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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXV.
if ljroiiirii' k ?Piitiufl-
HENRY MOORE,
A. R. WRIGHT,
Lniauripallan —English Opinion of It- He. till-.
The people of the .South were not responsible
for the introduction and establishment of Af
rican Slavery in their midst. They protested
iu the most earnest manner against it. Early
in our colonial history we find Virginia and
South Carolina placing restrictions upon the
slave trade, which they hoped would protect
them against what was then thought to be a
monstrous crime. 'J he mother country Ib*
sisted upou the traffic, became it put money in
the pockets ol her merchants and ship-owners,
and increased her wraith and power. Th ere<j
julalionx oi Virginia and South Carolina were
neutralized and tendered nugatory by the de
crees of the home government. We believe
that hut lor the extraoidlnury and persistent ef
forts of the British Government, African Slave
ry would never have been established on this
Continent. Early in tiie last century, the col
onists appealed to the mother couut-y for a
discontinuance ot the Slave Trade. They sent
remonstrance alter rrinouetiancp against the
traffic, and in the most earnest and suppliant
manner, begged that their country should not
he made a reeepticle for the barbarous Afri
cans widch weio then beiug poured into it by
the uctiviiy, stimulated by the uvarice, ot lirit
hd) and Yankee ship owners.
Jn our own State Lite noble hearted Oglethorpe
was compelled to relax his determination, that
here at least there should be neither slavery
nor slave trude. Tho trade was opened and
protected by tho liritish Government. It pros
pered in despite ol the opposition of Oglethorpe
and his foiiowers, up to the commencement of
hostilities between the colonists and the gov
ernment. This trafre was protected and stimu
lated by all the influence and power which the
King and his advisers could afford. Tho colo
nists cried aloud ugaiu-t what they called the
infernal trade. They depicted in strong and
glowing colors the cruelty to the blacks, not
only in their being forcibly torn from
home, kindred and country, and the horrors
encountered in the passage, hut the effects of
such a stream of black heathens beiDg poured
into anew and thinly populated country, was
dwelt upon with peculiar force and energy,
Tho war came, and, with it, American inde
pendence was uu fait accompli. Soon after the
treaty of peace between tho two Governments
wus concluded, the material and continued
prosperity ol this country, under the benign
system of laws adopted by the sagacious states,
men of the time, became apparent to the Brit
ish Government. In the organization of tho
Government of the Uuited States, it was deemed
prudent, und best to leave tho Africans, then in
our midst, upou the same footing and in the
same couditiou in which they wore louud at the
breaking out of hostilities. Restrictions were
placed upon fbo slave trade, and n definite time
fixed ut which tho traific should bo abdished.
It it cnriou*, just here, to observe that those
* J, .et«e which then possessed the-largcst number
ol td»vw were most utrohnoue in their efforts
to abolish tho trade, —tho Now England States
opposing the shorts to stop • the trade, while
Viiginiaand South Carolina and Uuorgia in
sisted that the interests ot their suction de
manded its discontinuance.
la the beginning of tho present contury, the
rapid development ot the cotton trade of this
country alarmed English merchants and Eng
lish manufacturers. The production of cotton
by slave labor became a mecesslul and most
lucrative business. These American cottons
brought to our shores a stream of Gold from
the cutlers of Great lirltuin, which, in a few
years, gave tlie United States a rank and posi
tion amougst the nations of the earth, which
nstouished alike the people ol tho Old and
New World.
England became alarmed at our rapid strides
to eminence in all the industrial pursuits which
make a nation Htroug and influential. Trade,
commerce, ship-building, and the mechanic
arls fell the influence of those gold streams
brought by Southern slave labor cotton, front
across the Atlantic, and flourished, improved
and developed with a rapidity hitherto un
known in the annals of the world. Great
Itritaiu looked with envious and jealous eyes
upou these evidences ot our national prosperi
ty. She had long boasted of being the mistress
of the seas. Under the magical influence of
slave cotton, tho broad sails of Now England
ship owners began to whiteu every sea, and in
every port of tho civilised world the American
Eagle shook his talons over the shaggy neck
of the Kritish Lion.
Cotton— American, cotton, became then, at
onco, the great enemy of British power, and
tho means by which her commercial and man
ufacturing interests bid fair to be overthrown
aud destroyed. To stop the production of cot
ton here was felt to be impossible, unless the
cheap labor which the Southern States con
trolled in its cultivation could be impaired or
destroyed. Here then is to be found the key
note to English sympathy and English efforts
for the emancipation of American slaves. It
was from no teeliugs of kindness to the slaves
themselves. It was from no conviction that
the condition ot these poor blacks would be
improved by emancipation. It was from no
teeliugs of abhorrence for their condition as
slaves, for they had, contrary to our wishes
imposed this condition upon them It was
from no earmst philanthropic desire to elevate
them In the scale of humanity, aud enlarge
their capacity for moral aud religious training
and instruction, for they had time and again
in their controversies with the colonies insisted
that to remove them from the wilds of African
barbarism, and establish them as slaves to
Anglo-Saxon masters was but carrying out tho
divine injunction to christianise the heathen.
The key note of British opposition to Ameri
can slavery being once sounded by the astute
statesmen of that country, it required bnt lit •
tie effort to secure the influence and support of
rffek old Dukes and Dncheses who would draw
along in tln-ir trains the unthinking rabble,
and secute by their position and money the
subservient pens of their peuniless lUerattms.
England sent her Thompsons, her Trollopes,
ht-r Russels, her Mortimers, and her Arrow
smiths to «xamiueour institutions, investigate
our system, and expose our inhumanity’. They
came, as the hissiug serpent in the garden of
Ellen approached mother Eve, with lies upon
their ops aud gall in their hearts, they
»ou ;hi l y cunning, and shameless insincerity to
gain aud in many instances did succeed in gain
ing, admission to our homesteads aud a place
around our hearthstones. By this system of
cunning and duplicity they obtained jnst enough
of the true life of the Southern planter to ena
ble them, by its careful and studied intermix
ture with the most horrid tales and exaggerated
statements of occasional irregularities 0 f the
system, to palm the whole disgusting and«na U
i sealing libel, upon the public mind of England
\an “o’er true tale.” Nothing conld relieve
| this cruelly opprersed race but emancipation.
