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.tUDNIIaim MORNING. NOT Hitt KB 10.
The Anniversary of the National Freed
man’s Aid Society or tbe Methodist
Episcopal Church North.
Go iho twenty-ninth of last month there
assembled at Cincinnati, Ohio, under flie
auspices of fire Bishops of the Methodist
Church North (namely: the Her. Ed-j
ward Thompson, Iter. E K. Ames, i
Her. L. Scott, Rev. D. W. Clarke ■
and Rev. K. L Jones) the National Aid j
Society of the Methodist Episcopal ;
Church. No doubt this Society contains
many earnest members that are sincerely
actuated by high purposes and noble re- ;
solves to “serve God and the country.”
Nevertheless, not to put a fine point in de
signating these Christian brethren, they 1
are regarded as politicians in this
latitude, and their Society as a mere j
political organization. Asa gene- ,
ral rule, their agents, whom doubt- j
less they designed to be ministering angels. 1
seeking to save souls from destruction —
eternal destruction—and teachers of truth,
to refine and to elevate, firm in the faith
of the perfectibility of human nature —all
human nature, white, black and cop- '
por colored, with the grand and exalted
idea of aiding by fervent piety and exem
plary conduct of bringing humanity I
millennial perfection, have proved mere
mousing owls watching thickets and
brambles, and scouring low places for frac
tional greenbacks. They have been active
and zealous partisans, always on the same
side, quick to head a procession or marshal
a phalanx for the ballot box; and no mat
ter what the political issue - may
be, their opposition is determined
by the character of its advo
cates. If a measure be advocated by
test-Oatb, perjured scalawags, it receives
hearty and active support; but the bare
suggestion of a 80-called “Rebel” provokes
active opposition, and the pronounced
declaration of their principles—they are
Radicals. The public estimate classifies
them as Amalgamationists, beyond ques
tion, believing, with Bishop Thompson, as
reported in his address before this Bociety,
that, “as tho various rays of light are
necessary to the composition of the white
sunbeam, so it may be made plain at the
millennium that the various races are
necessary to a perfect humanity j” al
though the approach selected be glo c and
tedious, and generations distant, and the
process not justified by any past authority,
either sacred or profane. Again the ad
vent of these agents has been signalized by
church burnings. We have carefully search
ed the records and arc unable to find, in 20
years prior to their advent, a single case
of this species of incendiarism.—
The whole tone and sentiment of the
Southern people is tolerance in matters of
religion, and the houses of worship of Jew
and Gentile, Greek and Barbarian, with
out protection and unguarded, in cities and
in the wild woods, have been preserved in
violate. But, singular enough, this devilish
crime has been frequent in this latitude
since these agents for the diffusion of
knowledge have come among us, and in
the absence of legal proof it looks as
if they deemed the torch, on points of
f'aiih, a more eloquent theme than words.
And further : this argument of the torch
has not been confined to meeting houses
and chorenes and places of public worship,
hut has been applied to dwellings and gin
houses and storehouses. Owners are now
compelled to place armed guards around
such possessions, whero, before, even in the
midst, of a terrible war, the presence of
tho fiee dog was not necessary tor thoir
protection; and, strange, to say, the sacri
fice has, almost without exceptiou, been
at the cost of a “rebel,” so-called. These
facts naturally find explanation in that
early prophesy of Radicalism, that “the
property and houses of tho Southern
whites aro the bonds of their submission”
—a prophesy, which,if true, its fulfill moot
by the forfeiture of the bonds is not like
ly to advance either ‘.‘human progress" or
develop the “germs of civilization” or
promote peace on this part of the earth’s
surfaeo, or good will among men.
Reviewing tbe troubles in the past be
tween the two races in our own State, the
candid man will not fail in each particular
instance to counect the origin with at
least the presence, if not influence of
this pestilent-breeding class of Bureau (for
there is no distinction made as to their
agencies) teachers! but it gives us pleasure
to chronicle tho fact that their influence is,
day by day, growing less. The bettor por
tion of the negro population have discover
ed that the Southern people do not oppose
or hinder them in the acquisition of knowl
edge. They tell them learn what can be
learned, and take all the aid the
benevolent North will send. But firßt
of all acquire wealth bv industry.
The world is open to you. If
you have money you may enter the re
nowned portals of Harvard, and Yale, and
Nassau Hall, and doubtless the halls of
more undent renown—of Oxford and Cam
bridge in old England. But the money
must come, as it came to the forefathers
of the white raco, when this glorious
American Republic was a wildernesA—
by hard, continuous labor, and prudent
eoonomy, from generation to generation.
This class of negroes appreciate such facts,
and are prospering by labor, and, therefore,
uow, since (in the language of the report of
tho Corresponding Secretary) the Freed
men's Aid Society has “demonstrated to the
South that the oolorod people aro capable
of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the
elementary branches of education,'’ the
prospect brightens for a happy solution of
this educational question—and a few years
of good cotton crops, with good prioes,
will make tho prospect brighter still.
For the information of our readers, that
they may learn that which has been ac
complished, we re-print the following
third anniversary report of the Corre
sponding Secretary
Dr. Rust, Corresponding Secretary,
said : In submitting an abstract of our
third Annual Report, I invite attention to
a brief history of tho-operations of the so
oioty during the past year. Every con
tributor to this cause is anxious to know
what tho society has accomplished, how
much has becu collected, and how ex
pended.
Tue past year has beeu one of great
prosperity, for which we are profoundly
thaok'ul to Almighty God, and the kind
friends woo have aided us. We have sent
more teachers into the world, taught more
pupils, erected more school houses, raised
more money, and led more souls to Chri-t
than during any previous year. Especial
attention has beeD devoted to establishing
normal schools. The great want of the
South is thoroughly qualified. Christian
teachers, colored teachers to teach colored
children. This race must be elevated by
its owujleaders and educators. We cannot
meet the necessities of this people by send
ing teachers from the North, and we can
not much longer sustain the expense. Our
policy is to establish good schools for train
ing teachers, and then as quickly as they
can be qualified, place the schools in
charge ot these teachers, and look to the
colored people, for their support, and we
shall not look in vain, for, during the year,
they hare contributed nine thousand dol
lars for the support of our schools, a fact •
worthy of the highest commeudation, and
fall of promise for the future. Whoever
educates the people controls the current ot
thought, and molds future generations;
and Methodism owes it to her past history,
to humanity and to God, to take an
active part in the elevation of four mil
lions of freedmen, and the reconstruc
tion of the South upon the broad principle
of religious freedom. Iu educating this
race we give prominence to morality as
well as science, and educate the heart as
well as the head. Religion must be in
wrought into the very fabric of the soul,
and not merely impressed upon the sur
face. and this we attempt to do in the pro
cess of education, and do cot wait until
the work is completed.
LOCATION OP SCHOOLS.
We have located our schools where they
were most needed, and we could furnish
them the greatest assistance where we
could beneiit the largest number of chil
dren and reoeive the heartiest co-operation
from parents and pupils, and where the
bureau desired and would liberally aid. It
has bees a leading object with our society
to concentrate our labors and act in con
cert with the other agencies employed by
our church in the South. We have occu
pied the places selected by our missiona
ries as inviting fields of labor, acted as pio-
in jcainio/? access to localities mac
edible to other ageociss, and thus have
co-operated with our missionaries, for this
work is essentially missionary, doing that
portion of it in the South which the mis
sionary society performs in ths foreign j
field, to that it may e-jnsecrate r.s whole j
energy to pleaching the gospel, while we
cogsgj i?i the humnler work ot establish- ,
ing oo iaaod teaching the children.
This year schools have been sustained in
the following places: Nashville, Spring;
Hiil, MorlreesborcsOooperstown, MeMinn-!
▼file, Lawrenceburg, Teon.; Oxford, i
Cdhrtng’.ou, Newrao, LaGracge. Griffin, t
Graotviiie, Rome, Atlanta, Whitesville,
Greenville, Augusta, M’Donough, Pal- i
metto, Oak Hill, West Point, Summerville, j
NewtoD county, Waynesboro, Savannah,
Cass fetation, Ga.; Huntsville, Decatur, j
Evergreen, Blafftoo, Ala.; Hardinsburg,
Frankfort, Cloverport, Ky.; Baton Rouge, j
New Orleans, Franklin, Washington, La,;
Little Rock, Ark. . Richmond,Kilmarnock, ;
Wine!.ester, Va.; Charleston, Darlington, ;
Sumti r, John's Inland, Camden, St.
Stephens, Gourdin station, Midway, I
Anderson, S. C.; Washington, N. C.;
Columbus, CantoD, Holly Springs. Eater
prise, Brandon, West Jackson, Jackson,
Tupelo, Miss.
Summary of Schools—Tennessee, 7; 1
Georgia, 2o; Alabama, 4; Kentucky, 3;
Louisiana, 4; Mississippi, 8; North Caro- ’
lina, 1; South Carolina, 9; Arkansas, 4; j
Virginia, 3. Total, 60 schools.
NORMAL SCHOOL.
These are located as follow- Tennessee
College, Nashville. Tenn.; Ciark Universi
ty, A'ianta Ga. Normal‘-chool,Huntsville,
Ala.: Claflin University, Orangeburg,
S. C.; B - ker Institute, Charleston, S.C.;
Shaw University, Holly Springs, Miss.;
Union Normal school ,New Orleans, La.;
Thompson University, Franklin, La.
