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$$tfKRN AGRICULTURE.
northern*delusions on the subject.
The Chi<ca«o> recently pub
lished a leading Article" referring, in a rather
patronising and oracular way, to the de
fects, as the editor conceived them, of
Southern systems of agriculture. The text
of the Tribune was “ AqAci'Mure Dependent
upon Manufactures," and the views put
forth were, as We apprehend the subject,
rather specious ill-founded. First
among prominent esors, we find the state
ment that cotton-bight comes from the
impoverished sojitf ofityie South; also that
the Southern lands, from being very rich,
had became exhausted, leaving the country
desolate because of bad culture and lack of
enterprise. It is amusing betimes to wit
ness with what nonchalance certain writers
of the North ventilate these matters and
how tenderly they nurse the South with
their pet pap of political and domestic
economy. Forgetful of the absolute failure
of thousands of Eastern and Western men
in cotton culture, two years after the war,
they still affect to teach us how to raise
our staples, with the same coolness that
swindlers high up on the saintly rolls of
theology or Young Men Christian Associa
tions whine over our heathenish morals,
to the utter obliviousness of their own
depravity. We do not charge the writer
in the Tribune with bad motives and we
do not compare him to the hypocrites of
whom we have had more than a surfeit;
but we do think that he is honestly
ignorant of the real condition of the South,
just as, years ago, Mr. Campbell, then a
United State representative from Ohio, was
refreshingly forgetful of the comparative
statistics of Georgia and Ohio, until en
lightened and amazed by Alexander H.
Stephens.
The gist of the Tribune article is couched
in this paragraph :
“It is so plain a deduction that the
nearer to the place of production soil
growths are consumed, the more rapid and
complete is the return to the soil of the fer
tilizing constituents extracted from it by
the crops cultivated upon its surface, that
the proposition needs only to be stated to
secure universal assent. To send cotton,
wheat, corn or other product to distant
points for sale thus not only diminishes the
profit of the farmer by imposing the heavy
tax of transportation, which is practically
a discount upon the price at the starting
point, but the chances of any part of the
waste of consumption ever again coming
back to enrich the deteriorated fields are
greatly weakened, indeed, highly improba
ble.”
If this be so, we would ask of our Chi
cago contemporary, why raise corn and
wheat at the West to supply the deficiencies
of the South ? He seems fearful that the
South will send off all her fertilizing ele
ments in the “ fleecy staple ” and becomaf
as barren as the land between Dan Mnil
Beersheba. His remedy is to establish
manufactories, have a diversity oj>Ta,hor
population to
fromJ«esoil ; so that
< tL. Sou*k, V ,,lin I,erse yp should produce
corn, whe;# for her con
sumption, cotton to supply the demands of
the world, goods of her own manufacture,
and everything else, in order to possess a
teeming population like that of Europe,
excrements would make the land
ri«h.
Emerson transcendentally says that we
have manured America with Europeans,
and all that remains of the pioneer, beyond
his contribution of labor, is a patch of
grass on the prairie. The theory of our
Chicago contemporary is Emersonian no
doubt, but it strikes us as being somewhat
utopian. Still, supposing something came
of it, what would the West do, which now
supplies us with more phosphoric acid,
potash, etc., in the shape of corn, wheat,
hay, meat aud especially bones, than can
be exported in our one hundred millions of
rj>u nddr of cotton ? What would become
oSr commercial cities, so much depend
ent upon cotton for their very existence ?
And what of the shipping interest of the
world, if every section proposes to live
within itself? What, indeed, would be
come of New England, which is held up to
us as a supreme model for our benighted
imitation ? Hear this:
“ Diversified industry was the vital lack
of the South during her ante-war period,
and promises now to be the regenerator of
her barren Helds, exhausted by unscientific
agriculture. It was by this means that the
sterile lands of bleak New England were
made to blossom as the rose. An applica
tion of the same beneficent cause to the
Cotton States will effect a corresponding
result.”
Wc ask in all candor: Was it really di
versified industry that made New England
blossom as the rose? Was it not rather
the patronage of the South, in cotton pro
duction, which made her mill-wheels spin,
her manufacturers rich ? Was it not South
ern cotton that freighted her ships and
yielded the gold with which she doled out
the wages of her skilled, labor ?
Sifting all this babble of “ progress,”
“ enterprise,” “ modern ideas,” “ diversified
labor,” etc., etc, we find much that is
earnest, something that is suggestive, and
then a large residuum of mere cant and
whipped-syllabub. After all has been
said, we get down at last to the hard-pan
of truth and fact, and there find that the
wealth of the South dwells in her cotton
fields; and that all the diversified industry
we require comes naturally and steadily
from the laws of supply and demand. We
cannot compete with the West in raising
corn, wheat and bacon, nor with New
England and Manchester in manufacturing
cotton goods. It is one of the results of
science that Specialty and not Diversity is
the great law that governs the world.
Hence, so long as money is gained with
less labor at the South in making cottou
than by the production of anything else,
this will inevitably be the specialty of our
people. Hence it is that all over the South
New England mechanics can be found who
have abandoned their trades and gone into
the planting of cottou or selling of goods.
One of the most intelligent, useful and
scientific men in Georgia, to whom we are
indebted for many valuable hints in this
article, informs us that a superintendent of
a cotton factory in Ills county has,
by the common Impulse, taken to farming.
Our correspondent adds that he knows
many master-builders and experts in almost
every trade who are thus employed in till
ing the soil, and, so great is the contagion,
or rather we should say the controlling
impulse, that many factory operatives have
gladly, when the opportunity served, quit
the narrow confines of the mill and sought
relief and sustenance from the generous
soil aud the glad air of heaven lingering
over the fields. This was the rule in the
pist, and we are persuaded that it must
continue to be the rule in the future, so
long, at least, as more money can be made
fcy one pursuit than by another.
Again, as long as needle women are starv
ing in Boston —the land of mtlk, and Jioney,
according to our Chicago the
lack of work, New England will be able ,to ,
pay freight on our raw material and«end
it back to us in homespuns and calicoes, at
rates as cheap as we can manufacture
them ourselves. We do uot paulieularly
crave such diversity as that which eats
away the life and vigor of our laboring
classes, with the scanty wages aud general
wretchedness of many people in New Eng
land and European manufacturing-districts. 1
We must uot be understood as an antago
nist to what is called development. But
we do object to the forcing process ; well
assured that, when really needed, labor is
sure to come, whether to make cotton or
manufacture it, without unduly taxing our
people to compel or seduce its advent.
We said above that the South receive#
more of the fertilizing elements from the
North and West than she sends abroad.