: That would make them contented, happy and
prosperous. It was the galling curse of slavery
that chilled their proud natures and frozo np
the fountains of morality and virtue. With
emancipation, would come virtue, intelligence,
religion and prosperity. The Africans, under
the inspiration of freedom, would at once
spring upwards in tho scale of civilization and
provo themselves worthy of the association and
community with the white race. They were to
compete successfully with the whites in the
trades, commerce, navigation and the learned
prolessions. Emancipation would expand their
intellects, enlarge their brains, subdue their
passions, stimulate their energies, and restrain
their vices.
The people of the South, who, from having
been brought up in the constant observation of
and contact with the n-gro, had better means
for forming a correct estimate of Lis capacity
for self control and independent action, knew
that British philanthropists would never be
able, even with the aid of the wild fanatics of
New England, to make the African a successful
competitor of the Anglo-Saxon in tho race of
civilization and the contests of actual life.
Emancipation followed the close oi our late
civil war, more thau a year ago. The slaves,
without anv action on their part, and against
the wishes of their ownerlS, were suddenly set
free. They have had more than a year of free -
dom. They have been supported by Govern
ment and protected by armed force in a'l the
rights of freemen. They have been encour
aged to acts of manhood and virtue by swarms
of sympathising friends from New England
They liavo had opened to them schools for
the enlightenment of their minds, Churches
for their religious instructions, and hospitals
for their sick. They have been taught that
they were the rquals socially and politically
of their late white owners. They have been
urged bj ail the persuasive arts which could
he employed by an intelligent, though, as we
believe, misguided majority of tho Northern
people, to establish for themselves a character
lor sobriety, industry and morality. From the
beginning, wo have never had the least doubt
of the final result. Conceived, as emancipa
tion was, for the purpose of destroying the in
fluence of the South, and ruining her labor
system, we knew that it would result in the
utter and hopeless destitution of the blacks,
and lead in the end, to their utter extinction.
We knew that they needed the fostering care,
wise restraint, and humane control of the
whites to enable them, so low they were in the
scale of intellectual endowment, to meet suc
cessfully the buffets, trials and hardships en
countered in the rough paths of human life.
Well, the experiment has been triod Free
dom with her radiant wings and roseate plu.
mage has hovered over the poor slaves for
twelve loug months, exciting only iu his un
tutored bmast hopes of worldly pleasure
which reach their climax in nothing to do and
a plenty to eat. His daily m usings and his
nightly dreams have been of rest, cDjoyment
aud oase. He is incapable ot higher aspira
tions, of nobler aims.* Without immunity from
toll and labor, freedom is a mockery, and a
vain delusion. Ho basks in the warm Southern
sun'forgetful alike of life, its responsibilities
aud requirements. The claims of wile aud
children aro ignored or neglected. The de
mamls ot nature aro barely able to arouse in
him efforts sufficient to procure a scauty sub
sistence, and this he frequently prefers to ob
tain by pilfering and marauding.
The enlightened nations of tho world have
been uo indifferent spectators of tho grand ex
periment whtoh has been made here, iu the
hope ol regenerating the blacks. They have
been told by tho philanthropists of Great
Britain and the puritanical fanatics of New
Englund, that once the shackle's were torn
from the bleeding limbs of the poor African, he
would spring with joy and alacrily into the
arena of life, and carve out a future for him
self rich in tho spoils of trade, agriculture and
the fine arts. And now, when the world is
looking for a realization of the hopes it en
tertained through the representations of Eng -
lish aud American so called philanthropists
of African regeneration and civilization,
the thundorer of the British press cooly an
nounces that aftor all that has been said, and
all that has beendone, after a'l the blood that
has been made to flow, all the lives sacrificed--
widows aud orphans made, aud fortunes lost
and misery endured, to make this fearful ex
periment of negro equality aud African capa
city, for freedom, that their efforts have come
to uuught.
In a late number of the Times a loug article
on the negro and his condition and destiny, is
closed in the following words :
“Their place, there is no denving it, is ser'
vice aud submission. A law of nature wo
cannot alter, and -the best thing their friends
can do for them is to find out the position and
occupation that fit their quality the best, and
advise them to accept them cheerfully ’’
Yts, service and submission is the destiny of
the race fixed by the immutable decree of the
Almighty Maker of all things, and neither
English hyprocracy nor Yankee cunning will
ever succeed iu revoking this wise decree.
Having so successfully accomplished her
scheme of emancipation in tho new, we would
suggest the propriety of making similar efforts
iu tho old world. The down trodden people of
Ireland have been groaning for many years
under the tyrannical rule of England. They
are entitled to freedom. If the English people
desire to see the application of the Jeffersonian
sophism mape general and universal, doubtless
they will receive from America substantial aid
and support in its application, at least, to Ire*
land. Shall we assist them in emancipating
the Irish ? We pause for reply.
Senator Anthony has had engrafted on a
West Point bin the principle of competitive
examination, which passed the Senate last year,
but was defeated iu the House. The present
proposition will enable each Representative to
nomiuate five candidates for each vacancy at
his disposition, from whom one is to bo select
ed.
Tu& Strikers. —The ship carpenters, now on
a strike in New York, have adopted a resolu
tion to the effect that they are ready to adjust
their disagreemxnt with their late employers
on any honorable basis. They express an
emphatic determination to hold out until the
eight hour system shall be granted, which they
declare is the sole question at issue.
Medical Statistics. —The Secretary of War,
in compliance with a resolution of the Senate
calling for a compendium of the medical sta
tistic* collected daring the war, states on the
authority cf the Surgeon Gensral that the
records of many of the hospitals have not been
received, and that the tabulation of those at
hand is not complete : so that any compendium
of the medical statistics of the war at this
lime must necessarily lie based upon partial
data, and beuce be unreliable and valueless.
