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pECULAR ITO RIALS.
Tee Ex-President’s Prediction.
Gen. Grant, in response to a toast at a
recent banquet at Brighton, England,
given for bis benefit, remarked that if
England and the United States re
mained good friends and neighbors as
now, the English-speaking people would
necome the greatest in the world.
The ex-President is behind the times.
The English-speaking people is already
the greatest in the world. status
is fixed by the inexorable dictum of
fact. This fact, of course, does not
owe its existence to the language—
though it has qualities which have al
ready made it the leading tongue of the
commercial world—but to the intelli
gence, enterprise, indomitable will, polit
ical sagacity, capacity for ruling, and
Bible-pillared power, which are the
ch iracteristiesof English speaking peo
ple. This factor of civilization will not
only maintain this people in their sta
tion at the head of the march of races,
but will give them a still greater sov
ereignty in the future, compared to
which the present is as infancy con
trasted with fuliv matured mauhood.
■ The New York Herald Punished.
HTtc the sake of common decency, and
the honor of journalism, we rejoice that
the New York Herald has recently suf
fered a well-deserved rebuke, though
scarcely severe enough. This paper has
for years maintained a column devoted
to “ Personals.” This column has been
made the channel for vicious and dis
graceful communications, pandering to
prurient tastes, and serving as a kind
of literary sewer for carrying into a
jornmon reservoir the refuse scurrillity
|uid acc|iinulatiftg licentious teas of the
American metropolis. A party, who
felt aggrieved at one of these impli
cating “ Personals,” demanded its re
traction. This being refused, suit for
ten thousand dollars damages was
brought. The jury brought in avers
diet for the full amount, and the Su
preme Court added five hundred dol
lars for an allowance to the attorneys
for the plaintiff-
We hope that the severe lesson
taught this paper by the court in the
directest way in which the conscience
of its management can be reached,
that is, through the pocket, will have a
tendency to correct this noxious evil,
not only in the columns of its progeni
tor, the Herald, but in the columns of
its imitators. Public opinion must in
sist upon the observance of decency, at
least, in the public Press, and the courts
must enforce this opinion by every
penalty at their command. When an
influential paper panders to vice and
allows its columns to be made a public
vehicle for the conveyance of open or
disguised immorality and vulgarity, it
becomes a curse to society, and society,
in self-defense, should suppress it.
Southern Medical Eecoed. —The
October number of this sterling
and popular journal of medical sci
ence and practice, comes up to the full
measure of its former excellence. Its
editors, Drs. Thomas S. Powell, W. T.
Goldsmith and E. C. Word, by their
devoted labor maintain the high repu
tation the Record has achieved, and,
assisted by a large number of aocom
plished physicians as contributors, add
to it* attractiveness and value in each
successive number. The Record is pub
lished at $2 per annum, and is issued
in handsome style by the Franklin
Steam Printing House of this city.
G ood . —The Norristown Herald, in
the pertinent and suggestive sarcasm of
the following paragraph, strikes a good
blow at the base-ball, boat-racing and
other sporting features of student-life
in Northern colleges, now indulged in
to such a degree as to seriously inter
fere with the routine of appropriate
studies:
It ia announced that Mr. C. H. Morgan, the
captain and catcher ot the Yale Uuivermtj
base-ball nine, has lett college. We upect
he couldn’t learn anything more about base
ball there, and didn’t think it worib white
throwing his time and money away on other
studies.
LITKRATY BOTES AND COMMENTS.
_ —The Spanish poet Narciseo Serri has just
died at Madrid, in the most abject poverty.
What I has London’s eighteenth century
Grub street returned to life again, in brilliant
Madrid? Ah, Spain, where is thy former
glory ?
—Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine, for No
vember, contains 128 pages of some of the best
reading matter the month will afford us. To
its readers it must prove a source of mental
pleasure and recreation. It contains 100 fine
engravings. The opening pages treat of the
progress of Japan. Russia, Egypt, Greenland
and other far-away places are also noticed in
its columns. The usual number of beautiful
stories, the “Home Pulpit,” by tiie editor, Dr.
Deems, a quantity of witty paragraphs, poems,
etc., complete the work.
—Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, for No
vember, contains some highly interesting mat
ter. It is full of variety. It contains an ex
cellent, and very liberally illustrated article
on the late M. Thiers, ex-Preßident of the
French Republic ; one on “The Coast Fish
eries of America” (about thirty illustrations);
another on “The Artificial Product of Light”
(twenty illustrations) ; and several others. To
these are added some very excellent short
stories and anecdotes of natural and political
history, while science, art, poetry, wit and hu
mor, find their places among its many columns.
