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SSE:.^ 1 ’' 1 - | CawWateJ March 18,18T7.
VESIEIIDAVS SESSION.
THE DOINGS IS THE STATE LEGINLA
TI'RE.
Argiinunt In thr Impeachment Conrt—
Kit'll I Upon Ihrtimilioa of Juriwliction
..Adjournment For Utfruilant'i Connuel
—Thr R tllway Plfhwiirli.
[Special to Chroniclo and Constitutionalist.]
SENATE.
Atja -'t i, (it., September 2. -The Senate
wet at 1<), a. in., the President in the chair.
The resolution to print 100 copies of
Goldsmith’s defense, which was under dis
cussion yesterday, was again discussed. The
vc-as an<t nays were called and the luotion
lost.
The motion of Mr. Stephens, of the Nine
teenth District, to regulate the sale of Su
preme Court reports and to fix the salary of
the Reporters was read and several amend
ments, proposed by the committee to which
was referred, were adopted.
Mr. Hudson, of the Thirteenth, spoke in
favor of the bill.
Mr. Camming, of the Eighteenth, oppos
ed it, and pending his remarks the Senate
resolved itself into
Thr Court of Imprurhmriit,
The Chief Justice in the Chair. The mana
gers came in and Judge Warner said he
would hear from the managers. Mr. Manager
Turner said: “The defense is filled with
matters of fact and law. It would seem that
there should he eliminated from it the ques
tion of jurisdiction. We submit this to the
Court.”
Judge Warner —“lt is a matter of practice
that the question of jurisdiction should first
be disposed of. If the defendant raise the
question we must first disposo of it.”
Mr. Manager Turner “The form of each
answer as set out denies that the offense
net out is the subject of impeachment,
and Mien that if it is such an offense, then
tliir. Court has no jurisdiction.”
Judge Warner “The defense seems to
cover the whole ground denying the de
fense and the jurisdiction.”.
Judge Hopkins then appealed to the
Court to allow counsel for the defense until
to-morrow to prepare their argument.
Mr. Turner insisted on going on with
the argument, and said the managers had
time enough, butsaid ho was willing to sub
mit the question to the Court.
Senator Clark introduced a resolution :
“Be it ordered, that all matters of defense
be passed on by the Court oil the final ren
dering of the verdict.”
Mr. Gumming opposed the passage of the
order offered by Mr. Clarke.
Mr. Lumpkin offered as a substitute for
Mr. Clarke’s order, that the Court first de
cide the question of jurisdiction to the arti
cles of impeachment.
Mr. Speer- “My opinion is, that these
demurrers and ideas to the jurisdiction
shall first bo disposed of. The law clearly
contemplates that such pleas should be first
disposed of."
Mr. Pr< “tton “If I understood the coun
sel for the respondent, his plea to the juris
diction does not conform to the practice in
such eases. The plea does not set forth
what Court lias jurisdiction, and for that
reason his plea is insufficient.” _
Mr. Dußose thought Mr. Clark’s order
prescribed the only rule in the case.
Mr. Henry Jackson, of counsel for de-
Jfenae wished to reply, but Judge Warner
*suid the question was for Senators only.
The substitute of Senator Lumpkin was
adopted, and the Senato will first dispose of
the plea to the jurisdiction and the de
murrer.
Judge Warner -“The question now oc
curs on the application of the defendant’s
counsel for time until to morrow to prepare
their argument to the jurisdiction.” The
roll was called and the application was
granted.
Hopkins’ Point.
The point which will be urged by Hop
kins, in tlie demurrer to jurisdiction, is that
a Court of Impeachment must carry with it
penalties, hut that all crimes charged
against Goldsmith are subject for the Courts
of the State, and that they, and not the
Court of Impeachment, have jurisdiction.
He will also maintain that there is no im
peachable offense under the laws of Georgia.
The point will be strongly put.
The Senate Renasembleil.
Mr. Gumming continued his argument
nainst the bill to regulate the sale of Su
preme Court Reports. Mr. Preston, of the
Twenty-eighth, replied in favor of the bill,
which was passed by a vote of 29 to 14.
iiorsK.
The House met at 9, a. m., Speaker Bacon
in the Chair. After prayer by the Chaplain,
the roll was called and the Journal read.
Mr. Fort, of Sumter, moved to reconsider
the amendment of Mr. Harris, of Bibb, to
the railroad V>ill adopted the day before.
The amendment strikes out that part of
fourth section which declares that local
rates shall be charged on through freights
to interior towns after the freight enters the
State.
Me, ,srs. Harris, of Bibb, and Hulsey, of
Fulton, made strong speeches against re
consideration.
The motion was lost.
A report of the Committee on Conference
on differences ou the bill amending punish
ment for burglary, was adopted.
The Special Order
Was still the reconsideration of the Rail
road bill.
Mr. Fort moved to strike out the proviso
in the third section.
Mr. Harris, of Bibb, raised a point of or
der that the amendment proposed to strike
out that which the House had established.
The Speaker decided the amendment of
Mr. Fort to be iu order.
After argument upon the amendment by
Mi ssrs. Fort and Rankin, Mr. Fort’s motion
to strike out the proviso prevailed. The
proviso contains the declaration that noth
ing in the section sh;dl be eonstrued.so as
not to enforce local rates on through freights
After entering Georgia.
.Messrs, Miller, of Liberty,and Westbrook,
of Dougherty, favored a recommittal of the
bill to get it in a better shape. Both made
motions ;o this effect, and both were lost.
Mr. My nait, of Fulton, moved to amend
the third section by inserting between the
words “Railroad" and “Or” in the 19th
line “or if it shall charge, collect or receive
for transporting freights toward one terminus
of its road more than is charged, collected
and received for moving freights of the same
class towards the other terminus or termini
of its said road." When the question was
put no quorum voted, and Mr. Paine, of
Chatham, demanded a call of the roll of the
House to ascertain if a quorum be present.
The roll was called and a quorum answered
to tlicir names.
Mr. Mvnfttt's amendment was rejected.
Mr. Westbrook moved to insert certain
words immediately before the proviso.
The amendment was agreed to.
Air. Walters, of Doughertv.fproposed an
amendment to the bill by a section to be
known as section four, which provided
Against pooling.
Mr. Matthews, of Talbot, moved to amend
the amendment by striking out the words
“or In’ prosecuted."
The autendiuent was accepted and the
amendment was adopted.
Mr. Smith, of Butts, proposed to amend
the fourth section by making it unlawful
for railroads to extend free passes to mem
bers of the Legislature. This amendment
was not adopted.
Mr. Phillips, of Cobb, moved to take up
the Senate resolution providing for the re
moval of the State Library to the apartment
now occupied by the Agricultural Depart
ment in the Capitol building.
The motion prevailed and the resolution
was adopted. .
The House adjourned to three thirty,
when it re-assembled and bills were read a
second time. Spectator.
CRIME* AND CASCAI.ITTES.
A Man Kills Ills Will In a Fit of Jeal
ous)-.
