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.... IK- tires of geni-
,e at the City
;111 ,i told all the world
,mankind what hi
Piiiwcratic party in
t . i;„mk Cut'iuER in par-
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dice of the nohh
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,v, ridal. Weatherford,
■ Tecicni'th stand next
Cicero in the silvery
.1 bat it remained for Eto-
,. c ii;'-e them all yesterday,
” mi the wings of
*. • ;, t soared to the sources
;;“ (J . UU 1 let his fancy drink
the prospects of its
’.i. lined with freight from
Yt-ru Cruz. Indeed his
"’ M j confsuing that we
. , v which most to admire,
,f his panegeric of Maj.
1.,,re nr the vigor of his de-
‘ ,-the IloMK Cm uiER, the
. „,. IKl ; mouth-piece of the
.. p-inocracy."
»;*t note down tiie salient
■ w ir talk." hut his flights
, . u , i hi, gyrations so sud-
r ijii,-. that we could not
_ 3 .ncol. ll: mgh, by holding
i imaginary document
in calling his record,
.;>ng, ,1 tie- world to
•, unadulterated Demon
<•• statesmanship. He
a Democrat and
.... voieil against tht
;,..r:v in his life.
. -aid that he was a
. ... ..1 answer. ‘You lie
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justice lo say thin
■i lt> I- a good one. L
i 11,that we object
- I" trample down tie
i' iinine. He is a good
rat iii Congress, hut it in
i'- ni'icrncy to defy Demo-
! oppose Democratic
■ .\positimi of his record
again turned to the
: an ! showed by its re-
. H. liar grove that it was
ihiic.il sheet, and uses the
:ey as a decoy duck to
.t-:it Democrats into a
'. .' V can be shot down like
recent "sure enough
... n.is a beautiful figure
.rztty applauded.
-■ warmed up his admir-
... his record again and
upon the very ‘spot
worded that he was the
■ b-niueracy of this dis-
' i That if Dabney had
"oiild have gone to the
■ ..-r could carry it.
lie back at the Home
■i-id from his scrap book
'lory called “Side
l Etowah Bill.” The
1 ; ta..v lauded. He said
'i... Bill, and that lie
'■cl.- written on his tomb
"ellt in join his fathers
1 ii'intiiig ground. J udge
-wi w write it there. We
■ ige may live to do it, even
•' v " a iitmdred years.—
• Tms ep.tuph, he again
■> record, showing two
cost iii Congress, which
• ‘s'l-'-nt. worth all the res'
~ act.-. I'liese were his
" Army Bill and against
i ji-iiA Bills.
"' i in ilie interest ol
’ aicliimini, and as such
f'listing them, although
arm..ny with liis vote on
'■"or oill which is in the
•■agatav, fraud and enr-
■ u 1 urin-o upon national
•mol tii.iis. i; for Tildeu
■ n-l.irn,, aIU [ wirh these
’"’‘"‘b' ttirmigli the Hall
"lien Judge A. R
■■•”1 upon ami got up, and
'■ ,r 'as scratches tore the
""' n -ore-head. Tile
-ii'l as it he didn’t like it
Norcmss kicking the
' " r -ii" independent stool.
-“•veil the second num-
l j-t Smith's capital pa-
' D- published in
Tend
most heartily con-
^r. It
upon the appear-
: a gem in every
'‘-He and typograph-
It deserves a lib-
. w '. j| n '^ w - trust the people
5lJS *- a in it. Send for
je and then subscribe
^ says: “Congress-
v, !° lle ‘ n a quandary
•-lining as an Indepen-
Juandary i s as deep as
hi- win never he able
died In
making
of Tilden and
McClelland lias writ-
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VOLUME XXXI.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.
NEW SERIES—NO. 1
MOV (IF.OlUii: W. JULIAN.
Hon. Geo. \V. Julian, one of the most
eloquent and able Republicans of Iu-
diana, is stumping that Slate for Tilden
and Hendricks, ill a speech delivered
at Indianapolis, on the ‘26th, he said :
But will the South he safe under the
administration of Tilden? Can tlie
rreed.Lnen salely be committed to the
guardianship of the old slave-master?
I answer this question in the language
of the ablest political journal in the
United States, and a supporter of Gov
ernor Hayes : “ Our own solemn belief
is that the less said on this point on the
Republican side, the better; that the
outrage argument serves and can serve
the purpose of nobody in this canvass
but the Republican knaves, and that
probabilities are that the South will be
more peaceful under Tilden than un
der Hayes, and this for reasons which
lie on the surface. Tilden is not a weak
or foolish man. He will have no mo
tive for tolerating disorders at the
South, nor will his leading followers.
Ou the contrary 7 , they will perceive
clearly the importance of tranquility
in that region, to the stability of their
hold oyi power in the North, while
these disorders will actually constitute
nearly the whole political capital of
the Republicans, Conklings, Morto s,
Chandlers, and Cornells, with whose
support is, it seems, Hayes is so besad-
dled.” The truth of this is patent to
every man’s unbiased common sense.