The price of this valuable magazine is only
$2 50 per year. Address,, for either of the
above publications, Frank Leslie’s Publishing
House, 537 Pearl street, New York.
—The Comte de Paris, it fceeins, is still
hard at work upon his “History of the Amer
ican Rebellion,” which, his translators will
hear with anguish, is to extend to eight vol
umes.
—William Cullen Bryant once practiced
law, but was so disgusted by his defeat, through
a technicality in words, that he abandoned the
profession.
—Somebody has published,anonymously, at
Leignil*, a book showing that the Colorado
beetle, the phylloxera,the locust and the cattle
plague are the apocalyptical horsemen men
tioned in Revelations vi: 2-8.
—Mr. George Bancroft, the venerable his
torian, still hale and active, and indefatigable
in his work, is in Philadelphia, studying the
records of Pennsylvania, in the peiiod of the
formation of the Federal Constitution.
r —Colonel W. H. McCardte, formerly editor
of the Vicksburg Herald, has been engaged to
write a school history of Mississippi, for use
in the public schools in that Slate.
—lt is rumored in Paris that Victor Hugo
has in his portfolio a poem of 2,000 lines, en
titled “Le Pape,” which will appear after the
decease of Pius IX.
—There are now 315,000 volumes in the
Congressional Library, of which 60,000 have
to be put upon the floor for lack of room.
—The Baptist Question Booh on International
Bible Lessons for 1878, has been sent to us by
the publishers, the American Baptist Publica
tion Society, Philadelphia. Rev. G. P. Ab
bott, the compiler of this useful little book, has
done his work well. It is concise, clear and
comprehensive. A book no Sunday-school
teacher should do without. Price 15 cents.
The Primary Question Book on International
Bible Lessons (or 1878, by the same publishers,
is compiled bv Mrs. M. G. Kennedy. The
work is successfully done. This is saying a
great deal, when the difficulties are considered
which an author must overcome io writing
plainly, and in an interesting way, for the in
struction of children. Price 15 cents.
—Mrs. General Fremont, known in old
days as Jessie Benton, will contribute to Har
per's Magazine a series of papers, giving her
Cali ornia and other early experiences of twenty
years ago.
—The Southern Enterprise, for October, is a
well-filled, practical and very interesting
number. This periodical is published in At
lanta, at $1 00 per year, by Messrs. 8. T.
Jenkins and J. S. Newman. It is devoted to
the development of the material resources of
the South ; industries, husbandry, manutactu
ries, horticulture and household. Each of
these departments is edited wun ability and
tact.
—The Press News is the title oi anew, hand
somely gouon up journal, just oui. It is puh
Imbed at Bt. Louis, and is devn ed to the in
terests of the printers of the South and South
west. It has a wide field of iiseiulnes- before n.
—“Over 1,000,000 sheepskin- have been used
up in binding Webster’s Dictionary.” Bah t
— “A Madrid professor ha- published
book defending ihe Inquisition, and pleading
lor its le-toration in Spain, wo ch is pro
nounced a brilliant defense ot ' the bulwark ot
oar holy religion.’’
We fail to comprehend the paragraph suf
ficiently to decide whether Spa n i “the bul
wark of our hole religion,” or wne'her ihe
Madrid professor’s book is. S'.-. , certainly,
may tie considered a “bulwark” i fanaticism,
ignorance, p-r-ecution and -up r-i non. Ku l
the commentator wishes to-ay, p. raps, th.i
the Inquisition is the “bipwsik” of Konnso
ecclesiastical power. No doipu .( n. Ro,„e
has mourned ihe abolition oi to r pi Vilege o.
burn here!i and lo shoot c nio u noou- Pr i
esianta lor tn-ee hundred year-. C mot Sp m
be prevailed upon to retton. ■ pa “bu
wark ?" Suppose you try, Memieuiste Poire* t
—Ttie retirement of Mr. Doe mana
ging editor oi ihe London (K ,i limes -
bringing i rili e iomiuuis from c sempora-
Literature —Secular Editorials Current Notes and News.
ATLANTA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1877
ries such as very few editors have received on
retiring from active life. The limes is
a great power certainly no journal in
the world can be compared to it in the
influence it exercises on the public affairs
and opinion in Europe. Air. Delane was the
efficient head of this great literary and politi
cal power, and a successful editor deserves
greater encomiums than ex-presidents of doubt
ful morality, or demagogues that pass for il
lustrious statesmen.