Wt have aieo an orphans’ asylum, locat
ed at Franklin, La., with more than a
hundred neglected orphans, gathered from i
different parts of the State, homeless or |
house’ess one*. We have furnished them |
a home, a school, and teachers, and arc j
, training them for usefulness on earth, and j
happiness in heaven.
Financial statement for the year ending j
j October 31, 1869:
' Cash collected and appropriat
! ed* from Oct- 31, 1868, to
Nov. 1, 1869 $77,815 09
j Contributed by freedmen 9,000 00 ■
I Clothing and books 7,698 41
To . 1 con ributioee $94,513 50
We take great pleasure iu acknowledge
I ing our indebtedness to the Freedmen’s
! Bureau for libera! appropriations in repairs
j and the erection of school buildings, and
j numerous facilities afforded us in the prose
| cution of our work.
RECAPITULATION.
| Number of teachers employed 105
“ pupils in day school 10,000
[ Number of pupils in Sunday
j schools 8,000
j Number in Biblical Institutes... 2
Number in Colleges and norma!
Schools 6
Number in Primary School 69
Number in Orphan Asylum 1
Number of persons converted... 1,000
Funds raised and appropriated..s94,sl2 50-
TEACHERS.
The society has sustained in the past
year, in iho field, one hundred and five
Chrisriaa teachers. They have not con
fined their labors to the ordinary hours of
tho school room, but have given their
whole time and strength to the work.
They have visited the homes of tho freed
men, impressed them with the importance
of cleanliness, industry, purity and reli
gion, and h ive awakened iu them lofty
aspirations for pure and holy lives. They
have taught in Sunday schools, aided in
sustaining class and prayer meetings, visit
ed the sick and dying, aud more than a
score of them, from Sabbath to Sabbath,
have preached to the people. They are
scarcely less distinguished as missionaries
than instructors, so sweetly do they blend
the work of teaching and leading souls to
Christ No truer missionaries have worked
for Jean?? elevating fallen humanity, and
none with more success. Ten thousand
pupils have been taught the elements of
science during the week, and nearly as
many on the Sabbath tho story of the
Cress aid the love of Jesus. Not less
than a tlibu and have been led to tho Sa
viour. Thus our teachers are laying the
foundation of usefulness in these young
hearts, and pro erupting them for a useful
life, a happy death, ami a glorious immor
tality.
We have demonstated to the South that
the oelored people aro capable of acquiring
a thorough knowledge of the elementary
| branches ot education. We have taken
! children degraded by slavery and convert
ed them into intelligent youth. The peo
ple have witnessed with astonishment the
| improvement resulting from our schools,
j The capability of culture has been denied'
to the negro by many in tbe South, and
they have bem educated into the theory
of the colon and man’s inferiority, but the
progress of the children has been so great
that public sentiment has been c’.iauged,
and it is now generally admitted colored
children make as rapid improvement as
white. Give them a chance and they will
demonstrate thoir abiiity (orange tho elevat
ed ficUlo of thought, as well as the humbler
walks of science. Already in our schools
you may listen to solutions of problems in
algebra, demonstrations in geometry, and
translations of classic authors, that would
reflect credit upon students of the tar
fan ed institutions of our country in whose
veins flow the pure blood of the Anglo-
Saxon.
We have aided in the introduction of the
common school system into ti e South,
acted as pioneers iu the free school move
ment Southward. We have furnished
Northern teachers, who have taught school
in accordance with Northern ideas so suc
cessfully as to impress the Legislatures of
several States with the exce'lenee of the
schools and the necessity of their introduc
tion. We must push forward this move
ment until the whole country becomes
dotted with these temples of science.
NKW I'll BLICATIONS.
Sabbath School Manual, or Religious
Exercises for the morning and evening
of eaoh Sabbath in the year. For the
use of fcabbatli Sohools and private
families. By N. C. Brooks, LLD.
Philadelphia ; Claxtou, Remson & Haf
felfinger.
The above is the title of a little work re
cently received from the publishers, which
we are convinced will prove very accept
able to the two classes for whose conven
ience it is designed—teachers of Sabbath
schools andbeads of families. The manual
consists of a series of exercises, which
present the great fundamental truths of
our holy religion in a way calculated to
interest the youthful uimd in the study of
the Bible, and to impiess the heart with
feelings of a religious and devotional’char
acter.
The “Manual” is for sale by D- Quinn
at his News Emporium in this city.
Scripture Manual, or Religious Exer
cises for the morning and evening of
each day in the month. For academies,
schools, and private families. By N. C.
Brooks, LL-D. Philadelphia: Clax
ton, Kemseo & KaffelfiDger.
The above work is written on the same
p!an*as is the Sabbath-school Manual; but
is intended for more general use than the
other.
, For sale in this city by D. Quinn as
above. .
Levin’s Treasure in Bank is the title
of a very handsomely bound and illustrated
book for children, issued by the publishers
of the works previously mentioned. The
little volume is very nicely gotten up and
will be read with much interest by the class
for whose amusement it is intended.
For sale in this city by D. Quinn.
Death of Mrs. Charles Mathews.
INTERESTING REMINISCENCES OF THE
EMINENT ACTOR—A GHOST IN THE CASE.
The London Era of the lOch ol October,
commenting upon the death of Mrs. Chas.
Matlv ws, the mother cf the now living
col;.. «od widow of the eminent actor
who departed this life 34 years ago, tells
the st' imre story as to the courtship and
ma' liage of the deceased lady :
The first wife ot Mr. Charles Mathews,
sr . -a Miss Strong, the daughter of a
pi v :„;an at Exeter. la 1301 she exhibit
ed ». m; gams of a decline. Oac evening
tovuiil the close of her brief life Mrs.
MeiL ■- sent her husband to request that
Me, Jackson, for whom she bad some
time K ore conceived a warm regard,
would violt her on the following day.
WLt-a iho voang t stress arrived Mrs.
Maia.**. . r oped up in bed, miißtained
a lively conversation until her husband
came in, who was delighted to find her
thus able to sit up and talk to her friend.
She told him her present cheerfulness was
the result of considerations which had in
duced her to arraase the interview. Avow
ing her conviction that no human skill
could prolong her life, she adverted to her
affection for Miss Jackson, and to that
young lady's unprotected state, and then,
taking her band and that of Mr. Mathews,
and pressing both to her own feverish lips
in a solemn manner, conjured them to
take compassion on her anxiety and pledge
themselves to become man and wife after
her death. Their agitation was extreme.
M;. Mathews reproved his wile with some
impetuosity for placing him in such a di
lemma, and Miss Jackson, throwing her
self upon her knees, besought the pardon
of the dying woman for her refusal tooom
t ly, representing the impossibility of her
affiancing herself to a man for whom she
entertained no warmer feeling than that of
friendship. She then quitted the chamber
followed by Mr. Mathews, who implored
her not to harbor a suspicion that he bad
been aware of hi» wife’s intention, which
he attributed to something like a delirium i
produced by her feverish state. In the i
Mav tj'bwiog Mrs. Mathews' illness ter
minated in death. For some time after
that event a natural degree of distance was '
observed between the widower and Miss
Jackson. By degrees, however, the mu
tual coldness wore off and a feeling of re
gard was growing up between them, when
a circumstance occurred still more remark
able than the dying woman s appeal.
Mr. Mathews’ account of his impressions
was as follows: “He had gone to rest after
a very late night’s performance at the j
theatre, finding himself too fatigued to sit !
up till his usual hour to read but after he ‘
was in bed he discovered—a3 will happen j
when persons attempt to sleep before their i
accustomed time—that to close his eyes was I
an impossibility. He had no light, nor the \
means of getting one, ail tie family being ■
in bed, but tbe night was not absolutely j
dark— ; t was only too dark for the purpose j
of rcadiug; fodeed every object was visible. I
Still he endeavored to go to sleep, but his i
eyes refused to close, and in this state of
restlessness he remained, when suddenly a
slight rustling, as of a hasty approach of
something, induced him to turn his head
to that side of the bed whence the noise j
seemed 19 proceed, and there he cleariy \
beheld tho figure of his late wife, in her j
habit as she lived, who, smiling sweetly i
upsb him, put forth her hand as if to take
his, as she bent forward. This was ail he !
oouid relate, for, in shrinking from the I
contact with the figure he beheld, he threw
himself out of bed upon the floor, where,
the fall having alarmed the house, his
landlord found him in a fit. :On his
recovery he related the cause of the
accident, and the whole of the fol
lowing day he remained extremely ill and
was unable to quit his room.” The re
markable fact is that at the exact hour at
which Mr. Matthews was thus affec ed a
vision of the same kind occurred to Miss
Jackson. “The same sleepless effect,” she
says, “the same cause of terror, had occa
sioned me to seize the beil rope in order to
summon the people of the house, which,
giving way at the moment, I fell with it in
my band upon the ground. My impres
sions of this visitation, as I persisted it
was, were exactly similar to those of Mr.
Mathews. The parties with whom we re
sided at the time were perfect strangers
to-each other, and living widely apart, and
they recounted severally to those about i
them the extraordinary dream —for such it
wjll be called, although my entire belief :
will never be shaken that I was as perfect
ly awake as at this moment. The.-c per
sons lepeated the story to many before
they were requested to meet and compare
accounts. There could, consequently, be
no doubt of the facts, and the circum
stance became a matter of much general
interest among all who knew us.”
| After such a sympathy between the wid
| ow and the friend of the departed wife, it
was not surprising that the dying request
should be fulfilled. On the 28th ot March,
1803, Miss Jackson became the wife of
Mr. Mathews.
