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iil)f Wffklj} tOjronidc $ Constitutionalist.
VOLUME XOV
EDITORIAL. NOTES.
Even young ducks must be weary of tbe
rainy weather.
Peof. Reuses nays there is no such thing
as malaria. Call it by any other name, it
will be as hard to cure !
Ur (rori.D was “the champion of the
people’s rights !" There w ere many gud
geons ciugbt by his bait.
We see it stated that Senator Bbow* gave j
S9OO worth of coal to the poor of At
lanta. Senator Brown did a noblo thing.
Fbank llcan is inclined to the idea that
the Democrats who ar6 in favor of free trade j
would vote for au out-and-out free trade lte- I
publican for Speaker rather than for a J
Greenbackcr.
Mb. Timothy O'Brien, of Virginia, gently !
observes tnat “the late election is ancient ■
history to the Northern ieople, who are ;
now wholly intent upon business and mo- i
ney-making.”
Another scarcity of coal has reminded
us that we have no railroad into the Ala
barna coal fields.— Phonograph. All the
railroads in the world will not help you, i
unless you help yourselves.
~
Don. MoCuag writes from Nashville that
the widow of President Pork is so beloved
and respected that, by common consent Of
all parties, the interest on her little fortune
•in Tennessee State bonds, all she hits, is ex
empted from repudiation.
■ CoNßi.ran congutulates Pratt as a stal
wart. A stalwart is defined as a Republican
who bates Haves, laughs at civil service
reform, sticks to the machine, obeys Conk
tjno’h whip-lash, advocates a third term for
Gbant and damns the Mormons.
Senator Lamar is reported as saying that
the white people of lus State would rather
see Bruce in the Cabinet than any white
Republican in ail Mississippi. Bruce stands
well anil is on good terms with all the Dem
ocrats in the delegation.
Mb. Beecher says his congregation
worship him as though he were the Trinity.
He begs them to desist, and assures them
that his title is not a divine one. All the
same, Plymouth Church will worship Mr.
Beeciif.r, and, when it gets a chance, adore
Gfenetal Grant.
Hui i h Hatch, the rich and witty Wall
street broker, has written, so he says, a let
ter to W. It. Vanderbilt advising him to
invest $3,000,000 in tenement bouses for
the poor of New York, leaving the rent to
accumulate. Mr. Hatch iutimates that this
benevolence may save Mr. Vanderhilt
much future trouble.
JosEi'H Smith, Jr., the head of the “Dis
ciples’ Chnrch” movement for the construc
tion of n church for their denomination in
Washington in honor of General Garfield,
the preacher President, reports great |
progress. We dare Bay there is a mistake j
in the statement that the church is “in j
honor of General Garfeld.”
Oh, you ought to hear him converse on
religious subjects. His religions conversa
tion is purifying and uplifting to all who
heav it it is an inspiration. -Oitrriehfs Pas
tor. llis educational talk to the colored
deputations has had a rather depressing
effect. But, as somebody says, “religion is
religion and biz is biz.”
Already anew rival, which promises to
be wore or less formidable, is developing :
ill vlie shape of the Mutual Union Tele
graph Company. It is incorporated under
the laws of New York State, with a capital
of five million dollars. The Western Union
Will, when the time comes, open its pon
derous and marble jaws to take the stranger
in.
The New Orleans Democrat says: “Moore
%M>wa a great deal, and cau establish what
he knows to the satisfaction oi tho Senate
committee. He should bo heard by all
means.” This is true. Ho lucks character.
A man who has lied for Kellogg may be
reasonably doubted when he tells tho truth
against him. Such is the value of a good
character.
A Western exchange, noticing that there
x* an ice factory atjAtlantr., da., which turns
out about 120 tons of ice a day, says : “ The
ice ifi never stored, but cut every day as de
livered, and it sells at from ton to twelve
dollars per ton. We presume it conhl be
shipped to that point from our Northern
lakes, now, at a profit for than the
above figures.” As the ice tactories have
reduced the charges of “Northern lakes
in tfhe Summer, the lakes nmy get even by
discounting the machines in midwinter.
Lot them come on !
A fair minded eotemporary, the Chatta
w>oga Twines, reminds us that there are two
sides to this telegraph consolidation ques
tion. None of the companies, since the
American Union was fairly going, have
made any money, and the public have had j
the benefit for nearly a year of rates far be- j
low the renumerative point. Now if the rates
shall only be put at a paying schedule the j
people will be that much in pocket. Any
effort to shove the rates above a fair stand- j
ard will be checked at once by the forma- j
tion of another new company.
—
The act reducing the Governor’s salary to
$3,000, in Tennessee, has been repealed,
and Governor Hawkins, the Republican in
cumbent, will be paid SI,OOO, as before.
This is right. The new Constitution of
Georgia red need tho Governor's salary to $3,-
000, until otherwise provided by law passed
by a two-thirds note of both branches of the
General Assembly. This was among the
attempts at legislation which the Conven
tion of ’77 improperly attempted. The pres
ent Finance Committee, however, prompt
ly squashed a bill to increase the states
man's stipend.
T’iik New York (bmmercial Bulletin defends
Mr. Vanderbilt from bad faith. It adds:
“In the w hole community thro is no class
of men more honorable in the exeeißjon of
u contract when once made. There is wo
business in which the fulfillment of engage
ments is so much left to mutual confidence,
and so .little encumbered with precautions
against default. In this respect the specu
lative in'erejt of Wall street is the very
punk of honor, the perfection of honesty;
Imt in the maneenveail that come before the
contract it is a law unto itself, that compares
to a great disadvantage with oil the accepted
codes of honor or morals.”
q j fK Illinois Legislator.? already exhibits
to take hold of the railroad ques
tion Ol'® biU to pr® vent railroad# from
pooling the.' r warnings is well received by
the country !•'**• Another proposition
that all railroaa companies shall be com
piled to pay a pan. of their gross earnings
into the State Treasury > dubiously
spoken of. The regulation of this kind
applying to the Illinois Central has an
■equitable basis, inasmuch as that ,'ompanv
received an enormous donation of public
lands; but the other roads may with juaune
say that they pay a fair proportion of taxes
and ought not to be subjected to unfair dis
crimination from the State, which is at
tempting to prohibit them from exercising
it toward others.
Nevada is declining. It is a rotten bor
ough, with 62.265 population. In 1877
the value of the mining property was as- ;
sessed at $26,728,722; in 1678 at sl7,- i
405,681; in 1879 at $6,496,432, and in
1880 it had sunk to s3,Bso,7o7—showing
i Recline of $23,000,000 in four years. As
<ihe guinea constitute almost the whole taxa
ible wealth of the State, this rapid destruc
tion of fie> ir values leaves the State Treasury
in a distetfwed condition. Last year the
total tax receipts were $151,244, and the
expenditures $211,364-showing a deficit
of $60,019. There is in the treasury only
$l5O, a surplus left from former years of
prosperity, and how the cost of the Stale
government is to be met the Governor s
message does not indicate.
banking capital*.
There is common complaint in the South
1 that banking capital is not sufficient. We
hear, on all sides, that Augusta needs
I greater facilities of this kind. It is to be
; presumed that the complaint has much
foundation in fact. Acting upon this idea,
a number of business men in this city have
■ organized themselves for tbe purpose of
1 lessening the burden of the commercial
: classes, and also to make a safe and profit
able investment for themselves. The man
agers of this new bunking scheme are anx
ions, as we understand, to have the largest
part Si the capital subscribed at home.
They desire that our own people should j
hjve the benefit of such profits as accrue j
from a well governed banking institution.
There is not much difficulty in securing tbe !
money necessary to commence this new !
bank from outside capitalists, but the j
first chance will be accorded our own j
citizens. Before the war, the South was a j
wonderful creator of wealth, much of which
was absorbed in profits by the North. It is
calculated that, up to 1860, the North ab
sorbed of Southern wealth the enormous
sum of $2,000,090,000. Since the war,
the same condition exists, in a modified de
gree. The reason why the North grows
rich at Southern expense is apparent. '1 hat
section manufactures raw materal, vastly
increases its value and reaps yie profit that
should, in part at least, be kept at the
South. We are beginning to understand
this more fully and to remedy it gradually,
ltisasimple lesson in political eoonomy
that France has long comprehended
and put into practical operation, and
it is one of the chief explanations of
Franco’s present prosperity, in spite of dis
astrous invasion and costly wars. Extolling
the commercial prosperity of France, the
London Times Hays that "no real poverty
exists in the country,” anil that “the work
house is unknown.’’ Allowing for exag
geration in this statement and explaining it,
the New York Journal of Commerce says:
“ There must be some poverty even in
“ thrifty France. The ‘workhouse is un
“ known’ only because other provisions are
“ ninde by public and private charity for
“supporting the indigent, idle and infirm.