—The Day Book, one of the oldest jour
nals in New York city has passed away, and
will live only in the memory of the fathers.
—The llichmand (Va.) Enquirer is for sale.
GAMBLING AT THE STATE FAIR.
A short but pointed communication
with the above caption appears else
where. The subject has been noticed
to some extent by the secular journals ;
and various excuses have been given for
the authorized gambling establishment
at the late fair. It is claimed by some
that gamblers have been licensed at
every State fair held in Georgia since
the war; and that there is no law pro
hibiting it. Others say that the State
Agricultural Society has never before
authorized gambling, but that licenses
have been given by the city authorities
of Macon and Atlanta, as these cities
have had the financial responsibility
and the management of all the sources
of income at the fairs, We have not a
word to say about where the blame
should rest, or whether a precedent has
been established, or whether the law
prohibits gambling at such places.
The discussion of these issues may
furnish excuses to those in. power.
What we desire to say is, that in, its
nature and in its influence the thing it
wrong, and precedent, and%?e silence
of our law furnish no groumi ijQijts
defence. The one is a sad eiftmnehtarj '
upon the characters of those whq
tablished it; the otlierJJ S’
lamentable want of wisdom and moral
ity on the part of our law- •makers',.
Ml-l :ieve- think of offering Sgi npslogig
for the private gambling hells of our,
cities, and yet these, in their influence
at least, are less dangerous to society.
The very privacy and secrecy by which
they surround themselves condemn
the practice, as well as place an obstacle
iti the way of any extended influence
over society. But on the fair ground
the pernicious influence goes forth
armed with the permission (which is a
quasi endorsement) of men in high
position. One gambling institution at
a fair ground will do more harm
society than all the private saloons iit
the State. Society would ostracised
man for defending one ot the latter
class, and yet how much greater the
sin of those who not only defend
but allow, and, to a certain extent, en
dorse the greater evil. Search where
we will, no valid excuse can be made
for this evil.
We trust that those who may here
after have in charge the State Fair,
will be influenced by more exalted ideas
of the dignity of the State Agricultural
Society, and the obligation undet which
it rests to protect the characters of the
vout.b of our land against the fearful
influence of authoriz' and gambling.
Uniting two Oceans. Surveys
have been made by competent tngin
eei s, al the expense of the United
States, to ascertain the practcaMiltv ot
uniting the Pa-ifi'-a.d Atlantic ocean-,
t*v euiting t.tir ugh the narrow neck ot
land wh.ch connects North and South
America, A geographical society ot
P. is has lateiy sent out an expeditin',
uu l i Lieut. W ise, to discover i h • next
ion'". This offi. er has recently made
a v rv favorable report. Tbe namrai
ol> tA'.les he encountered can bo tamli
nve come. An intersoceanic canal is,
Vi et'ore, one of the great event •-t ihe
n m tutu re. The French, it s . in-,
■■Ave detei mined to make this pi | a
-neeess, as they have the Sm Z canal.
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A MOTHER' HEART,
A little dreaming, such as mothers know ;
A little lingering over dainty things ; •
A happy heart, wherein hope, all aglow,
Stirs like a bird at dawn that wakes and sings
And that is all.
A-htt.k clasping to her yearning breast,
V little musing over future vears ;
((mi prays “Dear Lord, Thou knoweat
But -pare my flower life’s bitterest rain of
tears.
And that is all.
A little spirit, speeding through the night;
A little home grown lonely, dark and chill;
Asa 1 heart, groping blindly for the light;
A little suow-olad grave beneath the hill,
And that is all.
A little gathering of life’s broken thread ;
A little patience, keeping back the tears :
A hrtilf heart that sings “My darling is notdead.
(K and keeps her safe through his eternal years,"
And that is all.
- NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.
—A terrible calamity occurred in the
couit*vy...nt High B'antyne near Glas
gow, Scotland, by the explosion of fire
damp Of 233 men who descended
into t int mine only three escaped.
—Advices from San Domingo state
that Puerto Plata has been reoccupied
by the government troops. The rebels
were encamped in the suburbs of the
JJH,"waiting for reinforcements in order
t f renew the attack. The government
t oops had recaptured Loveja, and all
i •ter provinces were in a state of open
Miellion.
The Roumanians, in an ineffectual
attack upon one of the Turkish re
redStt-bts at Plevna, lost nearly 1,000
tuen.
—There is a strike among the cotton
'mill laborers in England.