Death of Kx-tiov. Wlckllffe.
Hon. Charles Wickliffe, Ex Governor of
Kentucky, died at the residence of his son
in-law in Howard county, Maryland, on
the 31st of Ootober. Governor Wickliffe
was a native of Bardstown, Kentucky,
born June 8, 1788; ho was in the 82nd year
of his age at the time of his decease. He was
long prominent in Kentucky politics, hav
ing been elected to the Kentucky Legisla
ture in 1812 of which body he continued a
member until his election to Congress in
1823. Ho was four times re-elected to
Congress and for several sessions was
Chairman of the Committee ou Public
Land; l . Returning from Congress in 1833,
he was eiecteu to the Legislature and was
chosen Speaker in 1834; elected Lieut.
Governor in 1836; became Governor by
the death of Governor Clarke in 1839;
was appointed Postmaster General by
President Tyler in 1841; was sent on a
secret mission to Texas, touching annex i
tion, by President Polk in 1845; elected a
member of in 1861, and was a
member of the Crittenden “Peace Conven
tion” of that year, and served as Repre
sentative of Kentucky until the close of the
thirty-seventh Congress.
He was a delegate to the Chicago Con
vention of 1866.
Frauds In tho Pennsylvania Election.
The Democracy of Pennsylvania are de
man ling an investigation of the late elec
tion returns for Governor. Fraud in the
count is alleged, audit is claimed that a
majority of the people of Pennsylvania
voted for Asa Pucker for Governor, but
that Radical “election managers returned
John W. Geary as the elect by a final
count,” which counted Packer out and
Geary in. It is alleged that Packer car
ried the city of Philadelphia by three
thousand majority, or more, but that a
“final Radical count” gave the city of
Brotherly Love to Geary by four thou
sand four hundred majority, and that,
like “final counts,” were made iu the
Radical strongholds of Bradford, Ches
ter, Dauphin, Erie, Linoaster, &e.
Greeley charges the New York Democ
racy with “voting early and often,” with
having “professional repeaters.” But
“repeating” is the work of Jack'legs, a
rough, bungling method. Tho Radicals
do things in a' more artistic style. A “final
count" is neat, elegint and scientific,
and mathematically certain. If the first
count fails as to the design, a neat ac
coutant supplements until the design is
attained, aud then the “count” is made
final and official bj certificates, elegant in
penmanship. The Radicals disdain “re
pealing,” but believe that there is nothing
better than to count well, and best of all
a “final count.” Tho Pennsylvania Radi
cals, doubtless, had the benefit of some of
General Meade’s reconstructing officials
and experts in registration- We are quite
assured that they cannot be excelled on “a
final count” in a “reconstruction affair.”
Pacific Railroad Earnings.
Tbe Sner.-incnto Union, dissents from the
estimate which places the earnings of the
Union Pacific Railroad at $8,000,000. It
say*: “The road will, of course, be block
ed by snows during parts of January,
March, and April, of each year. The
Secretary of the Central Pacific Rtilroad
(from San Francisco to Promontory Point)
reports the gross earnings of that road,
for the six mouths ending September 30th,
at $3,300,000 in gold, or $4,400,000 in cur
rency. This half of the year includes
April, which the Union remarks it probably
the month that offers greatest obstructions
to transportation over the Sierra Nevada.
The first half of May might also be in
cluded as not much more profitable than
April. Land-slides aoJ snow-slides are
frequent during these six weeks. In
March, February, and January there are
usually heavy snows, and last Winter was
no exception to the rule." Making the
necessary deductions for interruptions on
the two roads during these lour and a half
months, the Union thinks the annual gross
earniDgs of the Central Pacific will be
$5,940,000 in gold, or $7,920,000 in cur
rency and those of the Union Pacific,
$5,000,000 in gold, $6,660,000 in currency,
making tbe total gross receipts of the en
tire line for the year ending June Ist,
1870, $14,580,000 in currency.
These large earnings demonstrate the
profitableness (by reason of the enormous
traffic between the Atlantic and Pacific
coast) just in its infancy, and the necessity
for a more Southern Pacific line, v liich
will not be blocked for “four and a half
months," by heavy snows.
Revenue Troubles.
The Washinaton correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquire r states that the ques
tion of sending troops into the various
Southern States to aid the revenue officers
in enforcing the taw is engaging the atten
tion of the administration, and considera
ble doubts are expressed as to the recent
proceedings in Florida and North Carolina.
The Attorney General is of the opinion
that the Government cannot send troops
into a State whose relations are fully re
st red to the Union, except incases of in
surrection and invasion, and only then
when called upon by the Governor or the
Legislature of said State. In cases where
the Federal laws are violated, proclama
tion is required from the President before
a military force can be used. Revenue
offioers state that the legal difficulty must
be overcome by some means, for they can
not oollect the ievenue inoertain sections
without either the assistance of military
or naval force. A leading Radical mem
ber of Congress is reported to have sug
gested a rather “short eat ’ to remedy
these troubles. He favored Congress
passing a bill declaring those States not
reconstructed, and remanding them to
military control again. It was suggested
that, as they were in the Union, and sep
resented in Congress, there would be some
legal difficulty in the Way. He replied j
that it could be easily overcome, and he j
was in favor any way of trying the experi
ment. This is a fair sample of the good
faith exhibited* by the Radicals. They j
care nothing for laws or compacts when
these staud in their way.
The Fife.enti Amendments.
The New York Herald says that in Mis
sissippi and in the South the negroes are -
called ‘‘Fifteenth Amendments.”- The
Herald is usually correct in noting popu- ’
lar currents, especially io popular phrases, I
but in this instance is in error. Tbe ne- 1
groes in Mississippi and in the South are !
“Fourteenth Amendments.” The Chinese i
are called and known as the “Fifteenth j
Amendments,” because they arc the last
and bivgest “Amendments” that the great 1
republic can devise, and are destined to
overshadow iu numbers aud influence
every other nation and kindred and tongue
on the continent, covering North, South,
East and West, the Atlantic seaboard, the j
Mississippi valiey and the Pacific coast, I
according to Senator Patterson, who has
recently made a trip to California, and is I
now lecturing on China. Chinese immigra
tion, is manifest destiny by hundreds of
thousands, by tens of millions. This
Senator is reported as saying :
“This is becoming a living question j
East and West. You might as well at- j
tempt to legislate against the flow of Ni- \
agara hs against theiicomicgof the China- ;
man. They w.l! come, /whether you will j
or not, and that, too, by the hundred !
thousand. Forty millions might come in,
and China would never miss them. The j
genius ,of our institutions admits them,
but they must be assimilated—ilieir long
queues must be cut off- they must be edu
cated and Christianized.”
An immigration by the hundred thou
sa 3, under the Fifteenth Amendment,
will soon control the political destinies of
the Republic, a3 “the genius of our in
stitutions admit them.” They are to be
assimilated, but we suppose that in the
process of assimilation, action and reaction
will be mutual. Should the Celestial Em
pire spare us forty millions, which she is
likely to do, as, according to the Senator,
j “she will never miss them,” these “Fif
! teenth Amendments” will regenerate and
| reconstruct the Republic according to
I Chinese standards. We shall then have
! progress, Celestial progress, where we now
! have Radical progress. Opium will take
the place of whiskey, as the source of
I legislative inspection, and the beetle that
! of tobaeco.
The Case of Tborini-ton vs. Smith A Hart
ley.—Decision of the Supreme Court.
The decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States, Chief Justice Chase de
livering the opinion, in the case of Thor
ington vs. Smith & Hartley, has elicited
general comment from the Northern
press.
Os course the Radicals are seriously
alarmed at the ill-concealed treason, which
they think lurks in the body of the decis
ion, but soma of their leading presses con
gratulate themselves that the Court has
left lor implication much, which, if openly
uttered, would go far to show the right
fulness aud legality of the late Confederate
Government.
The truth is, the United States Govern
ment again and again during the war, by
express enactments, by cartels for the ex
change of prisoners of war, and by their
several attempts to make a treaty of peace
with the Confederate Government, rec
ognized the legality ol the latter, and act
ed as though it was in fact what it
purported to be a de facto government,
having and exercising all the prerogatives
and powers of governments.
Since the war esnded there has been a
continuous effort on the part of the Radi
cals to ignore the action of the Federal
Government during the war on thi3 sub
ject. This they were compelled to do io
order that their schemes for Reconstruc
tion might be carried out and ens ced.
Their theory on this subject has been
rudely overturned by Judge Chase in this
and previous decisions on cognate subjects,
and hence the cry of treason which is
now heard throughout the North.
Judge Cause distinctly announces that
contracts made between citizens of'the late
Confederate Government cab be enforced
in tho United States Courts, and that,
even though they stipu'ate for payment
to be made ia Confederate Treasury notes
This was the great principle involved in
the case before the Court, and it is defi
nitely and finally settled.
The other points which followed have
been, decided according to the rule laid
down in the Ordinance of the Georgia
State Convention of 1865. These Confed
erate contracts, when sued upon in Fed
eral Courts, will be scaled in accordance
with their value at the time in lawful cur
rency.
A telegraphic report of the decision is
hereto subjoined :
The facts in this case may be briefly
stated as follows :
In the month of November, 1804, Smith
& Hartley, of Montgomery, Ala., pur
chased of one Thorington, of the same city,.
