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EDITOHAL ROTES.
Col. Lamar comes up smiling, this morn
ing. Washington has been dull.
The papers will begin presently to pub
lish the names of Congressional absentees.
Casey Young pronounces Moore, who
beav him for Congress, “the meanest Radi
cal iit the South.”
The enormous sum of $30,000 was re
cently given for a seat in the New York Stock
Exchange.
Representative* Stephens and Carlisle
•think, so we hear, that Georgia’s electoral
vote will not be counted.
'Thf. New York Sun Kays the great corpo
rations will start the lobby again at Wash
ington and control the House certainly
and the Senate possibly'.
Pretty soon none but rich men will be
•Aenators. The -‘barrel” is being run into
the Capitol very treely. Gen. Miller, of
California, made bis pile in the Alaska hnr
Oompany.
A cuRRRSPONDV.NT from India to an ex
change says : “It is England’s bottle, and
not India's sun, which Europeans have to
dread-in this country. Nourly all the cases
of her apoplexy are from diink."
Seven hundred and fifty thousand peas
ant ■< are starving in Husain, chiefly because
of the monstrous form of government un
der wl.ich they live. Nihilism, under such
circumstances, is inevitable.
The Courier-Journal wants every Ken
vs,-feian to “turn over anew leaf in the mat
ter of taking human life.” It says “there
isn’t more than one victim for each of us,”
and the man who attempts to kill more
than his quota should be shot on the spot.
The demand for all kinds of securities is
said to be increasing at an amazing rate, ns
the time for the experiment of floating a 3
per cent, bond draws nearer. Two firms of
lamdou stock brokers alone have applied
tt'or one-half of tho Northern Pacific loan of
$20.000,000.
The Boston Herald admits that one sel
dom hears in the South of those sickening
crimes which are too common in the North
uxoricide, patricide, matricide, fratricide,
and so on—while, judging by the records
of divorces, husbunds and wives are more
uwnaiderato of each other in the South than
xn the North, or else have greater endur
ance.
The Washington correspondent of the
Springfield Republican thinks it was an un
lucky day for poor Christianity when that
bolt against Chandler was organized in the
Michigan Legislature. If it hadn’t been
for that, the old Judge wonld have kept
.out of range of pretty Treasury girls, and
doubtless retained the good reputation he
. once had, instead of which ho will return
to Michigan a pitiable wreck.
•■Little Pittsbcbo" is a very good speci
men of the mines put on the public at in
flated valuations. It was capitalized at
Ts3t,(k.k).ooo, and paid dividends amount
ing t ii* $1,050,000 in the first year of its
existence. Then it ceased to pay. Col.
Grady, na\w in New York, should write an
other letter ca this subject. Dave Moffatt,
the head centre of Little Pittsbnrg, and ex
■ Senator ChaffejJ, its chief apostle, ought to
once morv.
Garfiei.o iwpAftfiil to r friend tli©
•Aory of his woes. He sometimes thinks of
• hiiiiaolf as a man going to prison, who is
told to obey all the rules, and, when his
term expires, to come hack home aud “live
it down;" and that’s what he hopes to do,
when he goes to Washington and retires
m.vin from the Presidency. He will soon
V,. t used to it. The difficulty, after four
■ years, will be to get him out of the White
- House.
—j —
There are Jfortv thousand negroes in
Washington. : \y?S the of
whom not more (tan five thousand are
steadily at work during vim year. The re
maining thirty-five J honaand, according to a
Republican exchange, live by begging,
.sponging, stealing aud by public charity.
They used to get a living by their suffrage
in the District. Many of them crowd the
warm galleries of Congress and sleep bliss
t allv over the eloquence of the Solons.
Hedfiiiji figures out that W. H. V andkb-
B n.r individually owns store registered j
United States bonds than are owned in a "
the nineteen Western States and Temtoriaa. ,
These States and Territories hare • popula
tion of over 20.000,000, yet there is held
among them bm $49,000,000 of registered j
bonds, or lees th* ilr. Vakdeebilt owns, i
ft. the fourteen Boothsra States $12,000,-
4)00 are owned, or about ooe fourth the
auioan - held by a single in ,
York. , !
D. Appt.eto* * Cos. have published The
.Serf eh Sermons of l£Bot. The compilation,
in a neat volume, is dedicated to Dean
Stamwy. These sermon* were preached by
che ablest divines of Scotland e&j jnnst be
specially interesting to many readers. Pr.
John Caibd, Dr. Joss CranEiOHDt, Dr. D. ;
J Fkrocson, Dr. Wjf. Knight, Dr. Wm. |
Mackintosh, Rev. W. L. UcFablan, Rev
Allen llni/int B. D., Rev. Tana. Bant, M.
A. Rev. Jakes Nicoll, Rev. Adam iSsurbf, j
B. D,, Revs. Jons and Patrick Stevenson,
and Rev. R. H. Sxoet are the authors.
* Foti-Apptai tells ns that tieeuipr
Hall, °f Georgia, is said to be suffering
ifrom a ea/iceroua tumor on his tongue that
threaten* u> terminate his career as a pablie
speaker, if not to end his life, there beiog
doubts as to tba permanent removal of the
tumor. This mwt be * j° ke - Senator
ffnj, if we reoollect aright, denied it em
phatically. and his recent t& with Kellogg,
over the Moots perjury, would indicate no
abatement of his intellectual force or the
poser of his tongue in.its perfect integrity.
THE CRY OP RIVG RULE.”
A vociferous cry has been, from time to j
■ time raised against this paper os a “Ring”
organ. This shibboleth haw had its central j
| source among a few individuals, whose am
! bition is greater than their capacity, and j
whose merits have not been rated by the !
i people at the same value placed by them-
I selves. Disappointed aspiration has en- I
gendered a morbid and atrabilious dispo- '
sitiou, aud this, in turn, has evaporated in j
eensorionsness of speech. There are al- :
ways classes of men of this kind, who,
wrathful at the success of their competitors
or fellow-citizens, exhibit, with an activity
of venom somewhat phenomenal, a purpose 1
of spite and vindictiveness. Because they
ean not rise to some Alpine-height of great
ness they or their followers deem their des
ert, straightway they cast about to under
mine their more prosperous brethren, and
invent all kinds of catchpenny slogans cal- ,
cnlated to intensify the animosity surround-
ing them, and, at times, deceiving the more
rational. Their most effective weapon is the
refrain of “Ring!” “Ring!” Because
a man who does not happen to agree with
them succeeds in spite of them, he is at
once characterized as “one of the Ring.”
Because he makes his way by superior ad
dress and the clever use of such material as
is available to all, his victory is pointed at
as a “Ring triumph.” Because he dis
appoints by a majority vote the hopes of
some leaders, strikers and families, he fa
marked down and struck at as “the tool of
a Ring that shrinks from nothing to gain 1
its ends.” Many good people of all classes ,
hearing these refrains and having them
dinned pertinaciously into their ears, have
an impression made upon them, almost in-1
sensibly, and, before they know it, are dis
posed, in some degree, to do a gross injus- :
tice to their fellow-citizens, thus vehement- '
ly assailed. These good, honest men do j
not stop to reflect upon the origin of these '
accusations and the true inwardness of their '■
authors. A moment’s redection would show j
them that the figure-heads of all such assail- |
ants are men who have cither failed to be
come prominent in the political race, or ■
who have some decided stake in the game. !
It must be known to all that in all com- I
mnnities there are some men who have j
special aptitude for politics, just as others j
have a particular gift at tho making of
money. If their rivals or competitors do
not have the same aptness or the same en
ergy or the same gift, whose fault is it? I
The prizes of this world are usually won
by those who have the most ability to win
them. The men who are unfortunate are
usually those who lack the essentials of
success. It is true that some persons have
fortune thrust upon them; but this is tho
exception. The majority’ of mankind win
by their intellectual equipment or by un
tiring vigilance and a sleepless will, the good
things, so-called, of the world. Whenever
such an individual, by the exercise of such
qualities, prospers in any way, politically
or commercially, the wily demagogue, who
has failed in everything, grows green with
envy and eloquent in detraction. His po
litical adversaries he assails just as he makes
an onslaught upon his wealthier neighbors.
He shouts out “Ring !” “Ring!” He sets
his trap to catch tho unwary, by instilling
into credulous minds the idea that the
prosperity of his antagonists or fellow-citi
zens is due to sinister plottings and dis
honest trickery. He binds together the
snm-total of his billingsgate in the offen
sive word “Ring.” Like nil demagogues,
he hopeß to conceal his own failings by
pointing out what he considers the faults of
others. He becomes so saturated with his
own vituperation that, like President Lin
coln’s bad jokes, his malice “strikes in”
and becomes a disease, nlmost an insanity.