“ But it is a truth that the French are in
“ dnstrious and frugal beyond any other
“ race, with tho possible exception of the
“Chinese. They are tireless workers and
“ economical liverH. Their homely virtues
“ enable nearly all Frenchmen to own a
“ bit of land or a share in the rentes, or
“ some other productive property, The
“ French habit of earning and saving defies
“ calamities and crises which would over
“ whelm most nations. Anchored fast
“ in the self-interests of the whole people,
“ she outrides the storm of fate. In 1880
“ the Government took off $24,000,000 of
“taxes, the increase of revenue justifying
“that concession. Yot in 1880 the pliyl
" loxera inflicted a loss of hundreds of mil-
“ lions of francs on tho vineyards, and the
“ silk crop was a failure in the South of
“France. But the indomitable French
“ spirit addressed itself to other industries
"and opportunities, anil tho result is the
“ qualified millennium which English rivals
“ are bound to record.”
We do not expect the people of the South
to imitate the almost miscroscopic frugality
of Frenchmen, nor is there in a land so
favored as this any pressing urgency for it;
but they should at least learn from the ex
ample of their Gallic brethren the import
ant lesson of retaining, to some extent, the
profits of their industry. We should be
glad to have outside aid. and wo are getting
it; but much more should we rejoice if our
people could he more self-reliant. With
such crops as the South raises, from year to
year, and the vast sums realized from them,
there is no reason why much of the profit
that now is periodically sent away from us
should not be kept where it in made. No one
knows this better than the man of tho
North, and he perpetually, wonders that a
people who have such a soil, climate and
opportunity should not learn the "A, B, C”
of finance. The minute we cease looking
abroad for the developmentof our resources,
and exhibit a determination to at loast at
tempt the working out of our own salva
tion, the sooner will capital seek us from
all quarters, without being sought in forma
pauperis.
If tho city of Augusta needs more
banking capita], she should have it.
If it is a good investment—as Northern
men have found it-why should not our
own people subscribe the requisite
amount nnd save dividends and interest?
We confess we lose faith in people who de
clare that they have great need of something
and yet do not go to work with a vim to get
what they want. This is a poor way to in
spire confidence iu anybody else. The day
that Southern people show faith by works,
they will be beggars no more. Nothing
succeeds like success, and the way to bring
the gold of the stranger to our doors for in
vestment is to prove to him and all the
world that we back up our spoken opinions
with living acts.
A•• BURNING QUESTION.”
One of the “burning questions” of the
day is that referring to the appointment of
a colored man to the Cabinet of President
Garfield. We are sorry to see that the |
“God and Morality” organs of the Repnb* I
liean party, at the North, are dodging this j
problem. They never evade it, when the
South is alone in course of experiment, but
they do give it the cold shoulder when the
“nation” is called upon to take a sip of the
same medicine. In this respect, tho Re
publican party, otherwise so andaoious,
shows a want of pluck and backbone. At
least one third of that party’s power is de
rived from the colored vote. But for the
solidarity of that vote, Hancock would be
President-elect to-day, and a Democratic
House would be a certainty next March or
December. It is argued, by geometrical
proportion, that at least two Cabinet places
are duo to this tremendous and effective
balance of power. Only one place is asked.
The white Republicans, headed by their
President-elect, seem disinclined to give
this little modest sop to a people whose
| fidelity to them, against their own interests,
I has been consummate and saving.
It is wittily observed that “the Republi
can editors who have suffered so much—in
their minds- about the negroes, and have
insisted so strongly upon the legal equality
of ths African race, now turn their heads
away, dash ijito learned articles about the
Talmud and other muddy topics, talk about
the weather, and pretopd that we must be
in jest when we propose Senator Bruce for
a Cabinet portfolio.” This is true, and it
,is as suggestive ss amusing. These same
editors never weary of prating of what they
style the “logic of events," and yet they
pretend not to perceive that nothing in
politics is as logical as the claim of the col
ored people, and nothing so substantially
founded fo fact. In order to kill this well
based claim of the colored people, as to
Senator Bwjce, somu of the white wire
workers are getting a faction of needy ne
groes to urge other and more objectionable
candidates, suc-h as Elliott and Pixchisalk,
and they even go so far as to denounce Senator
Bruce as a “selfish man.” What folly! What
chicanery! If Senator Bruce were not a sel
fish man. as ail men are selfish in degree, he
would not only be too good for Mr. Gar
ffgLP'a Cabinet, but too good for this world.
He would, we fear, have died in infancy.
If selfishness bp a Sjar to a Cabinet appoint
ment, what chsncs jnos Senator Blaise
stand or Hon. John Sherman i it sedjshness
is to disqualify any individual for the next
Cabinet, Mr. Garfield will be in a bad way,
and jse ff’ar, judged by a similar rule, he
, not only Weei* fail to organize his adminis
-1 tration, bnt take is. spat We therefore
cast aside this objection to Bruce
ns worthless and idiotic. We are surprised
that *> colored man of any respectability
should be prattfoed upon so foully by any
Republican white map.
Without the colored people iid their so
called wrongs there would have been no
Republican party. Without the larger part
of the colored vote there would be, newt
March, no Republican President or House
i of Representatives. The key-stone of Re
; publican ascendency is the oolored vote, and
i yet the men who have so risen to wealth,
power and prestige upon the backs of the
i negroes, refuse, we fear, to give their dupes
1 tbe miserable bone they seek for.
A* a companion picture to this, and as a
1 necessary and illuminating moral, we here
i by reproduce the answer of Gen. Garfield
to Elliott’s address. It is worth pondering
by Mack and white:
This is not the time nor the place for me to
indicate anything as to what I shall have to say
and do by and by in an official way, but this I
may Bay; I noted as peculiarly significant one
sentence in the remarks of General Elliott to
i the effect that the majority of citizens, as he
alleges, in some portions of the South, are op
i pressed by the minority. If this be so, why is
■ it so ? Because a trained man is two or three
. men in ono in comparison with an untrained
; man, and outside of politics and outside of
parties that suggestion is full, brimful of sig
i nificance, that the way to make the majority
t always powerful over tho minority is to make
* its members as trained and intelligent as the
I minority itself. That brings the equality of
j citizenship, and no law can confer and maintain,
I in the long run, a thing that is not upheld with
i a reasonable degree of culture and intelligence.
Legislation ought to do all it can. I have made
these suggestions simply to indicate that the
education of your race, in my judgment, lies at
the base of the final solution of your great ques
tion, and that cannot be altogether in the hands
of the State or National Governments. The
Government ought to do all it properly can, but
the Dative hungering and thirsting for knowl
edge that the Creator planted in every child
must be cultivated by the parents of these chil
dren to the last possible degree of their ability,
so that the hands of the people shall reach out
and grasp in the darkness the hand of the Gov
ernment extended to help, and by that union of
effort the two will bring what mere legislation
alone cannot immediately bring. I rejoice that
you have expressed so strongly and earnestly
your views in regard to. the necessity of your
education. I have felt for years that was the
final solution. Those efforts that are humble
and comparatively out of sight are in the long
run the efforts that tell.
The speech he made a few days before to
another delegation we have already called
“cold comfort but this is a . slap in the
face. It takes General Elliott's guns and
turns them upon him. The colored people
nre told, with all the force of language,
that knowledge is power, and that
they have not the necessary qualifica
tions to serve on an equality with
white Republicans. The colored peo
ple are not told to be virtuous, to become
powerful, but to become learned. They
point out how faithful they have been to
the Republican patty. Mr. Garfield tells
them to get a spelling book. They indicate
that but for their fidelity the Republican
party would have been overthrown last
November. Mr. Garfield tells them to buy
dictionaries. They remind the President
elect that their services need a proper re
ward and some encouragement. Mr. Gar
field tells them to become philosophers,
poets, mathematicians, political economists,
millionaires, etc., etc. They ask for recog
nition in his Cabinet. Mr. Garfield an
swers with a nebulous refinement of meta
physical mush, that so long as they are
ignorant they shall not have the bliss
they seek after. We can fancy
Elliott’s secret rage and disgust as
Garfield, bowing him to the door, as
though each inclination of the head simu
lated a kick, whispered to the colored dele
gation, “Good-bye, boys; what you want is
education, and don’t you forget it.” And
then the great and good President-elect—
mighty because of colored men and their
votes—hurries back to his syndicate of
white political worms, with his finger upon
his nose, and a sigh of wonder ns to the
“freshness” ot a colored deputation. .It is
a painful lesson to the colored men. They
ran make it a profitable one. if so disposed.
lION. EMOItY SPKV.It.
On Friday last, in the debate on the Re
funding bill, Hon. Emory Speeu made a
speech, which compacted a very large
amount of sense in a comparatively short
space. We are not only pleased with the
matter of this spoech, but its manner. The
style is clean-cut, judicious and entirely be
coming to the subject. , Ms. Steer very
properly says that posterity will have a
much better opportunity of bearing the
burdens of thepnblic debt than the present
generation, and his quotation from Sir
Boyle Roach that “posterity has done noth
ing for us,” was as neat as it was happy.