Ia tract of land, tor which they agreed to
pay $45,000. They did pay him $35,000,
and gave their note for the balance—slo,-
i 000. To recover these SIO,OOO Thonng
; ion brought suit in the United States Cir
| cuit Court for Alabama. The deleiee iu
. eisted that at the time of the transaction
iff' authority of the United States was tx
j eluded from that po>. tion of the State of
Alabama, where ail the parties resided,
; and tho Lilly currency in use consisted of
i Confederate Treasury Botes. It was also
! insisted that the law! purchased was worth
| no more than $3,00.0 in lawful money; that
I the contract price was $45,000; that this
| w<*.a to be paid in Confederate notes; that
; $35,000 were actually paid ia these note?,
and that the note given for the lemaining
SIO,OOO was to b discharged in ti e same
manner; and it was claimed on this state
j of facts that the vendor ia entitled to no
• relief in. a court cf the United States.
This claim wa* sustained in the lower
court, and the bill was dismissed. Thoring
tou then carried his case to the Supreme
Court.
The questions before the SupiemeCourt
upon the bill were these:
1. Can a contract lor the payment of
Confederate notes, made during the late
rebellion between parties re-idiog within
tho Confederate States, be enforced at *ll
in the courts of the United States?
“• Can evidense bo received to prove
that a promise expressed to be.for the pay
ment of dollars was in fact made for the
payment of any other than lawful dollars
of the United States ?
3. Does the evidence in the record estab
lish the fact that the note for SIO,OOO was
to be paid, by agreement of the parties,
in Confederate notes?
It cannot be questioned that the Con- |
federate notes were issued in furtherance ;
of an unlawful attempt to overthrow the :
Government ot the United States. Nor
is it a doubtful principle of iaw that no
contracts made in aid oi such an attempt
can be enforced through the epurts of a
country whose Government is thus as
sailed. But wis the contract of iLe par
ties to this suit a contract in aid of the re
bellion?
[The Chief Justice here sketched in a
few graphic sentences the origin and char- I
actor of the Confederate Government, and
the difference between a de facto Govern
ment and a Government de jure, illustr.it- j
ing it by interesting examples from English
history.]
It is very certain that the Confederate j
Government was not acknowledged by the
United States as a de facto Government.
Nor was it so acknowledged by other
Powers. No treaties were made by it. No
obligations of a national character were
created by it binding after its dissolution
by the’ States which it represented, or on
the National Government.
The central government established for
the Confederate States was a government
of force sustained by military power, and
the rights and obligations of a belligerent
power were conceded to it in its military
character very soon after the war began, ;
by the United States, from motives of hu
manity and expediency. The whole ter
ritory held by it was thereupon held to be :
enemy’s Territory. Within its limits the
authority of the Confederate Government
was supreme. Tuat supremacy would not
justify acts of hostility to the United
States, but it made obedience to its author
ity not only a necessity but a duty. With
out such obedience civil order was impossi
ble. It was by this government exercising
its power through an immense territory
that the Confederate' notes were issued ,
early in the war, and those notes in a short
time became almost exclusively the cur
rency of the seceded States. As contracts,
except in the contingency of suooe-sfnl
revolution, these notes were nullities,
for, except in that event, there could be no
payment. They bore, indeed, this charac
ter upon their face; for they were made
payable only * after the ratification of a
treaty of peace between the Confederate 1
States and the United States of America.”
While the war lasted, however, they had a
certain contingent value, and were used !
in nearly all the business transactions of j
many millions of people- it seem3 to tol- ';
low as a necessary consequence from the ;
actual supremacy of the Confederate gov
ernment that this currency must be regard
ed in courts of law in the same light as if *
it haa been issued by a. foreign govern- j
ment temporarily occupying part of the
territory of the United States.
We cannot doubt that. such contracts ,
should have beeu enforced it the courts of I
the United States. The first gue tion,there- j
fore, must receive an affirmative answer, j
The second question to be consioered. j
It is quite clear that a contract to pay do.- ;
lars made between citizens of any State of j
the Union which maintains its constitution
al relations with the National Government
is a contract to pay lawful money of the i
United States, and cannot be modified or
explained by parole evidence. It is equal- j
ly clear that if, in any ether country, coins
or notes denominated dollars should be
authorized of a different value from the
coins or notes which have been current
under that name, evidence would be ad
i mitted to prove their equivalent value iu
j lawful money of the United Stales. _ The
| same rule must apply in the case of the
; Confederate Government. Our answer to j
j the second question must also be in the :
affirmative.
With regard to the third question, it is
enough to say that it has left no doubt on j
I our minds that the note for SIO,OOO, to en- i
1 force the payment of which suit was j
brought in the Circuit Court, was to be ;
: paid by agreement in Confederate notes, j
j It follows that the judgment of the Circuit ;
; Court must be reversed, and the cause
remanded for new trial in conformity '
j with this opinion.
The Injunction Sustained. —-The
Macon 7 degraph says His Honor Judge
1 Cole has fi;ed his opinion ,n the Superior
Court Clerk’s office, in that city, in which
I he sustains the injunclion certain parties
obtained against the Southwestern Rail
| road Company, restraining said Company
: in the purchase of stock in the Atlantic
and Gulf Road. His Honor bases his opin
| ion upon the merits of the case and the
i uniform decision of both English and
I American Courts, where identically the
1 same question has been presented. In his
i opinion, Judge Cole asserts that nowhere
| in the charter of the Southwestern Rail
i road Company can he find any authority
for purchasing stock in other roads or mis
j applying, in any manner, the funds of the
j Company; and if the Company can pur
j chase stock in one road it can in another,
j or if it can purchase one railroad, it oan
purchase all the roads ia the State, if it
has the means and credit, a thing never
contemplated in the charter and which will
not be tolerated for a moment. He therefore
refuses to dissolve tbe injunction as moved
by the defendants. The case will probably
be taken to the Supreme Court.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
j SPECIAL correspondence CHRONICLE 1
• SENTINEL.
j Hulbert Whips the Fight The Augusta
Mink Foiled—Mole Hill Work — Bul
lock After a Dictatorship—His Pimps
and Tools—The Slander Mills —Kw
Klux Organs—Municipal Elections--
i State Road— Unfounded Rumors—Sen
atorial Speculations.
Atlanta, November 4,1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
j Hulbert will be retained as Superintend
ent of the State R ad. Blodgett only
| failed in his mov ment because Hulbert
j knew too mush to be turned out. Bullock
can’t turn bimout without striking a snag,
i Ah ! those registration frauds rise up like
| Banquo’s ghost. Bat Hulbert is a shrewd
1 manager, as the people cf Georgia know to
I their cost. He may be of material benefit
to the people in ridding them of a pluoder
ier and thief. A Senator, whose chances
i arc very fair for being President of the
I Senate, in case Bullock is impeached, is re
ported to have said that Builock would be
impeached, and the State Road placed in
charge of a commission, of whom Hulbert
would be one. Ah ! that car-load of coal!
j Bullock, it is rumored, will remain North
until after the meeting of Congress, striv
ing with might and main to get Georgia
back under military rule, with himself as
virtual Dictator. YV bile he is absent, the
machine is run by his sprinted Secretary,
“Paul,” who ia osrtainly not au apo6tle of
righteousness- He is a steady practitioner
at the “bar.”
The “Slander mill” will uow woik vig
orously to assist Bullock in his nefarious
schemes. The Radical Methodist Advocate
and the Era work together in running the
mill. In their efforts to degrade us, they
spare not Christianity itself.
The municipal election is exciting con
siderable attention. The double faced
Intelligencer is tiying to introduce the Tro
jan horse into municipal politics, and
throw the city into the hands of the Philis
tine.-!. Yesterday was set apart for the
nomination of a Democratic candidate for
Mayor. Three men —all good Democrats
—agreed to abide tbe result—but owing to
a squabble about negroes voting in the
nomination, two withdrew, and left Dr.
Alexander alone in the field. The Slander
mill immediately telegraphed it North as
an evidence of Atlanta disloyalty.
The Georgia Road received as gross
earnings for September and October,s2s9,-
000. The State Road paid in $50,000,
leaving wood and tie cutters in the cold.
Where is the $150,000 or $200,000 it
sbculd have made ?
There are many Democratic lawyers in
the city who have not been “retained” by
the Governor. Has the contingent fund
become exhausted ? Or has the Governor
secured the influence that will put him in
Dr. Millers’s seat ? (Shades of the great i
who have occupied it, forbid!]
The rumor that Fitch, cf Griffin, and
the “modei” boot-lick were to receive the
appointment of flunkey to His Excellency,
is discredited in official circle*. Hus Bo
vinity looks higher.
The subject of checkmating Bullock for
Senator is being diacusred. Astraigkt-out
raco between him and the vilest negro thief
under Giant, Alexander & Cos. may not be
itripossible. [Hard on tbe darkey, isn’t j
it?] If tho election is held, however,
Hon. Milton A. Cancller, of I)_Kalb, or ;
Major Joseph B. Camming, of your city, [
will be the choice of the whites. If the!
negroes are admitted, the legislature will ■
be classified, Ist whites; 2rd, negroes ; 3rd,
Republicans, 4th, Bsauro-crals or Scala- 1
wags.
Look out for Ku-klox outrages reported
by the slander mill and its trash screens 1
Hannibal.
letters to the young men of the
south.
LETTER 111.