He is not the representative of a faction, a
cabal, a camarilla, a “Ring”—oh, no ! He
is the tribune of the people, the apostle
of human rights, the redresser of wrong,
the summum bonum, the supreme good, in
pantaloons ! It may be that such a person
has begun with deceiving - himself and
ends with deceiving others. This is a sad
case; but men who sally forth as the ruth
less opponents of others, should at least
understand that blows are to be given as
well as taksn, and men who are deceived
by such persons should comprehend that
there is no King so relentless and vora
oious as that which proposes to establish
upon envy and all uncharitableness a
domination of its own.
In the recent election for Sheriff, two
good men and citizens, ns wo have already
said, contended with each other. They
had their respective friends and followers,
who did their best to elect them. Against
one of these gentlemen tho most po
tent cry raised was that he had the
temerity and rashness and sinful
ness of being friendly to certain par
ties who happened to espouse his cause in
dividually. There was no more reasou to
call him a “Ring" man than there was to
upbraid his opponent in the same fashion.
Editorially, this paper remained practically
neutral, although its proprietors, editors
and all within its influence were made tar
gets of. And yet some excellent persons,
some too who have experienced at our
hands nothing but kindness, fairness and
the highest consideration, may have been
juggled into hostile feelings toward us.
Our respected fellow-citizens should re
member what the Chronicle has, during
nearly a century, done for the welfare of
this country, this commonwealth and this
city. We will not reoall the past —it speaks
for itself. What we have done for the com
mon weal and for many an individual or
corporate benefit, in the past, we are ready
to do in the future. If to boa friend of
this paper or a friend to any one connected
with it constitutes a political misdemeanor,
we shall be pleased to know it, and be
guided accordingly. We can only observe
now that the memory of such maleoutented
and, we presume, deceived gentlemen must
be very short and tolerably ungrateful.
There is not a reform in politics that we
have not been willing to help establish, and
when some changes have been made contra
ry to what seemed good judgment, but ac
quiesced in for the sake of harmony, be
cause they did not result as our enemies
desired, the paper has been significantly al
luded to as a “Ring” organ and denounced
as such. We do not know how to please
some people, unless, abdicating our busi
ness and manhood, we turn everything over
to these scowling gentlemen and consti
tute ourselves their most obedient, humble
slaves or servants. This we do not propose
to do; but this, we presume, could alone
j them. What a promptness they
■ wonld exhiiiif, under some such hypothesis,
j in forming a of their own !
fke CnsostcLK has toleration
and faups#s to *U parties, all .sect;; and all
men. It will continue to do so, despiteihe
clamor of those who think they know better
than we do how to conduct this pape, and
who can never forgive anybody who does
not kmaej for them to mount upon. In dis
appointment and *age, some of oar adversa
ries, in a sudden fit of yiytne, unknown
on pretioßS Oise asjoas, when ,?r re
latives were not interested, may make
a contest, upon a ruling of doubtful con
stitutionality, and upen pretenses that have
jj wide latitude of interpretation. They
£&awk; invoke the wind, and may perish
in the whirl wig - Had Benedejti exhibit
ed less foolish iesi. T few years ago, Loos
Napoleon would o i hi tye fcu exile at
Chiselhurst, and his empire would U** £.ave
perished at Sedan. What happens on a
gryud scale happens also on a small one.
The latW-duy saints of politics may find
that zeal whies discretion is a
boomerang of uncommon aiu.oCP'oni hurl
ed by an unskilful hand,
PKUP, fifJEEVER OS THE SITUATION.
Professor R. T. &£SSfi£B, a colored man
of very light complexion, who udf had on
! e*aa}jent education and now preeifiee oeot
the Law pspgrtment of Howard University,
at Washington, a lecture in Phila
delphia, the other day, wific* deserves no-
Uqa, A* a law professor his lecture would
probably feri aftyarfed no special attention,
not that he is not r*ed jp i&e science, but
, because a lecture in that direchon jzoold not
amuse or instruct the multitude or the ex
perts. But when he came forward as the
, champion of Cadet Whittaker, he made a
| ehrewd and, we should have thought, a
i popular appeal to all classes of the public
]j in Republican Philadelphia. He hail a
I j colored andience of five hundred persons,
! the only white man present being a Times
I | reporter. The abaence of the white Repnb
( j Keans is rather singular, unless indeed we
j accept as positive proof the recent statement
i of Col. McCleee, that though the negro is
j used politically at the polls and made the
; theme of constant agitation against the
■ South, he has no recognition in Pennsylvania
as an office-seeker or a competitor among
tradesmen. From the Mayor of Philadel
phia down to the humblest workingman in
any Republican factory or printing office,
he is just as much tabooed as though his
contact were leprous. It must have been ,
with the sting of this in his mind that Prof. !
Greener advised his people not to cringe
hat in hand before any political party. It j
is certain that in Philadelphia, where they 1
are so badly snubbed, the celored people
are and have been the dupes of extreme I
Radicalism. We very much fear that they j
will continne in the same old rnt, for an
indefinite period. We agree with the Pro- j
feasor that the elevation of the colored man's
condition will be largely due to an increase j
of wealth and education; but he ens when !
j he tells his audience that “the greatness of
! the South was caused by the toil of the ne- I
| gro.” The negro contributed a share to !
| that greatness, and is still a sharer in it; i
j but he cannot claim to have been the big- 1
j gest factor in the matter. No harm can |
| come of telling the truth ,au J Professor j
Greenkb nlioultl . not, ©itlior igno- j
i rantiy or designedly, pander to a Ben- I
timent that could only engender a
j false and mistaken vanity. For what the j
i colored people were and what many of them
| are, the Southern whites are profoundly
j appreciative and grateful. But greatness
j would come to ns, if there were no colored
| people here, and the Northern friends of
j Professor Greener insisted, and still insist,
i that the presence of slavery and now the
j evils ota mixed society handicap the South.
| Prof. Greener cannot have forgotten the
i experiment of universal suffrage in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and the general ontlawrv
that ensned. The Radical President and
Congress never would have paralyzed the
ballots and government of the District had
the experiment been a success. It was the
most tremendous and disastrous failure in
the tide of times; and yet what even Grant
and a Republican Congress could not en
dure, the South is forced to put up with on
a prodigious scale.
The revelations made bv Mr. McClure, of
the Times newspaper, are, in some respects
offensive to Prof. Greener. Mr. McClure
told some startling truths, but we admit
that there is some fact in Prof. Greener’s
criticism, when, for example, he says:
Colonel McCluße takoa upon him to speak
oven of tho talented members of our race aud
to depreciate their services aud ability. He
takes it upon him to throw upon him the blaino
of reconstruction. But the negro knows that
he never really ruled; that he was always man
aged by the white carpet-bagger, who ran off
with die plunder and left tho negro to take tho
blame. If the negro the plunder he
would now be rolling in affluence. I claim to
be at least as honest as the average
white man, but I think it a pity the negro did
not steal more than he did. [Laughter.] They
had control of the eight Southern States, aud
they got but two Senators, some half dozen
Lieutenant-Governors, a dozen Congressmen j
aud one Judge on the Supreme Court of South j
Carolina. When they had these States why
did they not send all black men to the Senate
aud elect all black Governors ? [Applause and
some cries of “That’s so.”] If they did they
might have held the Southern States for the
next fifty years. [Renewed applause.] It fa not
love of power that the negro has shown hut tho
love of the tinsel of power, but now he must
seeks its fullness.
We thought Colonel McClure spoke
justly of the leading colored men of the re
construction era. Some of them he found
to bo intelligent and honest, and said so. |
Others he discovered to be smart rogues, i
and proved what he declared. But it is a j
fact that the negro is not to be blamed for j
the reconstruction deviltry. The South
does not so blame him. We are in
debted for that infamy to Thapdeus
Stevens and his political progeny. Bnt for
them, the outrage could not havo existed.
The negroes were mere dupes, tools and
instruments. A few of them stole them
selves well oft', but saved very little because
of riotous extravagance. The carpet-bag
gers were the men who held the bag and
kept the best part of it. One of that class
is in jail in Ohio to-day, not for the robbery t
of a commonwealth, but for the murder of
an Ohio man on Xmas day. There were some
men born in the South who aided and abet
ted the villainy. Wo are sorry to hear a
presumably respectable man like Professor !
Greener regretting that theft did not more
prevail among his people, when they had a
chance to steal. Herein he demonstrates
that he is no better than the colored rascals
of Louisiana, who unblushingly confessed,
in onr presence and hearing, that pilfering
from a “Rebel” or Democrat, for the good
of the Republican party and Kellogg, was
no crime. Some of these “moral monsters”
were clergymen. It is a sad thing to hear
Professor Greener consecrate a monstrosity
like that!
