelessly.
Oh, how often at day’s decline,
I pushed from my window the curtain vine,
To see from your lattice the lamp light shine ;
1 Type of message that, halt divine,
Plashed from your heart to mine.
Once more the stailight is silvering all ;
The roses sleep by the garden wall;
The night bird warbles his madigral,
And hear again through the n ght air lall
The evening bugle call.
But Summers will vanish and years will wane,
And bring no light .to your window pane ;
Nor gracious sunshine nor patient rain,
Can bring dead loVe t • life main—
I call up the past in vain.
My heart is heavy, my heart is cold,
And that proves dross which 1 counted gold ;
I watch no longer your curtain’s fold,
The window is dark and the night is cold ;
And the story forever told !
[From the Raleigh (N. C.) Sentinel, 14tli.
The Type Setting Machine.
MR, FOSTER’S REMARKABLE INVENTION DE
SCRIBED.
We have been furnished by the inventor with
the following detailed description of the new
type setting machine, by our ingenious coun
tvnian, If. 0. Foster, Esq., for which be has re
cently obtained a patent:
The machine is composed, essentially of a
key hoard, type boxes, a series of conductors
or conveyors, fingers, and a “ stick.”
The key-board lias much the appearance of
two piauo key boards, ranged one above the
other, but with this difference : The keys are
arranged in clusters or groups, to facilitate
their working, by assisting the eye in finding
immediately any required letter. These groups
are again divided into colors, for the same pur
pose ; so that by once glancing over the board
and noticing the arrangement of the groups,
and the relation each letter hears to a cluster,
or a color, any character designated can be in
stantly placed m the Stick by the mere action
of touching its corresponding key. The first
tier ol keys, being tbit nearest the operator, is
marked with the letters of the •* Roman low
case ” —this being the ease most used in all
work; Ibe next with the ‘‘Roman capitals,”
third with the “ Italic lower case,” and the
highest, or farthest Irorn the operator, with
the “ Italic caps,” the case least used. Each of
these hive their corresponding double lelters,
marks of punctuation and other characters
generally used in the composing room or
found in their respective “cases.” These keys
are attached, in the simplest manner, to a se
ries of type boxes. *
The capacity of these type boxes can be al
tered to suit the convenience or pleasure of
the printer ; their highest convenient capacity
being about two “cases.” From these boxes
the type are fed out by means ol fingers mov
ing silently on their respective axis. Asa key
is touched on the key-board, ihe corresponding
finger takes from the type boxes the required
character, and it immediately glides into the
slick bv means of the conveyors or conductors.
These are stationary and require no external
power towoi'k them. They are arrauged in the
peculiar manner you noticed in the model ex
hibited to you sometime since, and with the
fingers and type boxes, can be slipped out in a
moment, and another of a different “font”
substituted when desired. So that the expense
of haying a jpac|iine to spt aqy “ lout " is ob
viated by the simplest means—it being only
necessary, Instead ol the usual “eases” found
in t he printing office, to have the corresponding
adjustable “ plates,” only one machine being
required by any ordinary printing office lor its
different work. These boxes, conductors, etc.,
are arranged on the principle of (he mathemati
cal proportion of the comparative velocities of
falling bodies. As you saw in the model ex
hibited no character can outstrip another on
its way to tfip stick, hul,' caeii accomplishes the
distance and is placed in the stick in’the order
in which their corresponding keys--arc touched.
The stick is somewhat ot a peculiar arrange
ment. It can b • adjusted to any sized column
from that, of the ordinary newspaper to ttm
widest, book page ; or the type can he col jq a
continued Ijriu. In (lie first jiislanpe the com
positor needs qo qgsfiitafij, doing Ips own “ jus
tifying ■> on llie completion of each lino, which,
when completed, is rapidly thrown back aud
discharged info the “ galley,” and another line
is set. In the second instance, a second hand
is required to cut oil' the line to its desired
length and then to “justify.” In both instances
“ space boxes,” holding the different “spaces,"
are arranged in as convenient a maimer as navy
in the ordinary “ case,” expent tj, H “ Hove' cm
space,’! which is used In dividing words, and
which has its corresponding key on the hoard,
this being thought most desirable, as it is used!
probably, more than other “ box ” in tlm prim
ler’s easa. Ajpifthpij jo Rip “ hjicU '■’> j« a “.corn
posing rule,” wpieli adjusts itself; automatical
ly. (o the line previously adjusted in the stick.
