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OLf) SERIES, VOL. LX XVI.
ifhroiticU & JPestiad.
A.VGI rWT A., GA I
HuiiiMfflt i.
Tiie Jl#j orally.
The Committees from the four Wards
met at Masonic Hall Tuesday afternoon,
and nominated, by a two-thirds vote,
Major J. V. H. Alien - the Democratic
candidate for Mayor at'the ensuing mu
nicipal -lection. This nomination was
afterward made unanimous.
During the past year Major Allen has
labored a- • duoi: -.iy and t ffectively for the
interests of the ty, as Chairman of the
Streets and Drain- Committee.
We believe that he will make an excel
lent Mayor, and wc, therefore, cordiulty
support him as the choice of the people
for this high and responsible position.
The btate Fair.
Macon, Nov. 21, 1»69.
Chronicle k Sentinel:
The exhibiti -m of machinery and farm
ing implements constitutes the most at
tractive feature of the Fair. For novelty
of invention, variety, perfection of finish
and genual adaptability to ti e wants of
planters, i doubt if so fins a collection Las
ever 1 cci- exhibited in the South. Every
depart ment of 1 me life, all of the iudus
triri i u #us'h of the Smith, and particular
ly of our great agricultural int rests, is
fully pruvid and for with an endless variety
ofmachitn , and implements for each de
prirtnicnl. Machines of • very variety and
kind, I * i thepnndcroui sugar mill, steam
cugii.e an i p iw>t press to the more delicate
but not Ic.i useful little implements of tbe
housewife—tbe s wing machine, ciieese
knifo, in O''iu and scrubbing brush —abound
on every hand.
The entire main flour of the immense
Laboraloi; building -a large and elegant
brick hliueiui built iu the mo t durable
and substantial style and measuring, in
length, about three hundred feet, and in
width something over fifty fort —is devoted
to the exhibition of mechanical implements
specimens of farm crop;, the producle of
the vari< us mills, fertilizers, etc. Running
the entire length of this mammoth build
ing is a strong pirtition wall, which is it
self intersected every thirty feet with cross
walls, thus dividing the main floor into
several compartments or rooms and greatly
facilitating the use which is now made of
this structure.
Entering from the Western erd of the
building, we at once discover on our right
two splendid circular hiws from the t'a
moasestablishment of It. Hoe k (Jo., of
New York.
Ear hart & Cos., of Macon, Ga.,have also
a fined play of circular, hand, rip and
cross-cut saws, sweeps, wagons, hames,
whoeis and edge-tools, manufactured by
henry Dipton, «,C Philadelphia. Next to
th 'so is an iu.-.'. .ins little machine called
I'rindle’s mearner for heating food lor
stock, ab i l. nti Philadelphia- in this
room wc find also a machine exhibited by
Israel F. Drown, of Columbus, Ga., called
Peabody’s. Cotton llu Her Separator. This,
is a compact little a Hair, designed to be
run by hand or horse-power for the pur
pose of removing the hull or outer cover
ing of the cotton seed from the germ or
kernel whereby the cotton may be made
useful for feeding stook or for fertilizing
purposes. The balance of the available
space of this vo >i is occupied, as is also
the room .. xl unjoining, with a fine dis
play and almost undle-s variety of
COTTON OINS.
The first wo notice arc two beautifully
furnished saw-gins from the famous South
ern manufacturer, Danici. Pratt, of
Prattville , Alabama. The Drown Cot
ton Gin Cos., of New London , Conn.,
has also on exhibition two sample gins of
their factory, very handsome machines,
an 1 highly recommended. S. Z Hai.i.
has also on exhibition a Cotton Gin and
feeder, The latter is a mechanical con
trivance for feeding the cotton to the same,
and renders useless the careless service
I rretotbro performed by lazy or worthless
negroes.
The Auieutson A Douglass MANU
FACTURING Cos., of New London, Conn , j
show one gin of their manulaotuie. Avery ;
pretty article, but asyot not much known !
in the South.
The Remington Cotton Gin Cos., of
lllirm, N. F-> have o- exhibition a Noodle j
Gin, something new, but of doubtful sue- i
rcss. The Gin is made similar to the j
Saw Gin, the main difference being that
the teeth of this Gin or needle, as they
are called, are inserted in tho edge of the
round teelo plat" instead of being cut
from the plate as in ordinary saw Gins.
These teeth or nccdl s are in shape and
siz" very similar to ordinary saw teeth,
but it is claiun 1 ti at as they are nearly
round like a need! they will not out the
fibre in 'he process of separating the seed.
S. U Park iiutiST, represented by
Hubert Schley, of Augusta, has on exhibi
tion the most splendid Cin I have ever
seen. Lt is a combination of the Holier
and Card Cylinder aud has a feeding ap
paratus and condenser. It is capable of
ginning the finest article of Sea-Isiatid
cotton, aid works equally as well with
short staple. It is beautifully aud sub
stantially made and is,upon the whole,the
best Giu exhibited. It has been running
here evt ry day aud seems to give universal
satisfaction. Tbe Gin on exhibition will
Gin ten bales a day and costs si', huudred
dollars, smaller sizes are sold propOrtiona
bly lower.
h. Carver, also represented bv Mr.
Schley, has a u.ieGiu on exhibition. This is
one of the best of Saw Gins and has been
daily tested by actual experiment'gmd gives
satisfaction.
H. L. Emory has two Gins, one for
loug aud oue for short ,-tarie cotton, both
fine specimens ol'mechanism and doutless
good implements.
W. G Clemons Drown & Cos of Co!urn
bus, Ga, have '.wo Gins on exhibition.
These are well made and it is claimed that
they make superior lint. The Saws instead
of having continuous teeth have about four
inches of teeth and then a blank or smooth
surface for the same distance. This is a
new feature and it is claimed that by this
simple arrangement the staple of the cot
ton i kit uneut and its quality impair
ed
Macon, November 23, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & .8 ntinel:
SKKI> PLANTER AND GUANO DISTRIBU.KR.
There is, perhaps, uo more interesting
or useful ilassof implements on exhibi
tion here than the cotton and gra n plant
ers and guano distributers. I was sur
prised to find so many of these the pro
ductions of Southern inventive talent. The
Southern machines are more simple and
cheaper than those from the North and
West, and while the latter, besides being
elabora-t y and finely fiuished, work well
on smooth sward, I seriously doubt if any
of them couid be successfully used on the
rough and badly prepared fields of the
Southern planter.
The Dow-Liw Cotton Planter, made at
Fort Valley, Ga., a machine considerably
usedthe past season, ranks among the best
of the p unters on exhibition.
J G 11a of Coweta county, Georgia,
has a vuv r and cotton planter and guano
distributer, v, hieh is highly rooornmended.
Wagener ,Y Matthews, of Westminster,
Md., show f.v.v-r’s Dixie cotton and corn
planter, T -a beaut,; ul machine, and
is said to ; .vc . .. general satisfaction
where it has in. a t .-ted.
KM Vo .- , o! Woodbury, Ga, enters
one seed ; inter and guano distributer;
also, arm : i o: a portable fence, simple
and apparc: t!y u. tul.
J K Sheri ck, if ilaldwiu county, Geor
gia, has on exhibition a very superior cot- •
ton seed and grain drill This is an ex- !
oeedingly simple implement, is light, easily
handl.-d and works equally we 1 on rough
or smooth land.
lloozier Drill Company, Milton, Indiana,
exhibit one grain drill
Lewis DeLo&che V Cos. of Savannah,Ga.,
show a very good cotton planter.
John Stark, ot Thomasviiie, Ga., has
on exhibition a cotton and corn planter, a
very good machine, well made but I fear
too complicated for general use by freed
men. . . , , ... ,
Middleton Agricultural W orks show a
King cotton planter, a fine piece of mechan
ism but too large and unwieldy for South
ern use: „ , ~
S M Lester, ol Amerteus, Ga., has a
seed planter and guano distributer worked
by hand. This is a light, simple and doubt
less a good machine.
E P Beauchamp, of Dawson, Ga., shows
a cottOD planter and guano distributer, said
to have proved a good implement.
A D Drown, of Columbus, Ga.. has on
exhibition one of bis fine cotton planters.
These machines were extensively used the
past season and gave very general satisfac
tion.
The Coxwell Cotton Planter and Guano
Sower," fi srn Warren county, Georgia, is a
lipht, simple, and, I should think, a very
valuable implement. It is in general ap
pearance very like a wheel-barrow —
is rue by hand power in the same way a
wheel-barrow is rolled, and wii* - from its
lightness, simp ! icity aod cht puess, come
into very general use.
F J Robin on. agent, shows anew and
novel seeding machine made at Lake Vil
lage, N. H. This machine is worked with
two horses, is f laced on two ordinary sized
light wagon wheels and opens the furrows
and plants two rowsofoorn or cotton at
the same time. A larger machine plants
thiee rows- It drills the seed continually,
or drops them in hills at any desired dis
tance, and lays off the next row all at the
-atne operation. This machine on land
free of stumps and trees would doubtless
work well, but on the ordinary rough lands
of the South could not be successfully
operated.