Nashville, September 2. —ln Allen coun
ty, Kentucky, near the Tennessee State
line, Thursday last, Anderson Carver, in a
fit of jealousy, shot and killed his wife, and
then blew out his own brains.
The Chisholm Trials in Mississippi.
IYeKalb, Miss., September 2. —The Chis
holm murder case was called up to-day in
the Circuit Court. The defendants made
a motion to quash the indictment, which
was overruled, when the State and defen
dants announced themselves ready for trial,
and special venues of 73 jurors were drawn
in each case. The first ease to be tried is
that of Henry G. Gully, for the murder of
Miss Cornelia Chisholm, which is set for
Friday. The other cases will be tried next
week. Gen. Woodford is here and will re
main until the close of the trial, but will
take no part in the proceedings. He came
as the escort of Mrs. Chisholm, who is a clerk
in the Treasury Department at Washington
and tin important witness for the prosecu
tion. '
Post Office Robber)?
Richmond, September 2. Postmaster
Forbes, of this city, arrested a white man
named E. 11. Williamson at Meherrin on
the Richmond and Danville Railroad to-day,
on a charge of committing depredations on
the mails. The arrest was the result of a
telegram from Special Post Office Agent
T. li. Long to Postmaster Forbes requesting
the latter to look out for mail depredators.
Williamson was sent to Greensboro to-night.
KfYorttf to Abduct.
Toboxto, September 2. —The evening
telegrams report that a daring attempt was
made last Thursday night, by two unknown
men, to abduct Robert Jatfray, a prominent
Liberal politician of this city. Ho was de
coyed into a carriage at ten, p. in., by a
statement that liis presence was required at
the house of acting Minister of Justice, and
he was driven to a lonely place outside the
city limits, called Don Flats. His captors
claimed to belong to a secret political socie
ty, before which they said they were taking
him. Jnffray, determined to resist, sprang
from the carriage, and after a hard fight
succeeded in beating them oil' and escaping.
A few evenings previous a similar attompt
was made to decoy Hon. George Brown into
a carriage, late at night, but was unsuccess
ful. The police ate endeavoring to unravel
the mystery.
Another Hoodlum Murder.
San Francisco, September 2.--George
Schwartz, a well known political manipu
lator in this city, was shot at his office, at
11 o’clock to-day, by Dudley Haskell, a
voung man employed in the law office of
Lattimer & Morrow. Haskell was arrested.
To Be Hanged.
Harrisburg, September 2. —The Gover
nor has appointed Friday, November 14th,
for the execution of Drews, Strickler, Hum
mel and Brandt, four of the Rabor insur
ance murderers. Wise was remanded for
sentence and Zechman has been granted a
new trial.
Terrific Explosion.
Bbadfobd, Pa., September 2.— Lewis Gray
and Charles Jones, of this city, wore killed
this morning by an explosion of sixty
pounds of nitroglycerine, with which they
were about to torpedo nn oil well_ at Kell’s
Camp, eight miles from Bradford. The men
were shattered into such small fragments
that not a single one of many pieces of
flesh found scattered around on the trees
and hillside could be identified as belong
ing either of them. A team AiT fronton
and buggy were also blown to ate me by the
terrible force of the explosion.
TERRIFIC PALE ALO.VG THE TECH®.
Fearful Storm Around Morguii Clty, La.—
Property Destroyed and the City
Swept by the Gale.
New Orleans, September 2. —The follow
ing dispatches have been received here :
Morgan City, La., Xoon.—A. hurricane is
prevailing here. The barometer has fallen
four-tenths since 10, f . m. It is now 28.70,
and still falling. The gale is increas
ing. It is impossible to give details of ac
cidents to property. The steamboats
Samrnia and Alberta have sunk. A portion
of an iron slied on Morgan’s wharf and a
portion of an engine shed has been blown
down, also Erwin’s ice house and some
dwellings have been blown from their
foundations. The damage to crops along
the Teche is immense. The saw mill at
Berwick, across the bay, was blown down.
The Presbyterian church and new school
house was blown down, and the terrific
gale still prevails. The streets are flooded.
Morgan’s Teche warehouse was blown
down. It was carried across Front street,
injuring the stores of L. Loeb and A.
Eiman. The gale is terrible {this evening.
The storm abated about five o’clock last
night. In addition to the damage reported,
the Morgan Line round house at Berwick
City, anew building just completed, to ac
commodate engines on the next extension,
and many dwellings, had their roofs blown
off and chimneys blown down. Negro cab
ins at Freetown were nearly all demolished.
The gale was so furious that it carried
plates from an iron warehouse at Morgan’s
Wharf clear across the bay to Berwick City.
When the Teche warehouse went it was car
ried across Front street, smashed in the
front of three stores, carried away galleries,
etc. The steamboat Fuller was abandoned
in Bayou Sale Bay. Fears are felt for the
safety of the steamboat Mattie, coming from
Vermillion. A steamboat from New Iberia
brings report of sugar houses entirely blown
down or partially destroyed. The destruc
tion to cane and fro it crops is larger than
ever known by any previous storm in this
locality. At Frauklin the Catholic Church,
Smith’s warehouse, Walker’s warehouse and
ice house were blown down. A great de
struction of preperty is reported on Bayou
Sale.
TO-DAY IN CALIFORNIA.
The Elaborate Balloting anti Srratrhing
to Be Had.
San Francisco. —September 2.—To-mor
row the Stock Exchange and public insti
tutions will be closed. Unless the election
is more one-sided than there |is now any
reason to expect, it will be several days be
fore the result can be known. In this city
the ballot contains 87 names, and the regu
lations of voting and counting will make it
impossible to estimate the result for proba
bly two or three days. The contest between
the Republicans and Workingmen on the
Mayor w ill likely be close. On both the
city and State tickets there will be much
scratching.
At Xrw Orleansi.
New Orleans. September 2.—Forty-five
coal boats moored above the city sank dur
ing the storm yesterday. The loss is esti
mated at two hundred thousand dollars.
No insurance. This will probably involve
a corner in coal. Many street fences and
chimneys were blown down, and several
hottses unroofed. The only loss of life re
ported is that of Gerge S. Kuntz, pumper
on a coal fleet, who is believed to have
been drowned.
A Veteran Gone.
Fredericksburg, Va. , September 2.—Gen.
Reese T. Bowen died in Tazewell connty,
Friday last, in his 71st year. He represent
ed the Ninth Virginia District in the Forty
third Congress, to which he was elected
over J. G' Hughes, of the United States
Court of theJEastem District of Virginia, and
had represented his county in the State
Legislature.
Sweeping Democratic Victory.
Wilmington, Del., September 2.—The
! municipal election to-day resulted in a sweep
ing Democratic victory. Harvey Sharpley,
Esq,, was elected President of the Council
j by 394 majority, and John Guthrie, City
; Treasurer, by IG3 majority. The new coun
: eil will stand 13 Democrats to 6 Republi-
I cans.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Erin’s Struggle for Liberty.