There is qlso at.taphcd to the ■' stiej; >’ a simple
contriy.qiee by which any character can he sub
stituted for one placed in the line by mistake.
For instance, in case an eis set for ac, the op
erator can by means of this attachment correct
the mistake without changing his seat to get to
a “ case ” in a different part of ,ho room.
The type boxes are filled by q Utile boy or
girl, thereby substituting for sßilfetj labor that,
of any person who knows his letters.
The full working machine is about 38 inches
wide by 40 deep, and 32 high ; and, by careful
estimates already made, can be constructed at a
cost not exceeding IKK).
1 would also say that there is attached to the
machine, when desired, a permanent adjustable
tialiuy, Wilji'ii, vyil p its atpictnnehis, call lie used
by the operator, without change of position, to
strike off any number of “proofs” required,
thereby making it a most convenient letter
writer or form-printer for any office. This ad
ditional ananfjcmeqt »||i increase its co\it.‘
Dots,
The women of this country wear 3'»0,000,000
yards of calico per annum.
Greeley and Raymond arc at it again, bam
mer and tongs. 1 ’■ ”
Anew variety of potato sells for SSO per
tuber, or S2O per eye.
«
Bank runners in New Yoik have their wal
lets chained to their wrists.
U p wards of fifty thousand copies of Alexander
fl. Stephens’History of the War have already
been cfih'j
During the month of September 177 Ameri
can books were issued. •
There will be 2:15,000 copies of the Agricul
tural Report distributed ibis year. It is a
volume of I,2oopages.
A collide was lately married In Ashtabula
county, Ohio, whose united ages did not amount
to thirty years.
A Chicago gjrl is aunoqnged as tl|e l|p)le of
Dresden. The Saxons qpagiue her to own all
the grain elevators.
New Lisbon, Ohio, offers $15,000 to a manu
facturing company that will locate ita works
there.
The average life of American mechanics, the
New York Mail says, is 46% years. This is
greatef than the average life of man, so that
work must improve the health.
The Radicals in Mefppfojs held a party nomi
natirie*eouventlon lately, nominating ten can
didales lor aldermen. Os these ten only three
pay any city taxes at all, and these three pay
the gross sum of $25 56!
A Wiltshire dame, (he mother of a large
family, was one day asked ihe number of her
children. “ La, rue,” she replied, rocking her
self to and fro, “ I’ve got fourteen, mostly boys
and girls.” ' •
Mr. Joseph Massey, of Thomasville, sends
the editor of the Enterprise two stalks of sugar
cane, weighing sixteen pounds, metsuriug
twenty feet, and yielding one gallon and one
quart of juice.
A young brother of Admiral Napier is soon
to be wedded to a young and beautiful Jewess
of Prague, whose education, as well qs that or
her brother, he has superintended since the
death of their parents.
A strange phenomena is reported in the
Sierra Nevada mountains, at the head of Kern
river. The earth is said to have been shaking
for more than two weeks—almost a constant
shake, rolling rocks down the mountain, and
the earth waving like the sea. It is supposed
that it is a volcano gcttiDg ready to burst.
Avery cruel practice prevails at the stock
yards of East Buffalo, says a Buffalo paper, the
driving of cattle by means of long staffs, in the
ends of which aresniall, sharp-pointed “prods,”
from a half to an inch long. These “ prods ”
are driven into an animal’s sides and back if it
does not move witli alacrity in the right direc
tion. Small wounds are thus made in the flesh
of the animal, which must he as painful to them
as they would he to a human being. Cattle
are thus “ prodded ” all the way from Chicago
to New York.