The great need of the South to-day is
deliverance from the horde of thieves
and demagogues who have been fas
tened like leeches upon the welfare of
ihe people, and hacked in their mis
deeds by the whole power of the Ad
ministration. Hamburg massacre and
similar displays of rapine and lawless
ness admit of no defense, whatever the
provocations may- have been; but it is
needless to deny that there have been
provocations, and that there are two
sides to the outrage controversy.
Take the case of Alabama. The
vhold Federal patronage of the State
md the use of the United S ates aroiv
>vere turned over to George E. Spencei
t horoughly corrupt and unprincipled
,mistical adventurer, to enable him to
retain his seat in the United States
Senate. Thus equipped for his work, he
md his friends bought legislators wita
Federal apporintiueiils; sent marshals
nd revenue officers, accompanied by
- gular troops, to run off voters from
lie counties where the opposition to him
•vas strongest; prostituted the courts
>y arresting Democratic members ot
He Legislature in order to prevent a
[Uoruin; used the machinery of the
ustom-house and revenue officers in
Teaking up the General Assembly and
retting up two rival bodies, while the
inmey to pay for these extraordinary
■erforinances was obtained by embez
zlement from the post-office at Mobile.
1 n the light of these facts it is not sur
prising that the State is now overwhel
mingly Democratic, while the gratify
ing fact greets us that order has grad
ually asserted itself throughout the
State, as the power of the plunderers
has declined. Look at the State of
Missippi. In Vicksburg the whites
paid 99 per cent, of the taxes, and the
negros assessed and handled the money.
Ae a consequence the debt of the city,
which, in 1869, was 816,000, rose in
five year to 81,400,000, while the pop
ulation was oly eleven thousand, and
more than half the inhabitants were
colored. A ring composed of carpetbag
adventurers and ignoiant black men ot
the most corrupt character controlled
the executive office and courts, and
rew rich by forgery and traud. These
rings were sustained by the wh°le pow-
•r of the ^Republican administration
at Washington. The State of South
Carolina supplies us with facts equally
starting. I can not go into the details,
hut they are known to the country. It
is only necessary to say that after the
State had been plundered and devasta-
ed bv the blaca and white scoundrels
who so long controlled her fortunes,
and Govenor Chamberlain had succe-
ded in inauguating the work of reform,
the representatives of the Federal ad
ministration demonstrated tlieir friend
ship for organized rascality and ruffian
ism by accusing Govenor Chamberlain
of leaning toward Democracy, and con-
deming him for refusing cammissions
to such political reprobates as Whip-
per and Moses. Can any man feel sur
prised that outrages should spring out
of sue a soil? Can men expect to sow
ihe wind and not reap the whirlwind?
No Christian or even civilized man will
defend the deeds of lawlessness that
disgrace so many States of the South,
nor can he delend the political and
moral outrages that have been their
•hief provocation.
What is the remedy ? Shall we seek it
m a continuation of Grautisui and the
rule of such men as Casey, Packard,
Durell, Kellogg, Ames, Whipper and
Moses ? Cau the election of another Re
publican President bring order and peace
and honest government to the sorely tried
people of the South, black or white ? We
nave had a Republican Congress for near-
Iy eight years and yet chief's of paity,
who represent the South as in a perfectly
deplorable condition, tell us that the con-
liuuauce of the same party in power is
absolutely necessary for the welfare of the
people, and especially the colored race.
President. Grant himself tells us that
“ Mississippi is governed to-day by offi
cials chosen through fraud and violence,
such as would scarcely be accredited to
savages, much less to a civilized and
Christian people,” and Senator Morton s
outrage committee, with Senator Bout
well St its head, iD its late Congressional
report that the State which last year was
in a condition of peace is now so given
over to incurable anarchy after a ten years
trial of Republican reconstruction that
we may be obliged to remand it to Terri
torial government! Gentlemen, could
there possibly be a stronger argument in
favor of a change of Administration?
Could any feet stand out more palpably
on the background of the past, than the
absolute need of a new wiser policy, and
aud new and wiser men to administer it?
The result of Republican rule, in fact
has been to array the two races of the
South in deadly hostility, instead of
making them friends and brethren, in
the States containing the largest negro
element, and under Republican rule,
violence and disorder have large j p
vailed since the close of the war ; while
in the Conservative and Democratic
States order and peace have been the
normal condition of the people. What
we now want is anew ffispensation wh ch
shall blot out the color line in politics,
soften and subdue the antagonisms so long
fostered by white demagogues, divide the
colored vote between the parries of tne
South as the white vote is already divided,
and thus make the people of the State
ian-ly in revolt, in deed and in heart, one
people. All this, of course, must be the
work ol time; but the agencies can be
wisely set to work which will accomplish
it, and thus perfectly solve the problem
of a restored Union by completely re
moving all the causes of strile.
Trion Factory.
To the Editor of the Courier:
Having recently visited Trion Facto
ry, in Chattooga county, we give you
an abridged account of what we saw
and learned about it, as to enter Into
details fully would consume too much
of your space. Most of your readers
are familiar with the history of the old
Trion Factory that was bnrned to the
ground on the 17th April, 1875; how
through the industry and energy of one
man it was developed from one set of
wool cards to a mill of two hundred
looms, with the necessary preparatory
machinery; how, as the machinery was
increased, the houses and machinery
multiplied, till a town of ninely houses
and six hundred souls was the result.