London, September 2.—John O'Connor
Power-, Home Rule member of the House of
Commons for Mayo, last Sunday addressed
a meeting of tenant farmers at Balia
Haunts, county. Mayo held to the demand
of an immediate reduction of rents and radi
cal reforms in existing land laws. At the
head of one of the contingents attending the
meeting were two hundred mounted men
and two hundred on foot carrying staves
with heads resembling pikes and a large
green banner with a representation of Erin
exhorting her sons to struggle for freedom.
- Reduction of Wages.
Cct'.on operatives in Hyde district haA#
received a notice of a five per cent, reduc
tion in their wages.
The Fishery Question.
London, September 2.— The Times in an
editorial, which probably reflects the
views of the foreign office with regard to
the North Coast Fisheries question, says
the United States misapprehends the
policy of the British Empire, when it sup
poses that this question can be settled be
tween itself and Great Britain, without a
reference to Canada and Newfoundland.—
Inshore fisheries are an inalienable heritage
of these colonies, and it is for them to say
on what terms a foreign country shall par
ticipate in their benefits. The Tunes re
gards the American claim of one hundred
and three thousand dollars damages for the
Fortune Bay outrage as exhorbitant, and
believes the whole fisheries question, as far
as the present rights of the American fish
ermen within the headlands and in the
north coast harbors are concerned, will
hnve to come up again for final settlement.
Mexico Allow* -Vo Second Term.
City of Mexico, August 25, via Havana.—
It is almost certain that eighteen States are
disposed to favor a repeal of the constitu
tional amendment prohibiting the re-elec
tion of President. The Constitution only
requires the assent of a majority of States.
The question may therefore bo regarded as
settled, because President Diaz will not op
pose tlie wishes of a majority of the people.
Ardent hopes are that the conservative por
tion of Congress will reassemble about the
middle of September.
YELLOW FEVER.
Latest Cases and Deaths in Memphis—An
Infeetcd Station.
Memphis, September 2.-Two new cases
are reported this morning—Otto Artorious
and Daniel Fowlkes. Four deaths since
last night—Geo. W. Matthews, Patrick Mc-
Lane, Thomas McMahon and Eugene Wil
liams, colored.. The fever has evidently
gained a foothold at Buntyn Station, six
miles east of the city, on the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad, and eight cases are re
ported in that immediate vicinity. J. C.
Houck and wife, living in the same vicinity,
were stricken yesterday. Rain has been
falling since morning.
Latest.
Twenty-eight cases in all—l3 whites, 15
colored—were reported to the Board of
Health to-day. Among tlioso reported
were Gns Yalirling, Mrs. Ellen Kallaher and
daughter Nellie, Thomas Meredith, David
Davis and Lizzie VanKeize. No additional
deaths have occurred since noon. The Na
tional Board of Health has approved the
plan submitted by Superintendent of Quar
antine Johnston for the establishment of a
quarantine picket encircling the entire city
lind suburbs. /Fifty mounted men will be
assigned patrol duty at once to enforce this
new quarantine law.
Grenada Again.
Louisville, September 2.—A private tele
gram from a reliable source at Grenada,
Mississippi, says there is great excitement
there over a local case of yellow fever.
The Quarantine Trouble.
New Orleans, September 2. —At Houston,
Texas, yesterday morning, Judge Jones
gave the quarantine breakers a hearing on
the writs of habeas carpus. The prisoners
were discharged from custody, he ruling that
the Board of Health had no power to de
clare quarantine under the city charter, this
power being vested in a board of aldermen
alone. The next proceeding in order will
be the arrest of the Mayor, health .officers
and the mcmliers of the Houston Board of
Health on a charge of conspiring to obstruct
and obstructing the United States mails.
Blackburn’. Vote.
Louisville, September 2.—The official
vote of Kentucky for Governor is: Black
burn (Dem.\ 123,799; Evans (Rep.),
81,882; Cook, (Greenbacker,) 18,934.
Blackburn’s majority, 43,917. The Demo
cratic majority four years ago for Governor
was 36,181.
Minnesota Rada.
St. Paul, September 2.—The Republican
State Convention met at noon, and after or
ganization took a recss.
A Father of Thirty. Sir Children.
[Nasliville’(Tenn., jgAmericnn. ]
There was an old negro in town a few
days ago who is the husband of three wives,
and all alive and well at this time, and the
father of twelve children hy each wife,
making in all thirty-six children—and all
of them living. This muchly married man
had on a long tailed jeans coat, with the
initials of his name worked in blue cotton
on the lapel of his coat, and bore himself
as proudly as though every child he can
claim as his own was a thousand dollars.
He was summoned here as a witness in a
chancery suit, and grew very indignant be
cause a young lawyer would not pay him
his fee.
(omprnsat ion.
[Rockland Courier. ]
"Can there be happiness where there is
no love ?” solemnly queries an author in a
book on marriage. Not much happiness,
perhaps, but if the girl is awfully rich
there can be lots of fun.
Madame Grevy and her daughter have
been visiting Eaux Bonnes. ‘ Nothing
could be simpler or more modest,” says a
correspondent, “than the equipage and
bearing of the wife of the President of the
Republic. She does her utmost to pass un
perceived, notwithstanding the trouble
taken to do her ostentatious homage. To a
hotel keeper who gave her a bottle of his
choicest wine on her arrival, she said she
was accustomed to a frugal life, and did not
require at Eaux Bonnes richer wines than in
Paris.”
Mr. Holloway, the prince of English pill
makers, has devoted $1,230,000 to the
erection of a college for the higher educa
tion uf women, near London, and proposes
to endow it with $300,000, exclusive of
some land, which will probably bring a
great sum on building lease. His advertis
ing has been at the rate of SIOO,OOO to
$150,000 a year for the last thirty years,
and in Australia his pills and ointment are
a regular item in station supplies up in the
bush.
The French General X being sick in bed,
was anxious to find out the opinion of the
doctors. After three medical celebrities had
left his bedside, he rang for his man ser
vant. “Well, Jacques, you showed those
gentlemen out: what did they say?” “Ah,
[ General, they seemed to differ with each
other; the big fat one said that they must
have a little patience, and at the autopsy—
whatever that may be—they would find out
-what the matter was.”
Customer—“ What did you think of the
Bishop's sermon on Sunday, Mr. Wigsby ?”
i Hairdresser—“ Well, really, sir, there was a
j gent a sittin’ in front o' me an' ad’ his 'air
I parted that crooked that I couldn’t ’ear a
; word,” —London Punch.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1579.
HIGH LATITUDES.—-v
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LETTER FROM ASHEVILLE.
A Hard Road to Travel—A Railroad Bads
ly Needed—The Swannanoa Hotel—Old
Acquaintance.— .Special Attractions—A
Poor Compliment to a Noble Woman—
An Exodus of Carolinian Bewildering
Womankind—Something to Make Your
Mouth Water—Highly Personal Men
tion Delicious Temperature Zeb.
Vance, His Mark—Other Notabilities.