There is a vast difference in-the weather this
year, between the West and the East. About
the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts the snow
drifts are<two and three feet deep, while upon
the broad fields of Illinois the sun shines
sweetly, and the farmers have hardly com
menced to get in their corn. The borders of
our northern land are white with early snow,
while its northern skirts are friuged with de
parting flowers.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED FItESS DISPATCHES.
W ashington.
Washington, December 18-Noon.
11l the Senate, Kellogg’s bill regarding loyal
claimants of Louisiana and Arkansas was
indefinitely postponed.
Abbott iqtroduced a similar bill applicable to
all lately rebellious States. Referred to Judi
ciary Committee.
In the House, Col. Jlunt’s and Menard’s
papers was referred to the Election committee.
There were no remarks.
The resolution appointing a committee to
investigate the Louisiana election was referred
to the Reconstruction Committee.
Washington, December 18—P. M.
The Speaker laid before the House Col.
Hunt’s claims to Col. Mann’s scat from Lou
isiana. It is understood that neither of the
claimants—Hunt, Jones or Menard—will lie al
lowed to take the seat pending the contest.
An increase in the whisky tax is again pre
dicted.
The Chronicle appears to imve received $3,000
in gold lor the use of 4ts columns by R. J.
Walker, in discussing the Alaska purchase.
A bill Was introduced in the Senate to-day
prohibiting civil officers from bolding military
commissions. This will prevent the appoint
ment of officers to tho Cabinet.
Andrew J. Goss has been appointed collector
at St. Augustine, Florida.
Gen. Grant declined a reception at Philadel
phia. lie returns here to-night.
Congressional.
Washington, December IS.
Senate.— Mr. Abbott introduced a hill for
the payment of claims of loyal citizens South.
It empowers Chase to appoint three commis
sioners, who shall meet here and award claims,
not to exceed two million dollars. Proofs of
loyalty to be the same as exacted in the Quar
termaster’s department.
Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill repealing the
admission of Georgia. The preamble states
that the Legislature violated Ihe fourteenth
amendment in not purging itself of members
ineligible under tbe fourteenth article, and vio
lated both the Constitution and tho principle
upon which reconstruction was founded in ex
polling negroes. This bill revives the military
government and allows the present constitu
tion to operate, subject to the pleasure of Con
gress; that when the Legislature assembles
those ineligible under the fourteenth article be
excluded, and that Federal Courts have con
current jurisdiction when one parly swears
justice cannot be bad in provisional courts.
The Judiciary Committee was directed to
inquire whether the removal of political disi
bililies passed prior to the adoption of the
fourteenth amendment are now valid.
Mr. Sumner’s resolution, congratulating the
Spanish people, passed.
Mr. Cameron eulogized Stevens, aud the Sen
ate adjourned.
House.—The Committee on the Revision of
Laws was direeted to inquire into the expe
diency of appointing a commission to make
changer, in bankrupt laws mid make the prac
tice uniform. The difficulty appears to arise
lrom certain district Judges appointing general
assignees, and the scope of inquiry covers
proceedings of snch assignees.
Mr. Finney’s death was announced and the
House adjourned to Monday.
Virginia.
• Richmond, December 18.
The farm of ex-Governor Wise, in Princess
Anne county,'so long held by the Government,
was yesterday surrendered to the owner by the
United States authorities.
The Government also yesterday ordered the
payment of rent to the owner of Libby Prison
lor three years’ use -of it.
Alabama.
Mguile, December 18.
First, race—two mile heats, S4OO ; walked over
by Fanny Cheatham. Second race—dash of one
mile and three quarters, S2OO ; Moore’s coll, by
Lexington, christened Gen. Ewell, beat Joe
Johnson, Bettie, Bay, Transit, Mollie Inger
soll, and Faro. Time, 3:30%,
"«■*!> f Q*WV - - -
JPo reign.
fuv TIIK CABLE. I
London, December 18.