The facts relative to the destruction
of the old mill need no rehearsal. The
mill in ashes, 'he village resembled a
hive of bees that had been robbed of
their precious store. The hands were
in distress and were without spirit or
hope until the glad tidings were an
nounced that the mill would, Phoenix
like, arise from its ashes. Long and
dejected countenances and croaking
voices then gave place to happy faces
and merry songs. The old foundations
were to he cleaned away, bricks made,
timber cut in the forest, hauled to the
mill, sawed and prepared for the build
ing ; but such systematic energy was
displayed that in less than one month
from the time the old mill was burned,
the plans had been matured and the
foundation ftir the new one begun.—
\Vithin a little less than three months
from tiie time the first brick was laid,
the mill was completed aud ready for
its complement of machinery. Nor
did it have long to wait, for simultane
ous with the determination to rebuild,
the machinerv was ordered and put
under way, so that in December, all
nud neen located and trained, and the
cotton started on its tortuous way
mrough the lappers, cards, fly frames,
spinning frames, etc., to the looms,
getting through and coming out as
Trion sheeting in the early part of
January, 1S76. We doubt if there has
ever been greater results obtained from
the same number of hands in so short
a space of time.
The mill is of the most approved
pattern, is substantially built through
out, and is filled with machinery of
the best make, consisting of two com
pound opener lappers; two finisher
lappers; 86 self-stripping cards; 8,104
spindles ; 250 looms ; one set of rope
machinery and one set of wool cards.
The production per week is S6,000
yards of 4-4 and 7-8 sneeting and drills
1,300 pounds of rope. 3,300 bales of
cotton are used during the year. 240
bands find steady employment—215
in the mill and the remainder as team
sters and farm hands. 8950 is paid
each week for labor. During the Bhort
days in winter, when the mill run^at
night, light is supplied through 200
gas burners, the gas being manufac
tured on the premises.
The preparations for extinguishing
fire are very complete, consisting of a
reservoir 140 feet above the top of the
building, containing 500,000 gallons of
water, which is carried to the mill
through 2,200 feet of 6-inch main pipe;
leading from this pipe to each story is
a4-inchmain supplying the network of
sprinklers. 2,500 pounds of lead was
used in making the joints of the pipe.
In addition to the above is a fire pump
capablo of throwing 1,000 gallons per
minute, through hose that is ready at
tached for the purpose.
The mill site contains between five
and six thousand acres. Capital stock
8225,000 dollars, all paid in, which by
the laws of the State is exempted from
State and county tax for a period of
ten ye"rs.
The hands are healthy and good
looking, aud as no intoxicating liquors
are sold on the place, nor in five miles
of it, they are all sober and industrious,
no loafers being tolerated. The.houses
and gardens are furnished to the oper
atives free of charge. On the place is a
church, with Masonic hall above, forty-
five by sixty feet, built by the com
pany ; the church is open to all denom
inations. Two Sunday schools are reg
ularly attended by twenty pupils.
This splendid industry is due main
ly to the energy and sagacity of A. P.
Allgood. Like the majority of our
successful men, the Judge is what we
term a self-made man. He began life
in moderate circumstances, and by a
strict application to business principles,
combined with never tiring energy, he
has become one of the wealthiest men
in the South. For many years of his
life he was a slave to business; he may
now be classed among her kings, as he
only takes general supervision, leaving
the details to those selected to execute
them. He has the facuelty of placing
at first sight a correct estimate upon a
man, hence he always has the right
man in the right place. In the man
agement of his large business he has
valuable assistants in the persons of
his son, just grown, his book keeper,
MrjMyers, and Mr. Steele, who has
general supervision of the mill.
° YVe -would like ts give a description
of the Judge’s elegant residence, but
the length our letter has attained ad
monishes us to refrain. We will mere
ly say that it is of ample proportions,
and has hot and cold water in all the
rooms—is lighted with gas and has all
the conveniences of a first-class East
ern hotel. M.
Our Washington Letter.
Washington, D. C., August 28.
The day is bright and beautiful, and
the streets are thronged with persona
bent on business or pleasure. Such is
the number of Centennial and other
visitors now in the city that Secretary
Morrill decided that it was necessary
to deny the privilege of visiting the
bureau of engraving and printing.
The throng of visitors was so large and
continuous as to seriously impede the
work, and it was found necessary to
8top either the one or the other, and so
it was thought to be true economy to
stop the visiting and let the work go
on. The employees in this depart
ment who were discharged last winter
are now being paid the extra month’s
pay which it is usual to give discharged
employees of the government. When
these employess were discharged there
was n* appropriation out of which
they could be paid until one was made,
which was done during the last days
of the late session. Three hundred
aud fifty were paid on Saturday, and
there still remain five hundred more
to he paid. Under the act making this
appropriation it is provided that the
payment shall be made to the party
entitled in person, and not to any at
torney or agent claiming it for them.