Let us, in elucidation of this theory, take
that element of which a distinguished
writer has said: “ There can be no civili
zation without population, no population
without food, and no food without phos
phoric acid." He even goes so far as to
reason that “ the march of civilization has
followed the direction of the supply of that
material.” In every 1,000 lbs. of lint cot
ton we find but 114-1,000 lbs. of phos
phoric acid; while, in the same quantity of
Indian corn, there are 7% lbs. of this
element. In oats we have 7 lbs. and
10 lbs. in wheat. When it is reinem
-bered how many thousands of bushels
of these cereals arc annually brought
to the South, especially from the
West, to say nothing of hay, buck
wheat, cheese, etc., not to speak of the
bacon supply, the bones of which have 218
lbs. of phosphoric acid for every 1,000 lbs.,
we caunot avoid being struck with the ad
vantage the South enjoys over the West in
this great principle of fertilization, and,
thus comparing the relative situation of
the two sections, we may say to our Chica
go critic : “ Physician, heal thyself!”
In times past we have made much ado
over diversity of industry in the South,
and vve still cling to much that is valuable
in a judicious and easy application of the
doctrine. But there is much to consider,
on the other side, and w€ have, after much
thought and consi*atiou with others, es
sayed to arrive a*;a conclusion as nearly
just as the at this time, warrants.
A SORRY MjtSQUERADE.
Mr. Hoar’s Legislature, otherwise known
as the General Assembly of Virginia, seems
to be sorely peypJexed over tlie election of
bogus Senators. The Richmond Whig has
proposed Greeley ; the Norfolk Jewnyjl
nominates Andrew Johnson ; the Rich
mond Enquirer suggests Charles O’Co
nor. The suggestion of the Enquirer was
no doubt inspired by despair, and put forth
as an honest safety-valve for what is left of
Virginia’s good name. Indeed, the editor
remarks that his nominee would “ confer
■dignity on Virginia.” To this the Whig
replies:
“ Restoration and material aid from the
Federal Government are the objects of live
men. Give us those, and Dignity may lie
cast to the dogs. We beg our neighbor to
march to that music. Dignity , indeed!
We ask for bread, atid he gives us a stone.
“ Progress ! progress ! progress !”
The Whig goes upon the notion that the
world is governed by humbug. The world
is only governed by humbug when those
who ought to have dignity become the
pauderers of humbug. Elect Greeley and
Williams, for “restoration and material
aid ” —and then prepare for a surfeit of
humbug superior to yonr own. “ Progress,”
so-called, may come; but so will a dog
kennel for many a proud memory of Old
Virginia. Play out your wretched farce
and send Dr. Bayne and Lewis Lindsey
to the enamored bosoms of Henry Wilson
and Charles Sumner.
A Curious Incident. —Prof. Pumpelly
.relates that during his visit to the interior
of China, some natives of a village com
menced pelting liis party with stones.
Whereupon, Mr. Murray, of the English
legation, who spoke Chinese fluently, raised
liis hands and addressed the rabble sub
stantially thus:
“ Ye men of Kiang-Ke,is this the way ye
receive strangers within your gates?
What sayeth your great Confucius : that
‘ye shall render unto others such treat
ment as ye expect to receive from them.’ ”
The effect was electric. The storming
party became a triumphal procession be
cause a barbarian spoke good Chinese and
knew all about their divine philosopher.
Suppose two scholarly pig-tails, thus as
sailed, were to appeal iu pure English,
quoting from tlie Sermon on the Mount, to
San Francisco rowdies ? What would be
the result? Very different, we fear; for
there are no pagans so relentless as a Chris
tian mob.
Pro and Con. —At tlie recent Athens
Convention, Capt. Pope Barrow stated
with much emphasis that he had reasons
to suppose that the Blue Ridge Road would
be built within two years; that the Penn
sylvania Central Railway Company were
backing tlie contractors ; and that the men
who manipulate the Blue Ridge Road had
control of the negro Legislature of South
Carolina.
The Charleston Courier says this is news
to the President and Directors of tlie Blue
Ridge Road ; and the inference we draw
from the article of our Carolina cotem
porary is that Capt Barrow has been de
ceived, or that lie knows more about the
matter than the editor of the Courier. We
do not pretend to decide the difference.
Color and Religion. —The latest phase
of the proposed XVth Amendment shows
that, even if it be adopted, power will re
side with the States to disirancliise men on
account of religious belief. Here is where
the Chinese are trapped. It is true that
color is of more account than religion to
the mawkish Puritans; so, taking them at
their own amendment, Georgia may spme
day go to work and disfranchise every car
pet-bagger and scalawag because of au im
piety which would make a decent descend
ant of Confucius ashamed of mankind.
The Devil Sick, etc. —The late revolu
tion in Tennessee, which terminated in the
utter overthrow of Radicalism and the
virtual control of the State by the Demo
crats, was to some degree the work of Par
son Brownlow. We learn that his hours
are nearly numbered. It may be that, bed
ridden and reflective, his memory travels
back to better days, and so, he would token
to the world that his little scraps of con
science are not located, like Mrs. Stowe’s—
■in the pit of the stomach.
—
Johnson vs. Grant.— According to Mr.
Delano, the indebtedness of the Govern
ment has been reduced $1,100,000,000, since
the close of the war. Os this vast sum
Mr. Boutwell only claims for Grant
$50,000,000; so that Andrew Johnson
must be credited with $1,050,000,000.
LFro;n tlie Niw York World.
The President and the Gold Market.
The World yesterday took the occasion
of the charges hinted by two city journals
against the President to express its utter
disbelief of the complicity of that officer
in the attempt to “corner” gold. We
said this because it seemed to ns impossi
ble that any incnmlient of the Presidential
office could for an instant listen to a pro
position to furnish one of two rival cliques
of gamblers with any information which
might enable it to get au advantage over
the other.
We have now an authoritative state
meut, emanating from the President him
self, of his connection with Wall street.
He causes it to be published that he was
called upon, in this city, by Mr. James
Fisk, Jr., who asked him to give, for the
benefit of Mr. Fisk and Mr. Gould, a “ pri
vate intimation” of the financial measures
aie Government meant to take. The Pres
ident answered, not by pointing to the
door, but by attempting to convince his in
terlocutor, and by finally making him ad
mit, that such a procedure “ would not be
fair.”
To be sure, this relieves the President of
the infamous charge brought against him.
But in what a light does his own relation
of his own conduct put him before the pub
lic. What Mr. Fisk asked of him was that
he would enable Mr. Fisk to bet on a cer
tainty. What man would have dared to
approach any previous President with a
proposition like that? It simply tran
scends the human imagination to imagine
a speculator of 1790 making such an over
ture to President Washington, or even a
speculator of 1857 making such an over
ture to President Buchanan. No man
would have had the hardihood, we may
safely say, to ask such a favor of either of
Grant’s predecessors. And if any man had
presumed to make such a proposal to any
of them, we know how it would have been
received. That President Grant conde
scended, as he admits he did, to entertain
Mr. Fisk’s question, showed that the latter
knew his man, and that the people who
chose hirn for President did not. Here is
Caesar’s wife so far from being above sus-
picion that she treats an indecent propo
sition as a matter quite of course, and, : so
far as appears, only bolds back lor a bid.
