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WEDNESDAY. JUNE *ft, 1870.
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR A XI) PROPRIETOR,
H r . /*. llick* is the. regular agent for the
J’O&T in John mu eon Mg, authorized to re-
rtiD6 Ki'i- rlntvni*, ftreipt-for the mime, anil
to nod - < •ntrarfftfor adee,Mining. All due*
nliwihl hr pa id to him.
W ill (lie <iovcruor A«-i ?
Day by day as the law-abiding
citizens of Laurens county reflect
ilie enormityof the crime com-
mint’d against law and order in our
midst, the stronger grow# the belief
thnl (lie State authorities cannot
afford to allow it to pass unchalleng
ed. Here wc have had a band of the
lowest characters in the county to
say the law shall not be executed
unless the course of just ice happens
to conform to their view’s. Von
may at great, expense build court
houses and jails, select, juries with as
much care as you please, hire judges
and set, up supremo t ribunals of jus
tice, composed of the ablest, and
purest men in our eomnibmvenHii;
but what doeB it all amount to if the
d< risions of tho highest courts must
bo subject to reversal by an armed
midnight mob ?
It is not sufficient, for all good men
to frown down snob lawlessness,
Tlvcso law breakers inust bo punish-
cd. No power but the (lovornor can
effectually mob them; hence, the
Governor cannot, without leaving ii
slain on Ids administration, refuse to
look into tho matter. The law
breaker.- iirci doubtless using their
best eHurls to blind Gov. Colquitt
as to tho real facts and feelings of
i be be - I oilmens in the case. AVe
huvogood roasou for believing that
thoir dmissurios have already boon to
Atlanta. But Gov. Colquitt will
surely not bo taken in by those
wreekiMr. Edward Perry has
raised Ids reward from *100 to *500
for I he detection of one or more of
the parties who have spit upon tho
authority of tho Sluto, and Imw tho
Governor oun refuse to aid in vindi
cating the honor of tho Stale which
has so signally honored him, we can-
not see.
A Groat Newspaper,
The Atlanta donut Uni ion cele
brated its 12th birthday on tho lflth
iiiHlaut h,V giving a big barbecue to
all tho ntraplios of the paper and
their families, numbering in all 350.
'i’ho employees alone numbor 80.
Tho Constitution is a Southern
newspaper that oonipuros favorably
with the metropolitan. journals of
the North, and comes nearer, per
haps, than any other post helium
enterprise in Dixie of representing
tho true spirit and reflecting the true
genius of tho Now South. It has
done more than any other Southern
newspaper to entomb the past and to
inspire hope in the future. Possess
ed of decided convictions with the
courage to express and tho logic to
nplitr.ain them, the -paper is neutral
in nothing, but always champions
the side it conceives to be rigid, and
never tails to make its influence felt.
Jamg live tho Constitution /
Samuel U. Hill, who killed John
ll Simmons, in Atlanta, for the
seduotion of his wife, has been sen
tenced to the penitentiary for life,
lie would have been cleared but for
the fact that his wife’s reputation be
fore her acquaintance with Simmons
was proved to be no bet,ter than it
ought to lie.
We are glad to see tho Albany
News urging the building of little
cotton mills—neighborhood mills,
costing from two thousand to five
thousand dollars, and propelled by
water power. Such mills do not
contain a loom. They are to spin,
not to weave. If the South by means
of such lit tle mills could t urn all of
its fleecy produet into yarn, selling it
only in that shape, a single decade
would not puss before it would be the
. neb*-i section ,-«f the eouutry. Wo
have not capital enough to attompt
much weaving, but there is not a
county. whieh is not able to secure
machinery with whieh to spin its
own pmduot. Thoro is money in it
to the spinners, to tho planters and
io all others iutoreaiod in the welfare
of die - nth. In the future we
should mark, i our groat crop in the
form of yarn, and to do that we need
little mills at every water pmv, r.—
Atlanta Constitution,
7VV- ; ■ \jSEv
The Wirograss Country.
Jin tekinurliU Dtsjutteh.
We love to present, evidences ‘of
the natural advantages of the wire-
grass section, tho salubrity of onr
climate, mid the independence of our
people.
On Thursday last Mr. Hardy Pjtts,
who lives near the line of Dijuly and
Worth counties cume uj» to Hawkins-"
villc with a part of his “wool clip”
of the present season. During the
day we met Mr. Pitts and had a
conversation with him. He is a
hearty, robust old gentleman, sixty-
four years of ago, and weighs two
hundred and twenty-five pounds.
Mr. Pitt s is the father of twenty
child ran, fourteen of whom are now
living, and the youngest is but ten
months old.