A WEEK FROII HOSE.
j Crops—Middle Georgia for Emigrant}— Cheap and Good
Land —Mlanta— Her Her Fieas— Nestor of
j Auctioneers—More about Crops, &c,
Atlanta & West Point Railroad, |
June 4, 1866. J
Dear Chronicle : A night ride from Madison
left me no opportunity to continue observa
tions on the way. Indeed, observations from
the railroad affords a very poor idea of the
condition of crops in Middle Georgia, since
the road runs through a barren belt which pro
duces little in the best crop season. 1 have,
however, taken much pains to got correct in- •
formation from residents of the various conn.'
ties, and I find prospects less gloomy than I had
been led to expect.' The great difficulty is from
grass, of which thero is general complaint. This
results not so much from unreliable labor aB
from the excessive rains—it is pouring down
as i write—which prevent work—and from the
start the grass made in replanting to get
stands, together with the unusual amount of
grass which baa taken root under the corn cul
ture.of the last few years. The general report
is that in Middle and Western Georgia the
freedmen are doing better than was expected,
and this is especially true iu districts away
from railroads, where they have not been de
moralized by imported school murrns, preach
ers and negro soldiers. The planters feel anx
ious to secure the good will of the negro, and
will meet him more than half way in overy ef
fort to improve his condition. The emissaries
of mischief above referred to, impart false and
absurd notions of equality, and prejudice the
negro against the whites, while they do abso
lutely nothing toward his real advancement.
lam pleased to observe that many of the
larger farmers of Middle Georgia are at last
waking up to the importance of encouraging
immigration. Thousands of negroes have left
this part ot the State for the West ; thousands
have died under the surfeit of liberty thrust
upon them, and thero is a great deficiency of
labor.
Iu this connection I may name Messrs.
Meriwether, Jordan and Glover, of Jasper
county, who own several thousand acres of ex
cellent laud located fifteen to twentj miles
from the railroad, who will sail cheap, either
in large or small tracts, though they prefer to
sell to small farmers, and thereby secure a
fixed and thrifty population. The lands of that
region are very productive, and adapted to
cotton, corn, wheat and other grains, and to
all the fruits of the temperate latitude. The
water is delicious, and climate mild and salu
brious. There is no part of the continent bet
ter adapted to successful farming. A railroad
has been Projected from Covington to Griffin,
running through this region, aud it will no
doubt be built before many years to connect
with a line to Memphis. A good move, by the
way, for Augusta. The water-power afforded
by the Ocmulgee river is unsurpassed, and
within a scopo of a few miles is, I am assured,
ample to run the spindles of two or three
Lowells. Now is the time to bring this de
lightful region into notice. There are thou
sands of families constituting the middle classes
in Germany who are anxious to escape the
reign of terror which threatens them at home,
and it is said that 15Q, 000 are novy registered
for passage to this country. They have, usual- '
ly, some means, and are infinitely preferable to
the paupers and criminals who have crowded the
emigrant ships for years. A little timely enter
prise in setting forth the advantages this healthy
section with society settled aud roads opened
over tho pioneer life on the cheap lands ot the
West, whose ague-haunted plains are without
roads, timber and good water—will turn the
tide ot emigration to this section. If we re
main here idle, grumbling over our misfor
tunes, tho land agent and emigrant aid socie
ties, and pofitical demagogues of the West, will
secure the emigrants to which I hav i referred
— the-bed that have ever come to America. Now
is tho time to start the ball. A few large land
holders should send an agent to Germany,
with a map of the country, and definite offers
for the sale or lease of specified tracts, and the
assurance of domicils for their families until
homes can be built or purchased. Sensible
men are slow to take their families to anew
country without some assurance of welcomo.
Castle Garden is thronged with agencies and
influences to turn these people from our bor
ders. Let us not be outwitted and outdone
until it is too late. Immediate action is neces
sary to secure labor for the next year. Hun
dreds of planters in middle Georgia aro as
anxious as the gentlemen named, to dispose of
a portion of their lands ; bnt, like them, are
slow to take the proper steps to secure pur
chasers. A few wealthy men from the North
are buying farms, and trying the experiment
of cotton culture with freedmen. Some of
them will no doubt succeed, and they‘are wel
corned and icell received by the people, but the
great need is an increase of small farmers, for
which wa must look mainly to Europe.
My brief stay in Atlanta only affords me
time to endorse atl that your correspondent,
“Warren,” has said of the astonishing progress
of the place during the last few months.
Much is still doing, and to be done, to re
store the city to its former position. Progress
is stamped on every feature of the city. Some
twenty buildings are now going up, and many
more under contract. Trade just now is dull,
but all look forward with hopeful confidence
•to tho fall. A sea of new faces swell the thor
oughfares, among whom I caught a glimpse of
a few that were familiar. Adair, Cox, Leyden
Eddlemau, Robson. Bell, and others still here,
with tho Verdoreys, Zinimermin, Purse, and
some others from our city, all confident that
Atlanta is and must be the “hub” of the State.
The last time I was here, just before Sherman
commenced shelling out his favors, the shrill
voice of uncle Billy Hill—the Nestor of auc
tioneers—was singing out from Kile’s corner,
It was “going,” “going,” and the next day he
was “gone," and Kile's corner aud all the bain
acce of the corners went soon alter. Passing
along the street to-day, what should I hear
bnt the same clear voice of nncle Billy, at the
same old Kiie corner, in a bran new building,
• goifig,” “going," as before. He is 78 years
old—as bale and vigorous as a man of 45-
working, us he says, to feed the widowed and
orphaned children and grandchildren which
the war has brought to the paternal roof, and
be works with a will and cheerful good humor,
worthy of imitation by the yonng and old
croakers who crowd our towns and villages.
May this kind old patriarch be spared to wield
bis hammer for years, before it shall be said
that he is "gone.”
In no respect is the spirit of enterprise more
marked and creditable than iD the press of the
city. The Intelligencer and New Era, are
models of typographical taste, and are credit
able daily journals in all respects. TheLadie’s
Home is a handsome new weekly by Dr. Pow
ell, the first number of which appeared last
week. It is designed as an organ for the fe
male talent of the South, and the proceeds are
to be devoted to the erection of a home for in
valid ladies—a scheme long cherished by the
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 13. 1866.
philanthropic projector of this journal, and
which we sincerely hope he will be able to
accomplish. Mrs. L. Virginia French, a lady
of national repute, is the editress of the Home,
and the price is five dollars a year. Every
lady in the South may make good use of her
“pin money,” by dispensing with some little
gew-gaw,and subscribing for the Home.”—
Jas. N. Ells of your city, is the general agent.
Scott’s monthly is a creditable periodical, pub
lished here, and there is nowhere id the coun
try a religious paper superior to the Christian
Index and Southwestern Baptist, of which that
eminent scholar Rev. Dr. H. H. Tucker, is the
editor.
There is a very annoying gap in the mail
schedule for the West, by which the mail
reaching here in the evening at 7 o’clock from
Augusta, lays over until the next morning at
six before leaving for Montgomery. This has
been caused by the suspension of the night
train on the West Point road. One train a day
has been found . ample to accommodate the
Wet w> r-mely light.