I saw also a fuano distributer very
much like the ten trumpet implement used
for several years past by the planters of
Middle Georgia. This little machine has
au attachment near the mouth of the
funnel worked by a small wheel
and crank, which regulates the amount of
guano to be applied. The whole affair is
swung by a crop belt over the shoulders of
the operator, who walks alongside of the
fur Tow in which the guano is to be put,
and drags the lower end of the tin tube
after him loosely in tbe furrow. The in
ventor’s name I did not iearn, but I have
no doubt the instrument is a good one.
The extent, variety, and general adapt
edness to the wants of the Southern plant
er is nowhere so clearly manifest as in the
exhibition of plows. Chief among these,
1 am again pleased to say, that Southern
inventors are clearly in advnee of the
North and East. Our own State stands
pre-eminent in this department, and it is
a matter of pride to every Georgian here
to find exhibitors from our State so nu
merous, and in the main so successful in
their inventions.
K 8 Zi’.lcr, from Rome, Ga, has a fine
lot of wrought iron plows aud a corn and
cotton cultivator light, simple, aud ap
parently good.
it L Miller, of Dawson, Ga, shows a
good plow with iron ttock, light, durable,
aud well made.
C D Bond, of Macon, Ga, shows a good
lot of plows and cultivators, with wood and
iron stocks, all well made aud excellent im
plements. Also a horizontal or grade level
for hill side plowing anu ditching. A
lc on machine for boring spokes—a eburn
iog machine —a machine for driving felloes
in wheels, and an improved plumb and
level-
I' W -J Echols, of Atlanta, Ga, shows
a superior lot of plows of various patterns
and makers.
J I) Evans, of Pleasant Hill, Ga, shows
one light draught plow.
.J II Gooch, ofCheraw, S C> has on ex
hibition a lot of improved plows, anew
cotton hue, aud an iron cotton tie.
J W Murfee, of Havana, Ala, shows his
subsoil pu verizor. This is the best sub
soil plow I have ever seen. It is simple,
ol fight draft arid doesi'.swork thoroughly.
Wrigley & Knott, ofMaoon, show a fine
lit of plows made by Dodge, Hhovtr&
Cos, of Louisville, Ky.
Brinley, Miles & Hardy, of .Louisville,
Ky, show a large and beautiful lot of plows
of the celebrated Drinley patent. These
are among the bert plows in u-e in the
South.
LG Peel, of Webster county, Ga, has
on exhibition a fine lot of plows, and one
corn and pea-dropper.
Thomas T Mattox, of Griffin, Ga, shows
a wrought iron plow.
F F Reynolds, of Jefferson county, Ga,
has one of the largest and most varied lot
of plows on exhibition- These plows are
well known in Middle Georgia, where they
have.been extensively used for twoorthree
year*. The principal manufactory is at
Bethany, Ga, where they are made on a
very extensive scale.
“ Felts & Drown, of Warrenton, show a
very superior subsoil plow and i. unproved
sweeper.
Hall, Moses & Cos, of Columbus, Ga,
eo'er a large lot of tine plows of several
useful varieties.
G M Cooper & Co,|of Midvillc,* Georgia,
shows a large and varied assortment of plows
of their own manufacture. The Cooper
plows and sweep are well known through
out the State, The improvements made by
these manufacturers during the last year
on their universal plows and the improved
sweep leave nothing more to be desired in
this line. They show a very fine combina
tion cultivator, and a good cotton planter.
These plows are made both in wrought
iron aud cast irou, and are beautiful speci
mens of work.
J M Dorman, Arcadia, La., shows a
very ingenious universal plow.
W J Arrington, Jefferson county, Ga,,
enters two improved universal plows. These
implements combine some new and useful
features and when brought into the mar
ket will doubtless become great favorites.
Skinner, Briggs & Enoch, of ’Rockford,
111., show their excelsior steel hardened
plow.
Gilbert & Western, of Dawson Ga.,
show a very hamlsome universal plow of
good workmanship and excellent finish.
L D Cheatham, of Dawson, sho’sone of
Holt’s patent cotton choppers. This is an
ingenius contrivance, drawn by a horse or
mule, and intended to chop to rough the
eottou row, thinning the plants to a stand.
It looks like, in careful hands and in well
prepared land, it might answer a good
purpose.
J F Wilson shows new Dixie cotton hoe.
The eye and blade are made separate so
that when the latter breaks or wears out a
new one can be easily put in its place.
Samuel L Allen shows garden seed hand
drill and guano distributer;very light, neat
and useful.
COTTON PRESSES.
In this department of invention the ex
hibition is quite full. The several imple
ments shown Lave their own peculiar ex
cellence, and the opinion seems to be very
general that al, or nearly all, will perform
well. There has been, within a.few years,
great flnprovements in this class of ma
chines, and some of those on exhibition
here attract considerable attention, more
from their novelty than intrinsic excel
lence. Among the more recent and val
uable inventions in this line we notice
The Utley Cotton Press, exhibited by
Harry Camp & Son, of Covington, Ga.
This machine is worked by hand, and is
very compact and convenient. The power
is applied by the use of levers, and the
c repression is made downward. Two or
dinary hands can easily pack six hundred
pounds in an ordinary sized box. These
gentlemen show also an Emory Cotton Gin
and horse power ; all the machines at
work. The price of the press complete is
$175. The horse power on wheels $l9O.
The gin (35 saws), with condenser, S3OO.
They al o have on exhibition one of
Emory’s thieshing machines and horse
power. R P Glenn & Cos., of Atlanta,
Ga., also show a very fine Utley Press lor
1 cotton and wool, and one specially adapted
i for pressing and bundling hay. These
gentlemen turn out good work, and their
machines are made of the best material.
J S Scofield, of Macon, Ga, shows two
very fine presses. These machines have
been much used in this vicinity, and are
said to nave given entire satisfaction. He
exhibits, also, a small steam engine, adapt
ed for farmers’ use in grinding corn and
ginning cotton,-and a good sugar boiler.
Thomas D Pennington, of Forsyth, Ga,
shows a very handsome portable cotton
and hay press.
Tommey & Stewart, Atlanta," Ga, exhib
it a Brooks' cotton screw, which has many
admirers.
Tappy, Lumsden & Cos., of Petersburg,
Va. have on exhibition the Fe.tsley cotton
and bay press. This is almost identical
with the Utley press. The power is ap
plied iu the same way and by the same
means. They also show the Dixie power
press, made in the same way, but intended
to be used by horse, steam or water power.
R Findlay & Sons, Macon, Ga, show an
improved self adjusting gin gear, worked
by horse or water power; and also Reming
ton’s horse power for gins, spinners or
nulls. .
Ingersoll & Doughty, of Greene Point,
L. L, show a cotton, wool, hair and moss
press.
Joseph HiDes, of Washington county, I
Georgia, has on exhibition the working
model of a combination toggle joint and
double lever press, wh ch attracts much
attention. A patent has beeu applied for
and the inventor is confident of a practical
suocess.
George L S iuier, Buffalo, New York,
shows a portable horse power for ginning
and grinding purposes.
P Malone, of Augusta, Georgia, has on
exhibition three of his improved screws
and presses. These have been extensively
used throughout the State, and have given
great satisfaction. They are manufactur
ed in large numb trs at Augusta, and meet
ready sale, which is at least the best and
truest test of their value. Mr. Malone
shows also a plantation bell, which isgreat
ly superior in tone and workmanship to
those here from Northern manufactories.
He also has on exhibition avery ingenious
and useful iittle ins.rument called a Cheese
knife. This has been heretofore described
in your co utnns and needs no further
notice.
fertilizers.
The came of the fertilizers'on exhibition
is Legion. And here again Georgia takes
a stand alongside of the very There
is, perhap , no subject connected with
Southern agriculture, which is now at
tracting so much of the planters’
attention as this of com nercia
fertilizers. There is certainly no
other, in which the inducements for fraud
and peculation are so great and the facilities
for successful consummation so easy. Yet,
with all these known tacts operating against
their use, the irade has become a very im
portant and valuable one. Tne articles on
exhibition here are genera'ly from houses of
known honesty and probity. In this de
partment Augusta takes very high rank
both from life character and quality of the
articles produced.
Wilcox Gibbs & Cos., show samples of
Phoenix Guano and of their, own manipu
lated compound. These articles have a
very wide reputation and the high charac
ter of the proprietors is a complete guar
antee of their value. Fertilizers sold by
this company always come fully up to the
standard analysis. .
The Dickson Fertilizer Company have
samples of their compound on exhibition.
The universal popularity of this compound
is the best proof of its value. The gentle
men connected with the active management
of the Company are well known through
out the State as men of sterling integrity,
and consequently the utmost faith is re
posed in the nature and constituent ele
ments of the Dickson Compound. The
Com pany have also samples of pure ground
bone, of dissolved bones and genuine land
plaster, ail of which they offer to the pub
lic under their guarantee of genuiness.