Helms lived in the wirograss, in
his present neighborhood, for thirty-
three yehrs, and informed ns that ho
has never had a ease of chills and
fever in his family.
He gut bored and sheared this sea
son two thousand two hundred head
of sheep, mid probably several more
were left in the woods, and may yet
bo found. On Thursday last ho sold
in Mawkinsville four thousand two
hundred mid seventy pounds'of wool,
a part of this season’s clipping, for
which he received thirty and a half
cents per pound, Mr. Pitts doesn’t
boiiovo in “carrying all liis eggs in
one basket,” and therefore did not
sell his entire clipping.
Ho is not tho largest sheep raiser
in the wiregross, but lie is both care
ful and attentive to his stock, and
follows them daily through the
“range.” Thus he is .enabled to
protect his sheep from their enemies
‘—dogs, eagles, etc. His annual
“wool clip” sells for about us much
us forty bales of cotton.
The sheep find pasturage, both
summer and winter, in tho “ranges;”
They roam at will over thousands of
acres, known as “wild lands.” These
lands can bo bought for twenty-five
oents per aero, and in many instances
for I ess. The land is covered with a
most niugniHcontgrowt.il of the finest
yellow pine timber. When cleaved
and cultivated, with the aid of fer
tilizers, these lands yield bountiful
crops of cbl’ii, cotton, oats, potatoes,
peas, sugar cane, etc.
There can bo no doubt that the
wirograss section is dostmod to at
tract tho attention of emigrants, and
at. no very distant day wo shall see
this section with double its present
population. Then,, instead of trav
oling ten to twenty miles, and seeing
only a lone settlement of a few log
cabins, wo shall find thrifty little
farms, comfortable dwellings, school
houses, church buildings, etc., as
numerous as in Middle Georgia.
Hut, before wo diop this brief
sketch, lot us present to our readers
onoo more the name of Geo. 11. Reid,
Sr., of Wilcox. He is the owner of
about four thousand head of sheep,
and is opposed to a dog law. He
says the sheep owners are in tho mi
nority, and to impose a tax upon
dogs would increase tho prejudices
and enmities of the non-sheep own
ers. Mr. Reid is seventy four years
of ago, and is one of t he old settlers
in the witregrass. His wool clip this
season was about nine thousand
pounds, most, of which reached this
market yostorduy.
Mr. Reid is just, ten years older
than Mr. Pitta, hut is not so heavy,
or, in other words, “beefy.” lie re
tains his physical manhood to a re
markable degree, and one day last
week rode fifty-two miles on horse*
baek. We present these facts to our
readers to show that, the wirograss
section has many advantages un
known to the people of up|>er. Geor
gia. Wo liyo in a healthy country,
and a section that will soou besought
by thousands of people looking for
new homes.
THE RECENT ERUPTION
MOUNT ETNA,
What is the matter with tho
Southern exodus? There seems to
be an ebb in the tide—a lull in the
enthusiasm—« falling in the contri
butions—a general stagnation m the
business that oven tho eloquence of
Parson Conway fails to revivify.
What does.it mean? Have tho pnr-
, ties to the scheme thrown it tip as
too heavy a contract, or Is the laud
of the oyolone losing its charms as a
land of promise? An answer to all
those questions may be found iu the
sensible action of the Southern plan
ters, the sober second thought of
j their inoro intelligent laborers, and,
i above all, in the roturniug common
sensq of the North St, Zouis Ite-
I publican.
Tin; Earn! Covered AVitli Blade
AhIioshihI the Mountain Vom
itlngFIre. *, .
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London Time*.
On the night of May 25th there
were continuous imirmiirings from
Etna, but this not being an uncoil-
inon occurrence, it attracted but lit
tle or no attention. On the morning
of the 26th these murmuring# in
creased, and I called the attention of
a servant of mine to the fact. Some
body called attention to the glass
rattling'in the window frames, and
somebody else suggested an earth
quake, a suggestion which was met
with derision. However, at about
12:30 p. m., a dcuso cloud of smoke
was seen to be issuing from tlm great
crater of Etna. It was a broad cloud
which stretched over the land and
over'the sea until it was lost on tho
horizon. It lmd a very red, or rather
it might be described as of a burnt
sienna color, and minute specks of
ash began to fall. Wo eon Id trace it
in its course far into the night, and,
in fact, until wo all went to bed.
Ou the morning of the 27th all
seemed in repose—not a cloud was
upon the mountain, save the fiat,
cloud with a lump in the middle
whieh often overhangs the crater in
the summer months, and which the
Sicilians call “tho Cardinal's hat.”