We do not blame Mr. Fisk for his con
duct in the matter. He did what any oth
er man in a Wall street “ring” would
doubtless have done if he had had the
chance. The person whose conduct is as
tonishing is that of the President, who did
not resent the insult olfered him—which
turns out, indeed, not to have been an in
sult at all when offered to him. And his
conduct is ouly astonishing because he is
President, and not at all because lie is Mr.
Grant. It is of a piece with his whole ad
ministration of his office. A President
who accepts any present which any inter
ested tradesman, publican or politician
may choose to offer him, who is not known
to have refused anything for any reason,
and whose most pi-omiiient trait in office
has been his acquisitiveness, feels no need
to resent an invitation to reciprocate the
favors which he had no right to accept
with favors which he has no right to ex
tend. In fact, liis benefactors have some
reason to complain that the sense of de
cency which slumbered while he was their
beneficiary awakens into partial vitality
when he has a chance to become their ben
efactor. It is not more unbecoming in him
to be grateful than it is to be greedy, when
his gratitude will uot cost him any more,
iu self respect, than did his greed.
But what can console the nation, whose
official head he is, for the sorry spectacle,
the disgrace of which they share?
Father Hyacinthes Protest.
HIS LETTER IN PULL.
The following is the text of the letter
which, as we were advised by cable, Father
Hyacinthe has addressed to the general of
his order in Rome. It will be seen that tlie
attack of the distinguished preacher is di
rected exclusively against what he con
siders evils of the administration, and not,
as has been stated, against any of the doc
trines of the church :
My Very Reverend Father: During
the five years of my ministry at Notre
Dame de Paris, despite the open attacks
aud secret accusations of which I have
beeu the object, your esteem and confidence
have never failed me for a moment. I pre
serve numerous testimonies of them, writ
ten by your own hand, and which were ad
dressed as much to my preaching as to my
self. Whatever may happen, I shall hold
them in grateful remembrance. To-day,
however, by a sudden change, the cause of
which I do not seek in your heart, but in
the intrigues of a party all powerful at
Rome, you arraign what you encourage,
you censure what you approved, and you
require that I should speak a language or
preserve a silence which would no longer
be the entire and loyal expression of my
conscience. I do not hesitate an instant.
With language perverted by a command,
or mutilated by reticence, I shall not as
cend the pulpit of Notre Dame. I express
my regret for tins to the intelligent and
courageous Archbishop who lias given his
pulpit to me, and sustained me there against
the bad will of men or women of whom 1
shall speak at the proper time. I express
my regrets to the imposing auditory who
surrounded me there with its attention, its
sympathies, I was nearly going to say, its
friendship. I would not be worthy of the
auditory of the Archbishop, of my con
science, nor of God, if I would consent to
act before them a role! I separate
myself at the same time from the convent
in which I have resided, aud which under
the new circumstances that have happened
to me renders it for me a prison of the soul.
In acting-thus I am not unfaithful to my
vows. I have promised monastic obedience,
but limited by the honesty of conscience,
the dignity of my person and my ministry,
I have promised under the benefit of that
superior law of justice and of royal liberty,
which is, according to the Apostle St.
James, the proper law of the Christian.
It is for the more perfect practice of this
holy liberty that I came to ask at the
cloister, now more than ten years ago, in
the elan of an enthusiasm free of all human
calculation, I shall not venture to add free
of all the illusion of youth, if, in exchange
for my sacrifices, lain to-day offered chains,
I have uot only the right, but the duty, to
reject them ? The present hour is solemn.
The church passes through one of the most
violent, dark and decisive crises of its ex
istence here below. For the first time in
three hundred years an (Ecumenical Coun
cil is not only convoked but declared neces
sary ; such is the expression of the Holy
Father. It is not in such a moment that
a preacher of the Gospel, were lie the last
of all, can consent to remain as the mute
dogs of Israel, unfaithful guardians, whom
the prophet reproaches as unable to bark.'
Chines muti, non valentes latrare. The saints
were never silent. lam not one of them,
but, nevertheless, I belong to their race,
JUii sanctorum sumus, and I have always
been ambitious to place my steps, my tears,
and, if necessary, my blood, in the tracks
which they have left. I raise, therefore,
before the Holy Father and the Council,
my protestetion as Christian and preacher
against these doctrines aud practices, call
ing themselves Roman, but which are not
Christian, aud which, in their encroach
ments, always most audacious and most
baneful, tend to change the Constitution
of the Church, the basis as well as the form
of her teaching, aud even the spirit of her
piety. I protest against the divorce as im
pious as it is insane, which it is sought to
accomplish between the Church, who is
our mother according to eternity and the
society of the nineteenth century, of whom
we are the sons according to the times, and
toward whom we have also some duties
and attachments. I protest against this
more radical and dreadful opposition to
human nature, which is attacked and made
to revolt by these false doctrines in its
most IndestructiDie and holiest aspirations.
I protest, above all, against the sae
relegious perversion of the Word of
the Sou ol God Himself, the spirit
and the letter of which are equally trodden
under foot by the Pharisaism of the new
law. It is my most profound conviction
that if France in particular, and the Latin
races in general, are delivered over to social,
moral and religious anarchy, tlie principal
cause is without doubt not in Catholicism
itself, but in the manner which Catholicism
has during a long time been understood
and practiced. I appeal to the council
about to meet, to seek for remedies far the
excess of our evils, and to apply them with
as much force as gentleness. But if fears
In which 1 do not wish to. share, come to
be realized, if the august assembly has not
more liberty in its deliberations than it has
already in its preparation, if, iu a word, it
is deprived of the essential characters of
an (Ecumenical Council, I will cry to God
and men to call another truly united in tlie
Holy spirit, not in the spiritof party, and
representing really the Universal Church,
not the silence of some men, the oppression
of otlfers. “ For the heart of tlie daughter
of my people am I hurt! I black;
astonishment hath taken had n»e. Is
there no balm in GileaifW l 8 tittle no
physician there? Why, Mien, te not the
health of the daughtoi*''W t Wbpl e
recovered?”—Jeremiah, viii. Li fine, I
appeal to your tribunal, O Lard Jesus!
Ad tuum Domine Jem tribunal apjdlo. It is
in your presence that I write these lines; it
is at your feet, after having prayed much,
reflected, suffered, and waited much, that I
sign them. I have confidence that if men
condemn them on earth yon approve them
in heaven. That is sufficient for pie living
and dying. Fr. HywsSthe.
Superior of the Barefooted Carmelites of
Paris, second preacher of the orq)r in the
province of Avignon.
Paris-Passy, September 20,18t|.
State Items.
The “ devil” of the Ilawkinsvilli Dispatch
killed a rattlesnake, on Sunday, which
measured five feet in length and ax inches
in circumference, and had eight raitles and
a button. A “devil” of a goo<\joH for the
imps.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch reports a
valuable well dug by the Pulaski Manufac
turing Company, twelve feet sftfcre and
thirty fret deep, affording abuoitmce of
water for manufacturing purposes, iod that
Gen. Horne, the President of
expects to make the well a sourefe of re
venue to the company, by supplyinf*the M.