The I’errectiou of Error.
If I were an artist there are two pic
tures I should paint with ardor. The first
is, that of a Knight. Ilis helmet is
thrown back and beneath it flows his
long dark He is leaning forward
and dipping his cup into a moun
tain stream. His face is one of sin
gular beauty. Right here is where
words fail. I can refer to regularity;
firmness of finish; intellectual cist ;
manly finnnees and slreugth, but of
course individual features can be por
trayed only upon canvas. Were Ia
painter I might represent that singular
expression and those wondrous eyes, so
unutterably glorious, yet so strangely sad.
These are mere generalities which the
imagination of others may fill with con
ceptions of their own. But all who might
gaze up n that face would agree that it
was the countenance of a born leader of i
men.
Now it is a fact odd enough, i
but true, that thirst, especially in a war
rior or a traveller, appeals in a.siogular
manner to human sympathy. I once j
knew a soldier who obtained a fair shot at
his enemy on picket, who was dipping his
canteen i.ito a spring only a few paces off.
But he declined to shoot because, said I
the man id his Liunt way, “I hadn’t the
heart to kill him when he came down
there to get a drink of wa'er.” I should
take advantage of this principle ia human
nature as a matter of art, and the knignt
should be represented as I have described,
and gain in his behalf the sympathy of the i
beholder- Now just as he lean* oyer to j
dip the cup in the stream his breast-plate ,
falls forward from the change of position, I
and out from toe vacant space thus made
around his neck there darts a serpent.
Th° ready hand seizes him ere he strikes, i
and holds him off hissing, disappointed and j
aghast. The back ground and all the '
other features of the picture are pleasant, j
calm and still, so that the attention is not ;
distracted, and all of evil is concentrated i
upon the serpent as its sole embodiment.
The Knight’s right hand which holds the
cup has stopped, with a slight appearance j
of negligence. Advantage is taken of this
as an opportunity for intensification. The
importance of the right hand has become ,
suddenly superseded by the transcendent
activity of the left. Hence there is s |
pause. But it is net a pause of doubt or !
indecision. That hand has seen the ae i
tions of its brother hand in many a hard I
fought battle. It has no doubt of its truth ;
aud its courage. Io a moment it has '
measured tho field, has taken in the situa
tioa. It pauses than, cairn, halt affection- !
ate, full of confidence in its companion,
and ready to interfere iu ca e of necessity. |
But the very noo-inleif rente of this right
hand intensifies the glory of the left, '
and they both bow in the fullness I
of design to the Knight’s own true :
heart whose beating warms them into life.
But near that heart itseli tho serpent has
lain hid the whole daylong. By some ac
cident the guileful creature gained access
to the knight’s armor when he was a.-leep.
and secreted hmself between the breast
plate and the •coat-of-mail. There he
awaited the opportunity to leap forth in an
unlooked for moment with tho venom of
his hate, while the knight rode onward, un. \
conscious of the danger that lay concealed
j in Lis own breast.
My second picture, would be that of a
| marble statue. Thereis no back-ground, bt- j
; cause the statue, befog itself a work of art, j
i a back-ground would make it a picture
within a picture, which is iuartistie. Half
°f the figure is fiunished and finely chisel- :
ed. The other half is still in the rock, j
The face is lofty, resolute, and singularly j
beautiful. Botti of the arms are finished:
i one of them holds a mallet aloft, and the
| other a sculptor’s chisel. The statue is 1
represented as carving itself. By its own i
I will and over ruling energy it has called its
\ own form out from the unorganised re
i cesses of rock. It embodies, an im- :
1 pulse inherent, self-created, and within it
j lies the geim of its progress, aud tbe
: law of its self-development. The attitude
and the expression of the face seem ever
to utter these words: "Give me time and
\ I will become a god!"
I . V irtue cased in armor, riding for
right the livelong day, untroubled
j by the tempter, untrapped by the foe.
I This is [the lesson of the first t icture.
j Strongly arrayed in honesty, and practiced
:in the leady battle of right,a man is not apt
to be taken by surprise or tempted by a sud
den onset of sin. But if evil be successful
is its ambuscade such a man is ready to
meet it upon the spot. This is tho contrcl.
'which human nature can acquire over its
own actions and thoughts.
Oar second picture exhibits the power
which a man has to cut ard change
the lineaments of his owa character- No
potter’s clay is more thoroughly under the
control of the hand that fashions it than
the character of a resolute man is under the
j control of his will. We believe that if the
j reader, at this very moment holding this
j paper between his thumb anddbupfinger,
! should resolve in his heart of hearts
jto change his very nature, and to
i make himself anything that be please,
he would not be attempting an impossibili
: ty. Steadily when the will has gone forth
j the change begins along every current of
j his being. .Suddenly his hand crushes the
j soft paper in the convulsive energy of his
i resolve, and it he has already fornieu an
I ideal of human nature he turns to it now
| withan earne.it purpose. Riader, this
S thing is in your power. Sou can conquer
j that vice. You can quit those bad habits
| you are thinking of. You can carve and
I cut, and fashion your character, even as
j the sculptor does the marble at bis will.
I In every thought of the heart, in every
i aotion of life, who else is it but you that
thinks and acts? If you are troubled by
the sight of errors in your moral body
patiently carve them away with the
chisel and hammer ol' conscience.—
The task will be wearisome and pain
ful but oh! how glorious the result!
The old saying “that a leopard cannot
change bis spots,’' like many others of its
kind, is .given too wide an application,
j That a man will not correct his error is too
: often true, that he. is not likely to do so is
I also true, but that he cannot is false. Day
I by day, hour by hour, keeping watch like
a sentinel over our own heart, lust in its
baserborn depravity it should commit some
new fault; to do this, and to do this well,
is possible to all men. Prom haviug ouce
been foolish, a man may became wise; hav
ing once been a coward, he- may become
brave; having once been a liar, he may be
come the embodiment of truth. Search
diligently for your errors. Notice Oie ef
fect of your words aud actions upon other
people. Whenever they appear disgusted
| with you, instead of being offended
study first the cause; you will be
; most likely to discover it within
j yourself, somewhere iu your manners
ior in the sentiment you have been
I uttering. “Pump” other people in regard
to yourself, not with the hope of being
I complimented, but with the cool purpose
| of finding out what disinterested parlies
think of you, and with the intention of
j profiting by the informatio' • Be always
watching for defects, and carry out this
j principle in the smallest thing as will as
I the greatest.
Sometimes your pride will be your worst
enemy. Doubtless the artificial forms of
! life have carried you far off from from all
I innocence and naturalness of heart. Here
I you can learn something from children,
| little girls the best of ad. Watch
| these guileless creatures and even imitate
them as far a3 consistent with the proper
wants of your manly nature. Be ready to
learn, anywhere, everywhere, and from
any person whatever, who can tell you
of a uew fault or teach you a plan
of reform. There are men whose care .r
has been-thwarted by small faults, trivial
personal peculiarities, which, from some
inconceivable cause, they seem never to
havo noticed, at any rote, never to have
corrected. For example, we have in mind
a gentleman, not without talen , energy
and honor, who labors und- r a fault, so
trivial that we are reluctant to mention ir,
but which many of his friends think has
seriously damaged him through life. In
conversation, be has a habit at the end of
nearly every sentence of distorting and
throwing back his upper lip as if tasting,
To go no further, we would simply re
i mark, that tho performance does not add
i anything to the force of what he says,
j How this gentleman could have reached
j middle life without correcting so simple a
I fault (which is not a natural defect),
seems incredible.
We trust you will agree thattlie correc
tion of error is not less in importance than
| the cultivation of positive excellence. The
I desire of reform must of course be first
boro in the heart, but after that, ell the
labor will be upon the outward surface,
i that is in our every day actions and
thonglits.
All these are obedient to the will
TO-MORROW.
OUR TEA YELLING CORRESPONDENT, *
On the Wing, Nov. 5, 18G9.
Editors Chronicle <k Sentinel:
Arriving at Madison on the Ist instant,
I put up at Col. Ross’ hotel. I was pleas
ed to notice the improvements recently
made, particularly upon the exterior of the
building, which makes it quite an orna
ment to the business portion of the town.
Col. Ross has won an enviable reputation
in his business, and seas a run of custom
highly creditable to his energy, taste and
skill. The Colonel extends a cordial wel
come to his guests, and by bis courtesy and
politeness at once them feel easy
and at home. This department of at
tractions of Madison is all that could be
desired.
The work of rebuilding is rapidly going
on Several magnificent stores are on the
way, which will compare favorably with
any in Middle Georgia. It seems the pro
jectors have adopted a policy ,of insurance
for themselves, by constructisg upon tbe
fire-proof system. The destructive fire has
resulted in the development of a degree of
energy and effort un the part of the peo
ple that commends itself to our admiration,
and the stir and excitement in business
circles is an assurance that wiil be re- j
warded.
On Monday evening Judge Robinson ar
rived and proceeded with the organization
iot the Court His charge to the Grand
Jury was well conceived, wise in counsel,
! and forcible in admonition to observe and
j ober the laws, as the onlv safeguard to life,
| liberty and property. A government that
! accomp.ished the great ends of justice, that
made law the terror of evil doers, and the
I praise of those that did well, was the gift
; of God, and ind srensabie to the peace,
j security and happiness of the people.—
: Nothing more disgraceful to civilization,
! and fatal in its results, than a system of
authority that h'd to be vindicated in dis
| guise and under cover of midnight dark
ness. Let the people rise in the majesty
of their power, and enforce the laws. Their
1 country’s honor and every interest demands
it, and they were fully competent for these
high aod sacred obligations.