South American advices say the allies threat,
ed to attack Vihlelta.
McMahon ascended the Paraguay with gun
boats.
Paris, December 18.
The Munitcur announces some changes in
the French Ministry, indicating a more liberal
policy towards Hie press.
Madrid, December 18.
At a large meeting of Pi ogressists at Car
l.hagena, Rspartero was named as the choice for
the throne.
It is said Serrano has resigned the Presiden
cy of the Ministry.
Provisional Governors report peace is not.
likely to be disturbed rim ing tbe Cortes elec
tion.
There was a demons!ration :,t, Mer-iado in
favor of t|ie (Juiljsp), In,l it \vas easily sup
pfepsvU.
The nearer of a Republican pronuneiainento
was yesterday arrested at Madeira.
Havana.
Havana, December 18.
A tire at Cardenas burned the. hardware store
and papers of the American Consul.
.Maying News.
Savannah, December 18.
CleareJ—Bark Henry Palmer, for Swanzct,
Wales ; bark Alamo, for Hamburg.
Sailed—Fanny Keating, for Baltimore,
December j3.
Arrive^ —Steamer Cbariestoq, from New
York.
Sailed—Steqmer Virgo, for New YoTk;
steamer Carroll, for Baltimore ; brig Eva N,
Johnson, for Providence.
WiLMrtCGTON, December 18.
Cleared —Gary, for Baltimore.
M.ark©ts.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
London, December 18—Noon.
Consols, 92%. Bonds unchanged.
Liverpool, December 18—Noon.
Cotton quiet; sales, 10,000 bales; sales lor
the week, 57,00 Q bales ; exports light; specula-'
tion, 3,000 bales ; stock, 854,000 bales, whereof
51,000 arc Atnetican.
Liverpool, December 18 -Afternoon.
Cotton steady; stock—afloat, 255,000 bales,
Whereof 110,000 are American. Naval Stores
heavy.
Liverpool, December 18—2, P. M.
Yarns and fabrics at Manchester quiet.
Liverpool, December 18—Evening.
Cotton easier but not qnotably lower.
Paris, December 18.
Bullion decreased 11,000,000f. Bourse dull.
Rentes, 70f. 33e.
Havre, December 18—Afternoon.
Cotton dull; on spot, 122.
Frankfort, December 18.
Bonds dull at 78%.
Havana, December 18.
Sterling Exchange—Federal Currency, 19%;
Gold,
New York, December 18—Noon.
Stocks active and strong. Money active at 7.
Exchange, 9%. Gold, 134%. ’o3’s, 10% ;
North Carolines, 65% ; new, 63% ; Virginias,
ex eoupoii, 55 ;• pew, 56%; Tennessees, ex
coupon, 08 ; new, 60%.
New York, December 18- P. M.
Governments closed weak. ’63’s, 10% ; Ten
nessees, new, 68% ; North Carolines, 61%; Vtr
ginias, 57. Monevslrioge.nl. Call, 7, cuirency
to gold. Gold, 135%. Sterling dull at 9%.
New York, December 18—Noon.
Flour dull and drooping. Wheat dull and
I(®2 lower. Corn unchanged. Mess Pork
quiet and nominal at 127 25@28 on spot and
forward delivery. Steam .Lard quiet and less
firm; barrels, 10%(%17%. Cotton steady ;
middling uplands, 25%. Turpentine firm at
45%. Rosin steady at $3 35(8)3 45 for strained
common and good strained. Freights quiet.
New York, December 18-P. M.
Cotton closed a shade lower ; sales ot 2,700
hales at 35@25%. Flour s@lo lower. Wheat
very doll. Corn rather more active ; Southern
white, $1(3)1 05 ; yellow, $1 06. Mess Pork ir
regular at $26 87%@27 75. Lard closed heavy;
kettle, 17%@19%. Whisky—Western, $1 02@
T 03. Groceries quiet. Turpentine, 45(8)45%.