&B. R. R. Company ill that tlijy may'
want, for a tank at the depot.
The Atlanta Colored Univcgsith says
the Constitution , opens on Wednesday next,
13th inst. The trustees purchasejl sixty
acres of land in the western part? of the
city. The University is a four-stow brick
building, 85 by 40 feet. We lielierc it is
designed for the use of ihe-colored Popula
tion, and will doubtless be filled t# over
flowing with pupils.
ThV Atlanta Constitution reports tlat the
Northern Methodist Church have i camp
meeting at Rateree’s Grove, five miles from
that city, on Wednesday next, 13th iistaut.
The meeting will be held in a g ove of
twenty-five acres. One hundred ten .swill
be put up. Bishop Simpson isexpeifodto
preside. Arrangements are being made to
accommodate 100 preachers and 10,001) peo
ple. Sixteen acres of good pasturage have
been secured for the use of stock. The
different railroads will carry parties for
half fare to East Point.
Tlie Covington Examiner reports a re
vival in progress for tlie past week at the
Methodist Church in Oxford. Twenty or
twenty-five conversions.
T he Covington Examiner notes the death
of Mrs. Margaret Robinson, wife of Mr. C.
C. Robinson, of Newtou county.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
Company expect to run the
through on that road to Dalton Injfl
Bloody Doings in Jackson
Florida.— On last Tuesday, the 2ptf3m>,
near the Natural Bridge, in .Jacksonminty,
Florida, there was a negro pic-nic—lone
jiresent but negroes. A negro constable,
Calvin Rogers, an overbearing person, was
present, and claimed to have been shot at.
He then called for Wyatt Scurlock, one of
his friends, who, on his approach to Rogers,
caught up a child, and he and the child
were killed by one shot from some un
known person. Rogers, with the party,
returned to Marianna, and, with a party of
whites and blacks, went in search of the
murderer. They could find no clue to the
perpetrator of the deed. A jury of inquest,
composed of whites and blacks, frqjnd that
Scurlock died from a gun shot in the hands
of an unknown person. The jury met on
Wednesday, the 29tli, and made up their
verdict on last Friday.
On Wednesday night, the 29th ult., a
white man named Columbus Sullivan, in
going from liis residence to his gin
was shot iu the eye and shoulder by some
unknown person, and a negro boy wsh
him wounded slightly.
On Friday night, October Ist. Colonel
McClellan, a prominent lawyer of Marianna,
wa» Daftly wounded and Ills ftatlgncer
killed. Calvin Rogers and other negroes
circumstances point out as the perpetra
tors. Oscar Cranberry, one of the negrqes
suspected, w r as killed on last Saturday
morning.— Macon Telegraph. ,
The Longshoremf,n—They Interfere
with Laborers—Some of them Strike
Again.— Yesterday morning a number of
the •'longshoremen went to Union wharf,
where several men were at work loading
tlie brig Adelaide. They asked tfcese la
borers, who are not members of the associ
ation, at what rates they were working,
and when told one dollar and-a-lialf per
day, ordered them to desist, making threats
of ill using them if they did not, and but
for the presence of a few white men wlio
came up, would doubtless have put their
threats into execution.
Late in the afternoon some of the long
shoremen employed by the Charleston and
New York Steamship Company struck, re
fusing to receive pay for the two hoursand
a-half they had worked at tlie rate of two
dollars and-a-lialf for nine and-a-lialf hour's
work. They demanded payment VS
rate of forty cents per hour, assert!(Nj
they recoguized no time except a ha#
whole day’s work, and that all
riods of work must be paid for at
of forty cents an hour. The whoreHpig
sustained this movement, and the company
immediately discharged them.
We understand that the company will
hereafter refuse to employ any man w!*> is a
member of the Longshoremen’s Protective
Union Association.— Charleston News, Bth.
The Tax on Farmers as “ Produce
Brokers.” —Deputy Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, J. 11. Douglass, on Satur
day addressed a letter to Assessor Wood
all, at Wilmington, Del., “ relative tcuiabil
ity to special tax of farmers who qell the
products of their farm from the steainboat
wharf, or along the market wherevey they
can find a place to unload the sai#e, but
having no particular stand.” The Acting
Commissioner says: “ That farmers! whose
occupation it is to sell the products of their
farms away from the place of production,
aud at a store or stand, are liablelo spe
cial tax as produce brokers. Persons sell
ing in Hie way described come in com peti
tion with dealers and brokers who pay the
special tax, and to exempt the fan cr from
the tax, when doing the same 1 isiuess,
would be manifestly unjust. Thr farmer
who actually makes it a business t so sell
should be held as a produce broket: Occa
sional acts, however, do not create i liability
;o the special tax, aud as it is bi ieved to
le the policy of the law to place i few re
strictions as is consistent upon i [ricultu
ral producers, the statute shoufilbe con
strued liberally."
State Lunatic Asylum.—We aie pleased
to learn that an uufailug and Ibundant
supply of excclleut water is s«m to be
furnished to this institution by conveyance
through pipes from the neighbtrhood of
Scottsboro’.
We are also informed that tl» present
very efficient treasurer and stewird Cap
tain M. R. Bell, is giving entire satisfac
tion by the manner of the dlsclnfge of his
duties. Ail arrearages of indebtedness
which had accumulated during fI )C former
quarters were promptly paid at the
beginning of the present quart*- (Ist in
stant), as also were all wages of employees
and all accounts for purchase# made by
him, which fell due on that dayU a DUnc
tuality certainly deserving tfe highest
credit. —Federal Union. ®
A Handsome Bequest for 4 k South,
—The following is the codicil ofithe will of
the late Caleb Dorsey, Esq., < Howard
county, Md., making a charitat e beauest
for the benefit of the Southern n ople The
codicil bears date August 19,18 ) • ’ 1 C
“ I give and bequeath $30,0 0 to mv
T O W T r^? >ien M D ? rsey and Governor
T. W. Ligon, in special trust, td apply the
? c s , uch toons'Of the
people of the late slavelioldin/»s| a i £fS of the
Union as the said trustees may’s hrfik most
require assistance on account S' their suf
sering and want, and the said sX of money
shall be applied in such mailer as thev
may deem best to accomplish purpose.”
Daisies.
The v.oild is a se.i of snow-white daisies.
I walk knee-deep in the level tide;
Slowly I wade,'aud the fragrant billows
Part at my coming ou either side ;
Make me a path through their lovely sweetness.
See, iu my wake, like a truck ot loam,
Pallid they lie with their lair heads drooping,
Sadly marking my pathway home.
Oh, trodden down daisies, for.such brief pleas
ure,
To feel your softness under my feel.
Have 1 made waste of the tender beauty
That bees aud butterflies find so sweet.
How to Make Money.
BY FITZ GKISENE HALLECK.
I’ll tell you a piau for gaining wealth.
Better than banking, trading or leases ;
Take a bauk note and fold it up,
Aud then you will fiud your wealth increases.