The Fenians are said to be organizing a
company here to join the Canada movement,
and a meeting is to be held to-night at O'Hal
loran’s, who is the Head Centre for the Cle
burn Circle here. O’Halloran cannot be
spared from the home commissariat, and we
hope he will suppress that high old Irish pa
triotism of his for the present. If he should
go soldiering, he has. Bill Wiley to help to run
the machine in his absence. “George” is at
borne in a hotel, and does much to make his
guests so. But O'Halloian must not go sky
larking with the Fenians.
It is gratifying to find our railroads so
thoroughly reconstructed. The cars are clean
and comfortable, and the track all the way to
West Point so smooth as to enable me to write
this scrawl, such as it is, while the cars are in
motion.
Accounts of the crops tell fearfully of grass.
Wheat, all along from Atlanta, is reported
good, and stands of coin and cotton are good—
the latter secured usually by re-planting, but
the continued rain is leaving both to be choked
cut by the grass.
I observe far more fields of corn along the
road than of cotton or wheat. It is small, but
of good color and promising.
Aristides .
The Sev York Tribune and the South.
The Southrons and the blacks are better
adapted to each other, and at bottom like each
other better, than either do our sharp, hard,
angular Yankees —Tribune
Then why don’t you keep your ‘‘sharp, hard,
angular” friends at home, and let the South
alone. You say the Southern people like the
blacks better than your “sharp” Yankees like
them. Yet you are constantly harping upon
the injustice to tho blacks of leaving them to
the care of their Southern friends. Why
do you insist upon Freedmen’s Bureau bills,
and Civil Rights bills, if at most yon bslieve that
the Southrons and the blacks like each other
better than they like Yankees ? Will you
force upon the untutored negro scores of such
heartless aud debased wretches as Fritz, Bryant,
Rosekrans, Glovu and Wickersham, to minis
ttheir wants, protect their interests, and
in their efforts to rise higher Imthe
•.ft : .Te of true manhood ? Let the South alone,
Leave iu t'vjgWr >of her noble, warm hearted
and gener^/people, the sable sons of Africa
and they will do for them what your Yankee
freedonn shriekers have nevor yet done. They
will compensate them for their labor, provide
for thv>m comfortable homes, feed and clothe
their old and decrepidand young, and minister
to their want3 in sickness. They will do all
this, and more, if you will keep from our midst
those sharp, hard, angular conspirators against
the peace of our country and the security of
our lives, who are being sent amongst ns by
your Northern friends to stir up discord and
engender strife between the two races. Relieve
us from the influences of this vile herd, and the
two races can and will live harmoniously to
gether.
Ihe A’pw Reconstruction Scheme.
The Herald regards the new reconstruction
plan, now being concocted by the Senate, as
excessively absurd. The first section unneces
sarily re-enacts the Civil Rightß bill. The
second section, in regard to the apportionment
of representation, can very easily be evaded
by the Southern States, and will be most un
popular at the North and West. The amend
ment proposed for the third section disqualifies
the rebel officials daring the pleasure of Con
gress ; but all that these officials have to do is
to make out naturalization papers, and they
can vote or hold office in five years, Congress
to the contrary notwithstanding. The fourth
section, which insists upon the payment of the
national debt, is very silly, for nobody wants
to repudiate that debt. This is what Webster
called re-enactin' tho laws of nature. The
fifth section, which prohibits the payment of
the rebel debt, is equally silly, for nobody
wants to pay that debt. Congress might just
as well enact a law forbidding ug to pay the
debt incurred by Great Britain in the war ot
1812, Thus the whole plan, section by sec
tion, is ghown to be foolish and impracticable*
If Congress desires to adopt a radical scheme,
let that of Mr. Toad. Stevens be taken up,—
But the bast way is to admit at once that Pres
ident Johnson’s policy is the only reasonable
one before the country. Why should Congress
persist in quarrelling, not only with the Presi
dent, but with the American people, who have
already endorsed the President’s policy in
every possible way ?
A Home for the Orphan? ol Georgia.
Gov. JeDkins, under the provisions of the
act, approved March 17,1866, “to establish at
some suitable place in the State, an institution
for the support and education of orphan chil
dren, to be styled the ‘Georgia State Orphan
Home,’ which shall be the property of the
State,” has made the following appointments :
Wm. B Johnson, of Macon; Richard Peters,
of Atlanta, and Henry Hull, of Athens, consti
tute the Building Committee, whose duty it is
also to locate the Home.
Rev. H. Tucker, of Atlanta; Rev. Wm. H.-
Potter, of Augusta; Rev. Wm. Flynn, of Mil
ledgeville; Rev. Wm. C. Williams, of Rome;
Messrs. Warren Akiu, of Bartow county; Jas,
Gardner, of Richmond county; Jas. M. Cham
bers, of Muscogee county ; John W. Anderson,
of Savannah, and Junius Wingfield, of Eaton
ton, constitute the Board of Trustees.
In the admission of orphans, preference is to
be given the children of deceased Confederate
soldiers. The Legislature having made no
appropriation for the establishment or support
of the Home, it will be some time before it
goes into operation.
Such an institution is much needed in our
State, just at this time, and it is to be hoped
that nothing will bo left undone that will
hasten to a'successful development so notable
a charity.
Gautemala has declined to join Chili and
Pern against Spain, as have also Salvador and
Costa Rica. They are in no condition to Ight.
The Truth well Spokea even by the “Tunes.”
We are gladl to see that a few of our North
ern friends are beginning to find some merit in
the patriarchal relation which existed in the
South between the whites and blacks when the
latter were slaves. Ts the misguided fanatics
of New England could have seen the sjeteni
as it existed, and not as it was depicted by
heartless demagogues, and crazy humanitari
ans, they would never have lent themselves to
swell the ranks of the crusaders against this
humane and divinely appointed institution.
No clear-headed, right-minded man, from
Old or New England, ever came amongst us to
examine with care and candor our system,
who did not return to bis home satisfied, not
only that the South had been vilely slandered,
but that the institution as managed and con
trolled here was a real blessing to the blacks.
The men and women at the North who gave
birth to the anti-slavery excitement, and those
who nourished and supported it through all its
jAgpga until 'Succeeded in severing the Union
and plunged the cotin'ry into a cTvTiancr
destructive war, never had any practical
knowledge of the working of the system.
