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VOL IL . El WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1866 THE HERALD is rar.ria RYERY WY DNESDAY MOI;NING, At 1(ewberry C. I., Ey TsEOh1. a B. K: GRENRE, "TtR , It PEB AR , IN CUR NCY, OE TOVIsIONS. ia arsably ta advane. irr e Invations, ObitD +lrkes, ad sabtrvin private Fs . adverti.nents. AN ACTwm:DzC6z B2R RIowTS oF PER soft w 4a S1Avs A3D AS Ft ottt Coo. 1 Be it enieted by the Senate and louse of Representatives, now met and sittieg&i eperal Assembly, and by the aathoitybf tbe same, That all persons hitherto known in law in this State as slaves, or as free persons of color, shall have the_right to make and enforce con tracts, oasne, be sned, to be afiants, and give evidence, to inherit, to purchase, eeas,-selt, vey and assign real and persenal4pre ty, make wills and testaments, d have fill and equal benefit of the rights of personal security, personal:liberty and private property, and of all remeuies and proceedings for the eei ceentind protection of the same, as white persons now have, and shall not be subjected to any other or different punishmest, pain or penalty for the coin mi as ofa*ny act or offence than such as are prescribed for white persons com miting like sets or offences. I.'That all Acts and parts of Acts specially relating to persons lately slaves and free persons of color contrary to the provisions of this Act, or inconsistent with an of its provisions, be, and the same are hereby, repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be constrUed to repeal so much of the eighth i sction of ar &t entitled "An Act to sstablish and regulate the domestic re-! lations of persons of color and to amend the la-,in-elation to paupers and va ," ratifed the twenty-first day of taber, 1* e year of our Lord one tbus. aneight hundre4 and sixty-five, sa esct*-that;"marriage between a white per owand a person of color shall be ilegal and void." . i the Sehate House, the twenty-first dy of $eptember, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and si -six. . D;PORTER, President of the . -- SMONTON, Speaker House of presentativesb AN? ACT yo amas w o ioaa REDEMPTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and Houswor Representatives, now met and: sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the faith and funds of the etate be, and the same are hreby, pled5ged for the ultimnate redemp tion otall such Bills Receivable as hatve atready ormnay hereafter be issu~ed under the provision of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for he issue of Bills Receivable in payment of.indebtedness to the State, to the amenat of lie hundred thousand dollars," rstified the twenty-first '.y of .December/ Anno Domino, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.I H. That the Treasurer be, and he is ereby; authorized and required to re-. eem the said Bill Recei'vble, which have Iready or hereafter may be issued under provisions of said Act, by exchanging all suech bills as may be presented at the office of the Treasurer for redempion an equal amount of Treasury notes of heUnited States, oir the notes of any' ational7 Dank ; and for this purpose, he s hereby authorized to use any funds in thie Trearsury not otherwise appropriated. In the Senate House, thie twentieth day of Septenmber, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty w:'D. PORTER, President of the Senate.I 0.11..SLMONTON,Speakder House of Representativyes. Approved: JasL. Osa. A Go SUGGWsnoN.-The Golumbus Inquirer has been requested by a planter sto make public the suggestion of a change sia plantation custom, which he thinks will be found advantageouls. It is that p)aQtOrIabold make the yearly terms of their . risutendenits (formerly called orser)commence on the first of! December instead of the first of January. This change, ho says, would secure on the plantations the presence of the super intendentar overseers during the Christ mas holidays, when most of the negroes are apt to be absent, and some of them out on plundering expeditions. It would, moreover, enable the superintendents to acquaint themselves with the arrange mnent of the plantations and the capaciiies and dispositions of tha laborers before, the Birst of January ; and thus informed, they could commence more understand ingly toe work of the new year. We ~xa~ote sugeso to th conisidera Mietest.I Farm Work for October. Cotton picking must now he pushed forward steadily with all your available force until the entire crop is secured The negroes are not going t: do nuch at picking when the weather becomes cold and incletuent ; therefore, beware of the heavy fall rains, and get all the lint into the Gin House in dry, bright weather. Then gin, press and bale in the best man ner, and send to market while the roads are in good condition. Save your best cotton seed carefully, what you do not need for the future crop, you will for manure. Protect all from the weather