This works a great hardship, as large
numbers of them when discharged re
turned to their homes in distant States,
and unless some arrangement is made
by which they can be paid in the city
nearest their post office address, it will
be some time before this business can
be finally settled. The pay of some of
them does not amount to over S40, and
it will cost them all of that in some
instances to come and get it.
The State department has received
assurances from the English Govern
ment that the latter power is anxious
to frame a new extradition treaty, the
original one having been in effect abro
gated by the action of the British Gov
ernment in the case of Winslow, the
Boston forger.
A correspondent of the New York
Times has had an interview with Col.
Drum, chief of Sheridan’s staff, as to
the probable future movements of the
troops now in the Indian country, in
view of the fact that it is pretty well
settled that the Indians have broken
up into small bands and do not intend
to give the troops battle. The opinion
has become pretty general in view of
this fact and the additional one of the
extreme severity of the winter in that
region and the great difficulty in fur
nishing provision and shelter lor the
troops at so great a distance from their
base of supplies, that the army- would
be withdrawn within the next two or
three weeks and operations suspend for
the season. But Col. Drum said that
it was the intention of the commander
of the deparment to continue the fight
all through the winter, and the Indians
pressed wherever the can be found.
Cameron’s order in relation to send
ing troops to the South is still the lead
ing topic in most of the papers, both
Republican and Democratic, the latter
very properly denouncing it in no
measured terms, and the former mak
ing a feeble and pitiful defense. Mr.
Levy, Republican, of Louisiana, said
of the order in question that it had
more ot the boomerang for the Repub
licans than was intended, and would
work a degree more harm than good.
And the pious Logan, when he heard
it, said the issue of that order is the
worst d—d thing that could happen to
the Republican party.
There is no doubt but thoughtful
people everywhere will understand
that any portion of the country can
not be protected and garrisoned with
Federal troops upon the order of the
President without establishing a prece
dent for scattering the army all over
the country for the purpose of controll
ing elections. If in the South, why
not in the North ? If in New Orleans,
why notin Cincinnati or Chicago?
Taking this as a precedent, what is to
prevent any future President from send
ing troops to any and all parts of the
country where he desires to control
the voice of the people ? And it is
more than probable that before another
Centennial year is to be celebrated
more than one occupant of the Presi
dential chair willl be glad to avail him
self of this method of making and
controlling votes, and proudly point to
this precedent Reno.
Another collision between British iron
clads cozes out through a correspon
dent of the Western Morning Neies with
the fleet in Bessibra Bay. The The
squadron was under steam in three
lines and close order, steaming about
five knots an hour, when signal was
made, "Alter esurse to port in succes
sion points.” The Triumph and Invin
cible, through mistake, altered the
course to starboard instead of port,
whereby they came across the Mon
arch’s bows. The Monarch, to prevent
ramming the Invincible, stopped and
reversed engines. The Raleigh, which
was the next ship astern of the Mon
arch, did not observe this till too late
to avert a collssion, the Raleigh’sboats
catching the Monarch’s spanker boom
and then grazing along the starboard
quarter.
Hon. David P. Lewis, last Republi
can Governor of Alabama, is out in a
letter, declaring himself for Tilden
and reform.
Our Cemeteries.
From the New York Evening Mail.
The subject of the buiial and the
proper dispositiun of the bodies of
loved ones, is one that has of late years
engrossed the minds of thinking men
and women of this enlightened age.—
Years ago the cemeteries received at
tention, and the result of the delibera
tions of that period was the beautiful
resting place of the dead,, fitly repre
sented by Greenwood, Cypress Hill,
Woodlawn and other spots, equally
beautified by herbage, flowers, walks,
handsome plots,monuments, fountains,
lakes and streams, in fact all that art
or science can devise or erpet have been
used to make attractive what before
was so suggestive of gloom and death,
and always so shudderingly repulsive
to all sensitive natures—a graveyard.
Comparison In tween the tomb of to
day and the grave of a hundred years
ago will attest the progress made in
this direction.
It seems exceedingly fitting that the
advancement made in this particular
for oar dead should be duplicated in
the receptacles prepared for the admis
sion of their bodies. Why deposit the
bodies of our nearest and dearest in
wooden boxes, when decay makes such
inroads so soon after interment ? Wit
ness the repulsive appearances of vaults
when opened, and how the sights con
sequent thereto must impress them
selves on our minds when we consider
that what is before us in such terrible
forms, is all that is left of relatives or
associates who were once the object of
our highest regards. If wood, no mat
ter how hard or how prepared, decays
so soon, why cannot iron be substi
tuted ? Metalic burial cases, it is true,
are uow and have been used for some
years, but only, we regret to say, to a
very limited extent; probably only
one metalie case is called for where
ten or even twenty wooden ones are
utilized. Where does the fault lie?
It mnnot be with the families, who
surely must desire to preserve for a
time the features, indentity and form
of their dead ones, especially when
facts are constantly before us attesting
the preservation of bodies, without,
bleiiiish, for a quarter of a century, by
the use of metalic caskets. In the face
of ti|ese facts, why others are used, is a
question it puzzles us to answer. Per
haps the public mind has not been ed
ucated to this condition of things,
though it seems to us to be high time
these facts were patent to every family
in the land. In addition to the preser
vation of bodies from decay, they are
also safe from the midnight prowler,
who plies his vocation to supply tli
table of the dissector with subjects foi
his knife.