They had never come amoDgst us and
met us at our firesides with our faithful slaves
around us ; never had seen the contented and
cheerful laborer driving the plough and push
ing the hoe in our cotton fields ; had never
heard in the calm twilight of our soft summer
evenings the sweet neiody which rang out upon
forest and field to tne lively strains of “Carry
me back to old V.rginia’s Shore,” or swelled
upon the air in the sweetly plaintive and touch
ing refrain, “OleMassa’s in the Cold, Cold
Ground.’.’ This {art of the planters’life they
could not understand or appreciate ; first—be
cause their purpote was so to manipulate the
defects of the sys.em as to secure to them and
their party political influence, and *econtlly—
because they were themselves actually igno
rant of those reieeming characteristics of the
institution which commended it to the foster
ing care of Chrbtian Philanthropists.
The followirg extract from a letter in the
New York Tim s, written from Albany, in this
State, shows the striking difference, even now,
between the lTnkee style of “rigid discipline,”
order, and regilarity of work, and that which
taking the patriarchal as tho true system, ap
proaches it as nearly as may be, in the present
changed relations of the two races :
I have visied two very large plantations
between Amoricus and this place, on each of
which over i hundred hands are busily and
faithfully employed in the cultivation of com
and cotton. Ono of these places is worked by
the original cwner, and all his bands are his
former slave;; and the other is one jointly
owned and worked by Northern capitalists and
Southern mtu skilled in planting, and the
management of negroes, Un the latter, all the
hands were ‘picked np” and brought to
gether for tie first time, when they were set to
work. On the former tho owner does not re
side, but leaves entire control to his manager,
(Olim, overseer;) and on the latter the South
ern shareholders are continually present, hav
ing no subordinate managers, but foremen,
(generally ictelligent negroes,) to whom some
especial branch ot the dally work is confided by
the commander in-chief.
P had thus a very good opportunity of judg
ing of the two systems, or rather of the two
species of ~ ‘ame system. On the first place
the npgioH??’’ 5 .ked ot home, and home associa.
tions, aftd (*4 maasa, and told of the exploits
of young rhhssa, “who died in the war,” and
they exp; eased the wish to live and die where
their fathers and mothers lived and died be
fore them. They seemed perfectly contented
and settled, and thought their contract was a
liberal one—food and medical attendance and
one-lourth of all they make. They were
pleased with the manager, said he was a
“mighty good, kind man,” who “never giv’ a
nigger a hard word ’less u'serv’s it.” They
said they thought they worked about as hard
as “’fore freedom;” but when pressed were
compelled to admit that the “womenfolks”
were not as industrious as iu old times. An
old darkey who seemed to be a self-constituted
Justice of the Peace and general umpire in all
matters among the negroes, who seemed to
have known every one in the neighborhood,
white and black, since they “was so high,”
indicating the height by spreading out his
hand about a foot from the ground, seemed to
feel great indignation at “de foolishness of
some niggers,” who want to play the lady and
gentleman, and abstain from work. He
seemed to understand the whole question
thoroughly, and if Mr. Stevens would only
follow Old Ben’s advice, be would have but
little use for that penitentiary of hell, of which
he speaks with such prophetic experience.
Ben thinks that if the negroes can make a
living and clothe themselves decently, have
their property protected aud their liberty
secured, they ought to be well satisfied; that
“no nigger aiat fit to vote—’cause why, he
don’t know nothing ’bout dem things;” that
they must “behave and learn, and show ’der
,selves fit for it,” and then they will be helped
along by the white men; and that “aem as
wont work” must steal, and bring a bad name
on all the darkies, and they ought to be pun •
ished or driven away. At this stage of the
conversation he remaiked to me in confidence,
but with great emphasis, “Dere’a a heap of no
account niggers, massa, as sure as you’re a foot
high.” He introduced several freedmen, wo
men and children to me, with great politeness
and dignity, and seemed quite a master of
ceremonies amoDg his fellows. When I took
my leave, after sharing my tobacco bag with
him and thanking him for his politeness, he
remarked, with great pride, that he was “old
massa’s confidential servant,” and that “massa
didn’t keep none but well raised servants
about him.”
Everything on the place bore the mark of
ease, contentment, and plenty; but there were
also signs of waste, neglect, untidiness, and
that want of system which has always charac
terized plantation management, and which
philanthropists attributed to the horrors of
Slavery, but which was really attributable to
the absence of Ihe owners and the listless Im
providence of the negro.
The crops were backward though healthy,
and the manager thought he would make
about two-thirds of a crop of cotton, with corn,
&c., enough to keep the place. He seemed satis
fied with the hands, but said they did not do
more than two thirds work. He thought his
employer would have better consulted his own
interest had he employed strange hands and
let his own go, because they took liberties and
presumed on the kindness and affection which
the owner and his family felt for their old de
pendents. Os the entire negro population in
the place a little more than half were work
ing hands but all are fed by the owner, lodged
and provided with fuel, aud vegetables of their
own raising, and the workers receive a fourth
of everything
As I sat in the porch of the managers’ house,
(who, by the way, entertained me most hand
somely,) smoking my pipe of scarfaletti, about
two hours after sunset, the moon just begin
ning to peer through the tree tops, and as I
heard the shouts of laughter, the songs and
banjo performances proceeding from thefreed
jnen’s houses about a quarter of a mile distant,
I wished for once to have Mr. Wendell Philipps
sitting beside me in order that he might cease
abusiDg Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, for not
being sufficiently radical in his schemes for the
elevation of the negro.
On the other place to which 1 have referred
—that owned by Northern capitalists and
Southern agriculturists, and worked by the
latter—l found much more rigid discipline,
more order and regularity of work, but none
of those home attachments and fixity of abode,
none of that this-is-my-home feeling which
marked the negroes on the other plantation.
The end of the year, when the crop is gather
ed, seems the end of the freedmen’s life of la
bor on this farm. They were well fed and
healthy-looking, bnt they were neither cheer
ful nor settled, and I heard many fears express
ed that when the days get warmer and the
work more toilsome many will desert. The la
borers here are paid monthly wages, the em
ployers always reserving in hdnd one month’s
wages as security against destruction or loss
I of property and agiinst desertion without no
tice, it being stipulated in the contract that a
hand leaving before the end of the year forfeits
ail wages due to the date oi his departure.
The crops on this place were very fine aud
promising. The laud is among the finest in
Georgia, and cost the present owners (the stock
and implements included) a hundred thousand
dollars in cash.