The Professor, we think, is mistaken
when he maintains that the rape of all the
offices iu some States in tlie South, by
black men, would have consolidated then
power and perpetuated their dominion.
The end, in such a case, would have come
much sooner than it did, and it wonld have
been precipitated, not by the South, but by
the North. There is nothing more certain
than this, though Professor Grener will
not believe it.
In the concluding sentence of the quota
tion above made, we infer that the negro is
about to test the sincerity of the Republi
can party, which was saved by the colored
votes in the last election. We presume that
a Cabinet position for a colored man will be
insisted on. Be it so. We have not op
posed this scheme, bnt urged the trial. We
fear that Mr. Garfield, like the Philadel
phia Republicans, can talk very soothingly
and admiringly’ of the black man, but when
it comes to making him a Cabinet Minister,
be does not, in the expressive phrase of
the day, “observe it through those lamps.”
THE IRISH SITI tTIQ!),
There is no sadder and bloodier history
in the book of time than that of Ireland
since the English conquest. There is no
more glorious record than her deathless
protest against British oppression and mis
rule. The condition in which she was
placed at the period of O’Connell’s agita
tion for repeal of the penal acts staggers
belief. The Penal Code had left nearly four
millions of the people unable to read or
write, and nearly a million and a half who
could read but not write. As Sir Chables
Dctfisays: "The island which, before the
coming of the Dane or Norman, its own
people had made the aeuf. of industrial arts
and the school of the West, yas now tfie
most ignorant and impoverished of Chris
tian States. The island to which, in latter
days, its National Parliament had brought 1
back trade, commerce and prosperity, was
sickepipg Ufidey a burthen of paupers with
out hope of employment, because tyade and
commerce had disappeared.” And fields:
"Is it surprising that it led many men to
the conclusion that the connection between
Ireland and the dominant country must be i
put on another footing, or must be brought
to an end ? On less provocation the sober
colonnug of North America broke away
from the empire, apd the grave Belgian
bourgeoisie broke away from their legislative
union; and on less provocation indeed the
phlegmatic Hollanders opened their dykes
au£ let in the sea.”
it‘mm* te admitted that the British Gov
ernment has, from time tc time, redressed
many wrongs and repealed many legislative
abominations against property right, con-
I science and the intellect; bnt nothing
would tsaii conceded but for inces
sant agitation and a adherence to
principle which had become a part of the
Rone and fibre, blood and spirit of the Irish
race. Ur. Gladstone has done much to
rentier the situation of the Irish much more
tolerable than it was, even oiler the (loath
of O'Connell and Thouas Davis; but
much remains to be accomplished, and the
, menace, unrest and misery of Deland can
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY .MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1881.
t not be healed so long as the soil is owned,
:, in greatest part, by alien absentees, and the
i substance of the inhabitants is drained
from them, even when they have been
1 dying by thousands in the ditches, ap the
- carts loaded with food that wonld have sus
tained and saved them passed by to the
seaport where the English ships awaited
! their cargoes.
The focal question then, as we under
stand it, is that Ireland can never prosper
while her soil is owned by strangers and
her very life-blood drawn to sustain the
sensual luxury of the proprietors whose
sole title to their property is one of blood
and robbery.
The system pursued toward India by
I Great Britain is almost identical with that
employed against Ireland, and the dreadful
results of servitude, famine and death have
j been the same. Florence Nightingale,
| with a sob, declared that “the saddest sight
to be seen iu the East—nay, probably in
| the world—is the peasants of the Eastern
j Empire.” But much sadder spectacles
would have met her gentle and compassion
ate eyes among the Irish peasantry of the
West. TheTanses of these melancholy aud
, almost intolerable conditions are taxation
which takes from the cnltivator the very
means of cultivation, and an actual slavery,
consequent upon infamous legal en
! actmeut, producing in a fertile land
; a grinding, chronic semi-starvation, in
j stead of plenty. Tho chief part of
the population can barely subsist, lodged
j iu wretched cabins, clothed in ragged rai-‘
: went, aud with a single vegetable, liable to
i blight, as an article of food. It was not
j over-population or inability of the soil to
j support the population that caused this
terrible destitution. “It was,” as a recent
writer says, “the same remorseless rapacity
that robbed the Indian ryot of the fruits of
his toil, and left him to starve where nature
offered plenty. A merciless banditti of
tax-gatherers did not march through the
land plundering and torturing, but the
laborer was just as effectually stripped by a
horde of merciless landlords, among whom
the soiUhad been divided as their absolute
possession, regardless of any rights of
those who lived upon it.”
Security is said to be "the spur of indus
try,” but even this is denied to the Irish
tenant-at-will, who has not only the rack
rent to dread and the eviction, but who
dare not aud cannot, under the existing
system, improve lands which he holds by
the flimsiest thread. '
The struggle, the peaceful, constitutional
struggle in Ireland is to gain possession of
the soil for her own people, and to retain,
in great part at least, the capitul produced
by their labor. They desire to have what
God has given them, a chartered right to
life, liberty and happiness, the denial of
which has come from the diabolical contri
vance of men who are but distortions of
their Creator's image.
The existing causes therefore of Ireland’s
distress are land and alien
legislation. A few proprietors levy wages
upon the earnings of the masses and the
country, thus cursed, can not grow in
commercial importance, education or gen
eral happiness. To repossess themselves of
their GoD-given soil or at least to have some
profitable, personal stake in it, is the Irish
contest of to-day. The importance of this
is sketched most masterfully by Mr. George.
He tells us, iu his powerful style, that the
great cause of inequality in the distribution
of wealth is inequality in the ownership of
land. “The ownership of land,” he says,
“is the great fundamental fact which ulti
mately determines the social, political
and, consequently tho intellectual and
moral condition ot a people. * * * Take
away from man all that belongs to laud and
he is but a disembodied spirit. Material
progress cannot rid us of our dependence
upon land ; it ean but add to the power of
producing wealth from land; and hence,
when land is monopolized, it might go on
to infinity without increasing wages or im
proving the condition of those who have
but their labor. Everywhere, in all towns,
among all peoples, the possession of land
is the base of aristocracy, the foundation of
great fortunes, the source of power. As
said the Brahmins ages ago: ‘ lo whomso
ever the soil belongs, to him belong the fruits oj
it. White parasols and elephants mad with
pride are the flowers of a grant of land.’ ”
To resume in some sort that grant and
thereby secure life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness is the Irish agitation of to-day.
It is not proposed to secure this grant by
unlawful methods, or treason, or assassina
tion, bnt by a resort to every recourse al
lowed to men who have been most foully
and intolerably abused. To aid this cause,
which is the cause of the masses the world
over, the Land League has been estalished.
When the British Government abolished
the sale or purchase of commissions in the
army it compensated those who held com
missions. When the same Government
abolished slavery in her West India pos
sessions, $100,000,000 were paid the slave
holders. The same rule of compen
sation ean apply to the present case.
There is no intention upon the part
of the Land League to rob the alien
landholders, but it is the determination of
that League to compel justice, to make ty
ranny insupportable and to secure, by fair
compensation, the soil of the country to
the inhabitants thereof, so that they can at
least move in an orbit designed by the
Omnipotent and Lord of All. The Irish
people cannot deal with the parties who
first robbed them of their heritage, but
they can deal, and are now dealing, with the
descendants of the spoilers. We have hopes,
and strong ones, that as the English Gov
ernment and people of to-day are more tol
erant and wiser than their forefathers of a
hundred years ago, that they will see the
prime necessity of doing Ireland simple
justice, and permitting hor people to flour
ish. To do this, there must come redress
of past wrongs and a breaking down of an
cient despotism. If this be not the case,
Ireland, as somebody says, will cling to the
British empire like a burning ship that can
never be extinguished. With patience, un
der much privation, all will be accomplish
ed for Ireland, with or without England's
co-operation. The day of deliverance may
be distant yet; bnt it will come at last. It
"may be very near Indeed, and God grant it!
A PERTINENT QUESTION. .
Sir Wilfred Lawson, a prominent Liberal |
member of the British Parliament, moved
by the troubles of England in the East, has j
very cleverly put into poetry what many
statesmen, in much longer and duller prose, i
attempt to explain to themselyes apd to the I
world. Sir Wji+'Red goes to the very coye ]
of the subject when he takes for the title to j
his verses Lord Habtinoton’s answer to a j
deputation urging the annexation of Can- j
dahar : "The first question is, What j
right have we to be there ?”