S J Gustin, of Macon, Georgian, shows
samples ol his superphosphate and a mag
nificent notion stalk containing five hun
dred aud thirty seven bolls produced by
the application of bis superphosphate and
his improved deep tillage system. He alsp
shows a splendid lot of Irish potatoes, ’he
second crop of the season, and a beautiful
, variety of fine vegetables. These produc
tions show the value of his fertilizer and give
ample procf at the same time of the cor
rectness of his system of deep culture. His
deep tillage plow, also on exhibition, is a
model of simplicity, compactness and
general adaptedness to ail soils. Your
readers know that Gustin’s system of cult
ure is the direct opposite of Dickson’s sur
face culture and the past unprecedented
dry season has proven that Gustin’s sug
gestion ot deep tillage is, in the main, cor
rect. •
William Schley,& Cos., of Savannah,
have on exhibition samples of their Georgia
fertilizer. This compound is manufactured
with special reference to the deficiencies of
our own soils and is the result of chemical
knowledge and actual experiments. Those
who have used it the past season testify
that it is quite as good if not better than
Peruvian Guano and costs but little over
half as much.
Sister Brothers, Newark, N J, show
samples of bone dust and superphosphate
ol’ lime.
The Charleston Company show samples
ofEtiwan Superphosphate made from the
phosphate beds found near that city.
John Ralston ifc Cos, of New York, ex
hibit Baugh’s raw bone.
Hacker & Maloney, of Savannah, show
Wbann’s raw bone superphosphate and
Bowen’s complete manure.
Oakley Mills Fertilizer Company of At
lanta, show samples ol flour of raw bones
and of dissolved bones.
Berger, Betz & Woodward, of Philadel
phia, show excelsior superphosphate,
j R J Ruth, of Baltimore, shows soluble
superphosphate.
J Loyd & Son,Macon, show Croasadala’s
superphosphate.
F W Simms a Cos, Savannah, Ga, ex
hibit Ashley River phosphate, Wando
fertilizer, superphosphate oi lime and
potash, ammoniated superphosphate and
Orchilla guano. These are all highly rec
ommended and are offered by reliable and
trustworthy dealers.
There is an almost endless variety of
miscellaneous agricultural machines and
household implements. I shall not attempt
to classify these, or to group them to
gether, but will mention, iu the order in
which I saw them, the more noted and
important of these articles.
W L Fatrnan, of Talladega, Alabama,
exhibits an ingenious rotary filling ma
chine.
.J H Crandall, of Upper Marlboro, Md.,
anew and excellent bee-bivo. This is so
constructed that the honey can betaken at
pleasure without disturbing the bees, and
has a simple, but very perfect contrivance
for catching and destr >ying the moth and
worm which ruin so many hives.
The Continental Wind Mill Cos., of New
York, have in D eration one of Lewis
Delaud & Co.’s patent wind mills. This is
a light, graceful, and really ornamental
machine, aud admirably adapted for draw
ing water on the plantation, or driving
any light machinery. It works equally
well iu all weather, aud is not easily liable
to get out of order.
SJ Thomas, of Dawson, Ga., has a
new and apparently valuable water wheel
on exhibition. This ciass of inventions and
improvements will in the future eogage a
large share of public attention.
Blymer, Norton & Cos, of Cincinnati,
have iu operation a splendid cam; mill
and sugar evaporator. This is a valuable
! machine, and the evaporator is bound to
come into very general use. They, have
! also a portable evaporator, which is com-
I pact, convenient and simple. I saw a good
' article of cauo syrup made in thirty min
• utes, and it required no handling while
| the process was going on. The cane juice
j is introduced in one end of a long, 'wide,
j shallow pan, and when it flows through to
( the other end it runs out through a faucet
| beautiful syrup.
A Hulbert & Cos., of Atlanta, show a
new saw sharpener and gutnwer, a ery
tine and useful implement. It was in ope
ration, and seemed to do the work rapidly
and well.
Russell & Erwin, of New York, show
model of patent sash fastener.
W W Parker, of Newnan, Ga, shows an
emory grinder and one of Pennock’s coru
shellers.
Ruble & Williford, of Chattanooga, show
a sulky cotton cultivator, anew gang plow,
rotary coulter, aud a fine hill-side plow.
J ones & Baxter, Macon, show two bar
rels of Chcwacla Alaiime, said to be a
good article, and largely used for building
purposes.
Tiie Southern Farm and Home. —
We have received the first npmbcr of this
new Southern agricultural and domestic
journal. It is one ot the handsomest pub
lications in the country, which‘.was to be
expected from the reputation of the pub
lishers, -Messrs. J. W T . Burke & Cos., Ma
con, Georgia. The table of contents is
very excellent and complete, embracing
articles of wide range on ail subjects relat
ing to farm, together with much val
uable information on other subjects. The
present number contains several hands me
i engravings, one ot which represents the
j Buildings and Fair Grounds of the State
| Agricultural Society.
The Southern Farm and Home will be
! a very valuable addition to the agricultural
I literature of our State and the South
generally. We wish the proprietors much
"success in their new enterprise, and be
i speak for them a liberal support from our
people.
The dorm and Home is published by J.
W. Burke & Co-, Macon, Georgia, at two
dollars a year in advance. Liberal reduc
tion to clubs.
The Blue Ridge Railroad.—The
readers of the Courier have already been
infoimed ty our telegraphic correspond
ence of the action oi the stockholders el
the Blue Ridge Railroad, and the order
for the annulling of the contract issued by
: Gov. ecott. Ot course, an election for
Directors of the road was held at the meet
ing, which took place on Friday evening
[ last, and the r.'suii was as follows :
1 President— J. W. Harrison.
Directors— J. L. Orr,* H. Gourdin, W,
L. Trenholm. T. J. Jas. M
j Allen, Wm. MeKinlay.j (colored), J. H.
j Jenfcs and William Gurney.
The action of the stockholders in refer
j enee to the Cresswell contract is criticised
in various ways among the Radicals.
I Some think that the State will benefit by
[ it, andethers that Cresswell & Co- wilt go
j on without the additional five millions,and
I complete the road to Franklin. An ad
journed meeting of the Directors will bo
I held in Columbia next week.
♦Vice Geo. S. Cameron t Vice John H.
Holmes.-- Charleston Courier.
Rkncounte ' -Shooting.—On last Sat
urday night, Bill Arp the veritable, and
Andrew W. Hicks had a difficulty at
Graves' Billiard Rooms. It resulted in
Arp's shooting Hicks in the left arm pro
ducing a very severe flesh wound. Hicks
after he was -hot snapped his pistol three
times and then knocked his adversary
down —others then interlered and stopped
* the difficulty. —Rome Conner, Roc. 24.
AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER II 1869
LETTER Fr.OM WASHINGTON.
The President's Message—Cuba and St.
Domingo - Something must be Done —
“ Bottled-up ” to be the Administration
Bottle-Holder — Virginia, Texas and
Mississippi—Reconstruction to be Com
pleted— Secret Movements—The Hotels
Getting Ready , etc.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
Vi ashington, November 19.
The tenor ot the coming annual message
from the President is beginning to receive
its share of speculation, though, upon only
one point concerning it is there general
concurrence, that is ic admitting a docu
ment of brief proportions. Cuba and St-
Domingo, it is asserted, will form promi
nent topics of the message, but what will
the President say of these subjects? Can he ,
hope to immortalize his administration by
his dealings in the direction of the West In
dialslands? Something must be done,for
even the most ultra Radical members of the
party'which elevated Grant to his present
position are refusing to cease their growls be
cause he does not suit them or their sneers
on account of the “masterly inactivity’’
displayed by,him up to this time. Perhaps
'tbe President intends grasping the main
ideas of the living present and making
something like renown for the first year of
ills adminis’ration. He evidently feels that
he must. He has not yet passed through
the ordeal ot a session of Congress
with every mem er watching io find fault
'because they wire ignored in the Cabinet
se ections; aud there are many pent up
grief's to be exptod.d in this session. Fur
will fly long before the ides of March. The
Democrats wil' have but very little to say.
They do not consider it their funeral.
BuJer is to be tbe Champion of the
administration—unless something occurs
between now' and New Year’s day to
ruffle the good will he manifests
toward Grant--notwithstanding the old
wouhd to his feelings, occasioned by Grant’s
rough treatment of him in his first report
after the war closed, and when the latter |
was General ot the Armies, rankles deeply
yet- The lovely Benjamin has been here
during the recess at different periods, can
vassing around the Treasury Department,
examining notes, looking into statistics,
&c.,and he promises to make some disclos
ores before long. He is ago id detective.
Butler also intends to’rule the House, after
the manner of the late Thad. Stevens- if
he can ; but there are others ip the Re
publican party, though few in number, who
insist that the mantle of Stevens fell upon
their stooping shoulders, aud they will lead
the House. The result will be a Kilkenny
eat fight, in which Butler, Bingham and
Schenck will all participate prominently.