Hut at half past eight a dense cloud
was observed to issue from the earth
upon the northern slope of the
mountain as well as could bo judged
about half way between Lingitagros-
sii and Randazzo, but much higher
up the mountain. Tho cloud grow
and spread, and became so dense
that, tho whole mountain became per
fectly invisible; the light became so
obscured that it resembled the dark
ness produced by a total eclipse of
the sun, and a rail) of fine black ash,
like powdered emery, commenced.
•So heavy was the fall that the prom
ontory of Naxos, but two miles dis
tant, became perfectly invisible.
This bl tek rain continued the whole
of the day, loud reports could occa
sionally be hoaid from the mountain,
ami no doubt now remained that an
fi'iijn it>ii mi ii grand COIll-
rd. and my cars were blocked up
ii it; the polished surface of my
lie was ground away with grit.
On tho road home I came across a
priest enlarging upon the eruption
to a select audience of contadini,
and ventilating his knowledge by de
scribing the destruction of Pompeii,
and among other accuracies describe
ed the scutinel at the Herculaneum
gate eticking.to his post, through all,
and being found with bis gun eight
een hundred years after.
At night the scene was magnifi
cent; a tremendous stream of lava,
many miles long, descended in tin
apparent direction of Randazzo,
while from the new craters great
balls of fire were thrown high in the
air ami. burst into showers of fire,
like gigantic rockets, accompanied
by thundering explosions. This
morning the explorations are still go
ing on, the stream of lava seems
more active than ever, but the ash
has much diminished, and although
Trntieh of the mountain is obscured,
it is by a cloud apparently of vapor
rather than of ash, and this gives in
dication of clearing away, when the
whole scene may become visible.
Perhaps any of us may soon bo
able to take a Rip Van Winkle nap
whenever we may choose. The Bris-
bane (New South Wales) Courier has
a long account of a new method of
suspending animation, discovered by
one Signor Rot urn, “whose research
es into the botany and natural history
of South America have made his
name.eminent.” Some five months
ago Signor Rotura called upon Mr.
James Grant, a pupil of the late
Nicolles, “of pre-eminence in his
knowledge of the science of generat
ing cold,” and tho owner of a freez
ing chamber at Woolhara. “Signor
Rotura averred,” savs the Courier’s
correspondent, “that he had discov
ered a South American vegetable
poison, allied to the well-known
woolara, that had the power of per
fectly suspending animation, and
that tho trance thus produced con
tinued till the application of another
vegetable essence caused the blood to
resume its circalat on and the heart
its functions. So perfect, moreover,
inciM-i-d. Nobody could ascend ilie- was this suspension of life that Signor
UHnuit^yf^iev such, eiiY»m<l«n.vs. R ujum had found in a warm climate
ilecdmposition set in at the extremi
ties after a week of this living death,
and lie imagined if the body in this
inert state wore reduced to a teinpet-
atui’e sufficiently low to arrest de
composition, the trances might be
kept Up for months, possibly for
years. Rotura and Grant have erect
ed extensive works, in which they
are exporilhontiug in secret, with a
view soon to revolutionize the meat
trade of Australia by shipping slice;
to England while in this trance and
reviving them for slaughter when
landed. The correspondent visited
this establishment and was shown
tho freezing chamber, “a small dark
room, about eight foot by ten feet.
Here wore fourteen sheep, four lambs
and three pigs, stacked on their sides
in a heap, ‘alive,’ which Mr. Grant
told ine bad been in their present
position for nineteen .lays, and were
to remain theio for another throe
months. Selecting one of the lambs,
Signor Rotura put it on his shoulder
and carded it outside into the other
building, where a number of shallow
cemented tanks were in tho floor,
having hot and cold water taps to
each tank, with a thermometer hang
ing alongside. One of these tanks
was quickly filled, and its tempera
ture tested bV the Signor, I meantime
examining with the greatest curiosity
and wonder the nineteen days’ ‘dead’
lamb. It was gently dropped into
the warm bath, and was allowed to
remain in it about twenty-three min
utes, its head* being raised above the
water twice for the introduction of
tho thermometer into its mouth, and
then it was taken out and placed on
its sido on the floor, Signor Rotura
quickly dividing the wool on its neck
and inserting a sharp point of a small
silver syringe under the skin and
injecting the antidote. This was a
pale greon liquid, and, as I believe,
a decoction from tho root of the
mtracharUs, found in South Amer
ica. Tho lamb was then turned ou
its back, Siguor Rotura standing
across it, gently compressing the ribs
with his knees and his hands, in such
a manner as to imitate their natural
depression and expansion during
breathing. In ten minutes the ani
mal was struggling to free itself, and,
when iclcused, skipjxx] out through
Etna is so enormous and so precipi
tous and rugged that a voyage of in
vestigation in such a rain of ash and
such darkness would have been al
most an impossibility.