“That’s a question which never before has been j
asked
By the rulers in whom we have trusted;
The 'question of right has been stifled and |
masked,
While by force every point waaadjuated.
“And where would Old England have been at
this day,
Let any one truly declare,
If we’d asked when advancing to each bloody
fray;
1 ‘What right have we got to fee there i”
* • * *■ * •
“Our soldiers are stronger, our cannon range
longer,
For what forces with ours can compare ?
A tig for what’s right, we care only for might,
And that’s why we English are there !
“In Africa, too, where we crushed the Zulu,
For the right who pretended to care;
Things were ready to hand and we wanted their
• land,
And that's why we chose to be there.
“You may range round the worfd. yherp our
flag’s never furled,
And where we unceasingly fight,
And the last thing you’ll find ever enters our
cund
latte tboiiah idea. 1$ it right V”
That same question should joe asked not
of the East but of West; pot of the Af
! gban but of the Irish. There has been a
| gyeat stride in the Englishman’s"sense of
| justice to out3i(jef3.wheiCin prose oy poetry,
! such a question can be.asked and answered.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
* * Hill and Kellogg—Brindlr Bill to Re
' main—Strange Humor About the Ne
i iada Senator—The Gnstin Claim—Gar
tielr Administration Julian liart
ridgr —HU Singular Superstition-
No Picture of Him Extant—Horrible
Weather.
[Correspondence ChronicleandOonstitutionalist.]
Washington, D. C., January B.—Con
gress has straggled back through the slush
slowly, and has gone to work in a very de
sultory and perfunctory style. With the
1 exception of a*spicy little tilt between Hill
and Kellogg in the Senate, there has been
nothing to raise a ripple on the double
distilled dullness of the situation.
The Senator from Georgia has his back
np on this Kellogg matter, and after a little
we shall have a gladiatorial contest over it,
In which it is expected that the Democrats
will show the Republicans just how to turn
out a number of Democratic Representa
tives from the next Houso.
It is'quite safe to say that Kellogg will
retain his seat. This matter lias been set
tled for some months back. The Demo
cratic absenteeism in the House is so marked
that measures are to be taken to bring
them up, in order that the necessary legis
lation may be accomplished. Just now,
while there are so many Senatorial contests
pending in the several States, nothing live
ly may be looked for in the way of political
debates. After these have been duly dis
posed of, the Republicansivlll commence a
series of tactics by which they hope to
force an extra session.
It is now said that Fair, the new Senator
from Nevada, will act with the Republicans
in the re-organization of the Senate, and
perhaps upon other measures.
The best opinion to-day is that the com
ing Senator from Tennessee will be a dark
horse and a staunch Democrat. There are
some, however, who still think that May
na’rd, backed by the promised patronage of
the incoming Administration, will capture
the position.
On yesterday the House passed a small
claim for Mr. Gustin, of Macon, Georgia.
The Senate had acted favorably upon it
during the last session. It was not a war
claim in any sense of the word, only a small
bill for wood furnisbod to Wilson’s army
after the capture of Macon.
The impression grows daily that, though
the next Senate and House will be strongly
aud severely stalwart at the start, General
Garfield will make bis administration broad
and liberal. His peculiar friends claim for
him that he has grown greatly since his
election, both in courage and capacity, so
much, indeed, that he cannot be bulldozed
by any of the leaders of the /actions which
compose the Republican party. A rumor is
afloat jo-day that he has iendered the posi
tion of Attorney-General to Hon. John
Randolph Tucker, of Virginia. Mr. Tucker
is known to bo among the ablest constitu
tional lawyers of the counUy, and it is
equally well settled that General Garfield
has great admiration for his ability, and a
very strong personal regard for him.
Among tifp late publications from the
Congressional printing office is a handsome
volume embracing the memorial addresses
upon Julian Hartridge, who died two years
ago to-day. It is handsomely gotten up,
but does not contain the usual steel en
graved portrait. Strange to say, though a
gentleman of the. broadest culture, Mr.
Cartridge, throughout his life,had nurtured
so strong a superstition upon the subject
that he had never sat for a picture. A
short time before his death he concluded
to do so, but was prevented b3’ an accident.
After his death a lady of bis city, apt with
pencil and brush, and who knew him well,
essayed to paint his features from memory.
In the midst of the work she died very
suddenly, and bis handsome and in
tellectual face lingers only in the memories
of those who knew him well.
Washington has been anything but a ,
paradise during the cold spell. The thaw i
Jas set in and destroyed the sleighing, and f
without a reinforcement of snow we shall
have nothing but slush and water for weeks. |
During the icy period the police of the j
city reported over eighty caseb of fractured
arms and legs, and it is not probable that ,
they had full satistics. Earl. j
it Al LUO ADS AND THE STATE.
How the Old Bay State Regulates Her
Corpo|allong—Report of the Massachu
setts Railroad Commission.
[Boston Globe.]
Our Massachusetts Railroad Commission
ers have made answer at length to the ques
tions propounded by the New York Cham
ber of Commerce on the problems of trans
portation and inter-State commerce, and
their remarks 'possess much general and
special interest. The leading feature of
their answers must inevitably attract atten
tion and perhaps cause surprise, for it is a
maintenance of the doctrine of State rights,
as applied to railroad control, in a most
emphatic form. That the championship of
this doctrine should come from Massachu
setts is indeed somewhat remarkable.
Yet, from the first to the last of this series
of answers, the pervading idea is that the
States must be permitted to manage their
own railroads in their own way, with no
encroachment upon their rights by the
Federal Government. This crops out in
the very first answer, in which our Com
missioners declare “that discrimination in
freight charges is wrong, and must be pre
vented by each State passing laws forbid
ding such discrimination under heavy pen
alties.” In this respect the Commissioners
refer to the laws of Massachusetts as fur
nishing the model. They say : “The prin
ciple that railroad companies are public
corporations is fully established in this
State, and they have always been subjected
to Governmental control in the interest of
the public. The Legislature has almost
unlimited power to control railroad corpo
rations, and it has exercised this power
freely, compelling the widening of bridges,
the erection of station houses and the ex
tension of tracks, at great expense to the
railroad companies, for the benefit of the
people.”
The system of railroad commissions is
strongly recommended, but not the Federal
system.' “Every State,” say our Commis
sioners "should have a tribunal of this
kind. And if it is impossible in any State
of this Union that such a commission should
do its work, because of the extent of the
evil to be remedied, or because of the
aggregate wealth opposed to the redress of
abuses, this shows that in that State good
government has become impossible, aud
that self-government there is a failure.”
Our Commissioneis do not believe that a
fixed limit can be placed in advance upon
the charges of railroads; they say that the
exaction of unreasonable charges consti
tutes an indictable offense; that the limita
tion of profits to 10 per. cent, is just in
principle, but difficult in practice; that it
is proper to pay dividends on the cost of
improvements made from surplus earn
ings; and that the watering of stock and
the contribution of corporation funds for
political expenses are wrong.
But it is when the Commissioners come
to speak of the questions of National legis
lation that they become most emphatic.
They say that, while evils exist which are
difficult to remedy by State legislation,
greater evils are threatened from Federal
legislation. “If it is once begnn to bo ex
ercised, such legislation would effect not
only roads running from State, but all roads
connecting with such routes, so that the
smallest branch in the obscurest hamlet
wonld have a portion of its business con-
trolled by the central power of our Govern
ment. It would be a strain on a Govern
ment like ours to have the direction of
$5,000,000,000 worth of property plaoed
in its hands. The regulation of freight
charges could be easily managed so as to
cut off certain ports and states from all ex
port trade. The general effect of such an
exerejse of power upon the character of our
Government is a serious question. No
! other scheme ever discussed has pro
! posed snpb a eosolidation of power
;as this. A change in forms of in
| finitely less consequence would excite
Universal indignation among the people.
If the control of SS,QQO,OOO,QOQ were giv
en to Congress, including the direction of
untold millions worth of freight each year,
our Government would cease to be what it
■ now is. It would be* well, at least, to ex
j haust State legislation,and to attempt in
: all ways concurrent State legislation before
j taging the "heroic” and almost desperate
! remedy remedy of subjection to National
legislation. Even a National Railroad Com
mission would be dangerous, as implying a
! power of controlling transportation through
: out the States, and as opening the way for
further aggression on State rights, unless
jts power were carefully limited to the hear
ing of facts and the collection of informa
tion.” It will be seen from these answers
—which the Commissioners made in their
individual and iiot in jbejr official capacity
—that the‘ggn'lleipcp yhq represent the
Commonwealth in railroad patters declare
most earnestly against Federal interference.
The Railroad Problem.
r. world.]'