Radicals here are circulating reports that
Congress will hesitate long before ad
mitting either Virginia, Texas or
Mississippi, and claim to' speak ex
cathedra. No doubt a minority—and
perhaps a respectable one in point of
numbers —will attempt that game; but if
they do there will be a collision in the
party. The majority, and the President
is included in this connection, believe that
theparty cannot stand any further delay,
reconstruction must be completed, and
Grant wants to have it accomplished in
the first year of his administration of
course, in the cases of Mississippi and
Texas. This proposition to keep them
longer without the fold of this union of
fraternal love and feeling is consequent
upon the Democratic victories which loom
up in those States. If the Radicals are
successful they cannot beiadmittcd.too soon.
Several prominent officials connected
with the Government are now away from
their posts of uuty in this city. Some are
inclined to believe that they are acting by
the directions of the President, and are
secretly—all things seem to be very secret
with this administration -preparing for
some immense national exploit. Resolu
tions ofinquiry.will be very common when
Congress meets. These Radical members
don’t relish being kept in the dark about
wintever is going on.
The hotels here are all repairing,
painting and scouring in anticipa
tion of a large crowd during the
Winter season. The amusement season
opens well. Laura Keene begins an en
gagement about the first of December.
Mrs. Scott Siddoffs will give a reading of
Shakspeare's ‘Mid-Summer Night Dream’
on the second of December- Herr Herr
man opens with a budget of prestidigita
tion on Monday next. Rose and Harry
Watkins are performing at the National
T eatre. Together will all these entertain
ments it may be remarked that there is
not a decent theatrical struotuture in
Washington— another argument for the
removal of the capital.
An independent military company is to
be organized here, under Radical auspices.
Since the war the only soldiering indulged
in has been by a party of negroes, who call
themselves the Butler Zouaves, and
parade with loaded muskets, fixed bay
onets, and always attended by a mob of
idle negroes carrying concealed razors.
Now the white Radicals want to train,
an- intend to organize. “Let us nave
peace.” Jasper.
AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK,
Banking in the Metropolis—A Great Re
form Proposed— Butterfield's Impudent
Exit from the Treasury—A Leaf from
His History not yet Told—The Great
Custom-House Frauds—How the Ad
ministration Tries to Smother Them—
Lying in the . State Department—Nepo
tism All Around- Newspapers Compelled
to Puff Grant—The Arrest of Butler
and His Nephew, etc., etc., etc.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
New York, November 19, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The unwillingness of our banks to ac
commodate the mercantile community in
the discon'ut line at a time that this ac
commodation i3 most needed, has induced
a number of enterprising capitalists to
establish a bank with $25,000,000 capital
for tbe purpose of allowing those facilities,
without which no mercantile house in
New York can get along comfortably,
especially in the busy season of the year.
Tbe new bank will not have any issue, but
will devote its entire energies toward
creating those fecilities for which the Eng
lish banks are everywhere admired, and
which cur New York institutions never
appear to have thoroughly understood.
The same as. last week, business drags
along very slowly in the Metropolis, more
so in fact, as this is a broken week, the_
Thanksgiving being now observed here as
a close holiday. It has given the members
of the Gold Room an opportunity to
settle up their difficulties with the Gold
Exchange Bank, and once more transact
their operations through that well-known
clearing house. But the effects of the
late oanic are still felt in that dingy hole,
-ailed the Gold Room. Business there
now is no longer so speculative, and the
transactions on mere margins are not so
numerous as they used to be before the
fatal September 24th. Neither is there
any likelihood that the speculation of the
past Summer will ever be revived by the
present generation of gold-brokers, unless,
indeed, some great political event shall
shake once more our financial circle.
Public opinion has at last driven Gen. ;
Butterfield, the speculative official, out of !
the Treasury. Yesterday he handed over
the emblems of office and also the nine-y j
millions of his gold under his charge to
his successor, and had the- impudence t-o j
say that, if placed in a similar position, he
would do again as he had dene. This man
is certainly one of the most barefaced
scoundrels that the Grant administration
ever elevated to office and would have
kept there but for the unmerciful assaults
made upon him by the entire press of New
York. Even to-day you will find the most
intimate friends of the President and his
Cabinet assert, in the most emphatic man
ner, that the statements about Butterfield,
spread so far and wide, are the merest
slanders and that he has served the Gov
ernment with fairness and integrity. This,
in the face of the well-known fact that
Bntterfield, while acting as United States
Treasurer, had his margins with Duncan,
Sherman k Cos. and Selegman & Cos,,
bankers, in New York, and that on the
eventful Friday, when gold ran up to 162,
and he received the telegram to sell four
million, from Boutwell, he secretly sent a
copy of the dispatch to these two firmsand
thus not only saved himself from ruin
but cheated the very men with whom be
bad previously formed an alliance, Gould,
Fisk and Corbin, the latter especially, who
' procured hii# the appointment of Sub-
Treasurer. Amid all the charges brought
against Butterfield, the above, the most
important of all, have never yet been
I brought out in the public press, simply be
j cause, the house of Duncan, Sherman &
! Cos., is considered too respectable for any
newspaper editor here to believe that they
would have willingly mixed themselves up
in such a dirty business, and still further,
because the house of Selegman & Cos.
which is growit g rich very fast —is as
yet, considered too young a house that a
government official would entrust his
secrets to it; and still these are the facts
which Mr. Gould asserts are the same ver
sion of the Butterfield scandal, and to
which Mr. Gould is said to be ready to
swear whenever called upon by competent
: authority. .
The venality of this administration is,
however, not limited to officers of the
i Sab Treasury here- The New York Cas
; tom House to-day—under a Grant adminis
; tration, which we were promised wou'd
establish a millennium of economy anu |
honesty—is a hot bed of thieves and
j scoundrels. The robberies count up by
the hundred thousands, aod the officers
charged with committing them are holding
rank next to the Collector of tb« port
j Grant’s intimate friend Moses H. Grin
-1 neil. All attempts to hush up argus
i eyed reporters of the New York press, ;
who could pot account for the
: constant absence of Mr. Biatehford from
his post, until at last the secret could no
longer be kept that Mr- Biatehford,
i nephew of the United States Judge by
that name, had, while acting as Deputy
Collector at this port, been the main in
strument in obtaining from tie Treasury
no less than SBOO,OOO on bogus claims for
drawback. Biatehford to-day is not to be
found and the prosecuting attorney, who
now has brought this into court,
goes to work piecemeal in bringing small
claims of $5,000 thus obtained from the
Government before the tribunal where
these cases must be hevd, so as to blind
the public eye, which is continually fasten
ed on these outrages committed under au
“honest administration.”
While rascality thus reigns supreme in
the Treasury Department and its s ibordi
nate offices, lying characterizes the doings
of the State Department and nepotism
that of the White House. Secretary Fisk
recently showed an official an important
dispatch from Spain. It soon reached the
press and then called a confidential news
paper man to telegraph to his paper to
state officially that no *ueh dispatch had
been received. This is a tact which can be
testified to by several correspondents now
in Washington. At the White House
these same correspondents cannot obtain
neither from the President nor from his
Secretaries a single item of news, unless
they are willing to puff the administration
in all it does. The entire mind presiding
over the Executive Department of the Gov
ernment is so small that even the corre
spondents of papers friendly to the admin’
istration are disgusted with it.
New York has been considerably aroused
during the past few days by the efforts or’
Mrs. Floranoe, from New Orleans, to Vin
dicate the memory of her late uncle,
Major General Twiggs, of the Confederate
army, from whom, she alleges, the great
Butler, alias Beast Butler, stole a number
of articles forming a part of the General’s
household goods, and among which were
table-spoons, forks, pianos, and a sword,
all property which, by right, belong to the
family. She prays for an order of arrest
for the valiant General, and Judge Joues,
of the Superior Court, has granted it.
The Sheriffs are on the look-out for Mr.
Butler, th moment he sets foot on the
soil of the Metropolis.
His nephew, George H. Butler, recently
appomted by General Grant Consul to the
Indies, has also been arrested on a charge
of libel, brought against him by Hender
son, the husband of the blonde, Lydia
Thompson, against whom he, as editor of
Wilkes'' Spirit, has written some ugly ar
ticles. This Butler, U. S. Consul under
Grant, has just been married to Mrs. Rose
Eytinge, an actress in more ways than one,
and will be a “noble” representative of
Grant’s administration in England’s great
Colonies. Argus.
LETTER FROM MACON.
MEETING OF THE GEORGIA TEACHERS’ AS
SOCIATION.
Georgia Teachers' Association—Report
of the Committee on the Best Plan for
Educating the Masses of the State —
White and Colored —Its Unanimous
Adoption. - .
Mac in, Nov. 17, 1809.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Every interest is represented in this
crowded city. Among the bodies consult
ing over their particular affairs, is the
Georgia Teachers’ Association.