This wonderful plan, without danger or loss,
Keeps your cash iu your hands and with no
thing to trouble it,
And every time that you fold it across,
’Tis plain as the light of the day that you
double it.
A Texas Tragedy.
AN INSANE MAN MUKDERS IIIS FATnEII, HIS
CHILD, AND A CLERGYMAN.
The Waco (Texas) Register relates the
following sad tragedy:
“On last Tuesday night a week Janies
McCarty, Jr., in a fit of insanity, murdered
his own father, his own little son (six or
seven years of age), and a neighbor, the
Rev. Henry Hurley. AH the parties arc
residents of Erath county.
“ The circumstances, as we gather the
horrid details, were these : For some
mouths, at different times, James McCarty
had shown signs of mental aberratiou. On
the day previous to the dreadful occurrence
McCarty expressed the wish to his wife to
be baptized right away by the Rev. Mr.
Hurley. He soon left his home, ou Datfau
creek, and proceeded up the creek several
miles, to where his father, James McCarty,
Sr., lived. He told his father his intentions
of being baptized by Mr. Hurley, but his
father persuaded him to remain where he
was, and he would go after Mr. Hurley,
who lived several miles off. Thcsou agreed
to this, but when, in the evening, the fat her
returned with Mr. Hurley, it was found
that the sou had gone back home.
“ The father aud Mr. Hurley followed to
the residence of the insane man. Bedtime
came, and all retired for the night, Mr. Mc-
Carty, Sr., and Mr. Hurley occupying the
same bed in a separate room. Iu the night
the wife of McCarty, Sr., was aroused by
her husband, who demanded a light, and
was looking for his six-shooter. Mrs. Mc-
Carty was alarmed, escaped the house, aud
screamed, but too late. The insane man
had made ready his pistol, entered the room
where his father and Mr. Hurley were sleep
ing, and shot both in the head, as is sup
posed. before they awoke. He then called
his little sou and bade him sit down on the
doorstep, and remain quiet until he re
turned. The father then went to the creek,
a little distance off, and got a rock. Re
turning with this he ordered the child to
lean over and lay his head upon a b'oek
near which the child was sitting. The in
nocent child obeyed, when the father, with
one blow from the rock, mashed out his
brains.
“James McCarty, Jr., is not far from
thirty-five years of age, has always borne
an irreproachable character for industry,
sobriety, and integrity, and was universally
esteemed as a good citizen. The Rev.
Henry Harley and James McCarty, Sr.,
wei’e both old and prominent citizens of
Erath, aged and gray-haired men. They
were both universally esteemed and respect
ed. Erath had no better citizens than
they.”
Outrage upon an Elderly Lady in
Harford County by a Negro—Lynch
Law. —Last week Harford county, Mary
land, was the scene of another tragedy, the
lynching »fa young colored man, eighteen
years of age, giving his name as Jim Quinn,
for an outrage upon the person of an
elderly lady of Baltimore city. The out
rage took place near the line of Baltimore
county, in Harford, five or six miles from
White Hall. The victim was a venerable
lady from this city, sixty years old, who
had been visiting at the house of Mr. Wm.
Robinson, iu Harford, and at the time of
the brutal assault (last Tuesday at noon
day) was on her way to visit a neighbor.
She was accosted by the negro, Quinn, and
dragged by him into the woods, almost in
sight of her friend’s house. In her strug
gles neatly all her clothing was torn off,
and afterwards she was left supine, covered
with blood, tied by the arms to the bushes,
from which she was hardly able to release
herself an hoar afterwards.
She finally succeeded in making her way
to the house, and gave the alarm. Quinn,
who, it is alleged, was raised by Mr. Robin
son, was a stout and powerful young fel
low, perfectly black. He made good his
escape, notwithstanding pursuit was in
stantaneous, ami succeeded in getting into
Pennsylvania, where he obtained employ
ment. On Saturday morning last he was
found and arrested by officer Rozier, near
the State line, on the Maryland side, and
was taken before Justice Rutledge, in Bal
timore county, >vho committed him to
Towsontown jail. The prisoner confessed
that he had been guilty of the outrage, and
made a statement of the shocking details
in accordance with the narration above.
His underclothing was stained with blood,
and bore traces of attempts made to wash
it away.
The prisoner was handcuffed ancl put on
the cars to be taken to jail, but when at
White Hall the train stopped, and a party
of about thirty citizens came on board and
took the accused in charge. A rope was
put about his neck, and he was taken to
the Harford and Baltimore, county line,
where the lynchers hanged him to the first
convenient tree without even the vaguest
form of a trial. —Baltimore Sun, sth.
The New .Tewisti Temple in New York.
—The New York Herald of Saturday con
tains a very full description of the • new
Jewish house of worship, built corner Fifth
avenue and Forty-third street, New York,
known as “ Temple Emanuel.” It blends
in unconscious harmony six different orders
of architecture—Saracenic, Byzantine,
Moresque, Arabesque, Gothic and Norman.
The interior decorations arc finer and more
costly than of any Christian Church in the
land. The Herald closes it article with the
following:
In ten pews from the pulpit sit every
Sabbath ten millionaries, and from that
point back an aggregate of millious more is
represented. Did there ever sit together
since the days that the fair and regal ruler
of Sheba was escorted by the gorgeous
retinue of the court of Solomon to the tem
ple of that monarch’s ambition such a
galaxy of worldly wealth, and it might be
ventured, such a galaxy of beauty and re
finement! 1 The roof of the temple is flat
and cut into squares by the transverse
arches. A good deal of elaborate poly
chrome painting fills in the spaces. The
best time to observe the many beauties in
this field of decoration is at night, with the
aid furnished from the full radiance of the
many blazing candelebra. The figures are
brought out in happier relief and show with
a lustre denied them by daylight.
Altogether, thu temple of Emanu El is a
feature in itself and has no parallel. Its
exterior is an experiment in architecture,
oftentimes before attempted, but only in
this instance realized as a success. Its in
terior decoration, without being quite so
great a novelty, has so many points of
originality that it fairly divides the palm of
interest with the architectural design. It
may be added in conclusion, that the flrsi
pew sold realized the enormous sum of
$9,500.
Koopmanschap’s Pig Tails —This individ
ual proposes to furnish the West with swarms
of pig tails ou the following scale:
“The total cost of importation of Chinese to
New Orleans from China is $l3O gold. Con
tracts to be made for five years. Wages, eight
dollars in gold or ten In currency, for good
field bauds ; fifteen dollars in gold for railroad
hands; advances made to them in China, to be
deducted in monthly installments, two suits
of clothing per year. Each laborer’s contracts
are to be made lor not less than five years.
Laborers to work twenty-six days per month ;
also to have one or two holidays during the
cemmencement of their now year in March.
BY TELEGRAPH.
New York Stock (Jlosiug Quotations.
REPORTED BY IIOYT & GARDNER.
New York, October B—P. M.