On a comparison of the labor system on the
two places I unhesitatingly prefer that where
the hands feel they are at home, and consider
themselves identified with their employer. It
may be that they may not appear to work
as hard, or be as cereful, as where everything
is weighed by the scale and every hour is
counted, and idleness involves.pecuniary fines;
but in the loug run the cheerful, contented,
take-it-easy negroes will do more than those
who feel that they are mero passers by, and
who, knowing that they can do as they p|pase,
avail themselves of the privilege whenever
they are rebuked or they desire to “knock off.”
JOTTISGS FROH THE CJIfITAL.
[FROM OUR OWN' CORRESPONDENT.]
Washington, Saturday June 2.
TUe Tegisfafion "ofColfgfess dftflfig the week
which closes to-day has been exceedingly
satisfactory to a large, and I may say influ
ential, class of worthies, who may invarinbly
be found haunting the hails and corridors of
the Capitol, button-holing the Senators and
members,- confabulating anxiously with the
shrewdest of the reporters, and watchiDg the
result of every important vote with an interest
much resembling that with which the gambler
awaits the turn of the card upon which he has
staked his “pile.” These are
THE OBN’TLEMEN OF THE LOBBY.
Nobody can tell exactly how they manage
to live. They dress well, board at the most ex
pensive hotels, drink wine every day at dinner,
ride about in hacks and, many of them, lead
fast lives ; yet they are known to be poor—de
void alike of property, credit and cash. The
stock in trade of these fine gentlemen is their
acquaintance with the ruling spirits of both
Houses of Congress, and, indeed, with the
members generally. To cnltivate their inti
macy with those who hold the power of voting
away the public money, they spare no pains or
expense. Mr. Ticlde-em of the lobby will en
tertain tho bachelor Representatives with the
most elegant and expensive suppers ; and the
pledges of fidelity and good' fellowship which
the Hon. Mr. Guzzle and Senator Snooks make
to-night over brimming cups of champagne
frappe, they are expected to redeem to-morrow
by voting and perhaps speaking in favor of the
“little bill” in which their hospitable friend
Tickle-em may happen to be “interested.”
Good suppers form but one of the thousand
polite and varied attentions in which the
“lobb member” is versed and which be is ever
ready to lavish upon the large majority of
Congress, who have neither the brains to under
stand now tho manhood to resist such influ
ences.
THE OBJECTS AIMED AT BT THE LOBBY
are almost as various as the measures that are
brought up for the consideration of Congress,
Whoever hopes to secure the passage of any
bill involving the disbursement oi the public
funds or a grant of Government lands, loses no
time in gaining the good will and kind offices
of the all powerful lobby. If the bill passes,
of course tbe gentlemen whose influence ac
complished so auspicious a result, demand a
thick slice of the appropriation; if it hdls
nothing daunted (hey uudertako to eng
through some other measure, with the fruits
of which they will repay themselves for the
time lost upon the last. Such is the work of
the Lobby.; and wo to the hopes of the silly
wight who strives to carry any bill through
the two Houses solely ou its own merits and
without the aid of these influential gentry.
While he is willing to assist (for a considera
tion) in the enactment of laws of any charac
ter, it is from the wealthy railroad corpora.,
tions that the lobbyist derives his most con
stant employment and his richest harvest.
And it is in this connection that I have said
that the week now closing has been a great
week for the lobby.
THE CHAIN OF RAILROAD!
leading from this oity to the North and North
west are, and for years have been, giant mo
nopolies, earning enormous incomes, and
growing every day more exacting and insolent
in their demands. Several associations of
wealthy capitalists, covetous of the vast and
ever-incroaaing prolits of these companies,
have organized rival companies and only lack
the authority of Congress to commence and
complete with celerity certain great through
line3, which will absorb almost the whole of
the through freight and travel now enjoyed by
the existing monopolies. To gain the speedy
consent of Congress to the construction of the
new railroads, the influence of the entire lobby
was of course invoked; and for months it has
been actively, though quietly at work. This
week brings us tbe result. The House of Rep
resentatives has decided, by a vote nearly two
to one, in favor ofj the principle that Congress
has the right, for postal and military purposes,
to give authority for the construction of rail
roads in States. This was but the entering
wedge for the numerous schemes that are to fol
low. The first of these has already been passed
by the House. It contemplates a more direct
railroad line from Washington to the North
west than now exists. But the most important
of the projects in view (and which wifi un
doubtedly pass in a few days) is the
“GREAT AIR LINE RAILROAD”
as it is called in New York. The capital stock
will be ten millions of dollars, and will consist
of ob 6 hundred thousand shares of one hundred
dollars each, upon which a cash payment of
ten per cent, must be paid down. The route
is to be surveyed and designated by a compe
tent engineer, whose appointment shall be
approved by the Secretary of the Interior, com
mencing at some point in the city of Washing
ton, in the District of Columbia, and running
thence, through the States of Maryland. Penn
sylvania, and New Jersey, to the Hudson river,
with a single or double track, and to cross the
Hudson river by ferry, from such point in the
State of New J irsey into the city of New
York. When constructed, all through South
ern travel will come through Washington, and
reach New York (after tbo building of the
road from Fredericksburg to Alexandria) sev
eral hours quicker than it now does. Mails,
expresses, and troops must go by it as the
swiftest and cheapest channel of transit.
NO RESPECT FOR STATE EIGHTS.
In the hurly-burly.of such legislation as this,
• all regard for State rights seems to be lost.—
The last act passed by the House, previous to
its adjournment on Thursday, authoriz e rail,
road? to form combinations for through tran
sits of passengers and produce without re
spect to State legislation. It looks to mono
polies like that of the Camden and Amboy
road. Butternut.
Washington, June 3, 1866.
Mesirs, Editors .'—Prominent Railroad men
from Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and
Virginia were present at the Railroad Conven
tion, which was organized at the Metropalitan
Hotel to-day. As soon as .the organization
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXV NO. 25.
was effected, they adjourned to have a session
this evening, when they expected to adjourn
sine die. In my next I will endeavor to give
tho most prominent part of the proceedings.—
The debate to-day in the Senate upon the first
amendment to the reconstruction resolutions,
elicited statements that go in a great measure
to assert that the Civil Rights Bill is unconsti
tutional. The tenor of the speeches to day
appeared ns characterized by Mr. Conness, of
California, to boa shifting from the “eternal
nigger,” to that of Chinese Indians and gyp
sies. Quite a spirited debate on the amend
ments as proposed by Mr. Howard, took place.