which will destroy half its value even for the manure heap. Corn sh uld nr w be gathered, and put away in airy, rat-proof, and thief pro f cribl, with tight, sound roofs. Save your "Bread Corn" in the shuck, to guard ag=ainst the ravages of the weevil. Feed your working and fattening stock gener usly and regularly, b it do not he lavish or wasteful. You can save from one-third to one-half of your corn, by grinding it into coarse meal and sprnk ling it over cut feed ; and, for fattening hogs and other animals, there is a marked economy in cooking the meal and feeding in the form o' thick pors idge or "mush." A plantation mill worked by horse power will soon pay for itself in saving toll, and in many instances'the grist could be ground while hauling to"and from the mill. Cow Peas are very valuable for nilch cows; and, if ground up with corn, equal pa' ts, and fed to working stock, they will increase the muscular powt r of the animal greatly. They should be put up in the pod to protect from the weevil. Pack them away dry; one hundred pounds in the hull will wake a bushel of seed. Sweet potatoes must be dug the latter part of this month, or as soon as the vinesare slightly wilted by the first frosts. To determine when your potatoes are fully ripe, dig several in different parts of your field, break them, anrd if, wh.ri dry, the fresh broken part is white, the potato is ripe, and should he dug at once; but if the broken part dries off dark, the roots are not yet fit to be gathered in. It will be safest, however, as a general rule, to dig just as ion as vines are nipped a lit tie by rast. I VV 'wA% Un4tt tt: F. an kills the vines, it freezes and chills the earth to such a depth that it causes many of the potatoes to rot. Commence dig ging at this point as early a- the 20th of the month, anid earlier or later as you are North or South. In saving your po tatoes for the winter, make up your "banks" on a dry place, where the water cannot set tle, putting up 25 to 30 husbels in each pile or banik. Reject all roots that are cut or bruised in the least. It is a good plan, after diggmng the potatoew, anid sunining themr for a short time, to put them jinto r,iles, cover them with their own stalks or litter. and I-t them go throuigh the "heating" process before "banking" urp." The ban ks should be protected by a shelter of plank% or hoards, against the he vy rains of winter. If the Potatoes are allowed to go through the "heating" before "hanking," it will not be so necessary to leave any "chimney," or hole~ for ventilation, at the top of the banrk-but all may be covered up at once with dry pine straw, corn stalks and a thick coating u'rearth. If the vines are pulled as early as the 20th of the mmio th they can then be cured like the pea vine, and it put up mrixed with straw when partly cured will afiord excellent food for stock. Graw and Hav.-There are some kinds of late na tive grass that may be wort h gathering, to help out y'our winter sup plies of long forage. If possible, cut all such grass while in bkiom, and do not allow it fully to ripen an'd dry up, or your Hay will be of very lhttle value. Late sown Peas for Hays, must be cutt and cured hefore frost. Dry them one or two davs carefully, handling as little as possible ; then pack in rail pens, pass ing rails or poles through from side to side, to keep the layers of vines open and separate, and admit air between them. "Crab Grass" or "Crowfoot" may be mixed with Pea Vines, partially cured, then put up with good, sound wheat or oat Straw, for riugh, w' inter forage. All such rail-pens is we allude to, a .d all fodder stacks, should~ be roofed or cov ered over with hoards, or heavily thatched w ith refuse straw or hay. Pindar Vines, if carefully cured, make pretty good fod der. All long and coarse forage should be cut up before feeding. Turnip seed may yet he sown, to make greens ; and the regular crop of turnips should be carefully worked, and the ground kept open and mellow. Winter Oats, Rye and Barley. Thesw are the trute a inter grasses of the South, and should have been put in last month, but if not must be sown at once as the. earlier they are son n the finer winter pasturage will they produce. They will oo very well on good fair soils, but to succeed perfectly with them you must plow deep, pulverize finely, and above all, manure heavily. Small grain and urame'wil not grow on badly propsred and poor soil. This season is the scarci iy of provisions these crops become spe eidly important. A large Oat crop should be put in so as to afford as early Check as p(s.,ible next season to the r'inotts draw upon our resources in pur chasing corn f r stock. Wheat. The same reasons should in fluence us to rai-e large crops of Wheat. Owing to c ur protractedsuwmerdroughts, corn is always liable to make a taiLure as in the past season. The earlier varieties of a heat supply us with food early in June. The crop can be put in now and there will be no further trouble