All night this black rain went on.
About midnight huge fires could be
seen looming tho doiiso clouds. In
the morning a most extraordinary
scoho presented itself; the, whole face
of nature was black,-the hills and
the plains wore black, tho seashore
was black, tho usually dazzmglv
white roads wore black, the roofs of
tho houses were black. My garden
is just now a mass of flowers, but
every leaf, every petal, every cup
was loaded with black, the edges of
the petals giving a bright line of tho
color of the flower. If a breath of
wind passed, a black shower fell from
the trees, anil still tho black rain
wont on. The effect upon tho mind
was most depressing. This ash pen
etrates everything; it is found in
closely shut linen drawers, in close
boxes; it is all among my papers as I
write, and it scorns to take delight in
inserting itself in ono’s food—for
two days I have been chewing grit.
The effect of trees and figures in this
universal black is very strange, the
colors standing out with startling
brilliancy.
At two o’clock in tho day I started
on horseback to lhcdmonte to try
and gain some positive news, and
heard that three craters, euch about
a mile apart and situate like the
points of a triangle, had opened in a
valley about six miles above a postal
station called Pussapescaro, a plaeo
nearly midway on tho road between
Linguagrossa and Randazzo— a most
difficult place to roach, as lodging of
any description could not ho obtain
ed within fourteen miles, over pro
clpitous and rugged ground, with
every path obliterated by the ash, and
general consternation everywhere.
The lava was said to bo flowing, hut
ouly its reflected ligiU|eould bo soen
at night as it whs iu a valley, which,
as far as 1 can ascertain, must be next
the “Valley del Rove.”
My eyes were most jminfnliy in
flamed by tho flue ash as I returned,
as were those of my horse*. My
pockets were full, my boots full; it
was down my neck, in my hair aud
the dd&r, and went gamboling and
bleating over the little garden in
front.” The Signor’s experiments
lead him to believe that it is im
material whether the suspension lasts
weeks or years. He is negotiating
for a felon under capital sentence,
upon whom he wishes to operate.
Ex-treasurer John Jones is going
to apply to the Legislature for relief.
He thinks the jury would not givejt
ta him.
Mr. Sam II. Hush, of Pike comity,
recently died from a shell wound in
the shoulder, received during the
war.
The production of butter and
cheese in tin's country is said to be
four times greater in value than the
total value of our gold and silver
mines.
Garbaldi says ninety-six out of
every hundred Englishmen would
vote for Queen Victoria for chief ex
ecutive of the British nation if a re
public should suddenly be proclaimed
there.
It is announced that Miss Mildred
Lee, daughter of Gen. Robert E.
Lee, who is now traveling in Europe,
is to be married shortly to a promi
nent merchant in Birmingham, Eng-
and.
A Washington correspondent says
“Mr. Hill put a flea in Hlaine’scar.”
Hut the question is, did the Maine
man know it? Our opinion is that
Blaine’s ear will hold as much as a
clothes-basket.—Ex.
The champion sea turtle has just
been landed in New York. It was
caught off the Delaware capes. It
is eight feet long, about six feet wide,
weighs about 1,200 pounds; and is
of the species known as “leather
back.”
The last slave sold in the confed
eracy was in 1865, near Richmond,
a negro man, who was bought for
nine hundred heads of cabbage. The
cabbages at that time were worth one
dollar a head, which would pan out
nine hundred dollars for the negro.
Macon Telegraph says “it is in
tended by the State Agricultural
Society that the annual fair for this
year shall be on. a grander scale than
ever before, and that sufficient in
ducement shall be offered in the way
of attractions for the drawing of a
large crowd to Macon.
The Ilarrisbnrgh Patriot learns
with regret that Virginia has ceased
to be the mother of Presidents and
now bolds the lead in the culture of
peanuts. It says: “Ohio is at pres
ent the Presidential mother, but wc
arc compelled to say that we prefer
the peanuts to what she has thus far
given us.”
England has been of late years
without a serious war, and has to
turn back to the Crimea to find a
conflict worthy to recall. The Zulu
war, however, promises to eclipse
that of the Crimea. The loss of the
English at Islandula exceeded those
of Alma, Halaklnva or Inkermann,
and the English force now in Africa
exceeds by several thousand the
British contribution to the allied
army in the Crimea.