:. —Five thousand colliers in England
re idle arid on a strike.
I." —-There is trouble in the Turkish
government on the question of an ar
jHHce.
Czar is absolutely
Kncd to continue the war.
v Kitting m Sh'pka Pass has been
jjP'i'rabce is
g.rowfimg darker! Alt is lV.it vedktimr
MacMabon will call upon his Senate to
Regain dissolve the Chamber of Depu
ties, unless it will submit to his dicta
tion. A state of siege will be declared
after this second dissolution. -Gambetta
from policy or fear, does not mention
MacMahon’s name now in his speeches.
—A Cabinet conciliation is talked of
in Paris.
—Plevna is being provisioned exten
sively.
—The Russians have contracted for
the construction of a series of railways
in Bulgaria.
—All the Cossacks in the Russian
empire have been ordered to the front.
—There is famine in Montenegro.
—The President of the Cuban Re-
has been captured by the
Spanish troops.
—The Catholic priests in Canada
have been ordered by their superiors
not to meddle with politics and elec
tions.
—lt is announced that a ministerial
circular will shortly be issued by the
Spanish Cab net stating that the spirit
of the Constitution favors large and
comprehensive toleration of dissenting
religions.
—President MacMahon’s ultimate
course will depeud on the attitude of
the Senate, and the Senate’s action will
be guided by tbe positon taken up by
a majority of tbe Deputies.
—The Russian killed up to October
18th, it is officially stated, amount to
60,100 men.
—Germany is uneasy at the political
condition of Fi ance.
—The r* volution in Cuba may now
be considered at an end. The revolu*
tionists have lost nearly all of their
leaders.
—A treat” has been completed be
tween the Dominion Government and
tbe Black foot Indians, by which the
Indians code 51,000 square miles of
territory t Canada.
DOMESTIC.
—The National Convention of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors
convened in Atlanta last week. The
Mr other hood is composed of conductors
of lailroads from all parts of the
country, leagued together for mutual
piotection and the advancement of their
mutual lot* rests.
Farmers in North Georgia carry
their apples a distance of one hundred
miles to Atlanta, and find ready sale for
them at good prices.
—The Peace Commission sent to in
terview Sitting Bull and negotiate with
him for the surrender of the Sioux, has
returned without securing their object.
0a Mi e; will probably be sent to him
as the next commissioner.
—The Episcopal Convention ap
pointed a committee to report on the
proposed establishment of an order of
deaconesses for that church.
—The colored people of North Car
olina have petitioned Congress to aid
them in their proposed emigration to
Liberia.
—An additional number of Savings
and other banks at the North, have
suspended.
—Rev. Dr. W; E. Munsey, a distins
guished preacher and lecturer, well
known in the South, died at Jonesboro,
East Tennessee.
—There seems to be little inclination
on the part of Senators or members to
hasten legislation, and thereby bting
about an early adjournment of the
present session.
—The Southern Apache Indians in
New Mexico have surrendered to the
United States Government.
—A hill has been introduced in Cons
gress to authorize an annurl appropri
ation of §1,000,000 for the purpose of
providing arum and equipments for the
whole body of militia, either by purs
chase or manufacture.
—The injunction recently issued
against the New Orleans School Board
forbidding the Board from establishing
separate schools for white and colored
children has been dissolved by Judge
Kichter, of the Sixth District Court.
—There are only three colored mem
bers in the present Congress.
—There is some opposition to the
confirmation of Billiard as Minister to
Brazil. p
Tjjostmastera! finds a
deficiency ot
tion for the salaries of postmasters for
the present fiscal year.
A treaty has been signed between
the United States and Great Britain
covering trade marks and trade labels,
and it has been sent to the United
States for ratification.
—The recent yellow fever cases in
Fernandina were all colored persons.
A Mighty Work— The long talked
of project of uniting England with
France, by means of a tunn°l under the
Channel, has passed from the realm of
thought to that of action. The work
of tunneling the sea between Calais
and Dover has begun. Two or three pits
have already been sunk to the depth of
several hundred feet, and the best en
gineers of both countries are engaged
in directing the stupendeous under
taking. When finished it will be the
grandest task that the hand and mind
of man has yet accomplished in making
the earth and the elements of nature
tributary to his will. Thus the bonds
of peace are bringing the nations to
gether more and more, harmonizing
clashing interests, uniting in fraternity
people hitherto estranged and divided
thereby enabling the benign spirit of
concord to exorcise the foul demons of
war and discord.