in plough. ing or hoeing. At harvesttime it is safer from negro thieves than most crops as they are too lazy to steal anytbing they would have to thrash. The wheat crop is owe of the most suitable for receiving the application of commercial manures. Two hundred pounds of Peruvian guano on fair land will generally secure twenty bushels of wheat and be followed the next summer with such a coating of grass and weeds that when turned under, the soil is considerably improved. Reese's Pacific guano is a:so used largely in Maryland upon this crop to w ich its analysis shows it specially suitable. It will be well tq follow Mr. Hull's practice and thoroughly prepare and enrich with domestic or commercial manures a few acres for the wheat crop and sow clover seed with the wheat and thus get seve ral good crops from one seeding. If it turns out well enlarge the crop another year and then a Reaping and Mowing Machine can be purchased which will re lieve you somew hat from depending so much on freedmen. If the seed is at all foul wach and soak some hours in strong brine, skimming off the .smut balls and light floating matters. Draw off the brine and roll in lime recently slacked. Smut can be prevented also by dissolving one pound of'bluestone in water enough to cover five bushels of seed and soaking a few hours. Clover and Gras.. Seeds -This month and early in the next are the best for sowing clover and grass seeds. They may be sown alone but it is ~bsual to sow them with winter grain. Wheat and barley are the best crops in which t,o seed, though they are also sown with oats and rye. The objection to the latter crops bei_ thatthe rank..:-- grow t does not gius e clover and young grass enough light and air, they being always more vigorous if sown with wheat or b trley. A MODEST MAN IN A PREDICAMENT. Mr. Tom Loughrin is Doted all over the city for his modesty. He stands six feet two in his stockings, and at least six feet of him is made tup of mode -ty. At an early hour yesterday morning Mr. L. was making his toilet at his residence on Pratte Avenue and walnut street ; he was stanudirng in front of his mirror, with only one garment on-anid that a rather short one--and had lathered huh, face prepara tory to mowing his beard, when he was startled by a shrill scream froum Biddy, his servant girl, anid his wire called to him that Biddy watson lire. Mr. L., with an admirable presence of minad, seized a quilt frou: the bed, and reaching the bot tomn of the stairs at t wo jumps, soon en veloped the damning damisel in the folds of the quilt and smothered1 the flames be fore the girl was sea ouslv mjured. While Mr. L. was thus engged some d zen ladies from atdjoini.ng houses, hear inag the 'screams of t he girl. rushed in to see what was the matter. They arm ived in time to see the ta.ll thmmr of Mr. L. beniding over the girl, and inmsteaid of re treating when they moticed his Georgia costume, they stood loo)king~ at himi with admit ing eyes. Tom looked aronnd and saw the ladies, and remembering that he had not finished his toilet, a ent upm stairs a little fas'ter than he had come down. The ladies ti. tered, and at every titter M:. L. accelerated his speed, andl ahena he reached his room he was cove. ed n ith a profu.se perspiration. He says it was the most embarrassing position he was ever palaced in, and hopes never to be caught in such a fix again.-St. Louis Democrat. THE ROPE, TH E R AZOR AND THE PISTo. H UnsoN. N. Y., October 4.-The wife of John D. Wagne"r, of Ghent, in this County, comm iitted suicide yesterday mornaing by hanging herself in an out house. She had been laboring wnder a depress.ion of spirits for some time, and had frequently threatened to take her own life. A gentleman of this city, whose name is withheld, was married on Tuesday eve ning, anid attempted to commit suicide the same ight by cutting his throat with a razor. His recovery is doubtful. BoSToN. October 4.-Moses B. W illiams, sr., a umember of the firm of J. D. & M. M illiams, wholesaie liquor dealers. shot himself with a pistol at his residence in Brooklyn and died this morning. An Englishman in India was horrified at receiving a telegraphic dispatch from England that his wife had been delivered of five daughters. The message should have said a tine danuhtsr The Emperor Napoleon. His Am1K WIT Mr... MARoT.