Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-03-16

parties. They live in log cabins and houses
punt by their slreS, and their articles of fur>
hlture are manufactured by themselves. The
people are lond OF the same roaming life led
by their fathers in days gone by, and very
seldom, II ever, 20 10 the town in the coun.
Ties IN which they reside. They don't care
anything about the silver bill or Ben Hill, as
they have no money nor do they ever expect
10 nave any, making everything that they
have any use for, and thus purchasing yeiy
little OF anything. What trading is done is
carried m 5y way of bartering furs aud
hides Tor necessary articles
Richmond (Va) Dispatch: Az the
request Of the auditor, Joint meetins of the
house senate and 6nance Committees was
called yesterday morning to take into con.
sideratiHn The alarming condition of the
treasury. Auditor Tayler appeared before
the committee and stated: First-There is
only ,$lO3 in the treasury. Seoond-The
9@nks refuse to make further loans. Third
The state owes banks $4,000. Fourth
The state owes asylums and colleges the sum
9l $l2l,o on last years appropriations.
tlltll-Ihat there is about S 100000 of last
years revenue uncollected, delinquents in
cIdded. Sixth-lhat there is $S5OOOO of
outstanding coupons. Seyenth-,Ihis leaves
only Sl5O,OOO OF uncOllected revenue to ran
the government to the end of this fscal wear.
and delinquent taxes a'c included in this.
Eighth-Tha' II will require 100000 to run
the government to the end of the fiscal year,
and pay the banks and aSylums' arrears,
Ninth That the government could not run
longer than II m. yesterday, Tenth -Sug>
gests, as the only means of running the gov
ernment, to make all license taxes payable
in money--that such an act would relieve
the government in May, II this cannot be
done he sees no hope for the government.
Nashville American: The commits
sioner of patents at Washington has signifed
his willingness to furnish to the yarious
states drawings and specifications OF patent
Inventions. In vigw OF this fact, steps should
at once Be taken by our mechanics to have
these designs sent here, that they may not
only be accessible to them in their every
day labors, but also be consulted by all
interested in new inventions. An arrange
ment could be made by which an apartment
at the capitol might be secured fnr the
proper keeping Of the designs as well as to
he used as d museum for the exhibition of
tennessee patents. This might finally give
rise to schools of design, which have done so
much fOr the eastern states Before the war
it was believed that no one but regular
Yankee of the New England States pos.
sessed inventive genius. But the south had
no manufactures and there was no seeming
necessity for any southerner to bother his
head about anything less than a plantation
and stateamanship They were content,
therefore, to let Massachusetts aud her sister
New England states DO the manufacturing,
while they planted the cotton and talked
politics. Ru. the war changed all these
things Since then the south has entered
more into the manufacture OF goods and
wares of all descriptions, and the consump-
ton of northern and eastern manufactured
goods is growing proportonately less. This
has stimulated the inventive gerius Of the
south, which has produced, not wooden nut.
meg5 but some of the most valuable and
useful articles now manufactured.