Messrs. Doolittle, Cowan, Howard, Conness,
Trumbull and Johnson participating ; it was
finally agreed to, A message from the Presi
dent was received, announcing the death of
Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott. Mr. Wilson offered a
resolution that the Military Committee of both
Houses, act as a joint committee to see what
measures would be necessary in relation to the
character and record of the late Lieutenant
iim
In the House, Stevens, of parinsylvftnfa, or
“the old man turbulent,” as ho is familiarly
called, has had his bill of restoration policy
past power until Monday. It is full of the
love of the negro aud hate of the white man.
It places the latter cias3 in the condition of
foreigners, prevents them from holding offioe,
&c , &c., while it elevates the former to the
highest position. It will probably bring to
light the true test of law, for his despotism
will be obeyed by that body.
The President has ordered the Departments
to be closed on Friday, the day for the burial
of General Scotland the heads of the Depart'
meats of War and Navy have issued the cus
tomary orders.
Business is at a 6tand still. Gold is still go
ing np and consequently goods of almost every
discription has advanced. I notice on the
street to-day a man, the first one, out under
the auspices oi tho Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Mes
senger Corps. The Corps is composed of dis
abled men of the above branches of the ser
vioe, to be stationed at the hotels and most
public places in the city, to transmit letters,
messages, parcels, r&c., &c , to any part of the
city. The terms, I believe, aro as follows ;
Messages for ten squares or under, 10 cents.
For a greater distance 25 cents.
Packages of ten pounds for ten squares 15
cents, aud for an excess iu weight or distance
50 cents.
For messages or parcols beyond the limits of
the city, no charge is established, but loft to
be contracted for by tho parties desiring so to
send another messenger, ’l'is a good institu
tion, and if properly patronized will be the
means of enabling many disabled men to earn
a whereby they can be supported.
Season.
Thad, Stevens. —The Boston Post fears
Thad. Stevens will soon be in a straight jacket.
His intellect is unsettled; his anger has dislo
cated his roason; he raves and foams, and
sputters, and threatens and gnashes his teeth
as though his hoart craved revenge—that
nothing short of the annihilation of his op
ponents could appease. But the old politician
finds no relief. His malignant imprecations
only indicate tho fury of the passions which
rend his bosom and will soon reduce him, in
body and mind, to the condition of an impo
tent driveller. It is painfnl to see a man
whose,period of life shoffid exhibit snsaftthiiu:
of the soothing influences of Christianity, pos
sessed of spirits that torment and debase him,
u nil a mouth with curses that should utter
piayers. The fire unquenchably he invokes
for those he hates, regardless of the warning
that the judgement he metes Bhali be meted
unto him. Tho Chaplain of the House should
labor with the ireful Pennsylvanian.
A Strange Funeual.— Thos. B. Leighton, a
man of wealth, who died at the Isle of Shoals,,
near Portsmouth. N. H-, a few days ago,
desired to have no religious rites perform
ed at. his funeral, and was buried, accord
ing to request, cn Appledove Island, between
two granite rocks, on one of which be wanted
his initials out. Ha was formerly a piominent
Democratic politician in New Hampshire, but
had lived for many years on a small island in
the Shoals group, refusing to even visit the
main land, lest the boat migfft sink in the pas
sage.
Too Soon to Purchase.
Rumor hath it, that a lady and gentleman
called at a store a few days ago to make some
purchases. The lady was very talkative, and
purchased one or two articles. When the
twain were about to depart, tho accommodat
ing salesman asked the. lady, who had done all
the talking and paid the bill, if she would not
purchase one or more of his tasteful hats for
boys. Assuming the dignity of a quren, the
lady said: No! I have been married only
about twenty minutes 1 I have no boys, or girls
either.
A Use for Cast Off Crinoline. —The New
buryport Herald says : “In passing the garden
of our friend Harden, of the Amesbury stage,
a few days since, we noticed a dozen sets—
more or ltss—of hoops, reversed from their
original position, the small ends down and the
large ones supported on stakes, while inside
tomatoes are being trained to run up the sides
and fall over the outdde, which will shortly
give a’very beautiful appearance.”
“Horace,’’ or as A. Ward would say famil
iarly, I ‘Horns,’ ’ wanis the religious bodies of
the North to send a “minister extraordinary
to South Carolina, charged with the one duty
only of converting the heathen soul” of W.
Gilmore Sim3, jr., “to politeness and Christian
ity.’’ Charleston ought to return the comply
mcnt and make an effort for the conversion of
Greeley, who has become a vile sinner.
“H. G.’’ on Soda Ash. —The N. Y. Tribune
has broken out on the subject ot Soda-Ash. It
wants a high tariff on the imported article to
build up home manufactories. In the event of a
war with Great Britain, it exclaima, “soda-ash
would go up to two dollars a pound,” Os
course ; and if the sky should fall we might
catch lark3.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has received
from Hon. T. G. Bergen, of Jamaica, Long
Island, New York, a bunch of asparagus com
posed of twelve stocks, each about four inches
in circumference, thirteen inches in height, and
the whole weighing five pounds. It is under
stood to he the intention of preserving this rare
specimen of the agricultural world.
Postmaster). —lnstructions will shortly be
sent from the Paymaster General's office to the
Government Postmasters who are stationed at
places where there are no assistant treasuries
or special depositories, but where National
Banks may be available, directing them not
to make transfers from one depository to an
other, without special authority from tho Sec
retary of War.
The Treasury Department has issued a circu
lar and sent to every Postmaster receiving
over $6,000 from his office, requiring him to
show that he has paid his income tax.
Praiseworthy Efforts. *
We hardly deem it necessary to ndd any
thing to the following appeal irom the noble
women of Richmond in behalf of thp Confeder
ate dead in and near that city.
There is not a household in this broad sunny
clime whose blood has not moistenod the soil
of the great old mother State, and hardly a
family which does not mourn some fallen hero
whose bones repose in the bosom of the old
Commonwealth.
We know that our people are poor. They,
cannot do all they desire to have done, in com
memoration of these fallen braves ; yet they
can spare a little of their scant revenue in so
good a cause. We hope that some of our pub
lic spirited matrons and maidens will take the
matter in hand, and call upon our citizens for
such contributions as they may bo willing to
make:
To the People of the South:
“The L idies’ Memorial Association for Con
federate Dead of Oakwood,” near Richmond,
Virginia, was organized pormauently on the
19th April, 1866. for the purpose of rescuing
from obHVfrm the names tmd graves of the
gallant Confederate dead who sleep at Oak- 1
wood Cemetery.