As an endorsement of the views taken by
i Judge Black upon the all-absorbing ques
tion of the relative rights of railroad cor
porations and the State, the Railroad Com
missioners of Massachusetts have forward
ed to the New York Chamber of Commerce
an inteestiug opinion on the subject. They
say, with great truth, that railroad* should
j (.reay ajl equally under like cir-
an4 with relative' equality
; where circumstances differ; and discrimina
tions against individuals and ctdp(dimities
should be prevented breach State, passing
laws forbidding such discrimination, finder
heavy penalties. While the raja little dif
ferenoe* of opinion on this bi&pcb of the
subject aniopg communities, theOoinmis
aioners jail jo point out
remedy wheye, as ip this ijfete, corporations:
own the leading legislators, ambUms tfiftit-,
tie all legislation that, may pwfiHWtipfiudvan
tageous to their interests.'
THE FI XDINIi Bill,.
EXCITING DISCUSSION IN THE LOWER
HOUSE YESTERDAY.
Our Representatives Trying to Apply
the Three Per Cent. Rate—The Geneva
Award Bill in the Senate—Other Busi
ness Transacted.
(By Telegraph to tho Chronicle.]
SENATE.
Washington, January 12.—1n the Senate,
Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, called attention
to the fact that at the last session a motion
to reconsider the indefinite postponement
of the Geneva award bill had been laid on
the table by a very small majority; that it
was understood that many Senators then
opposed to the bill were prepared to sup
pott one providing relief to a limited ex
tent, and that a bill to this effect had been
introduced at the present session by Mr.
Edmunds, of Vermont. He now desired to
ask that Senator, who was a member of the
Judiciary Committee, to which committee
the bill was referred—whether that bill of
his would be likely to be reported for action
at the present session ?
Mr. Edmunds replied that he had no au
thority to speak for the Judiciary Commit
tee, and, as the Chairman was not present,
he could not say at what time the subject
wonld be reported upon, but bis individ
ual belief |was the committeo would en
deavor with diligence to bring the matter
before the Senate.
Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, submitted a
resolution requesting the Finance Commit
tee to report upon the advisability of cer
tain changes in’the organization of the
Treasury Department, and tho transfer ot
several of its sub-divisions, such as the Life
Saving Service, the Coast Survey, etc., to
the War Department. Ordered printed.
The House bill for the relief of James D.
Grant, of Texas, was considered and passed.
The remainder of the morning hour was
devoted to the Logan’s joint resolution for
an extension of the franking privilege,
which finally went over without action.
The Army Appropriation bill was then
taken up, and condsiderable time was spent
iu discussing the clause appropriating
$125,000 to pay land grant railroads 50
per cent, of what the Quartermaster De
partment finds justly due them for trans
portation. Pending conclusion of the de
bate on this clause, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Washington, January 12—In the House,
on motion of Mr. Buckner, of Missouri,
the morning hour was dispensed with by a
vote of 123 to 124. Mr. Wood, of New
York, moved when the House next went in
to committee of the whole on the Fund
ing bill, debate on the pending amendment
should be limited to thirty minutes. Agreed
t 0—149 to 4 (Coftroth, Stevenson, Hum
phreys and Weaver). The House then, at
12:35, went into committee of the whole
(Covert, of New York, in the chair) on the
Funding bill.
Mr. F. Wood said that, for himself lip
saw nothing inconsistent in the establish
ment of a three per cent, rate of interest
for bonds and the shortening of option in
dicated in the bill. He would go further.
He believed that with the removal of the
tax on bank deposits, and the estab lish
rnent of a rate of three per cent., the ques
tion of option was absolutely immaterial,
because bonds and certificates would not
be likely to rise to any great premium, and
would be at any time within the reach of
the Government at par, or at a nominal
premium. He believed that a three per
cent, rate could be safely established, and
was confident of the speedy negotiation of
every bond and certificate issued.
Mr. Stevenson, of Illinois, opposed the
bill on the ground that it did no more or
less than fix a permanent National debt
upon the country.
Mr. Weaver, of lowa, protested against the
refunding of five and six per cents into
any obligation that would take from the
Government the right of redemption for a
single day or hour.
Mr. McMillan, of Tennessee, argued in
favor of an amendment which he proposed
to offer making bonds subject to taxation.
Mr. Dunneil, of Minnesota, (a member
of the Committee on Ways and Means), said
that he had no doubt that a three per cent,
bond would find a ready sale and he advo
cated that rate of interest. He would vote,
however, for a reduction of time from
twenty to ten years.
Mr. O’Turner, of Kentucky, opposed the
refunding theory. He was in favor of
placing an income tax on capitalists and
bondholders and letting the revenue re
ceived from that tax go to the extinguish
ment of bonds.
Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, advocated
the three per cent, bond and the amend
ment of the bill so as to give the Govern
ment the option of redeeming at any time
after one or two years.
Mr. Buckner, of Missiouri, opposed the
bill, which.be said, would have the effect of
making the National Bank system of the
country permanent.
Mr. Frye, of Maine, defended the Na
tional Bank system, but expressed the be
lief that the three per cent, bond could not
be floated, and a failure to float it would be
a disaster which should be avoided.
Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, argued in favor
of a 3 per cent, bond, which he believed
could be placed and made successful. In
further debate, the 3 per cent, bond was
advocated by Air. Randall, of Pennsylvania,
and Air. O’Connor, of South Carolina, and
opposed by Alessrs. Aldrich, of Illinois,
Haskell, of Kansas, Harris, of Virginia, and
Warner, of Ohio. Tho time fixed for de
bate having expired, a vote was taken on
Air. Wood’s amendment, fixing tho rate of
interest on refunding bonds at 3 per cent.
The amendment was agreed to-yeas, 132;
nays, 92. The second branch of the amend
ment, fixing the rate at 3 per cent, on notes,
was agreed to without a division.
Air. Samford, of Alabama, offered an
amendment providing that before any of
the bonds or notes authorized by this act
are issued it shall be the duty of the Secre
tary of the Treasury to pay on tho bonds
accruing during the year 1881 all silver
dollars of 412% grains, and all gold over
and above fifty million dollars now held in
the Treasury for redemption purposes. Mr.
Satnford’s amendment was adopted by a
vote of 83 to 25—the Republicans refusing
to vote, desiring to so load down the bill
that a substitute offered by them would be
adopted.
Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, offered an
amendment, making tho substantial part of
.the section read as follows :
“The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
authorized to issue bonds in amount not
exceeding $050,400,000, which shall bear
interest at the rate of 3 per cent, per an
num, redeemable at pleasure of the United
States after - years. The bonds shall
be,” Ac.
He stated his intention wasn’t to make
this a bond loan exclusively. He would at
the proper time move to fill up the blank in
the amendment by the insertion of the word
“Two,” so as to make the bonds re
deemable in two years. He wonld
also ottered an amendment providing that
interest on all six per cent, bonds shall
cease at the expiration of 30 days after no
tice that the same have been designated for
the purpose of redemption.
Mr. Calkins, of Indiana, wished to amend
Mr. Randall’s amendment by fixing the rate
of interest at three and one-half per cent.,
but the Chair ruled that it was not in order.
Mr. F. Woods, of New York, then moved
that the committee rise in order to enable
the members to carefully examine Mr. Ran
dall's amendment, which was agreed to and
the House adjourned.
A LETTER FROM SUMMERVILLE.
[ Written for the Baltimore .Sun.]
Messrs. Editors: Bear Sirs -In fulfill-:
meut of the promise made you, to give a
full description of the place f like best in
my Southern trayels, J will mention Sum
merville as being m os t worthy of notice in
the columns of yqur admirable paper, not
the Summerville of Northern Georgia, but
the beautiful little village of Summerville,
near Augusta. It has been improperly
designated “The Sand Gills,” which con
veys to the mind of the traveler the errone
ous opinion that he is about to he landed
in the midst oi a desert, when, to the con
trary, after a' drive of two miles from the
enterprising oity, he finds himself sudden
ly transported to a modern Eden, a garden
of beautiful foliage and magnificent drives.
The residences, and' churches, too, are
noted for their varied styles ot architecture,
the former being owned and occupied by
some of the wealthiest citizens of Georgia.
The climate is mild and salubrious, equal
to, if not surpassing, that of Southern
France ; being at an elevation of.'fSO feet,
it is high and drv, and the water ]s recom
mended for its clearness apd purity.
The city is easy of access by street cars,
which rqn op Sundays for the special ae-
Sdation of parties wishing to attend
in the city.
This place is especially adapted to the
wants of ipvali<]B, an if contains numerous
acebmmpdatiohs tor travelers, among which
I found the Smyser House all to be desired.