A woman named Marceline Guiot,
26 years of ago, has just been con
dom mod to death by the court of
assize of the Vienne, in France, for
one of the most abominable cyimes
on record. She forced her step
daughter, a little girl of 8, to take
with her soup sixteen pins, two nee
dles aud some pieces of wood, and
the unfortunate child expired in the
mo it horrible torments. There could
be no recommendation to mercy even
from a French jury in such an atro
cious case.
The Nihilists propaganda in Rus
sia is reduced to all sorts of expedi
ents to defeat the vigilance of the
police. There was a time when prb-
hilrted journals and tabooed manu
scripts could get across the frontier
in cotton bales or in plaster busts of
the Czar. But now bales of cotton
are opened and plaster busts are
smashed by the custom officers. The
revolutionaries have, therefore, been
fain to seek for something better, and
being men of inventive minds have
found it in sardines. Sardine boxes
may be weighed and charged for,
but they cannot bo opened, aud this
delightful little fish has become an
instrument of sedition so formidable
that it is seriously u qncstion of a
prohibitory ukase upon them.
It AVns Not Mr. Hill's Fault.
Baltimore Gazette.
The New York Times heads one
of its Washington dispatches with
these lines: “The Georgia Senator
calls Mr. Blaine a liar and defends
his own acts as a rebel.” In point
of fact, Mr. Hill defended himself
from tho accusations of having voted
for the ordinance of secession by
reading the record and showing that -
lie voted against it. He then, after
eloquently declaring his devotion to
the union, remarked that any man
who charged him with lack of devo
tion thereto “was a liar and the
truth was not in him.” Then every
body looked at Mr. Blaine. Now
this was not “calling Mr. Blaine a
liar.” It was not Mr. Hill’s fault
when ho mentioned the word “liar”
everybody innnmediately fixed the
eyes of recognition on Mr. Blaine.
It was a mere coincidence.
Rev.
T. DeWitt Talinage’s Re
ception in England.
London, June 16.—The Rev. Dr.
T. Dewitt Talmage preached to-day
at the Islington Presbyterian church,
Colebrooke road, to an enormous
congregation. Much curiosity was
evinced by the people to see tho
famous American preacher. A dense
crowd blockaded the streets leading
to the church. The enthusiasm was
immense. Half a mile before the
Presbyterian church was reached tho
carriage was lifted from the ground
and carried bodily to the church.
It was one of the most tremendous
ovations ever paid to an American
minister in London.
Tilden Calmly Waits.
New York Tribune.
Hendricks is spitting mad at Til
den, Bayard, is sulky mad at the cau
cus, Thurman is sniveling mad at
everybody. Great men don’t get
mad. Tilden nevor does. Without
passion, without bowels, with ono
glazed eye resting patiently on bis
talented wire-yankers who continu
ally hump themselves under this un
comfortable encouragement, lie sits
in Godlike and clammy serenity and
waits.
Congress Should not Wait.
New York Star, f Xffi' ~i-
It is
as there is anything to stick for, hut
there is no. the slightest reason \vj*y
congress should wait to see what Mr.
Haves is going to do with tho appro
priation bills. He would feel the
responsibility of vetoing them a great
deal more if e&qgress were to adjourn
and go home.
Equality of the Sexes.
Washington Post,
Woman’s rights arc bettor nndei
stood and move generally guarantee,
in England than in the Unite
States. Not only is the highest offic
in the realm open to woman b
birthright, justice treats the sex wit
rigid impartiality. One English wc
man has just been hanged forkillin
her husband, and two others ai
about to meet the same fate, eue
for the murder of a woman.
Tilden in Georgia,
Covington Star.
It is at least gratifying to tho
friends of Mr. Tilden that the press
of Georgia are almost unanimous in
their choice for that geiitloman’s re-
nomination for the presidency. It
is a “string of points” m his favor,
to begin with, that cannot be beaten
by any other candidate in this state.
Tho Darien Gazette wants Gover
nor Colquitt to pardon Kate South
ern. If the Gazette would do a ser
vice to the woman convict, he will
not agitate this question; for, un
doubtedly. she is more comfortably
situated than she would be at homo.
Most women prefer sewing to plow
ing.— Wilkinson Appeal,
Census.
The census of Cochran, as taken
by Mr. W. D. Martin, gives us a pop
ulation of one thousand and one.
The whites about double the eolored
in numbers. Tho white males of all
ages exceed tho number of females
by 25. Send us, somebody, a couple
of dozen girls to balance. We don’t
mean the “balauco all” in a dance,
but to keep those extra boys straight.
Susans and Charlottes not excluded.
—Cochran Enterprise.
Never judge hastily. A encumber
isn’t often os green as the man who