That your readers may fully understand
the object of the meeting held this day, I
must needs go back to the last annual con
vocation at Atlanta in August. Ou that
occasion a paper on “Popular Education
in Georgia” was read by Mr. Martin V.
Calvin, of your city. Tbe paper was de
voted to a review of the defects of the
“Poor School” law, with suggestion of a
course likely to remedy the evils. This
papef gave rise to a resolution, by Prof.
Orr, President of the Southern Masonic
Female College, calling for tbe appoint
ment of a Committee ol five to report the
best plan for educating the rnases of our
people—white arid colored. Both docu
ments were, on motion, made the special
order for the following .ays, when, after
discussion, the resolution was adopted,
and the paper referred to said Committee,
composed of the following named gentle
men : Prof- Gustavus J. o>r, Covingtoa,
Chairman ; Hon. David W. Lewis, At
lanta ; Mr. Bernard Mallon, Savannah;
Rev. Dr. John M. Bunnell, Macon ; and
Mr. Martin V. Calvin, Augusta.
This Committee mt at Macon on the
29th ult., and with great unanimity agreed
upon the general features of a plan, which
was duly and very ably presented to the
Association to-day by the Chairman.
Each provision was subjected to the
closest possible scrutiny, and the whole re
port unanimously adopted.
Dr Sears, the General Agent of the
Peabody Fund, was present, and express
ed himself highly pleased with the pro
posed plan.
I would like very much to repeat nere
some of the m my unanswerable arguments
adduced m the report in support of a sys
tern of public over private instruction, but
your limited space will not admit of this.
Your readers, however, must have an
inkling as to the character of tbe plan
which, it is confidently believe!, will receive
the hea-ty endorsement of every citizen in
Georgia.
THE SYSTEM.
The State School Commission is (as the
Constitution directs) to be appointed by
the Governor by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate—a law beiDg enact
ed to require the Governor to make the
appointment solely on account of the fit
ness of the appointee for the position—un
influenced by political or sectarian b;as.
The Commission will have the general
supervision of schoois, construction of
school laws, etc , etc.
• THE STATE BOARD OP EDUCATION
Is to be composed of the Governor and
Comptroller General, together with seven
gentlemen from the State, one from rach
Congressional District—elected by the
Genera! Assembly on joint ballot —to hold,
office for two, four and six years. The
Board is to meet semi-annually, and re
ceive a per diem compensation.
THE STATE FUND
Is made up of poll tax, half the net
proceeds of the W. & A. Railroad, etc.,etc.
COUNTY BOARDS.
There are to be two Boards of Education
in each county, composed of six citizens,
each two to be elected for one year; two
for two years, and two tor three years.
This Board is to locate schoois, sites, etc,
and elect a county Superintendent, whose
duty they will define and salary arrange.
! The privilege is accorded the colored
people of having a B ard an.. Superintend-
I ent of their own color—expenses to be
j paid sa : d official* out of their school fund.
If, however, they a.ccept_ the supervision
j of the white Board and Superintendent
1 they save a good portion es their funds. In
th s event thire wni be,but one Board and
county Superin'endent. The schools for
! colored children are, of course, to be sepa
j rate.
Each and every school in the county is to
have a Board of five Trustees, who visit and
otherwise care ;or the school. The sparse
ly settled districts are to be benefited by
two or more schools.for each race, between
which the teacher shall alternate—the
schools to, be kept in operation at least
three months in the year.
The State Fund for the whites is to be
distributed on this wise. The white men
in each] county shall voluntarily
tax themselves in an amount sufficient with
the county’s share of the State fund, to
support their schools for a period of at least
six months. If the county will not vote
the said tax, then her share shall be with
held and placed to her credit from year to
year until she does acquiesce. Present
schools and sites are not to be disturbed
unless absolutely necessary.
THE COLORED SCHOOL FUND
is proposed to be made up as follows, All
taxes whatsoever paid by the oolored peo
ple shall, with an equal amount to be drawn
from the State Treasury (educational
money),constitute the fund lor the support
of their schools. School-houses must-be
provided by those people prior to receiving
their portion of this general fund. The
same course is to be pursued iu ease of
failure to build, as with the whites.
NORMAL SCHOOLS
| for whites are provided to be erected at the
1 earliest practicable time, and similar sebools
for colored people when necessary.
'J he machinery of this plan is exceedingly
simple. The idea throughout is to take
the schools where they are now, elevate
and improve them. Tie system is to be
made ol and for the people— to grow with
their growth. Nor will it bankrupt the
State. The objections persistently urged
against the adoption of a system of public
instruction in Georgia are conceived in
error and under the influence es an un
wholesome dread of what are for the most
part imaginary evils and binderanees.
The report closes as follows: “The bal
ance of the Committee would say, in refer
ence to the report of' Mr. Calvin, submit
ted to us, that we have best shown our ap
preciation of the author’s views by incor
porating them in this report.”
Dr. H H. Tucker, Prof. Orr, Mr.
Mallon, Col. D. W. Lewis and Col. D. E.
Butler were appointed a Committee to
have the plan agreed upon, put into the
shape of a bill, and lay the report and bill 1
before the Legislature, urging the same j
upon their attention ; in other words, to j
work msnfuily lor the passage of the last !
named document.
THE MEETING AT NIGHT.
At night very able and interesting ad
dresses were delivered by Rev Dr. Lan
drum, of Savannah, and Rev. Dr. Sears, of
which the lateness of the hour admonishes
me not to write. I must leave the subject
matter of the trdTTiesses for another letter,
Your Jupiter Tunans and incomparable
Local are here and will post you as to the
Fair. Loraine.
P. S— I neglected in the proper place
to. ruention.the provisions for securing com
petent teachers. The Board of Examin
ers will be composed of '.he Supenntend
ents of the Senatorial Districts; are to
meet twice a year in some convenient lo
cality. School Trustees will elect teachers
from among the persons licensed by the
Board of Exumiuers. The teacher’s cer
tificates will be graded according to ability.
Should the colored people determine to
have their own Board ot Examination and
Superintendent, then their Superintend
ents will meet (as do the white school
Superintendents for the whites) to examine
colored persons desirous of eaching colored
children.
Macon, November 18, 1869.
Editors Chronicle k Sentinel :
Last evening I gave you a somewhat
hurried but tolerably definite report of the
action of the Teachers’ Association on the
great question which is to-day exciting
more earnest attention, all over this grand
State, than ever before. Heretofore a few
friends of education have been engaged in
considering and urging its claims in behalf
of the masses--now the masses them
selves are on thu qui vive, determined,
cost what it may, lo have a system of pub
lic instruction so thorough as to reflect
eredit on the “Empire State of the South.”
Before reporting the substance of the
addresses referred to in a previous letter,
let me present a general resume of the
Public School plan as recommended to the
General Assembly :
1. The State School Commissioner, who
is to be the directing, moulding genius of
the whole system, is to be appointed io
view of' his special adaptation to the work
—clear out ot the reach of political in
fluences.
2. The; State Board is to come from
the people by choice of the Legislature.
Here we guard against centralizing power
in the hands of government officials.
3. The schools for the races are pro
vided to be separate. The privilege t>f a
separate Board and Superintendent in
each county is given to the colored people,
elected by themselves if they desire it.
They may adopt the white school Board
and Superintendent chosen exclusively by
the white voters, and thus save to their
fuud the expenditures necessary to meet
the expenses of their own Board and Su
perintendent.
4. By a system of rigid examination
competent teachers are to be secured.
5. Every white school and colored
school is to have a Board of five Trustees,
elected in the fir»t case, of course, by the
white man, in the second cp.se by the color
ed voters; Here the local element pre
dominates—the schools are emphatically
the people’s schools.
6. The • Boards of Education and
Trustees receive no compensation.
7. The withholding a county’s cr dis
trict’s distributive share of the. State fund
respectively for whites and blacks is a
s'rong moving money argument; to the
former to tax themselves liberaily, to he
latter to build at once neit Echooi houses.
8. The great bug-bear in all former
legislation on the subject of’free public in
struction in _ the State—sparseness of
population—is remedied by the adoption
of the omgangs skoler or ambulatory plan,
which diffuses education all over the bleak
regions of Norway and Sweden.
9. Schools are taken just ."where
found, and the work of improvement be
gun. There is to be no sudden revolution.
The schools are to be such as will be jn fa
vor with tbe various classes of society.
10. The Normal Schools will supply a
desideratum iu giving to the people teach
ers trained for the work — teacher3 who
wd! enter the work and love it for the
work’s sake.
11. The provision for the colored people
is very liberal, indeed. It will command
uniform approval.
Herelet me say that, naturally enough,
the utmost interest was manifested in
making provision for the education of the
colored e'ement
NOW FOR THE ADDRESSES.