Rosin unchanged. Freights firm. Cotton,
steam, %@7-16ths.
Cincinnati, December 18.
Corn firm; 75 asked. Whisky firm at f1;
some speculative demand. Mess Pork ad
vanced to S2B 50; large sales country at S2B to
arrive. Lard advancing—lß. Bulk Meats in
demand ; shoulders, 11; clear sides, 14%@15%.
St. Louis, December 18.
Whisky, 94@95. Provisions buoyant. Ba
con—shoulders, 12%; dear sides, 17@17%.
Wilmington, December 18.
Spirits Turpentine weak at 42. Rosin active
at $1 70@5 50. Crude Turpentine, $1 90@3 90.
'L' r > $3 05. Cotton, 23%@23% tor mixed.
clear and very mild. Thermometer,
Mobile, December 18.
Cotton in good demand ; closed firm at 23 ;
sales, 2,000; receipts, 1,400; exports, 4,555-
receipts week, 8,782 ; exports-to Great Britain,
9,050; other foreign ports, 1,637; coastwise,
1,453 ; sales, 7,550 ; stock, 45,031 bales.
New Orleans, December 18.
Cotton—Sales to-day, 0,500 bales ; market
easier; middling, 23@23%; receipts to-day,
4,300, bale? ; sales for the week, 30,800 bales ;
receipts for (lie week—gross, 31,684 bales; net,
30,464 bales; exports—Great Britain, 20,060
bales; Continent, 13,990 bales; coastwise,
20,353 bales ; stock, 31,310 bales. Gold, *135%.
Sterling— Bauk, 47%; Commercial, 46@4(i%.
New York Sight, %@% discount. Flour quiet
and easier ; superfine, $7 05@7 25; double
aud treble unchanged. Corn scarce aud higher
at 80@85. Oats dull at 03@64. Bran dull at
$1 40. Hay—fair Western, $25; prime East
ern, $36. Pork scarce aud higher at S2B 50.
Bacon scarce; shoulders, 13%@13%; clear
rib, 15%@18%; clear, 19%@19%. Lard scarce
and higher; tierce, 18; keg, 18%@19. Sugar
easier; common, 9%@9% ; prime, 13%; yel
low clarified, 13@13%. Molasses steady aud
unchanged. Whisky—Western rectified, $1 15
@117%. Coffee quiet; fair Rio, 14%@14%;
prime, 10%@17.
Charleston, December 18.
Cotton steady and demand moderate; sales,
500 hales ; middling, 23% ; receipts, 11,82 bales;
exports coastwise, 642 bales.
Savannah, December 18.
Cotton in good demand and advanced ; iu'-d
--dling, 23% ; vfales, 1,318 bales ; exports —Eng
land, 1,771 bales.
Augusta Market.
OFJICK DaILV COWSTITITTIONAI.IST, )
Fkidav, December 18—P. M. \
FINANCIAL
GOLD—DuII ; buying at 134 and selling nt 136.
SlLVEß—Buying at 130 and selling at 133.
SECURITIES-Georgia Railroad Stock, 90, ex
dividend. *
COTTON—The market to-day has been rather
quiet. During the morning sales were effected at
22;V for middling, buPin the afternoon, in consequence
off iverpool and New York nows, buyers were not
disposed io oiler more than 22,‘v- Receipts arid offer
ing stock very light. Sales, 583 hales. Receipts, 775
hales.
BACON —Scarce. We quote C. Sides, 18 ; C. R.
Sides, 17,Y@18; B. B. Sides, 17; Shoulders, 14;
Bellies, 17; Hams, 19(2-23; Dry Salt Shoulders, 13;
Dry Salt C. R. Sides, 10.
CORN—White, $1 10; mixed, $1 05 from depot;
new'white,without sacks, $1 00; with sacks, $1 05®
1 10; new mixed, without sacks, $1 00; new, in ear,
90.
WHEAT—We quote white, $2 25@2 40; rer],f.l 80
@2 20.