The limits of the debate required brevity,
and yet Mr. Speer really said all that was
essential in the time allotted him. His pic
ture of the progress of the country’, and
more especially tho industrial advance of
the South, cannot, in tne same space, be
excelled. Ho sums up that no part of the
common country has brighter prospects than
the section he in part represents so honor
ably and conspicuously ; that the tide that
once went Westward will deflect Southward,
in the next two decades, nnd he cordially
invites, as we all do, tho people of East and
West to come among us and settle. He
sketches wbat the South has done of late
years, in manufacturing and agriculture, and
demonstrates the wonderful possibilities in
store for her, the more so if some of the
burdens now the reproach of the tariff'—no
tably as to cotton machinery be lifted
altogether or lightened justly.
Mr. Spff.r favors a long bond, in order
that the tariff' may be revised and the inter
nal revenue reduced. To these duties he
pledges himself, and from the energy, tact
and ability he has already displayed, we
argue the best of futures for him. That
he will strive to advance his section’s and
liis country's interest, as coincidental with
his own, we have every reason to believe;
and that he may do so, in all wholesome
i ways, iB our sincere wish.
A NOBLE LIFE ENDED.
With surprise and grief we have learned,
of the death, at St. Louis, on tho lGth inst.,
of Col. Frank Schallek. Information reach
es us that his illness was painful and linger
ing, so that death, os it had to come, was in
the nature of a blessed relief. The de
ceased was the son of a German General
who commanded the artillery forces of
Saxony. He graduated, with distinction,
at the University of Tena, and, after a
thorough military education, he entered
the engineer corps as a Lieutenant. Be-
coming involved in political tronbles, he
eft his native Lind and became a citizen of
the United States. He entered the Con
federate service, rose to the rank of Colonel,
and participated in a number of battles.
Men not worthy to be mentioned in the
same breath with him were advanced in
rank over his head, and this galled his
pride and crushed his spirit. We have
seldom met with a man of so many and
varied accomplishments, and yet one
who either could not advanee his
interests or scorned to use the petty
arts and fiiUerjes sometimes deemed
necessary for success. No map in Georgia,
we take it, had so thorough an education.
Col. So haller was acquainted with several
languages, with the circle of the sciences,
and he was also an admirable artist. He
wrote with uncommon force on topics of
the day, education, immigration, current
politics, agriculture, etc., etc. He resided
for some years at Athens, and was an in
structor of youth there. Why so gifted a
person sboglA baye been neglected in this
State, wo do n.t know- Qf late years he
has been a Professor at the Sewoaee Col
lege, in Tennessee. By what fatality he
drifted to St Louis, and there, by the
Fathers of Waters, laid down the burden of
life, we have not ascertained.
The writer of these lines knew Col.
Schallee well and admired him greatly.
Tfc,e intelligence of his death bears with it
a direct personal interest and significance.
We sincerely monrn tor him q.nd trust that
his two daughters, the grandchildren of the
venerable and revered Madame Sophie Sos
xowsm, may be comforted in their affliction
by Him who gave and who taketh away.
With their father departed a noble life. His
memory remains, mid is a precious heritage.
If he was not appreciated at his full value
by men, may he be all the more rewarded
by the hosts of Heaven !
It is obvious that when the blood becomes
corrupt the whole system is corrupt also.
The large majority of female diseases pro
ceed from this cause. The true policy is to
direct the remedy to the source of the dis
ease. Dr. Tutt’s Fills has a specific effect
upon the blood. It purifies, vitalizes it,
expelling all distemper from the system.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MOBNING, JANUARY 26, 1881.
MESMERIC TRANCE.
j Dr* Bffard Experiments With Trained
( Nabjeets in the Academy ot Science*
Interesting Illustration* of the Suspen
-1 felon of the Senses.
IN. V. Herald.]
At the rooms of the New York Academy
of Sciences, No. 12 West Thirty-first street,
Dr. Geo. M. Beard delivered an interesting
lecture upon the subject of “Trance (so
called ‘hynnotism’ or ‘somnambulism'); its
nature, symptoms and varieties, with spe
cial reference to mesmeric trance.” The
large hall was thrown open and all the rooms
connected with it were filled, as well as the
hall itself, by an audience in which mem
bers of the medical profession predomi
nated. Dr. Beard’s high standing in the
profession, especially iu the department of
nervous diseases, gave weight to experi
ments which, to one who saw them for the
first time, if inclined to scepticism, might
otherwise have been inclined to regard with
suspicion. But there were several instances
that seemed to bear indubitable evidence of
their entire genuineness. The subjects
were eight in number, varying in age from
twenty-two to fifty-five years, and though
the lecturer said that mental incapacity was
not a necessary condition for developing a
proper subject, those present upon the stage
certainly appeared at least to be possessed
of that quality of intellect.
Tile Experiment*
Were all very interesting and some highly
amusing. The lecturer first explained the
theory of the trance state of the mental fac
ulties by a chart containing three
representing the human brain, each divided
into three compartments. The first or nor
mal state of the mind presented the separate
compartments indicated by the numbers 50,
30 and 20; tho second, a condition of sleep
in which the powers were reduced to 30,
18 and 10 respectively, while in the trance
state two compartments were obliterated
and the third intensified by the combination
of all the normal faculties represented by
the sum 109. To putkhe trained subject's
in a trance condition the lecturer had mere
ly to point bis finger at one of them, and
the subject would immediately jump from
his seat and gluo his nose to the finger, fol
lowing it wherever the lecturer moved his
hand until released by the reassuring words
of the doctor, “That will do,” when he
would act as if awakening from a deep
sleep, look very silly, resume his seat, and
hide his head or laugh. The qualities ne
cessary to produce a good subject were
modesty, diffidence and reverence. Every
one in the audience could put someone
else in a trance, though he might fail once
in a while; indeed, all failed sometimes.
Some of his assistants were more skillful
than the lecturer himself. In fact, it was
not in him naturally. Subjects No. 1 and
2 were put in.ecstatic trance, and gazed rev
erentially at presumptive angels in a corner
of the gallery where were really only three
doctors and a bronze bust of Shakspeare.
Dr. Beard said the most lecturers in mes
meric trance were honest, but that some
times when going into anew place and not
sure of subjects they might hire them. He
considered this wrong and injurious, as
none could do as well as the genuine train
ed subjects.
No. 3 was put in a trance state by
ChavklDg Him Under the Chin,
Patting hischoeks, and pinching his nose.
AVhen the doctor told him he had lost
something, down went No. 3 on all fours,
looking everywhere for an imaginary some
thing until he was told to look up for it,
which older he obeyed without hesitation.
Dr. Beard aroused him and he took his
seat. Nos. 4 and 7 were put into a catalep
tic form of trance, one with one hand up
and tho other with two, and then No. 7 in
sisted upon touching noses with the lec
turer. The next form of trance exhibited
was “rigidity and apparent death.” Nos. 1
and 2 were selected lor the experiment, and
becamo so stiff that they were lifted about
like boards, and while the doctor’s back
was turned some irreverent assistants stood
No. 2 upon his head.
No. 8 was called up and it was explained
that he had caught the ability to be a sub
ject by seeing others do it. The lecturer ex
plained that it was contagious, like small
pox or religion. This man had caught it
that way. Later in the evening, when
several were made to laugh, the contagion
reached him, and he laughed until he
knocked tbe big Blate off the easel. The in
crease of muscular strength was represented
by a butcher’s spring scale, on which No.
1 pulled twenty pounds until in a trance,
when he pulled thirty pounds. The next
illustration was of anadhesia, when a
A Pin Was Pushed Into IVo. ‘J’s Forehead,
Near tho eye, and his byoball touched with
out apparent pain to him. It was explained
that only that spot was benumbed, while
everywhere else he w r ns sensible of pain,
the side on which the experiment was tried
less so than the other. It was requested
by a noto from the audience that Dr. Post
or Dr. Taylor be allowed to make the pin
teat, to which the lecturer and subject both
agreed, tho latter reluctantly saying that
ho would prefer ono of the others to try it.
Dr. Post went upon the platform, and
though he made the blood come, the sub
ject did not soem to know it. Experiments
were then made in suspending tho sense of
sight and sense of hearing. No. 2 was
made deaf, and when a tuning-fork was put
to his ear he seemed not to hear it. Sud
denly Dr. Beard fired a pistol off close to
his ear and the gallant No. 2 did not flinch;
he was as placid as if nothing had hap
pened. Then Nos. 2 and 5 ate cayenne
peppbr and thought it was sugar. The next
experiment was the most remarkable one
of the evening, and its perfect success was
reoeived with great applause. No. 7 had
agreed to allow the application of
Actual Cautery to His Rand,
And when the wliite-hot instrument was
held in contact with his flesh until it
smoked and the smell of cooked meat per
vaded the room, he stood as calmly as if he
knew nothing about it. Dr. Beard had ex
plained to him that though it would not
hurt him at the time, of the application, he
would have a sore that would take several
days to heal. The name of this martyr to
science is Thomas Britchert. Another mar
tyr was No. 3 (Albert Torry), who allowed
three teeth to be drawn by Dr. Kingsley,
who came up from the audience for that
purpose. After one had been drawn, some
one in the audience said, “Hold, enough !”.