It is kept by the genial old gentleman
whose name it bears, and well knows how
to contribute to the pleasure and comfort
of his guests, having catered to the wants
of Northern visitors for sixteen years. All
Summerville needs to make it “The Winter
Resort ot the South” is a hotel, which
would bring it prominently bhfoyg the
Northern public, and ffapa benefit not only
its ejjtoycrising citizens, who' deserve suc
cess, but also the merchants of Augusta.
A Traveler.
The Election.
- Journal j
The election in Lincoln connty on Wed
nesday of last week resulted as follows :
' 4“dije B. y. Ration, the present incum
'fc.it.w- re-elected Ordinary without anv
i opposition ; Yf. T. W, array re-elected
j isieriff,; and ,1. R. Bentley was re-elected
■W Receiver. .Q. p. Murphy was elected
i Collector; T. P.-lfitcbelb' Conner, and L.
jkF. Elam, Surveyor. • A
PRESS COMMENTS.
Public Schools.
[lf. V. World.]
“Our public schools—may their influence
spread
j Until statesmen use grammar and dunces
are dead;
i Until no one dare say, iu this land of the
j free,
| He’s ‘done’ for ho ‘did’ or it’s ‘her’ for it’s
1 ‘she.’
Quietly st Work.
[-V. Y. Tribune .]
John Kelly is quiet, but he is only run
ning hot lead into the butt end of that skil
lelah.
A Good Brace*
[lndianapolis Sentinel.]
Blaine will be Garfield’s Secretary of
State and Bruce possibly will have charge
of the navy.
Make Him United Slates Senator.
[lndianapolis Sentinel. 1
There is talk of electing Grant Senator
from New York, lie is now iu Albany, the
guest of Governor Cornell, What next ?
Make Him President of the Fair.
[iYeio York Tribune. ]
And now General Grant is proposed lor
President of the World’s Fair Commission.
It would not be easy to make a better
choice.
The Mistake They Nuke.
[Boston Posh]
The President, Governors and Alayors are
too prolix in their messages. They make a
mistake if they expect the people to read all
that they write.
No hack of Fuel.
[Louisville Courier-Journal. ]
W. H. Vanderbilt draws $510,000 inter
est every ninety days from the United
States Treasury. He does not suffer for lack
of fuel this Winter.
Slplorcd Cabinet Ufllrer.
[.S'L Paul Press. ]
The Southern leadors, in urging men
for the Cabinet, have apparently overlooked
Mr. Bruce. He represents a largo class in
the South, and is preferable to many whose
names have been presented.
Southern Industry.
[V. 0. Picayune .]
The sole motive for Southern political
isolation and jealousy of the mixed iudus
tries has been removed. Can there be any
reason why the Southern people should not
participate iu all the industrial enterprises
of the age ?
The Horrible o Herald.”
[New York Star.]
Yesterday the horrible Herald was shamed
into publishing the paragraph from Alayor
Grace’s message, praising the capacity and
fidelity of Comptroller Kelly and testifying
to the esteem in which he is hold in busi
ness circles.
Preachers In Polities.
[Chicago Tribune.]
Chittenden, of New York, is grieved be
cause he was beaten for Congress by a Bap
tist preacher. Why, Chit., those Baptist
preachers when they run for office are fly
ers. Look how the Mentor preacher got
a wav with Hancock.
Ilappy Missouri.
[8(. Louis Republican.]
In one word, Alissouri is remarkably
peaceful, prosperous and exempt from
causes of agitation and tumult; and her
people are steadily progressing in habits of
industry and thrift and improving in moral
bearing, intelligence and public spirit.
Give Him a. Big; Salary.
[ Courier-Journal. ]
Some of Grant’s friends say that all their
hero wants is to “ see the Nicaragua Canal
built and the Monroe doctrine sustained at
all hazards.” Judging from appearances
he wants a big offico with a big salary at
tached and the smallest possible amount of
work to do.
Nu Hard Times.
[Selma Times.]
The best plan is for every man to be as
cheerful as possible, to look at the bright
side, to come out strong under unfavorable
circumstances, to keep a stiff upper lip, to
economize, to work harder and stay more
at home, and the hard times we hear so
much of will disappear beneath the sun
light of a fast approaching prosperity.
Too Many People.
[From the San Francisco Call.]
It is a pretty well established fact that be
yond a certain point an increase in popula
tion in any country is to be deplored. The
United States is the principal objective
point for emigrants, and it is rapidly filling
up. The older States already have about all
the population that is really desirable.
Taffy for Mahonr.
[National Republican.]
General Alahone has made a clean state
ment, which we believe will have the effect
to secure for him and his just and reason
able plan the approval of the great body of
the people of the country. This result at
tained, and there will be no stumbling
block in the way of Virginia Republicans
coming to the support of his party in the
coming State campaign.
The Isthmus Canal,
[New Orleans Times.]
It is in tho highest degree improbable
that the people of the United States will
quietly look on while European Powers
take possession of one ot the most important
highways in the world, with full power to
discriminate against our merchant vessels
and to exclude our war vessels from the
Isthmus transit.
No Rank In America.
[ Washington Post. ]
There are no “rulers” here. The people
select and hire men to perform certain du
ties which cannot be conveniently perform
ed by all the people. A Fersident, a Sena
tor, a Aleraber of Congress is but the hired
man of the soverign people. And all this
talk of rank is but the sheerest nonsense
that ever tickled fools.
A Chivalrous Public.
[ Washington Post J
As we get along toward the millennial pe
riod, let us hope that the time will come
when the American people, instead of de
manding the publication of all the details
of scandals in high life, will be chivalrous
enough to desire that the mantle of charit
able silence may shield every woman who is
compromised, either by facts or false alle
gations.
Alarm, Not Elation.
[Belroit Free Press.']
Ten years since the people of the United
States would have felt proud of the an
nouncement that 7,500 miles of railroad
had been laid in one year—a greater num
ber than any other country on the globe.
But, with the terrible experience of 1873,
such figures are calculated to alarm, rather
tpan elate, those upon whom experience is
not thrown away.
Make Him War Secretary.
[Springfield (III) Journal]
He would fill the War Secretaryship with
signal ability, and be an ornament and a
strength to Gen. Garfield’s administration.
Then, with Blaine for Secretary of State,
and a man of Sherman’s equal as Secretary
of the Treasury, Geu. Garfield would start
out in the formation of a Cabinet in such an
assuring manner as to compel the Nation
and the world to respect and honor his ad
ministration.
Curses of Ireland.
[CinoinnaH Gazette.]
The men who are the curse of Ireland
are the non-producers, who are at the same
time the heavy consumers. They are the
drones of the industrial hive, who gather
nothing, but consume the products of
others’ labors. Until the axe shall be laid to
the root of the evil; until ao-callod society
shall he broken up, we shall continue to
hear of troubles in Ireland, and the same
evils that afltict that part of the British pos
sessions will soon appear in England.
Reagan’s Inter-State Commerce Will.
[Nashville American.]
Mr. Reagan's bill, at least for the begin
ning of an experiment, appears to have
been baaed upon the oorrect principle.
Without any commission, bureau or central
board, he proposes to simply pass a general
law requiring the roads to fix uniform
rates and to publish them, to prepare all
the conditions to secure uniformity and
justice, and then to leave the injured party
to his action in the Courts, as. in all other
cases. This seems to us a common sense
way of reaching the end.
Are Georgians Poorer 1
[CtirtersviUe Free Prsss. ]
A good deal has been said about the
opjniop of Hon. A. H. Stephens as to the
condition of Georgia. We think Mr. Ste
phens is right. In fact, our own experience
as a journalist convinces us that he is right.
We know to an absolute that it is
more difficult collect five dollars now
than ]t wa* to, collect ten five years ago.
The people—we mean the toiling mosses—
are worse off than they were ten years ago.
The taxes are harder to pay. Although
everything is cheap, we find that ouf peo
ple have to make every edge cut to “make
buckle and tongue meet." This is the ex
perience of every householder or head of a
family.
Georgia Jetties.
News.]
Everything is now quiet in Georgia, s&ve
an occasional grumbling against the Bail
road Commission, qpfi ah occasional dis
cordant pqte ipm sotpe disgruntled anti-
Oolquitt organ. While the State is ouiet
the field of bfittle, however, has, only t>eo
shifted from one place to, another.' Geor
gia politics ute jjaiftparit ip Washington.
o,ur statesmen ajt;e making big speeches.