Science and leligion must go hand
in hand to conquer the world for peace,
good-will, and God.
Georgia Nurshry. —We call atten
tion to the advertisement of the cele
brated Georgia Nursery, of Augusta.
Mr. Nelson brings information of value
to the notice of horticulturists. The
Georgia Nursery is one of the com
pletest and best in the country. Read
the advertisement and correspond with
Mr. Nelson.
The Rouse Tribune baa the largest
circulation of any paper in North Geor
gia, and, consequently, is the beat ad
vertising medium in that rich section.
The weekly Tribune ia the cheapest
weekly in the South of its size aud
literary merits. Democratic to the
core. Price $1,50 per yeat. Address
B. F. Sawyer, Proprietor, Rome, Ga.
—The lab'et estimates the Catholic immi
graiion to New York during the past thirty
y, an. ai 2,800,000.
$3 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
GEORGIA NEWS.
—Sweet potatoes are selling in De
catur at forty cents per bushel retail.
—The farmers of Polk county are
talking of arranging for a fair at Ce
dartown.
—The State Fair netted over §B,OOO.
—The reports of the officers of the
Northwestern railroad show the road
to be in a flourishing condition. The
superintendent reports that the net
profit, over and above running expenses
during the past year (the first year of
the road), were §12,282 28.
—The sheriff advertises for sale the
printing material of the Southron, of
Gainesville. The Mitchel Reformer,
published at Camilla, has also been
closed by the sheriff.
—Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has
written an article for the North Ameri
can Revieiv on “ Civil Service Reform.”
—1 he Board of Education of Greene
county, at its last meeting, resolved to
adopt the militia districts as school dis
tricts, the schools not to be nearer
than three miles to each other.
—A library is to be organized in
Gainesville.
—The fairs at Thomasville and
Sandersville were unusually fine, and
attended by large crowds.
—The Conductors Insurance Asso
ciation of the United States held a
Convention in Atlanta last week.
—Four flue agricultural fairs were
held in this State last week.
—J. W. Campbell, Esq., of Griffin,
son of Rev. Jesse Campbell, D.D., died
in Griffin on Monday of last week. He
was one of the brightest intellects of
the Griffin bar, genial and talented, and
beloved by the entire community.
—A mass meeting held in Augusta
passed resolutions looking to a speedy
completion of the proposed railroad
from that city to Knoxville, Tennessee.
—The Hamilton Journal says that
there are over 400 lunatics confined iy)
Gecfrgia jails, because there is no roo™
vLiun.
Journal atatHfl
Lincoln’s corn and cotton crop
the shortest for seven years back.
Mr. Z. S. Willingham, of Lincoln,
has this season made over nine hundred
gallons of syrup from sorghum cane.
—The Doublin Gatetle notices the
fact that there is a great deal of sick
ness in Laurens county, the physician*
going night and day. Fortunately the
sickness is not of a dangerous charac
ter.
—The Wesleyan Alumnean Associ
ation is engaged in the grateful task of
raising a tablet to the memory of the
late Dr. Myers.
—Mr. M. L. Burch has temporarily
taken charge of the Eastman Times,
and Mr. Robert Burton, the former
editor and publisher, contemplates
starting anew paper in Telfair county.
ElairWiLSON Hotel, corner Alabama
and Pryor streets, Atlanta, Georgia,
Capt. J. L. Kieth proprietor.
This house is new ; stands on site of
the old United States Hotel; is within
one minute’s walk of the depotand busi
ness centre of the city. The rooms are
pleasant, the table good, and rates of
board most liberal—and one always feels
at home with the enterprising proprie
tor, whom we cheerfully endorse.
Sunday Sabbath. Recently a
member of the Seventh Day Baptists,
living in Crawford county, Pennsylva*
nia, was arrested, under the act of
1794, for doing manual labor, not of
necessity, on Sunday. He claimed the
Saturday was the true Sabbath, and
that he had not violated any law, there
fore, on Sunday. The local magistrate
fined him. The prisoner appealed to
the Superior Court, which reversed the
verdict of the magistrate court, on the
ground that each particular sect had
the a r ;ht to upon its own Sabbath.
The Supreme Court of Alabama, in a
recent case maintained the inviolability >
of Sunday, and confirmed the judg
ment of a lower court, agaiust an Isra
elite who had violated the established
Sunday law.
Gbnebous —The people of Boston
have contributed over two thousand
dollars for the relief of the yellow fever
sufferers in Fernaudina, F,. rid*.