But Dr. Kingsley stated that ho had pre
viously examined the teeth, and he
knew they would have to be extracted. He
wiis not taking out any that could be
saved. He also stated that in thirty years’
experience be had never before known an
instance in which a tooth had been drawn
without the patient wincing, unless under
the influence of an amesthetic.
A number of other interesting experi
ments were made, and Dr. Beard further
explained his theory to the apparent satis
faction of his auditors,
COTTON PROSPECTS.
Thu Latest Views of Smith, Edwards
& Cos.
Messrs. Smith, Edwards & Cos., in their
annual review of the cotton market, con
sider that during the present year produc
tion will reach its maximum for some time
to come and will exceed the large produc
tion of last year all the world over and write
as follows :
“This feature may have an important
bearing on the future scale of prices. It is
will known that the American planter is
more than satisfied with the present price
of the staple, and another increase of plant
ing is pretty sure to take place next Spring;
therefore it will be natural to argue that if
we get six millions this year, with so bad a
picking season, what may be expected next
year if the season is good ? The prices that
have ruled the past two years have greatly
stimulated cotton cultivation everywhere,
ami we can hardly donbt that the time is
not far distant when supply will decidedly
exceed consumption. This is one reason
why great eantiou shonld be observed in
handling cotton at nearly 7d. per lb. It can
be profitably grown for 6d., and within a
year or two we expect that price will pro
cure ns all that is Deeded or can he used.
While, therefore, we allow that the present
price of 6%d. is, perhaps, not far wrong,
with the poor quality of this crop, and the
healthy appearance ofi trade everywhere, we
should urge caution, and keep in view the
probability of lower prices in the second
half of the year, if next crop develops
well,”
As is the ease with all others, they are
quite nndecided as to what may be the ulti
mate out-turn of this last crop, bnt incline
to use six millions in their calculations, the
bales being taken at the same weight os
last year, any increase in size being coun
terbalanced by the lower qualities as com
pared with the previous crop.
Northern Consumption of Colton.
The last report of the National Cotton
Exchange of America for December con
tains the following respecting domestic con
sumption :
Northern spinners took from the ports
during December 34,922 bales less than
for thesame month last year, which, added
to their reduced takings overland, giv
ing a deficiency for the month of 87,678,
and changes their position, which at the
close of November showed them to be 11,-
year.
The takings of Northern mills give an
average per week for the four • months of
; 47,944 bales, against 52,291 last year, and
30,955 the year before. The monthly fig
ures compare with the past two years as
follows:
1880. 1870. 1878.
Sepiemper 64,000 84,395 75,802
October 178,341 145,3® 148,70©
November. .312,014 309,134 161,375
December 284,662 372,270 J 155,837
Total 4 m0uth5.839,017 915,104 541,723
Horsfonl’s arid Phosphate
Acts with decided benefit in cases of in
nutrition of the brain from abuse of al
cohol.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAIL
ROAD.
Report of the President For the Fiscal
Year Ending .Tune 30, 1880.
As many of our readers are interested in
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, we
publish the following from the annual re
port of the Fresident to the. stockholders,
for the fiscal year ending June .'lO, 1880:
! “At the date of your last annual meeting
j much apprehension was feR on account of
; the maturity, on the first of May following,
jof $1,204.0000f vour first mortgage bonds.
I ft will be remembered, at that time, owing
i to the loss of business which your company
j had sustained by the existence of yellow
i fever for the two previous years, and owing
i to its continued depressing effect upon the
business interests of the section of country
traversed by your road, it was feared that
mneh diftienfty wouiu be met with in mak
ing provision for this large and early ma
turing indebtedness.
We are glad to be able to state that we
have succeeded in renewing the first, and
making provision for the renewal of the
second mortgage bonds of your Company
under an arrangement made between the
trustees of these two mortgages respectively,
the holders of the first mortgage bonds, the
Farmers Loan & Trust Company, and your
Company, whereby the old bonds are’ ex
tended and lodged in trust with the Farm
ers Loan & Trust Company,' and new bonds
issued against them, maturing on the Ist
dav of January 1915.
You have now no maturing bonded in
debtedness, until the first day of January,
1915, a period of over thirty-four years,
and your floating debt practically amounts
to but very little. Therefore, with the re
turn of prosperity to the country, and with
your increased earnings, the future of your
company is very encouraging.
The oamirgs for the first four months of
the current fiscal year, as compared with
the same period of last year, show a gain of
$194,085 60, nnd so far as your board can
now judge, the earnings for the unexpired
portion of the current fiscal year, will cer
tainly not fall below those for the same period
last year. Assuming this to be correct, your
gross earnings for the present fiscal year will
amount to at loast $1,200,000, and your
ordinary operating expenses, including
taxes, should not exceed sixty per cent, of
this sum, leaving a net earning of $480,-
000, or sufficient to pay your annual inter
est charge and leave a surplus of about
*175,000. Your Board of Directors do not
believe, however, that it would he a wise or
a safe policy to make any division of the net
earniugs until your lino is brought up to
tho standard of a first class railroad. In
those days of railroad competition no com
pany can reasonably expect to successfully
compete for the business of the country,
unless it can give to the public equal facili
ties with other lines, and to do this, its
road must be in first class order, well
ballast ed and laid with steel rails.
With these improvements made, and with
a consolidation of your road with the roads
leading to Norfolk, and with better railroad
connections westward to Texas, and through
the Indian Territory to Kansas, your Board
of Directors do not hesitate to predict a
bright future for your company as one of the
parties to the organization under such con
solidation.
It will require an appropriation of all
your surplus revenue for some years to
come, however, in order to place your
property in such a condition as a wise econ
omy and your true interests indicate. And,
in the meanwhile, we hope that the consoli
dations arid westward connections pre
viously alluded to will have been made.
We have to congratulate the stockholders
of this Company, as well as those of all the
other railroads in Tennessee, upon the de
cision of Judge Withey, in tho suit of cer
tain holders of Tennessee bonds, to recover
the principal and interest thereof, on such
as were issued in aid of the railroads, and
which they claimed were a lien, each bond
upon that particular railroad to which it
was given, After a long nnd tedious prepa
ration, extending over two years and cost
ing a large sum of money for lawyer’s fees,
etc., tho cause was brought to trial in May
last, at Nashville, before Judge Solomon E.
Witbey, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, (a gen
tleman selected on account of his well-known
ability and eminent learning in the law, and
of his entire lack of previons connection
with the question at issue), the argument
lasting for two weeks and being participated
in on both sides by tho highest legal talent
of our country. Judge Withey delivered
his opinion after live months' considera
tion of the case, deciding, in the clearest
au inmost emphatic language, that no lien
or*shaJow of alien over existed in these
bonds of the State as against the railroads
to which they had been issued, in favor of
the bondholders—thatthey were a pure and
simple State bond, loaned to the railroads
for the purpose of enabling them to raise
money, and that it was especially declared
by the act that the issuance of the bonds
constituted a lien in favor of the State of
Tennessee.
You will remember that your company and
the other companies who were sued on ac
count of the loan of these Tennessee State
bonds, had discharged this indebtedness by
payment to the State several years ago, and
this suit was brought to force a double pay
ment of the same debt and met the fate it
deserved!
Balance Sheet.
The Memphis and Charleston Jlailroad, June
30, 1880.
Dr.
Construction $0,368,634 36
Inci’al to Con 1,026,471 60
Equipment 1,245,848 04
Real Estate 126,995 55
Ft. Pickering Brc’h 13,140 26
Washington St. Ex. 42,880 76
Cost of Sleepors... 30,340 72
Steel Rails and
Fastenings 38,549 83
R. R. Hotel, Hunts
ville 6,082 04
Stock in S. and N.
Ala. Railroad.,. 66,500 OO
Stock in Bhelby Cos.
Turnpike Cos 4,600 00
Stock in Shelby Cos.
Grange 400 00
Stock inNa. Bank,
Hnntsvillo 8,00000
— 337,489 16
Exp twelve months. 784,97146
Interest on bonded
Debt 297,325 00
Interest and Exch’g 10,464 56
Material and Fuel
on hand 98,048 29 98,048 29
Bills Receivable... 68,956 40
Memphis City B’da 75,000 00
Cash 28,552 79
Due from. Agents . 27,030 79
Due from Railroads 2,959 43
Due from Po. Dept 6,607 87
Dne from Indivd’ls 2,639 03
P. 0. Dept. Old Act 20,897 40
Riplev Railroad 12,472 36
Suspen’d Coupons. 144,410 00
, 144,410 00
Profit and loss. .. 555,160 85
$11,113,939 39
Capital Stock. Cr.
Memphis Office.. $3,966,175 OO
New York Office.. 1,346,550 00
First Mort. Oom’y
Bonds 1,264,000 00
Second Mort. Cos.