The following are the closing quotations
this day:
American Gold 130)^
Adams Express 54
New York Central 186
Erie 32%
Hudson River 158
Reading 95%
Michigan Central 120
Cleveland and Pittsburg 99
Chicago and North Western 72%
Chicago and North Western, pref 84%
Milwaukee aud St. Paul 69
Milwaukee aud St. Paul, pref 82
Lake Shore 85
Chicago & Rock Island 108%
Toledo, Wabash & Western 59%
New Jersey Central 101
Pittsburg & Fort Wayne 85%
Ohio and Mississippi 28%
Hanibal and St. Joseph 106%
Hanibal & St. Joseph, pref 196%
Tennessee, old 62
Tennessee, new 54
Georgia Seveus 90
North Carolina, old 47%
North Carolina, new 42
Alabama Eights 90
Virginia Sixes 51
Missouri Sixes 86%
Pacific Mail 78%
Western Union Telegraph 3(5%
Stock market closes firm.
[Associated Press Dispatches
WASHINGTON.
Washington, October B—Noon.—A clis
tiognisbed Tennessee lady lia6 arrived direct
from Tennessee, to whom Mr. Johnson ex
pressed a certainty of bis electiou. The Gov
ernor’s message will be withheld till Monday.
A special to the New York Times says the
action of the Legislature 6hows hasty action
npon sweeping bills to repeal all legislation
since the war. One bill was presented to repeal
all laws passed in the years 18(55-6-7-8. Also,
a bill to provide tor a constitutional conven
tion of ninety-nine mem tiers passed. Kills re
pealing the local jury and newspaper laws, aud
all test oaths, were passed.
Andrew Johnson occupies the tiuest. suit of
rooms in Ihe oily, and electioneers with great
earnestness. His friends are here in great force,
and are confident of Hie defeat of the fifteenth
amendment.
In the Supreme Court tbe Yergt-r case was
up. Yerger’s counsel asked that the case be
heard next Friday. Iloar asked for a more
remote day. The contt ordered that the peti
tion be filed, and stated that the day for argn
incnt would be named Monday.
Franklin Fierce died at Concord this morn
ing, leaving no ex-President directly elected
by the people Olive.
The President proclaims the 13th of Novem
ber a thanksgiving day.
Up to 12 o’clock to-day, neither Grant nor
Sherman received the dispatch mentioned in
last night’s Vicksburg dispatch.
Washington, October B—P. M.—ln the Su
preme Court the Texas habeas carpus was placed
on a footing with the Yerger case. The cotton
case of McKee vs. the United States was ar
gued. Tins case involves the validity ol certain
Treasury regulations. Lochrane, of Georgia,
and Barziza, of Texas, were admitted to prac
tice.
Revenue to-day, $485,000.
Full Cabinet, except Robeson. The Cabinet
ordered the usual programme In honor of Mr.
Pierce.
The point to be argued on Monday in the
Mississippi aud Texas habeas corpus cases is
whether the question of jurisdiction shall
be heard first, as preliminary to entertaining
the petition. Hoar desires this conrse. The
petitioners desire to discuss it in connection
with the merits of the petition*.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Octobers—Noon.—Both Houses
of the Legislature to-dav ratified the 14ili and
15th amendments. In <lie House, there were
only six votes against them, and in the Senate
ouly four against the fourteenth and two against
the fifteenth, one of the latter being a colored
Republican Senator, who declined voting be
cause the Legislature is illegal. The Legisla
ture, by ioiut resolution, then adjourned till
October 18th.
Iu the House, an amendment, to the hill pass
ing flic fifteenth amendment, making it. to take
effect on ami after the admission of the State to
the Union, only received five votes. lit the
same body a resolution was ottered that in
view of doubts expressed about legality of the
Legislature, it will, after admission to the
Union, re-enact the fourteenth and fifieeutb
amendments. Resolution referred.
RICHMOND, Oul»h«r H I’. Xl. In tho Sou-ito
to day, belorc adjournment, a rcsolntion was
offered pledging ibe re enactment of the two
amendments after the admission of the State,
aud was pending when the Senate adjourned.
It was opposed by a Conservative Senator as
casting a doubt on the already pledged faith of
Virginia.
General Cenhy lias issued an order appro
priating $15,000 to pay the expenses of the
present session of the Legislature.
George Morrison, ot Cincinnati, ticket agent
of Robinson’s Circus, was fatally stubbed to
day by Charles Spain, who, it is alleged, mis
took him for another man.
GEORGIA.
Macon, October B.—The Executive Com
mittee oi the Georgia Agricultural Societv. after
a laborious session just closed, have largely
added to the premium list, and have passed a
resolution warmly welcoming all invited guests
and oihers from all parts of the country who
sympathise in the objects ol the exhibition and
desire to acquaint themselves with the resources
of the St ile and proposing to use all efforts
to secure tree return tickets to such visitors.—
They also accepted the proposition of the Gov
ernor lor an extra train for invited guests to
Lynchburg, and appointed a committee to re
ceive the guests by the train. The Secretary
was also instructed to accept all similar tenders
which may be made.
MISSISSIPPI.
Jackson, October B.—'The following dispatch
was telegraphed by Gen. Ames, this evening, in
regard to the dispatch sent to Grant, last night,
by A. C. Fisk, Chairman of the National Union
Republican State Executive Committee :
To His Excellency U. S. Grant, President of the
United States, Washington , D. C.:
By the pipers, I see a telegram has been sent
yon wherein I am quoted to the effect that I
will not give a fair election. The statement is
without truth.
[SignedJ Adelbert Ames,
Brevet Major Geueral.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, October B.—The Times' Jef
ferson (Texas) special says all the prisoners re
cently on trial lor the murder of Smith and two
negroesTn October last, except five, were re
leased from the stockade to-day. Those re
tained are Col. L. P. Alford, Oscar Gray, Matt
Taylor, C. S. Pitcher, and Dr. J. G. Richard
son. The findings of the military commission
in regard to them have not transpired.
FOREIGN.
Madrid, October 8.- The Republicans have
withdrawn from the Cortes.
The insurgents who withdrew from Rons
were attacked, losing 80 killed and 600 wound
ed. Combats in various places are reported,
wherein the troops were generally vietoiious.
Preparations for the departure of Cuban re
inforcements have been suspended. Several
volunteer batallions left Madrid tor service
against the insurgents. Insurgents’ headquar
ters are at Maresa, 80 miles North of Barcelona.
The insurgents captured Oriuse.
London, October B.—Livingstone was seeu
fourteen months ago at Lake Tangan'ysika,
going West. There were no longer any doubts
of his safety at Ganssibar,
Rev. Frederick Temple has been appointed
Bishop of Exeter.
MARINE NEWS.
New York, October B—Arrived : Bell Moore.
fr»m flatteras, and Zodiac, from Key West.
Savannah, October B.—Arrived : Steamship
Leo, lrom New York ; ship Mont Blanc, from
Boston ; bark Atlanta, from New York.
Cleared : Bark Keutville, for Liverpool.