[Special Correspondence Chroniclo and Con
stitutionalist.
Asheville, N. C., August 26,—1t is im -
possible for an honest, truthful man to
compliment or even speak kindly of tin
stage lines plying between Hendersonville
and this interesting place. Hendersonvilli
is at present the North Carolina terminut.
of the unfinished Asheville and Spartan
burg Railroßl. When this railroad will be
extended to Asheville and completed, is p
question in which the many hundreds of
annual visitors to the “Land of the Sky
feel a deep and abiding interest. As tbN
rough, rude stages, crowded almost to act
ual suffocation, go jolting, rocking and
bumping over this mountain road of twen
ty-one miles, the victimized travelers won
der a thousand times if there is a single
canto in the whole of Dante’s Inferno,
whose horrors can equal those of a stage
ride from Hendersonville to Asheville. It
is certainly to be hoped that the people of
this section- will take a practical and
activo interest in this matter aiuf
either complete the aforesaid rail*
road to the end of its original design,
Ashville, or improve the present dirt road
and furnish lines of nice, light tracks for
the comfort and convenience of the travel
ing public. All the abominable stages, at
least, should be taken off the road and
abandoned, for of all possible methods of
traveling dreamt of in modern times, stag
ing it between Hendersonville and Ashe
ville is the slowest, cruelest and most bar
barous. It is a magnificent tribute to the
climate of this splendid region, that so
many brave its horrors to get here. Seven,
hours of it, such as your correspondent
suffered, would kill a saint or make a devil.
Being somewhat of a religious turn of
mind, though in this regard, perhaps,
“scarce half made up,” I endured it in
grim silence. But I would rather spend a*
month under the roof of the Cenei, than
be taxed again Avith the cruelties of that
ride, which began a little before seven in'
the evening and ended at the dismal hour j
of txvo that night. I got out of the stage
more dead than alive, solemnly resolved
never again to attempt to reach Asheville ;
until more civilized vehicles are provided
to'supply the travel.
The Swannanoa.
{
As I entered the bright, cheerful office of
the Swannanoa hotel—the main hotel of the
place, kept by Col. W. M. Nichols—l was
pleased to observe behind the desk the well
known and genial face of Maj. J. F. Warren,
formerly of Atlanta, and at one time of the
Globe Hotel in Augusta. He has been here
only a short while, having been induced to
come here from Atlanta by Col. Nichols, the
proprietor of the Swannanoa. The Colonel
.could not have procured a more efficient and
valuable assistant than Maj. Warren had he
canvassed the entire country. He is uni
formly polite and attentive to the guests;
and impresses me as being one of the best
and most competent hotel men in the busi- 1
ness. He seems intuitively to know pre-J
oisely hqw to meet tfemreepeetive l wants ofl
all the various guests who stop at his hotel?!
The table at the Swannanoa is provided ;
with the best eatables the place affords,
while the hotel linen is unexceptionably
neat and tidy. The furniture is perhaps a
little rude, but not uncomfortably so. There
is one other hotel —the Eagle, kept by Dr.
Summy—in Asheville, while nearly all the
private residences are filled with visitors or
boarders.
Asheville and Its Attractions.
This little town is a place of two or throe
thousand inhabitants apparently, and sits
picturesquely in the midst of splendid
ranges of mountains. That height just
over there, where the morning sun plays
upon the remains of an old Confederate
earthen fort, is Beau Catcher. Its summit
affords a beautiful view of Asheville, and of
the magnificent prominences that lie
along the neighboring chains of moun
tains. The importance of Beau Catch
er is impaired by the grandeur of
the general view. At its highest point the
excited Confederates threw up a temporary
fortification to repel the invading Federate
w'ho menaced Asheville from an opposite
hill. It is amusing, at this late day, when
we are living amid the ruins of our former
'systems and adopting new customs, to
think of some of the hasty fruits of that tre
mendous emergency which arrayed the
raw but heroic soldiers of the Confederacy,
against the splendidly accoutred troops of
the great North. For instance, this fort
could never have been used to protect Ashe
ville. The enemy could have stolen in,
sacked the town, and then retired to the ad
joining hills without the loss of a. man.
The very situation of the mountain fort
shows that it could only have been used to
destroy the town, as a last fatal necessity.
There arc some very beautiful residences
and homes in Asheville. But most of the
pretty ones are of modern architecture.
Asheville is a very old place and some of its
primitive buildings present a very ancient
and ugly appearance.
One mile to the east rushes the famous
Freneli Broad River,
While on the other side of the town flows
its confluent, the Swannanoa. Along the
banks of these rivers stretch beautiful drives,
leading through some of the wildest and
most romantic scenery I have ever beheld.
But Christian Reid, in her work, has so
elaborately,and beautifully described the glo
ries and wonders of this “Land of the Sky,”
that it would be idle and presumptuous in me
even to attempt it—particularly within the
limits of a mere journalistic letter, such as
I am now writing. Perhaps no better ad
vertisement of this remarkable country' and
its magnificent climate could have been de
vised than the work of this brilliant author
ess. It has certainly made Asheville one of
the most popular Summer resorts in the
South. One public spirited man in Ashe
ville shows liis appreciation of her services
by naming one of his horrid stages “Chris
tian Iteid.” Itis no complimentto the lady
or her book.
A Sure Enough Exodus.
The people of the Carolinas flock to
Asheville this Summer. There are those
here also from Tennessee, Mississippi,
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and even from
Virginia. It is therefore but natural that in
the flow of so strong a popular tide there
should be many people of wealth and dis
tinction here. Fashionable belles and ele
gant beaux from various localities illustrate
their families and fortunes by the splendor
j of their toilets and the ease of their man
ners at the evening balls that enliven Ashe
ville. Looking over such a gay, glittering
scene one cannot but be struck with its end
less variety. The hopes, passions and aspi
rations of the human heart play here in a
1 thousand different ways and directions. The
| rivalry among the ladies for the attentions
i and honors of acknowledged bellehood is
I interceding* in the highest degree to
I the contemplative spectator. The many
; arts and devices resorted to by
: the fair contestants for the purpose
| of securing the greatest attention, do honor
;to their tact and ingenuity if not to
I their hearts. The melting glance, the sup
pressed sigh, the neatly turned compliment,
; insincere all, drag poor, vain man, a willing
j captive at woman’s chariot wheel. But how
beautiful they are—these same insincere,
; designing women—in all the magnificent
I discoveries of their evening toilets ! Who
can blame man's servile attendance? Who
I would resist liis glorious captivity ?
| That young lady gliding so gracefully
j through’ the waltz, as the soft strains of
; made rise and swell voluptuously through
I the large hall, her exquisitely modeled
! neck and shonlderß flattering the very light
_thut reveals their snowy loveliness, is a
Miss C of Columbus, Ga. Equally at
tractive out of the ball room as in it, she is
attended by a train of beaux wherever she
goes that makes her a conspicuous favorite
in Asheville society.