Bonds 1,000,000 00
First Mori Tenn.
Div. Bonds 1,400,000 00
Consol.Gold Mort.
Bonds ... 558,000 00
First Mort, Cou’ns 94,153 80
Sec’d Mort. Cou’ns 105,175 00
Consol. Mort. Cou
pons 205,100 00
Uncl’d Pay Bolls.. 6,317 30
Suspense 66,044 29
Earn’gs for Tw’lve
Mouths 1,003,270 71
— ,1,003,270 71
Bills payable 7,886 65
Pav and Material
Bolls 37,886 95
Vouchers... 18,782 00
Claim Account.... 311 08
R. T. Wilson & Cos. 19,781 97
Due Railroads.... 11,211 50
Due Individuals... 3,293 14
$11,113,939 39
S. B. Cruse, Sec, and Treas.
Poems of John C. Langston.
If Mr. Langston yants the
nnTs honest ppigiop of bi§ verses;—and, as
he is a young man of intelligence, we pre
sume that he wants none bnt an honest one
—we would say that he has been, by several
years, too hasty in publishing his book.
There is nothing in it which a book can
preserve. He has shown considerable in
dustry, bnt he has dissipated it. The labor
spent upon his many verses devoted to one
poem, provided he had a real poetic idea to
develop or express, would have done more
to prove him a poet than everything now
in the volume. We cordially give him
credit for the excellence of the mechanical
part of his work. Deis comparatively regu
lar antf rhythmetic ip his versificatiop. Bat
he can Very greatly ijaprpvp jp 'this. Let
him do it; let him be less profuse ; let him
concentrate his powers to a local point, and
whether that should be strong enough to
leave an impression ou the public mind or
not, we shall at least be able to jndge of his
right to the name qf poet, jf he shall not
feel angry or “persecuted" at these words,
put shall take them, as they are given, in
good part, they will benefit him more than
all the landitory notices of his local papers
or the praise of his friends. We would
also suggest that it is had taste fop a young
man entirely unknown to blazon his name
in large letters across the cover of his first
bopk, and to affix to his name his cpUege
degree. The fact that be is sp A. 8., op an
LL. D., op a Fb. D., is not going to recom
mend him to any one who ps looking for a
poet.
.aa g.frrr •
The oldest friends are to-day the staunch
est friends of Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup.
They have proven its great worth in all
eases of Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Tick
ling in the Throat, Irritation of the Bron
chial Tabes and Lnngs, etc.
•TEFFF-RSON DAVIS’ HISTORY OF TUB
WAR.
A Work Likelj- to Create aProfouml Sen
sation Nearly Ready.
A Herald representative visited the pub
lishing house of the Appletons on vester
day for the purpose of getting whatever was
new concerning the forthcoming history of
the late war by Mr. Jefferson Davis, now in
the presses of that house. He found at a
desk in the front of the building Mr. J. C.
Derby, who has more direct charge of this
book, possibly, than any one connected
with the firm. In response to an inquiry
as to when the book would be out, he re
plied :
“Well, the Appletons do not like to make
promises, but I feel justified in saving that
it will be ready inside of ninety days. I
have now the proof sheets of half the' first
volume in my desk here. I have just re
ceived a letter-from Judge Tenny, who was
sent down by the house to assist Mr. Davis
with the writing, in which he says that he
will forward, inside of ten days from the
date of writing, half the manuscript tor the
second volume, which is now ready, and is
withheld simply that Mr. Daria may make
a slight correction in one of the chapters.
He adds that the printers may be put to
work on it at once, as the last half of the
Reeond volume is about ready, and will be
here before the printers will need it. Me
writes that everything is now ready for the,
pushing forward of the work, and that the
manuscript, virtually prepared to the last
chapter, will come forward at once.”
“When was the contract with Mr. Davis
for this work closed?”
“About five years ago. Mr. Davis has
proceeded in the preparation of this history
with the utmost deliberation. He has taken
nothing for granted, but has examined into
the smallest details and sifted the records.
He was ambitious, too, to give the work
such scope as to make it comprehensive as
well as thorough. His labor has, therefore,
been immense. Still he would have been
ready long ago if he bad been provided
with prompt and skillful writers who could
have kept up with his dictation. He dic
tates slowly, deliberately, and will have no
short-hand waiter. Since Judge Tenny
was sent out to him, nearly a year ago, the
work has gone right ahead.”
“Has the name of the book been agreed
on yet ?”
“Yes. It wi'l be called ‘The Rise and
Fall of the Confederate Government.’ The
name first determined on was ‘The History
of the Confederate War for Independence:
Its Causes and Results.’ You will see that
title runs on the proot sheets here.”
“And by the way,” he said, as ho leaned
forward to get the bundle of sheets from his
“you are the first journalist that
has ever had a glimpse of these proofs.
And it is a coincidence that this history
and Bancroft’s history of the ‘Times of
Washington’ are being published simulta
neously, and,” holding up a batch of the
Bancroft proofs, “that the title of the first
chapter of Bancroft’s is headed ‘The Con
federacy,’ meaning, of course,- the first con
federation of tho Colonies. Ah ! here ore
the Davis proofs.”
With this he held up a bundle of sheets,
handsomely printed on heavy paper, in
much the same stylo as, but clearer and
heavier, than “Sherman’s Memories.” The
“introduction” to the book was short,
covering nearly the first page and half the
next, and it could be seen in the glance that
the reporter got the dedication was con
tained in the introduction. The title of the
book—which of course will be changed on
the proof sheets—runs across the top of
every page.
“In what shape and at Mint price will the
book be published ?”
“It will be issued in two volumes, about
the size of ‘Appletons’ Encyclopaedia,’ and
will be sold for $5 a volume. It will be
sold entirely by subscription. There is al
ready a large demand, one man in Mis
souri having already ordered 5,000 copies.
While of course the heaviest demand is
from the South we find a very large demand
throughout the North, and shall be disap
pointed if the sales do not reach 100,000
copies. The sales of “Seward’s Journey
Around the World” went up to that point,
and the demand for this is as promising as
that was. No expense has been spared to
make this book worthy of tho reputation it
must have”
“The terms upon which Mr. Davis wrote
the book are liberal ?”
“It is sufficient to say that he will receive
enough from the early sales to make him in
dependent and easy for the rest of his life.
Bnt the chief reward that he will have will
be the consciousness of having performed a
duty that has weighed upon him ever since
the failure of the cause that he represented.
He determined, shortly after the collapse
of his Government, to devote the remainder
of his life to tho preparation of a full and
comprehensive history of the struggle of the
Southern people and the causes that led to
it.”
“Have you seen him since the completion
of the work ?”
“Yes, I spent several days with him at
Beauvoir last January, when his labor was
mainly over. I never saw a man that so
sincerely rejoiced in his work. He said
that he had made a history that would
stand all the tests of time and criticism,
because it was true, and that he had put in
permanent record a defense of his people
that would command the verdict of pos
terity. He seemed to feel as a man who
has had a sacred duty weighing upon him
as a burden, and who had at last honorably
lifted it from his shoulders. He gave five
years of almost unceasing labor to the
work. Night and day during the most of
that time he has been in the seclusion of
Beauvoir, in his little study, careless of the
bustle and worry of the outside world, at
work at his self-appointed task.”
The first volume of the work is almost
entirely taken up with a constitutional dis
cussion of the oauses that led to the war.
The latter half of this and the last volume
treats of tho conduct of the war. Both vol
umes will be illustrated with portraits of
the prominent men who figured on the
Confederate side. Tho work is dedicated
to the widows and orphans o( the men who
died tor the cause. The introduction af
firms briefly the confederated character of
the Union and the necessity of separate
sovereignties under genetal direction.
Journalistic Sensationalism.
[.Sun Francisco Examiner .]
A man who controls a newspaper wields
a power that is well calculated to oppress
a conscientious mind with a grave sense of
responsibility. He has in his hand an in
strument that is influential for good, but
may be made most potential for evil. It is,
in a sense, public property which he holds
in trust for the benefit of his readers. If
he thinks it is strictly and merely a private
concern, which he may use or abuse as he
pleases--if he thinks that ho has a right to
employ it to overpraise his friends or un
duly curse his enemies, or if he imagines
because it is lus, that he is entitled to use
its keenness to cut whomsoever it is his
pleasure to wound, ho altogether misappre
hends the character of his property, he dis
honors what ought to be the noblest pro
fession on earth, and he proves himself
a reckless, conscienceless Arab, whose hand
being frequently raised against every de
cent man, is pretty sure in the end to find
every self-respecting man with his hand
raised against him.
The subscriber to a daily newspaper has
also his responsibilities. If he choses a
paper because he likes its particular style
of sensationalism, he may for a time in
dulge his mirth at its licentiousness, but
sooner or later be is bound to find his
.laughter turn into weeping. Chickens
come home to roost. Ho do unjust attacks
onfmen’s pharacters. So also does a love of
verbal assaults upon your neighborhood.