FLOUR—City Mills, $lO 50@t3 00 ; at retail, $1 V
barrel higher. Country, $lO 00® 1 2 00, according to
quality.
CORN MEAL—SIIS at wholesale, and $1 25 at re
tail.
OATS—BO@BS.
RYE—sl 60.
HouonTON Institute.—We referred briefly
yesterday morning lo the entertainment given
by the efficient Principal ol the above named
Institute lo his many scholars. The energy,
devotion and skill exhibited by Mr. Calvin in
the management of this rapidly increasing
school really deserve the warmest commenda
tion of (lie parents and Iricmls who have chil
dren and scholars there, and, indeed, should
receive lrom every one who feels interested in
the noble cause ol education the most earnest
support. Largo numbers of our young men
arc constant attendants upon the free night
school attached lo the Institute, aud are mak
ing rapid progress in their various studies.
We have been kindly furnished by the Prin
cipal with the following list ot prises, Ac., pre
sented just prior to the closing of the school
exercises •<
On Wednesday 16th inst., Mr. Calvin, the
principal, presented the prizes to the success
ful contestants in the several departments.
Boys ’ Grammar Department.
Prize Awarded to best Reader —Benjamin B.
Russell,
For Proficiency, Punctuality, and General
Good Conduct William H. Sl.ubb.
Girls’ Grammar Department.
Best Reader-Miss Clata Jacobs.
For Proficiency, Punr-tualily, etc.—Miss Ber
tha Hanleite.r,
Intermediate Department—Buys and Girls.
Proficiency, etc.—William Stoker.
Ist. Primary—Herbert Hester.
2d. Primary—Miss Margaret Hograph.
3d. Primary—Miss Irene Lockwood.
Honors.— Distinguished for Good Conduct and
Proficieiify,
Boys’ Grammar Department. —Ed ward Par,
Henry D. Leon, George Brown and William
Clarkson.
Girls' Grammar liepartment. —Miss Louisa
llaiffqiter, Dora Dennis, Carrie Brown,Leila
Kings more.
Intermediate Department. —Miss Alice Rolls,
George Keen.
First I’rimury.—llnpy Morris, Benjamin
Holliday,
Second Primary. —Misses Bessie Bryan, Mag
gie Phil pot.
Third Primary. —Miss Jennie Shackelford,
Jackson Vandiver.
entitled to honorable notice.
Boys' Grammar Department. —Edmund Kelly,
Thomas V. Rhodes, Frank Lund, John Tarver.
Girls' Grammar Department. —Misses Rosa
Fhilpot, Mary Diemer, Belle Philpot, Clara
Murphey.
Intermediate Department —-Montgomery Wil
bon, Joseph Riley.
First Primary. —■'William While, Theo. Jau
son.
* Second Primary.— Misses Com Kingsmore,
Lizzie Frost.
Third Primary. Miss Mamie Berber, Simon
Jacobs.
The contest throughout was very close, and
the lot. m a number of instances was resorted
to lor a decision.
Christmas Offering to the Poor.—An eu
. tertainmeut will be given on Wednesday even
ing, 23d inst.. at Concert Hall,Jort.be benefit of
those in our midst stricken by sickness and in
digence. The ladies and gentlemen undertak
ing this laudable enterprise cannot hope to
reach a lithe of the sad catalogue, but if they
succeed in gladdening the few hearts suflerjng
in silence, their holiday will, have been accom
plished.
The comedy of Married Life, a Musical In
terlude, and the pantomime of “Thu Milliners,”
will be produced for Ihe first time in this city.
The comedy is strongly cast, numbering ten
ladies and gentlemen. The music will be care
fully selected, and the pantomime will be
mounted secundum artenx.
Programmes will be published in the subse
quent journals.
Tickets may be procured of Ihe ladies in the
east, at Schreiner’s and Oates’, or of the follow
ing committee.
It is respectfully urged that those of our citi
zens unable to be present, will take at least one
ticket, to help the cause.