Rev. Dr. Landrum, of Savannah, an
active member of the Board of Education
of that city, was the first speaker. He spoke
of the acknowledged importance of educa
tion to all people and eloquently referred
to it as an auxiliary to that best treasure
man can possess. He thought highly of
the plan adopted y the Association , gave
an interesting history of the establishment,
management and general progress of the
Savannah Public Schools. He dwelt par
ticularly upon the importance of superyis
ion in the schools, and showed how, under
the friendly professional guidance of a
competent superintendent, the teachers
were brought into harmony; bow the
younger and inexperienced teachers became
more efficient and stronger; how better
discipline was secured and ail the schools
moulded into the similitude of a friendly
organized army.- He regarded the action
of the day, if consummated, as calculated
to contribute more to Georgia's well-being
than almost anything else.
Rev. Dr. Sears, the General Agent of
the Peabody Fund, commenced his re
marks with the proposition that mind is
the measure of man, and, in a few terse
sentences, showed how illimitable were
the mental powers. Education improves
mankind by elevating and enlarging
their sphere of usefulness. Talent
is distributed broadcast over the
whole area of society—hence the necessity
for universal education. There is more
wealth in intelligence and morality than in
climate, broad acres, or the treasures 10 be
found in mountain's. When I look over
these fields of Georgia I cannot but think
how much good would arise to this goodly
commonwealth if the truths of science
were applied to them all. Labor, to be
really valuable, roust be skilled. A man
will gain according to his intelligence. The
man whose talents make him worth $20.-
000 will find employment much more easily
than he whose value is fixed at sl. The
great disparity lies iu the proper apd per
fect education of the faculties. Publio ed
ucation is the only means-at hand for im
proving the menaiity of man. Left to in
dividual effort, it can never reach and dif
fuse its countless blessings among the
masses. History establishes the fact that
there is no such thing as universal intelli
gence in aoy natioD, without the agency of
public schools. England has expended
her millions in splendid endowments, but
Germany, with more economy, and a sys
tem of public instruction, is far ahead of
her. Iu the very dust from 1806 to 1812,
Germany to-day stands first and foremost
among nations. Poor in soil, she is im
mensely wealthy- in mind—cultivated
mind-
Private instruction is much more costly
than public, and it is proportionally ineffi
cient. Publie instruction is more vigorous,
independent and efficient. It does not de
pend for support and patronage on the few,
but all. Not that there are not good pri
vate schools, but very many wanting in
vitality.
The public system is the system for all
the records establish this fact.
I have not sought to give you the words
of the distinguished speakers. I believe I
have their ideas, and, after all, it is the
idea that is immortal.
The addresses were listened to with the
utmost attention by numbers of the very
ablest teachers in this State. I venture
that every gentleman present left the hall
convinced of the practicability of the plans
adopted, and enthused upon the import
ance of having them made the law. And
so mote it be! Loraine.
OIR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT.
On the Wing, Nov. 15, 1869.
Editors Chronicle d\ Sentinel:
The passenger coaches on the Georgia
Road were all pretty well crowded on the
night of the stn tost., scarcely a vaoant
seat to be. had; but I succeeded in getting
a birth in the magnificent sleeping cat—a
luxury indeed on this line of travel. At 5
o’clock next morning the porter raised the
curtain and announced Augusta, and asked
me if I was going on th« Carolina train. I
told him “No, on the Central.” “All
right, then, sleep on,” which 1 did for an
other hour. Awoke, looked out, and saw
omnibuses, vehicles, drays and pedestrians,
all in motion—a city gradually awakening
into life.
After strolling around for an hour or two,
I returned to take the train for Bartow, in
Jefferson county. An old colored man
came up, and was so dignified in his ap
pearance as to induce me to ask him a few
questions. Says I, “Where are you going,
uncle?” “I’s gotng to Waynesboro, sir;
going there to preach, I’s a preacher.”
“You are, ha?”
“Yes,” says he, “why not me as well
as anybody else?”
“Well,” says I, “what are you going to.
preach?”
“I’sgoing to preich the gospel, sir."
“Well,” says I, “ what is the
Gospe ?” “Well, sir, “it’s preaoain
Got to le people!” “No, no,” says I,
the command is “Go ye into all tbe world
an I preaph the Gospel to every creature,
not God to every creature, but the Go»pel;
now what is the Gospel 1” “Ah,” says he,
“I ain’t got my pints now; you got tne
bothered. I can tell you next time.’-’ We
rolled along at rather a slow gate, and ar
rived at Millen about one o’clock where
the passenger trains meet. I observed
very iittle improvement about this place,
none only such as is necessary for the ac-.
commodation of the road. There were
very few passeugers on the trains ot the
Central liaad, which I learned was a com
mon tring It istnought thq travel ou the
day Hams is not sufficient to pay the ex
pense of run-tog them On the night line
the travel is said to be much better, but
this will neaily ail be lost when the Macon
k Augusta Road is completed.
I observed quite a destruction of Cyprus
in the ponds alotig the road, occasioned by
the drouth. The entire evaporaticn of
water and dryness of soil, proved fatal to
this species ol growth, of which the coun
try abounds. The cotton fields everywhere
looked d.uk, something unu ual at this
season of the year.
The crop has been gathered and, though
limited iu quantity, it will be of superior
quality. Late Saturday evening I arrived
at Bartow and found quite a crowd of
men, women and children, black and
white, in aud around the store of Messrs.
Evans and Johnson. But few country
stores in Georgia that do a more extensive
trade. Went up to she residence of Rev.
Russell Johnson, where I always feel per
fectly easy and at home. More kind and
genial spirits i rarely ever meet than in
the families of my friends Rhssell and
Evans.
On Monday . morning we went up
to Louisville, about ten miles dis
tant, and found the streets crowded with
wagons, carts and buggies, horses and
mules, white folks, aud black folks, male
and female, big and little, all brought to
gether by the Superior Court. Judge
Gibson being providentially prevented •
from arriving in time, the' Court was Dot
opened until Tuesday morning.
Among the distinguished visitors of the
bar present were ex-Governor Johnson,
General Wright, and udge Hook, of
Augusta ; Colonel P ttle, of Warrenton ;
and Rogers, of Burxe.
The civil and criminal business was vig
orously prosecuted, and it was thought
would be mostly disposed of during the
week.
There was nothing outside of the Court
gotog on of special interest. The cotton
crop will be about one-halt of an average
yield; the corn having mostly matured be
fore the drought sat in, will do much
better.
A number of planters will make plenty
of eorn to do them, perhaps a few will
have some to spare.
My stay in Louisville wa3 pleasant rnd
agreeable. lam under many obligations
to Judge Watkins and his excellent lady
for their hospitality and kindness. They
earnestly requested me in visiting Louis
ville to make their house my home, and I
certainly could not find one with more
taste, courtesy and politeness. Long may
the young couple, live and epjoy merited
confidence and esteem, and the blessings
of social and domestic life.
Traveller.
The Broken Home.
“ TRUTH STRANGER THAN fio
tion.’'
In San Francjsco, on the North side of
Folsom street, overlooking Mission Bay,
stands a palatial residence.
The interiorof this House is even more
beautiful than its exterior, every apart
ment being in its way a gem of magnifi
cence and refinement.
The library especially realizes the most
perfect ideal of an elegant and cultivated
home. ;
And yet, at the moment we look in upon
him--one August afternoon, as he occu
pied his library—the prop ietor of all this
wealth appeared of all men the most miser
able.
He was Mr. Morton Preble, for rna-y
years a leading banker of San Francisco.
It was in vain that the troad bay win
dow at the south end of the room had been
opened, giving ingress to the sunshine and
the fragrance of rare flowers—in vain that
the wails were lined with richly carve '
book-cases and paintings —in vain that soft
couches and luxurious chairs had been
gathered around him.
He was wretched.
He lay on a sofa, in the depths of the
great bay-window, the wreck of a once
powerful mar. His figure was thin and
gaunt; his face white as marble; his eyes
having an expression of weful apprehen
sion, of harrowing anxiety, of dreadful ex
pectancy.
It was evident at a glaoce that, no merely
physical ailment had mads him what he
was.
By what withering secret, by whit de
stroying affliction, had lie been thus agon
ized? thus haunted? thus hunted? he so
noble and good ! he so wealthy and dis
tinguished 1
As he moved restlessly upon his luxuri
ous cushions the pretty clock on the
mantle-piece struck five,every stroke seem
ing to fall like a hammer upon the heart
of the nervous invalid. He aroused him
self, struggling feebly to a sitting .posture.
“Oh, will this fatal day never, never
pass?” be murmured; “nor bring us re
lief?”
Noticing with a nervous start that he
was alone, he touched a bell upon a table
before him, and called:
“Helen, Helen ! where are you?”
Before the echoes of his voice had died
out a step was heard, and his wile entered
his presence.
“I left, you only for a moment, Morton,”
she said, advancing to tbe banker’s side.
“You were dozing, I think. I wished ta
send for the doctor 1”
She was a beautiful woman, of six apd
thirty years, graceful, with Joroad white
brows, and loving eyes, in which the
brightness, and sweetoess of a sunshiny
nature were still peroeptible, under a grief
and anxiety no less poignant than that
evinced by her husband.