This Cemetery, situated one mile east of the
city, contains sixteen thousand Confederate
soldiers’ graves, a larger number than any
other in the South, including representative
dead from every Southern State.
The graves are iu a neglected condition, tho
names of the occupants marked only by rude
pieces of board carelessly and slightly put in
the earth. The grounds are desolate and un,
enclosed.
The Common Council of the city of Rich
mond has undertaken the work of enclosing
the Cemetery, and has made the requisite
appropriation for that purpose.
The work of love, gratitude, and duty which
this Association proposes for itself is simply
this:
First, To turf each grave and mark it with a
neat wooden head board, upon which is to bo
inscribed tbe name of the occupant, his State,
regiment, and company, and other information
in regard to him.
Secondly. To lay out and dejorate tbe
grounds, and to redeem them from their pres
ent condition of utter cheerlessness and deso
lation. And
Thirdly. At some future day, when the fi
nances ot the Association shall permit it, to
replace tbe wooden head boards with endur
ing marble, and to erect a handsomj monu
ment for each State of the South, commemorat
ing its dead.
To effect these purposes it is necessary to ap
peal to the people of the South for peouniary
assistance. The Association is poor, the peo
ple of Richmond are poor, and the work to be
done is for the honor and credit ot the entire
South. It would be an indelible shame aud an
ever present disgrace if, having tbe power to
honor our dead, to perpetuate their names and
memories, and to preserve and protect their
graves, our people should suffer them to lie
neglected and forgotten until the trail records
of their names, death and burial places are to
tally destroyed by decay, and the task render
ed impossible. How many families through
out the South have representatives sleeping at
Oakwood Cemetery ? How many mothers,
and sisters, and fathers, and brothers, and
friends, wculd be soothed and gratified to
know that their brave doad were honored,
and their graves cared for and tended to ? Who
would not be shocked and pained to witness
the present lamentable condition of these
graves, and to see how rapidly the hand of
Time is obliterating all traces* and memorials
of the gallant dead who died for ub ?
Could the people of the South look upon thf
lonely, desolate and neglected graves, no ap
peal would be necessary. The silent rebuke of
tnese rorgutten neroes would reacn tne Hearts
and consciences of every Christian man and
womanof the South.
This Associatiau is not for a day or a year ;
it is not the passing fancy of an hour, or the
ephemetral creature of a momentary impulse ;
it is permanently organized, with two hundred
and fifty active members. It will know no
rest until its purposes are successfully and ful
ly achieved. It will not fail, it cannot fail, it
should not fail, until the manhood of tbe
South has iost its chivalry, and until its women
have ceased to mourn tor their children be
cause “they are not.”
In this work of piety and care tho Associa
tion solemnly pledges its honor to the people
of the South to apply faithfully and economi
cally the funds which may be contributed.
Editors friendly to tho purpose of this As
sociation will confer a favor by copying into
their papers this appeal.
Contributions are urgently solicited.
They may be sent to the Rev. John E. Ed
wards, Rev. A. E. Dickinson, Rev. William
Norwood, Rev. P. B Price, Richmond, Virginia
or to Mrs. E. S. Tarpin, Treasurer of Oakwood
Memorial Association, Richmond, Virginia. '
Mbs. M. H. Smith.
President.
Mas. A. R. Courtney, Secretary.
Tbe Crops.
The Editor of the La Grange Reporter, who
has recently returned lrom a tour West saye:
Having been absent tor several weeks in tho
States of Alabama. Louisiana and Mississippi,
and having made inquiry in reference to the
planting prospects, in those States, it is our
firm conviction that there will not be half a
crop ot cotton made the present year, as com
pared with the year 1860. Leaving the labor
questions out entirely, the paucity of laborers
engaged in the cultivation of cotton —there
are several causes why a good crop may not
be expected. Tbe failure of seed to germinate
and produce a bealtby plant, in many instances,
after coming up, will ren er it certain that no
more than a two-third crop will ba produced
on the lands in cultivation. In many portions
of the country, especially in that part of Mis
sissippi lying on the river botweeu Vicksburg
and Natchez where good “stands” have come
up, the rains have been so incessant as to pre
vent planters from keeping down the grass,
and thinning out- We saw instances where
the stand was good, but so over-grown with
grass as to obscure the cotton from sight.
In passing from New Orleans to Natchez, tho
eye is met with one continued scene of desola
tion. In that whole distance it does not seem
there are 5,000 acres of land under cultivation.
In the main, the whole country is either over
flowed or left uncultivated—no indications of
thrift or industry is discerned as far as the eye
can penetrate. We saw enough from the river,
in ascending and descending, to fill our heart
with gloom ; but to see the overflowed coun
try in its true condition, we are informed, one
must leave the river, and visit those parishes
from twenty to thirty miles from its banks,
where the waters have found their way by the
giving away of the levees. The people, in
many instances, are starving -all they had,
having been destroyed.
A Talbot correspondent of the Macon Tele
graph, who has been traveling in Cherokee,
Ba “ Crops in upper Georgia are much injured
by the incessant rains—corn looking bad y.
And on account of the heavy rains and defec
tive seed, very few planters have over one bas
a stand of cotton. I have not met, during a
five weeks’ absence, a calculating planter who
estimates that the present crop will exceed on
and one-half million bales-and tojaake that
will require timely showers, warm sunshine
and a late fall.” _»
Alabama -A private letter from Dallas
county states that tiffs crops ofcorn cotton
have been nearly all destroyed by the late
protracted rains The letter says they have
had more rain for the last thirty days than
has occurred in the same length of time for
years. ,
The Texas Wheat Crop.— Dr. Cox, who
has recently returned from an extensive _trip,
in the wheat growing regious ot lexas,
us that there never was a liner prespect in the
world than at this time. He says that without
gome accident, three times as much will ne
raised this year as was ever raised in
one year before. In some county Col i in,
we believe, the Dr. says 500,000 bush
els of wheat will be for sale. At the mills near
Dallas, he was offered flour at $2 per one hun
dred pounds. This is good news for flour lov
ers, as we hope that instead of it being
$8 per hundred, we can eoon buy it at $->.
Western 7mean.