That other yonder, the tall, graceful and
dignified one, who in every gesture and
movement shines the gentle and accom
plished lady, is Miss A ,of Augusta.
The lady coming this way, with her fresh,
earnest and unaffected manners, is Miss
P , of Edgefield. She wins, in her
artless way, the hearts of all Avho come into
her presence. With a kind, pleasant word
for every one, she compels friendship ; and
this is made so much the easier by her
many charms of person and mind. That
little nymph dashing through the waltz,
seeming to give herself up entirely to its
intoxicating pleasures, is Miss T——, of
Columbia. Dancing the measures of the
delightful waltz is evidently her dream of
earthly bliss. She, too, has her retinue of
beaux ; and among them may be seen the
earnest, handsome face of Mr. D , of
Augusta. He subscribes heartily to the
fascinations of this charming little lady.
I Avish I Avere conversant with the nomen
clature of fashion, for I would like very
much to give a technical description of some
of the rich, splendid costumes that grace
the frequent balls here. But such would
be a hopeless labor for me; for I fear I
would soon find myself lost inextricably
and forever amid the sublime mysteries of
the female toilet. Therefore I desist.
Let us leave the ball room, and speak of
other things.
The Climate
Of Asheville is simply' delightful. To one
who has just come from a loAver latitude
the atmosphere seems splendidly cool and
balmy. Indeed, the nights are growing so
cool that a large number of the visitors are
leaving for their homes.
Senator Vance,
Of this State, was lately here, but has de
parted. With bis fine humor anu “infinito
jest,” he was the life of every crowd in
which he appeared. His hair and mustache
which, a few years ago, were so black, have
now become grey. The secret of his great
popularity is his great cordiality with the
people. Let me point out an instance.
A plain, uncouth countryman approach
ed him rather timidly and saluted
him Avith “How d’ye do Governor?” The
distinguished Carolinian immediately dis
carded his Senatorial dignity, and then with
a free, unconstrained movement extended
his open hand and said to the flattered rus
tic, “Put your hand down there.” His
fingers closed with a hearty grasp upon
those of the simple farmer, then a few hon
est inquiries about the latter’s wife and
children, and the job was done. There
was a vote, an incorruptible, iron-bound
vote for Senator Vance—come Aveal or avoo.
Before the people he is one of the most
formidable men in the country. In the
Senate of the United States he is unsuccess
ful. His very face shows lie is no states
man. Great popular speakers are rarely
powerful in legislative or deliberative as
semblies. That personal magnetism or in
fluence which is so poAverfully Avielded over
the masses by some men, must give way to
the imperious sway of the pnre_ Psyche in
afr assembly where such men" as Lamar,
Thurman, Hill and Conkling figure.
I am glad to see that- Senator Vance has
been invited to Ohio
To Help Ewing
In his campaign. He has accepted the invi
tation and it is a foregone conclusion that
jbe will make hundreds of votes for the gal
[jant-OeiiD'inl. Perhaps no better selection
of a stump speaker could have been made in
the Union. He will take the same platform
’with tlie maimed Union soldier whom the
Republicans expect to use so successfully
against the Democratic party, and Avhen
Vance gets through speaking, *he Avill have
handled his matter so adroitly that the
crowd will find itself a unit for the maimed
soldier and General EAving. The people of
the South AA’ill observe Senator Vance’s
movements in Ohio thi§ Fall with interest
and pleasure.
General Cllngman,
Of this State, has also been here. He is a
gentleman of distinguished antecedents,
and seems to hold a strong place in the affec
tions of North Carolinians. In honor of Gen
eral Clingman, the highest peak of the
Great Smoky Mountains, in Jackson coun
ty, N. C., is called Clingman’s Dome.
Gol. John C. Nichols,
Of the Georgia Congressional delegation,
was here a few days ago. He is a brother
of Col. W. M. Nichols, the proprietor of the
Swannanoa Hotel. I Avas delighted to meet
the Rev.,W. W. Landrum, of Augusta, here
a few days ago. He seemed to enjoy his
horse back rides over the mount ains ex
ceedingly. His short stay here greatly re
freshed him.
There are a number of other people and
things that I would like to introduce in
this letter, but it is already far beyond the
proper length of a journalistic epistle. M.
THE FAIREST CHASE.
Flight ol" Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague—She
Will Bide Aivec Henceforth.
New York, September 2.— The following,
from the 'limes, embraces the main points
in specials published this morning regard
ing the Sprague affair: Reports recently
published in New York and Boston papers
regarding Mrs. Sprague’s flight from Ca
nouchet are contradicted by all persons
interested, except the lady herself. Her
counsel discouraged her departure, and do
not know what her intentions are, or where
she is. They say, however, that she will
not live with her husband. The latter is
calm and resigned. He says he never in
terfered with his wife’s correspondence,
counsel or friends. The reports of the use
of physical force, which are distinctly de
nied by Mr. Sprague, are corroborated by
the testimony of A. H. Watson, of Provi
dence, guest at Canonchet, and the lady’s
counsel. Rumors of intoxication are un
founded, as the Governor has been ab
stemious for several months. He was asleep
when his wife went away. She had sent her
jewelry, papers and furniture in advance,
which* fact was known to Mr. Sprague. It
appears now that Mrs. Sprague returned to
Canonchet solely for the purpose of obtain
ing possession of tier daughters. Mr.
Sprague employs no counsel, but occasion
ally consults a country lawyer. Mrs.
Sprague arrived Sunday noon at Lonsdale,
R. 1., a little village north of Providence.
Her horses were used up, and she gave her
driver twenty dollars. She then gave War
ren Mosher, a stable keeper, fifty dollars for
a fresh team ready. Her new driver has not
yet returned. She is on her way to Boston,
avoids the principal road and dreads pur
suers.
USABLE TO PAY.
Failure! Yesterday on London ’Change.
London, September 2. — Messrs. Field k
Sons, warehousemen and manufacturers of
straw and leghorn hats and bonnets in
London, failed. Liabilities, £30,000.
John Mackintosh, of Comhill, E. C. Lon
don, whose checks were returned to-day,
and who was declared a defaulter on the
Stock Exchange yesterday, has failed. His
liabilities are £II,OOO. The failure is due
to the fact that for a long period his clients
had received large differences on the rise on
Erie shares, but on reaction they failed to
pay.
OVER THE RIPMdfU WAVES.
The Coal Masters Issue a Circular.
London, September 2. —The principal
coal masters of Lanarkshire issued a circu
lar yesterday, advancing the prices of coal
one shilling per ton, and wages of their em
ployes six pence to a shilling per day. The
workmen at Boleknow, Vaughan & Co.’s
great iron and steel works, near Middles
borough on the Tee.s, have submitted to a
reduction of from five to ten per centum
wages.
ATLANTA AS IT IS.
TELEPHONED FROM THE DOME OF
THE KIMBALL.
A Terribly Lively Town—Golilsmith’s In_
vest igatlon—And Still There is More to
Follow—What Public Opinion Says—
Corruption in High Places Laying
Cross-Ties in the House—Observations,
Personal and Pleasurable.