Let the pardoning power be held to a
rigid accountability for intercepting the
penalties of the law, and then may the
objects which ail desire be accomplished, j
I did not witness much of the business
of the Court, wbicli seemed to be heavy,
and quite an amount of litigation going on.
There was one criminal case disposed of j
which excited considerable feeling among '
the people. A young man, in company ‘
with another, who has since absconded,
assaulted an old gentleman on the high
way and robbed him of two dollars. The i
one brought to trial was found guilty and
sentenced to five years hard labor in the ;
Pemtentiary. And should he be pardoned
out he had better never show hU face in i
Morgan county.
It is thought he belongs to a clan of !
desperadoes who are going through the
country, committing acts of indiscriminate
violence and plunder, which, if true, he
did not get justice; still the Judge said he
went just as far as the law allowed him.
I shall remember with kind regards my
roommates, Col. Lewis of Greene, Col.
Loftin of Jasper, and Major McDaniel of
WaltoD. Three more olever and courteous
gentlemen are hard to find, and I shall
cherish a found recollection of our social
festivals, and hope at some future time we
may meet at the Madison Hotel.
TRAVELLER. 1
_____ _ agriculture. |
Gossip upon the Material Condition or
Georgia.
The statement i f the Alb my News, that '
Col. B. G. Lockett wiil gather seventeen :
bales of cottoD. weighiug 500 pounds each,
from six acres, realizes, to a great extent, !
some of our speculations of last Summer \
upon the actual productive c. pacify of an i
acre in cottou- This was 1,416 pounds of
lint cotton to the acre, or three bales of
472 pounds each. It is making six acres do,
according to the general average ot old
fashioned planting—that is, ol
lour acres to the hale—the work of seventy
two acres, aud we think it would puzzle
almost any planter to put upon six acres
the expense of labor aud manuring which
would pe required in labor alone to fence
and cultivate,in the most shallow and
draggle-tailed method, sevcniy-two acres, i
iu order to produce the same eighteen j
bales of white, short and lastr less stuff 1
which would have been the produce un
der the old four-acre-to-tho-bale system.
We say, then, if Col. B. G. Lockett
shall exhibit this product of six acres at
the Fair with proof, he will have estab
lished, beyond controversy, that high cul
ture and heavy manuring must be the
economical method of producing cottou.
His crop of six acres is woith, at 25 cents
per pound, $2,125, allowing it to be only
what it must bo—a superior growth of a
common variety ol short staple cotton- But
as it is probable that his crop was raised
from choice seed, aud the staple being im
proved by heavy manuring and nice cul
ture, we presume the crop may be worth
35 cents a pound, or $2,975 iu .gross.
Now let us compare such a crop with an
ordinary fair crop, of eighteen bales to fifty
four acres of throe acres to the bale, worth
say according to the first valuation,s2,l2s
- has been saved and what lost?
Allowing the labor oi breakiug up one acre
well was equal to treating three acres in
the common way, he saved the breaking
iup of thirty-six acres. In tillage he saved
| the fencing of forty eight acres. Iu pick
ing, ha saved absolutely one-half the
labor of gaiherirg such a crop off of fifty
four acres —because the same crop on six
acres would present to the picker tbe cot
ton almost massed—in largo, heavy bolls—
so that we believe the hand in the six
acres would gather three times as much in
the day as a hand in tho fifty-four acres.
Now, if we were to admit that Col.
Lockett applied even forty dollars’ worth
of fertilizers t each acre of this cotton we
would still believe that ho saved the entire
I vaiue of the fertilizers [s24o) in the labor
jof cultivation and gathering alone. That
■ strikes us as the philosophy and economy
> of high culture, and we believe it is as
! applicable to cotton as to a bed of cabbage
| or cauliflowers.
This is now the drift in Georgia. A spirit
of earnest inquiry and improvement per
vades our whole farming i tcrest, and
i nothing has awakened so much attention
as these “brag aores” or experiments in
high culture, which have been reported io
our papers from time to time. Yud it is so
in other States; for we hve had letters
from all parts of the South making anxious
inquiries about progress and resal e. \Ve
have one to-day from Shugualak, Mississip
j pi, if anybody knows where that is, about
j Mr. Gustia’s brag acre. We undertake to
say the result of Col. Lockett’s experiment
wiil arrest the attention of the whole eot
tin growing region and turn the thoughts
of people anew from great areas to dose
and careful culture.
! Just alter the close of the war we were
disposed to think that cur plantation econ
| omy would be changed iuto that of small
| arms and multiplied tenants. But that
I does uot seem to be the tendency. The
j' disposition everywher i seems to be to
| concentration and enlargement of farm
operations, and we shall probably see, in a
few years, even greater individual crops
produced than were ordinarily shown in
the days of slavery. The planters seem to
; be anxious to increase their landed pos-'
J sessions, and some of them are massing
| tracts often to twenty thousand acres.
Many of these planters say it is better to
: eulj rich spots hero and there and raise
! their cotton upon them than to manure.
I But that is a fallacy which they will ds
| cover, we hope, in time to save Georgia
from such a skimming, and we might say,
skinning process, by which, in a few years,
their vast landed possessions would be re
duced to so many unsightly wastes—fence
less, gulled and weedy tracts, disclosing in
I equal proportions a growth <jf broom sedge
and scruboak and pipe—the picture of
desolation and bad farming. The prosper
ousjplauter, on the other hand, whether
large or small, will show his compact,well
fenced farm— his green meadows and clo
ver fields—bis sleek stock— his land all
free from gullies and washes and every
thing neat and sightly about him*— Macot\
Telegraph.
Fro-n the Proceedings of the Cincinnati Horlilcultur
Society .*
Culture of Tomatoes.
lUr. Frank Murphy was called upon to
give his experience in the culture of to
matoes. Mr. Murphy (who is our most
successful cultivator of this vegetable,
or fruits,) said that Jie usually sowed his
tomato seeds ! or his early crop in Lot
beds, about the middle of February. His
beds were made by putting good soil only
three inches iq depth over the manure.
He arranged to have the young plants
tour inches apart, in rows; and, to give
them a stalky growth, drew a knife blade
between the rows occasionally, both ways.
He sometimes transplanted into another
bad, and in that case the plants were
placed eight inches apart each way. The
transplanting seemed to aid in giving to
tbe tomato plants a still more stalky growth.
It was an object wiihhnn to keep his plants
growing ali the time. Hewauted no inter
ruption to their continued growth. Be
cause, if once stunted,.they never seemed
fully to recover fro a it. When his plants
were transplanted to the open ground
(which was usually done about the fif
teenth of May); the work was very care
fully done by thrusting a shovtl under
the plants, and taxing up about six inches
of earth and manure. That is ali the soil
and about three inches also of the manure
The plants thus taken up were carefully
placed in the one horse wagon and taken
to the field already prepared to receive
them. In this way only about two dozen
were taken to each load, fa the field the
plants were placed six tbet apart each way,
by the side of stakes standing two and one
half feet out'of the ground,, to which stakes
the plants as soon as sot were tied. At
this time his plan's woo'd be eighteen ;
inches to two aud a hail" feet high. Mr. |
Murphy believes in shallow planting.
The ground at this season js not warm to j
much dei lb, and the roots should t e kept |
from earning in contact with the cold un-j
der soil as much possible.
By taking such pains to have early to
matoes he realizes high prices for those
first in market. From oue picking this
season of from six hundred plants he had
eight bushel*, which he sold at six dollars
a bushel. Ha saves seed each year from
the tomatoes which are the first to .ripen.
As the first peck or half bushel will bring
as high as sixteen dollars per bushel, a tea
spoon full of seed wou'd have to beta ten
from totua'oes that would be worth one ;
dollar in market. He ba i pursued this j
plan of saving tho earliest seed for thir
teen years, and has thus obtained a va- j
riety remarkable for earliness, which j
he calls Murphy’s Early-
The Hoosier Boy tomato Mr. Murphy
regards as tho best late tomatoes. Fe j
think* plants ter late tomatoes should not 1
b 6 raised in hot bed*. He cultivates his j
tomatoes in the field with the cultivator
having harrow teeth, with chick like feet,
which stirs the soil close to and even under j
tbe plants. Mr. Murphy never pinched j
off his vines. He is sure such practice
lessens the crop.
VEGETABLES ON TABLE
Mr. Louis Finch exhibited seven fine
peaeb blow potatoes weighing five pounds
and three ounces, grown from a single eye.
Mr. Finch manures his ground for po
tatoes at the rate of twenty or thiry loads to
the acre, being the product of'the previous
Winter, kept carefully from the weather.
His crop this year was from ground that
had been in strawberries the two previous
years. He applied manure late in the
tspring, and then plowed it under. After
harrowing, furrowed out both waysiorrows
two feet nine inche- apart. As soon as the
plants begin to come up, he takes a one
horse bar share plow, and running one way
turns a furrow over the rows each side, :
covering the young plants five or six inches
deep. He then harrows crosswise, level
ing down the ground with a five tooth
cultivator. Afterward cultivates once a
week, running both ways with a double i
shovel plow.
ME CURCULIO.