Sailed : Steamship North Point.
Charleston, October B.—Arrived : Steamer
Jas Adger, from New York ; schr. B. N. Haw
kins, from New York ; schr. Carrie Hyer, from
Baltimore. , , „ v .
Sailed : Steamer Minnetonka, for New York.
MARKETS.
London, October B—Noou.—Consols, 93%.
Bonds. 84V. Sugar dull, both spot and afloat.
Liverpool, October B—Noon.—Cotton flat;
tinlands, 12% ; Orleans, 12% ; sales, 7,000 bales;
for the week! 65,000; exports, 10,000 ; specula
tion 10,000 ; receipts, 70,000 ; American, 3,000 ;
stock, 450,000; American, 46,000.
New York, October B—Noon.—Stocks stea
dy Money easy at 6@7. Sterling—long, 9 ;
short, 9%. Gold, 131%. ’62’5,20; Tennessees,
ex coupon, 62; new, 54; Virginias, ex coupon,
51; new, <>2 ; Louisiana*, 70 ; new, Os ; Louisi
ana sevens, 64; eights, 83 ; Alabama tights, 90;
G , C ,°?A elXeS ’ 83 ! ■«**«, 90 5 North Caroliuas
old, 47%; new, 42 ; South Carolina, new. 65
,JrJ>? HK o£ tob Z r H ~ P - M—Governments
dull, tLs, ; Southerns firmer. Money
easy at 6@7. Sterling dull at 9. Gelid, 130%.
Stocks closed dull hut strong.
New York, October N Noon - Flour un
changed. Wheat dull. Com dull. Pork dull;
onottkimi 3?,' kard quiet. Cotton heavy at
lurpeutiuc llrtu at 48. Rosin quiet.
Freights dull. *
New York, October 8-P. M.—Colton heavy
and lower ; sales, 3,1 W) bales at 27%. Flour
steady for low grades ; others dull and declining;
supc'rfine Stale, $5 65@5 75; common to fair
extra Southern, $6 25@6 70. Wheat 10. lower;
winter red Western. $1 43@1 45. Corn heavy;
mixed Western, «B@sl 05 Pork. $30@30 75.
Whisky firmer at $1 20@1 22 Sugar moder
ately active. Molasses active. Turpentine, 48
.§49. Rosin, $2 25@8. Freights dull.
Baltimore, October B.—Cotton dull at 27.
.Floor quiet and steady. Wheat firm at $1 45@
X 59. Oats dull aL 55@CO. Provisions un
changed. Whisky steady.
Louisville, October B.—Pork, #3B. Bacon
—shoulders, 17; clear rib sides, 20% ; clear
aides, 20%. Lard, 19.
8-r. Louis, October B.—Whisky, $1 11®
1 15. Provisions dull Pork, $32. Bacon
firm; shoulders, 16%@17; clear sides, 20%.
Cincinnati, October B.—Whisky firm at
•$1 15. Pork dull at s3l. Lard, 17%. Bacon
firm with improved demand ; shoulders, 16% ;
clear sides, 20.
Wilmington, October B.—Spirits Turpentine
advanced 1%—43%. Rosin steady at $1 60.
Strained Tar unchanged. Colton quiet at 25
for low middhtig.
Mobile, Getober B. —Cotton—receipts ol the
week, 7,047 bales; exports—lo Great Britain,
3,030 ; coastwise,3,o4B ; stock, 13,239; sales of
che week, 5,900; sales to-day, 1,100 biles; fair
demand ; closed firm; middling, 24%@24%;
receipts 1,887; exports, 2,769 bales.
Orleans, October B.—Cotton firmer at
25%@25% ; sales to-day, 3,055 bales ; sales toi
che vveek, 25,700; receipts to-day, 420; receipts
for the week, 11,004; gross, 24,545 ; net,22,298;
exports—to Liverpool, 3,280 ; Continent, 7,335 ;
coastwise, 3.596; slock, 48,139. Flour, $5 75,
$5 90 aud #6 25. Corn scarce at $1 20. Oats,
83@64. Hoy—market bare. Sterling, 40%.
New York Sight, % discount.
Charleston, October B.— Colton in fair de
mand and prices steady ; sales, 500 bales ; mid
dling, 25% ; receipts, 1,173 bales ; exports
coastwise, 919.
Savannah, October B—Cotton—receipts,
1,925 bales; exports coastwise, 47L bales; Liver
pool, 2,300 bales ; sales, 400 bales; middling,
25@25% ; market closed quiet.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Friday, October B—P. M. 5
FINANCIAL
GOLD—DuII. Buying at 130 and selling
lib 103.
SlLVEß—Nominal. Buying at 125 and sell
ing at 130.
STOCKS—Geoi gia Railroad Stock, 105. Au
gusta Factory Stock, 157%.
COTTON.—The market opened this uiorn
iug with a fair demand at 24%c. for New York
middling. Owing to unfavorable noon dis
patches from New York, our market dosed
weak at 24%@24%e. for New York middling.
Sales, 692 bales. Receipts, 581 b iles.
BACON—Firm with an advancing tendency.
We quote C. Sides, 22%@23 ; C. R. Sides, 22@
22%; B. B. Sides, 21% ; Shoulders, 19 ; Hams,
21%@26%; Dry Salt Shoulders, 18 ; Dry Salt
C. R. Sides, 21%.
CORN—Small supply. We quote choiec
white, $1 60@1 65 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 70@
1 80; amber, $1 60@l 70 ; red, $1 50.
FLOUR-City Mills, old, s6@9 ; new, $7 50@
@10; at retail, $1 fl barrel higher. Coun
try, s6@9, according to quality.
CORN MEAL—SI 45@l 55 at retail.
OATS—B5@$l.
PEAS—No supply. Selling at 50 for
seed.
CITY ITEMS.
A Man Predicts His Own Death- -But
Couldn’t Shake Off toe “ Mortal
Coil.” —A singular hallucination has for
some time past possessed the mind of a
gentleman connected with the Georgia
Railroad simps in this city. As we under
stand it, lie persistently professed to have
had a revelation that he would he called
upon Thursday last, 7th instant, to close
up his earthly accounts, and be committed
to his mother dust. So impressed was he
with the certainty of the change to take
place, that he freely predicted it among his
fellow-workmen, with one of whom lie ar
ranged to have the bell of the shops tolled
at a specified hour on the appointed day.