It is a gratifying thought that a me-
talic case lias secured for us a step ii
thf'iaight direction, and that a want—.
sec I'd. casket—is now attainable.—
Th,i ugh its agency death and tht
gravey'ard are robbed of their gloom
and nothing but the mest pleasant re
collections can now impress the mind
when taking leave of the deceased
members of our own families, or those
of our kindred and friends.
Meeting of the Young Ladies’
Anti-Slang Association.
Literary Notes.
There are now 3,000 children in Jap
an receiving instruction in the English
language.
‘ The Dutch in the Artie Seas,” by
Samuel R. Van Campen, in two vol
umes, will soon appear from Trubner’s
London press.
An interesting historical article on
Sebastian Cabot and Sir Hugh Wil
loughby and their American voyages
appears in the Revue dee Deux Mondes
of June 15.
The fertile Hungarian novelist, Mor
itz Iokni, has published the enormous
number of 160 volumes, but, not satis
fied with that number, is now compo
sing two new romances.
The first German paper ever printed
in Japan has just appeared under the
title of the Out Aeintische Zeitung, and
is printed at Tokio, exclusively by Jap;
auese compositors.
Notes and Queries, contains a series of
articles extracted from the diary of an
American loyalist, Mr. Jonathan Bou-
chier. He is not at all flattering to
George Washington.
The lady who became highly distin
guished as a Spanish novelist, under
the assumed naipe of Fernan Caballero,
was a German by birth, and went to
Spain at 16 years of age.
The elaborate biographies of Voltaire,
in a series of independent volumes, by
M. G. Desnoiresterres, have been
brought to a conclusion by the publi
cation of “ Voltaire: Son Retour et Sa
Mort.”
The Revue des Deux Mondes publishes
a carefully written article on the con
flict of the races in the United States.
It is written by Emile Montegert, and
treats of the Indians, negroes and Chi
nese emigration.
The Royal Commission on Copyright,
of which Sir Henry Holland and An
thony Trollope are members, has held
several sessions, but, as they are all
private, nothing can be known of the
evidence till the report comes out
Some people say that there has been
no witty book of foreign travel since
Mark Twain’s “ Innocence Abroad;”
but it is claimed that Charles Dudley
Warner’s forthcoming “ Mummies and
Moslems” will be both witty and fasci
nating.
Practicai, Economy.—The record of
Samuel J. Tilden as Governor of New
York, and of the Democratic House, are
in full accord. Tilden in one year saved
815,000,000 to his State. The House in
its first session has saved nearly 840,000.-
000 to the nation. But for the blind ad
herence to extravagance by the profligate
Republican Senate and the corrupt Exec
utive, the reduction in national taxes
would have been over 865,000,000 or
about one dollar and a half per head, per
annum for every inhabitant of the
the United States. The election of Til
den and Hendricks will effect a saving
of one hundred millions per year in the
Federal Treasury.
Chicago Times: Last week’s Nation
gave the partisans a chill which will be
apt to leave congestion. The Nation,
distrusting the Democratic party, felt con
strained to accept Hayes. It did this
with palpable reluctance. Its advoea-
cy of Hayes has not been thns far of a
hopeful sort. It speaks of Tilden as
“the man who will probably fill the
Presidential chair for the next fouryears.”
The “ Reform Club” is the title of a
new organization in the West End,
Wheeling, Va., organized by young ladies
for the purpose of discouraging the use
of slang phrases in con versatiQn. At a re
cent meeting, while a member was ad
dressing the society, she inadvertantly
made use of the expression “awful nice.”
and was called to order by a sister mem
ber for transgressing the rules.
“In what way have I transgressed?”
asked the speaker, blushing deeply.
" You said it would be ‘ awful nice’
to admit young gentlemen to our delibera
tions,” replied the other.
“ Well, wouldn’t it be?” returned the
speaker; “ you know you said yourself
no ionger ago than yesterday, that—”
“ Yes, I know; but you said ‘ awful
nice.’ That’s slang.”
“ Well,” said the speaker, tartly, “ if
you are going to be so awful nice about
it, perhaps it is; but I wouldn’t say any
thing if I were you. Didn’t you tell Sal-
lie Spriggins, this morning, to pull down
her basque?”
“ No, I did’nt” retorted the other, her
face growing crimson; “ and Sallie Sprig-
gins will say I didn’t. She won’t go back
on me.”
" ThU is a nice arcket you are giving
us,” cried the President, after rapping
both speakers to order. “ Let us ask
what is the object of this society ?”
“ To discourage slang!” cried a dozen
voices.
“ Kerrect,” said the President, “ go on
with the funeral.” *
A membei rose to explain that she had
been fined at the last meeting for saying
“ awful nice” herself, but she hadn’t the
stamps to pay now—would settle, how
ever, in the sweet by-and-by.
“ That’ll be all right,” said the Presi
dent ; “ pay when you have the ducats.”