[Correspondence of the Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist.]
Atlanta, September 2. The liveliest
town just now South of Potomac is Atlanta.
The streets are swarming with strangers re
turning from the springs, who linger for
awhile in the great Gate City before Avinding
up for the Summer. The spacious arcades
of the big Kimball, the curbstones, the de
pots and the public pieces resound with the
tramp and tread of restless feet. About
the rugged recesses of the Capitol, too, all
is activity. The floors of both houses are
filled during the morning hours with work
ers and watchers; the dual sounds of the
gavel ring through the corridors; Avliile
public offices and departments are in fever
heat. DoAvn in the committee rooms, lioav
ever, the Avorkof investigation groAvs deeply
and darkly on. With them, the task is nois
less and sure. By degress they seem to be
threading the places of suspicion, and Avind
ing about their studied circuits, like the great
clock hands above them—shaving off the
hours from the sombre dome, resting upon
a finished space only to sound a report or to
give an alarm. It is no wonder then, that
such a hectic flush should pervade Atlanta;
for here certainly the pleasure and
the perturbation of Georgia are cen
tered; and more than is realized at all, the
Commonwealth’s honoris suspended. F6av
persons outside of Atlanta can understand
the feeling of doubt and anxiety attaching
to the high places, and while it does not
behoove a Georgian to carelessly cavil at
the State government, no one can be blind
to the seeming irregularity of jffairs at the
Capitol.
Tlie Impeachment
Is, of course, the centre of attraction now,
and the opening of the Court in the Senate
Chamber Monday morning found a large
assemblage to Avatch its proceedings. The
extreme novelty of the body, hoAvever, had
worn aAvay, and Judge Warner on yesterday,
in his calm, weak voice, called to order with
all the simplicity of a common laAvsuit.
Comptroller-General Goldsmith sat Avith
his counsel, watching matters with a pale,
cold face and a penetrating gaze Avhicli
showed his deep concern, while the House
managers were intent upon the movements
of defendant’s counsel, evidently surprised
at the course pursued. This consisted in
filing a plea of not guilty to each article
and an objection to jurisdiction. Admitting
each article to be true, the objections filed in
sisted that the alleged offenses were not im
peachable charges. The managers at once'
asked time to prepare a rejoinder, and they
Avere granted until this morning to do so.
The demurrer of the defendant seems to be
a little mixed in character, although able
laAvyers favor an issue even upon the com
plex grounds presented. The Board of
Managers appear to fully understand the case,
and are composed of an exceedingly able
body of men. Undeniably, the ablest man
in the JElouse is Mr. Turner, of Brooks, one
of the clearest headed laAvyers and sound
est statesmen in the State. He is finely sec
onded, too, by Mr. Hammond, of Thomas,
who is one of the most polished rhetoricians,
finished orators and strongest thinkers in
thfi.Honaa, He opens the case in an effort
Avnich, it is said, Tie lias been preparing for
some time, and which will rest the prosecu
tion upon a sound basis. These two gen
tlemen are representative men from the
wire-grass country, and are both prominent
ly spoken of for Congressional honors there.
Then comes Mr. Polhill, of Jefferson, brainy
and fearless, a commanding figure in our
own district, with Messrs. Davis, of Hous
ton ; Phillips, of Cobb, and Adams, of Chat
ham. Mr. Phillips Avas once himself Comp
troller-General, and will render valuable
assistance in the great ease. It is not sup
posed that the objections will stand, and
the case will soon be submitted to the Sen
ate triors upon the facts and upon its
merits.
Public Opinion,
Which, at this stage, has recovered from
the shock and excitement of immediate de
velopments, seems, to be that Goldsmith
will be impeached. The facts elicited ap
pear too conclusive at this juncture to'admit
of, doubt, nor will a refuge behind points
of law and technical brush-heaps save the
accused from the verdict of the High Court.
The Comptroller-General, however, is con
spicuous solely because liis case was the
first one exposed. It is even hinted that
Treasurer Renfroe’s position is more as
sailable, while Superintendent Nelms seems
to have given himself dead away. Mr.
Renfroe’s own statement was a very neat
acknowledgment, whioh certainly comes
with better grace from him than if first ven
tilated by the committee. He anticipates,
it seems, tlie investigating report by ac
knowledging that a few banks, where
the State’s money w&s deposited, al
lowed per centages upon the monthly
balances, which per centages were di
vided out among himself and certain gen
tlemen who, being his securities, accepted
the stipends from the banks as a bonus for
their influence. Here, then, is a novel ease.
Eighteen thousand dollars interest, so to
speak, accruing from the State’s money is
divided out between the Treasurer and
parties who, as his bondsmen, claim the
right to deposit public funds in places best
subserving their own interests.
The Constitution expressly says that
“ the Treasurer shall not be allowed, direct
ly or indirectly, to receive any fee, interest
or reward from any person, bank or corpo
ration, for the deposit or use, in any man
ner, of the public funds.”. The Treasurer,
in justification, pleads the nameless opin
ions of certain unmentioned authorities,
and cites the case of Dr. Angier, who, long
before the adoption of the new Constitution,
was relieved from a suit upon the special
grounds of high services rendered the
State. What will come of this case cannot
now be foreshadowed; certain it is, how
ever, that serious complaint, founded on
his own statement, is lodged by prominent
statesmen and lawyers of Georgia against
the Treasurer. From any positive compli
cation in these crooked matters, Governor
Colquitt seems to be absolved, although
there are those who now charge him with
criminal negligence in not finding out this
state of affairs Of course, such a crimi
nation must rest or fail upon proof in the
first instance.
It cannot be a pleasant duty for any pa
triotic Georgian to discuss these matters,
nor would it be the part of other than a sen
sational journalist to wing such reports
were they vague or shadowy. But when
Georgia’s officials are openly assailed by
Georgia’s statesmen, and developments and
confessions bear witness to rumor and to
suspicion, it is time that the people and the
press should speak out freely and fearlessly,
so the great Comitia of the Commonwealth
may demand that justice be done.—
Said an eminent gentleman to me yester
day: “It is due to the party, whose expo
nents we are, whose career we love and
whose sanctity we hope to maintain—it is
due to society, it is due to our own great
State—that every man should be thorough
ly investigated, so that the truth may come
or slander be hushed.” It is a cheering
fact that the Legislature are fully awake ;
to duties of the hour; it is pleasant !
to know that no spirit of abuse or op- ;
pression fans the proceedings, and that j
prejudice is being thrown away; but i
all attempts towards legal deploy or *
technical echelon, must be flanked, and i
every effort to whitewash and, to smooth 1
over should be abandoned. seems
to be but one opinion—that investigation
should be thorough and sweeping, else with
the trial of poor Goldsmith alone, the
High Court might adjourn under the j
sneering imprecation—that “the half has j
not been told.”
The Lower House.