On Wednesday he discharged the duties of
his position with usual and uninterrupted
fidelity, yet still earnest in the prediction
of his death on the morrow. Thursday
morning he arose in usual self-possession,
and, calm as if projecting a day’s festivity,
proceeded to array himself in his Suuday
best paraphernalia, to meet the summons
of the dread monster of whom preachers
warn and sinners tremble. His (as he sup
posed) last toilet completed, he calmly laid
himself down on his bed, folded his arms,
closed his eyes and lips, straitened out
full length—determined to die in “ ship
shape ” —and quietly awaited the hour of
ills anticipated departure. The time ar
rived—the shop bell tolled—and yet our
hero breathed. But lie was patient,
and, confident that there could be pos
sibly but a few minutes’ difference in
his predicted and the true chronology
of the important event which he had
taken so much trouble to prepare for,
he maintained his dying position, awaiting
with martyr faith the “ shuffling of the
mortal coil.” With all his might and main
he essayed to die dead, but the thing
wouldn’t “ shuffle.” Just as his patience
at the delay had worn threadbare, his son,
a youth of sufficient summers to appreciate
the diversion of a clay’s sport with a fowl
ing piece, stepped into another apartment
of the house, and called out, in a somewhat
brusque manner, “ Mother, I want father’s
big gun, to go”— The remainder of the
sentence was lost in the stentorian tones
which reverberated from the would-be
dying man’s chamber, pronouncing, “ No,
I’ll be if you shall have that gun ; I’m
,not dead yetand, a moment later, the
astounded youth found it healthy to vacate
the premises, to save himself from the in
dignation of his recuperated father. That
is the only instance wc know of where a
gun has been the indirect means of saving
a dying man.
The Attraction. —Mr. James Heney,
boot ancl shoe dealer, at No. 936 Broad
street, displays an advertisement this morn
ing, which we commend to the attentive
perusal of our readers, city and country.
He lays down therein a platform of princi
ple in the conduct of liis business, which
cannot fail to attract purchasers, when it
is remembered that ills stock is kept np to
the highest standard of completeness, alike
in style, material and durability. To get
along comfortably in the rough paths of
life, it is essential that the understanding
should be preserved, and Heney has just
the material to protect your pedals.
Death of kx-Prksident Pierce. —The
telegraph conveys, this morning, the sad
intelligence of the death, at Concord, N. H.,
of ex-President Pierce, the last remaining
ex-President of the United States chosen
directly by the voice of the people.—
Although not unexpected, the event will
appeal none the less strongly to the sym
pathies of the many warm frieuds and ad
mirers of the genius and patriotism of
the distinguished ex-President, to whose
memory North, South, East ancl West will
attest the sincere tribute of his country’s
admiration.
Tennessee Press Association.—As we
learn from the Banner , twenty-one repre
sentatives of the State Press of Tennessee
assembled iu Nashville on Wednesday, to
organize a, State Press Association.
Pol. T. Boyers was elected chairman,
and W. J. Ramagc appointed Secretary.
A constitution and by-laws were adopt
ed, providing, among oilier details as to
officers, etc., that the association meet an
nually, on the first Wednesday of October,
at Nashville.
TANARUS,.« t,le adoption of the constitution,
nu ll .Li J ° ,,e8 ’ C l hainnanof the Committee
H a rc l >ort - He said that
lL Wa V he .b Unanimous sentiment of the
le » a J !U,v ertiscmeuts should
ntlilld,f a nd, re « Hlar rates, and that pay
ment should be required promptly as for
other advertisements. The committee re
commended the immediate repeal of the
legal advertising law, and proposed the
drafting 0 f a memorial looking to this end,
to lie presented to the Legislature. In re
gard to other advertising, the committee
recommended that all personal advertising
be charged (he regular established rates.
“ On the subject of advertising agents, it
was suggested that the Executive Commit
tee furnish a list of such as were known to
lie responsible, and of those who were not
considered reliable, for the use of members
of the association.
i he report also recommended that wan
deiing mountebanks and shows lie required
to pay for advertising in advauce.
“ The report of the committee was adopt
ed.”
Not So.—The North Georgia (Dalton)
Times, in its issue of the 7th, under the
caption of “ Caught, ’ says:
“ A firm in Augusta, Ga., have been de
tected in an attempt to swindle the Georgia
Railroad. M. Rich & Cos. reported the
loss of two boxes of goods from Ne,w York,
and threatened to bring suit for their value.
The agent of the road, being satisfied the
goods had been received, put a policeman
on file scent, who traced the missing boxes
to the cellar of Messrs. Rich & Cos. It
seems that the boxes were taken from the
depot without being checked on the agent’s
list.”
This is not so. While we have a number
of rich firms, we have no one of that firm
name, and none that we believe would be
“caught” in any such attempt. The
Times will find that it has confounded Au
gusla with Atlanta. The circumstance
was related by the Constitution , of the lat
ter city, and, we iielievc, satisfactorily ex
plained to the relief of the gentlemen
charged. We think our cotemporary should
acknowledge that he has been “ caught.”
Recorder’s Court. —Jacob Christian, a
notorious jail bird and chain gang disciple,
who is ill at ease when not under these re
straints, was arraigned yesterday morning
for a flagrant violation of the 18th section,
in whipping a colored woman. He plead
guilty and was lined sls and cost, or thirty
days at liis favorite employment—labor on
the chain gang.
Adeline Glover, a negress of pugilistic
propensities, was arraigned for violation of
the same section. Plead guilty, and fined
$5 and cost, or ten days on the chain gang.
Death oe a Young Teacher. —Miss
Mattie Sawrie, who had earned an enviable
reputation as a Icacher in Rome, Ga., died
on the sth instant, aged 22 years. One
who knew her from infancy says she was
the embodiment of love and innocence. She
was a member of the M. E. Church, and in
death gave the most unmistakable evidence
that all was well beyond the tomb. She
leaves a widowed mother to mourn her
early death.
Revival at Thomson.— The Thomson
Obxervcr says our Baptist friends are having
a gracious revival, and many are being
added to their church ; twenty-one have
been baptised up to last Sabbath; there are
several more candidates for the ordinance.
Our Methodist friends arc also having a
coneidornbta r<jvi vul ; a vory large namber
of penitents continually crowd the altar ;
nineteen have been added to the Church.
Straws. —The collection of “ straws” is
beginning in Ohio. A Radical politician
of some note, now unfortunately in the Cin
cinnati jail, lias canvassed the inmates and
found a Republican majority of eighteen !
If that majority w r ere in a Georgia jail,
they would be pardoned out in time for
election day.
One Fare.—With its accustomed liber
ality, the South Carolina Railroad offers
to transport for one fare, and return, all
persons desirous to attend the South Caro
lina State Fair, to be held in Columbia,
next month. It will also carry, free of all
charge, produce, stock, and all other arti
cles intended for exhibition at the Fair.
Agricultural Society Meeting.— The
Richmond County Agricultural Society
will convene at the City Hall at 12 o’clock
to-day. A large attendance of members is
specially desired, as delegates to the State
Fair, to be held at Macon in November,
are to be appointed.
A Chance to Participate. —Those who
desire to protect themselves against loss of
property by disaster, and at the same time
secure an interest in the investments made
by themselves and others to that end, will
understand how to accomplish their pur
pose by reading the advertisement of Mr.
Win. E. Evans, and will achieve the object
by securing a policy, through him, from the
Continental Insurance Company, of New
York.
A premium pig, only eighteen months
old, and weighing over seven hundred
pounds, was exhibited at the Mexico (Mis
souri) fair last week.
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