Another member asked if a young lady
could say “ old splendid” without subject
ing herself to a fine.
“ You bet, she can’t,” says the Presi
dent who whs the original founder of the
society, and therefore appealed to when
any nice question was to be decided.
“ Then,” said the speaker, “ I move that
Miranda Pew come down with the dust,
tor I heard her say that her beau was
just old splendid.
Miranda’s face was in a blaze, as she
cried:
“ Well, if my beau was such an old
hair-pin as your fellow is 1 Wouldn’t
say it.”
“ Shoot chinniug," cried the President.
“ Will you never tumble?”
But the confusion was too great to be
i Hayed. Miranda’s blood was up. Some
tiled uiih the. aud others against her ;
.ml amid ihe Ballet that followed could
heard such exclamations as “Dry
ip!” Nice blackberry you are !” Wipe
'tf your chin!” Hire a hali!” etc., when
,i minion to adjourn was carried “ by a
large majority.”
The True Spirit.
Some of our Republican brethren do
not approve of the remark of Governor
Tilden, that when elected he will enter
upon the duties of his position, "not
as a holiday recreation, but very much
in that spirit of consecration in which
the soldier enters battle.” To our mind
this felling of the importance of the
word before him, of the enormity of
the task which it is for him to accom
plish, is one oi the surest auguries of
the success with which we feel confi
dent his efforts are destined to be
crowned. It displays a just apprecia
tion of the obstacles that will be thrown
in his way, of the dangers with which
his path will be beset, of tne amount of
persistent energy that it will be neces
sary to expend in the prosecq)ion of his
work. The great mass of corruption
which is now rolling over the country
has, in its movement, acquired such
momentum that to stay its progress
will revuire the expense of greater force
than most men possess. In addition to
this impetus, depending upon its own
inertia, every man whom the new Pres-
dent will find in office will have an in
terest in impeding his endeavors and
pushing on the hideous heap. Tilden
has, however, shown his eminent ability
to do just such work as will be neces
sary for its destruction, and we have no
donbt about his success in whatever of
the kind he undertakes. It cannot be
done, however, by janketing about the
country, and engaging in a series of
varied pleasures and immoral revelries,
litn flrnnt wVtn Vtia ac o
like Grant, who views his position as a
personal gift for past services, and a
thing intended only to yield him as
much senuous gratification as possible.
It will be hard work to uproot Grant-
ism. Hayes could never accomplish
it. He has neither the necessaay
strength of will nor capacity for the
worn. Tilden has; but he knows that
to the strongest man it will be a most
arduous undertaking, and he will enter
upon it in a proper and becoming
spirit.
New York Sun: Babcock’s trial for
complicity in the safe burglary, which
was fixed for next month in Washing
ton, will probably be posponed until
the ensuing term, in order to tide over
the Presidential election. No confi
dence is entertained in the earnestness
or honesty of this prosecution while
the present District-Attorney and other
judicial officers are to conduct it and
to select the jury. What was done in
the case of Harrington, who was the
creature of Babcock, Boss Shepherd,
Henry D. Cooke, and that gang, can be
repeated in this instance. The Presi
dent and others near him cannot afford
to have Babeock convicted. He knows
too much of their dealings, and holds
too many papers against them to be
in the least danger from a pliant Dis
trict-Attorney, to whom a wink from
the White House would be more than
a volume of precedents. There is not
the slightest donbt about Babcock’s
guilt, as there is none that under the
mask of a smooth exterior and the
uniform of an army officer, he has
plotted the darkest crimes and betrayed
every trust Still, the Republican
party dare not throw him over, nor
urge his dismissal from the four places
which he still holds and dishoners.
They dread his secrets.
Ben Brown was elected to the office
of constable, and while sesving a pro
cess on his friend Tom Smith, the lat
ter became angry and gave Ben a
thrashing. Ben was indignant and ex
claimed : “I wouldn’t mind you lick
ing me in my individual character, but
when yon shake me in my official ca
pacity yon shake a pillar of the com
monwealth.”
Excitement in Louisiana.
New Orleans, Aug 29.—Col. G. W.
McCranie, of the Ouachita Telegraph,
sends the following to the Associated
Press:
Monroe, La., August 29.—The city
aud vicinity are greatly excited because
of firing last night into the residences
of David Faulk and Isaiah Garrett,
and an attempt to kill Larry Faulk,
planters, living on the river below
here.
Mrs. David Fanlck lias been danger
ously ill for weeks. Her bedroom was
the target for the assassins. Mr. Gar
rett’s house received about seventy bul
lets. Mr. Larry Faulck saw two men,
both colored, enter his gate. They ex
ploded two caps, aiming at him, and
went on.
Several white familes in the vicinity
have come to this place for safety, and
appeals have been made to the volun
teer company here for assistance. No
cause can be imagined for this outrage,
which has thrown the whole parish
into intense excitement,and spread ter
ror among the white families of this
section, where the greatest quiet has
hitherto prevailed.