Alongside the worry’ and flurry of the
Senate Chamber, the House winds its quiet
way along. Speaker Bacon is a model of
ficer. His eye and oar are quick to catch a
figure or a sound, and his mind ready to
grasp a point. His manner is impressive
without being “awful,” and not vtnfre
quently he indulges in a genial smile at
something ridiculous on the floor. He is
attentive and accurate, reading the bills
and scanning amendments over the Clerk’s
shoulder, and Avielding the great body with
ease and grace. Just noAV the House is be
ing distracted over the Railroad bill. The
gentlemen from Southeast Georgia especial
ly, are busily engaged pouring hot shot
into Col. Wadley and his corporation at
every tAvitch of the bill. Nearly every
representative from that section lias liis
little amendment to offer, and it
looks as . if the Avhole bill Avould
go down with an assegai in every
joint- killed in the jungle of its friends.
I could not but notice Avliile on the floor of
the House yesterday, hoAV much deference
is paid to the opinion and to the position
of Hon. George R. Sibley, of Richmond.
His influence among his colleagues is as
flattering to him as it is meritorious to
them. He is widely respected by all the
members, and is, I learn, extensively con
sulted upon important matters before the
committees or in open session.
Socially,
The city is in a round of gayety. A full lino
of military at the Barracks attracts liu*ge
crowds each evening to witness the drills
or hear the martial concerts, .lending a
glimmer of chhalry to the attractions of the
town. The Kimball, is of course, the cen
tre of attraction—a blast of hops and social
houp-las are billed for the Aveelc. Our
representatives here too, are pre-eminently
bright—indeed it appears that Augusta is
destined after all to “rule the court, the
camp, the grove.” P. A. S.
BETTER FROM PROFESSOR VVM. M.
BROWNE.
The Importance and Value of the Oat
Crop.
University or Georgia, i
Department op Agriculture, >■
Athens, Ga., August 30. )
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
The inj ary done to the corn crop through
out the greater part of Georgia, by the pro
tracted drouth in June and July, renders it
necessary that our farmers should endeavor
to supply the deficiency by raising a greater
amount of small grain than they have been
in the habit of raising, if they wish to save
themselves from being obliged, next Spring,
to purchase food for man and beast from
the West.
I would specially recommend them to
prepare for a large oat crop.
This, by providing a sufficient amount of
food for the work animals in the Spring,
will leave the bulk of whatever corn is left
of the present crop for bread, and will, I
hope, teach our farmers what I believe is
true, namely : First, That oats are the
cheapest forago crop they can raise. Sec
ond, That they are the most nutritive, as
they contain more of the flesh and mus
cle-forming, heat-producing and fattening
elements than are contained in the corn and
fodder, which are the general feed given to
horses and mules.
Third. That they yield a higher per
centage of profit on the use of fertilizers
than corn; apd fourth, that oats, instead of
being, as yfmpy erroneously believe, an ex
haustive crop, when properly cultivated im
prove the soil. It is the cheapest forage
crop. Oats should be sown in September—
the time when the laboring force on plants
fr’lo'll ***> tiiereiort?, are
sown at nominal cost, especially whdre a
part of that force works for stated yearly
wages. The sowing the crop in the Spring
is also inexpensive, as two hands in three
days can save and put away four acres of
oats. If this cost is compared with that of
making corn and fodder, it is obvious that
for the same expenditure fully double the
quantity of forage can be made in oats that
can be made in corn and fodder. They are
the most nutritive horse feed. Chemical
analysis has demonstrated that in the throe
classes of substances which enter into stock
food, namely, the albuminoids or muscle
forming and the carbo-hydrates and oils, or
heat and fat-producing, oats (the grain,
straw and chaff,) are richer than corn. In
England oats are the only grain on which
the race horses and those used in fox hunt
ing the highest types of muscular strength
and condition —are led.
They yield a higher per ccntago of profit
on the use of commercial fertilizers. I have
found by actual experiment that the appli
cation of $7 50 worth of a good ammoniated
super phosphate per acre to oats will more
than double the production of the natural
soil, while the same amount applied to corn,
except in unusually favorable seasons, does
not yield anything like that per centage of
increase. That they improve, not exhaust
the soil. Oats furnish large quantities
of nitrogen in their roots and stub
ble, and a considerable amount is
also taken up by the growth of weeds and
grass after the crop is cut ; while corn is
undeniably a nitrogen exhausting crop, be
cause during its entire growth and cultiva
tion in the hot Summer months, every
blade of grass and everything that pro
duces nitrogen is speedily destroyed,
whereas the oat plant appropriates dqring
the period of its gi-owth the soluble nitro
gen contained in whatever fertilizer is ap
plied to it, and the subsequent growth of
grass and weeds in the Summer holds the
rest, which can neither be evaporatod nor
washed away.
From three to three and a half acres of
land well broken, enriched by the applica
tion of from 150 to 200 pounds of a
good ammoniated superphosphate, sown
in September, with two to two and a
half bushels of genuine rust proof oats,
will yield a sufficient quantity of food for
one horse or mule. It takes about the same
area of land to produce a sufficient quanti
ty of com and fodder, with favorable sea
sons, to support one work animal. If the
relative cost of labor in producing the oats
and com and fodder be taken into account,
it will be found that the cost of the latter is
fully double that of the former.
But to raise oats to reach the end to which
I have indicated, we must not, as is too often
the practice, scratch in without manure, at
any time between November and March, a
bushel or a bushel and a half of any seed
we can find, on the poorest piece of land on
our farm. We must concede to oats the
rank to which their importance and value
entitle them, and employ the same care
which w r e give to cotton and com, if we
would derive the benefits which they are
capable of offering. Very respectfully,
Wm. M. Browne,
Professor of Agriculture, Ac.
Alabama Booming.
[Herald Interview With Mr. Screws.]
The people are building up a solid pros
perity. Take Allabama, for instance. We
do not owe a cent of interest on our in
debtedness. Since we have had a Demo
cratic State government all State officials
are paid promptly, and so is every creditor.
We have not scaled a cent. We have only
lowered our interest. Our railroads instead
of carrying full freight cars into the State
and carrying nothing out of it, now have an
equal amount of return freight. Our prin
cipal products, after cotton, are lumber,
coal and iron. In these we are doing a
very large export business and are shipping
great quantities. We have six iron rolling
mills in the State, and they are working
day and night. Their present orders will
keep them so employed until March. There
are ten cotton mills in the State, all fully
employed. We shall build more factories,
and it may be regarded as certain, not only
of Alabama, but of the South generally, that
in the near future nearly all the manufac
tures that we now buy of the North we shall
make for ourselves. Every day is bringing
us nearer to this. We need these factories
for the employment of those of our people
who are physically unfit for field labor.
There is no reason whatever for not sending
our cotton in the form of thread.
Watermelons are beginning to “play
out,"
Entered at the Posl-O/Hce at Aagaata, Ga.,
as Sik'oiul-CUm Matter.
OUR EUROPEAN LETTER.
INTERESTING OI.D WORLD GOSSIP.