-f the event of Napoleon's sudden demise I am far from believing that immediate revolution will ensue. The government of the regency will go on silently, until the first pretext comes for a battle, and this will be precipitated by the republi can press and the republicans of the leg islative corpse. Then you shall see old Paris, tertibly splendid in her awaken ing, arise out of stone like one of Michael Angelo's brawny marbles, nor she never stretches or gapes but from all corners of Europe the wild beasts beat their cages and roar The French master is now very sick at St. Cloud, and his % ife and "whelp," as the Fanbourg St. Germain calls the prince imperial, are en route to Biarretz. The Empress has no element of a govern ess. She belongs to the Josephine and Hortense type of a woman, gay dressers and sweet coquettes, but there is not a' drop of the blood of Catharine de Medi cis or Marie Therese about her. The pi ince imperial is as yet a doll finger, who nobody has gauged. The Emperor himself, worn down by the excesses of a life, alternately imprisoned and absolute, must be nearly at the end of his reckon ing, and even now "they whisper" un ceasingly that he is drawn to the exit door. His reign has been to you, who see it from without, a stately, heartless one, bad in the beginning, but vindicated by brilliant achievements. To those who have looked upon it within, it is marked by worse than the elderly debasement of courts, partaking at times of the licen tiousness of the stews. The affair of Margot is not yet stale, so that I may tell it to you. Margot is a common lorette, known at the balls of the Rue des Victories. She was beheld of the Emperor in the liois de du Boulogne. He dispatched after her, and discovered her residence. Vis its were frequent of e venings, no pains being taken to appoint a more secluded rendezvous, and with these the Empress, though well apprised, made no interfe rence, her habit being to give all liberty to her supreme. One night word. came to the nousehokl for the Emperor, Rue-. He was found there in a state between a spas'i' and paralysis. Theh brouht him home. Everyody was alarmed, and Jou bert, his physician advised more abste miousness. As for Margot. the Empress sent to her, persuasively asking that she be allowed to defray her expenses out of France, at least out of Parns. Margot saucily replied that she had as much right, etc., and shouldn't be defrayed, or persuaded. Of course it was not etiquette to broach the thing to the Emperor, nor how could he retort upon one whose magnetism had been so irres.istible. Therefore Margot, who told the story freely, grew in great request, and Amern. can gentlemen who danced with her a few weeks~ ago, state that her heart melted but a day and a week to the Im perial charms; that she i.a still the same susceptible siren, and able to keep her voiture and driver.-Parie Sept. 4, Cor resp(ndenlce of the New York World. ExoDUS To TuzE WEsT. On 'ruesday last a lairge number of citizens from this Ditrct, prob'nly one hundred and fifty. began 'beir pilgrimage to the 1El Dorado of the We's , the lar-faimed hand of th)e '-l)o star." W hile wishing that pro-perity maiy attend the substantiaIl, energetic farmers who atre thus led to t'orsake tbe homes of their youth an~d manhood-among them we count many friend<. and those who were comraides with us in our of danger and trial -we cannot hut deeply reL'ret that the old Sta'e Is binrg depopulated In this wholesale manner. She needs. all the energies and strength of her saonsa to recuperate and recov er from the losses of war, and can illy afford to part with tho<e who were truest and fir piest in their allegiance to her fortunes here to ore.' The H-,rri,burg Telegraph has the follow% ing "RALP FuLHL,r, ninetv,%one years old, andl a residlent of Forest County, Pa,. passed through Corry recentry on his way to Boas, ton to find friends he has not seen for fifty years He never saw a steamboat nor a tain of cars till la't week, and h'ts lived ten miles from any neighbor for the last fifty years." When Portland was burned by the British in 1775, ain infant but a few week. old Was removed from a house on Fore Street, and out of town for safety. The house was burn ed down. Duiring~ the conflagration on the Fourh, th it sama infant was removed from a h.' use erected on the spot where stood the one burnmd by Mowsatt, from which, ninety years ago...she had been removed, and she wa< once more taken to a place of safety' It was the venerable Miss Hanna Thoro. By-anid -by eve ything ir likely to be done or u< by maichinery, and hand,labor will, (oubless. be entirely superseded, We,ob,. erve that "greennpea shelling ma,chines,"' in our sizes, are introduced In London. and ar said to do the work of cookey's fingers neatly and nattilly, and with as much ease ad elegunee. A few evenings since a handsome young lady, In fashionable attire, created quite a fahona ble sensation in one of the street cars of Washington city, by tenderly care4sing a great uelv brown toad, which she held In her batid, stroking its back fondly, and oca c,aioally raising it to her Uips feea salnte. Wat net? The Questi of latt Qk66S. We have fortunately come into - - sion of th ' published proceed of Teras Teachert'-State Conytbeldat sHouston, on the 4tb of July, the present year. From them we learn that a ealleo tion of excellent text-books were adopte and recommended for use in the public schools of that State. A memorialon the subject of education was ordered ts; bi presented to the State Legislature. That memorial contains* amoag others, the follos