They a re being interviewed by the knights
of newspaperdom. It has been a Ufog time
since Georgia statesmen hurt such a big
, swing in the While onr
Betirewuitati ves ljiaye'an open field and fair
pifty, w% trpet.’fhey will do good work
Georgia. "Hu shall be grateful all the.
good they can dp; lot as hope that all the
faftoa may remain at horqe-ip: Washington.
Sa A YEAH—POSTAGE PAID.
WEDDING BELLS.
Marriage of Mr. L. L. MrCleskey anti Mlm
Addle Dugas, Last Evening.
Last eveuing at 8 o'clock the Greene Street
Baptist Church was crowded witli a fashionable
assemblage to witness tho marriage of Mr. L.
L. AfoCleskoy and Miss Addie Dugas. The
bridal party entered the church in tho follow
ing order :
Ushers.
Mr. Frank Beane, Air. J. B. Walker.
Attendants.
Misses Louise and Hettie Cole, neices of the
bride.
Miss Mary Butt and Dr. Geo. C. Dugas.
Miss Douschka Pickens and Mr. C. N. Oliver.
Miss Lizzie Bakor and Mr. Davenport Jack
son.
Miss Carrie D’Antigaae and Air. Joseph
Thompson, Jr., of Atlanta.
Mattie Phiuizy and Mr. Z. \V. Carwile,
Alias Fannie Casey and Air. Bovkin Wright.
Miss Katie Butt and Mr. L. A.'Dugas, Jr.
Alias Sophie D’Antignac aud Air. C. B. Aus
tin, of Savannah. #
Alisa Lou Casev and Mr. W. S. St. George.
Mrs. Dugas, mother of tho bride, with Air. L.
L. McClenkey.
Miss Dugas, with her father, Dr. L. A. Du
gas.
The marriage cernmony wore performed in a
very impressive manner, by Rev. W. W. Lan
drum, pastor of the church. A handsomer
bridal couple were never seen in Augusta.
The altar was very beautifully decorated
with flowerri and overgreeua. Conspicuous
among the floral pieces were a splendid marriage
bell aud a large horse shoe.
After the marriage there was a wedding re
ception at Dr. Dugas’ residence. At 12 o’clock
Air. and Mrs. McCleskoy left on a special train
of the Port Royal and Augusta Railroad, for
Florida, where they will spend some time.
The wedding presents wora numerous aud
elegant.
Air. AlcCleskey is agent of the Atlantic Coast
Line and Central Short Lino of Railways, and
is one of the most popular aud energetic rail
way men in the South. Miss Dugas is the
youngest daughter of Dr. L. A. Dugas, of this
city, a charming and accomplished young lady.
We wish them all happiness aud prosperity. ' '
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILR
Gross Earning*. Expenses and Net Earn
ing* for September and October.
The following reports of the earnings aud ex
penditures of the South Carolina Railroad for
tlie months of September and October have been
tiled in the office of the Clerk of the United States
Circuit. Court by Receiver Fisher:
September—Earnings.
Freight $119,396 27
Passengors 18,690 87
Express 1,076 55
Mails 1,473 32
Rents 109 22
$140,746 23
Expenditures.
Conducting Transportation $23,021 27
Maintenance of motive power 18,139 03
Maintenance of cars 7,825 88
Miaintenance of roadway 11,634 71
General exponses 7,067 84
$67,988 50
Net earnings 72,757 37
October—Earnings.
Freight $136,319 13
Passengers 22,311 96
Express 1,199 17
Mails 1,473 32
Rents. ... 215 05
$161,518 63
Expenditures.
Conducting Transportation $27,559 61
Motive power 19,526 58
Maintenance of cars 5,978 83
Roadway 26,848 07
General expenses 3,505 40
$83,418 49
Net earnings. 78,100 14
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
Contemplated Changes In the Globe
Hotel.'
lVe learn that it is in contemplation to so im
prove the Globe Hotel as to make it one of the
most convenient hotels in the South. Two ideas
have been suggested, ono of which is to tear
down the present building and put up an entire
new structure, and the other is to improve the
hotel as it now stands. The matter has been
placed in the hands of Air. W. E. Spoir, archi
tect, to furnish plans and specifications. The
plan for improving the present building contem
plates removing the cigar store and turning the
entire front of the ground floor into an office
with a grand staircase in tho centre. This
stair-case will go to the top of the building. In
the back of the office will be an elevator, which
will also run to the top of the hotel. The pres
ent dining room will be cut up into sleeping
apartments. The hotel will be extended to
Ellis street, the dining room aud culinary de
partment being in the extension. Under this
arrangement iifty rooms will be added to the
hotel.
It will ha known soon which of the two plans
will be decided upon and it is probable" that
the work will then be commenced at once.
Mr. Speir, who is especially experienced in
the building of theatres, lias also been spoken
to by the Masons in reference to plans and
specifications for an opera house on the site of
the present Masonic Hall. He says that this is
a very fine location for such a structure, hav
ing ainple width. The idea, we believe, is to
havo the Masonic Hall in front of the new
building and the opera house in rear, with an
entrance from Broad street. Mr. Speir was tho
architect of the beautiful Academv of Music in
Greenville, 8. C., which recently burned down.
Mr. Spoil- has also been spoken to iu refer
ence to the improvement of the present Opera
House, which the owners expoet to mako one
of the handsomest and most comfortable and
convenient places of amusement in the South.
Tho design is to enlarge tho building, in tho
direction of Broad street, raise the roof, put iu a
second gallery, convert the present gallery into
a dress circle (upholstered in elegant style) im
prove tho arcade, place new seenerv on tho
stage, Ac Augusta is determined not to be
behind in the march of progress.
COTTON.
Some Intereating Facts and Figures.
The Financial and Camnsercial Chronicle,
of last Saturday, gives the total cotton in sight
January 1, at 4,117,567 bales againßt 3,839,063
at tlie same date last year:
1881 ISBO.
Total marketed as ab0ve.3,823,567 3,491,063
Interior stocks 294,000 348,000
Total in sight, bales.. .4,117,567 3,839,063
This indicates that the increased movement
in the present year is thug reduced to 278,504
bales. Hence, if there is to be no loss or gam
in amount-received from plantations for tho re
mainder of the season, the crop will reach a
little more than six million kales. That there
is considerable in the fields not yot picked,
seems to be pretty generally admitted; this was
not the case at this date with regard to the last
crop. Should the weather, therefore, permit
its being gathered, there would appear to he
fair reason for expecting at least no lobs during
the remaining months to tho increase already
iu sight. The conditions, however, as to the
height of rivers and bad picking weather, have
been in favor of more rapid marketing thau a
year ago.
The increase in the quantity marketed dur
ing the first four crop months of 1880, as com
pared with 1879, is found to be 332,504 hales.
Northern spinners have continued during
the month to purchase very freely, and their
takings, which for the first two months showed
an excess of 59,060 hales over the same two
months of last year, aud for the three months a
deficiency of 39,987 bales, now show a defi
ciency of only 100 bales
The following shows tlio weight ol' hales for
the four months of the year :
Year
Four mouths end- Ending
ing Jan. 1, 1881. Sept. 1,
1870.
Number of I Average Average
Bales. I Weight. Weight.
Texas 387,125 513-74 502.34
Louisiana 812,407 480.00* 462.00
Alabamama 2-48,853 514.00 407.93
Georgia] 637,212 470.87 478.00
South Carolina . 480,656 476 (X* 458.00
Virginia 214,621 473.00 465 78
North Carolina.... 116,223 472.00 455.81
Tennessee, Ac 517,382 403.50 470.50
"Total" 3,823,567 485.53 473.00
‘Estimated.
■(■lncluding Florida.
This shows that tho weights thus far have
reached the large average of 485.53 pounds,
against 473.001 pounds forfthe whole of last year.
The totals show that the old interior stocks
have decreased during the week 8,715 bales,
and'were Friday night 26,600 bales leas than
at the same period last year. The reoeipts at
tbo same towns have been 11,128 bales less
than the same week last year.
Tfie figures indicate an increase in the cotton
in sight of 240,900 bales as compared with the
same date of 1880, an increase of 300,517 hales
as compared with the corresponding date of
1879 and an increase of 250,3,‘il hales as com
pared with 1878.
Jdfcnon County.
The following connty oncers of Jefferson
county were elected a,t the recent county elec
tion:
Ordinary—N- Diehl, old incumbent.
Clerk—T. F. Caulk, old incumbent.
Sheriff—B. E. Weeks.
Collector—F. A. Siitquefleld, old incumbent.
Beceiver—Wi- H. Fay, old incumbent.
Treasurer—o. G. Weeks.
Surveyor—J. F. Atkins, old incumbent.
Coroner—J. F. Upton.