Hon. H. F. Russell,
F. H. Miller,
T. 8. Morgan,
B. 8. Dunbar,
VV. B. Wells,
E. P. Clayton.
Committee.
Philip L. Cohen, Treasurer.
Investigating Court—Before'J. U. Davis,
United States Commissioner.—The case of
the parties charged with passing counterfeit
money was brought before the United States
Commissioner Friday, and quite an amount
of testimony was elicited. The court adjourned
until to-day without concluding ils labors. We
regret that though we have the testimony we
have not the space to publish it at this time,
and uulil we do, refrain from comment.
Council Proceedings.
Tbe City Council met Friday evening, at 7%
o’clock.
Minutes of previous meeting were read and
confirmed.
Communications from different parties were
then read.
A letter was rend from Thos. Armstrong,
begging tor assistance.
A move was made by Mr. Jackson, aud
finally carried, to reler the matter to the Coun
eilmen of the Ward in which Armstrong lives.
W. C. Pemblo asked permission to erect a
sign across the pavement Irorn 13 to 15 feet in
length.
Mr. Meyer moved to grant this request.
Some debate followed as to whether or not
this was against an ordinance. After being de
cided that it was not,
Mr. Meyer’s motion was carried.
A communication was received from John
Small, requesting that there be placed a lamp
post at the corner of Centre and Ellis streets.
This request was granted at the suggestion of
Mr. Gardiner. ,
K. C. Carr desired to repair tho building at
Mis corner of Mclntosh and Ellis streets.—
Granted.
T. It. Floyd, recommended by R. H. May
applied for a position of any character-staling
that he was unable to work.
Mr. Gardiner moved that tlds-application lie
acted upon when the Council meet in January.
Carried.
Mrs. Anti Winter desired that the sidewalk
in front of her house, No. 59 Ellis street, be re
paiied by the city.
Mr. Tult moved to refer to Committee on
Streets, <fce. Carried.
Reports of Standing Committees were made,
which did not amount to auy great import
ance.
REPORTS FROM OFFICERS.
A communication lrom Capt. J. B. Platt,
Chief Engineer of Fire Department, asking
that aid be granted them to purchase new
ladders ami hose, aud that the engine house of
the Georgia Independent Fire Company be
repaired, and also the sidewalk in front of
same.
Moved and cirried lh.itit be left to the Com
mittee on Fire Department, with power to
arrange as much as possible. Granted S4OO lor
tbe purpose.
It was resolved that the Members of Counelf
have published and arranged in a neat book
all ordinances passed by Council not already
published.
Several other resolutions of minor iuipoit
anee were adopted.
Mr. Jackson read an appeal signed by many
prominent citizens, slating the great Injury
beiug done by, and praying some steps be
taken in legaril to, peddlers, organ-grinders
and the like, who may be frequently seen on
the streets of our city.
ft was therefore resolved that the fine for
peddling, and offenses of that nature, be in -
creased from $lO to $25.
It was moved by Mr. Tutt, and carried, that,
aeommittee be appointed to inquire into the
nature of the argument between the late Coun
cil an J the counsel for the defense of Dillon
and Evans, in the Red case.
The committee appointed by the Mayor con
sists of one Aldcrm in from each ward.
Messrs. Jackson, Tutt, Gardiner, Sibley and
Carle compose the committee. Mr. Tutt was.
appointed chairman.
Mr. Jackson stated that he thought it neces
sary to nave a meeting before the regular Jan
uary term, in order that the Committee on
Salaries may report. It was, therefore, re
solved tint Council adjourn until the evening
Os the SWlli of December.
Fair and Hot Supper.— The ladies of Beech
island will give a fair and hot. supper, at the
Club House, on Tuesday, December 23d, begin
ning at 6 o’clock, p. in. This entertainment is
for the joint benefit ol the Baptist and Presby
terian Churches of the Island. Admission will
lie free. The ladies of the Island have collected
many pretty and useliil articles which they hope
to dispose of. They have, also, in preparation
such a feast of good things as can lie found
nowhere outside the country. Should any of
their city friends honor them with their pres
ence on Tuesday eveniug, vve feel justified in
promising that, they will have a very pleasant
time. It is an easy drive to Beech Island and
we hope Augusta will send a delegation tq the
Club House.