Encourage recklessness in journalism by
subscribing for it, and by otherwise patron
izing it, and the changes are, as a thousand
to one, that you are creating and sustaining
an instrument that will one day be turned
against yourself, or against those whom
you would fain protect from obloquy as
sacredly as you would guard your life. By
the very means through which you are pro
voked to laugh at other people’s expense,
you are certain some day to have people
laugh at your’s. Besides, you are creating
a power for evil in the community. You
are ministering to the worst of scandal
mongers. You are breeding a pestilence,
and feeding a plague.
tyr. Stephens.
[Correspondence dtlanla Constitution.]
Mr. Stephens looks well and talks heart
ily. He follows the proceedings closely.
John Graham,'of Atlanta, has just come on
to be his Secretary, and finds myriads of let
ters to answer. Everybody writes to Mr.
Stephens and he answers every letter. Af
ter he copies from the House, about four
every afternoon, he eats dinner, and then
in the twilight settles down for his game of
whist, which he plays with as much glee
as skill. He is really proud of his excel
lence in the game, jiut he neVer' gets into
it so deeply thht h 6 forgets to watch the
hands on his little French clock as they slow
ly whirl to nine—and then he rolls hischair
out of the parlor and is soon in bed asleep.
Next morning he is up early and cheer
fully begins the day’s work. His sad,
patient fcee never wears a frown, and when
it lights with a smile is intensely interest
ing. Truly, it seems that affliction has re
fined his soul to the pure gold of continual
gladness, and that from his "woe he has
wrought the wondrons eloquence’’ of a life
which will he remembered aa long as Amer
ican fjistojy is read.
The Truth,
l Louisville Courier-Journal. ]
R the State takes the private property of
individuals apd demotes if to the service of
corporations it ceases to be private proper
ty. If, on the contrary, the yoqd is private
property, then the State has the same au
thority over it as it has over the property of
other citizens, and when emergencies arise
it can take it and devote it to the use of the
public. *
THE TELEGRAPH SCOOP.
How Jay Gould Euchred the Boy* mmi
Gathers Ills Million* In.
[Special to the Coitrier-Jounial .]
New Yobk, January 13. —The treaty of
peace is signed, and to the victor, Jay
Gould, a large indemnity fund is paid. The
street is filled with rumors, one directly
contradictory of another, and all wild
enough. One thing is very certain, either
the conflict between Gould and Vanderbilt
has been the most desperate ever known on
the street, or else there has been an exhibi
tion of unheard-of duplicity.
Since the organization of the American
Union, it has been the belief here that at
the proper time Jay Gould would sell to his
competitor. He has before this manufac
tured telegraph companies to sell them to
the Western Union, and as a manufacturing
business it has been very profitable. There
were some who were deceived by this new
concern, and who believe Gould, having
hnnilicapped the Western Union with his
other companies, would actually enter the
field as a competitor, seeking to make the
stock valuable by earning dividends. This
day’s revelation will undeceive them.
The l'econt heavy decline and rapid ad
vance is accounted for somewhat in this
wise : Vanderbilt recognized the weak po
sition of the Western Union when confront
ed by a determined competitor. He knew
i it had loaded itself with valueless patents,
with valuable patents about to expire, and
with stock issued to destroy competition.
Gould hesitated at first and finally consent
ed to listen. Vanderbilt laid his plans be
fore him and Gould agreed to accept them,
but asked for a day or two to consult with
his Boston friends. This was given, and
the understanding was that an answer was
to be given by Gould to Vanderbilt on a
.Friday. But Friday passed and nothing
was heard from Gould. Vanderbilt’s friends
were informed of the negotiations and ad
vised to purchase heavily’. They did. But
Friday brought no reply from Gould, nor
did Saturday. Monday Vanderbilt sent
Augustus Schell to Gould for some explana
tion.
“All. yes;” said he; “I had really forgot
ten my conversation with Mr. Vanderbilt;
but my Boston friends will not listen for a
moment to a compromise, so we must fight
itjOnt.”
Schell and all the others of Vanderbilt’s
friends immediately threw all their stock
on the market, and the price went away
down. Then Gould began to buy cautious
ly, but hoavilv, until to-day it iB said he
controls a majority of the stock in the old
company. To-day’s combination is on a
basis that will leave him a winner by sev
eral millions.
Opinion differs concerning Vanderbilt.
It is said he is much chagrined, and is vow
ing vengeance. One rumor is to the effect
(hat he has parted with every dollar of the
Western Union stock, and is ready the mo
ment the consolidation is completed to or
ganize anew telegraph company, called the
Avenger, perhaps, and smash the other de
ciepid old thing with its $80,000,000 in
stock and property which could be pur
chased for loss than $20,000,000. Hence
it is not believed that Wall street will take
very kindly to tho new stock.
It is said, but it is not credited, that Mr.
Vanderbilt has sent checks to all his friends
who made investments in Western Union
on liis advice and lost. Again, it is said
Vanderbilt and Gould have been partners
from the very beginning. This is strength
ened by the publication this afternoon of
the basis of the agreement which gives to
the Western Union $140,000,000 stock in
the new company or 140, while tho Ameri
can only gets 100.
Dr. Norvin Green has, it is said, been a
heavy buyer for several weeks. Orders
have come irom Louisville quite steadily for
the stock for some time. Mi. Victor New
comb is ereS“-' w jth buying Western
Union.''* • .uierable quantities from
eighty f ~
Tin dlng Bill.
[Financial Chronicle.']
The Funding bill has made rapid pro
gress at Washington. It looked at one
time as if the House was about to resolve
itself into a party of obstructionists; but
later, wiser counsels have predominated,
and three per cent, and a five to ten year
option, are the conditions the bonds are to
bear, if the views of the House are to pre
vail. We should have liked to see a little
longer date for maturity named, or some
discretion iu the interest rate given tho
Treasury Department, And yet there is a
very good prospect for tho successful nego
tiation of the loan in its present shape.
We dislike muoli the provision whioh at
tempts to force banks to use the bonds as a
basis for circulation. That section is a
kind of signal of distress, and a silly one
at that. If Congress does not want banks
to issue currency, it has the power, and we
hope the dignity, to say directly, if it does
want them to issue it, we but utter an evi
dent truth when we say that banks will do
so only in case it is made profitable to
them, bo far as Wall street is concerned,
the disposition is to look favorably on the
bill, anil to discount its passage and the
successful negotiation of tho bonds.
Deal li of Mrs. James S. Ilook.
Mrs. Emily Hook, wife of Judge James S.
Hook, died at their residence in Summer
ville, yesterday morning, at eleven o’clock,
after a lingering illness. Her funeral will
take place to-day, at half past three o’clock,
from the residence. She will be buried at
the Summerville Cemetery,
Mrs. Hook was born in Washington coun
ty, Gr., and was a sister of Elder Thomas
M. Harris, the distinguished Christian
preacher. She was married at an early age,
and in the years since that time has been a
devoted wife and mother, true to all the
noble impulses of the heart and soul which
go to make up that gem beyond all price, a
good woman. Tender and affectionate in
her home circle, an exemplary member ot
the Christian Church, not one duty was
forgotten in every-day life or in religion.
To-day her husband and her ohildren call
ter blessed, and it is a mitigation of their
sorrow to know that she has reoeived the
reward of thoae who walk in the path of
duty. She had many friends who held her
in the highest esteem and received the in
telligence of her death with the deepest re
gret. To her afflicted family we extend our
heartfelt sympathy.
Ex-Treasurer Repfroe anil the State.
[Cor. Atlanta Constitution.]
A prominent bank officer in this city in
quired of me particularly of Mr. Renfroe,
late Treasurer of the State. He had close
relations with Mr. Renfroe while he was
Treasurer, and considered him the most
capable, careful and attentive State official
with whom he bad any dealings. He was
astonished that the State gave up the ser
vices of such a man, whose loyalty and ca
preity were made so strikingly manifest by
the administration of his office.
I send this to you with all the more
■pleasure, because it is my personal opinion
that Georgia never did grosser injustice to
any man than she did to Mr. Renfroe in the
last campaign. The State never had so good
an officer in charge of her finances. His
ability was large and comprehensive; his
record for integrity and devotion was spot
less; he hod served the State honorably on
the field, in legislative halls and in the de
partments, and yet he was turned out of
office merely because he had done what all
other Tresurcrs hail done, a,ml what the
Legislature had said by sftlpwu enactment
one Treasurer should pot be hurt fordoing.
But let us agree that his defeat was neces
sary as an example. Then discipline has
been established—the exarqpje has been
furnished, and Georgia will never be just
to one of her truest and most honorable
sons until she has put him back into the
office from which he was ejected. Ido not
know that he would have the office again,
but I do know that he is a man, every inch
of him, and that he will not rest easily
under defeat.
Major Speer is a gallant gentleman, and 1
doubt not, a good Treasurer, but the peo
ple have a wrong to right in the case ol
Renfroe, whether they believe it or not.