Board of Roads and Revenue—Dr. Olipbant,
A. 8. Smith, J. F. Bro wn, J. W. Sheppard, J. W.
Lyons.
’ Planters Goan and Savings Bank.
The annual election for Directors was held
yesterday. The following were elected: T. W.
Ojskery, D. B, Wright. Z. McCord, H. B- King,
1 A A. A. W. Clark, G. Yolger, F. Cogin, wTS.
Howard, Jno. T. Milter, H. Rowley, Jas. U
flow. At a subsemient meeting of the Directors
Mr. TANARUS, \L Goskeiy was re-elected President
awi Mr. Ji. T. Newbery, Cashier. Cbas. 1.
McCord, Esq. was elected attorney ten the bank-
The. exhibit made to the Directors shows the
following figures :
Increase . 78,321 02
ijteppsitoraJanuary, 1881 ' 420
“ 1880.., • 155
COWARDLY lUURDKR.
Dastardly Work of Tennessee Moon,
shiners,
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Louisville, Ky., January 12. A sDecinl
from Gallatin, Tennessee, to the Courier-
Journal says: Captain Skeene, a well
respectable citizen who lives
about eight miles north of here, while in
his yard attending to domestic duties was
fired upon by some unknown party and
fatally wounded. Seventeen buckshot
were taken from his body. They literal I v
*? right hand off and entered his
right side inflicting a ghastly wound. He
is expected to die at any moment. It is
thought the deed was Jperpetrated by some
moonshiners whom it is said Capt. Skeene
had reported to the authorities
MURDER IN KENTUCKY.
A District-Attorney Killed—Kuimtr 11,.
gnrding It.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Louisville, January 12.—A special from
Chattanooga says a report has reached that
city that James M. Kay had been killed a few
days ago in Scott county. Ray was District-
Attorney for the Third District and was a
halt-brother of Congressman L. C. Honk, ol
the Second Tennessee District. The exact
cause of the killing has not yet come to
light, one rumor being that Ray had an al
tercation with a man who insulted his wife
and attempted to fire, but beforo he could
draw his weapon his assailant split his head
open with an axe.
Knoxville, Tenn., January 12.—The re
port that James M. Ray, formerly District
Attorney, had been killed in Scott county
is incorrect. A gentleman here saw him on
Sunday and the murder is said to have oc
curred on Saturday last.
SENATORIAL.
Thirty-Bight Candidates But in Nomina
tion in Pennsylvania— Elections.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Hahbisbubo, Pa., January 12.—1n the
House of Representatives to-day, thirty
eight names were put in nomination for the
ofiiee of United States Senator.
San Pbanoisco, January 12.—The Senate
and Assembly met in joint convention to
day, and Gen. John F. Miller was duly de
clared eleoted United States Senator.
A dispatch from Carson City, Nevada,
says: “The Senatoand Assembly, in joint
convention, elected James G. Fair to-day
United States Senator.”
Indianapolis, January 12.—The Republi
can caucus last night unanimously nomi
nated Gen. Ben. Harrison for United States
Senator.
Columbus, 0„ January 12.—The Demo
cratic caucus to-night nominated Hon.
Allen G. Thurman as a candidate for Sena
tor.
Dovbb, Del., January 12.—The Demo
cratic members of the Legislature in caucus,
to-night, decided unanimously to re-elect
Hon. T. F. Bayard to the United States
Senatorship.
Albany, January 12.—There is no change
in the Senatorial situation. Each candi
date claims a sufficient following to entitia
him to the position.
GRANT ON NEWSPAPERS.
He Indulges In Some Ilumoroas Re
marks at the Expense of Editors.
New Yobk, January 6.- — In the course of
his speech at the Press Club dinner, to
night, General Grant spoke of newspapers
as follows:
I have been somewhnt of a reader of news
papers for forty years. 1 could read very
well when I was eight years otj age, and it
has given me forty years of observation of
the press, and there is one peculiarity that
I have observed, and that is in all of the
walks of life outside of the press people
have entirely mistaken their profession—
their occupation. [Laughter.] I never
knew a Mayor of a city, or even a Council
man of any city, any public officer, any
Government official; I never knew a mem
ber of Congress, a Senator or a President of
the United States who could not be enlight
ened in his duties by the youngest member
of the press, [Laughter.] I never knew a
General to command a brigade, a division, a
corps, an army, who could begin to do it aa
well as men far away in their sanctums,
and I often wondered. I was very glad to
hear that the newspaper fraternity were rea
dy, with perfect confidence, to fill any office
that might be tendered to them, from I’resi
pent to Mayor; fftid I have often been aston
ished that the citizens have not done so, be
cause they know all these offices would have
been well and properly filled. Well, gen
tlemen, I am very happy to have been here
with you, and I hope wnen anew genera
tion, about twelve years hence, comes up,
that I will again dine with the Press Club of
New York city, and that I will see that those
of this generation who are so well fitted to
fill all the civil offices have all been chosen,
and that there will be nothing left them to
criticise.
THE TREATY WITH CHINA.
What One of the Conimluionen Nays
About the Sacred Contract Chinese
Not to Be Naturalized.
San Fbanoisco, January 10,—The Call
publishes an interview with Hon. John F.
Swift, one of the Commissioners to nego
tiate a treaty with China, who returned by
the steamer Gallic yesterday. Mr. Swift
says, in addition to points in the trenty, it
contains a clause reserving to the United
States the right to terminate at any time
the residence of Chinese laborers in this
country. It was also tacitly understood
that Chinese cannot be naturalized in the
United States. Any naturalization already
accomplished Bhall be considered null and
void. The negotiations w*e concluded
on November 20th. Everything was
ready on the 15tb, but the word
' ‘disaster’ ’ occurred in the treaty, and it is a
law’of China that this word cannot bo pre
sented to the attention of the Emperor with
’in five days of certain important events,
among which is the birthday of members of
the Imperial family, which necessitated a de
lay of about a,fortnight before the conclu
sion of the treaty. The commission
ers were so much disheartened that
they were on the point of giving up
all negotiations, and would have left
Peking but for the fact that communica
tions were interrupted by the severity of
the weather and pending their renewal the
Chinese officials made the concessions de
sired. Mr. Swift denies the report that the
Chinese met the Commissioners half way in
their propositions, and says the points were
only attained|by persistent efforts. He de
nies the report that Minister Angell con
templates resigning bis position.
The People Growing Poorer.
[Madisonian.]
Nearly every paper in Georgia is down
upon Mr. Stephens for saying that Georgia
grows poorer every day. We think the great
Commoner is right. We do not see the signs
of prosperity that others mention.
Lecture On “The Eye.”
[Athens Banner.]
Dr. A. W. Calhoun, the distinguished
oculist, has consented to lectnre to the
students of the University on the subject of
“The Eye.” The first lecture will bo de
livered in the University chape] at ll
o’clook, a. m„ on next Friday, 14tb inst.
Thanks To Gov. Brown.
- [Elherton Gazette.]
The steps taken by Senator Brown to
have all obstructions in the Savannah, up
to Trotter shoals, removed, will win him
great favor with all the people along the
lines of the Savannah and its tributaries,
even if it accomplishes nothing more than
to make that stream navigable to little fishes.
Governor the people of Elberton thank you.
The Governor’s Appointment*.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
The recent appointment of aids by the
Governor doeß not affect the rank or the
position of the aids appointed nuder the old
law. These aids still' hold their position.
The senior, we believe, Is Col. B. B. Fer
rill, one of the most accomplished and es
timable young men of Savannah. We make
this statement to correct the impression
that the appointment of Colonel Ferrill had
been vacated by subsequent and additional
appointment);.
Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
[N. t. World.]
It is no exaggeration to say that the out
come of the Irish question depends "abso
lutely on Mr. Gladstone. His age, his
great experience in British affairs, Ins tem
perament, his unsurpassed power as an ora
tor, his acknowledged leadership of the.
dominant party in the House of Commons,
to say nothing of his official position as the
practical sovereign of England, all fasten
to-day the eyes of the civilized world upon
him as thearbiter, for the moment, of the
issues of peace or war throughout Christen*
dam.
Death of Judge J. 9. Thomas
t | fMUUdgeviile.liecorder.]
Judge John S. Thomas died at his resi
dence, at ifidWay, Sunday night. He has
' for years been, confined to his house. Ho
wasrthe oldest bring male-’resident of the .
county .at the time of bis death. In his
eturly life he was aauoeiatcd with many
prominent positions under the State gov
ernment. We me infoimed that Judge
Thomas was bora in May, 1779, and wan
pearly 102 years of age. He was. in'his i
active'life, a prominent eitiaen and a good
one. Doubtless a more extended noth*
will be given of so remarkable a man.