Christmas. —As this holiday approaches we
see upon all sides busy preparations being
made for its proper enjoyment. Our streets
are well filled with country wagons, which will
return home with numberless good things
from our stores, not to mention the many con
tributions from Old Santa Claus, who never
forgets the little ones, and who, though quite
advanced in years, as yet exhibits no evidences
of decay ; while the ladies are deeply engaged
discussing mince .pics, Christmas trees, and the
arrangements for the day. We trust all can hail
its coining with fee’lngs of delight and that no
heart 111 robs mournlully at the recollections of
“ Christmas weal, and a’ ”*
Dr. W. B Wells —ln purchasing holiday
gilts, our friends would do well to Inspect the
beautiful display of Dr. W. B. Wells, at the
store recently occupied by Messrs. Stevenson
& Shelton. The Doctor declares that it will
be a pleasure to show his wares, and we know
it wiil.be the pleasure of the Doctor’s hosts of
friends to respond lo this cordial invitation.
The Supreme Court.— There exists much
anxiety in onr midst to learn the decision of
the Supreme Court relative to quite a number
of very important cases, argued before it du
ring this term, and we would be glad if our
Atlanta contemporaries would publie.li them
as early as convenient. Will they do so ?
The Dubuque (Iowa) Times relates the fol
lowing curious story; A few days ago Unco
maimed brothers, from Minnesota, crossed on
the ferry to this side. One had lost both arms
and legs, and the oilier two both legs. They
related to Commodore Yates the following
fearful accident. Last Winter the three broth
ers started to singing school, with three young
ladies, in an ox sled. On the way, a heavy
snow storm came up, and caused them to lose
their way. After wandering about for hours,
they were finally “ snowed in ” on the prairie.
Locked up in that snowy prison the three
women were frozen to-death, and the three
brothers were so badly frozen as to result in
their present maimed coadltion.
An ingenious contrivance has recently been
invented for testing the velocity of cannon
halls. Two wire targets are placed, one about
20 yards from the cannon, and the second about
the same distance further on. These are con
nected by fine insulated wires with an electrical
instrument, which is about 400 yards in the.
rear of the cannon. The instrument is adjust
ed on a plan similar to au eteetro-hallsiic ma
chine. When the shot is fired it cuts the wire
in the first target, and then in like manner cuts
the wire In the second target—the instant each
wire is severed being recorded by the instru
ment,. The interval of lime occupied by the
hall in passing from one’target to the other
furnishes the data for obtain log the initial ve
locity of the shot.
The Louisville Courier-Jotirnal suggests that
ns “Fort Lafayettee, which is better known as
the ‘American Bastile,’ has been destroyed, the
key of it should he sent, to Mount Vernon to
be bung up by the side of the key of the French
Bastile, which was sent to Washington by
Lafayette, who little thought Wtoen he did it
that a fort would be named in honor of him
only to be degraded to the level of the Bastile.”
Roman railway trains all carry n detachment
of carbineers, fore and alt, now-a-days, for fear
of brigands, and all the stations are heavily
guarded by military, day aud night. This is
the condition to which thousands of fanatics
would reduce the routes of travel iu this coun
try, if permitted.
Victor Emmanuel’s nickname is “ Gnaff.”
A few evenings ago the police ot Bologne had
to interfere, the large crowd at the opera house
amusing itself all the evening by shouting,”
“ Down with Gnaff.”
Lamartine has just celebrated his 78th birth
day. Ho is completely in his dotage. He
daily dictates to a secretary, hut there is no
sense iu what be says.
A couple in New Orleans were driven to
elope because somebody was always dying | u
the bride’s family and preventing a weddiug i n
orthodox style.
President Johnson leaves the White Housq
31 pounds lighter than whon he entered It.