It is thought that this trouble is the
sequence of a disturance occurring last
Saturday at a Republican barbecue,
when eight or ten whites, present by
invitation, were rudely treated by ne
groes. Their lives were threatened,
and they were forced to leave the
grounds to pacify the infuriated blacks,
who drew repeaters, and otherwise ex
hibited the ferocity of desperadoes.
Fortunately firing at houses did no
serious damage, although the shot in
each case entered the bed room. Steps
have been taken to preserve peace and
prevent a recurrence of similar out
rages.
TAX COLLECTOR Al'-UESTEM.
New Orleans, August 29.—State
Tax Collector Yates, of St. James par
ish, was arrested and is now in prison,
charged with being a defaulter to the
State in the sum of over 840,000.
INSTANTLY KILLED.
James Payne, a stock dealer, was sit
ting on a gallery leaning against a rail.
The rail broke, and Payne fell fifteen
feet and was instantly killed.
ROY KILLED.
A boy aged about sixteen years was
killed by a Canal street railroad steam
train to night, while attempting to
board a car while in motion.
Col. Spenser’s “Spoons.’
It. 00
One-tourtk column a.x month*..- :{ S (W
,Oae-fourth column twelve month* r ‘" 0,1
Ono-Iialf column ono month It , ' w
One-heir column three uionths -12 0*>
One-half column six months 60 00
| 0ne-t!&H colnmn twelve months 104 00
One oolnmn one month 36 00
One column threo months. 60 00
One column six months 101 00
One column twelve months. 160 00
J&'Ttn ibregoing rates aro for either Weekly
or Tri-Weekly. When published in both papers,
50 percent! additional upon table rates.
The St. Louis Republican compares
Democratic with Republican rule in
the South in the following manlier:
What Georgia was with Bullock and
his negro legislature, Sonth Carolina is
now, and what Georgia is to-day .South
Carolina would be if put into hands of
men capable of governing tiie State.—
The one is a fair sample of a free gov
ernment and the other of negro dom
ination maintained by Federal power.
Georgia and South Carolina are neigh
boring States and afford the very best
opportunities for comparing the results
of the two systems ot government.—
In the one, we have the white people
and property owners overridden by a
body of ignorant blacks and designing
white rascals and the consequence is
the platform enunciated at Cincinnati,
that is, lawlessness and outrage; in the
other, the intelligence and property in
terests of the State are free to do what
they are sure to do in any community,
whether it be North or South, repress
violence and disorder. It is unreason
able to expect that the people of the
North, with these pictures before them,
will refuse to be alarmed longer by the
outcry that the white people of the
South are necessarily “brutal banditti.”
Some of the worthy people who got
to Saratoga were accompanied by their
inimitable children, and the little ones
had dancing parties. Says a recent
letter:
One sight was that of a little three
year old, who was dressed in a rose
colored silk, with-a yard of her moth
er’s point lace flounce for over-skirt,
and who wore tiny gloves, pearl fan
pendant, pink silk stockings and with
kid boots the same color. Well, this
baby started off well pleased to dance
with another baby of her own age, hut
seeing a companion of the like tender
years dancing with a boy several years
her senior, she came down the lawn
with her mouth wide open and her
bands spread in frantic fashion,
screaming vigorousl}’, and, when she
reached her anxious mother, yelled
out with the passion of an enraged
child, “I want to dance with a boy ; 1
won’t dance with a girl.”
The Austin, Texas, Statesman says:
“People having money should not
tarry on the road to San Antonio from
New Braunfels. One G. F. Tarrier
was toddling peacefully and singing
hymns and the like quietly and in a
godlike frame of mind along the sun
shiny road when two of the ‘peacefully
disposed’ citizens of Texas halted him.
It is told of Col. Charles Spenser, He quit singing and sighed and flopped
cousellor at law, that somo years ago and lost his horse and outfit, gold
he had to defend one Marshall, charged It—ptch and chain and S25 in currency,
with larceny, and against whom there} | ..horse and saddle were valued at
was very strong evidence. Before th
trial, Spenser went to his client and
told him that the only chance of es
cape was in a plea of insanity, and he
advised him to play the lunatic, and to
answer all questions to the words put
him with the word “spoons.” The day
of the trial came on, and Marshall took
his place in the dock, pale, haggard
and wild-looking.
“Guilty or not guilty ?” asked the
clerk.
“Spoons!” drawled the prisoner
with a blank stare.
“Come, plead guilty or r.ot guilty,”
repeated the clerk.
“Spoons” was the only reply.
“Prisoner, will you answer the ques
tions put to you, or do you want to be
punished for contempt?” asked the
judge.
“Spoons,” brawled the prisoner, still
unmoved.
At this point the counsel for the pris
oner interferred and told the court that
his client was not in a condition to be
put on trial, as he was evidently not
responsible for his actions, and it was
an outrage on free citizens, etc.
“Do you understand what is said?”
asked the judge, addressing the pris
oner.
“Spoons” was the reply, in accents
wild.
It was evident the man was crazy,
and the judge ordered him discharged.
He was taken charge of by his friends,
who were present and left the court
with him. Counseller Spenser followed
them, and, congratulating him on his
escape, suggested that it might be a
good idea to pay his fee. His client
stared at him in blank amazement, and
moved away with the simple remark,
"Spoons.”