ing well-stated truths which are as happily adapted to Georgia as to Texas: "The question of greatest concern to the people of this great Statf at ttSs time is-How shall the children of eiry citizen 'be_ best' educated? The labi geustion is one vital to the p sical coe fort of society, and rigbtl answered may lead to such a development -f thie material resources o,f the great Commont wealth as will enrich its population for ages. Education, if it may have me& to do with the right . solution of that question, has mcre to do with its- right - direction than all other posibl.e consider' ations. "The- development of the South d . pends upon educated mind. Considered, therefore, merely in its connection witIh convenience, comfort, riches, and pless ure, education occupies the most exalted p sitica, as the key to prosperity _and success. But the safety and integriy of society, the preservation and administar tion of the constitution and laws, alt depend on cultivated mind. Virtue and knoa ledge are the pillars of liberty. la their absence, or with their decay, civil liberty degenerates into despotism, and republican law is substituted by the tyrant's will. The preservation and maintenance of our rights, the peace and honor of public life an5l of domestic altars,. depend upon the harmonious develep ment ani expansion of the moral and intellectual powers of each and every individual citizen. .* * * * a " ' 3ow shall every citizen be educated to the best advantage? It will' net be denied that-the State, as a State, and each citizen, as a citizen, should in, their several spheres, lster and promote the education of the rising generation. If-a ; wrhat should the -State do?" The Texans recommend the establish ment of normal schools in their State, for the qualification of teachers for their great work. The Georgia Legislaturo. might, at its next session, with a great degree of proprietly, give thought to the roject of building up such schools in his State. We hope that some public spirited Senator or Representative will agitate the question on that occasion. [Augusta Press. A MoTmn Ax Two DAUGUe5stIas t,. maXA D)IE IaoM ACrUAL, STARTATIox-*, EART RENDING RECITAL.-A corresponi dnt of the Montgomnery Advertiser writas t "About two or three weeks age, ina ouse near the fair grounds, a woman was ound dead on the floor. She bad falleu from the bed. and must have-dled during the ight. Around her hay her four little daught. er, the oldest one about twelve years of1g. Dybreak revealed to them .their moUservs ded body lying on the floor. But this was not all; these littlei girls lying around *aer were dying for the~ want of bread and atteu tion. In this fix they were t'oand and brought by some one, in a little eart, to Bishop obb's Home for- Orphans. They were rought there on Friday. When these little girs catme to the house they were the pietprs iery and wanft, and had scarcely a rag oa o cover their nakedness; emaciated and sala ow, they looked I:ke living skeletons, and tey were crying for l*ead. The baby, :but three years of age, died on Saturday. "he poor little thing was too near gobs for any human aid to do ber any good. BS a gged fur aid until she died." Another one niamed L,zzie. about s8ene of egt years of age, died on Wedues ,y Se was a pretty little girl, but reduced to a mere skeleton She begged those around her to-give her some mneat and bread to ibe last. The other two ate still a: the Beau. t was thought at flrst; that they would die too, but the oldett one, a bright, sweet little r, is itnproving. Her account of the ufe~'Ing the~y underwent is enough to melt the hardest heart- to tears--how they cried for bread and could not get it-that they ad been drawing rations, but when they all got sick they sent their ticket by a negro woe. an, but that the ticket was torn, and the nswer was "no more rations"-and ~how their poor sick mother, the evening before he died, with tears streaming dowa her heeks, pressed them to her bosom-and uch more which this little girl told mue 'a a straightforward manner, and whiph had truth stamped upon what she said.; Tbe other little girl ned Mary. about nine years of age, is atiRvery low, and i; idenbt ful whether she will ever get well. HAat.-A young gentlemnan in this tp .ho has light hair, had, a few days since, the plentiful lack of sense to buy a bottle of uack hair dye to improve on nature. The scond application produced an effect almost s da'maging as the catastrophe In 'Tea "houan,d a Year," for his locks, from a right i ellow turned to a deep violet color, forming a contr'.ist with his light eyembtows and blonde complexion as pitiable 'as indie ros-Petersburg (Va.) Index. A Western editor lately married one of his ompoitrs, another compositor acting as bridem4 id, the officiating clergyan behg aretired printer. and the local edtor giving the bride aawa.-E;rehange. What tna impressive affair it must. baae been; bat itisto be hop .st# MW at tsy re "ll etti ow