Mr. J. S. Cook reported that he had a
vcryjgood crop of plums this year. He at- 1
t.ributed his exemption from the depreda
tions o* thecurculio to the fact that pigs
and chickens were permuted to run among !
his ttees;
A Southern Tide.—A Richmond let
ter of Saturday last says; ‘ The passenger
train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad, which has of late
rarely exceeded t wo coaches,consisted on the
26th of seven well packed coaches, and tne j
same remarkable movement South the pre
vious day taxed the capacity of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Railroad train to im utmost.
The movementof the negroes to the far j
South under the inducement3of amoregen- j
ial clime and high wages, is assuming large
proportions, and if it increases iu the same j
ratio till next Summer, the Wells faction in
\ irgmia wiil then have completely lost its
rank aod file. The colored labor of the
country is gravitating to the localities it is
best adapted to, and leaving a clear field
here for the Northern and European emi
grant. lam told by railroad men the ne
groes are daily leaving the State, under con
tracts, in parties varying from twenty-five
tootie hundred. They do not all go direct- !
ly to the cotton field and sugar plantation,
five hundred, for instance, being called for, j
and rapidly responding, to work on a j
Cbattaneoga railroad. They will ultimately, 1
no doubt, fulfill their mission in the cu'ture
of cane and cotton The demand for them
tor that purpose wag great in tho days of
slavery, aDd it is now reviving, to exceed,
perhaps, all former example.”— Charles
ton News.
SELECTED TELEGRAMS.
MISSISSIPPI.
A Frightful Parricide-
Memphis, November 2.—A horrible
tnuHer was committed at Okolona, Miss.,
on Saturday night last. Major Shepherd,
Collector of Internal Revenue, while lyim
on his bed, prostrated by paralysis, and
unable to lift his hand, was shot through
the heart by his son, Lemuel, who entered
the room just as his mother was leaving.
Mrs Shepherd, hearing the report of the
pistol, returned to the toom, noticed the
absence of her sod, and, surprised by the
report having no effect on her husband,
went to the bed and discovered that he
had been shot through the heart
Young Shepherd, after committing tbe
deed, fled to the woods. He was pursued
by the citizens who had learned of tho
affair, and was arrested and brought baok.
By this time the excitement was so great
that it was with difficulty the citizens were
restrained from inflicting summary punish
ment upon the parricide.
He is still under arrest, awaiting trial.
Whiskey is the supposed cause. He is 28
years of age.
THE SIONEWALL HORROR.
A Woman’s Self-Possession —The Drown
ing of the Man who Proposed to Save
Her—l Tie Candle that Set the Fire —
A Murder in the Struggle for Life.
The Missouri Republican prints the fol
lowing account of the remarkable experi
ence of Anna Gurney :
There was a young lady oa board of tbe
Stonewall, about seventeen years of age,
with whom Anna was well acquainted,
and they kept togit&er. Ou Wednesday
evening, after supper, Auua invited her
corn pan on to go down with her on the
main deck and sleep with her, as she had a
comfortable berth. The women, being
tired, divested themselves of their outer
clothing and went to bed. On the
deck there were several Italians who
I were drunk and noisy one of whom
j had a caudle iu his hand, aud carelessly
i placed it on a bale ol bay,setting it on fire.
! The alarm was immediately given, and in
Ia seoond the beat was a sheet of flame.
Anna jumped up in her night clothes to
save herself. All was confusion. She
stood on the guards of the boat as long as
it was safe, during which she felt perfectly
calm and self-possessed. A gemleman came
up and proposed that if she would jump
off with him into the water he would try
and save her. She said, “no; try and
save yourself; I think I can save myself.”
He jumped off, and she saw him drown.
Sha stayed on the guards until she was
lbreed to jump into the river or bum to
death, as the boat in that quarter became
nearly enveloped in flames. She made
the plunge and weut to the bottom. Whet,
she came up she caught hold of a rope,
aud thought it led to the boat, but was a
rope attached to the spar, which had tum
bled over into the water. She pulled her
self aloDg by tbe rope until she came to the
spar that had drifted under the burning
steamer. While here a post of the burn
ing cabin overhead fell down, aud a por
tion struck her on the shoulders, injuring
her severely. By this time she got off the
spar, and while holding, her hand was
burned by drops of melted pitch, which
trickled down. She being uuder the
guards, was saved fiom being crushed by
the fal.ing spars and smoke pipe.
1 A gentleman at this time, who was
f struggling in the water, managed also, to
| get astride of the spar. At this time the
! bursting of tho coal oil cans covered the
water with a liquid sheet of fire. As she
; expressed it, “the water was on tiro.” She
and her companion held on to the spar
; until a boat, cams from Neeley’s Landing
| to their rescue, a mile and a half distant,
| their safety being due to their posi'ion
j under the guards.
| As near as can be estimated, there were
| about and the boat: cabin passengers 35,
j deck passengers 165, officers, 16, deck
I crew 38, cabin crew, 20- total 275
A group of mon in the w upr sought to
savo ; hemselves by the aid at' a bale of
floating hay, which was too small to float
j then: all. A savage contest ensued for its
possession, all struggling to obtain a lodg
- meat upon it, when one more desperate
than the rest was roused to demoniac pas
sion, and drawing a knife, plunged it into
; a companion's body, and the lifeless form
1 rolled over into the current, which was
reddened by his blood. The act of fiend
j ish impulse was speedily a tinged, for the
; whole party are believed to have been
| drowned.
RIOT AND BLOODSHED |N GOLBSBORO,
ft. V.
The 'ongapprehended encounter between
tbe Federal soldiers of the garrison and
tbe colored people has at last taken place.
The streets of our quiet lowa last Saturday
night came more :ui!y up to .he ideas we
had formed, of a terrestrial Pandemonium
than anything ever seen or read of. The
following are the particulars we were able
lo gather up to tno tiroo of our going to
press on Sunday night: It sceiiis that for
several weeks bid blood has existed be
tween the soldiers from tbe garrison and
many of the colored people of this town,
grown probably from the several collisions
that have occu red between them, and
trouble was evidently browing. The colored
people, no doubt ahticipating trouble,
congregated in various parts of the town,
prepared lor the emergency. Between
eight and nino o clock in the evening our
citizens were startled by the repeated re
ports of pistols and guns, and for a tine
the wildest exeitement prevailed all over
town-the women in terror and the men
securing defensive weapons, preparing for
the worst. The conduct of both parties,
the soldiers and the colored people, was
riotous, tumultuous and fearful in the ex
treme.
It seems that the first attack was made
on John street, within a short distance ol
i our office. (We have as yet heard but one
! side of the difficulty, that is that of the
colored people, who sag the soldiers made
the assault.) In this encounter, it is sai l,
one soldier was wounded. Some little
while thereifter the soldiers, some twenty
five in number, and armed with their
guns, again made their, appearance on the
streets, and a regular skirmish ensued in
the lower part of the town. Here the
j shooting, very indiserimate, lasted some
] fen minutes, tbe balls riddling the build
ings ia 'be neighborhood. It is supposed
j that not less than seventy five shots were
: fired during the riot. As far as we have
been able to learn, but one soldier and ne
gro were wounded.
It is almost impossible to ascertain who
is at fault; both parties had previously
made threats.
And this is but an imperfect pietute of
what occurred in Goldsboro last Saturday
night, and of what is likely to occur on
any night hereafter, aslougas these rioters
are permitted to roam about town at ali
hours of the night.- Goldsboro (N. C\)
Messenger, ‘loth.
GENERAL NEWS.
Some boys in Cincinnati stole the bowels
of a hand-organ which belonged to a
minstrel who was stone-deaf. The next
inorniog he took his place and ground
away as ga ly as ever, producing, of course,
no audiable result. The by-passers ap
peared to like that sort of thiDg and con
tributed so liberally that tbe troubador
divined that something must be wrong.
Investigation disclosed bis loss, but the
unexpected pecuniary favor with which
his outbreak iff silence was received inclines
bim to let the intestines of tbe thing go
and run the shill for awhile.
It is ascertained, on thoroughly reliable
| authority, that the Pre ident aid Mrs,
; Grant have ceased all social connection
j with their eonnection Mr. A. R. Corbin,
of New York. It is also ascertained that
when the President sold his house in
Washington to General Sherman he gave
his wife $12,000 ot the proceeds, which
; she forthwith transferred to Mr. Corbin,
then present in Washington on his bridal
1 trip, to be u ed in a New Jersey real estate
I speculation. This is the only money ever i
given to him by any of the President’s i
family.
There is no n.voiuiionary soldier now on
| the pension list. The whole number of
widows of the revolutionary war surviving
! is 887. Os widows and children of soldiery !
who served in the wars subsequent to the
| revolution and prior to 1861, there are I
; now 1,298 on the rolls, a decrease of only !
five since the last annual report. Those !
who married prior to 1800, and to whom
a stipend of SIOO additional was granted !
by the act of February 18, 1867, are ninety- I
| three, of whom eight in Virginia, j
A recent’y-appointed postmistress at a
postofEce on the plains sends her first
[ quarterly report to the Department with
the following foot note ; “For weeks past
I have slept with a six-shooter by my bed
side and a carving-knife under my pillow,
expecting at break-o’day the Indians would
come for my scalp; but all of this has not
been half so harassing to my mind as the
making out of one quarterly report.’’
James 11. Martain, of Lexington, Va.,
f-11 through the hatchway of the steamer
Shamrock, at the landing, and so severely
injured himself that his life is despaired
of. He was taken to one of the hospitals.