Augusta nu llir (Hand Rounds—Aiurrirsn
Enterprise—Prevu Ulus' / Distress—Pros
perous Fiance—‘Ton Much Polities—The
End of Bonapnrtisin—Bisninrek's Re
actionary Policy The Irvcpresslble
Port Royal.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Consti
tutionalist.]
Bremen, Germany, August 10. The num
ber of American travellers in Europe is said
to be this year larger again than ever. Au
gusta particularly is so well represented
that it seems the exodus fever has been
raging there severely; an increased interest
in European aff tirs may therefore be pre
sumed amongst your readers, and a few ob
servations about tho general condition of
some of the countries on this side not be
amiss. Of Old England I regret to be ob
liged to draw rather a gloomy picture, bard
times and distress prevails to a deplorable ex
tent affecting most all classes of the popula
tion. Tliemanufactuving interest has suffered
severely; since years losses have boen heap
ed upon losses; failures among the masters
are numerous, whilst reduction of wages,
strikes and closing of manufacturing estab
lishments have impoverished the workmen.
The foreign trade gives more and more tho
preference to “honest” American goods and
goes back on tho miserable adulterations
containing an almost incredible precentage
of “filling” or “weight” which are sent out
from England. Manchester merchants free
ly admit that they are steadily losing
ground in foreign markets; partly in con
sequence of the superior quality of the
American goods and partly owing to the
greater convenience of tho American mar
kets especiftffy for such countries to which
tho means of transportation from tho States
have been increased, as Mexico, the West
Indies and Brazil which England formerly
monopolized. China tad Japan are expect
ed to follow' soon, American influence being
felt there already to a considerable extent.
The agricultural interest is worse off, if
possible; the prevailing distress has, as you
will have beard, caused recent legislation,
a royal commission of twenty members hav
ing been appointed to inquire into its
causes and to suggest remedies. Kents of
lands arc disproportionately high; crops
none the best, prices kept down by the
enormous American importations of cereals,
meats, cheese, etc., and farmers are getting
behind hand. The Summer was an un
usually inclement one. Shopkeepers have
been left in the cold with their Summer
goods; in July furs were more in demand
than muslins; traveling lias been restricted,
watering places have boen deserted and the
wail is general. The cry of “protection”
as a remedy for this distress lias actually
been raised and lias caused the old and
staunch champion of “Free Trade,” Mr.
John Bright; to lift his voice forcibly
against the very idea of such heresy. But
there is no end of life and wealth still in the
old country, and a few sensible reforms
and a few years of good harvests will soon
bring back general prosperity.
Tis but a small strip of water w'hich sepa
rates old Albion from la belle France; but,
oh! how much misery can be condensed in
the few hours which the weary traveler has to
pass on board of one of these miserable and
more than inadequate Dover-Calais boats,
when the wind is strong and the waves are
high. It is almost incredible, considering
the enormous traffic betwoen'the two coun
tries, that better traveling facilities have not
been introduced yet.
P-irinn ■i* i.i t ..I.,^ * t I—
the irrepressible country par excellence,
nothing can keep down its buoyancy for any
length of time; its resources are inexhaus
tible, its well directed energy admirable.
•With its wines, silks and thousand other
“articles de luxe,’’ for which the world has to
pay fancy prices, it stands unequalled and
bolds a guarantee of imperishable pros
perity. Tho only “little trouble” it suffers
from at present is “too much politics;” you
known bow that is yourselves. Tho tinker
ing has gone on for eight years, running
now and they seem as far from the solution
of the great problem “an ideal Republic"
as when they commenced. ' Three different
sets of principles and systems have been
tried and none lias succeeded. I really be
lieve they would not mind trying some
monarchy again; but at present Gambotta,
the proclaimer of the Republic is still the
great power wielding au unparelled influ
ence in the .Government, the Legislature
and where he presides over the people gen
erally. I was in France soon after the death
of the young Prince Louis Napoleon; tho
strongest Expressions of sympathy and regret
manifested themselves everywhere, and well
and gratefully the French nation seemed to
remember that, whatever may have been
the errors and faults of this now extinct
grand family, France, under their rule has
seen many happy and glorious days, and
made some powerful steps forward on tho
road to development and civilization. I
call it an extinct family, for Jerome Bona
parte, the surviving member, is simply an
impossibility as leader of the Bonapartist
family. Ho never will make pretensions ;
nor could, owing to his political antece
dents, his pretensions ever have any suc
cess. His recent uttoranco “That he would
rather be a shoeblack in Paris than a pre
tender in a foreign country,” is character
istic and proof sufficient. Mr. Grevy, the
President, seems to he much liked; Ins wife
distinguishes herself by her simplicity of
manner and tho extreme modesty with
which she wears the supreme honors which
have fallen to her lot. On arriving recent
ly at Eaux Bonnes, a French watering place,
the manager of the hotel, where she alight
ed, served her with a bottle of his choicest
wine. She thanked him, and said that she
to a frugul life, and did not
require to drink at Eaux Bonnes richer
wines than in Paris. People’s opinion as to
this extreme simplicity differ widely ; on
one hand, it is extolled to the skies ; it is
found to suit Republican habits and to
benefit the “bourgeois” origin of the First
Magistrate of and his family.
Others think that France ought to be repre
sented with elegance ; that her genius is
opposed to such simplicity, and that her
great qualities of taste and refinement will
be endangered if an example of elegance
and luxury is not set by those who arc at
her head. Gambotta seems to be of tho
opinion of the latter ; he, as the President
of the “Chambre des Deputes,” gave a
few weeks ago a feast, which, as to elegance,
magnificence and grandeur, is said to have
surpassed even the great fetes of tho Em
pire. The State proposed to defray the ex
pense, $30,000; hut he decflned and paid
it himself.
In Germany, minds are considerably
agitated about the introduction of the pro
tective tariff, and the reactionary policy of
the Government; the former was simply a
sad necessity, the necessity of procuring
for the Government more money to meet
the colossal expenditures for the already
increasing armament of the country. The
tariff throughout is a very high one and
will disastrously affect foreign importations.
The fact of the Government separating
from its old supporters, the National Liber
al party, and forcing a majority in Parlia
ment by a coalition of the conservative and
clerical'party, is looked upon quite general
ly with grave apprehensions, and the intro
duction of retrograde measures, such as bi
ennial meeting of Parliament, permanent
grant of supplies, a still more severe taxa
tion, etc., are spoken of and expected.
The harvest is good, the manufacturing
interests of the country, and the facilities
of transportation are on the increase, and
the country generally is prosperous.
I had the pleasure to-day of shaking
hands with Mr. Wilson, the President of
the Port Royal Railroad Company. He is
in excellent health and spirits, and full of
“ great expectations” for his road and
Port Royal. w.
A gentleman traveling on a train of cars,
recently, said to the conductor: “Suppose 4
the brakes should give way, where would
we go to?” The conductor remarked that
it was impossible for them to give way. But
the gentleman again asked the same ques
tion, when the conductor replied : “It is
all owing to what your past life has been.”