One Hundred Millions Saved.
* His l^cg wag nbniif; £-37"
iftY .-so lost a share ol comiGP.StTJt in
the assertion of his Exceliency that
the press exaggerates the ev>'?3 that af
flict society out West, and he don’t
sing any more.
Why Charles Francis Adams Will
Vote for Tilden.—Under date of Au
gust 5, the Hon. Charles Francis Adams
has addressed the following letter to
the editor ol the Jersey City Herald:
“ I am one of the class now denomi
nated Independents, asking no favors
and voting for the best men, without
regard to party lines. I propose to re
tain my position. But, as to the choice
offered to me between Mr. Tilden and
Mr. Hayes, though having no prepos-
sessings against either, I do not hesitate
to say that the former is far the most
fitted to meet the emergency in our
politics, in my opinion, and I intend
to vote for him.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Mr. Wheeler,
in his St. Albans speech, said that the Re
publican party “ to-day protects the in
tegrity of the nation and guards it honor.”
A President shielding thieves and
swindlers from detection and punishment;
a Secretary of War a confessed bribe
taker and divider with robbers ; a con
spicuous foreign minister parly to a de
liberate swindle ; a naval secretary spec
ulating up,to the verge of downright
thievery, to the great loss of the public-
service ; the Private Secretary of the
President a sneak thief, and carefully
protected from tiie cousequences of his
crime—all of this shows that the Repub
lican party is protecting the integrity of
country and guarding its honor.
St. Lcuir Itepublcisna.J
Mr. Eugene Hale conceded, on the ad-
jourment of Congress, that the Demo
cratic retrenchment policy had effected
saying of 829,009,000, and when
Secretary Morrill concluded that it was
only neccessary to issue $40,000,000 of
the $300,000,000 of four-and-a-half per
cent, bonds authorized by law, he raised
the amout credited to Democratic re
trenchment to S101,000,000. Secretary
Bristow asked and the Senate passed a
bill authorizing the issue of 8500,000,-
000 of four-and-a-half per cent, thirty-
year bonds, but the House said that
was swindling the people. The House
claimed that a four-and-a-half fifteen
year bond could readily be negotiated,
and insisted that the Secretary should
content himself with the 8300,000,000
authorized by law. The House futher-
more claimed that even a four percent,
bond could be negotiated, and now Mr.
Morrill finds out that this was all true.
Instead of issuing $500,000,000 of four-
and-a-half thirty year bonds, he has
concluded to put out only $40,000,000
of fifteen-year bonds, and do the rest
of his refunding in four per cent, thirty-
year bonds. For the first fifteen years,
therefore the Government saves one
half of one per cent, on S460,000,000,
and for the ensuing fifteen years one-
half of one per cent, on $500,000,000,
which aggregates . c .72,000.00 less in the
thirty years than if the Senate bill had
been passed. As it is manifest that
the 8500,000,000 of four-and-a-half
thirty-year bonds would not have been
refunded in four per cent, bonds im
mediately on the expiration of.the thirty
years, the saving with which the Dem
ocratic House should be credited is even
more than72,000,000 ;butthat isenough.
The first session of the Democratic
House has saved over 8100,000,000,
and some of the Republican papers are
prating about the failure to carry out
its promises of retrenchment. A few
years of such failure will bring us pros
perity again.
The Piladelphia Tones (Independ
ent) in an article on the late election in
Alabama says: »
The State gets more and more one
sided, like the handle of a jug, as the
full returns come in. Nothing but an
immediate peace with Sitting Bull by
a liberal payment to him and his
braves for the Custer butchery, and the
prompt transfer of the whole army and
a full complement of Gatling guns, will
give Hayes more than a township here
and there in the South ; and, what is
worse, the North don’t look much more
promising.
It looks a3 if John Cochrane’s Liberal
following by next November would be re
duced to himself and John Cochrane.
A New York letter says :
To say that Gov. Tilden’s letter gives
universal satisfaction to the Democracy
is probably superfluous; even John
Kelly, who was the Governor’s bitterest
personal and political enemy before his
nomination, declareithat it is all that
it ought to be, and tffat if the Demo
cratic party cannot elect a President on
such a platform as he has here laid
down, it might as well go into bank
ruptcy at once. I note this as a fair
expression of the average opinion
among the leaders of that class.
The Colored Democrats in Ala
bama.—Ourcolored friend did nobly, ami
came up stronger for the Houston ticket
by two or three hundred than we foretold
in our last issue. It was generally be
lieved, as we stated last week, that about
800 colored votes would be cast for the
Democratic ticket, but they even did bet
ter than that. About one thousand sensi
ble colored voters showed that they are free
indeed and voted the Democratic ticket
openly, without fear or favor. All honor
to our colored friends who stood up for
the good of the State.
Referring to the result of the Ala
bama election, the New York Tribune
says:
No doubt this will cause great joy in
the Democratic camp, bince they will
regard it in some measure foreshadow
ing the course of the Southern States
in the Presidential election.
Vienna beer-glasses have to be sub
mitted to the govrnment ganger.