His father and mother remained with him.
The entire family, consisting of the unfor
tunate man, his parents, and two or three
brothers and sisters, were bound for Han
nibal, Mo.— Cincinrtati Commercial.
Archbishop Cullen Threatens the
Fenians with Excommunication.—
Dublin, November 2. Archbishop Cullen,
in a pastoral just issued, exhorts all mem
bers of societies simi'ar to the Fenian or
ganization to abandon them. He adverts
to the evils sustained by Spain aod Italy
through the action of secret societies, and
says the members of such organizations
will incur the penalty of exoommanioatioo,
and cannot participate in the jubilee
whisk has just keen published.
STATE ITEMS.
* ®-A ]{ obnson - ? train hand on the State
Road, fell from the cars at Yinines'
station and was senously injured. On/of
his tuet and his leg were crushed.
w - *’ l . arkham . who went from Atlanta
ffl^ a f hlD? k° P ' t< ' preveot,be Atlanta post
office from being moved to Bullcck’s Opera
haHeturneJ w.thout hav.ng sue
ceedt and iq his mission.
Work is rapidly progressing on the Fair
Grounds at Macon, Booths, stalls, hippo
dromes, velocipedromcs, roads &e, wihTe
finished by the tenth of this month—in
amp.e time for the agricu.tural jubilee
lhoßavannah News notices a marked
improvement m the morals of tf.utmwn
wnhin the past two years. The sci. I *i|"
gh ting and drinking, we suppose, ; . c fi # H
effectually suppressed. Wonder h* • they
do a? Augusawont get moral v, ,ih •
continental
' 'grants,numbering between
lnM a nd f rt »? dfifly and thle, ‘ hundred
peoplejeft Atlanta for Texas on last Tues
aay. Most of them were natives of Forsyth ’
county in this State. y
Thltro W T be k re ’ Called the 1W Street
lautf Afr I bee | D - re S !D U yfreC!ed in At '
lanta. Mr. La. km H. Davis is the owner.
It was inaugurated the other night hy an
The United States Government is “im
proving the cemetery at Warrenton,
where several of the boys in blue are tak
ing a quiet nap.
Rome is in an agony over the Cherokee
hair, which .s now being held in that
hurt;. We are glid to learn Irom a local
paper taat od the first day t !
many anticipations garnered up 1 i
months past will meet with a bright re h
zation.
„ T , hc Chairman of the Northeastern
Railroad Convention, which met id Ath
ens, has appointed Committees from t
the counties of Clarke, Jackson, Frank- '
ltn, Banks, Hall, Habersham and Rabun,
to keep the good work moving.
Up to the 2Sth of la.-t month Columbus
received of this year’s crop of coitoa 1 0 -
966 bales, against 19,839 for the crW
sponding time last year, a-id 10 224 for
1866 67. Stock now on hand 5.194 bales.
The cemeteries of Savannah ar, rapidly
growing in public favor. During the
month of October one hundred and eight
persons retired from business and took
lodgings at the “Laurel Grove” and the
“Cathedral.”
During the session of the Agricultural
State Fair in Macon the police t roe ot the
city will be raised to fifty-seven men—fifty
one infantry and six cavalry. Tae Mayor
thinks there is luck in odd numbers.
Fire is still playing the dickens with tbe
cotton planters. On last Monday night the
gin-house belonging to J. M Simmons, of
Crawford county, was destroyed and with
it four bales of cotton. He sulrered the
same way last year.
0 Q *fie legal sale day in Macon las'
Tuesday several shares of the stock of the
Macon & Brunswick Railroad sold for
thirty dollars and a half' per share. Tile
Btoc, was of the old issue.
It is now positively announced that the
Macon & Brunswick Railroad will be com
pleted and open to travel on the 20th of
this month,and that trains will run through
between the two towns on that day.
Sigci and Greeley - Lager and Water.
Extractfrtm a speech t>V S. S. Cox in New York-.
It Sigei is put on because ha fought the
rebels, what is Greeley doing on the tick
et ? If Greeley is put on because he is a
“safe drinker,” what is Sigel and “social
liberty” doing on the ticket? The party
is a good deal like the husband whose wife
was about ta present a wee stranger to the
household. He was in the next room
waiting for the event, in gre *t excitement,
and very anxious to know, its six. Tho
nurse appears ! He rushes forward noi
exclaims : “Am l a father or am Ia
mother?” Is it lager or is it water?
(Laughter.) The trick of nominating
Siget is apparent, ft is to give to the
Germans the idea that Greeley drinks lager
as he runs with Sigel. But I assure the
Germans that Greeley drinks nothing
stronger than giuger pop, with the ginger
and pop out It is thus, thea, that this
pious, temperance, consistent party ap
pears. ' It has one jolly driuker on the
boards. He is as much out of place as
Captain Murphy McGuire in tho “Serious
Family; ’ but even the junketing Captain
hobnobbed with Amiuidab Slick. As it
stands, it would make a pretty cast for
these theatrical boards. General Sigel
rushes on the stage with a foaming mug,
hurrahs for King Gambrinus, aqdsings :
“Hurrah ! Schrieen alie Teufel;
Nichtsget über Bier und VVein !”
While the chorus, in hearty English, re
spond :
•‘Pill high the bowl with fusil-oil !
Let strychnine give relief to toil !
Let barley’s generous brew abound.
So pass the foaming lager round !”
Chorus by peasants fro u the interior
selected irom the Ridical committee on
New York tdection frauds, who spent $9,-
900 of our money in brandy, theatres, etc’,
at the Metropolitan- These bacchanais
will be led by my friend, Rufus Andrews,
while Charley Spencer will be first fiddler.’
But hist ! another strain is heard behind
the scenes. It approaches I- sounds
with a nasal monotone—something like a
bagpipe, only not so ,-w ict. ’ sis the voice
of the oharuier, Greeley—and in the twang
of a Yankee teetotatl-r, he siog-:
“Sparkling and bright in the liquid tight
Is the beautiful, clear, cold water.”
[Exit Sigel and the peasantry, in haste.)
For, be it known that wh in he appears
there must be no revelings His poliey
prevails with his par y YVith what an
ad,jiirable stanza did Delati Id S.ui.hhail
this chief the otoer evening from this
stand :
"Our chief has come to marshal us,
In his rough armor drest;
Behold his ‘white coat’ buttoned high,
Upon bis dauntless chest.”
I think I see him now, this chief, cavort
ing on his Rofciaante, the Tribune, goose
quill poised, hair flying, and white coat in
the wind, charging down Ike the crazy
Don on the moat amiable and correct get,
tletnan in New Fork, Mr. Yudin.
FROM.EUROPE.
France.
Napoleon s Foreign Polity and Plan of
Disarmament Moving Towards an
Anti-German Coalition.
\ Paris, November 2, 1869.—The ques
tion of tbe position which tbe Emperor
Napoleon may assume toward the sur
rounding Powers on the occasion oi' tbe re
assembling of tho French L Jslature is
canvassed actively on every side and with
anxiety.
•It is rumored in political circles’to day
that the Emperor, ia his speech from the
throne opening the sessions < f the Cham
bers, will propise or rceomm- nd a teneral
European disarmament. The subject was
discussed during the recent visit of Lord
Uiarendon to the Tuillerics and it is aileged
that the plan meets the pro cot views of
England, and will accord wuh her future
policy as intended lobe shaped by the
Glads.one Cabinet.
General Finery’s mission t j 1 Court of
St. Petersburg has for its c; • 1 objective
point the obtainment of the <■ '.sent of
Russia to the proposal, a mail- r .which it
is thought will be of very easy ;.t.>jtnplish
ment just now, as tbe Czar is m antaming
a huge army on a war footing u,. necessarily
and at a heavy cost to his subjects.
Should the agreement to disarm thus
become almost universal tho French peo
ple and Empero-, supported by the Great
Powers, w.ll call on Prussia to disarm also,
and it is thought that serious international
complications will ba the result, in view of
the consideration, generally accepted, that
the ulterior object of Napoleon in the
movement is to embarrass Prussia.
England.
London, November 2,1869.—The Lon
don 'limes to-day in its monc-y article, com
ments on the rapid increase f the impot
tations of wheat from the United States.
The mo-t interesting question, the writer
says, is the extent to which it can be kept
up in competition with Russia an 1 Central
Europe when the railways in that section
are fully developed. The great questions
for the United States to consider in this
connection are the roduction of freights
and other charges and the enlargement of
communiostion.i wkh the Mississippi.
It isstated that “a verv largo bo ly’’ of
Anglican clergymen in different parts of
Fog! ted rVc r>re, r-i a petition to be
seDt to tlie Conic:: > 1 the Vatican, (i.e
prayer of which is, “that-, should the dc
“cision of the Council be unfavorable (;s
“the petiticners believe it not improbable
“it will be) to the validity of Anglican or
“ders, the petitioners and others of their
“body who have entered the ministry of
“the English Church through religious
“motives should be received into the
“Catholic Church, ordained as priests,
“employed as such, and allowed, if mar
“ried, to continue so unto the death of
“their present wives—those married not to
“be employed as confessors.’’ This is a
very extraordinary story, but is reported,
ou good authority, as being entirely true ,
“and it fe added that maov of the, English
"Catholic bishops are favorable to the
“petition, and will urge its adoption by
“the Holy Father and the Council,” and
“that “the signatures affixed to the peti
tion are already numerous, and are in-,.
“cre'asiDg every
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