“The doctor 1” he echoed, half-reproach
; fully. ~ . , ,
i "Yes, dear, she said, in a calm and
i cheerful voice, as she drew a chair to the
side of the sofa, and sat dowp, stroking the
! corrugated forehead of ihe invalid with a
magnetic touch. “He will be here imme
diately. Your last nervous crisis alarmed
me. You may become seriously ill!”
Mr. Preble bestowed an affectionate look
upon his wife, but said despondently:
“The doctor! He cannot ‘minister to a
mind diseased I’ Oh, if these long hours
would only pass ! If I only knew what the
day has yet in store for us !” _
“Look up, Morton 1 enjoined Mrs.
Preble, with a reverently trustful glance
upward through the open window at the
blue sky, and as if looking beyond the
azure clouds therein. “Let us appeal from
the injustice and wickedness of earth to
the goodness and mercy of Heaven!”
The banker gave a low, sobbing sigh.
I cannot look up, Helen,” he answered
with a passionate tremor in h s voice—•
“only down, down at the grave that is
opening before me!
Mrs. Preble continued to stroke his fore-
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- head softly, while she lilted her pale face
i to the sunlight streaming into the apart
ment.
“Look up, Morton—always look up!”
she again enjoined upon the invalid.
“During all these fourteen years of agony,
I have-not once doubted either the good
ness or justice of Heaven. ‘Blessed are
they that mourn; for they shall be com
forted.’ I believe we shall yet rejoice
more keenly than we have mourned, and
that we shall come to a glorious day of joy
beyond all this long night of sorrow !”
The face of the invalid lighted up with
an answering glow, and he murmured :
“Glorious faith! My wife, vou are
indeed a blessed comforter! Perhaps,
after all, you are right 1”
A knock resounded on a side-door at
this juncturq, and the next moment Dr.
Hutton, the family physician, for whom
Mrs. Preble had sent, entered the room.
He was an old man, portly in figure,
with white hair and beard, but with a
fresh and ruddy complexion, a pair of
shrewd blue eyes, and with an exuberant
boyishness of manner that sat well upon
him. He had a kind heart 'and a clear
head. He approached the sofa, after
greeting the husband and wife, and lifted
the thin restless hand of the invalid, feel
ing his pulse,
“Quite a high fever,” he said, alter a
brief pause. “Worrying again, eh, Mr.
Preble ? You are wearing yourself out.
Medicine will do you no good so long as
your mind is in its present condi.ion. I
must give you an opiate—”
“Nor now, doctor,” interposed the bank
er. “I cannot —must not —sleep to day 1
I need to be broad awake now, for I cannot
tell at any moment what the next may
bring forth. lam looking for the culmi
nation of all my years of anguish—for the
crowning agony of the whol . Perhaps
even now— Ah, what was that ?”
.He started up wildly, and then, as the
sound that had disturbed him was not
repeated, he sank back again on his cush
ions, pallid and panting
The doctor looked at Mrs Preble with
an anxious, questioning glance.
“it is the anniversary,” she replied to
his unspoken inquiry—“the anniversary
of our loss.” • i
“Ah, yes,” said the doctor. “I remem
ber.”
“Yes, it’s another of those terrible
days,” cried the banker, in a hollow whis
per. “Sit down doctor, and I will tell you
the whole story. I eaq think of nothing
else to-day, and am almost wild with ap
pr»henrion and anxiety. Sit down.”
Dr. Hutton drew up fi chair and seated
himself, his lace expressing the double
solici'ude of a friend and physician.
“You knew us fourteen years ago,
doctor,” said Mr. Pieble. “We lived
then where we do now, in a cottage ou
the site of this great mansion. There
were but the three of us —Helen,and 1,
and our three year old Jessie. And it
va, fourteen years ago to-day that our lit
tle Jessie was stolen from us.”
"I remember it," said the doctor softly.
“Yet might she not have been lost, Mr.
Preble ? She went out to play in the gar
den, if I remember rightly, and was
never seen by you again. She might have
strayed away—”
“So we thought fora whole year, doctor,”
interrupted t. e banker. “We neverdream
ed that she had been stolen. We searched
everywhere for her, and offered immense
rewards lor her recovery. I employed de
tectives, but all to no. purpose. When
our little Jessie ran down the steps into
that flower-garden,” and he pointed to
thp front of the house, “as if the earth had
opened and swallowed her up, we never
saw her again.”
“She must have found the gate open,
and wandered out,” suggested Dr. Hutton.
“She might have strolled down to the
waters and been drowned.”
The banker fixed his burning eyes upon
the physician’s face, and whispered :
“I said we never saw the poor child
again. 1 did not say we hid not beard of
her. She was lost on the 9th of August,
1854. For a year we thought her dead.
But on the anniversary of our loss we re
ceived a written message concerning her.”
“A message?” cried Dr. Hutton, start
ing.
“A mere scrawl—a single line to a hand
evidently disguised,” said the banker.
“Here it is.”
He produced a dingy scrap of paper from
a drawer in the table, and held it up to the
view of tbe physician, who read as fol
lows :
“August 9, 1855. Jessie, ha, hi.' Jessie."
Dr. Hutton looked, with a puzzled air,,
from the scrap of paper, which he turned
over and over, to the countenance of the
banker.
“1 can make nothing of this,” ho de
clared. “It is merely a date with the
name of your lost daughter. It tells me
nothing.”
“Nordid it us. at first,” said Mr. Preble.
“Then that name aud that date, with the
demon laugh connecting them, set us to
thinking. A whole year we agonized over
t|ie dreadful problem, and then we received
another message, which you chall see-”
He thrust a second slip of paper, identi
cal in shape and appearance with the
first, before the gaze of Dr. Hutton, who
read it aloud :
“August 9,1856. Your Jessie still lives.”
The physician started, as if electrified.
“Ah ! this is something definite— some
thing decisive,” he muttered. “It con
vinced you that your daughter was still
living.”
“Ye*, doctor,” said Mr. Preble, “and
every anniversary of that diy has brought
us some message. The disappearance of
tbe child, mystersous as it is, does not
seem to me half so strange a that the
viliain who t jok her away could contrive
to communicate with us every year since,
and always on a particular day—the anni
versary on which she was stolen —without
our being able to discovr who he is. And
a still greater wonder to me is wha„ can be
his motive. It seems incredible. If it
was stated in a novel many people would
not believe it. But ‘truth is stranger than
fiction.’ ”
Mrs. Prebie drew from he' husband’s
breast-pocket his note-book, opened it to
the proper page and pres nted it to the
physician.
Dr. Hutton adjusted bis spectao’es.
glanced over the page, aod thon slowly
read the group of entries aloud. The entry
the first year is as follows:
“Au«un. 9 ISM. Jessie, ha, ha? Jessie!"
And the next year i-t is
‘‘Aug st 9, l->3U. Your Jessie still lives !"
Ana the next—
“ August 9, 1857. She is in good hands I"
And the next —
“August 9, 1838. Bhe is as ioeU as ever /”
And tiie next—
‘ Auffiiftt 0, 1859. I saw her yesterday F
And the next —
“August 9, 1800. She is growing rapidly
And the next—
.‘August 9, 1801. She continues to do well
And the next —
“August V, 1 stiC. I've seen her again!"
And the next—
“ August 9, 18011. Shes becoming a woman!"
And the next—
“ August 9, 1804. Your child is thirteen /”
And the next —
“August 9, 1803. She's lovelier than ever r*
And the next—
“ August 9, 1800. She's really charming!"
And jasl year it is—
“ August 9, 1807. My reward is at hand!"
And what shall we get to-day !
The physician looked up and fixed his
thoughtful gaze upon tbe bereaved hus
band and wife.
“How did these messages come to you?”
he demanded.
“Invariably by post,” replied Mr.
Preble. “Usually to the house, but some
times to the office!”
“And you have never seen their au
thor ?”
“Never I”
“The last .of them is dated, I see, a y:ar
ago to-day!”.
“Yes, yes,” faltcre i the banker, “aud
the time has come for soother message.
TbF is the 9th of August, 1868 !”
“I see,” said Dr. Hutton. "And thip
is the secret of your terrible excitement !
You are expecting to rec: ; vc to-day an
other of these strange messages I”
There was a brief silence. Mrs. Preble’s
hand fluttered in its task, and her face
grew very pale. The banker breathed
gaspingly. The physician regarded them
both in friendly sympathy.
“We shall bear of her again to-day,”
said Mr. Preble ; “and what will the mes
sage be ?”
The mother averted her face, Her
brave heart faltered as that question
eohoed in her soul.
“The writer of these letters is unques
tionably the abductor of your child 1” said
Dr. Hutton.
“Have you any suspicion as to his ident
ity?”
“Not the slightest,” said Mr. Preble.