The Fltzslmonfl C?,
Action the Fitz
simons matter. It is alleged that the friends
of the Marshal are trying to stave it oft' im
til after the 4th of March, qpd they
hope to do better th? pew administra
tion, as the term will expire in a year and
Garfield would hesitate to remove Marshal
Fitzsimons, as he wasjappointed by Hayes
and was so near his official death, anyway.
Things will hardly take this course. I am
sure that the Department of Justice is dis
satisfied with the Marshal, and that the
President will be governed entirely by the
advice from this quarter. He allow
the Marshal to Shifts jierd and s>e hiJard, but
before the present administration goes out
the office will be in other hands.
The Georgia State Fair.
[Macon, T&yrttpb.]
We nntjet by our exchanges that several
of oar neighboring cities are taking steps
to secure the Georgia State Fair, which
takes place injOctober next. Macon, bv its
geographical position as well ee h? <b* su
perior fair accommodations, hag superior
claims to this exhibition and should not by
the negligence of the proper authorities
let the prize slip from her grasp. Thp is
no reason why,.in tbfe
Central City Jockey Cjnh. *he fair ‘should
not draw to a crowd larger than
evAr before. s ee t° H,‘merchanta, manufac
turers and officials. The association meets
in Bainbridge on the second Tuesday in
February, and the jqfameiiing time is
short,
, -J'aa
Failure.
fcUuMToN, January 18.-An Austin dis
. Pitcli to the Nms reports the failure of
Julius Levy & CojJf Liabilities, sixty thou
sand dollaA, and assets, forty thousand dol
lars.
S2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Ship Canal* and Railways—Repub
licans Advancing on the Senate—The
Georgia Marahalshlp—Cabinet* for Gar
field, Ete.
Washington, D. C., January 12.-—Tho con
tinued snows and gloomy weather combined
have kept the usual crowds of visitors away
from the Capitol, so far during the session,
and the same causes seem to have made our
Senators and Representatives dull and slug
gish. The usual routine of legislation fol
lows day by day without special incident or
excitement. There is nothing in the lobby,
indeed this particular body has hail poor
pickings under Democratic rulo in Con
gress.
But the future is big with promises for it.
There is the project of Captain Eads for a
ship railway, Grant’s Nicaragua Canal
scheme, and the other one, backed by Mons.
DeLesseps and the late Secretary Thompson,
which will all come before the Forty-Sev
enth Congress, asking for aid
An effort will be made to tack the Brazil
ian mail subsidy upon the Sundry Civil
bill at this session. Mr. Shelley has greatly
modified his bill, and in its present shape
it should receive Southern support, but
there is great doubt of its success, as John
Roach, the great ship builder, cannot reap
any special benefits from its passage.
The Republicans are rapidly advancing
upon the Senate. Sherman. Harrison and
Hawley are men of character and ability,
and will sustain themselves and their party
ably in that bod}’. The same may be said of
Frye, who is likely to succeed Blaine, if this
latter goes into the Cabinet and of this there
seems to be but little if any doubt, It has
been whispered about that the House will
propose and pass a resolution of thanks at
the riddance of Conger, who is an insuffera
ablo nuisance, while the friends of this gen
tleman predict that he will create a sensa
tion in the Senate. He may snarl and howl
a time or two in that body, but it is quite
certain that he will be suddenly and severe
ly snubbed into a becoming siienco.
The wires have already given you the
probable appointment of 11. I. Kimball
as United States Marshal for Georgia.
This seems to be settled upon. The special
agent sent down to investigate tho accounts
of Marshal Fitzsimons made o report em
bracing about fifty pages. Reliable parties
who have examined the report inform your
correspondent that it is very damaging to
the personal and official character of that
gentleman, so much so as to demand and
require his removal, which was anticipated
by his resignation.
The many friends of Captain John W.
Anderson, of Savannah, who was at one
time the Chief Deputy of Marshal Fitzsim
ons, will learn with pleasure that the re
port fully exonerates and vindicates him
from any connection with, or participation
in the irregularities and other oharges
brought against the Marshal. Mr. Stephens
has stood up very strongly throughout the
whole affair to Fitzsimons.
The Republican press is daily busied
with making Cabinets for General'Garfieid.
The work is very varied and patch-like.
The public can take its choice with the as
surance that so far none of this work is con
sidered reliable. The latest rumor as to
the probable liberality of General Garfield
is, that ho will tender a seat on tho Su
preme Bench to Senator Garland, of Ar
kansas. Mr. Garland is one of tho ablest
men in the Senate, and the best lawyer in
that body. He came into prominence after
the war by his argument before the Su
preme Court on tho test oath case, and be
fore coming to the Senate had served as
Governor of his State.
It is considered here as assured that Ma
hone will aot with the Republicans in the
reorganization of the Senate.
Commissioner LeDuc has become a mo
nomaniac on the subject of tea culture, and
is going to put a snug little sum into a tea
farm in South Carolina. The practicability
of growing the tea plant in the South had
>boen settled long before LeDuc was ovor
heard of. It was grown successfully near
Columbia, S, 0., and Liberty county, Ga.
Dr. Acee, of Talbot county, Georgia,
grew the plant very successlully, and made
good tea in a small way. So did Josephus
Echols, Esq., of Muscogee county, aud, if
they have not been destroyed, there may
be found upon the places of tho gentlemen
named many large tea trees. Tho question
to be solved, and to this Commissioner Le-
Duc might better address himself, is, whore
the cheap labor is to come from to manu
facture the tea after the plant is grown.
Tho South has not sufficient labor for cot
ton, rice and sugar. Eabl.
GEORGIA CONGRESSMEN.
Congress is progressing satisfactorily with
its work this week, and Georgia Represen
tatives have taken quite an active part in
the proceedings. 111 the committee of the
whole of the House Messrs. Stephens and
Blount succeeded in engineering through a
claim of Mr. Charles I. Gustiu, of Georgia,
for certain depredation of Federal troops
upon his property. Mr. Kuott, also, from
the Committee on the Judiciary, reported a
bill (H. It. No. 072(1) to remove the politi
cal disabilities of Chartes I. Graves, of Geor
gia; which was read a first and second time,
referred to the committee of the whole on
the private calendar, and, with tho accom
panying report, ordered to be printed.
111 the House, also, Mr. Speer introduced
a bill (H. It. No. 0741) to exempt from im
port duty all machinery used iu the manu
facture of cotton thread and cotton goods;
which was road a first and second time, re
ferred to the Committee on Ways and
Means, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Felton introduced a bill (H. U. No.
0742) for the relief of L. Gudger, of
Georgia; which wan read a first and second
time, referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means, and ordered to be printed.
By Mr. Stephens was presented the
petition of James Iredell Waddell, for the
removal of his political disabilities-to the
Committee on the Judiciary,
On Monday in the House the following
were among the hills presented:
By Mr. William E. Smith—A bill to im
prove the navigation of Flint river in the
State of Georgia —to the same committee.
By Mr. Stephens—Memorial of citizens of
Augusta, Georgia, in behalf of an appropri
ation for the improvement a! ’the Savannah
river, between the cities of Savannah and
Augusta, Qetdfisft -to the same committee.
Also, memorial of Charles H. Marshall und
several hundred others of the oity of New
York, and other places in the United States,
including scientists and several colleges and
universities, praying that Congress pass an
act reported by the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures, and wow pending in
the House, lor the establishment of the
metric system—totlie Committee on Coin
age, Weighty aud Measures. Also, a bill to
appropriate the sum of $40,000 for the im
provement of the navigation of the Savan
nah river above Augusta—to the Committee
on Commeroe. Also, a bill to appropriate
the sum of SBG,OOO for the improvement of
the navigation of Savannah river boiow
Augusta, Georgia—to the same committee.
In the House, also, in the dsbate on the
Funding bill, the following point was raised
by Mr. of Georgia: “As I un
derstand, the House is called up to pass
upon two questions: first, as to the rate of
interest; and, second, as to the time the
bond is to run. I want to kew whether, if
we fix the rate of ißfß,*st now, for a long
term bond for ine.taflce, we can alterward,
if we vote for a short bond, go back and
change that rate of interest V It seems to
me that should the committee bind itself by
a particular rate of interest it might there
by greatly inflnepc its yote for a long bond.
It occurs to m e that as tlie rate of interest
depends, upon the length of time the bond
is to run, and thou the rate of interest
would naturally adjust itself to that time.”
There being, however, no fixed rate upon
the snb,|ect, the matter proceeded as for
merly, In the course of this debate, Mr.
Blount, of Georgia, made the following
remarks:
“I believe that our true interest is not to
fix this rate at 3 per cent., but to allow tlie
Secretary of the Treasury some discretion.
I recognize the fact that there is segue other
department of this Governirmni besides the
House of k am not over
eager to faljje an fhij. responsibility upon my
party.' I desire to put upon the Secre
tary Of the Treasury the negotiation of these
bonds, and I would limit tho. maximum
rate of interest at 3>* cent., and make
the bonds redeemable after one year. If it
shall bp frftuod tnat we have made a mis
take. then at the end of the year the bonds
can be taken up, and it will be no very
great matter after all. I trust, therefore,
that we will not accept the proposition of a
3 per cent. bond. If any mistake shall be
made, it will be entirely within the correc
tive power of Congress. I would the
Secretary of the Treasury eighth) nego
tiate a bond at um. pent.' and keep those
bonds option of the Government
jor'Vedemption after one year.”
t>r. Felton thought that tho important
thing to determine was nof ffit, pAe of in
terest, hot how long thu Vpsd was to run.
He wanted to ether or not the pub
licdebf W4* {one perpetuated.
the Senate, Mr. Hill indulged in sqme
plain talk over. the Kellogg ques.fi •***, and
Senator Brown succeeded itf drawing Matt.
Carpenter, of Wiscoff-ju, into quite an in
teresting oyer the question, of
caring American prisoners in Chjvm.
Sound
tßoston Herald.]
The men who talk about ceasing to pat
ronize a newspaper which does not agree
with them, though it gives al) the news, are
men whose patronage helps no newspaper.
Most of them do not know how to read.
The Proposed New Bankrupt Uw.
The President 0 i the Charleston Chamber
of Commerce has appointed the Hon. M.
P. O'Connor (a member of that body) a del
egate from tipi Chamber to attend a meeting
of the Executive Council of the National
Board of Trade, to be held in Washington
on the 19th instant, to consider the details
of a hew bankrupt law, to be uniform al
operative in all the States.,
PRESS COMMENT.
Marshal Fltxtlinont.
[ Eat onion Messenger.]
i W u. t f Tlst , tha , t Marshal Fitzsimons will
be able to clear himself of tho chare, f and
prove himself innocent beyond a doubt.
Beginning to Squeal.
[National Republican.]
The Democratic papers are full of fulsome
praise of Senator Bruce. If there is any
thing they desire it is that he should go
into the Cabinet.
Superficial Showing.
[Oat vision Nms.]
The Governor’s message reminds one of
the servant hanging out the clothes. Only
the nicest pieces are put where they can be
seen from the street.
Registration.
[ifowe (barter.]
A stringent law on this subject, and an
other looking to a just and proper valuation
ot taxable property, are measures that
statesmen may well consider.
Want**,!—Statesmanship.
[Washington Post.]
The one urgent, pressing, paramount
want of this country is more statesmen. In
telligent, comprehensive statesmanship
crystalized into legislation, is the need of
the hour.
Not Too Fast.
[N. Y. Herald.]
When the Government can borrow at half
rate of interest paid by farmers and other
owners of real estate on their mortgages it
is an oppression to them to hasten the i> ftv
luent of the public debt.
Self-Sustaining.
[Netc Orleans Times.]
Almost every article of food, and the com
merce of this country, can be produced
here at its minimum cost, and wo can see
no good reason why we should be dependent
on the Northern States for supplies.
•‘Free Land."
[Boston Herald.]
Prance got its land cut up as tho result of
the revolution and that alone was worth all
the revolution cost. Great Britain must
ultimately come to the same conclusion, as
the result of a revolution or without it.
Attention, Mr. Garfield !
[Thomasville Times.]
That the colored race has made more sub
stantial progress under Democratic rule in
Georgia, than in any stato or section where
Radicalism has been predominant, none
will question who are conversant with the
facts.
Poverty and Progress.
[Norristown Herald.]
A Boston woman, eighty years old, was
found starved to doath a few days since.
The philanthropists of Boston were so busy
paying flvo dollars and upward to see Sara
Bernhardt that the unfortunate woman's
case was entirely overlooked.
Alabama. Regulating Railroads.
[Montgomery Advertiser.]
That middle path between Black and
Curtis our Legislature is seeking, and along
its just and generous wny they trust to find
a happy deliverance from the railway trou
bles that are now so sorely vexing Ixith the
public and tho railroads themselves.
Political Power of Mannfacturr*.
[Aeie Orleans Picayune.]
Is it not obvious then that in abandoning
manufactures to others that we not only
lose the employment of our own people, the
profits of our own enterprise and capital,
but even arm our opponents with the polili’
cal power which wo might rcservo at home
coming Into Hanks,
[Rome Courier.]
By his bill to admit free of duty all ma
chinery used in the manufacture of cotton,
Hon. Emory Speer falls into lino with the
•‘Bourbon” Demooraey, whero every one
will be found who has the manliness to
speak out for equal rights to all.
Injured Gould.
[Sin Francisco Examines-.]
Jay Gould gets credit for mvmv things,
and is probably blamed for more intermed
dling than he i really guilty of. John
Randolph used to complain that all the
bastard wit of the country was fathered on
him, So it may bo with Gould and stock
operations.
State Agricultural Convention .
f Macon Telegraph.]
The State Agricultural Convention will
meet at Bainbridge on the Bth of February.
We understand that It will be a very inter
esting meeting, and that anew Secretary is
to be elected in place of Mr. Johnson, re
centlv resigned to accept a railroad agency
in Atlanta.
Opposed To Immigration.
\_Eatonton Messenger.]
Gen. W. T. Wofford, Hoii. Martin ,1.
Crawford and others, havu organized a
Land and Immigration Company. This is
a good move. We are afraid, however, that
the Legislature will take away the com
pany’s charter next July. The Legislature
is opposed to immigration.
Rail ay Passenger Fare,
f Rome Courier. \
If, after fair trial, it Nhall prove an injury
to the roads, the Commission can make ne
cessary alterations. As it is. the roads can
have the benefit of a trial of low rates, and,
if compelled to go back to higher, the pnb
lio will have the Commission to growl at in
stead of the railroad companies.
Salutary Agitation.
f Nevada Chronicle.]
When a puerile display of military
strength like the Fenian organization im
proved the condition of Ireland, what must
be expected from an intelligent movement
like the Land League, which strikes nt tho
root of the evil und commands the respect
ful notice of even the thinking men of
England.
Gen. Muhonc,
[Washington (D. C.) Gazette.]
If all the newspaper scribblers knew Gen.
William Mahone as well as we do, they
would not hasten to be such prognostica
tors. We haveneveryot doubted his integ
rity, and, being frequently called upon for
an opinion, beg now to say that we never
shall until the occasion arises, and that we
never expect.
Colored Man In the Cabinet.
[Knoxville Dispatch.]
The colored people are demanding that
they shall be represented in Garfield's cab
inet. Certainly there is nothing wrong in
this. Is it not eminently proper? Who
has clone more for the Republican party
than these same colored people ?
Cincinnati's White Elephant.
[Chicago Tribune.]
Cincinnati’s white elephant is still on her
hands. The question whether under the
existing laws the Trustees have the power
to sell the Southern Railroad has been de
cided in tb negative by a number of able
lawyers to whom the subject was referred
for an opinion, and before the road can be
sold additional legislation will be required.
Important”] Measurra.
[Home Courier.]
The press of the State is getting to be
almost unanimous upon the question of
registration of voters. Let this move be
supplemented by a demand for the passage
of a law looking to a just and equitable
valuation and assessment of all taxable
property. These are measures that tbs pe
culiar circumstances of the time render ne
cessary.
Railroads Public Property.
[Louisville (hmrier^fournal. ]
If tho State takes the private property of
individuals and devotos it t> the service ol
corporations it ceases to be private properly.
If, on the contrary, the road is private
property, then the Siate has the same au
thority over it os it has over tho property nl
other citizens, and when emergencies arise
it can take it and devote it to the use of the
public.
A<l Vie* to Colored Men.
[AT. Y. Herald.]
Our colored citizens throughout the land
received some excellent advio* yesterday
from the President-elect, when "he told "a
deputation that no law could make amende
for lack of intelligence. If white men who
rave about the negro's rights would expend
their breath systematically in Southern
schools their talk might do"some good.
Rough On Railroad*. .
[ Memphis Appeal. ]
Like many other States, Nebraska is call
iing upon its Legislature ' ot the protection
of its citizens against Vuilroad extortions,
oppressions and discriminations. In Wis
consin, lowa ani\ Minnesota similar efforts
are making ft, obtain relief from an intoler
able grievance. The day of reckoning is
surely coming, when law, not greed, will
regulate the railroads.
Garehl To the Colored Men.
[Nashville American.]
The speech of Mr. Garfield will not satis
fy the sentimentalists of the party in the
North nor the negro in the South.' While
not taking the same view or looking at the
case of the negro from the same stand
point, they oononr in insisting on elevation
by law, when Mr. Garfield tells them that
intellectual and moral progress alone will
elevate them and enable them to compete
with superior intelligence.
Supported By Railroad*.
[Nan Francisco Examiner.]
The people of Illinois are enjoying the
benefits arising from Douglas’ wise pro
vision. He insisted that the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad should be required to con
tribute a certain quota oi its revenues to
the State Treasury, and the result ia that
Illinois is now absolutely free from dobt
with a surplus on hand. If California and
other States had adopted a like prudent
course, the advantages of railroad extension
to the general public would have been more
perceptible than they are now.