“We have puzzled over the problem for
many years, but we cannot guess who he
is.”
“Think,” said the doctor. “Have you
no enemy ? I do not mean people with
whom you are not friendly—every stirring
man has plenty of these —bat a downright
enemy ! Is there no man whom you knew
in the East who hated you ? No one
; against whom you were called upon to tes
■ ttfy—no one whom you possibly injured?”
The banker shock his head. He had
asked himself all these questions repeat
edly.
“I have no such enemy, doctor,” he an
swered with sincerity of voice and man
ner.
“And Mre. Preble! suggested the doc
tor, turning to her, “Have you no rejoct-
ed suitor who might bo revengeful enough
to desolate your home?”
“No,” said the lady. “I was married
early. Morton was my first lover!”
"This is strange—very strange!” mut
tered the doctor. “You are not oonscious
of having an enemy in the World, and yet
you have an enemy—a hidden so
fiend in human form —who is working out
against you a fearful hatred! And you
have not the slightest suspicion as to whom
he is?”
“Not the slightest,’’declared the t anker.
“Not theslightestl” echoed Mrs. Preble.
“My husband had a step-brother who
might have been capable of this infamy—
but he is dead !”
“The handwriting is not familiar ?”
“No. It is merely a rude scrawl, as you
see,” said the banker, “it suggests noth
ing—except that it is evidently disguised!”
Again there was a p ofound silence.
“Our child is seventeen years old now,”
at length murmured Mrs Preble, he
voice trembling. "She is on the threshold
of womanhood. No doubt, during all these
years, she has yearned for us, wherevtr
she may be, as we have yearned for her 1”
“But where is she ?” asited the physi
cian—and now his voice was broken b his
deep sympathy with the agonized parents.
“Where can she be.”
“Heaven only knows,” answered the
mother. “Perhaps in San Frauc'soo—
perhaps in some rude hut in the interior,
with some obscure farmer, and under a
name that is not hers! I think her ab
ductor would have carried her to some
lonely region of the interior, among the
valleys and mountains. Ye>. I never see a
young girl in-the streets without turning
to look at her. I never hear a girlish
voice without listening eagerly, half
t’anoying that it may prove the voice of my
lost Jessie !”
“Oh,pitying Heaven!” sighed Dr. Hut
ton, dashing a flood of tears from his eyes
“ Will the kmg agony never be over I”
“We hope so, and even believe so,”
answered Mrs. Prenle, with the firmness
of an unfaltering trust in G »t’s mercy.
“The last mts.-age, we receiv it ir-ui j ,
enemy seems to point to some kind .e t
chance-”
“True,” assented Dr. Hutton, looking
at the message in question. "It is uulike
the others, it says that his 'reward i.- at
hand.’ He means that he inteuds to
marry your daughter, or that he intends
to demand money oi you for bringing her
back—or both.”
“We shall soon know.” said Mr
Preble, with forced calmness “To-day
we shall have another message, r.y rlnub
What wm it bi ?”
The banker turned lestlesslyon hi sola,
and his face grew even paler
“ Whatever it is, let it come !” be mur
mured. “Any'hing can b borne l etter
than this awlui suspense. Let if ccmel”
As if hi 9 impatient words had precipita
ted a crisis, a step was heard on the waljk
at this moment, and a ring at the front
door followed.
"Another message 1” breathed the
banker.
A servant soon entered, hearin a letter,
which he extended to Mr. Preble, saying:
“The bearer is in the hall.”
With an eager gaze, the banker glanced
at 'he super crip ion of the missive.
“It is from him I” he faltered.
He tore the envelope open.
It contained a slip of paper, of well
known shape and appearance, upon which
was scrawled a single line, in an equally
well-known handwriting, whicu the banker
exhibited to his wife a> and the physician.
This line was aB follows:
"August 9, 1868. At six I will call."
A shock of wonder and horror shook the
three simultaneously.
“Will call!’’cried Mr Preble, starting
to his feet, and glaring wildly around.
“Is coming here ?” cried Mrs. Preble,
also arising.
“It seems so,” said Doctor Hutton his
eyes again reverting to the message “He
will be here at six o’clock, and see ! it is
six already!”
Even as he spoke, the clock on the man
tel-pie® commenced striking.the appointed
hour, and at that instant heavy footsteps
resounded in the hall, approaching the
library.
“It is he !” cried the doctor, also arising.
As the last stroke of the hour resounded,
the door leading from the hall again open
ed.
One long and horrified glance cast the
banker and his wife in that direction, and
then she fell heavily to the floor.
Her senses had left her The above we
publish as a specimen chapter; but the
continuation of this story will be found
only in the N. Y Ledger. Ask fur the
number dated December 4th, which cau be
had at any news office or bookstore. If
you are not within each o! a. news office,
you can have the Ledger mailed to you for
one year by sending three dollars to aobert
Bonner, publisher, 182 William street,
New York. The Ledger pays more for
original contributions than any other
periodical in the world. It will' publish
none but the very, very best. Its moral
tone is the purest, and its circulation the
largest. Every body who lakes it is hap
pier for havingn Leon Lewi.-, Mrs Har
riet Lewis, Mrs. Southwonb, Mr Cobb,
Protessor Peok. Mary Kyle Dallas Fmny
Fern and Miss Dupuy will write only for
the Ledger hereafter.
Mr. Bonner, like other leading publ-h
ers, might issue three or five pai ers and
magazines; but ho prefers to cone titrate
all bis energies upon one, and in that way
to make it the be.-t. One Dtx er is wm-h
more 'ban three or five ordinary horses.
One science only can one genius tit,
So vast is art, s> > narrow human wit.
Froin Columbia, 8 C.
f SPECIAL TO THE NEWB ]
Columbia, • November 22. The new
Senate ctiatnbcr ami uJ.. n tn-- H u-e of
R presentatives at - ready for rhe mem
bers, about one half ul -.horn are here.
The contractor has spent tar more Mian
tbe appropriation in fitting up tlie capuoi
builtting
It is uncertain how long th' > session will
last, but two months is ihe geueral esti
mate.
The lobby members arc mustering in full
furoo, and the Chatoam Riilroad people
will make a vigorous rush lor a guarantee
or subsidy, as wiil the supporers o tbe
Spartanburg and Union Railroad exten
siou to Asheville The Governor is said
to be opposed to giving State aid at pres
ent to any railroad company, an-1 the
members, just now, lean the -.ame vi»
Among the persons spoken of for the
vacant seat on the Supreme Bench are
Judge Carpenter, W. J Whipper (col
oreu), Judge Orr, ami Judge Boozer.
Judge Carpenter is the favorite, but it is
likt-lv that an attempt will be made to run
in Whipper, so that the negroer may have
another man of their own color ,n high
official position.
The Governor’s message will probably
be presented on Wednesday.
Special Telegram to the Courier.
Columbia, Nov. 22. vlembers of the
Legislature continue to arrive and the pres
ence of a quorum in both branches to mor
row is probable. The Treasurer’s report is
ready, aDd it is said exhibits great im
provement in the state of toe finances.
The State Auditor in h’s report compares
the present and old system of taxation,
and approves and recommends the system
suggested by Hon. Isaac W. Hayne in a
communication to the Comptroller iu 1859.
He replies to a critici-tm on the action of
the State Board of Equalization, and en
deavors to show by comparison between
the years 1859 and 1865 that the taxes
are not disproportionately higher consider
ing the vaiue of gold and currency. He
will recommend the exemption from taxa
tion for a term of years of manufactories,
and refers to the Legislature the etition
of Charleston merchants for a refundment
of the double tax collected.
The exemption of the railroad compa
nies was considered and for convenience it
assessment omitted fiom the last duplicate,
hut the tax will be assessed and collected
on the next duplicate, unless the General
Assembly orders otherwise. He also rec
ommends increased compensation for the
Charleston County Treasurer and Auditor,
ard the Columbia Auditor.
The Comptroller-General’s Report esti
mates that nine hundred thousand dollars
are necessary to meet the current expenses
and other payments for coming fiscal year
Scott will recommend t.,at a law tie
passed requiring each company effecting
insurance in this State to deposit ample
securities with the Comptroller General to
protect policy-holders. He will not make
any recommendations id regard to the Blue
Ridge Railroad, but leave the question en
tirely with the Legislature.
Mr. Guffin, Republican, is here to con
test the seat of Cothran, Democrat, elected
as Senator from Abbeville.
The United States District Court was
opened at Nickerson’s Hotel to-day by
Judge Bryan. Ten Grand and fifteen
Petit and Pleas Jurors only answered. On
motion of District Attorney, ac., CorbiD,
Tales Jurors were ordered and summoned.
Judge Bryan expressed his displeasure at
the non-attendance of the jurymen in the
strongest terms, and said their conduct
was not only in contempt of Court and in
violation of law, but utterly obstructed
the administration of justice, and that the
penalties of the law would be visited upon
those in default. The Court has adjourn'
ed until to-taorrbw at 11 o’clock,